Write Your Butt Off 358/II.8 prompts HD Final Chapter Prologue

[Benice]

46 minutes ago, TheSilentChloey said:

I don't think that it did mate.

...Zoinks. It's showing up on my end. Maybe I'll try editing it again?

[TheSilentChloey]

53 minutes ago, Benice said:

...Zoinks. It's showing up on my end. Maybe I'll try editing it again?

It's showing up my end too lmao.

[SoulWeaver]

Benice this is like the fourth time you've posted one of my entries as "Untitled." I know it's my fault for not adding a title to the Serenes post myself, but I'm starting to feel like you're not reading any of these. Have you been hit with the Curse Of The Thread Updater(TM)?

[TheSilentChloey]

Not a hundred percent on that...

[AnonymousSpeed]

On 10/30/2022 at 10:35 PM, AnonymousSpeed said:

I am also going to need another day, on the grounds that, uh...this is a Halloween round, and Halloween is tomorrow.

Can I...can I also request an extension for voting, too? I haven't had time to finish @indigoasis's entry yet.

[Benice]

4 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Can I...can I also request an extension for voting, too? I haven't had time to finish @indigoasis's entry yet.

Well, we've got a three-way tie right now and I forgot to close the poll two days ago, so why not?

[indigoasis]

12 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Can I...can I also request an extension for voting, too? I haven't had time to finish @indigoasis's entry yet.

Sorry for making another long one. That's my bad.

[TheSilentChloey]

This is why I stick to shorter entries lol

[Benice]

If I remember, I will try and have OP updated by about 6:30 tonight (Five hours from when this post goes up), though it may end up happening tomorrow; though things can change by then if @AnonymousSpeed has enough time to finish reading, I would like to request that everyone be ready to present a prompt in case of your entry winning or a tie!

[SoulWeaver]

Anon skip reading Indigo's piece and just vote Chloey.

Do it.

[AnonymousSpeed]

Just now, SoulWeaver said:

Anon skip reading Indigo's piece and just vote Chloey.

Do it.

no i'm on page 18 of 21

i can't

i made a promise

i can't break it for memes

[SoulWeaver]

Just now, AnonymousSpeed said:

no i'm on page 18 of 21

i can't

i made a promise

i can't break it for memes

I mean, as I said after reading it, it definitely fit both potential halves of the prompt as I imagined it very well, so I can't fault you for wanting to vote responsibly with it as one of the options.

BUT THE FOUR-WAY TIE MY MAN

[AnonymousSpeed]

7 hours ago, indigoasis said:

Sorry for making another long one. That's my bad.

Nah, it's no problem.

4 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:

I mean, as I said after reading it, it definitely fit both potential halves of the prompt as I imagined it very well, so I can't fault you for wanting to vote responsibly with it as one of the options.

BUT THE FOUR-WAY TIE MY MAN

I AM A RESPONSIBLE MAN!

Anyway, I read the story. I collected some thoughts. I have written them down. And I am breaking the tie.

Spoiler

Quietly taking an internal sigh of relief

This is a line from early on that I'm going to pick on because I am a critic, not an editor. I like the intro, but lines like these feel very stilted and interrupt the pace and the tension.

I'm not sure if all-caps text is "Chicago Manual of Style"-approved for shouting, but I don't care much for Chicago, so, uh...have fun with that.

Perhaps it was inevitable, or perhaps it was God’s sick and twisted sense of humor, but his escort job had guided him back to the land of his birth.

Not sure if "escort job was escorting him" would've been clever, but it would've been a more proper tense.

The brisk night air flowed through the horse-drawn carriage as the travelers were rapidly approaching their final destination.

Speaking of tenses, "rapidly approached" would've been better. I'm no grammarian, but I would've over-use these imperfect/past-continuous phrases, especially when "flowed" is already a preterite verb.

"It could have been the former or the latter, but" => "Either way,"

I'm not sure how much sense it really makes for Victor to let his old buddies push him around. For someone who doesn't seem to like them so much but really wants to leave, he seems more compliant that I'd figure.

with his greatest evidence to that theory looming tall before him

"The spire itself was attached to possibly one of the largest structures Victor had ever seen"

The problem with the above line is that "possibly" and "one of" both add ambiguity, so you really only need one.

