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6 years ago
Figured it was time to update this thing.
So I recently finished a pretty big project in the form of Restless; A Night in Crater-Vale. This story started as a mostly smut focused piece but evolved into a character study on two characters; namely Vala and Kaja. Since they were introduced in Lalep the Bold and Passing the Flame respectively, and I've learned a fair bit since writing both of those stories, I've decided I'm going to remake both so if anyone entered with Restless, they'll have something better than my first efforts to sink their teeth into. Even those of you who have read them (and thank you so much for doing so), will find new stuff to enjoy.
Passing the Flame will be both familiar in what happens, but it will be set over a few days; a ritual as important as Passing a dragons Flame on should get some decent build up, and it will give me an opportunity to do a couple of things;
1: Figin will actually get to be a character before his change to Firaegin. While he has still turned up as a kobold a few times since, it's still ultimately a dragon wearing a kobold skin (and he does have a bit of his mind clouded in said form, but not enough to make him as he was). Kaja's chapter of Restless goes into Figin at length to a sense in demonstrating him to be a good leader in a harsh time, so I wanted to actually show that.
2: Flesh out Crater-Vale and its longer standing kobolds. It's alluded to in Restless (again, Kaja's chapter since that had a day-in-the-life-of feel for the first half of it), but while I don't want to make too many major focus characters, I do want a solid bank of side characters to spice up the world a bit. Many kobolds blur into the background and are fairly interchangable, but a few standouts need some time to shine. Some may become main characters in the future, but for now having a few reliable figures to borrow will be useful.
3: Lalep the Bold will be retold as an experiment in first person storytelling. The framing of Firaegin listening in will remain as third person single, and probably some of the cutaway stuff as well as the crowd listening to Lalep's story will still be there, but when Lalep is telling his side of the story, it will be done in the first person. It'll give a greater opportunity to get into the future exemplar's head some more. The only undecided part of that is how I'll handle some of the scenes where I felt cutting to the opponents he faces felt right. Instead of being stuck as Lalep as he thinks his way through a problem and uses his cunning, I felt witnessing the plans come together as his foes was interesting. We'll see when we get there.
Anyway, that's all for now. Once I'm done with these rewrites, I will probably poke back at Overcasting shorts and maybe a full story. A full sequel for the kobold tales is on the horizon as well, but as I received guidance from all-round cool dude Mercrantos for Restless as it was a dip into uncharged waters in writing for me, and he's understandably busy with his own work right now, I would rather hold off on advancing the story of Crater-Vale for when I can feel less awful for badgering him for advice over general pointers.
Thanks again everyone and have a good one!
So I recently finished a pretty big project in the form of Restless; A Night in Crater-Vale. This story started as a mostly smut focused piece but evolved into a character study on two characters; namely Vala and Kaja. Since they were introduced in Lalep the Bold and Passing the Flame respectively, and I've learned a fair bit since writing both of those stories, I've decided I'm going to remake both so if anyone entered with Restless, they'll have something better than my first efforts to sink their teeth into. Even those of you who have read them (and thank you so much for doing so), will find new stuff to enjoy.
Passing the Flame will be both familiar in what happens, but it will be set over a few days; a ritual as important as Passing a dragons Flame on should get some decent build up, and it will give me an opportunity to do a couple of things;
1: Figin will actually get to be a character before his change to Firaegin. While he has still turned up as a kobold a few times since, it's still ultimately a dragon wearing a kobold skin (and he does have a bit of his mind clouded in said form, but not enough to make him as he was). Kaja's chapter of Restless goes into Figin at length to a sense in demonstrating him to be a good leader in a harsh time, so I wanted to actually show that.
2: Flesh out Crater-Vale and its longer standing kobolds. It's alluded to in Restless (again, Kaja's chapter since that had a day-in-the-life-of feel for the first half of it), but while I don't want to make too many major focus characters, I do want a solid bank of side characters to spice up the world a bit. Many kobolds blur into the background and are fairly interchangable, but a few standouts need some time to shine. Some may become main characters in the future, but for now having a few reliable figures to borrow will be useful.
3: Lalep the Bold will be retold as an experiment in first person storytelling. The framing of Firaegin listening in will remain as third person single, and probably some of the cutaway stuff as well as the crowd listening to Lalep's story will still be there, but when Lalep is telling his side of the story, it will be done in the first person. It'll give a greater opportunity to get into the future exemplar's head some more. The only undecided part of that is how I'll handle some of the scenes where I felt cutting to the opponents he faces felt right. Instead of being stuck as Lalep as he thinks his way through a problem and uses his cunning, I felt witnessing the plans come together as his foes was interesting. We'll see when we get there.
Anyway, that's all for now. Once I'm done with these rewrites, I will probably poke back at Overcasting shorts and maybe a full story. A full sequel for the kobold tales is on the horizon as well, but as I received guidance from all-round cool dude Mercrantos for Restless as it was a dip into uncharged waters in writing for me, and he's understandably busy with his own work right now, I would rather hold off on advancing the story of Crater-Vale for when I can feel less awful for badgering him for advice over general pointers.
Thanks again everyone and have a good one!
