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Post by PFA on Oct 2, 2007 9:46:42 GMT -5
This is PFA's first time doing NaNoWriMo, and she's really excitednervous.  Excited to participate, nervous that she's gonna mess up horribly somehow. I dunno, we'll see. Sooo... I guess these threads are for posting plot outlines? Mmkays, here goes. Though it'll probably end up being kinda vague to reduce spoilerishness.  Title: No idea yet.  Genre: Fantasy The peaceful land of Lorinyl is suddenly attacked by an evil guy. One man takes the village's precious magical artifact (possibly getting in trouble for it later) and uses it to open a portal to a place where he could hopefully get help. He comes across the MCs, who recognize the artifact and agree to help. |
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Post by nope on Oct 2, 2007 9:51:05 GMT -5
I don't know if I have the right to say something because I'm not doing the NaNoWriMo (because I'm hopeless at long stories) but the plot reminds me of the animated movie "Yellow Submarine". Just the plot line though, it's probably a fairly used plot line. |
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Post by PFA on Oct 2, 2007 10:46:05 GMT -5
I don't know if I have the right to say something because I'm not doing the NaNoWriMo (because I'm hopeless at long stories) but the plot reminds me of the animated movie "Yellow Submarine". Just the plot line though, it's probably a fairly used plot line. I don't think I've seen Yellow Submarine, but I believe you. And yeah, it probably is a fairly common plot starter, but whatever. |
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Post by PFA on Oct 16, 2007 22:06:33 GMT -5
*bumps up* Yay, I got some cool NaNo ideas today. Alright, the idea is, whoever is the village elder is the most skilled with magic. The village elder has the responsibility of defending Lorinyl from evil and whatnot. And there can be a magic class or something for those who wish to become elder someday. And I came up with some names. The current elder is Elder Fineas. And there's a guy named Damyon (who may or may not be in the class. Haven't decided for sure), who is the guy who takes the artifact later. Anyway, Lorinyl gets attacked by the evil guy, who is significantly stronger than Elder Fineas. So Damyon decides Lorinyl's only hope is that he takes the village artifact and uses it to find help. So yeah. I'm getting excited for NaNo again. Hopefully I can get a good burst of excitement when NaNo actually starts. >_>; |
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Post by Tashni on Oct 17, 2007 1:27:38 GMT -5
Have fun PFA! Fantasy stories are fun for NaNo, because you can give your characters crazy-long names. Like "High Lord Jaret Ghad Van Der Belt the Second of the town of Kalith Tan North."
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Post by PFA on Nov 1, 2007 11:40:46 GMT -5
I felt like I should post an excerpt. This is my first mention of Enesqu, though I've yet to mention her name. Tina was assigned the job of helping the villagers out of the burning buildings. She figured it was because she was of the fire element, and could thus handle the heat much more easily.
She ran to one of the buildings that was on fire. She noticed the door was closed, and she could hear shouts coming from the inside.
“Don’t worry, I’ll get you out of there!” she called. She ran to the door, kicking it a few times to open it. She found only one person inside; a girl with short, black hair.
“Are you alright?” she asked the girl.
“Shiny wavy stuff. All the shiny wavy stuff likes me! Colorful shiny looove...” was the reply. Tina just blinked and ran in to help the girl. Here's a random scene I did that I felt like posting. “Are we all ready?” Gloria asked. “Does anyone need to use the bathroom or anything?”
There was a pause. Then Adusto’s hand suddenly went up. Gloria sighed.
“All right, you’d better go, then,” she said, gesturing toward the bathrooms. Adusto smiled shyly, then ran off to the men’s room. Gloria looked across those who were still there, “Anyone else?”
There was another pause. Two more hands went up. Gloria groaned, directing those two to the bathrooms. They ran off to the bathrooms, as well.
“If anyone else needs to use the bathroom, speak now,” Gloria sighed.
Suddenly, four more hands came up, also asking to go to the bathroom. Gloria paused for a moment, but eventually excused them as well.
