Star City - Updates and New Frontiers

Post by **Dray** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:15 pm

If you want to write something very long, I'll still read through it. XD I may just take a very long time to do it since I'm so busy, lately! :3 If you feel like writing something long, don't worry about it being /too/ long. Similarly if you write something short, don't worry about it being too short! X3 300 words isn't very much (a page, maybe?) and if you have good reason to go shorter, then I don't mind! Just write however much you feel comfortable with and I'll get through it as time permits.

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:53 pm

Cool. We shall see what inspiration hits...

Post by **Dray** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:55 pm

^_^ I look forward to it! :3

Luna · Post by **Luna** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:24 pm

*flexs the pen and gets busy writing her Angelhold folks* Dray.. I hope you like feathers.

Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:23 pm

Eh, Dray, could you possibly save me a spot in Atisa's clutch?

*EDIT* Oh! Avyndal pups. Generally they have small clutches up to three, but they may have as many as six at once. And they're oviparous.

Post by **Dray** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:33 pm

Oviparous meaning eggs?

Write me a story, Sil, and you can have one; I won't do holds except for the parents of the clutch. There's no deadline right now so it shouldn't be a biggie.

*points Luna to her avatar* XD I dunno, feathers? Hmmmmm... might have to think on that. :P

Mystic Dragon · Post by **Mystic Dragon** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:10 pm

*initially thinks: Crap! Well I missed the boat on that. Stupid stressing over school funds. Goddamn I hate being poor.*

*reading of page*

:3

<3<3<3 I lurvs you Dray!

Luna · Post by **Luna** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:20 pm

Dray wrote:Oviparous meaning eggs?

Write me a story, Sil, and you can have one; I won't do holds except for the parents of the clutch. There's no deadline right now so it shouldn't be a biggie.

*points Luna to her avatar* XD I dunno, feathers? Hmmmmm... might have to think on that.

Well golly, I hope it'll be ok. ^___~

Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:40 pm

I'll write you a story. *chuckle* And that works. Thanks, Dray.

JKatkina · Post by **JKatkina** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:53 pm

<paranoidly>:D

Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:18 pm

*peers suspiciously at Jkat*

JKatkina · Post by **JKatkina** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:25 pm

XD Holy crap, what happened? That message... uh... was meant to be:

"*paranoidly lurks around the Asandus/Avyndal clutch* I will get one of these babies!"

I guess I did something funny codingwise without noticing? XD

Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:27 pm

*waves her spear* I will challenge you for one, Jkat! D:<

*chuckles* I wonder if there'll be enough to go around. >>

Cacopheny · Post by **Cacopheny** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:42 pm

Geez, I'd better take care of this before people send in charries and totally close the clutch, huh? XD

Your Name: CacophenyAngel
Your Email: cacopheny @ gmail . com
Sponsor's Name: Atisa Talake (and Arlen, he'll help out ^^ )
Sponsor's URL: http://cacopheny.lmfao.org.uk/aven/fantasa/atisa.htm
Sponsor's Gender: Female
Sponsor's Species: Avyndal
Sponsor's Original Agency: (Optional) Ring of Fire
Preferences: Her own clutch, obviously ^^
Comments: This is my parental freebie, before all the rabid Avyndal-Asandus fans out there gobble up the spots XD

Mystic Dragon · Post by **Mystic Dragon** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:48 pm

*purrs* Here's Anger's parental spot. I've already started a story... which'll include the pre-flight story I never got written. >.> And I'm glad you only took Anger actually. I think Rugan would've found a way to materialize here and kill me otherwise.

Your Name: Mystic Dragon
Your Email: mystic_dragon84@yahoo.ca
Sponsor's Name: Roah
Sponsor'ss URL: http://www.geocities.com/new_warren/roahstats.html
Sponsor'ss Gender: female
Sponsor's Species: human
Sponsor's Original Agency: (Optional) The Warren
Preferences: Anger baby!
Comments: It's technically Anger's spot, but she doesn't give a damn about raising one of her kiddies. So Roah's taking the little darling.

Post by **Dray** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:02 pm

Thanks, guys! I'll add them to the page when a story-blurb is up. :3

(Also, did you two read the rules? >:3)

Cacopheny · Post by **Cacopheny** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:07 pm

Durrrr. I always always forget those things XD Always. Unless, of course, I wanr you ahead of time that I'll forget. I did that to Phe once, warned her "I'm just gonna tell you know, I read the rules, cuz I'm totally gonna forget the little things to say in the comments" ... and then I remembered XD :: facepalms ::

Anyway ."Burning bright", "little star", "night sky"... I think that's it, right? >.>

Mystic Dragon · Post by **Mystic Dragon** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:24 pm

*coughs* Rules? What are rules?

"Bright burning" "little star" in the "night sky". :3

DNS · Post by **DNS** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:57 am

Hwee, question, Dray~ You said that more than one candidates still have to have seperate stories regardless, unless htere was a good reason? (-stares at that sentance and decides not to fix due to tired-)
I have two characters that it would be easy to write a duo-story for, but writing them seperate would kind of be.. -shrug- well not beside the point or impossible, but kind of a waste?
They're two lovers from akhet. ._. Pretty much, oset is going to be fed up with the fact that the akhet dragons are taking too long to mate and that their clutches aren't that big to begin with, and that they don't talk like the other dragons that have been visiting Akhet do. So he's going to hear from somewhere or another about the clutch at star city, and convince his shy boyfriend to come with him to star city~ Of course, i can write stories for them seperately, but it makes sense to do them together. ^^; I'll leave the call to you, though.
-rolls- also. If we tell how they're getting to Star city in the story, do we actually have to post the bit where the dragon comes, picks them up, drops them off, and they realise that omg star city is very different from Akhet? or can I leave the specifics of that to the collective imagination of those reading the story~

Post by **Dray** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:40 am

You can write their story together -- I've just had group-stories in the past where people would send a hoarde of candidates to the agency under one umbrella story, and send a bunch off to another agency, etc. etc. and it got frustrating reading chapters of stuff that didn't really apply to the characters I'd recieved, or else were so generic that the character only got a blurb where they fit in. I don't mind you sending a couple of characters in under one story if there's a point behind it, which it sounds like you have. x.o' Just trying to ward off those generic ones with little direction behind them that aren't very fun to read.

