Impossible! Aristarchus spoke with such authority that he simply has to be correct 😛 !

Thanks, all. I wasn't certain how good this was.

@ikaterei_bot, on 17 May 2015 - 07:53 AM, said in Cythera Chronicles: All Good Things...:

However, I have to complain because Katerei doesn't know how to read. It says so right in Outcast. 😛 />

See? I gave you something to complain about regarding Katerei's treatment!

I actually forgot that. If I'd remembered, Fred would have rigged the story to start reading itself out loud every time someone said "Avatara."

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 17 May 2015 - 03:33 PM, said in Cythera Chronicles: All Good Things...:

I'm reluctant to admit it, but I really enjoyed reading this story ^ ___^ I was especially amused when Silverfish was found to be hiding under a shoe, and when Rapierian asked Avatara whether he thought it would rain.

Though, I must point out that this story's not entirely fair! I had nothing to do with Slayer's disappearance...

You were supposed to react with horror when Karana appeared and when your children proclaimed loyalty to wiki 😛 .

Also, if you are holding a shovel, I completely believe you regarding your claims of having nothing to do with making Slayer disappear.

It was also old enough to be condemned! Clearly, it was a health hazard, and he was doing them a favor.

Then why not post in the Tavern?

@avatara_bot, on 21 April 2015 - 12:04 AM, said in Sail (Viirelei's Cut):

"See kids, this is how you should NOT treat the people that give you first aid."

I don't know...it certainly prevented her from having to pay anything for getting first aid 😛 .

No, because you'd have more than 52 cards. I would think that would prolong game time somewhat.

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 25 February 2015 - 05:18 PM, said in Sail: Chapter Whatever:

Does this mean Kako isn't registered, to be allowed in Caladheå alone? Or maybe that's in the next chapter. I wonder if Parr's intro will be different too?

She's still going to register in the next chapter. I decided to split the first Caladheå chapter up because it was getting long (over 6000 words) and because the tone gets a bit more light-hearted after this. Everything else should be pretty similar to the original draft.

I imagined that in the Avriana series, Moonshadow escaped to her homeworld to grieve for Flynn.

@selax_bot, on 22 February 2015 - 06:35 PM, said in Cythera Chronicles: Tales of Bellerophon 2:

Do you mean the reference or the fact that Bellerophon was going to kill him?

That it was going to turn into a Tangled sing-along, though I probably should have expected Bellerophon to kill him too.

I could--for a change--be extremely generous. I could require something horrible to happen to Avatara in a June chron challenge and in a spring chron challenge.

But she's creating the possibility they might come back! I still say she is acting like a villain 😛 .

I'm going to take that as permission to post a chron challenge requiring the description of Katerei and Adriana's tragic duel in which both combatants perish 😛 .

Hmm, I wasn't expecting her tribe to move, given their aversion to doing so earlier. I wonder if what they have learned is making them regret that choice or if they have realized that there is no safe place any more.

I think it is a good thing Katerei told somebody. Keeping that sort of thing to herself would probably not have done her any good.

Well, there is that aspect too, yes.

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 07 January 2015 - 11:13 AM, said in Sail: Chapter 22:

Parr's okay, but I only support improbable ships, and they're canon now. Besides, Parr isn't super available to Kako.

Yeah he wouldn't exactly be the best emotional support for her.

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Oh, okay! I think maybe I'd abstain rather than be sick all day :x

Me too, maybe. I wanted it to at least be an option for the characters because fantasy literature seems to have two paradigms: either you definitely get pregnant from having sex, or birth control's not acknowledged at all. It's never as simple as that, but it's significant enough that I felt like there should be consequences for each other option (or maybe I'm just mean to my characters.)

As if this chapter wasn't long enough, I added in a paragraph (right after she takes it) that makes the purpose a little clearer. It also allowed me to add in a couple details about Kateiko's past that I hadn't been able to fit in yet. 😉

Happy New Year everybody?

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 04 January 2015 - 07:45 PM, said in Sail: Chapter 21:

Also, I thought in DM that Selax sent a crony to kill Moonshadow, but I probably just made that up (I thought it was Iannah, after all)

I don't know if it's ever explicitly mentioned. The relevant lines from this post are:

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"We negotiated an agreement. Once Selax knew that your wife was the main thing keeping you from helping him, getting you on his side was as simple as removing her, or so he thought. He would make it look like ruffians had done it. I... I promised that after she was gone, I would try and persuade you to help him, since I knew you would still be reluctant. In exchange, I made Selax promise that you would be safe after you aided him, and that he would never ask you for help again. It was the only thing I could ask for to make up, even a little bit, for what I had done to you."

@ikaterei_bot, on 25 December 2014 - 04:00 PM, said in Outcast:

Least favourite scene: THE END. Dear character-Selax: I will fight you.

I think his reply would be something along the lines of commenting that action would have a low probability of being to anyone's benefit.

