The Abridged Story of "Betrayal In Antara" PDF

[goatmeal]

Below is a link to the abridged story of "Betrayal In Antara."

http://larrylaffer.net/non-lsl-games/th ... df-version




Version 1.38 (updated)

It's abridged because the game is an RPG, and like most RPGs, the player encounters repetitive text (eating / sleeping / fighting / losing / winning / fast travel / "no one home" / "closed for the evening" / etc.) that doesn't contribute much to the overall story.

Instead, I chose to focus on the main story and the various side quests & story interactions the player can encounter, turning it into a novel format (novel here meaning "book length," not "interestingly new or unusual") rather than simply an extracted list of all text data.

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The PDF contains the following sections:

• An introduction of how the document came to be, and the reasoning behind the choices made in its creation

• An enhanced game map of Antara (for those following along at home)

• Writing credits for the game, plus the quick "primer" on the world of Antara from the game manual

• The story of the game, divided into chapters (and includes my "fan-fiction enhancements" for the cutscenes)

• A list of the game items with their various descriptions

• The lyrics to the game's tavern songs

• Unused text found within the game files, along with my commentary

• Explanations for references found within the game, as well as fun facts

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And because the document is so long, the table of content contains direct links to each of these sections.

Click the line in the Table of Contents >>> Go directly to that page

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Hope you enjoy. Whew!!! -- After 11 years, it's been quite the project.

[Tawmis]

Posted it to LarryLaffer.net too.
http://larrylaffer.net/archives/4903

[goatmeal]

Posted it to LarryLaffer.net too.
http://larrylaffer.net/archives/4903

Excellent. Thank you so much, Tawmis -- the page looks great!

Might need to update in the near future. Under the Reference/Fun Facts section, I failed to include that one of the game's writers, Cynthia Vanous, was an actual character in the game: in Ticor Province for Chapters 2 & 4, Cynthia Vanous is the Ravenne Museum Curator...

Came to mind just as I was uploading...

[goatmeal]

Version 1.1 should be uploaded tonight.

Thank you for your patience.

[Tawmis]

Posted on LSL:
http://larrylaffer.net/archives/4913

[goatmeal]

Posted on LSL:
http://larrylaffer.net/archives/4913

Thank you!

[goatmeal]

Version 1.2 has been submitted to Tawmis to post at the top of this thread.

The major change is now there is a Version Update log at the end, which also includes where the most recent version of the PDF can be found. There are also some minor changes, and I revised the "fan fiction/enhanced " cutscenes yet again. The writing has been cleaned up to make my contributions flow better.

Thank you for your interest in this project.

[Tawmis]

http://larrylaffer.net/archives/4964

[goatmeal]

http://larrylaffer.net/archives/4964

Thanks, Tawmis!

[Tawmis]

Created a page for it on the LSL site, under the "Non LSL Games" section.

http://larrylaffer.net/non-lsl-games/th ... df-version

[goatmeal]

Created a page for it on the LSL site, under the "Non LSL Games" section.

http://larrylaffer.net/non-lsl-games/th ... df-version

Thanks, Tawmis!

[goatmeal]

Version 1.3 has been submitted to Tawmis for posting at the top of this thread.

This update consists of minor changes and revisions -- mostly of proofreading, better word flow, and correcting typos/misspellings/missing words that I've discovered over the last month or so.

Thank you for your interest in this project.

[Tawmis]

Version 3 is on Larry Laffer's site:
http://larrylaffer.net/non-lsl-games/th ... df-version

[goatmeal]

Version 3 is on Larry Laffer's site:
http://larrylaffer.net/non-lsl-games/th ... df-version

Thank you, Tawmis!

[Tawmis]

Version 3 is on Larry Laffer's site:
http://larrylaffer.net/non-lsl-games/th ... df-version

Thank you, Tawmis!

Dude, with how long that document is - thank you for doing amazing work.