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Ha! I've got until the 20th to return. But this will be my first year in college, so that's kind of weird.

every little word and every little step

@Naoq Oh yeah, that's how most of them go...

How does "Golden Ram Ariel" sound as a title?

edited 2nd Aug '12 2:03:53 PM by Haldo

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I'm entering a comic script contest. I won't share the link, because I don't want competition, but here's the premise:

That premise is pretty wack, to be honest.

But I have a plan for it.

It starts with an ordinary-looking woman meeting a close friend she hasn't seen in a while at a small house in suburban Arizona. They start to talk, and she promises to tell him what's happened to her, on the condition that he tell no one.

About a year ago, she'd recently gotten out of the military, and was working for an aeronautics company that was trying to build a better jetpack. They were experimenting with fuel mixtures and alloys that would let it stay in the air for at least a few minutes longer than your typical "30 second" one. However, in doing that, they had to use a lighter, but less sturdy, material for the casing and a more volatile type of fuel mixture. When they turned on the first prototype, it exploded. The tester strapped to it was killed instantly, and four other workers were fatally wounded by shrapnel from the untested casing material.

The protagonist, who was standing on the other side of the room with her back turned to the explosion, survived, but one screw shot into her upper spinal cord, severing the bundle of nerves that transmits physical feelings, then lodging in her brain.

Waking up in the hospital a while later, she finds that she'll never be able to feel pain, or almost any physical sensation, again. Meanwhile, although the project has been finished in her absence, the Corrupt Corporate Executive in charge of it has made it look like the accident was the victims' fault, left her paying her own (enormous) medical bills, and refused to admit responsibility or make it up to their families.

After getting out of the hospital, she breaks into her old workplace, fights her way through a security team, and drives a screw like the one that injured her into said Corrupt Corporate Executive's head*

, then steals the finished prototype of the jetpack and uses it to escape.

Cut back to the present, where she reveals to her friend that she wants to keep fighting corruption and injustice, but for the time being, she's spent the months since that incident getting as Crazy-Prepared as possible, preparing disguises and Improvised Weapons - most notably, a huge homemade flamethrower - and waiting for the law to catch up with her. It happens sooner than she'd expected. It turns out the police had tracked her friend right to her house, and it ends with them breaking down her door.

edited 5th Aug '12 5:05:32 PM by Wheezy

Novel progress: The Adroan (110k words), Yume no Hime (81k), The Pigeon Witch (40k)

I finished my book, it's a novella and it's the first part of Trilogy but it's finished.

... Now for revisions.

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Voting no. If I'm not looking too closely, it looks like a swear word.

I didn't see "Going/Gonna ram Ariel" at first but now I do.

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...Oh God, I see it...

And here I Read That As: Goddamnit Ariel.

Depending on the age groups involved and how you want to play the story, you could make a plus out of this or at least some comedy.

Nous restons ici.

I don't think it'll take that direction, but I'll keep it on the board...

How about...

• Zodiac Warrior Ariel
• Magical Zodiac Warrior Ariel
• Blazing Ram Ariel

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The first and last one sound nice. Blazing Ram Ariel really catches me though :D

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I like the fullness of Zodiac Warrior Ariel.

Also, out curiosity, have you ever played Exalted?

Because these name would frequently fit right in.

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Can't say I have :O

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Vyc: Congrats on the book!

Haldo: I liked one of the three names you had earlier. But whatever works for you.

edited 2nd Aug '12 6:57:35 PM by Ralanr

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You could also use a subtitle

Thanks

edited 2nd Aug '12 7:01:19 PM by Vyctorian

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Um. Isn't that the reason they test prototypes by remote trigger, without a human pilot, in a room or facility designed to withstand explosive force and shrapnel, with scientists on the other side of the glass?

edited 2nd Aug '12 7:15:26 PM by Leradny

^ Um historically....no. That scene could very well have taken place just 70 years ago.

Later than that.

And it doesn't necessarily have to fail the first time. It can fail the second, or the third.

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Or the first manned test.

Well, Wheezy didn't mention the time period except for "typical 30-second jet packs". So I kind of assumed it was modern-day. Or slightly into the future.

edited 2nd Aug '12 7:22:06 PM by Leradny

Those existed 50 years ago as part of the space programs of the late 50s and early 60s.

Were there female scientists back then, too?

...yeah?

Read my stories!

Some. Marie Curie pre-dated the Second World War for example.