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by Arty
Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Long Abscence Thread.
Replies: 275
Views: 208578

Re: Long Abscence Thread.

Blackwing!

Did we all get some kind of psychic message beckoning us to return at once?
by Arty
Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:04 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: Bad Luck Dragon: a standalone short story
Replies: 0
Views: 19240

Bad Luck Dragon: a standalone short story

Bad Luck Dragon My dad was the best storyteller I ever knew. Maybe that’s not unique -- most kids who were lucky enough to have a parent who told them stories probably think their mom or dad could spin tales the way the QuAati build starships. He told me once, when I was old enough (my dad never st...
by Arty
Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:24 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: Saying hello to some old friends: Universe Introduction
Replies: 15
Views: 36095

Re: Saying hello to some old friends: Universe Introduction

Well, there is no overarching plot to pit each of these nations against each other in a massive world war one in space scenario. While there is plenty of interaction between the nations, and there have almost certainly been both wars and alliances in the past (and will be again in the future), we're...
by Arty
Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:09 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Apocrypha Redux
Replies: 17
Views: 19201

Re: Apocrypha Redux

When I wrote the first few articles for the original Apocrypha, I think I really did have something like Spawn meets Neon Genesis Evangelion in my head.

Which perhaps explains a lot about not only the universe, but my state of the art at the time :p
by Arty
Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:17 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: The United Freestates
Replies: 19
Views: 23650

Re: The United Freestates

That is, indeed, dinosaur cavalry. Well, not dinosaurs precisely, but close enough that if you saw one running your way with its massive claws out and a rider on its back armed with a ray-carbine, the difference would be the last thing on your mind. And by Rocketeer, I mean Rocketeer . http://upload...
by Arty
Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:18 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: Old Familiars Art Thread
Replies: 0
Views: 18072

Old Familiars Art Thread

Does what it says on the tin.

To kick things off, a concept speedpaint I did of un Manequin.

Image
by Arty
Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
Replies: 730
Views: 417517

Re: Official Movie Review Thread

Saw NOW YOU SEE ME last night. This movie came completely out of left field for me, in that two days before I saw it I had never even heard of it, and the day before I saw it eight people all said "you've got to go see this movie!" The best description of the plot I was given was "OCE...
by Arty
Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:57 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Apocrypha Redux
Replies: 17
Views: 19201

Re: Apocrypha Redux

Oh, yes. Oh my, yes.

This is a more than pleasant surprise, Moby!
by Arty
Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:46 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: Update and Edit Notification Thread
Replies: 5
Views: 9335

Re: Update and Edit Notification Thread

Added the description for the Aitobishi zaibatsu in the Shogunate thread, and also a little poem at the header of the intro post. Just something small I felt like writing. Nothing important, surely. Not a bit.
by Arty
Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:22 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: Saying hello to some old friends: Universe Introduction
Replies: 15
Views: 36095

Re: Saying hello to some old friends: Universe Introduction

Oh, Germania is definitely going to be nixed. We abused that sucker so, so much the last time around.
by Arty
Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:37 am
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: The United Freestates
Replies: 19
Views: 23650

Re: The United Freestates

The Few, the Brave, and the Free Free Battalions and Free Ships of Note and Prominence While there are hundreds of fighting forces acting under the Freestates banner, only a few of the Free Battalions and Ships have truly risen to the status granted to heroes and celebrities. These are the solders ...
by Arty
Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:19 am
Forum: Coulda Shoulda Woulda
Topic: [Story] Cold Snap
Replies: 5
Views: 8521

Re: [Story] Cold Snap

I completely missed that, which just makes what I have planned for Teague and Chandra that much more weirdly synchronous! Also I goofed which branch Teague was in - should have double-checked on that, huh?
by Arty
Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:27 am
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: Update and Edit Notification Thread
Replies: 5
Views: 9335

Re: Update and Edit Notification Thread

Added the Diggers and the Muters to the Critters, Devils, Freaks and Worse article in the Freestates thread.
by Arty
Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:21 am
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: Update and Edit Notification Thread
Replies: 5
Views: 9335

