You know, sometimes you just get fed up with a story? I'm there now. And it's giving me that most cruel of conditions, Writer's Block. So screw it.
I hereby present:
The Undying Fic
I've mentioned it a few times here and there, when frustration hits hard enough on an unrelated reply. Right now, I can't seem to either complete it (due to writer's block) or kill it (it's been hanging around on my HD for 3 years at this point). So I'm hoping one of these things will happen by posting this.
One reason I hadn't posted it earlier is the fact that I felt the fic had to be finished before I did so, because of the concept I ended up going for. I'll explain after the first segment below.
Notes:
- Radio communications
It wasn't until late April 2014 that the Prometheus Forge crew managed to get back to working on their own projects. With the massive increase in bandwidth available from the improved Interwave system (for which they'd assisted) A.C. decided to work on something fun and planed an update to the KoFen system.
The original system was based around fixed units with limited interworking and expansion. They took this and used the greater bandwidth to move the server units (the part of the system A.C. felt had to be as secure as possible) back to fixed (and guarded) locations and allow the smaller and easier to sell interface units out to the general public.
Removing the servers allowed easier maintenance and upgrading, and allowed Lebia to introduce a public 'sandbox', an area with a published interface that people could create and run their own games in. The most popular of these would be voted on every six months and converted to native code (with the commiserate increase in speed, detail and sensory input. You could, of course, pay to have the conversion done).
Somewhat unsurprisingly, when the Cyber Confederation opened the new servers at the beginning of June the huge demand brought the majority of Fen-net to a crawl.
At the beginning of July, the Forge unveiled a new feature to the KoFen fighting system; this was the ability to win upgrades to your character. The first and most public way was to win competitions announced few hours in advance for a specific server. The gifts here were highly specific to the competition, and provided a reasonable boost to capabilities.
The second and more common way was to hit the Dungeon. The user would face a multitude of monsters in a never-ending stream (in a particularly gruelling version of Space Invaders) and at significant milestones (one million points or an hour of survival, for example) would earn a random power-up object as designated by the semi-sapient AI monitoring the environment.
For Class 1 combatants, the Dungeon was considered too easy. They got a variant called The Gauntlet.
**1**
Green Team 3 arrayed themselves in a defensive ring, watching their motion detectors closely.
A third said, looking up into the gloom of the chamber they'd entered.
I hereby present:
The Undying Fic
I've mentioned it a few times here and there, when frustration hits hard enough on an unrelated reply. Right now, I can't seem to either complete it (due to writer's block) or kill it (it's been hanging around on my HD for 3 years at this point). So I'm hoping one of these things will happen by posting this.
One reason I hadn't posted it earlier is the fact that I felt the fic had to be finished before I did so, because of the concept I ended up going for. I'll explain after the first segment below.
Notes:
- Radio communications
It wasn't until late April 2014 that the Prometheus Forge crew managed to get back to working on their own projects. With the massive increase in bandwidth available from the improved Interwave system (for which they'd assisted) A.C. decided to work on something fun and planed an update to the KoFen system.
The original system was based around fixed units with limited interworking and expansion. They took this and used the greater bandwidth to move the server units (the part of the system A.C. felt had to be as secure as possible) back to fixed (and guarded) locations and allow the smaller and easier to sell interface units out to the general public.
Removing the servers allowed easier maintenance and upgrading, and allowed Lebia to introduce a public 'sandbox', an area with a published interface that people could create and run their own games in. The most popular of these would be voted on every six months and converted to native code (with the commiserate increase in speed, detail and sensory input. You could, of course, pay to have the conversion done).
Somewhat unsurprisingly, when the Cyber Confederation opened the new servers at the beginning of June the huge demand brought the majority of Fen-net to a crawl.
At the beginning of July, the Forge unveiled a new feature to the KoFen fighting system; this was the ability to win upgrades to your character. The first and most public way was to win competitions announced few hours in advance for a specific server. The gifts here were highly specific to the competition, and provided a reasonable boost to capabilities.
The second and more common way was to hit the Dungeon. The user would face a multitude of monsters in a never-ending stream (in a particularly gruelling version of Space Invaders) and at significant milestones (one million points or an hour of survival, for example) would earn a random power-up object as designated by the semi-sapient AI monitoring the environment.
For Class 1 combatants, the Dungeon was considered too easy. They got a variant called The Gauntlet.
**1**
Green Team 3 arrayed themselves in a defensive ring, watching their motion detectors closely.
A third said, looking up into the gloom of the chamber they'd entered.