EpsilonEta Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 (edited) Location: F10 Tags: Flash memory -Over here! I found a survivor! It's ok. I'm here to help. What's your name? -Na-nina. -Hello Nina. Do you know your last name? -Na-nina! -Ok, no last name. Is anyone else here with you? -Mommy. -Ohh... Your mommy is sleeping, we com back for her later. -This is “a new dawn”. They will find you a new family. -This one. -You are doing good. Now we will try another test. -Students. This is Nina Truman. Our newest member. Nina, welcome to st. Avery's school for the young and gifted. -This is the Altair Covert Espionage Academy and you are all here because you are the best from your respective schools. This will NOT be like what you have done before. This is the hardest training for the toughest agents. We don't have grades by age. You will rise in level and graduate when you are ready or not at all. Anonymity is very important in our line of work. Officially this school doesn't even exist and from now on you will not use your real names. Those names are out there in another school or work living your official story by making electronic footprints. You will all get code names which will be the only name you will answer to here. If you graduate you can take the name with you as your operative name. I won't wish you good luck. Your susses is entirely up to you. -Hawk is down -I want the name of your employer. -And I want a pillow to sit on. This Awww chair is a bit Uhhh... uncomfortable. -You think you're funny? -I know I am. You are going to start laAww -Shut up! The name! -How am I supposed to do that when you told me to shut Uhhhgh ok, ok. It's Ugly McStupid. No wait, that's your naAwwww... --- -We have been doing this long enough. Give me the name! -Long? I hadn't noticed Awuhh... huugh... that we started yet. -I wonder how that smile of yours will look after I pulled your teeth out. -Careful, some of that information you want may be hard to pronounce without teeth. But I'm not going to tell you anyAwwwaaw Auu... --- -We try again. Who do you work for? -The tooth fairy. -The lie detector say it's the truth. -Well, give her a bonus point and continue. --- -For the last time (yeah right) what is the name of your employer!? -I can't tell you. Huugh -Why? Some misguided loyalty? They left you here! -No, I cant tell you because yohuugh are too ugly. Awuu AWWWW... --- -Are we done yet? -We are done when you answer my question. -No we awen't. Ik will ust be mow quescions unkill I'm dead. -That's probably the first true thing you have said so far. Soon you will talk. -Deam on. --- -Aw huu huu huu Please... -You know how to stop this. -huu huu I huu can't -sob- no more huu NOOO... --- AWWW --- Nooo --- Wake up --- Please --- -She cant take any more, she's almost dead. -Ok. Take her to the medipod. She passed. -28 hour. Have anyone else... -On this intensity?, only a few, ever. If you ask me they all have something wrong in there heads. It shouldn't be possible. -I think the crazy ones are those who would perform this or order it for that mater. -If they are crazy, what does that say about us who supervise it and still let it happen. -BANG- -BANG- -BANG- -Congratulations Raven. You are one of the youngest to graduate from the ACE Academy and you would have been one of the fastest had you not taken so many extra classes. -Thank you sir. -D**m it, I trusted you! -Well, there's a valuable lesson for you. -We are in the wrong cell block and our cower is blow. We have to fight our way thru the corridor. -If you do that you'll die. -What? Who said that? -Me, you block head. Let me out and I can help. -And who do you think you are? -None of your business. Now, do you want to live or not? -Do you, Vichtor Tellarian and Nina Omikron, promise to love each other till death do you apart? -I do -Yes -Then I now declare you husband and wife. You may kiss. -Honey, I thought you would at least take the helmet off for this. -I have opened the visor, now do you want a kiss or not. -Our daughter will be born next week, do you think you will be home by then? -No, I got to much to do at work. -I know but it's kind of a big deal. You can't just miss it. I can ask the doctors to delay the process. -No. They don't do anything divergent to our daughter. -You mean other than growing her in a tank? -It was you who wanted a child and I sure wasn't going to carry her for nine month of hormones, nausea and mode swings. You will have to attend the “birth” yourself, now I have to get back to work. -Loook, tere is moomy. Say hi to moomy. -... aa ... -Hello, Louise. Nice to finally meet you. -See, moomy is happy to meet you. And I'm happy to have you home too. -Really, you missed me. How surprising. -Well, that too but now you can help so I might get some sleep at night. She have a habit of screaming when you least expect it. -Cool, it will be like the unscheduled drills back in ACE Academy. I have missed those. -And I have missed you and your craziness. -Agent Raven. -Excuse me, what? -I'm from the Kawashita group. We are about to explore a new galaxy and we want you with us. -Are you sure you got the right person? -Ms Truman. We have contacts with the ACE and many of the jobs you have done have in one way or another been for