__________________ "Happiness is a lie. Life is horror. The light is always dying all across the universe. The last star will flicker out someday, when it does, all that remains is shadow. And I will be its king!"'-Amahl Farouk
"A burst of purple lightning arched down the steps, catching both men in the chest. They barely had time to scream before they were turned into charred and smoking husks...
She raised her free hand above her head and fired off another burst of lightning. Both Scourge and Meetra threw themselves clear of the deadly electrical bolt, but in doing so they gave Nyriss the early advantage.
Before they could recover, she leapt at them. Despite her withered appearance, she moved with the all the speed and ferocity of a dark side warrior in her prime. She landed right between her two adversaries, her blade flashing back and forth in a series of slashes and cuts that immediately threw her two opponents on the defensive.
Scourge barely managed to parry the first wave of her assault, unable to even think about countering with an attack of his own. Another quick thrust forced him off balance and he staggered backward.
Nyriss seized on the opportunity to focus all her efforts on breaking through Meetra’s defenses. The Jedi was clearly overmatched; though she managed to hold her ground, she was forced down to one knee.
In the awkward position her right flank was exposed, and Nyriss brought her blade in to deliver a crippling cut. At the same time, Scourge lashed out with the Force, catching Nyriss flush in the center of her chest.
An ordinary foe would have been thrown clear across the room, but Nyriss instinctively threw up a Force barrier to protect herself, absorbing and redirecting the brunt of the impact. Even so, Scourge’s attack knocked her off balance just enough to send her lightsaber wide of the mark, giving Meetra the opportunity she needed to scramble away to safety.
Scourge rushed forward, hoping to drive Nyriss back into a corner, but she met his charge with an invisible wave of rippling energy. It picked Scourge up and tossed him head-over-heels, sending him crashing to the wall.
Dazed, he looked up just in time to see another bolt of violet lightning catch Meetra in the chest. Like Nyriss, she threw up a barrier to save herself from the worst of it, but she was still knocked from her feet.
“Did you think I would be as easy to defeat as Xedrix?” Nyriss shouted, raising her lightsaber triumphantly above her head.
The air around her began to crackle and grow hot as she gathered herself for the killing blow. Scourge felt the energy building inside her, and he knew he would be powerless to stop it. Nyriss was too powerful; her command of the dark side was too strong."
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We've had this debate before, he seems to think that the Revan Novel completely overrides all of Kotor 2 because there's no proof she went down in power...
I'm sorry, but this sentence really didn't make much sense.
Clearly you weren't listening. Instead of choosing to disregard any given material, I simply looked at KOTOR 2 from the perspective given to us by the Revan novel and found it could be fairly consistent.
I don't think KOTOR II was overridden by Revan (well, perhaps a few of the concepts were modernized); rather, I think common interpretation of Meetra's power by KOTOR players were entirely different than the developers intended in the first place if Chris Avellone's emails to Ant are to be considered.
Ew, is that a run-on sentence?
Last edited by NewGuy01 on Jun 24th, 2015 at 04:52 PM
Well that's what happens when I type while I'm drunk.
I personally am one of those who think that Meetra from the Novel and The Exile from KOTOR 2 are not very different. I mean sure the Exile has some advantages with her unique connection to the Force but that's probably about it. However, this is not a very popular opinion as many people believe that Meetra lost some of her power and that's why she performed so poorly in the novel. I saw similar opinions to mine in this thread so I was curious to know why you also think that even The Exile version of Meetra would lose solidly(still drunk btw).
Jun 22nd, 2015 01:06 PM
