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Subj: Re: Brains?
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 03:30:47 pm EDT
Reply Subj: Re: Brains?
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 05:00:16 pm EDT (Viewed 527 times)


> > > Ten points to whoever figures out the subject of this reply. \:\)
> > Most media quotes fly whoosh over my head.
> That was a Toad the Wet Sprocket song called "Good Intentions".

Of course.

> > > I'm not entirely sure I understand the Void Scholar's methods, it seems a bit like killing a fly with a cannon to me.
> > He needs Liu Xi either (1) carry out a void-related task he has bred her line for many generations to accomplish or (2) birth a child with Danny that will grow up to accomplish the task.
> For either of those he'd have to send her back home to accomplish it.

Not really, in the plot frame I'm using. However, if you want to go a different way it's your character and this is a round robin so the rest of us would adapt.

> > > And when Liu Xi does return, Vinnie might wish she hadn't. It's going to be quite different for her at least - she'd return home expecting to be welcomed, and instead she would be hurt over this disaster. Of course by then she'd also realize the Void Scholar is bent on death and destruction, and she'd do her best to perform nothing of the sort, even if she's angry, so she doesn't fall into the trap and contribute to it.
> > I received your tie-in narrative. Of course, there are also mitigating circumstances to be taken into account. Vinnie and Kerry are victims.
> Maybe that's why Liu Xi made that promise to herself.

It'll still be a while before that meeting comes into place.

> > There are some flaws in his [Void Scholar's] plans which are not clear to him.
> Those are things Liu Xi would see, because she believes more in improvisation than a plan.

It's important to build the cracks into the plot early on so the resolution doesn't feel too forced.