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I gave more detailed concrit in the chat, and I figured I should post here so that the thread doesn't look all empty and lonely.

Because of course. =]

Hey there ya'll. Long time lurker on the wiki, just popping in to say that, hey I'm now here and on the Discord. I might write stuff, might not, but either way I'll be sort of... sporadically poking my head in.
TL;DR: Hi!

The Detective probably should have expected to run into the Aviator at Rudi's. Neither of them could really have expected what happened next, though they can both agree it was a pretty good bad idea. After all, just because you shouldn't doesn't mean you won't.

Feeling it settle against her hip, she nodded once, satisfied, before going to inspect the painting on the wall. Perhaps it could provide them with some clues.

Virro: () You are talking to Renna. As you do, you start to suspect that the Necromancer Robes made it a bit too obvious what you were and that maybe, it would of been better if you hadn't obviously worn them in this room. Too late now.

Evard: () You move back up to Room 4

Uriel: (8) With a bit of talking you manage to convince Urouk and Prilanos that you want your Knife hand improved not healed. The Centaur and the Dwarf put their heads together (figuratively) and after a minute have worked out how to do so. With Urouk using his smithing tools to sharpen your knife hand and Prilanos healing the pain that the tools create you soon have an Improved knife hand, even better for killing people with.

Keegra: () You continue to talk to Rudig and a bond starts to form between the two of you as you share stories and both relate how hard it is to lead a group. Whilst Rudig won't leave his group behind to travel with you, he gives you a horn that can be blown twice, when it is he will come to your aid until the fight is done, and if he is able he will bring some of the others from "The Last Bastion" too.

Xiv'riit: ()

Kali: () You move back up to Room 4

Yeleni: () You move back up to Room 4

Priya: () You move back up to Room 4

Davug: (7) You follow Virro into the Last Bastion, and decide that whilst you don't want to pick a fight with these guys you will if Virro commands.

Shaban: (4) Master may have commanded you but something happened and you did not obey, instead you continue to stand in Room 4 doing absolutely nothing.

Room 5: There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Rudig: () You talk with Keegra, and develop a respect for her and think that you could call her friend. You give her your horn in case she comes into trouble but cannot permanently leave the Last Bastion, the others need you too much.

Gikur: () With no one interacting with you, you keep an eye on the Orc, watching for any hostility he may show. That he is potentially enthralled makes you even more paranoid about him.

Urouk: (9) You skillfully work at improving Uriel's hand alongside Prilanos, you wonder how such a thing happened, but decide not to ask.

Trijask: () Alongside your brother you continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Gantuxuz: () Alongside your brother you continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Guard Dogs: () you wait for the Lizardmen to give you an order and attack.

Renna: () Looking at Virro you scowl. "No I just decided to randomly carry a large piece of wood on my back. Yes I'm an archer, what do you want Necromancer?" The word necromancer is once again used as an insult. "I lost my sister to undead so don't think that just because we're both Elves I'm going to be any friendlier to you than anyone else."

Prilanos: () Alongside Urouk you help improve Uriel's Knife hand.

Blearm: () you giggle quietly, the normal people in The Last Bastion ignore you as they always do, you know you're not right in the head, if you were you wouldn't be where you are. Still, you wonder if any of the newcomers have anything interesting to trade, it would be nice to just be a merchant again.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Cracked Bow (-2 Dam when firing bow, can be removed by swapping bow or getting it repaired by a smith.) Health 22/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand, Improved.), Club(+2, Not used) Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Rudig's Horn (Can be used twice to summon Rudig and a random number of others from the Last Bastion to help you until the end of the fight, can be used as a free action whilst in a fight) Health 25/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead) Health 20/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 18/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Gikur Ironfeet: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 21/21

Udouk Goldtank: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 24/24

Rudig Stoneheart: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +8), Shield (+4) Other - , Health 25/25

