sounds like the stuff I've been dealing with for the last week and a half.

I feel for you then Femmpaws, this stuff is not fun at all...
Will keep you in prayer for a swift recovery *hugs*

Thank you as I will you.

Thank you *hugs*
Just got back from the Dr. Seems like I have a bronchial infection (or something like that) hopefully will be better in a few days with the meds he prescribed for me.

That sounds about right.

http://www.chakatsden.com/chakat/St...../Forest14.html

I groaned as I lowered myself down onto a lounge mat, my aching muscles protesting. Chakats rarely get ill, but this was one of those rare exceptions. A strain of influenza that only affected felinoids, my doctor informed me. It had hit me pretty hard and I was very grateful to be part of such a large family as my mates had taken up the cub-minding duties and other chores.


Hmmmm, seems even they do ...

get well soon!

ROTFL,

Wow, You know I remembered there was that one time someone got sick in the forest tales, but I didn't remember where, and did not expect anyone to go look it up.

Thanks for the well wishes Redbear, I actually am doing better.

Glad to hear you're getting over it.

As to 'finding it', it wasn't all that hard as I've read most of those tales many times. I've actually gotten a few people mad at me for telling them why Goldie would shoot their ideas down while they were waiting for hir to notice their half-baked idea. While shi's been able to surprise me with a twist to a tale, I know Goldie and hir universe well enough to get away with all the things I've done in my excuse for a tall tale - including having hir add one of my 'little' chapters to one of hir books! (at the time, I wasn't even really sure it'd be added to hir den as fan fiction, much less that shi grab it and run as it actually helped hir get part of the tale were shi needed it to go. Why yes, I did almost hurt my arm trying to pat myself on the back for that one! )

Yeah, finally went to see a doctor and got modern medicine to help out rather than just trusting my body to get in gear and fix the problem by itself.

Lol, almost wish I had pestered you and got shot down some back when I was first brainstorming my Bluesky stories, I was hoping and thinking I was keeping them inside what would be acceptable (maybe just pushing the boundaries ), but found out too late I way overshot a few things that I am not really sure I could correct them and still keep anything like the same story and characters I have now become attached to.

You better be careful, it sounds like you might be on the verge of injuring your arm again there! got to admit though that is pretty cool that you got into the official chapters.

It wasn't so much pestering as there being flame fests on a couple of yehaa groups of them arguing what would and wouldn't get by hir and me saying yes/no because of this/that/or the other (and then the losing side demanding to know when Goldie had died and I'd been crowned king of all CU knowledge me pointing out when Goldie had shot the same thing down before didn't mean shi wouldn't just love it 'this time' around.)

I have had a few people ask me to look something over, and all too often I have to point out that bits that just won't fly in the CU. A couple have changed their tales enough to fit, a couple just 'gave up', and there's still one or two that after asking for my help try to argue the points that don't/won't fit in the CU.

And no, while I was impressed shi liked it that much, I know I'm lucky that anyone bothers with trying to read my stuff (and the first three chapters are crying to be rewritten! )

Ah, I see. I never even knew that there were those groups out there until last year. I tried to be on one for a while, but 1. it was hard to get noticed and get any help (I'm an introvert, I don't like yelling in a crowded room to get attention) and 2. some of the conversations and arguments that went on there just kept going and going to the point where I wanted to hide in a corner till everyone was done

Well if you ever get bored of looking at the better done stories others send your way, I always welcome a helpful eye on my stories. Though as I said I know of one thing that blackballs me from the canon CU, and another that at best stretches some things to the brink. I would like in general try to keep things as close to in line with the CU as possible, but frankly I have fallen in love with how some of the characters are and could not change parts of my story without essentially killing them. That and I'm a stubborn cat! In all honesty though, someone who knows the CU would be good to have talk over my tale with, my old roommate was great for brainstorming, but the fact she only knew of chakats through me could easily have lead to more problems. (Though I am happy to say I predicted two things in my story Goldie later used Hirself, and there is a third one shi mentioned shi plans to use eventually )

Rewrites are up to you, an author (or artist) always sees the most glaring mistakes in their work, all in all though the only real problems I have ever had so far in reading your stories was keeping up on all the characters and where they were at. Otherwise I have greatly enjoyed the folly series.

heh, I had to look, but I did read it - quite a while ago I think. yeah, the wings are a bit much, and the talents have to work a bit harder at lifting things than you do (and greater speed would be harder on your wings - but shielding them would then reduce any lift they may have provided - never mind how huge they'd have to be to support the weight of an untalented chakitten, in fact unless the cat was hollow boned and thin as a rail I don't think it could be done at all, doubling size squares area but cubes weight.)

the rewrite of mine would to be to add more on the kids - which right now I have very little for the reader to know about them ...

Lol, yeah ya hit the nail on the head pretty well , but thanks for looking.
The origin of the wings (and a few other characters that have not come in) is the thing that I think likely pushes the rules to the breaking point.
And the strength of the K talent is what Goldfur said no go on the yahoo group.

I can't get rid of the wings because part of my whole reason for writing is to give the character I came up with a world to exist in, I created hir as an avatar and shi became hir own person. I could probably rework, or have in another area a better description of how shi does hir long distance flying trip, but the 'wings' shi makes of air do most of the lift and stick out beyond the shield. Hir real wings would be shielded if going fast and so your right only affect hir flight a little. I always envisioned it that if someone could see the air shi was holding to help hir fly, shi would look like shi was in a airplane, but I guess I did not get that across well...

And the full strength of the talent being too much, when I started brainstorming and writing Golfur did not have any examples of anyone using K talents in hir stories, so I went to the talent page and tried to gauge the strengths of the other talents against each other, and use the others to extrapolate how strong Telekinesis was. Lol, I got numbers that were so ridiculously huge I toned the numbers down big time to get the ones I use in the story. I am thinking about going back and reworking the scale to go off of work (W=Fd) instead of just saying a K5 can move up to 30 tons (not throw it around like a feather, just move it), a K5 can do so much work. It might end up being more reasonable, but will still likely bar me from CU canon. Oh well. (personally I still think that compared to what other 5s can do I am not overshooting Ks abilities.)

Sorry Redbear, I guess I am one of those that try to argue their point with you! I warned you I was a stubborn cat...



A rewrite like that likely would help with some of the keeping track of characters problem I have. Best of luck if you ever do sit down to do that, though there might be an online revolt if it kept you from writing new chapters for too long, lol!

no, you 'know' and admit to why it won't work in the CU, and what you 'could' do to make it fit - which is much better than some I've dealt with. one part of using that power is how hard you must 'strain' to use it. as I've tried to show with Shadowcrest, using a talent is 'work', like running or anything else (and since you're lifting/flying your own weight, think of it like going from one handhold to the next on the monkey bars - could you do that for four hours? and would you end fresh as a daisy - or ready to drop?)

as to the rewrite, yup, and Goldie would be at the head of the pack!

Thanks redbear, it actually means a lot to me to know I'm not lumped into that category of people.

I tried to show some of that talent use is actually a strain on the person, though I guess the only place I really showed it well was when Sky lifted the large beam for a strength test. For hir I always saw it as being a case of training and endurance, Shi has been lifting hirself and flying around since shi was little, so it can be equated to hir going for a long walk, tiring but not exhausting. The bar would be like someone bench pressing the max weight they can just before muscle fatigue sets in.
That having been said I will take a look back at my story and see if I can add something after a couple of hir long flights to show shi does in fact feel the effects of it, I want hir to be powerful, not be a deity.