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Jedi Knight VN Ysadora
Vanya

Star Wars: Shards
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Strosis Continent
Datunda, 4th Telona, 12731

Campaign & Party

Shards of Exploration Campaign

Star Wars Explorers

KitKat Danar Jedi Knight So'Zen al Saba VN Aerena 'Relentless' Kolene Knight Errant Sir Davish Tam
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Jarissa

I taught myself to read at 4 years of age because I was impatient. I decided the available books were not the story I wanted to read, and wrote a story, at 5.
It was pretty awful.
I mean, I was five, that's not going to be a coherent plot anyhow! But still. It was awful. I was astounded to realize that good stories don't just burst off the page because I apply a crayon. I went back to reading for a while, but sometimes I was looking at what made one book a good read while another was merely a way to pass the time.
Here we are, twoscore and change years later, and I think I am starting to really grasp how a plot is different from a narrative which is not the same thing as a roughly chronological sequence of scenes?
Building worlds certainly makes for a better story!
 
My native language is American English, with several regional contributions as I moved around a lot in my early years. I can communicate tolerably well in a couple of other languages, if the other converser is patient and of good cheer. I'm familiar with several specialized vocabularies in the greater category "Nerd" and I know the responsibility for being understood is mine.
(I also sometimes have trouble understanding spoken words because I'm missing a bit of the hearing register in the middle. Maybe that's why I use the "Maximum Verbosity" setting in written communication! Sorry.)

Other characters
Gender
female
Eyes
brown
Hair
brown
Height
5'6"
Weight
approx 150 lbs

Appearance

Identifying Characteristics

  • has old, odd looking linear scars at crackly angles from wrist to shoulder and from mid-calf almost to hip: Vanya once had an Emergency Quarantine Tent slowly compress on her over a period of several hours

Apparel & Accessories

  • Standard Jedi uniform in shades of bluish slate to gray

  • Traveler's cloak (sometimes called a "Jedi Robe" but used by travelers of all religions the galaxy over, with hood and sleeves) purchased at a secondhand shop, trimmed via plasma cutter to just above knee length

  • Blaster holster at the small of the back; shoulder holsters hold a lightsaber on each side; pouch on belt for Datapadd has padding and some armor built into it to protect the device

Specialized Equipment

  • 2 lightsabers (5d damage)

  • Robes + 1 change of clothes.

  • Commlink

  • dataPADD (Pocket secretary)

  • 2 heavy blasters (5d damage), 1 with a scope; but one of the two hb is generally left locked in a safe with Mildred_Krebs. On both, they’ve been set to STUN and then the switch has been disconnected.
    - Last I knew, Davish needed my blaster in the Tilles Base. I have not yet gotten it passed back to me. Holster empty, that's fine.

  • rebreather with small oxygen canister and oxy extraction system

  • 1 can NuSkin (spray-on skin)

  • Medkit, disassembled and contents shoved into various belt pouches

  • night-vision lenses

  • repair/maintenance tools for lightsabers and blaster

Special abilities

  • Force sensitive: yes

  • Jedi Investigator / Battle Master specialization

  • Vanya is a practitioner of the Jedi martial art style called Form V: Djem-So

Mentality

Personal history

From Ysadora’s own (somewhat obsolete!) notes, accessible via intrusion into her DataPADD:


 

Around thirty to thirty-five standard years old, brown eyes, brown hair worn long and usually loose, approximately 5’6" and 150 lbs.


 

Born* at Mirrul Hospital, Skirzden, Esseles, Essessia System, Darpa Sector; raised by standard contract at Skirzden Star Creche, Esseles, Darpa Sector; graduated Calamar Technical University with certification in database administration; left Esseles without filing travel plan. Job history: various.


 

Licensed four years later by Imperial Review Board as a private investigator.


 

Operated an office on Siskel Station.


 

Student of Jedi Master Skywalker from latter 18 AFE RR until the Nostromo incident, after which time she was seen travelling with Jedi Master Kenobi. Good at finding Storm Troopers. Graduated to Jedi Knight after the second death of Palpatine, at the end of the Shadows of an Empire adventure.


