Crazy Kiwi
@KillerClowns: Did you mean "Wolfe's 'friend' Justin" or "Wolfe's friend James" contacting Alice?
edited 19th May '18 2:13:58 PM by Wolf1066
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I, uh, hold up. So I posted before my morning coffee (got like five hours of sleep) and could have sworn he was talking about someone else despite Justin being mentioned in literally the same paragraph. Editing now.
EDIT: And fixed. Dea meo, I seriously need to start getting to sleep at a decent time. Anything else to concern myself, since clearly my brain is not operating at full capacity?
EDIT 2: Clearly, yes. I see what happened; I meant to say "James", who Wolfe mentioned.
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Oof. Whatever it is, good luck, take the time you need.
edited 19th May '18 2:43:36 PM by KillerClowns
Sudden illness. Nightmare of a day. Don't Ask. Post delayed. Thanks for the sympathy. It's a Long Story. I suspect I'm going to have a Delayed "Oh, Crap!" as soon as I physically have the energy to emote properly again. At least I have a rough draft of what I was going to post before all this happened. I'd rather not post while Troping Under the Influence. Thanks for the sympathy. I forgot to specify I'm the one who's sick. I'll re-read your post as soon as I finish processing what else happened to me (I was right, I'm in the Delayed "Oh, Crap!" phase now).
edited 19th May '18 3:13:38 PM by Miss_Desperado
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Crazy Kiwi
I've had days like that; completely understand.
D'voreem attack posted - and ended. Couldn't see them being the sort to dance, even under compulsion.
I'm feeling halfway better now that I've petted my dog and reminded myself I'm back home with food and family. I still feel strangely feverish, but I think I'm no longer Troping Under the Influence.
Edit: Okay, I think I'm ready to post.
@Will: What would Arilay find upon scanning the biscuit? I would guess just mundane or otherworldly biscuit ingredients, but... just in case I'm wrong...
Edit 2: Posted. Boy, am I glad I had drafts almost ready before today's suckiness! I don't think I could have pulled off posting today otherwise.
edited 19th May '18 7:43:39 PM by Miss_Desperado
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
They're primarily mundane ginger snaps. The secret ingredients are love, enthusiasm, and moon spices.
Is the recipe vegetarian, vegan or neither? Shale can't eat meat and won't (knowingly) eat eggs. (Sleutrienns lay eggs, so they don't regard eggs as food even if the eggs came from a different species.)
edited 20th May '18 10:48:24 AM by Miss_Desperado
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
To dream is my right
I am writing Cas post. I think. Well, I opened a text editor to write it, so that is a first step.
EDIT: and done. Now I should write for the Red Wanderer
edited 20th May '18 12:26:53 PM by EternaMemoria
"The dried flowers are so beautiful, and it applies to all things living and dead."
Well, most recipes I've pulled up call for one egg. And to clarify, that's one small junglefowl egg, so as to not either Kick the Dog or overkill the recipe with a much larger wyvern egg.
OK, I've edited my post accordingly.
@Ladytanuki I'm waiting for you on both Space Liner and Adventure.
Emotionally, I'm all better. Physically, I'm still feeling ill. I can still write through this slump, thanks to my extensive forecasting notes. I have a habit of drafting what I predict will happen, then weaving the parts that come true in with whatever I need to improvise.
edited 20th May '18 9:51:40 PM by Miss_Desperado
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
It's a bird.
I'm glad you're feeling better. I know you told us not to ask, but feel free to PM me if you ever want to talk about stuff.
Meanwhile, I got a lot of extra work to do, so my posting rate might suffer a bit.
Still a great "screw depression" song even after seven years.
I'm going to go ahead and declare I'm out of Space Liner. I've been struggling for weeks to muster the energy to write in general, and Space Liner in particular is so close to abandoned that I just can't motivate myself at all. So I'm saying as much here in case there's anyone still in the thread that I'm holding up. (I know ladytanuki is one - you can assume that Halberd and the Fat Man's people exchanged contact information and postponed more detailed discussion for a later time).
