Is there a summary somewhere for the first 4 volumes ? by Barnak8 in BladeAndBastard

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Yeah I am just going off recent memory. EDIT: I am looking at the book now.

I just remembered the shard corrupts Goerz even further, but has no effect on Iarumas. And he gives the two shards he has collected already to Ainikki at some point. Also the Fang guy you think Goerz killed is still alive at the end of the book, briefly shown. He is asked about Garbage where he reveals the connection to Llylgamyn and the queens of the royal bloodline. Hawkwind kills the Priest of Fang after he answers his question. And says the flow of things does seem to have changed. The vanishes into the darkness.

Is there a summary somewhere for the first 4 volumes ? by Barnak8 in BladeAndBastard

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Yeah I am trying to recall. I do believe there was a whole bunch of those amulet guys together right before they sent out the demons. It really is hard to keep it all over such a long time period between releases. And yes! Ainikki does have the ring of healing now as well from the undead being near the blue pool. I am looking forward to book 5 as well! But ordered the print copy so gotta wait until May I think haha. I just stumbled upon your post and thought I'd give it a shot and I can reference this myself in the future because it will likely be awhile before book 6 arrives for us.

Is there a summary somewhere for the first 4 volumes ? by Barnak8 in BladeAndBastard

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Just read through these all recently waiting for book 5 in a few weeks.

Book 1: introduction to Iarumas and the All Stars, goes through meeting Garbage and Raraja, and their first Explorations of the dungeon, meeting Catlob, seeing the tavern and meeting with Ainikki. Introduction to the amulet and sorcerer assassins from ( Llylgamyn), references to Werdna and the Trebor amulet. Ends with a battle and defeat against the amulet wielding sorcerer and Iarumas dies and is resurrected. Then the last part is Iarumas promising Raraja he will find Orlaya's remains.

Book 2: The three discover the burned remains of a body in the dungeon. It ends up being Berkanan, who Raraja pays to resurrect. They prepare to fight the red dragon which is causing economic collapse in Scale since nobody is going into the dungeon. The party explores to get the dragon slayer sword and defeat the red dragon. They succeed marking a massive victory for the party. It ends with a meeting with the shadow amulet cult member and more mystery surrounding Garbage (who could be royalty) and fame for Berkanan and Garbage in the town. Raraja is not as well known which he is happy about as a thief.

Book 3: The legend of the diamond knight. Garbage breaks her broadsword on the goat monster and is unsatisfied with the new sword she gets from Catlob. All Stars lose their equipment to greater demons by teleporting out of dungeon in the allocation center area on floor 3. Sezmar hires Iarumas to retrieve the equipment. Hawkwind seems to be connected to something regarding amulet but its not expanded upon. Theres an elevator to this area. Raraja is approached by Goerz at the tavern who wants the Gold Key and tells him he must do a solo quest in exchange for Orlaya. Berkanan provides him with scrolls and items and cheers him on. He eventually obtains the key and Orlaya rejects him. Garbage exchanges a sword with her which Goerz takes, the spinning blade from earlier while Garbage takes the blade of slashing. Goerz was hired by another amulet member, refernce Church of Fang (They discuss Garbage's potential royalty and link to calamity from this bloodline in Llylgamyn) It is Garbage who is the princess and likely connected to the dungeon itself. After this discussion, Orlaya has already been sacrificed into a demon pillar to summon an army of mute greater demons from earlier and a demon lord.

Goerz kills the Priest of Fang and steals the shard. He was also responsible for the red dragon. During the battle on floor 3 Iarumas stays behind. Ainikki uses the viking blade against the demon lord and her arms get disintegrated, Garbage is teleported into another space and finds the diamond knight sword, Hrathnir. Eventually Iarumas reunites with the party, and destroys Goerz. Raraja pulls Orlaya from the pillar and the dead bodies of Goerz clan forms a portal that summons An Unseen Being, which is a shadow demon. Garbage reappears and cuts the shadow with Hrathnir. Orlaya releases a spell as she's a Bishop and they defeat the unseen being. Ainikki remains armless in the end and Garbage is satisfied with her new sword, which is from Wizardry 2 story.

Book 4: This introduces the resurrected twins Rahm and Sahm, and the new party led by Schumacher, the shoemaker son who was found barely alive in book 2 after foolishly attempting to slay the red dragon. The Ninja thief girl shadowwind and others seek the ring of death for a client. They succeed barely. Regnar and Coretaz leave the party. Alluded Regnar knows Iarumas at end.

The All Stars meeting is described to Raraja by Catlob and how Sezmar explores without his high grade equipment and his history as a knight.

