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The Rooks Imagination?

So, if I understand the lore of Glitch correctly, then we are part of the Giant's imaginations. Well, when the Rook attacks the Giants and invades their imaginations, shouldn't a part of the Rooks imagination leak into the Giants? This could manifest in the form of altering the trees and animals in the street being attacked into "Rook" versions of themselves, which can be cured using skills or items, or just take a while to return to normal after the Rook attack. Or, the Rook could send out his own agents during the attack, which scope out other streets. When the Rook gets low on health, he will teleport, or move, to the street his current agent is on with the least population of Glitch's.

Just throwing ideas out there which could add another dimension to the Rook attacks while fitting in with the lore of this amazing game.

Posted 17 months ago by Garbara Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Well, those are very good ideas and are already partially implemented!  During rook attacks and the animals and trees get ill and players have to revive them.  They don't get all demonic and evil birdish so much as exceedingly nauseated, though.

    I am fascinated by the Rook and am hoping for a complex backstory on it to come.

    Soon, you know...

    Soon.
    Posted 17 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They want you to believe they didn't imagine The Rook.

    The Giants are plotters. They imagined The Rook. He is our kinsman. He is not our enemy. 
    Posted 17 months ago by Mr. Dawgg Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like to think the Rook comes from that dark place in all of us. We all have self-destructive thoughts that come up. The dark subconscious. Yes, imagined by the Giants but not intentionally.

    Bad dreams made manifest.
    Posted 17 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I always thought the Rook were anti-imagination so they would not have one. It would be cool if instead of destroying a street it simply crossed into another dimension like in Torchwood and Dr. Who where timelines merge and blow up.
    Posted 16 months ago by Ani Laurel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Rooks are just really angry chickens who are sick and tired of being squeezed all the time. They say they like it, but we know better.
    Posted 16 months ago by Kippsi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I really like this idea! It allows for some more interesting possibilities of effects beyond just sick flora & fauna.
    Posted 16 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If Rooks are mistakes of Giant's imaginations, then are Jujus Tii's idea of a prank?
    Posted 16 months ago by KitkatCat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Tii doesn't "prank". far too rational for those kinds of shenanigans.

    everyone assumes the rook is evil or anti-imagination.

    i think the rook attacks are probably going to be more about neglect.

    even the giants can't imagine everything all the time. sure they might have "giant imagination" but they don't have "unlimited imagination", and so the rook sweeps up areas that falls into neglect. we ourselves are representative of the giant's thoughts, so when we neglect a region it is like that region begins to slip for the giants' memory.

    this would make sense from a meta-perspective. having large, neglected regions of the game makes the game feel emptier and imbalanced. the rook might be a force that allows the developers to rekindle interest in a region by having people defend it .. or just to sweep it off the map to keep the world size in alignment with the population base.
    Posted 16 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If the rook is anti-imagination, then it would be cool if an area under attack would become completely pitch black (everything that's been imagined has disappeared). Only we glitches would be visible and would have to do some preliminary work (perhaps using an imagination skill) to make the street appear again. Then, you'd have the rest of the stuff with teh sick piggies & the rooks attack the screen, etc.. But before that, it would just be black.
    Posted 16 months ago by FrankenPaula Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think of the Rook as being like the effect of depression and negativity on the creative mind.
    Posted 16 months ago by Lelu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • the rook topples over the order so we have something to build back up.  It helps to keep bureaucratic forces from taking over.  When it is not on the screen with us it is over at the great hall eating lizards to keep them from filing stuff.
    Posted 16 months ago by Artilect Subscriber! | Permalink