Originally posted by Omega VisionMessage Blair to see if there's time. The drunk Irishman is still procrastinating. pr
Just saw this.This is interesting.
I'll be an informal judge. uhuh
Seriously though, had I known about this earlier I might have considered throwing my hat in the ring. It's been a while since I've written any genre fiction.
yeah, i don't think i'll be able to get this together. i still love my idea, but as i was trying to get to work on this, i found myself completing something else that i'd started a while ago. anyway, that's almost done now, but to then get this together in the time frame you're talking about is pretty unlikely. once i finish my current project, i might throw my idea together and just throw it up in the little-used fan-fic forum if i can get the kinks worked out. sorry folks. still a great idea bw, and hopefully a few people actually get inspired to complete something due to this.
Originally posted by Omega Vision
Just saw this.This is interesting.
I'll be an informal judge. uhuh
Seriously though, had I known about this earlier I might have considered throwing my hat in the ring. It's been a while since I've written any genre fiction.
I'm sure you can still join, we are not that far into it. And if you do a pitch more along the lines of Starscream's or mine (rather than inimalist's) you can do that in an hour or less (just sayin', Pr)
Originally posted by Badabing
The drunk Irishman
Redundant.
Here's my pitch. It's a little rough because I came up with it and wrote it in about an hour, just as Bardock said.
I should tell you all now what I told Blair: I may not be in this for the long haul, and I may decide that I don't have it in me, so I apologize in advance if that becomes the case. But here goes:
The Sandman: What Ripples That Remain
Jonathan Louis Duckworth (Omega Vision)
Concept: This six issue story cycle offers a glimpse of the routine work of the Lord of Dreaming, Morpheus, before his death. It plays on the fluid nature of time that Gaiman hinted at with his Soft Spaces, allowing Morpheus to intervene in dreams that are dreamt after his demise in the mid-1990s. The Sandman mends rifts and disturbances in the Dreamings, but at times he may also intercede in dreams for more personal reasons, perhaps out of pity or love. All stories feature narrations courtesy of Morpheus’s host—the dreamer of the issue.
The story is naturally a philosophical, dramatic work, one that explores the porous border between reality and imagination. In each issue, Morpheus interacts with a different dreamer in a different dream, Morpheus’s form and even personality are changed to suit the particular dreamscape of each dreamer.
Setting: The Dreaming, of course, with different loci created from the imaginations of the dreamers.
Characters:
*Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming: One of the Endless, and the anthropormorphic (most of the time) manifestation of the concept of Dreaming, he believes himself fixed and unchangeable, but this is belied by the very nature of dreaming as something as mutable and amorphous as sand dunes.
*Darkseid: Lord of Apokolips, the dreaded Darkseid embodies evil and tyranny. Though he seemingly takes pleasure in nothing, and desires only to subjugate all of existence, nothing that lives or dreams is ever so simple.
*Catwoman: Selina Kyle, cat burglar, occasional villain, occasional hero—her affinity for cats makes her a natural person of interest for the one sometimes called the Dream Cat.
*Grant Morrison: A comic book writer tormented by a double-consciousness, one as a mundane human struggling with a sense of an indifferent world and the other as a reality-controlling prophet in a world of Gods and superheroes.
*Wonder Woman: Diana Prince finds herself questioning more and more the definition of godhood, and dreams of a vast desert turned by a gentle wind, a desert not found in any known mythology. Seeking an answer, she traverses the Dreaming in search of the hand that spins the wind.
*Doctor Manhattan: Hailed as a living God, even Doctor Manhattan must dream. Awake, he sees reality as a non-linear gestalt state of simultaneous becoming, but dreaming he is as lost as anyone. Can Morpheus help him find his way?
*Deathstroke: Mercenary Slade Wilson has the same dream every night: the one where he collects a bounty on himself.
Edit: Apparently I'm a whore for using colons in posts.
Originally posted by Oliver North
lol, your story sounds great, I'm just making preemptive excuses
Agreed. A lot of the mood I want to communicate would come from a silent panel or something similar. I'll probably push that regulation, but in the end, "winning" is less important to me here than actually producing some finished product. My life is full of half started pieces of creative work that never materialized into anything, having an impetus just to get something done is sort of and end in itself for me. If I go a bit overboard on description and lose points, I'll be less concerned than if it was a good product.
