[OOC] You never see it coming[Freedomliveson/The Elvenqueen]

[freedomliveson]

Aw, get better! I'll keep plugging away when I can :)

[The Elvenqueen]

Added most of the bios for my important characters, may add a few more later today after the Act I summary (which I swear, will be done in the next few hours...for real this time haha XD)

[freedomliveson]

I've seen the work and it looks great! Thanks for all the effort. Hope you're feeling better today?

[The Elvenqueen]

Much better, think it was a migraine due to the bad weather haha! Those do run in the family xD

[The Elvenqueen]

Wow....Act I turned out to be longer than I thought! O_O I'm...half (?) way there haha but it's getting there! :D Will hopefully have Act I's summary done at least by tomorrow and then I'll start on the planets, and a couple other pages I'd had in mind. I'll fill in some of the artworks as I get them done, some of them will take a bit longer to finish than others XD

[freedomliveson]

All looks great! I'll make sure to get on act II

[The Elvenqueen]

*flops over* I FINALLY finished the Act I summary! Had less free time at work to sneakily get onto the google Doc and edit it than I thought I would, so I had to do it after work when I got home...thereforeeee artwork shall be added intermittently as I finish them haha
I figured everything that happened after the original Alliance forces surrendered and Saresh came to negotiate could be counted as the Act I/II "interlude"? Will fill that in quickly tomorrow haha
if I'm feeling even nerdier I might try and work out dates to add to the summary as well, but we'll see how that goes XD

I was going to attempt to construct some kind of representation of Renso's genealogies to put on that page, but I'm not so sure I could make that work out when it comes to putting specific relatives in for everyone without making them weirdly inter-related somehow XD

[The Elvenqueen]

EDIT: double post, thanks lag XD

[freedomliveson]

Yeah, no worries about the interlude. I'll take care of it, seeing as you had to cover a LOT of ground for Act One.

So today I'll also post some stuff here about things that have been bouncing around for Act III. Mind taking a look so we can get back into writing next week? I've missed our thread xD

[The Elvenqueen]

Awesome, thanks!

And sure we can, I look forward to hearing your ideas! :D

...I also lied and attempted madness. Gosh darn my love for lore/world building and wanting to connect everything. Still not sure I can pull it off and I may end up having to abandon this, but darn it I wanted to try haha I didn't want to do too much with characters that weren't mine without your input but here is what I've attempted to construct so far XD

Kator/Hord descendants

I vaguely recall us saying Renso didn't have children of his own but I imagine he at least had a sibling (in this case I made it a sister for this attempt) or two that would have had descendants of some sort? o.o I don't remember how much we went into that and maybe I've gone a little nuts with the details....feel free to tell me I'm crazy haha
Wasn't sure how to tie Bol and his family in there without making it really tacky or unbelievable (or making them all weirdly inter-related... o.o)

(left Ari and Bol as unknown cause well...we're not sure what's gonna happen there yet, right? XD)

Qel Droma/Sunrider descendants

Based on the crazy idea I had last night that Bracknell and Soto were distantly related through Ulic Qel Droma, since he had a thing with both Keto and Sunrider, one as a Jedi and the other as a Sith so that kind of worked in my head somehow XD
They'd be somehow distantly related to some of Renso's followers but not 100% on how yet o.o
(Bracknell's son is another plot device...I needed someone to kill Ari's brother and what better way to start Roan and Bracknell's rivalry? XD)

(I forgot the name of Soto's lover and couldn't find his page on the wiki oops hehe)

Attempted one for Cheriss but not sure whether I can get it to work out proper XD

[freedomliveson]

WOW. Reading your excellent(and thoroughly detailed!) recounting of Act One made me puff out my chest in pride. Man we did good(and continue to do so).

Oh man, those lineages are something that I forgot about. Thanks for reminding me! So wait, I thought that Yerbol, Aria and Roan were the three actual True Sith descendants...right? Is Cheriss one as well?

I'll do the following today(in this order):
1. Post stuff about Act III for you to look at
2. Post Interlude stuff on Wiki
3. Begin Act II stuff on Wiki

[The Elvenqueen]

Yes, we did do good! It would be an insult to the thread to call it a fanfic really, but if there was ever a chance of publishing something based on fanmade material... this would be the first one I would come to XD

I wasn't sure, I kind of forgot who all we decided was ACTUALLY related to the Purebloods so that might have been a slip up on my part haha XD If so, that makes it a LOT easier than scrambling to try and find a lot more True Sith hybrids in Legends to relate people to wahaha which theoretically means we could try and link Yerbol's ancestors to Ludo Kressh (who was supposedly a Pureblood hybrid) which would link them back to Renso and the Sith?
*sits self down in the dunce corner* XD I shall neaten that monstrosity up and make a page for it in that case! :P

Sounds awesome, I look forward to it as always. I shall potter away and keep doing stuff for the wiki in the meantime while I await your ideas :D Did you ever get the chance to look over the ideas I left in the characters tab about Quesh?

