Re: Sephiris: The Price of Peace - OOC

[obfuscobble]

Lord Duiran having his own side plot brings butterflies to my stomach!

[Guest]

Lord Duiran having his own side plot brings butterflies to my stomach!

Really? That's awesome! Blackrock and Raptorman have both expressed interest in creating characters to go along with him, but there is always room for more if you are interested!

[Guest]

My guy is going to be real creep this time. And just plain demented to boot. -evil laughing-

[Guest]

Just some information concerning Lord Ragner Duiran:

Drome is on the northwestern peninsula of Mandor. It is under control of Duke Oromon, foster father of Ragner Duiran.
Ragner Duiran was given lordship over a small town on the peninsula just south of Drome. Most of his military forces have been depeleted in his attempts at killing Barthon and Co., and most of what remains are specialists and such, or those unfit for combat.
I haven't yet come up with a name for the town, so any suggestions would be appreciated. I also don't have any specifics conerncing geography, layout of the town, and population. So, again, any suggestions will be helpful.

As far as the next step in the plot, Lord Duiran may be heading home to his town (in secrecy, if possible, to avoid the wrath of the Duke), to recover from his injuries and gather a few companions. He intends to hunt down Barthon and make him pay for what he's done (which is, essentially, nothing).
Ragner knows his father likely set him up for failure, and a part of him realizes that Barthon is not to blame. But he needs to blame Barthon because, well, that is just the kind of person he is.
I'm not sure where exactly I want to go with Ragner yet. Either he will hunt Barthon down until his own death, or maybe he will finally let it go at some point. Obviously Ragner still has room for some character development.

Those are just some things I want you to keep in mind if you plan on making a character to join him. Your character doesn't even have to be distincly related to anything there. They could be from Aram, or Dor, or another unnamed city. Or even Sephalia. But if you want them to be relatively close or connected, that is all the information I have.

[obfuscobble]

Thanks! This works great for a character concept I've been working on. Now I have to find time to write, which is the essential component. *laughs nervously*

[Guest]

I have a question for Kalon, whenever he decides to pop back on. I've decided to redo the whole stats thing (total word count, word count per character, word count per player, etc). But I also wanted to do what you've mentioned several times: put it in novel form. There are several issues involved with this, however. And I know it wouldn't be anything official-this is just for our enjoyment.

1. I will be changing any errors that I see. Do you want me to consult you, and all other players, before I correct the errors? I will either use my best judgement or Word's best judgement if I don't need to consult the players first. I would also like to make a uniform setting, like for the time stamps and such. Do you have a preference for what that should look like? I think all of us so far use a different format for the time stamp.

2. Should I mention each player at the beginning or end of each of their respective posts? Or should I just let them flow with eachother so that the uniformed reader would have no idea who wrote what?

3. I would like to post this somewhere so that FOG people, at least, can access it and read it in all of its glory. Do you know where I might be able to do that? A word document hosting site? Also, should I wait until Chapter 1 is completed before posting anything? Or should I just update it as we go along?

4. I think there was a four...but I can't remember now. My train of thought wrecked, and there is something from Area 51 trying to burst out of the wreckage, to the oh-so-aggravating and not-very-explanatory title of "Super 8"...

Edit: I remembered 4: Should I include the posts by players who have stated that they are no longer participating? Like Reffy and Zephiris? Neither of their plotlines are completed, nor have they progressed the overall story in any way. In a novel, that wouldn't work. But I leave that decision up to you.

[Digital Muse]

I might suggest GoogleDocs to host the novel. You can give permissions to specific people to read, but not change the novel. Or give passwords to people who would have access to it to edit as you choose. I use it to write my books with my friend Matt.

As for the editing thing, you can certainly edit spelling, etc for me. You'd only have to check with me for any major changes in the spirit of the text.

Posting our names on specific portions of the story that we've written isn't a big deal to me. So long as all our names are included in the credits and movie rights.

[Kalon Ordona II]

I must not have mentioned before, but I've been keeping a running record of each post and have been putting them all in chronological order as I go. I was planning to put it in a Google document.

