Soroc: Jedi of Stone

While I appreciate the honor of being nominated, I must respectfully decline nomination to the C.I.R.C.L.E. I have been far too busy with real life to even restore my work from The Great Crash. Respectfully yours, Soroc: Jedi of Stone

McCain/Palin. But America will not persist for long. Our fall began with FDR - it's only a matter of time.

college. work. life. girlfriend. (YAY!!!) no time.

CoTT is my acronym for City of the Toa. sorry about the confusion...

CoTT is my acronym for City of the Toa. sorry about the confusion...

CoTT is my acronym for City of the Toa. sorry about the confusion...

I live! quick post to update I have: Axalara T9 (reveiw soon) a Moto Q (which I am using to post) and 2 jobs CotT is updated, as well

I am unsure whether this chapter will work, so I'm leaving it up to you! Please tell me if there are any changes that YOU think should be made! » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « <Day 56, 12:00 PM> Fate frowned. Things were going as foreseen, but a tiny push was needed for the full fulfillment of events to come. Destiny twitched, and the flow of time changed slightly, flowing into a new course in the riverbed of history. Solara felt like she was slowly walking into a lit room, moving with her eyes squeezed tight from the growing glare. Slowly, painfully, she cracked her right eye open, hoping that the lens of her Akaku would filter the glare. She was flat on her back, gazing at the sun far overhead. “How long was I out?” she wondered. She remembered, with a mental shudder, being possessed by that horrible shadow creature and forced to combat that odd pair of Toa. She remembered the enormous blast of light that had seemed to fill her up completely, and then, she remembered the brief freedom of being free from her disgusting captor. “Why am I lying on the ground?” Solara tried to sit up, but could not coax a single muscle or piston to obey her commands. And then, she remembered the last thing the Shadow had said to her before it was forced out of her body. <I leave,> it had snarled, <and you die!> Solara then realized that her heart was not beating. Those who knew Solara well, both in her personal life, and in her job as a camera-Toa for a popular news telecast, could attest that Solara had a will of tempered protosteel. And, as she lay there, dead on the pavement, Solara decided that death, inescapable though it might be in the long run, was not going to keep her from doing what was right. Her will sliced though the dead nerves that controlled her muscles, and Solara lurched to her feet. It was a whole lot more difficult than it had been. She hadn’t realized how much her brain did automatically, until it became a dead-weight in her head. Slowly, as Solara became more used to controlling her body manually, she reached into a pouch at her waist and pulled out a video camera. Clumsily, she unfolded the viewscreen from the side, and rotated it so that she could see video footage of herself as she shot it. She thumbed the record button. * When the INSF troops found her maskless body hours later, lying alone on the street, they immediately noticed several things. The corpse was completely unmarked, lying in a position of calm repose, and clutching a camera. When the forensics team arrived, one of the technicians took the camera, and played the video. The dead Toa of light’s face, covered with an Akaku, appeared on the screen. “To whom,” she croaked. She shook her head, and cleared out her throat. “To whom it may concern: My name is Solara, and by the time you see this, I will be dead. I was possessed by a Shadow Elemental, and forced to fight The Gardener. The Shadow Elemental was on commission from The Leader to kill The Gardener, but it, and therefore I, was defeated. I was mortally wounded when the shadow left my body, but I wish to tell you that the Gardener is good! He never used a single deadly attack against me, consistently focusing on eliminating the parasite within me. I was only killed by the shadow elemental.” Solara paused, looked like she was forcing herself to take a deep breath. “Tell my family I love them.” The video stopped. Please tell me what you think!

Title says it all. Milton could have at least used grammar....

City of the Toa has been updated! enjoy! if you can get past the streetslang.....

I finally got around to finishing the contest winning chapter for Toa Novu. I kinda like it - it's the longest I've ever written in a single chapter, over 2,600 words - and I think it will go over well. It is REALLY dialog-heavy, but it's got some funny and charming parts in it, as well as SERIOUS exposition of the history behind Iri Nui. Toa Novu, I just want to make a public "thank you" for your entry. This thing will shape the rest of the story, I think. thank you!

