Wow...I was RIGHT!!!

APPOCALYPSE!!!

lolz...I predict Morph will post again before he stated he will (Unless he reads this and decides to spite me, or this place finally flatlines)

Anyway, I feel it is time for RESURRECTION!!!

-Twilight Storm

Well if one of us says something meaningful we're sorted.

For me, summer time is actually worky time, so I can pay for mah new Toshiba Qosmio series gaming laptop. Oh, and a few new games, like:

Half-Life 1/2/Ep1/Ep2, Mass Effect 2, Mirror's Edge, Section 8:Prejudice, The Ball, Sanctum, and Audiosurf.

The last especially since I've just recently been dethroned as Casual Champion of Off the Chain.

Oh. Dear. God.

The unadulterated awesomeness is immeasurable. Oh yeah.

In other news:

1. I'm considering writing a Mass Effect self-insert. The current block I have is WRT 'my' romance sub-plot. That is, should I wait out ME1 and find love with Miranda Lawson in ME2, or perhaps go with an in-universe OC, or another SI'ed female. The last, rather long-shot option is to go with a crossover'd character from another game, namely Alyx Vance from Half-Life 2.*

2. I have more people that I interact with on a bi-weekly basis now than I have ever had in any previous epoch of my life, probably combined. Most amusingly, IMO, is that this group includes a freshman.

3. Last Friday (03/06/2011) was the graduation party for myself, my sister, and a couple of friends. It went very well, and I managed to think of a short speech while sitting on the chairs next to the mike. Overall, a good time.

*Because Alyx Vance is probably one of maybe 2 or 3 fictional characters that I consider quite attractive. Miranda Lawson is also on that list, though I consider her to be lower down on the list than Alyx Vance, for the simple reason that Lawson is a bit of a frigid b1tch for parts of ME2, and it takes some work and time to warm up to her.

Will either be amusing or hilariously intolerably poor. No pressure.

No.

'nuff said.

Interestingly, girl in the year above at my school looks really similar to Alyx Vance. The day she turned up to shooting team practice in a grey hoodie and jeans really made me wonder if she knows this.

/stalker-y randomness

You are not allowed to have offline friends. Rules of the forum.

Congratulations, you could be a revolutionary president one day. Imagine the propaganda campaign: Whiskey for president! No scripts required!

Are you talking about video game characters exclusively here? I'm sure you could find in many films or TV series a character who you'd like. And then there's books of course.

When it comes to ME LIs, I have to say that there are pretty much none that I would ever get with if I was in the same position as Shepard. Ashley is a soldier under my command. Nice person, but not at that time. Maybe after everything was over, the universe was cooling off after being saved, and we all got some free time (or retired, as I probably would think hard about if I'd just saved the entire universe), but not mid-mission. Jack, I would do the entire "psychological counselling" thing of the "relationship" but seriously, the end of the romance plot for Jack seems almost like rape. Oh, and don't forget how limitlessly unprofessional it is, seeing as you are meant to be saving the galaxy and that the moment you hop through the relay. I mean seriously, you should be checking your weapons crew, not mine. Same goes for Miranda. Ah yes, Miranda. Don't really like her. Treats everything like a business deal. Would tolerate her (being a tolerant person) but wouldn't be her friend unless she stopped acting like I'm a number. Even when she opens up it's brief, and she's straigh back to being a number-cruncher.

And all the others are aliens. Friends? Yes. Love interests? No.

Forgot Kelly Chambers! Maybe when far away from duty for a while. I'm not talking shore leave, I mean on holiday for several months at least. Same as with Ashley really. Don't know which one I prefer.

But tbh, RL girls win every day of the year for me (if not for Shepard lol), by virtue of existing.

BTW Whiskey what happened to your chirpse?

I overturn this rule by virtue of being myself. And besides, it's not like I know any girls on the forums.

Lulzy.

Pretty much entirely video games, though it does cover quite a bit of other media. There's really not a whole lot of characters in the realm of fiction that I find very attractive, but for somewhat odd reasons I suppose. Mostly in that I'm doubtful that a lasting and committed relationship could form between myself and said characters. Alyx Vance? Totally see it happening. Miranda Lawson? Maybe after six years and a metric tonne of booze.

