#graham kq

[kursed-curtain]

Took some requests again ^^

And a bonus thing I drew for myself ;p for funsies

[applesofdaventry]

@gerbiloftriumph I saw (read) your latest chapter and that prompted mental image of Graham showing off Neese stuck with me so hard that I drew it!

[kursed-curtain]

:D

Watercolor brush my beloved loll

I missed the original Graham pile, but I'd love to open a new box of Graham Crackers with you, if you want to add a Graham to the canvas! :3

Original idea by @skiploom

[starfruit-supremacy]

they make me so FERAL. i might write about them soon

[kelseymichikoart]

Huevember #15 🔮

A knight to remember

[lsengler]

SIR GRAHAM OF DAVENTRY

I was looking at some cute chibi-style expressions for reference and inspiration, and this silly Flapjack-ass motherfucker fell out.

But just look at this little bean, I love him.

Redbubble

[vancruejovi]

King Graham redesign (by me) 👑

[gwydionae]

"That old witch caught Graham 'toad-ally' off guard."

[siena-sevenwits]

Goodness of the Day

General enthusiasm for the "Dawn Treader" Script! Lovely table read to be continued next week.

The boy I cast as Eustace is, as expected, delightful in the role. So are Pug and Tacks, the notorious slavers from the Lone Islands (purposely cast two kids who are buddies in the role because I thought the dynamic would be fun.)

Read-through for the second half of "Twelfth Night" was likewise very fun - as hoped, everyone laughed their heads off at Malvolio's yellow stockings and cross-garters.

Began our nine week course on Augustine's Confessions, and it's a good participatory group. I've had all the students before, and love them.

One of the Upper High Schoolers commented that he'd wondered when they'd have a class with me again. When I told him, "You couldn't get rid of me that easily," he followed it up with, "I always enjoy your classes, because you make them fun." 💜Thank you, sixteen-year-old boy. You are the best for saying so. (This is in fact not a credit to me - the reason I try to make them fun is because I want to have fun myself.)

Had dinner out with my mom.

I've been wanting to write a tiny bit of KQ fic, to keep my creativity alive, but I was feeling stymied and the characters wouldn't talk to me. So @telthor suggested just playing through the short little Prologue where Graham steals a treasure back from a dragon. We got the game going at the same time and doubled the length of play by keeping a running commentary going. It was a grand time and we chattered a bit later too.

A family member got some really hard news, and it affects all of us because we care, of course we do. But I am grateful they told us, and we can pray and support them.

[thewatercolours]

1,9,11,13

What was your writing-highlight this year?

I am not going to surprise anyone when I say that I was riding high on that idiotic tollbooth chapter. Both because that chapter really clicked in the process and because people were super kind in their response to it! i had a lot of fun working out the moment-by-moment with my brother. I'd say it's probably one of the better comedic attempts I've made - I hadn't really tried to be funny on the page in a while, and compared to my usual, it worked. And I was also really proud of the way it had a bit of heart, and I managed to make a major tonal shift kind of work without giving mood whiplash at the end of the scene. And @captmickey made an amazing full page comic of the part where No1 calls Graham out, and that was so kind, it knocked my socks off. It's always especially satisfying when a scene you put a lot of care into lands, so - yeah. It wasn't a perfect scene by any stretch, but it did everything it needed too, and that is tremendously satisfying.

9. Create a meme or moodboard that captures your past writing-year!

OK, this isn't going to be a pretty, cohesive moodboard, because I can get perfectionistic. So here's something for every story I worked on in a significant way this year.

"Always at Hand"

"The Snow Moon Temple"

"Priorities"

"Having a Blast"

"With More Heart"

"Pixilation"

"Path of Kingship"

"Popping Corks"

"Pirate Monks"

"Everything Changes"

"The Best Watch"

"The Brilliant Hour"

"Birthday Tradition"

"At a Standstill" (with @gerbiloftriumph)

"The Iron Gate"

"Mind Reading"

"Asleep and Awake"

"Lost"

"Scraps and Patches"

PIRATES!!! (with @gerbiloftriumph)

"Christmas in Morceaux: Charles Bardin"

11. Which scene was harder/easier to write than anticipated?

All the non-KQ ones, and also the Clockett chapter from Path of Kingship.The previous chapters had flowed so well, I thought I was on a real roll! And then everything ground to a halt during that chat in the stable, and I had *many* drafts, and much back and forth with Gerbil (thank you!) Also, evidently, the next chapter of Path of Kingship. I fell off my groove. But the other day my brother came and told me, "I'd really like to see what happens next in Path of Kingship." And I gave him a big hug and said I'd try if he'd talk it over with me. So here's hoping for 2025!

13. How did you change as a writer?

I realized I had stopped caring about publishing, and can share any writing I want without having to worry I'll spoil my chances if anyone can find it online. This is liberating, and will maybe pave the way for good things in the new year.

[kursed-curtain]

🐝🌸✨

[applesofdaventry]

I am babysitting and so my niece had me check out the 'Dress To Impress' on roblox and made me make an outfit. So I made Graham. She was groaning the entire time about how slow I was moving around the lobby thing lol.

[gerbiloftriumph]

Sire, you've got a little dirt, just there.

Would you like your Graham to have fallen into a goblin blender in Chapter Two, to match the rest of the villagers' grungy looks? Read on, for how to mod your PC version to restore the forgotten texture The Odd Gentlemen created, put in the game, but did not turn on, for whatever reason:

INSTALLATION:

Download this folder, Modding Questing, and put it whenever you want on your pc: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xSC4y5rFvDFuxLgAlPb3tJDA35zscClx?usp=sharing

You should now have both Modding Quest and TFC Installer (also attained at Nexus Mods, here) safely on your computer.

Now, we mod!

