kvmselection.blogg.se - Moving pictures discworld

Unseen creatures scuttle over the rotten remnants of ancient carpets and curtains, and an audience of skeletons, who apparently died watching the last showing, stare at a strange, rippling screen that hangs in the air, apparently attached to nothing. Abominable Auditorium: In the caverns under Holy Wood Hill, the protagonists discover the remains of an ancient moving-picture pit - which the narration dubs "the Cthinema" - from the first Holy Wood civilisation, which was destroyed when the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions used it to break through onto the Discworld.Preceded by Eric, followed by Reaper Man.

The Adventure Game Discworld 2 takes some elements from the plot, meshing it liberally with Reaper Man and Lords and Ladies. Not to be confused with the Rush album of the same name. But all is not well in Holy Wood-something dark is lurking behind the silver screen. It doesn't take long before the moving pictures become an entertainment sensation, and our protagonists, two aspiring actors named Victor and Ginger, quickly rise to stardom. The plot is set in motion when the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork discover a way to capture moving images and project them onto a screen.

The book also introduces Gaspode the Wonder Dog, a later recurring character.

Though introduced in Guards! Guards!, the characters of Detritus and CMOT Dibbler were made the three-dimensional fan favourites they would become.

Other books to use this include Men at Arms and Soul Music.

The start of a theme that would run until The Truth of ideas or inventions from our modern world (or magical analogues) threatening to break the Discworld's Medieval Stasis, but this usually being subject to the Reset Button at the end.

The last book to use the idea of the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions invading as a generalized threat - later books would shift the idea of extradimensional threats to the elves and others, while the former are simply used as reasons why Wizards are careful about using magic.

An end to the practice of Klingon Promotion by the wizards of Unseen University due to Mustrum Ridcully taking over as Archchancellor, and therefore a single recurring faculty cast appearing in later books.

The 10th Discworld novel and one that changed the nature of the series in many ways: Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel ("I come from a little town you've probably never heard of") to find out! But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen.