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Because of the shortness of the first Chronicle, I've released two this week.
This first is brought to us by BlueFlame, it is the introduction to his game, Dark Sun. Ladies, Gentleman, I present you (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/cgi-bin/ubb/newsdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number;=49&forum;=*Coldstone+Chronicles&DaysPrune;=25&article;=000017&startpoint;=") the introduction to Dark Sun(/url).
The second Chronicle is brought to us by our trusty friend, and excellent writer, Tarnaelion Andiyarus. It is a continuation of the story about the Nervii. You can find this latest version (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/cgi-bin/ubb/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number;=49")here(/url)!
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Andiyar -- I always skip your first name because I don't know the combination for the funky ae. Excellent Chronicle, too. ...now I just want to get to the fight sequence!!
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Originally posted by theGlueBubble: **Andiyar -- I always skip your first name because I don't know the combination for the funky ae. Excellent Chronicle, too. ...now I just want to get to the fight sequence!!
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That's alright... I forgive you! If you really want to know, the key combination is option-". Yes, option-speechmarks. I found that out when I was eight, and have loved it ever since. You should have seen a school report I once did... but I digress!
I don't mind you forgetting the Tarnćlion. It's sort of like my real name, Benjamin. I prefer being called Ben, just like though my webboard ID is Tarnćlion Andiyarus, I prefer Andiyar. And as to registering Andiyar... I did, but the email account has since expired and... I'm used to this one now!
Hmmm... Only one more part of this story in the queue... off to the submit page! Only about ::counts on fingers:: four or five more sections to go!
And yes, Glue, the fight scene is coming.....
-Andiyar
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(Edit) Too many smilies!(/Edit)
(This message has been edited by Tarnćlion Andiyarus (edited 11-25-2001).)
Originally posted by .....me!: **Hmmm... Only one more part of this story in the queue... off to the submit page! Only about ::counts on fingers:: four or five more sections to go!;) **
OK, that's done. The entire Fall of the Nervii is now in the queue, waiting to be reviewed etc. There were four more, incidentally.
Sweet!
Ćgis
Hmm.... sounds Greek to me...
Well, again, nice chronicle! Though I am a bit disappointed that you didn't follow up on Rothlin's internal struggle. Maybe in the next one.
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Well, okay... I doth proclaim whichever month these are posted in to be ASW board-wide Andiyar-Fest! Everyone, pickup Andiyar related merchandise at your nearest Andiyar Enterprises! Stuffed Zeltars! (Ahh, aren't they cute?) Rothlin action figures! (It slices! It dices! It even makes haggis!) Inflatable Talia dolls! (No comment) Custom coffee mugs with a little 'ć' on the front! Fall of Nervii - The Comic Book! /me faints from exertion.
But seriously, 4 at a time seems a tad... excessive. Well, at least they will be good! Though I hold off on the e-mail so that there will be something to do for a straight month of Andiyar-related goodness...
Andiyar, I seem to remember you saying that this was a major work for English. How did it do under the prof's eye?
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Originally posted by Celchu: Well, again, nice chronicle! Though I am a bit disappointed that you didn't follow up on Rothlin's internal struggle. Maybe in the next one.
Ahh, well, I came very close to overrunning my limits in the project I was doing it for... you see, in my final year of High School in my state, we were offered a new course this year in which we were able to take on a Major Work, in any medium we wished and involving any topic. We were just given limits, like word & time, and then we were turned loose. Since I was doing another major project involving Caesar in Gaul in history, I decided to overlap, doing a historical project and a fictional project (can you guess which is which?). Anyway, the word limit for a short story was 6000-8000 words, but there was also an option of doing a multimedia project, containing 40 screens of "substantial text". I decided to go multimedia for the extended word limit, because lots of words fit on one screen, especially in size 12 Times New Roman, and so I ended up with a 36 screen, 17,829 word story. Or something close
Also, as part of my project, I included several historical sections to my work, involving a bit of background information of Celtic religion, Roman tactics etc, ending up with exactly 40 screens. Thus, whilst I would have liked to do some parts in more detail and follow up on others, like Rothlin's past, his feelings, his relationship with Talia ( spoiler! ) I just didn't have the room. Even an 18000 word story doesn't give much room to develop character, when you've got a few major battles and a conquest to engineer. So, unfortunately, Rothlin remains a rather shallow person. But that's ok, I'm not going to change that story anymore. It's sort of a landmark for me, and will remain intact and the same. However, in the sequel ( ;)) I plan to write, you might find out a bit more about the characters involved..... after the end, of course....
** !?
Well, okay... I doth proclaim whichever month these are posted in to be ASW board-wide Andiyar-Fest! Everyone, pickup Andiyar related merchandise at your nearest Andiyar Enterprises! Stuffed Zeltars! (Ahh, aren't they cute?) Rothlin action figures! (It slices! It dices! It even makes haggis!) Inflatable Talia dolls! (No comment) Custom coffee mugs with a little 'ć' on the front! Fall of Nervii - The Comic Book! /me faints from exertion.**
T-shirts! Get your T-shirts! only 15.95 plus postage & handling. All kings of goods, wares, get your special Nervii Corporate Car! Mouse pads signed by Julius Caesar himself! A special copy of the story, with personalised greetings from the author, the characters, and the author's trusty dog who fetched him a rabbit to eat during a twelve hour writing frenzy...... need I go on?
** But seriously, 4 at a time seems a tad... excessive. Well, at least they will be good! Though I hold off on the e-mail so that there will be something to do for a straight month of Andiyar-related goodness...
