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...psycho sec officer Adams, psycho sec officer Carton... it's an honest mistake ;.;

That's the spirit! Take all the time you need - we're but a couple of pages into the first entry, there's no pressure as far as time is concerned. I would also recommend to check out the first post in the thread as for some notes with regard to the format. Looking forward to seeing your stuff!

My hand reaches into my satchel and firmly grasps the handle of the empathy box. An impulse: I hadn't planned it; all at once it had happened. A landscape of weeds confronts me, a desolation. The air smells of harsh blossom; this is the desert, and there is no rain. A man stands before me, a sorrwoful light in his weary, pain-drenched eyes. "Mercer," I say. "I am your friend," the old man says. "But you must go on as if I did not exist. Can you understand that?" He spreads his empty hands. "No," I reply. "I can't understand that. I need help." "How can I save you," the old man says, "if I can't save myself?" He smiles. "Don't you see? There is no salvation." "Then what is this for?" I demand. "What are you for?" "To show you," Wilbur Mercer says, "that you aren't alone. I am here with you and always will be. Go and do your task, even though you know it's wrong." "Why?" I ask him. "Why should I do it? I'll make a run for it. Emigrate." The old man says, "You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe." "That's all you can tell me?" I say. A rock whizzes at me; I duck, and the rock strucks me on the ear. At once I let go of the handles and again find myself in the dimly lit room, confronted by the runner. My head aches wildly from the blow; reaching, I find fresh blood collecting, spilling in huge bright drops down the side of my face.

THANK YOU. That seems really good! It has atmosphere, and is a pleasure to read. Nonetheless I stopped atm to write this; already it is obvious that some alterations are in order, since much of the stuff that makes this story so much fun cannot be directly translated from text into panels. If you trust us to do the transition justly, heck, we'll do our best - if you would like to have a say in how we go about this, then we should probably have a talk over some better suited media (Skype? Steam? Facebook? Trails in the sky? Cryptic notes scribbled on the walls of bathroom stalls?). Looking forward to hearing from you! Edit: Maybe we should talk about the 'refugee crisis reference'. Still not far enough to see whether it is crucial within your story, but most certainly something I would like to avoid in our joint enterprise here. First of all, this is supposed to be fun. Meaning, if it feels like work, like something you have to push yourself into, I would suggest you do not ruin your day (also there is this funny saying, "arts are a lot like farts; if you have to push it, chances are it's going to be shit"). Alternatively, we, too, can get together over some of the suggested means of communications and brainstorm about this. Or, if you so wish to take the lone wolf approach; obviously, from you, I would love to see some radical story about Stein! Who else could be more qualified to provide a decent Nuke Ops story? I smell a narcissist. Which is good. That's basically what I've been trying to appeal to, here. Let's see if your desire to see Syion can be matched by your ability to deliver his story in a fashion entertaining for all! T's a challenge! META-READING BAN HE

Present state of affairs which is a queer way of calling the mess this has so quickly become UPDATE We're not dead yet. Woohoo! Wholehearted, giant-ass thanks to Rusty for being super amazing, enthusiastic and creative guy & keeping this thing afloat. Meanwhile, have some doodles

This may come off as close to retarted, but- We're an RP server, yada yada, we've been over this, the story is the focus. I understand that you had a specific aim in mind, Senpai, and that their actions towards your character are antagonistic to what you we're going for, but frankly? That incident sounds bloody cool. What I would like to propose here would be to move this from Complaints to IC; heck, agree on a date with the other party and give the players something to talk about. Have Unathi representatives board, mightily offended, and demand the handing over of the officers responsible for their diplomat's demise. For the officers, try to explain that while possibly a misunderstanding occured, they were still within their rights. All this while the captain sits helplessly in his office, sends fax after fax to CC and drinks himself to sleep. Go at each other's throats while keeping in mind that you're trying not to spark a conflict, but to resolve one. This could be fun, especially if circumstance were "tweaked" so as to give the players of the round an opportunity to decide the issue for themselves. I understand emotions are going off the charts right now, but... again. The way you described the events that took place, they took a most interesting turn, and have considerable potential for elaboration - you could turn hurts into funs, and perhaps even (now I'm going all Friendship is Magic over this, but hell - I've gone this far) mend the relationship of you guys' a tad as you collaborate on hating each others' guts for the players' sake.

Your parents must be proud of you.

*clap clap* Well said. Most entertaining perspective. To add my bit to the shitthread; seeing as the "SS13 Lesbianism" is the single topic that can boast unwavering attention across several "generations" of Aurora players, what is it that makes this constant ranting so very gratifying to those so strongly oppossed to it, and why does it seem that this opposition is larger in numbers than those considered the problem, and seems to even have strogner feelings about the entire business than the lesbians themselves? The moment we all log onto a virtual space station and pretend to be somebody who has some idea of what to do with their lives/stable job, does it really matter so much which ones of us are more detached from reality and more explicitly craving personal certainties than others? Could it even be that the cravings of those looking for human contact (or anyhow the parody of it) are still closer to human cravings that those who strive for respect, awe or fear from their fellow crewmembers? Last but not least, is anybody still aware that the term "lesbay" was invented, if I am not mistaken, by the gang around Lockie Green, Phoebe Essel and Swamantha Mason, none of which had any inclinations towards characters of the same sex?

