"I presume you represent the local authorities?"
The Aurian's face would probably betray his surprise if it could, but as is the small insectoid's body language sufficed
"Damn, am I really that transparent?"
The bounty hunter smirked under his helmet
"Well, I am a tracker, I'm very good at discerning a great deal of detail from little, it is my job and it has made me relatively wealthy"
"Alright Mr tracker what tipped you off?"
"Your smell"
"My smell?"
The hunter took a deep sip of his drink and began
"Aside from my kind's 'natural' disposition towards this sort of thing I find that many places have a sort of distinct odor about them, and the smell of where you linger tends to linger on you in turn"
Completely dropping the confident and mysterious act he breaks out into a big grin and adds
"Plus nobody loves those Kulia berry air fresheners quite like the peacekeepers do."
The joke seems to loosen up the Aurian as well and the two share a quick laugh as the Aurian leans onto the bar as well to continue the conversation in earnest, while the Korenian clips his breather back onto his helmet and removes the whole thing to look the Aurian in the eyes as they talk. The Aurian quickly retorts.
"Yeah well you try working in an office that smells like a bunch of Marrian officers who've been sweating in their uniforms all day, we'd be worse off than the prisoners! Plus I happen to like the smell."
The Korenian arches an eyebrow, still smiling sincerely over this banter
"I find the smell of Kulia to be a, how do you say, 'acquired taste' where it's just tolerable enough for you to not run away in disgust until you no longer notice it"
"I don't think I like what you're implying pal!"
The two exchange another quick laugh and the Aurian continues.
"Anyways, I hate to derail our little discussion of berry scents here but I am technically here on business, I need to talk to you about a job"
The smile quickly vanishes from the Korenian, simply shifting back into the persona of the hardened bounty hunter as he warns the Aurian
"I hope it's not something that could get you in trouble with your supervisors, hunters like myself tend to operate on shaky legal ground, and more importantly I hope you can afford my rates. Skills like mine are far from cheap."
The Korenian quickly downs the rest of his drink and looks away to put his helmet on as the Aurian responds
"No my supervisors are the ones who wanted to extend this job, we'll be paying out of the department budget"
The Korenian's eyebrows shot up in surprise, though with his helmet now on his surprise isn't betrayed to the officer as he replies
"It must be someone beyond your already long reach that you want VERY badly if you are willing to come to one such as me"
"Yes."
"Very well then, I am Karyn, but before I accept the contract I will need some information on this man you wish for me to track, I do not doubt the moral standing of this contract, but you must understand that for all my reputation, there are some trails even I cannot follow."
"Of course, we have a full dossier at the station you can review."
"Lead the way then my new friend"
The aurian spun around on his stool and hopped off, making for the door at a somewhat rapid pace as Karyn stood up behind him and coolly followed behind.
I badly need to work on pacing, I tend to do a lot of rapid fire dialogue with very little flavor.
I badly need to work on pacing, I tend to do a lot of rapid fire dialogue with very little flavor.
My issue is that my dialog is as incoorrect gramatically as speech used by my characters. And so it irritates the critical saying "you made mistakes everywhere." And being able to respond. "None of those were mistakes, that's literally how the characters speak, and think." Usually freaks them out. How often do you accidentally end up thinking in run on? In that skull a' yers? Or with additional, unneeded, pauses caused by inability to think of that one word that just skipped your mind? How often do we actually, use perfect grammar when we write stories, whether it's a character thinking or speaking? All else deserves it, as it's easier to red. But why do we represent something false about the character thoughts?
I badly need to work on pacing, I tend to do a lot of rapid fire dialogue with very little flavor.
My issue is that my dialog is as incoorrect gramatically as speech used by my characters. And so it irritates the critical saying "you made mistakes everywhere." And being able to respond. "None of those were mistakes, that's literally how the characters speak, and think." Usually freaks them out. How often do you accidentally end up thinking in run on? In that skull a' yers? Or with additional, unneeded, pauses caused by inability to think of that one word that just skipped your mind? How often do we actually, use perfect grammar when we write stories, whether it's a character thinking or speaking? All else deserves it, as it's easier to red. But why do we represent something false about the character thoughts?
