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El-Hazard Online / Throwing out an idea

« on: June 13, 2003, 12:46:20 am »

I was wondering if anyone's ever done a fanfic focusing on Nanami and the Phantom Tribe? I haven't run across it, but I have an unparalelled capacity for overlooking things that are right under my nose.  
Anyway, the idea that's been bugging me (but which I'll probably never get around to writing because I already have too many unfinished projects) is Nanami being dragged into an effort to bring the Phantom Tribe into the mainstream of EH society. Admittedly, a lot of them may be ticked at her for her role in killing Gallus, but at least she has a somewhat more positive attitude towards them than anyone else. Maybe her ability gives her an affinity for them rather like Jinnai and the Bugrom?
Just a thought...comments/ opinions anybody?

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El-Hazard Online / Princess of Mars?

« on: May 27, 2003, 08:36:02 pm »

I was wondering if anyone else around has read Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars? I looked it up after hearing it mentioned in a review of EH and fell in love with it's sheer over-the-top pulp melodrama.   I've heard vaguely that the people who made EH had read it, but I'm not sure if it's true.

There are definitely some parallels: the hero gets transported after stumbling into a mysterious ruin (or cave, at least) and finds himself super strong due to Mars's lighter gravity- in effect, being a fairly strong human he becomes Superman there. He also has to rescure the princess from the Bug Eyed Monsters right off the bat. The way the Martians have built their society over an older, vanished civilization is also very El-hazardish.

Anyone else have any thoughts?