NOTE: I snipped the text for the simple reason that I find it tedious to have repeated quoting of large blocks to text.

Anyways, I do have to agree with you. 99% of the LI's in ME are totally ridiculous. OTOH, it's something that makes a slight degree of sense, depending on the characters. Williams? You must be using LSD or something. Lawson? Tricky, but I'd say you're being a little trippy. Jack? Great way to pseudo-self-castrate. Xenomancing (<-catchy term for all human-alien romance options)? No thanks, I like my gals human.

I think I'll go with an in-universe OC that's partially based on a couple of people that I know.

And will be obsessively gone over by myself to insure quality work. I've already started building a reputation of quality with A Trader's Gambit; to release something of sub-par quality would destroy my credibility. It's also convenient that most of the lemons I've written were produced at much earlier times and have already been relegated to "never see the light of day, but be kept as an example".

Pseudo-spoiler?: a possible plot twist I've been considering for down the line is having Alenko and Williams survive Virmire, but both are heavily wounded. Similarly, my LI is also heavily wounded. Now I have a whole "kill Saren RAWR!" complex going on (who wouldn't?), though Shephard still gets the last shot in. Also, FemShep, and me being a bit of a jerk to alien crew. Seasoned with myself blasting the Rachni queen, since Shephard and Wrex are arguing and not deciding what to do. Yeah. 

I have no idea what "chirpse" is. Please clarify.

The female human who was subject to your attempts to woo her. The girl you were chatting up last time you talked about your RL.

By this are you saying that you'd need to be on drugs to like them or that you'd need to be on drugs to think it was possible?

The latter is certainly true, but, of course, they're never met outside of a professional relationship. Damn Commanders running around jumping ontop of their crew members... Wouldn't have happened in my day...

That you'd have to be trippin' to think that said individual would be all "that's a great idea, let's get freaky the night before we have a big mission!".

Ah. You mean this:

Yeah, I actually didn't get to talk to her much, and I actually only got to meet her that one time. Rather a pity, too, considering the greatly interesting individual I suspect she is. Ah well. Still, there's plenty of other nice gals that I happen to know.

TBH, though, right now I'm not looking for a girlfriend so much as just building a friendship with the girls that I currently know. I also have no job ATM, so a girlfriend would be somewhat counterproductive. No comfortably-sized source of income makes taking a girl out for dinner/lunch/a movie rather difficult.

Incidentally, previously-mentioned OC LI for myself in my ME-SI fic will be partially based on said possibly-loony individual.

Also, chirpse=girlfriend? Or something similar? Please explain, since as of late I've become quite enamored of British slang and swears. Especially considering the latter tends to sound so much more badass and classy than most American swears.

It's also fun to call people you don't like "wanker".

Chirpse is a word with many potential uses. As a verb, it effectively means "to chat up." eg "Stop chirpsing my sister!" As a noun, it is the person who is being chatted up. eg "I hear David's got a new chirpse."

Other examples include: "On the chirpse again I see," basically meaning, "Chatting up girls again I see."

Also, you can just say "Chirpse," which basically is a way of saying, "(chirpser) is definitely trying to chat up (chirpsee)." Often said jokingly.

Don't forgot the British equivalent of "bullshit!" Well, we say bullshit as well, but the classic Limey version is "bollocks."

Aha, I see. Most excellent, this information is. *thought pops into head* Isn't Chakwas British?

I remember that one well; MacMillan says it in MW1 when the chopper Price&him shoot down (with 7.62mm sniper rifles?!*) ends up crashing towards the two of them.

Side note: bollocks also means testicles. Odd how that works, innit?

*I consider it to be rather ridiculous that 7.62mm sniper rifles downed a helicopter with an armored cockpit designed to withstand up to 12.7mm strikes. Doesn't matter how good a shot you are, if you effectively using a pea-shooter on a brick wall.

Her accent is, though seeing as there's several human worlds that doesn't necessarily mean she comes from England, but could be from a planet where some locales have the accent.

