Windchaser

( Le FAKE CUT to Adverse Camber, chapter the fifteenth! )

Haaahaha looking forward to going home TO BED now. ONLY THREE HOURS TO GO
*fallover*
*splat*

AND IT BEGINSSSS WAHAHA.

Adverse Camber, Chapter the first!

3938 words (ok I added a couple of extra words after I counted it, while I was HTML'ing for ElJay). Hey, it's a Sunday, I get to be busy, and I'm "buffering" for those days (i.e. ON CALL BOOO) that I don't write much. :) And I'M NOT BEING DISTRACTED BY A DIFFERENT STORY, woohoo. (Although I will try get that "hanging" last chapter of Warped finished off asap, anyway.)

What I've written so far has already thrown a surprise at me, so... go figure. :P Lars has finally admitted to her "oops" to me, and Seem is all WUARGH at her/me for it. OH WELL. Yay for characters taking over. :P

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...and now... to sleep.

*zzz*

Just thought I'd post 'em so I don't forget them/lose them/etc! ^_^ These are just some details about places, species, etc. I'm going to properly profile the species later, maybe doodle up some native wildlife. (e.g. the trice and related species were bred up from a native sea-creature, and there's a lot of wild game that the colonists like to hunt in the southern continent.)

I got most of my names from real languages, this time - a lot of my species are seeming to sound very "samey".

Pabishka’s species: Laima (Lithuanian for "Luck")
Between 6 and 7 feet tall (High females/"herms" 7, females/"bearers" 6, males in-between), but relatively thin-boned, so not much heavier than a shorter human. Described them better earlier. Descended from a felinoid species, but don't look very catlike any more.
Original colonist species, make up large portion (approx 45%) of the population.
Current cast: Pabishka (Nuori's main sponsor, f), Otto (Nuori's Managing director, m), Rasa (Denizen, f; used to be v. rich, in charge of medical company, but framed for murder by her husband. Still (technically!) married to him).

Natives: Ruta ("Friend")
Smallish (4.5-5.5 feet tall), long arms, toe-walking build, very long prehensile tails (can't suspend their entire weight off them, but can use them for support, as a "third arm"). Large ears, erectile "hood" on the neck. Relatively thinly furred, paler on chest and inner arm/thigh; palette ranges from fully white all over, through fawn/cream (commonest) to a medium brown; most have random patches of darker colours on the back and ears etc. No dark brown or black unless dyed. (Slaves selectively bred for white fur, as they can then be dyed any colour; white is recessive, however, and most are at least short sighted - 35% are "legally blind".) Sorta remind me of a humanoid cross between a cobra and a fennec. Generally friendly, welcoming, even if they look quite stern and sharp.)
Current cast: Ausra (f, liberated slave; Rasa's current girlfriend)

99% of Southern continent inhabitants are native. Northern continent is mixed; 45% Laima, 20% Ruta (NB: most are servants/slaves), 10% artificial genetic biological constructs (99% of these are also in servitude), and 20% Coalition visitors (Mostly: Nyen, Ondrai, Zaar, Krell and Yurra. Small numbers of Vuls, Unser and le'Trai. Scattering of "Shaalivei" (Rebel Kiravai).)

Small City: Shahr-pieni
Capital: Stolica, Sostine – dual city with two “halves” that have grown into each other. Stolica is the larger “lump”.

Zones of northern half of continent:
Southern area/country – Lahar (as close to volcanic zone)
Central Eastern districts – Heina, Trava (grasslands)
Eastern coastal (forested) – Tavanyak,
Island (forested) - Xot
Northern (Steppe) – C’sten
Equatorial Mountains – the Hajalla Kari ("Broken Rock") – central. Felsen – northern foothills. Ganseki – southern foothills (Native inhabitants)

Southern continent names are more "descriptive", e.g. Where the Sea Floods, Where the Purple Reeds Grow, Where the Water Thunders, Where the Ocean Crashes, etc.

(I'll annotate my atlas with the names, later)

Wheeee words.

...plenty of good words here!

Had fun with the prompts table Exie pointed out - yes, I'll upload my 50 sentences later ;) - but! I decided that so I could use it in my NaNo without any worries about copyright, I made my own! AND! I made it HARD, omg. I used interesting words off reference.com "Words of the Day" to make it. Hurrah. ^_^

furtive	languid	undulant	abscond	veritable
pugilist	impassive	nonplus	urbane	extraneous
simulacrum	lascivious	protean	stoic	nascent
ostracize	hector	fecund	malaise	gloaming
autocrat	turgid	rapport	satiety	lapidary
bucolic	felicitous	fatuous	refractory	chimerical
galvanic	gauche	pertinacious	recalcitrant	plangent
quotidian	chicanery	profuse	succor	arbiter
gravitas	convivial	extricate	fulminate	clarion
vagary	eschew	tortuous	sunder	riposte

...ok I think I'll make an easier one as well, though. ;) Just words I like, like... fluff, and kumquat. OK, not those ones, maybe, but you get the idea. ;)

Yes, anyone can use it. :) I'm relaxing my rules a bit, though - doesn't have to be a single sentence, can be a very short paragraph (to avoid my usual "imaginative punctuation" to make the sentences as long as possible), and it doesn't have to include the actual word, as such, but a synonym or general definition. (i.e. If I included the prompt "blue", the final sentence/passage could include the word blue (or a synonym like azure or cobalt), an emotion/tone (like sadness), a blue thing (like a gemstone or a bird), related concepts like the ocean, etc.)

Edit: GOT MY NEW MO-DUMB/router installed, so I shouldn't get kicked every 20 minutes now. YAY!

Just some quotes I want to squiggle down on some of my art :) Some are Lara's, some Seem's, one is Wen's (but I already put that one up on a previous entry, slightly reworded) I want to find a couple for the others too (essentially: Mirii, Fred, Firewire).

Slipstream
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
“There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.”

Celerity
"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."
Tony Robbins
"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
Jack Welch
"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."
Ogden Nash

Wen
"What counts is not what we are made of, but what we choose to make of ourselves."

Firewire
"I learned so much from my mistakes, I'm thinking of making a few more."

EPIC PHOTOPOST OF DOOM or something. (OK I admit I suck at taking photos.)

( First of all! The NaNoBoard (which is the whole reason I started to format these in the first place) )

( Secondly! The Desk! (I owe Jill this one. ;) ) )

( And lastly, the garden )