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Literary Challenge #60 Discussion Thread

pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
edited March 2015 in Ten Forward
Literary Challenge #60 : Redux 3.0
This is the comments thread for Literary Challenge #60 : Redux 3.0.
We also have an Index of previous challenges HERE.

Feel free to link directly to the entry you are commenting on. And please remember: we're not here to tear each other up. Do not troll your fellow Captains, give feedback! Let the others know what you liked and disliked. Maybe they can even go back then and tweak their entries!

Let's get those creative juices flowing! :cool:
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  • takeshi6takeshi6 Member Posts: 752 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Nice, I was right about it being another Redux!! :D

    I'll need to see what I can come up with. :cool:
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  • pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    So the current topic will be Redux 3.0 and then #61 will be player submitted topic.

    Get your ideas going in the suggestion thread!

    ~CaptainSmirk
  • pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    takeshi6 wrote: »
    Nice, I was right about it being another Redux!! :D

    I'll need to see what I can come up with. :cool:

    Indeed! You msut have some kind of psychic mind probe you bought at Drozana station.

    Oh! Idea for new LC... Ferengi Mind Probe story!

    ~CaptainSmirk
  • zidanetribalzidanetribal Member Posts: 220 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Reduxes are cool. I should try to redux again, but I still haven't finished the LC that I was going to make in lieu of LC59. Ha ha ha.
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  • timeladykatietimeladykatie Member Posts: 86 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Hmmm... First Contact, Risa Getaway, Intruder Alert or Wrath of Betazed which I never finished... choices choices.
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Mine is up. Thoughts?
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    So the current topic will be Redux 3.0 and then #61 will be player submitted topic.

    Get your ideas going in the suggestion thread!

    ~CaptainSmirk
    Thank you, Smirk!
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    Indeed! You msut have some kind of psychic mind probe you bought at Drozana station.

    Oh! Idea for new LC... Ferengi Mind Probe story!

    ~CaptainSmirk

    YES!!!!!!
  • aten66aten66 Member Posts: 654 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    Mine is up. Thoughts?

    Sooo...much...fandom....

    Must not.... freak.....

    Fanboy senses tingling...

    Insert Stargate joke here.....

    Insert Barber Joke here....


    I applaud you fine writer!
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    aten66 wrote: »
    Sooo...much...fandom....

    Must not.... freak.....

    Fanboy senses tingling...

    Insert Stargate joke here.....

    Insert Barber Joke here....


    I applaud you fine writer!

    :D

    Thank you. The Iconian gateway network provides Three with so much hilarity.

    And she's still kind of underestimating the Iconians in this one; she only meets SHLIFFG a month or two later. Which reminds me, I need to write that story.

    Any specific thoughts?
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Yay, two more (or potentially more) weeks to get my #59 entry done! :D

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  • wraithshadow13wraithshadow13 Member Posts: 1,728 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Just to clarify, I put wrath of betazed into that thread because I was late getting an entry in. This thread will hopefully be something different lol. Ill have to go back and find a thread I havent done yet.
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    Mine is up. Thoughts?

    Doesn't conflict with the shenanigans I wrote for that event, so thumbs up ;) :cool:
  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Right, mine's up. It's set after Academy Teachings (Talaina teaching cadets on the DarkFyre), but before the Viper is launched. Oh, and the start is set on a Monday morning, and ends on a Friday. Hence why it references next week, and then two weeks.



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    I'll see if there's any more I can cobble out as well. Now I've played my Rommie alot more, may go back and do some Romulan stories.



    EDIT: I see the rules say only 1 entry. The past redux's let us have multiple, for different LC's, so I shall assume the same applies here.
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    marcusdkane wrote: »
    Doesn't conflict with the shenanigans I wrote for that event, so thumbs up ;) :cool:

    Anything more specific? ;)
  • ryan218ryan218 Member Posts: 36,106 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Alright, mine's up. It's a redux of LC39: Lone Drone, in which I introduce the troubled character of the U.S.S. Victorious' Chief Engineer. Depending on what people think, I may add to it later. So... tell me what you think.
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  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    ryan218 wrote: »
    Alright, mine's up. It's a redux of LC39: Lone Drone, in which I introduce the troubled character of the U.S.S. Victorious' Chief Engineer. Depending on what people think, I may add to it later. So... tell me what you think.



    I liked it. Ryan seemed to have already made up his mind what course of action to take, but I enjoyed the short discussion of what to do with the drone, and the issues she was having in the present. I'd very much like to read more if you have it.
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  • ryan218ryan218 Member Posts: 36,106 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    grylak wrote: »
    I liked it. Ryan seemed to have already made up his mind what course of action to take, but I enjoyed the short discussion of what to do with the drone, and the issues she was having in the present. I'd very much like to read more if you have it.

    I've only really recently started delving into the characters on the Victorious, in this challenge and the last one, but I'll definitely stick with it for a while.
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    In Cold Blood
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    ryan218 wrote: »
    Alright, mine's up. It's a redux of LC39: Lone Drone, in which I introduce the troubled character of the U.S.S. Victorious' Chief Engineer. Depending on what people think, I may add to it later. So... tell me what you think.

    Very nice! Tight, well-written. Up to your usual high standard.

    Thoughts on mine?
  • ryan218ryan218 Member Posts: 36,106 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    Very nice! Tight, well-written. Up to your usual high standard.

    Thoughts on mine?

