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[dpMeggers]

Fatiguesdualism wrote...

 ... Phew other folk, can I ask who left the coffee out where YurigirlzCrush could find it? Also why is it always the cutesy one's that go all "Hulk Smash!" when they get caffeine?

The cutesy ones are small. Small means less blood, less blood means a higher concentration of caffiene/suger in the blood, which means more hyper (assuming everyone processes caffiene at roughly the same rate, which isn't entirely true). 

I can definitely say that strong coffee has bizzarre quasi-Hulkifying effects on me. (I'm a small person).

Drussius wrote...

I have an opinion question for anyone willing to offer an opinion. If you were going to read a post-ME3 fanfic, would you consider it a cop-out or a downside to a story if Shepard was retired and only peripherally involved in the plot? I haven't had the urge to write since I finished my first fic, but I'm finally getting small glimmers of creativity back. But while I am sure my next fic will be post-game, and will continue with the setup in the epilogues of my first story, I am toying with the idea of drawing more of Shepard's crew into the next story. But I really don't want the fic to center around Shepard.

...You wrote 60+ chapters of a story during the Reaper War and Shepard was mentionned maybe 3 times. It was a fantastic story. (I say was, I havn't finished it yet, but the 57 odd chapters I did read were awesome). Post-Reaper war everyone's going to be rebuilding and it would be a MASSIVE stretch to believe that Shepard was involved in all of it. Also, assuming you go with the 'breath' ending from destroy, Shep's obviously in pretty rough shape, so even if you think (s)he's going to get back into the fray, (s)he's obviously going to need a huge amount of recovery time first. And other people will need to do the actual work. That's assuming Shep's alive. If they're the green glowy sacrifice figure, or Reaperized to bits, obviously they won't be involved in people's everyday lives. I mean, they will be, but they won't be in a human way.

What my own Sheps get up to post-war varies but at least one of them leaves active service to teach/instruct.

feriwan wrote...

OK, can I get some advice?
Here's my problem:
I want to write a fanfic that's pretty much a summary of my headcanons. I think I can do that (it goes from beginning ME1 to post ME3).
But there is one thing that I'm not sure of. Captain Anderson. I'm am going to follow the very controversial (but still liked by at least me) ending (destroy). But I don't know if I should let Captain Anderson live. I know he's supposed to die (according to the game), but I still think if he was saved in time, he could survive. I just don't know what to do though. I really don't want him to die, but on the other hand, some sacrifices need to be made. What should I do?

note: If you disagree with my opinion about the ending, don't start bashing me or anything. If you have to, just ignore this post.

First: Don't get too far ahead of yourself. Assuming you're not planning on writing all of it before you start publishing, you've got a lot of time between ME1's beginning and ME3's end. There's a good chance that you'll change your mind a half dozen or more times on what's going to happen before you get there.

Second: If you want Anderson to live, have it make sense. There's enough magical handwaving around the ending as it is.

Third: It's your fic, write what you want. Have fun. Stop worrying. Worrying makes it stressful.

Fourth: We're not really bashy people here.

Edit: Oh this would be the top of page 300. Well, here's a party hat.  I'm going to go have another coffee.

Modifié par dpMeggers, 24 juillet 2013 - 01:39 .

[YurigirlzCrush]

*cheers* yay! Fluffy is here! and Dru, you are a terrible person for contributing in any way to Fluffy's stress. terrible. feel shame!

kidding of course. also Dru, I don't know what this stuff is about Shepard... I still expect you to write a fluff filled epic romance about Selura and Neela. I forbid you from writing anything else! *crosses arms* you can start it any day now! *grins*

oh. and meggers is absolutely right! caffene does very very weird things to me and makes me all fidgety and overly excitable. and you really, really, reallyreallyreally don't want to see me on an energy drink. i've been told they make me act truly insane. they certainly make me feel like my heart might leap out of my chest! *frowns* which is why I avoid them. but then I also come from a naturally hyper family. we're all crazy. *whistles innocently*

oh and also, yay for 300 pages! i'm a relative newcomer, but that's a lot and i'm happy to pop in from time to time and act like I belong among great writers *grins*

one last thing. is medigel supposed to be like a magic potion? slap it on there and flesh knits immediately? the game seemed to work it that way in play, but the codex info doesn't read like it works that way.