As for getting to the station, the reason I have that there is so that people don't spend chapters writing about their characters, and leave off with them anywhere /but/ Star City. O.o' It's kind of like... "well, that was all well and good, but how does it apply to getting a dragon?" I'll leave it up to your discretion whether or not you want to write every detail. XD Whatever works for your story so long as they're on the station by the end of it.

DNS · Post by **DNS** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:28 am

-nodnodsalute- that makes sense~ XP I'm not used to that, cuz i still have the vestiges of the roleplay mindset, or something to that end. ._. buut, being the lazy bum that i am, I usually just describe how the characters learned about the clutch and then them saying, oh hey let's go attend! Which gets boring, buut yes. I also tend to leave it hanging at the end, but with mention of how they're going to get there. I.e, they're talking about it and then one of them goes and calls morphine and then says she'll be by in an hour to pick them up and take them, and thus they should prepare~ ._. It shouldn't be too hard to end up at star city, though. I'll just try to repress my urge to describe everything in detail about the setting, if only cuz star city isn't mine and I realllly don't want to take airs and accidently describe something wrong or that doesn't exist. XP

Astra · Post by **Astra** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:26 am

Your Name: Astra
Your Email: martianlunatic@gmail.com
Candidate's Name: Saedra Penregon
Candidate's URL: http://www.moon-struck.net/draco_prime/ ... index.html
Candidate's Gender: female
Candidate's Species: Drighan (dragon-shifter)
Preferences: Slyan's clutch if possible. shesopretty. Second choice is Camilla's <3 No prefs on gender.
Comments: "burning bright" and "little star." Duuuude I'm so excited for SCD to reopen!

Sorry the story's so long. I tried to make it half present-day half retelling the past but it ended up being more past-retelling than i wanted. Oh well. Least now it's done!

Post by **Dray** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:41 am

Another reason to want characters to come to Star City in their stories is because I /like/ reading about them in that environment. XD Agency-narcissism, maybe, but since the station itself is fairly flexible (if I haven't written about it then feel free to play with it!) I don't mind people putting their own spin on it. XD So long as you don't try to write that it's a fricking city in a valley on a planet somewhere! (._. I had someone do that once. >.O)

Oooh, Astra-story! *readsifies!*

Post by **Dray** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:41 pm

*finishes* XDD Astra, you make me cackle (at least with the last bitlet!)

Will I ever get to see Dorian or are you going to send him to a dragon-agency at all?

Post by **Dray** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:50 pm

Myrror, when you said that Camilla isn't quite a Dyrmyst dragon, how do you mean? What colours/kinds of babies would she likely have? XD I'm going to say mostly silver with blue hair unless you give me a wider variety to go by, since I'm not really sure.

Astra · Post by **Astra** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:16 pm

hehee Im glad you like it.

And ah, Dorian.

He's currently standing at Ryslen. That clutch seems to be filling slowly though which makes me sad because that means I have to wait longer to get to writing the really good parts. So send candidates to Ryslen, everybody! Since this clutch is likely to hatch first, I'm probably going to have to suspend reality a little for their tearfilled reunion and refer to Dorian's bond as ambiguously as possible XD.

Anyway, his story:
http://www.moon-struck.net/draco_prime/dorian/

be warned. It's VERY, VERY CHEESEY.

But I love it anyway. Of course I do. It's Dorian. And do not be decieved by his apparent loserness. He will. kick. ass.

Post by **Dray** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:31 pm

I actually like him like that. O.o' You don't often see those kinds of characters cast in a main role, they're usually the humerous sidekick or just side-characters in general. :O Don't change him too much! :OOO

Astra · Post by **Astra** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:33 pm

but he has to grow up to be hawt, that's the whole point! XD

Post by **Dray** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:34 pm

;.; Aww.

But it's what's on the inside that's important, and if Saedra likes him already then that's what counts, right? XD It's your story, though, so I'm not going to harass you about it.

*sends hatching-vibes at Ryslen!*

Astra · Post by **Astra** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:46 pm

yes this is true. i guess i just have an unhealthy fetish for the guys with the ugly duckling syndrome.

Besides Xander has to whip Dorian into shape so that he is able to fight Jerhan in other ways besides simply sitting on him and so that's rather important to the story plus he must overcome his binge eating addiction etc.

BUT its really cute at the end when he rescues Saedra she hasn't the vaguest idea who he is because he's hot now and then they dance together at the celebration and she bursts into tears and he asks why and she says because she really still loves Dorian but she has no idea who he is or if he's still alive. But then she looks in his eyes and sees who he is and OMG its like the most romantic thing ever. Or when he's at the "YAY we overthrew Jerhan" celebration ball and all these girls are flirting with him and he's like "uh, go away, saedra liked me when i was a loser, beotch!" Yeah you can tell I'm disgustingly obsessed with these characters.

Though if it is any consolation, he will remain mostly the same personality-wise. He becomes a lot more confident and begins to acknowledge his own abilities but he's still shy and awkward a lot of the time and has serious issues with the whole people respecting him thing. VERY modest, and VERY obsessive-compulsive. But deep down the same old Dorian.