    Only; has Three gone completely insane (more than usual)? She actually seems... nice! Too nice! :D:P

    And then things go wrong. Yay, our regular, psychotic, living weapon is back! :D

    Overall, a great, amusing, dark story.
    Old Wounds
    Trials of Blood and Fire
    Moving On Parts 1-3 - Part 4
    In Cold Blood
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    ryan218 wrote: »
    Only; has Three gone completely insane (more than usual)? She actually seems... nice! Too nice! :D:P

    And then things go wrong. Yay, our regular, psychotic, living weapon is back! :D

    Overall, a great, amusing, dark story.

    Meh, she's just playing nice because she likes "Do'eth", she's a huge Worf fan, and she's trying to score a date with Koren (who is uninterested).

    This was a decent opportunity for some fairly typical Three badassery. And I wanted to write "Do'eth" finding out that the guy who killed her girlfriend was working for the Iconians. She is NOT a happy camper.

    Thanks! I think I'll flip back and do another story or two on a different LC redux, just for fun.
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    Anything more specific? ;)

    Not really... :P As I've said before, I find Three's genre savvy intensely irritating... That she's a badass, I can deal with... That she hero-worships Worf, equally tollerable, but the genre savvy... That really is the deal-breaker of my enjoyment... :( However, as I've said before, very nicely written :cool:
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    marcusdkane wrote: »
    Not really... :P As I've said before, I find Three's genre savvy intensely irritating... That she's a badass, I can deal with... That she hero-worships Worf, equally tollerable, but the genre savvy... That really is the deal-breaker of my enjoyment... :( However, as I've said before, very nicely written :cool:

    Ok...Well, TEHO on the genre savvy; I find it to be amusing to write, myself. I'm actually more worried about her badassery; if you notice, I make it very clear that she has little to none of the tech savvy or starship skills that a Trek denizen has, and I give the other badass characters their own cool things to do, because...well, I hate Mary Sues, and I do NOT want to write one by accident.

    But thank you for the feedback! I can't wait for your entry.
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    grylak wrote: »
    Right, mine's up. It's set after Academy Teachings (Talaina teaching cadets on the DarkFyre), but before the Viper is launched. Oh, and the start is set on a Monday morning, and ends on a Friday. Hence why it references next week, and then two weeks.



    Admiral Cullen is played by Tori Higginson.


    I'll see if there's any more I can cobble out as well. Now I've played my Rommie alot more, may go back and do some Romulan stories.



    EDIT: I see the rules say only 1 entry. The past redux's let us have multiple, for different LC's, so I shall assume the same applies here.

    I like it, especially Talaina's habit of transferring her rank pips :cool:

    I believe the initial derestriction on multiple entries, was when the LC was continued rather than a new LC being posted :cool:
  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Ah. I thought the limit was lifted for reduxes. I have one almost ready to go, after deciding it was too unwieldy what I wanted to do, and seeing previous ones, decided it was better to split in2. I guess you will have to wait for those then. I can tell you it was set in perplexing problems and then lone drone. And featured the followup to that Borg briefing from my One Night series.
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    A Romulan Strike Team, Missing Farmers and an ancient base on a Klingon Border world. But what connects them? Find out in my First Foundary mission: 'The Jeroan Farmer Escapade'
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I know that cmdrscarlet posted at least two for the last redux...but one was just last month, and the other that I saw was around the time LC 50 ended.

    Smirk, can we have a Word of Mod here on this?
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    Ok...Well, TEHO on the genre savvy; I find it to be amusing to write, myself. I'm actually more worried about her badassery; if you notice, I make it very clear that she has little to none of the tech savvy or starship skills that a Trek denizen has, and I give the other badass characters their own cool things to do, because...well, I hate Mary Sues, and I do NOT want to write one by accident.

    But thank you for the feedback! I can't wait for your entry.
    Unfortunately, that is how genre savvy reads to me, but absolutely, TEHO :cool:

    And no worries, as before, I do think you write well :cool:

    And thanks, I know what I'm going to do, I just need to sit down and do it :cool:
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    grylak wrote: »
    Ah. I thought the limit was lifted for reduxes. I have one almost ready to go, after deciding it was too unwieldy what I wanted to do, and seeing previous ones, decided it was better to split in2. I guess you will have to wait for those then. I can tell you it was set in perplexing problems and then lone drone. And featured the followup to that Borg briefing from my One Night series.

    Awesome :cool: I know old LC threads can be added to any time, not just specifically on redux challenges :cool:
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    marcusdkane wrote: »
    Unfortunately, that is how genre savvy reads to me, but absolutely, TEHO :cool:

    And no worries, as before, I do think you write well :cool:

    And thanks, I know what I'm going to do, I just need to sit down and do it :cool:

    So you find genre savvy in normally genre-blind universes to be Sue-ish?

    H'mmm.......

    Thanks for the compliment, though.

    Very excited to see what Ael and company get into this time!
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    ryan218 wrote: »
    Alright, mine's up. It's a redux of LC39: Lone Drone, in which I introduce the troubled character of the U.S.S. Victorious' Chief Engineer. Depending on what people think, I may add to it later. So... tell me what you think.

    I liked it :cool:
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    So you find genre savvy in normally genre-blind universes to be Sue-ish?

    H'mmm.......

    Thanks for the compliment, though.

    Very excited to see what Ael and company get into this time!
    I do (not meaning yourself directly, but in the general) because I perscieve it as a projection of the author's own knowledge of the topic through an in-verse character -- a projection of how they would act in a given situation, rather than how a character might react, but again, that's only my feelings on genre savvy. But what do I know, I refuse to read Tolkien ;)

    And yes, this will be Ael and co... ;) Had the 'mother' challenge been chosen, I would have pulled an incident from Marcus' (who i killed off due to having too many Gary Stu qualities...) past out of the ether ;)
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