What a thing! Truly AI may pose a strange new frontier for fanfiction!
Eleven labs.What a thing! Truly AI may pose a strange new frontier for fanfiction!
I'm now moderately interested in turning some of these into an audio version. Hmmmmm. Which program did you use for this?
As to teh actual voice, there's a certain smugness to Dagoth Ur. A certain gravitas. Though Amra possesses the formidable later, I don't think he'd necessarily be smug. I would probably say there's an element of magisty to it, a sense of overwhelming certainty and superiority, but also a disticnt twang of hatred when Amra talks to people the Emperor doesn't like
Normally he wouldn't but if he's a video game boss that's what he would do rather than just silently kill them when they do get on his ride.Thank you that was indeed great to hear again. I would say though it also felt off to me a bit, I've never taken amra to be the sort of warrior to call his attacks.
For suggestions to improve participation, you could add more Interlude Turns with Interlude choices. Maybe making Amra the POV for most of these interludes would give someone people would cheer for. And the interlude choices would give us more a sense of story and characterization, alongside more options for shaping and interacting with things.Happily not really a problem as I can just extend.
In terms of engagement generally, orc quest is getting like 20% engagement, 20 or so votes for 100 active readers.
That's also because I've been giving different formats of votes though. I can't really do anything about that though here because the format is plan votes for a chapter master quest. I don't really see a way of doing similar alternate voting styles in this quest because of the format.
Open to suggestions though
For this one specifically, the Vampires decided to retreat before they managed to get that stuff out.I recall being slightly underwhelmed when we finally got to see Marines vs Vmapies but thats probably because my own mind had overhyped it with images of possessions and curses and large impressive units like Coven Thrones and the like.
These are cool ideas, and certainly could be going on in the background. I suppose that one of the weaknesses of this quest is the rather higher level view. I shall consider them in future interlude planning. Once, yknow, you choose the soulbinding option in the first place
This quest does indeed draw extensively from From the Brink in organisation, as well as broader ck2 style quests which the author popularised. Similarly though the Planetary Governor quest Durin ran.For suggestions to improve participation, you could add more Interlude Turns with Interlude choices. Maybe making Amra the POV for most of these interludes would give someone people would cheer for. And the interlude choices would give us more a sense of story and characterization, alongside more options for shaping and interacting with things.
Could also see how the most popular Chapter Master quest, From the Brink, does it.
What would the decisions of a single Astartes mean in the long term of the Mallus Compliance? Not a lot I'd have thought, but we could see I suppose.
but I'm also really conscious that I'm trying to hurry the quest along through the timeline a bit to expand what's going on etc. If we tarry at every interlude that takes more time.
As another point, I don't think Amra provokes the same reactions as Grok'mash. People are invested in Grok, but Amra is an human monster, his desires unfathomable to everyone. Or at least I might say so.
That is having some choices for some of these would be great and enriching but certainly far from everyone of them needs it. As for viewpoint characters and audience connections, I agree, though I am deeply glad that a being like Pridelord Amra, The Master Of Mallus is on our side he has grown too inhuman thricefold from his position and transformations to be easy to empathize with.''Perhaps you could make there be less "turn after turn" of the same things taking too long by offering fewer such options, ...I figure most voters aren't particularly interested in reading four turns of digging either. But in placing this option here, you've created a system where we have to vote for four turns of digging in order to get our additional vehicles out without breaking the ship, and there will have to be a lot of glossing over if you don't want to write the results of these four votes, and however many other votes there are for (1 of N) actions.
Don't offer us options that you don't want to write the results of.''
The narrative is not lacking such characters though, from Palantine Olga, to Codicier Kaaram, From Archfactor Gallanus to whomever the son of the Sultan Of Copher might be, heck even I have high confidence that you could easily pull of making any interlude from their point of view relatable. Even Explorator Magna Thall would be a character I wouldn't mind seeing come back in this capacity.
entirely avoidable if you for example either offered more time skips for busy-work type options
Presumably yes, just off screen, perhaps to be covered at some later point.when Amra did his visits it includes bigwigs like the sultan or his successor?
Nah I think the Kraken would have been an actual kraken, like the creature etc.Actually now I'm wondering what it would have been like to have started with the Guard facing the dark elves as our first enemies, I bet that version of this quest would have been short but interesting.
I wish I could spend more time on these posts.
So for example, you had about 1000 Astartes, and you swapped out the potential for other Astartes to broaden out and use your other stuff like Knights.I wonder wether it would have been a random roll for supports( Mechanicus/ Echlisarchy most likely) and or extra goodies such as ratlings, Ogryns, environmentally specialized vehicles and the like?
If we had gone with guard could it have ended up being a mixed regiment force? One of my favorite WH fanfic series Tankers Vs T'au had the lovely idea of presenting vostroyans and kreigers fighting together, but I don't know exactly how realistic or common such things are.
Sure, potentially. Would be best to include Empire forces though like the Knightly Orders, and that might make them more cooperative. Drakwald was one thing, but there's a lot of places in the Empire which need sorting. There's the Grey, Black, Middle and World's Edge Mountains, there's also the Wasteland with all the Fimir and things like that. So yea there's a lot of places which have historically been difficult for the Empire to actually sort out, which the Astartes could indeed help with. For some reason no one can find the Blood Keep for example, and I don't think anyone has ever found the Black Pit. It's things like that where airpower is really effective because you can resupply and strike even through dense forest. The Empire's strengths are partly in diversity, they can bring artillery, good quality state troops, and knights along, but if they're trying to fight in the forest they can't deploy any of those AND OH SIGMAR THERE ARE SPIDERS EVERYWHERE etcetc.Would clearing the Forest of Shadows of it's gribblies like we did in Sylvania and Drakwald earn us any more favor in the empire if we could pull it off?
For the Borderlands maybe we could continue liberating the enslaved Giants? We did a few of those actions a while back. Otherwise maybe @16 characters has some ideas.Also, @Zeitgeist Blue did you have any thoughts on specifics for your write ins? Eg specific populations in the Badlands, as well as how you might subvert the Soroitas? Just thinking for flavour etc, it's not going to make the rolls worse if you can't think of things