[feriwan]

dpMeggers wrote...

Second: If you want Anderson to live, have it make sense. There's enough magical handwaving around the ending as it is.

just to clarify, this is destroy high EMS

Well, I don't think it's that bad as it is, but I will sort of explain stuff the way I think it is (that's something that I sort of like doing - find an explanation for plot holes without actually changing anything big, or at all)
And all in all, I think Anderson suffered the same if not less damage than shepard.
cause look:
- damage from Harbinger: laser beam (Shepard), ??? (Anderson). Who knows, maybe he hid behind an overturned tank till after Harbinger left and didn't take any damage.
- shots: marauder shots (Shepard), Shepard's shot (Anderson). Usually, a rifle does more damage than a pistol (I think). They were both in non-critical areas, and maybe Shepard's shot was somewhat stopped (or completely stopped) by his armor (he does have his armor from the resistance on, and maybe they used more 'real' armor that doesn't use kinetic barriers)
- Citadel explosion: okay, we only know for sure that Shepard got an explosion in the face. The citadel exploding didn't necessarily do any damage to Shepard or Anderson. Benefit of the doubt:P

So I would then probably say he becomes unconcious near the end, and is found and healed.

One last thing - the memorial wall. He's on there, but they were still on the planet when they put that up, and thought he was dead. Liara almost put up Shepard, but felt something through her asari bond with him, while they just didn't know for Anderson.
I'm starting to think I should let him live.
Also, I wouldn't want to make Sanders cry...

[fluffywalrus]

feriwan wrote...

dpMeggers wrote...

Second: If you want Anderson to live, have it make sense. There's enough magical handwaving around the ending as it is.

just to clarify, this is destroy high EMS

Well, I don't think it's that bad as it is, but I will sort of explain stuff the way I think it is (that's something that I sort of like doing - find an explanation for plot holes without actually changing anything big, or at all)
And all in all, I think Anderson suffered the same if not less damage than shepard.
cause look:
- damage from Harbinger: laser beam (Shepard), ??? (Anderson). Who knows, maybe he hid behind an overturned tank till after Harbinger left and didn't take any damage.
- shots: marauder shots (Shepard), Shepard's shot (Anderson). Usually, a rifle does more damage than a pistol (I think). They were both in non-critical areas, and maybe Shepard's shot was somewhat stopped (or completely stopped) by his armor (he does have his armor from the resistance on, and maybe they used more 'real' armor that doesn't use kinetic barriers)
- Citadel explosion: okay, we only know for sure that Shepard got an explosion in the face. The citadel exploding didn't necessarily do any damage to Shepard or Anderson. Benefit of the doubt:P

So I would then probably say he becomes unconcious near the end, and is found and healed.

One last thing - the memorial wall. He's on there, but they were still on the planet when they put that up, and thought he was dead. Liara almost put up Shepard, but felt something through her asari bond with him, while they just didn't know for Anderson.
I'm starting to think I should let him live.
Also, I wouldn't want to make Sanders cry...

Honestly? Write a loose outline of what you want to happen, and if you want Anderson to live, write that in. Just let yourself be flexible as you work through the story, and when you get close enough to those events where his survival comes up, just write what you feel is appropriate, but don't worry too much about it until then. Stories change as you write them, what you want will change, so just stay flexible.

[Fatiguesdualism]

YurigirlzCrush wrote...

*snip*

one last thing. is medigel supposed to be like a magic potion? slap it on there and flesh knits immediately? the game seemed to work it that way in play, but the codex info doesn't read like it works that way.

This is going back a couple of months (page 280 around half-way down), but it may be of interest

Spiritwolf1 wrote...

http://www.stripes.c...romise-1.216687


Medi gel

But like you say, it's kind of a confusing creation.  Personally I'm thinking of going with large concentrated doses = nigh-magical potion, lower doses = roughly a sticky plaster?   But either way I use it as a temporary fix, otherwise why Doctor Chakwas?

PS - I apologise for being a bit negative around here of late.  No excuses, just I'm sorry.

Modifié par Fatiguesdualism, 24 juillet 2013 - 04:50 .

[MrStoob]

Page 300, yay!

Tsk, don't look too excited, Liara...




