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« on: December 07, 2009, 08:08:10 AM » |
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Since I have admin powers on the old EF boards, I decided to do a little edit. The Derby Library is now open to the public. What's in there was conceived a long time back, during the EF's golden age (give or take), but its contents never saw the light of day, abandoned once the whole Eastern Federation went South. It was going to be a spin-off of the press' side. It's also an interesting look into the inside of the EF. Since pretty much nobody once in there is still around, they aren't going to care if I make it public. There's some pretty good stuff in there, I think. Just realize that it's still in raw form, so you'll have to read between OOC banter, as well you'll likely want to interlace the main and discussion topics for sequential flow. Otherwise could be a little confusing. Have fun in there. And also realize that if you have an account, replies are disabled. |
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Mill Wilkinson
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« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2009, 08:20:36 AM » |
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I got all cuddly when I read that. I write way different these days.  |
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Mill Wilkinson - Police and a hunter
Matt Wilkinson - Utility Banker in Durham
Cannibal Cook - Rakmogaki who loves outsider meat
The mastermind behind these three - a proud coffeejunkie
G3N: "Why is York always the hotspot for homoerotic drama?"
And then you wonder why I left...
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Neil Tathers
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« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2009, 03:08:14 PM » |
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I find the stuff I write in the past, and the stuff I write now are on two completely different levels.
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Mark D. Stroyer
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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2009, 07:39:04 PM » |
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Isn't is usually that way? That stuff wasn't too long ago, either. A couple years, at most. It's kinda funny to look back and go, "Oh, yeah... I remember what I was doing, there. Hmm. That's wrong."
I suppose that's just the side-effects of advancing.
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Rob Zombie
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« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2010, 02:17:36 AM » |
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I find the stuff I write in the past, and the stuff I write now are on two completely different levels.
I know this is a really old area to be replying to, but the other day I read some ways into Janet Grey's Anatomy and I completely agree with the above statement. I'd also be more concerned about talking in the way of other people's characters now. I'd never have written Mark as swearing without checking with him about it first these days, and I'd never have gone on such an egotrip with my own story...which I guess might have been a way to get away from writing other characters, but now I see as an excuse to try showboating, whether that's true or not. Neil, if you're reading this, do you feel that you as a younger writer was more of an inexperienced waste of text but that now you're a more qualified individual? Reading stuff I wrote a long time ago makes me embarassed... |
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Neil Tathers
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« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2010, 02:44:49 PM » |
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Neil, if you're reading this, do you feel that you as a younger writer was more of an inexperienced waste of text but that now you're a more qualified individual? Reading stuff I wrote a long time ago makes me embarassed...
It makes me cringe. I started writing with a group, and each time we wrote a story together, especially in the past, all of them involved the world ending or somesuch nonsense, and really had no character development. Now, many of my stories deal with character development. This drives stories more than writing about the world ending. |
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FirstAmongstDaves
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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2010, 03:36:22 AM » |
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The apocalyptic fervour that once gripped the island has passed, and the days of mass raids of villages has ended.
Raktam is positively boring nowadays aside from one rogue murderous pirate (no one I know) and Derby is overgrown and dull. So its little surprise that writing has become introspective.
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Dramatis personae:
Justice Hart of York - leader of the Order of Patriots
FirstAmongstDaves - pirate and class act
Blue Hummingbird - Queen of the Dalpoki
Ibn al Xuffasch - Arab astrologer and hunter
Vercingetorix - roaming assassin
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Rob Zombie
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« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2010, 11:25:08 AM » |
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We need more heroes and more villans. Nobody's replaced Armadox, that's where we went wrong  |
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Neil Tathers
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« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2010, 01:39:10 PM » |
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The apocalyptic fervour that once gripped the island has passed, and the days of mass raids of villages has ended.
Raktam is positively boring nowadays aside from one rogue murderous pirate (no one I know) and Derby is overgrown and dull. So its little surprise that writing has become introspective.
Been to Wiksik lately? Come for the outsiders, stay for the cannibals. |
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Rob Zombie
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2010, 05:44:42 PM » |
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The apocalyptic fervour that once gripped the island has passed, and the days of mass raids of villages has ended.
Raktam is positively boring nowadays aside from one rogue murderous pirate (no one I know) and Derby is overgrown and dull. So its little surprise that writing has become introspective.
Been to Wiksik lately? Come for the outsiders, stay for the cannibals. I'm not disrespecting the cannibal threat, but 'Dox just seemed to imprint in the conciousness. Like Long Fin at the Wreck. Grunk's a menace, but he's not reached the heights of people suggesting he be added to the game as an unstoppable NPC |
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Neil Tathers
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« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2010, 12:30:21 PM » |
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I'm not disrespecting the cannibal threat, but 'Dox just seemed to imprint in the conciousness. Like Long Fin at the Wreck. Grunk's a menace, but he's not reached the heights of people suggesting he be added to the game as an unstoppable NPC
As a resident of Raktam, and an avid hunter of the Dox myself, I never found him to be that menacing. |
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Rob Zombie
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« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2010, 03:02:58 PM » |
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I'm not disrespecting the cannibal threat, but 'Dox just seemed to imprint in the conciousness. Like Long Fin at the Wreck. Grunk's a menace, but he's not reached the heights of people suggesting he be added to the game as an unstoppable NPC
As a resident of Raktam, and an avid hunter of the Dox myself, I never found him to be that menacing. Maybe it was an outsider thing. |
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