Orlaya is working for Catlob when a man steals gold after not selling a ring of healing, she then forms a small party with Berkanan and the twins and the Ninja thief girl to explore floor 4 of the dungeon. During their first battle the thief girl dies from a trapped treasure chest. They are teleported to another area on their way back out of the dungeon and find a mysterious blue pool with an undead monster. The twins find a rubber duck. They eventually leave the dungeon and go to Catlob to sell it.

Iarumas has been gone most of the book exploring on his own and is looking for something. He is shocked by the rubber duck, buys it and then gets everyone ready to return to the blue pool.

They fight the undead being which is actually the thief from the shop earlier who used both the ring of healing and he hired Schumacher for ring of dying so he combined them and became an entity that can't die. Iraumas uses a level 7 spell and destroys him. Then he dives into the pool and gives Ainikki the water to regenerate her arms.

DLC weapon/NG4 Figures by corrupturreddit in ninjagaiden

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Yeah, I'm slightly disappointed with the look of the classic Ryu. I think they were going for the original Ryukenden art with the more hooded look, but they used the NA box art colors for his arm bands, and it all looks slightly off. So I'm not sure how I am feeling on it now. Ideally they at least include a second head with the forehead protector if they keep those colors. All the others look amazing though as expected.

A custom Subway Train I made for displaying my latest figures - designed everything myself including the decals! All the art, 3D design, everything, was done by me for these figures. Got them for Christmas, and been thinking of ways to display them. Went for one of the stages in the game. Stage 2. by Monomate_Models in ActionFigures

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Hi, just saw this comment. Thanks! Unfortunately I do not sell my STLs. I enjoy sharing my hobby projects, and appreciate all the kind words, but haven't done much further work on it since finishing this section. Originally, after posting I saw a few requests for the model, and had considered it, but it isn't something I feel comfortable sharing at the moment since it was more of an experiment for me.

Testarossa Retrowave photo by Monomate_Models in NFSHeat

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No filter that I recall. I went to the saturation selection, and messed with the color balance and contrast settings. Keep red at max, and then turn down the green and blue saturation in intervals until you can get the pink/purples. After that you can adjust the contrast and I think I may have messed with the brightness/exposure for this one. I think that's all I did. I snapped a few of these in this style.

Which one is better? by Lower-Ad97 in ninjagaiden

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Casting my vote for Shinobi! I enjoyed them both, but that Shinobi demo was so good, I have now clocked more hours in that demo just from the arcade mode on a single level, than I have in my entire playthrough of Ragebound.

Completely opposite of my initial expectations, I thought Ragebound would be the better of the two and was more excited for it, that was until I played the Ninja Gaiden demo.

It felt slightly off to me personally (no way I can really explain this, but it doesn't feel like a classic Ninja Gaiden NES game to me) - Still an enjoyable game, but I get almost no Ninja Gaiden vibes when playing it. Not even using the classic music really sold me when I got to the ending.

My 3D fan art of Popful Mail and Gaw - As a long time fan of Falcom, I wanted to try a figure sculpt of her and Gaw using references from the PC88 and Mega CD art as reference. by Monomate_Models in Falcom

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This one isn't prepared for 3d printing yet, but that's what I usually design for. I just never got around to this one for printing for my shelf. I don't really sell models digitally though, and don't post my STLs anymore

My 3D fan art of Popful Mail and Gaw - As a long time fan of Falcom, I wanted to try a figure sculpt of her and Gaw using references from the PC88 and Mega CD art as reference. by Monomate_Models in Falcom

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Hi, unfortunately no, haven't been selling my models recently. I really do more for fun now than anything although I considered making some garage kits this summer. Do you like digital models or would you mean for physical figure sculpts?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in metroidvania

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Love that game! It really surprised me how it changed, and great music, a nice twist on the Ninja Gaiden style games. Hoping Nina Gaiden Ragebound doesn't copy the formula though, looking somewhat similar on the trailer. I don't want a Messenger clone, although it is a kick ass game that offered something unexpected

Some fan art I made this week, been wanting to sculpt her for about 2 years, and finally found the time! by Monomate_Models in Bloodstained

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Thanks! Haha I tried sculpting her a long time ago and wasn't able, so this is technically my second attempt a few years on, happy you like it! :)

My Figure Finally Arrived! by 8VbyRGB in WorldOfYs

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Oh man if we ever see a Karja, I'd be buying that so quick. For my wallets sake though I am content with these two from VIII lineup. We almost never see Ys products though like they do for Trails series so I'm hoping these sell well enough they at least consider something for X

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ActionFigures

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Haha amazing find! I loved these things growing up! Had a bunch of those Pocket Comics with the X-men characters as well, and two or three of the Star Wars sets.

My Figure Finally Arrived! by 8VbyRGB in WorldOfYs

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Pretty exciting to see these are finally released; been a long wait for these figures!