Well, just posting to claim life. a few updates: I am now a member of the Epic Critics Club, but have been SO busy that I've only reviewed one epic.I wound up with Pohatu Newva, Photok, Hydraxon, and Kalmah for Xmas, and have revamped Kalmah and PN. I will upload and post pics ASAP - they're pretty cool.no progress on epics, due to being busy.Trying to cope with a move back to my old school for the last semester of my senior year, so kinda stressed at the moment.Parents confiscated my laptop....I'm posting from our desktop. I was able to get everything backed up, though.I'll try to start my epics back up as soon as I can.Also, I have dial-up now. dial-up stinks.

I am sorry to report that, due to some circumstances that I feel unwilling to disclose, that I will be unable to write anything for quite some time. I am about half-completed with Toa Novu's chapter, but that will be all for an undetermined period of time. Rest assured, however, that I will update when I have the opportunity. Keep an ocular receptor peeled upon the forums!

I am happy to announce that the winners of the blog contest are: Toa Novu in City of the Toa Darth Makuta in Shadows Fall You should see the respective updates by the end of this week - I have finals tommorrow and Tuesday, but I should be able to write in the latter half of the week. To remind everyone, the prizes for winning the contest are: Have your custom plot be the backbone of a chapter in its respective epicHave your custom guest star feature in your chapter, and possibly in successive ones.Get a PM with the chapter about a day before posting for editing and comments.My eternal gratitude, and accreditation in both the chapter and the reveiw topic.Just a question: Did everyone like this? Should I do other story related contests in the future? If anyone has any sugestions on future contests or how I can make ones similar to this one better, please drop me a comment.

Recently, I watched Shaun of the Dead, which happened to be my first zombie movie. I enjoyed it a lot, although the world might have been a little bit safer if Michael jackson showed up and lead the zombies away with the Thriller dance. The real reason I'm posting this is because I feel like a zombie. A braindead, shambling zombie. I have not slept well for the past few days, fallen asleep in several classes, and am just generally toasted. I just need someone to "remove my head or damage my brain." Maybe then I can get some sleep. I wish there was a zombie emoticon.

Anyway, I actually wanted to talk about my favorite beverage: Coke Zero. I swear, this is the only diet or pseudo-diet drink I will ever like. It tastes mostly like Coke, but with a healthy dose of Fresca flavor thrown in, and with NO CALORIES! Of course, me being me, I had to call it something odd. I decided that it tasted like the result of Coke and Fresca having a baby.... a zero-calorie baby. So now, I drink zero-calorie babies. Anyway, I think that's pretty random... but that's me.

Just a quick post to remind everyone that the deadline for the blog contest is next Saturday at midnight. I still only have one entry for Shadow Falls, but There is a nice selection for City of the Toa. I appreciate everyone's entries.

I have to admit, I am REALLY excited about the sheer quantity of new parts this year. The only thing I am disappointed in is the Phanuva. The only one that really seems even remotely original is Pohatu, and he's essentially Kongo Mahri with funky arms. He pulls the look off better than Kongu, though. The weapons, particularly the skyblaster, look good this year, which redeems the Phanuva a little bit. I just wish Lewa had two swords... Has anyone else contemplated the possibility of using Pohatu's 'copter clamps as toes, or something? I do understand why the Nuva are so bland, though. The Phankuta are mostly new parts. thinkaboutit... new masks, weapons, torsos, ammo, feet, hipjoints, wings, etc. I don't really like chirox's wings, they kinda seem awkward, but that looks easily redeemable with a little creative MOCin'. I LOVE the Tridax pods. I can just see the creepy batkuta ('nother coined word) swooping low over unsuspecting Av-Matoran, dopping energy balls full of thieir mutated essence, and flying away, leaving only ugly Kra-Matoran in their wake. And, on the subject of the Phanmatoran...no, that doesn't work... the Av/Kra-Matoran... I LOVE THEM! Do you realize that EVERY SINGLE PIECE (except for their weapons) IS NEW!?! Amazing! The only gripe I have is that the bodies seem to be one-peice, but I can't be sure. I suspect, however, that the bodies are multiple peices that look good together, judging from the variations in body type in the pictures at our disposal. In other words, I like this year A LOT! erm.... kinda forgot about Toa Ignika. He's ok, I guess. He's just a Inika w/fancy armor (the spiked armor IS nice), but the board is cool. It looks like we will see more complicated big sets this year. Of course, we haven't seen any others, but the board is promising. here's to '08!

