Making the Stories

[Kyrian Tidus]

K, y'all. Kyrian here, in all of my awesomeness, to give y'all some news, and ask some(?) questions(?).

I am planning on (maybe) creating a wordpress blog and using it to get some of these stories in my head out to masses of plebs, I mean, potential loyal fans. (The stories will most likely be produced in a light novel-esque fashion.) Anyway, one of my ideas is to create a story regarding Kyrian Tidus that is loosely based on this wonderful site of Distension. It will involve some of the mentioned realms, creatures, and races... As well as the gods, current and prior, and some characters (and maybe some of the individual character plots) created by you wonderful people. However, I will be adding my own twist to everything created by this site, including some of my own lore, maybe having some dead characters not actually be dead, realms that aren't a part of this site, creatures that aren't a part of this site, as well as places within different realms. Anywho, Distension will be the basis, but it will end up being a unique, yet similar, creation.

Now, I do not know your characters as well as you do, I'll admit. And I might wind up doing a horrible job of portraying them, and have them wind up doing actions that are completely out of character for them. I might not show off their glory as it should be presented, and might even give them very mundane roles, or paint them as someone virtually useless... So I would like to say that, if you do not want me to use your characters in my stor(y/ies), then please leave a comment saying so, and list your characters.

Also, since this site does not belong to me, therefore the content of it also doesn't belong to me... I would like to ask the Administrators of the site if I have permission to use Distension, it's locations, creatures, and characters, for my story. If not, then I shall use some characters off of here... But only those directly related to Kyrian (who are not active/a part of this site anymore), and shall create my own lore that might end up seeming similar to Distension. Either way, you can bet that I will list this site, and all of you wonderful people, as my inspiration.

{I probably won't get many people to read it, anyway.}

P.S. This is not my only idea for a story. I will most likely wind up with multiple on the WordPress.

[Yamamoto Kenji]

Go for it dudebro.

[Varos Talantos]

I have discussed this with the other admins, and here it what we say. You may do this as long as the following requirements are met:

1. It's not for profit.
2. It may not be published in other areas (such as magazines, books, etc.) even if it is not for profit.
3. You require the permission of the owner to use their character. They must say yes, you cannot assume you have rights simply because they haven't told you no.
4. With this in mind you cannot simply change the name of a character and still use them if their owner said no.
5. However, you may make allusions and references to certain characters. (i.e: If Locutus says no, you may still mention he is God of Nature, but the character itself may not appear in the story)
6. Must be credited in an obvious place. A proper disclaimer to the extent of non-canon, and a representation of the character by you and not the original author is required.
7. You will provide a link to it in the Art section of Distension.

So in other words we are going to treat this like fanfiction, with the exception that we as admins cannot just give you the rights to use characters on the site we did not create. Any others who wish to do this may, and are even encouraged, but must abide by the same rules.

Happy writing,
The Staff

[Kyrian Tidus]

Oh man. That's a lot of requirements... Would all of those still apply if I were to make do it on here, in the storyboard section (3-6)?

[Varos Talantos]

Nov 20, 2014 18:34:53 GMT -5 Kyrian Tidus said:

Oh man. That's a lot of requirements... Would all of those still apply if I were to make do it on here, in the storyboard section (3-6)?

The story corner is still an RP area and requires participants, but for other than 6, yes.