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[Sialater]

Drussius wrote...

Sialater wrote...

Ursakar wrote...

Icyflare wrote...

There's generally not a lot of info on the Blitz itself, so it's possible that maybe Shepard had been on Elysium along with other recruits to blow off steam.  Or maybe, s/he wasn't in the ground forces when it occured. The codex does also mention that Alliance ships were fighting off the batarian ones above Elysium, so maybe Shepard had been one of those ships instead, like Pressley, if s/he is not a War Hero.

Or simply Bioware writers were too lazy to come up with three different dialogs.

Given some of the other crap in ME3, I'd say that would be the answer.

No, I think all Shepards played a part in the Blitz. Having played through ME 3 three times with three different characters, I can say that if the scene you're talking about is the one I'm thinking of, Joker says something about Shepard being under more stress than during the Blitz, and then adds a line that varies depending on your service history, whether it be referencing Elysium, Akuze or Torfan.

Um... the Blitz IS Elysium.  Torfan was the Alliance's response to the Skyllian Blitz.  The sole survivor had absolutely NOTHING to do with either of these events.

Modifié par Sialater, 18 juin 2012 - 05:14 .

[Fortlowe]

Where can I find more info on the Blitz? The character in my story is a grzzled veteran of that campaign, and a secret operation after, and well, I just don't have a lot of info on it. I don't mind making up the details, but having a source of info (who, what, when, where, why, how) that is canon, would lend more credibility to the story I think.

[dpMeggers]

Re: Joker's comments about the Blitz

I guessed it was a situation like Conrad Verner in ME2 claiming that you shoved a gun in his face regardless of what actually happened in ME1. Stuff got recorded and programmed to reflect what happened and then somewhere along the line it got lost and Dr. Verner winds up on Illium pretending to be a badass regardless. Or the Gabby/Ken dialogues which only pop up if Ashley survived and you're on good terms with each other.

Presumably there is a Joker recording for each of the service histories that is meant to reflect the service history of your Shepard...but it got lost/bugged somewhere. That being said, it's not entirely unreasonable for all Shepards to have witnessed/participated in the Blitz. The War Hero is obvious, but the Sole Survivor or the Ruthless Shepards could have been part of the fleet which took out the pirates, or could have participated in rebuilding efforts afterwards. The part that doesn't make sense is that this is the most stressed they've ever been. No doubt Akuze or Torfan were more stressful.

[noxiuniversitas1]

fluffywalrus wrote...

That's one thing I'm kind of curious about.

Do any of you need music to write? Or simply listen to music while writing just because you can(and because music is awesome)? If so, what kind? What musicians? Any weird quirks or habits when you're listening to music and writing?

I'd say about a third of the time I'm typing in solence, but the other two thirds I'm listening to music. I've got different writing playlists set up because I find it hard to write a happy scene when something full of dread like The Dead Flag Blues comes on. Much like I couldn't write a depressing scene if the Beach Boys were playing Music totally affects my mood and I need to my synchronized, I guess.

I generally can't write to songs with vocals that are pushed to the front of the mix...too hard to hear myself think.  I generally listen to more ambient or instrumental stuff like Eluvium, Explosions in the Sky, Max Richter, Deaf Center, and the oh so wonderful Clint Mansell when I'm writing so I can talk aimlessly about what I'm doing or thinking without getting interrupted. Sometimes I dip into jazz or 'classical' too, when I get that kind of feel for a scene. Not often, though. Not yet, at least.

All the jokes about the female capacity to multi-task aside, I usually find I have to concentrate fully on one thing. In fact the only time I can really listen to music is when I'm driving... I don't even listen when I'm cycling to work or on a leisure ride.

There are exceptions, though... but even then the most background music I've been able to get away with while reading / writing is classical music. There are some pieces like Vivaldi's La Serenissima (Concerto VI RV 526) (oft-overlooked compared to his other works like The Four Seasons), Schubert's Trout Quintent Finale and Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 5 in F Major Op24 which I really enjoy when writing the "fluffier" pieces.