 

A former private detective, frequently seeming to be at odds with the sometimes not-so-practical Jedi Masters, Vanya VNY quickly gained a reputation as one of the more inquisitive Jedi Padawans currently being trained. Her original master was Anakin Skywalker, who at a certain point in her training passed her over to Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of those who trained Anakin Skywalker. Masters Kenobi, Skywalker, Yoda, and Hinalli once swore up and down to have seen visions of Vanya through the Force, showing that she could become a great something-something-something if she would just QUIT ARGUING FOR FIVE MINUTES and listen more closely to the lecture in progress. That conversation went VERY well, Vanya thought, even while on k.p.


heh

Education

  • graduated Calamar Technical University with certification in database administration

  • apprenticed with Sherry Flippe at the Wide Awake Detective Agency for one year, to qualify for a private investigator license

  • apprenticed to Jedi Masters Anakin Skywalker, then Obi-Wan Kenobi as a Padawan for ten years; graduated to Jedi Knight on 12730/1/1

Morality & Philosophy

Jedi: Vanya believes that all life has value. That individuals have the right to choose who they're going to be, and get all the consequences which develop from those choices.

She will cheerfully tell anybody who brings it up that her religion is correct, of course -- but that some people find a different religion works best for them at that point in their lives. So she'll support that as long as it helps the person function well within the universe.

The problem with the Dark Side, she has gotten Sith Lords to agree, is that it's a powerful short term solution. It is not a good long-term solution for anything, because it burns itself out. It has to be maintained. She has turned to Dark Side practitioners and requested that they do something specific that calls for great power applied in an instant; but then she is right there afterward, easing the situation into a better direction with the Light Side of the Force as a steady stream.

She is making the Light Side look useful to quite the odd collection of formerly-nothing-but-hatred Mystic Mob types in the Tapani Sector ... and Vanya is certain to her core that this is why the Universe put her there in the first place.

person.gender_identity

Female human (she/her)

Taboos

  • No bacta tanks ever again, thanks anyhow.

Known Languages

  • Basic (Galactic common language)

  • Written language: Jedi Script

  • scattered phrases in modern Mandalorian, Tapani Beskar dialect

Personality

Savvies & Ineptitudes

  • cannot do that mind influencing thing, which she calls "Jedi Beer Trick", and will never be able to do it

  • Vanya could intuitively Remain Conscious before she knew she was Force sensitive. She cannot explain how that works. She took longer than expected to learn Resist Stun, which is normally a prerequisite skill.

  • Due to Imperially-mandated educational restrictions in her childhood, Vanya grew up believing some supposed laws of reality that are turning out to be untrue. For example, many sentient species can have viable mixed-species children, contrary to what her Core Worlds curriculum taught. Vanya is able to unlearn some of these false teachings easily, while others keep tripping her up.

Likes & Dislikes

Likes:

  • trying out new local "quick and cheap" cuisine during her travels

  • reading law journals, looking for complications and loopholes that might affect a private investigator's business in the near future

  • picking up minor "cussing" equivalent words of disgruntlement in various languages, particularly any ones that might be applied to herself in earnest someday

  • when a companion joins her in scribbling down flimsicards of gathered intel

  • discovering highly biased, opinionated annotations in the Holopedia Galactica

  • writing her own admittedly biased articles and annotations to contribute to the Holopedia Galactica, especially when she discovers something that has no significant content already entered.

 
Dislikes:

  • the taste of beer

  • heavy spices

  • farces whether live, studio recording, brief, or epic

  • being addressed or referenced as "General Ysadora"

  • every dikut'la time a certain someone uses Vanya's image or her reputation without first getting her approval

  • planets with high volcanic activity AND poor atmospheric motion, either one is tolerable but together it's misery

Virtues & Personality perks

  • ambidextrous

Vices & Personality flaws

  • Fundamentally does not get natural families, which would be any family structure that does NOT involve "raised at a professional child-raising facility, by people licensed and certified and specialized to that particular age group". Accepts that this is the standard across the Galaxy, but she will soapbox a little too often about how "messed up" this "haphazard" system is.


 

  • Vanya seems to be friendly, open, transparent, and casual. Those who have been around her in many different situations usually notice that this is a kindly-meant mask to cover an innately reserved, remote core personality who is constantly watching for inconsistencies in other people's public personas. Vanya doesn't think there's usually malice in having a "public persona" to cover one's private nature; she thinks everyone does that as part of the social contract.


 

  • Vanya tried out recreational inebriation exactly one time.

    She liked it.

    She liked it a little bit too much.

