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Fawkes
Hello, I have been writing for a little while now, and have been enjoying it immensely, this journal is located in livejournal, due to the format of that website being well more "journal" friendly. This journal will have interviews, IC postings, as well as journals from ages past, among many things..
There are various characters, some of which I still do not write about.
I'm not a writer, and I'm not very good at it, but I am learning bit by bit and trying my best! so be gentle! smile.gif

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Bear

Gilliam

Tobias
McBadgere
Brilliant start...*Applauds*...

You'll have to update us on when you've updated it... wink.gif ...

Nice one... biggrin.gif ...
mALX
QUOTE(Fawkes @ Dec 13 2011, 10:23 PM) *

Hello, I have been writing for a little while now, and have been enjoying it immensely, this journal is located in livejournal, due to the format of that website being well more "journal" friendly. This journal will have interviews, IC postings, as well as journals from ages past, among many things..
There are various characters, some of which I still do not write about.
I'm not a writer, and I'm not very good at it, but I am learning bit by bit and trying my best! so be gentle! smile.gif

Journal home page

Bear

Gilliam

Tobias



OMG, when you said "game journal" that brought a very different vision into my head than what you have written. This is fascinating, and ingenious! Totally awesome write, I am head over heels in love with your whole idea of writing it this way, intrigued by the story so far !! Awesome, Awesome write !! MORE PLEASE !!


** EDIT: Oh, and welcome to the forums !!! (sorry, I had forgotten to welcome you!)
Fawkes
@McBadgere Thank you! ^^, don't worry I'll keep you guys posted when I update. tongue.gif
@mALXAnd what exactly did you think of first? tongue.gif, The way that I wrote it just happened, never really thought of it, I just wrote! But I'm really glad people like my writing, makes me feel very happy! biggrin.gif
The other update will be around the weekend, when I can finally write in peace!
King Coin
Looks interesting, I'll have to peruse it after I have slept some.
Fawkes
Woo I wrote something! Honestly this update was going to be about a Necromancer, but as I was writing it something else happened tongue.gif But i need to write about him eventually heheh.

The next updates will be random musings, 2nd part of Gilliam's interview among other things.

Also this update is brought to you by Insomnia! biggrin.gif because your brain keeps telling you "Sleep is for the weak!" biggrin.gif

Update!!


Warning my imagination and lack of sleep took over tongue.gif, and you know it's not that long and it's only one post, so i might as well post it here.

Hmm, for some reason it's losing some of its format here. :/

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I’m scared.

I…was attacked…On my way to Solitude…some things came out from the darkness, they somehow wrapped themselves around my body, rendering me immobile….I can still remember everything so clearly, I can still feel my very heart pounding just by the thought of it. A man had stepped from the shadows and towards my immobile body

“You clearly know your fate, yet you still fight against it with all your strength.” he then laughed…a bone chilling laugh, it still echoing in my ears…so heartless….so cold.
“All your efforts are for naught. For your fate is written in stone, no matter how hard you fight against it, there is no escaping it.” His voice was cold, every word that he uttered, every breath that he drew felt as if something from inside me was clawing my insides.

Next thing I remember is waking up here, this room it’s depressing, the only things contained in it is a bed and a small desk next to it, it’s small only with a few steps I can reach the door…which is locked. The cold grey walls feel like they are closing in on me, wanting to crush my life, to rip the warmth from my body… this room, it feels as if it has never been occupied, it feels ancient yet it feels as if it was recently built.

My mind is wandering to his words, fate? What fate? How am I fighting against it? I don’t know anything of my so called fate.
However more importantly, who is this man and how does he know me, and where in Oblivion am I!

***
I cried myself to sleep last night...it was night right? I don’t know I felt tired so I went to sleep.
I dreamed about a elderly Nord, his grey eyes were breathtaking, we surrounded by a vast forest, the air was filled with rose petals dancing in the wind, the grass was covered in morning dew, I could smell the very purity of the place, feel the tranquility.

The dream changed, I was on a cliff, behind me pure darkness, calling out to me, tugging at me, slowly spreading towards me, I looked down the cliff, the darkness was all over the land, then suddenly a beam of light shot down from the sky into the land underneath me, I could see the elderly Nord where it hit, along with a small area around him being cleansed of the darkness. Suddenly I heard a whisper, “Only courage in the face of doubt can lead you to a answer.”
I jumped.

So many questions circled around my head, but I knew just sitting here won’t resolve anything.

***

I can’t believe it! Underneath the bed was a trapdoor, I don’t know where it leads, but it sure beats staying here in the room, before leaving, I managed to move the bed on top of the trapdoor again, Don’t want anyone to follow me.

