Hi all!
Due to some bloody awful unforeseen events in my life this little project has been seriously delayed. These events have resulted in me only getting roughly an hour or two of free time a day just now, but I felt it unfair to keep holding back for so long, as I have honestly no idea when free-time will become mine again.
So, I'm going to start putting down the story as it is for now. There is a lot of things I wanted to add to this but I simply won't have the time to do it.
Jimmy B spent an enormous amount of time correcting all my little grammar errors so in respect of that I took the time to correct them all, but there is a lot that was missed out that I wanted to be included:
Jamira's 3D maps - she made a wonderful re-creation of Zychion using a program that made the whole map fully traversable in full glorious 3D - the original intention was to use snap-shots of this 3D image to map out where certain people were at certain times during the story. However, in the end, time would not allow it.
Certain story line's. I really wanted to expand the story a lot more in some area's - one in particular was the sticky situation that Jinx, Sarah and JaKst3r ended up in. This was a gold-mine of a situation to use to express emotions, conflict of interest and bitterness belonging to the people involved in it. If I had more time available, this one, and several others, would have been described in a lot more detail.
Weather. In the first three chapters that I wrote before the event took place I mentioned at one point "Storm clouds were gathering." - I wanted to make the weather worsen as the story went on, to help mirror the situation the contestants were in and how it was getting worse and worse for those still alive. I still imagine the second face-off between Ozi and Da to be in the midst of torrential rain, with lightening erupting all around them.
Finer points. Wanted to add in a large number of symbolic events and imagery to add to the feelings of the contestants, and in turn the readers. Also wanted to add in better justifications for certain things, such as a more plausible reason why people would sign up for an event in which they were almost guaranteed to die in.
Sadly, all this stuff I simply will not have time for this time round. Hopefully next year if I do write another Novella for the next Battle Royale I will have more free time and be able to perfect it better than this year, but considering I was expecting everything to be complete a long time ago I think I should just go with what I have for now this year. I hope you enjoy it.
Now, I'm going to reserve a bunch of posts, as to get the story and all the pictures down in the correct place's will probably take me another week or so given my limited free time just now.
Hang tight in the meantime!
Cat.