I don't have player names ascribed to them, but we can put in the opening credits/acknowledgments who played which characters.

Maybe I'll do that now. (I've been working on my Zelda fanfiction as well as the Character Portrait requests, so that's partly what's keeping me from finishing my Sephiris post. )

[Kalon Ordona II]

Alright, that took significantly longer than it should have. But no worries. The whole thing, minus the most recent few posts, are in my Google documents. Whoever has a Gmail account, let me know so I can share it with ya.

add me as a contact:
kalonordona2@gmail.com

[Guest]

Well I'll probably still do it, just because its fun to do and a way to distract myself from homework...

I don't have a gmail account though Maybe someday I'll make one.

[Kalon Ordona II]

Gmail. Is. Awesome.
If you don't have one, you must. Google is great! xD
Gmail has none of the mediocrity of Windows Live, and none of the ads and hullabaloo of Yahoo. It's nice, clean, efficient, and has tons of great and useful features! ^^

Get one; make it your professional, all-purpose mail, and live the glory that is Gmail.
*angelic choir*

[Guest]

I'm working on my character sheet for Ragner Duiran while trying to study for my philosophy test. Hopefully I can have it up before I go to work at 3:30...

Edit: By the way, I'm in Sephchat if anyone wants to hop on.

[Blackrock]

Here's the character sheet for my new character, Duke Cyril Omoron's (Ragner's father) Captain of Guards. He's a lovable guy, really!

Spoiler:

Edit: I'm also half-done with Barin's next post, since I'm on some frenzy today, hopefully I'll be able to put it up before the end of the day (or in the early hours of the next, anyway ).

[Digital Muse]

Very nice character, Blackrock. It will be interesting to see the dynamic you give Rurik in your writing.

[Blackrock]

And the post is up, although it's a lot shorter than my previous ones. At this point, however, I could not think of anything more to add and did not want to kill the pace by cheaply adding a memory or some such.

Also, Digi, do let me know if I've got the location of the Twins' camp right. I wasn't sure if it was in the forest or by the lake itself, so I went for a bit of both.

[Digital Muse]

Nice post, Blackrock. I think it's completely in keeping that Barin won't trust magic users or his employer, for that matter. It's a nice touch. I was already seeing the Twin's reactions to his appearance and admonishment of not being very aware of their surroundings. *smiles.

**Edit: I wish I could remember if Stion told us to continue without him, taking his characters along or not. I seem to remember something of the sort, but cannot find any such post.

[Blackrock]

I have no idea. While I don't generally like deciding for other people, Barin is my "main character" and I will advance his story at some point. (not that I'm in a hurry)

[Kalon Ordona II]

Still working on the post. I've had the character portraits in the top spot on my priority list for a while, but this waiting for me in Sephiris is ridiculous. Something's wrong with me. Need to re-focus.

It's probably that wall that people come to when doing long projects like this. Kinda like a marathon, I suppose.
I shall persevere!

I'll try to have it done by Saturday.

[Kalon Ordona II]

I've been rereading some posts, and I noticed something.

They spent the remained of that day circumnavigating the lake only discovering a few old campsites from other passing travelers. No sign, however, of the Hawks could be found.

Barocula Lake, by rough estimation, seems to have about a 100 mile perimeter. There's no way you can walk that in half a day.
Three sizable cities border Barocula Lake.
The lake is so large that it shows up on the map.
Circumnavigating a lake like that is no afternoon stroll.

Sorry for not noticing this earlier. I think I have a scale on all the maps, so...

Actually I'm also wondering what inlet you were talking about, Digi, earlier in that post. I don't know of any inlet that leads to Barocula Lake. I suppose it could be seen that way if you're speaking of the Shadewater River delta.

If that's correct, then let's say it's 200 miles up Shadewater River, since they're not going all the way.
If they don't use magic, then they'd be using a barge and going 5 miles a day.
That's... about a month and a half.
So let's say they use the ship and with magic go 15 miles per day. That cuts the time to a third, so... about two weeks.
Maybe we could say they got a fast boat and made it in 11 days or so, but that still puts us somewhere around DAY 20.

