RPS: And then on Eternity, I'm guessing you've mainly been doing writing and world-building? If so, I imagine those roles sync up pretty nicely.ДЄvellone: Mostly IвЂ™ve been focused on narrative. It was fun to sit down in the isometric view, plot out all the encounter points, how to use the skills in each area, the monster types, the traps. Having a chance to draw maps again reminded me of that whole architecture phase. I did some description text, but I didnвЂ™t actually do as much writing as I was expecting. But yeah, that was the extent of the work for Wasteland. So it felt more like I was designing six areas. The area design stuff was a little bit more complicated, because each of the areas I designed had two completely different states depending on certain events that happened in the game. RPS: How much work have you done for Wasteland 2?ДЄvellone: A lot of area design. Doing that at the same time as Eternity is kind of a juggling act. I said, вЂњYou know what, for a companion and for doing design documentation, thatвЂ™s actually manageable in the time provided.вЂќ Rather than doing the same scope of work I did for Wasteland 2. He kept following up, and then Kevin Saunders actually proposed a plan for how much workflow would seem reasonable over a certain time period. But between the plans to do Eternity and other Obsidian stuff, it wasnвЂ™t possible. Brian asked if I could work on Torment not long after he got the name rights for it.

Hurrah! Why, though, did you initially bow out? What kept you on the sidelines?ДЄvellone: It was mostly logistics. Also, all of the above, Avellone's role on Torment, and what an Alpha Protocol sequel would look like in a post-Walking-Dead world. To discuss kindly stick figure knights and giggle at bad naming jokes, of course. It's tough, then, to imagine that Avellone has even a spare second these days, but he somehow managed to shove aside a few for a chat, so we used it as wisely as humanly possible. Oh, and let's not forget that exceedingly tantalizing Star Wars pitch Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart was so thrilled to discuss. But Torment's hardly the only thing on Avellone's increasingly busy mind, as he's also got both Project Eternity and Wasteland 2 to worry about. And whatever other creative gravy giblets they can fit into their twisted turducken of a setting. Kickstarter's overwhelming monetary might has pushed another old band back together again, and now this one's ready to giveВ belabored brain birth to another tale for the ages. Well, it's official: Chris Avellone has joined the Torment: Tides of Numenera team.

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