rr2mod pics/rr2main rr2d1:pics/rr2main pics/rr2index rr2d1:pics/rr2index pics/ElvenMaiden rr2d1:pics/ElvenMaiden pics/FemmePilot rr2d1:pics/FemmePilot pics/OFPlace pics/DuelAtTheBar pics/CyborgCop pics/Militia pics/Battle pics/CyberWalker pics/BioMechanoids pics/AlienWarrior pics/BioMech pics/Biker rr2d1:pics/OFPlace rr2d1:pics/DuelAtTheBar rr2d1:pics/CyborgCop rr2d1:pics/Militia rr2d2:pics/Battle rr2d2:pics/CyberWalker rr2d2:pics/BioMechanoids rr2d2:pics/AlienWarrior rr2d2:pics/BioMech rr2d2:pics/Biker PLEASE INSERT ANOTHER RUNEREALM II DISK IN ANY DRIVE WELCOME TO THE TEXT ONLY PART OF THE RUNEREALM II. FROM HERE YOU WILL FIND FULL CREDITS, GREETINGS, GENERAL INFO AND SOME PERSONAL RAMBLINGS... FIRST UP ARE FULL CREDITS OF THIS HUMBLE PRODUCTION - GRAPHICS, STORY AND DESIGN - RUNELORD (PETE HEIKKINEN) PROGRAMMING - MUSIC - ROGUE SCOTTY ...AND THANKS TO HAY FOR ASSEMBLING IT ALL TOGETHER AND TO SCOTTY FOR CHECKING THE TEXT SPELLING MISTAKES. ...USE THE Q KEY TO GET BACK TO THE MAIN MENU FROM ANY OF THE FOLLOWING TEXT SCREENS. (PRESS ANY KEY) A FEW MATTERS ABOUT RR2 - YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO RE-USE THE PICTURES IN THIS PRODUCTION IN ANY WAY WITHOUT A WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM RUNELORD. ALL PICTURES IN RUNEREALM II ARE ORIGINALS BY RUNELORD. NONE OF THE PICTURES ARE COPIES FROM ANY SOURCE. ALL PICTURES ARE DRAWN STRAIGHT ON A COMPUTER. THE PICTURES THEMSELF DID NOT TAKE THAT LONG TO DRAW, BUT THERE WERE SOME OTHER PROBLEMS ALONG THE WAY FROM RUNEREALM I TO THIS POINT. RUNELORD AND OTHER OVERFLOW GRAPHICIANS ARE AVAILABLE FOR COMMERCIAL PROJECTS, SO IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US... (PRESS ANY KEY) YOU CAN CONTACT RUNELORD AND OVERFLOW FROM THIS ADDRESS BELOW - PETE HEIKKINEN VILJAMINTIE 5 01800 KLAUKKALA FINLAND ...OR YOU CAN CALL THE UNKNOWN SECTOR BBS AT +358-0-8793935 AND LEAVE MAIL TO RUNELORD. (PRESS ANY KEY) ...AND NOW SOME ADVERTISEMENTS FOR OTHER OVERFLOW PRODUCTS - TURBO DUEL, AUTOMOBILES 1.11 AND TOP HAT WILLY 1.2 ARE AVAILABLE NOW, SO GET THEM. BATTLEGROUND - AN EXCELLENT STRATEGY GAME IN THE VEIN OF DELUXE EMPIRE, BUT A LOT LARGER AND BETTER. COMING OUT REAL SOON... REMEMBER ALSO TO GET THE FIRST INSTALMENT IN THE RUNEREALM SAGA. BUT DONT HOLD YOUR BREATH FOR RUNEREALM III. :) ALL THOSE ARE AVAILABLE AT LEAST FROM THE UNKNOWN SECTOR BBS AND SOME AMINET SITES. (PRESS ANY KEY) THE UNKNOWN SECTOR BBS: NODE 0 - LOCAL NODE 1 - +358-0-8793935 NODE 2 - +358-0-PRIVATE - AN OVERFLOW PRODUCTIONS HQ. - ALL OVERFLOW PRODUCTIONS ARE FREE DOWNLOADS AND ALL NEW USERS CAN ACCESS