Anyway, yeah, I know I have a really boring taste in music, but if you're interested, I find Schubert's String Quartet No.13 in A Minor, Mozart's Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Concerto No.1 in D Major (Horn & Orchestra), Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, Double Concerto in D Minor and pretty much all of Rachmaninoff very good for background.

And it's really cliche and perhaps a bit odd, but if I need inspiration for more sombre scenes, I find Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata helps.

None of the recordings really do the pieces justice... you have to get the CD recordings if you're really interested.

[dpMeggers]

Fortlowe wrote...

Where can I find more info on the Blitz? The character in my story is a grzzled veteran of that campaign, and a secret operation after, and well, I just don't have a lot of info on it. I don't mind making up the details, but having a source of info (who, what, when, where, why, how) that is canon, would lend more credibility to the story I think.

Here for the Blitz. Here for the mastermind. Here for Elysium itself.

That's sort of all we know. I have a little of what may have happened in Chapter 12 of Conversation in a Bar but that's pure speculation on my part.

[Drussius]

Sialater wrote...

Um... the Blitz IS Elysium.  Torfan was the Alliance's response to the Skyllian Blitz.  The sole survivor had absolutely NOTHING to do with either of these events.

Actually, if I remember correctly, the Blitz was a series of attacks out of the terminus systems that CULMINATED in the attack on Elysium. In ME1, regardless of your service history, there's that one pirate with the probe on some random planet that mentions that he was the leader of the forces involved in the Blitz, and you (as Shepard) were responsible for the Blitz failing and him falling from power.

I may be mixing up where the War Hero thing took place though. I thought it was Elysium, but it could have been elsewhere. But I've definitely heard several different dialogues in that scene depending on which character I played.

[lillitheris]

Drussius wrote...

And now a question for FF.net publishers:

Am I going to need a special program to publish my stories there once I get enough written to start putting it up for people to see?

As was mentioned, LibreOffice/Word .doc files work fine, as I believe do .rtf. The formatting that FFN actually supports is really limited, there’s not even a good section marker…

I personally write in Markdown, which is just a simple notation format that looks reasonable in plain text and can be automatically converted into HTML.

[Theodoro]

fluffywalrus wrote...

That's one thing I'm kind of curious about.

Do any of you need music to write? Or simply listen to music while writing just because you can(and because music is awesome)? If so, what kind? What musicians? Any weird quirks or habits when you're listening to music and writing?

I usually only have instrumental music in the background when I'm writing, and more often than not I find myself listening Mass Effect's soundtrack. Anything with vocals gets me distracted; classical music, as people have pointed out already, works for me really well, too. I particularly enjoy Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. Such an inspirational and relaxing piece of music that sets the mood for writing perfectly - at least for me.

Modifié par Theodoro, 18 juin 2012 - 05:35 .

[Drussius]

Ah. Thank you for the links, Meggers. I was definitely mixing things up a bit. But it's been over a year since I last played ME1. It was him trying to grab power by killing a Spectre, not the one responsible for his woes. My facts were mixed up. But my other point I am still sure about. Everyone gets the line about the Blitz. The second part varies by service history. I am positive Joker mentioned Akuze there in one of my playthroughs, and Torfan in another.

[noxiuniversitas1]

Theodoro wrote...

I usually only have instrumental music in the background when I'm writing, and more often than not I find myself listening Mass Effect's soundtrack. Anything with vocals gets me distracted; classical music, as people have pointed out already, works for me really well, too. I particularly enjoy Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. Such an inspirational and relaxing piece of music that sets the mood for writing perfectly - at least for me.

Thank you for posting that, Theo; I used to have it in my library but lost it somehow... haven't listened to it in way too long!

[Theodoro]

noxiuniversitas1 wrote...
Thank you for posting that, Theo; I used to have it in my library but lost it somehow... haven't listened to it in way too long!

