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"This is New…"
An Original Quest.

You're not quite sure where you are, who you are. There's...
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    • Solsticegelan

    Solsticegelan

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    "This is New…"
    An Original Quest.    ​

    You're not quite sure where you are, who you are. There's nothing around you, a murky blackness overtaking your vision, as you stare back at the blackness. You're vaguely aware that it feels like your floating, drifting softly to and thro; as though the nothing you rest spread out upon was the surface of the ocean, yet one you had been submerged under.

    You grin slightly, relaxed. The feeling of the murky blackness was actually quite comparable to the water; it was warm, permeating. You could get quite used to this; After all, you were fairly certain you didn't get to relax like this that much before.

    "Before?" You realize, your voice distorted and unrecognizable. "Then this is an After."

    That's all you say before relaxing again, not quite caring about the mystery of you or your location, simply enjoying it all in the limitlessness of an ironically limited space. Up above you, hovering in what you hope is the sky, lights flicker; Orbs, close enough that if you had the ability to reach out you felt you might reach them, but knew you could not. They glow with vibrant neon light, shifting and churning the darkness around them, leaving an afterglow of long lasting streaks. There was something it reminded you of, though you knew you had never seen it… The Aurora Borealis? Yes, you were confident that was what it reminded you of.

    The lights are growing larger now; should you feel worried? They grow less and less distinct, and you can make out shapes dancing within. You squint, unsure of if it will even work, and to your surprise it does; you can more clearly make out the shapes within, each of them clearly animals of some type. There are 7 each, 7 different colors, and each is beautiful.

    Each spread, and each separates as they grow closer, larger now, big enough that you don't need to squint or strain your eyes to see them. Six circle around you, in an ever-widening arc, forming a circle with their aftereffects before straightening; and one heads straight for you,its path rotating thinner and thinner, growing closer and closer until you feel as though you must muster all of your will to reach, stretching up to touch…

    [X] A Raven, glowing with a murderous red light.
    [X] A Cat, dying the blackness around it gray.
    [X] A Fox, stealing away the darkness with an orange glow.
    [X] A Falcon, its wings disturbing the air around it with a blue glow.
    [X] A Snake, tingeing the air a mottled green.
    [X] A Rabbit, meekly emboldening the air with a golden-yellow light.
    [X] A Dove, piercing the Darkness with a lovely white light.

    -0-0-0-​

    Standing upon a Cliffside, A woman looks down upon her child, the lights of a town glowing softly in the distance. The clouds cover the moon as the stars wink down upon her, and she sighs, the black cloth coating her body tightly from her feet to her neck, the material not wielding even the slightest hint of her body to the world both naturally and when exposed to the light.

    A light breeze disturbs her black 'hair', artificial and braided into long, large segments; the moon peeks out from the clouds, only partly illuminating her face, which is covered by a bone white mask ,slightly curved, covering all of her face, and bending around to cover even her ears, anything it missed obscured and hidden by the fake hair that was a part of it. The light shined brighter, revealing more of her body in the vague light, from the medallion emboldened by an odd symbol broadly displayed upon her chest and hung by her neck to the odd obsidian gloves she wore.

    Yet it did not reveal even the slightest trace of her eyes, the darkness around the holes in the mask only as empty as the void.

    "I am sorry, My Child." She softly whispers, the sound unobscured by the mask she wore as she turned, quietly fading away into the night.
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    Before going into the below notice, I decided to make this quest an experiment. I decided to see how the story will progress with two different sets of people voting for separate actions from a baseline of charterers, plot, and how the main character themselves changes. How? This quest was also posted on to spacebattles

    The start of a Quest, and the Expansion of an universe I still haven't written more than one chapter for because I'm too busy stressing over the details and procrastinating.... Yep, this can only end well. Especially since I haven't posted the story to SV yet. Now, I have several things that need to be voted on now rather than next chapter lest it be pathetically short. What do you get to vote on? Why,the main characters...

    Gender
    [X] Male
    [X] Female

    Age
    [X] Young, Barely an Adult
    [X] A more aged invidiual, well past their Youthful Teenage years

    and Finally... Name, my favorite or best-fitting with what has been voted for being the winner.

    [X] (Name Here) (Reason Why.)

    Votes will be tallied Thursday,but voting ends on Friday, when the Character Sheet will be posted alongside the next 'Chapter'.
     
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    • [X] A Raven, glowing with a murderous red light.
    [X] Female
    [X] Young, Barely an Adult
    [X] (Beatrice) (Beatrice means "She Who Makes Happy" and Ravens in mythology are usually Tricksters. I find it novel that we, Beatrice, can bring false hope, light and love to those around us intentionally and not.)