Trijask: Weapons - Greatsword(+3), Armour - Banded Armour(Heavy, +6), Other - , Health 29/29

Gantuxuz: Weapons - GreatSword(+4), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +7), Other - , Health 18/18

Guard Dog 1: Weapons - Teeth(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 6/6

Guard Dog 2: Weapons - Teeth(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 4/4

Renna Liaran: Weapons - Longbow(+5 (2+3), 99 Arrows Remaining), Armour - Leather Armour(Light, +3), Other - , Health 25/25

Prilanos: Weapons - Javelins(+1, 22 Remaining), Armour - Holy Scale Armour(Mail, +4, +2 Cir When Healing/removing injuries, +4 Health given when restoring Health), Other - , Health 27/27

Blearm: Weapons - Sling(+2), Armour - Padded Armour(Light, +3, Can only be worn by Kobolds, Goblins and Halflings), Other - Hyperspace Market Stall (Can trade with people), Health 10/10

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

I tend to think of a project, start it, then think of a different project and start on that one. I'm not very good at finishing any of them. Thus, I have three or four "novels" that I should be working on instead of writing Overwatch fanfiction.

The first was a NaNovel from... two years ago? Maybe last year? I posted about it on the Board; basically, musical instruments and songs have magical power, with different songs doing different things and different instruments having different strengths. Violins are great at emotional magics, trumpets can knock walls down, that kind of thing. The actual plot of that novel was insipid, so right now this one is just a magic system.

The next one is more recent, and is about a Wrong Genre Savvy woman being tossed into a world of selkies, dragons, trolls, and Faeries. Basically, a twenty-something woman moves to Scotland to work as her mysterious uncle's housekeeper, and ends up becoming an apprentice alchemist, keeping magical creatures safe and brewing interesting potions. I like this one a lot; I think it has potential.

The third has maybe one page to its name and is only a week or two old. It's about an ensign training to be a starship pilot getting kidnapped by aliens who intend to sell her to a zoo or something similar. Not much to it yet, but I like it.

-Alleb

...but I'm terrible at worldbuilding; I work much better with a previously-established universe. ^^;

If you remember my You wake up in a forest post, you already kind of know what's going on with this one.

Basically, reincarnation is a thing, but instead of reincarnating on the same planet, it's on different planets, in different universes (technically 'pocket universes'; as Death explains, all thirteen worlds that people can reincarnate into make up their own single universe, but it's a bit too meta for the silly mortals' brains to understand. Yes, she knows about the PPC.)

Certain people, however, remember their past lives, and work to spread knowledge of the different magics and technologies in different worlds, but they're a very small group (only twenty or so) and have to work slowly to avoid introducing too many things at once... and then you have the villain, who discovers a way to rip through the fabric of the universe in an attempt to conquer all thirteen worlds...

Nothing set on stone yet, but is very anime inspired. It has mechas. And idol singers. And, despite that, a serious storyline and serious themes.

But I'd like to write a heroic fantasy novels series.

I've got two main ideas for now:

-Something inspired from the different way kingdoms worked in Asha (MMH V-VII), but with twists of my own (and few additions...). I got more than a little worldbuilding done there.

-For the basis, a classic setup 'Light' vs 'Dark', with their own magic system (or at the very least energy), and another, mixing shamanism and elementalism. As for the way this clash goes... Well, I'm being a bit inspired by MegaTen here, for those who know what I mean.

Most of anything worth looking at is here, in my dA account, if you're curious. It's all old now.

Every so often I get ideas, but the task of actually writing a whole novel seems way too huge anytime I think about it. It's not just the writing, it's the research and world-building and plot development and everything else.

So, er, if anyone is really good at sitting down and pumping out words, but needs ideas and direction, hit me up? I've got a couple modern fantasy plotbunnies I wouldn't mind sharing. One's got lunar magic, the other's got a supernatural SWAT team. {= )

~Neshomeh

They say it's less than 70 years old. Aw, lookit the lil' baby Republic! So young!