Overall, if memory serves (I can't be bothered checking ;)) the story has been submitted in 9 parts altogether. It is actually divided into six parts, counting the Prologue (Stormclouds, The Gathering, The Horizon Darkens, The Tempest Begins, Thunderbolts, Aftermath) but TTB and T'Bolts were too long to include intact (they make up about 12000 words of the total together.) So, those four parts are really just the last two... confused?
Oh, and I haven't got my mark back yet... the project is marked externally, the process is marked internally. For the process I got 46/50 overall (92%), and my teacher, who was a marker for other schools said he would have given me between 48 and 50 for the product so.... I really won't know until a week before Christmas. I'll tell you then, maybe it'll all be online by then....
And feel free to email. It's always nice to get letters...
Originally posted by Tarnćlion Andiyarus: **Overall, if memory serves (I can't be bothered checking;) ) the story has been submitted in 9 parts altogether. It is actually divided into six parts, counting the Prologue (Stormclouds, The Gathering, The Horizon Darkens, The Tempest Begins, Thunderbolts, Aftermath) but TTB and T'Bolts were too long to include intact (they make up about 12000 words of the total together.) So, those four parts are really just the last two... confused? **
Not really. I already understood this. But it seems your plan to "disclose one letter a day" of the title has been foiled.
However, this is the first I've heard of anyone doing a multimedia short-story for English. It's nice to see that the school system in Austrlia has some spark in it.
Originally posted by Celchu: Not really. I already understood this. But it seems your plan to "disclose one letter a day" of the title has been foiled.;)
** Aha! Ashamed of your title, aren't you? You really shouldn't hide trivial information like that, after all, Thor isn't going up and strike you with lightning if you don't keep it secret.**
Actually, I thought the title of the Thunderbolts section was the coolest of all of them. In case you haven't guessed, that's the battle/warfare scene, and the idea of bolts of lightening striking the ground just evoked in me an excellent comparison for an ancient battlefield, ie: corpses, blood, lots of dead things, hacked down trees, random destruction...etc. As a matter of fact, the only title I really didn't like was 'The Tempest Begins" but I couldn't really think of a better way of putting it. I tried 'Entering the Tempest' and a couple of variations, but the one I settled on was in the end the least offensive to me. I needed to use the word tempest there, by the way, in order to keep with my theme of naming sections.
And as to your comment about Thor striking me with lightening.... I found that very ironic considering what the actual title was. What do you think, now that all is revealed?
** However, this is the first I've heard of anyone doing a multimedia short-story for English. It's nice to see that the school system in Austrlia has some spark in it. **
Yes, it was a great course, the first time it's ever been offered, as they recently redid my state's assesment methods, curriculum and syllabus for year 11 and 12. My year, incidentally, was the first ever to be offered the new HSC (Higher School Certificate.) We were the guinea pigs. And my teacher believes that after reading my Major Work, the limits upon the multimedia section will change, adding a word limit per screen, or something similar!
If you are interested, I authored the project almost entirely in Director 8, as well as using various apps such as Fireworks, QuickTime, various sound and movie conversion utilities.... and of course, the lifeblood, AppleWorks!
** And as to your comment about Thor striking me with lightening.... I found that very ironic considering what the actual title was. What do you think, now that all is revealed?**
Originally posted by Celchu: **This is a little late to have any effect, but maybe 'Eye of the Storm'? 'Calm before the Storm'? Or just plain old 'Tempest'?
Actually, "Eye of the Storm" was it's original working title, but was dropped for two reasons. The first was that this section is not the lull in the middle of the hurricane or whatever, but merely the beginnings of the onslaught. However, I still wanted the storm-theme to come through, so I chose the word tempest and tried to make it fit.
The second reason is that I was attempting to avoid overlap in the titles, I already had one section entitled 'Stormclouds' and as such I was searching for another word that meant storm but wouldn't make the marker's think I was lacking in titling ingenuity.
Choosing the word 'Tempest' by itself.... well, it's not quite the tempest yet, and I don't know if it's that appropriate, considering the rest of the section..... ah well.
On an entirely different note, does anyone know when the #coldstone IRC channel first came online? I only noticed it a while ago when fooling around with AthenaIRC, and I think it could become a valuable tool for discussion, if say, people were working together like Celchu and I, it would of course present the opportunity to share ideas live. So when did it spring up? Why don't you all come along and chat about CS, what you hope to do and wish to do, and maybe other unrelated stuff too!
Originally posted by Tarnćlion Andiyarus: ** On an entirely different note, does anyone know when the #coldstone IRC channel first came online? I only noticed it a while ago when fooling around with AthenaIRC, and I think it could become a valuable tool for discussion, if say, people were working together like Celchu and I, it would of course present the opportunity to share ideas live. So when did it spring up? Why don't you all come along and chat about CS, what you hope to do and wish to do, and maybe other unrelated stuff too!
A little less than a year ago, I think.
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Originally posted by Celchu: **Well, okay... I doth proclaim whichever month these are posted in to be ASW board-wide Andiyar-Fest! Everyone, pickup Andiyar related merchandise at your nearest Andiyar Enterprises! Stuffed Zeltars! (Ahh, aren't they cute?) Rothlin action figures! (It slices! It dices! It even makes haggis!) Inflatable Talia dolls! (No comment) Custom coffee mugs with a little 'ć' on the front! Fall of Nervii - The Comic Book! /me faints from exertion **
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