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Reading Cobie's comments made me feel even worse for not being able to read both your stories from the beginning! I feel like I've missed 90% my life.
I have to apologize in advance though. Something happened recently (Cobie knows since I told him about it while PMing re: Dark Oval; 'Boot, I'll explain it to you via PM too) that is gonna add some additional complications to my life too. Ugh.
As it stands, I probably won't be able to:
a) fully catch up on all your posts - it took me a bit more than week to catch up on Dark Oval Book 1, and I don't think I'll have the same luxury of time to catch up here
b) do more than a few vignettes here and there when EarthWar finally breaks out
What I CAN promise to contribute is to use those Legionnaires whom you won't use, and use them in scenes that can highlight the scale of the war. Like I discussed with Cobie over PM, I can have scenes in Asia. I'll do my best to give those Legionnaires their moments in the brief scenes I can cobble together for them.
I'll explain more fully over PM exactly what happened in RL
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IB, like I said privately, no worries . The important stuff comes first and foremost among that is you're okay!
It'll be great having you contribute when you can and how you can! So we can just see how that goes.
And hopefully you can catch up when you can on our older posts. I do realize it's quite a lot! But there is always plenty of time.
FYI, I read your own 21CL last night and wil have comments today (I hope)!
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IB, I really enjoyed 'Redemption at the North Pole' quite a bit! Even though you picked up the story years after you began, I thought it ran pretty smoothly, actually! And you can see how good of a writer you've become over the years with your final posts.
You've got a nice handle on some of the characters so they feel entirely "your own". Certainly Zoe, Jaz & Jenni are all characters you really shine with and I'm interested to learn where you might take them from here.
I was actually surprised and delighted to see that Chu was revealed to not be a major 'big bad' type. We've already got Luthor as President of the US, so making the choice for Chu to stand out as not a bad person (though perhaps an opportunistic politician, as you'd expect) is a good one. I think it makes her more dynamic going forward.
Also liked the reveal that Morlo was the villain of the piece.
Nightwind as Amihan was a good addition to the 21CL cast. She's always been a favorite so I'm glad to see her. Monstress has always been a Legionnaire I've disliked but perhaps you'll convince me differently over time.
I know you're further writing will be more limited than it had been (and really, you can't keep this pace up--you're crazy! ) but I'm looking forward to you continuing to write these characters in 21CL!
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Just caught up on your stuff Cobalt. Looking good [Couple of typos - notably a "Mekt" & "Kinetiz and XS", but nothing too serious ]
One thing I need to know (in PM, if you prefer) - how long before I need to have my tie-ins for this ready? As of your last post, it looks pretty damn close...
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Cobie, thanks! Glad you liked it. I still feel I can do waaaaaay better, but thanks for the encouragement. Glad you liked my Legion Ladies, and I'm happy we get to keep using Chu going forward.
I'll especially be using those 5 ladies going forward.
Looking forward to working more with both of you too
'Boot, we're pretty close now--I've got like 2-3 more "Road to..." posts to go and Im there. However, I haven't actually written any EW posts yet though I've got it all plotted out. I planned to huddle with you (and IB) before we got started. The new baby put a temp hold on my progress of 'new posts".
Will bounce back PM to you shortly! I know you need to write the tie-ins so we can hammer out any detais you may need from me. And if I need to wait at times that will be okay.
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quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: The new baby put a temp hold on my progress of 'new posts".
Don't worry, I kind of expected nappy changing would take priority .
I've got most of my EW stuff provisionally plotted in varying levels of detail, but, as usual, the writing itself is slow going for me (historically, you're a LOT faster than I am! Or, at least, better at keeping a constant speed up once you've started), so knowing you're not ready to start EW-proper on (say) Monday is good for me . I do have one Cos/Metternich scene that may need to fit somewhere in the middle of what you're doing just now, though.
Awaiting your PM whenever JT stops driving you up the wall and back down again!
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IB, just sent you a PM with some specifics.
Meanwhile, thanks for the compliments and glad you're enjoying it! It's all coming together and its kind of amazing to see since I've been working towards this story since 2005. It should be a lot of fun to do, and then I'm eager to play with where the characters go from here!
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Thanks, Cobie I can tell you're having a LOT of fun with all this. I can't imagine how you're managing to work on both this AND the Dark Oval Novella - are you sure you haven't developed superpowers?
I'm having a lot of fun imagining scenarios for my Legionnaires too
quote:Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac: Awesome posts, guys!
Meh, mine was just a brief scene that was necessary to move forward [Hence the "twenty minutes in the future" tag, to give a bit more leeway on where it happens]. It's 95% Co
quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: It's all coming together and its kind of amazing to see since I've been working towards this story since 2005.
Yeah, we've maxed out around nine PM threads as time has gone on on this, and in those you first mentioned where you were going... *checks*...
quote:Originally PMed by Cobalt Kid: 22 September, 2005 08:04 PM I have a very large scale story in mind for Mordru, the Empress and the girls, as well as Monius and Blok, but its more large scale in terms of history and how they've interrelated. I'll unveil is[sic]slowly and let it pick up speed.
Definitely been a while coming
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So I put up the last "Road to..." post this morning. This brings us right up to Earth War proper. But no worries--there is no rush to get the whole thing done right away!
I know you both need a bit of time to get your posts together, and let me know via PMs if there are any aspects of that you need any data on. In the meantime, I'm trying to build up the first several posts to get my rhythm down and focus on how the story will exactly play out.
By my 3rd or 4th post I'll show a clean break where the Legion splits up into three teams and that might be a good time to throw your initial posts in; for the most part, each post I do will be a clean break (almost like if it was a television show, this is where it would go to commercial).
Once I get up those first 3-4 posts, and then start doing more, we can talk via PMs on the progress and if there are any tweaks needed or if one of us wants the other to mention something so it can be picked up on.
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I'll wait for your team split post, then With the changes that have been going on, i'm not entirely clear which Legionnaires will be available for me
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PS, I looooooooooove how it's all coming together. One favor, please? Can you do a post that shows EVERYONE together before deployment? Because that would be awesome!
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