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[2012-05-03 19:29:11 +0000 UTC]
"Guardian of Aryyna"
(United States)
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# Comments
Comments: 44
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Thanks! She's a sweetheart, I love her too bits! You can read her story on Maelora69's picture of her, if you wanted 
www.deviantart.com/maelora69/a…
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That's where I found her! Hahha.
Do you rp as her? Just curious.
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Yes! She's a character in Macy's enormous FFG Star Wars AU campaign. And one of my favourite RPG characters I've ever had.
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Oh neat. You ever do one on one rp?
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Kemna's game is a solo game, because I'm in America and Marcy's in Wales, and because Kem has several... unique difficulties that make her being in a group game difficult.
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I see, but what about a rp on discord?
Just curious.
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One of my sisters has run a couple of games for some friends and myself for about a year now. But Discord is generally not my style.
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Have more delicious cake!
I will - I must! - try to be a better friend.
As Morrigan says in Dragon Age: "I may never be worthy of your friendship... but I will _always_ cherish it..."
(Claudia Black says it with such a lump in her throat, too...)
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Aww, thanks Marcy!
I think you're a great friend. Being busy with life and being sick are always acceptable excuses. I just hope things can settle down for you.
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Thanks! I'm glad you're feeling better-ish! I prefer my Marcies cheerful, healthy, and un-injured!
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Yay! Honestly, I just wanted to get _something_ down, because it's always easier to continue than to start.
We can - and should! - chat more on email, but I wanted to throw out some ideas.
This one's meant to have a bit of a dream-like quality, obviously. We can go into more specifics now.
And I'm glad you liked 'Retrograde' - its haunting, one of my favourite songs. Its actually a love song, though it sounds unsettling. The video is fascinating - a girl on a motorbike returns to a house that evidently has great meaning for her. There she recalls a party or sorts, and her younger self signs something to her in sign language. There is the motif of a crashing meteorite... some kind of emotional 'collision' must have happened there, but we never know what.
Anyway, I wanted to try out getting Auna _right_ I wanted it to be intimate, even slightly flirtatious. I tried to imagine what it would be like to share your thoughs and feelings with someone who was, in many ways, very different and alien to you.
I also wanted to try to give Auna a distinct personality. She's a dreamer, a bit of a wide-eyed ingénue and scatterbrain.
Of course, it's perfectly possible that I got everything _completely wrong_, in which case I'm happy to start over. Please be honest and tell me if so - it's the only way we can both improve. If I can do better, tell me so. Sometimes it takes a few turns to even begin getting things 'right', especially personalities and speech patterns.
And nary a 'sigh' or 'shrug' in sight!
Anyway, let's chat a lot more and get things rolling!
Marcy
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Definitely! The only thing that seemed off to start was that I didn't think Kemna would take Auna from her rock before she was moving to leave. But with how curious she is (seriously, I loved the idea that Kem talks out loud to Auna because Auna wants to feel the vibration in the air and feel, through Kem's senses, what it's like to talk out loud), I can definitely see Auna asking to "move around in the animal way" with Kem, so that's an easy fix
The only other thing is that Kemna isn't very...assertive currently, so some of the things she said seemed a bit stronger than I'd have expected. But she's an experienced dreamer, so being that she was in a dream at the time, she might have been feeling more confident. Also, the idea that there might be other sensitives out in the world is probably very surprising to her, and she'd probably be more... I dunno, awed? Excited? By being presented with the possibility of their existence, even in a dream.
Just because she expects that they do exist (because she can't possibly be unique), believing it and having that belief confirmed are two different things
But! Those are the only things I could see; I'mma read it again! And probably twenty more times, because OCD is a harsh mistress 
EDIT: Oh, and e-mail is probably easiest for me to have further discussions, because I get an alert every time I get a new one; but if DA is the best for you, I don't mind at all
EDIT 2: Oh, Lars, duh. The last guy is Lars, I bet, not Ben
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Yeah, I figured that Auna is naïve and a bit excitable where Kemna is shy and cautious. Auna is literally like a fish out of water, and doesn't always see the perils because she's too fixated on her wonderful new experiences. I wanted them to enjoy, even relish, the differences between them, because each is getting to experience something they otherwise wouldn't be able to feel.
I did worry I was making her too assertive... I wondered if she might be here, seeing as she knows it's HER dream and anyone else is really invite-only
It's a bit like something that happens in our long-running game in the Ellyverse - Elly and her sister Py are naturally rather diffident, shy people. But when the other is hurt of threatened, they become much more protective and stronger-willed, to be better able to defend each other. That's happened quite a bit over the years.
But that's something I can work on... I know Kemna is a little shy and cautious, and I'll try to pick up on her personality more as we go along. I'll just react - if you think she's changing, that will come out in your 'orders' for me.
(And yeah, it's Lars, not Ben... He's living his dream; he's more positive and open. Ben's had to compromise a lot of his dreams and so he's a sadder, wearier person than his once-protégé).
This really is just meant to be an intro, and naturally I'm having to take a stab at a new character, and sometimes miss.
Really, this is to establish the set-up... Kemna is quite powerful as a Sensitive, having developed her powers with Auna (who isn't a typical 'mentor' but is actually unconsciously doing a lot of the heavy lifting...) quietly while growing up in isolation. Her dream shows her that there's a galactic war going on - she doesn't know why they are fighting, as far as she can see, neither do they! Lots of people seem eager to give her advice or get them on their side.
I don't expect her to pick a side, but she will learn how to navigate it, because the GCW _defines_ some people and _affects_ everyone. Waging peace is harder than waging war.
And of course, it's an F&D story - it's a journey of the self, of inner discovery, raking over the past and discovering terrible and wondrous things. It's about spirituality, and exploring the limits of the self. But of course, elements of the Fringe and the War will intrude on that journey sometimes.
It's up to her where she goes, who she trusts, if she wants to gain friends or go it alone. Every way has its benefits and drawbacks. Because it's the MarcyVerse, it's more about YOU than traditional right and wrong, light and dark. You get to define what's 'good' or 'bad' for you. Its a big galaxy with no easy answers. Only the Jedi deal in absolutes!
Also, I'm perfectly happy for her to stay on Siccorro for a bit if that's what she wants. It's quite the microcosm, and there's stuff to do here if she doesn't want to leave straight away. (And leaving is in itself an issue, seeing as how she'll need a ship to get to where Auna wants to go!)
This really is just the start. To quote Alan Moore's 'Halo Jones': "Where did she go? Out. What did she do? Everything."
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I think you're right on all counts
But I'm fairly sure she wouldn't mind being read at all.
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That's cool, I'm learning all the time
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