     
    [X] A Cat, dying the blackness around it gray.
    [X] Male
    [X] Young, Barely an Adult
    [X] Felix (Cats and luck usually go together)
     
    Rules and Related Content
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    • It was at that moment he realized he should post the thread rules.

    So then, I'll be honest, my system could use some work, seeing how it's partly copied and partly unreliable in the tests I've made so far, but it works well enough that I like it. So, here's a short summery – I use a d20 and two d6 to determine the chances and probability of events happening, characters meeting, so forth and so on. This doesn't mean choices are going to be removed from the reader – it will add just as many as it removes, provided deaths don't happen.

    Knowing my writing habits, someone's going to die within 3 chapters. Back to the point, however; I distinguish what I use them for by type - Key Events and Plot Points.

         Key Events are things that make a chapter interesting – X meets Y, Z attacks A…. they'll have varying requirements ( The protagonist is sneaking through a castle, roll a 8 or higher to ensure you remain hidden. You were spotted? High speed stat? Roll a 4 or higher to escape the guards.) based on the character in questions stats.

    Plot Events are not dead set, and not always beyond control of the player, but most often have varying thresholds for actions, the extremes being the highest or lowest possible. For example… Villian A attacks Ally B from behind, because you the reader chose to spare him. I roll a d20; a 6 or lower ensures the villains attack is ineffective or misses, anything between that and a 10 has his arm cut off, 11-15 is a dehabilitating blow that removes Ally B from the battle, and 16 or higher is death.

    Certain modifiers come into effect for both of these – weather, skills, personal effects, reasons to be aware of something occurring soon, and the two d6's were used to get stats for all potential character rolls based on the animal of choice. I will record and post my whatever I role in spoilers at the end of each chapter. This is how the game will operate and progress; but besides that,here are three simple rules for this thread.

    Another important part of the quest are Consensus Actions! They're what happens in combat, or whenever I decide default actions are too boring or linear for the quest; all currently participating voters must come to a conclusion and consensus before I write.

    Another important part of the quest are Consensus Actions! They're what happens in combat, or whenever I decide default actions are too boring or linear for the quest; all currently participating voters must come to a conclusion and consensus before I write.
    Another important part of this quest are     Consensus Actions! They're what happens in combat, or whenever I decide default actions are too boring or linear for the quest; all currently participating voters must come to a conclusion and consensus before I write.

    1. No cluttering the thread with unneccesary arguements - If someone says they think X will happen, but you think Y will, thats all there is to it. If things get out of hand I will shut it down.

    2. If you feel like something makes no sense, my storytelling isnt good enough, or I'm not giving enough interactions and choices to you the reader? Speak up, bring it to my attention. Throw around a theory or two, those are enjoyable and contribute to the thread.

    3. If votes are insufficient or incapable of/for determining how events will play out, then a random number generator or my dice will be used to break the tie and determine what will happen next    , or votes will be drawn from the sister thread on spacebattles.
    3B. If three days pass without any new votes, the polls shall close.

    Questions and more Votes are appreciated.

    -0-0-0-
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    As of 3/8/16, it was brought to my attention by Hannz that I should probably have included links to the other threads. So, here we go - the related articles section, also part of the rules.

    Related Content

    "This is New...Right?" [SB,]
    Aranel [SV,SB,FP]    ​
     
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    • [X] A Raven, glowing with a murderous red light.
    [X] Female
    [X] A more aged invidiual, well past their Youthful Teenage years
    [X] Beatrice
     
    [X] A Raven, glowing with a murderous red light.

    [X] Female
    [X] Young, Barely an Adult

    No naming sense, so I'll have to skip on that one.

    Huh, since someone came up with the same character, might as well...

    [X] (Beatrice) (Beatrice means "She Who Makes Happy" and Ravens in mythology are usually Tricksters. I find it novel that we, Beatrice, can bring false hope, light and love to those around us intentionally and not.)
     
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    [X] A Raven, glowing with a murderous red light.
    [X] Female
    [X] Young, Barely an Adult
    [X] Beatrice

    I can agree with this bandwagon, sure. I was somewhat tempted to vote for some of the other colors, but nothing really jumps out to me.
     
    [X] A Rabbit, meekly emboldening the air with a golden-yellow light.
    [X] Male
    [X] Young, Barely an Adult
    [X] Edward, goes by Ed.
     
    [X] A Falcon, its wings disturbing the air around it with a blue glow.
    [X] Male
    [X] Young, Barely an Adult
    [X] Edward, goes by Ed.
     
