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Subj: Re: This is why we have Spoilers flags.
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 at 09:04:05 am EDT (Viewed 491 times)
Reply Subj: Re: This is why we have Spoilers flags.
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 at 04:18:58 am EDT (Viewed 2 times)




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    I'm not sure if Liu Xi's going to be in this story, which I hope to keep relatively short with a minimal cast of one character per regular poster. On the other hand it's a natural comment for someone to make.


Then wherever she is, she won't be happy when she hears about it.



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    There are other techniques the other LL can use. Hatman could use his Thinking Cap. Dancer could improbably be reminded every minute. The Shoggoth's probably naturally immune because his thought processes are so alien anyway. The rest might have to rely on Hallie or simply have notes tied round their necks.


I'm curious if Anna would be affected at all. The one factor (besides physical construction) that differs her from humans a lot is that she chooses her memories to keep. At the same time, though, it may be that Hallie only has a memory advantage because she stores hers elsewhere, away from the Drop Bears' influence, and Anna's memories are just as prone to corruption.



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    I'm lucky there since I created quite a significant proportion of PV cast (over half the characters including villains that appear in Untold Tales were introduced by me) so that gives me plenty of leeway to play with. One reason I encourage posters to develop their own supporting ensembles and their own situations is that it allows them more creative freedom than having to continually reset things to status quo ante.


I did that. Unfortunately when I use my own cast, readership drops to near zero. It's probably my own fault for placing them in unexplored corners of the Parodyverse where they don't usually affect the Lair Legion unless they come in direct contact with them.



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    Work-wise I'd like to complete a trilogy of short novels in the next three months. The first is done. The second is 8500 words off completion. The third isn't started. Fortuately I'm ahead of schedule on my contributions to four planned anthologies; those short stories are already turned in. The Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective anthology apparently sold fairly well (the bestselling book the little publishing house Cornerstone have ever had in their ten years existence, so they're keen for a vol 2) so it makes sense to write things for them while they're keen to publish them.


Makes sense to do paying work first. I'd say you're both lucky and brave at this point - because new professional writers sometimes are either slapped with, or afraid of being slapped with, contractual gag orders that prevent them from associating with any non-pro writers. So you're lucky you still can visit and read. \:\)



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      So I left the option - in a single scene, Hatman can take Faite's offer and give up his hat-power, retire, and as I believe is in true Hatman style, leave without saying goodbye to start his new life. It beats the other option, which Faite predicted - Hatman being killed first by the Carnifex. Though this might create good motivation for the always cool Psychic Samurai to lose her temper (more on that below) or Liu Xi to go rogue.



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    I think we need to give Jay a little more leeway.


He's got the leeway, but I'm trying to cover the bases.

Why? Because historically, posters with high-profile characters who stop visiting the board one day stop by, read a few things, and choose one of two things: Either to hand the character off to the care of the writers here officially, or realize they don't recognize the character anymore, and ask for its retirement. For the moment, we now have both covered.

Hatman isn't the only one in danger of that - we also have Dancer (who nearly permanently moved away in-story already once) and Kerry as well. And, of course, and character too similar in name to ones owned by Marvel or D.C.



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    It's a bit like SHIELD expecting that their anti-Thor measures will work.


It's the first rule of government spending. Show something expensive, or lose the funding.



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    I'm always a bit sceptical about the law enforcement agencies having tech that can actually take down Hero X. If the government has a secret weapon that can take down Superman why didn't they deploy it against Doomsday or Bizarro?


This is more of a government funded endeavor, weapons development like Anna was - only they consider Anna a failure because she wouldn't accept command.



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    I don't think I can meet that challenge. My eye's been off the ball with the PV for the last year what with one thing and another. I don't have the overview I once had.


So far, Faite gave Hatman that choice, which might just save him from the Carnifex' blade - or at the very least, now Hatman is warned that a "hunter" is out to kill him first. Long ago, she gave Liu Xi Xian something that at the very least can keep the universe from being destroyed in extreme cases (or possible cause it). And the simplest and most subtle one, that she and the Hooded Hood may be working on the same page with certain things at the moment.



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    That's an interesting plotline but potentially destructive to the character.


It would have to be done in a way so Liu Xi's justifications are *very* hard to argue with. Which is why it hasn't been done yet.



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    This is where supporting cast really come in handy, both as a motivator for rage and as a means of "talking the hero down".


The problem is, Chiaki is very hard to push to anger. She's very zen, and becomes more focused under pressure, but hasn't really become angry yet. She has been cornered once, and focused it inward, but hasn't lashed out.



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    I'm not sure the Carnifex works well in that role. It'd probably only work of she could breach his impregnible tower or find a way of destroying his indestructible person. Then the story stops being about Chiaki and becomes the resolution to the Carnifex story.


Chiaki can have incredible focus when she's angered - she might not bother to try to get into the tower, just content that she can mess with anything that comes in or out. Or at least giving him the impression that she can. In her opinion, eventually everything has a chink in the armor, and opportunity inevitably presents itself.

The funny thing about that is, I'm not entirely sure if the Carnifex would be annoyed or impressed that someone's relentlessly hunting and stalking him.



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      Or another possibility, since you mentioned the Lynchpin, what might happen if Akiko was killed, especially if it was a message to the rest of her organization. Chiaki might just go vigilante, and bodies would start piling up.



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    I'd avoid doing anything too bad to Vizh's beloved Akiko.


I would just wait until the Lynchpin kills her for me. It may be inevitable.



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    If you're looking at some kind of trigger to justify a Chiaki rampage why not tie it to her protection of the St Jude's Orphanage? A suitably nasty threat to the children there might be a good motivation, if she has to go "dark" to do what's neccessary to save them. We've never really mapped the orphanage's children or cast (except that Mac Fleetwood's an occasional chaplain, G-Eyed's girlfriend Beth used to teach there but doesn't now, and Champagne is a secret contributor of funds). We don't even know the name of the orphanage's director.


I do remember that Hatman threatened that he was protecting the orphanage.



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      Anyway, the point is, I had a lot of radical ideas, but I've been shelving them as quickly as I've been making them up to avoid making too many waves. Those are the walls I have to work within.



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    That's the consequences of a shared universe. I guess the Marvel and DC creators must feel the same way sometime.


Probably.






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