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Barinellos
PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:46 pm 
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OrcishLibrarian wrote:
I can just imagine Alessa leaning on a bar somewhere, rubbing her head, and grumbling: "Oh, for ****'s sake, this is so unfair..."
If she's been drinking, I think that's the least of her problems considering she only gets into the bottle in really really really really bad circumstances. And she pulls the cork in after her.

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If it makes you feel any better, it was just our heroines who didn't consume the sandwiches. I suspect that there were some cute bunnies living in that meadow, and that they did get to eat the sandwiches. :)

You fool! You know not what you do! Now the bunnies have a taste for meat!

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Barinellos wrote:
You fool! You know not what you do! Now the bunnies have a taste for meat!

We're safe -- they were just tomato sandwiches.

The bunnies... probably already had a taste for tomatoes. :)


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Maybe they're the bunny-kittens from "Imagine a Room". They were frolicking with a litter of little meeplings and reticulated Singlox.

I always appreciate a good "Imagine a Room" mention! I think it's a really wonderful piece that, since it's non-canon, doesn't get as much attention as it deserves.

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So, I mean, I read this as soon as you posted it, for very obvious reasons.

I saw "OrcishLibrarian" under the most recent post for this thread, and my immediate thought was "He wrote more Aloise and Beryl fluff didn't he?"

I'm pleased that I was correct. :D

The main problem with fluff pieces, however, is that there is not much to say about them. They are designed to make you feel any combination of happy, content, and warm, and they don't really have much else to them. Considering The Wish hits all three notes very well, I'd call it successful!

Life has been stressful lately - Thingstm should slow down around October, but that's purely speculation at this point. Reading this reminded my that things are neither as complicated or as simple as we make them out to be. Sometimes, you think you want sandwiches, and it turns out you need something else entirely.

Anyway, thanks for posting, OL!

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RuwinReborn wrote:
So, I mean, I read this as soon as you posted it, for very obvious reasons.

I saw "OrcishLibrarian" under the most recent post for this thread, and my immediate thought was "He wrote more Aloise and Beryl fluff didn't he?"

I'm pleased that I was correct. :D

I am becoming a tad predictable, aren't I? :)

I swear, I'll have some non-fluff at some point, too!


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Life has been stressful lately - Thingstm should slow down around October, but that's purely speculation at this point. Reading this reminded my that things are neither as complicated or as simple as we make them out to be. Sometimes, you think you want sandwiches, and it turns out you need something else entirely.

Ain't that the truth.

Speaking for myself, I find that keeping perspective on the things in life which are important, and the things which don't actually matter nearly as much as it feels like they do, requires constant effort. It so easy for me to lose track of which is which, until something -- or, more typically, someone -- keeps me grounded.


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Anyway, thanks for posting, OL!

My pleasure!

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Had another one of these come knocking tonight...

The Dream

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Who does the multiverse hate more? Beryl or Tryst? It's starting to look like an increasingly even contest.

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Who does the multiverse hate more? Beryl or Tryst? It's starting to look like an increasingly even contest.

And yet Raiker hasn't met EITHER of them yet!

Well, in canon, anyway. There was this and this, of course...


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Who does the multiverse hate more? Beryl or Tryst? It's starting to look like an increasingly even contest.

This got me thinking: If you gave Beryl and Tryst the chance to re-roll the dice, as it were -- to try to do their lives over -- would either of them take it?

And, honestly, I don't think either of them would.

Beryl -- for all that she has suffered -- has grown so much since we first met her. She carries her past with her, and she always will. But she isn't a prisoner to it anymore. She has scars. She has regrets. She has done things for which she feels deep and profound remorse, and which she knows she will never be able to undo, to make right.

And there was a time when she might have drowned beneath all that darkness.

But, instead, there is a light in her life, and she's moving towards it.

She might not yet be the person she's supposed to be. But she's on the right path, and she's determined to walk it. And now she has someone waiting for her at the end of that path, who's beckoning her forward.

I don't think she would give that up.

Tryst is, honestly, in a much, much darker place at the moment. But, from Tryst's perspective, her greatest regret isn't anything that she has actually done. It's something that was done for her -- or to her, I guess, depending on your perspective.

Her greatest regret is the fact that she was born at all.