On another note.
Yeah the speech patterns of characters are tricky. They are probably best sorted out after the whole thing is typed up and more or less ready though, editing and such.
Honestly I never FULLY settled on an accent and speech pattern for Karyn, I've always leaned towards something distinct if not strong, but never the exact nature of it. He's kind of a backburner character though, so it's not a terrible surprise he has some unresolved questions about how he works.
My "You are a terrible Dev" hitlist now includes the Ubuntu team who packaged the Mesa libraries, alongside the fucker who did the readme for the Intel Vulkan drivers.
My journey of debugging lead me to discover that the packages put the files in some god-forsaken non-standard location, which means my self-compiled versions would not overwrite them. They were also split in such a way that prevented the use of custom library paths. There is also no way to uninstall the package versions without also removing everything that relies on it.
Which meant I spent several grueling minutes manually removing Ubuntu's versions and replacing them with symlinks to mine.
The journey also revealed that the vulkan driver installation came back from the beyond to once again torment my OpenGL applications, in the form of the readme suggesting that setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the location of the compiled libraries was standard and would in no way break programs looking for OpenGL libraries.
Nerd^3 is great.
Also, I said something on another forum page that I might as well say here...
Quote:MRW I'm on a High Rank Khezu quest in MH4U and A DEVILJHO COMES OVER TO SAY HI
(For those of you who don't know, Khezu is one of the creepiest and also most annoying monsters in Monster Hunter. Deviljho is one of the most feared. High Rank is pretty much medium difficulty. Which translates to hard because Monster Hunter)
(03-17-2016, 03:21 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]So crows are getting smarter now, especially around where I live.
Next thing you know...
"Good morning class. Today we welcome a new transfer student. Would you like to say your name?"
"CAW C-CAW CAW-AW CAW"
So I was sitting in the car listening to the radio with my arm out the window, and a bird shat on my elbow. Nowhere else on the car, just my elbow, the smallest profile target he could have hit. While flying. There weren't any branches above. *grumbling*
Nerd^3 is great.
Also, I said something on another forum page that I might as well say here...
Quote:MRW I'm on a High Rank Khezu quest in MH4U and A DEVILJHO COMES OVER TO SAY HI
(For those of you who don't know, Khezu is one of the creepiest and also most annoying monsters in Monster Hunter. Deviljho is one of the most feared. High Rank is pretty much medium difficulty. Which translates to hard because Monster Hunter)
NerdCubed is love, NerdCubed is life.
Which video is it? Getting blocked by a proxy for me.
I liked how there's a windows 10 upgrade pop out from my task bar here saying it has "anti virus technology", "anti phishing technology" and "system tamper proffing" but not reinforced concrete.
Buildings here are build from reinforced concrete and they've stand the testimony of time since the 1800s
also what will come up later in stardewvalley?
(03-18-2016, 03:47 AM)roguephoenix64 Wrote: [ -> ]NerdCubed is love, NerdCubed is life.
Which video is it? Getting blocked by a proxy for me.
It's the first Saturday Night Jelly.
Ah.
Also, did you really mistake me for dolphin? I need a new profile pic, though sadly I can't draw, don't have the money for a commission, and don't know anyone even if I did.
(03-18-2016, 05:06 AM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote: [ -> ]I liked how there's a windows 10 upgrade pop out from my task bar here saying it has "anti virus technology", "anti phishing technology" and "system tamper proffing" but not reinforced concrete.
Buildings here are build from reinforced concrete and they've stand the testimony of time since the 1800s
also what will come up later in stardewvalley?
Fun things my friend, fun things.
Anyone have Elite: Dangerous? I could use some more people in my wing.
(03-18-2016, 06:38 AM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote: [ -> ]idea of the day, Megaman Ehks(just jakkai Ehks in megaman X's armor though I'm not sure i wanna draw that)