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
In that case, could you please move your characters to the inactive folder on Space Liner?
..Am I holding people up or are we waiting for Cormack?
Crazy Kiwi
Looks about right except I think most are actually inside the lobby and Míron has vanished off on a mission of his own.
Friendly Neighborhood Lich
Yikes, I'm behind on posting again... I know for sure I won't get to everything tonight, so I'll do Cormack since I know I'm due for him, maybe someone else as well if I have the time.
EDIT: Bah, only had time for Cormack. Nui is next on my list, to be taken care of hopefully tomorrow. I am not losing sleep for the third night in a row.
edited 22nd May '18 11:26:21 PM by ladytanuki
Come, my child of the devil. Your mother is calling you. Hear my call in Hell's grand hall, where all our dreams come true.
Professional Recluse
Mm looks like it's me again, will do tomorrow, coworker is out so work is particularly draining.
Stoned hippie without the stoned. Or the hippie. My AO3 Page, grab a chair and relax.
Wolf, would your foul-mouthed raven be at all interested in the glowing lights cavorting in front of Mequoql?
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Crazy Kiwi
That's a point.
Edit: and done.
edited 23rd May '18 1:49:58 PM by Wolf1066
How well is Arilay doing at impersonating a dog? I know Vindex is getting suspicious and Cynthia and Moobly noticed something off, but what about everybody else?
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Crazy Kiwi
Wolfe should probably be getting suspicious if he pays enough attention despite everything else going on around him.
Would have posted something tonight but I was delayed getting home from Wellington - a storm blew some trees down onto the track so we had to get out of the train at one of the southern stations and continue home by bus - nearly 2 hours' delay - feeling rather buggered after that and just want to unwind.
Can sympathize. We have pretty long distances between the cities, and getting anywhere by the train is exhausting. The road from Astananote to Almatynote lasts for about 20 hours. People essentially become a big, cranky, unwashed family with their fellow travelers for the time they're commuting by the train.
So, I want to discuss a concept that came to life when I was talking with Killer Clowns over the PM about Alice's future encounter with the Town's officials. The concept is called…
It goes in two ways:
- A mission from the City;
- Policing.
The latter one is the answer to a question that was bugging me – "How does a city on the threshold of many worlds surrounded by dangerous wilderness sustain itself?" The answer I got was "The city's Team Switzerland". The government doesn't have enough resources, manpower and judicial power to enforce its laws on the city's guests as it does on its citizens, so the "non-interference" policy is employed … until the guests threaten the city itself.
John Smith is the City's Guardian Entity, that can only do two kinds of punishments upon the guests that misbehave themselves:
- Banish them from the city (read: teleport them into the wilderness or to the native plane of existence).
- Force them to make a restitution to the City. It could be anything of use for a person living in a post-apocalyptic city: technology, knowledge, genetic material.
Theoretically, John Smith is gathering info on the worlds that the guests came from and liaisons with the organizations from those worlds, so, combined with the "fines" he took, the reward for the quests could be anything.
Concerning the character of John Smith itself, the idea is to make him Inexplicably Awesome. No-one really knows who (or what) he is, but everyone is too afraid of him to ask further. The following tropes come to mind when I was conceptualizing him:
- The Men in Black: self-explanatory. Takes a form of The Nondescript man in a suit.
- Humanoid Abomination: … but who certainly isn't
- Uncanny Valley
- Fourth-Wall Observer
edited 24th May '18 6:56:14 AM by Millership
Spiral out, keep going.
@Desparado
Ah, no. That happened because it was convenient by circumstance. She wanted to "test" her maybe traveling companions reflexes and it so happened they were pointed out before she met them.
Stoned hippie without the stoned. Or the hippie. My AO3 Page, grab a chair and relax.