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Rainbow balrogs! I want! :-P

At least, it works for me. Just change the bit at the end from "viewform" to "viewanalytics".

...I may or may not have discovered this through nosily poking about at all the forms.

No, sadly I haven't found a literal Lego OFUM build (though that sounds kind of cool...). Instead, I have... a crackpot conspiracy theory!

The Lego Elves brand is actually a stealth Lego OFUM.

This is the Elves theme, and straight away you can see that it's stuffed with Mary-Sues and fangirls. Protagonist Emily Jones is prime OFUM material; check out her profile:

Emily is a smart, quirky and creative girl, who is mourning the loss of her grandmother. She is shy in new situations, but quickly finds her place in a group. She is very fond of nature, faithful, a bit of a dreamer and just impossible not to like.

Power: Love

Strengths: Smart, practical and super creative.

Flaws: Gets a bit insecure and clumsy when she finds herself in a new group (especially when they are all elves..).

It actually gets worse from there... she's friends with a stereotypical team of element-aligned magical elves, who all have ridiculously sparkly cute animal friends (actually, because of product turnover, they have multiple CAFs each). So far, so generic... but check out the purported villains of the piece:



Cronan, Ragana, and Noctura... or, as I like to call them, the Elves in Black Leather: Elrond, Galadriel, and Miss Cam herself.

(Okay, we'll need to pilfer a lighter hair for Galadriel, but other than that I think they're perfect.)

Still not convinced? Then check out 'Noctura's' (ie, Miss Cam's) little pets:



She has rainbow mini-Balrogs.

Case closed.

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The Pureblades sounds right up my alley, and Cycle of Worlds seems like a riot, but the whole childhood sleepover lost MacGuffin idea is just too charming for me to resist. Plus, I have a soft spot for the reluctant/accidental hero type.

Also the title. The title is just great.

Oh, and I'm guessing the published one was The Pureblades. Just a hunch, really.

I just wanted to see where the votes were without skewing the results, and I had to vote again to do so.

(Gravity's Embrace is obviously the best, btw.)

I wanted to participate here much sooner.

Okay, these two are ideas who have been boiling inside my brains for a while, and would like to write someday. So I'll be writing concepts rather than the elevator pitch. I'll be happy for any comment about them (including which one you prefer, of course).



First one is a fantasy one. The itch I have in mind for now is 'Magic has been used so recklessly it savaged the world. Nine mages pulled out a ritual to bind themselves to the nine (Life, Death, Light, Darkness, Fire , Water, Earth, Air and 'High Magic') different parts of the magic 'spectrum' to stop it, becoming pretty much 'gods' in the processus. And they've to groom successors to take their place eventually, because the monitoring of this monumental energy? Not Good On Your Sanity'.

Includes (of course) at least one of the group feeling not warm and fuzzy at the idea, up to using some sorts of soul-eating demons as an army to help with that disagreement, reincarnation as a feature of the world, not (exclusively) antagonistic use of undeads, desire to build and explore at length an entire world, with culture trying to avoid the 'nation of hats' while eventually having nine major protagonists (the mentionned successors) eventually coming together to take care of the situation.

Including various actors out for their own gains, and said gods become gradually more unhinged, including cataclysms of 'wild magic' when the control slips...



Number Two is a fantasy one too. It's one less developped, by here are the ideas I kept for now. A world stuck in a tug of war between the vile 'demons' and their humans thralls and mankind, supported by the luminescent 'angels'. Protagonist ends up in problems when he shows aptitude to the demon's brand of magic, rather than the humans' elementarism or the holy magic taught by the angels, and something as a pretty surefire sign of demonic allegiance. Cue problems and story.

And eventually a nasty revelation: both demons and angels are pretty much eldritch veings waging a multi-worlds war, with the local planet being only one more battlefield, and none of them as a species (of course outliers exist) care about the local tools.

Even less because... Well, magic is pretty much an extension of the ecosystem as I see it in this setting, and while demons-controlled lands already look like the sort of wastelands they favor, the angels are crafty enough to use humans mages to soften the blow where their presence is the heaviest... Because Bleak Desert of Endless Still Order isn't that sexy of a presentation to the drafted locals liking crops of food and this sort of nice things. Meaning the big stakes become taking care of both sides of this war to make sure the humans can live their own destiny, and have a planet to live it.

... 'aliens invade a magical country'. ^_^

Though that first line for Laura Davidson is spectacular.

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At one point my pie graph was a perfectly quartered circle!

It's actually shaken out a little now, with a clear preference for Kraken Knights, and a slightly smaller contingent supporting Gravity's Embrace (and frankly I agree with the majority here that those are the best two ^_^), but it's still not the strong 'one of these is great' result I was expecting.

Which is good! And is also the reason I started the thread! :D

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It really saddens me that you're leaving this place for good (and while I'm using it, and had RPs, RPGs and other things on it, when I look at the drama it spawned and Boarders it made leave... Is Discord worth it?)...

Sorry for not reacting more about Blank Sprite (And I was feeling similar feelings when I posted my missions... Pot? Kettle called. He said you're black.). I've been reading the whole story, and fully intends to post a C&C of the final chapter on the site... but Real Life has been getting busy with job searching lately (Welp, eight monthes of being jobless, but things quickened up in June), and I have at least three other C&C for other stories I've been following are on the backburner too. And I'll join your beta-readers, the story is an excellent one.