    [X] A Raven, glowing with a murderous red light.
    [X] Female
    [X] Young, Barely an Adult
    [X] Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV ,'' goes by 'Ed' ''
    if were going to be a girl then be best girl:
     
    tricholysis said:
    It's the mechanic girl from Cowboy Bebop. Good anime, if a little overhyped.
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    That explains why I don't know her then - No matter what, I cant seem to find either a dubbed or subbed episode of Cowboy Bepop.

    In other news, the stories plot/ general progression up to a certain points been mapped out - dice are awaiting their casting. At this moment in time, it looks like I have to merge the Spacebattles and Sufficent Velocity votes. Why? Well, my Spacebattles post has a grand total of 0 votes on it. I suppose I would've had to do it either way, but still, its somewhat disappointing. Im giving it two more days before I am without choice in the matter.

    Finally, I suggest people check out Aranel, the reason I made this thread - to expand the universe I've created between the probably long update times as I stress over all the details. Seriously, I confuse Myself with the web of events that eventually happens. Its just sitting there in my notebooks, all criss-crossing and convoluted 9 story arcs in, with a sloppy scrawl reading "Too confusing, Fix Later.".
     
    Solsticegelan said:
    Well, my Spacebattles post has a grand total of 0 votes on it.
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    SB Quests, specially original ones, don't tend to attract much attention.

    If needed, the players here could vote on the SB version too. Though, I guess that runs counter to the entire idea of having two separate threads for two different characters and playerbases.
     
    Hannz said:
    SB Quests, specially original ones, don't tend to attract much attention.

    If needed, the players here could vote on the SB version too. Though, I guess that runs counter to the entire idea of having two separate threads for two different characters and playerbases.
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    I kind of noticed that after a single day... it got two likes, which is fine and dandy, but not a single post (I'm looking at you Dromeosaur). I said it before, but the chances of me combining the votes simply to have a single coherent character (I don't think I could handle a total of 5 different protagonists to write about across varying mediums.) be the focus of the story. Things would, of course, change after then, and if one cares to take note of Aranels opening chapter's title and the roleplay, you'll perhaps get a hint of whats to come. Guess, I would love to see what people come up with.

    And Yes, While people voting on two different threads at the same time would be a bit counter productive, I encourage it, but not just that - vote for things you were curious about but didn't pick over another option, or try and get a single path to occur. They're doomed to vary no matter what - The dice roles will be different in each thread.
     
    [X] A Raven, glowing with a murderous red light.
    [X] Female
    [X] Young, Barely an Adult
    [X] Beatrice
     
    Speaking of the "Creating another Character in the SB Thread Idea." I think putting a link to SB up in opening post should do the trick.

    For those who don't want to dig up the SB thread due to laziness or lack of time. Have this.
     
    Hannz said:
    If needed, the players here could vote on the SB version too. Though, I guess that runs counter to the entire idea of having two separate threads for two different characters and playerbases.
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    Alternatively, some of the players could go to SB for just this one quest, foregoing voting in this thread.

    I find this experiment very interesting. I suppose I can make that sacrifice FOR SCIENCE. :p

    Don't know if I wouldn't be alone in that, though.
     
    Nevill said:
    Alternatively, some of the players could go to SB for just this one quest, foregoing voting in this thread.

    I find this experiment very interesting. I suppose I can make that sacrifice FOR SCIENCE. :p

    Don't know if I wouldn't be alone in that, though.
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    I can make follow suite, if needed.

    Should be a fun experience. Though, I guess I have to avoid reading the SV thread if we do that.
     
    Hannz said:
    Speaking of the "Creating another Character in the SB Thread Idea." I think putting a link to SB up in opening post should do the trick.

    For those who don't want to dig up the SB thread due to laziness or lack of time. Have this.
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    ... Too busy procrastenating and forgetting to make a reserved post. Must update later...
    EDIT: By which I mean I'm doing it now because its a school morning and im a freshman with several projects due soon.
     
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    So then, out of an interest to ensure I dont end up having too much to write due to the duel threads and the maain story, Im thinking about ending the polls and updating tommorow instead of on friday, before changing the next voting period and post to sunday. Itll be a cycle from then on, should it be agreeable with my schedule and you guys, and I'm changing this thread to end soonest because of how many votes its already reveived proportionally to the Spacebattles thread; So far the votes for this thread seem dead set on a young woman named beatrice, who has reached up to touch the raven. I've already drawn up concept art for that design as well (Not that I hadnt for most of the other combinations.).

    The TLDR; I'm changing this threads poll to end on Wendsay and for the post to come that same day, with 2 updates weekly; wendsay and sunday.

    So, Opinions?
     
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