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Letheeth Kayl
Amarr
Chosen Path
FATAL Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.31 08:45:00 -
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(this is at a previous poster in this thread)-> I'm pretty sure, that as a capsuleer pilot, I could shoot one of the lift guards out of the blue on my way from my ship to my Corporation's private offices/lodgings (you know, the the guards that are meant to keep non pod pilots from getting up there), and say something completely false such as "he made sexual advances on me, and I felt threatened." I sincerely doubt there would be a serious investigation in the matter, and unless I was in Amarr, I'd probably just have to pay some kind of fine (what's a few million isk though? A new ship, a clone? you make me laugh impovershed serf working for 5isk/hour). So, yeah, the whole being able to kill tens of thousands with a single thought, or spare just as many with just as little . . . makes us . . . above? the "law." If I was in a more "lawless" portion of space (read no concord or well fitted navy to tell me that I don't get to do what I want) and I was forced to take the clone express back from a bar, you can bet your keester, that thantos, and grandma's life savings I'm going back and blowing up the whole colony in retaliation. They will know Wrath and Righteousness incarnate from my Holy Amarrian Lasers.
I agree that the picture was deeply disturbing. The whole killing people I can see, and have a connection with (even if it was only to see with my own eyes the person was alive and infact, human) is disturbing, much more so, than say pushing a little red button that will kill a notional 10 million (I'm sure it'd be much different for the "notional" 10 million people on the receiving end of that red button). I needed an explaination, and the story did a superb job.
GREAT WORK ABRAXAS. Would you please send me the ip address, and login information to the secure Eve network where you have the rest of the story hidden? It'll save me alot of money and time, over flying to iceland, and trying to locate the archive manually (I'm very bad at reading binary, or hex for that matter).
I particularly like how the non descript, yet well dressed man has a rutheless undertone to him. After the Atira figured out the ploy aimed at getting her attention, it kind of changes the game a bit . . . that poor bastard inspector did die, so this man is obviously willing to sacrifice anyone and everyone (except himself of course) for whatever his goals are.
I DEMAND to know more aobut "Shoeless Joe," the inspector who was so thoughtlessly killed by his employers (I bet he thought he was working for a legitimate company or some such, like ORE or CreoDon). You said yourself, that if enough people demand, you'll deliver.
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With pain With sin With despair
Live with penance in God's glory
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Jim Outright
Gallente
Fuzzyness Enterprizes
Combined Planetary Union
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Posted - 2007.08.31 12:31:00 -
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Further praise Abraxas .. well written and enticing stuff!
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JADE DRAG0NESS
Dark Scorpions
Fate Weavers
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Posted - 2007.09.01 01:31:00 -
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Looking foward to finding out whats in the boxes.
"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."
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Htrag
The Carebear Stare
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Posted - 2007.09.01 21:40:00 -
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I'm obviously in the minority, but I find that picture to be distasteful on the front page of eve-o...
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Beren Haderach
Amarr
Archon Industries
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Posted - 2007.09.02 21:09:00 -
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Awesome writing.
I wonder if it shouldn't be a short story (instead of a chronicle), however...
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Lukas Rox
The Scope
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Posted - 2007.09.03 13:44:00 -
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Abraxas, this was simply great! Like watching first episode of a very good series, that you want to see the next episode right away.
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He held up a glass of water. "Drink it."
She took the glass and downed it before he had a chance to say anything else.
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He pulled out a small box about the size of a fist and opened it. She looked at its contents and winced.
"What do you see?" he said.
Now you've got my attention, what was in that box? And what was in the water? And why people collapse because of those boxes? Damnit, can't wait until the next chrnicle.
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Lief Siddhe
University of Caille
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Posted - 2007.09.06 22:30:00 -
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Very nice story, keep it up!
As far as the picture goes (as a comic fan): it is actually not distasteful - notice that the gore and blood are skilfully hidden behind the holo-screen, and not the focus of the picture.
Besides, this is a game where capsuleers destroy groups of ships with hundreds and thousands of crew on board - yet a graphic of a murder is somehow too much?
This game includes violence in its content (as do about 90% of all games in one form or another), and EVE stories and graphics are usually anything BUT graphic violence. So I guess this won't turn into a manga-style bloodbath any time in the future.
Waiting for the next one!
I was somewhere around Old Man Star, on the edge of Essence, when the drugs began to take hold |
Xanther Stareater
Minmatar
The Older Gamers
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Posted - 2007.09.08 22:26:00 -
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I am a complete EVE fiction noob. So given that, is there a way to subscribe to a reminder about this story ??
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Maximillian Power
Minmatar
The Dark Protectorate
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Posted - 2007.09.09 14:46:00 -
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Nice story - and nice writing.
Looking forward to reading the rest. |
Dominar Solon
Gallente
Black Justice
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Posted - 2007.09.09 17:24:00 -
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This was an excellent short. I can not however express enough that the use of 'basically' should be used as little as possible. To say ô..we are basically assembling a ***** team...ö removes the mood of a story line and will set the reader to think of it more as ammature writing. Overall though this was the only thing that threw a wrench into being pulled into your story. Consider also that while you covered the surrounding environments that we would be visiting in this story there was nothing that set this place apart. Where where we, why did we elect to go here, what list of bars did we have? These kinds of questions need answers to compound our mood of the story and envelope the reader more. The more detail that wafts into our visual mindset the more clear we can see. While a writer must refrain from inundating us with details they are needed to bring the story to a culminating point in which the reader can expect to receive there climax.
