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Dear Yuletide Author
Oct. 7th, 2024 10:06 pmYuletide Letter for CorpseBrigadier on Ao3
Dear Author,
Hiya! Let me thank you for taking the time to write for me this fine Yuletide, and let me offer you my earnest congratulations on your great taste in 1990s interactive media. This is an exchange for which I have a great deal of love, and I am exceedingly excited for whatever it is you end up making for me. I've tried my best throughout this letter to give some prompts/ideas for a wide range of writing styles. However, I really want to emphasize that I'm very interested in you feeling free to flex your creative muscles. If the prompts listed aren't quite doing it for you, I am a genuine believer in optional details being optional, and I would love to see whatever creative production you are inspired to make out of these canons/characters.
Note: I am open to treats on ao3 and should have them activated.
[NOTE: This letter will be functionally complete at the time it is made public, but it may be tweaked through the end of sign-ups.]
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins) | Betrayal at Krondor | Final Fantasy VI | Final Fantasy Tactics | Mini-Challenge Specific Prompts
Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): The game used to be legally free via Sierra's website, but this was back in the 90s. You can get it on GOG for $5.99 though. There used to be a very helpful website called BAK Help Web that contained numerous pieces of information, walkthrough materials, and NPC transcripts, but it is now offline. You can still find it in largely archived form here via the Wayback Machine. The "Text Web" section is very useful for finding story content.
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Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): I am not super up-to-date as to the best and most accessible version of the game these days, as it has been ported many many times. If you want a script refresher, however, there are a number of scripts up on GameFAQs (the SNES version being the one with which I'm most familiar). If you have an emulator and wish to skip to specific save states, somebody put together a nice collection of them here.
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Where to Find It: If you haven't played FFT for a while or are unfamiliar with it and want to get an idea of what it's like, you can check out scripts of the dialogue here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). I also have a big, comprehensive list of scene-by-scene script comparisons on my personal website. There's also a very comprehensive Let's Play here (PSX translations). If you have an emulator and wish to skip to specific save states, somebody put together a nice collection of them here.
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Dear Author,
Hiya! Let me thank you for taking the time to write for me this fine Yuletide, and let me offer you my earnest congratulations on your great taste in 1990s interactive media. This is an exchange for which I have a great deal of love, and I am exceedingly excited for whatever it is you end up making for me. I've tried my best throughout this letter to give some prompts/ideas for a wide range of writing styles. However, I really want to emphasize that I'm very interested in you feeling free to flex your creative muscles. If the prompts listed aren't quite doing it for you, I am a genuine believer in optional details being optional, and I would love to see whatever creative production you are inspired to make out of these canons/characters.
Note: I am open to treats on ao3 and should have them activated.
[NOTE: This letter will be functionally complete at the time it is made public, but it may be tweaked through the end of sign-ups.]
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins) | Betrayal at Krondor | Final Fantasy VI | Final Fantasy Tactics | Mini-Challenge Specific Prompts
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins, Etc...)
( Read more... )Betrayal at Krondor
The Canon: This game was pretty influential in my youth, and the two main characters (Gorath and Owyn) were one of my earliest ships, even if they were visually portrayed by what seemed to be Dynamix office workers pulled aside to wear cheap Halloween wigs. I adore this canon's sense of an expansive, varied world, its focus on the growing relationship between two unlikely friends, and its willingness to brutalize the player with both unforgiving status ailments and a thoroughly crushing finale.Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): The game used to be legally free via Sierra's website, but this was back in the 90s. You can get it on GOG for $5.99 though. There used to be a very helpful website called BAK Help Web that contained numerous pieces of information, walkthrough materials, and NPC transcripts, but it is now offline. You can still find it in largely archived form here via the Wayback Machine. The "Text Web" section is very useful for finding story content.
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Final Fantasy VI
The Canon: I have a deep and profound nostalgia for the final Final Fantasy before Final Fantasy VII (and all the changes it wrought), and I think it remains one of the strongest installments in the series. I love how well it combines hard-hitting character drama with the complete absurdity of RPGs in general, and I love its sweeping, poignant explorations of human relationships in equal measure to its willingness to embrace that sometimes those relationships are offset by a talking purple octopus.Where to Find It (and Canon Review Resources): I am not super up-to-date as to the best and most accessible version of the game these days, as it has been ported many many times. If you want a script refresher, however, there are a number of scripts up on GameFAQs (the SNES version being the one with which I'm most familiar). If you have an emulator and wish to skip to specific save states, somebody put together a nice collection of them here.
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Final Fantasy Tactics
The Canon: This is a 1998 tactical RPG by Square-Enix that I just really really like. I love how immensely unrepentantly bleak it is, how it's full of Church-flavored horror, and how it is just filled to the brim with unhappy families. I'm entirely here for political backstabbing and endless misery, 24/7, in this sad little world of grid-based warfare. I love pretty much everything within it, and I would frankly be happy to receive almost anything for this fandom.Where to Find It: If you haven't played FFT for a while or are unfamiliar with it and want to get an idea of what it's like, you can check out scripts of the dialogue here (PSX translation) and here (PSP translation). I also have a big, comprehensive list of scene-by-scene script comparisons on my personal website. There's also a very comprehensive Let's Play here (PSX translations). If you have an emulator and wish to skip to specific save states, somebody put together a nice collection of them here.
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