No problem - thank you for your own suggestions, those are beautiful pieces that I remember listening to at some point or another, but I always have a tendency to forget their names and I can't find them on the Internet afterwards...

[Sialater]

Drussius wrote...

Sialater wrote...

Um... the Blitz IS Elysium.  Torfan was the Alliance's response to the Skyllian Blitz.  The sole survivor had absolutely NOTHING to do with either of these events.

Actually, if I remember correctly, the Blitz was a series of attacks out of the terminus systems that CULMINATED in the attack on Elysium. In ME1, regardless of your service history, there's that one pirate with the probe on some random planet that mentions that he was the leader of the forces involved in the Blitz, and you (as Shepard) were responsible for the Blitz failing and him falling from power.

I may be mixing up where the War Hero thing took place though. I thought it was Elysium, but it could have been elsewhere. But I've definitely heard several different dialogues in that scene depending on which character I played.

My SS gets an entirely different dialogue on Agebinium than my War Hero.  What's his face has never heard of my SS Shepard.

[Drussius]

Sialater wrote...

Drussius wrote...

Sialater wrote...

Um... the Blitz IS Elysium.  Torfan was the Alliance's response to the Skyllian Blitz.  The sole survivor had absolutely NOTHING to do with either of these events.

Actually, if I remember correctly, the Blitz was a series of attacks out of the terminus systems that CULMINATED in the attack on Elysium. In ME1, regardless of your service history, there's that one pirate with the probe on some random planet that mentions that he was the leader of the forces involved in the Blitz, and you (as Shepard) were responsible for the Blitz failing and him falling from power.

I may be mixing up where the War Hero thing took place though. I thought it was Elysium, but it could have been elsewhere. But I've definitely heard several different dialogues in that scene depending on which character I played.

My SS gets an entirely different dialogue on Agebinium than my War Hero.  What's his face has never heard of my SS Shepard.

I know. See my post 3-4 up. I was mixing things up because it's been a while since I played ME1. Right scene, wrong motivation for the pirate's vengeance on Shepard. Meggers posted links to the wiki that cleared the whole thing up.

[lillitheris]

I ate way too many brownies yesterday

[fluffywalrus]

lillitheris wrote...

I ate way too many brownies yesterday

No such thing as too many brownies
I kind of ave a yearning for them, but my oatmeal raisin cookies will have to tide me over:unsure:

[dpMeggers]

fluffywalrus wrote...

lillitheris wrote...

I ate way too many brownies yesterday

No such thing as too many brownies
I kind of ave a yearning for them, but my oatmeal raisin cookies will have to tide me over:unsure:

Y'all are making me hungry.

[fluffywalrus]

noxiuniversitas1 wrote...

fluffywalrus wrote...

That's one thing I'm kind of curious about.

Do any of you need music to write? Or simply listen to music while writing just because you can(and because music is awesome)? If so, what kind? What musicians? Any weird quirks or habits when you're listening to music and writing?

I'd say about a third of the time I'm typing in solence, but the other two thirds I'm listening to music. I've got different writing playlists set up because I find it hard to write a happy scene when something full of dread like The Dead Flag Blues comes on. Much like I couldn't write a depressing scene if the Beach Boys were playing Music totally affects my mood and I need to my synchronized, I guess.

I generally can't write to songs with vocals that are pushed to the front of the mix...too hard to hear myself think.  I generally listen to more ambient or instrumental stuff like Eluvium, Explosions in the Sky, Max Richter, Deaf Center, and the oh so wonderful Clint Mansell when I'm writing so I can talk aimlessly about what I'm doing or thinking without getting interrupted. Sometimes I dip into jazz or 'classical' too, when I get that kind of feel for a scene. Not often, though. Not yet, at least.

All the jokes about the female capacity to multi-task aside, I usually find I have to concentrate fully on one thing. In fact the only time I can really listen to music is when I'm driving... I don't even listen when I'm cycling to work or on a leisure ride.