As I left the first pitch black hallway, I entered another one, but this one was filled with orbs of light, playfully bouncing against the walls, cheerfully following me, I also feel my magic returning to me, good, now I can defend myself.

***

The carvings on these walls must be ancient! They are not Nordic or Dwemer carvings that I know of, these are different, I can feel the magic pulsating from them. I decided to touch them.


The elven folk are happily dancing around the fire, a huge city made of white marble towered behind them, it was a celebration, children ran among the stream, the adults there were not dancing were happily drinking and chatting among themselves. My sight was drawn towards a crying child, alone, no one paid heed to the child, no one cared when he started screaming for his father and mother. I went towards him, as I got closer I could not help but gasp, his frail body was covered in scars, instinctively I embraced him.

“They took mommy and daddy away.” “Th-they call m-me cursed, they h-h-h-h-hit me to scare curse away.” “Why do th-they do this to m-m-me!”
His anguish…a child is suppose to be carefree, happy, loving…parents.
But this!

I turned around, all music had stopped, all the elven were staring fiercely at me. A elven clad in jeweled embedded robes and carrying a marble staff came forth, the king I take it.
He hit the ground with the staff, I saw my body and the child’s connected by a strong blue line of magic, and I heard a audible gasp from the crowd.

“You who have a connection with the cursed one, you who clings to the dim light of false hope, you who fights against your very fate given to you by the gods, you have overstepped your station, your search for the truth will bring you one thing Breton and that will be your death.”

He hit his staff on the ground one more time and a blinding light filled the area….

***

As of now I am in the same hallway, the magic pulsating from the carvings is stronger than ever, when I came to my journal had been filled with the events that happened, it was not written by normal ink though..
Either way if I want to get out of here I need to hurry up.

***

Wrapped in chains the thing slept, where its face should have been was…I’m getting nauseous just looking at it, the brown ball that I suppose his face is covered by tentacles, its body is covered in spikes that look like had grown from underneath its skin, the skin from its arm was hanging by a mere thread, that arm was covered in pus,
I can see it…bubbling from all the way over here, the other arm looked as if someone burned pieces of swords into it, the skin was charred to a crisp with bits and pieces falling off as I watched , the swords were either badly rusted or broken. The legs if you would call them that were a bubbling green blob of well something.

I managed to sneak to the other side of the room, right now I’m leaning in a hallway outside the room with that thing, trying to catch my breath.


……I just heard the chains snap.
mALX
QUOTE(Fawkes @ Dec 15 2011, 03:34 AM) *

@mALXAnd what exactly did you think of first? The other update will be around the weekend, when I can finally write in peace!



Well, lol - you kind of said "journal" in an apologetic tone, lol. I was afraid you meant a flat out game journal - (like as in just following the game questlines as written). What you have is such an awesome surprise instead !!

I'm glad you said it would be the weekend before an update, it will probably be then before I get a chance to read as well!
Fawkes
QUOTE(mALX @ Dec 16 2011, 10:57 AM) *

Well, lol - you kind of said "journal" in an apologetic tone, lol. I was afraid you meant a flat out game journal - (like as in just following the game questlines as written). What you have is such an awesome surprise instead !!

I'm glad you said it would be the weekend before an update, it will probably be then before I get a chance to read as well!


Actually, i tried one of those before, just following the questlines..but meh it feels restricting.
The way that i'm writing right now, well i just write so sometimes things might end up a bit crazy haha xD

But yea if everything goes alright by the weekend i should have a few musings and interviews done biggrin.gif
Don't have another weird plot thing planned, not really good at the whole plot and what not, but it was fun to write tongue.gif
mALX
Holy Crap! That update was Awesome !! Scary, but Awesome! You can really create visual scenes, what a huge ability you have !!!
McBadgere
Brilliant...

Loved the bit in the Ayelid ruin...*Applauds*...

Wonder how that'll turn out... biggrin.gif ...

Nice one... biggrin.gif ...
Colonel Mustard
Ooh, like this, especially the last part, nice and very creepy. All the Ayleid stuff, and the final mention of the thing in the chains? Lovely, if somewhat nauseating.

Good read, and I'm looking forward to more.
Fawkes
mALXl Aww thank you! ^^, I am writing the next update as I type this, it's going to flash forward a few days though...maybe I'm still not sure. biggrin.gif

McBadgere Hehe thanks you! It was my original plan for something to attack while we were holding the boy, but I decided against it wink.gif

Colonel Mustard Hehe, I got creeped out just by writing it, I tend to picture everything in my head. The thing in chains was suppose to have faces stitched on his head..but yea the image was just creepy. Sorry if you felt nauseated!

