User:Berry

Hi, I'm Berry. Welcome to my page.

Contact

Please feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you'd like to contact me. This is my preferred method of contact and the fastest way to get in touch with me. If you feel you must contact me privately for some reason, you're welcome to try the e-mail form. :)

About me

I've played Urban Dead since 2005-07-12 (under a completely different name; "Berry" of Malton isn't me) and am still very active there. When I first heard about Shartak and started to look into it, I recognized Simon's name from his positive influence in the Yahoo! "NecroTech" Group, so I had a good feeling about it. I'm glad that Shartak uses a familiar interface, while adding improvements, changing the scale, and bringing a fresh and exciting approach to gameplay. Also, I happen to have been born on an island, myself (Oahu, Hawaii), so that's one more reason why I have an appreciation for this game.

My Shartak characters

Mamoru - A Shaman from Raktam. My first character. Left his home village on the first day and promptly got entirely lost. Has been wandering ever since. I believe he's seen a bunch of the island, but I've no way of knowing how much of it, as Mamoru possesses no map skill yet. Well, at least the experience has gotten me interested in mapping the island.

• Update: Mamoru died, contacted his home shaman, and has returned to Raktam. --Berry 09:37, 7 March 2006 (GMT)

Berry - A Villager from Wiksik. My second, and presently, my "main" character. Also known as my "Let's try this again, from the top, only let's be a little smarter about it this time" character. Berry didn't leave the village at all during the first several days. Mapped Wiksik's perimeter and hut locations, then spent a few days searching. Got a knife and a machete and some other provisions before striking out to the north.

• Description: A barefoot villager, wearing a beaded skirt of woven grasses and a feathered headdress, and decorated in swirls of body paint.

Devon Maru - An Explorer from Derby. My third character. Created because I'm very interested in finding out how the GPS works -- and because I wanted to transplant one of my dormant Urban Dead characters over to this part of the world. ;)

Projects

Current projects

Language

I'm curious about whether communications between natives and outsiders without any language skills turn into purely random gibberish or if there's a discernible, repeatable transformation taking place which can be figured out, like the Al-Bhed "language" in the Final Fantasy game series.

To this end, I have attempted to establish a "language hut" in Raktam, where I hope outsiders and natives will visit peacefully and practice speaking a lot just for the sake of getting large samples of both languages out in the open.

There are possible pitfalls and setbacks, of course - the place might attract hostile/combative visitors, for example - but I have fun figuring out stuff like this, so it's worth the risk to me.

I'd like to have my character try reciting the alphabet to someone of the other team, and waiting to have it recited back, a few times.

--Berry 13:45, 12 March 2006 (GMT)

I'm encouraged by what seems to be a bit of possible interest:

You say "Hello. You don't seem to be from around here. Nice to meet you, how do you do? I'm Mamoru, what's your name?"
You say "I've taken the liberty of marking this hut as a place for us to talk to you, if that's all right with you."

Since your last move:
(a native) says "hello"
(an outsider) says "yun yun!"

--Berry 05:21, 13 March 2006 (GMT)

Past projects

Mapping

Mapping out the perimeter of Wiksik, the "long way" (that is, without possessing the in-game skill). -- Berry 09:41, 5 March 2006 (GMT)

Interesting idea. Email me and I'll share some thoughts I had on that. --Dr. J 13:39, 5 March 2006 (GMT)

The map obtained from cartography/exploration skills is only a rough approximation so if you want to map out Shartak to block level, go ahead! --Simon 15:33, 5 March 2006 (GMT)

Hey guys! Feel free to check out my first block level map on the Wiksik page. :D --Berry 09:44, 6 March 2006 (GMT)

Mapping out the perimeter of Raktam, the "long way". --Berry 09:37, 7 March 2006 (GMT)

Completed --Berry 10:56, 7 March 2006 (GMT)