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Too long for me, thats for sure. Though i think part of that is after a certain point, very little seems to actually happen.
 
Crazael said:
Though i think part of that is after a certain point, very little seems to actually happen.
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To be fair, Taylor scares the crap out of the Endbringers, to the point of making Simurgh cancel its descent on Canberra when there was even a chance that she might show up. And other capes really can't do much to her.

She's effectively so OP that she turned a Crapsack World setting into a Slice of Life setting.
 
jmcdavid said:
To be fair, Taylor scares the crap out of the Endbringers, to the point of making Simurgh cancel its descent on Canberra when there was even a chance that she might show up. And other capes really can't do much to her.

She's effectively so OP that she turned a Crapsack World setting into a Slice of Life setting.
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A very boring, to me at least, slice of life. After a while, I was only still reading to see what Sohpia and Skidmark would end up doing, but they come up so rarely that I gave up. Though I will strongly recommend everyone go read the S9 chapter. That was amazing.
 
Just a reminder for everyone:

There will be no posting of a chapter this weekend, as I continue going through the body of the text and feed it through various checkers and format convertors to try and eliminate most of the typos. I'm halfway through Arc 3, which is about halfway through the current text. I should get to editing 3.8-3.14 & interlude 5 tonight.

Thank you.
 
Kryslin said:
Just a reminder for everyone:

There will be no posting of a chapter this weekend, as I continue going through the body of the text and feed it through various checkers and format convertors to try and eliminate most of the typos. I'm halfway through Arc 3, which is about halfway through the current text. I should get to editing 3.8-3.14 & interlude 5 tonight.

Thank you.
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Wouldn't it be better to just find an editor to run it through?
 
I do have one. Unfortunately his lead time is about 72-96 hours.

A lot of what I'm doing is going back and making sure all 3 versions (Master Document, CrossTimeCafe, and here) all match. Call it sloppy revision control on my part.
 
Kryslin said:
I do have one. Unfortunately his lead time is about 72-96 hours.

A lot of what I'm doing is going back and making sure all 3 versions (Master Document, CrossTimeCafe, and here) all match. Call it sloppy revision control on my part.
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Just edit one, then copy/paste.

If you need different formatting, MSWord has macros for that. Alternatively, start with the html formatting on one, then find/replace as needed.

I do edit-work for a few people, and what I do is have them send me their stories/chapters, I edit and mark with different font; blue as the new change, red with strikethrough as what it was changed from, and green as comments. (I use macros to make this fast and easy, though it's in Word 2000, so I need .rtf or .doc.) I send them that copy, along with one with all the color-formatting removed so the author can see what it looks like if it's all taken out. They read my comments, decide which changes need made from what I just sent them, make said changes in the second document, then send that to me with any changes they made (and comments) in bold so I can Ctrl+F to find them. Then we repeat the process until both of us are happy with the end result. It seems like it's work-intensive, but it's easily the most efficient I've found, and the authors I edit for are really appreciative of how easy it is to collaborate this way.

I can try editing a chapter or two to show you what I mean, if you want me to.
 
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Lycanthromancer said:
Just edit one, then copy/paste.

If you need different formatting, MSWord has macros for that. Alternatively, start with the html formatting on one, then find/replace as needed.

I do edit-work for a few people, and what I do is have them send me their stories/chapters, I edit and mark with different font; blue as the new change, red with strikethrough as what it was changed from, and green as comments. (I use macros to make this fast and easy.) I send them that copy, along with one with all the color-formatting removed so the author can see what it looks like if it's all taken out. They read my comments, decide which changes need made from what I just sent them, make said changes in the second document, then send that to me with any changes they made (and comments) in bold so I can Ctrl+F to find them. Then we repeat the process until both of us are happy with the end result. It seems like it's work-intensive, but it's easily the most efficient I've found, and the authors I edit for are really appreciative of how easy it is to collaborate this way.

