TheRedStranger

Inform the Legion in the proper way of disposing of the undead before it can spread through out the country. Then, flee to Judea to meet Christ. Who is your favorite videogame mascot?

The only dubstep I like is the snythesis between orchestral traditional harmony and electronic distortion. Raw, pure dubstep is novel, but becomes swiftly obnoxious. Music needs a complex depth of unified sounds to be memorable. Collective noise just doesn't soak in well with the brain and "heart" , and thus it its severly limited in it's impact on the listener. Also note that no genre will stay virginal long, it will be absorbed and recombined as creativity continues progressing and flourishing. I see Skrillex-like Dubstep cresting and being replaced by the likes of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI

Hey guys...we totally need to do a music competiton thing again.

Well...we Kentuckians do love our guns. AR-15's are rather common here 357's, . 38.'s, 22.'s....the list is rather big (and that's just the legal and readily accessable ones). A lot of both Russian and Chinese made Ak-47's do float around here time to time (don't ask how I know that - long story) .

And behold in a flash of light Enigma was taken to the highest tierre of the culinary heavens and saw a million figures, the Pillsberry Doughboy, Captain Cruch, Toucann Sam, Aunt Jamima, and all of them spoke in the harmony of one voice: I've become breakfest the feeder of worlds. The best part of waking up The Folgers in your cup. - The First Book of Breakfast, chapter one, verse one. Now you know my son, enlightment has come to you in the darkest of times. Spread this message to a frying world! You have achieved culinary enlightenment. The middle way, the way of the panwaffle, has been open to you. *Flys off and forward into the dawn*

*Invents the panwaffle* *Achieves world peace* I expect you guys to build me a statue!

Redefine philosophy as we know it by breaking the temporal prime directive, polluting the ancient world with my own modern knowledge! Then, I'd take over with modern technology and build my own parodoxical empire! Afterwards, I would destroy the pantheon and decree the old gods dead and order idols of famous video game characters to supplant them: Mario - god of plumbing, fire, stars, unrequited love, and mushrooms. Sonic - god of chaos, defiance, speed, and pin cusions. Bob and Kate - god of bald spots, marriage, and euthanasia by use of fluffy pillows . The list can go on... Also, I would build the very first Spiffo's! Speaking of philosphy, in the name of intellectual humility, what logical fallacy would you admit you are most guilty of commiting in argumentation?

I tried to hang myself after this dreaded revelation...but that didn't work well. *Shrugs with noose around his neck, floating in mid air* Must be the lack of physics.

You earned it, man. You earned it. You've helped this community out so much.

We Kentuckians make some wicked pottery though! :cool: *Throws a vase at a Zombie's head. Zombie explodes* Stuff is everywhere here! We should probably start listing the types of structures we can make in each section and their pro's and cons for each indivdual item and generally for each method.

I think a flaw in wood-based barricades is that you essentially just strapped fresh kindling to all the escape routes of your home. Metalworking will give you extra peace of mind when the town arsonists starts hurtling mollys, or when your bored (and probably less than congent) companions get a bit too comfortable one day and start trying to bake a sufflate in an old, ratty Easy-Bake. A metal sheet can be easily locked, block sight, and opened in case of an emergency. Resource heavy, but worth the price!

I always loved the art form. I'd be happy to see your work.

And perks with generators and getting electrical based objects working at full capacity.

Pitfalls - good for trapping. Pungee Pits - good for impailing the unwelcomed or hunting. Trenches - good for fighting humans in ranged combat. Moats - excellent deterant and slows down the dead, can be electrified. Earthen ramparts - above ground cover, slows down hostiles, can be used to achieve higher ground and buffet other fortifications. Can be used to block ingresses to certain areas. Proper Grave - for baking cakes...what do you thing a grave is for? A proper send off that can lessen the blow for you and your fellows when you lose a pal. Mass Grave - used for getting rid of the reaking bulk of badly bashed bodies from your recent necrocidal exploits. Don't chuck a loved one or NPC's friend in their...it will have negative psychological reprucussions. Simple pits - a hole in the ground, great for storage of items, prisoners, or Incan children (yeah, Incans really did that). Don't forget pit fights! All you need is a spade and a dream, and you can have your very own redneck Thunderdome! Burning pits - what happens when you rub hot sauce under your armpits . Not. Add flamables to that pit of yours and you can have a great way to get rid of the dead in mass! Don't chuck passed loved ones or NPC's pals in there...unless your a cold loner psychopath that is a glutton for punishment. Pros? Cons?

Okay so far we have carpentry as the major skill that defines how well we can barriade and build defensive structures, but what else can be done? One idea me and Nagol had was weilding, a heavy armour version of carpentry. It's generally less portable, harder to gather the necessary resources for, and has some safety hazards (especially if one is not wearing the right gear or skilled in the craft), however it's constructs are non-flammable, can conduct electricty for added defence, can brace exsisting structures, and is generally more permenant and sturdy than it's "lighter" alternative. It could be used in construction (building sturdy metalic structures), crafting (making metal-based upgrades and objects), scavenging (breaking down metallic objects), and even infiltration (getting through mettalic objects like steel doors, locks, gun-safes, ect.). The required objects, pro's, cons, and mechanics are up for debate - be free to add your thoughts, especially if you know anything about the craft. The opposite: a quick fix would be more elaborate forms of furniture moving, perhaps even some novice booby traps, like turning a chair over the front thus tripping up some of the zombies, or moving a dresser on the edge of the stairs then pushing it down once the zombies flood the stairwell. Any other thoughts about alternate methods and skills for fortification? And what do you thing about adding welding in general? Any ideas?

