>>2289
It was for future reference my friend.

Well, I know I haven't been updating much, and also I admit my progress has been really disappointing as of late. But though I don't have an excuse, I will soon because THIS Sunday is the first Sunday where I have to start helping my old high school with their annual spring play.

This has of course soured my mood considerably, because I was actually IN THE MOOD to write today, but no... I gotta go do volunteer work. It's kind of silly really, but even without the usual distractions I used to have, I seem to have slipped back into old haunts known as video games, flash games, and random youtube videos.

Not sure when I'll have this next chapter of SW done, as I have no deadline. Heh... I'm turning into Slash Firestorm with my update schedule here. That's probably not good, especially since I don't really have anything in my life interfering.

Let's see what I can do with this update now to turn it into something story related. Hmm... nothing really. Silver Wings has an estimated 6 or so chapters left in it, and God knows how many Sin and Punishment has left.

This chapter has my personal goal of being the last childhood sequence. After that I'll skip about 10 years to Chester's trainer years and thus the meat of the story.

Sin and Punishment... well there's a few goals I know I want to reach in sequence. I also need to introduce the Do... I mean Looker when the time comes.

SO... in the mean time, have an awesome link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws2EWqfjGBc

I will get SW done eventually. But Iruni can tell you I'm plagued by distractions. So don't be to expectant of anything. At this rate I'll update something by next year.

Slash Firestorm, eat your heart out.

>>2335

Who's Slash Firestorm?

>>2336
Never you mind.

Hiatus for six months before updating. Get on Slash's level.

>>2338
Got it in one. I already got 2 months under my belt, what's four more?

Seriously though, I am trying to update... but my attention keeps wandering elsewhere.

Well, I figured I'd say what was going on since it's been awhile. Chapter 5 was finished awhile ago and still has yet to be edited. But for those curious, it's titled Childhood's End. I started on Chapter 6 before I got 5 back and I think I'll be holding off on editing and publishing so I can spend more time writing.

This whole write, edit, publish pattern is kind of getting to me. So if you don't like the fact that I have a chapter hot and ready to publish... in a sense, and want to read it right now... tough.

Catch y'all later!

>>2369
It rather makes sense, especially if it reduces your stress. I don't get easily stressed about writing so much, so I'm pretty comfortable with the write, edit, publish pattern.

So I'm gonna have to agree with you doing a pattern most comfortable for you, since the last one was pissing you off so much.

>>2369
>2/1/11
>Posted on 3/1/11

Yes! He's a month out of sync with the rest of time!
Just as planned.

Stuff happened, and thus there was no more stuff to do. This isn't an update so much as incoherent rambling because I feel like it. Though if you want some form of news, Chapter 6 is coming to a rushed completion which I hope will be lengthened with Iruni's help when the time comes.

It's got all the main points I need so far, so that's good. After I finish this chapter I believe I'll start editing because... I need to have a good long brainstorm session to plan out exactly how and when the rest of SW takes place.

End of line.

And this stuff happens to be chapter 5 of SW for your reading pleasure. Thanks to Iruni and Spog as usual. Iruni for beta-ing and being bull headed at pushing me through dull moments to beat this one out, and spog for just being spog.

Chapter 5: Childhood's End

http://anime.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600049482&chapter=5

Check this out! Chapter 6: Shift of Responsibility.

http://anime.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600049482&chapter=6

Usual thanks to Iruni and all who reviewed and bothered to chat with me about what they thought. I appreciate it. Read and enjoy, as always.

>>2460
Random update-ish. Chapter 7 is kinda just sitting at a starting point, but it's started at least. That aside, I think it's almost time for another post that revolves around my story teams. The next post I put up will feature the battle moves of Chester's team, so anyone who hasn't yet read Chapter 6, get hustlin' cuz otherwise it gonna be full o' spoilers!

Catch you later.

