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Posted by theChit on 12/29/01 - 23:32:53

So I'm sure everyone already noticed this, but the names of the islands are anagrams for the elementals on that island:

Ria = air

Tware = water

Drognu = ground

Rife = fire

Odvi = void

What I don't get is FIAT. Is this an anagram for some word I don't recognize? Redink, how did you come up with the name FIAT?

Re: meaning of fiat?

Posted by redink1 on 12/30/01 - 15:32:48

: So I'm sure everyone already noticed this, but the names of the islands are anagrams for the elementals on that island:

: Ria = air

: Tware = water

: Drognu = ground

: Rife = fire

: Odvi = void

: What I don't get is FIAT. Is this an anagram for some word I don't recognize? Redink, how did you come up with the name FIAT?

Cool, somebody recognized the anagrams (I don't think many people noticed). You forgot Medlid = Middle tho :) I couldn't think of a good word, but since the middle island was in the middle... :)

As for the true meaning of FIAT, I think I posted it somewhere, but I'll post it again. I'll start in the VERY beginning...

I played a cool Duke Nukem 3d level pack called FTWOAP (From The Wing Of A Plane) a long time ago. In it, you started FTWOAP and then killed monsters and so on.

So, in trying to think of a Duke Nukem 3d map I was going to make, I called it FIAT (From Inside A Tree). So Duke Nukem started from in side a tree, and fought monsters and so on. Before I could finish it, the editor (Build) decided that corrupting the map file was a great and woundrous idea, and it was screwed from that day onward. I never did end up releasing any of my DN3d maps to anyone.

Flash forward to late 1999. While reading another accursed poem in English 5, I noticed 'fiat' as a footnote on the bottom of the page. I thought it was cool that a map name I made up was an actual world. The definition was 'control' or something like that. Because I was already deeply entrenched in Dink Smallwood stuff at that time, I decided to make a D-Mod called FIAT, with it having an elemental theme where a boss character had the power of 'control'.

So... in the D-Mod FIAT, Dink actually starts From Inside A Tree (then the wizard burns him out), and the boss FIAT 'controls' the other monsters, raises the dead and so on.

Re: meaning of fiat?

Posted by DipDink on 01/02/02 - 09:42:33

: : So I'm sure everyone already noticed this, but the names of the islands are anagrams for the elementals on that island:

: : Ria = air

: : Tware = water

: : Drognu = ground

: : Rife = fire

: : Odvi = void

: : What I don't get is FIAT. Is this an anagram for some word I don't recognize? Redink, how did you come up with the name FIAT?

: Cool, somebody recognized the anagrams (I don't think many people noticed). You forgot Medlid = Middle tho :) I couldn't think of a good word, but since the middle island was in the middle... :)

: As for the true meaning of FIAT, I think I posted it somewhere, but I'll post it again. I'll start in the VERY beginning...

: I played a cool Duke Nukem 3d level pack called FTWOAP (From The Wing Of A Plane) a long time ago. In it, you started FTWOAP and then killed monsters and so on.

: So, in trying to think of a Duke Nukem 3d map I was going to make, I called it FIAT (From Inside A Tree). So Duke Nukem started from in side a tree, and fought monsters and so on. Before I could finish it, the editor (Build) decided that corrupting the map file was a great and woundrous idea, and it was screwed from that day onward. I never did end up releasing any of my DN3d maps to anyone.

: Flash forward to late 1999. While reading another accursed poem in English 5, I noticed 'fiat' as a footnote on the bottom of the page. I thought it was cool that a map name I made up was an actual world. The definition was 'control' or something like that. Because I was already deeply entrenched in Dink Smallwood stuff at that time, I decided to make a D-Mod called FIAT, with it having an elemental theme where a boss character had the power of 'control'.

: So... in the D-Mod FIAT, Dink actually starts From Inside A Tree (then the wizard burns him out), and the boss FIAT 'controls' the other monsters, raises the dead and so on.

Hey ReDink1; just out of stupid curiosity, do you remember which poem that was?

Re: meaning of fiat?

Posted by redink1 on 01/09/02 - 18:46:25

: : : So I'm sure everyone already noticed this, but the names of the islands are anagrams for the elementals on that island:

: : : Ria = air

: : : Tware = water

: : : Drognu = ground

: : : Rife = fire

: : : Odvi = void

: : : What I don't get is FIAT. Is this an anagram for some word I don't recognize? Redink, how did you come up with the name FIAT?

: : Cool, somebody recognized the anagrams (I don't think many people noticed). You forgot Medlid = Middle tho :) I couldn't think of a good word, but since the middle island was in the middle... :)

: : As for the true meaning of FIAT, I think I posted it somewhere, but I'll post it again. I'll start in the VERY beginning...

: : I played a cool Duke Nukem 3d level pack called FTWOAP (From The Wing Of A Plane) a long time ago. In it, you started FTWOAP and then killed monsters and so on.

: : So, in trying to think of a Duke Nukem 3d map I was going to make, I called it FIAT (From Inside A Tree). So Duke Nukem started from in side a tree, and fought monsters and so on. Before I could finish it, the editor (Build) decided that corrupting the map file was a great and woundrous idea, and it was screwed from that day onward. I never did end up releasing any of my DN3d maps to anyone.

: : Flash forward to late 1999. While reading another accursed poem in English 5, I noticed 'fiat' as a footnote on the bottom of the page. I thought it was cool that a map name I made up was an actual world. The definition was 'control' or something like that. Because I was already deeply entrenched in Dink Smallwood stuff at that time, I decided to make a D-Mod called FIAT, with it having an elemental theme where a boss character had the power of 'control'.

: : So... in the D-Mod FIAT, Dink actually starts From Inside A Tree (then the wizard burns him out), and the boss FIAT 'controls' the other monsters, raises the dead and so on.

: Hey ReDink1; just out of stupid curiosity, do you remember which poem that was?

No clue at all... but if I ever get my hands on the same English book, I might try to find it :) It was British, at least (British Lit Class)

Re: meaning of fiat?

Posted by Wyn on 12/30/01 - 20:36:12

WOW, redink! I love stuff like that. That kind of circular logic. Mmm, roundness. %D I'm insane, yeah. But, seriously, that's very cool. Knowing that about the game is very nifty. It kinda lets you get into the 'mind' of the game or something as equally nutty.. ;)

Wyn

Re: meaning of fiat?

Posted by Wyn on 12/30/01 - 02:19:04

Since no one's responded, yet, I'll tell you my silly idea for what it could mean. ;D

FIAT - The Four In Alignment

[shrug] Earth, Air, Fire, Water is the usual alignment. Then again, I'm Pagan, so that's kinda common knowledge for me. ;) Plus, it's just a guess. Who knows what it really means besides redink1? It could be like trying to guess what KMFDM means. I doubt anyone besides the band-members and those close to them know what it really means. :D

Wyn