Mustafa's Blog

I am finally done with the Black and White: The origin of Tyke comic. All in all, I'm pretty proud of it and think I did a pretty good job. When Vahid and I went through it, he jumped with excitement (especially at the part where Nemesis, an evil god, laughed maliciously). Believe it or not, this is based off a true story with a few twists in it. For those of you unfamiliar with black and white, it is a strategy game where you are a god trying to survive the most powerful of god's onslaught to become the only god, nemesis. While doing this you have a choice of being a good or evil god. You also raise a creature (vahid chose an ape I chose a cow) which look like their animal counter parts except they grow to be very tall, are bipedal and perform these miracle spells (they can be good or evil too). This came with an expansion pack called creature isle. In this, you and your creature raise this creature called tyke (cue the lightning strike and evil laughter). Now vahid and I choose a good life-style all the way around (good creatures and good alignments), and inorder to do that you pretty much have to watch a bunch of 5 year-olds (creature included). I mean really, all you do is cater to a bunch of babies who don't know how to take care of themselves. You have give them food or else you're evil, you have to give them wood or else you're evil, you have to give them homes or else you're evil, you even have to make them, I kid you not MAKE THEM breed. Really, you have to put a guy over girl (or visa versa) and he/she will breed. Your creature is just as bad. If you don't watch him every single second of his life, he will eat a villager (this counts as an act of evil). I of course wanted a good creature so I was stuck watching my creature, and when he got hungry I would give him grain (the good food). The biggest problem was, when he ate a human he would some how think of them as a food source (even though he only ate like 3 people) and when ever he would get hungry, he would eat a human, this attributes more to the fact that it is like watching a 5 year-old. In fact it's almost like a real human you get tired of eating the same thing (grain) and love to eat the things that you aren't aloud to (human). But once they reach a certain age they become what you've wanted them to be. Now in black and white creature isle your creature's fathering abilities are put to the test (my creature gets a f-). That's pretty much what tyke is, a son for your creature and only he can punish or reward him. So tyke naturally ate humans (nearest food source) this only added to his evil points. While I was doing a quest in the game a evil gorilla was burning a house (part of the mission) he use a lightening and fire miracle. Now tyke was smart, infect he was the smartest creature in the game, this meant that he could learn miracles faster than any other creature (he ended up getting to about 75% which was just enough for him to learn the miracle completely). To be honest it didn't upset me that much. What did upset me was when I was trying to augment my creature's power through fighting other creatures. And as I was half way done I heard the game whisper deaaaaaaattttthhhhhh I knew something was but I didn't know what, not even looking at Satan in the eyes could have prepared me for the utter shock was awaiting me. There was tyke burning my temple with a fire ball miracle and killing my worshipers with a lighting miracle. ME: HOLY CRAP! WHAT IN THE HECK IS HE DOING?! (click creature to tyke so that he can punish him) ME: this'll get tyke in trouble. (cow looks at damage...... Looks at tyke....... And dances with him) ME:WHAAAAAAAAAAAT???!!! I couldn't believe this, my creature was reenactment the emperor Nero episode. (everything is in fire, and I'm stuck watching my creature dance with tyke). So I did what every player would do in a time like this. I reset it. And I never played that game again. Now of course vahid was watching in the same awe and amazement that I went through. Because he was playing this game and what would probably become of his tyke, he never played creature isle. Now vahid has a arch nemesis list like kip form a cartoon called fosters home for imaginary friends or a game like sigma from the megaman X series. He also had nemesis on there. Tyke then eventually moved his way to that list. And I though it would be cool/funny if tyke joined nemesis betrayed me and so that is what this comic is for, a salute to the evilness and utter disgust that is tyke. This is mustafa ghassemi, signing out.