>>2466
All data corresponds to Chester's team as of Chapter 6 of Silver Wings.
Name: Chester Isaac Sage
Age: 17
Birthday: April 19
Badges: 5

Pokemon Team: Name/Species/lvl/Ability/Held Item/Moves

Nami/Vaporeon/43/Water Absorb/None
Base: Aqua Ring, Aurora Beam, Bite, Quick Attack, Water Gun, Sand-Attack, Helping Hand
HM: Surf, Waterfall, Dive
Gimmick: Acid Armor (For now, she is only able to use it when there's water for her to merge with)
Egg: Yawn
TM: Dig, Rain Dance, Attract, Shadow Ball

Vulcan/Typhlosion/36/Blaze/Charcoal
Base: Flame Charge, Swift, Flame Wheel, Quick Attack, Smoke Screen, Leer
HM: Cut, Strength
Egg: Flare Blitz
TM: Fire Blast

Shena/Scyther/30/Technician/None
Base: Slash, Fury Cutter. Wing Attack, Agility, Focus Energy, Leer
Egg: Counter, Endure
TM: Rock Smash, X-Scissor

Jess/Steelix/33/Rock Head/None
Base: Sand Tomb, Slam, Sandstorm, Smack Down, Rock Tomb, Screech, Bind, Thunder Fang
HM: Rock Climb
Egg: Heavy Slam
TM: Dig, Rock Polish, Earthquake, Iron Tail

Laura/Gardevoir/34/Synchronize/None
Base: Calm Mind, Heal Pulse, Magical Leaf, Wish, Teleport, Double Team, Confusion, Healing Wish, Ice/Fire/Thunder Punch
Gimmick (high strength): Giga Impact, Return, Fling
Egg: Disable, Encore
TM: Shadow Ball, Thunderbolt

Chapter 7 ain't done jack diddly. Well that's a lie, it has, just not a lot. Though its better than nothing right?

To commemorate the event... I an shouting out that... SW has 4242 hits as of this moment... so not only is it the answer to life the universe and everything... but it does it TWICE OVER... Oh yeah!

Hoooo-ly shit!!

Well... Progress is dodgey at best... but... eh who am I kidding, progress keeps getting stalled because I'm getting distracted. I do have a goal of the 19th but at this rate I'm not going to make it.

I'll maybe have something after I emerge from being buried in Conduit 2 and Portal 2 for a month or so. Only 4 days till launch of those... 4 days to complete Ch 7... the race is on.

So, I've been looking around after hearing end of the world rumblings about May 21st. This is news to me, especially after being more inclined to look at the Mayans. Really in my mind the world isn't going to end when we predict it. However it is something interesting. If you wake up on Earth on May 22, it means you're in Hell... so if we're all living the same life we were, doesn't that mean that life as we know it, the daily grind and routine, does that mean that life as we know it is Hell?

That aside, people die every day. As far as I can see, the whole idea of calculating the end of the world was coined by the Mayan's first. The concept of the universe itself ending is also kind of silly. I think what's really terrifying though, especially after watching so much Doctor Who, is what exactly is believed to happen.

"Join with God" "Be at God's right hand" "Do God's will and polish his throne and tend to him"

Not exactly perfect quotations but isn't this slavery... or perhaps consumption by a large organism? I find that in the case of religion and wherever we got the ideas for it from; crazy hermits in the desert in the dark ages, how do they work? I find that the Doctor's quote "A footprint doesn't always look like a boot" quite apt.

So if you find yourself looking into the light on March 21, keep in mind it may be the light of some cosmic angler that'll eat your brain, or just eat you. Somehow I'm kind of thinking of that movie I didn't go see where all these ships shine a light on you and steal your brain. I forget the name. Either way, I think the world will be perfectly fine on the 22. But that's just me.

Who knows, maybe it's Vogons.

Or, you know, nothing could happen because it's being foretold by insane religious zealots.