That being said, I'm trying to work within the rules 🙂
So I eventually decided to shelf the X-Men story for the time being. Instead, this is what I'm going with:
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STAR WARS
EPISODE ONE
THE COMING DARKNESS
Concept:
This is a brief, rewritten version of the first Episode in the Star Wars prequels, known to millions of people as “The Phantom Menace”. The aim of this version is to tell a more cohesive story, one that makes sense both with itself and the Original Trilogy. There will also be a somewhat substantial change to the Anakin arc. As such, some changes (some minor, some major) have been made. I really don’t need to say any more than that.
Plot Synopsis:
Naboo, a planet near the outer rim that has long been allied with the Galactic Republic, has gone dark. No communication has been made in over a week. It is not the first time that something like this has happened; more and more worlds have pulled their ambassadors from the Senate and put their lot in with the growing Separatist movement. These “Separatists”, a collection of worlds dissatisfied with the Republic’s bureaucracy, have decided to strike out on their own, forming an alliance that is on course to rival the Republic in scope and in power. What worries the Republic as much as anything, is that at the head of the Separatist Council is none other than Dooku, a former Jedi Knight. This news has led to a blossoming suspicion, with the Senate and its citizens wondering if they can truly trust their appointed guardians.
Believing that his world would never side with the Separatists, the newly elected Chancellor Palpatine requests that the Jedi Council dispatch some of its order to Naboo to investigate. The Jedi, hoping that cooperation with the Chancellor and the Senate will regain some public favour, send three of their members to investigate...
Major Characters:
Qui-Gon Jinn: A Jedi Master and council member. He is pretty much as he appears in the movie in terms of look and presence. Qui-Gon has long been one of the more outspoken of the order. He is also Dooku’s former apprentice. It is a combination of both of these factors that has led to him being one of the more questioned Jedi, with many wondering where his true loyalties lie.
Anakin Skywalker: Anakin is the Padawan to Qui-Gon Jinn. A former slave that Qui-Gon rescued on Tatooine, he was nine years old when he was brought in to the Jedi Order, and as such was seen as many as being too old. It was only the persistence of Qui-Gon himself, and his belief that Anakin could bring balance to the force, that allowed the boy’s training. In his teens now, he is arrogant, cocky and yet also an extremely talented Jedi. If you want a movie comparison, he looks pretty much like the Anakin from Attack of the Clones, his behaviour will just be adjusted some.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Obi-Wan is in his early thirties. Considered a somewhat unconventional Jedi by most, Obi-Wan is still solidly regarded as one of the finest Knights in the order. The last student to train as a Padawan under Master Yoda, Obi-Wan is quick on his feet and strong in his convictions. He is sent along with Qui-Gon to Naboo because the council (secretly) wants to make sure that Qui-Gon can be trusted. He has never taken a Padawan.
Count Dooku: A former student of Yoda (yes, I know it’s a change, but this will make sense in the story), and a former teacher of Qui-Gon Jinn, Dooku was once considered one of the finest Knights that had ever lived. His fall from grace has been a punishing ordeal for the order that continues to haunt them to this day. His association with the Separatists doesn’t help either. Character wise, Dooku is very like he is in the movies. Confident, poised, and quite cynical about the Jedi and the Republic, he is one of only three people that know that he serves a master himself, and is not the leader of the Separatists.
Padmé Naberrie/Amidala: At just under twenty years old, she is one of the youngest rulers that has ever been Queen of Naboo. A staunch supporter of democracy, she has long resisted overtures from Count Dooku and the Separatists, believing that they offer nothing more than false promises. It is her silence that compels Palpatine to act, or at least, that is how it is portrayed.
There will of course be other characters involved, just not as centrally as these five, hence the “major” part of the heading.
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Yes, I know it's like 20 years too late, but dammit I've always wanted to do this, so here it is.
I like the premise I just have one question.
Originally posted by -Pr-Since when is it a change that Yoda was Dooku's teacher?
[b]Count Dooku: A former student of Yoda (yes, I know it’s a change, but this will make sense in the story), and a former teacher of Qui-Gon Jinn, Dooku was once considered one of the finest Knights that had ever lived. His fall from grace has been a punishing ordeal for the order that continues to haunt them to this day. His association with the Separatists doesn’t help either. Character wise, Dooku is very like he is in the movies. Confident, poised, and quite cynical about the Jedi and the Republic, he is one of only three people that know that he serves a master himself, and is not the leader of the Separatists.[/B]
In the movies Dooku was Yoda's Padawan, unless I'm misreading what that is supposed to mean.
Originally posted by Newjak
I like the premise I just have one question.Since when is it a change that Yoda was Dooku's teacher?
In the movies Dooku was Yoda's Padawan, unless I'm misreading what that is supposed to mean.
Dooku had another master in the eu; Yoda was more of someone that took a special interest in him, iirc.