THOSE. - ACTIVE MESSAGE AND FILE BASE. - GOOD FILE AND TIME RATIOS. - FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE. - LOCATED IN SOUTHERN FINLAND. CALL IT TO FIND OUT MORE... (PRESS ANY KEY) THE OVERFLOW PRODUCTIONS CORE MEMBER LIST IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: RUNELORD (GFX, DESIGN) SCOTTY (CODE, GFX, MUSIC) HAY (CODE, SYSOP) SPINKY PAL (GFX, DESIGN) ROGUE (CODE, MUSIC) GUN (CODE, MUSIC) LAGERS (MUSIC, MISC) REAVER (MUSIC) MR. SPAGHETTO (MUSIC, MISC) BUTTERFLY (MUSIC) MORE CODERS NEEDED FOR GAME PRODUCTION. CONTACT US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. (PRESS ANY KEY) ...AND NOW SOME PERSONAL SALUTATIONS FROM RUNELORD. THEY WILL GO TO: GINA, PRETTY WOMAN, RASSE, WOLFCHEN, TEMEN, LURPPA, AVATAR, OAKSHADE... IF FORGOT SOMEBODY, THEN IT IS TOO BAD - I FORGOT YOU. :) ...AND IF IT IS OF ANY IMPORTANCE TO ANYBODY - I WILL STAY WITH THE AMIGA AS LONG AS THE MACHINE IS WORKING AND AFTER THAT I WILL BUY A NEW AMIGA IF HUMANLY POSSIBLE. THE PC IS REALLY THAT CRAP. THE TEXT FROM HEREAFTER WILL BE WRITTEN BY OTHER OVERFLOW MEMBERS - SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST AND GOODBYE. (PRESS ANY KEY) HAY: ROGUE SHOULD BE IN THIS PLACE, BUT HE DID NOT WANT TO WRITE ANY GREETINGS THIS TIME. :) SO HERE COMES MY OWN LITTLE GREETINGSLIST: ARDE - PLAYING WITH PC NOWADAYS. ARTISTI - PHONE TERRORIST 4EVER AVATAR - IS JEEP WAGONEER OKAY. GINA - MMM...:) THAT SURPRISE-) HYPNO - ARMY RULES. :) MASSA - BUS STOP... :) PICASSO - KEEP ON JAZZING PRETTY WOMAN - WHERE IS MY HONEYRABBIT. :) ...AND ALSO TO THESE FELLOWS: CROM, DARRELL, DOMINATOR, LURPPA, MOBIL, PLASM, ROTTA, TEMEN, SUPERMAN, TURRE AND ZAC. SORRY IF I FORGOT YOU... :) SO...GREETS TO EVERYONE I KNOW. BYE... (PRESS ANY KEY) LAGERS IS NOW HERE.. I WOULD LIKE TO GREET THESE FELLAS: - TURRE COOL HAIR... - CROM KEEP ON RAVING. - PSYKO PUSSYHUNTER. - MOBIL CAN YA SPARE ME SOME MONEY... - TEMEN PLEASE BUY NEW KEYBOARD :) - LURPPA ... HI .. :) HOPE I'LL SEE YOU IN ASM -95 LAGERS LOGGING OFF.... (PRESS ANY KEY) THIS IS GUN ON THE KEYS NOW... HOPE YOU LIKE THESE MARVELLOUS PICS. HIHI HERE COMES MY VERY PERSESONAL GREETINGS: MOBIL - HAD FUN ON THE BOAT... DARRELL - YOUR BACARDI IS IN SUUTARILACITY, IN THE HANDS OF LEHTO... LURPPA - I LOVE YOUR ASS . . . JENI - I LOVE YOUR A... DOG... BENI - I LOVE YOUR RAPE ATTEMPTS ACE OF PALACE - THANKS 2NY OF PALACE - HIHIHI TJ0 SOON. END OF TRANS...MIT.............. BIOMECHANICAL EVOLUTION HAS BEEN STOPPED BY THE HANDS OF THE WRITER. OVERFLOW FADING AWAY.EOF (PRESS Q - KEY FOR MAIN MENU) ...DURING THE SEVERAL AEONS AFTER THE EPIC