“Does... everybody have to go to the bathroom or something?” Gloria muttered.
A pause. And suddenly, the last two hands went up. Gloria rolled her eyes, and excused them to the bathroom.
...It wasn’t much longer until she realized she needed to go to the bathroom, as well.
“I... guess we’ll just take one big bathroom break, then,” she said, then ran off to the bathrooms, herself.
A moment later, Adusto came out of the bathroom, and went back into the main hall... just to find that everyone was gone. He paused, “...Hello?” --- I'll probably add more excerpts to this post every now and then. |
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Post by PFA on Nov 12, 2007 20:08:42 GMT -5
I... haven't posted on this thread in a while.  But I suddenly decided I wanted to post here. I HIT 20K. *collapsedie* And for no particular reason, here's my special number words. 10k: help 20k: find 30k: the ((OOH so intriguing.  )) 40k: nodded 50k: freezing *will edit the others in when she gets to those points* |
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Post by PFA on Nov 24, 2007 18:54:42 GMT -5
YAY 40K. Dang, how'd it get so far into November already?  It feels like NaNo barely started. And I feel like I should post more excerpts. Maybe I'll post some later, if I can find any good ones. |
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Post by Dice on Nov 24, 2007 22:30:31 GMT -5
I agree with that! O___O;; It's been a whole month!
....and I envy your 40k-ness XDDD
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Post by PFA on Nov 25, 2007 17:19:57 GMT -5
Hey look! Something NaNo-related! Concept sketches. Yeah, I drew those when I didn't have access to the computer. Since I've mentioned in my NaNo that the students/teacher/Elder have robes, I figured I'd draw them so I could have a more solid idea of what they look like. Yay! Hjkrletgs my dad's on the computer that has all my NaNo stuff on it. >_> I need to wriiittteee. |
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Post by PFA on Nov 26, 2007 14:57:07 GMT -5
Wellzzz, I thought maybe you people would be interested in looking at my NTWF city thing. Here's some excerpts, which are a bit long. The town looked... odd. The somewhat-crooked walls had colorful blobs of paint all over them, and there were statues that had been made into some weird shapes that didn't really make any sense. It was like... Enesqu's house, except it was an entire town. Very weird.
"Let's go look around..." Leila suggested. Adusto nodded, and the two walked into the town somewhat cautiously.
Almost as soon as they stepped in, two people hopped out of the shadows and pounced on them. One of them was a boy with dog ears and a dog tail, and the other was a girl with cat ears and a cat tail.
"HIII and welcome to our town we love you!" said the boy, who had pounced on Adusto.
"Give me a cookie!" said the girl, who was on Leila.
"Um... I..." Leila blinked.
"Nova! Ringo! Get off the visitors!" came the voice of another girl. Suddenly, four other people came running up: a girl with black hair and blue eyes, a guy with longish black hair, a girl with long black hair and long cat ears, and a girl with short black hair and amber eyes.
The boy got off of Adusto and scratched the back of his head, "Sorry, Elcie... I guess we got kind of carried away there."
The girl got off Leila, muttering, "I still want a cookie..."
"Who are all you people?" Leila asked, sitting up and brushing the dust off her clothes.
"Well, my name is Jockylocky, but you can just call me Nova," said the boy, wagging his tail.
"Everyone calls me Ringo!" said the girl who pounced on Leila earlier.
The girl with black hair and blue eyes waved, "I'm Shade."
"My name is Kit," said the guy with longish black hair.
"Elycien, but my friends call me Elcie," said the girl with long cat ears.
"And I'm Fenrix!" said the last girl, grinning.
"Um, hello..." Leila grinned sheepishly, standing up. "My name is Leila, and my friend here is named Adusto."
"Hello," Adusto waved, also standing up.
"So what are you doing here in Splatter Town?" Kit asked. "This usually isn't the place visitors come to first off."
"Well... we were kind of... in the neighborhood, I suppose, and decided to take a look around?" Leila replied, scratching the back of her head.