-Alleb

I have two flagship projects planned, and I've been worldbuilding for both of them with plenty of significant characters in the works. Unfortunately, with Real Life being a pain, it's safe to say that I won't be able to actually write these works anytime soon, at least until I get a steady job as something to fall back on for when I eventually need the money to publish them both.

For the first project, I've previously stated that I have a project that started out as a mega-crossover but now involves tons of expies of fictional characters in a multiverse of my own creation. "Heroes of Yonder" is basically an AU of popular culture as we know it - instead of so many continua being separate, interacting only sparingly and within their respective companies, the vast majority of fictional characters in this universe can meet up in a "world beyond worlds"-type place, broadcast to the real world in the style of an MMORPG/MOBA mix that's essentially a real-time fanfiction generator (you can play as both your player avatar/a generated OC a la the Mii Fighters from Smash 4, or as an "instance" of a "canon" character). The main antagonists are entities generated by players that were automatically rejected by Yonder's screening system for character legitimacy but somehow end up in whatever worlds they were intended for anyway, with the characters having to somehow get rid of them. It's a bit of a parody of fandom in general and fanfiction specifically, though I'm trying to make it a well-written story in its own right; the fact that several of my PPC characters either come from or are planned to be integrated into this project is enough of an incentive for this particular goal, I hope.

The other project I have planned is "Magizoic", which addresses and makes a decon/recon-fleet of one of the few things Heroes of Yonder won't cover, the Mons Game genre. Combining this with my love of speculative fiction, this is basically an AU future fic of Earth itself, where magic (and mana, its essence) is a thing, in no small part thanks to leakage from portals to the various elemental planes that cross over at the stellar coordinates of Earth, and a series of calamities has caused it to infuse the entire planet and all life upon it. Accelerated evolution, genetic and alchemical tampering, and alternative evolution have resulted in a wide variety of magical monsters known as Manazoids. In typical Mons genre fashion, combat with Manazoids is a worldwide sport, and one of the big highlights is a once-a-decade Olympics-style tournament - but the plot is kicked off by one of the countries participating suddenly imposing a punishable-by-death ban on Manazoid combat, with handlers of these creatures for that purpose being killed on sight. It's up to the main characters to escape the country, then figure out why, and finally undo this fatal policy and the world-destroying plot behind it - all before the tournament itself begins... in the country in question.

If anyone wants to talk to me about these particular projects, or lend their assistance with worldbuilding and character/plot ideas, please let me know! I'd be happy to get feedback regarding them both, so I can make these projects as great as they can be. :D

Honestly, the only two big things I'm currently "writing" are novelizations of my Pearl and FireRed Nuzlockes, and the FireRed one's on hold while I revise a bunch of chapters/progress in the game. I keep getting ideas for a modern Zelda AU where Link is a Chinese-American girl, but I haven't really done anything plot-wise with that either.

I think my problem is that I have too many ideas and not enough time management/confidence to write them. I should get more serious about my writing...

In fact, I imagine they'll take you right back for another polite interrogation session.

While you're in there, you might want to work in a question of your own: "How old is the Republic?".

What did they say?
-An age in years (less than 70).
-An age in years (around a thousand).
-An age in generations (around 850).
-Any other age in generations.

(([Goes off to read up on Tython]))

By which I mean the Galactic Empire is now the Galactic Gallery. There are rumours that Tatooine will be transformed into a massive worked of art soon and that Corellia is now mass producing paintings.

Suggesting that not only do I want to go there, but the Jedi may find it interesting as well.

So just news, then. The news is that you are apparently not of interest to your captors. Quite likely this means they don't believe a word you've said, and think you've been brainwashed or something.

On the plus side, this means you can probably get them to drop you off anywhere you like. At the very least, you can ask.