PHASES OF RUNEREALM, THE ELVES WERE PUSHED TO THE BOUNDARIES OF REALITY BY A MORE ADAPTING RACE - THE HUMANS. GRADUALLY THEY BUILDED A LARGE AND CORRUPTED SOCIETY. MAXIMUM PLEASURE WITH THE MINIMUM EFFORT WAS THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN THOSE TIMES... (PRESS ANY KEY) THE PEOPLE DID NOT CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE - NOR THE PAST - AND THAT WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE THE FACE OF HUMANITY TO SOMETHING STRANGE AND UNKNOWN. ONLY DRUGS, SEX AND VIOLENCE SEEMED TO MATTER. USUALLY THOSE THREE WERE THE SAME FOR THEM. ...AND MOST OF THE TIME THEY WERE PRACTISED TOGETHER. (PRESS ANY KEY) THE HUMANS DID NOT HAVE ANY SOLDIERS NOR ARMIES ANYMORE. THE LAW - OR WHAT WAS LEFT OF IT - WAS UPHOLDED BY MODIFIED HUMAN BEINGS CALLED CYBORG COPS. THEY WERE THE POLICE, JURY AND JUDGE IN ONE FEARED AND DEADLY UNIT. THE HIGHEST BIDDER USUALLY OWNED THEM. THERE WAS NO GOVERNMENTS LEFT - CORPORATION EXECUTIVES RULED THE EARTH... (PRESS ANY KEY) ...SUDDENLY THE UNEASY BALANCE OF POWER COLLAPSED HORRIBLY. THE FIRST ALIEN ENCOUNTER ARRIVED TO EARTH. THE ALIENS SEEMED TO BE GROUP-MINDED INSECTOIDS. DUE SOME GROSS MISUNDERSTANDINGS ON HUMANS PART - A WAR BROKE OUT WITH THEM. CYBORG COPS COULD NOT HANDLE AN ALL OUT WAR, SO OLD MILITARY VEHICLES WERE BROUGHT OUT OF THE WAREHOUSES AND HUMANS WERE DRAFTED FOR MILITARY SERVICE FIRST TIME IN HALF A CENTURY. (PRESS ANY KEY) THE MILITARY EQUIPMENT WAS AT BEST SITUATIONS SEVERAL DECADES OLD AND UNUSED. THE SOLDIERS WERE NOT TRAINED ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH THIS KIND OF ENEMY AND SO THEY USED MIND NUMBING DRUGS TO BE EVEN ABLE TO SOMEHOW FUNCTION IN THIS SCARY SITUATION. IN COMPARISON THE INSECTOIDS WERE HUGE, FAST AND HAD FORMIDABLE WEAPONRY. THEY ALSO SEEMED TO LACK ALL EMOTIONS - THE WERE BIOLOGICAL MACHINES. THE WAR WAS NOT GOING WELL FOR HUMANS - STAGGERING AMOUNT OF LIVES WERE LOST... (PRESS ANY KEY) DUE TO THE EVER THINNING LINES OF HUMAN SOLDIERS - SOMETHING RADICAL HAD TO BE DONE. THEY DECIDED TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. HUGE ANIMAL-LIKE MACHINES WITH HEAVY - BUT CONVENTIONAL - WEAPONRY WERE BUILT. THESE MACHINES NEEDED ONLY ONE PILOT AND THAT WAS NECESSARY AS THERE WERE NOT THAT MANY HUMANS LEFT CAPABLE OF FIGHTING. BUT THAT DID NOT CHANGE THE OVERALL COURSE OF THE WAR. THE HUMANS WON SOME BATTLES - BUT NOT ENOUGH. THE COMBAT MACHINES WERE TOO EXPENSIVE TO BUILD AND THEY WERE CLUMSIER THAN THE INSECTOIDS... (PRESS ANY KEY) THE ANSWER LIED IN BIOMECNANICS - WHICH WAS USED IN THE CYBORG COPS. THE HUMANS DECIDED