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While most Crusader cards are alien
races, a few of them are spaceships, and I've been having tons of
trouble finding really standout ships that look completely unique.
This art by Markus almost became Blue's Pirateship, but I decided it
had the feel of The Noisemaker better, especially since of the gaping
mouth of the thing. All the sharp teeth and pointy bits on it is
very Noise-like. For flavor text, I had considered “Here comes the
boom” (The Noise's slogan), or “Come on, feel the noise” (with
or without misspellings), but I decided on something that sounds a
bit more like a chant with big rolling bass drums behind it, the kind
of chant you'd get from a galley of rowers.
With that, I'm now half done with Red
Crusaders!
I also always knew I'd have troubled
with the Frenzy Shortened, because it's a very abstract term (as are,
like, half of them). This art by Riina is actually twice as tall and
would not fit within the space, which makes the android inside seem
like he's butting up against the top of the frame. I think it all
works very well with the theme of the card. The name of the piece of
art is “Thorns”, and it gave me the inspiration for the flavor
text (that, and I'd recently read Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy,
which is about the War of the Roses).
Observatory of the Infinite looks a bit
more interesting as far as being a more futuristic look than a
modern-day observatory (which was the original placeholder artwork).
Now, like other Green locations, it has more of an Ivory Tower feel
to it.
Gate of Influence has gotten a lot
darker. Originally the concept was something akin to the pearly
gates of Heaven, brought to a place in the universe. The mechanic
involved was the idea that by performing a rogation (a religious
ceremony), you'd be closer to the entity that hears it here, and you
would be rewarded for it. Now, not only that, but I've changed the
flavor text to indicate that Solidity has a lot more power (or
believes they do) over even things beyond the scope of the universe.
And, like I am fond of doing, I attributed the quote to a crusader.
Earth gets to be a place like Grime or
the Plains of Filth, where the world is far more post-apocalyptic
than other locations. To separate it a little from those, I made it
a place that The Noise might like to use as
their own little place of spectator recreation.
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