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Flaria and Tharash

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So I got a comment on this picture of Flaria and Tharash, from Yllamse, saying “Do I even want to know? XD” so I thought I would answer that in rather too much detail. :3

Flaria’s been a Tharash fangirl for a while – somehow, he caught her eye, even with his ragamuffin scruffiness (generally she goes for clean boys…). Then she found out that he could use big impressive words to describe space and time and metaphysics and magic, which led to melodramatic swooning on her part. He, on the other hand, doesn’t know what to do with her since she clearly likes him (whut?) and isn’t afraid of him (and his potentially world-destroying powers) (wow!). She calls him ‘the adorascruffy voidmage!’ when she isn’t calling him ‘Tharash-dear’. Continue reading →

I Know You’re Out There Somewhere: Chapter 13

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Another chapter is done! I’m very close to the end. I don’t know how long the final battle will take to write but it’s just around the corner.

But it’s back to school tomorrow, so that will take priority. And I still have to see how to fix the light in my ceiling… I really don’t know how to put the new bracket in!

That’s all for now. I’m going to practice a bit before bed. Also I should eat, but there’s nothing I want to eat. : P

EDIT: Torrigan’s player has mentioned that Torrigan had a character arc, but unfortunately there isn’t really enough story left to flesh it out, so I’ll be leaving it up to you. Suffice it to say (as Torrigan says) that he’s not quite as nice as he used to be. We’ll see how well I can add that. However, I’m still not interested in the war, so it’s staying more or less vague and in the background.

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I Know You’re Out There Somewhere: Chapter 12

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YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY I got a chapter done. : P Credit goes to Thari for helping me with the battle, not by telling me what to write, but by telling me what to think about in regards to what happens in battles. : )

New cameos! Kaisten, (c) Kaist, and Kip, (c) Wren!

Not much to say? Having the best break ever, except that means I’m running out of news. Also apparently we DO have Skyward Sword, although I’m still tempted to buy it for the soundtrack CD, because otherwise I will have to wait several months before I hear it.

Also melted chocolate is just as delicious as unmelted chocolate. Particularly if it’s Belgian.

Also we have a foot of snow! Yay!

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I Know You’re Out There Somewhere: chapter 11

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Yaaaaaaay the long-awaited Chapter 11 is up! This is only half of what was originally going to be Chapter 11. That would have been a doozy. But anyway so Chapter 12 will have even more of this emotional crap, though perhaps with less attempted seduction. And I really mean that ‘perhaps’. Man, I should put a warning on these chapters.

Four new cameos in this chapter! Marcus is perhaps a little OOC for who he is in his own universe, but since he has a different position in this universe, hopefully he fits in while retaining some semblance of who he is? Apparently I got Lu spot on, which is always nice!

I guess this is FiDaNoMo? Finish that Dang Novel Month? Yeah?

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I Know You’re Out There Somewhere: NaNoWriMo2011 – chapter 10

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Another chapter! Slightly edited; skipping some of the torture prawns that were in the original. I don’t know what drow are like, soooo here’s my guess.

Very sleepy. Too many early mornings. I have only early mornings until Thursday, and I’ve had them since Friday. Boo. At least I’m almost healed. My voice is still a bit off, and my nose is still a bit odd, but I’m pretty much back to normal.

Also, too many projects. This will be the last chapter you get for a little while, although I do know what happens next chapter, vaguely. I have some visual arts to do in my free time. Aaaand then there’s the music I have to learn… Tried to get some work done on the Kakadu tonight. Am concerned that I am trying to learn my long-term music too fast. Need to spend next weekend solidly in a practice room. Continue reading →

I Know You’re Out There Somewhere: NaNoWriMo2011 – chapter 9

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Okay, this chapter is not quite the way I want it, but…… close enough. Maybe I’ll rewrite it later. See, I’d have to rewrite it if I were to edit it, because otherwise I’d end up not changing anything. I don’t seem to be able to easily lift certain phrases and put them in new settings…

News: Sick is… getting better? I can sing again, but my nose is still a “Bag of Holding filled with goo” and the sinuses to my ears are blocked, which gives my head the feeling of being stuffed with cotton. Which is interesting, because I thought that was just a writerly turn of phrase. But it is a real feeling. I have a mocha beside me, though, and I had some tea earlier, so I’m good, more or less. My brain is less fuzzy. Now I just wish I could breathe. Continue reading →

I Know You’re Out There Somewhere: NaNoWriMo2011 – chapter 8

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Well! Posting while trying to beat cheesecake batter (by hand, no mixer) is hard.