I can try editing a chapter or two to show you what I mean, if you want me to.
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Sounds like what professional publishing houses do with their editors. At least, when the manuscript isn't binned from the get go because it was unsolicited. :)
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Sounds like what professional publishing houses do with their editors. At least, when the manuscript isn't binned from the get go because it was unsolicited. :)
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Well, I don't do unsolicited stuff, either.

I've gotten paid to do this before, but most of what I do is unpaid, despite being professional-grade. It's a labor of lust love for my favorite stories, not a job. I'm very thorough and am quite good at it.
 
I'm feeling the muse again. Time for another unauthorized omake!

Alexandria cursed. How could she have let her guard down like this? Now Leviathan was sure to kill her simply by holding her head under the water.

Suddenly, Leviathan's hand was removed, and the original Alexandria Package was able to get some fresh air in her lungs. Expelling the water she had been forced to breathe and replacing it with air, she looked around for her savior.

What she saw was almost surreal.

The new Brockton Bay Ward, Naurelin, if she remembered correctly, had grabbed Leviathan by the tail and pulled it away from her.

What happened next made the Triumvirate leader's jaw drop.

Rearing up on her hind legs, Naurelin started spinning on them. She actually managed to spin with enough force that Leviathan was lifted off of its legs as centrifugal force caused it to freely spin around the dragon.

With one last heave, Naurelin shouted, "So long, gay Leviathan!" As she did, she let go and sent the Endbringer flying back into the ocean. Thoroughly humbled, Leviathan swam away from Brockton Bay.

Coming up next to Alexandria, Legend said, "So, um, I think we might need to raise Naurelin's Brute rating after that performance."

Alexandria slowly nodded.
 
Kryslin said:
In the eyes of the PRT, yes. Technically, however, No. She doesn't need to maintain it, and it will keep going for a long, long time.
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I realize that magic items don't need maintenance, I was just wondering if Taylor qualified for a Tinker pay raise/budget due to the magical crafting abilities she had.
 
Remember folks, magical crafting is expensive. And she'll probably have to get some of the materials in the Outlands as well, which means only gold, silver, platinum, and maybe electrum are valid currencies.
 
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Naurelin craned her head down to whisper to Alexandria. "I could craft you something that would allow you to breathe anywhere, you know. "
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"I can also heal your eye," whispered the dragon.

This caused Alexandria's one organic eye to widen. Not even Panacea could do anything to restore her eye, and Naurelin was saying she could?
 
Kryslin said:
In the eyes of the PRT, yes. Technically, however, No. She doesn't need to maintain it, and it will keep going for a long, long time.
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Leechblade said:
I realize that magic items don't need maintenance, I was just wondering if Taylor qualified for a Tinker pay raise/budget due to the magical crafting abilities she had.
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While Tinkers generally need to maintain there stuff and produce super tech that not the definition. Its the ability to make equipment and devices that are usable by regular people. This is why Dauntless isn't a tinker he can't give it to another but a trump making 'magical' items for other people would be considered.
 
jmcdavid said:
The new Brockton Bay Ward, Naurelin, if she remembered correctly, had grabbed Leviathan by the tail and pulled it away from her.

What happened next made the Triumvirate leader's jaw drop.

Rearing up on her hind legs, Naurelin started spinning on them. She actually managed to spin with enough force that Leviathan was lifted off of its legs as centrifugal force caused it to freely spin around the dragon.
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I feel like this is something I saw in a Godzilla movie. Godzilla marathons were how I used to spend Thanksgiving and Xmas at my grandparent's house, but the movies have all kind of blurred together now.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
I think it does happen in one of the Godzilla movies.
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Kong tried, but failed to lift Godzilla by his tail. Godzilla LIKED to throw kaiju by their tails, but generally didn't spin to do so. Kiryu is the only one that I can think of to pull this off, and he had jet assistance and was a Cyborg created from the Original Godzilla's Skeleton. So, one could say that, in a single instance, Godzilla did a spinning throw of Godzilla.......
 
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