If there was a god, then it wouldn't set an exact time in the future to destroy us. It wouldn't even bring an apocalypse, it would just wave it's hand over the earth and wipe the slate perfectly clean and start over. Maybe this time it wouldn't be fucking stupid enough to think to itself "gee, having mindless creatures worship me and do everything I say is awesome, but what if I give them curiosity and free will? I see everything so I know when I put the tree down and say 'oi, don't fucking touch it' that they will anyway, but I'm gonna do it anyway, for the lulz"

Flawed stupid dogmatic bullshit.

If I believed in god, this is what it would be like.

It wouldn't have a form, and it's voice would pleasure every nerve you have. Also because it knows all, it won't create a hell because nothing can be done that deserves pain for the rest of eternity. Fuck, even a mild headache for the rest of eternity is too extreme for someone like hitler.

End of days warnings come and go every like ten years. This shits no different AJD these fuckwits are trying to jump the gun saying it happens this year, and covering their arses by saying if you wake up and everything is the same then it's hell.

Hurr durr I wish I could legally kill people.

>>2536
I wish people didn't kill people at all but hey, humans be crazy mixed up animals. You also sound like Spog when he's mad at the world. So maybe you're long lost spirit brothers?

>>2536
>This shits no different AJD these fuckwits are trying to jump the gun saying it happens this year, and covering their arses by saying if you wake up and everything is the same then it's hell.

It'll be funny when the people that think they're going to heaven wake up here and spaz out.

>>2538


Actually no, it's brilliant. Because they wake up and think that god is displeased with them, so they give more of themselves and their money over to the church.

>>2539
Oh my god... it IS brilliant! It's all a conspiracy for the church! That... damn... Skrewd nailed it on the head I think. That is some dastardly monetary scheming right there.

>>2540

I'm not just a pretty face

Now if only we can make them drink the Kool-Aid.

Boredom, that is what this post is about. That and I'm using it to get my brain working. Since I won't be putting that much tech babble in my story or really explaining in great detail how things work because I'm not into that sort of thing, I decided to put down specs as to what certain things where and what they did. I will limit things that could be spoiler, but this is just imaginary fantasy sci-fi stuff. I'll do one entry for each thing whenever I feel like it. Think of them as mini projects that keep me up to snuff and interested in what I'm doing. So here's the first entry below.

Head Hunter: Field Agent
As seen in Chapter 4: Iron Steel, these agents are the more noticeable branch of the Head Hunter organization. The street slang usually refers to them as 'deuces' due to the fact that field agents work as a pair to maximize efficiency. They can cover each other and offer support when in a pair better than when alone.

Armor-suit: Hunters wear an advanced form of body armor that has a lot of mysterious properties. The plating is not what some would consider thick, but it has the protective strength to dampen damage received from incoming fire from most small arms as well as some medium assault weapons. The armor is powered to a minor extent, these aren't supermen. The armor is full body, covering the chest, arms, hands, and legs. The lower half can be hidden by clothing worn over the legs.

The suit can absorb/block energy damage to a degree, making the suit able to take some small punishment from Pokemon related attacks. It may be small protection, but it can mean the difference between life and death.

The suit has odd properties and abilities to heal and mend wounds to the user if the plating is penetrated. It's not fast, and it isn't going to make that big of a difference when hit in the head or if limbs get broken, but gashes, cuts, scrapes, burns, all of them will be mended over time as long as the suit as power. This makes Hunters key mobile assets to be deployed and used in only the utmost need. Assignments usually entail extremely dangerous criminals that have strong Pokemon that are attacking civilians and law enforcement.

Visor/Glasses: The visor is hooked up directly to the suit and has a HUD for the agent to utilize, which shows readings based on vitals, location, and estimation of power levels when able to scan Pokemon. Can tell time too :D.

Weaknesses: Human error, things like that. The suits systems can be overloaded by excess damage, thankfully the plating doesn't need power to block solid projectiles. Armor piercing rounds shred it like tissue paper. The sensors can be jammed. It's still somewhat experimental, but most of the kinks have been worked out. Some side-effects (reason unknown) of wearing the armor for too long can be muscle spasms, dizziness, and illness. The cause of these is yet to be determined, it's most likely whatever power source was found for powering the suit.

Power source: Can be found within an easily accessible plate of the chest section. It's a very unique substance which gives off a golden light, has the properties of metal, but seems to also have the ability to shift its physical state. It has been known to become intangible when introduced to electric current. When it's in this state it gives off a greater amount of energy than put in. No one has been able to explain how this is thus far. The metal can produce enough energy to keep itself running when integrated into the housing of the armor, though it still needs ignition from an outside source.

The power cell can run foe an unusually long time for its size. The longest recorded functioning of these cells was one whole week. Unfortunately due to the rarity of the mysterious ore, it is not eligible for use in the common world. It's discovery and application however, have been deemed classified and thus kept from the public and global eye.

That ends my rant on HUnter armor and functionality. I love my mysterious and dubious power sources that scream 'unnatural.' What's the world without a little magic and silliness eye?

Holy fuck the suits are powered by fusion energy.

Have it so that if the magnetic field holding the core in place is damaged, it collapses in on itself, no longer able to sustain it's stable properties and creates a point of infinite gravity that draws everything into itself within 100 meters, before exploding horribly and destroying everything within a kilometer

>>2548
Seems hazardous to implant such a powersource in a suit that is meant for military combat and has a high probability to be damaged. If a soldier gets downed, his entire platoon could be wiped out because of it.

I think Skrewd just wants things to be obscenely powerful and dangerous. just so there can be dramatic explosions.

I have had an FA account for some time. I finally uploaded more than my fics... http://www.furaffinity.net/user/delosdemillo/

Go look and see the picture and know it is MINE... all MINE... I post this here because I has friends and friends means they can help me get after picture thieves!

I am done here.

So I closed my tab with my AFF account in it because it kept randomly redirecting my to a page about twitter and making an account. Then because I don't have my account bookmarked and because I didn't think to type the URL for the site into my URL bar, I googled it. I then saw every link to AFF marked with a warning about how visiting the site may result in harming my computer. Apparently according to the google diagnostic the site has been tackled and CAN give out malware, and this is within the last two days.

Now, I'm one that usually and most often heeds these warnings, so I might not be updtating my next chapter on AFF one I finish because I literally CAN'T risk breaking my laptop in any way. It's the only one I have and my folks and I can't afford a new one any time soon, if ever.

So I guess check my FA account for updates in future as that site has no warnings. Neither does fanfiction.net so I might end up resorting to moving everything back to there (after 3 years of not using it.)

As for a progress report, I leave you with the oh so helpful words of Gold Leader, "Stay on target."

>>2581
Seems that whatever went down with AFF was dealt with as google doesn't warn about the site any more. So that's a plus for whoever here publishes somewhat regularly. So that means I'll be able to update there unless it gets borked again.

http://anime.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600049482&chapter=7

wa-bam!

Definitely a fun read, Jabbz.
I love Shena's persona.

Trying to figure out how the whole issue with Umiko and Chester is going to be introduced in S&P. I'm looking forward the to interaction. :)

Well, I know it's been awhile since I updated but I figured I'd take the opportunity to say that I've decided to take a break from writing. Just a hiatus to get my head back in the game so to speak. I'm not killing my stories, or anything like that. That would be dumb.

I'll be sure to post something, be it news or something random that I feel would have something to do with my stories. Maybe a question to the public about what they think so far, even though I don't update that frequently.

Anyway, that's about all I have to say for now. Stay tuned I guess.

