Week 10 Story Planning: The Razing of Vishnarus

Story Planning: The Raze Of Vishnarus

Ship Concept (S.S. Vishnarus)

Conceptual Idea:
Rama's Dream / Alternate Version

Inspiration/Source:
In the Ashok Banker novel Prince Of Ayodhya, Rama awakes to an unseen threat, which launches him into high alert and a ready to kill mindset. After this a disembodied voice speaks to him sending him to a dream world foreseeing the horrors waiting to be unleashed. This ended up being Ravana speaking to him, within a dream. Awakening, Rama finds nothing wrong. 

I want to take a flip of this dream where Rama again has a nightmare but this time is teleport  into a space station traveling through the expansive cosmos. The ship is a City Ship, meaning it has a large population of vital humans. The forces of Ravana breach the space ship, laying waste to all humans aboard: devouring and brutally slaughtering all inhabitants on the ship. 

Character and Plot:
Rama will awake from one of the cryo chambered used for the sake of preserving the inhabitants on their long journey. Rama awakes to see the cryo-room torn apart and blood spewed across the hallway and floor. Another pod had been smashed against Rama's cryo pod, protecting him from detection and initiating the warm up sequence. This takes 11 hours to completely revitalize and adjust the specimens vitals to appropriate levels.  Rama locates the weapons room for the ships security, and equips himself with one of the modified Pinaka Rifles, as well as some slight armor. He finds a broken transmission and begins to investigate the ship for what is happening. He eventual comes across body's and several enemies and begins his struggle to reach the remaining inhabitants before they are completely slaughtered. 

Details:
Rama is a member of the Royal Fleets Prince Class Security, Nicknamed the Ksha (kay-shaw)

"We have been...-ched! I repeat... -Breached!" "They are...in from the...ear of the shi-..."

Ship Name: S.S. Vishnarus
Gun Name: R3 Pinaka Rifle. Fires super charged electric rounds capable of melting steel.
Ravana's Forces: Dark Ones
Ship Security: Royal Fleet 'Prince' Class Security (RFS) 

R3 Pinaka Rifle

Story Motifs and connections:
Rama
Ravana (disembodied voice)
Ravana's Army of Raksha
Dreaming*
City(Ship) Under Siege
Pinaka (Shiva's Bow) *Side note: Does it break?*


*More Details to be added before the story is posted*

-Edit 1: This will more than likely turn into a multi part story, spanning a few weeks. 


Source:
Prince Of Ayodhya
Author: Ashok K. Banker
Published by Orbit (Time Warner Books UK), June 2005. Great Britain. Print. University Of Oklahoma Libraries. 

Growth Mindset: Staying Busy to Stay Productive

Growth Mindset: Staying Busy to Stay Productive

Let's Be Productive

Everyone has to work to achieve the growth mindset that is ideal for themselves. For myself, this practical learning and work style is still being polished. For chart we evaluated for this class, it is apparent to myself that there are a few aspects I must work on to complete my mindset. Specifically 'setting your own schedule and priorities' and 'taking risks' are two of those aspects. My scheduling issues comes down to some things I am working on personally, not just for school: which is Time Management. The big TM that always seems to give me a bit of trouble. Setting time aside to work on projects, homework and and other components of my day is very hard. As much as I love a structured and well planned day, I always seem to retain my 'relaxed and unplanned' habits. This is something I plan on using this class to help correct; with the balance of freedom and structure. Paying closer attention to given tasks and not procrastinating will help with the mindset. Setting scheduled alarms and times for work, school, assignments and other activities will be a way to aid the progress.

Now that I am getting more and more into H&W Coaching and Person Training, scheduling clients and practice sessions is consuming a lot of my day, leaving the rest for the time to be productive. I put a lot of pride into establishing rapport with clients and practice clients to ensure the best possible session. Staying busy working with others in this aspect helps me maintain productivity in my off time.

Productive Octo-Man