Community Spotlight
July 26th, 2011 by Jecon

Lord Basse

A random forumer was walking through the threads, minding his own business, when two men wearing ski masks jumped out of a side post and tackled him. The man sprang to his feet and tried to make a getaway but was soon apprehended and had a bag thrown over his head. After several minutes of dragging the forumer was pulled into a room, sat in a chair, and had the bag removed. The man look at Popeychops and Dead_End, the two men who had kidnapped him, then at a dark figure sitting behind a desk in front of him. “Ah, Lord Basse, how good of you to join us,” the dark figure intoned, at a nod from him both Dead_End and Popeychops left the room leaving Lord Basse and his interrogator alone. A blinding spotlight blazed to life pointed at Lord Basse, who closed his eyes to mere slits, “Who are you??” he asks.

Welcome to the community spotlight, if your just joining us or have never bothered to look at the previous spotlights, this is where an interviewer (either my devilishly handsome self or one of my compatriots in crime, Dead_End or Popeychops) grabs a random forumer off the streets and drags them to some dark interrogation room to grill them until they’re medium well or we get the answers to our off the wall questions.

Well who am I might you ask (ok, only my helpless victims ask that, you already know who I am), I am your Ought-To-Be Dictator/Leader/Monarch and general all around Ruler, Jecon. the man sitting in the chair under the glare of the spotlight is my current victim: Lord Basse.

Bold text: Interviewer (Jecon): Regular text: Victim (Lord Basse).

*clicks on spotlight*

Now let the interrogation begin, those present are myself, your someday-will-be Dictator, and my compatriots, Minister of Religion Popeychops and Secretary of Everything Else Evil Dead_End. Now, Lord Basse, an ever present goal of your was to eventually succeed the current management and rule the greater tri-forum area or even the world, with you no longer on staff how is this dream coming along?

Lord Basse: It’s going a lot better actually! After I left staff here at AoKH I’ve had a lot more time to go campaigning with the party, the Bassian Despotist Party. We already won the last election in Sweden with 197% and now we’re preparing for the 2012 AoKH Presidential Elections. If we can take AoKH this time, world domination will be within our grasp! Muaha haha!

Bearing that in mind and the fact that you just graduated from a school of higher learning, do you have any big plans for your life?

Lord Basse: I’ll begin studying to become a secondary school-level teacher this autumn, so chances are I’ll be teaching in English and perhaps history or civics in a couple of years. My grand plan for life, however, is to become either a full-time author or film maker. If that plan doesn’t work out though, I’ll have the teaching to earn a living and then spend what time I have left writing stories and making zero budget films. Just like I do now actually, except I don’t have to work for a living right now.

Since being an evil president/dictator requires lots of travel, how are things at the particular lair you are residing in at the moment?”

Lord Basse: Not too shabby. We moved to a new house within town last Christmas, one much larger than the last one, and with 10 meters to the nearest train station. So I’d say communications aren’t too bad. When I take over the world though, I’ll build a brand new city somewhere and make it the capitol of the world, so that I don’t have to travel too much at all when I’m not out on the frontier inspecting the billion-man army.

*Glares at wall full of trophies* You’ve released a lot of spectacular scenarios, are there plans in your evil headquarters for any more?”

Lord Basse: I’m currently working on a project called “The Rockspring Revolution”, which is a sequel to my scenario from last year, “Gwyndlegard”. The Rockspring Revolution will not be as epic or huge as Gwyndlegard, but in many ways I think it might be a lot better. But after that, I am not entirely sure. I have plans for another sequel to Gwyndlegard, the “real sequel” as I’ve started calling it since I announced Rockspring, but it’s a huge project and I have a couple of ideas for smaller scenario which I’d also like to try out. One with Jones Blond, for example. So I might take a break from big projects before I start Gwyndlegard 2.

When did you start playing Age of Kings?”

Lord Basse: When the first demo for AoK was released, so… 1999? A friend of mine got the demo on a CD from a tech magazine and we started playing the William Wallace campaign. When the TC demo came out my father got it on another tech magazine CD, and I played that first Montezuma scenario like a hundred times. When the AoK: Gold Edition came out, my brother and I put together our savings ($80) and bought it, the first game we bought ourselves, and once I found the editor I was hooked. So I’ve been playing the same game for 12 years straight!

How did you find AoKH?

Lord Basse: The same friend of mine who got the AoK demo found AoKH in late 2005 looking for custom scenarios and mods. He showed it to me, we downloaded a couple of highly rated campaigns (Sabato Returns and Wolfcastle 2 are the ones I remember) and were amazed at how awesome this place was. Four months later, when I moved from the deep forests into town and got a broadband connection, I registered here.

Who’s Designing inspires you/interests you the most?

Lord Basse: I could probably name twenty… but the ones I’ve been most inspired by would be Berserker Jerker, my all-time favorite designer, Ingo van Thiel, “The King’s Best Men” in particular, andres_age, and Sukkit, whose “The Frankish Throne” got me into B&D designing and has become one of my favorite campaigns.

Well, now for the big one. If someone gave you 500 pounds, a roll of orange duck tape, two beat up bicycles, a box of assorted legos, and five feet of PVC pipe, what would you do with it all?

Lord Basse: First I would sit down for five hours and build a gigantic fort out of the legos. Then I would use the bicycles, duct tape and PVC pipe to build a time machine, bring the lego fort and 500 pounds into the distant post-apocalyptic future, trade the legos to some roaming merchant for a futuristic ultra mega death weapon, go back to now and sell said weapon to the US Army, and then live rich for the rest of my life. Oh, and for the 500 pounds I’d order guarana. Ah, guarana…

Time for some Quickfire questions: “Orange or yellow?”

Lord Basse: But… what the… red or blue? No? Well I’m picking blue anyway! *angry*

Amazon or Australian Outback?

Lord Basse: Amazon. Because the Amazon is in Brazil, and in Brazil there’s guarana…

Suburbs or The Middle-of-Nowhere?

Lord Basse: A suburb in the middle of nowhere.

Fish or Chips?

Lord Basse: Chips.

Milk or Coffee?

lord Basse: Both. With their powers combined, one can rule the universe!

Now, in closing, do you know a good game/band/scenario/film/world domination strategy you’d like to recommend to the people reading this?

Lord Basse: Game: Cave Story. Most awesome game the past 200 years that isn’t AoK.

Band: Genesis, their progressive rock period, like the albums “Trick of the Tail” and “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway”.

Scenario: The Frankish Throne. An often forgotten gem and probably the best B&D campaign I’ve played.

Film: Legend, the Director’s Cut version. If you ever saw the original cut, which was a horrible mess, watch the director’s cut. It’s a completely different movie.

World domination strategy: I’ll keep those to myself thank you very much!

Well that concludes this month’s spotlight, you are free to go Lord Basse and for your troubles there’s a case of guarana for you at the door, for those of you reading this hope you enjoyed it and be looking forward to next months Spotlight!