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  1. Mindlack

    "Bow before death, Gabriel..."

     

    This isn't his deadly enemy's line, but it could as well be.

     

    Gabriel is in the lion's den, surrounded by dangerous Meteors who have attempted to kill him. How will he get out of this? 

     

    The Odd One Out's new chapter is online! 

     

     

  2. Mindlack
    Thank you all for your answers on the poll (and also for reading and commenting in general, of course)! I'll keep the poll open till chapter 40, just in case some more people have thoughts to express. Now, I was feeling really bad for submitting you to this cliffhanger last time... where there shouldn't even have been one. So I'll post the final part of the Blacksteam chapter a bit faster than usual (nothing to do with procrastinating the other stuff I have to do, nothing whatsoever). Chapter 39: Blacksteam's Battles Pl
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    Anyone cares to mention that Neville must have gone into orbit, seeing how long he was up? And fell on Saki unscathed? When you just about died to a mere four-story fall? What do you mean he was just stuck in the roof? It's great that you're back! I loved the new chapter and am eagerly awaiting the next one.
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    Well, he is the main antagonist (and leader of the bad side) for a good chunk of the game. I actually think he's made himself cold, rather than be naturally cold. I think I'll hint a bit about the timeline at some point, but let's just say that PULSE projects have been in the works for a while. It'd be surprising for Solaris to not be so. Yes, I was really moved when I learnt their story. It's indeed a terrible one. Fun fact: individually, the "lawful guys" could probably understand and sympathize with Cain's motivations, if they were explained to them. But bec
  5. Mindlack
    For a while I didn't understand why "Father vs daughter" was in the chapter. I thought it was an odd way for the parents to say goodbye... until I saw the rather unexpected battle. That's a nice touch. But Felicia does lose points in my opinion for failing to inform her parents of the day she's leaving, when she's known months in advance. Now that the prologue is over, we'll be able to get to the main story. I'm excited to see how you'll write it!
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    What's inside Blacksteam Factory? Or, more precisely, who is there? What nefarious schemes could they be enacting? 

     

    The Odd One Out has a new chapter. 

     

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    The thing is, we all know Cain's supposedly doing the right thing, but I wanted to show that there are very often consequences to doing the right thing over the lawful thing... usually unintended ones. I suppose it's a very first-world-lawful point of view, but I don't think that makes it wrong. Yes, it's hard, isn't it? The thing is, it never stops being hard. I was thinking that writing the buildup to the climactic end of Part 2 (which is very close) would be easy, but... no! There are battles to write, actions to justify, and it all has to make sense! It's still diffi
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    Well, it looks like Felicia is having some bright prospects. A newfound friend, a new place to help and explore, a lot of Ranger experience... What could possibly go wrong?
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    I meant, separate these parts from the rest of the text, with stars, tildes, or something... So that we know that it's some sort of back-and-forth, instead of happening in the same temporal succession. I don't know what to feel about Felicia going alone to confront someone threatening to kill her. I mean, it's pretty stupid, and very human at the same time. Very nice chapter overall. Now that Felicia's team is complete, I guess she can go to Ayrith now? But I suppose some great stuff is going to happen beforehand.
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    So many amazing findings... also, why indents? Happy birthday Candy !!
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    Nice chapter. It's a good thing Kevin decided to do something to break Felicia out of her sorrow. It's much better that she managed to get better and be decisive to this Elite Ranger mission. It's yet better that Felicia finally got the promotion she desired. But, I think, the best of the best will be when the Rangers decide to change their procedures. How about, instead, letting people sleep and not rush them into mysterious ceremonies before even breakfast as a way to announce a promotion? Just a small writing thing (if I may): when you shift points of view an
  12. Mindlack

    I'm not sure what's more annoying (at least it's not tragic, just annoying) of my discoveries of tonight.

    1) I found out I hadn't actually proof-read my assignment a couple of hours before the deadline.

    2) I found on my computer updated versions that somehow weren't the ones I had submitted online.

    3) I realized I had about two hours of lectures to watch for tomorrow but I'd really rather sleep.

    4) I have an exam (for something different) in less than 48h and I still have barely studied for it.

    5) And there's also this math stuff (actually several different, rather unrelated "math stuffs)" to study and that it's (more accurately, each one is) impressively slow.

     

    ...

     

    (deep sigh)

     

    Well, back to studying it is. After all, there might be (real or imaginary) situations that are undeniably much worse.

    1. Evi Crystal

      Evi Crystal

      Oh, that's terrible to hear that 😞

    2. Mindlack

      Mindlack

      Honestly, it shouldn't be. It's only one evening's annoyance, and (worst case) a week's worry. I'm sure it's pretty common too. Even I've been pressed for time before, and now certainly isn't the worst situation I've been in study-wise. I guess I had just forgotten how it felt like. 

      ...

      Except for 5), because at some point in the close future this will become my main activity and I'll learn to enjoy it.  

       

      Thank you for your comment anyway! 

       

      Edit: I just realized there was the drawback that I probably won't be writing as much -- all the less so since I usually take quite some time to get "in the flow" and even then writing is never a fast process. But I'll manage eventually. 