    While she has never requested a medical analysis on the topic, Vanya is confident that she has a genetic predisposition to alcoholism. She will not give herself the chance to find out how good her self-control is when it comes to intoxicants ever again -- not one drink, not one sip.

Personality Quirks

When someone calls her name, she answers, "Yo!" because she thinks it's reassuring on a gut level.

Where did she get this silly notion? It had something to do with the few years when she was a teenager that she worked as the on-site dba for Roeksen Construction, a space-based construction company specializing in null-grav work.

If one of the clone troopers ever calls her by her name, though, watch a very very different response happen. (It'll never happen.) H

Hygiene

When facilities are available, VN gets a sonic shower and washes her clothing once per day whether she thinks she needs it or not. Usually after her morning workout.

Her robe is a beat-up travesty, though. She got it from a second-hand shop. She tosses it into a wash occasionally, and she'll patch minor holes with whatever thread or glue is handy, but she never hems it and she seems not to notice discolorations or thin spots in the fabric.

Social

Birthplace

Mirrul Hospital, Skirzden, Esseles, Essessia System, Darpa sector

Current Residence

Tavya Nine, Tavya System

Contacts & Relations

Honorary & Occupational Titles

  • Dame Ysadora (Tapani Sector formal situations only, also, she hates this)

  • Jedi Knight

  • Chaplain (used most often by clone troopers, members of the Beskar Aran, by individuals who have their own interactions with the Beskar Aran, and in association with formal interactions with the Tapani Imperium government)

  • General (used by clones only, and usually only once per offender, because she has promised to assign an exponentially increasing number of stomach crunches per offense)

  • Commander (used by clones who have known her a long time and are having anxiety or possibly a snit)

Wealth & Financial state

Funds: 3d (1d)

  • note: recently spent most of the accumulated income from her Tapani "petty knighthood" on a single employment contract; it will take a while for this to accumulate, and even longer for her to pay it attention again.

  • Most of Vanya's income is derived from her private investigator work at Mystic Mob Investigations. Most of that goes back into the Jedi Temple. She and Davish live comfortably in a studio apartment about twenty minutes' walk away from their office. Both places are rentals.

Family Ties

  • Vanya has registered a legal abdication of claim, for herself in perpetuity, to any familial rights in connection with the Vorharkonnen noble family.

  • If Vanya could figure out the appropriate path to register a legal abdication of connection to whoever Lev Ysadora is, she'd do that, too. But she is not willing to throw lots of time or money at the problem.

Religious Views

Emotion, yet peace.

Ignorance, yet knowledge.

Passion, yet serenity.

Chaos, yet harmony.

Death, yet the Force.

Hobbies & Pets

  • subscribes to the Tapani Alliance Law Journal, reads the latest issue at quiet times, scribbles caustic notes in the margins about loopholes or any clause potentially relevant to a private investigator's workload. She's not a lawyer or a Solicitor, her notes may be spectacularly wrong.

  • writes letters "home" about her quirkier experiences that may be a bit out of order or full of gaps. Sometimes she's dashing off a quick thought. Sometimes she's leaving out all the bits which do not make for a good story. Sometimes she just wants to see if the recipient will be interested enough to ask.

  • When in the right system for it, still tries to meet up with local Force users for coffee or a light meal in the "Tuesday Tea" format

  • Until she was about twenty-five, Vanya blew off steam by going rock climbing. She had to give up the hobby shortly before Twilight due to constraints from the rest of her life. She is no longer subject to a mentor's orders to bring a chaperone for this kind of thing, but on the other hand, any time Vanya tries to go do something "purely for fun", the universe takes advantage of her idle status to put her to work.

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Natunda, 10 Melona, 12731

Pest Control

by Jedi Knight VN Ysadora

Previouslies:


  • Dear So'Zen,

    I think we're now trying to rehabilitate D'Joy via the Bartertown Trading Game.

    Please pray for us.

    Sincerely, Vanya


    •  
  • Vanya's internal narrator: I did promise Almon that if he would work on being a decent Catholic, I'd be between him and what he fears. Dangit. I gotta get off this roof.

    •  

  • Things that continue to not make it onto a Highlight Reel:


     
    Vanya speaks modern Mando'a clearly and concisely, with a Tapani CT accent.

    Vanya speaks modern Mando'a to call out a Ravenguard member with Sith powers.

    Vanya speaks modern Mando'a to describe the Ravenguard as a "cowardly sorcerer" who "shames all who marched before in those colors".