Where's the cake?

What?

This is a celebration.  You said there'd be cake.

But...

Cake!  Now!

*runs to cake shop*

Modifié par MrStoob, 24 juillet 2013 - 09:57 .

[feriwan]

Finally going to start.
Good thing I had this in mind and recorded my whole trilogy playthrough recently.
I'm watching the begginning to get some inspiration, and let me tell you... that song "Mass Effect Main Theme" really gets me ready for a huge adventure

[Seracen]

Man, when I joined the thread way back on page one, I had no idea it would be such a constant for me. Thank to everyone for sharing ideas, and rants.

To the newcomers: welcome, and best of luck on your journey!
To the mainstays: thanks again, I look forward to another 300 pages of epicness!

[MrStoob]

Seracen wrote...

Man, when I joined the thread way back on page one, I had no idea it would be such a constant for me. Thank to everyone for sharing ideas, and rants.

To the newcomers: welcome, and best of luck on your journey!
To the mainstays: thanks again, I look forward to another 300 pages of epicness!

+1

This is my little writing haven.  In RL, while I do have good friends, I don't really have anyone I can bounce my writing worries/ideas off.  So when I'm feeling a bit blocked or just feel like a rant about a scene or whatever, I know I can always come here.

Cheers, chaps!

Modifié par MrStoob, 25 juillet 2013 - 07:34 .

[MrStoob]

At what point does a person's tongue become so lodged in the cheek that it actually pops through?

My curious way of asking about cameos. I've a section coming up that I'm wondering is too much in the cameo line and what people think about that. Over about two or three chapts I'd being introducing Aria T'Loak, Vido Santiago, Zaeed Massani and Helena Blake back into the tale. Aria and Vido already have history with the Normandy crew, in my fic beyond what we see in the games/books so that's not too much of a stretch. I needed a human representative with questionable ties and thought that rather than an OC, Councillor Blake would be a good insert with her past. It also helps that she has had previous ties with Aria for this particular plot arc.

OCs are good and all but, do the group think that readers prefer something new, or like to see cameos of old faces? I do it quite often. For reference, Zaeed and Vido are some of the pirates that Liara encountered on her early digs and gave the Blue Suns their name, Aria taught Liara marksmanship when she got stuck on Omega when she was young, Vido is the one who sent Liara to Omega for the Broker, things like that. Why use an OC when there's already a character there? Yes, yes, I know, I've convinced myself already lol.

[fluffywalrus]

MrStoob wrote...

Seracen wrote...

Man, when I joined the thread way back on page one, I had no idea it would be such a constant for me. Thank to everyone for sharing ideas, and rants.

To the newcomers: welcome, and best of luck on your journey!
To the mainstays: thanks again, I look forward to another 300 pages of epicness!

+1

This is my little writing haven.  In RL, while I do have good friends, I don't really have anyone I can bounce my writing worries/ideas off.  So when I'm feeling a bit blocked or just feel like a rant about a scene or whatever, I know I can always come here.

Cheers, chaps!

Haha, isn't that the truth. All the friends I've told about my writing have given me weird looks at bed, or have teased and made fun of my hobby So this place is a pretty nice hangout to bounce ideas or to vent, if I ever need to. Wild to think we've done 300 posts in just a little over a year.

[MrStoob]

fluffywalrus wrote...

MrStoob wrote...

Seracen wrote...

Man, when I joined the thread way back on page one, I had no idea it would be such a constant for me. Thank to everyone for sharing ideas, and rants.

To the newcomers: welcome, and best of luck on your journey!
To the mainstays: thanks again, I look forward to another 300 pages of epicness!

+1

This is my little writing haven.  In RL, while I do have good friends, I don't really have anyone I can bounce my writing worries/ideas off.  So when I'm feeling a bit blocked or just feel like a rant about a scene or whatever, I know I can always come here.

Cheers, chaps!

Haha, isn't that the truth. All the friends I've told about my writing have given me weird looks at bed, or have teased and made fun of my hobby So this place is a pretty nice hangout to bounce ideas or to vent, if I ever need to. Wild to think we've done 300 posts in just a little over a year.