PRODUCTIVITY

"Men who suffer, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact." Being an ass aside, that is most impressive! Best of luck in keeping it up. (have you considered nicotine patches? Will or no will, the organism is bound to be upset about being deprived of its drug over night. Might not be a bad idea to use 'em to help it calm down, while persisting in fighting the habit as such!)

Wouldn't it make more sense to jump a couple of years ahead in gametime, rather than actually wait several years?

For the bound to follow the chain of command as comprehended and designed by NanoTransen would be, obviously, in corporation's best interest and perfectly sound by our standards; but if I can pretend for a moment to be able to conceive of an alien mind, I am inclined to believe that (given their insectoid origin) the bound Vaurca would naturally turn to the most rational authority present, rather than irrational (that is, the most competent and leading-type characters aboard as in comparison to those of highest rank) - the reasoning is simple: the authority they are accustomed to is biologically predetermined. Hence they ought to be more responsive to "natural" figures of authority. ...whether they will be thoroughly perplexed and unable to fathom the concept of irrational authority (which would be very entertaining, but also make them a giant pain in the ass for everybody else involved) or will eventually adapt our customs is, at the end of the day, up to each player, I suppose.

ABOUT WRITING NOVELS/SHORT STORIES Now, some of you in the aspiring section had confessed of being frankly freaked out by the idea of transferring your stories to black and white, and others in the process of doing so had overworked themselves. No wonder. It's a LOT of work. Here's the fun thing, though - you do not need to write a proper short story. I've tried to get this point across earlier, but I imagine my wording was lacking. Comics are good deal about telling the story through pictures (no shit!). I am emphasizing this because a lot -a lot- of your work often goes into describing situations in a manner that definitely works great and makes the story superbly immersive to read - but most of your commentary on the surroundings and certain mechanics of the character will be lost in the transition. If you are one of those lucky bastards to whom writing comes naturally, by all means, DO write in a manner that pleases you the most. Even you should keep in mind, though, that your story is going to be drawn, and that certain things are necessary to bear in mind - the one I've seen here the most would be that, while narration and protagonist's own narration can live side by side in a written story, they make an awful mess of text bubbles in a comics. If you wish to have your story narrated beyond pictures and dialog, please, take care to choose either A) the protagonist or B) omnipotent narrator, but preferably not both. Or to put it differently, you can write both, but we are sure as hell cutting one of 'em out. If you belong into the first group of people who don't have all that much time/nerve to put into this, yet would like to participate - do not despair. I am enclosing two bits of text that have actually already become a comics, and you will see that they are NOWHERE near a novel. (I'm not saying they make for a good comics, but a comics nonetheless) THIS HERE is how the script looked. Stuff like this is plenty sufficient; enough to make out what is going on and why, and YOUR dialogues (since those are your most direct fingerprint on the final "product") Note: Just realized this can be misleading. Do not bother yourself with panels and stuff (unless you have a panel you really wanna see in your head) - this is just to illustrate how simplistic this can be. THIS HERE is a bit that preceeded the script - it is welcome, though not necessary. It was meant to help us -the fellows who were to draw the thing- to understand and relate to the protagonist. A Q&A with the main character.

There's no doubt in my mind that you could easily come up with a comics-material story if you'd like to. That being said, nobody's forcing you to. Go through the trouble if you wish to and/or suspect you might enjoy it, do not if you have better things to do (I can think of a dozen off the top of my head).

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I'm going to assume a bwoink.

God damn, man! You know your stuff! You made Kylo's saber so sexy, I almost forgot how awful he sucked as a character. Bravo!

Jenna: That's great to hear! Best of luck in your search, it would be a delight to cooperate with you on this! Hive: Only partially true - you've made it blatantly obvious in the InkWriter thread that you are extremely resourceful in your writing beyond pre-head smashing RP. To the point where you can made an androids walk home a most touching adventure. Mofo: That's... actually much better than many "I have a story about my character" stories.

Did somebody say War Thunder

Right! Apologies for leaving you guys hanging here - I've taken to PMing with a couple of other involved enthusiasts, and forgot about the thread responses. So happy to hear of another entry! Always grand to have more things to pick from. In a way of explanation, the two -now three- entries in this thread are all we presently have completed. There are more on the way, but we are in the phase of discussing their details and general feel and so forth, so that leaves us with hypothetical seven entries, and whoa! given their average span, we have a solid book-worth of a read already. Nonetheless, we're still in the phase of gathering the material (which will then be run through Ricky to be broken down into individual pages and panels etc. and then through myself, so there's a lot of work/time of seeming stagnation ahead), so have patience and have faith! I'll make sure to let you all know when we are able to make another step. Meanwhile, do not despair, as there is no time pressure - and for those still considering, don't hesitate to jump on! The more the more diverse, thus more fun.

Aaaaand it just went from good-humored to pointing fingers. You might or might have not noticed, but I don't even play your game anymore So You know You can take that finger and shove it up your bum

Assuming Dreamix has a point and this is all in good-humored nature; let's, for one round, all create purely lust-driven braid-maids, seduce all of the lesbians in question and break their hearts to pieces. Edit: Seriously. Use your superior roleplaying abilities. Write poems. Make gifts. Jiggle sexy butt cheeks. Show them how virtual love is PROPERLY done, and how unforgiving and indifferent is space!