<div style="text-align:center">In many worlds, there are Crystals. Often, these Crystals show the power of the four basic Elements. Water, Fire.... Earth, Wind...
Often stories are told about the protectors of these Crystals. Many times, the tales are alike. Warriors of Light, fighting the Darkness, to save their world... However, with so many of these stories, sometimes the results can be distinctly...
Different.</div>
And so begins Crystal Trials, the occasionally-alluded-to-but-just-now-posted-hey-you're-looking-at-it-don't-give-me-that-look lengthly writing project that I've been working on since a while ago. I figured I really needed to get it up here, if only for background about something I'm planning to/already using elsewhere (mostly ADV). And if I get enough of a spine to work on some kind of book or video game series, a basis for that. Not that THAT'S likely...
And since I'm bound to get yelled at for at least a few of these: Yes, I know that this is monsterously long. Yes, I know that the pacing is too slow at points. Yes, I know that I could fix some of these, among other minor errors, with a re-edit, but this thing's been eating at me for long enough. Yes, I know I have a Shinji-style ego complex.
Anyway, it's about time I got this story up, after the guilt it's been giving me. So, without further adeiu...
Crystal Trials
Acknowledgement of any sort is greatly appreciated. Hard to tell if anyone's checking it out, you know?
- Mus
P.S. Yes, I copied this wholesale from my mirror thread at ADV. STOP MOCKING ME WEEP <p>
<span style="font-size:xx-small;">"Their rhetoric... You didn't put communists in his bed did you!" came Amber's indignant reply.
"Why not? All I had to do was open a gate to his bed and stick up a sign saying 'Hot virgin willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of international socialist fraternity.'"</span>
<span style="color:blue;font-size:xx-small;">Excaliburned:</span> <span style="font-size:xx-small;">Ah yes, I'm thinking of having the USS Bob be preserved outside the Arena as a monument of sorts</span></p>