A thank you and an invitation

Hi all,

I just wanted to say thank you to all the people who contribute to this forum and display so much creativity and support for each other. Your example got me off my butt and finally writing again after a very long dry spell.

Inspired by several 'costume assistance' threads here in Screenshots and Fan Art I skipped over to Roleplaying and started the thread:

Scribe for hire - Origins on offer
(also linked in my signature)

In this thread I offer my literary services to those seeking origin stories for their heroes or villains, as well as a condensed version suitable for ID cards in-game.

Over the last week I have written six short stories describing the origins of six very different heroes and it has been a blast! I've been experimenting with different styles and structures and it has been a very rewarding experience overall.

It has also been very heartening to receive positive feedback on my work from some very satisfied customers!

My reason for posting here is to keep the cycle of inspiration going round. I'd like to invite everyone here to read my stories and if any of the diverse scenes contained within inspire artworks I would be very honoured!

Stories completed so far:

<ul type="square">[*]The Origin of Anonysmo Dragon [*]The Origin of Xander Frost (Or: My mother married a Frost Giant!) [*]The Origin of Shoshemi [*]The Origin of the Veiled Hawk [*]The Origin of the Hydra [*]The Origin of Michale (Or: The Last Chance) [*] NEW The Origin of Sarah Pike (Or: Hell hath no fury like a woman thorned)[*] NEW The Origin of the Neighborhood Archer[/list]
I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them!

Say, I like those quite a lot! Original and cool, with a very comic-book feel. Stormspider and Grey Scribe are terrific concepts, and Skorpios is hilarious. Excellent job on the others, as well.

Very nice work--and you're having fun to boot. Sounds like a win-win situation to me.

Keep up the good work.

Do it, guys...Do it! Grey's awesome!

I HIGHLY recommend him!

I'll have to write out some long biographies and get him to condense them for me.

Thanks guys.

I'd be happy to help, Personamorpher, as long as you don't hit me with all of your alts at once!

An interesting idea, maybe those who don't normally bother to fill out their description fields will sign up.

Hi GreyScribe,

I'd like to take you up on this.

After some arm twisting I caved in and created another version of my character Comrade Hero on the Pinnacle Server. This Comrade Hero is almost identical to the original Comrade Hero of Protector server except for one major difference.

Comrade Hero of Pinnacle is a Peacebringer.

If you feel up to the task, would you mind reading the bio of my original Comrade Hero and try coming up with a story/background for my new Comrade Hero?

Thanks in advance.

Comrade Hero

I have a few silly questions:

What is the letter count for an origin and does it include spaces and punctuation?

Is it possible to paste it in from another program or can it onl be typed.


Thank you.

Just did a quick count and there is room for 1034 characters. And yes, I'm pretty sure that includes punctuation, spaces and possibly carriage returns/line breaks as well.

It sounds like a lot but it's a real chore to shoe-horn a half-decent origin into 1034 characters, believe me!

Also, yes you can paste any copied text into your ID card description box - you just can't cut or copy anything the other way. I try and check all my origins on one of my toons to make sure it fits, but sometimes I do last-minute edits that might push it over.

It's... not very much. But yes you can type it up in notepad, then copy paste into the bio box. But you can't copy OUT of the bio box so once it goes in it stays in

SuperMaoriFulla - you've been added to the queue - keep an eye out for a PM advising you of the origin's appearance in the thread.