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Meleric
Caldari
Alpha-Hirogen
Phoenix Allianz
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Posted - 2007.09.09 18:30:00 -
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More !!!!! Great Story !!!!!
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Shadow Ballet
Beasts of Burden
YouWhat
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Posted - 2007.09.10 15:40:00 -
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Hey! Where's chapter 2 then? It's the 10th... and I'm bored at work... Help!
A superb story so far, very intriguing 
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Talia Tigerpaw
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Posted - 2007.09.24 22:51:00 -
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Edited by: Talia Tigerpaw on 24/09/2007 22:53:20
Personaly I did not enjoy the "headshot drawing" nor that of the "nude" restrained women in the chair. Not because I have something against dark art. But because I do not play Eve to be reminded about "real ongoing crimes", infact that is the last reason I play Eve. When I want to do that I go elswhere. My concern is mostly with the last drawing of the women.
I got friends that practice Falun Gong, and you do not have to be very smart to imagine how they see it. The women is near naked, most likely raped or sexualy mutilated. That is how they will see it because it will hit home. Plus the way she is restrained is also familiar.
Let me add that I think I speak for the few women actualy playing Eve, when I say that ****(yes word is even blocked out) is one thing the Eve Universe could do without in graphic content. But I gues this is a battle between those that want everything to be "realisticly human" to the extreme, and those that just want a great storyline(No I do not mean a childrens story) and a place to relax. Here I also speak about the *****stories in the pirat logs in game.
Last I want to say that yes you can consider this post political. But fact is that near 10% of Chinas population right now is outlawed and "free game"(undergoing same methods), so when you make this kind of art it is Political by default. To make it and then say we can not comment on that fact, would be highly hypocritical.
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CCP Abraxas
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Posted - 2007.09.24 23:53:00 -
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Originally by: Talia Tigerpaw
I do not play Eve to be reminded about "real ongoing crimes", infact that is the last reason I play Eve.
There's nothing wrong with your desire to read escape fiction. I deal with all sides of humanity, good and bad, and sometimes I write ugly things. I have no problem with anyone who doesn't want to read them.
However, I caution you not to assume - whether implicitly or not - that this kind of ugly fiction excuses or ignores real-world issues. Instead, you may want to consider what purpose I might have had in writing the execution scene that you refer to, and what that scene says about Draea and the people she works for. I even had the art altered; in the first version, the bound woman was dressed in moderately sexy clothing that barely contained an ample body, and I demanded that she be reduced to a terrified victim. There is a point to this, as there always is, and it's not to take things to extremes for their own sake.
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Aries Acheron
Coreli Corporation
Exuro Mortis
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Posted - 2007.09.26 17:17:00 -
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Originally by: Talia Tigerpaw
Edited by: Talia Tigerpaw on 24/09/2007 22:53:20
Personaly I did not enjoy the "headshot drawing" nor that of the "nude" restrained women in the chair. Not because I have something against dark art. But because I do not play Eve to be reminded about "real ongoing crimes", infact that is the last reason I play Eve. When I want to do that I go elswhere. My concern is mostly with the last drawing of the women.
I got friends that practice Falun Gong, and you do not have to be very smart to imagine how they see it. The women is near naked, most likely raped or sexualy mutilated. That is how they will see it because it will hit home. Plus the way she is restrained is also familiar.
Let me add that I think I speak for the few women actualy playing Eve, when I say that ****(yes word is even blocked out) is one thing the Eve Universe could do without in graphic content. But I gues this is a battle between those that want everything to be "realisticly human" to the extreme, and those that just want a great storyline(No I do not mean a childrens story) and a place to relax. Here I also speak about the *****stories in the pirat logs in game.
Last I want to say that yes you can consider this post political. But fact is that near 10% of Chinas population right now is outlawed and "free game"(undergoing same methods), so when you make this kind of art it is Political by default. To make it and then say we can not comment on that fact, would be highly hypocritical.
I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it. I'm reading through this series right now, but suffice to say... you have to live with it. To put it in somewhat BS-sounding terminology, Fiction uses events that have not actually happened to reflect upon the human condition. To ignore darker aspects of reality is to rob us of the full range of what reality is like. And that's when things get dangerous. Sheltered individuals produces a poorer society, and one more prone to actual violence or other such darker behaviors of people.
As to your Falun Gong friends.. but before you ask CCP to discontinue fake artwork about a woman being bound, you should probably get them to stop producing the same too. It happens, yes. But they don't need to fake photographs of it. But that's enough politics. Back to arguing about if Serpentis or Guristas drop better stuff...
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General God
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Posted - 2007.10.05 11:39:00 -
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good story mate :D
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Nidhoggr
Gallente
Bloody Agressive Dudes
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Posted - 2007.10.16 12:22:00 -
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I`m astound!
Your writing is intelligent and intruiging.
Very nice. Please continue your writing 
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