Just So You Know It's Not Dead. . . · 3:48am Jul 17th, 2016
Here is a short little preview on the next chapter of Hollow Shades, titled "Negotiations".
'Okay, gotta be honest here,' Angela thought as she gently poked at the pony in front of her. 'That was not quite the reaction that I was expecting to get.'
When the pony had fainted right in front of her, Angela had initially been alarmed by it, thinking that his injuries were more grievous than they appeared to be. That concern was quickly alleviated when she saw that he was still breathing, albeit a little unsteadily, signifying that he was thankfully not dead. He was just a pansy. In her opinion the least he could have done was stay awake long enough to see that she was not going to eat him.
Angela sighed as she shook her head in exasperation, resigning herself to the fact that if she was going to convince this pony that she she did not mean any harm, then she was going to have to wait until he eventually woke up again,whenever that would be. She hoped it would be soon, as she did not want to wait around in one place out in the open where she could be easily spotted. On top of that, she still had yet to acquire something to satisfy her ever growing hunger. It was becoming progressively harder to think straight as the minutes ticked by, and every part of her being was telling her to hunt and feed as soon as possible. Angela was able to ignore her urges, for the time being anyway, knowing that her best and possibly her only chance of convincing the ponies that she was more than just a mindless monster was sitting right here in front of her.
In an effort to distract herself from her hunger, Angela took to examining a piece a of the armors that she held between two of her claws as she laid down on the ground on her stomach, resting her head on her other hand. She imagined that this was hardly normal for a wraith to do, and would have made for quite the sight as she looked at the little golden helmet, turning it over occasionally to get a better look at it. She wondered if maybe this pony was some sort of hunter, like that griffin from earlier. She quickly discounted that as being very likely however, as he seemed woefully unprepared and unequipped to take much of anything down. The griffin seemed have everything from smoke bombs to traps, while all this pony had was his horn and the armor on his back.
Upon discarding that possibility, Angela was led to surmise that this pony was in fact part of a larger group somewhere nearby. She was able to vaguely recall from the few instances when she had seen the show occasionally seeing some ponies wearing armor that was either exactly the same or at least similar to what this pony was wearing. In most of those cases, at least one of their Princesses were present, leading Angela to assume that they might be in the area as well. Where they were, Angela did not know, and she did not recall seeing any other ponies with this one, although he may have just been a straggler that wandered off for some reason. The reason as to why they would be here was all too obvious to Angela, and she felt a certain amount of shame in herself that she had made herself seem dangerous enough to warrant such a response.
The fact that she she still had yet to come up with a means to effectively communicate with them only made it even more of a dilemma for her to overcome, despite the issue constantly being on her mind. Right now guessed that her best bet was to wait for to wake up and then somehow try to convince him she meant no harm.
'That shouldn't be too hard I guess,' Angela thought. 'I mean, all I would have to do is not attack him. . . again. That should get my point across.'
Unfortunately that required him to be conscious, which he was currently not doing a very good job at.
'Lazy bum. All I did was rough you up a little and scare you half to death.'
There is more, and the word count currently comes up to around 1,700 words. The finished product is going to have at least twice the word count. As a little bonus I am also planning to do a short intermission chapter as well, so there's that to look forward to. Part of the reason it is taking so long is because I am currently looking for a new employment opportunity, and you have to understand that this story will have to come second to it.
In conclusion, please be patient, and thank you for your time.
So what do you think of Evolve becoming F2P?
ETA?
4096952 I think it will turn out to be much better received than when the game was initially released on console and PC. I actually traded in my PC version a little while ago due to a lack of other players, and I have yet to acquire a steam account, so I am a little bit out of the loop. However, while I do believe that making it available on steam for free is a step in the right direction, I also feel that doing so is going to make more than a few veterans of the game a little bit peeved.
Imagine this: The game just came out along with a shit ton of DLC. You immediately see this as a ruse to squeeze money out o you, but you decide to humor them and buy some anyway. You buy some new monsters, new hunters, new skins. Then all of a sudden, a year later, you find out that you could have gotten it all for free, meaning you wasted a bunch of money paying for something that would have eventually become available anyway.
I myself never went for much more than the monsters and a few skins, but you see what I mean.
Anyway, that's my two cents on it. What's your opinion?
4097039 The way it's looking right now, sometime in the next two weeks. Hopefully anyway, no promises.
Yyyyyas i love this story i love you i love evolves monsters XD but yah glad it's still alika and good luck
As long as the story isn't suddenly cancelled I'm ok with waiting for as long as it takes.
But on a side note epic story!
SO AWESOME!!