Great pitch though. The scene with the "replica" whips is great. Very cool way to introduce the premise.

If the year he thought that it was supposed to be was correct

This sentence is a little clunky tho

“Well, clearly I’m not. And as far as I know, you shouldn’t even exist.”

"Yet."

Not saying it's an improvement, I just wanted to write that.

The pair stood in silence at their baffling situation. => The pair stood in baffled silence.

>"Sonia Belmont"

Inconsistent patrilineality moment (I do not know Castlevania lore, she might be married by this point)

"For a little ways along, it almost seemed as if the graves were beginning to stare at them as they continued. At every turn, the graves slowly faced the walkway more and more, getting closer and closer to each other as if they were forming a wall littered with cobwebs."

I like this bit. Neat imagery.

>1666

Neato, though isn't Simon Belmont's shtick in, like, 25 years after this? Again, my knowledge of the lore is "every hundred years but not really" and wikipedia. I don't know what happened in 666 AD in Castlevania lore, or 616 or 1616, depending on if you subscribe to filthy revisionist heresies or not.

Kind of a neat dynamic I'm picking up here. Sonia might be the more experienced actual vampire hunter, but Victor's got a more even temper than her, so he still helps keep them alive.

To be continued…

I like that. Formatting changes for emphasis. Again, not Chicago manual, but a lot more effective than capitalization.

 

 

[AnonymousSpeed]

On 10/19/2022 at 7:04 PM, indigoasis said:

Another goal for this story is to be accessible as possible. Essentially, I want to make it so that anyone can read it, not just Castlevania fans. Similarly to the games where you can kind of start with almost any of them, I want this to be something that people can read and not be confused as to what's going on because they don't know the lore, but people who do know the lore can piece things together and understand it just as well. More will be explained as I get more written down, and it will hopefully be as complete of a narrative as possible without too much reliance on the rest of the series.

Whoops, skipped the post-read notes.

I actually kinda like how you did this. Not too confusing, but I'm not so unfamiliar with Castlevania lore that I don't understand concepts like Dracula, the vampire-killer whip, Belmonts, etc. Very accessible to someone who liked the NES game. I think you did a good job here, although some of that might be because Castlevania has fever unique concepts than, say, Mega Man Battle Network.

Other notes may come later. @SoulWeaver must also hear my thoughts.

Edited November 7, 2022 by AnonymousSpeed

[SoulWeaver]

Well, since Benice isn't here yet and I am, unless random people show up and throw the vote off worse @indigoasis I think this round is yours. Whenever you're ready to start us off feel free to drop it on us.

[Benice]

Indeedy! Congrats to @indigoasis, and please present the next prompt!

[AnonymousSpeed]

10 minutes ago, Benice said:

Indeedy! Congrats to @indigoasis, and please present the next prompt!

Pronto!

Now, onto @SoulWeaver! I demand City of Mist characters.

Spoiler

On 10/31/2022 at 5:27 PM, SoulWeaver said:

What, no, I meant hypotheses about it being a catgirl. Even if it were, why would I do anything to it? I'm not a furry, I just want to know if they exist is all.

  After a week, I can finally say that, uh...y'know, I had a joke here, but at this point I've kind of forgotten it, so I'm just gonna let this one slide.

On 10/31/2022 at 5:27 PM, SoulWeaver said:

Meanwhile, America got cat. Like sure, she's a heartwarming character who stands out as the only remotely well-adjusted member of a cast of psychotic freaks, but...it's kind of hard to get over the fact that her big aspiration in life is basically to be a showgirl. Or that she's butt-naked at all times with fur only covering the absolute essentials. That part's...kind of important.

Yeah I feel like that's actually uh totally wrong because that's the exact opposite of "well-adjusted". All because being obviously fatherless is a more realistic psychosis doesn't mean it's not kind of a sin. I blame Catholicism, but we don't need to go into that story.

On 10/31/2022 at 5:27 PM, SoulWeaver said:

I only did half of the infodump I wanted to do and this still suffers from way, waaaaay too much exposition.

Yeah, I'll say.