I shall endeavour to get info pages up for some of the planets (Zinuthra and Quensu particularly since they seem to be the most important ones XD) and add some more stuff to some of the bios c:

[freedomliveson]

Act III:

-I was thinking about skipping forward about six months. I know that's a long time, but I feel like it would not only give Ari and Yerbol to teach at the academy, but also for Manus and Jean to establish their network.

-During this six month period, Manus and Jean will be working behind the scenes with their group of Force users who don't believe in the Qyaari's diplomatic approach. Staying out of sight, the former Jedi Masters establish a new order called The Faceless(work in progress on the name!) that stress each member is tied to the other by the Force. Not only are they tied together, but each must harness their abilities to become one with the Force as living weapons, defending the "sanctity" of the Force from those who cannot "comprehend it". So, in other words, they hate anyone who can't use the Force or don't use it the way they want.

-Different from the manipulation of Bracknell and the chaos of Illesia, Manus and Jean desire to carve out their own niche on various worlds, establishing underground teaching facilities that train remaining Force users in their philosophy in order to stay as isolated from the galaxy as possible. This isolationist perspective is shattered when Manus scouts out Belsavis as a training facility, seeing as the Alliance has abandoned the planet in favor of more isolated worlds for their most dangerous criminals. He discovers an underground network pf passages that eventually lead to a temple forged by Rakata who claimed to be enemies of the True Sith. They too believed in the power of the Force and left behind their teachings. Manus brings back their teachings to Jean and establishes a base of operations on Belsavis while settling on a course of action: take down the Qyaari before they can spread their message of harmony to other Force users.

-Manus and Jean begin to orchestrate small attacks on Alliance supply convoys headed to Zinuthra, which would naturally draw out the Qyaari. It is there that The Faceless begin to capture the younger squadrons sent to investigate, dedicated to turning them to their cause. After a few of these strikes, Manus and Jean get bolder, sending out squadrons to attack budding Qyaari settlements on other worlds. This leads to Yerbol and Aria being sent to...well, some planet with a Qyaari settlement, to thwart the attackers.

-From there, we can have the duo capture one of the attackers and interrogate them? Or maybe interrogate them on site? Or find some clue on a body as to where one of the Faceless bases are?

That's what I've got so far...what do you think? I tried to fit Quesh in based on your ideas, but had a hard time. How do you think we could fit it in?

[The Elvenqueen]

Oohhh man, this sounds so awesome! All the yes for this so far! O_O

As for how we could work Quesh into it, I have nothing right at this moment but I shall have a think and get back to you on that hopefully later today XD

[freedomliveson]

Fair enough! I'll wait on you to post about Quesh before putting up an Act III reply so that I can work in Manus and Jean mentioning the planet.

[The Elvenqueen]

So, this seems like a bit of a cop out suggestion but there is literally NOTHING else on Quesh anywhere o.o Literally its only use is apparently that the Republic once allied with the Hutts there to try and make adrenal stims out of the toxins in the atmosphere, but that eventually turned into an abandoned project when the Empire found out and attempted to take over.

Soooo....unless The Faceless want to attempt to take over the facility there in order to have the monopoly for adrenal stims....though I can't see why they would want to cause....why would the Qyaari need adrenal stims when they have the Force right? XD

Or I guess they could use it as a prison/execution site for non-Force users if they're gonna start going down that route again but meh, we kinda already did that in Act I and I don't think Soto is that stupid to try something that clearly didn't work the first time? o.o though I do stand to be corrected of course haha

[freedomliveson]

Yeaahhh, maybe we can work Quesh in later.

Anything else you want to add? If not, I can get you an Act III post on Monday

[The Elvenqueen]

Everything you proposed sounds good for a starting point so I say let's go for it! I shall have a think about how we can expand on some of your last points <3

Have a good weekend! :3

[freedomliveson]

Oh giiiirl, I've been listening to Starset this morning and I'm HYPED to get Act III started. ALL THE HYPE!!!!!!!!!

...

I also might have had my caffeine, too xD

I'll get a post up ASAP, then get to work on Act II.

Oh, speaking of the Wiki, I showed my wife and she was super impressed with our work. She insists we ought to think about publishing this, which I wouldn't be opposed to sometime. I mean, honestly, you've seen what Bioware has been coming out with and it hasn't been that great lately(in terms of SWTOR). It'd be intriguing to see what they could do with what we wrote.

Anyway, enough jabbering, I'll get to it as soon as I get a chance today!

[The Elvenqueen]

I am one with the hype and the hype is with me xDD

*bounces around in circles* ...okay yeah I had too much caffeine too haha
I shall get working on the planet pages, and I can do the Act II interlude if you like? C:

Oh God the latest stuff for SWTOR yeah is a bit...bleeeh >_< at the risk of tooting my own horn a bit, our plots are much better hahaha xD
I wouldn't know how to go about it per se but it sure would be a cool thing to try and do, especially if we actually manage to...imagine that! o.o haha