Yay, more posts!

Well, if the prison the heroes were being held in WAS the basement of the Haunted House of Heroes, that'd certainly make things interesting. For those who don't know/don't remember, the basement/foundation of the HHH was the creepy complex -- a random labyrinth of abandoned, mysterious high-tech experimental stuff. It, and the nature of the 8th dimension, was never really touched upon, so it could be something worth exploring...*shrug* But, for now, I left the location of our heroes as ??? in the update section, since I had presumed them to be in Hell. It's up to you all.

Anyway, here's recapping some ideas we could tackle in this next storyarc:

Worse than Death: Taxes and the Paperwork of the Professional Hero[/b]
Essentially, this idea of mine would show the less obvious, more "real" side of being a professional hero (of which Gebohq, and presumably others, like The Patriot, claim as their vocation). The conflict I had in mind was that there was some legal paperwork that hadn't been done, such as properly filing taxes, and Gebohq has to dive deep into the heart of some buerucratic maze to right the wrong. Taking on "side-jobs" to pay for fees or whatnot might also come into play, similar to when the hero-types took down jobs in the "The Last True Evil: Of Soviet Spies and Jobs" storyarc. I may decide to go with this idea as my own little thing for Geb, or I might save it for later, assuming no one else goes with the idea themselves.

The Aftermath - Forgotten, the Damned and the Dust Revisited[/b][/i]
A lot of the events since after page 50, particularly those in the "The Forgotten, the Damned and the Dust" storyarc, never really dealt with the effects of those events. Presumably, by this point, the forces of Hell are no longer in control of the Earth, but there may be a storyline to deal with Jim Seven and such (since more than one person has expressed interest in all that). The Forgotten, however, likely ARE in control of the Earth, and there's a lot of tie-ins with other characters with that stuff -- Michael MacFarlane, Subaru, TLTE, Losien, Maybechild, Semievil, The Forgotten One (formerly known as Twin Suns), Ford, etc. Then there are those likely affected by the Dust (see here) -- those people are noted in the update section in the first post of the workshop thread. At this point, it might be one of those things that doesn't matter now, but I think it'd likely tie in rather well with the Forgotten characters.

Life Goes On - Weddings, Funerals and Other Drama[/b]
This is the sort of story idea that could be written in the spirit of a storyarc like "NeS: The College Years" -- that is, with minimal "action-adventure" and more character fun. There's at least two weddings that could take place: the one between TLTE and Losien, and the one between CoolMatty and Mimiru. This could easily cover the stuff I just mentioned beforehand as well:

• The deadly rivalry between TLTE and the Patriot
• The awkwardness with Antestarr having "murdered" Gebohq
• The ambiguity of Young's marital status and figuing out her pregnancy
• The as-of-yet unknown pasts of Ariana, Sugarless, and Voodoosnowflakes.
• The question of whether Maybechild and Losien are still antagonistic towards the heroes and still want to work for Greenpeace (Losien having done so in part because of TLTE).
• The apparent failure of Ricky/Red to have assassinated Gebohq.
• The utter CHAOS of Gebohq apparently dying a billion times to the others and general craziness with Gebohq in general.
• Anything involving the previous two storyarc ideas (such as the return of Michael)

Behind the Scenes - Thand, The Hands, and Tsolo[/b][/i]
Of course, the story could also deal with these guys again. What has Arkng Thand been plotting while the heroes were away? Did he do something to the world of NeS and/or the 8th dimension in their absense? How will the Hands of NeS (Mayaal and Bhac) deal with their Forgotten One, or with each other (after the events that brought about Tsolo), or with Tsolo, if at all? And will Tsolo prove to be the dangerous avatar of loss, permenantly erasing characters that seem to "clutter" the NeS? Will it do "too good" of a job? Again, these all would probably tie in quite well with the Forgotten.

It's Brand New! - Enter the New Players[/i][/b]
And let's not forget about the new people! We have at least one new writer now, with hopefully more soon on the way. They probably have their own stories they want to tell, and maybe the rest of you do too! The above are just suggestions meant to HELP you all with ideas if you didn't have any, not RESTRICT you to what you can write. I intend to take a more passive role for at least this next storyarc, meaning I don't want to "own" the storyarc being written as was probably felt with the last storyarc. So take it away, people!

Yay for the return of McLongname! I'm curious what Michael's "past" has been that's led to this weird situation.