us. -So what do you want? -Unlike your usual missions this would be a private employment for a long duration. We expect a year at least. Your official job would be as head of security as well as escort of explorers on new planets. Of the record, you will be needed for everithing from exploring and hunting pirates to sabotage and theft. This one is perfect! I was planing to start with an introduction as usual but felt it was better to just jump in and let you figure out was what happening. Here is what I would have used: Raven was just shot with an alien weapon and her life is flashing before her eyes. I have been thinking of a way to show Ravens past since I read Random Access Memories. I made small vigs of important events in her life as I had time. (Started with the first which I had been thinking about before) I think half of them was finished before week 30, then I picked up speed to make it done in time (many of the later got very simple). Going with the naming tradition I decided to use “Flash Memory” as she's having something of a flash back of key points in here life. I decided early to use first person view to represent the memories. The difference in transparency also represent what she focused on or remember most. Almost every picture is a part of a larger story I have done or is working on for another version of Raven for a Swedish forum. I have finally translated the first part and should be able to start releasing them here on Eurobricks soon. Here are some pictures of a few of the vigs. The others where made from things just lying around. Like the prison scene is from Minor setback and the desert battle is my category B build. From the chapter "Forged by fire" The orfinage "A new dawn" It's hard to do good intelligence test with lego. (I don't even have those tiles from dices) You can try to solve the other one if you want and if you think they are too easy, remember that Raven is about 5 years old here. Raven is sent to st. Avery's school for the young and gifted soon after the tests are done. It's a school for spies. (not mutants but it sound kind of similar don't it) They in turn send her to the ACE Acadamy First training where she faces her mortality and truly realize what failure mean. And Hawk isn't dead. Students have small blood bags in there armor which explodes when a hit register. (and the base is an old build) I wasn't sure if I should include this but finally decided to have it as no one complained on it earlier. It's a extrema test to see what security level could be given and how long an agent is likely to hold out in case of capture. Most doesn't even get to take the test and those who do are usually aborted mush earlier. Her tactic is basically to anger the guy into making a mistake and kill her early. Maybe this is why she doesn't like working with Asian looking troopers Ravens first assassination. While still technically only a student. This may seam a little extreme but the story it come from there is a war going on. The bombed city from the start is the early stage of this war. The war finally ends with the destruction of the Earth but that is in another universe Graduation. Just a bunch of random figs. Even one from Swebrick, my Swedish LUG. When I made the wedding I was not going for any specific religion or ceremony but I have primarily seen American christian marriages on TV/movies so that was the strongest influence. I was thinking to add a second end condition but changed my mind. “Do you promise to love each other till death or an Octan lawyer do you apart?” And here we see what kind of work she was doing. And yes, the order they speak is made to make you think she's at home with the child (it's a week left, where else would she be) until the last line and you realize things can be different in the future. Fliping known ideas is one of the most important parts of sci-fi and the reason I didn't use pictures for speakers (and it would have been a lot of avatar pictures to take) Gravity helped him to hold the baby. This got very long. Hope you got all the way thru. Thanks for reading. Edited February 1, 2016 by EpsilonEta Quote
Isundir Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Very nice work, many little neat vigs and a good read Quote
Kai NRG Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Great way to show flashbacks! All the little scenes are really nice! I especially like the first two. Quote
SpacerSteve Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 What a great series of builds. I love the perspective in the shots. Quote
Orange Leader Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Wow, how you handled every base from a camera perspective is just amazing... Very well done, EE. Quote
StarHawk3 Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 Nice story. The perspective in each of the shots was great. I like how you showed what Raven/Nina was focused on with the fog effect. Quote
rodiziorobs Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 Great use of building technique to tell the story, and how you tried to show everything from 1st person! Quote
Andromedas Gates Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 The judges awarded you 6 points. Quote
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