This chapter… huhhhhh… I hated writing the demon battle. Battles are hard for me. Everyone’s doing interesting things at once, except that the English language doesn’t have THAT many words to describe the sorts of repetitive actions I want to put down.

Also Illinia is a whiny emo brat. There, I said it. But yes, she does get a little OOC this chapter… I think I found a reason for it, but she’s… a bit odd in this one.

Back to slow character-driven psychological emotional descriptive stuff next chapter.

Hope the cheesecakes turn out. It was still a little lumpy when I put it in.

EDIT: The fight at the beginning is a bit better. Also added a line to the one at the end and a couple words here and there.

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I Know You’re Out There Somewhere: NaNoWriMo2011 – chapter 7

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Here you are! The very ultimate cheesiest part of my story! All the cheese is in this chapter. ALL OF IT.

Hope you like it.

Why won’t my towels rinse or dry? What a pain. Oh well. Time to clean the kitchen.

I know three Dutch words! : D

EDIT: Illinia uses her ring, instead of acquiring it and then losing it before ever using it. Also, Lina now has a purpose. Not exactly revealed through a journal, or a letter, but close enough. : P

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I Know You’re Out There Somewhere: NaNoWriMo2011 – chapter 6

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Okay! Going to post, then going to watch violinist play his Friday-night pub-rock gig. Going to bring my lappy so’s I can write more story. I think this bit is going much better. Should I try writing with alcohol? I don’t think I should risk it.

This chapter is rather long, but it has the famous part where my brother was looking for a false name and grabbed the first one he could think of – which is the name of a pianist who WE knew… but he didn’t know. So it was pretty hilarious to imagine this pianist friend in this setting.

SPOILERS: I took some rather large liberties with parts of this; like the fact that David seems to be a bit of a skirt-chaser. There’s no way David in our game would hit on Mira, because her player and the DM are siblings. So I added that. Now that will ruin that part of the story for you to know that. : P Also Mira and Torrigan are not involved in any way. If anything, I myself had a crush on Torrigan (though Illinia doesn’t). The mechanics of the plague and Aleic and all that other stuff kind of elude me at the moment, so I’m really making stuff up in there.

It got cold again today. A few flakes around lunchtime (and by a few, I mean a very few). Need to wear my scarf. The crimson cashmere one.

My Dreigiau Book 2 came today! : D

EDIT: added a section in which Mira confides her backstory in Illinia.

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I Know You’re Out There Somewhere: NaNoWriMo2011 – chapter 5

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This chapter is somewhat shorter, because I really wasn’t keeping track of chapter lengths at all. Still, hope you enjoy. This has the infamous ‘vines’ sequence, and some poorly written suspense, because I (as a PC in this campaign) really don’t know the villains or their plans. We just saw what directly affected us, of course, although when we stopped playing, we did chat a bit on what had been planned. (note to self – don’t forget to put in the suspense in other upcoming chapters : P )

I’m at 45,000 words, currently, and I’m (for once) not going to have trouble making it to 50,000. Always the last two years, I’ve conked out at 49,000 and struggled to put in the last 2%. But this year… Oh, Illinia only just got captured. She has to be rescued, and then to run a war! A short war, that’s already been happening, but this may take me a few days longer.

And because things seem to be going to well, I find myself unmotivated to work on those paintings I’m supposed to be doing… I’m going to try and do a couple tonight, but I for one will not be surprised if I spend the time writing. I think I’ll try to get to the rescue part. (Cameo time!)

For those I’ve been complaining to: Mr. Emopants is in what appears to be his natural environment right now, and he is far more interesting. Although there is some missing groundwork that I’m just going to pretend is there right now.

EDIT: I left paragraph 2, as it’s not very interesting or important whether I change it or not, but I made the fight scene a bit longer. Hope it’s better.

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