Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Zot stories?

[David P. <pl...@mi...>]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Lemuel Pitkin wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Jesse Luehrs <do...@to...> wrote:
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>> So, um, am I the only one here who *likes* the fact that Crawl makes no
>> attempt at a backstory?
>
>
> You're not the only one. I like it too. And in particular, I like that the
> Orb is pure Macguffin...

Look into the Brave new Zot FR to check what we got out of this... The 
plan never was to ship Crawl with a storyline but to make the 
theme-defining bits work together (in the case of Zot: draconians, order 
vs chaos, orb guardians, Pan lords and other guys looking after the 
player, weird monsters etc.).

David