  13. Mindlack
    Random idea: is it possible that, actually, the only reason why Wispy Tower was burnt was that Vitus (under an alias) was inside and working on some shady stuff? After all, it'd be child's play for Crescent or Indriad to strike down Nora without burning an entire tower (where she actually wasn't^^). Also, can we really say that Crescent helped the player? Apart atop Mount Valor (and that was showing off since we know we didn't need her actually), she never helps us, rather helping herself, blasting Team Xen wherever she finds them, and making sure we see her in a good light. A fa
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    (Nervous chuckle) It wasn't intended. When you try to do what you think is the right thing, you can't consider how it's going to affect everyone tangential to the case. Otherwise you wouldn't do anything. So yes, Cain didn't consider Gabriel's situation. It's not praiseworthy, but I think it's more than understandable, given that Gabriel is not being ECT'ed on a daily basis (now there's an idea...). Or perhaps he didn't think that it would create a political crisis which Ame would (at least partly) blame on Gabriel. Yes, Gabriel is paying for some of Cain's actio
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    I can’t remember any game event that suggested that GDC could do that. What are you thinking of?
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    The Odd One Out is officially over one year old now. I was stunned when I saw the total word and page counts. How, when did that happen? Anyway, I hope you'll keep reading and enjoying it. Also, there is this one-shot I've written. Take a look if you haven't read it! (or tell me if it's unintelligible) Chapter 37: Plausible Plans Character ratings:
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    I feel we haven't had enough things being blasted halfway across the map at unreasonable speeds in the plot. Could we have that railgun, please?
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    We know that red-haired <derogatory term> is pretty OP in Rejuv, but I'm pretty sure devolving Pokemon through time-travel is a new trick. Is Anthony playing Rejuv in Extra-Hard mode? (that's a joke) (Slightly more seriously, if she did this once, what's stopping her from doing it again at not-so-convenient times?) Again, it's a nice chapter. I'm curious to see how you will relate the upcoming events. I never expected to read this from anyone. Thank you.
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    Hi! I have a lot of stuff to do (it's incredible how much time doing serious math takes and how much time I'm somehow managing to not do it), but I wanted to write out an idea I had had a few days ago. It might eventually serve as a prologue for a hypothetical story, but don't expect anything about that before a while though. The title is weird, but don't worry. I think it's still understandable. My usual "spoiler policy" applies: you may be spoiled stuff, but if you can identify the work it's taken from, then you probably already knew it. Enjoy!
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    Given your view count and who liked your post (I realized only a few weeks ago that you got to see that after a while), you have more than one reader. But a significant fraction of readers won't systematically (or at all) post comments about it (compare the number of comments and the number of views for most fiction, at least on this website). That was a fine chapter (just, if I may, try to proof-read your future chapters -- there are a few mistakes, not too bad but still). I wonder why they all call Anthony overconfident? It wasn't like he had any other choice with Ir
  21. Mindlack
    Whoa. You got dark much faster than I expected. Granted, it's a Desolation story, and you made it clear right at the beginning (when you mentioned Brendan) that there was a huge potential for darkness, but, again, I didn't think you'd start tapping into it so soon. Poor Felicia... will she ever truly recover from her first encounter with evil for evil's sake (or at the very least, cruelty for cruelty's sake)? I can't help but wonder if the same kind of thing happened to the other Rangers at some point... And I wonder how some of them (or even Felicia, had it been after her adventure
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    Today is The Odd One Out's first "anniversary"! (insane stats below)

     

    It's almost unbelievable how much has happened since I started posting it. 

     

    To celebrate it, I thought it funniest to find out some stats... so I copy-pasted everything into Word, used some formatting magic to remove the pictures and make the presentation more uniform... 

     

    The result can't be trusted too much, but the order of magnitude is... well... 

     

    36 chapters

    210 pages

    109 820 words (reportedly)

    Some 350 KB in memory.

     

    It's so big that Word starts to struggle with elaborate search queries... and we've only just passed Shade!  Next year, to do the same task, I will have no choice but use command line tools. 🤣

     

    (Also, I should start revising the earliest chapters at some point, but I'd rather keep going on, given that we're getting closer to one of my earliest motivators for the story, in less than ten chapters...)

  23. Mindlack
    @TheHellHamster: Thanks a lot for your comment, it really pleased me. I think I probably wrote it somewhere, but I was worried about these two Shade chapters -- I couldn't bring myself to write them as just another Gym battle. So I tried to do something different, thinking it'd be hit or miss. If you had the time and inclination to think about what, in this chapter, made you like it this much, I'd be very interested to hear it.
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    For a while I thought Felicia would go for the Styler kind of Rangers, and I wondered how you would make that fit in. But she captures her own Pokemon, so it’s fine. I think Kevin needs to explain me how Alolan Rattata fit Felicia. That’s an interesting choice from you. I had hoped that Felicia wouldn’t be hopelessly reckless (that she might have kept the best part of her mother’s sense), but given her eagerness to raise to the Elite rank... I think it’s not going to happen.
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    I don’t remember Desolation well – Is Kevin an OC or a canon character? Anyway, nice chapter. I was a bit shocked that Felicia might see “the nasty plot” at the Daycare but actually, the inverse statement would have been more surprising. And I can’t blame her for leaving after seeing a Wailord and a Skitty. But I’m glad she found her calling.
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