     

    We'll take "Things that the Mand'alor won't believe without holographic proof" for 400, Alex!


  • Almond d'Joy as Heath Toffee:
    I learned that at the Al Saba School of Diplomacy!







Episode 3.09 - Escape Velocity, Chapter 6


Plot
| Sep 24, 2023


Vanya Ysadora, Davish Tam, and Reese Pieces head for the distant world of Yonbiss to rescue a lost squad of Crimson Knights but there they must confront the dire secret plans of Sargon Xan Daran before they burn through an unsuspecting Outer Rim.







 
We think a missing agent of the local group (one of the CKs?), Sgt. Vomlab Bim, was taken by one of the local Eborreans.

We also know that the pieces of the control stick for the Sunspear are in "the Necropolis", which is going to be A Fun Time For Us.

 

 

There is a weight of history here. Certain tombs and pathways are very strongly attuned to the Light, with a deep sense of compassion. Nearby on the hill are certain pathways that feel malevolent -- dormant, patient, waiting, but certainly not friendly. These might be full of unresolved grief left to fester.


 

The standing rectangular tombs mostly are unremarkable within the flow of the Force.


 

The circular ones seem to carry more of a sense of comfort or contentment.


 

The two doors that lead into the hill itself have the weight of the past, but also a stern sense of duty.


 
When I ask a funerary holoprojection of an Abyssin, another holoprojection steps out of the first.

He looked for the Lost Heroes, as he needed to give them a new burden.


 

There were once eight great explorers. These eight, in a time of war and conflict, looked to a new horizon; a new tomorrow.


They refused to believe that the Yondini and the Abyssi would forever be at war.


They believed we are one people.


They sought to prove it.


They explored beyond the reaches of what is known.


They were opposed by both sides. There were many who saw no reason to stop the war until the other side was gone.


These heroes traveled beyond the stars. They found what they needed to find -- what they wanted to find -- what they hoped to find.


They found enlightenment.


They found an idea.


They met a people who helped them see the Galaxy in a different light.


An ancient people, and their students.


What they found and met was a teacher. A teacher who was only known as a jedai.


These eight came back and brought that knowledge to the world.


But the war had gone on in their absence, and was reaching a bloody end. Weapon beyond imagination had been found, and was going to be used. A weapon that was a piece of the sun, caught and kept. One that could be unleashed on a whim.


But the eight knew if it would be activated, would be opened and let loose, it would consume the user as well as the target.


Leaving a recording from that jedai teacher in a safe space, the eight went to stop the war. The only way to stop the war was to show how dangerous this weapon was.


They had to dismantle it. To dismantle it, they had to release the thing that had been caught, the thing that had been trapped.


It did not like being trapped.


In that weapon, the flying weapon, was a crystal that bled; and within that crystal that bled was the creature that was the heart of the weapon. An angry spirit, filled with malevolence, it knew only rage.


The eight fought that creature, but discovered that it had taken over the leaders of both sides.


The eight, the lost heroes, took the crystal beyond the world to remove its corruption, to take it away from the world they loved.


They knew it would take all eight of them to do so because of the sheer power of the creature they were trying to get rid of. They deemed that an acceptable sacrifice; there was not any other way that they could find.


They still hope to return one day.


And one day, may still come. As the lost heroes left the world with the bleeding crystal, the survivors now free of the corruption looked to the recording of the knowledge from the teacher, the jedai. They saw the philosophy, the knowledge. Their eyes were opened. They saw what they had been doing and were about to do.


The heroes were last seen taking the bleeding crystal to the heart of the star, in hopes that despite how hostile and angry the creature inside the crystal was, the heart of the star could burn the crystal pure.


They hoped they would be able to return. They have not yet.


But in some ways, we do not feel they are gone.


The eight heroes saved our world, and promised there would be another to remove the danger to our world when it arose.


That is the story of the Eight who helped reshape our people, to bring the Yondini and the Abyssi together to understand: they are one.


And now, the heroes' legacy has passed to new heroes that are standing here, hearing the story.