On 10/31/2022 at 5:27 PM, SoulWeaver said:

Anyways, I went with Layer-Zero.EXE since, well, for one Anon decreed so and he's the only one this will make any degree of sense to

On 10/31/2022 at 5:27 PM, SoulWeaver said:

This piece assumes you know Megaman X lore, at least from X5-X8, then Megaman Battle Network lore, specifically from Network Transmission, the one that the BN fans don't talk about because it's pretty much a BN game in theory only, which is just so you can understand the interaction between the two characters

Uhuh, I know about these.

On 10/31/2022 at 5:27 PM, SoulWeaver said:

and then you want to know about A Robot Named Fight in order to have maximum understanding of the setting.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand here's where you lost me.

On 10/31/2022 at 5:27 PM, SoulWeaver said:

In the Iris-Zero pairing, Iris(who would actually be appearing posthumously which spawned a whole other idea I may do at some point)

The other interesting part of this pairing would be that Iris wasn't supposed to be there, and in fact is technically a glitch - Tutorial Smith doesn't seem to see her, and apologizes to Zero for pulling him in without anyone to back him up before dying.

Oooog. Very interesting. It's secretly Axl again. I might like to see where that was going. I was kinda hoping Double would be recycling people, but that doesn't sound like what's happening so, uh...good choice on my part to use Layer instead.

Now I want to mix and match operator-"navi" duos. I'm sure there's a better term I could use.

***

Next up, I'm afraid I must nitpick the lore. Like, not a lot gets done so I can't pick apart character motivation or whatever.

On 10/31/2022 at 5:27 PM, SoulWeaver said:

Meanwhile, Double(who would be appearing from the middle of X5)

I'm pretty sure he's dead by then.

I'm also pretty sure the term "robots" exists in Battle Network. Even sticking just to games I know you've played, I'm pretty sure the battle tanks in BN3 are considered robots. I'm pretty sure they'd understand that word. I'm also not sure this does the most elegant job with the net-robotics difference, because robots are still technically electronics. It's the focus on networks versus physical machinery that distinguishes Battle Network from the Classic series.

In fact, you know what Mega Man franchise doesn't use the term "robot"?

Mega Man X.

Intelligent robots are called reploids and grunt robots are called mechanaloids. I don't think they use the term robot, like, ever in the X series. Excluding the Dr. Light holograms, who are ancient recordings using ancient terminology. Maybe Serges does? It's certainly not a common term.

On 10/31/2022 at 5:27 PM, SoulWeaver said:

Unlike the other Operators, Iris is a completely non-combat unit

>Has a boss fight
>Dies
I mean, maybe not the best combat record

Congrats on the win, Inigo!

Edited November 7, 2022 by AnonymousSpeed
More words about the word "robot"

[AnonymousSpeed]

On 11/1/2022 at 7:47 AM, TheSilentChloey said:

🤣

Wtf did I just read lol?

I hope you enjoyed it. I put a little bit of myself into that one.

On 10/31/2022 at 7:43 PM, TheSilentChloey said:

Title: This is Late...

I'm honestly really confused. I only know a few Yugioh memes, so I don't know if that's expected. I am glad to hear Australians do, in fact, say mate.

[TheSilentChloey]

56 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

I hope you enjoyed it. I put a little bit of myself into that one.

I'm honestly really confused. I only know a few Yugioh memes, so I don't know if that's expected. I am glad to hear Australians do, in fact, say mate.

Of course we do, though not all of us do.  Those with the thicker accents say Mate lol.

[AnonymousSpeed]

4 minutes ago, TheSilentChloey said:

Of course we do, though not all of us do.  Those with the thicker accents say Mate lol.

Dynamite. Vegemite. Larry Boy. He's our hero.

[SoulWeaver]

Spoiler

14 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Pronto!

Now, onto @SoulWeaver! I demand City of Mist characters.

Ah, right, yes. Forgot about that, I got sick over this week and also picked up the X Legacy Collection and started that so I haven't got back to those yet.

Why yes, Capcom, I could play this game like a normal platformer where I shoot in a straight line - oooooooooooooooor HOMING ROCKET LAUNCHER LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Whoever said you should kill the Penguin or the Eagle first clearly doesn't know what they're talking about, Launch Octopus is the obvious first kill.

