Frame of Mind is something I'm writing in practice for when I write a chronicle about what happened to Cap'n NoBeard. I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on what you think of as you read it, and what the language technically comes accross to you as.
The chronicle is something I'm writing solo, and will happen in parts, as I'm working 9-5 in rl, and can't afford long binges at my computer writing. And I can't write at work either
Awwww... I thought it was a pre-lude to a new character
Good read though, looking forward to future episodes
It is a prelude, but I won't be playing a new character that happens to be a reincarnation of the cap'n if that's what you were thinking.
Beautifully written - very poignant
My understanding of Matari religious customs, is that they fall mainly into the tribal/shamanistic category. Does anyone actually have prime fiction references to this? I'd particularly like to know what the general distribution of certain faiths either way is. I can work with the assumption that most large populations will have people of all faiths in them kicking around somewhere just by laws of statistical averages. Frame of Mind is taking a quite religious bent at the moment, and I'd rather not directly contradict prime fiction when I take liberties with inventing fluff.
cap'n nobeard Wrote:It is a prelude, but I won't be playing a new character that happens to be a reincarnation of the cap'n if that's what you were thinking.
Cappy is alive again as herself, with the majority of her faculties intact. Frame of Mind is a dry run for writing cappy's story, but I might simply adopt it wholesale if I think it's of good enough quality to stand up to the PF nazis of the EVE-O forums
These are the hard facts I'm working with:
Cap'n NoBeard was registered as deceased around about november. I've decided against the "it was faked" angle. Her shares were liquidated along with any assets in her estate.
Her flight status was reinstated by the Sebestior tribe a few weeks ago, and yesterday she took a ship out for the first time, and promptly joined Re-Aw.
She experienced either "final death" or several months of a near death state. She has memories of a large portion of her time being "dead".
Fluffy facts:
Her "resurrection" is a deliberate grey area, that I'm not going to attempt to explain. It may be that her clone was rescued from the biomass recyclers, jovians used super advanced technology to bring her back, the spirits intervened, whatever. She doesn't herself know the facts.
Her experiences while she was legally dead were of spiritual origin, according to her own beliefs. The facts of this are another grey area. I'm writing Frame of Mind to be plausible as both a spiritual transcendence, and as a woman's subconcious incorporating her sensory experiences into her coma. (I was inspired by the weird and freaky explanations my mind comes up with every morning for sleepwalking me over to my alarm to hit snooze without breaking my dreams.
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My landlord binged me on Life on Mars episodes earlier this week, so some ideas from said series may get half inched in the near future
Iohan has a Conspiracy theory about Jovians lifting the people from the cloning preceedure / people's inplants or via the pod architecture. He has not talked about this with anyone outside Re-Aw however. Recent events have got his attention though.
Dusting off Cappy's personal storyline again. Comments appreciated.
No cappy return till I get a a pc that'll cope with the client, but I'm yet again spamming some story fluff on here. I liked the "focus" motif from the first frame of mind fic, which is why i'm playing around with "Tick".
Some slightly more coherant soliloques are being thrown in this time. My intention is to dip into this episodally and to explore a bit of what its like to think like a shamanistic capsuleer.
Just read what is there, and liked it a lot.