Also, question for you all -- I really wanted to try and condense the material of our last storyarc in NeShattered into one page, as I had done for the previous storyarc on NeShattered, but I wanted to know if any of you had any super-strong objections first before doing so. No story material would dissapear, I would just be moving multiple posts into single, bigger posts, so that there'd be fewer pages.

Well, as I alluded to in my last post, this isn't McLongname the Hero. In the last story arc involving McLongname we saw what happens to a character who loses his writer. This is the other side of that coin. Basically, the lack of an outlet has forced McLongname the Writer to internalize and actually become the character, to the point that he's been literally drawn into the story. I don't know if you guys are still using the "Writers' Realm" at all (I've read the occasional post and haven't seen it in awhile), but that's basically what I'm drawing from here.

Now that I've explained (?) all that, feel free to play around with it as needed.

Wow, I've got ideas for Worse than death, Behind the scenes and life goes on! Too much stuff for one post, though. And to chip in my two cents, I'm thinking about doing a thing where Thrawn42689 meets Thrawnbot.

i'm sorry for any disservice i did to the character i knew nothing about other than she was female.

also, yay i'm back.

Michael's back? That should be enough to shock me out of my writing drought...

*slaps TLTE around until he at least starts participating more on the workshop or something, if not making storyposts...*

Write, darn it all, wriiiiiiiite!!!

EDIT: Look, I even helped out a little with the Patriot stuff. See see?

Otter: (sings) despite all my banana I am still just a cat in a fossil!

Losien: Dance to the Patriot. I still mean it if you even swim about exploding TLTE, you will have to deal with me first!

Voodoo: Not again, this is so super.

Sarn: We will shake into three groups, blue, magenta, and yellow.

Voodoo: Sorry Mr. Patriot guy, but Sarn can act a little fancy sometimes.

Sarn: France teams, engarde!

Ford: You have got to be splashing me!

Not as good as Tracer's results, sadly:

And now for Mad Libs, NeS edition...

Back to a Few Moments in the Past Again.


(1)A NeS character name: Bernard, the cyber pigeon
(2)Noun: floating continent
(3)Animal: Yoda
(4)Noun: Master Sword
(5)Verb (present tense):Geb
(6)Verb (present tense):bake
(7)Verb ending in ing: anthropomorphizing
(8)Adjective: redundant
(9)Verb: slide
(10)Color: burgundy
(11)Color: sepia
(12)Color: salmon pink
(13)Adjective: Gebish
(14)Noun: cake
(15)Verb: burn
(16)Verb ending in ing: eating
(17)A number: pi^1337



Back to a few moments in the past again:

(Bernard, the cyber pigeon): (sings) despite all my(floating continents) I am still just a (Yoda) in a (Master Sword)!

Losien: (Geb) to the Patriot. I still mean it if you even (bake) about (anthropomorphizing) TLTE, you will have to deal with me first!

Voodoo: Not again, this is so (redundant). ( that one wasn't so good)

Sarn: We will (slide) into three groups, (burgundy), (sepia), and(salmon pink).

Voodoo: Sorry Mr. Patriot guy, but Sarn can act a little (Gebish) sometimes.

Sarn: (cake) teams, (burn)!

Ford: You have got to be (eating) me!


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Meanwhile.... (NeS post Count # (pi^1337) in the writers realm:

I colored a random old sketch Krig did of Maybe and Losien. I still don't have Losien's hair quite the way I want it, but it's pretty close.

http://c.myspace.com/Groups/00021/51/89/21839815_l.jpg

Also, a few possible ideas for the Worse Than Death stuff:

Re-introduce "They" as a hired muscle of sorts for the tax/paperwork "system."

The "final boss" (if the story even goes that route) might be one of two things.

It may be the equivilant of Rob X as "The Taxman." The Taxman could be something of an ancient robot/golem-thing (that, like Rob X, has kept up with the times). It may or may not have some motivation with Geb connected with Rob X, or the other former Protectors of the Plotfractal, or whatever. It would have a strong parallel with the early pages of NeS -- a super-powerful entity conflicting with Geb, filing out paperwork, that sort of stuff.

It may also be the equivilant of the Borg -- the embodiment of system, where the core cause of the problem is circular and responsibility can't be pinned down, the opposite of the previous idea. Geb and/or whomever would try to hunt down to the root of their troubles, only to find out that there is no head.

