Vanilla Patch - changing Angels to Ainu/Maia

[artes]

Introduction of Ainus is great! I can wait till I'll meet one.

[Magnate]

Aww, thanks guys!

d_m: sorry, but you do have to admit that Magnate's made more controversial changes than you have! People do sure love their items.

They do indeed. This seems to be the ideal opportunity to link to the fruits of my holiday, and see whether people love or hate it.

[fizzix]

d_m: sorry, but you do have to admit that Magnate's made more controversial changes than you have! People do sure love their items.

The obvious solution is to make all levels cavern levels.

[Shockbolt]

And I feel somewhat responsible for a few recent changes, such as the removal/replacement of the angelic creatures

[Derakon]

Aww, thanks guys!

d_m: sorry, but you do have to admit that Magnate's made more controversial changes than you have! People do sure love their items.

[relic]

Magnate (brown 'A')
A well-intentioned but rather harried-looking man, he is busily changing everything you hold dear about the game. He moves too quickly for your tastes, and somewhat erratically. He is magical, casting spells which generate unbalanced artifacts, invoke storms of shoes, and rewrite the fabric of existence without apparently changing anything, about 1 time in 8. He can hit to improve your gear, hit to nerf your gear, and hit to suggest that you go ahead and make your own variant if you don't like what he's doing.

I guess that it would be some kind of immortality to be incarnated as an Angband monster.

[Magnate]

Derakon: awww, you've made me jealous! I guess Magnate really is the celebrity around here

Fantastic.

+1. Thanks Derakon! I particularly like "invoke storms of shoes".

[d_m]

Derakon: awww, you've made me jealous! I guess Magnate really is the celebrity around here

Fantastic.

[fizzix]

Derakon. That's absolutely spectacular.

[buzzkill]

Magnate (brown 'A')
A well-intentioned but rather harried-looking man, he is busily changing everything you hold dear about the game......

LOL, literally.

[Derakon]

Magnate (brown 'A')
A well-intentioned but rather harried-looking man, he is busily changing everything you hold dear about the game. He moves too quickly for your tastes, and somewhat erratically. He is magical, casting spells which generate unbalanced artifacts, invoke storms of shoes, and rewrite the fabric of existence without apparently changing anything, about 1 time in 8. He can hit to improve your gear, hit to nerf your gear, and hit to suggest that you go ahead and make your own variant if you don't like what he's doing.

[caruso]

These look good. Haven't had a chance to incorporate them but they'll probably show up in a nightly soon.

While you are at it, how about adding a new kind of opponent to this category?

the Angband Developer (multi-hued 'A')
You feel that the very fabric of reality is trembling as this entity approaches. It is wielding a keyboard with a reform layout <+5 speed> and is as immortal as Angband itself. It is magical, casting spells which summon Software Bugs and summon Laser Mice. It can alter the code to reduce all stats, alter the code to lower experience and alter the manual to confuse.

(Just joking.)

[d_m]

So, these descriptions are (mostly) merged.

The spirit took me and I ended up changing some of them a little bit. Therem, let me know if you think what I ended up with was OK. I tried to strike a balance between the historical info about Ainu/Maia and the descriptive tone.

Thanks again for your prompt on this.

[d_m]

That's it for now, hope those were decent. If you guys want any more I should be able to supply them.

These look good. Haven't had a chance to incorporate them but they'll probably show up in a nightly soon.

[Tobias]

Ainu:
One of the first children of Eru, human-like in form but painfully beautiful to look upon. You can think of no reason that a servant of Eru might face you in combat; yet this one stands before you, and its eyes are ablaze as it prepares its next volley of spells.

That's it for now, hope those were decent. If you guys want any more I should be able to supply them.

I really loved the "But it is here and you have to kill it" line from the Angels description. It would be nice here.

In fact I would still favour keeping the Angel ( for its description alone ). Maybe as an unique Hominid.