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Acadian
post Jun 16 2010, 11:52 PM
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Welcome to the adventures of Buffy the Bowgirl!

My name is Acadian. Buffy is an elven mystic archer that I have the pleasure to travel Tamriel with.

This is Book 1 of her journal. It begins with Buffy being briefly incarcerated in the Imperial Prison, and ends as she attempts to bring freedom to the city of Kvatch. It is a sprawling story that will require 176 episodes, spread over five threads. Appropriately, I have nicknamed Book 1, 'Do You Know the Way to Kvatch?'

Buffy's personal journey is more important than her destination. Our writing style is character-driven. I help Buffy write her journal because I have a truckload of passion for her, not because I am a writer. We take plenty of liberties with quests and NPCs, but only few liberties with game mechanics because there is an aspect of 'how to / mystic archer guide' woven into her stories. Therefore, we tend to eschew earthly things and stick rather closely to Nirnian physics. In Buffy's world for example, a skilled archer can 'zoom in' on her target and cause her enemies to 'turn green' with poison. Buffy has never been to medieval Europe or ancient Rome, and her world does not resemble those places.

I thank you so much, should you find our humble effort earns and maintains your readership. My hope is that Buffy will worm her way into your heart, as she has mine. tongue.gif

Edit: Buffy has completed this book as of August 2012, and I would like to think that the reading of it is a satisfying experience - both complete as well as suggestive of sequels. For those newer readers who would like to catch up to us in one short sitting, you might find this helpful: Buffy – The Executive Summary Thread.

