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Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf is scheduled for release within the next few weeks. Actually, its scheduled for a particular date, but if I were to tell you that date Id probably jinx it, so "within the next few weeks" is all youre going to get out of me.

 

 

 

QA

 

 

 

As I write this, the quest is coming to the end of the WIP QA stage. By the time you read this, that stage will probably be over and the quest may even be in RC.

 

 

 

Theres not much I can say about the QA stage that wasnt in the QA dev blog. From my point of view, the QA stage consists of lots of little jobs appearing in my job list, which I have to fix.

 

 

 

Text edit

 

 

 

One of our editors, Mod Osborne, has edited the quests text for spelling, grammar and house style. House style means that where theres more than one correct way of doing something in English, there will be one way that we prefer, just to keep things consistent. For example, "all right" and "alright" are both correct, but our house style prefers the latter.

 

 

 

When an issue is clear-cut, such as a mis-spelled word, Mod Osborne will simply correct it without informing me. For more difficult issues, such as a sentence that could be punctuated in more than one way, the two of us will quickly discuss it and reach an agreement.

 

 

 

Translation

 

 

 

While the text edit is happening, the quest also goes to the translation teams who create the German, French and Portuguese versions of the text. Im not involved in this stage at all, since I dont speak any of those languages.

 

 

 

Lores and Histories story

 

 

An image from 'The Coat Thief'

 

 

 

While the edit and QA stage were going on, I took some time to write a short story that could go live as a Lores and Histories page. Im a keen writer, so writing this story has been the part of the project Ive enjoyed the most. A Lores and Histories story gives me the chance to expand upon the narrative of the quest without the restrictions that come with putting the story in a quest--I dont have to worry about puzzle difficulty or rewards, and I can describe a cool thing happening without worrying about how much time it would take to code! It also lets me expand on the story for people who are interested in it, without forcing people who arent so story-focused to read it.

 

 

 

The story is titled The Coat Thief, and it deals with something that happens to Commander Veldaban that sets the stage for the new quest. The plan is for it to go up at the same time as the quest.

 

 

 

Knowledge Base pages and news post

 

 

 

Mod Osborne has written the new Knowledge Base page for the quest, and made all the necessary changes to other Knowledge Base pages. I then checked these for accuracy.

 

 

 

Meanwhile, I wrote the news post, which is something I always find surprisingly hard. Its like the whole project with its months of development has to be distilled down into a few sentences that will explain it and make the reader enthusiastic about it.

 

 

 

Launch day

 

 

 

The next big event for this quest, of course, is launch day. Which, like I said, is within the next few weeks. Making the launch happen is out of my hands; like a screenwriter at a film premiere, all I can do is watch. Even after years working at Jagex, a launch day can be nerve-wracking. Ill spend a lot of the afternoon on the forums, looking at whether or not people like the quest--and, more importantly, what people like or dislike about it. For the most part, itll be too late to make this quest any better, but I can always learn for next time.

 

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This is good to hear. Hopefully, we'll be seeing the quest before the end of September. :)

Sounds good, note the words weeks not months, so I guess within the next 3-5 weeks?

Awesome, I like it when they support the quests with a lore/history story, gives it more depth imo.

I like how this guy writes his DevBlogs, very concise.

I hope it's a good one!

 

 

 

When an issue is clear-cut, such as a mis-spelled word, Mod Osborne will simply correct it without informing me. For more difficult issues, such as a sentence that could be punctuated in more than one way, the two of us will quickly discuss it and reach an agreement.

 

 

 

"So Mod John, do you think a semicolon or hyphen belongs here? I was thinking about it the other night, and I decided I should talk to you about it."

 

 

 

"I don't know"

 

 

 

"Neither do I"

 

 

 

"Let's flip a coin?"

 

 

 

"Yes, let's flip a coin"

 

 

 

*Coin is flipped*

 

 

 

"Damnit, it's heads, you win again Ossy"

 

 

 

:lol:

 

 

 

I just thought it was funny how they need to consult each other on a grammar issue

I heard that a Jagex Mod slipped some of the quest rewards. You get mining exp.

I heard that a Jagex Mod slipped some of the quest rewards. You get mining exp.

 

 

 

a DWARF quest giving MINING xp? impossible! :o

 

 

 

sounds great can't wait for it being released :)

 

 

 

whinners in few weeks: OMFG JAGEX FAILS CAUSE REWARD SUCKS, WHERE IS OUR D PICK :wall:

hmm i hope this starts to wrap this up.

in September plz

In the next few weeks means that is scheduled as the next week update but he can't be sure so he says it's gonna be soon.

In the next few weeks means that is scheduled as the next week update but he can't be sure so he says it's gonna be soon.

 

 

 

Or he's telling us it's later so when we get 2 weeks of no updates he doesn't have to hear rants, lol :lol:

Once again, a nice read!

 

 

 

As a Quester, I can't wait for it :ohnoes:

 

Hopefully the d pick as a reward, maybe not, but I want a new quest... I want a new, hard episode in a good story line.

 

 

 

(Ft3, dwarven prt3, Me3, mm2, dt2, ew3, mahjarrat 4 etcetera)

 

Would be so awesome if two of those quests were released on the same day :ohnoes: [/wish]

Looks great, cant wait for it :thumbsup:

Omg that shadow looks like Lucien! :| :shock:

In the picture you almost can't tell that they're dwarves... :|

In the next few weeks means that is scheduled as the next week update but he can't be sure so he says it's gonna be soon.

 

 

 

this

 

(Ft3, dwarven prt3, Me3, mm2, dt2, ew3, mahjarrat 4 etcetera)

 

Would be so awesome if two of those quests were released on the same day :ohnoes: [/wish]

 

 

 

if jagex would've done that, wich quest would you decide to do first? impossible mission for me to choose :ohnoes:

Sounds great. :

Nice read. Can't wait for the quest ! :thumbup:

 

(Ft3, dwarven prt3, Me3, mm2, dt2, ew3, mahjarrat 4 etcetera)

 

Would be so awesome if two of those quests were released on the same day :ohnoes: [/wish]

 

 

 

if jagex would've done that, wich quest would you decide to do first? impossible mission for me to choose :ohnoes:

 

 

 

No I'd easily choose ME3 and Mahjarrat 4. Anything else I don't really care about.

 

 

 

FT3: I assume this means Fremminik Trials 3? If so, well it can wait, since there's not much storyline there. Most likely, the reward would be some sort of helmet, and since I use void melee most of the time, I don't care about it.

 

 

 

MM2: Would be my next best choice

 

 

 

DT2: Basically the same as Mahjarrat quests, right?

 

 

 

EW3: I didn't like any of the ones before and they all gave trash rewards (except if you consider being able to kill wyverns a reward, which you can easily do with a DFS)

I'm pumped for this :D This was my favorite storyline when I got members, and 4 years+ of waiting is painful....

I neither like nor dislike this particular quest chain. I hope it's a good quest though. If it is, I might actually get into the whole thing.

Well the others where quite good, forgotteable tale of a drunken dwarf cutscene was hilarous.

Well the others where quite good, forgotteable tale of a drunken dwarf cutscene was hilarous.

 

 

 

I got that it was a joke, but man, that thing confused the hell out of me when I did it.. I hadn't slept for like 30 hours before I did it. Long story why.