I really can't say when my writing will be started up again for those who've probably been either waiting with baited breath, or those who gave up awhile ago and moved on. Truth is I really haven't wanted to and I really could care less. I like that I drew in a very small audience on all the places I posted, but really this is a personal issue. I can't ever seem to stick with something and see it through. I've been living with story ideas and plots in my head for a good 4 years now and knowing everything like the ins and outs of a tale makes it so that writing it becomes boring and predictable. The spark of adventure has gone out of my stories so I just end up stopping. For readers who don't know what's going to happen, I know you are left wondering, and I know how cruel that is... but really I just can't bring myself to sit down and write anything substantial. Even Chapter 8 of one of my older works is only up to 5 pages and hasn't budged from that in several weeks. At this point I just... I just want to let it sit and wait... and maybe I'll get back into it at some point... who knows.

>>2682
And by "older works" I mean Sin and Punishment

>>2683
i'll be watching and waiting if you do decide to continue updating silver wings, it's one of my top 5 favourite stories. best of luck with everything anyways.

Welcome to another round of random techno babble. I'm doing this, like I said so long ago in the Hunter armor section, to try and keep me thinking. I have a little project I'm working on but I don't want to go into any details because as of late I haven't had anything to show but empty words. However who knows, this may be fun for some to read.

The weapon displayed in this post is experimental plasma riffle used in Iron Steel. Still under development and full of kinks, the event's of chapter 3 are rumored to be one of its field tests. Later versions of the weapon will be more effective, and more efficient. The weapon was designed with POKéMON in mind as the target, since many hostile trainers could have species that are resistant or completely immune to ballistics weapons.

It fires a concentrated 'bullet' of energy, or plasma, which will heat or melt through metallic armors. Also, due to it's energy signature and behavior, the weapon is effective against incorporeal targets such as ghost types.

The weapon has three modes of fire: fully automatic, single shot, and a type of energy bola. The tertiary fire ability takes a while to warm up as it uses more energy from the power cell that makes up the weapon's ammunition. When fired, a plasma blast of several bolts is expelled. They spread out, but when the central bolt hits an object, the other bolts will converge on that target as well. This ability is difficult to aim, and produces a small plasma explosion due to the converging of all the fired bolts. Deadly to the weapon's operator if used in close quarters with the target.

Since the manufacturing of this riffle is costly, they only see use when the situation requires it. There are more energy based experimental weapons, however I haven't revealed them in story, so I won't go into them. Hope this was interesting to read to those interested in silly techie things. Feel free to offer your thoughts.

>>2709

I see you used the KRISS Super V as the model for the plasma rifle. I'm going to use that as the basis for my analysis. Was that a purely aesthetic choice? Because as I understand it the Super V derives its unusual shape from the internal mechanisms designed to cut down on recoil, which doesn't seem very useful for directed energy weapons. Does the act of firing plasma create recoil sufficient to justify the expense of the Super V's internal mechanisms?

Also the placement of the grip...it leaves your hand awfully close to the end of the barrel. The end where the superheated plasma comes out.

The automatic fire function doesn't seem like it would be very efficient, if the weapon and its ammunition are so expensive. Nor does the energy bola firing function. It would probably look cool, but three well placed semi-automatic shots could do the same amount of damage with substantially less risk to the user.

Now for my questions. What material is ionized to create the plasma bolt? Roughly how much does it cost to manufacture? How much training would the average user need to become proficient with it? What can this gun do that a strong, well-trained POKéMON can't that justifies its expense?

>>2710
Hahaha, the Kriss super V is the base design, and the thing is you aren't the first person to catch on to that. Raine also picked on that and I just laughed. In truth the weapons and technology the Hunter's used is not original by design. Everything that's technologically advanced is actually a reference to a game I dearly love. And yes the design and and use doesn't make much realistic sense when using directed energy weapons but hey... can't be a reference if you take too many liberties lol. Here's a link you can look at with the weapon's true origin and name http://conduit.wikia.com/wiki/Deatomizer_Mk4 .

And I bet most people will look at that spoiler, and thus blow my careful attempts to hide the reference from those who don't know the game. That's how I wanted it really, a secret reference.

Anyways, in answer to your more technological questions: I have never really been all that good at science fictional realism. Which is why I tend to follow shows like Doctor Who, Firefly, and movies Star Wars when they aren't stupid like the first three (chronologically speaking) movies.