Don't.  I share a house with a friend (we're both guys) and he's a big reader (mainly sci-fi but he loves his historical stuff too) and has even played the ME series but he didn't really get into the whole character side of things though. "It's a game." he says, as though that nullifies all creativity.  I rarely read to be honest (strange, I know) and he just couldn't understand that despite this, I'd started writing and even more, got favourable noises from the readers about it.  I'm also quite reserved and don't do touchy feely huggy sobby in real life, but my fic is crammed with it, which he has read a lot into but I honestly don't.  Another friend (all my friends are complete bastards) spent our evening in the pub introducing me facetiously as a writer after I told him.  "Did you know Stoob's a writer?" he'd say.  The ****.  I've had all the Stewie Griffin "that book you're writing" lines.

[MrStoob]

I've been asked about good places to upload original sci-fi work for decent feed back and whatnot. I've only been in the FF world, so I've no idea myself. Anyone got any recommendations?

[Tracer01]

MrStoob wrote...

I've been asked about good places to upload original sci-fi work for decent feed back and whatnot. I've only been in the FF world, so I've no idea myself. Anyone got any recommendations?

I'm the one who asked MrStoob about it. In fact, I'm sill learning English and my grammar still requires improvement. I can upload this in blog here in BSN if anybody  interested.

The only connection with Mass Effect Universe this work got - it is romantic relationship between ship's CO and one of the engineers.

[Seracen]

@ MrStoob: I sometimes prefer using previously established characters if I can. Mainly, it is b/c the brunt of the work has been done for me. I am simply focusing my story through a pre-established lens.

If I can create a compelling OC, I use them as well. Still, the more characters I use, the more diluted the impact of those characters. Case in point, my removal of a character from the story gave 4 other characters more to do (dividing the OC's work amongst them), thus making them more important.

That's not to say I didn't add characters where it fit and worked, however.



@ Tracer01: I beleive fictionpress is fanfiction's sister site for original works. There's also "archive of our own" but it's invite only. I am still waiting on mine to be considered.

I'm not holding my breathe, so I created an account on deviant art as well.



@ fluffywalrus: I submit this to any who try to belittle any form of entertainment vs another...

http://www.escapistm...RTARTARTARTFART

I have told people about my writing.  I couch it in terms of a hobby.  It isn't like I intend to get rich off this.

The writers who feel pretentious, as if they are owed that "break," are the ones that ruin it for the rest of us.  These are the ones that expect to have their story become a multimillion dollar movie.

I posit that any who ridicule others for their hobbies should have their opinions ignored. It's for fun, and one hobby is just as valid as any other, so long as it isn't causing harm to anyone else.

Modifié par Seracen, 25 juillet 2013 - 07:19 .

[Tracer01]

@Seracen

I created an account on fictionpress-dot-com, thank you.

[MrStoob]

Seracen wrote...
@ fluffywalrus: I submit this to any who try to belittle any form of entertainment vs another...

http://www.escapistm...RTARTARTARTFART

I have told people about my writing.  I couch it in terms of a hobby.  It isn't like I intend to get rich off this.

The writers who feel pretentious, as if they are owed that "break," are the ones that ruin it for the rest of us.  These are the ones that expect to have their story become a multimillion dollar movie.

I posit that any who ridicule others for their hobbies should have their opinions ignored. It's for fun, and one hobby is just as valid as any other, so long as it isn't causing harm to anyone else.

Be that as it may, in my experience, ANY form of fan fiction, whether based on a video game or a movie franchise or comic, TV, scripts, etc, is usually treated with some derision.  It's all about being, what we call in the UK, an 'anorak', derived from the train spotters' all weather 'uniform' haha.  Sometimes when I have discussed ME plot lines and suchlike with my house mate, he's been like "How the hell do you remember all this crap?"  And I'm like, well I have to!  It's a harsh audience.  Woe betide the FF writer who gets canon lore wrong when it's not established as 'AU'.

[Seracen]

@ Tracer01: most welcome!

@ Mr.Stoob: yeah, I hear you. It sucks, ff writers really do get a bad rep. I generally couch my stuff in terms of writing in general, inspired by other works, of course.

It probably helps that most of my peers have similar interests. Also, I have original, as well as derivative, works.

Although I will say, keeping track of stuff, and being enamored by, such fandoms are no different from being a comic geek, D&D fan, or a sports fan who plays Fantasy Leagues.

