Comments for Birch's RV5 Fanfiction Thread!

[Birch]

Heya! Birch here, rejected app number 626. I thought I might take a cue from my old experiment number and do some invasive invading. For those of you that get that, cookies all around. For those that don't, I'll be happy to explain.

I want to review the story, but I want to do it in a fairly different manner than what most others are doing on the board. What I want to do is become part of the story, be a sideline type character that doesn't affect the plot or really much of anything, but will comment on the story as it unfolds before my eyes. Consider it a sort of RV5 Fanfiction that's being written while the story is going on.

I know something similar was attempted in both QBIV and RV4, as a sort of separate roleplay apart from the story, but I also understand that neither of those really caught on. I plan on keeping this alive until the end.

Of course, none of my posts will be considered "canon", per se. That's up to the contestants. If you'd like to use me, I would love you to death, and shower you with hearts and cookies and praises. Thusly, I offer myself to you, the contestants, to mold and use for your own malicious purposes. If you want me to lose an eye, I'll be half blind. If you want me to lose my limbs, I'll just kind of flop around. If you want me dead, then I'll be dead, but expect some zombie-rific posts! If you want to ignore me, then I shall be sad.

I invite others to join me, whether with rejected apps, or brand new characters. I hope for this to catch on, and perhaps with enough activity, we might be able to affect the story AND CONTROL TIME OURSELVES.

So I present to you:

Birch's RV5 Fanfiction Thread!

[Revel]

Hey, I like this! I hope you keep it up. Keep an eye out in my next post.  ;)

:mspacman: ~ Rev

[Birch]

You, my dear miss stoat, might very well win immunity this voting period.

Unless you have a barn to sell me as well? *raises eye*

[Jarrtail]

This is a really interesting idea. Karma for you, Birch!
Question: Are we allowed to post our own sections of the story into the fanfiction thread, or do we just give you our characters?

[Eliza Lacrimosa]

Birch, this is absolutely fantastic!

Although, exactly what are those beastly slaves saying about Eliza, hmm?  :P

[Opal]

It was that and the fact they were still on the ship that really aggravated her. Birch figured by this time they would have reached their destination to dive head first into things. After all, that seemed to be what was going to happen at the very start, but most of the crew was content on dilly-dallying instead. The slaves were told that their time in the galleys would be mostly contained through flashbacks, but in all honesty--she thought as her back burned from the scourge marks--it wasn?t very flashbacky at all.

**snerk** I like this paragraph especially. I had no idea they were going to spend the entire week or so just getting to the present, and I think it really could've been done a lot more quickly (which I did at least try to encourage, so don't blame me! :P). Were I posting as a contestant, I probably would've just done a quick paragraph or two briefly explaining the events leading up to the prologue and moved on from there, seeing as we already know what happens from the prologue chapter. Or at the very least they could've spent their first posts explaining how they get on Matukhana's ship (or in the Martin's Shadow place, how they get to the Oasis) and then just fast-forward through all the prologue-y bits. When I wrote it I really didn't intend for it to be expanded upon any further, because you get the idea, right? :P

Still, next week should be nice. The story should actually be moving ahead by then. So there's that to look forward to. XD

(Don't worry, contestants, I still like you. But the reviewers do have a very valid point. :P)

[Damask the Minstrel]

Well, to be fair, two things:

1) The pre-prologue is my fault. I wrote the first post, had it up right after yours in the contestant forum, and I started out from directly after my app. I'm not sure if everyone followed suit because of the precedent, or if they didn't want to leave me hanging out to dry. Either way, I started the pre-prologue, so go ahead and blame me (to be fair, I thought I was writing in the present -- but that was because I wasn't thinking about anyone else).

2) Your prologue post works great as a kind of cover jacket teaser that books have. It's a, "this is what happens in the story" lead-in. Wonderful, right? Besides, even if they are flashbacks, there has been plot and characterization, as well as some wonderful interaction and stellar writing. True, we didn't work from AP 0 (After Prologue, dontchaknow), but a story that begins BR 15 (Before RV5) can still be gripping.

[Sparrowhawk]

What they were doing in a vermin bar in the first place? It made no sense.

Hahaaaa.

Keep doing these things! They are clever and amusing.

KARMA 4 U

[Jarrtail]

Entertaining and slightly snide. Love it!  ;D

[Birch]

Oh my goodness! I didn't think it'd be this much of a hit! *bows*

I don't want to miss anyone's comments, so I'll start at the top.

Question: Are we allowed to post our own sections of the story into the fanfiction thread, or do we just give you our characters?

I encourage everyone who wants a part to post directly their own bits into the fanfiction thread itself. If you're a little shy or don't have the time, you are more than welcome to post a short bio in here and I'll see what I can do!

Although, exactly what are those beastly slaves saying about Eliza, hmm?  Tongue

Umm... as I recall...

It was learned recently that a pine marten had ruined half his face, which threw Birch into a fit of jealousy. She wanted to be the one that beat him up, not some prissy marten that had a hundred times more control over things than she did. The marten annoyed her, mostly because whenever the slaves talked about her Birch didn?t understand half the words that came out of their mouths. If the squirrel had easy access to a dictionary, things might be different, but the time it took to look up a word every other sentence did wonders for breaking a flow.

Most of these "reviews" (and I put them in quotes because I'm not sure they qualify as reviews) are comments that I've picked up here in the audience forum, conversations I've had with folk, and my own personal impressions. The little blip I said about Eliza is my own opinion of your prose. That being said, you miiight have made me painfully aware of my shortcomings in vocabulary.

Truth be told, I kinda threw your bit and Revel's last minute because most of mine had been written and then you surprised me with a "GOMGOMGOM NEW POST".

Blah blah blah

Chirp chirp chirp

Eek! I hope no one got upset over that little passage of mine. That was one attributed to comments gleaned from the audience forum. Most of what I write is going to be very satirical, focusing on stupid details that should be glossed over and ignored, or just accepted for the fact that that's the way it is. Sparrowhawk pointed out another good example.

That being said, if you want to defend yourself, I'm totally down with that. Talking about the way things were done is always enlightening and I really do enjoy what goes on in your little heads when you write. However, I'm going to put my foot down right now and say I will not tolerate fighting. I am by no means taking cracks at writing ability and such. I just want to have fun, and you should, too.

And with the vomit of posts you guys did over the past few days, I have quite enough fodder for another chapter.

If anyone wants to join and discuss the story and our fanfiction, send me a pm and I'll give you some contact info!

[Sycamore]

This is neat! As much as I'd like to participate, however, I don't think I'll have the time. I've got my Story Time with Meadowbrook thing, and I want to get back into reviewing full time. Top that off with projects at work and *sigh*...

But I'll give you a character! How do you want the format? Bio, history, description, all that jazz?

[Sparrowhawk]

?Nay, that?s a cactus. ?s all spiky.?

?Well, maybe we could put it in a soup er somethin??

Glad to see you're taking my/Revel's cooking advice.

[Jarrtail]

You know, I only noticed that after I finished writing. It was completely unintentional. Man, my subconcious must be insane...

[Sparrowhawk]

or hungry. :P

[Revel]

I really like Kirby's bowl of Ambiguity.  ;D The whole post was really fun.

This is our own fault for having not described it all yet, but the oasis does have some farm lands. The slave's trench was dug out of an irrigation ditch from the main pool to water the fields. So there's food. But I have no idea if it's ready for harvest.

Wouldn't there be fish falling into the pool from the waterfall?  ??? You'd think we'd know these things!