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<blockquote data-quote="Boojum" data-source="post: 1816973" data-attributes="member: 21028"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Preface</span></p><p></p><p>Hello and welcome to my brand new story hour! I’ve enjoyed several other story hours over the time I’ve been frequenting (mostly lurking at) ENWorld, and decided to try my hand at writing my own, in the hope that it will provide some entertainment to the community and hopefully help me keep better records and keep my ideas more organized. The campaign that it is based on has been running for a little over a year, and takes place as part of the RPG club at UC Irvine. We started at first level and have reached 8th at the time of writing. I started it up to have fun, test out the rules in Steam-trains & Sorcery, and develop my homebrew world of Shattered Skies. The tone of the campaign is fairly light and action-oriented, but with a moderate (much increased since the beginning) focus on overall story and atmosphere. If you want to launch directly into the story, you'll have to wait a little while because it's not written yet <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> , but I hope the background material is at least a somewhat interesting read. I'll change the thread title as soon as an actual story installment is written.</p><p></p><p>My notes are fairly sketchy for the first year of the campaign, so I will be posting a relatively undetailed summary of events for that time, and hopefully transitioning to fuller reports once I get caught up, or nearly so. I am doing this for the sake of completeness, but if you want to skip ahead to point when I actually start writing something resembling fiction, I will put a link to it in this post when I get to that point. This is my first attempt at a story hour, and the world it takes place in is still very much in development, so I welcome any comments or suggestions on how I can improve either one of them. Hope you enjoy it.</p><p></p><p>Here are my plans, pretty much in order, for what I will be posting as part of this story hour. Again, if you want to skip to the part where the “story” starts, feel free to do so. Naturally, all documents that I post in this thread are copyright Gareth Hughes.</p><p></p><p>World Background: A few documents that I have put together detailing the world, and which I hope are at least somewhat entertaining to read. I’m not entirely sure whether they should go in this thread or on a website somewhere, but it seems easier to just post them here for anyone who’s interested and have a link in the first post to allow skipping them. </p><p><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1816984" target="_blank">Brief Description of Shattered Skies</a>. This will be kind of the minimum necessary to not be confused by some of the stuff that happens. Points of interest bullet-pointed for quick consumption. This will be excerpted and greatly condensed from the Shattered Skies Primer, so if you plan to read that, this is unnecessary.</p><p><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1816991" target="_blank">Shattered Skies Primer</a> The document I created at the beginning of this school year to give to the players as a one-stop shop for all the basic game information about the world, as well as enough background to get a general sense of what’s going on. The original document had lots of character creation information, racial stats, and so on, but those have been cut out.</p><p><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1816993" target="_blank">Origin of the Elder Races</a> A myth detailing an important chunk of the prehistory of the world, primarily regarding the creation of the elves and dwarves.</p><p><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1817519" target="_blank">Origin of Dragons.</a> Another myth following the last one, explaining the origin of dragons in the world. Hopefully funny.</p><p><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1817522" target="_blank">Origin of the Con Beo</a> The origin of another race, following the last two. I feel a sense of triumph about this one because it was written by one of my players with absolutely no prodding or suggestion from me, and is of a race that he created on his own, so it shows that he is engaged in the world.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1819525" target="_blank">Character Bios</a>A set of brief descriptions of the characters that have taken part in the game at one time or another.</p><p></p><p><em>-Fast-Forward Summary of the First Five Months or so.</em> When the game first started up, I had only a pretty vague high-concept idea of the world, and didn’t spend much time prepping, so the first few levels were somewhat disjointed story-wise with a lots of random encounters, small dungeons, and wandering in the wilderness. It was fun to play through, but would be fairly repetitive to write or read. Also, there was a fair amount of player turnover during this period, with the group only stabilizing later on, so characters came and went with great regularity.</p><p><em>-Detailed Summary of month 6-9.</em> At this point I had a better feel for the world and the characters, the player base had mostly stabilized, and a more coherent story began to emerge. However, I’m working from fairly sketchy notes and memory, so it won’t be entirely fleshed out to the extent of the recent sessions.</p><p><em>-Individual Session Reports.</em> After a hiatus for the summer, we started back up again about a month ago, and have had four sessions at the time of writing. We play every Thursday for about 3-4 hours, and I have a relatively complete idea of what happened in these sessions, so I should be able to write about them in some detail once I get to that point in the project.