The hard choice to kill Alex, my ex-brother in law and my old high school friend (who was found bumbling in the basment with a puss-drenched bite mark on his neck) was taken from me the next day; while I stood in the room, mustering the volition to carry out the dark deed, a shadow rushed out and up from a shady crawlspace. It twirled elegantly like a dancer, a thin shining object cupped frimly in it's hand. There was a dumb moan and tinny crunch as the figure shoved a blood covered blade in Alex's somehow thoothless jaws. The dumb and hungry husk of my old friend gummed the blade, preoccupied with lapping up the blood and a hunk of mysterious flesh shiskabobed on it's middle to realize he was being grappled securely in the figure's arms as it used him as a barrier between it and me. Entranced by the shillouette's grace it took to long for me to realize that this dark shape could harbor ill-will. I fumbled for my sidearm, but then heard a resounding click as an M9 pointed at my face, it's safety turned off. "Do anything funny and you get shot. Now strip to your scibbies...I want to make sure your not bit." The voice was calm, soliderly, but feminine. I could see the outline was that of a woman, possibly by her get-up a soilder or a cop.

Maybe I can help you both. @Rathlord: Maybe you should use Dragon Software and speak your novel out loud. Or perhaps you should just record it then write the recordings. Find someone to talk to, perhaps. Let them be your “idea wall”, bouncing your thoughts off them. See how this trusted friend reacts to your ideas, and listen to their input. An outside perspective always helps me, so much so that I now share my written world with another writer and our novels intricately overlap. Constructing scenes can be difficult at first, but you get better knowing the theory and elements that comprise what a scene is - and then, lots of practice. Reading always helps, just like exercise does to an athlete. I went through three failed attempts at writing a novel before I became published for the first time (as a short-story writer in a local newspaper then a journalist for Berea College’s PR department). I realized I was writing backwards! I had written a sequel and had to go back and write the predecessor, and then I realized I was writing another sequel! There is prequel to Boundless too, yet this is the best place to start because it introduces the milieu of my world properly. @Terra_Incendia and Rathlord both In short don't...the first draft is not meant to be perfect it is but the skeleton for the story. Subtext and meaning are best mined/sculplted out of this raw block. Stephen King is famous for this method. Don't inject an artifical moral to your story or arbitrary plot point, let meaning come in the second draft. Finish the story in the most shoddy manner as possible if you like the first go, it doesn't matter. What matters is that it gets on paper, crappy or not. Wait for a couple of days and weeks to let yourself become distant to the story, then come back and read your first draft with more of an outside perspective. What do you see? What possible plot points need to be improved and further mined out? Whittle out the signs of a good moral to your story, a huantingly resonate subtext, a new and betterly constructed plot. This macrocosmic view will give you more insight on how to improve the writing as a WHOLE instead of twiddling about aimlessly with a couple of meager sentences. That comes later after your second (third, fourth, tenth) draft is the way you want it, that is when you add the pedantic polish. Here are some great resources you all should look into: Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time, by Jordan Rosenfield. Outling Your Novel: Mapping Your Way to Success, by K.M Weiland. Plot & Structure: (Techniques And Exercises For Crafting A Plot That Grips Readers From Start To Finish) (Write Great Fiction), by James Scott Bell. The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide To Character Expression, by Angela Ackerman. Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints (Write Great Fiction) – Nancy Kress. On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft, Stephen King. Writers Digest. Com, and Tv Tropes (in moderation with a healthy dose of skepticism and critical thinking due to its sad lack of sourcing) are great places to venture for snippets of wisdom as well.

It's all good. :cool: And you know I couldn't abadon this wonderful community. I love to write fantasy as well. I am currently writing a multi-novel series that is pretty deep and heady as well as full of action. I am very inspired by C.S Lewis, Tolkien, Timothy Keller, and various writers. I might post a small preview on my Dev account when I copyright my portfolio (thus making it secure to do so). The first novel is called Boundless and I hope to finish it by the end of this year. I also plan to do the audiobook (because I am getting involved in voice acting).

I did a post like this on the old forums. I am glad to see it back in action! I will give a few from each of the things I tinker in. If you want more just ask. Or look just look through my Deviant Art, Youtube, or Sound Cloud Gallery. Art:http://theredstranger.deviantart.com/art/Sonic-Boom-359582627 http://theredstranger.deviantart.com/art/Once-You-Turn-around-342589605 Photography:http://theredstranger.deviantart.com/art/Cluastrophia-376139724 http://theredstranger.deviantart.com/art/Specter-from-a-Midnight-Sea-373785339 Videomaking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_DQ6XsG8w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tfuyqtgwGU Music: https://soundcloud.com/theredstranger/espio-the-eastern-storm Photmanipulation: http://theredstranger.deviantart.com/art/But-he-must-scream-The-Proxy-342579395 Literature: http://theredstranger.deviantart.com/art/TragicTalesofTitoAndThuellis-182710560 http://theredstranger.deviantart.com/art/Deciever-in-the-Darkness-138254977 Expect more in the furture.