I haven’t played Vanguard: Saga of Heroes in a few months. To be honest, I have missed it for quite a while but had to take some time to reset my main character, Rikoo, after he “died” a perma-death and was deleted. It was a fun chapter in my “Immersion Project”, but not one I want to repeat again. Perma-death would work in a game that had it built in from the very beginning, and even then it would have to be something less of a permanent death, and would leave some traces of your character behind. In other words, it would really be just another kind of temporary death, and one that allowed the passing of skills or gear on to another character.
But I did re-roll Rikoo with the exact same look and class as the original. He is around level 12 or so and will be back to his original level 32 in no time. I am not sure if I will continue to level him after that or will stop the leveling by using the “no XP” spell that Vanguard provides, but I will cross that bridge when I come to it.
I joined the “National Novel Writing Month” when I saw a Twitter friend mention it, and for the last few weeks I have been writing a rough draft of the story in my head while on dog walks. Dog walks are one of the best places to write or to conceive a story! I plan on writing about Rikoo and his further struggles with his feelings on death, using his friends and adventure buddies as sounding boards. There will some adventure, and some violence, but I am mostly looking forward to writing about characters that I have had floating around in my head for a long time. There will be Burtimus: the ageless humanoid that helps Rikoo admit his feelings, Luperza: the mage that dabbles in some dark matters, Lealah: the Goblin that kicks a lot of butt, and Grup: the healer that snaps Rikoo back to reality.
I will be using the Vanguard universe as my back-drop, but will not be mentioning any in-game names or places. I will use more vague descriptions as to avoid being sued-as-Hell by SOE, but to any player of the game it will be obvious what I am talking about. To those that don’t play, I hope it will be entertaining.
Anyway, I need to write near 1500 words per day, which equals most of my blog posts, so I need to get writing.
Wish me luck, and although I will be blogging it will not be at the normal rate, I think. Instead of 5 or 6 per week, it might get cut down to a few per week. NOTE: I decided after posting this to make a category for the writing in this project, and if you click on the “novel” category, you will be able to follow my writing as it goes along. It is November 1st as of this writing, and I will be posting my first part today. I will edit it as I go along, and I am open to any suggestions! Thank you for reading, and thank you for your patience during this not-so-normal month fro Spouse Aggro.
*pulls out pen and paper*
Beau
Hi, Rikoorakoo.
I suppose you could pretend that YOU died rather than your character died. In a way, with Rikoorakoo as an Avatar for you, that's exactly what happened.
So rather than the old character coping with death, really you're coping with it. Sure usually death means you don't get a chance to pick another Avatar. But in the history of mankind I'd say the line between mataphysical life and real life has always been blurred.
p.s. Your situation reminds me a little of the current movie that's out called "Surrogates" with Bruce Willis.
Arjuna_LS wrote:
Hi, Rikoorakoo.I suppose you could pretend that YOU died rather than your character died. In a way, with Rikoorakoo as an Avatar for you, that's exactly what happened.So rather than the old character coping with death, really you're coping with it. Sure usually death means you don't get a chance to pick another Avatar. But in the history of mankind I'd say the line between mataphysical life and real life has always been blurred.p.s. Your situation reminds me a little of the current movie that's out called "Surrogates" with Bruce Willis.
Well, if that's true and Beau passed on(in a sense) because his avatar in Vanguard did, then, there'd be nothing more to write about and we wouldn't be seeing any more posts from Beau on the game related forums, right? RIGHT?
Oh, Rikoo is a simple vehicle to explore my anxieties about dying, and the rest of the story (I posted my first part today) deals with that. One of the main characters is an immortal that wants to die, and is convinced that he might be. It'll be fun to write!
The most important question... will there be any, you know.... bow-chicka-wow-wow?
Mattise wrote:
Why? Are you into... beastiality?
lol! Well, no. Rikoo has always had a love interest: a lil blind Raki girl that works in the tavern in Khal. But, after he died, she ran off with another half-fox dude and well, sad stuff blah blah...
There is the killing of a rhino creature, the stabbing by accident of a friend, and breaking level 32. well, the level part comes from in-game.
Good luck on your novel Rikoo! I look forward to seeing the progress and the finished product at the end of the month...You will finish won't you?
Darn right I'll finish it! I'm writing as I type this. Well, not EXACTLY right now, but you got me.
I am scared I'll run out of room, or will have room left over. I have the story semi-planned out, but we'll see. I'm steathfully avoiding using terms like "telon" so you guys won't sue me. Check with the lawyers for me? After all, I won't sell it! lol
I think that if it's just for something like a short story, using coyrighted names/material is okay. But I'm not a lawyer.
Do you know why this post makes me mad, Rikoo?
Because I forgot yet again, to register for NaNoWriMo. . .
Goes off to pout.
P.S. I liked your stuff on the Vanguard Diaries, do you think I can have a link to your page and read up on your story?
All the VG diaries stuff should be under the "immersion" tab on spouseaggro.com, but man I'd have to check! lol I have been working to slowly take all my posts and categorize them, with tags. Damn I should have kept tags the whole time.
