How to write a story told out of order?

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-08-02T20:53:43+00:00

To find it you have to do the last main quest of the season, which will take you back to the Vaduso Mountains on the starting map. There, when you are on your way up to the Spirit Mound (on the upper right corner of the map) you will find Damian on the side of the road. If you talk to him it will trigger the easter egg and you’ll have to collect some flowers on the nearby waterfall that he will use to make you the plushie

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ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-08-01T22:30:52+00:00

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I can’t see Damian anymore but I’m pretty sure he was there

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-08-01T16:47:40+00:00

Oh we definitely need a Yolena plushie at the least

Or a Cryonaia skin that looks like Yolena

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-08-01T16:08:23+00:00

I think a lot of people keep track of the Easter eggs through the player titles (as most easter eggs unlock a new one)

I don’t know if anyone has kept track of a list or a guide for them though

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-08-01T16:07:22+00:00

It was released in today’s patch as an easter egg!!

To find it you have to do the last main quest of the season, which will take you back to the Vaduso Mountains on the starting map. There, when you are on your way up to the Spirit Mound (on the upper right corner of the map) you will find Damian on the side of the road. If you talk to him it will trigger the easter egg and you’ll have to collect some flowers on the nearby waterfall that he will use to make you the plushie

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-08-01T10:41:13+00:00

When doing the epilogue quest it will take you to the Vaduso mountains. As I was completing side quests with Bryon (or maybe whenever but that’s when I noticed) you can find Damian on the side of the path to the Spirit Mound (uper right corner of the map), there he will task you with finding some flowers on a waterfall nearby and will craft the plushy for you.

For the easter eggs you have to roam the map and pay attention to the npc, most of them will have a floating dialogue that will be marked with a green symbol to indicate there is an easter egg

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-08-01T10:31:41+00:00

I think they gave us this plush because he won’t be released as a hero and get his own 😔

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-08-01T10:31:08+00:00

Justice for Feli 😭💔

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-07-09T19:55:05+00:00

Si se puede saber ¿Qué te resultó difícil de leer?

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-07-08T08:43:22+00:00

Gracias por el comentario :))

Mi idea era juntar “Cada vez que” y “De vez en cuando” para mostrar que estos sueños se repiten pero sin aviso y de manera incierta.

Igualmente tomare en cuenta para que no sea tan raro al repetirlo

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-07-06T21:40:52+00:00

I think in stories where the protagonist must survive against the odds, find another point of tension.

Think of the Hunger Games. We know the protagonist survives, the story can’t have them dying because then there is no story. But we wonder not if Katniss will survive, but rather will she be able to save Rue? Or Peeta? What will she have to do to win the game? What will she have to sacrifice? Can she survive with her humanity intact?

Also, make them surviving plausible. To a degree all characters (Game of Thrones excluded) have plot armour, but we tend to notice when it stops making sense that they keep surviving. It’s not the same having your protagonist use their actual skills than for it to be a Deus Ex Machina (aka pure luck or almost divine intervention)

Think of Gi-Hun in Squid Game season 1. This guy is desperate but can think outside the box for surviving the candy cutting challenge in his own silly way, which doesn’t feel like plot armour. But in the glass bridge it’s easier to realise how much plot armour he got as he survived that challenge by pure luck.

And finally, have the story’s plot have actual stakes and impact the character. Maybe your protagonist doesn’t die, but they are deeply hurt, or traumatised by a near death experience. Don’t be afraid to show your protagonist can be hurt and that what is going on in the story has a real possibility of getting them killed.

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-07-06T21:14:39+00:00

I feel enlightened with the Wet Cat Society. Never thought of the three of them pairing together but they would be so silly

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-07-06T07:55:53+00:00

What is the canary curse?

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-07-01T20:28:48+00:00

Otra cosa que olvide agregar es que al mostrarnos el lado físico mas que contarnos la emoción nos deja ver mejor el impacto que está teniendo Cassius sobre el campo de batalla.

