> This is the first time for quite a few years that we'd had such a story-driven rather than concept-driven shared narrative. Things like everyone getting de-aged to 16 or wandering through dreams don't require so much collaboration as this. The last time we had a tale of this kind was the Gold Coin Killer, and that time it was me who got the flak when people didn't like how I headed it towarda a resolution. In fact you might note that we haven't yet seen the conclusion to that story.
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I might have seen it but at the very least I don't remember participating in it.
> Traditionally we've left the person who launched the RR to end it, buut in a chat a few weeks ago Hatty was claiming he had just written a one-off and KS had made it an RR, and KS was pointing out that I was the one who'd written them all into an alternate future. We'll need to have some kind of out-of-story conference to bring about a satisfying ending that has popular appeal.
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I did think that either KS or Hat started it, however both were just posting prompts as if they were each expecting someone else to finish the story.
> > I did that, but then I had a problem: I didn't want to dead-end some of the developing character pieces that were out there. So I developed a radically new scenario, the "what if it's too late" one. I figured all that would do is change the distant goal from beating the Moderator to a larger battle for power once he was dead. Later on I called that :"too anime" because of its tendency to take radical turns in direction while classic comics usually won't.
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> In this kind of medium there are some requiremnts which don't actually map onto either anime or Western comics.
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I only took some story writing cues from it, using something extreme to drop a big surprise that would change the course of the story. I was hoping people would run with it - I *did* see the potential for a power struggle even after The Moderator's death, because he'd leave such a huge power gap, plus the Hooded Hood was involved too.
> > The irony of all of this is, for a story begun with a round-robin, it has some of the most tightly tied-together plots of any story begun here. It's very difficult to find an opening to play with.
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> Agreed.
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I've gone back to playing in the margins again for now.
> > Anyway, I guess I was playing it to the wrong audience I'm a little gunshy about taking the lead again, now that I know my style of doing so is absolutely not appropriate for the board (except with World Class, which is entirely mine).
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> You seem to have managed.
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See above. I cheated, rather than take the lead I started playing in the margins, taking up a position where everything I've written can easily be obliterated by the main plot (if The Moderator decides to simply destroy the Iowa facility) leaving me back at square one. If that happens I'll just have to deal with it.