20 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Yeah I feel like that's actually uh totally wrong because that's the exact opposite of "well-adjusted". All because being obviously fatherless is a more realistic psychosis doesn't mean it's not kind of a sin. I blame Catholicism, but we don't need to go into that story.

I mean when a cast has such stellar examples as the likes of Baby Bonnie Hood(What if Little Red Riding Hood was a bloodthirsty sociopathic mercenary devoted to slaughtering all creatures of the night in vengeance for her lost grandmother?) or Huitzil(So the Mayans made a robot army and they told the robot army hey if any of you ever boot up and we're gone then kill literally everyone on the continent), a friendly cat girl who becomes a broadway musical star, realizes there are tons of people out there with a sadder existence than hers, becomes a nun and founds an orphanage with her broadway money, and generally tries to advocate for more open tolerance looks incredibly well-adjusted. Still doesn't excuse the butt-naked part of course but she makes for a more interesting character study than Morrigan(ugh I'm bored of just being a sex demon I'm gonna go over to earth and get in a bunch of fistfights because why the frick not).

That said yeah when the main concept of the game is "hey we're gonna do Street Fighter but with a bunch of iconic old-school horror monsters," expecting well-adjusted happy normal people is probably a little unrealistic.

43 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Aaaaaaaaaaaand here's where you lost me.

In fairness by knowing about the X and BN series but not Fight you're in the same situation as the characters, thereby making it easier to relate to their confusion, therefore this is NOT a writing flaw and is in fact writing genius, QED! What no, I'm not desperately pulling excuses out of thin air to explain the fact that almost every franchise I want to write about is either an OC or obscure enough that nobody who reads it will ever get what I'm talking about, what gave you that idea hahahahahahaha.

51 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Oooog. Very interesting. It's secretly Axl again. I might like to see where that was going. I was kinda hoping Double would be recycling people, but that doesn't sound like what's happening so, uh...good choice on my part to use Layer instead.

Now I want to mix and match operator-"navi" duos. I'm sure there's a better term I could use.

snip snip robots snip snip Reploids snip snip

Actually no, there's an additional Mechanical God besides the list I mentioned in the CoR thread who presides over errors and glitches, the idea was that her influence affected the Operator selected and somehow brought a dead Iris back to life and transported her in exchange for causing a random unnamed Operator to go insane with a 'reverse-Maverick' glitch. Said Operator causes an alert to be sent to Hunter Base by killing every Reploid in her station, citing them as threats to humanity, before a rookie Maverick Hunter group is dispatched and has to bring her down, which would cause one member to more seriously consider the life he's facing - a life potentially devoted to destroying his own kind for the sake of humans.

Connecting different versions of the same world is something I've always wanted to see more companies do, that was part of why X Dive's concept appealed to me. If you ever think of a neat mix and match for Robot Masters, NetNavis, Reploids, the Star Force people, Carbons, etc., you know I'll always be down to see that.

Ok in fairness while I love the franchise and world my game experience is pretty limited. The X series specifically, I have only played Command Mission before last week, we found it at the DI(which is uh like Goodwill or Savers I guess if you have those but run by our church) one year and I picked it over Heroes of Might and Magic II because Megaman and we love that game.  Anyways, yeah, I know enough to look knowledgable around noobs, but put me in with a serious fan and it pretty swiftly becomes obvious that I have a lot of holes in my database.

I MEAN UH IT'S BECAUSE IT'S ZERO.EXE SPECIFICALLY SINCE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD IS LIMITED HE SPECIFICALLY HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF ROBOTICS IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF ACTUAL COINCIDENCE TO LAUGH AT THE IDEA OF THE STAGGERING LEVEL OF COINCIDENCE THAT BOTH WORLDS HAVE A ZERO LAYER IS ACTUALLY GETTING SCREWED OVER BY PROBABILITY MATHS I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAHAHAHA

 

[indigoasis]

1 hour ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Nah, it's no problem.

I AM A RESPONSIBLE MAN!

Anyway, I read the story. I collected some thoughts. I have written them down. And I am breaking the tie.

  Reveal hidden contents

Quietly taking an internal sigh of relief

This is a line from early on that I'm going to pick on because I am a critic, not an editor. I like the intro, but lines like these feel very stilted and interrupt the pace and the tension.

