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Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Fri Sep 06, 2013 11:56 pm | |
| Hey guys, since my school is small and only has 2 English classes, I passed both classes so now I am on my own in English and my teacher said it would be ok to write a story based off of a game if I wanted so I'm going to be doing this as a normal Garage, but it will just be a story, no Bank Statement, Maybe a Build List. Haven't thought it out yet.
Like I said kind of, this is like One Big English Class Project.
I'm putting up this Thread, so I can hopefully get help from the Community here on MnM that might want to tell me what could make my story better, The Writing and the Plot I guess... If you would like to be in this story just ask.
I get credit in school for doing this, and I enjoy it since it has to do with Video games kind of.
This isn't a real Horizon Garage, I am not going off a Bank Statement. It is just a Horizon story.
List of People going to be in Story. XC - Chris Jewel - Dustin Callum - Callum Wolf - Skott Michael - Michael
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| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Fri Sep 06, 2013 11:56 pm | |
| The Big Move- Spoiler:
From California to Colorado, it was going to be a big move, but it would all be well worth it in the end. This move to Colorado has been planned for quite a while. I have been living in a small town in California called Ukiah. Here in Ukiah there are not many groups of people that have a love for cars in my town as I do, but over in Colorado, thousands of people that like the same type of stuff I do go to Colorado every year for a huge Festival called “Horizon”. The Horizon festival is one of the biggest car festivals, in the U.S. From the West of the U.S. to the Central part of North America. Leaving everything behind, except for some money. I inherited from my grandfather that had passed away a couple years back. Being 23 years old with the name Nick which is pretty common around town, it seems like I have the opportunity to do whatever I wanted.
It was the day I would have to get on a plane and forget all about everything here in California. I was on my way to the Airport down in San Francisco, taking a slow ride in a Taxi, with a few things packed. I finally gotten out of the Taxi, standing in front of an entry area of the Airport, all airports I have been to I have had such a bad time with airports, which only made me more nervous. Nervous, I could not get over it. I had packed some clothes and all the money that was in my bank, a couple suitcases. Just getting off the plane, I had no problems with anything, on or off the plane. It was such a relief that nothing went wrong.
Colorado, Finally. It seemed different, I smelled the air and it seemed so different compared to California. I loved it. I landed in one of the busy areas of Colorado of course, but I was hoping I could find a house maybe a few miles out from the City, on the out skirts. I walked across the street into a huge Rental car place. There were quite a few cars I was able to pick from but I wanted something that was big for the moment, until I found a house to buy. I looked through a few cars they had there and I found a 2012 Cadillac Escalade. After a little while, I was able to drive around Carson and find a Hotel to stay in for the night. Colorado, nice to meet you.
Getting Used to it.- Spoiler:
It has been a few days sense I’ve arrived here in Colorado, the Hotel I had been staying in was up in a pretty big town called “Carson”. I had not left Carson really. I was getting used to the Colorado busy lifestyle, and it was not as busy as California’s populated area. The Horizon Festival was not going on at the moment. Everyone going just around town, going to their Jobs, doing there aarons for the day, doing whatever they have to do. It was cool to watch everyone going about their daily lives. When I would drive around town, I noticed not everyone had super nice cars, just the normal thing that anyone would have, a little Honda or maybe a small Chevy, there was not many people driving around in $90,000 cars like this Escalade, and so I got many stares. Sometimes, I liked the people staring and sometimes I hated it. It just had to do with the mood I was in at the time. Colorado is great, it never seemed busy like Ukiah, but that was probably because it was a bigger city, more room for people to go, different places to be.
The New House- Spoiler:
Two weeks. It is now Thursday, I have been in Colorado for two weeks and I was getting tired of living in the Hotel up in Carson. It has been like a two-week vacation, staying at a hotel, no job, driving a rental car in a new place. I was starting not to like it. I wanted to settle down into a nice house somewhere not too far from the city. There were six main areas outside of Carson. There was, Eagle Ridge, Redfoot Ranch, Red Rock, Beaumont, Gladstone Drive and Bunker. I have drove around most of the areas looking at houses, since I had nothing really to do. There was a house down in Redfoot Ranch that I liked a lot, but of course, since it was so great someone had already owned it. There were quite a few houses for sale in Eagle Ridge. I didn’t know why it seemed like a great area. The next day I would be the day that I would go out one more time and look at some houses, take some pictures and write down some information about the houses.
Tuesday morning, I had been tied up with a few things while trying to find a place to work at, today was the day I was planning to go meet the a few people about a house in Gladstone area. I was super excited about the day, getting out of bed, was not tired whatsoever, I jumped into the shower, got dressed as usual and grabbed a muffin on the way out of the house. On the way to meet the owner and his realtor of the house, I saw a WRX crossing over the freeway. It had no mods that I could see, but I could not tell what was under the hood. The Impreza sounded amazing, though, as it passed by.
I had finally pulled up to the house, and the owner sitting at the door waiting for me. We walked through the house; a real nice 4 Bedroom house with 3 bathrooms, a huge kitchen and living room, with an extra room and a two car garage. It was a three story house with a basement. I absolutely loved the house. The driveway was a bit long, but that was the only thing wrong with it, it was about a ten-minute ride into town, where I would hope to find a job. I told the realtor I would take the house and I asked if I could pay it all at once, in cash. He gave me a funny look, but then told me to meet him over at his office down in Eagle Ridge and we could talk it over. Driving down to Eagle Ridge was a long ride and I was getting mad about driving this escalade around now, I would have to find a car soon. Something smaller, clean, for a daily driver.
When I arrived at the address he had given me, I pulled a briefcase out of the car and brought it up to his office. After about 2 hours of talking with him, and his colleagues then communicating with a bank, I was a happy new owner of a house and that I could start moving stuff into right away. First thing I did, since the day was not over, was go to the hotel and sign myself out. Even though I didn’t have any furniture in the new house yet, at least I wouldn’t have to pay to stay at a lousy hotel anymore. I grabbed my bags I packed my clothes in, grabbed some food from a local burger place down the road, and started driving to my new home.
Goodbye. The Wait.- Spoiler:
Moved into a new house, now it was time to get rid of this huge gas gosling Escalade. I took a drive over to the rental place to drop it off and pay some extra money fees that are probably going to be tacked on. I did not care about the extra expensinses, I liked driving it, and it was different from anything else I have driven. With the Escalade back at the rental place, I had to take the bus back home and figure out a car that would be a good daily driver for here in Colorado.
The bus dropped me off at the beginning of the driveway and the driveway was so long, I started to walk towards the house when I noticed a Toyota Supra drive by, I turned around and stared at it as it stopped at the stop sign ahead of the driveway. The driver must have noticed me staring, or maybe he was just having fun, but he left some leftover tire on the pavement. I sat at the beginning of the driveway and listened to it as it drove off and I could not hear it anymore. I then started my long walk to the house again.
I walked into the house, first thing I did was grab my laptop and go on Craigslist to find myself a car, I didn’t want to deal with the bullcrap that the dealerships put people through, I hardly wanted to deal with DMV. As soon I got onto Craigslist the first was a little 2JZ swapped ae86 with a few other mods, drift ready. It was a nice car, very clean surprisingly, but I was looking for a daily driver until I got more used to the area here in Colorado. A few more pages of searching and I saw a 2005 Subaru Impreza, I clicked on it and read more about it, figuring out that it was completely stock. A younger person that needed money owned it, and his grandma gave it to him in her will. I looked for a phone number on the page to call him, but he did not leave one. Good thing on craigslist they have you put an email while posting. I started writing the email, but I did not like what it read in the end, so I started over. Starting over 5 times before I finally liked the final email. I sent the email over to him, his name was not on the page, but I told him my email, name, and number. Now, hopefully he would get back to me.
The New Car- Spoiler:
It had been two days, but after getting home last night I checked my phone and noticed I had a missed call. I did not know the number, but it sounded familiar. Then I remembered that I had emailed the owner of the Impreza and asked him to call me. I looked at the time to see if it could be a good time to call him, but while I looked over, I noticed it was already eleven, almost midnight. It would be rude if I woke him up while he was sleeping, so I would just have to wait for morning to come to call him.
Morning came around, going through normal routine, forgot all about to call him. Middle of cooking breakfast, I remembered. I rushed into the bedroom where my phone had been charging for the night. I sat on my bed and dialed the number, and the ringing started. The ringing seemed like it went on forever. Finally, a girl answered and I told her that I was interested in buying the Impreza, she responded with “hold on, one sec”. A few seconds later a guy came onto the phone and answered “Hello”, I told him again that I was the one who emailed him about the Impreza, and that I was stilled interested and would like to see the car. In the matter of 2 minutes of talking, we had talked over a time and place to meet.
Another 2 minutes later, I was doing my daily routine and I had plans to meet the owner in 2 hours. The place he wanted to meet was not far at all, I could walk there in 5 minutes. Shower, get ready, made myself some breakfast, sat on the couch and watched TV while the time passed by. I watched one episode of “Law and Order” and it was time. I started my walk down to the highway and Gladstone Drive meet, I liked this place, and it was a good place to meet. I was a few minutes early, so I had to wait a little. Five minutes later, right on time a Black Impreza pulls up across the street.
I ran across the highway to meet the guy, he got out of his car and I shook his and once he was out, I shook his hand and introduced myself, told him my name. He responded with “Nice to meet you, my names ------.” He told me a little more about the car, and I told him why I wanted the car and my plans. He seemed intrigued in my plans, I asked how much he wanted, he ended up wanting twenty-thousand dollars since it was so clean, looked and drove like new. I ended up being able to talk him down to eighteen-thousand dollars, that’s as low as he would go, I really wanted the car and it seemed like an ok price, I did look into the value of these cars, so eighteen thousand was somewhat a good deal.
I asked if he could drive me up to my house, that it was right up here on Gladstone Drive, that I had to grab some money. He did not mind, he handed me the keys, and got in the passenger seat, I hopped into the car. Started it up, rolled down the windows and just cruised up the road. It has been a while since I had driven stick shift, but after a minute or two I got used to it again. We pulled up to my house and he said he would wait here, I ran inside real quick, grabbed some money that I still had in the suitcase and it took me a while to count it all, but a few minutes later I was back outside. I told him this is all of it, straight cash. Of course, I had some paperwork I had to do for DMV, while I filled it out; ------ sat there and counted the money. I still had the keys so I was not worried about him taking off with the car and the money. Ten minutes later I was done, and so was he, I asked if he needed a ride to his house, he said, “No, I live right down the road from here its fine.” I told him “Thanks for the car.” ------ responded with “Thanks for the money.” I parked my new car in the garage and ------- was not anywhere to be seen when I walked out. I went back into the garage and just sat and stared at the Impreza. It needed a name, something that I would call it instead of Impreza.
I walked back inside the house, put the suitcase away, made myself some food for lunch, sat on the couch for the rest of the day, and watched TV. Tomorrow would be a great time driving the Impreza around, most likely all day.
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| | | xCalluumm Motor Maestro
Posts : 1260 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 25 Location : Inverness, Scotland
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:37 am | |
| Mention people in it? Start it off like the beginning of horizon. | |
| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Sat Sep 07, 2013 3:01 am | |
| - xCalluumm wrote:
- Mention people in it?
Start it off like the beginning of horizon. I already have the First Chapter of it done... Haven't posted it here because it is Saved on one of the class computers. | |
| | | xCalluumm Motor Maestro
Posts : 1260 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 25 Location : Inverness, Scotland
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Sat Sep 07, 2013 6:31 am | |
| It sounds like a great start man! Keep it up! | |
| | | REVAN Motor Maestro
Posts : 1884 Join date : 2013-07-21 Age : 28 Location : Yokohama, Japan
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:16 am | |
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| | | Sideways 30k Lead Mechanic
Posts : 548 Join date : 2013-07-09 Age : 25 Location : Hot Springs, AR
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:16 pm | |
| Drags, I know we aren't friends & all but can I be in your story. Please dude? | |
| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Sun Sep 08, 2013 3:52 am | |
| Yeah man Sure, after I get started I'll figure out a way to throw you in there. | |
| | | 86GUY Lead Mechanic
Posts : 515 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 30 Location : Dublin, Ireland
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Sun Sep 08, 2013 7:17 am | |
| THROW ME IN ASWELL IF YE CAN | |
| | | Sideways 30k Lead Mechanic
Posts : 548 Join date : 2013-07-09 Age : 25 Location : Hot Springs, AR
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Sun Sep 08, 2013 11:53 am | |
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| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:37 am | |
| I should have the First Chapter up later today.
86Guy whats your real name? I already know Jewels. | |
| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:20 pm | |
| A bit of Chapter one is up | |
| | | xCalluumm Motor Maestro
Posts : 1260 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 25 Location : Inverness, Scotland
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:31 pm | |
| Me, my 240 and GT-R want to star in this. | |
| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:47 pm | |
| For sure Callum. Anyone that wants to Join in on the story I will throw you into it as how your normal Horizon Story is placed. | |
| | | REVAN Motor Maestro
Posts : 1884 Join date : 2013-07-21 Age : 28 Location : Yokohama, Japan
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:55 pm | |
| MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE<<<<<<
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| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:05 pm | |
| I also need to know your Guys's first names, because My teacher and some students will read this, so yeah... | |
| | | REVAN Motor Maestro
Posts : 1884 Join date : 2013-07-21 Age : 28 Location : Yokohama, Japan
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:07 pm | |
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| | | Wolfling Motor Maestro
Posts : 1768 Join date : 2013-08-07 Age : 27 Location : Portland, OR.
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:13 pm | |
| I'm down with my baby The name's Skott | |
| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Wed Sep 11, 2013 1:56 pm | |
| Threw up another part of the Story..
This story is going to be brought up as kinda slow because of yeah... school. I'll try to get everyone into it soon. | |
| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Wed Sep 11, 2013 1:58 pm | |
| In class I don't put pictures into the Project, do you guys think that Pictures up on here (MnM) | |
| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:24 pm | |
| Updated the New House Section, Will be updating tomorrow also, but with GTA5 coming out earlier I don't think very many people will stop playing haha | |
| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:38 pm | |
| Messed up on the Update the first time a few minutes ago.
Fixed and Re-Updated. | |
| | | Arsye Car Czar
Posts : 2158 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 26 Location : Ukiah California
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:31 pm | |
| Put up "Goodbye. Hello."
One day I will get those pictures up | |
| | | MichaelC Lead Mechanic
Posts : 494 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 25
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Sat Sep 28, 2013 12:02 pm | |
| Bro, you KNOW that im Michael and have a midnight purple S15 on black CR-Kai's and XCB3X's real name is Leonard | |
| | | xCalluumm Motor Maestro
Posts : 1260 Join date : 2013-07-07 Age : 25 Location : Inverness, Scotland
| Subject: Re: Drags English Class | Horizon Story Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:01 pm | |
| And you know my GT-R has 980whp... | |
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