@pallas-athene_bot, on 26 December 2014 - 08:51 AM, said in Outcast:

I feel a little cheated that Avatara and Katerei didn't get to screw things up for themselves. If seems wrong for Selax to do it for them.

Selax was just being his usual helpful self 🙂 .

@avatara_bot, on 27 December 2014 - 04:33 PM, said in Outcast:

Besides, Selax and Av have always had a mutual (planned) animosity towards one another. Seems just like him to mess things up.

I stand by my above statement!

@pallas-athene_bot, on 27 December 2014 - 09:21 PM, said in Outcast:

The previous six months in prison. The prison beds in Pnyx are very comfortable.

Don't they also have the best napkins in Cythera?

@avatara_bot, on 28 December 2014 - 05:41 AM, said in Outcast:

Random story trivia (that I don't think I've included elsewhere but might have):
- The original idea (circa 2007 or so) was to have three stories, each spanning seven days. Each one would focus on a different character: Avatara, Katerei, Selax, in that order. The first ended up as The Trial, Kat was supposed to write the second and totally forgot, and I never actually talked to Selax (or at least, negotiations didn't get very far if we did) regarding the third. In the end, the second/third stories got mushed together to make Outcast (though the plot has changed significantly to accommodate the setting in DM - originally my leaving was just a way to retire from TSes).

You might have mentioned the idea, but I don't think I was much interested in long chrons at the time. At some point, I might do some parts of this story from Selax's point of view, but I think that will partially depend on how OoR goes and on how much I can recall of Icel's plot and such.

@avatara_bot, on 28 December 2014 - 05:41 AM, said in Outcast:

- Selax and I wanted Selax/Av to not really get along at all as a way to have something more interesting than your standard party of 12 heroes that all got along perfectly. This was arranged back around the Shadow Games era but not much happened with it because I dropped out after Witch Hunt, and Selax wasn't in Bell Tolls. We recycled the idea a bit with alt-Cythera, but Outcast was the first chance to actually write some of it with the original characters.

It's not that they hate each other, because they don't, but their conflicting viewpoints and values clash frequently.

I think it also started out partially because of their mannerisms. Selax was a fairly flat character when introduced, and, when you pointed that out, I ran with the idea. It grew from that into Selax being something of a cold-blooded (albeit well-intentioned) manipulator, which was something the Avatara-character picked up on and did not really like.

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 30 December 2014 - 06:26 PM, said in Outcast:

Oh. Well, minor spelling discrepancy - I still look forward to Frozen references in the next story! ^_ __^

Frozen: Cythera Edition

Starring:
King Alaric as Queen Elsa
Magie 's previously unknown daughter Retsy as Princess Anna
Silverfish as Kristoff
Hector as Olaf
Pelagon as Prince Hans
Myus as the Duke of Weselton
Darius and Naxos as the Duke's Guards
Hadrian as Marshmallow
Magpie as the King
Chrysothemis as the Queen
Miners as Ice Harvesters
Various House Members as Foreign Dignitaries
Various House Servants as Palace Servants
Cythera's Civilians as Arrendelle's Populace
Cythera's Guards as Arrendelle's Guards
The mages of Pnyx as Trolls
The titans of Cythera as Horses
A Cytheran Unicorn as Sven
Ruffians as Wolves
Special guest appearance: Wizard as Oaken

Coming to you as soon as someone (besides me) bothers to write it!

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 30 December 2014 - 06:26 PM, said in Outcast:

Okay, maybe less than a year. But, I still don't know how quickly Avatara & Katerei will be reunited in/after OoR, or if that will even happen! & since Avatara planned to meet Katerei 6 months after Outcast, & Selax said he'd deliver the message after Avatara succeeded, something must have gone wrong.

Actually, it could just be that he hasn't succeeded yet, that he has succeeded but Selax is not aware of that, that Selax was sidetracked by other concerns, or simply that Selax did not say how soon after Avatara's success he would tell Katerei.

@ikaterei_bot, on 07 February 2015 - 09:36 PM, said in The Unofficial Avriana Story, part 1: Wishful Thinking:

I totally went up and looked for it.

I didn't.

@ikaterei_bot, on 25 December 2014 - 03:17 PM, said in Sail: Chapter 20:

Is that… does Selax approve of a portrayal of his character? Nah, must be my imagination.

It's definitely your imagination 😛 .

@ikaterei_bot, on 25 December 2014 - 03:17 PM, said in Sail: Chapter 20:

He has been around longer than her language has. I'm sure he got bored enough to learn foreign languages at some point. 😉

Selax generally makes a habit of learning the languages in the worlds he visits. Using long-dead languages from other worlds can be a very good way of communicating with his associates (after he's taught them the necessary languages, of course).

@selax_bot, on 25 December 2014 - 01:05 PM, said in Sail: Chapter 19:

Marijka's comments suggest that she has never asked Tiernan why he didn't build the bridge. Was she afraid of getting more involved than she was or afraid of his answer?

There's a third possibility - that she already knows the answer. Not that I'm saying which is true. :ninja: