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Subj: Only 1/3 of it. And there's 2/9 that welcomes it. Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 at 05:56:47 pm EST (Viewed 4 times) | Reply Subj: Most of it seems to be fleeing, though. Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 at 09:36:59 am EST (Viewed 502 times) | ||||||
Quote: Quote: I have done quite horrible things to characters over the years, many of them in the Parodyverse. Where possible I've also given those characters moments of redemption, revenge, or justice. With other people's characers I've usually had permission to do permanently-altering things.Quote: That's a tough call sometimes though. I've fallen into the trap before of using a character that's not the same name as a poster, and that I've seen used before in your stories so I thought it was probably ok to use, except that was absolutely not the case. And it wasn't even an issue then that I changed anything significantly, just that I use the character, period, and it wasn't entrusted to me.It can sometimes be difficult writing in a shared universe. There are benefits and limitations. Quote: Quote: Most PV unarmed fighters are generally portrayed to be able to do much more than that (as in all comic universes). Fictional goons seem compeltely unable to aim machine guns, laser rifles etc. There's clearly a narrative law - unless it is repealed.Quote: I kind of made a change to that with Keiko Takashi in World Class for a little extra realism. If someone's holding a gun and trying to shoot her, she'll hide behind something. She'll try *not* to be shot at because in a more realistic universe, that's highly dangerous.I'm not arguing that the dramatic fiction is wrong. Everyone from James Bond to Han Solo benefits from it. Where the writer positions his characters on that "realism curve" determines the stule of book they write. Quote: The other touch of real-ish I like to add is she explains to someone once that because she's relatively small and lightweight, she has to end a fight very quickly, because the longer it drags on, the higher the probability that she'll be injured or killed.That's in line with a number of self-defence doctrines, but I'm not familiar with the details. Quote: Quote: They might prudently prefer to be in Lemuria aiding with rebooting other robots than testing the theory with a risk of destruction in the mundane world.Quote: *They* probably would, because while it's fun to speculate about their design, they don't have the knowledge the writers do. Anna and Nena don't have a quantification of what exactly this power barrier will do to them, and the threat of death is very real. So they probably wouldn't take the chance. Quote: They are essentially complicated machines, and they do have to worry that one little thing critical to their systems that was overlooked would sentence them to instant death. Or almost as bad, for them, to be stuck in a non-responsive state. It's not whether it would happen that contributes to their decision to leave, but the fear that it might.As depicted by the Shoggoth's previous stories, his Lemurian sanctuary is based around a tropical bay with a number of cabins and huts. It was created as a safe haven for rescued slaves (the Shoggoth, having been created as a slave, hates slavery of any kind), and is filled with people shifted there from all kinds of times and cultures. They have formed a community that will now have to welcome in for the first time a range of creatures such as Detonator Hippos, Racoon People, Sea Monkeys (presumably in the bay), robots, ghosts, and ghost robots; and possibly some Off-Central Park pixies. That huge influx of refugees will be mixing and interacting for the first time. Anna and Nena will undoubtedly get hit on by the horny Racoons and co-opted to help coax ghost robots back into their shells ("the right shells please. This isn't an opportunity to upgrade..!"). As far as I know this may be their first opportunity to meet and interact with the rhot community, and especially rhe larger not-human-looking faction that are suspicious of "posh skinjobs". I don't expect to cover the Lemurian trip except is passing reference so feel free to go at it if you want. Remember that the Shoggoth will be there (he's carrying the robot ghosts and it's quite hard for him) and that his chymeric gate to Earth is now down so no word from outside is possible. Quote: Now as for if they're capable of doing something to help in the way out, like grab Hallie's essence just before she dies, that's another topic altogether.Hallie has a different story destination awaiting her. Quote: I believe so far, Lara Night is the only one of my characters that has any kind of actual experience of what the barrier does to her powers, so she's less fearful of what potentially might happen. She knows it won't kill her outright. I suppose the question might come up why she doesn't evacuate people to her own universe; the answer is she doesn't really know if she can even take passengers there, and she doesn't want to obliterate friends by accident while experimenting to see if it works. That's Al B Harper's job.As you may have seen, Lara features in the next chapter. Quote: Quote: Chiaki is certainly having problems, but then so will the serial killer she'll be heading out to track down.Quote: She has to keep busy somehow while waiting for those with more spectacular abilities figure out what do do about the powers outage.It's really not a side-quest. It's a breakthrough. | |||||||
