Announcements - 2000/08 - Taste of Twilight

August 2000 - Patch Page

Stormwaltz Comments on the Aerlinthe Quest
{{Microsoft Zone | Link = | Date = July 29, 2000 | Title = Stormwaltz Comments on the Aerlinthe Quest | Text = I've heard a lot of people say that July's big mysterious quest has been solved. Some are disappointed the Black Fire stone is the only apparent reward, and some believe that, like Nexus,the stone was only available once. As the lead designer of the big quest and Aerlinthe Island in general, I'd like to take a moment to allay your fears. The quest has NOT been completed, and IS repeatable. There's a good deal more to be discovered and experienced, and this quest will remain unchanged for the forseeable future - like the Atlan Stone quest rather than Frore or Nexus. Don't worry about missing the fun if you're low level, and good luck to you all. Keep questing. The biggest things are not always the most vital... You can applaud (or curse...) Jesse “Nei” Kurlancheek for doing the stats for every single monster that has killed you on Aerlinthe. He also was generous enough to balance the quest items, and fix bugs with the quest while I was on vacation. Elliot “The Machine” Gilman, of course, performed his usual overtime work making sure that everything made it in, in a form that didn't crash the servers. Sean “Needs A Nickname” Huxter, also as per usual, did every single piece of new artwork for monsters and items, including the oh-so-fashionable Aerlinthe t-shirts. Ron “McEnroe” Winter did some new sounds as well - when you hear the ground rumble in the Tenkarrdun Foundry, that's his work (he also made the Shadow Spire howl). I'd also like to take a moment to note that the “frozen wasteland” island was not supposed to be open for play for some time yet, and it is only reachable through a bug. It is still in a very early stage of construction, as evidenced by the extreme performance hit in the ice gardens - the degrade art for those beautiful ice upwellings has not been completed, so everyone on the screen is rendering at full detail, no matter how far from it you are. There are no plans to open the ice island anytime in the near future, although its construction began at the same time Aerlinthe's was. The landscapes of the new islands were designed by artists Pete “Obsidian Span” McDonald, Sean “Shadow Spire” Turbitt, and Bil “End of Beta Comet” Mauritsen. - ChrisL (Stormwaltz} }}

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