And I'd very much want to read Teiko's fourth lission myself. And I'm sure other on this Board would want to.

I'll also gladly read that original book, and would really hope I won't miss when it's published.

Duck I hated when the goodbyes began when you left, I hate them as much now. Still, good luck for the future.



P.S.: For the drama... Really? I know I tend to avoid it when it seems like boiling, but every time... I hoped te situation was getting better.

I voted for The Adventures of Laura Davidson, because 10/10 I would read it. It sounds adorable and funny and heart-warming.

Orktili sounds pretty cool too, to be honest! I'm just more wary, since I haven't seen fantasy and sci-fi happily married yet. If you can do it well, though, good for you and I would absolutely read it!

Thank you for telling me that! Motivation is often hard to come by, so it's really nice to hear something like that said in no uncertain terms.

As a side note, can you recommend any other almost-sitcom fantasy/sci-fi stories? I only know of one other one; the show Being Human, so recommendations would be appreciated!

Talking about my WIPs while they're still WIPs is kind of anxiety-inducing for me. But it's always good to get feedback, so here goes.

The Orktili Invasion (Working title)

The architecture in Pergamia had been specifically designed to hide the fact that people lived there from the eyes of hunting dragons. This is most likely the reason the Orktili chose it as a base of operations when they came from beyond the stars.

Sci-fi and fantasy happily married, as they were always meant to be. Aliens invade a magical country ruled by a power-hungry despot. It's up to her daughter, her banished younger brother, a peasant, and a pirate to figure out why they're here and how to get rid of them.

The Adventures of Laura Davidson (Also a working title)

Laura Davidson learned her first swear word from the aspen tree across the street. Aspen Trees, as everyone knows, are foul-tempered things with no concern for Manners or Propriety or, indeed, for the Children, and as Luck would have it the only one in the neighborhood of Forthington Square was directly across the street from the house she grew up in.

Urban fantasy, inspired by all the tall tales my dad told me when I was a kid. Welcome to a world where it is possible to walk to school uphill both ways. Someone has sabotaged the Propellers that Make the Earth Go 'Round, but the only person who knows is seven-year-old Laura Davidson and no one believes her.

And here's the form!

(Upon further reflection, it seems to me that I tend to be bad at naming things. Alternate name suggestions are welcome as well!)

It sounds like you've got a good, solid foundation for a world here. I'm biased, as well, because I really enjoy episodic almost sitcommy stories that are still fantasy or sci-fi. I hope you go through with this! I'd read it.

at least in Standard Written English.

On the minor variation that is Typical Forum English.

Chelsea also waved back. “Hii!” She then took out her phone. “Selfie?”

((About the term “Mobian”, I think it’s only in the comics and maybe the western TV shows. I haven’t read the comics or watched much of the shows to be sure. I don’t think that term’s a thing in the games.))

The morning, like all other mornings in RC 112358 over the last few years, began with the sound of bells. Peregrin woke up and read the (Arban) date off the clock tower he'd built in the RC. Two hundred and forty six years now, he thought, plus or minus a day. It was, unless HQ had been messing with time to excess, his birthday.

I wonder if I should make an announcement. Peregrin thought, as he was sitting up and getting out of bed. Back home, a birthday generally passed with a remark at a meal with an accompanying toast, or possibly during Proventer. Headquarters, however, was much too large for these types of communal gatherings. So, his last three birthdays had been quite small affairs. Last year, his now-former partner Tomash had taken him to a rather nice restaurant in New Caledionia, for example.

Or I could organize a party. he continued thinking as he wound the tower. This wasn't something he ever needed to do, as the clock had to be able to keep itself running when he was on missions, but the mechanism made the RC a bit closer to just another extremely remote math. But who would I invite? he wondered. And the organization would take significant energy so that is a bad idea.

Pondering potential birthday plans and wondering what the giggling child a fewt doors down was up to got Peregrin through to lifting the weight on the clock all the way up to the top of the tower. I suppose I could simply go to Rudi's, maybe invite Tomash or Taq. he concluded as he walked towards a chair. Yes, that is a reasonable way to mark the year. Yes.

"Taq?" he asked his partner, who was also waking up.

"Sir?"

An annoyed look crossed Peregrin's face. "Would you be interested in—"

[BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!/Dong, dong....]

The console went off, along with the bell sequence for Voco that was meant to replace the beeping.

"Thought he'd fixed..." Peregrin muttered as he shut off the alarm.

"What'd you want, boss?" Taq asked once the noise had died down.

"Birthday plans." Peregrin replied. "Not important at the moment." I should have seen this coming.

(( - Tomash

Thanks to Thoth for checking for typos. ))

Good luck to you and whatever you do next!

I'll keep an eye out for that future book. /Optional!Hugs

(I should brush up on my Sonic canon.)

Connor shook his head at Lemon. "Never mind."

Seeing that the robots had nothing to do, he motioned them over to join the group. They glided forward and looked from individual to individual, then the red one waved hello.

-Twistey

And also "MOOOOOOOOOOOO!" X'D

I started an MST of this one once, but it quickly turned into... more of an MRT (with the R standing for Ramsay, as in I stepped the "don't insult the author" line a lot), but it was never finished, for that reason.

-Twistey