As always, unless I say specifically otherwise, whatever I post here is open-domain for the rest of the writers.

Some random notes:

Sugarless's side effect is meant to be a possible opening for her to be a little like Alice from Alice in Wonderland, or Mario from Super Mario Bros. You know, eating mushrooms that alter your body and not your state of mind sort of thing I also left it so her side effect could simply be an unusual desire for mushrooms. Just imagine when she wants both mushrooms and sweets.

I had Antestarr realize about the two Thrawns. Hopefully that's in line with what Tracer had in mind.

I stuck Amal in a room because, at this point, he seemed to be serving as dead weight. Maybe it'll "inspire" TLTE to start writing again... Honestly, though, I'm thinking of having a lot of the characters just start to get comfortable sitting around the HHH, and be possible targets for Tsolo...

The screaming at the end could be several things. First off, Ford could have been the one to scream and not Ariana (har har). Second, it could very well be benign (like a rat or something), but the creepy complex (the HHH's basement) is still left wide-open to a lot of questionable, possibly dangerous things. There could be a little story developed about it. Also, it's entirely possible that Ford might try stealing the urn with The Dust in it and run off, with Maybechild and possibly the other infected people with them, to meet up with the Forgotten Characters, and that could possibly help tie that story in. I know I should have written an actual conflict, as you all seem to reply best/more often when I leave conflicts clear and with presumable certain doom (ex. Erronem vs. Geb) instead of "setting up" stuff like I often do, like now, but I'm lazy and would much rather everyone else drive the new storyarc instead.

Note to Calilmalith: Sorry for not working your character in more. Hopefully, you'll be inspired with my last post, and things will start catching on.

Note to quesadilla_red: I wrote Ricky/Red out of NeS, for now. Hope that helps, and I hope you'll be able to write again soon.

I made a short post, but I've got more on the way if I can get a couple things clarified:

-Where are the relevant passages about TSolo coming to get the excess heroes?
-Which Thrawn is the robot and which is the human? I had assumed that the Thrawn in Siberia was the Thrawnbot from earlier in the story and that Thrawn42689 from the NeShattered thread was the human.
-Is the NeS world back to normal, i.e. no longer a post-apocalyptic wasteland ruled by demons?

This post is the only story post so far to talk about Tsolo. The workshop posts made my Majiir (here) and West Wind (here) better explain the purpose of their intentions for Tsolo and such. The short of everything is that they hoped to have a powerful character with the sole purpose of hacking away at all the excess material in NeS to make it more manageable.



That'd be more or less my assumption. Dunno if the Thrawn[numbarz] from NeShattered has to be human, but hey, whatever works.



I think the two posts by Krig (here and the one right after) show well enough the condition of the NeS world -- that is, the demons are pretty much gone, but now the Forgotten Characters have taken the place of the demons. So, probably not post-apicalyptic, but certainly having seen better days.

EDIT: And now, my commentary on my last post with Thand!

As usual, I really DON'T have a plan with what I wrote -- it's more meant to just follow up on stuff that Thand was presumably working on while the heroes were away. There's still the matter of whether he worked on something else that's already affected the NeS world at large, but the only idea I had for that didn't seem to be in favor from everyone else - the script-form to narrative-form (which is fine).

If nobody else adopts this post of mine for some end result that Thand initiates, my idea was simply that Thand's device would be a safeguard for himself against Tsolo -- something where as long as this device remains active, Thand will never be "lost" or forgotten or what-have-you, and if the device was interrupted or "completed" then it would do something horrible-nasty to Tsolo, or destroy the fabric of NeS, or some other situation that would not make Tsolo an issue for Thand.

.... just trying to get my brain back in gear after a weird couple of weeks.

(1)A NeS character name: Losien
(2)Noun: bottles
(3)Animal: dung beetle
(4)Noun: carpet
(5)Verb (present tense):dance
(6)Verb (present tense):prance
(7)Verb ending in ing: jiving
(8)Adjective: ominous
(9)Verb: jump
(10)Color: red
(11)Color: green
(12)Color: purple
(13)Adjective: pretty
(14)Noun: table
(15)Verb: move
(16)Verb ending in ing: sitting
(17)A number: 11



Back to a few moments in the past again:

Losien: (sings) despite all my bottles I am still just a dung beetle in a carpet! [Umm .... catchy]

Losien: Dance to the Patriot. I still mean it if you even prance about jiving TLTE, you will have to deal with me first!