But she was born. She does exist. And, as such, I think that, from her perspective, the damage has been done, as it were. Nothing she can ever do can wipe clean that original sin. All that's left for her is to try to do the best that she can with the life she was born into.

And, from her perspective, while she has gotten so much wrong, she got one thing very, very right. And that one thing is basically the only thing that matters to her anymore.

So I don't think she would give that up, either.

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Stunning work as always, OL! You really captured the nightmare feeling in a way that reminds me of some of the more disturbing scenes in Giman's The Sandman. And I think that is the highest compliment I can give in this case.

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Thanks so much for reading, Aaarrrgh! I really appreciate it.

Thanks for the very kind words, too.

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Alright, I got a toughie for youse guys.

Write a story featuring the voices in Huinn's head that paints him in a sympathetic light.

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Barinellos wrote:
Alright, I got a toughie for youse guys.

Write a story featuring the voices in Huinn's head that paints him in a sympathetic light.

Alright, I think this is something I can play around with...

Echoes of Darkness


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Hey, where did Barinellos's prompt go?

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RavenoftheBlack wrote:
Hey, where did Barinellos's prompt go?

:huh:

I realized is posted it in the wrong thread, so I was going to move it.
I went ahead and un deleted it.

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Barinellos wrote:
RavenoftheBlack wrote:
Hey, where did Barinellos's prompt go?

:huh:

I realized is posted it in the wrong thread, so I was going to move it.

Ahh. That makes sense. Well, go ahead, and I'll move my response.


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RavenoftheBlack wrote:
Barinellos wrote:
RavenoftheBlack wrote:
Hey, where did Barinellos's prompt go?

:huh:

I realized is posted it in the wrong thread, so I was going to move it.

Ahh. That makes sense. Well, go ahead, and I'll move my response.

Or not...

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Using the structure of a theater play to make the internal dialogue clearer is a brilliant idea!

...but now I wonder if there is someone powerful and cunning enough to make a copy or an illusion of Muinn from Huinn's memory (or taking the voice from his own mind) and use it to manipulate him. The Duchess would be probably able to, but I'm afraid the aven is too ..messy for her.

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Huey Nomure wrote:
Using the structure of a theater play to make the internal dialogue clearer is a brilliant idea!

Thanks! I've been working with drama in my Writing About Literature class, so I've had it on the mind, and just as you said, when I was trying to decide the best way to differentiate the voices, this format seemed to lend itself to that very goal. Glad you liked it!

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...but now I wonder if there is someone powerful and cunning enough to make a copy or an illusion of Muinn from Huinn's memory (or taking the voice from his own mind) and use it to manipulate him. The Duchess would be probably able to, but I'm afraid the aven is too ..messy for her.

Yeah, I think the thing here is that no sane person would be able to safely venture into Huinn's mind. Syl is a very powerful mind mage, and even she didn't want to mess around in Huinn's mind. I think it might take somebody with the telepathic prowess of Nicol Bolas to have a chance at such a scheme. Likewise, if Huinn ever found out he was being manipulated, it would take someone like Bolas to survive the fallout...

Thanks for reading!


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I like to think of Huinn's mind as a house of mirrors, except they're all broken and glass litters the floor. Even stepping in, there is a likelihood you would cut yourself. Which, coincidentally, would make an excellent stage setting for a sequel with Huinn as a one man show.

The story itself was interesting and the use of scripting was a fairly avant garde choice to make. I do feel as though it could have benefited from an initial cast list, as many of the voices aren't immediately apparent as to which is a stage presence or not.

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Barinellos wrote:
The story itself was interesting and the use of scripting was a fairly avant garde choice to make. I do feel as though it could have benefited from an initial cast list, as many of the voices aren't immediately apparent as to which is a stage presence or not.

Yeah, obviously the concept here is that we're only getting fragments of the play. I had considered doing an initial cast list, but I figured it would be utterly massive, and a large percentage of them would never be seen. Still, maybe I'll try to put that together at some point.

Were the play whole, I sort of imagine the voices slowly piling up as it goes. So, in the beginning of the play, there might be only one or two voices, and by the end, there are a dozen or more. It might also help if I gave the non-voice characters actual names, rather than WARLORD, OFFICER, or KING. I might do that. Any idea what sort of naming convention they would use, Barinellos?


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