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94 lines
4.4 KiB
Markdown
# Spellblade Plot
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https://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/
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## One Sentence
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A woman realizes the gap between two opposites and their place in the middle.
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## Kick in the Pants
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> something I feel is missing from this set-up is, what is Alicia's overarching
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> motive? What is she doing this for? Why the army recruiting process, and how
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> would an underground school help her further her goals
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> what is it that _moves her_?
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> This whole thing is meant to be an allegory for coming out as nonbinary. Her
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> goal is to not be so afraid of herself.
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## Cover Idea
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Use the palette of the nonbinary pride flag, yellow sky, white clouds, Alicia
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in purple holding her locus to the sky, black ground w/ yellow highlights.
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## One Paragraph
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Alicia is a student at the Zhalram School of Bladecraft, one of two schools
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owned by a shadowy organization that oversees the Zhalrami army recruiting
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process. Alicia is troubled in her schooling and attempts (and fails) to hide
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her natural talent for magic; she tries to use her magic skills to assist her
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team in the battle drills but gets caught. Alicia gets monitored more closely
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and comes out to Tistus about her magical powers, Tistus is concerned for Alicia
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but accepts her and they work together to make the suspicion go away.
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- Cover the setting
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- Introduce the bladecraft school
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- Introduce spellcraft and frame it as an "other"
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- Introduce Alicia undergoing a magical awakening
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- Get caught by Tistus
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- Accidentally uses powers on the field
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- Gets caught
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- Teachers deliberate and propose a magical vivisection, something that would
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purge someone of their magical powers
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- Alicia argues she didn't ask for this, this just happened to her one day and
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she would be okay to be rid of it
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- One teacher proposes Alicia be evaluated for a magical vivisection,
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- Flashbacks to her father noticing signs of this happening and teaching her
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how to suppress her gift
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- The magical side would effectively kidnap her from a young age and her
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father wanted to be with Alicia as a kid, the Zhalrami army desperately
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needs spellcrafters for battle with Usill
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- Father died in the aftermath of an avalanche
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- Alicia enrolled in the bladecraft school to get away from home because it
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reminded her of her dad
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Alicia gets expelled and then roams
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around the marketplace she talks with a spiritualist named Kala and ends up
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getting roped into their underground school of mixed arts.
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## Slightly Longer
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Alicia is a student at the Zhalram school of Bladecraft, she is on the Red Team
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and works with her teammates to get through various battle drills. Unbeknownst
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to most people, Alicia has a talent for spellcraft as well (a large taboo for
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someone in the school of bladecraft) and is desperately trying to hide it from
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others, but slips up and is discovered. The school elders have discussions about
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this and then decide to put Alicia under academic probation. Alicia roams around
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the merchant district of Zhalram and happens across a spiritualist that offers
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Alicia a magical locus that is shaped like a sword and hints at the bladecraft
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and spellcraft schools being operated by the same person. Alicia experiments
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with it and then hides it in her room.
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## Old Chapter Checklist
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- [ ] Introduction to the school of bladecraft. Alicia is shown to suppress
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her magic and tensions between spellcraft and bladecraft are hinted at.
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Zekas starts to get suspicious of Alicia.
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- [ ] Alicia has a chance encounter with a spiritualist that points out Alicia's
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twin aura and pulls her into an alley to talk about magic. Alicia refuses
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an offer of a spellblade locus for her magical talent. Another battle,
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another narrow victory, another scolding. Zekas talks with a teacher about
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Alicia.
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- [ ] Alicia meets with the spiritualist again and accepts the locus, getting
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shown how to wear it as a bit of jewelery. Alicia wears it into her next
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battle and her team wins, but Alicia is called out for cheating with
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magic.
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- [ ] Interrogation by the school's headmaster, threats of expulsion for daring
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to mix bladecraft and spellcraft. Alicia attempts to come out as a
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spellblade to the headmaster and is laughed back to her barracks. Various
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drama ensues. Tistus offers support to Alicia and they cuddle to sleep.
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- [ ] Another battle day, Alicia uses her locus to empower herself and takes
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point to defend the flag point.
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