Re: It's Finally Over!
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:47 am
Again, sorry about making you feel like that! It wasn't the game ender, it's just that I needed to end it. The ability to sleep (except for the fact that my body has apparently forgotten what that is) and the ability to disengage enough to handle some of my own life was as much a factor as anything. Again, next time? Staff. Somebody that I can pass it off to and say "watch it, respond as necessary, take notes" to, even if only one person, would save me big time.
A good learning experience for me, if nothing else!
You guys did almost everything right. Next time, I have plans in mind so that even if it's just me, I can avoid some of the same problems. (And, yes, refusing to freeze Raschad was actually a good thing -- that would have raised F484's ire towards both you and Chair.)
There were a lot of things that I looked to for mood. I actually had a lot of music, movies, and books on hand. Immediate Music, ES Posthumous, Two Steps From Hell... All of their "darker" stuff worked well. Alien, The Hunt for Red October, both the movies and the soundtracks. Also the Silent Hill soundtracks. For most of the Raschad Dies scenes, I had Old Snake from MGS4 playing. I have a friend who sends me a lot of Asian stuff, and I found the Swiri soundtrack to have good tracks to work on this with. I kept a copy of All You Need Is Kill, Usurper of the Sun, (Both Japanese and surprisingly good -- one fast-paced military sci-fi, one vanilla sci-fi that reminded me a lot of early Asimov), Mistwalker, several of the books on the US Navy, and naturally Halsey's journal. (Oddly, I only opened it twice -- the bubblewrap packaging was usually enough to give me ideas.)
I'm not sure if I displayed properly just how thought-out this mission was on the part of ONI. Managing Chair the way they did, setting up a crew of combat-capable people who were still mostly just engineers, inserting ONI operatives within that crew... For example, the whole thing with Ives? I first mentioned him way back when during the SUN GO BRAAAP thing, Raschad was going to confess to him his past. Even before then, however, they'd planned to have a confrontation between Ives and Raschad to try and push F484. They used a lot of Orion-IV augmentation on Raschad for the ideal purpose of poking Foxtrot.
They got a lot of good data, even before the device. Yes, the planet was effectively a listening post/transmission post/teleportation relay/resource base, but it was an honest to goodness rogue planet. Myung was the one who put the facilities there, just in case the UNSC came a knocking. ONI had suspicions, but after some of the oddities, they had "soft" confirmation. The device gave them hard confirmation. The star, though, was natural.
One funny story about all of this: I work third shift at a hotel. So long as I get all my duties done and help customers, my boss doesn't care what I do. Naturally, this was my prime writing time. However, I'm not allowed to fix anything for insurance reasons, not even changing lightbulbs. I'm also the only employee here at night.
Imagine the poor customer leaving their room to get a soda. A breaker's blown so the lights in the hallway are out. You can faintly hear one of the creepy songs from Silent Hill 3 playing. You creep down the hall, only to have a tall, skinny, pale as a ghost guy round the corner right in front of your face.
While you're understandably startled, the guy falls on the floor clutching his chest, begging you not to scare him like that again.
Welcome to my strange little world.
A good learning experience for me, if nothing else!
You guys did almost everything right. Next time, I have plans in mind so that even if it's just me, I can avoid some of the same problems. (And, yes, refusing to freeze Raschad was actually a good thing -- that would have raised F484's ire towards both you and Chair.)
There were a lot of things that I looked to for mood. I actually had a lot of music, movies, and books on hand. Immediate Music, ES Posthumous, Two Steps From Hell... All of their "darker" stuff worked well. Alien, The Hunt for Red October, both the movies and the soundtracks. Also the Silent Hill soundtracks. For most of the Raschad Dies scenes, I had Old Snake from MGS4 playing. I have a friend who sends me a lot of Asian stuff, and I found the Swiri soundtrack to have good tracks to work on this with. I kept a copy of All You Need Is Kill, Usurper of the Sun, (Both Japanese and surprisingly good -- one fast-paced military sci-fi, one vanilla sci-fi that reminded me a lot of early Asimov), Mistwalker, several of the books on the US Navy, and naturally Halsey's journal. (Oddly, I only opened it twice -- the bubblewrap packaging was usually enough to give me ideas.)
I'm not sure if I displayed properly just how thought-out this mission was on the part of ONI. Managing Chair the way they did, setting up a crew of combat-capable people who were still mostly just engineers, inserting ONI operatives within that crew... For example, the whole thing with Ives? I first mentioned him way back when during the SUN GO BRAAAP thing, Raschad was going to confess to him his past. Even before then, however, they'd planned to have a confrontation between Ives and Raschad to try and push F484. They used a lot of Orion-IV augmentation on Raschad for the ideal purpose of poking Foxtrot.
They got a lot of good data, even before the device. Yes, the planet was effectively a listening post/transmission post/teleportation relay/resource base, but it was an honest to goodness rogue planet. Myung was the one who put the facilities there, just in case the UNSC came a knocking. ONI had suspicions, but after some of the oddities, they had "soft" confirmation. The device gave them hard confirmation. The star, though, was natural.
One funny story about all of this: I work third shift at a hotel. So long as I get all my duties done and help customers, my boss doesn't care what I do. Naturally, this was my prime writing time. However, I'm not allowed to fix anything for insurance reasons, not even changing lightbulbs. I'm also the only employee here at night.
Imagine the poor customer leaving their room to get a soda. A breaker's blown so the lights in the hallway are out. You can faintly hear one of the creepy songs from Silent Hill 3 playing. You creep down the hall, only to have a tall, skinny, pale as a ghost guy round the corner right in front of your face.
While you're understandably startled, the guy falls on the floor clutching his chest, begging you not to scare him like that again.
Welcome to my strange little world.