Unfortunately, the stigma varies in all these things. Yet I can see the trends shifting. Already, popular culture is shifting to cater to tastes such as ours'. Here's hoping the "Age of the Geek" allows us all to understand and grow as people.

[MrStoob]

Seracen wrote...
 a comic geek, D&D fan, or a sports fan who plays Fantasy Leagues.

Ha, at some stage or other, ticked all those boxes.  It's all down to lists, number crunching, cataloguing, tables of data, and all that autistic stuff us nerds are on the verge of on the asperges scale.  

[Ignis Mors]

MrStoob wrote...

Seracen wrote...
@ fluffywalrus: I submit this to any who try to belittle any form of entertainment vs another...

http://www.escapistm...RTARTARTARTFART

I have told people about my writing.  I couch it in terms of a hobby.  It isn't like I intend to get rich off this.

The writers who feel pretentious, as if they are owed that "break," are the ones that ruin it for the rest of us.  These are the ones that expect to have their story become a multimillion dollar movie.

I posit that any who ridicule others for their hobbies should have their opinions ignored. It's for fun, and one hobby is just as valid as any other, so long as it isn't causing harm to anyone else.

Be that as it may, in my experience, ANY form of fan fiction, whether based on a video game or a movie franchise or comic, TV, scripts, etc, is usually treated with some derision.  It's all about being, what we call in the UK, an 'anorak', derived from the train spotters' all weather 'uniform' haha.  Sometimes when I have discussed ME plot lines and suchlike with my house mate, he's been like "How the hell do you remember all this crap?"  And I'm like, well I have to!  It's a harsh audience.  Woe betide the FF writer who gets canon lore wrong when it's not established as 'AU'.

Yeah, I think I slightly messed up the lore early on, but my stuff is very, very AU.(It tends to go more mystical than ME went. My secondary ME fic is going to be especially guilty of that.)

[MeredithvL]

Well! I came rather late to this thread, but hello everyone, I'm Meredith

To be honest with you people, before Mass Effect 3 I hadn't read or written much fan fiction. I did write some G.I. Joe (the cartoon) and V (you know, the series in the '80, and yes, I'm revealing my age) fan fiction but internet didn't exist back at the time so I didn't post that anywhere, and didn't have the chance to read any fanfic related to those universes.

What motivated me to read and write fanfic again is... yes, you guessed right, the ending of Mass Effect 3. I loved the first two games, and I even loved the third game, until the fatal last 15 minutes. Being a hardcore fan as I am, I played the game when it was first released, before the Extended Cut, and I just couldn't accept the ending. I was (and still am!) in full denial. But this time internet had to have the answer, and it did! I saw the videos about the Indoctrination Theory, and came up with my own theory, and started writing about it. A year and I don't know how many months later, I'm still writing that story, and others Mass Effect related.

[MrStoob]

MeredithvL wrote...

Well! I came rather late to this thread, but hello everyone, I'm Meredith

To be honest with you people, before Mass Effect 3 I hadn't read or written much fan fiction. I did write some G.I. Joe (the cartoon) and V (you know, the series in the '80, and yes, I'm revealing my age) fan fiction but internet didn't exist back at the time so I didn't post that anywhere, and didn't have the chance to read any fanfic related to those universes.

What motivated me to read and write fanfic again is... yes, you guessed right, the ending of Mass Effect 3. I loved the first two games, and I even loved the third game, until the fatal last 15 minutes. Being a hardcore fan as I am, I played the game when it was first released, before the Extended Cut, and I just couldn't accept the ending. I was (and still am!) in full denial. But this time internet had to have the answer, and it did! I saw the videos about the Indoctrination Theory, and came up with my own theory, and started writing about it. A year and I don't know how many months later, I'm still writing that story, and others Mass Effect related.

Welcome!  'V' eh?  That was quite a phenomenom at the time, though rather dated looking now (BIG HAIR!).  The scene with the 'baby' being born makes me laugh every time.  I can see how there's plenty of characters and room for personal slant in V for fan fiction.  My FF life started here with ME, though I've had a stab at some Skyrim stuff as well since starting.

[MeredithvL]

MrStoob wrote...

