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Stormy Relationship
When you're an elf and you've just been saved by one of your race's enemies, things are going to get stormy, indeed.
The idea for this story is fairly old, at least by my standards. Not long after finishing "Family Ties" ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4691118/ ; and that's just over three years ago), there was a big thunderstorm. It gave me the idea for an adult Aun saving a child from a storm. I tried once to write it, but it didn't get past a paragraph or two. Ever since, whenever there's been a storm, whether rain or snow, this idea came back to me. During a rainstorm a couple of months ago, I decided I finally needed to just commit to it, and I'm glad I finally did. Something about "Family Ties" keeps giving me ideas for things to write even if the story itself wasn't very popular...they're just fun characters, what can I say?
One other thing I've been wanting to try was writing a story in which the characters have a language barrier, and I knew not long after I got the idea for this story that it would be a perfect choice. So I guess that makes two things I can scratch off my "I've been wanting to do this" list.
A question I thought of as I was writing: If she's a bard, she probably knows at least one cure spell. Why didn't she use one on him? Maybe she did, which could be what brought him around, and she only had one spell of that level left for that day (which she used later) since she didn't get to rest to get her spells back. She's still fairly low-level, and while she has an exceptionally high Charisma score for a gnoll, she does have a racial penalty to it, after all.
Probably the hardest part of writing this story (other than actually starting it) was thinking up names for the elves. Why do elf names have to be so fruity and flowery and stuff?
Story and characters © me.
Dungeons & Dragons © Wizards of the Coast.
Thanks to Races of the Wild for its elf-related reference material, especially the names.
Aun's name © Koji Masunari.
When you're an elf and you've just been saved by one of your race's enemies, things are going to get stormy, indeed.
The idea for this story is fairly old, at least by my standards. Not long after finishing "Family Ties" ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4691118/ ; and that's just over three years ago), there was a big thunderstorm. It gave me the idea for an adult Aun saving a child from a storm. I tried once to write it, but it didn't get past a paragraph or two. Ever since, whenever there's been a storm, whether rain or snow, this idea came back to me. During a rainstorm a couple of months ago, I decided I finally needed to just commit to it, and I'm glad I finally did. Something about "Family Ties" keeps giving me ideas for things to write even if the story itself wasn't very popular...they're just fun characters, what can I say?
One other thing I've been wanting to try was writing a story in which the characters have a language barrier, and I knew not long after I got the idea for this story that it would be a perfect choice. So I guess that makes two things I can scratch off my "I've been wanting to do this" list.
A question I thought of as I was writing: If she's a bard, she probably knows at least one cure spell. Why didn't she use one on him? Maybe she did, which could be what brought him around, and she only had one spell of that level left for that day (which she used later) since she didn't get to rest to get her spells back. She's still fairly low-level, and while she has an exceptionally high Charisma score for a gnoll, she does have a racial penalty to it, after all.
Probably the hardest part of writing this story (other than actually starting it) was thinking up names for the elves. Why do elf names have to be so fruity and flowery and stuff?
Story and characters © me.
Dungeons & Dragons © Wizards of the Coast.
Thanks to Races of the Wild for its elf-related reference material, especially the names.
Aun's name © Koji Masunari.
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I love this! It's about how I expect gnoll PCs to interact with their party, or react to NPC children while in town. Everyone's gut reaction is that the gnoll is going to kill them, so he/she is going to have to convince them somehow that they mean peace. Cute story about a gnoll who was decidedly different from the stereotype. It gives me a lot of inspiration on how to RP some of my gnoll PCs.
I love the snippits of spellcraft (Expeditious Retreat, Bardic Performance) mentioned here and there - enough to know what you were referring to without blatantly stating spell names. I can appreciate that. ^^
I love the snippits of spellcraft (Expeditious Retreat, Bardic Performance) mentioned here and there - enough to know what you were referring to without blatantly stating spell names. I can appreciate that. ^^
That comment really brightened my day. I'm glad to know another D&D player enjoyed it so much and understood everything I hoped a player would (even guessed the right spell, not that I made it super hard) :)
I'll chalk up that motivation to write more about her...it's good to know at least someone would probably enjoy it.
Cue victory fanfare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyJ8QgTC15k (A Step To Adulthood - Okamiden)
I'll chalk up that motivation to write more about her...it's good to know at least someone would probably enjoy it.
Cue victory fanfare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyJ8QgTC15k (A Step To Adulthood - Okamiden)
Great story!
It reminds me of how my Orc LARP character developed an unlikely friendship with a Dwarf at the Esker regional event earlier this year.
My newest LARP character is actually a female Gnoll! I wanted to make a Gnoll and figured that they would be matriarchal, like Hyenas. Female Hyenas produce four times the amount of testosterone as the males, so they are bigger and more muscular. Since I am a big, tall, dude with a very low voice, I figured that I should make my Gnoll a female... Not that most folk would be able to tell anyway!
I love how you handle the language barrier. My LARP community has been trying to develop means to make "beast" characters like mine have a specific dialect that can kind of be understood as English, but not completely. Creole and Pidgin languages have strongly influenced our "beast-common".
Keep up the great work! You are a very talented writer.
It reminds me of how my Orc LARP character developed an unlikely friendship with a Dwarf at the Esker regional event earlier this year.
My newest LARP character is actually a female Gnoll! I wanted to make a Gnoll and figured that they would be matriarchal, like Hyenas. Female Hyenas produce four times the amount of testosterone as the males, so they are bigger and more muscular. Since I am a big, tall, dude with a very low voice, I figured that I should make my Gnoll a female... Not that most folk would be able to tell anyway!
I love how you handle the language barrier. My LARP community has been trying to develop means to make "beast" characters like mine have a specific dialect that can kind of be understood as English, but not completely. Creole and Pidgin languages have strongly influenced our "beast-common".
Keep up the great work! You are a very talented writer.
Heheh, as NPCs, totally. As PCs, maybe not, definitely not Ellie unless you got mad skills. Ellie would be really damn hard to play, being blind; you have to constantly look at the world as she does even when you're being told what things look like.
As for Aun? Well, she might be pretty fun, but only if you really want to play a character who plays against type, at least to a certain extent.
In any case, I'm just glad they're good characters. All else will fall into place one way or another after that ^_^
As for Aun? Well, she might be pretty fun, but only if you really want to play a character who plays against type, at least to a certain extent.
In any case, I'm just glad they're good characters. All else will fall into place one way or another after that ^_^
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