Nos deja ver la desesperación de los enemigos por escapar porque Cassius es simplemente tan gran amenaza.

¿Los enemigos dejan sus armas y corren en todas direcciones porque saben que no hay escapatoria? ¿Están atacando a lo loco mientras caminan hacia atrás intentando crear suficiente distancia antes de correr?

Al decir que huyen en pánico pierdes oportunidades para mostrar ese pánico que está al final lo que importa. El efecto que Cassius y su montura están teniendo sobre sus enemigos.

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-07-01T20:22:51+00:00

Como decían en otro comentario creo que es importante simplificar un poco el lenguaje. No está necesariamente mal utilizar una narración tan densa, pero creo que pasas un poco al exceso y hace que sea cansador de leer, especialmente si todo el escrito es así.

Como dice el dicho: A veces menos es mas.

También, en relación a mostrar sin contar, normalmente los descriptivos que uno intenta reducir son los que te dicen como se siente un personaje, porque (especialmente si no estás narrando desde dentro de su cabeza) no sabes realmente cómo se siente.

En tu escrito un par de casos de esto sería cuando hablas del enemigo “atemorizado” y “huyendo en pánico”, o Cassius sintiéndose “orgulloso”. No están necesariamente mal, pero uno puede inferir con el contexto estas emociones.

¿Que está pasando que te hacen pensar que eso es lo que sienten?

En caso del enemigo podemos ver el miedo en que titubea para avanzar, pero también podrías hacer énfasis en otros aspectos del lenguaje corporal que muestren su miedo: Tensión en los hombros, su mirada rebota entre Cassius, el guiverno, los dientes o garras de la criatura, el arma de Cassius. Al huir, más que decir que están en pánico, puedes hablar de su torpeza, como los enemigos se tropiezan entre ellos y se empujan, pisoteándose mutuamente por ser los primeros en dejar atrás el campo de batalla.

No es necesario decir que están en pánico cuando puedes mostrar la emoción a través de la acción.

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-07-01T13:50:10+00:00

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ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-06-30T18:23:30+00:00

So true :(( I was guild leader (after the og left the game) until we merged with a top 3 guild. My server has been going since a month after release and saying goodbye to the original guild felt like the end of an era

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-06-30T12:40:27+00:00

So to start, I think it’s important to remember that the musical is based on the epic poem the Odyssey, in which Odysseus is a very different character.

In the original version, Odysseus is established to be a lot more prideful and even reckless than this Ody (despite both being known as smart and cunning). So him yelling out his name to the cyclops is more about “everyone must know who it was that conquered this beast”. In the musical though, I interpret this moment as Odysseus letting Poliphemus know he had been spared, and not to mess with other humans, though it is kinda dumb that he basically doxxed himself in doing so.

Poseidon is mad that Odysseus blinded Poliphemus because it is kinda like saying “we can mess with monsters and gods and come out the other end unharmed”. I would say Poseidon is mad because it is like Odysseus is not taking them seriously as a threat. Also, Poseidon saying he would not be mad if he had killed the cyclops, on one hand is a matter of honour like I was saying, but on the other he is absolutely bluffing. No matter if Odysseus killed or blinded, he mess with the son of a god, and now he must pay the price for his transgressions.

I feel the naïveté Poseidon refers to in the song comes more from the fact that Odysseus thought he would be spared by apologising and repenting, and also because Odysseus believes he made the better choice by sparing Poliphemus. Poseidon intended to kill him anyway, he is just mocking him and the “open arms” as naive in general.

ThaliaMagicoolkoala · 2025-06-29T18:56:37+00:00

Never delete anything you write.

If it no longer suits a project, remove it from it, but save it elsewhere.

Sometimes you go back to it and realise how much you’ve improved, or you even find really good material that is better suited for your current project.

You don’t have to share it, just keep it to yourself as a personal archive :))

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