just posting to remind everyone that the chapter contest ends on the 15th of this month. I was able to do some brainstorming over the weekend, and I have determined some possible future villians - if I can get out of this rut. and now, as an exclusive spoiler, I will reveal one in this post. » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «Name: Splinter Ability: Can duplicate himself or another object exponentially. Has a hive mind if duplicated, but intelligence is split between bodies. Cannot duplicate other sentient entities. Eye beams cause target to have his personality split into his or her pure good and pure evil sides, which then enter into a hallucinogenic debate. (Shoulder Angel versus Shoulder Devil) Description: Pearl and light grey Skakdi of Sonics. Former Dark Hunter. (in this universe, the Dark hunters were dissolved about a thousand years after Pohatu destroyed their fortress.) Quite insane from splitting and reforming his mind countless times. Wields a simple dagger. Extremely good at tracking through hearing (an effect of being a Skakdi of Sonics). Well, wasn't that tantalizing?

I have several things that I've been working on, but none of them are done... The first thing is a MOC of Tech, the cyborg from City of the Toa. I have designed his natural arm, artifical arm, and head peice, and roughed out a prototype leg that I'm not too happy with. He will be an upscale model to give me room to moc him well, but he is just a little bit taller than typical Toa height in the storyline. I also idly started on a larger-than-life hand, but that one is probably going to be scrapped. the problem is that my parts are scattered all over the floor of my room at home, and I don't have easy access to anything. I think I will try to organize them over the holiday... but I won't be home until the 20th...

If you want to.

Ok, so I was unable to turn in the paper that was due in English today, primarily because the interview I had to base it on did not have information I absolutely required. I'm a little upset, and quite depressed. Fortunately, the teacher will accept it tomorrow instead of today, and I have no other homework due tommorrow, so assuming that I can get some quick info from my subject, I should be able to finish tonight. but right now, I just don't feel like doing anything. I think I'm going to go shoot some Nazis on Battlefield 1942. That usually makes me feel better.

