Character Development Thread--Discussion

If Soryn grabs Maelys, we get to find out who's stronger: an undead maid who can easily tote artillery pieces or one snek boi.

Edited by WillDeRegio on Jan 21st 2021 at 6:04:07 AM

One snek boi who is in a muscly Lensman Arms Race with one fish gurl. As interesting as it would be to find out, that would probably make a Plot Tumor. So if grabbing is out, how about the sneaky push?

That'll work. Should I modify my post to preemptively account for Soryn's interference? Mostly Maelys giving Soryn and Mist a Death Glare for their behavior.

Edited by WillDeRegio on Jan 21st 2021 at 2:00:24 PM

Miss, what do you have so far for Hummingbird?

Go ahead.

What I had was lost to the power outage. I gotta rewrite it and other upcoming posts.

Edited by Miss_Desperado on Jan 21st 2021 at 10:46:18 AM

The official KillerClowns COVID-19 review is in:

0/10, bad times. Would not recommend.

But it's looking like I got off light and should be fine posting-wise.

That was a week ago, wasn't it? Just how much do you have to rewrite?

I don't mean to be insensitive; I know how disheartening losing work like that can be. That said, the longer you wait, the more stale the material becomes and the more difficult it is to get back on the proverbial horse, irascible thing that it is.

One other thing, have you considered posting your finished locations one at a time (editing the initial post as necessary), rather than waiting until you have several completed? That way you might minimize the amount lost in a power outage, and those who come next in the locations you've finished can start formulating their own posts instead of waiting for the whole stack.

Hey, get well soon. Don't be a dum-dum like me and assume that you can tough out the worst headache of your life unaided. Unless a distraction-desperate viewing of Harold and Maude counts as aid. That was a long night.

I don't intentionally wait until I have several ready. I do try posting posts one at a time. The trouble is, no matter how hard I try not to, I keep second-guessing myself on whether a finished location is actually finished and end up with a pile anyway. It doesn't help my wondering when nothing opens the floodgates of my muse like hitting "post" instead of "preview".

I could have sworn I was pressing the "save" button on my notepad before the power outage, but apparently not. So not only do I have to rewrite what I wrote, but I have to re-update my notes on who posted where so I can answer more accurately on what was lost.

Oh, and my muse isn't waiting until I'm done collecting links. I find myself writing stuff and then losing track of where I left off updating my notes.

I found an outtake I wrote before Mequoql tried to make Arku a body:

Edited by Miss_Desperado on Jan 23rd 2021 at 3:00:56 AM

-screech-

Aye, sorry for presuming. Bit hypocritical, but I've taken to getting as many thoughts out as I can in one fell swoop rather than hoping for a back and forth discussion that may never happen. But that leaves me with a not so complete picture of others' processes.

One thing I need to clarify before writing Arku's part; when Mequoql is commanding him to "get over here", is she drawing him to herself as a sort of stepping stone, or directly into the body she's created? I don't suppose it's being left to his own interpretation...?

Both, in a way, sorry if I didn't make it clearer. Mequoql assumed two things when making the decision to leave herself open as a stepping stone, but Seenarnha's Barrier Warrior thing is making a tunnel steering him to the empty body directly, bypassing Mequoql.

Mequoql is assuming that Varla's assimilated rage directed against Arku is sufficient to let her turn a Battle in the Center of the Mind into a Curb-Stomp Battle if he actually tries to possess her instead of using her as a stepping stone, and she's assuming that if traces of green fog happened to reach the empty body, then Arku will have a harder time getting into it.

I have a few questions of my own about the eldritch vampire. If you wanted to get Cynthia and Diantha out of the story, you could have just had them tell the others they were splitting off to go do their own thing and Shale would have dropped them off wherever on her way on and off the teleporter pad. Why introduce a new enemy before and not after we've rebooted the Adventure thread?

So is there any outside impetus to get him to move, or are they both just facilitating an exit/reentrance of his own accord?

They're just facilitating, not "shoving".

Oh, I guess I do have something for Mael after all.

Miss, how is the Hummingbird coming along? Do you have a preview of what you wrote, at least?

Edited by Masterofchaos on Jan 25th 2021 at 12:08:30 PM

My muse dragged a plot bunny in and dropped it at my feet.

I'm planning on having the vampire teleport away with Diantha. This plot line will be resolved in Day 2.

Cynthia will recover on her own, thanks to being part Silver Witch.

Eldritch vampires are also the reason Claire has job. I figure Claire and whomever else can be involved to rescue Diantha.

Addendum:

I can always modify the post so that Cynthia and Diantha leave the ghost town and then they get attacked.

Edited by WillDeRegio on Jan 26th 2021 at 1:13:11 PM

-screech-

And punchline: I just got confirmation. I didn't have COVID-19 after all. By sheer dumb luck, I got a really bad normal flu around the same time as my actual COVID-19 exposure.

I'd be angry about all the time I spent stuck quarantining and worried I'd never be able to taste a beer again (I even broke into the stout I was saving just in case), but this kind of cosmic irony is Actually Pretty Funny.

Anyways, post will be up before Monday, probably. I might have some questions regarding a few details.

Edited by KillerClowns on Jan 28th 2021 at 10:21:46 AM

Glad you're ok, Clowns!

I shaved the ghost town post, planning on using the vampire attack later and/or in day two.

I'm working on some other posts now.

How's it going out there, Miss?

Sorry to nag. I'll be starting a solo writing venture next week (one that isn't as easy to sidetrack as NaNoWriMo) so that should take my extra attention for a while, but I think it'd be great if we could really push to get Adventure day one across the finish line, and... we're at around two and a half weeks since your turn's come up in the Hummingbird. I know the power outage caused a setback, but still. Getting a real mum vibe as of late.


Speaking of the future, what happened to our discussion about the brand new setting we were going to launch?

I was waiting for there to be more discussion, but then it just... died away.

I liked the (admittedly vague) generalities that had been thrown around so far, but I haven't really come up with anything specific myself.

-screech-

Does anyone out there have input on the new thread? Particulars on the setting? More urban, more rural? Isolation factor? Anything to facilitate a particular character or idea? Speak ye up.



In the interim until Miss resurfaces... Will, you're up in the grasslands-bound truck, if you please.

Edited by Ryuhza on Jan 31st 2021 at 8:22:06 AM

I was leaning more on a more urban setting, but that's because I suck at any other setting that isn't modern or futuristic, lol.

I'm more or less in the same boat, tech-level wise. Most of my Terrans were born between the late 1980s at the earliest, and the early 2020s at the latest. The Qorisayane aren't as advanced, but even rural, backwater hunter Koyel knows how to operate a radio. So an urban area, tech level 20th-century to near future, would be ideal... but I can adapt as necessary.

That said, it's worth making sure the place is designed in such a way that the full weight of modernity isn't necessarily dropped on the heads of people who would consider a spinning jenny a technological marvel.

Edited by KillerClowns on Jan 31st 2021 at 10:59:44 AM