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PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 1:33 am 
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Now that it's all together, I'll give it my best shot at reading it sometime after work tomorrow, hopefully. If not, I'll give it a shot on Sunday.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:52 am 
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Woo!

Alrighty, I said I comment and I will! Thanks for posting, Tevish, here are my thoughts! :)

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 10:05 pm 
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Tevish, I really enjoyed this one.

However, I have to start with my one and only beef. You preface this fine story by saying, and I quote:

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And yeah, this is another slow-paced talky piece out of me like "Lost Things" or "Advent of a Planeswalker" or even "Carrying the Torch".


Almost as though you were implying that there was something *bad* about slow-paced talky pieces.

Well, sir, as a self-proclaimed authority on slow-paced talky pieces, I object. Because I like slow-paced talky pieces. And this is a fine, fine talky piece.

The interactions between Morgan and Larasa are wonderful. I'm afraid that I haven't read the story which comes before this one, so I was just learning about their histories as I went, but I really enjoyed getting to see their different perspectives on past places and events.

Also, I want to specifically tip my cap to this particular line, which is just a perfect little character moment:

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She was also, of course, a girl


I'm with Ruwin in that the Morgan/Larasa conversations were far and away my favorite parts. I can see the character/world development purpose which the parts about the monastery serve, but I kind of shared Larasa's sentiment by the end, and I wished that the monastery wasn't keeping our heroes apart so much, because I just wanted to spend more time with them.

Which I very much look forward to doing in the next story, whenever it comes. :)

Thanks for posting!

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:52 pm 
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I like this. Morgan and Larasa are adorable together of course, and a slow paced talky story was what I needed right now I think.

If I can level one criticism, it's that the introduction to the monastery seems very abrupt. Everyone in the monastery seems to accept them automatically as not that big a deal, which feels... off to me given the past history with 'walkers and the lengthy time between the appearance of 'walkers. It just feels a little perfunctory to me, like it needs fleshing out a bit.

I'd be curious to see what happens when Morgan and Larasa finally realize what actually happened to their home plane...


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I'm no good at substantial literary critique, so I'll just say that I enjoyed it, that I like your characters, and that part 6 and the appendix need to be edited for typos.

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