Re: Update and Edit Notification Thread

Added the description of Forsyth to the Fifteen Free Worlds article in the Freestates thread.
by Arty
Mon Jun 10, 2013 11:18 pm
Forum: Coulda Shoulda Woulda
Topic: [Story] Cold Snap
Replies: 5
Views: 8521

Re: [Story] Cold Snap

Chapter 2: Handoff Arlington Virginia, United States of America 1703 Hours, Eastern Standard Time, October 27 “You know,” said the man planting himself next to Chandra on the Metro waiting bench, “most kids your age who read that trash want to wear their hair down to their assholes and paint flower...
by Arty
Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:56 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: The United Freestates
Replies: 19
Views: 23650

Re: The United Freestates

Sounds like a cool setting for stories with all the wild west and gilded age motifs ( when was the gilded age, incidentally, did it include the Roaring Twenties?) and I think it only makes sense to scale the size of the cosmos down to a number of planets that actually means something. As it is usua...
by Arty
Sun Jun 09, 2013 11:52 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: Update and Edit Notification Thread
Replies: 5
Views: 9335

Re: Update and Edit Notification Thread

Case in point: I've added two-paragraph descriptions of the Jiito, Ishikawa, and Shiroga zaibatsu to the Nine Dragons of Smoke and Lightning article in the Shogunate thread.
by Arty
Sun Jun 09, 2013 11:49 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: Update and Edit Notification Thread
Replies: 5
Views: 9335

Update and Edit Notification Thread

Confession Time: I have a bad habit. Specifically, I like to make posts with the skeleton of what I'm going to write, and go back in and add little tiny bits at a time, slowly accreting a full, long post or article over time. This does, of course, have a flaw - the forum doesn't notify readers of wh...
by Arty
Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:10 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: The Chrysanthemum Shogunate
Replies: 13
Views: 15939

Re: The Chrysanthemum Shogunate

I actually kinda like the idea that the Emperor might have a kind of empathic link to the people, though nothing so strong as direct telepathy. More like he has an innate sense of his, I suppose you might call it his approval rating? So he knows if there's trouble, and has a vague sense of where it ...
by Arty
Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:08 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: The United Freestates
Replies: 19
Views: 23650

Re: The United Freestates

The names are pretty much direct correlations to their real-world U.S. regions. I'm engaging in a bit of generalization here, since I'm breaking 50 states down into 15, but it's my goal to capture an (exaggerated and pulpy) version of the character and culture of each region.
by Arty
Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:54 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: The United Freestates
Replies: 19
Views: 23650

Re: The United Freestates

Yes, about those Forsythian Wraiths :)
by Arty
Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:56 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: The Chrysanthemum Shogunate
Replies: 13
Views: 15939

Re: The Chrysanthemum Shogunate

What happens when a commoner undertakes an epic quest to reach Kikuichi City to petition the Emperor to redress some petty oppression by a branch manager? That is a good question! It probably doesn't happen often (travel is, to one degree or another, restricted or at least monitored for commoners) ...
by Arty
Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:51 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: The United Freestates
Replies: 19
Views: 23650

Re: The United Freestates

Shroom has the right of it - these fifteen are the worlds which have been granted statehood, while there are plenty of largely-unsettled "territories" on the frontier of Free Space.
by Arty
Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:48 pm
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: The United Freestates
Replies: 19
Views: 23650

Re: The United Freestates

Critters, Devils, Freaks and Worse the Alien Races of Free Space [/b] For reasons which remain a mystery, the region of space inhabited by the United Freestates is also inhabited by several sentient alien races, an unusually and extremely high density of such beings compared to the territory of the...
by Arty
Fri Jun 07, 2013 7:22 am
Forum: Old Familiars
Topic: The Chrysanthemum Shogunate
Replies: 13
Views: 15939

Re: The Chrysanthemum Shogunate

Well, another perfectly valid reason why the Shogunate hasn't fragmented into their component zaibatsu is because the other great powers would have snapped them up. :) That is certainly a contributing factor :) I think there's a very strong mindset (maybe naturally-occurring, maybe engineered or at...