At one point during TCOS development we created the Discipline Masters, a set of the Enclave’s greatest heroes and prime examples of what to expect from the Disciplines, our class system. While they were put in the game, they never got the attention I wanted them to have, nor were all assets used. I envisioned them as a band of contemporary heroes the players could fight alongside to in specific scenes.

Marlon Kromodikoro, Dennis Zoetebier and yours truly created a bio for each of the Discipline Masters and this series is meant to showcase each of them. The game itself only contained minor bits and pieces.

Master Skinshifter

• Name: “Shift”
• Race: Unknown
• Gender: Unknown
• Age (998 AC): Unknown
• Previous Faction: Unknown

History

People don’t know where “Shift” comes from, or who or what it is. The problem with that is that Shift doesn’t know itself. Shift is probably the most accomplished Skinshifter within the Red Rim, save for the fact that it doesn’t know what its original form is. This turned into a major problem for Shift when its own personality got so mixed up that it caused a severe form of schizophrenia within Shift.

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Everybody’s favourite overpriced notebook has a special edition ready for gamers.

Or retro-gamers at the very least.

The Pac-Man Collection is made to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Namco’s popular pill-popper. Lots of icons, sprites and even some “traditional video game lines”  like “Game Over” and “Insert Coin” garnish the notebook exteriors.

While that’s great and all, there’s a problem with these Moleskines. They’ll only be available in Asia. As per usual. Not that I care. Nobody would want to buy this anyway. It’s not like Pac-Man is a popular game or anything.

Would you believe these two were created from a pair of lighters? Amazing stuff.

At one point during TCOS development we created the Discipline Masters, a set of the Enclave’s greatest heroes and prime examples of what to expect from the Disciplines, our class system. While they were put in the game, they never got the attention I wanted them to have, nor were all assets used. I envisioned them as a band of contemporary heroes the players could fight alongside to in specific scenes.

Marlon Kromodikoro, Dennis Zoetebier and yours truly created a bio for each of the Discipline Masters and this series is meant to showcase each of them. The game itself only contained minor bits and pieces.

Master Runemage

• Name: Gerreth Bournbray
• Race: Male
• Gender: Human
• Age (998 AC): 48 (950 AC)
• Previous Faction: House Silver

History

Gerreth Bournbray always was materialistic. Being part of a wealthy family with influence in the Scales of Trade also helped this trait and it was only natural for Gerreth to join House Silver in 968 AC at the age of 18. Yet Gerreth felt something missing. He not only wanted to own things, he wanted to control them as well. Within two years Gerreth found himself studying the books of House Rune. Utterly intrigued by the application of contemporary magic, Gerreth became an artisan runemage with a very keen interest in DEW. To Gerreth being able to use magic was a doorway into creating whatever he wanted; to control pure matter at every level.

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I didn’t really wanted an e-reader to start with. That was, until I discovered Project Gutenberg. A bunch of old books that were accessible to everyone was an excellent source of reading material, but reading them meant either printing the books or reading them from a monitor. Then Amazon suddenly announced the third generation Kindle, with its most amazing feature: the price. The WiFi-only model especially is well within range and after seeing the kit in action at a friend’s, I ordered one myself. It arrived last week and these are my findings so far.

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I cleaned up my old Mega Man wallpaper I cobbled together ages ago. It’s a blow-up of the Mega Man 2 title screen for the NES.

I removed the Roman numeral from the original, as I prefer this to be a ‘pure’ Mega Man wallpaper. Hard to believe I left some layer-scraps in the previous version. It should be correct this time around.

[update] I added an upgraded version to fit my native resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels.

And it features a nifty tower on the left with a ‘surprise guest’.

I was getting a bit sick of this fanboy-comic, so I decided to fix it:

Enjoy.