VN's Journal Ordered oldest to newest

  1. Memorable meals
    12731 1 2
  2. And me without my datapadd
    Satunda, Telona 13th, 12731
  3. Mystic Mobs Investigations: Backstage
    Katunda, Telona 17th, 12731
  4. Thirty-six days and counting
    Nelona 12th, 12731
  5. Sequential report: Lights Snuffed Out
    Katunda, Nelona 12th, 12731
  6. Thirty-six days completed
    Katunda, Nelona 12th, 12731
  7. Give that Mentat a cookie!
    Satunda, Nelona 13th, 12731
  8. Faultline
    Datunda, Nelona 14th, 12731
  9. Pumpkin Dinner
    Datunda, Nelona 14th, 12731
  10. Four against One? Okiedokie.
    Datunda, Nelona 14th, 12731
  11. Ysalamiri
    Datunda, Nelona 14th, 12731
  12. Intermezzo 3.07.8.5
    Datunda, Nelona 14th, 12731
  13. More and More and More Every Day
    Datunda, Nelona 14th, 12731
  14. Jawas in Spaaaaaace
    Datunda, Nelona 14th, 12731
  15. Ides of Nelona Client Progress Report
    Natunda, Nelona 15th, 12731
  16. Welcome Back Kal Holst
    Atunda, 26 Nelona, 12731
  17. the Ghost of Future Vegetable Peeling
    Atunda, 26 Nelona, 12731
  18. Aggressive Negotiations Fremen Style
    Atunda, 26 Nelona, 12731
  19. Nobody knows I'm a detective.
    Datunda, 29 Nelona, 12731
  20. Reese the Battlefield Sportscaster
    Datunda, 29 Nelona, 12731
  21. post-hurricane
    Datunda, 29 Nelona, 12731
  22. Braiding is a skill.
    Datunda, 29 Nelona, 12731
  23. Aboard the Loaner Shuttle _Shenanigans_
    Datunda, 29 Nelona, 12731
  24. The droid did WHAT?
    Datunda, 29 Nelona, 12731
  25. Chausid Station
    Natunda, 30 Nelona, 12731
  26. We Do Not Touch the Creepy Artifact
    Natunda, 30 Nelona, 12731
  27. Thin Darkness
    Natunda, 30 Nelona, 12731
  28. Perspective Adjustments
    Katunda, 31 Nelona, 12731
  29. Spider Pez
    Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731
  30. Intersections
    Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731
  31. Unauthorized scan detected
    Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731
  32. The Anti-Life Equation
    Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731
  33. one of WHOSE children?
    Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731
  34. Space Shanties
    Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731
  35. Threes
    Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731
  36. The old Chaos Goblin routine
    Satunda, 18 Helona, 12731
  37. SSD Hardridge Bulwark
    Satunda, 18 Helona, 12731
  38. First Rule of parrying incoming vehicular blasts: DO NOT
    Satunda, 18 Helona, 12731
  39. Zorphax
    Datunda, 29 Helona, 12731
  40. Ghostie al Saba
    Datunda, 29 Helona, 12731
  41. Okay, but why did you leave it in a vault?
    Datunda, 29 Helona, 12731
  42. Escape Velocity
    Datunda, 4 Melona, 12731
  43. chuck the faux Gamesman to the crowd
    Datunda, 4 Melona, 12731
  44. Here to Rescue Somebody
    Natunda, 10 Melona, 12731
  45. Natunda, 10 Melona, 12731
    Natunda, 10 Melona, 12731
  46. Pest Control
    Natunda, 10 Melona, 12731

The major events and journals in VN's history, from the beginning to today.

And me without my datapadd

[right]Year: 12731[br] Month: 4[br] Day: 13[/right] When I am able to get signal to my datapadd, I have an email from a bounty hunter named Greelo. [quote]To: Vanya Isadora From: Greelo Subject: Courtesy Call Hey, I heard the Crimson Nova Cl...

11:55 pm - 31.08.2019

Bounty Issued

BREAKING NEWS: Five million credit "Crimson Level" Bounty issued on noted Jedi subversive and known criminal VN Ysadora on the moon of Nar Shaddaa! As traditional with a Crimson Level, in addition to paying out bounty, a debt of the bounty collector's will be FORGIVEN

01:53 am - 01.09.2019

Mystic Mobs Investigations: Backstage

Right, so, this is a loaner datapad in a style with which I am not familiar. It might be a knockoff? It's probably a knockoff. Best I can tell, it does not have a keylogger installed, nor any sort of streaming or eavesdropping software running. Some o...

12:28 am - 05.09.2019

Thirty-six days and counting

[right]Katunda[br] 12 Nelona[br] 12731[/right] I [i]think[/i] that is the correct date. I'm out of the habit of converting from AFE or RR to T and back again, and this datapad does not have access to the Conversions Tool at the Great Library. I am...