I'm not sure if all-caps text is "Chicago Manual of Style"-approved for shouting, but I don't care much for Chicago, so, uh...have fun with that.

Perhaps it was inevitable, or perhaps it was God’s sick and twisted sense of humor, but his escort job had guided him back to the land of his birth.

Not sure if "escort job was escorting him" would've been clever, but it would've been a more proper tense.

The brisk night air flowed through the horse-drawn carriage as the travelers were rapidly approaching their final destination.

Speaking of tenses, "rapidly approached" would've been better. I'm no grammarian, but I would've over-use these imperfect/past-continuous phrases, especially when "flowed" is already a preterite verb.

"It could have been the former or the latter, but" => "Either way,"

I'm not sure how much sense it really makes for Victor to let his old buddies push him around. For someone who doesn't seem to like them so much but really wants to leave, he seems more compliant that I'd figure.

with his greatest evidence to that theory looming tall before him

"The spire itself was attached to possibly one of the largest structures Victor had ever seen"

The problem with the above line is that "possibly" and "one of" both add ambiguity, so you really only need one.

Great pitch though. The scene with the "replica" whips is great. Very cool way to introduce the premise.

If the year he thought that it was supposed to be was correct

This sentence is a little clunky tho

“Well, clearly I’m not. And as far as I know, you shouldn’t even exist.”

"Yet."

Not saying it's an improvement, I just wanted to write that.

The pair stood in silence at their baffling situation. => The pair stood in baffled silence.

>"Sonia Belmont"

Inconsistent patrilineality moment (I do not know Castlevania lore, she might be married by this point)

"For a little ways along, it almost seemed as if the graves were beginning to stare at them as they continued. At every turn, the graves slowly faced the walkway more and more, getting closer and closer to each other as if they were forming a wall littered with cobwebs."

I like this bit. Neat imagery.

>1666

Neato, though isn't Simon Belmont's shtick in, like, 25 years after this? Again, my knowledge of the lore is "every hundred years but not really" and wikipedia. I don't know what happened in 666 AD in Castlevania lore, or 616 or 1616, depending on if you subscribe to filthy revisionist heresies or not.

Kind of a neat dynamic I'm picking up here. Sonia might be the more experienced actual vampire hunter, but Victor's got a more even temper than her, so he still helps keep them alive.

To be continued…

I like that. Formatting changes for emphasis. Again, not Chicago manual, but a lot more effective than capitalization.

 

Thank you so much for the feedback (and your diligence in reading the whole thing)! An idea I had today was that I think I'll probably rewrite the whole thing when I'm completely done with it so that I can make it flow better and change things to make more sense, like with your suggestions.

Oh, and:

Spoiler

Yeah, the original premise of the cancelled game was set 25 years before Simon's outing, but thanks to time travel shenanigans and religious stigmas about numbers, 1666 was the chosen year. 

Sonia Belmont was also meant to be the matriarch of the entire clan before she was retconned out of the sacred timeline.

Anyway, here is the prompt, my fellow foresters:

Spoiler

Extra Credit Opportunity

If you have any ideas from prior months that you wanted to write down, but didn't get the chance due to time constraints, lack of motivation, or whatever else, now's the time. Likewise, any stories that you weren't able to finish on time in prior months are eligible for submission. If you have an itch to write a sequel, you can do that, too.

Otherwise, you can essentially treat this prompt as a freewrite. Why didn't I just call it a freewrite in the first place? Because I wanna remind you of those ideas you had, and give them the opportunity they truly deserve.

Happy hunting!

[Benice]

1 minute ago, indigoasis said:

Extra Credit Opportunity

Oh frick.

I really need to get writing, I've a prompt I really wanted to finish... But I also have University and my concerto and school and the winter formal and-

WHY IS EVERYTHING IN NOVEMBER?!

Anyways, OP will either be updated in, like, five minutes or two hours. Happy writing, all!

[AnonymousSpeed]

6 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:

Whoever said you should kill the Penguin or the Eagle first clearly doesn't know what they're talking about, Launch Octopus is the obvious first kill.

I cannot even imagine trying to fight Storm Eagle without dash boots.

7 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:

In fairness by knowing about the X and BN series but not Fight you're in the same situation as the characters, thereby making it easier to relate to their confusion, therefore this is NOT a writing flaw and is in fact writing genius, QED!