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boojum, post: 1816973, member: 21028"] [SIZE=5]Preface[/SIZE] Hello and welcome to my brand new story hour! I’ve enjoyed several other story hours over the time I’ve been frequenting (mostly lurking at) ENWorld, and decided to try my hand at writing my own, in the hope that it will provide some entertainment to the community and hopefully help me keep better records and keep my ideas more organized. The campaign that it is based on has been running for a little over a year, and takes place as part of the RPG club at UC Irvine. We started at first level and have reached 8th at the time of writing. I started it up to have fun, test out the rules in Steam-trains & Sorcery, and develop my homebrew world of Shattered Skies. The tone of the campaign is fairly light and action-oriented, but with a moderate (much increased since the beginning) focus on overall story and atmosphere. If you want to launch directly into the story, you'll have to wait a little while because it's not written yet :heh: , but I hope the background material is at least a somewhat interesting read. I'll change the thread title as soon as an actual story installment is written. My notes are fairly sketchy for the first year of the campaign, so I will be posting a relatively undetailed summary of events for that time, and hopefully transitioning to fuller reports once I get caught up, or nearly so. I am doing this for the sake of completeness, but if you want to skip ahead to point when I actually start writing something resembling fiction, I will put a link to it in this post when I get to that point. This is my first attempt at a story hour, and the world it takes place in is still very much in development, so I welcome any comments or suggestions on how I can improve either one of them. Hope you enjoy it. Here are my plans, pretty much in order, for what I will be posting as part of this story hour. Again, if you want to skip to the part where the “story” starts, feel free to do so. Naturally, all documents that I post in this thread are copyright Gareth Hughes. World Background: A few documents that I have put together detailing the world, and which I hope are at least somewhat entertaining to read. I’m not entirely sure whether they should go in this thread or on a website somewhere, but it seems easier to just post them here for anyone who’s interested and have a link in the first post to allow skipping them. [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1816984]Brief Description of Shattered Skies[/URL]. This will be kind of the minimum necessary to not be confused by some of the stuff that happens. Points of interest bullet-pointed for quick consumption. This will be excerpted and greatly condensed from the Shattered Skies Primer, so if you plan to read that, this is unnecessary. [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1816991]Shattered Skies Primer[/URL] The document I created at the beginning of this school year to give to the players as a one-stop shop for all the basic game information about the world, as well as enough background to get a general sense of what’s going on. The original document had lots of character creation information, racial stats, and so on, but those have been cut out. [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1816993]Origin of the Elder Races[/URL] A myth detailing an important chunk of the prehistory of the world, primarily regarding the creation of the elves and dwarves. [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1817519]Origin of Dragons.[/URL] Another myth following the last one, explaining the origin of dragons in the world. Hopefully funny. [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1817522]Origin of the Con Beo[/URL] The origin of another race, following the last two. I feel a sense of triumph about this one because it was written by one of my players with absolutely no prodding or suggestion from me, and is of a race that he created on his own, so it shows that he is engaged in the world. [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104690#post1819525]Character Bios[/URL]A set of brief descriptions of the characters that have taken part in the game at one time or another. [I]-Fast-Forward Summary of the First Five Months or so.[/I] When the game first started up, I had only a pretty vague high-concept idea of the world, and didn’t spend much time prepping, so the first few levels were somewhat disjointed story-wise with a lots of random encounters, small dungeons, and wandering in the wilderness. It was fun to play through, but would be fairly repetitive to write or read. Also, there was a fair amount of player turnover during this period, with the group only stabilizing later on, so characters came and went with great regularity. [I]-Detailed Summary of month 6-9.[/I] At this point I had a better feel for the world and the characters, the player base had mostly stabilized, and a more coherent story began to emerge. However, I’m working from fairly sketchy notes and memory, so it won’t be entirely fleshed out to the extent of the recent sessions. [I]-Individual Session Reports.[/I] After a hiatus for the summer, we started back up again about a month ago, and have had four sessions at the time of writing. We play every Thursday for about 3-4 hours, and I have a relatively complete idea of what happened in these sessions, so I should be able to write about them in some detail once I get to that point in the project. [/QUOTE]
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