I'm compelled to try something different with Skyrim, I wanted to write a diary while playing it. So that it lasts longer and that it remains fun. I tried it with Mount&Blade Warband but without someone reading the entries I discontinued it. It was fun though (at least for me writing them).
Now before I head out and start writing I want to assess the potential audience (or the lacking thereof) and I want to find out what a potential reader could be interested in.
So here are some questions:
What do you think of this idea?
Would you been interesting in reading such a diary?
What does it need to contain?
Should it be interactive, where you can propose your own ideas so that my player may use them?
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If I have piqued your interest I figured out how things will begin, thus far.
Our hero is an Orc, a very special Orc. His name is Ag gro-Notch. He is gifted with magic and thus seen with contempt by his clan and family.
He is my first Orc-Mage and I want him to become an Arch-Mage of a mage guild. He has other plans though, he follows a different agenda, in fact he just pursuits his hobby. He likes cooking and eating. Granted he agrees that his fire spells help him keeping the perfect oven temperature and his ice-spells have created delicious desserts and and helped him preserve some of his susceptible ingredients. But magic is more a necessity than something like a hobby. Now cooking that's what he likes. Which brings us to the rather morbid and sad misunderstanding why he is in jail.
He was perfectioning his newly recipe of a lizard stew. So, rather naïvely he captured several baby argonians and skinned and boiled them. He didn't realize they where sentient and was quite satisfied with the result of his cooking but to his surprise the mob of raging villagers was rather disgusted by his recipe. Luckily (if one can call that luck) the local guards captured him before the mob tore him appart. He now awaits his execution (or trial) for multiple argonian child murder.
Now before I head out and start writing I want to assess the potential audience (or the lacking thereof) and I want to find out what a potential reader could be interested in.
So here are some questions:
What do you think of this idea?
Would you been interesting in reading such a diary?
What does it need to contain?
Should it be interactive, where you can propose your own ideas so that my player may use them?
[hr]
If I have piqued your interest I figured out how things will begin, thus far.
Our hero is an Orc, a very special Orc. His name is Ag gro-Notch. He is gifted with magic and thus seen with contempt by his clan and family.
He is my first Orc-Mage and I want him to become an Arch-Mage of a mage guild. He has other plans though, he follows a different agenda, in fact he just pursuits his hobby. He likes cooking and eating. Granted he agrees that his fire spells help him keeping the perfect oven temperature and his ice-spells have created delicious desserts and and helped him preserve some of his susceptible ingredients. But magic is more a necessity than something like a hobby. Now cooking that's what he likes. Which brings us to the rather morbid and sad misunderstanding why he is in jail.
He was perfectioning his newly recipe of a lizard stew. So, rather naïvely he captured several baby argonians and skinned and boiled them. He didn't realize they where sentient and was quite satisfied with the result of his cooking but to his surprise the mob of raging villagers was rather disgusted by his recipe. Luckily (if one can call that luck) the local guards captured him before the mob tore him appart. He now awaits his execution (or trial) for multiple argonian child murder.
My little backstory is Thor pisses off Odin again but instead of Earth, Odin drains most of Thor's power and puts him in a prison in Skyrim. In order to regain his powers and return to Asgard he must go out on a quest to save the land from the dragons and the dark god Ald-Rhun(I think thats how its spelled)