TO TAKE THE TECHNOLOGY STEP FURTHER - EXTENSIVE GENE MANIPULATION WAS ADDED TO THE PROCESS. ...AND SO THE NEW HUMAN RACE CALLED THE BIOMECHANOIDS WAS BORN. THE BODIES OF THOSE HUMANS WERE LARGER MUCH AND STRONGER THAN BEFORE. THEY WERE TEN TIMES FASTER THAN NORMAL HUMANS AND DID NOT HAVE ANY UNWANTED FEELINGS - THE PERFECT PREDATOR ARRIVED TO THE BATTLE. TIDE OF THE WAR TURNED - THE RELENTLESS BIOMECHANOID FORCE STARTED PUSHING THE INSECTOIDS BACK AND THEY HAD TO LEAVE THE EARTH. THE BIOMECHANOIDS WERE NO LONGER NEEDED - BUT THEY COULD NOT JUST BE TURNED OFF. A NEW PROBLEM AROSE... (PRESS ANY KEY) THE BIOMECHANOIDS SOON TURNED AGAINST THE OTHER HUMANS. THOSE RELATIVELY NORMAL HUMANS WERE NO MATCH IN COMBAT FOR THOSE BEINGS. SO THEY STARTED MODIFY THEMSELVES WITH ROBOTIC AND BIOMECHANICAL DEVICES. SOON YET ANOTHER TYPE OF HUMANS WERE BORN. THOSE WHO DID NOT MODIFY THEMSELVES WERE KILLED BY THE MORE ANIMAL-LIKE BIOMECHANOIDS. AFTER A WHILE ALL CONVENTIONAL HUMANS WERE EXTINCT. THE TWO RACES BATTLED WITH THEMSELVES - YET THERE WAS NO CLEAR WINNER. THE BIOMECHS WERE FIERCER, BUT THE NEW SEMI-ROBOTIC HUMANS WERE BETTER ARMED AND MOVED IN LARGER PACKS... (PRESS ANY KEY) ...THERE WAS ONE APPARENT PROBLEM WITH BOTH HUMAN RACES. THERE WAS NOT ENOUGHT FEMALES TO ALLOW NORMAL BREEDING. USUALLY THE MAIN REASON FOR FIGHTING WAS TO GET MORE FEMALES. IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT SOME CROSS-BREEDING STARTED TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THE BASIC GENE POOL WAS COMPATIBLE. AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME THE TWO RACES MOLDED TOGETHER. THE NEW RACE STILL KEPT THE AMOUNT OF FEMALES LOW. THEY WERE LITTLE MORE THAN HIGHLY SEXUAL BREEDING MACHINES AND VALUED MERCHANDISE... (PRESS ANY KEY) ...HOWEVER, THAT UNNATURAL IMBALANCE OF SEXES COULD NOT LAST VERY LONG. THERE WERE SOME DIFFICULT TIMES AT FIRST WHEN THE FEMALES STARTED TO REBEL AGAINST THE SITUATION. BUT IT WAS FUTILE IN THE MALES PART TO RESIST - THEY COULD NOT AND MOST OF ALL DID NOT WANT TO SURVIVE WITHOUT FEMALES. SO THE FEMALES ROSE TO EQUALITY WITH MEN. AT THE SAME TIME - A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT BIOMECHANICS WAS LOST IN THE ONGOING SKIRMISHES AGAINST OTHER GROUPS OF HUMANS AND SO THE OUTLOOK OF HUMANS BECAME A LITTLE MORE NORMAL AS NO MORE BIOLOGICAL TRANSPLANTS COULD NOT BE MADE. STILL THE HUMANS HAD CHANGED TO SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT... (PRESS ANY KEY) ...THAT WAS THE STORY OF RUNEREALM II - THE MECHANICAL EVOLUTION. THE END. (C) OVERFLOW PRODUCTIONS 1995 (PRESS ANY KEY FOR MAIN MENU)