Where do you want to be let off?
-Coruscant, the City Planet.
-Naboo, the Space Renaissance Planet.
-Tattooine, the Planet that's Irritating and Gets Everywhere.
-Nal Hutta, the Swamp of Giant Slugs.

((Or name any other planet in the old or new continuity. Except Zonama Sekot. ~hS))

I'm just gonna leave you to it for a month or so, all right?

~

Hi again! When last we talked, the Lords of the Sith were getting serious into interior design. I hope you've been keeping things moving along!

What's the current state of the Empire?
-The Emperor has been overthrown and replaced (by a woman named Isard with heterochromia and an assortment of ex- and rogue Jedi).
-The Galactic Empire has been renamed the Galactic Gallery, and its reign of terror replaced with a reign of watercolours. Stormtrooper armour is much prettier now.
-Palpatine has built a massive superweapon which can turn any planet into a New Sabercut sculpture, and is cutting a swathe through the Outer Rim.
-Palpatine and Vader have teamed up with this blue dude named Thrawn and holed themselves up in the palace to make "an artwork that will last a thousand years".

Currently on my 5th (I think) attempt at writing a dark (ish) superhero novel. You can see my previous attempt as my permission piece (Which I believe is still in the archives somewhere).

Basically it's kind set off of X-men, with new genetic strands giving a bunch of young people powers (the whole science behind it hasn't been fully worked out yet). But the world is a lot more xenophobic than today and so it''s perfectly legal for people to kill these new Powered if they are 'attacked' by them, and huge camps are set up focusing around enslaving and capturing/killing these Powered. The majority of the Powered who are free have subtle powers that aren't immediately obvious to the eye. I'm thinking of trying to write three books in the series with the overall view getting lighter as the series goes on as more hope is introduced to the world. The first book is going to focus on the six protagonists (they're not really heroes, they're anti-heroes at best) who are trying to live their lives as normally as possible by day, and improve the situation for all Powered by night. Oh and they're all Students, none of the Powered are older than 25-30. The antagonists (the majority of whom are more like anti-villains than outright villains normally) are a similar bunch of Powered with slightly more extremist methods who are being controlled through their leader/telepath who is also the 'daughter' (or possible clone of the mother) of a CEO of a large company (who will be the Big Bad of the book). I've got the ideas for the first book all planned out I just have yet to start writing it up.

It originated as a sort of personal project, but now I've just sort of rolled it into a school project, as a major work kind of thing. I mean, it works in this particular case, as it's only really meant to be a single short story.

I'm writing a dark, absurd cyberpunk comedy. The world is unofficially (everybody is generally too embarrassed to admit it) ruled by the monstrous bureaucracy that is the High Tide corporation, whose focus is equally split between things like shoelace manufacturing, and planning the construction of orbital lasers.

The natural human body most of us came pre-packaged in has been totally outdated, what with being packed with all those diseases and easily ripped skin and with not having even a single implanted cupholder. Bodies hold all the sentimental value of very complex scooters, the only difference being that you need to buy new ones more frequently because, really, who makes scooters?
Having broken parts is considered negligent, and is illegal, punishments going from fines to proper imprisonment. Even going insane is illegal - it's easy enough to just buy a new brain, isn't it?

The internet has evolved into Axiom, a constantly running AR display. Things like street signs, ads - a good portion of peoples' appearances - are managed by the overlay.

Even war itself has been defeated by the advancement of technology, service in the military having become little more than an office job, as a result of advances in drone technology. How lovely!

The actual plot involves a soldier called Neil Wong losing his connection to Axiom.
He sees things that are very specifically designed to not be seen, and has a generally hard time of it.

I, er. Still haven't figured out a good title for it.
So, y'know. You title-masters out there looking for practice, or some such.

(('Cause, um, I definitely thought about that. I did. I specifically... remembered... that bit of info.))

((I feel like I've failed as a nerd.))

-Alleb

Star Wars happens in the past; it even says so in the first shot: a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...