2018 WRITE: EDU: Writers of Nara's Nook: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, part 3

Writers of Nara's Nook:  Story seeds:  
The last werewolf of Blanken, part 3

Virtual worlds offer a unique opportunity to use the environment and character appearance as supports for ideation in a writers workshop.  Here is  a third report on a developing plan to do that the Virtual worlds of OpenSimulator.

Murky Mansion

• The last werewolf of Blanken, Part 1
• The last werewolf of Blanken, part 2
• Nara's Nook

Meeting place/time for the Greyville Monday Writers

• Mondays: We gather at Greyville, on Nara's Nook, at 6 PM Pacific Time 
• HG address:
• world.narasnook.com:8900:Greyville
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map. Click Find, TP

• If you can't get to Nara's Nook, come to WebWorldz
• WebWorldz is a virtual world that runs in your browser.
• Just like a flat web page. But you can move around and talk to people.
• It offers typed messages and local voice.  
• We have imported a copy of the Kelley swamp and are developing it as a writer's workshop
• We will probably start in this place: SandBox: Fantasy region.  

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Writers workshop: The plan this far

• The Monday night writers group of Nara's Nook is developing workshops.
• These are for people interested in developing their writing skills. 
• The initial project aims at developing ideation skills and confidence in them.
• Method: Present a virtual place and challenges calling for ideation about stories. 
• We presently have 2 places to work with: Fantasy Place and Gloomy Manor
• Both have now been salted with challenges based on the local environment.
• Murky Mansion has story seeds in the form of notes. 
• The notes, on click, give notecards with pieces of a story.  
• A visitor can collect the notecards and develop possible scenarios that fit the notes. 
• The story is not yet finished and is not an important part of the exercise.  
• A visitor can develop alternative scenarios.
• This is about writing, not about a particular story.
• Virtual Writers' Community
• Werewolf 

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Eric note 4

Monday Morning Field notes of my latest kill

• I found him easily.  It was Father Dark of the Blanken parish.
• He wanted me to kill him.  That' s why he came.  
• But first he wanted to tell me two important things.  
• There is a flower that blooms in Fantasy Place.  It will cure lycanthropy.
• Or so he said.  But he did not know how to get to Fantasy Place
• The other important thing was that the curse had made him commit a terrible sin.
• I told him I only handled werewolves, not sins.   
• But maybe there was something in Fantasy Place that would help. 
• He said not even the holiest of holy water could cleanse this sin.  
• Then he grabbed my hand and thrust the silver dagger into his chest.
• And died.
• He never said what his sin was, but I suppose it does not matter now.

Eric note 5

• 5  Monday night--Field notes there is another
• I only began to sense the new one this evening as I was dining with my brother.  
• Very faint.  I was unsure at first.  But it persists.   Too weak to give direction.  
• A recent bite.  The recent howler moon, no doubt.  Just a start.  
• It will not mature till the next howler moon.
• And on this island, of that I am sure.   One of the servants, I suspect.  
• The moon is on the wain.  I shall lose him soon.
• Until next month.

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• If I could get to Fantasy Place and return with the wolfsbane, I could spare us both.
• The gate is here, the priest said.   Baptism under the beluae, the note said.
• But I do not know that word.  Latin I think.  
• Lobo will know--he is fluent in Latin.

Lobo note 1

• My dearest brother Eric, the werewolf hunter
• I have tried to tell you, but I cannot.  It was the night of the howler moon.
• You were away at Blanken.   The werewolf was here.  
• It came right up on the front porch.  I heard it and--
• I cannot go on.  You have been father and mother to me since the accident.
• I cannot burden you with this.  
• At the next full moon, you will know what you must do.
• I cannot do much, but I can take that burden from you.  
• I am going for a swim.  If I do not return, you will know what happened.  

Original OARS with links

• Fantasy OAR
• Swamp OAR

Future plans

• These worlds are not open to the public as yet because the are still in development.
• They will be publicly available later, probably at Nara's Nook.
• This workshop plan seems suitable for web-worlds.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• We expect to try rendering the current story in a web-world soon.

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