11:02 pm - 14.09.2019

Lights Snuffed Out

[right]Katunda[br] 12 Nelona[br] 12731[/right] It is [i]really[/i] nice to have travelers of the Light here. I mean. I still have more stubborn in my bag. Weeks more. Maybe another month and change. But it is [b][u]nice[/u][/b] to not be the one ...

12:52 am - 29.09.2019

Someone stole our ship

Looks like Crimson Nova either stole our ship, or had it done.

01:00 am - 29.09.2019

Give that Mentat a cookie!

[right]Satunda[br] 13 Nelona[br] 12731[/right] Good job, Almon De Joy, if you would give me your current delivery address then I would send you one of those highly sugared giant cookies. You're the first Dork Sider (no spelling error) to figure out h...

11:09 pm - 12.10.2019

Thirty-six days completed

[u]@[Vanya](person:2115773a-49ce-407e-825c-663d4d4425bb)[/u]: Today is, I'm pretty sure, twelfth of Nelona -- so that makes it Katunda. Still Twelve-seven-thirty-one on the @[Tapani calendar](ritual:0474b724-46c6-4195-a93b-43adc308544d). We're in Hutt ...

04:08 am - 13.10.2019

Faultline

[right]Datunda[br] 14 Nelona[br] 12731[/right] I have informed everyone that I need to inform about what's going on. I really appreciate that the crew has gathered resources and information for us -- isn't it lovely to work with folks who know how to...

11:47 pm - 26.10.2019

Pumpkin Dinner

[right]Datunda[br] 14 Nelona[br] 12731[/right] ...

10:47 pm - 09.11.2019

Four against One? Okiedokie.

[right]Datunda[br] 14 Nelona[br] 12731[/right] [p]@Episode 3.07: Chaos, Normal, and a Certain Point of View(plot)[/p] [in]Awwww, nuts![/in] ...

12:19 am - 22.12.2019

Ysalamiri

[right]Datunda[br] 14 Nelona[br] 12731[/right] [p]@Episode 3.07: Chapter 8: Choices of Heroes, Duel of the Fates(plot)[/p] Those are not Stormtroopers. I don't know who [i]or what[/i] is inside the Storm Commando armor down there, but they are not...

02:27 am - 05.01.2020

Intermezzo 3.07.8.5

[in]Vanya secured her datapad in its holster without thinking about it. "You still with me, Hicks?"[/in] [in]"I, uh, I think I'm awake." Hicks rubbed the side of his helmet. That did not help him any. He tugged the helmet loose, looked at it for new dent...

05:59 am - 15.02.2020

More and More and More Every Day

[right]Datunda[br] 14 Nelona[br] 12731[/right] Davish: Hon, look what I found. [i]Davish bumps the sensor with his elbow, closing the utility room door.[/in] [i]Vanya is seated on the floor, using a padded bench as a workspace. Many @[small flimsip...

05:49 pm - 28.02.2020

Jawas in Spaaaaaace

[right]Datunda[br] 14 Nelona[br] 12731[/right] I've had an hour and a half of sleep in the last nineteen hours or so. I did my morning meditation and I recently did another hour and a half. I've had a mug of soup and some really bad caf. I'm rea...

10:48 pm - 29.02.2020

Ides of Nelona Client Progress Report

[p][i]The holovid shows Vanya Ysadora from about mid thigh up. She is in the process of towelling away fire suppression residue from her hair and clothing. Her immediate environment appears to be one of the two small refresher closets in the back of the @...

03:28 pm - 03.03.2020

Welcome Back Kal Holst

Getting from the hyperspace exit to the planet is half our problem, because there's a multi-sided space battle in progress. MSgt Jenkins connects to me and starts updating. He has been having a no-fun month. He'd like for me to arrange No Weird At All....

02:40 am - 10.10.2021

Spice Mixes

[in]Force willing, Goss will be done with his bandit issue when we get there. And I can separate him from the Fremen fairly quick so we can have a sincere talk.[/in] [in]And then maybe I will have time to go get a baked good or something, because I am ti...

10:07 pm - 23.10.2021

Aggressive Negotiations Fremen Style

I really appreciate So'zen drawing off attention to the south side of the ... what is this? a canyon? a valley? Something....

09:38 pm - 06.11.2021

Nobody knows I'm a detective.

