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New year, New Journal!
Tuesday, 10 January 2012 08:09 amI know, I know, I should have posted this back on the first. Well, we're only one digit out, correct? Therefore:
belated
Happy New Year!
Haha. OK, time for a proper post. We'll start with my current project: Memento Mori.
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Hesger was once a gem of the Outer Rim; a young colony on a small forest world, important for its scientific prowess, and popular among holidaymakers for its beautiful scenery and health spas.
...all that was before the arrival of Hesgeri haemorrhagic fever, affectionately known as heff. Released accidentally by one of the teams researching a cure, the bioweapon ravages the population, in only a few years killing all but a handful of mutilated survivors, calling themselves “blights”. Under a self-imposed planetwide quarantine, the technological revolution collapses, and the cities grow derelict, with even electricity and running water turning into nothing but a distant memory.
It is on this abandoned world that Blink, a lovelorn robot girl trying to find a place to belong, finds herself; abducted, dumped and stranded, after a failed attempt to break into the mysterious Kust Institute of Science. With a future that looks pretty bleak, a dying cross-dimensional being “gifts” her with a new, biological body – a gift that is meant to help her survive, but feels more like a curse.
Blink must now come to terms not just with her new body and newfound mortality, but also that she may be trapped on this world for the rest of her life, with no way to even tell her family what has happened, and in constant danger from those who... don't precisely have her best interests in mind. Perhaps most importantly, however, she and her new friends must figure out the hidden extra that came with Frond's unwanted gift – a hidden extra that might just save the planet.
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I've got to what I think is about the halfway point (or maybe just over?) of "Memento Mori", so to make it a little easier to read than force people to click through each individual chapter on LJ, I've uploaded it as a PDF. If you click the little picture here, it should link to it. (It's just over 2Mb, and about 80k words. Should download fairly quickly.)
NB this is the first draft, so it's somewhat rough. Readable (I hope), but there's likely quite a few typos, flubs and dangling modifiers etc in it. ^_^
I am still going to be uploading the individual chapters to the Memento Mori LJ as I go, if anyone is interested in following along from there. Comments/critique/useful nitpickery welcome. :)
...I need to get me some icons. ¬_¬
(Lastly, I am of course quite amused by the fact that the skin I'm using on my dashboard is "Celerity". Come on, I had to.)
Edit: Where did these character flubs come from?
Happy New Year!
Haha. OK, time for a proper post. We'll start with my current project: Memento Mori.
Hesger was once a gem of the Outer Rim; a young colony on a small forest world, important for its scientific prowess, and popular among holidaymakers for its beautiful scenery and health spas.
...all that was before the arrival of Hesgeri haemorrhagic fever, affectionately known as heff. Released accidentally by one of the teams researching a cure, the bioweapon ravages the population, in only a few years killing all but a handful of mutilated survivors, calling themselves “blights”. Under a self-imposed planetwide quarantine, the technological revolution collapses, and the cities grow derelict, with even electricity and running water turning into nothing but a distant memory.
It is on this abandoned world that Blink, a lovelorn robot girl trying to find a place to belong, finds herself; abducted, dumped and stranded, after a failed attempt to break into the mysterious Kust Institute of Science. With a future that looks pretty bleak, a dying cross-dimensional being “gifts” her with a new, biological body – a gift that is meant to help her survive, but feels more like a curse.
Blink must now come to terms not just with her new body and newfound mortality, but also that she may be trapped on this world for the rest of her life, with no way to even tell her family what has happened, and in constant danger from those who... don't precisely have her best interests in mind. Perhaps most importantly, however, she and her new friends must figure out the hidden extra that came with Frond's unwanted gift – a hidden extra that might just save the planet.
I've got to what I think is about the halfway point (or maybe just over?) of "Memento Mori", so to make it a little easier to read than force people to click through each individual chapter on LJ, I've uploaded it as a PDF. If you click the little picture here, it should link to it. (It's just over 2Mb, and about 80k words. Should download fairly quickly.)NB this is the first draft, so it's somewhat rough. Readable (I hope), but there's likely quite a few typos, flubs and dangling modifiers etc in it. ^_^
I am still going to be uploading the individual chapters to the Memento Mori LJ as I go, if anyone is interested in following along from there. Comments/critique/useful nitpickery welcome. :)
...I need to get me some icons. ¬_¬
(Lastly, I am of course quite amused by the fact that the skin I'm using on my dashboard is "Celerity". Come on, I had to.)
Edit: Where did these character flubs come from?
