Fandom Promos

[galerian_ash]

Have you already decided what fandom(s) to write for? If so, how about doing some pimping? :D

We've all chosen tiny obscure canons, needless to say. So by doing a little promoting you might be able to entice someone else to give it a try — or perhaps you'll even run into a fellow fan, who can't wait to read your coming fic.

Your promo can be long or short, and contain whatever you feel like. Want to post a couple of intriguing screencaps from a movie? Quote a few paragraphs from a book? Rec the best episode of an anime or TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character/pairing from your fandom? It's all good; anything goes!

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[primeideal]

Okay, so, due to technical glitches I am not as familiar with this canon as I had hoped to be, but I can give you the overview of what I am still planning to write for:

"Crying Suns" is a roguelike computer game where you play as the clones of a famous spaceship captain who needs to restart the robotic bureaucracy after a crisis disabled most of them. It was recommended to me as "like FTL but with more of a character-based story," which I think is accurate. Every level, you're jumping between planets and systems, trying to ration fuel, scrap, fighters, specialist officers, and other resources. Frequently other spaceships will want to fight you--these fights are a bit longer and more spatial than their counterparts in FTL, you're moving different units around on a (2D) map and trying to decide which kind of mini-spaceship will best handle your enemies' mini-spaceships.

By "roguelike," I mean that when you complete a level (or, more often, die), you don't save and reload, you start again from the beginning of the level--but, hopefully you've unlocked other classes of spaceships/specialists to use for the next time, so there's an incremental sense of progress.

Story-wise, the player character is Admiral Ellys Idaho, who's annoyed that he can't remember any of his strong emotional memories from his first life. There's a snarky robot sidekick named Kaliban who "refreshes your memory" about the backstory and gradually shares his opinions (mostly that humans are stupid and useless...I do love me some snarky robot sidekicks). What's fun is that they sort of "know" you're in a roguelike, and Kaliban will say things like "great, we added the quest to the map, you can reach it next sector if you don't die before then. Which considering your track record on this level, I'm not confident in." The clones give an in-character reason for the multiple restarts which kind of works.

Anyway, I'm hoping to write some Kaliban snark for this fest if I don't wind up procrastinating, wish me luck?