(Story) Green Ghost of Selva Rocosa

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  1. JBatic

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    Your plot, characters, and your style of writing is very enjoyable to read.
     
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  2. General S'mores

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    So, a decade after Green Ghost then? Was that intentional to make it a decade later from this story (atleast during the beginning)?
     
  3. DriftinCovet1987

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    Firwood and Selva Rocosa are within the Green Ghost series.

    And yes, it was intentional to make Firwood take place 10 years after the beginning of Selva (roughly seven and a half years after Selva ended).
     
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  4. bmwcrazy456

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    This was awesome to read! It inspired me to write my own BeamNG.Drive book!
     
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    sorry to spoil a bit, but "quickly noticed it was a female" hmm how? :p (no details.. look at the green box above :p )

    Relatable:
    “Good morning,” Percy replied absentmindedly, barely moving forward before he felt something metal touch his left door.

    The cream Pigeon, who he noticed was a female, scowled slightly at him as she yanked her right stabilizer away.

    On the whole it is really good. I can see this coming together as a film.

    Although i just can't get it off my mind about fuel rations, eventually they will run out and then all cars dead, it'll be very interesting to see how that plays out.

    Also how did the people die? That's another question I look forward to answering myself when i read the next bit :)

    On the whole, fantastic. You didn't get recognition at first because this category "Video, Screenshots and Other Artwork" is flooded. Don't worry, it'll be in my "watched" section :)

    PS: Have you got a higher resolution of the first photo, kind of want to make it my desktop background :)
     
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  6. DriftinCovet1987

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    Female vehicles (at least, those with eyes in the windshield; there are certain types of vehicles in the Green Ghost universe that have their eyes in the headlights because otherwise, I would be even more limited in my vehicle choices) have a black double-arched eyebrow, which Daisy and Priscilla demonstrated in the first part of Chapter 4.

    Anyway, thanks for that! It is planned out similarly to a film (in fact, I tend to think of Selva as though I'm writing out the events from a film), so that effect was entirely intentional.

    Yeah, there is a possibility that at least one of these vehicles will die...

    The people didn't die; they left the island at the end of Chapter 3.

    Thanks again! To be honest, this category is often associated with terrible Youtube compilations of horrid mods being crashed into each other again and again and again.

    I'm not sure about that last part. You'll have to ask @YellowRusty about that; he made the first photo.
     
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  7. YellowRusty

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    I've got one, should be 1600x834:

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    Not much to it - just a quick photoshop job I threw together from a screenshot of nighttime JRI and a stock image. I think it came out pretty well though, and I'm glad to hear that you like it!
     
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  8. DriftinCovet1987

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    I sincerely apologize for Chapter 7 Part 1 being four days late, but it's out now!
     
  9. Randomguy12

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    We are over halfway through the story and this is the first time this is legitimetly mentioned.
    Also earlier you said
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    Will Tim be in chapter 12?
     
  10. DriftinCovet1987

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    Perhaps he will...I mean, he could return to Selva Rocosa to ship Percy off to America, but perhaps someone else will come. All I can say for sure is that someone will come to Selva Rocosa to ship Percy off to Firwood, as that's the only way this series can continue.

    Or maybe...maybe that's not the only way it could continue...hmmm...

    Also, since the Automation collab update has just released: I will be featuring some Automation vehicles in the next stories (mostly in the '69 Belaso spin-off, as few people seem to build pre-1970 regular vehicle mods), but they're very likely not to be used as characters (if at all) except in the '69 spin-off. I'll only be using the best Automation vehicles that I can find, but if I happen to come across a regular mod that is similar to your Automation vehicle, I will use that over your car. So, pretty much, I'll only be using Automation vehicles as placeholders in case there are no regular mods/official cars to fill the gaps.
     
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  11. DriftinCovet1987

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    Chapter 7 Part 2 is now out! (belatedly, again)

    Also, I have started some work on Firwood, but I'm not sure if I'll have enough completed by the time I publish Chapter 12 of Selva to allow for a comfortable back-to-back release. You guys might have to wait a bit for Firwood to come out, but I'm excited to see what you all think of it.
     
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    Umm... what the name in Chapter 7?
     
  13. General S'mores

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    It doesn't have a name, like Chapter 6.
     
  14. Randomguy12

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    No, chapter 6 has a name: Soapbox Sliding.
     
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    Accidentally misread them as Part 1. It'll probably get a title soon (referring to Chapter 7).
     
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  17. DriftinCovet1987

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    Chapter 8 Part 1 is out! (Also, I've added a name to Chapter 7.)
     
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    First teaser for Chapter 8 Part 2.

    Also, I've been wondering about what genre this story fits into - I often call it a fan-fiction story, as it is a story based upon something else, but all the fanfics I've seen revolve around the characters or plots within the original media. BeamNG.drive doesn't have (many) characters or a (long) plot (not yet, at least), and I didn't even take the slightest bit of anything from "A Rocky Start" for Selva. (Besides for the gravity racing, of course; that I used in Chapter 6.) However, I did use BeamNG.drive (and its wonderful mods) as a base for this story (similar to how every fan-fic uses something else as a base), so maybe it is? Or perhaps it's a mix of a fan-fiction story and a conventional novel. I'd be fine with that.
     
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  19. General S'mores

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    Don't fan-fictions most of time only consist of text? Yours does has text (and is based off a existing property), but it also has pictures, like a graphic novel...
    I'm gonna say this is more like a triple fusion between fan-fic, graphic novel, and conventional novel.
     
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    Fan art! (Yes its a joke)
    OT: Why do everyone's license plates say MAL 8688?
     
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