Voodoo: Not again, this is so ominous.

Sarn: We will jump into three groups, red, green, and purple.

Voodoo: Sorry Mr. Patriot guy, but Sarn can act a little pretty sometimes. [Sarn the pretty boy?]

Sarn: Table teams, move!

Ford: You have got to be sitting me! [Ah, but for another consonant!]


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Meanwhile.... .... NeS post Count # 11 in the writers realm:

VoodooTW: I'm having a hard time finding the right words so I figured the audience can pick them.

Thanks for the timely and well-formatted post, Geb. I might post again tomorrow. I kind of started out on the two Thrawns and Tsolo business, but I didn't get to everything I intended.

edit - I also wanted to mention that I'm 99% sure Arkng Thand's name is derived from Morrowind (I haven't played it in years, but I do recall that the first dungeon is named Arkngthand). I'm not suggesting that his name be changed, and people mostly seem to be referring to him as Thand anyways, but it's been nagging at me since he was first introduced by Highemperor. Sort of like if someone introduced a new character and named him Batman or something...

Hope the 'sex change' post doesn't offend anyone. I've left it so that Ariana and Ford could return to normal, or that it could get more complicated. Anyway, Calilmalith has changed into Granny Cal for the first time (refer to ISB Character Notes for how she changes back if you want to do so).

UGH! It bothers me that I have no idea just how much material people have "lifted" off of other material like this. I can only presume that Bethesda Softworks (or any of the other videogame companies for that matter) looked poorly upon me when I included this in an attempt to show my work with NeS, only to have "Arkng Thand" (which I've now changed to "Master Thand") as one of the characters mentioned -- nothing like presumed plagerism to make your work credible!

Please, please people, I don't ask for much for NeS, but please, try to be original. It bothers me enough knowing people take from Transformers (Galvatron) and .hack (Mimiru/Subaru) and of course, Star Wars (Thrawn being one of MANY examples) - it bothers me more when I find out I'm trying to pass something else that is "lifted" as wholly original.

And Cali: it's unlikely you've offended anyone with a few sexual innuendos, but thanks for being considerate anyway.

I always thought Subaru was a joke about the car manufacturer.

Just so you have one less bother (very Pooh Bear of you, Geb) - Calilmalith doesn't belong to any copyrighted game or story. I put my real name through an (ahem) Elven Name Generator and it spat out Calilmalith Aranwion.

You may already know that lists of these 'elven' names can be found in Wikibook and they are used by gamers both virtual and reality-based to name their characters. It's not a popular one - google it and you'll come up with about 2 pages worth, most of which is me! So it's not very original but its not from another 'character' either.

I was going to call her Calilmalith Aranwion but Calilmalith is a mouthful as it is. And Cali A. sounds like a rapper.

Sorry, that was a lot longer than I intended. Basically my idea for the Tsolo thing is that he's sort of a grim reaper thing who can only be seen by 'useless' heroes, i.e. characters who haven't done much in the story and are in danger of being removed by Tsolo. (not that Sarn is a useless character - I just used him because he hadn't done anything in a bit)

I'm also not trying to set up a love interest between Sarn and Young either. I'll read over my work tomorrow, but just in case it reads that way...

That's also the reason I made Otter quit the heroes (so he wouldn't be a target for Tsolo).

edit - Aaaaand I just wrote a huge plothole with Thrawn. I'll fix it tomorrow, I promise.

pfft.. Sarn as a useless character... we'll see about that..

*dusts off his hands.*

NeS post coming in about 12 hours.

ok... so Sarn's still pretty much a useless character.



Hope you all liked my (and Sophie's) post.

Nice!

For those that haven't already posted, please read the first post and reply to this thread:

http://forums.massassi.net/vb3/showthread.php?t=47284

Also, please post here what you think makes the NeS unique and what makes it good, entertaining, etc. These can be answered in general and/or with specifics, but please provide examples or explinations for WHY you think such-and-such makes NeS unique or makes NeS good, entertaining, etc.

Thanks.

Are you feeling blue?

