The Coils of Nehushtan
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Cruel2Posts: 2,660
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View Profile Again, great to have you around again, Cruel, and glad to hear that despite being less-than-desirable, the way things worked out have left you better off.
Wonderful monthly, and I'll be posting your gdoc soon enough. Only thing I'd note is that the "hospital" itself is named The Healing Hands Clinic. Nehushtan might be rumored as the organization behind it but that's all.
Meh, fuck it. Close enough XD. Too late to change it.
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View Profile Meh, fuck it. Close enough XD. Too late to change it.
Actually... I don't think this is the right attitude to take. In my first monthly, I made mention of the clinic having interns. The clinic, apparently, does not have interns. Additionally, in the follow-up to that monthly, I (accidentally) had the Doctor create two reflections for no real reason. He's not supposed to be able to do that, though apparently he can now?
If we keep posting stories on a monthly basis for the sake of meeting a monthly requirement, but fail to edit them, things will spiral very quickly out of control. We should probably honestly take the time to edit our stories once we realize our mistake. I'm going to edit the two of mine really quick if that's okay.
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View Profile You make a good point, Chromy.
As long as you guys aren't making huge errors, I might say something but I'm not the kind of guy to make a big deal about it.
Still, I have said before that the point of this clan -- besides having fun and serving a number of purposes in the wRHG -- is to give people some of the tools and opportunities to improve/practice their writing skills.
Monthlies aren't just obligatory pieces that you have to turn out -- they are works of writing, writing that should be groomed to its best possible condition. Now, I'm not saying obsess over things here, but just give them a bit more thought.
And, if in doubt, PM me. When I do post your story, Cruel, I will be tweaking that statement about the Clinic...most likely by adding the words "organization behind" or something along those lines.
Chromy, I guess I should probably give you guys access to the Gdocs I've created...once my internet issues get fixed and things like gdocs load well for me, I'll do just that. In the meantime, please send me in PM a summary of your edits (or post them in this thread) so that I know what to change.
Thanks guys so much, btw. You make for a great clan.
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View Profile *rips a hole in reality to step through and proceeds to close it. Looks around and breathes deeply.
aahhhhhhhhh. The smell of fresh air and a good clan. I'd forgotten how good the clans are in wRHG (including this one).
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View Profile *rips a hole in reality to step through and proceeds to close it. Looks around and breathes deeply.
aahhhhhhhhh. The smell of fresh air and a good clan. I'd forgotten how good the clans are in wRHG (including this one).
Aaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnndddddd......your.....point? I mean, just saying, I can see in your sig you're wanting to join a clan....are you trying to make some vague suggestions here, or just commenting on how good our clan is?
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View Profile Ermmmmmmmmm...
*looks around anxiously
*rips another hole and dives through. Said hole disappears as soon as Doom passes through.
On a COMPLETELY UNRELATED TOPIC, am I the only person who thinks that creating a demo is the most time-consuming part of the character when you actually write ideas in a conceivable format for wRHG. just saying.
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View Profile Ermmmmmmmmm...
*looks around anxiously
*rips another hole and dives through. Said hole disappears as soon as Doom passes through.
On a COMPLETELY UNRELATED TOPIC, am I the only person who thinks that creating a demo is the most time-consuming part of the character when you actually write ideas in a conceivable format for wRHG. just saying.
If you want to join just say so instead of leaving unnecessary posts on the clan's thread :/
Alphaeus2Posts: 1,218
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View Profile If you want to join just say so instead of leaving unnecessary posts on the clan's thread :/
Ditto Wolf....
But why the hell is a more-or-less enemy clan posting on my thread?! :P
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First off, what the fuck is Tryout A?
Tryout A was supposed to be the story of how Dante got involved with Nehushtan in the first place, or in short,
my tryout which, for whatever reason, I wasn't asked to make. This left some rather notable gaps in Dante- and the Coils' combined history that will remain unfilled for the time being. My "tryout" has since merged with the pitch for a proposed sequel to Alph and I's first collab- "
Cast Asunder" and at this point I'm just calling it "Led Astray." I will not be posting spoilers regarding Led Astray as there is currently nothing worth spoiling where this story is concerned. I'll work this out with Alph sometime later.
First off, what the fuck is Tryout B?
