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Post by jklinders on Jun 21, 2011 16:27:10 GMT 1
Just popping this out to let you know I am reading and enjoying your fic so far octo. I have this weird thing for liking the fics that focus on the game stories but outside of Shep's perspective. You're giving Tali a pretty real feel here and showing the odd moment of fallibility from Shepard is welcome as well.
Keep it up, I am still reading.
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Post by Octo on Jun 21, 2011 21:10:44 GMT 1
Thanks, I intent to.
So far the story here is still catching up to ff.net, where it's at 12 chapters, so that means a further week of nearly daily updates heh. 2 further ones are in betareading (come on, betareaders...) and the 15th chapter is half-done.
I try to keep the two PoVs balanced, but it's difficult. Part of the idea behind the fic is to have the ME 1 story, but with Shepard often acting and reacting widely different to in-game canon. That's not apparent yet, but it will show first on Feros. And for that to make sense, many segments just need to be from his PoV. OTOH, that means you'll get to see a different version so to say of the game stories, heh.
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Post by jklinders on Jun 21, 2011 22:03:50 GMT 1
I'm actually starting to see what you mean in the chapter you just released. The difference in the freeform question your authority of the Earth perspective and the way Tali reacted to it was about as it should be. It's funny really, she was so impressed that Shep did his research on Quarians, but she has done none on humans. Then she gets mad that they are different from her. It's working.
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Post by Octo on Jun 22, 2011 19:41:14 GMT 1
Oh, yes, Shepard will still "question" authority quite often. I can hardly wait to... hm, come to certain chapters yet to be written. Of course, I don't want to spoiler anything, heh.
So, Feros, first part. Standard action scenes. Next chapter is where the first major divergence starts.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Jun 26, 2011 18:38:49 GMT 1
Boy, is this long! I tried to post the entire story into OpenOffice just to see how long it was (and not to steal it) and the first chapter alone was 12 pages! The rest of the story broke the program, which is even more impressive!
Writing this much must require dedication that my tiny lizard brain just cannot comprehend!
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Post by Octo on Jun 26, 2011 19:10:45 GMT 1
Heh. One advantage of ff.net is the automatic word count (which is a bit screwy though, somehow it always counts around some hundred words per chapter more than Open Office or Google Docs). Currently, it's 13 chapters at 110k words, with 2 more chapters with 18k words in beta reading. And since I suspect this will end up at 30-35 chapters I'm not yet halfway done.
But well, it's fun. It's not that difficult since, what with it being a fanfic novelization, I have a storyline to follow and work through.
Thanks, in any case!
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Post by jklinders on Jul 4, 2011 17:59:44 GMT 1
OK, I just read the latest chapter. I don't really know if you are planning to continue this past ME 1 into ME 2 but if you do then you are setting things up beautifully for both the Alliance and the Council to be more than happy to cut Shepard off in part 2.
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Post by Octo on Jul 4, 2011 20:19:16 GMT 1
Well - He is secure from the Council, since removing the only human Spectre would offend the Alliance, and he is secure from the Alliance, because they need him as only human Spectre, but he is not secure from both. And yes, that will show. Eventually. Shepard will further annoy the Alliance, that was not the last of his actions doing so. Eventually that will come to hit him already in ME 1.
But yes, I do plan to continue this into ME 2.
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Post by aldrinshepard on Aug 14, 2011 23:18:04 GMT 1
Very interesting story. Really like how its going. Do you happen to have it up on fanfiction.net as well as here?
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Post by Octo on Aug 14, 2011 23:53:34 GMT 1
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Post by aldrinshepard on Aug 16, 2011 11:52:40 GMT 1
thanks for the link
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