Journey Quest and Dorkness Rising

Are the two groups in the same world?  

 

Are the Journey Quest characters being played by some nerdy losers in a college dorm and don't know it?

 

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Permalink Reply by Colin Reynolds on July 9, 2011 at 4:18pm

Maybe... but then the nerdy losers are fictional characters themselves, and don't know it.

Waitasecond...

... take it one step further still: am I being enchanted by the animated corpses of (clones of) a fabled musician and poet?

:gasp:

Zombie, Orpheus "it's in the name" ;)


ModeratorPermalink Reply by Jimmy McMichael on July 10, 2011 at 2:05pm

All of the Dead Gentlemen productions to date have taken place in the Hopjockey multiverse. Hopjockeys is an unproduced series created by Matt Vancil, following a group of transdimensional explorers capable of freely traversing the boundaries of Time, Space, Reality, and Death. It's the Reality portion that's applicable here.

Essentially, everything exists. Every story - whether it's been dreamed, imagined, written down, or told around a campfire - exists somewhere in the Multiverse. The real-world portions of The Gamers takes place on the campus of Pacific Northwest University - the same university that was previously terrorized by an Earthwalker in Demon Hunters, and is just down the street from the coffee shop where Lodge hangs out with Mark in Dorkness Rising. The fantasy portions of The Gamers and Dorkness Rising take place in the world of Fartherall, which is also home to the JourneyQuest characters. This doesn't, however, mean that the JourneyQuest characters are characters in an RPG. Rather, the players in the Gamers movies are telling stories about characters that happen to actually exist elsewhere in the Multiverse, in a fantasy dimension ruled by the laws of magic rather than physics. Which is how they are able to cross over into the real-world dimension at the end of The Gamers, where, incidentally, they're still hanging around somewhere. There's sure to be a story in that.

Confused yet? Good, then my work here is done!

Permalink Reply by Solarius on July 11, 2011 at 8:11am

OK so technically...Carro and Brother Silence could meet?

 

And what about a romantic liaison between Luster and Perf?


ModeratorPermalink Reply by Jimmy McMichael on July 11, 2011 at 8:14am
Yup, and I've always said, if there's one thing this world needs, it's Christian Doyle/Christian Doyle slash fiction.
Permalink Reply by Askara Arzarthanian on July 11, 2011 at 9:40pm

Rule 34 means it's out there somewhere already.

 

Now who will dare look for it?

Permalink Reply by Christian Doyle on July 11, 2011 at 11:21pm

I don't know about looking for it. But I'm making it right this second.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Maximilian Hunterwolf on July 12, 2011 at 10:27am
People like Christian make me wish I could +1 comments.
Permalink Reply by Solarius on July 12, 2011 at 2:36pm

Ummmm....TMI Christian...........TMI

 

But I guess I had it commin (no pun intended)

Permalink Reply by Ben Honeycutt on July 17, 2011 at 4:47pm
At least you will when you're done reading it.
Permalink Reply by Nick on July 18, 2011 at 11:08am
 

I think it is possible as there is might be a few clues.  Two possible ones that I noticed are:

1) Which character says the line, "What?" at the beginning of the orc's wiz war tale?  It does not sound like the 'Smart' orc but who else could it be?  So is it a player's voice creeping into the game world?

2) In the subtitles only [ in episode 7 (if memory serves me)]  there is a line that reads something like, "Don't cry now' which I cannot hear on the audio nor can I figure out which character would have said that.  Not an error in the subtitles as it seems to show up in other languages besides English.

 

I think there is another line that I can not attribute too but I have only seen the series twice so do not recall exactly.

 

Anyway, it is still possible I think, that there is a group of players somewhere.

Permalink Reply by Colin Reynolds on July 18, 2011 at 2:51pm

@Nick (hi) Re 1/ I'm pretty sure it's Rilk who says 'what?' in that first scene. F'Arbeit* for me to criticise, but if I had my druthers I'd much rather that Rilk's general nonplussed attitude in that scene was more clearly portrayed (eg by actually showing him say 'What?' -- as in: "WTF are you guys smokin'?")

 

* as in: Arbeit macht frei :)

Permalink Reply by Nick on July 18, 2011 at 5:28pm

@Colin;

Thanks & you are correct about the smart orc saying 'what.'  I just went frame by frame and he turns his head & starts to say the word 'What' before the cut.

 

As for my second point; I reviewed #7 and must have imagined it the extra subtitled text. 

 

So um, both of my points are wrong.  Never mind.

 

On the plus side, it gives me an excuse to watch them again.

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