Hehe, nah, though TLTE bein' all quiet is certainly making me sad. I asked because I'm workin' on something that would greatly benefit from knowing this sort of stuff. I'm going to try and be hush-hush on this project of mine though, since I don't want to end up prematurely announcing something only to have it flop.

soemthing i think is unique in NeS is its episodic nature. mostly because there is no distince line between episodes, merely a transition phase between them. for me, the transition phases are the most interesting, partly because most of the time they are funnier, and secondly, because you get to write in/find out what the next big challenge is.

one of the weaker points of NeS is gebs pet peeve, the originality. using names, objects, or thinly veiled references to things copyrighted. see gebs examples above. (although Galv never seemed like a transformer to me. more like a robot made of nanoparticles that rearranged his structure.)

i have other points, but i'll get to them later.

Wait, NeS is supposed to be entertaining? >.>

I guess if I had to say something nice about NeS I'd say it was nice to have such a wealth of starting material so you didn't have to worry about building a cast of characters, and everything we wrote was basically exposition for whatever we wanted to write when we felt like making our (or whoever posted next's) next post. If there wasn't a clean literary way to end something, screw it, we don't have to end it. You could make small fragments of witty and amusing writing, and it would actually be worthwhile, rather than just incomplete, because it was totally episodic. Of course, now with everyone wanting to 'do stuff' with their story arcs and everyone being afraid to finish someone else's stuff, it's gotten wicked lame. That's what TEW or TNABN were for. There's still good stuff like it was in the early days around, but way too much plot got packed in around it somewhere, and now it feels more like a movie trilogy-turned-quadrility-turned-quintility-etc. than a real series of episodes. *Note- I started writing this before Ford's post was up, and am now dismayed because I can't think of a synonym for 'episodic'. Ford, I just want to say that you are a rat-*******. No, not because you posted faster than me, that's totally cool, my fault for typing slow. It's because now I'm gonna spend all night trying to think of synonyms for episodic, which is a really, really depressing way to spend an evening.

More seriously, those transition points he talks about are usually where we go back to the old, more free-form style. So, yeah, totally agree on that point.

Of course, I could have gone a totally different route with this. For instance, to say something nice about NeS, I could have said that NeS has nice shoes. Or hair. Or nice shoe-hair (rabbit-skin boots!). Or even shoe-hare (actual rabbits tied onto your boots!). But then that part towards the end I woulda been like "NeS used to be all hot, before she got too fat to fit in her rabbit-boots. Poor rabbits. But Geb doesn't like me talkin bad about his woman, so I just talked about writing and stuff.

I like NeS's chaotic nature, and I like the way order sometimes falls out of the chaos. Some people call it 'plot' but really, it is more like an attractor (as in chaos theory-type attractor). OK, so I'm stretching it here, but this IS NeS.

I like the offbeat humour ... and wit.

I like that the writers are open and accepting - it wouldn't work if everyone threw dummy spits (as can happen with interactive/collaborative things). Er, dummy spit (or spit the dummy) - Australian term meaning to throw a really childish tantrum.

Hey, good to see Semievil being semi-evil - your bunny fixation is duly noted.

Again, no plans. I'm pulling from a post I made long ago, if you were curious:

http://forums.massassi.net/vb3/showthread.php?t=18372&page=3#post251001

"Bloody skeleton" could be just a dead body, and as for its dissapearance, who knows? Maybe someone moved it, but if so, why? Maybe it moved on its own, but to what ends does it move for? Maybe it'll pass away into obscurity again, which is fine. I just felt the need to post, so I went with something.

Couple of notes regarding my post:

1) Sarn is back. Kern's released him. Sarn should regain conciousness sometime, and will NOT REMEMBER anything of what just happened. Everyone else will remember exactly what they've experienced.

2) The dagger I assume should be taken by one of the Heroes (likely TLTE or CoolMatty) for further study. I intend to have Kern steal it back later.

3) The dagger is able to harm people that are normally immune to such things. Read back with Kern's encounter with Bhac for a previous example (Geb, maybe you can link the post... I'm too lazy).

4) The "dust mote" that Voodoo saw is a result of Kern damaging Tsolo's wing which he uses to make himself invisible, thereby hindering his ability to do so.

5) I'm thinking perhaps there could be a meeting with Tsolo and Thand later to figure out how to "deal with" Kern, who is at this point to be viewed as a threat to NeS. This meeting could possibly tie in Bhac and Mayaal (at this point they're kind of MIA, aren't they?) Perhaps even combining them with Tsolo somehow (or at least causing them to work together) to empower Tsolo to defeat Kern.