I am calling RichardLongflop's tryout "Tryout B." Tryout B is not my story. I am helping with it, but it is not my story. It has no direct relation to "Tryout A," we just don't have a title for it so I'm calling it Tryout B. I am handing it off for the time being, and it will be completed whenever Dick damn well pleases. The "Regarding Retcons" spoiler section should help explain how this story, as well as Alph & I's other stories can exist co-concurrently with no real sweat.
"Yeah, the barn down by the creek. I’m happy I’m on the other end a town. Also steer clear of that Se7en guy, eats dicks for breakfast, like rice. Hundreds by the bowl. Fuck, must have to castrate a shit ton of mice to get a bowl of dicks that loaded. Puts in the effort, that one.”
Alright. So at one point, I said something about wanting to go back and change things in my monthly, or rather- retcon them out. After some thought, I am planting my foot down and saying the exact opposite. These are my stories, and if any detail of them is causing anachronisms for anyone currently, it will be up to them to handle them for the time being, as I feel I am already doing everything in my power to make this continuity work and continue writing for it.
A couple details in my past two monthlies caused issue, or- issue in my eyes, at the time. In my first monthly, a portion of the plot centered around the "interns at the clinic." I was later informed that the clinic did not have interns. Sorry, not sorry, the clinic had interns, at least if Dante is to be believed. The next set of "anachronisms," springing from my second story, were somewhat more purposeful. The first "anachronism" was that Doctor Macbeth created two of his reflections at once- one of himself, and one of Dante; a feat he is supposedly incapable of. The second "anachronism" was that neither of these reflections were blinked out of existence by David, and are probably still running around somewhere. Oops.
But yeah, having two Doctors and two Dante's means Richard can use / make reference to our characters in the tryout story without it affecting our personal stories all that much at the current time. The same would then go for any possible new recruits or NPCs we would want to bring into the fold- as we now have the option of saying that that not-Dante and not-Doctor are both just out recruiting folks, so I'll be keeping the stories as they are. That in mind, watch out for retcons and anachronisms in the future, as I expect them to become a talking point as our continuity begins to come into its own.
You two. Get a room.
@Crank
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View Profile Sounds great, Chromy.
As for the mix-ups, like I said to you previously (and will now restate for official affirmation), none of these violate my overall mental plot-lines for the clan.
The interns are fine, and I've actually referenced them briefly in one of my stories now -- after all, now that the Clinic's business has taken off, David would need more help.
As for the extra rogue Reflections -- I gave Chromy a huge long explanation of how that could be possible due to Chaos and the wonderful world of my literary universe. These Reflections do exist -- please, however, keep their usage to a minimum for important works. Or at least see Chromy or me regarding usage of these rogue Reflections. As much as possible, make use of the REAL chars rather than the Reflections, for storyline reasons.
Thanks!
(Also, have your keys ready -- November WILL have another monthly....)
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View Profile what a lovely day
{So who’s Alice?}
[That or an Alex]
[Naturally]
{Any Amys?}
{Antonias?}
{Anastasias?}
{Arcenes?}
{Forget it- how you holding up?}
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View Profile IMPORTANT UPDATE (kinda):
Those Rogue Reflections? They are officially known as Chaoids now. I'm releasing a story where David (and Altaer) make some sense of this fukkery. Anyhow, they will DEFINATELY be staying around -- I'll be conferring with Chromy on them more soon (particularly the Dante-double).
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View Profile what a lovely day
{So who’s Alice?}
[That or an Alex]
[Naturally]
{Any Amys?}
{Antonias?}
{Anastasias?}
{Arcenes?}
{Forget it- how you holding up?}
This feels egotistical and narcisstic, but is the Alice Alex thing a reference to anything (probs not and they are all just NPCs, but you know)? Also Morai colours on Coils page? confusion.
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View Profile Also Morai colours on Coils page? confusion.
Dante is Nehushtan's plant in other organizations. Some might go so far as to call him Nehushtan's sexual-implant. A somewhat high and doped up sexual-implant.
What has just been stated, however, will be officially and vehemently denied to all media broadcast stations. Any attempt to release this information will be seen as an attack and Altaer will have to make use of his secret Overbody state to permanently disassemble your soul somewhere inside of a pocket-dimension of the paraelemental plane created by his powers as one of only two Chaos Deities.
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