Okay...Deck has that 'Norman Bates' crazy aura about him...
Great work with the dialog! The art is getting more and more cinematic, I'm not sure if that's from the shading or just the scene. Absolutely fantastic!
I'm not sure why the natural course for unsophisticated paranoia with delusions of antagonism would confuse someone, let alone cause major mental distress.
If you blatantly tell everyone you don't trust them and threaten them constantly, it doesn't matter how loyal to you they start out as, they will eventually turn on you for their own safety.
Also, even if everyone *is* out to get you, if your reasoning for thinking that is not based on reality, you're still insane.
Finally, technically speaking, paranoia is just the belief that everything you experience is directed towards you. Which is a pretty easy insanity for a hereditary ruler to get, since so much of what they experience will be directed towards them. People only associate it with delusions of antagonism because it so frequently produces that condition. For the paranoid, there aren't many options for the purpose of conversations that stop when one enters. And Deck didn't get *nearly* enough surprise parties when he was growing up for that to be the explanation. It's far too late for that now.
Disclaimer: not a shrink. I've just been accused of this a few too many times, because I'm really cautious. Not quite 'the reasonable man' cautious, but close.
Decimus does need love. Tough love. Like Rashala said, Acantha needs to insert her taser sword into Deck's posterior, because it's probably the only lever that can possibly pry Deck's head free from his sphincter.
Some one really needs to DECK Deck in the face! If I we're there I know I would!
KA-BLAMSKI! Right in the kisser. No one pulls a girls hair on my watch. Except, 6 year olds, its cute when they do it.
The King, who at the start of the game is the bad guy, being a tyrant and an evil prick, later on you find out that he was only doing what was (in his eyes) neccessary to save his people from a great external threat.
2) And yes you already realized that ..
Great work with the dialog! The art is getting more and more cinematic, I'm not sure if that's from the shading or just the scene. Absolutely fantastic!
And thank you - ive been working on the lighting ..
A. Listen to crazy exposition?
B. Gently slide your hand to the Plasma Obliteratron™ under your pillow?
C. Interpretive dance party!
*hangs head... wow im sad
What's an enlightened and compassionate Ruler to do?
*(Just like herding Cats!)
If you blatantly tell everyone you don't trust them and threaten them constantly, it doesn't matter how loyal to you they start out as, they will eventually turn on you for their own safety.
Also, even if everyone *is* out to get you, if your reasoning for thinking that is not based on reality, you're still insane.
Finally, technically speaking, paranoia is just the belief that everything you experience is directed towards you. Which is a pretty easy insanity for a hereditary ruler to get, since so much of what they experience will be directed towards them. People only associate it with delusions of antagonism because it so frequently produces that condition. For the paranoid, there aren't many options for the purpose of conversations that stop when one enters. And Deck didn't get *nearly* enough surprise parties when he was growing up for that to be the explanation. It's far too late for that now.
Disclaimer: not a shrink. I've just been accused of this a few too many times, because I'm really cautious. Not quite 'the reasonable man' cautious, but close.
*snickers*
KA-BLAMSKI! Right in the kisser. No one pulls a girls hair on my watch. Except, 6 year olds, its cute when they do it.
** and personally I tottally agree with you!