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Azigarath

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“I do not need to say my name, but I may as well. It is Glory Sunsmith, and I'm a assassin.”
A nineteen year-old assassin****? Assassins are an overused thing in fiction. “a” should be “an”.

“We are perfect killing machines.”
I hope the story backs this up. As a practitioner of replica armour and weapons for almost three years, my uncontrollable rage has been unleashed.

Hey, it’s Mr Burd again, hello!

“We shouldn’t, seeing as we have been assassins for nine years.”
So, this side of the twins were assassins since they were ten years old?

“Then I cast a spell on Legend that we always used before going out. It could change our eye colour from our normal bright gold, to a nice, shining, blue.”
Well, ain’t that magic convenient? I suppose growing up as killers happened to have magic to change eye colour.

And there’s a challenge in the bar. I’m pretty sure I saw such situations several times in other places. Caricatures are not interesting, and I already know how this scene will end.

“Kobin drank the first three easily, and the * third * more slowly.”
Shouldn’t “third” be “fourth”?

Endless pages of bumps and illiterate comments ensues.

The dancing in the bar is very formal, it would seem, and does not fit with real bars in terms of politeness. I’ve never heard polite gestures and talking in the bars I’ve been to.

I did not find anything suggestive in this chapter.

“and we really don’t look *that* different from other humans.”
Uh, born from a human womb, but not a human? I did the same thing in a story of mine, though both parents were of different race.

30-May-2013 01:39:28

Azigarath

Azigarath

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“What seemed to be their leader stepped forward, a tall, broad, man with unkempt brown hair and a two-tooth gap in his grin. As evidenced by the state of his nose, this person had been in not a few fights. A scrap of black cloth was tied about one of his wide arms.”
Every opposition has negative appearances, whereas your protagonists only have positive ones. I will repeat that caricatures are not effective. Not that this damages anything, but I feel I should make my criticism as full and honest as possible.

The other twins or whatever go into Varrock and are confronted by ruffians, who are defeated in an instance by a random saviour, who like every other, greets with polite words to the protagonists.

““So that’* what I look like,” the being said. His face was sleepy, lazily handsome. “What are your names?””
Why is it that all your protagonists are handsome or pretty, perfect, and all your villains with bent noses and scruffy-looking? Well, there is the vampire, who is also of positive traits, but you took time for her.

“Unwillingly she stilled herself, green eyes glaring pools of hatred”
The vampire’s eyes full of hatred has already been mentioned a few times. If I forget something, it’s my fault, not yours.

And this seems to be the last chunk of story. This was much shorter than I expected; when I saw over five hundred posts on the thread, I thought there’d be, like, three hundred posts of story. Well, since that’s the case, I’ll probably finish reading all your stories here fairly soon.

The story’s downside is the repetition, there really is not much going on other than your two twins walking around finding a little trouble here and there, and a vampire and a phoenix. The story’s flow was smooth and simple, but since this is so, also lacks complexity and fleshed storyline. Since your two twins will confront one another one day, this fact makes me not really care what happens to them.

30-May-2013 01:39:43 - Last edited on 30-May-2013 01:40:59 by Azigarath

Azigarath

Azigarath

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How you drop the protagonists of the previous story was another issue I had, but oh well.

Mechanically, the story has significantly improved everything.

Well, your action scenes do not have much description, other than a dagger can, apparently, slide across a body without delivering a lethal cut. The vampire, although cut here and there, thinks more of food than her wounds. I suppose vampires can regenerate, but I am ignorant of the recent approach of vampires.

That is all for now.

30-May-2013 01:39:50 - Last edited on 30-May-2013 01:40:05 by Azigarath

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