Virgil

The Adventures of Caleb Crowsnest

How I *thought* the post would turn out...originally >_)

Behind The Scenes

fantasy : diversity : creature : creature : nature/navigation/transport

Caleb observes his seagull companion : luck : loyalty : betrayal
::: he watches it fly out of the mist, then around with a juicy pulp twig in its clutches, before it vanishes into the glare of the sun, leaving him afraid that he's back to being alone
::: the cry of the gull from behind alerts him to its perched position on the bow, twitching its head and pecking vigorously at the pulp
::: his relief is alleviated by anxiety at the sudden looming approach of another small sailboat - this one properly shaped and equipped, with a shadowy figure perched atop the bow herself
::: Elytra Eagle-Eye calls out to Caleb, surprising and causing him to release the instinctive clutch on his hilt
::: After a momentary back-and-forth of scornings, Caleb declares that his intention to find the cure on his own gumption, to which Elytra questions why he's sailing back toward the village in the first place, then; Caleb twitches his eye when she asks why he doesn't have a map

The Adventures of Caleb Crowsnest

...Amidst Mist & Gentle Waves...

For a moment he could only squint to guess the rippling form emerging before his eyes, as it undulated toward him in frenetic rhythm, a small yet haphazard mass of a murky shadow rapidly growing in size and clarity. The early morning sunlight, try as it might, could barely pierce the veil in little more than a haze of shimmering Sea Green light. Caleb clasped desperately to the bow of the boat, hand at his hilt, nerves steeled for any sudden surprises...
. . .
. . . ..."FLOWER!?"

PHWOOMPH! Like an arrow the gull shot out through the green mist, whipping past its surprised sea-side companion and just about knocking him off his sea legs in the process. Caleb struggled to regain his balance against the sudden turmoil he'd caused to the shaky wooden vessel, then his eyes snapped back towards the bird. Round and round it flew in a dizzying dance of loops and arcs, crying out a screech of delight at its quarry. Like the rising sun, a gleeful smile beamed across Caleb's face:

There, in the seagull's talons, hung a Cherub-Twig -- the succulent and pulpy volume of it betraying only the best of signs...LAND! Despite the mist and murk surrounding him, the sea-tanned boy spun about on his heel--

--and promptly slipped and tumbled flat onto his ass--

--But was back up again just in time to wince through the pain and behold the silhouetted fore-shore-form of his salvation! There, just as the gleefully screeching gull at his back had done not a moment earlier, peeking out through the eerie fog arose the crisp shape he had been searching for; in fact for a second, a whimper of homesickness almost upset the boy's stomach - but no, he had to steady himself for this. He'd made this journey to prove to the others that he was Strong, strong enough to become a Knight like all those that'd passed through on their way to...well, frankly more important places - but STRONG, STRENGTH, and now was the time to prove it! HERE, at THIS PLACE, with the JANKY OLD WOODEN PIER, and the CROOKED LAMP-STRUNG TREE...and...and the Chipped Church Belltower. . .

As the boat slowly bumped to a standstill against the familiar moss-covered pier, the scent of pipesmoke drawing close stung at Caleb's senses. His nose twitched and his eyes watered up at the acrid smell, so much so that he could only hear the sudden arrival of heavy footsteps plonking down along the creaking wooden boards stretching out into the sea:

"...Crowsnest...Is That You? Where in the World have you been dear boy?!?", "she" inquired with surprise and anger.

...Home. Now he wished he hadn't plugged that map after all.

The Adventures of Caleb Crowsnest

2nd or 4th is fine by me!

The Adventures of Caleb Crowsnest

Roughshod Writing Example

The night was sultry.

All around her lay the volatile trappings of incarceration - rough stone walls, cold iron bars...an unapologetically crooked wooden "bed" jutting out of the back of the room, just for one. Her heart sunk down below her knees at the dwindling light of the warden's candle, leaving her alone in the company of the dark. But though moments dragged on into hours, she steeled herself against reality's mocking embrace; And though a torrent of regret and disgust clawed at her stomach, she kept herself standing firmly on both feet.