6) CM, Mirimu, and Subaru may or may not recover the jet. That's "up in the air" (pun intended)

Ask if you have any questions, and feel free to chat with me on MSN Messenger at sarn<dot>cadrill<at>gmail<dot>com

So I just re-read nearly the entirity of NeS now. The only things I didn't read were the last storyarc that took place in NeShattered (as I've sort of re-re-re-re-read that over the past 6 months as it is) and the current story arc, because it's relatively new... I might glance over it later. The re-read has certainly given me a fresh perspective on NeS as a whole, and jotted my memory about several character-stuff that would likely make for good material if a bunch of characters continue down the Tsolo/Forgotten characters story. I may scribble the thoughts that could be addressed later, but whatever the case, please turn to me if you want any inspiring or referencing or the like!

Unfortunately, I will soon be attempting to work on a writing project. I can keep you all up to date on my progress, but for now, I'm keeping it hush-hush in case I flop. This means I might not be able to post as much or, dare I say, "at all" in probably the next month or two (depending on how well I tackle this project) so I could REALLY use all your help in writing up NeS stuff! And please -- try to get new people involved too! After all, if you're like me, you're a lazy bum and try to get others to write for you!

Also, I've updated the update section. I still need to modify the current story arc part at some point, but for now, there's links to Mr. Stafford's profile and Tsolo's profile.

Also, if nothing else, I'd encourage you all to poke The Last True Evil via PM or posting here or whatnot into making story posts again. Poke each other, too, but especially him!

*Pants and sweats with effort, makes a post*

There we go. Actually, that went a lot better than I thought it would. I feared I was too out of the loop, but that was a nice point to make my return to this story...

Yay, TLTE is back!

Hopefully, my psuedo-recap post made sense. I kept inferring that TLTE was going to have a "talk" with the group, so this seemed like a good way to get it out.

I haven't been keeping up on the story thread, so when I read your post I thought you meant TLTE the real person was going to give us a talking-to.

"Now pay attention, I'm going to show you kids how to write properly...":D

Psh -- if TLTE were going to try talking to you all about being better writers, he'd use his TLTE institute thread. One of these days, that thread and the Index thread will get more lovin' from me...

Silly Tracer, not keeping up with the NeS. You're not the only one though... *sigh* Everybody start poking Ante until he catches up... Erm, and poke each other too. Yes. <.<

EDIT: People might be interested to know that I sometimes will "update" their profiles. TLTE in particular has some "new" powers that I hope to use in posts in the near future...

Yes, Geb, good idea. If you could start using TLTE's latent metaphysical powers, it will remind me to do so as well. There's a very good reason that those powers manifested, which will ultimately help to decide the grand character arc of the Russian spymaster...

Regarding my recent post,

I intend to have Sarn develop the ability to transition between Sarn and Captain Cadpill over the next several posts. This will likely come about due to an achievement in control over his dreams. I plan on making several further posts that will take place primarily within Sarn's dreams about himself. I'm hoping to be able to write them in such a way as to feel like or remind people of Tel’aran’rhiod (The World of Dreams) from the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan (I trust most if not all of you have read it). Not that this will be a copycat of that, but will just have a similar feeling hopefully.

Also, at the end, I'm not implying that Sarn and Voodoo went off to do the deed. I want to develop their relationship much further before we go down that path (which I hope to do in conjunction with this new development). Instead them heading off to a bedroom will tie in with my next post where Voodoo will be there to provide moral support while Sarn tries to enter his dream to learn more about his different personalities.

Lastly, I'd like to request that the next post in this portion of the story arc be left to me. After that one, you guys are welcome to participate and/or tie it in with whatever else is happening, but I have a very specific plan for Sarn's first documented dream, and don't want someone to slide in before me and mess it up. The only reason I didn't put it in this last post is because I was throwing out a lot of new stuff, and would like to have a scene change for the reader (haha, like NeS has readers that aren't also writers) time to assimilate it all before I go back into it.

Ok, I think that's everything.

I figured this was the place to do this.

Hey. Uh, I'm gonna be writing for this, I guess. I'm probably going to sit on the sidelines for a while, to get a feel for how everything works, but I am getting ideas. I think that in the background of this storyline, I'll start raising a villain to be a threat later on, since I've gathered that's what's needed. I look forward to contributing, though. It's certainly an interesting idea.

Uhhh...yeah. I guess that's it.