Aw frick

I am blinded by brilliance, the scales have fallen off my eyes

7 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:

I MEAN UH IT'S BECAUSE IT'S ZERO.EXE SPECIFICALLY SINCE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD IS LIMITED

Again I am awe-struck. This is one I actually thought of, because Zero.EXE has never seen the real world.

8 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:

The X series specifically, I have only played Command Mission before last week, we found it at the DI(which is uh like Goodwill or Savers I guess if you have those but run by our church) one year and I picked it over Heroes of Might and Magic II because Megaman and we love that game.

Oh hey, I like Goodwill.

8 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:

Ok in fairness while I love the franchise and world my game experience is pretty limited.

Anyways, yeah, I know enough to look knowledgable around noobs, but put me in with a serious fan and it pretty swiftly becomes obvious that I have a lot of holes in my database.

I am the database!

9 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:

Actually no, there's an additional Mechanical God besides the list I mentioned in the CoR thread who presides over errors and glitches, the idea was that her influence affected the Operator selected and somehow brought a dead Iris back to life and transported her in exchange for causing a random unnamed Operator to go insane with a 'reverse-Maverick' glitch. Said Operator causes an alert to be sent to Hunter Base by killing every Reploid in her station, citing them as threats to humanity, before a rookie Maverick Hunter group is dispatched and has to bring her down, which would cause one member to more seriously consider the life he's facing - a life potentially devoted to destroying his own kind for the sake of humans.

Now this would actually be a pretty interesting story on its own. It seems quite in line with the melodrama the X series has historically tried to pull.

6 minutes ago, indigoasis said:

Thank you so much for the feedback (and your diligence in reading the whole thing)! An idea I had today was that I think I'll probably rewrite the whole thing when I'm completely done with it so that I can make it flow better and change things to make more sense, like with your suggestions.

It didn't take as long to read as I thought, I think it's mostly a motivation thing.

Yeah, write the whole thing before editing. And be sober for it.

4 minutes ago, Benice said:

Oh frick.

I really need to get writing, I've a prompt I really wanted to finish... But I also have University and my concerto and school and the winter formal and-

WHY IS EVERYTHING IN NOVEMBER?!

'Tis the season.

I guess I should, uh...think about that. I have untold numbers of rejected, abandoned, and half-planned ideas to sort through. Y'know, maybe I'll post a list of them and ask for ideas on what people want to see. Democratization of art is a sin, sure, but I can at the very least put something out there for everything.

[SoulWeaver]

9 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

I cannot even imagine trying to fight Storm Eagle without dash boots.

Oh wait yeah I could dash at that point. That would have been helpful. Would have helped against Octopus too but then I couldn't have cheesed the Penguin fight by wall-jumping the top corner and spamming homing missiles because screw actually playing a platformer the skill way.

12 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

Now this would actually be a pretty interesting story on its own. It seems quite in line with the melodrama the X series has historically tried to pull.

Me being me it got way more convoluted than that. The original idea was that the Fight Smith that X/Zero/Zero.EXE replaced would be swapped into their spot, then they would swap back after the protag beat the Megabeast(the giant thing in the sky, it's like YGO's Worm Zero but significantly grosser). However, the same amount of real time took place in their world, meaning that the world they go back to is dealing with the fallout of a machine with an immense stigma against humans and an arm cannon suddenly spawning in their midst, with Zero's world taking the biggest hit given that, you know, the resistance group is like half humans at the very least and they can't even seem to kill a single Pantheon if MMZ1's opening is any indicator. X's world would have suffered only light damage since it was post-X8 and that world's Zero was there to minimize the casualties of what essentially is just another Maverick to him, while a Fight appearing on the Net would have been wonky since NetNavis tend to look pretty similar to humans, but a good number of them can fight for themselves, plus Fight getting stuck in BN's combat format would have been a serious handicap.

28 minutes ago, indigoasis said:

Anyway, here is the prompt, my fellow foresters:

My foresting skills need more work, I wouldn't call me a forester yet.

This...I'll have to see if I have any of my older ideas still lying around to go through with. It's a good idea, I like it, I just don't remember where I put all my unused ideas, if I put them anywhere.