Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-29637681-20170514033014/@comment-29637681-20170718011742

I remembered a lot of interesting stuff that I did when I was making my characters for this roleplay, so I thought I might as well share them. So I bring you...

Lord Helix's Behind-teh-Scenes-Bullshit:


 * Originally Adder was a 20-year old Troodon named Sly, as shown on the original Rift 2.0 thread. After that thread went on hold, I tried creating a new character. Eventually I got the emo teenage Dilophosaurus we know and love. His original name was going to be Rodney or Robbie, but I changed it to Adder.
 * I tried 30  names for Cinder(Mantis, Ashley, Karen, Lydia, and Mina, to name a few), but I eventually settled on Cinder.
 * Stalagmite was going to be a Camptosaurus.
 * There was going to be another Rebel named Scrap. He would be a 18-year old Baryonyx and lead the main characters, but I decided against it and allowed Lucious to become the “leader” of the group.
 * Adder’s parents were originally going to be held hostage by Outlaws, but in the final product I killed them before the story began.
 * General Bonesaw was planned to be a Sinraptor, but after discovering Lythronax I eventually changed his species to the latter.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lapis and Hydra were supposed to return.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Arthropleura was supposed to go extinct entirely, but I threw Carrot a bone and kept them alive; in fact, I increased their numbers to show that Carrot and Philip’s deaths were not in vain.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I wanted Glove to come back, but his death got retconned; instead of simply dying to death, he was ripped apart by the Goddamned Bats, as well as the Demon of Revenge.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Demon of Revenge was going to be the main antagonist, but was replaced by Ol’ Salty and later Kitsuraptilikrahuluk. Doesn’t mean he’s going to be gone from the story.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">There was going to be a character named the Howling Death.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Randall’s original name was going to be Dmitri.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I planned for Vulture to be a pterosaur, but upon discovering that no pterosaur could fit the menacing presence I wanted him to have he was changed into an Austroraptor.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">King Kratus Incarnate was planned to be revived somewhere along the line.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The whole thing was supposed to revolve around rebuilding the cannon to destroy life on the Rift, but it was cut for obvious reasons.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I wanted to ban non-Mesozoic animals completely like Paleopikachu wanted, but given how much Jaigantic uses them I said no.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">All of my characters were planned to be herbivores except Adder/Sly, Cinder, and Scrap.