Welcome!  'V' eh?  That was quite a phenomenom at the time, though rather dated looking now (BIG HAIR!).  The scene with the 'baby' being born makes me laugh every time.  I can see how there's plenty of characters and room for personal slant in V for fan fiction.  My FF life started here with ME, though I've had a stab at some Skyrim stuff as well since starting.

Thank you!

Yes, when 'V' was popular I was, I don't know, 8 or 9 years old, I literally had to BEG to my parents to let me watch it. Of course, I watched it again many times after that (and understood things that weren't quite clear for me the first time I watched the series).
My fanfic about 'V' was after the ending, you know, when Elizabeth and Kyle leave with the alien leader. In my story, it was a trap, and the leader just wanted to study Elizabeth to find out why did she have strange powers, and find the way to turn those powers into a weapon and eventually create an army out of that. And from there I started, I wrote many chapters but I don't know if I kept a copy. In that scenario, of course, Diana not only wasn't judged, but was commended as a war hero by the aliens. Eventually, this situation made Lydia utterly afraid of Diana because she was the one who had exposed her. At that point, Phyllip decided to capitalize Lydia's fear, offering his protection in exchange for some services, effectively turning Lydia to the dissident movement but without her knowledge.
And sorry for the long tale about 'V' here in this Mass Effect forum.

[Seracen]

MeredithvL wrote...

Well! I came rather late to this thread, but hello everyone, I'm Meredith

To be honest with you people, before Mass Effect 3 I hadn't read or written much fan fiction. I did write some G.I. Joe (the cartoon) and V (you know, the series in the '80, and yes, I'm revealing my age) fan fiction but internet didn't exist back at the time so I didn't post that anywhere, and didn't have the chance to read any fanfic related to those universes.

What motivated me to read and write fanfic again is... yes, you guessed right, the ending of Mass Effect 3. I loved the first two games, and I even loved the third game, until the fatal last 15 minutes. Being a hardcore fan as I am, I played the game when it was first released, before the Extended Cut, and I just couldn't accept the ending. I was (and still am!) in full denial. But this time internet had to have the answer, and it did! I saw the videos about the Indoctrination Theory, and came up with my own theory, and started writing about it. A year and I don't know how many months later, I'm still writing that story, and others Mass Effect related.

Welcome!  I'd been writing on and off since I started high school.  Eventually, FF7 is what caused me to dive into Fanfiction (although I'd done a few works based on anime before).

Mass Effect 3 brought me back to it.  Hope you have fun in the fanfic trenches!

Never did see the original V, or the reboot.  Will certainly have to see the reboot at some point.

[enayasoul]

MeredithvL wrote...

MrStoob wrote...

Welcome!  'V' eh?  That was quite a phenomenom at the time, though rather dated looking now (BIG HAIR!).  The scene with the 'baby' being born makes me laugh every time.  I can see how there's plenty of characters and room for personal slant in V for fan fiction.  My FF life started here with ME, though I've had a stab at some Skyrim stuff as well since starting.

Thank you!

Yes, when 'V' was popular I was, I don't know, 8 or 9 years old, I literally had to BEG to my parents to let me watch it. Of course, I watched it again many times after that (and understood things that weren't quite clear for me the first time I watched the series).
My fanfic about 'V' was after the ending, you know, when Elizabeth and Kyle leave with the alien leader. In my story, it was a trap, and the leader just wanted to study Elizabeth to find out why did she have strange powers, and find the way to turn those powers into a weapon and eventually create an army out of that. And from there I started, I wrote many chapters but I don't know if I kept a copy. In that scenario, of course, Diana not only wasn't judged, but was commended as a war hero by the aliens. Eventually, this situation made Lydia utterly afraid of Diana because she was the one who had exposed her. At that point, Phyllip decided to capitalize Lydia's fear, offering his protection in exchange for some services, effectively turning Lydia to the dissident movement but without her knowledge.
And sorry for the long tale about 'V' here in this Mass Effect forum.

Welcome to the group!   I also remember when "V" aired back in the 80's... my parents let me watch it.  Mother is a big scifi like me.  Aliens whatever... love it.  She loved godzilla...   So anyways, when "V" came back recently I was overjoyed until ABC cancelled it. Argh!  It was great to see Diana again reprising her role in a way.

I look forward to reading some of your work.