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Which of These Stories Would You Read First?



Which of These Would You Choose? (See Description)

The Hippocampus
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64%
White Raven, Night Crow
2
9%
The Shadowsong
6
27%
 
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Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:29 pm
Featherstone says...



Option 1:

The Hippocampus (Fantasy, Action/Adventure, possibly comedy??): A three-masted carrack from the days of Christopher Columbus - with one major difference. The crew isn't all human and they sail far more than the seas.

The Hippocampus is a hopper, a ship enabled to be able to 'hop' between worlds where they explore, find crewman, and trade. The pirate ship the Kraken is the most dangerous hopper sailing - and when they discover they've been sabatoged by secret agents of the Kraken and they lose the bowsprit, the source of the Hippocampus' magic, they are left stranded on an alien world and no one to trust - not even each other.


Option 2:

White Raven, Night Crow (Modern Fantasy, Action/Adventure): It's present-day earth. Written in 1st-person, it follows the story of a 19-year-old boy going to the local Jr College. He's not exactly normal, however; he's a demon. He's been dealing with it for most of his life and longs only for a "normal" one, and he's close to getting one. That is, until he is first kidnapped and then forced to become an agent of an organization known as the Paladins - demon-hunters, if you will. Sounds a bit cliche, right? Well, there's a twist (discovered partway through the book). The angels, who the Paladins work for - they aren't just protecting the humans, as the agents believe. They aren't killing demonkind out of the goodness of their hearts; they're doing it for dominion over earth.

Option 3:

The Shadowsong (Medieval Fantasy): Still working out details, but basically it follows a fallen angel who is an agent of the Fell, the biggest, baddest demons from Hell. She's a bit odd, however, as she can see far more than most: no illusion may decieve her, no lie will go unseen, and the past, future, and present are all within her gaze. The story begins as demons vs angels, with the protagonist of the story working on sabatoging the latter from the inside-out. At first, it's just light and darkness down in the final throes of an age-old war - until they come. They're Outsiders, rats coming from the walls between the planes of the world, powerful beings who seek to conquer. Now, they must face an enemy greater than any of them could have imagined - together.
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost."


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Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:50 pm
ChieTheWriter says...



Shadowsong...

because Raven.
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Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:27 pm
Feltrix says...



I voted Hippocampus, but keep in mind, I haven't read any of these. This is solely based off the descriptions.
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Thu Oct 26, 2017 6:20 pm
Megrim says...



I voted for hippocampus because it's the most original and sounds like a lot of fun. Angels and demons are super overdone and tired imo, so those ones automatically turned me off.
  








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