RangerWickett
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Piratecat, Siala, do either of you have any intention of submitting to WotC's novel open call?
Piratecat's Updated Story Hour! (update 4/03 and 4/06)
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Wow Sialia!
Thanks for the heads up on the ending. Although one never "slogs" through your writing. It's too well done for that. All in all it's a pretty incredible story.
May I ask if you knew ahead of time that PKitty was going to have Teliaz ascend - or was that an option just thrown in the game after the Defenders refused to gang up with the White King to fight Elder?
Once again amazing work!
Thanks for the heads up on the ending. Although one never "slogs" through your writing. It's too well done for that. All in all it's a pretty incredible story.
May I ask if you knew ahead of time that PKitty was going to have Teliaz ascend - or was that an option just thrown in the game after the Defenders refused to gang up with the White King to fight Elder?
Once again amazing work!
KidCthulhu
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Si and Bandeeto know all kinds of things before the rest of us do. It's really not fair. They refuse to be bribed, and they seem to be immune to Jedi Mind Tricks.
I may be the only one, in which case I apologize, but would it be possible to keep the art on the art thread. Maybe with captions or small thumbnails here? The full sized pictures take forever to download on my dial-up connection (yes, those still exist). They're way cool, but it's frustrating to download them yet again when I just want to check the latest posts on the thread.
the Jester
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Wow, Sialia, the new bits are great!
I think you guys give each other +2 synergy boni.
I think you guys give each other +2 synergy boni.
Sialia
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Thanks so much for the kind words. I can't tell you how much it pleases me that you enjoy it. After such a long wait, your comments are like levels to me.
I did not know that Teliaz would ever have a shot at ascending when we began this story back in Eversink. Piratecat sent me an email --or was it a phone call?--setting up the initial meeting with Teliaz, and I don't think he quite knew what he was going to do with the character at that point.
I was pretty sure it was a set up for boy hostage time for Dylrath again.
I thought about it for a few hours, and then sent him back a reply, which was pretty much verbatim what Dylrath said to Teliaz in the bar--that's why it's such a long monologue--it's pretty much the direct text of the email I sent.
One thing led to another, over the course of several years. I actually had the converstions with Tomtom and Velendo by email--part of the reason the story was hard to follow the first time was that I was being purposefully evasive with all of them about what I really wanted.
At first I thought there would never be a place for me to post this story--it's not strictly a storyhour, because all of this was going on outside of "true" gametime. I thought no one on these boards would be interested in a piece of pure fiction, and no one outside the boards would be interested in the world/characters.
But Piratecat was incredibly patient with me, and agreed to be my audience of one, and to adjudicate points I didn't feel comfortable making up whole hog.
And so I kept writing it, one chunk at a time, for my own amusement, and his. With each chunk I wrote, I had no idea what the next piece was going to be--much like a game session. Piratecat's game sessions happened completely independent of what I originally had in mind, and several times I had to drop places I might have gone. (I still can't beleive Halcyon died before Teliaz got his big moment. I so had plans for her.) And things that I had set up for months sometimes came to pass without anyone thinking to tell me about them, because they didn't know I'd been behind them. (Like the time Teliaz showed up at the tower running from Halcyon. I really could not wait to see how the Defenders would react to Teliaz showing up on the Outgrabe in Dylrath's clothes. And you know when I found out? When it got posted on storyhour. So much for me knowing stuff early.)
Anyway, eventually a lot of things evolved.
And Piratecat made his selections from the list of options that I gave him, and threw me a few curve balls besides, and eventually what happened seemed as though we'd be planning it all along. Which I guess we had, only, the past is a lot more linear than the future.
And finally it seemed like there was a proper place for the thing, and an audience to read it.
So I finished it up, and here we are.
I did not know that Teliaz would ever have a shot at ascending when we began this story back in Eversink. Piratecat sent me an email --or was it a phone call?--setting up the initial meeting with Teliaz, and I don't think he quite knew what he was going to do with the character at that point.
I was pretty sure it was a set up for boy hostage time for Dylrath again.
I thought about it for a few hours, and then sent him back a reply, which was pretty much verbatim what Dylrath said to Teliaz in the bar--that's why it's such a long monologue--it's pretty much the direct text of the email I sent.
One thing led to another, over the course of several years. I actually had the converstions with Tomtom and Velendo by email--part of the reason the story was hard to follow the first time was that I was being purposefully evasive with all of them about what I really wanted.
At first I thought there would never be a place for me to post this story--it's not strictly a storyhour, because all of this was going on outside of "true" gametime. I thought no one on these boards would be interested in a piece of pure fiction, and no one outside the boards would be interested in the world/characters.
But Piratecat was incredibly patient with me, and agreed to be my audience of one, and to adjudicate points I didn't feel comfortable making up whole hog.
And so I kept writing it, one chunk at a time, for my own amusement, and his. With each chunk I wrote, I had no idea what the next piece was going to be--much like a game session. Piratecat's game sessions happened completely independent of what I originally had in mind, and several times I had to drop places I might have gone. (I still can't beleive Halcyon died before Teliaz got his big moment. I so had plans for her.) And things that I had set up for months sometimes came to pass without anyone thinking to tell me about them, because they didn't know I'd been behind them. (Like the time Teliaz showed up at the tower running from Halcyon. I really could not wait to see how the Defenders would react to Teliaz showing up on the Outgrabe in Dylrath's clothes. And you know when I found out? When it got posted on storyhour. So much for me knowing stuff early.)
Anyway, eventually a lot of things evolved.
And Piratecat made his selections from the list of options that I gave him, and threw me a few curve balls besides, and eventually what happened seemed as though we'd be planning it all along. Which I guess we had, only, the past is a lot more linear than the future.
And finally it seemed like there was a proper place for the thing, and an audience to read it.
So I finished it up, and here we are.
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Piratecat
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You bet. In the future we'll put up thumbnails; in the short run, I'll change them to links. I'm spoiled by a cable modem, and should have remembered. Thanks for giving me a heads up.Wish said:
I'd swear we called you that same night. If my memory's playing me false, then I apologize. That's the sort of thing a woman should know right away.Sialia said:
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I still have difficulty figuring out why the skateboard is called "The Outgrabe" and what it actually means.. Maybe it's my Dutch blond side speaking, but could someone enlighten me?
Besides that.. For all the daring and all the rash plans Dylrath has thought up until now, I figured he would have at least tried to - at least - divine his own demise once. How would that be handled? Would he want to know? Or is prophecy not a part of divination in your view?
Besides that.. For all the daring and all the rash plans Dylrath has thought up until now, I figured he would have at least tried to - at least - divine his own demise once. How would that be handled? Would he want to know? Or is prophecy not a part of divination in your view?
Piratecat
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Thalantor, at one level the flying board is called an outgrabe just because unique items need interesting names. At a deeper meta-level, though, what you're missing is a reference to Lewis Carroll's famous poem Jabberwocky. Jabberwocky is mostly made up of nonsense words, several of which (chortled, galumphing, vorpal blade) have entered the English language. The first stanza goes:
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Sialia has never told me, but I suspect she remembered "raths outgrabe", immediately thought of it as "(Dyl-)Rath's outgrabe", and named it accordingly.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Sialia has never told me, but I suspect she remembered "raths outgrabe", immediately thought of it as "(Dyl-)Rath's outgrabe", and named it accordingly.
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