Prisoner Diary Entry: 45 days since capture I hate the one called Loc. He has stolen everything from me; he stole my freedom, my friends, even my bike. I despise him with every molecule of my being, and I hope to be the one to cause his corpse to shrivel in consuming flames. I hate the one called Loc. I have not had a dose of Pump in over six weeks. The prison doctors tell me that that is a good thing, that Pump was destroying my body, but I feel weak. I cannot bear it any longer. There is a sheet on my bed that could make a noose; I think I'll use that route. Prisoner Diary Entry: 46 days since capture I hate the one called Loc. He has stolen everything from me; he stole my freedom, my friends, even my bike. I despise him with every molecule of my being, and I hope to be the one to cause his corpse to shrivel in consuming flames. I hate the one called Loc. Today, I lost my sheet priviliges. The cruelty of the system that will not allow sweet release from captivity... Prisoner Diary Entry: 47 days since capture I hate the one called Loc. He has stolen everything from me; he stole my freedom, my friends, even my bike. I despise him with every molecule of my being, and I hope to be the one to cause his corpse to shrivel in consuming flames. I hate the one called Loc. I have a new cellmate today. He claims that he was captured by a male Toa of Plantlife in a brown robe called "The Gardener." I didn't tell him why I was here, but now I know something that he doesn't. That's always good in prison. Prisoner Diary Entry: 48 days since capture I hate the one called Loc. He has stolen everything from me; he stole my freedom, my friends, even my bike. I despise him with every molecule of my being, and I hope to be the one to cause his corpse to shrivel in consuming flames. I hate the one called Loc. I was examined by prison doctors today, but not the same ones that examined be when I was admitted. It was an uncomfortably thorough examination. I felt like a Mahi on the auction block. There was one Toa, though, that did nothing. He just stood against the wall and watched, his Elda expressionless. He looked vaguely familliar, but I don't know why. The doctors told me nothing about why I was being examined. Prisoner Diary Entry: 49 days since capture I hate the one called Loc. He has stolen everything from me; he stole my freedom, my friends, even my bike. I despise him with every molecule of my being, and I hope to be the one to cause his corpse to shrivel in consuming flames. I hate the one called Loc. Nothing happened today except for my cellmate being taken away. Prisoner Diary Entry: 50 days since capture I hate the one called Loc. He has stolen everything from me; he stole my freedom, my friends, even my bike. I despise him with every molecule of my being, and I hope to be the one to cause his corpse to shrivel in consuming flames. I hate the one called Loc. I feel happier than I have in a long time. The Toa that watched my examination the day before yesterday came into my cell and told me that I would be freed if I agreed to enter in a program! naturally, I consented, and then I was whisked off to a different part of the prison. this place feels more like a hospital than a prison. Everything is cleaner, and I even get a viewscreen in my room! The Toa that brought me here, the one with the Elda, still seems familliar, but I still can't remember. Prisoner Diary Entry: 51 days since capture That Toa walked into may room again and began to tell me about what they were going to do to me. I didn't understand most of it, something about surgery, but I did understand that I was going to be given Overpump again! I think I'm actually crying now in relief. He also told me that, thanks to my arrest report, he now knew who the Gardener was. I was glad to help him; I think he's actually my friend. I havn't had friends since I was a Matoran, one hundred and three years ago. I still hate Loc for putting me in prison, though. Prisoner Diary Entry: 52 days since capture I hate the one called Loc. He has stolen everything from me; he stole my freedom, my friends, even my bike. I despise him with every molecule of my being, and I hope to be the one to cause his corpse to shrivel in consuming flames. I hate the one called Loc. The Leader made an anouncement today. He said that a deluded troublemaker calling herself "The Gardener" had been captured in her home. This doesn't seem right. My Friend told me that my story had told him who the Gardener was, but the Leader says the Gardener was female, and I told him that I was captured by a male Toa of Plantlife. I'm so confused... Prisoner Diary Entry: 53 days since capture I hate the one called Loc. He has stolen everything from me; he stole my freedom, my friends, even my bike. I despise him with every molecule of my being, and I hope to be the one to cause his corpse to shrivel in consuming flames. I hate the one called Loc. I remembered where I had seen my friend before! he was standing in the background when I was shown a horrible bug-thing and told to guess at it's weakness. I guessed water, but that was the only thing I could think of. That Skakdi scared me. Anyway, my freind was standing against a wall and silently watching, like he was during my examination. I seem to recall one of the testers calling him "minister." Maybe that's his name! Prisoner Diary Entry: 54 days since capture I hate the one called Loc. He has stolen everything from me; he stole my freedom, my friends, even my bike. I despise him with every molecule of my being, and I hope to be the one to cause his corpse to shrivel in consuming flames. I hate the one called Loc. Minister came today and told me that I would be put under surgery tomorrow. he also said that I would have to stop writing in my journal. I'm a little excited. If I can't write in my journal, that means that I'm about to do something secret. I always wanted to be a secret agent, ever since I was a Matoran, but then I was made a assembly-line worker. I finally get to live my dream! No more entries.

like an outline, or even a general idea of where you want the chapter to go, but the more detailed, the better. I forgot to mention it, but if someone wants to, they can enter in both epics. I'll edit now and insert that. oroc

blah blah blah lol im a newb!!1! no, not really. I'm just bored, because there's not too much going on. Life is tolerable... oroc