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New Project: KARMA

PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:37 pm
by griever_tantalus
[[I've put Angelfire on hold again because it always seems to get out of hand when I plot it :P So I'm thinking of doing a - relatively - smaller project, starting it over the break, which will be in prose form but come in smaller bits. I might also look into audience partition at certain points, though I'm unsure how.

So here's a brief summary of the story (as I PMed to Zack when I was proposing it as a webcomic :P). Comments, volunteering for artwork or co-writing, or any degree of help is always welcome.]]

Title: Karma - The Return of Magic

Genre: Adventure, Action, Comedy, Romance... If you watch that new anime Shana it might trod over some of the same territory. (This story as well focuses on the dynamic of a pair of characters)

Setting: In the present day, in our modern world bereft of magic, a young musician named Lan wants nothing more than to form a band and make good music. But on the day his band breaks up, his life takes on a strange turn as he discovers a beautiful girl bathed in light - who promptly wakes up and puts a sword of flame to his throat. She's a girl of many surprises -
- not the least of which being that she wasn't always a girl.

Her name is Adran - PRINCE Adran ip' Zuvarios, greatest of the Five Knights of Ad'lanten - what we know as Atlantis. Turns out magic DID exist in the world in the past, but this magic was maintained by virtue of a ritual performed once every generation, in which a magical being known as the Maiden was reincarnated, in an eternal cycle, to charge the Three Artifacts with magical power, enabling the Artifacts in turn to ensure that magic continued to exist on Earth. However, in his era, Adran had ended up slaying the Maiden's true love - and in her rage and despair the Maiden had killed herself... and sent Adran's soul into the cycle of reincarnation in her place.

However, as the ritual was not completed in that generation, magic failed. Ad'lanten fell, and the process of reincarnating the new "Maiden" slowed to a trickle.

But now "she's" here... and stuck in her body until she can restore enough magic to the world to reverse the spell upon her. So now Adran - Adrienne - will need to find the long lost Artifacts and bring magic back to the world. And Lan is going to help her, whether he likes it or not...


[[So why do I think this will be easier to write than Angelfire? Because I'm dealing only with the Adran/Adrienne - Lan relationship, not with the 3 girls and 1 guy harem dynamic (especially since there's no "main" girl in AF :P)]]

[[Current Status: Have the first mini-episode done. Working on the overall outline which is about 60% done. I'll hash out how it all ends, then work backwards from there]]

PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:46 pm
by Sophia Anieri
Sounds very interesting; good luck with it.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:48 pm
by griever_tantalus
Thanks :) My goal is one mini-episode per week, hopefully each or every other with a pic by someone, but even without I'll try to keep that schedule ^_^

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:30 am
by Christina Anikari
Definitely sounds interesting. I hope it all works out.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:35 pm
by Mistress Guendolen
Sounds like it has a good bit of potential. I'd like to see how it turns out.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:43 pm
by griever_tantalus
Thanks for the support you guys :) Should have the first mini - episode done by tomorrow...

PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:07 am
by Sakraida82
It does sound interesting.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:55 am
by griever_tantalus
First episode is up. ^_^ Note the short length -I'm hoping making them bite sized will make for easier reading, and more consistent writing. I'll post every new episode in the story thread and leave this for the comments :)

PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:19 am
by Xia
see, I need to pay attention more while on break. time to give it a read over and see whats up :o

PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:35 am
by griever_tantalus
And just in time for the second scene :) Dont forget to let me know what you think... I may be a tad rusty :P

Scene 3 is done already, but since I'm staggering the releases I'll post it on Christmas ^_^ I'm looking at a scene every 2-3 days - 1 a week at least...

PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:45 pm
by SweetSophia
I like how you wrote the last part of it. You're descriptions were very vivid and beautiful.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:32 pm
by griever_tantalus
Thanks :) I tried - I was introducing our second main character after all, and the catalyst of the entire thing. Of course while she may be beautiful her personality.... well, you'll see ^_^

PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:56 pm
by Thorn
Mooooore...neeeed Moooooooooooooooore

PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:58 pm
by griever_tantalus
And more it is :P Scene 7 is up. Sorry for the delay, midterms week, but should be slowly getting back on track.

This is the first Adran POV, so I hope her character comes off well. ^_^

PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:21 pm
by Arkain
Hrm, I dunno about this one so much. It's pretty disjointed and it moves too quickly between scenes. No time to really take it in or linger.