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NagisaXIkari -> RE: (DF) The Madness Chronicles Discussion (4/5/2020 22:53:08)
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"Chapter XL: Red" is up.
And with that, this is where I put "The Wilting Rose" on hold. Forty not counting the prologue and interludes chapter deep and nowhere near where I intended to be and at this point I'm just dragging things out.
I had considered other options to hasten things like somehow incorporating the Thorns which would contradict the initial premise or using the formal introduction of a recurring character as a means of hastening things a long, but that'd go against their characterization, so instead I'm gonna hold off until the current storyline in Dragonfable resolves or at least gives me an opportunity to move things ahead.
This also gives me an opportunity to consider how I delve into and develop other characters as in some cases I don't want to give too much away given the weaving of each story together where something from one story may not be entirely relevant there, but gives greater context to either a future story or one further in the timeline for example the suit of armour mentioned twice in "The Wilting Rose" and one or twice in "Ocean of Hopelessness: Redux."
Not really sure if it's foreshadowing or a call forward given the non-linear way I've been writing these stories which wasn't actually a conscious decision, it just sort of happened as I've been writing and thought "Hey, I should expand on this somewhere," which is actually how "The Wilting Rose" came to be.
So while that's on hold, I'll do that thing I initially said I wasn't going to do and begin posting "The Hunter" which I have had some entries done up and have been kind of working on as I delved into the backstory of Cry in "The Wilting Rose."
Writing a story that's set in a post-Book Three world makes for easier writing I don't have to deal with ongoing storylines as much.
And for the sake of accessibility, each entry of "The Hunter" sans the first entry gets its own post. A pattern I'll continue to with prologue/preludes and interludes sharing a post with the first an every eleventh entry.
And so without further delay, as reflected in the OP, here is The Hunter beginning with "Prelude: The Dream Lands" and "Chapter I: Sunset."
Opening quotation comes from Eileen The Crow from "Bloodborne" which actually provided a fair amount of inspiration before I had even actually played the game proper beyond looking at wikis and things.
I also continue to demonstrate how inept I am at fight scenes even when not going for something spectacular.
EDIT: Might as well get in the habit of this now before things get longer.
Chapter II: The Offering & The Village
Originally I intended for it to be two separate chapters, but couldn't justify the length as the first half would've been a couple lines at best without tremendous amounts of padding and filler. I suppose I could've did a II-A and II-B thing like I did with chapter five of "A New Home," but that was honestly kind of awkward.
Chapter III: Lonesome Road
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