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Post by Kaine Australis on Jun 19, 2022 9:12:31 GMT -8
Just a question, cause I'm curious. Do you listen to music while you write? Also, do you have songs that are like themes for your characters? Cause I do. Just wondering if I am weird. If your characters had theme songs I'd wonder what they were. Always got music on when its writing time. I can't concentrate if there's talking. Ive learned to start a character with at least one song that gets me into their headspace, sometimes characters do things that acquire them additional songs.
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Jun 19, 2022 9:29:08 GMT -8
Yeah, I've found its really helpful too! Especially if I have a writing block.
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Post by Dragus on Jun 19, 2022 15:28:38 GMT -8
See, I'm the opposite. If I want to get some writing done it usually needs to happen in the morning when I am pounding back coffee and I usually prefer silence.
Worst comes to worst, a bit of rye usually gets me past most writing blocks.
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Post by Kaine Australis on Jun 20, 2022 0:31:19 GMT -8
See, I'm the opposite. If I want to get some writing done it usually needs to happen in the morning when I am pounding back coffee and I usually prefer silence. Worst comes to worst, a bit of rye usually gets me past most writing blocks. Silence works, though i like to use music to set the mood even if im not putting music in the post.
Booze has led to some crazy epic posts going in unintended directions.
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Jul 18, 2022 14:30:05 GMT -8
I have not tried drinking and posting in a long time. I'll have to try that. Yeah. I put on bad ass music to remind me that I'm doing a bad-ass post. Or I'll put on a forest or cave ambiance to help me get into the environment. And then its easier to write. Silence isn't an option since we have a really loud air conditioner and fan, and its been hot as balls since the beginning of June. :P
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Post by Dragus on Jul 18, 2022 14:48:56 GMT -8
I used to do it all the time when I was writing with Kryptman and Major, though that could have been the wild mid twenties post secondary student in me. Plus back then the drink of choice was vodka...and not the quality stuff.
I like to think I've evolved a bit since then. It's mid to top shelf now ;-)
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Jul 18, 2022 19:24:25 GMT -8
Dude. your blinking eye is awesome. For some odd reason it also reminds me of the NOE equivalent of the clouds parting in monty python holy grail and god starts talking to King Arthur. Except now it would be the Eye itself talking to the high lords questing for the holy battle moon. "Bravely brave sir Havok, rode forth from Pzob alot. He was not afraid to die, oh brave sir Havok..."
In the wild 20s I think my drink of choice was Mikes hard lemonade. I am a lightweight. But I totally get it. The days of getting smacked for smack's sake are over and I like enjoying that sipping experience with a good quality drink. I don't have booze in the house right now. But my reward to myself for landing a new job will be a bottle of Ardbeg. Once I land it. Had an interview last week. We'll see.
The following was inspired by our Pug. He drools when it's treat time, and he is all about shoving num nums in his yum yum hole with an om nom nom! ^_^ LOL
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Post by Dragus on Jul 19, 2022 4:35:07 GMT -8
Well, I hope you get it. Being between jobs is stressful. It's not like the bills go on pause, right? But you got a smart head on your shoulders. You just gotta charm the shit out of whoever is hiring ya. I'm not saying use your body...but, if it works, right? Lol.
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Jul 19, 2022 10:54:05 GMT -8
Gotta give 'em the ol' monkey shines. *tap dances*
ok. done with the posts.
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Post by Commodore Starkiller on Jul 20, 2022 4:34:21 GMT -8
I will probably get something up today. I'm feeling inspired...but I still need more coffee.
Yo, what you are writing in the temple there...I like where that is going. Oh mayon, any talk about the Eye in general gets me hard, lol.
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Jul 20, 2022 7:28:41 GMT -8
I always appreciate getting feedback. :)
I have so much lore and material on the Eye over the years. I've cut and pasted posts and conversations from the first JvS universe into word documents. The Council of the Eye was created on Oct. 26, 2007, In a conversation between me and Admiral Harbid. Bacca was there, but not online, and so was Mack Grimfang. We were the original founders. But people like you, and Ulrich, Seleevan, Kryptman, Major,-- the list goes on, made the NOE great. Our group has always changed and adapted based on who wanted to participate and we always made positions of power available to those that were committed to writing. Really, our group is more like a collection of individual sith with our own powers, lives, and motivations, and the group serves as a unified perpetual story arc that allows our individual characters' stories to intersect consistently. The group's dynamic makes our characters stronger and more compelling, I think. It validates and reinforces the claims we make about our characters' abilities. This is not the same dynamic if we were all trying to tear each other down and minimize each other's powers. "oh, your X power is not as powerful as my X power..." Childish BS. Sith lords don't know every force power, and the leaders don't have to master everything. With lords over domains of power, the high lords are masters of their domains, and equal to each other in their mastery, but not equal in another's domain. Its also lame to have a leader ordering people around. We're bad ass sith lords. We don't order each other around, we discuss and persuade. It makes any course of action better because the motivation has to be persuasive, not capricious. We have a collection of resident experts, where the emphasis is on embracing and celebrating the differences between our characters, and that makes it so our characters more interesting to read! Some groups in the past years were so obsessed with the leader being the most powerful, that basically the leaders are boring supermen, that could be interchangeable with any other sith leader in any other group. but come to the Eye, and you can't pick a single leader, because we're stronger without one.
