(From my drafts, probably a couple years old????? Oh God???)
Thoughts on Monquista as I play well past midnight with a bit of caffeine and a lot of hyperfixation: (all my friends are asleep/I don't wanna bother them with my fricking livetweet of monquista. Many thoughts head full.)
Monquistans are so SMALL. I go between owo look at youwr cyute wittle houwses and wittle chaiwrs, and Fuck You Tiny Colonizer I'll drop kick you into the sky.
Finally, someone shorter than my 5'2" ass.
SO many side quests, they're out here fucking POLLUTING their pretty skyway with crates and barrels and paint and a lot of food.
The monarchy is brutal. Casual murder. No different from IRL monarchies and corrupt governments, unfortunately.
I want a monquistan house in w101.
If we get consistently dunked on for being a giant, how did Gortez grow up??? Are there more gorrilas or just One Absolutely Mad Lad.
God monquistans really are just little fuckers, huh.
I want a pirate101 photomancy equvailent. I've got a stupid free 7 day holiday mount. I don't want to see that shit in my cool screenshots.
HELP ONE OF THE SPIDER IDLE ANIMATIONS WAS SO GROSS AND UNSETTLING I CANNOT DESCRIBE IT.
WHO DID THAT. I WANT NAMES KINGSILE.
I love having a clockwork spider pet and fighting spiders. Spider on spider violence is real.
THERES SO MUCH DETAIL? like way more than areas in w101 that I've seen so far. And it's just so much love, and so much good environmental storytelling like, DAMN.
Random chests are so ITTY BITTY.
I found some very good songs for my oc playlists while questing. Should I share my oc playlists?
If I made a joke bullet point thing where I just put a meme for every world in pirate101, Monquista would be 'HAHAHAHA HOW ARE SO YOU SMALL'
When monquistans make me wear fancy clothes or disguises I move the camera around so my pirate faces it and internally go 'am I a joke to you'
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*Poke* Pirate101 Ask Meme returned: 1, 2, 6, 9, 22 and 24
1. Favorite crew member/companion?
Ooh this is a hard one. I'd say story-wise, as in their promo quests, it's probably either Bonnie Anne or Sarah Steele. Personality-wise, I love Ratbeard as the pirate's grumpy old chaotic neutral uncle-figure. Battle/skills-wise, it's the Haywire Armada units - the Musketeer and the Battle Angel, most specifically.
2. Favorite world?
Honestly, I actually found Cool Ranch kind of fun. Of course the portrayal of the bison/ Natives could have been done far better, but aside from them, I really liked the parodies of all the Wild West like the Magnificent Seven, the Lone Ranger, etc. Also really nice music.
I just wish my Musketeer didn't have to dress like a Confederate soldier lmao.
6. Who is your LEAST favorite crew member/companion and why?
Personality-wise, Wing Chun; he's so harsh and insulting. I've just gotten to a point in his promo quests and stuff where he comes across as less harsh, like he's grown more respect for the pirate, but still. Don't like him.
Powers/battle-wise, I'm gonna say Old Scratch. He fizzles so much, he's just plain unreliable. (Honestly... most of the Witchdoctor companions fizzle a lot.) Love his promo quest stories though.
9. Any headcanons for your crew?
Most of the first few - Wing Chun, Bonnie Anne, and Louis Le Crab, or equivalents among other crews - started out joining as in "holy Spiral someone's gotta be responsible for this small child!" only to then see the Young Pirate in battle and go "oh nvm, they're competent... and terrifying!" About by the time Ratbeard joins there's a lot less underestimating the Pirate, because clearly they're doing something right if they got these companions.
My personal headcanon for Noble James Hawkins' crew in particular is that he has a habit of collecting broken pieces of Armada enemies after fights. This is how he built/repaired the Musketeer, Marine, and Battle Angel on his crew.
And yes, at some point we do remove the Crown of Command from Monkey King, but he finds the crew and our wacky adventures too entertaining to leave immediately.
22. Do you trust Captain Avery?
I wouldn't say that I trust him, but I do respect him. He clearly appreciates the young Pirate to some extent (like the quest where he's captured by Thresher sharks and he's like "I knew you were coming! What took you so long? Now let's show these sharks how big a mistake they made!") He'd probably stab us in the back if it benefitted him, but I mean. The man's a pirate. That's kinda a given.
24. Would you make any improvements to the story? (Fill any plot holes?)
Honestly I'd try and straighten out the timeline a little, especially as does it match up to Wiz or take place after??? Because in Xol Akmul, the Aztecasaur city above Blood Shoals, we're led to believe that Morganthe already destroyed Azteca... and then in Cool Ranch we meet Desmond Argleston, Wizard City Librarian, looking a little older than he does in W101... but then we get to MooShu and it seems like we are actually concurrent with the Wizard because the Emperor is weakened from Malistaire's attack, leaving chaos to run wild.
Has the Wizard not actually fixed everything in MooShu? Has it just taken forever for news of the Emperor's recovery to reach all across the world? Or is this another case of the whole "time passes so weirdly in different worlds across the Spiral" so Azteca is already destroyed long before the Azure Shining One ever steps foot there, and is still sprinting around MooShu chasing Malistaire? Not to mention we get Valencian horses in Novus in Wiz, sort of implying the disastrous Armada days are behind them...
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