This is sort of a nod to the Untitled Sniper Story #2 (which is a longass name, so I made my own and I'll be calling this CC or “Chaotic” from now on). One day I was bored and had the urge to write something. I was in Skype and wrote about Q being rescued from a torture session. Questions arose, and after sleeping on it, I was able to later write a reason why the torture took place.
I got positive comments and am in the mood now, again. So this is my story, which is based on Maggeh's Untitled Sniper Story. In fact, I really like Maggeh's story. I don't want mine to overshadow his. I like his world and I like reading it. However, I happen to like serious, drama-filled stories that are full of gore and not really forced jokes to be funny. Well ok, I like those too, but not when they're mixed in with my violence and gore.
So this is my version of Maggeh's story. The characters will be modified, the plot will probably be different (since I don't know what maggeh's planning) and the funny will have been for the most part, taken out with a strong fist and crushed into a bloody, bordering R-rated pulp.
I am not competing with Maggeh. In fact I'll admit I probably won't even finish this (I never finish anything cool). I consider this a sort of fanfic. Everything takes place in the same universe… Kind of. Except it's more realistic.
That all said and done, I don't have an update schedule because I'm really busy. But I'll write when I can. Read the full wiki page on CC here.
This wiki for CC was created to make things more organized. It was around the time character bios became more difficult to keep up with. Some people meld with other people (as shown in chapter 17) and I was at a crossroads of how I was supposed to organize that into a character bio. Wiki pages make it easier. They also allow for searching with keywords, and to combine the glossary with bios, summaries of plots and chapters, reviews, fan content, and so much more. So here we are!
I have made this wiki able to utilize BBCode. And you must preview pages before you can commit edits. So if you are unfamiliar with wikicode, revert to BBCode and most of the commands should still work (please look over your previews!). For the things that don't work in BBCode, there's wikicode. You can do some really cool things with it. Here's a link to all the commands. Also, to get the hang of trying out wikicode or just editing pages in general, you might want to head over to the Playground. In order to edit pages you must register first. You can register here. Once you login for the first time you'll be able to change your password through the “Update Profile” page which is here.
To make a new page, search for it, then create it. But when you name your page, do it like this: Category:Page Name.
Colons are like the separators for a folder tree. They're called namespaces, and you can find out about them here and here.
So, for example, if you were to make a new character page for Q, you should search for the page
Characters:Q
and then create it. Not just “Q”.
Some pages may not have a category you think they can fit into and that's fine. But once some categories already exist, try to refrain from creating new ones. The category list is the toolbar to the left. Clicking one will tell you what pages have already been created in them. All page names and namespaces default to lowercase. So don't worry about capital letters. Spaces are automatically turned into underscores, also.
To get a page title to show up nice, make the first heading the page's name
You'll notice on this page that the title at the top of the window is “About the Story”. This is because our first heading is also “About the Story”. To “title” a page something other than the actual title name, just make the first heading of that page the page name.
Before you get started, there's some plugins you should be aware of. The first is nstoc. This plugin creates a list of all the pages in a namespace. Remember I was talking about namespaces before?
{{nstoc }}
lists everything from the root (every page is listed here).
{{nstoc namespace1}}
lists all the pages only inside namespace1. Sooo, if you wanted to list all the characters' pages, you'd type in
{{nstoc characters}}
This is pretty evident on any of the pages from the sidebar. But the function is there if you'd like to use it as well. SPECIAL NOTE! Rather than just listing all the pages in a namespace, this plugin lists all the headers in a namespace. It will take the first header (page name, has 5 equal signs on either side) and every header below that unless you specify a “level”. The headers are arranged like so:
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
So make sure that when you use this list function or create a page, you only use the largest header once - for the page name. Every time after that, use a smaller header.
You specify a level in a list by putting the corresponding number after it:
{{nstoc namespace #}}
Since I only want this list to grab the page names, it uses level 2. So for a list of characters:
{{nstoc characters 2}}
Sorry if I've confused you. :(
The second plugin is goto. This redirects pages. So if, per se, you want terms:pheonix to redirect to rez:pheonix then you'd use this plugin. It works like this:
~~GOTO>namespace:pagename~~
The default redirect time is 10 seconds. That means that if you put that tag somewhere, the page will show up for ten seconds, then redirect to the current page. However, you can specify a different amount of time…
~~GOTO>namespace:pagename?0~~
This will redirect the page immediately. HOWEVER! you must know that when you preview a page with this GOTO function, it will still redirect you!
So don't add a speed of 0 seconds until you're sure you got the link right.
Also, if it redirects too fast, you won't be able to edit a page with a redirect on it. I'm going to set all my redirects to 0 seconds, but if for some reason you need to edit a page with a redirect on it, just append ?do=edit to the end of the URL.
So if http://khat.us/doku.php?id=terms has a redirect, make the url http://khat.us/doku.php?id=terms?do=edit.
Should work well enough if you know what the URL is.
So if you're adding content to the wiki, you should know about namespaces and that the namespaces you use are the categories on the lefthand side of the page. But if you're linking to things in the wiki, in the creation of the wiki I did some strange crap. I suppose I could redo it but I really don't feel like it. So here's links to the following pages:
Rez | rez_list
Archive | terms:constant_chaotic
Characters | character_list
Places | place_list
Prophecies | the_prophecies
story chapters(like chapters 1 - 18, etc.) | archive:000 (for the prequel). archive:001 for chapter 1. archive:010 for chapter 10, etc.
Limiters | items:limiters:limiters
Negators | items:limiters:negator
Seeker | prophecies:seekers
Monte Cristons | prophecies:monte_cristo
When you're making new pages, keep everything in the proper namespace/category but don't name them stupid shit like I did. (And don't make subnamespaces or subcategoires, it screws up stuff internally). The only convention that should stay is the archive one. It was purposefully done that way.