There are exceptions, though... but even then the most background music I've been able to get away with while reading / writing is classical music. There are some pieces like Vivaldi's La Serenissima (Concerto VI RV 526) (oft-overlooked compared to his other works like The Four Seasons), Schubert's Trout Quintent Finale and Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 5 in F Major Op24 which I really enjoy when writing the "fluffier" pieces.

Anyway, yeah, I know I have a really boring taste in music, but if you're interested, I find Schubert's String Quartet No.13 in A Minor, Mozart's Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Concerto No.1 in D Major (Horn & Orchestra), Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, Double Concerto in D Minor and pretty much all of Rachmaninoff very good for background.

And it's really cliche and perhaps a bit odd, but if I need inspiration for more sombre scenes, I find Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata helps.

None of the recordings really do the pieces justice... you have to get the CD recordings if you're really interested.

Ooooh, I've often heard Schubert is a good listen. Perhaps I'll have to dive into his works sometime.
I can't say I listen to classical THAT often, perhaps once or twice a month,often some Brahms(whose Violin Concerto and Piano Quartet No.3 I'm uncharacteristically big fans of). I've never been too into classical...it usually sounds real nice, but I often forget what's what, with the exception of a few that are drilled into pop culture, and a few that I'm incredibly fond of.

[hot_heart]

I have it on good authority that the Adagio Movement of Nielsen's Fifth is remarkable.

[flippedeclipse]

fluffywalrus wrote...

That's one thing I'm kind of curious about.

Do any of you need music to write? Or simply listen to music while writing just because you can(and because music is awesome)? If so, what kind? What musicians? Any weird quirks or habits when you're listening to music and writing?

Honestly, I can't write without it. When I have an idea for something first thing I'll do is pick out a song with lyrics that fits the mood I want, then listen to that ten or so times. Then I leave it on repeat in iTunes, turn the volume down, and type away. I'm a pretty slow writer, so sometimes I'll end up with 200+ plays for one song by the time I finish a one-shot. Gets kinda problematic for chaptered stories; Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is 'the song' for my current fic and it has over 3000 plays already, it's getting kind of annoying

As for the type of music, depends on the mood really but I usually prefer acoustic versions with lyrics.

[fainmaca]

fluffywalrus wrote...

That's one thing I'm kind of curious about.

Do any of you need music to write? Or simply listen to music while writing just because you can(and because music is awesome)? If so, what kind? What musicians? Any weird quirks or habits when you're listening to music and writing?

I'd say about a third of the time I'm typing in solence, but the other two thirds I'm listening to music. I've got different writing playlists set up because I find it hard to write a happy scene when something full of dread like The Dead Flag Blues comes on. Much like I couldn't write a depressing scene if the Beach Boys were playing Music totally affects my mood and I need to my synchronized, I guess.

I generally can't write to songs with vocals that are pushed to the front of the mix...too hard to hear myself think.  I generally listen to more ambient or instrumental stuff like Eluvium, Explosions in the Sky, Max Richter, Deaf Center, and the oh so wonderful Clint Mansell when I'm writing so I can talk aimlessly about what I'm doing or thinking without getting interrupted. Sometimes I dip into jazz or 'classical' too, when I get that kind of feel for a scene. Not often, though. Not yet, at least.

And as an aside, one thing that confuses me about Shepard's past is her involvement in the Skyllian Blitz. Joker basically states Shep had some inolvement in the Blitz after the ME3 Thessia mission(makes remarks about her biometrics or whatnot).
Now, that's stated in the gane, but none of the characterrs I've run through ME3 were "War hero" templates, who were active in the Blitz.

Does this mean that no matter what, Shepard was on Elysium, and perhaps just wasn't the "Hero"?

I find a playlist on Youtube, and let that play through while I write. It always has to be a mix of Two Steps Fromm Hell, Audiomachine, Future World Music, that kind of thing. No words, faux latin chanting at the most. It helps me feel the scene, and I don't have the distraction of lyrics to interfere.

