4/17/2023 0 Comments Void bastards destroy rifts![]() * The MC will be figuring out the exact nature and limits of the Celestial Forge as he goes, because he's not getting an instruction manual for it. * The MC may enter the Celestial Forge interface at any time he has enough CP to pick something new. As far as the MC's point of view is concerned, he's drawing blind bag picks. Note that this is the author getting a veto. So I will fudge, but only in the less munchkiny direction. However, the author may freely choose to veto the power rolled in favor of anything less powerful/broken than that was just rolled, in case something comes up that was excessively story-breaking. * (revised) Powers will be random-rolled. The MC's very first purchase may be made on credit. Now it's time for the actual rules mechanics. Įspecially since this is also the post that the MC's character sheet will be in, so it's not like you could follow along with what's going on in the story if you weren't regularly checking here anyway. You are expected to have read this post before trying to read the story. It's labelled "Introduction" in the threadmarks. If you even try saying 'But I didn't know you were upset about any of this!', I won't believe you. If it does, well, I'm doing the best I can. ![]() The random-roll nature of Celestial Forge as well as the wide diversity of powers available means that not only can an author not plan ahead except in very broad outline, but their plans will be subject to change without notice. I will not be able to plan too far ahead. This shit is hard enough, don't make it harder. And I'm sure we can all agree, we don't live in that world. If it was easy to do, there would never be any unfinished or mediocre fanfics ever posted on SB. I request that anyone unclear on this point go look at the CrW specific rules post sticked in CrW.Ĭreative writing is difficult, complicated, and very sensitive to the emotional state of the author. So yeah, I will discuss things if I feel like it, but once I make a firm decision and say 'Nope, and stop asking', then stop asking. Over the past few months I've seen several good stories die or languish in long hiatus because readers got so stuck on demanding what they wanted that the author went 'Well, thanks for the buzzkill!' and lost all urge to write. Full stop.ĭiscussion is one thing, and commentary is one thing, but once an author says 'No, I understand your objection but I'm still not going to rewrite my story because you don't like that one plot element', at this point commentary should stop. If I say "no", that doesn't mean "keep asking me". well, I just told you, right here and now, so you still shouldn't be surprised. I am not every other author, and anybody familiar with my stuff knows that I actually do remember to fire Chekhov's Gun most of the time. No, that still doesn't make me any more patient with being nagged to update faster or spoil my own plot before I want to. Yes, I am aware that SB readers have been burned by other authors before who have promised to explain things in due time and never did. There is a word for a story that deliberately eliminates all possible elements of mystery and surprise by fully explaining everything immediately after it first appears. Because it's probably something that's being held back for a dramatically appropriate reveal later. If something happens that isn't immediately explained, just wait a little while. So, just getting that out on the table first thing.Ĭhekhov's Gun is a valid writing tool. I might even have to straight up retcon punch shit that's excessively interfering with the plot that I would most enjoy writing. So in order to turn it into an actual living breathing world that the MC and the rest of the cast will live, love, laugh, and die in, I am gonna have to make shit up to fill in the blanks. The game is decades old and wasn't exactly a model of tight worldbuilding even at the time it came out. Yes, even if it was an honest mistake and something not deliberately intended. If something is not 100.00% lore-compliant to Rifts canon, then the world will not come to an end. This means that nobody will award you a medal for lore nitpicks. ![]() The character sheet will be at the bottom of this post.īut before we go any further, I would like to make a few things plain so that we hopefully don't have the same problems in this thread that happened in several of my prior story threads.Īll fanfiction uses fanon, for about the same reason that all oceans contain water. I only recently discovered the existence of the writing experiment known as the Celestial Forge (v3), previously used in such fics as "Brockton's Celestial Forge" and "Doomsday Prevention Toolkit". I know it's been a thing for a while, but I miss things sometimes.
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