Absent Faces (Dresden Files/Warframe)

What Should I Write Next (Advisory Poll)


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*Looks at poll* OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYY GOD.

ILL MET AT TWILIGHT!? A MIdna fic?! I NNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED IIIIIIIT!!!!
 
*Looks at poll* OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYY GOD.

ILL MET AT TWILIGHT!? A MIdna fic?! I NNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED IIIIIIIT!!!!


Well, while I can't promise it'll get written soon, I can direct your interest to this prompt thread and point out that, having already written the first chapter of Ill Met By Twilight here, a prompt related to it or to Midna would not go amiss.
 
Funnily enough I tried to write my own Warframe/Mass Effect story. I abandoned it a good few years ago, but lately I had some more inklings as to how to reboot it. Basically it would take place after a second Sentient War, and humanity would expand out into a galaxy that has already been purged by the Reapers. Totally different dynamic. Not many of the old races survive, and they struggle for peace between the Grineer who infest the Terminus, the Yahg Imperium and the Federation of Origin.
 
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Alert: Grineer ParaExpeditionary Fleet (Mars Orbit)

Tenno,

We have received an emergency communique from Red Veil operatives aboard what was thought to be a mere pacification fleet.

Our information had uncovered the involvement of the Rift specialist, Doctor Hulma, with this fleet, but not the extremes which she has become willing to go to. In defiance of her superiors Doctor Hulma has abandoned her orders and enacted a coup for command of the fleet. All this in order to grant a new purpose to the ships that compose it.

Emergency refits are currently in progress, converting the Rail systems of each ship in line with what the Doctor claims to be her grand invention, a Void navigation system that bypasses all safeguards to allow travel without the use of a Key. The inevitable casualties that will result from its use are no concern to her

If she is successful in her aim, any of her vessels that survive may emerge anywhere in time or space, spreading the Grineer beyond our reach. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Proceed to the mission area and sabotage as many ships as you can. Hulma's fleet cannot be allowed to leave Martian Orbit.


-- The Lotus

A/N: Thoughts on this one are very much welcome. I've settled on Awake as my next story to write (it basically won the poll once Gentle Blade is factored out for the moment) but I'm still getting details hashed out and I've gone through about four rewrites of the impetus to the plot beginning.

A Rail/Relay seemed too limiting, so I'm liking this as my method. Thoughts?
 
Hmmm, well, I get the feeling that along with the inevitable casualties that will be caused by randomly jumping through the Void, there might be issues along the lines of not being very accurate in where they come out. So while it's POSSIBLE to travel without a void key, the directions you can give are very vague, and you can come out of the void just about anywhere. So if you make a small jump, super quick, and try to limit it within a single system, your just as liable to come out inside the sun as you are to be above the planet you want. I feel that it would work better the more data you have of the area your jumping inside, like the relation to the void for most of the system, but it's still very finicky.

The idea being, if you're in a totally new system and you try to Void Jump somewhere else in the system with no data, your exit point will be almost completely random. While if you have the ENTIRETY of somewhere like the Origin system mapped with this system, you could use it to travel literally anywhere within it at any time, but you'd have to have ALL of the data and keep it constantly updated at all times due to the constant shifts in relation to the void.

So it's GREAT for jumping at random to find a new system if you don't mind the horrendous casualties that you'll incur (which the Grineer don't), but practically useless for in system travel, and it's honestly easier to rely on the Rails once you have them built than it is to spend the resources to keep it up to date.

To make a long story short, if you plan on doing this, it shouldn't be a very good method of travel.
 
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I should mention that my idea regarding a WF/ME crossover is totally up for grabs. I have neither the time nor the will to develop it. Too many real life problems for much writing lately...
 
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