"You're an archaeologist," Reese says to Dr. Zack Stavin, "you're in the business of finding things." I'm sitting three seats away at the breakfast table. Davish is next to me. We have actual detective licenses. And a detective business. This is a ...

01:12 am - 21.11.2021

Reese the Battlefield Sportscaster

[quote][p]Reese on Allcall: (starts Sportscaster routine with the headliner being GENERAL VANCE KERPLOCKEN)[/p] [p]Vanya: ... Oh man, you have no idea how much this works for me.[/p]|maybe not in the GOOD sense though, since it's a reminder of the Game...

11:55 pm - 18.12.2021

post-hurricane

[right]Datunda, [br]29 Telona, 12731 T[br]afternoon[/right] I don't feel like this nap was fifteen minutes. And yet, most of the people who were in this room when I put my head down are now elsewhere; and the hurricane has passed; and the obelisk has p...

10:49 pm - 01.01.2022

Braiding is a skill.

[right]Datunda[br]29 Nelona[br]12731[/right] [right]a.k.a.[/right] [right]1008:05:29 RR[/right] [in]I suppose I ought to get back in the habit of thinking in both calendar systems at the same time. We're going to be out here, outside the @[Tapani Sec...

09:54 pm - 14.01.2022

Aboard the Loaner Shuttle _Shenanigans_

[right]Datunda[br]29 Nelona[br]12731[/right] [right]a.k.a.[/right] [right]1008:05:29 RR[/right] [in]It's evening at last on an incident-packed day.[/in] [in]We are not done yet.[/in] [in]I have been snacking when I got a chance to keep my systems g...

11:38 pm - 18.01.2022

The droid did WHAT?

[right]Datunda[br]29 Nelona[br]12731[/right] [right]a.k.a.[/right] [right]1008:05:29 RR[/right] [in]Right.[/in] [in]Right.[/in] [in]I think Vance is handling a fight in another room. Solo.[/in] [in]Maybe Reese is backing him up. I hope so.[/in] ...

10:14 pm - 12.02.2022

Chausid Station

We took a Three Hour Tour down to Chausid Station, which amounts to half an hour of briefing followed by 2 hours of meditation followed by a half hour of getting updates on how The Plan has Already Changed: [quote]All the communications are jammed up t...

09:45 pm - 26.03.2022

We Do Not Touch the Creepy Artifact

[right]Natunda[br]30 Nelona[br]12731[/right] [right]a.k.a.[/right] [right]1008:05:30 RR[/right] ...

09:21 pm - 09.04.2022

Thin Darkness

[in]I had the attention of both Carapace-wearing Killians for a moment, anyway.[/in] [in]And now we can confirm "Force Lightning".[/in]...

01:05 am - 24.04.2022

Perspective Adjustments

[right]Katunda[br]31 Nelona[br]12731[/right] [right]a.k.a.[/right] [right]1008:05:31 RR[/right] [in]When I finally detached from @[Port Etmar](settlement:6b45a81a-f9e5-4e95-a949-53bd8b52e69e) report-seeking long enough to tromp onto the [i]Night Spar...

04:45 am - 08.05.2022

Spider Pez

Vanya: "Faboo. I've received more intel from Lord Vondromas --" Vanya thumps the belt pouch in which she keeps the index card sized flimsiplasts Vanya: "-- explaining more Everything Is Awful about that Codex jobby. In summary, it's awful, we will have ...

04:49 am - 08.05.2022

Intersections

[right]Atunda[br]6 Helona[br]12731[/right] [right]a.k.a.[/right] [right]1008:06:06 RR[/right] [in]This place is full of intersections. Nothing is exactly straight. Is this meant to be a visual metaphor for something? Or is it an indicator that the or...

07:57 pm - 21.05.2022

Unauthorized scan detected

[articleblock:4b8fef26-09b4-496d-89ed-5ed38a40c5a5] [hr] [right]Atunda[br]6 Helona[br]12731[/right] [right]a.k.a.[/right] [right]1008:06:06 RR[/right] ...

09:34 pm - 04.06.2022

The Anti-Life Equation

[articleblock:cbeed215-dcbb-415f-9491-2410b4786bfa] [hr] [right]Atunda[br]6 Helona[br]12731[/right] [right]a.k.a.[/right] [right]1008:06:06 RR[/right] [in]We got the fight solved, we were cleaning up.[/in] [in]I went to Reese, finally able to fo...

