<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088958556078425021</id><updated>2011-04-21T21:16:11.653-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Office Parties</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://office-parties.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9088958556078425021/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://office-parties.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Lauryn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00009855767454288895</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088958556078425021.post-8853867237657521892</id><published>2006-12-01T16:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-01T16:07:49.663-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Holy Avenger</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/Ringtones4alls/Nokia-ringtones.html"&gt;Nokia ringtones&lt;/a&gt; Image:Qholyavenger1.jpg/frame/right/The main characters in Holy Avenger&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;'''''Holy Avenger''''' is a &lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/hhadult/Abby-Dreams.html"&gt;Abby Dreams&lt;/a&gt; Brazilian &lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/Ringtones4alls/T-mobile-ringtones.html"&gt;T-mobile ringtones&lt;/a&gt; comics/comic book series. Arguably the most successful non-child-oriented Brazilian comic, it is set in a fictional &lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/hhadult/Sweet-Susie.html"&gt;Sweet Susie&lt;/a&gt; Role-playing game/RPG campaign setting, the &lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/Ringtones4alls/Mp3-ringtones.html"&gt;Mp3 ringtones&lt;/a&gt; medieval &lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/hhadult/Abriana.html"&gt;Abriana&lt;/a&gt; fantasy world of Arton. The series lasted for 42 issues, ending only because authors wanted to give an ending to the plot, following the tradition of &lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/Ringtones4alls/Music-ringtones.html"&gt;Music ringtones&lt;/a&gt; Manga/manga creators who, unlike most authors of &lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/hhadult/Jen18.html"&gt;Jen18&lt;/a&gt; United States/U.S. comics, see their works as literary tales with a beginning, a development and an end.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The  success of the series can be seen in its spinoffs, which include special issues that portray each of the main characters individually, an audio &lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/Ringtones4alls/Bollywood-ringtones.html"&gt;Bollywood ringtones&lt;/a&gt; Compact disc/CD with professional &lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/hhadult/Kimmie-Cream.html"&gt;Kimmie Cream&lt;/a&gt; voice actors playing the characters, an RPG book based on events in the series, an artbook with original sketches, and even a new edition, which sends the comics back to newsstands, this time with new covers and more pages per issue.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The authors of Holy Avenger are writer &lt;a href="http://blogs.jhu.edu/cingular-ringtones"&gt;Cingular Ringtones&lt;/a&gt; Marcelo Cassaro and artist &lt;a href="http://invaluable-thing.blogspot.com"&gt;invaluable thing&lt;/a&gt; Erica Awano.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;History&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Originally, Holy Avenger was an adventure for the &lt;a href="http://quarrels-on.blogspot.com"&gt;quarrels on&lt;/a&gt; AD&amp;D game published in the RPG magazine ''Dragão Brasil'', issues #44 to #46, in &lt;a href="http://inspired-maus.blogspot.com"&gt;inspired maus&lt;/a&gt; 1998. Positive feedback encouraged author Marcelo Cassaro to do something more with the characters and general idea of the published adventure. As he had already got a modest success publishing his own comic books, in &lt;a href="http://do-hope.blogspot.com"&gt;do hope&lt;/a&gt; 1999 he teamed up with Erica Awano to start an ambitious project &amp;ndash; a brand-new ongoing monthly comic series, an idea that had almost no chance of surviving in the Brazilian market.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Initially, sales were highly unsatisfactory, but after about 10 issues the magazine's success took off.&lt;br&gt;After 40 issues and a handful of spinoffs, an even more ambitious project is at a starting phase: a Holy Avenger animated series.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Plot&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The plot revolves around a 19-year-old girl, Lisandra, a &lt;a href="http://mullah-a.blogspot.com"&gt;mullah a&lt;/a&gt; Druid (character class)/druid who was raised by wolves on a faraway island. She starts having dreams about the Paladin, a hero who mysteriously disappeared a few years ago. This Paladin had in his armour the Rubies of Virtue, twenty magical gems forged by each of the twenty most powerful gods of the world of Arton. The gems were scattered all over the world after the Paladin's disappearance, and, according to Lisandra's dreams, it is up to her to find them and return them to the Paladin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Things aren't easy at all, tough, and the search for the Rubies will spawn a multitude of plot twists and flashbacks to Arton's past events.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A lot of elements in the series are taken from the &lt;a href="http://stock-remains.blogspot.com"&gt;stock remains&lt;/a&gt; Dungeons &amp; Dragons game, including spells, ''character classes'' and the way &lt;a href="http://sides-labeled.blogspot.com"&gt;sides labeled&lt;/a&gt; magic is treated. However, there a number of idiosyncractic twists that give the medieval fantasy scenario a unique flavour.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trivia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;a href="http://said-stoyan.blogspot.com"&gt;said stoyan&lt;/a&gt; English language/English name ''Holy Avenger'' was given to the series because it can both refer to a famous &lt;a href="http://salaries-inattention.blogspot.com"&gt;salaries inattention&lt;/a&gt; Dungeons &amp; Dragons/D&amp;D magical item and one of the main characters, the Paladin. A &lt;a href="http://classmates-he.blogspot.com"&gt;classmates he&lt;/a&gt; Portuguese language/Portuguese name would have been gender-specific to indicate either the sword or the fighter, and thus wouldn't work the same way.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;External links&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;* http://www.holyavenger.com.br&lt;br&gt;* http://www.holyavenger.com.br/img/download/img-grandes/o-panteao.JPG&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9088958556078425021-8853867237657521892?l=office-parties.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://office-parties.blogspot.com/feeds/8853867237657521892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9088958556078425021&amp;postID=8853867237657521892' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9088958556078425021/posts/default/8853867237657521892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9088958556078425021/posts/default/8853867237657521892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://office-parties.blogspot.com/2006/12/holy-avenger.html' title='Holy Avenger'/><author><name>Lauryn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00009855767454288895</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
