Big update.
Bad news everyone, my HDD gone dead and along with my files. So, my story and ideas are now probably gone now. Probably, as I'm still not sure if I could recover them.
Honestly, it is my fault for not backing the documents up since apparently I can't wait a few minutes for them to make a backup file and now it's all gone. Everything is literally gone and it's most likely my fault for not seeing the signs of my hard-drive dying: being the slow bootup than normal from last year.
I am using Scrivener if anyone who reads this knows how to find those files, since I know even if the documents are not backed up, there should at least be a saved file left in there.
Funnily enough, the only files I can salvage are the original ideas for the story, which consisted of a different intro lol. More different that Thirteen aiming a handgun at Rin.
What a great coming new year surprise this was for me. Either way, the story is going to be put on a temporary hold until I can remember parts of my ideas were. Too many cool ideas were lost.
Also, I am going through old chat logs with friends to salvage the ideas I discussed with them. Just in case I don't have any idea how to find those documents.
Happy New Year to everyone here. Hope you guys enjoy the celebration tomorrow.
I suppose the next chapter will combine chapter 5 and 6 into one. I am still pissed because the interactions I made with Thirteen and Arona were just too good, and I somehow can't recreate it.
What was lost:
These are just some I felt are not too important to the story to share of varying lengths of time I worked on and what I can remember:
- Originally, Hifumi would have met Thirteen way earlier before Abydos Arc and even hang out and that being "Plain and boring" is not a bad thing considering Thirteen's own life and that he prefers hanging out with her than the shootouts and explosions
- Touring Kivotos with Kirino and Fubuki which ended with the trio in a sinkhole (I forgot why but it has something to do with construction equipment)- Trinity would have been welcomed by Suzumi and would have a running gag about her flashbang mysteriously popping off and blinding Thirteen several times and meeting the after school sweet club and being introduced to the local sweets and all hell broke loose once Hasumi entered the scene. Thirteen would meet Tsurugi and I had this stupid monologue of him focusing on her and somehow feeling like he was looking at a mirror. (Too important in the story why to explain. Lol)
-Millenium would have him being introduced to the Engineering club and be badged about the tech he brought along with. Thirteen feels pissed off at Asuna smilling all the time she decided to follow him as a guide. I would have teased him meeting Game dev club earlier before he just walks past their club room not interested at "games" The joke would have been him after Abydos arc and helping the GDD would have been introduced to video games and a fighting games like a parody of the original street fighter and act like the pixels were too real and "Look at details at their faces..." and would beet Momoi by just spamming haduken over and over more in awe at the animations than to notice his opponent is shouting at him. He would also have been introduced to a parody of Fallout 1 and 2 which he just feel indifferent and tossed aside not wanting to try it out since "What fun is it to click and wait for someone to attack and watch numbers on the screen go up?" Also, he would meet Rio but no more information. lol.
The other part would have Veritas try to probe his pip-boy for information but realizes that the device uses short-wave radio and finds out they can't hack it. By reasons I won't explain, they tried to penetrate the shittim chest to be used to break into the pip-boy but only stumble upon a jumbled of codes that are unfamiliar to them. Being Fortran language, or the Fallout version of a programming language. If the idea went through, then I planned for Thirteen to spot Maki who was eyeing him for sometime and a chase ensued with Hare's drones stopping him. One way or another, he finds their clubroom locked so the only thing he did is shut off the power generator, to Yuuka's annoyance, and waited for Veritas to eventually open the door.
- Gahenna had two variants I wrote. One included Thirteen meeting Fuuka and the School Lunch Club after he met Juri's man-made monster and joined in to fight it. There was a quote I left for Thirteen. "I've eaten worse." I guess I had an idea for him to eat it after as a joke or something. He would have met Iori earlier and would have a heated exchange and something, something about Thirteen throwing some insults that pissed her off. Originally, Haruna would have been his tour guide as to why Fuuka and her club was the first group they visited. Lol, the rest is I forgot. I do remember that the other version had Sena as his guide, but I no longer remember the rest.
-Thirteen would have seen Reisa earlier.
-There was a joke with me not showing what actually happened to his ACCIDENTAL visit to Red Winter but would have started out as him aboard a train halting at a station as joined in celebrating with other students and dialogue about them escaping the academy. I would never show what exactly happened or why he and other students are on the train out of Red Winter's district. The joke is that it would have been the most action packed adventure Thirteen ever did. Order no .227 students would be there like Shigure and Nodoka. Also, for reasons I will never explain, everyone was dressed like the apocalypse came and the train was modified with spikes and whatnot. But it is not the apocalypse.
-Thirteen would have called Neru a shrimp at one of my written ideas lol. I have no clue why or what would happen next.
- Thirteen would have gone on to try to use the MomoTalk and asked Yuuka what emojis are. "I went and did what you advice me to do." and followed by a picture of the receipt of his purchases being several tools and among other things he effectively emptied the budget handed to him with a happy and thumbs-up emoji at the end of the message.
That is just some of what I can share and remember. Lol. If anyone could help with scrivener I would be thankfully.