Also just a FYI The Elven were not Ayleids!
Next update should be in a day or two.
McBadgere
Oh, right...Sorry about that...It was just the huge white marble city and the elven folk...Thought they were Ayelids...Sorry, my bad... biggrin.gif ...
Fawkes
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Dec 19 2011, 12:37 AM) *

Oh, right...Sorry about that...It was just the huge white marble city and the elven folk...Thought they were Ayelids...Sorry, my bad... biggrin.gif ...


Haha, they might be close to the Ayelids though wink.gif
King Coin
QUOTE(mALX @ Dec 16 2011, 09:28 PM) *

You can really create visual scenes, what a huge ability you have !!!


This!

I kind of wonder if that whole last section is a dream, or if everything after being taken was a dream... The monster blink.gif
Grits
Yikes! The pus monster... ugh. It must be pretty miserable. Maybe it's a friendly sword-studded thing? blink.gif
Fawkes
King Coin Awww! Thank you!! I'm really glad people enjoy my writings ^^, also that Pus monster thingi was real, it's a Sload, so it does have teleportation abilities wink.gif
My writing skills are still sort of low, so I might skip till the last part of the battle, or I might just skip it entirely tongue.gif

Grits Friendly? tongue.gif After a 1000+ years of being a mage's toy I don't think it can even rationalize! Haha!

Anyway, I'm posting because I want to ask if you guys are alright if I change the writing style, what I mean it's to be more of a First Person narrative like seen in most of the fics here, the reason why I kinda want this change is because when I'm writing its rather hard to explain some things or even write about other things because "Wait why would someone write that in their journal!" among other smaller things.
Of course I'm still slowly improving my writing so don't expect a master piece! tongue.gif
McBadgere
huh.gif ...Dude, write whatever and however you want to...

If we...And by that I mean they, the cleverer...er...er...*slap*...Ones, can help you improve then we (they) will if we/they can...*Breathes*...

But change if you want, don't if you don't...Write it for you, then we'll read it too...I think we all like what we've read so far, so doubtlessly we'll continue to like...

Yes...Nice one!!... biggrin.gif ...
King Coin
QUOTE(Fawkes @ Dec 20 2011, 11:50 PM) *

My writing skills are still sort of low, so I might skip till the last part of the battle, or I might just skip it entirely tongue.gif

I know the feeling, which is why I started making videos. tongue.gif


Like McBadgere said: Write how you want and write it for you.
mALX
QUOTE(Fawkes @ Dec 21 2011, 12:50 AM) *

Anyway, I'm posting because I want to ask if you guys are alright if I change the writing style, what I mean it's to be more of a First Person narrative like seen in most of the fics here, the reason why I kinda want this change is because when I'm writing its rather hard to explain some things or even write about other things because "Wait why would someone write that in their journal!" among other smaller things.
Of course I'm still slowly improving my writing so don't expect a master piece! tongue.gif



Write in whatever style is most comfortable for you. As far as not writing well, I am still bowled over by your first chapter! That first chapter clearly shows you are a gifted writer !!
McBadgere
Can I just add that I think your writing's brilliant as well?...Just re-read what I'd put, and I did't say that, and I meant to...Just forgot... biggrin.gif ...See...*Points*...Clevererer...er...er....

Nice one...Looking forward to more of your story...*Applauds*...
SubRosa
Finally got a chance to read. The short piece in post #6 was outstanding. I saw a number of grammar nits, but those aside, the story was filled with powerful emotion. Much of it was unpleasant. But that is not at all a bad thing in writing. Getting your reader to feel something, anything, means that your writing is working. You evoked powerful images of loneliness, isolation, and alienation. Especially in the part with the elves. Well done! goodjob.gif
Fawkes
Thank you guys so much, really means allot to me! I just got a new charger for my laptop So I can finally get online and start writing! lol

I will have a couple of more short pieces as well as the other plot-y piece by next week, my cousin just bought me Dead Island as a early bday present so I might be busy tongue.gif
mALX
WOO HOO !!!
Acadian
A hearty welcome to chorrol! It is nice to see the Killerpenguin join us for some fanfic. smile.gif

I read the episode that you posted here on the forum (post #6) and was sure I was in front of an ancient Ayleid City – until you clarified that was not the case. Now I am quite curious about the mysterious elves, the cursed child and the marble city. Oh, and Jabba the Hut Sload. You are evoking some interesting images.
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