On another note, I've just broken out of a huge funk I'd got myself into after ME3. I got seriously down, and my writing really suffered. I've been on the same mission for two months now, when I used to have a schedule of a mission a week. But as I was walking out and about today, my mind went back to ME2, to a certain scene with a certain scientist Salarian talking about his nephew. It kind of inspired a new train of thought in my brain that went thus:
'It's hard to care about anything that happens in ME3, really, because it all deals with civilisations, nations, planets. Stuff we can't really conceptualise. How do we really picture the entirety of Earth being lost? But ME2, that gave us individuals to worry about. We loved, we hated, we argued, we agreed. And in the end what happened to these people mattered to us on a very personal level. So really, why should I let what Bioware made happen to an unrelatable Galaxy stop me from writing about the crew, the squad, the characters that I care for so much?'

'Can't anthropomorphise Galaxy but... can think of favourite characters. Writing for them.'

I'm going to write this story, no matter how grim the reality of the franchise gets!

Just wanted to get that off my chest. I'm back on form again!

[lillitheris]

Good on you!

[hot_heart]

fainmaca wrote...
'Can't anthropomorphise Galaxy but... can think of favourite characters. Writing for them.'

I'm going to write this story, no matter how grim the reality of the franchise gets!

Just wanted to get that off my chest. I'm back on form again!

Ha. That's exactly what got me writing.

Glad to hear it!

[Obsidian Gryphon]

fluffywalrus wrote...

That's one thing I'm kind of curious about.

Do any of you need music to write? Or simply listen to music while writing just because you can(and because music is awesome)? If so, what kind? What musicians? Any weird quirks or habits when you're listening to music and writing?

No. I'll be distracted if I listen to music while attempting to write. Mind goes completely blank / daydream about other than the subject I want to concentrate on.Music for me = relxing / exercising.

[PMC65]

flippedeclipse wrote...

fluffywalrus wrote...

That's one thing I'm kind of curious about.

Do any of you need music to write? Or simply listen to music while writing just because you can(and because music is awesome)? If so, what kind? What musicians? Any weird quirks or habits when you're listening to music and writing?

Honestly, I can't write without it. When I have an idea for something first thing I'll do is pick out a song with lyrics that fits the mood I want, then listen to that ten or so times. Then I leave it on repeat in iTunes, turn the volume down, and type away. I'm a pretty slow writer, so sometimes I'll end up with 200+ plays for one song by the time I finish a one-shot. Gets kinda problematic for chaptered stories; Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is 'the song' for my current fic and it has over 3000 plays already, it's getting kind of annoying

As for the type of music, depends on the mood really but I usually prefer acoustic versions with lyrics.

Johnny Cash's version of Hurt was the song that finally made me connect to Garrus. I've never cared for that character (not hate or love) and when starting to add him in the story it was a struggle to hear his voice. That song was one of the key things that started our dialogues ... I know that some see him as batman but for me he came alive as a Doc Holliday.

Characters do have a way of music following them in my head ... Joker chapters are Creedence Clearwater Revival, Kaidan is Deep Forest, Pressly is Charlie Rich ... so on. 

Music is important during the creative process but once I start writing the room becomes a silent room. 

Now when I hit a wall while thinking of a ME related story my WWII music collection is pulled out and played. That always helps me move my head back into EW Shepard's world.

[Drussius]

General question time:

Was it ever mentioned anywhere what color Asari blood is? What about Salarian?

I found some of the information I wanted on Terra Nova and the asteroid that now orbits it after ME1, but was any description ever given of the planet itself? Landscape, temperature, stuff like that?

Feros has a colony on it, obviously, but what about the rest of the planet? Is it ever mentioned whether it was settled or not other than Zhu's Hope? You'd think a planet full of Prothean ruins would be crawling with scientists at least...

I'm bound to come up with more, but these are just a few things I've been trying to find info on and haven't had any luck with. Anyone have any information on them?