Announcing Storylines

I vote for Lena's story!

There aren't very many of either of these yet, but: Lasrua+Malcolm and Gwynn+Finn.

Ooooh Lasrua + Malcolm would be an awesome "ongoing" one. It's about to get good, too.

Gwynn and Finn too, though that's still definitely in the early stages.

Deleting comments is fixed too, Sam. Sorry about that.

This is a great idea! I have often tried to reread single storylines, but it wasn't very convenient, with having to search for the first chapter and then skipping lots of unrelated chapters.

I second all suggestions so far. In addition, I'd say Egelric and his wives, i.e. Egelric + Elfleda, Egelric + Sela and Egelric + Lili; also Egelric and Gunnilda. Definitely Eirik + Sigi, Cian + Eithne and Cat + Paul. Then maybe Sigefrith + Eadie and Young Sigefrith + Wynflaed.

Maybe two different storylines for Iylaine, one with Malcolm, one with Vash.

I think Flann deserves her own story as well, there have been so many chapters about her. The same for Leofric and his changing lovers.

Then maybe not only storylines about romantic relationships but also about friendships, e.g. the friendship of Egelric and Vash, Vash and Alred, and Egelric and Alred.

I would also do a single storyline for Kraaia, she has been an important character lately.

Then I propose a political storyline, where all chapters are that deal with foreign affairs. If we can read them all in order, it will be easier to understand chapters like the recent one and we can follow how power politics evolve.

Moreover, I'd find a "supernatural" storyline useful, for all chapter with angles, demons, the Bright Lady, the Dark Lady, the Dragon, Myddrin, etc.

I'm sure I'll think of more. This is sooo awesome!!

Vashlaina, please.

Sounds great by the way!

This is a wonderful idea!

I second all of symphony's ideas. I'd like to see Larl's story, too...and maybe Dunstan + Brit and Dunstan + Bertie (I really really like the idea of the friendship storylines...it would be great to see all the Egelric + Alred, for instance.) And the Sigefrith-Alred-Leof-Cenwulf chapters (with a possible bonus Theobald or Egelric.) Those chapters are always so much fun!

This is a great idea, though it's a huge undertaking... maybe you can add something like you did for character tagging, where readers can help you organize your storylines, and then you check them over? Unless that's too much of a programming nightmare, which for all I know, it could be.

The (Mis)Adventures of Emo Teenage Dunstan, anyone? Sure, it features that annoying wench Anna, but despite that, I did have a lot of fun reading those chapters.

Thanks guys... I had no idea there were so many good ideas for storylines! I was afraid I would have a hard time thinking of some.

I think for the first few storylines I am going to stick to the stories that have the best chance of standing on their own as "stories". Do you know what I mean? For the new people. For example, a romp through angsty Dunstan land might be fun for us, but for someone new, it would be like "Why should I care?"

But in general I like the idea of the sort of random storylines that would just let us follow one particular thread or one particular life without necessarily having a "story" going on. Like the Egelric + Alred saga, for instance. Or even just Egelric + Gunnilda, since that romance kind of fizzles out.

I had considered making it possible for everyone to make and edit storylines, but I am not sure how I would handle that. In the first place, it was originally intended to be an alternative technique of storytelling for me... which means that I still want to be in charge of choosing the chapters that will be used to tell the stories. So the "official" storylines I definitely want to put together myself.

However, I would be OK with having user-created storylines too. Sort of like bookmarks, but instead of bookmarking individual chapters, you could string a bunch of them together. If you guys are interested in that, I could see how difficult that would be for me to add. (The tricky part is really only in just keeping track of who can edit what.)

So once I get a few more "official" storylines up, if there is still interest in adding user storylines that I didn't cover, we can talk about that.

Also, in unrelated news, and since I didn't get the obligatory naked elf picture in this post, OMFG YOUNG AED.

How about that... lighting?

Yeah.. Now who's bed is that Aed in?

Maybe his own?

Anyway you can tell it's not Aia's.

Ah yes, love the way the lighting emphasizes his half-naked form

Is this from an upcoming chapter? Will there be abs in the Young Aed chapter?

Yes it's from the chapter after the chapter after next. The next one obviously features the girls. And the one in between... I would tell you about but I do want Devin to get a little sleep this week.

But when we get to the Aed chapter, rest assured, there will be abs. Hairy, hairy abs.

Yes I have 2 finals so I need my rest. And we saw Aia's bed so i know he's not in her's.

MOAR EVIDENCE.

I didn't realize people were using past preview banners as a navigational device. Hmm! I wonder if there would be a useful way to integrate those into storyline views or elsewhere. Even putting the applicable preview banner at the top of the current chapter might be interesting. We rarely ever see the preview on the same page as its actual chapter, since I usually swap in the upcoming picture as soon as I publish.

*drools* Mmmmm, chest...

I never imagined I would ever experience the urge to look up a skirt. That picture just proved me wrong.

Huzza I am glad that you did this and I shall try not to clamor for a Matilda one. Anyway I nominate the love triangles/wreck-tangles because they are compelling and the political ones for the same reasons. Also, hurrah for attractive men in kilts and shirtless elves.