Mythic Quest's special 'Everlight' episode: the gang goes LARPing

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Next-to-last time we saw the gang behind the worldwide's most popular MMORPG, Mythologic Quest, wind engineer Poppy Li had been promoted to co-creative director—full partners with the comically narcissistic Ian Grimm. Actually, that was just the last time we byword them in the office. A special episode of Mythic Quest in May of last yr, made during the epidemic, showed the team troubled to deal with the isolation and uncertainty of COVID-19.

Nowadays, another special episode of Mythic Quest airs on Apple TV+, and it serves as sort of a bookend to the Quarantine installment. The team is back in the office (except for author CW Longbottom, who is commuting remotely), merely while things are looking up, on that point's motionless an awful hatful of unpleasantness to wag soured after a class in lockdown. Also, they're all clothed like complete dorks, at to the lowest degree reported to the eternal opposed-nerd Brad from Monetization.

Everlight, we take, is an in-game holiday in the Mythologic Request game world, but it's not just famous by players in the MMORPG. At the game developer's bureau, the event is annually observed with fantasy costumes, decorations, and lots and lots of LARPing, as employees compete in a combat tournament with foam swords, axes, and arrows. The entire office is successful to look like a fantasy village, and the sitting queen and king are Poppy and Ian.

The Everlight holiday centers around a cursed period in the Mythic Quest MMO's lore, when dark fell over the solid ground and everyone lost hope. The only thing that could break the darkness was the Blade of Light, and while the strongest warriors in the realm couldn't lift it, a lesser but brave fighter freed the sword and dispelled the darkness. A true underdog taradiddle.

If it's non already apparent, the Everlight episode of Mythic Quest is even as much about the pandemic as the Quarantine instalment was. While life history is slowly returning to normal, the Mythic Request team up are trying to find go for and dispose the darkness that's been pendent finished everything for the past year. And it's not a surprise that Ian, who created the story of Everlight, doesn't even see it's a metaphor. The Sword of Light itself doesn't matter, only the light does: it's active finding hope in the grim. (Ian does eventually admit the sword is just a representation of his penis. "You can't defeat shadow with a dick," says Poppy.)

Information technology is nice in this episode to see Ian and Poppy impermanent side-aside-side instead of at to each one other's throats as they usually are. About the only sticking point 'tween them is that she doesn't get whatever of his pop-culture references (she's never heard of Kerri Strug, and when he mentions Rudy as an example of a classical underdog, she thinks he's speaking about an employee). And even Brad eventually agrees to take voice in the tournament so there can represent a proper villain to defeat. Turns out Brad, despite being anti-swot, knows his way around a cook sparkle brand.

Despite the pandemic beingness a braggy theme of this episode, it's still more than breezier than the Quarantine show, which was pretty dang brutal emotionally. (In a good way. Information technology was a really nifty episode.) There are some genuinely great special effects as the story of Everlight is brought to spirit near the end of the episode, and hey, Hopkins himself narrates the tale, so points for that.

Missing from Everlight, alas, is a lot of the normal wacky workplace back-and-forth between characters that's the author of most of Mythic Quest's optimum comedy. On that point's but not so much time for it, since the beginning of the instalment consists of respective minutes of animation, and there's an extended battle scene at the end. But hey, it's been a rough class. Thither's nothing wrong with indulging in a bit of fantasy.

Chris started acting PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write of them in the late 2000s. Following a hardly a days as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer employed him in 2014, probably sol he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate kinship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a lover of quirky computer simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so atomic number 2 can make up his ain.