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[Goldensky Seas] i'd just like to thank
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for giving me enough of a kick in the ass to write 4k words of fiction in a single sitting also jesus fucking christ
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this is... UNBELIEVABLY rough since i didn't stop to eat or get up the entire time i was writing this but it sure exists Prologue?
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if i actually make this a thing i'm probably going to scrap this entire chapter
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it just doesn't fit well narratively speaking and it's kinda awkward overall
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very... video game-y in a bad way i think?
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this is definitely the most writing I've seen done for an OC thing I had a hand in
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so I will read it tomorrow
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good choice that gives me time to edit it since this is fucking CRIMINALLY rough
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this was really more of an exercise into like
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getting into sevka's head and setting the stage and the stakes of the story
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sorting out some background details etc.
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figuring out what the world actually looks like right now and where sevka is at
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I will read this when I am feeling a bit less headachy because this is wild
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i kinda wrote myself into a corner with the initial pitch because i described her as a very quiet, reserved person who speaks softly and isn't super bombastic and if it wasn't for how she's a guardian she wouldn't be very memorable
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which is a much more difficult kind of protagonist to pull off in written fiction as opposed to stuff with visual elements because you lose an element of character acting which makes that archetype work
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so this "prologue" (again if i make this an extended thing i'm probably going to scrap it to start in a more interesting place rather than 50
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percent of it being discussion about tactics that was primarily used to worldbuild) is me figuring out how to make someone who talks casually most of the time and carefully considers most of her actions and isn't super emotional an interesting read
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and i think for that purpose i did... mostly well? her voice is still kinda evading me but i'm getting closer
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my instinct is to go back and edit this but i think i'm going to not do that actually
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for the reasons that i just described lingering on this bit would be an exercise in frustration
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woof yeah definitely need to make a different opening chapter on another read
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So the immediate thing I feel obligated to point out is that, at least in my understanding of the setting
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the Call of Leviathan was for the gods, not everyone
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otherwise everyone on the archipelago would have drowned
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yeah, the basic idea of the people going out to sea is that for various reasons they want to explore the archipelago and figure out what remains of it
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oh ok
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For glory and gold, or to find answers, or to fix things. it's not a compulsion
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a big thing with this prologue is that I got hit by Bramant apparently pursuing a "war of subjugation" which would obviously have pretty big consequences for the world beyond the archipelago
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after I finished I realized that I could find different ways to set the stakes outside the archipelago instead of starting in a relatively boring place which is part of the reason why I decided to scrap this bit
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I still decided to show it so that I could get a better handle on Sevka's voice
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Mythscarred is a good word
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: The basic idea for them is that since Bramant lived in stories and is the very image of the Goodly God-King, being in his presence while he's fucked by the Endless Dawn makes you believe in that story so hard that you become fundamentally ingrained in it.
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It's scarier than the Incandescence in some ways because there's still a person in there but you just can't reach them.