> I was lucky that the family visited Sally's mother for two nights this week, which left me some time to write. The majority of this came out in two long late-night sessions.
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I'm hoping to find some time to write this weekend, what with the holiday. Of course, I ended up working tonight until after 11pm, so that might be ambitious thinking...
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> > Er, but if you need a little time to recover, I suppose I can wait.
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> There's some non-Parodyverse stuff that I'm keen to return to, although when its done I may well post a link here.
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That would be appreciated.
> My thinking always was to cover the massive wider cast in the run up to the final fight then to focus down on the LL (and Champagne) as they slugged it out.
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> Of course, my intention was also to cover the events of what turned out to be UT#319-321 in one chapter. Hah.
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I still think you kept the focus on the LL pretty well throughout. The interludes with the wider cast were good for pacing purposes.
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> > The shifting battlefield idea was clever and did a good job of bringing the subplot of the stolen cities around. Naturally, my favorite locale was Ausgard, where Donar got to cut lose and pound that jerk down to size a bit.
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> The Parody Master is pretty much a bully, and I enjoyed putting him up against someone his own size for a moment. Notice he ran away.
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Yes, I noticed that a few times. He really doesn't care for a fair fight. I'm glad he's dead.
> You read the footnotes, right? I hope someone does, the damn things took me hours. Whose stupid idea was PV footnotes anyway?
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That's what you get when you have organizational skills. I get extra time to nap by keeping my stories more disorganized.
Sorry... I didn't read *all* of the footnotes. I tend to read the ones I'm curious about. Upon a second reading, I see that both Kenny and the hippo are booked for encores.
> Well, the Storyheart tends to work the way stories should.
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> I wanted to find a role for Magweed, Griffin, and Samantha because all of them have in some ways been victims of the Parody War, and all of them deserved to play some small part in its resolution. I needed Jury to get a chance to face off against the PM too. I like to solve two problems by merging them into one scene.
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It was well done, I thought, and I appreciated their inclusion, as well as their survival.
Hopefully Sam doesn't have to pay the bill for Champagne's involvement in all of this, however...
> Well, Lisa's back, and this time its personal. I'm glad to have finally worked through the arc we negotiated with her.
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> Now if you could just convince her that work is nothing like as important as replying to Parodyverse stories...
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If Parodyverse involvement came with Health Insurance, you just might have been able to keep her here.
> Are you really sure you want to know where that goes next? As a brother/guardian there are some things it's probably better you don't know. But of course we'll touch on some developments next time, when the Juniors return!
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> As for AG and Tricky, Scott sent me some e-mails with his intentions about the characters so I had something to go on. I just wanted to give them good final scenes.
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I'm curious as to what becomes of the Juniors. How long ago was it that we were debating who was going to be in the next line up? Then they were bottled up, and passed around, and off to Caph... After all of that, can they just come back and go back to the way things used to be?
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> > Again, an outstanding job, from the opening to the conclusion. (Stuff like Hatty and CSFB mocking the PM for running was great too...) Okay, I need to go get some dinner now. But thanks for the story, and congrats on a damn impressive achievement in finishing such an epic tale!
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> You're welcome.
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> I'm also wondering how folks felt about Champagne's tagging along with the group (it was my first chance to write her interacting with the Legion and I'm still finding my way there), and about whether I went too far sidelining so many former PVB stalwarts.
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I quite enjoyed her sly involvement. I'll be curious as to what the explanation for her unexpected inclusion turns out to be. If she does indeed end up on the team, then it would make a certain amount of sense perhaps...
As for the sidelining of others, I didn't feel that it was egregious in any way.
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> > Bring on the epilogue!
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> I know what the first scene will be anyhow.
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A parade? I really think there should be a parade.