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Acadian   Buffy the Bowgirl, Book 1, Thread 1   Jun 16 2010, 11:52 PM
Acadian   1 Buffy Goes to Prison City Swimmer grabbed...   Jun 16 2010, 11:53 PM
SubRosa   Buffy is Back! I loved this: Maybe I needed b...   Jun 17 2010, 12:50 AM
D.Foxy   EX-Ce-llent old friend!!! YAY!...   Jun 17 2010, 02:11 AM
haute ecole rider   Nah, the afro wouldn't work. If Buffy wears he...   Jun 17 2010, 03:42 AM
Remko   Let me put my down feelings on how I feel you retu...   Jun 17 2010, 09:44 AM
Zalphon   Buffy is a good character, heh. She needs to find...   Jun 17 2010, 02:36 PM
treydog   The old dachshund limped to the door of the small ...   Jun 17 2010, 07:36 PM
MyCat   Buffy's back! (I was working on a picture...   Jun 18 2010, 03:55 AM
Destri Melarg   Merandil’s voice cut through the smoke and embers,...   Jun 18 2010, 11:24 PM
Acadian   Chapter One found Buffy on the losing end of a con...   Jun 19 2010, 05:02 PM
haute ecole rider   Ach, Julian would like to forget that headache, th...   Jun 19 2010, 06:17 PM
Zalphon   Wow, I loved how you didn't use completely ing...   Jun 19 2010, 06:27 PM
SubRosa   I really can see the difference in editing. Especi...   Jun 19 2010, 06:38 PM
Olen   Good to see the legendary Buffy being posted. I...   Jun 19 2010, 07:01 PM
Destri Melarg   Haute beat me to the passage that I was going to q...   Jun 19 2010, 10:19 PM
Acadian   Chapter 2 (part 1) chronicled Buffy's progress...   Jun 22 2010, 05:24 PM
haute ecole rider   Just one question: Did she leave enough water to...   Jun 22 2010, 06:51 PM
Zalphon   Buffy, Buffy, Buffy... To write the whimsical tal...   Jun 22 2010, 08:57 PM
Olen   Great stuff, this piece has a unique tone which I ...   Jun 22 2010, 11:08 PM
SubRosa   The Buffster is back! And it is Ardaline who...   Jun 23 2010, 12:32 AM
Destri Melarg   There they are, Buffy and Baurus, standing in the ...   Jun 23 2010, 08:58 AM
Remko   It would seem Buffy's been taking cooking less...   Jun 23 2010, 10:32 AM
Winter Wolf   On this new and fantastic day let me quote some Po...   Jun 25 2010, 08:25 AM
Acadian   In Chapter 2 (part 2), Buffy witnessed the death o...   Jun 25 2010, 02:58 PM
SubRosa   Once again, I can see the improvement over the ori...   Jun 25 2010, 04:33 PM
D.Foxy   (Grumble) Rosa has hogged all the lines I was gonn...   Jun 25 2010, 05:09 PM
haute ecole rider   I really liked this chapter a great deal. Adding...   Jun 25 2010, 05:16 PM
Zalphon   Buffy the Prostitute... That'd be an interest...   Jun 25 2010, 08:59 PM
Winter Wolf   Such a smooth and beautiful chapter. Using Thoro...   Jun 26 2010, 08:16 AM
Acadian   In Chapter 3, selling items from her Imperial Pris...   Jun 28 2010, 03:09 PM
SubRosa   "We'll toss ye in the drink as we draw ab...   Jun 28 2010, 05:41 PM
haute ecole rider   I loved that you introduced us to Diana at this po...   Jun 28 2010, 05:49 PM
Zalphon   I enjoyed this chapter, very well written.   Jun 28 2010, 07:12 PM
Winter Wolf   The way you have captured Buffy's naivety was ...   Jun 29 2010, 07:33 AM
Olen   I like Buffy and I like this story, I think she...   Jun 29 2010, 10:02 AM
Destri Melarg   3. Buffy Fights Her Way Home The first thing that...   Jun 30 2010, 01:27 AM
Acadian   In Chapter 4, Buffy returned home to Bravil, caugh...   Jul 1 2010, 04:09 PM
haute ecole rider   QFT! And very classic of Buffy! I hope Ac...   Jul 1 2010, 04:43 PM
ureniashtram   Voices in... Buffy's head? Well, I have one to...   Jul 1 2010, 04:48 PM
SubRosa   To start with, I love the title! Starting in ...   Jul 1 2010, 04:51 PM
Winter Wolf   Such a clever idea to weave the Acadian / Buffy ...   Jul 2 2010, 06:57 AM
Remko   Hey, the part with Dagail recognising Acadian insi...   Jul 2 2010, 01:03 PM
Olen   Great stuff, normally I'd have been unsure abo...   Jul 3 2010, 04:28 PM
enclave_private   :D Just got your message today. Glad to see Buffy ...   Jul 4 2010, 04:29 PM
Acadian   In Chapter 5, Buffy completed her second recommend...   Jul 4 2010, 05:54 PM
haute ecole rider   How wonderful that Buffy gains a new traveling com...   Jul 4 2010, 06:09 PM
Zalphon   I enjoyed this chapter Buffy, very much in fact.   Jul 4 2010, 06:42 PM
SubRosa   Welcome to Cheydinhal, and Falcar. Talking with De...   Jul 4 2010, 06:45 PM
Winter Wolf   This part of the story really threw me. I was ex...   Jul 5 2010, 06:58 AM
