Smuggler Archive

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Ifisa wrote:
I read this when you first started it, haven't read it since my last post here :0 really nice, though I personally liked it w/o jedi. Still though, REALLY NICE! write more please

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It's funny you should mention that. When I wrote the first story, it was meant pretty much as a standalone smuggler short. I liked the feel of it so much though that I thought I'd continue the characters, but to keep on writing I'd need some tension, and a goal. The goal came by either destroying or delivering Dallet. The most starwarsy way I could think of to do it involved the Force. I'd planned on only marginally involving him, by acquainting him with Petra. Wasn't gritty enough though, so I decided to try tackling making a bad guy into a good guy via the Jedi.

The thing is, I did RP for several years, and in our group there was only ever one Jedi, and it was me. The original group (I was a latecomer by maybe ten sessions) was a group of miscreants and thugs, and the GM decided to spice things up with a Jedi. That's where FrankLee (an admittedly terrible name) came from. The GM was absolutely superb at holding me to the abstract (and ultimately impossible) tenets of the Jedi Order. I read with great anticipation the series: The New Jedi Order where they deal with the impractical ideals of the Jedi, the things that made it inflexible and might even have contributed to its decline. To me, the internal struggle of the Jedi to be the ideal that is set out for him... that's just a great story waiting to be told. FrankLee the Jedi failed. Eventually it was love that sucked him in (you have to remember this was before the movies, too!) and contributed to his decline. It was a fantastic campaign, but ended terribly for him; Skywalker eventually tracked him down and killed him.

This story started when I was a smuggler, and loving it. Eventually I became a Jedi, and the story mirrors that too, to some extent. I'm still upset that there's virtually no 'smuggler' content in JtL, but I remain hopeful that we'll all eventually be able to write down stories of our adventures and mishaps that happen in game. Until then though I console myself by telling the story of a smuggler-turned-jedi, because I think it's fun and it hasn't been done all that often.

As always, I'm thrilled about getting feedback. I got a lot written friday night and thought about what I wanted to do with the story over the weekend. Expect something this week if work doesn't kick me around too much.

Thanks

Yeah, I liked it, but so far every rp thing I've read (only a few over on the RP boards) have had jedi. That's why I liked yours so much to start. It was about an "average" scum-of-the-universe type guy. He didn't have any foolish ideals, he wasn't looking to be a hero, he wasn't special, he was even addicted to drugs! I liked it the best because he seemed like a guy out for a good time, and just a good time. Was different, I still love it though. He's still got the smuggler mindset, and isn't exactly the most Jedi-esque guy around. Great job, just pointin out i personally like the non-jedi stories more, but this is still awsome

Shameless bump for ya, this is getting to the bottom of the page

Yeah......write more I saw 1 post on my bookmark, then I realized if you did write more there'd be 7 or 8

Was a long, PITA week. This week promises to be as bad or worse. I'm on day shift, which is cool, but leaves me zero free time. If I have any luck, I'll get the next installment edited and up, it's 90% done. Ugh. I remember mornings, and they still suck.

poor frankie... work harder!

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FrankLee wrote:
I'm rounding out hour 10 of my shift, so here's another episode. Been waiting for a while to get to this point in the story, I really hope you guys like it. In my mind, it's the halfway point.

Message Edited by FrankLee on 10-25-2004 05:16 PM

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FrankLee, why hast thou forsaken me?

/cry Almost a whole month without Dallet. Life is so cruel.

And just so he doesn't get the wrong impression: