It's All Mercenary - Aly

My other story thread!

It's All Mercenary is an old project. If you look at the timestamp on the original postings, it's been almost ten years. (eep!) The premise was a spin on the classic questing tale, with characters that deliberately stomp on their stereotypes. The mercenary talks to his horse and is our sarcastic narrator. The barbarian is a scholar. The elf is actually a horrendous archer, and so on. I still love the concept and am determined to finish it. The one marked First Draft is actually quite a ways into the story, perhaps somewhere around halfway. (I discovery write, so I'm not entirely sure.) I rewrote the first 3 chapters for a Strongest Start contest that drastically differ in tone, which I felt was both good and bad.

The original is very much all over the place, although the humor is brilliant at times, if I do say so myself. My second iteration is much more streamlined, but my main character is lacking that spark, although the other characters I introduce seem more fleshed out. I want to find a happy medium between the two.