12:49 am - 19.06.2022

one of WHOSE children?

[articleblock:68bc6890-824d-4183-9ef5-22d4d49116b5] [right]Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731[br] in a fancy looking B'omarr Research Chamber under the area around Stiydear Estate[/right] [quote][center]Clear thoughts to you.[/center] [p] [/p]|a B'omarr Monk ...

09:57 pm - 30.07.2022

Space Shanties

[articleblock:86910fc9-9232-4fb7-9f48-53764bc6f919] [right]Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731[br] in the innermost chamber [br]of a fancy looking B'omarr Research Chamber [br]under the area around Stiydear Estate[/right] ...

11:42 pm - 13.08.2022

Threes

[right]Atunda, 6 Helona, 12731[br] in the innermost chamber [br]of a fancy looking B'omarr Research Chamber [br]under the area around Stiydear Estate[/right] [in]Three things have generally been true about me, as a servant of the Force:[/in] [ol][l...

03:57 am - 11.09.2022

Tactical Droid AT-ST

[right]Satunda[br] 18 Helona[br] 12731[/right] [in]We have just finished up dinner at the General Kerplocken "Estate", cooked up by Lady Zaye.[/in] [in]Lord Vondromas says the tactics of the raids by the Killian-Tilles Alliance has changed more than...

11:57 pm - 24.09.2022

SSD Hardridge Bulwark

[right]Satunda[br] 18 Helona[br] 12731[/right] [in]I think it is just before the date switches over to the 19th, anyway. I would check, but So'Zen and I are so busy right now in making new acquaintances.[/in]...

02:30 am - 08.10.2022

First Rule of parrying incoming vehicular blasts: DO NOT

[articleblock:35be30d2-4822-47a9-8d43-de7ae2569cc7] [right]Satunda[br] 18 Helona[br] 12731[/right] [quote][p]Pay close attention, my Padawan.[/p] [p]The [b][u]first[/u] [u]rule[/u][/b] of using lightsabers to block incoming blaster fire on a ve...

05:45 am - 22.10.2022

Zorphax

[right]Datunda [br] 29 Helona, 12731[/right] [articleblock:646dfc53-b9a3-40ca-a1c0-c5bec27d1835] [in]Rico blames me for the former-ATST silicone based people who are going away to a new life full of Aw'akeen insight.[/in] [in]Heh.[/in] ...

10:33 pm - 19.11.2022

Ghostie al Saba

[right]Datunda [br] 29 Helona, 12731[/right] ...

10:33 pm - 03.12.2022

Okay, but why did you leave it in a vault?

[right]Datunda [br] 29 Helona, 12731[/right] ...

08:08 pm - 31.12.2022

Escape Velocity

[articleblock:a887cc2b-56d6-43d7-9b18-77c19d3d2ad9] [right]Datunda[/right] [right]4 Telona[/right] [right]12731[/right] ...

10:54 pm - 28.01.2023

Natunda, 10 Melona, 12731

Previouslies: [ul] [li]New passenger Minsa Sol, Eborrean, is bewildered by the mental silence (now that he has no puppeteer parasite to yammer orders at him).[/li] [li]Reese found a crashed High Vor Ghtroc 720. It might be VorCadriaan.[/li] [li]T...

04:02 am - 30.07.2023

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I taught myself to read at 4 years of age because I was impatient. I decided the available books were not the story I wanted to read, and wrote a story, at 5.
It was pretty awful.
I mean, I was five, that's not going to be a coherent plot anyhow! But still. It was awful. I was astounded to realize that good stories don't just burst off the page because I apply a crayon. I went back to reading for a while, but sometimes I was looking at what made one book a good read while another was merely a way to pass the time.
Here we are, twoscore and change years later, and I think I am starting to really grasp how a plot is different from a narrative which is not the same thing as a roughly chronological sequence of scenes?
Building worlds certainly makes for a better story!
 
My native language is American English, with several regional contributions as I moved around a lot in my early years. I can communicate tolerably well in a couple of other languages, if the other converser is patient and of good cheer. I'm familiar with several specialized vocabularies in the greater category "Nerd" and I know the responsibility for being understood is mine.
(I also sometimes have trouble understanding spoken words because I'm missing a bit of the hearing register in the middle. Maybe that's why I use the "Maximum Verbosity" setting in written communication! Sorry.)

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