"I... suppose that makes sense," Kit shrugged. "It's just that most people visit some of the other towns before coming here to Splatter Town. The other towns aren't as... weird, I suppose."
"Splatter Town is the best town in Entiwaf, though!" Ringo grinned. "Once you get used to it, you always want to come and hang out here!"
"So... um... what's so great about Splatter Town?" Leila asked. Everyone got a smile on their face at that point. Nova stepped up first.
"You can do pretty much anything you want!" Nova started.
"Like be crazy!" Ringo grinned.
"Or just chat with people," Kit added.
"Or just lurk," Shade nodded.
"You can say stuff nobody understands and no one will care!" Elcie added.
"And you can torture people and get away with it," Fenrix said, grinning wide.
"Not that people necessarily like being tortured..." Shade glanced at Fenrix.
"But it's fun!" Fenrix whined.
"Not for the people getting tortured," Shade replied.
"Well, no one dies," Fenrix nodded. "And even if they do, we can just bring them back to life."
"You can revive people?" Leila blinked.
"Sure we can!" Fenrix replied. "They're called phoenixes. Except if they've been dead past the sunrise, we can't really do anything..."
"Yeah we can," Elcie pointed out. "It's called 'phoenix down.'"
"It's called 'Kiddo would rather let you stay dead than have her feathers pulled out,'" Fenrix replied.
"Who's Kiddo?" Leila asked.
"Kiddo's one of our local phoenixes. The other phoenix is Sev," Nova explained. "Both of them get kind of grumpy, though... so we usually try not to bother either of them and keep everyone alive."
"Anyway... now that you guys are here, would you like us to show you around?" Shade asked.
"Sure, sounds good," Leila nodded. Cameos galorrreee. And yes, I made Ringo a catgirl, and Nova a dogboy. 'Cause I felt like it. Anyway, the next part kind of drags on, but basically there's a bunch of towns that represent the different boards in the NTWF. I didn't do the Neopia boards, though. Ooh! And the mods are called the Entiwaf Council. Now, moving on. "So this is Council City?" Leila asked, looking across the official-looking city in front of them.
"Yep," Elycien nodded. "This is where the Entiwaf Council hangs out and talks about council stuff."
"Basically, if anything needs to be done for Entiwaf, it's decided here," Shade explained.
"So this would be where Patjade is, I'm assuming?" Leila asked.
"Yeah, this is where she usually hangs out," Fenrix nodded. "She's probably in there right now, talking about something really important..."
Suddenly, a red haired lady wearing green came out of the building in the middle of Council City. "Seriously, Rider, I don't see what you're talking about! The council chamber would not look good if it were painted orange!"
"Aw, come on!" another lady came out, who was short and had a red cape. "I don't mean, like, a really bright orange, I mean kind of a dull orange! Don't you think?"
"I'm still not seeing it," the first girl raised an eyebrow.
Fenrix just stood there with her mouth hanging open for a moment. "Um... maybe not so important."
"So that's Patjade?" Leila asked.
"The one with the red hair is Patjade, yes," Kit nodded. "And the short one is Rider."
"I'M NOT SHORT!" came a shout from Rider. There's more after that, but it gets a bit spoilerish, so y'all won't get it without reading the rest of my NaNo. Thus I'm not going to post it. |
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Post by PFA on Nov 28, 2007 22:31:38 GMT -5
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Post by PFA on Nov 30, 2007 15:40:13 GMT -5
...Aanndd my final wordcount is 53,636. Ohyeah. NANO'S OVER. *collapses* It's gonna be weird not having to write every day. Buuut I can finally start doing other stuff again. <3 |
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Post by nope on Nov 30, 2007 17:28:15 GMT -5
OH MAH GAWD. I'M IN DA STORY! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU PFA! |
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Post by PFA on Nov 30, 2007 23:42:03 GMT -5
Youuu're welcome, Ringo. 'Twas fun. |
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Excited to participate, nervous that she's gonna mess up horribly somehow. I dunno, we'll see.
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It feels like NaNo barely started.