Am I missing something? :?
How, even my magic, did they get there so quickly?

[Digital Muse]

They wouldn't have gotten around the lake in one day. They just started that process. I'll clarify that. Stion and I figured it at 10 days or so with magic, I believe.

[Kalon Ordona II]

So, what would that be...?
From day 9, we'd have DAY 19, and then about 10 days of walking for the lake? That's day 29.

Or are you saying it's still 4 days getting TO the lake, and then 10 for the circumnavigation?

Or is it 10 altogether...?

10 days for getting to the lake is plausible, with magic.
And they could probably walk around the lake in 5 days if they hurry, without stopping very long inside the three cities.

So that's... DAY 24?
That would be good for Silvone's group, 'cause they're going to set sail to Sephalia and arrive around...

when was it supposed to be when they landed? DAY 20?

Digi and I (still waiting on me) have to finish telling how the elves and Katerina get together. They'll probably go to Telmural, right? I'm forgetting the plan already. I thought I wrote it down somewhere, but I'm not sure...

Anyway that should take us into the 20's, so we might even cross paths with Silvone's group. ^^

Edit:
The twins probably won't have to circumnavigate the lake for very long. The Hawks would have gotten there first and have probably been staying at one of the cities (probably the northernmost one).

We could say it only took three days for the twins to get from the south side to almost the north side, where the scouts would have found them.

If we go with that, then their meeting might be as early as DAY 22.

Edit Edit:
I should finally make a beastiary.
So far we have Gryphons, Yellowjacks, and Skabs.
Skabs sound like really cool creatues! xD


Also, have I made the changed to the map yet? I think I did.
I still have to add Drôme and... Sir?... to the map as well.

[Digital Muse]

Yeah, I hadn't planned on the Twins getting all the way around the lake before running into Barin's group. So that works for me.

We'll have to check with Blackrock to see if the new time table works for him.

[Blackrock]

Yeah, that's fine. The Hawks could have arrived in Ashwood on DAY 15, In the next week, they would be waiting for the Twins to arrive, Barin would no doubt have posted scouts to lead them to his camp. Right, all that means I'll have to radically change my last post, which I won't be able to do until the end of the week (I'm writing for Rurik, plus busy RL). So yeah, bear with me.

[Kalon Ordona II]

No problem. Sorry my post hasn't come yet. We're doing the grand reopening of the library where I work in two days, and I've gotten a lot of sub time helping out to get everything ready before the 5th.

Awesomely, I'm not working that day, so I'm going as a patron. xD

[Kalon Ordona II]

OK, my post is coming along. I don't think I'll need to worry about the time your characters are in, since I'm still in DAY 8.

Not for long. ^^

[Guest]

I still need to finish Ragner's Character Sheet...and I don't think I will post until after Blackrock's Rurik post. I will also be gone over the next week, son don't expect much activity from me here. Sorry

[Blackrock]

I was on a short trip to Venice, so haven't had the time to write, I'll pick up the pace and hope to finish with both Rurik's AND Barin's amended post by the end of the weekend. Fingers crossed.

[Digital Muse]

Venice? Italy? OHMIGOD so jealous. I'm just in Wisconsin for a BBQ

[Blackrock]

Yep, Venice, Italy. Was good fun, but ouch...it's hard on the pocket, if you know what I mean. The good thing is, you can check out most of the city in about a day, plus half a day more for some of the islands.

Sorry for the delay, but I've been having this splitting headache, which is not willing to cooperate with me. Add to that the heat, seriously I feel like its at least 45 °C at the moment. Right now, I'm more in the mood for writing some twisted, psychological horror, than a traditional fantasy work.

I'm working on it though, have no fear (will be done with Rurik first).

[Digital Muse]

Right now, I'm more in the mood for writing some twisted, psychological horror, than a traditional fantasy work.

I'm working on it though, have no fear (will be done with Rurik first).

Make Rurik a twisted psychopath. lols

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