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ATTENTION! NEW THREAD BY ME!!

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A collection of all my work featured on the Runescape Stories forum, as well as some new pieces! Here I will showcase all of my achievements, stories and character biographies from my time here on the Runescape Story Forums as well as regularly updating the short stories section with new (and old!) pieces of literature. I hope you enjoy visiting my mansion!
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21-Oct-2009 11:07:28

Lord Thross

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A great story!
It's not completely scary, but it's definitely interesting. It is pretty hard to write a piece of literature that's truly scary. The start was the closest it came, and it stayed rather like a fun adventure to follow, the rest of the time.
With the creatures in Edgeville, it sort of made it feel a bit odd, because they were more weird-sounding than scary, and I didn't really picture anything like that being the monster of Edgeville.
However, despite the fact it's not greatly scary, it's fun to read, and I look forward to more adds! So far so good!
Here are some typo's and errors I'm pointing out to help;
(please make a note that I used Notepad to write them down, and they may be a bit hard to read.)
In the first part of page five, the fourth line down, "Tristan followed Jaden without quest*on," I believe
"quest*on" to be a typo, meant as "question"? :D
The paragraph under that says "The group travelled directly north, passing by the denizens of the wild unnoticed, leaving the beasts be as the group did them." I'm guessing when you say that the group was leaving the beasts be as the group did themself, you meant "beasts" rather than the second "group," right?
When you go to the point talking about the statue, you have Jaden say "the statue is the guy who found Edgeville"
You should say "is of," as it sounds like you're implying the statue is actually the person. "Found" should be
"founded," as well.
Paragraph three of Chapter X says "storey" in place of "story."
Last paragraph of post two says "REALLY reacting this this", I'll guess the double "this" was meant as "to this",
right?
Post three page six, when saying Georgia goes to wash herself in the River Lum, you say "tained" rather than
"tainted."
Paragraph one, first post, page 8. "Upmost" is written, I think a typo of "Utmost?"

27-Oct-2009 04:15:00

Lord Thross

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Further down from the above a bit, it says "Robert slowed a little so he could address him.
Then stopped. " It's a bit weird to read, since "Then stopped" is a new sentence, and it's in a new paragraph. It
should be "Robert slowed down a little so he could address him, then stopped."
In post four, Tristan asking where Veronica would choose to live, he calls the lands "RuneScape." This is sort of
annoying, and as I read this, I sort of felt like it was a quest in RS or such, and less like I was reading a good
story. I suggest changing it to "Gielinor", which is what it is called. The NPC's Jagex has refer to it as
"RuneScape" are all rather more comical.
When Veronica says "I've been thinking. It must have been morning when we escaped because you were on the last
watch. So it would have still been morning when we got here, which means that if The Wilderness does have a day and night it would have been bright, right?" in the seventh post of page eight, I'm greatly confused.
If it was morning when they escaped, and it was morning when they got there, it was still very dark, and yet Veronica says it would've been bright. This is just so confusing I don't even know if what I just said made sense.
Down a post, Robert says "I say we try and find out way out." I think by the first "out" you meant "our"?
Right before the start of Chapter XVI, you use "even" in place of "ever."
Last post and paragraph of page eight. "its eight, slimy legs its insatiable hunger" There should be either a comma
or a period after "legs", in the case of a period, the "I" in "its" should be capitalized.
Paragraph two of the second post on page nine says "but were all now lacking a head seemingly cut off but someone
with a very sharp blade." I'm going to guess you were going to write "by", but you weren't thinking and aimed to
write "buy" instead and then typo'd with "but"?

27-Oct-2009 04:18:13

Lord Thross

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In the next post, you write "Jaden gave Georgia to okay to open the door." I'll guess "to okay" meant "the okay".
Paragraph two of the next post has "unnerved the three older members of the group however." You should add a comma
after "group".
In the start of Chapter XVII you say "He lay on the ground facing the ceiling, his blood smeared on the ground
around him messily." I suggest changing one of the two "ground"s here, as it feels a bit odd when they're together like that. Perhaps change one to floor or something of the sort?
Down a bit: "he didn't bleed. Instead, the blood simply spilled out from the clean cut running from his left
shoulder diagonally through to his elbow." This is a bit odd. He didn't bleed, but instead blood spilled out of the
cut? Seems like bleeding to me.
In the second larger paragraph of the post under you say "It was a risk Jaden had to take, if Even could" I think Even = Evan? :P
Fourth paragraph of the post under that says "Unfortunately, this caused a blade to grow from the step he was on slice into his shin." I think after "On" you wanted "and", right?
Post seven, page nine. "was Evan, standing in between a male and a female adult. They were in front of a sign that
said 'Welcome to Edgeville' that stood before a tree sapling." You do realize that earlier in the story you said
that Ivan was the son, and that it was Ivan who founded Edgeville?
First paragraph, post three, page thirty-five. "disfigured hand that came crashing down one the spot" I take "one"
to mean "on", but it was typo'd?
Paragraph four of post four, page thirty-five. "She was fortunate that her arm was still in once piece but her
bones and top layer of skin were a different story." You should put a comma after "piece", as it sounds like you're saying that her bones and top layer of skin being a different story was fortunate. You also say "once piece" rather than "one piece".

27-Oct-2009 04:21:47

Lord Thross

Lord Thross

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Paragraph under that says "The strong, courageous and determined, Georgia" you should say "The strong, courageous, and determined Georgia" instead, as it's easier to understand.

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Apart from those few typo's, your story is amazing, keep up the great work!
(P.S; my favourite character is probably Georgia or Robert.)

27-Oct-2009 04:24:18

Infinity A8

Infinity A8

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Wow thanks for all that! I'll be sure to fix those mistakes up right away. Heh, I can probably attribute most of the silly misspellings to the fact that I refuse to write at any time other than late at night.
Also, regarding Evan's bleeding, doesn't 'bleeding' refer to blood pumping out of a wound? I wanted to describe it like Evan's blood wasn't moving at all (like if you were to tear a hole in a bag of water, it doesn't 'pump' out, it just spills.)
Also the day/night of the Wilderness is reversed as I later explain. So Veronica says it >'would'< be bright, but because it isn't, it leads Robert to theorise the day/night thing.
And where did I say that Ivan was the son? Ivan is Evan's father and the founder of Edgeville.

27-Oct-2009 05:57:33 - Last edited on 27-Oct-2009 06:39:41 by Infinity A8

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