She had made this...all of this...and the burden was entirely hers to bear. If little else, she could take comfort in just that much; Beweynne lifted a dusty finger to the precipice of her temple and let it slowly drag across the edge of her brow, mopping up the singular bead that'd begun to pool. If she was to make it here, there could be no signs of doubt or weakness - not a single drop of "fear" to be displayed to the resident monsters cooped up in this prison alongside her.

A twinge of relief flashed through her heart - thankfully she would have all night to prepare herself for the morning's "introductions" out in the tower-yard.

She'd have to put on a good impression for the others; All amidst the heat and squalor of this place - Purgatory, their gracious abode. Her home now as much as it'd been theirs...at least for a little while.

(Electric Pokemon)

A Writing Experiment - One Story, Multiple Authors

I vote fantasy! :) Also as far as our different sections go, what we could do is once we have our set amount of people we could come up with a posting cycle. You could post a list in the thread with all of our names in a certain order and once we've seen that the person before us on the list has gone we'll know that it's now our turn to post. I feel like that would save a lot of confusion

@Bria The Human

Good call! There'd have to be a reasonable expiration date for anyone who couldn't post in time though, just so the next people in line could continue without the pace of the RP being bogged down by IRL issues. Maybe...if you haven't posted by the end of the day? Or so many hours after the last post was put up -- that'd also make it easier to deal with time-zone differences; 12 to 24 hours after a post is up?

A Writing Experiment - One Story, Multiple Authors

I think it'd be pretty cool to have a mixture of Sci-Fantasy -- a bit like "Dune" or "The Time Machine" where technology is taken for granted in feudal/tribal-esc society, or the inverse in which the world surrounding a feudal society is so highly advanced that it's practically "magic" anyway. An on-the-fly example of the latter would be:

A "sentient" (artificially intelligent) planet that can terraform or spawn elemental beings at will to eradicated or suppress supposed "threats." These threats could be anything from falling asteroids to the very people living on it -- a human population spawned from the survivors of a crashed colony-ship, technologically regressed after millennia of being forced into hiding from the planet at certain times of day or night, which is forewarned of by a series of "eyes" that illuminate the sky whenever the exoplanet has awoken for the day/night. This isn't to say they're stupid people, they just lack a lot of the previous technology and scientific understanding their forebearers possessed, adapting to the rules of their home in ways that are clever for the lack of technological exploitation / counteractivity needed to "master" this dangerous world. As a quick toast for @Relin, you could just say the technology required to produce guns is simply too time-consuming to manufacture at this level of technological regression -- making a bow or an atlatl may be tough, but it's a hell of a lot more convenient to make in a world that's constantly trying to harass you.

I could also see it being a bit *too* much of a combination though; if that were the case for everybody, I'd vote for Fantasy just because it's more grounded and less "let's reinvent everything about how to hold a coffee-cup" as is often the case with Sci-Fi.

I was also of the assumption that we'd be doing this on roleplayerguild. And yeah, no or limited smut is fine by me -- that takes a level of writing I'm simply not capable of, to pull off with any semblance of purpose or balanced-taste.

A Writing Experiment - One Story, Multiple Authors

Considering the only other times I've seen this, people have oddly gravitated towards modern/family aesthetics, I'd be down with something a tiny bit more ambitious; Fantasy and/or Sci-Fi sounds good to me frankly.

Who else wants to voice their thoughts?

A Writing Experiment - One Story, Multiple Authors

@Zapdos This sounds like exactly the level of commitment-but-not-over-commitment I need to kick my writing back into gear! Like Tiger up here, I'm interested.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

Before sending a laptop in for repair, you're going to want to find an external keyboard and check if that works--if it doesn't, then it's a software problem you should be able to fix anyway. If it's not (and you haven't spilled anything), then it might just need cleaning.

If it's one of those Apple ones with no travel on their keys and those can't be removed, I feel sorry for you.

@Virgil

@Raineh Daze

trust me when i say it's a hardware problem xd - software quirks would be a blessing at this point.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

Sorry, I'll have to pull out of this RP.

@PigeonOfAstora

jesus, that's a bad coincidence; i'm also going to have to cut out due to both of my laptop's shift keys dying this morning - i'll have to ship this sucker in for hardware repairs, and thus won't be able to keep up. regardless, i wish you all the best of luck in the plot-curves to come.

edit; just say druncarde got lost in the woods xd - typical misfortune of his.