Final Author Notes For Guilty Sparks

After a long overdue period of time, it's time to move these notes to this blog. They will remain here as they kinda take up a lot of space I need for other things right now.

Notes for Chapter 27

War Spirit’s Blood: The Juice finally has a proper name and an origin. The idea for this stuff came to me after thinking a bit about turian culture. Special cuts of Red Sand make biotics stronger and more dangerous. The Turian Hierarchy has a segregationist policy towards biotics due to the fact they hold a grudge against them for being saboteurs during the Unification War. Considering those two facts, they’d want to keep up with potential threats. So if biotics are getting performance enhancing drugs, best to give your regular soldiers an edge as well.

Guilty Sparks Notes: Chapters 17-26

Chapter 17-18 Notes

Silent Cartographer: It is the most iconic and probably most beloved of all Halo levels. It has linear goals but there are number of ways to complete them. The terrain is open, you have free reign across the entire island for the most part and it features some pretty badass music. Oh, and let’s not forget the D-Day-esque opening sequence.

It was a really fun level and its rock formations even inspired a few folks to do some crazy stunts with it. I remember watching the Warthog Grenade Launch video with its kicking Scorpions soundtrack religiously back in the day. For supposedly being just a bunch of stupid multiplayer unoriginal bland as shit hardcore gamer Broskis, Halo players can be pretty damn creative when given the opportunity to go nuts.

I tried my best to capture that sense of openness with a number of different POVs, so we got a sense of what was happening across the island during every second of the fight. I suppose I should’ve realised that was going to jump it up a bit in terms of length, but oh well, stupid I am like that. At least I got to have everyone play a roll more or less and showcase the highlights of this beloved level. Now if only I could somehow add a soundtrack to the file so every time someone started reading it, the level’s opening music would play.

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