And bullshit is the excretion of a male cow. Odd how that works too.

Yes.

True, true.

Yeah. It's rather funny that most of the swear words in common parlance are actually derived from terms that refer to bodily functions and/or appendages.

EDIT: what would you consider the Elysian regiments to be? Cadians=Limeys, and Catachans=Rambo in SPAAACE!, while the Death Korps=WW1 Germans, and Steel Legion is, IIRC, WW2 German-themed.

Hmm... They're actually really sci-fi, tbh, not that grimdark. They make me think of Western paratroopers, so that could be their inspiration. Also, bullpup lascarbines, with scopes. Very well equipped. Tbh the carbine's appearance and the fact that they have bipods on everything kind of reminds me of the French, but allow them being in WH40K. I might have to go with British Paras, or maybe someone more obscure, but probably European, seeing as you Yanks wouldn't touch a bullpup with a bargepole. Bullpups are really un-American.

Wow, you two sure are persistent, hanging out in this graveyard.  I'm pretty sure even IFear isn't ghosting this thread anymore. 

Anywho, has this turned into a what're you writing thread?  Mayhap I'll dig up some of my old stuff and continue with it.

-Twilight Storm

I don't know about Bullpup=un-American. There's been a small handful of bullpup, American-made weapons. Though I'll note that the standard lasrifles used by the Elysian regiments don't have bipods, and neither do the dedicated grenade launchers.

Dunno about the last bit. Right now I'm in the midst of A Trader's Gambit. Once it's finished, I'm moving on to The Proof of Zeal. Prologue+Chapters 1-9 for ATG have been posted, as has chapter 1 of TPoZ. At present, the latter will be updated quite sporadically.

Once I'm done with Zeal, I'm not sure where I'll head next. I'm considering doing a Mass Effect self-insert alongside TPoZ, but I haven't decided yet. I have a couple of other concepts on the board, like an EVE Online/Star Trek crossover, and perhaps a Night's Dawn Trilogy/Mass Effect crossover.

Oatesy's just posting in response to me, I think. Also, because British slang is pretty awesome.

It'll likely be a few days/week before I get to it, but which would y'all prefer:

1) Fantasy style with limited magic, but badass martial combat

2) Modern day magic underground society style

3) Futuristic Psionic/Space/Appocolypse style

Those are the 3 I currently have.  (Number 3 is my favorite at the moment, and the longest right now.)

-Twilight Storm

I vote option #4, which is detailed below:

4) Register with FanFiction.Net, and post up all three stories, using appropriate chapter delineations.

Unless, of course, you intended to later publish these stories. In which case don't post them at all, and start pitching them to a publisher.

Might publish the 3rd one day, but the first two always seem to fizzle out as soon as I start writing them.

-Twilight Storm

In which case you can totally put the first two up on, well, not FanFiction.Net. I was actually incorrect on that, as I assume that these stories are original fiction? Which means that they are actually better suited to FictionPress.com.

Yes, all 3 are original.  I may do that once I get a chance to dig em out of my hard drive and re-read what I have.

Titles:(In order as I posted them above)

1) Moonguard

2) Sentinel (I think, have to double check)

3) Artifical Insanity (For the moment)

-Twilight Storm | May or may not have internet access for the next week, depending on the co-operation of my netbook...

So Whiskey, who does this remind you of?

Several things:

1) "Fire that multilaser!"- attack response for the Dawn of War Chimera.

2) CS Multilaser. Because he gave Astartes multilasers, though funnily enough Thunderhawks and Devastator squads equipped with multilasers isn't actually that bad of an idea. Though he fluff-rapes in other ways.

3) Yo dawg we heard you like bling so we put bling on yo bling so you can wear your bling while you wear your bling!!!!

Congratz, second time lucky.

Number one was simply the item that popped into my head first. Also:

"Yo dawg we heard you like bolters so we put bolters on your bolters so you can fire your bolters while you fire your bolters!!!!"

-Advertising slogan for Gangsta Marines stormbolters and Traitor Legion combi-bolters.

EDIT: also, Oatesy, aren't you on Steam?