Alchemist.   Wow, fantastic! I like Buffy a lot, she seems ...   Jul 5 2010, 09:33 AM
Olen   Good stuff. I enjoyed how you introduced the hors...   Jul 5 2010, 03:34 PM
Acadian   In Chapter 6, Buffy obtained her third recommendat...   Jul 7 2010, 03:06 PM
haute ecole rider   Do I detect our little Buffy degenerating into cl...   Jul 7 2010, 03:38 PM
SubRosa   We will keep Buffy's little secret between us ...   Jul 7 2010, 10:01 PM
Destri Melarg   5 You Hear Voices Too? I agree with all the comme...   Jul 9 2010, 11:52 PM
Zalphon   Hey, you're scaring the children with gameplay...   Jul 10 2010, 04:43 AM
Acadian   Chapter 7.1 found Buffy deep within the Ayleid rui...   Jul 10 2010, 04:03 PM
Olen   Excellent stuff, you capture so much in this piece...   Jul 10 2010, 08:41 PM
haute ecole rider   Now we start to see Buffy's Doctrine crystall...   Jul 10 2010, 09:37 PM
SubRosa   I have thought about the whole detect life and und...   Jul 10 2010, 09:49 PM
D.Foxy   *grumble* I was about to rush into praise for you...   Jul 11 2010, 03:26 AM
DarkZerker   Hey, I just started reading the Buffy the Bowgirl ...   Jul 12 2010, 06:45 AM
Zalphon   Does it ever get better? No, it's already per...   Jul 12 2010, 06:57 AM
Winter Wolf   That chapter was a treasure trove of fun! Loo...   Jul 13 2010, 07:38 AM
Destri Melarg   Arrow, Cobra’s Dance, second arrow . . . dead Redg...   Jul 13 2010, 09:44 AM
Acadian   In Chapter 7.2, Buffy learned how to identify necr...   Jul 13 2010, 03:50 PM
D.Foxy   Unbowed (well, at least outwardly) and Unbossed is...   Jul 13 2010, 05:24 PM
SubRosa   Hmm, given the title, I suspect a lot of guys (and...   Jul 13 2010, 06:10 PM
enclave_private   I'll keep it simple. Fantastic :bigsmile:   Jul 13 2010, 06:22 PM
haute ecole rider   Once again I enjoyed Buffy's encounter with Gr...   Jul 13 2010, 07:54 PM
DarkZerker   Lol. This is my second time reading this and it...   Jul 14 2010, 01:07 AM
Zalphon   Buffy, you make the rest of us feel like amateurs....   Jul 14 2010, 02:05 AM
Olen   I like how you handled the chorrol quest, focusing...   Jul 14 2010, 12:12 PM
Winter Wolf   Where do I start with this one? My fav chapter so ...   Jul 15 2010, 10:55 AM
Destri Melarg   I think we’ve all wanted to tell Jauffre off at on...   Jul 16 2010, 12:56 AM
Acadian   Chapter 8 found Buffy in Chorrol, having just comp...   Jul 16 2010, 02:40 PM
SubRosa   The title for this always makes me think of the Im...   Jul 16 2010, 05:09 PM
haute ecole rider   I'm with Buffy there - anyone who abuses an an...   Jul 16 2010, 06:48 PM
Olen   That chapter had some great lines in it. And some...   Jul 16 2010, 11:01 PM
Winter Wolf   As an outside observer I must say that this chapte...   Jul 17 2010, 05:34 AM
Acadian   In Chapter 9, a friendly Legion rider helped Buffy...   Jul 19 2010, 02:57 PM
Olen   To Skingrad... you caught how unwelcoming the guil...   Jul 19 2010, 03:21 PM
SubRosa   Ahh, goblins camped out on the road. The way from ...   Jul 19 2010, 03:47 PM
D.Foxy   I'm sure whichever male tries to crawl uninvit...   Jul 19 2010, 04:10 PM
haute ecole rider   Ahh, I see Buffy made it past the monsters of Gree...   Jul 19 2010, 04:57 PM
Winter Wolf   This sentence sent a shiver up the spine. That Bu...   Jul 20 2010, 07:41 AM
Remko   I agree with the above, Superian feeles even morte...   Jul 20 2010, 11:10 AM
Zalphon   Buffy, you're really good at entertaining us, ...   Jul 21 2010, 12:41 AM
Destri Melarg   9 Ride Fast and Shoot Straight Like Winter Wolf I...   Jul 21 2010, 05:59 PM
DarkZerker   Buffy is probably the most well written character ...   Jul 21 2010, 06:54 PM
Acadian   In Chapter 10.1, Buffy and Superian battled goblin...   Jul 22 2010, 04:28 PM
haute ecole rider   Oh, how wonderful! I loved Sinderion, his char...   Jul 22 2010, 04:55 PM
SubRosa   Interesting story about Rislav the Righteous (if h...   Jul 22 2010, 05:18 PM
Olen   I like you're characterisation of Sinderion, b...   Jul 22 2010, 07:16 PM
DarkZerker   Lol. "You don't look like much of a mage...   Jul 22 2010, 11:52 PM
D.Foxy   Sub Rozza must have caught the Foxy wordplay disea...   Jul 23 2010, 03:21 AM
Winter Wolf   Many thanks for the history lesson that you snuck ...   Jul 23 2010, 07:33 AM
Destri Melarg   A history lesson from the old paladin! I need ...   Jul 23 2010, 11:34 PM
Acadian   In Chapter 10.2, Buffy paused during her Skingrad ...   Jul 25 2010, 04:17 PM
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