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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!
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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!
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City of the Toa has been updated! enjoy! if you can get past the streetslang.....
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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.
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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.
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I was THRILLED when I read the SSC4 topic, and saw that it was supposed to be writing a story for an illustration. If anyone remembers, my first few stories on this site were short, descriptive, emotional stories, so I feel that my entry, Go Away, really gets back to my roots. In other news, I have decided to push back my Blog Contest Deadline to December 15, to accomodate the fact that NO ONE has entered anything for Shadows Fall. Current participants: City of the Toa: Matoran Kiydo Toa Novu Teebert Shadows Fall:
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I have about half a chapter written for City of the Toa, but I am Uber-stalled in the middle, and not happy with what I've written so far. I don't know when I'll be able to get to it, as I will be EXTREMELY busy for the next few days. As for Shadows Fall....I have no idea what I have written, and haven't actually read the story in months. There's no telling when I'll actually be able to write in that epic again. I think I'm saving my creative juices for the next short story contest. At least, that's what I keep telling myself. Hey, I have an idea! I'm going to sponsor a Blog Contest. Give me an idea for a brief chapter or scenario in either (or BOTH) of my epics, and I'll include a character of your design in the epic, either in that chapter, or later in the story. In terms of the idea, It needs to fit the general theme of the story, and not be essential to the plot. Essentially, the idea needs to be a side-story. I will pick a winner for each epic based on: 1) the originality of the idea 2) the ability to be inserted into the current plot, and 3) the "coolness" of the idea. For the Character, the requirements will change, based on what story you have an idea for. Shadows Fall Character Requirements Name: (something pronouncable) Species: (NO TOA! If you are a DH, Vortix, Skakdi, etc., you WILL die. otherwise, be a Matoran) Element/power: (Matoran are powerless and in the Big Six elements (I will permit Av-Matoran, but that's the only exception). Please don't make powers absurd. Limit is one or two per entity) Color scheme/description: (obvious) Kanohi: (once again, obvious) Job description: (for matoran, this needs to fit the Metru-Nui style, but be specific. For anything else, this needs to be a motive for being in Metru-Nui.) Personality: (If you want, provide catchphrases and/or accents) City of the Toa Character Requirements Name: (something pronouncable) Species: (Please no matoran, unless you actually want to be 12 years old. If you are a Vortix or Skakdi, state your allignment: Loc, or Leader. Otherwise, be a Toa (NO NUVA OR INIKA). Toa are asumed to be neutral) Element/power: (pick a power level between 1 and 9 (where 1 is Turaga level and 9 is Nuva), and an element. In this city, there are the big six elements, the Kal elements, Plant-life, Power-scream, and Light. (If you want, you can make some power modifications to your character, at the expense of either the mask power or the elemental power) If you are not a Toa, please don't make powers absurd. Limit is one or two per entity) Color scheme/description: (I will configure the colors to my needs, to match continuity. if it's a known element, or if it has been mentioned in the story, please use that as a basis. Include height, relative weight, physique, etc.) Kanohi: (once again, obvious. Please stick to known names and mask powers.) Job description: (for Toa, this needs to relate to the element, but be specific/imaginative. (E.g., a Toa of Electricity is a expert in circuit design.) For anything else, this needs to be a motive for being in Iri-Nui. also, enough backstory to provide REASONS for behavior. If I don't get it, I'll make it up.) Personality: (If you want, provide catchphrases and/or accents) The winner of the contest will be credited in the chapter for the idea, and mentioned in the first post of the review topic. Also, the GS character will be credited in the review topic and in the chapter or chapters they appear in. They will also get the chapter in a PM a day before it is posted. I think this contest will end on Saturday, December 15, 2007, at 11:59:59 PM, BZP time. This is subject to change, based on the number of entries. Please PM me your entry, then leave a comment here. I will be posting the appropriate content of this post in the review topics of my epics, along with a link. I look forward to seing what kind of things happen to the heroes! oroc