Open the TFC folder, look for the .exe program, and open it.

Very likely, it will take you to a website to download .net 6 -- this gives TFC installer framework to run. It's fine. Allow that to install.

In the TFC folder, try opening the .exe program again. Now that it has the .net framework, it should open, and look like this:

You may already know Quest's file directory, but in case you do not, here's how to find what you need.

Open your Steam Library, right click on Quest in the left hand side, and look for Properties. Open that.

Click Installed Files, then Browse to see where Steam has actually installed your game.

When a folder opens with your Quest content, you see there's a long chain of direction in the address bar. If you click to the right of it, it condenses into one nice address. ctrl+c to copy it.

Back in your TFC installer, click Game Folder, and then ctrl+v paste your address into the bar at the bottom, and select folder.

Click Mod Folder, and then find wherever you placed the Modding Quest folder I had you download. You want to click into that and highlight My Mod, and then click Select Folder to lock it in.

Your TFC Installer just changed!! Click Update Episode Two, to slap that texture on that king. It'll update a load of packages--the rooms.

Once you've done that, feel free to close the installer, open your Quest game, and load in a Chapter Two file to see a muddy king.

HOWEVER. While I was able to make this work, I do not know how to, or if I even can, tell it what rooms to apply to. Therefore! You will regrettably have a muddy king in the throne room!

Thus, you should time when you install it, and uninstall it when credits roll.

UNINSTALLATION:

Simply open your TFC installer again. The Restore Backup button, which was grayed out before you added the mod, is now clickable. Select the date to restore your copy to the Original Game State.

You may install and uninstall it as often as needed. It simply adds a little extra atmosphere to your gameplay.

[theadventurerslog]

Side Quest: King's Quest 1 AGDI Remake

Hey, guess what? New kind of entry. Sort of: my KQVI replay screensharing fits here too but tagging-wise, new, because I didn't think of it then.

There are sometimes going to be games I play I want to talk about but not do a full let's play style journal on, so that's what side quests will be.

In this case I got curious about the fan made remakes of King's Quest 1 - 3, which can be acquired here: https://agdinteractive.com/games/games.html.

So yeah here's yet another version of King's Quest 1.

Story and structure it's the same game. It's very faithful in that regard. However, it uses a point and click interface, although you can also walk with keys. It's essentially the same interface as V and VI down to config options and saving. There is also an option to turn off dead-ends. I don't know exactly how that affects puzzles but no doubt a worthwhile option for people who don't want to worry about that.

Visually it's very similar to and clearly based off KQ V and VI as well. Some of the screens have visually changed environmentally, which did cause me some confusion with my map.

And some things are still entirely familiar.

There is voice acting including Josh Mandel for Graham as he was in KQ V and the tiny bit in KQVI which was very cool of him to do. Although, his audio quality is noticeably different from the rest. He only speaks at the beginning and end however. All the descriptive text is decently narrated as well, though I am, I admit, spoiled by KQVI's narrator. I just love him.

Characters also have portraits.

The troll's an interesting take...

Here's the rat.

It's a bit of a mix of the AGI and SCI versions, more SCI than AGI. The Rumpelstiltskin puzzle uses the AGI solution with the backward cypher instead of simply his name backward. The stairs from the cloud land are the scarier SCI stairs however.

The beanstalk is still my enemy, though I had an easier time with it despite the SCI version also letting you click to move. I only fell a couple times!

On the other hand I had a lot more trouble with finding the path on the clouds and fell several times there...

Weirdly, the game in a way felt emptier to me. I think because Graham barely talks in the game and there isn't the text parser to play around with, so there isn't the opportunity to just try as much or type silly things. And there isn't a whole lot to interact with in ways beyond looking at them. (no talking to everything in sight like KQVI for example). Obviously your mileage would vary depending on how much you do goof around.

Some of the hot spots feel super finicky, so that could get irritating. I did discover when I was double-checking the help screen for something else that icons have a tiny red dot that act as the hit box point. Knowing that helped, but I still could have done with some broader or more generous hit boxes.

I think it could be good for people who want to play it but don't want to use a text parser and/or want to use the ability to turn off the dead ends. A bit more of a modern experience. Personally I think the SCI version is my preferred version, but it was an interesting jaunt anyway. II and III from what I've read and heard will have more interesting diversions and changes from the originals.

That all said impressive work for a fan project!

Three versions played now and I didn't get perfect points. I missed grabbing the slingshot. Hmph.

[kelseymichikoart]

Red 🌹

[cryptoriawebb]

Zounds! Tis the King of Daventry, after all these years!

A portrait of King Graham for the 40th anniversary of the King’s Quest adventure game series❤️🩵 It is my favorite video game franchise and every so often, I return to it. I have such fond memories playing them as a child as well—I was fortunate enough to have an older cousin who introduced my brother and I to them. Some of you may remember the 2015 reimagining, but I grew up with the original 80s-90s games.

For those who don’t know, King’s Quest is a fantasy adventure series that follows the Royal Family in the Kingdom of Daventry. The first game sees the heroic Knight Graham inherit the throne, and in the last (which I actually haven’t finished playing) the mantle passed to another knight. Every member of the family takes the spotlight at least once - though Graham, being the one who started it all, puts on his adventurer’s cap most often.

Though my favorite game is actually the AGD fan remake of King’s Quest 2 (and I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone, fan or otherwise,) my favorite official installment is King’s Quest 5. This is largely because Graham is my favorite character, but also I have the most memories of playing this game, along with KQ6 (which is arguably the best in the franchise, with Prince Alexander as the protagonist.)

TL;DR - I wanted to draw something to honor both this anniversary and a fond piece of my childhood, so here’s the good King Graham👑

Any other KQ fans out there? Let me know! Maybe I’ll do more art in the future…only time will tell!