If you read this Nic, I'm not talking about you or the other talented writers in the First Order. I enjoy you guys. You took me in when I came back to the site and needed a place to belong. I wish I had more time to write Havok's stories in the SSE. I'm adding this clarification because some of this might be construed as shit talking, and I am a member of the FO. I'm talking about other sith groups from early JvS that i don't think are around anymore. From way back when we had rampant problems with god-modders.
Havok might be the only character with the power domain to claim to be the leader. Seeing the future IS overpowered. That's one of the reasons I have learned I have to play him very carefully. I remember one time I demoted Major. The way she reacted, it was like I broke her. I shouldn't have done it. Never again. No one, not even me, should make this site less fun for another writer. I don't want to be leader, and Havok doesn't want it either. The upside of being the seer is that his power allows him to deny others the ability to usurp that power or claim to speak with the voice of god. Who can contradict the SEER of the EYE? lol. not even the seer is allowed to contradict himself, or else risk being seen as a false prophet. So I don't write him in the first person very much. I usually end up telling his story through the eyes of those around him. (Which also means Dragus tells Havok's story just as much as Tyna does, any time Dragus mentions Havok.)
The revelations arc makes me nervous, because Havok opens up and starts showing the flaws in his powers. he is not omnipotent as the legends say. And he can get things wrong, with terrible consequences for his brothers.
Here's a throwback for you: Here's the original post (from facebook) for our name, shortly after we claimed Pzob. (Pzob has been the cradle of the Eye since the beginning of JvS.) Our writing sucked so bad back then, tho. LOL. Harbid Said:
I replied:
Harbid said:
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Jul 20, 2022 8:50:05 GMT -8
just read your post. WOW! Chef's kiss. Reining in/channeling Lomm's murderous tendancies. Making sure Lomm sees the vision of the Saint. So good. And Lord bacca's avatar. Fucking awesome. I did not have such lofty plans for Ian, but I had him do something, just b/c I was curious to see what you'd do with him. You did not disappoint. Way to take my loose end and make it epic!
Every god damn part. Its like you can read my mind.
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Jul 20, 2022 9:10:27 GMT -8
I will need to reimagine it a bit, b/c i like what you did with bacca on the astral plane, but I'll just post the idea I sketched a few weeks back:
Havok whirled to face the woods. "Come out, watcher. I sense you. As you sense me."
From the shadows of the undergrowth stepped a young scowling female Gamorrean. Dressed in bone jewelry like a shamen, half of her face and body was badly burned. Her voice croaked "Ug-grow-nash, hork horrel Squeeeeal, grunt grunt." "Vessel." Havok couldn't understand much Gamorrean beyond this, but what caught his attention was the growel-ly tone. It quite reminded him of Lord Bacca. In fact, her mannerisms were uncannily similar. The female drew a blaster and a jagged vibroblade sword. A corrupted blade of the old sith. She pointed the blade at Havok and flourished it as if issuing a challenge to a duel. This primative seemed to know too much about ancient sith etiquette.
"I know you..." Havok let go of the physical and looked past the surface of the green skinned savage before him. "Lord Bacca?" Havok called out in sudden recognition. "Brow-there?" The young sow's face twisted in anger before softening. "Hah-vok?" The words were awkward and unfamiliar to her tongue. "I thought I smelled your handiwork." Of course, the sow was force sensitive and had somehow drawn his brother's thoughts into her body. Or Vice versa. The sow's face was forced to grin. The words came in short growls of Abyssian. "Glad. You. Appreeshate. Brow-ther." "The work of a master-butcher is as unique as his tools." "Effen the woomen are more mighty tan the males of utter races." The sow showed off her muscles, which flexed and bulged far beyond the limits of a normal Gamorrean. "They serve. My. Purpose." It was Havok's impression that Lord Bacca was half asleep; but beginning to wake up and lucid dreaming in a way that allowed him to subtlety interact with creatures on this world. Or not so subtle. His potent spirit of combat could not be constrained by suspended animation. If he shaped the Gamorrean tribes, making them more warlike, He, no doubt, would have left his mark on the Hannite monks as well. "When the time comes- When you wake up brother, we'll be here." "Grrrrrr. Till then. Heh."
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Post by Dragus on Jul 20, 2022 9:16:54 GMT -8
Oh mayon, you still gotta work that in. Maybe Ian survives long enough to give Havok that conversation.
Really the only thing that was going through my head this morning when I was writing it: "Hmmm, this is all Bacca's fault, right? He might as well help us get out of it." Lol
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Jul 20, 2022 9:35:07 GMT -8
Bringing in Bacca was genius, I tell you.
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Post by Dragus on Jul 20, 2022 12:20:57 GMT -8
Well sure. The only thing that could make it better is if Willy West was RPing him. Shouts at Halifax.
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Jul 21, 2022 17:07:27 GMT -8
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Post by Dragus on Jul 24, 2022 5:22:18 GMT -8
It's such a dope beast. Like a Rancor with bone plate armour and poison claws. I kinda want a baby one that Drag's can just carry around like his own little Grogu.
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Post by Dread Lord Havok on Jul 24, 2022 22:02:30 GMT -8
... I wonder how big a baby terentatek is. Probably the same size as a baby rancor. It's possible we'd have to genetically engineer one to be as small as Grogu. Cross one with a kowakian monkey lizard. LOL.
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Post by Dragus on Jul 25, 2022 3:25:23 GMT -8
Strokes chin.
But how to get them to mate? Hmmm...
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