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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6625240" data-attributes="member: 92305">--  AND MORE AND MORE NOTES FROM CONAN THE BARBARIAN  --XXXI.  SANDLICHES.  The sand that gathers itself and fights Conan like a man is called a sandlich.  This is one of my favorite parts of the movie.  I loved this fight.  In the book, Marique palms some aging clay shards from the walls of the outpost.  In her hand, he draws the outline of a warrior on the clay, then crumbles the clay and blows it towards Conan.  The sand beneath Conan's feet seems in turmoil, reminding Conan of shark infested waters, before the sand burps, spitting up the sandliches that fight like men.  The liches fight in the style of her father, but at the level of Marique's expertise.  I thought that a cool touch added by Stackpole in the novel, and it's some good info should you want to create this spell for use in your game (if you do, post it here on the thread!).XXXII.  BOOM.  I've wondered about the liquid that is combustible at the Shaipur Outpost.  Conan throws a torch into it to cover his and Tamara's escape as they jump from the outpost down into the bay.  The fight at the outpost is different in the book.  Cherin and her archers show up, firing blunt arrows (designed to capture) at Conan and Tamara.  But, Conan had foreseen that Zym would not come alone, and he and Tamara had made preparations.  Conan and Artus had explored the outpost before.  In the caves beneath the outpost, the two pirates had found barrels filled with a mixture of naptha and oil.  The Argosseans used the oil light fire arrows against ships in the bay.  I like that, in the book, the barrel of the stuff hasn't just been sitting there for who knows how long.  The book makes it clear that Conan put it there, to use in the fight.  And, it is Tamara, not Conan, that tosses the torch.  In the book, the barrels go boom and blows Cherin and her archers to bits.  By the way, the poison that Marique delivers in the movie is similar to that in the book (thought, it is a bit different), and Conan takes about four days to recover on the Hornet.  And, the sword that Conan carries is lost when he jumps into the sea from the outpost.  That seems more realistic to me.  I wondered, when watching the film, how he swam all that distance to the ship, poisoned, with this large sword, and Tamara to boot. The new sword that Conan grabs from the plunder kept on the ship is quite long, and Conan has to open the end of his scabbard to hold the weapon.  I thought that another nice touch.  Way to go Stackpole.Artus has known Conan for a long time.  Many years.  Before Artus became a pirate, he was also a thief on the streets of cities in Zamora, along with Conan.XXXIII.  REMO's DEATH.  In the movie, Remo is alive when Conan lauches him at the Land Ship.  In the book, we learn that the barbarian breaks his neck before launching him, and the dead man is tied to a rock in the catapult.  Artus explains:XXXIV.  COMBAT ON THE HORNET.  This happens later in the book than it does in the movie.  Marique, at Khor Kalba, casts a spell to hide Zym's attack force.  The Hornet has been at sea for quite some time.  Conan has recovered from Marique's poison, and Zym has lead his Legion back to his castle at Khor Khalba.  Ukafa dies here.  Before his death, he recognizes Conan as Amra.  It is not clear if Cherin, the one-eyed female archer, dies at the Shaipur Outpost with the rest of the archers in the explosion, of if she dies on the Hornet.  In the movie, she's not at the Shaipur Outpost and there is a quick scene of her death on the ship when Conan pierces her with a harpoon.  XXXV.  KHOR KHALBA.  Is an ancient Archeronian ruin, with new construction on top.  Parts of it remain unexplored.  I speculate that the Skull Cave, which is within site of Khor Khalba on the beach, connects to the tunnels and caverns below the city.  From the movie, the city is huge.  From the book, only some of it is recovered and lived in.  Cats infest the place, along with other creatures.  Khor Khalba is one day's ride from Asgalun.Of Khor Khalba, Ela-Shan says:<img src="http://www.conanmovieblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/UK-Trailer_037.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The coast where Khor Khalba now rises was once home to a grand city in the heart of a plain.  The shattering of Acheron's power fractured the land as well.  The sea devoured what it could.XXXVI.  MASK OF ACHERON.  Tamara knows of it.  She learned of it in her studies at the monastery.  She says:Tamara says that Master Fassier rescued her.  He doesn't know that the order murdered her entire family.  Tamara, as a babe, was captured by Zym's men.  Fassier's order, under the former master, stole the child back and then murdered her entire family so that Zym would find no blood.The pic below is of the Hyrkanian monastery.<img src="http://www.anthonypryor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Hyrkania.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />XXXVII.  ASGALUN.  In the movie, it is Argalon that Conan goes to search for the thief Ela-Shan.  In the book, it is the well known Shemite city of Asgalun. XXXVIII.  TAMARA CAPTURED.  I always wondered how Tamara would have been captured in the movie.  In the book, it is explained. Marique uses sorcery to locate Tamara, at a place four days away from Khor Khalba.  She goes there, capturing the Pure Blood, for her father, using her sorcery to aid her.  Marique sent assassins to kill Conan, and these, along with some sorcerous items Conan found, told him that Tamara had been captured by Zym's people.  I thought it silly that Marique looses one of her talons, which Conan finds, in the film.  Stackpole, again, did it better.XXXIX.  PROPHECY. Zym must perform the ritual on the eve of the Dead Moon.  The prophecy is:  When the tide has ebbed, and the ruins are dry, when the moon is eager to rise from the grave, then shall Acheron be brought forth again.XL.  AKHOUN.  Like Remo, Akhoun (spelled Akhun in the movie credits) is not illuminated in description.  He seems to be one of Zym's generals, and he seems to be the keeper of The Dweller, the creature with tentacles shown in the film.  In the book, Zym calls the creature "The Beast That Lurks", and it is no pet.  It comes and goes as it pleases, out to sea, using the tunnels underneath Khor Khalba.  It just happens to be "home" when Conan and Ela-Shan arrive.  The room where the Akhoun and the Dweller are fought is a torture room.  Notice the cages in the film.  The Dweller is used, sometimes, in the tortures.  I mean, it would scare the gods out of me.  <img src="http://www.joblo.com/big-movie-images/conan_11.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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