Cantina Writing Discussions

[Piemanlives]

The actual origin of Andy stems from the old forum's description game, which I was extremely bored in exploring one day many moons ago. (Good times those)

That said however Andy is a bit of a quandary, I'd rather not say Andy is incomplete but not really a developed being. Perhaps maybe a creature akin to the perspicacious loris from the leviathan series of books, or perhaps the Aerozone from Skybreaker/Starclimber.

[Carn]

Don't know those. I thought maybe we find a serum, injected Andy, then boom. Amelia riding a sky kraken.

[Piemanlives]

To be fair Leviathan features the namesake of the book being a giant flying whale the British Empire uses as an airship, a literal kraken, bats that ingest metal shards and then excrete them upon their enemies at high velocity, The Russian Empire utilizes Bear cavalry, two headed eagles as messenger birds, Austria, Germany, And the Ottoman Empire use mechs and normal zeppelins in combat. It's kind of great actually.

[Carn]

.........PM me details of author, publisher, and all that stuff please.

[Koali]

No, don't PM. Post it here. We all want to know.

[Piemanlives]

So unless you've decided to google it in the time since I last posted:

Leviathan is a series of young adult novels (I know, bit of a deal breaker) by Scott Westerfeld taking place in an alternate history during the age of world war 1. The British and their traditional allies of France and Russia have discovered the ability to manipulate biology, calling themselves darwinists after great scientist Charles Darwin they've created all manner of beasties to do... things really. Germany and their allies however decided no, they were not going to manipulate biology and created armored war machines to be piloted into battle.

Moving on from the universe aspects of things, by the very nature of young adult novels this is not a series of war books, as much as that might have been really cool it is a series of adventure novels following young Austrian Prince Aleksander and British airman Dylan Sharp, who happens to be a girl in disguise because spoiler alert this is 1914 and they haven't discovered the fighting ability of woman.

Still the books are enjoyable enough I feel.

[Carn]

Sooo can someone interact with my guys? Apart from Jasper, and perhaps Alison, they're all in the Hangar Bay, and I don't know what to do.

[Piemanlives]

I don't know, have them begin talking about things and we'll begin...

PULLING

EVERYONE

INTO IT.

[Carn]

Unfortunately Alister is talking with Alexi, which requires Bdr. Alison I'm not sure yet. Maybe rigs a more serious determent in front of Jasper's cell. As for him, well he's under threat of extreme pain if he opens his mouth. And I don't know what to do with the comedic relief aka the twins. If anyone has a banana, specifically the peal, THEN I have a idea.

[Koali]

A banana? I happen to be collecting fruits. How about, say, 20 bananas?

[Carn]

Excellent. Now they just need a duck, and a young woman willing to be embarrassed and not kill them.

[BdrLineAzn]

Hey I did say Alexi, Reynard, and Ulric were free to use by you guys

[Carn]

.......I COMPLETELY forgot about that.......

[BdrLineAzn]

I put them in so if I'm not here the day can go with you guys using them, which should end soon. So far I at least put some perspective on how they should act. Also the thre other pilots, since we aren't out yet, I'll take control of them for e moment.

[Carn]

Besides nervousness, I'm not sure about Reynard. Alexi I understand, and Ulric will make for interesting dialogue with any and all hotheads.