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3 months ago
Alright A artist I'm following is doing a lottery: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/seraphimka/ and said I just need to make a journal to enter.
But it didn't matter what it was about!
So now time for you to listen to me as I talk some of my stories! Don't try to escape, I locked the door, you can't run. You're stuck here with me
So ladies and gentlemen, time for you to here my stupid crap!
Alright, let's talk about the less serious stuff, these are things I'm doing for practice as well to make some semblance of sense from what they were originally from. You saw two of them if you saw my uploads.
My Favorite TTRPG system is GURPS 3rd edition, SPECIFICALLY 3rd, I want to do 4th one day, but it's written poorly despite how much I am so glad for how they handled the back of the character sheet, so I stick with 3rd. And because I'm lonely I do more test games than I do actual games with anyone.
One character Evidone was me trying to make a 50 point magic support character, and my first magic support character, I wanted to play around with him to see how well he'd work. And I couldn't figure out what to do but then I remembered the game Dust and the character Fidget, and then went "BOOM found my idea" but I wanted separation from the game so I could add whatever bull crap lore I wanted and no one could judge me, and so I had my own character, so I switched one letter in the species name, called him Evidone and BOOM I got my curious coward.
The second was more testing a world Idea I had, Neri was originally a generic self insert that I un-serted over time because I liked playing him and wanted a real character, Zeph was originally supposed to be Evidone so i could test the world and Evidone as a character.
Now... I am not shy to admit because I need an enemy player and I couldn't get anyone to do any test playing for this because at the time I was at college apartment, shy, and one of my roommate was an actual screaming banshee who was just a jerk to put it lightly, used an genAi to essentially control the enemies for me (I still did all the physical rolls and player actions). And long story short, the AI made the character itself, not giving me the CHANCE to insert Evidone, named her and everything. So I went "Screw it, this is his new friend now!" and took what little info I had about her at the end of that combat test, and made my own character from it. Shaping her to be this equal opposite mirror to Neri, who the both of them became a character because of it.
Eventually I did some adventures with the three of them, Evidone being different from Neri and Zeph, which yeah same method for combat, but I was also using a crackhead homebrew version of the Mythic solo GM system because I didn't understand what it was saying and tried to make it simpler. I failed.
I still have the character sheets for all three of them, digital and physical, Though Zeph's is on a notecard/txt.file
And currently as a practice I am trying to rewrite the adventures I had with these characters and rewrite it so
A. it made sense and wasn't just my stupid series of scribbled notes and combat logs.
B. actually had some fricken quality because good gracious there was indeed a plot... but it needs tuning.
Actually Neri's and Zeph's first one was seriously all over the place as I tried to figure out these characters, but here's what I settled on: the two of them are slowly discovering that someone is trying to recreate nuclear tech using limited knowledge and magic toreign with terror and mutants, making Neri's living in 'our era' actually super relevant as he knows what's going on, and Zeph's having knowledge on weirder magic help make my decision for her to be related to Evidone both relevant and make the story I went through with Evidone worthy.
They're not gonna be great stories, but considering how much university seriously emotionally broke me just for it to be impossible for me to even past any of my classes because of their impossible timing/standards, I need to practice again. On everything.
For these I'm aiming for 'okay tasting cookies' narratives. Because to me what's more important is the comic I've been working on since I went to technical college, these fantasy stories are just the gateway where a quarter of the work is already done to make it easier, but I still need to exercise my brain.
Now the comic, for years, by years I mean since 2021, I've been working on a comic called Bolide. Now it's changed some things over time, mostly goal, focus, and attitude. But the character's and who they are, the stories, the inspirations, all factions being all evil in different ways, the idea of making the stories being separated into "books" where each one can be contained to their own episodes but also have one long large story if you read them all in order, and the want for extreme comedic levels of violence, all stayed the same. Now it went from just being a comedy to something where it has a focus on action, and then a 50/50 split on a serious and humorous story, so think invincible (though my wish is I can aim for Princess's Bride level of balance, but that ain't happening) mixed with Madness Combat.
The world was originally supposed to be exaggerated and worse than our world without falling into grimdark territory, however the world kept beating me in awfulness to a point you'd think it was done to spite me specifically, So I tried to make it a overly and unrealistically exaggerated satire, but take a look at some of the Trump administration's actions and take a guess how well that went, so it's currently just a regular satire. The only thing of my original ideas that hadn't happened is the concept of how corporations gave robots more worker's rights than the actual people, both wasting money on the one thing that can work mindlessly, causing the biological workers to need to work harder to make up for it, and suits wondering why people hate them, causing them to reward the robots more. And mind you this is a backdrop. I'm not after commentary, all this stupidity is to give a environment for our hero's to be stuck in. Minus to having a point, I am aiming more for PS2 Ratchet and Clank games for using satirical critiques as the way to create the adventure. As in those games you could ignore the critiques on capitalism and it's still an awesome game as it doesn't force it in your face despite being the theme that made the story you're playing through. If you DO want to focus on them, go ahead, you'd be able to enjoy them on that too.
The protagonists of this story are Cajetan (which yes, is pronounced like Cajun mustard), and Bryn. multi-galactic mercenaries taking different contracts.
Cajetan is someone both in serious good shape and is from a naturally hyper intelligent species, which you'd forget because he has a love of fighting and often goofs around a lot. His intelligence is casual and layed back, just doing things or figuring things out subtly, so there's no nerd and or snobbishness with it. He is also so hyper active you rarely see him standing still, usually waving back and forth, or at absolute most waving his tail around the place.
Bryn is someone who joined his life recently and more by accident, he rescued her and she ended up joining him since she really doesn't have anywhere else to go or to trust. She's a tech nerd and lover, doesn't matter what, hardware, software, and even vehicles, but is also socially desperate and extremely insecure, which considering how she's got locked up in the first place was because her whole tribe gave her up without a second thought or hesitation, yeah, makes sense. Cajetan saving her was beyond dumb luck, the only reason he did was he was going to blow up the ship she was on and didn't like the idea of potentially anyone dying only because they physically didn't have a chance to escape.
These are terrible descriptions of these two, but I am writing this to waste your time as I enter my lottery ticket.
But right now as of writing this, I'm fixing up the first three pages, because, seriously, they needed to be redone especially now I am every so slightly better at art since I went the 'learn to cheat the rules to learn the rules' method of learning drawing. I need to get back to them, but I also need to get back into the groove of art in general, so then I can do some more studies, then some short practice comics, so I can finally finish the first fricken story! Even if I want to redo the ending before then.
Yeah I hope y'all enjoyed this incoherent ramblings about my stories, I could clean this up, but ontop of the reason I wrote it, no, I think it's funnier when it's just messy nonsense brain puke!
So to anyone who suffered this torture session, thank you.
Maybe I'll do more in the future if for some reason anyone asks. And with more sanity.
But it didn't matter what it was about!
So now time for you to listen to me as I talk some of my stories! Don't try to escape, I locked the door, you can't run. You're stuck here with me
So ladies and gentlemen, time for you to here my stupid crap!
Alright, let's talk about the less serious stuff, these are things I'm doing for practice as well to make some semblance of sense from what they were originally from. You saw two of them if you saw my uploads.
My Favorite TTRPG system is GURPS 3rd edition, SPECIFICALLY 3rd, I want to do 4th one day, but it's written poorly despite how much I am so glad for how they handled the back of the character sheet, so I stick with 3rd. And because I'm lonely I do more test games than I do actual games with anyone.
One character Evidone was me trying to make a 50 point magic support character, and my first magic support character, I wanted to play around with him to see how well he'd work. And I couldn't figure out what to do but then I remembered the game Dust and the character Fidget, and then went "BOOM found my idea" but I wanted separation from the game so I could add whatever bull crap lore I wanted and no one could judge me, and so I had my own character, so I switched one letter in the species name, called him Evidone and BOOM I got my curious coward.
The second was more testing a world Idea I had, Neri was originally a generic self insert that I un-serted over time because I liked playing him and wanted a real character, Zeph was originally supposed to be Evidone so i could test the world and Evidone as a character.
Now... I am not shy to admit because I need an enemy player and I couldn't get anyone to do any test playing for this because at the time I was at college apartment, shy, and one of my roommate was an actual screaming banshee who was just a jerk to put it lightly, used an genAi to essentially control the enemies for me (I still did all the physical rolls and player actions). And long story short, the AI made the character itself, not giving me the CHANCE to insert Evidone, named her and everything. So I went "Screw it, this is his new friend now!" and took what little info I had about her at the end of that combat test, and made my own character from it. Shaping her to be this equal opposite mirror to Neri, who the both of them became a character because of it.
Eventually I did some adventures with the three of them, Evidone being different from Neri and Zeph, which yeah same method for combat, but I was also using a crackhead homebrew version of the Mythic solo GM system because I didn't understand what it was saying and tried to make it simpler. I failed.
I still have the character sheets for all three of them, digital and physical, Though Zeph's is on a notecard/txt.file
And currently as a practice I am trying to rewrite the adventures I had with these characters and rewrite it so
A. it made sense and wasn't just my stupid series of scribbled notes and combat logs.
B. actually had some fricken quality because good gracious there was indeed a plot... but it needs tuning.
Actually Neri's and Zeph's first one was seriously all over the place as I tried to figure out these characters, but here's what I settled on: the two of them are slowly discovering that someone is trying to recreate nuclear tech using limited knowledge and magic toreign with terror and mutants, making Neri's living in 'our era' actually super relevant as he knows what's going on, and Zeph's having knowledge on weirder magic help make my decision for her to be related to Evidone both relevant and make the story I went through with Evidone worthy.
They're not gonna be great stories, but considering how much university seriously emotionally broke me just for it to be impossible for me to even past any of my classes because of their impossible timing/standards, I need to practice again. On everything.
For these I'm aiming for 'okay tasting cookies' narratives. Because to me what's more important is the comic I've been working on since I went to technical college, these fantasy stories are just the gateway where a quarter of the work is already done to make it easier, but I still need to exercise my brain.
Now the comic, for years, by years I mean since 2021, I've been working on a comic called Bolide. Now it's changed some things over time, mostly goal, focus, and attitude. But the character's and who they are, the stories, the inspirations, all factions being all evil in different ways, the idea of making the stories being separated into "books" where each one can be contained to their own episodes but also have one long large story if you read them all in order, and the want for extreme comedic levels of violence, all stayed the same. Now it went from just being a comedy to something where it has a focus on action, and then a 50/50 split on a serious and humorous story, so think invincible (though my wish is I can aim for Princess's Bride level of balance, but that ain't happening) mixed with Madness Combat.
The world was originally supposed to be exaggerated and worse than our world without falling into grimdark territory, however the world kept beating me in awfulness to a point you'd think it was done to spite me specifically, So I tried to make it a overly and unrealistically exaggerated satire, but take a look at some of the Trump administration's actions and take a guess how well that went, so it's currently just a regular satire. The only thing of my original ideas that hadn't happened is the concept of how corporations gave robots more worker's rights than the actual people, both wasting money on the one thing that can work mindlessly, causing the biological workers to need to work harder to make up for it, and suits wondering why people hate them, causing them to reward the robots more. And mind you this is a backdrop. I'm not after commentary, all this stupidity is to give a environment for our hero's to be stuck in. Minus to having a point, I am aiming more for PS2 Ratchet and Clank games for using satirical critiques as the way to create the adventure. As in those games you could ignore the critiques on capitalism and it's still an awesome game as it doesn't force it in your face despite being the theme that made the story you're playing through. If you DO want to focus on them, go ahead, you'd be able to enjoy them on that too.
The protagonists of this story are Cajetan (which yes, is pronounced like Cajun mustard), and Bryn. multi-galactic mercenaries taking different contracts.
Cajetan is someone both in serious good shape and is from a naturally hyper intelligent species, which you'd forget because he has a love of fighting and often goofs around a lot. His intelligence is casual and layed back, just doing things or figuring things out subtly, so there's no nerd and or snobbishness with it. He is also so hyper active you rarely see him standing still, usually waving back and forth, or at absolute most waving his tail around the place.
Bryn is someone who joined his life recently and more by accident, he rescued her and she ended up joining him since she really doesn't have anywhere else to go or to trust. She's a tech nerd and lover, doesn't matter what, hardware, software, and even vehicles, but is also socially desperate and extremely insecure, which considering how she's got locked up in the first place was because her whole tribe gave her up without a second thought or hesitation, yeah, makes sense. Cajetan saving her was beyond dumb luck, the only reason he did was he was going to blow up the ship she was on and didn't like the idea of potentially anyone dying only because they physically didn't have a chance to escape.
These are terrible descriptions of these two, but I am writing this to waste your time as I enter my lottery ticket.
But right now as of writing this, I'm fixing up the first three pages, because, seriously, they needed to be redone especially now I am every so slightly better at art since I went the 'learn to cheat the rules to learn the rules' method of learning drawing. I need to get back to them, but I also need to get back into the groove of art in general, so then I can do some more studies, then some short practice comics, so I can finally finish the first fricken story! Even if I want to redo the ending before then.
Yeah I hope y'all enjoyed this incoherent ramblings about my stories, I could clean this up, but ontop of the reason I wrote it, no, I think it's funnier when it's just messy nonsense brain puke!
So to anyone who suffered this torture session, thank you.
Maybe I'll do more in the future if for some reason anyone asks. And with more sanity.
