Rob did an amazing job with her.

Indeed he did! :D

Yeah.

Wai! That is an ossum Bigephant! o_o And 2Paw knows 'Montauk', the heavy weapons platform vehicle from Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. "I came for the sunshine, but stayed for the people." -Kane, Master and Leader of the Brotherhood Of Nod. And of course, Montauk on the East Coast of the United States, and the repute of what happened or might've happened there. I have a copy of 'The Montauk Chronicles' on a second-hand BluRay; it's terribly hard to find, as far as I know. The movie might as well have been reality-bending science-fiction, and absolute control by mental manipulation out of Grant Morrisson's 'The Invisibles'- but the base, or whatever is left of it now, is still there, along with those who claim to have worked under its commander, and victim-experimental subjects of the thought and temporal-projection experiments alleged to have been undertaken there. And not all of these victims had dignified entrances: some were simply abducted, chased down and chloroformed into unconsciousness, and made use of.

-2Paw.

When you said you knew of the C&C Montauk and quoted Kane, my first thought was that you were going to quote his The time has come, to destroy GDI ! One vision. One purpose! Peace through power! line :P. I had no idea that there was such a history behind the name of the town, I literally found the meaning on the first result of a google search and thought "Yeah, that would fit!" Maybe its not so appropriate after all? Especially if there's a shady past to it :s

I don't mind that assumption at all, Good Atypical Spider Chummer. ^_^

What I loved about either the Red Alert series and the Tiberian Sun/Wars/Twilight series of Command & Conquer, is just how much heart was put into making it a real story, with people you cared about on both Big Sides of the conflict; GDI and Brotherhood of Nod both, and Russian and American (and eventually Yuri's Psychic Renegades) both as well. Kane was a great villain not just because of Joe Kucan's acting skill (and he was the only actor to play the part in every single appearance of Kane in C&C, including the voice for CGI Kane in the early-polygon FPS 'Renegade'), but because he was a sympathetic villain. Therefore, he wasn't just a pure 'bad guy', he had motivations, desires, not just to destroy and hurt (and if you've seen the opening FMVs where Kane reveals his survival, he punished such acts of his subordinates, done wrongly in his name, for that) but because of the purpose he believed was in store for the world, if the Land of Nod and the embracing of Tiberium's power was the future to come, that he beheld. He acted on his purpose, his deep belief in it, and therefore was true to himself, and despite all the horror he could or did cause, he was honest.

And he loved life, despite how much of a villain he often could be. The quote I used, when he spoke for the first time to James Earl Jones (General James Solomon) over video-link on board the GDI Command Orbital Platform Philadelphia, long after Solomon and the world thought Kane and Nod had died in the war he helped end, is my very favourite Kane-quote, because it was not meant at all as sarcasm or in hyperbole on the part of the Master and Prophet of Nod. "I came for the sunshine, but stayed for the people." He meant what he said honestly, and when he spoke, he always did. He believed in force to bring about the Rebirth of Nod on Earth, but did not believe in forcing anyone to submit to his beliefs. He wanted loyal followers, loyal soldiers, who didn't change sides, but joined his; he fought the GDI because they were equally prepared to defend what was the Earth and its government against Nod, a future Kane embodied and led, or tried to do so. It wasn't because he hated the GDI. He feared the future he was sure they would bring, if he did nothing to avert what might come.

The Montauk Project, as I understand its legends, took place in a real location and military complex, on the Eastern shore of the United States, on and beneath a small island off the shores of New York State (Montauk, New York). The complex as it is today is sealed off, a protected and monitored U.S. Military installation, and there are those urbex (urban explorers), including one led by a man who claimed to be part of one of the final generations of children (and they were always children in these experiments) to small, otherwise-innocuous sealed-off cemented and bolted tunnel-holes, which, if there were not totally filled or blocked, lead directly down to the sub-levels where the most bizarre of these experiments took place. The film I mentioned ('The Montauk Chronicles') is set up like a science-fiction movie, something out of a mindbender of one, if there was not considerable personal report (including leaked U.S. Military documentation) by former workers and scientists there, along with the caged, abducted and psychically-stimulated victims and foci-children of the experiments.

If I have any business in saying so, I would not at all mind finding myself in the path of- or under the mountain of living flesh and feet- of such a wonderfully gigantic elephantess, named Montauk. :)

-2Paw.

Yeah there's no way I can fit her into my home without elbow grease when she knows of my awesome cooking skills lmao

She'd just eat your house I think. Or step on it?