Guess you could call it science fantasy. Anyway, from what I do know about energy based weapons, and that's vague... most need a type of gas and a type of metal... Energy weapons use batteries as ammunition. Power packs, power cells, things like that. If you know more about it feel free to add to my descriptions. After all I won't be putting this stuff into the main story as I'm only focusing on the events and the characters, not the tools or how they work. For instance if Clause ever had to pick up this riffle, he'd not be interested in the fine mechanics... just how to point, shoot, and defend himself with it.

As for what it can do that a POKéMON can't... well nothing really, but the thing is a lot of writers fail to take into account that people on the south end of good on the moral compass will not just play by the rules. They'll try to attack the opposing trainer directly which means that trainer or Hunter in this case needs a means to defend and attack for himself. and that becomes almost impossible when fighting with just ballistics weapons against ghost, psychic, rock, and steel types. This Riffle is answer to that and provides the human with an edge against those types.

Also, battles use skill and strength on the whole, but as Roark said in Rock Solid, luck is a key factor. Say hunter looses his water, fire, or ground type thus loosing his advantage against a user of the risky types I mentioned above... what's he going to do? The suit provides protection and he can run away... but he needs a way to defend himself and while there are rocket launchers and armor piercing rounds... those are still just annoyances or slightly effective to heavily armored targets like Steelix, and pointless to use on ghosts. Psychics can just divert the pathing of solid projectiles or block out a lot of the damage with a barrier.

Energy weopons would count as a humans version of a Special Attack, and one of a different attribute which could affect and hurt things a lot more than a tungsten shell or something else of that nature.

>>2711
lousy spoiler is lousy... showing the link anyway... :V

>>2712
Tripple post, forgot to answer the training thingy. Well how much does it take to train with a normal weapon? I'd say this would take the same amount of time wouldn't it? It's just a firearm that has different materials. As for pricing... I was never good at that kind of thing. I'd say that this riffle would be maybe... oh... what's a good number... 20%? Yeah, 20% more costly to produce than say... your average ballistics assault riffle. Like say a SCAR or something... *shrugs*

Most of the materials and such are mined from Mt Coronet anyway. It's always been known for it's odd metal content and strange magnetic fields. I'm guessing a lot of other mountains would have the materials needed. Hell, Chargestone Cave in Unova is probably an extremely rich deposit of such materials and Sinnoh could have trade agreements for materials for these weapons. Would make sense wouldn't it?

So it's pretty much running off this?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool

That's fine if it is, but for those of us who dig a bit deeper it might not have the same resonance. I use the Rule of Cool too; the Pegasus psychological warfare striders make no sense from an engineering standpoint, and their function would be better served by a wheeled or treaded vehicle, but legs look cooler, and that's why I designed them that way.

>>2714
yup, indeed it is... and battle striders are indeed quite cool. Pic related.

Hope my use of this trope (never knew it was a trope till now, I just really like the game and the tech in it because I think it's cool), and I hope the not so deep mechanics of it don't bother you xD.

>>2716

It doesn't bother me. If I was looking for realism I wouldn't be reading stories about POKéMON. I have invoked the rule several times.

Armor piercing rounds can drill through a tank.

I don't care how big a steelix is, armor piercing rounds are going to ruin its day.

And since ghosts are energy...

I'd assume any sort of dissipation would work on them.

Although the more you think about it, the more like electric types ghost types become.

Raw energy with sentience oh god it's achieved evelutionary perfection praise arceus!

>>2724
Steelix, maybe. But what about things with no organs like Bronzong or Syglyph. Thing bout steelix is that it's armor is quite possibly thicker than a tanks, and also quite possibly harder. Seeing as it spends a lot of it's time in high heat/high pressure environments. A diamond tipped armor penatrator would be nasty, but not very cost effective seeing how many steelix there are in the world compared to diamonds.