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On 21 June 2012 Adrian wrote:<BR>> The mesoamerican idea is a good one. I'm afraid I know next to nothing<br>> about that at the moment.<br>> <br>> Googlemesh served three different purposes: A mythological hero, a<br>> primal warrior type character, and a link to the Ancient Legion. These<br>> three don't have to be to the same character, and the third one might<br>> not be a living person. We already have a mythological hero: Library<br>> Lad, who is actually Thoth. Though it would be good to have a<br>> completely different one from a completely different mythology to<br>> contrast to him. The second role could go to Devastator, if he goes<br>> into the 20verse, or a character who's based on the idea for a female<br>> Master Blaster that we were discussing. The third could be a giant<br>> robot (maybe the one UM gets in the chapter that I'm currently<br>> writing, the one that shows up right after Googlemesh dies; there are<br>> probably others); an artifact of some sort like a weapon, grimoire,<br>> crystal or non-crystal skull (sentient or otherwise) (remember the<br>> Dragon originally wanted Googlemesh's skull); a ghost; some sort of<br>> archaeological code. Or a combination of one or more of the above.<br>> <br>> AJM (would like Saxon's input on all this)<br> <br>[begin blameshifting statement:]<br> <br>After due consideration, I have decided to blame Fiji. <br> <br>No, seriously. Last year I went on a family vacation to Fiji, got so <br>lazy that I more or less stopped interacting with RACC for months, and <br>missed pretty much all the prep work on LNH20.<br>This year I went for another family vacation to Fiji (we took Dad over <br>as a 70th birthday present). I was able to make one small contribution <br>to LNHv2#50 before I left, and then one hurried comment about possible <br>character subplots for how Anal-Retenhtive Archive Kid 2 would react to <br>the Master Blaster/WikiBoy relationship - which kinda sorta set the <br>match to the kindling of the Recent Unpleasantness.<br>Then after we got back to Australia there was only a few days before I <br>had to travel up the coast for the 70th birthday party proper, and in <br>the meantime there's been all this *stuff* accumulatiung in my inbox <br>which I've been too lazy to read through, and now with only half a week <br>left before flying out for RACC-con I'm trying futiley to catch up, and, <br>and, and... <br> <br>There's a tourist marking joke over there which goes 'I'm on Fiji Time', <br>which pretty much sums up how I've been blowing off doing anything in a <br>timely manner. So there you go. It's all Fiji's fault :-P<br> <br>[end blameshifting statement]<br> <br>Okay, back to business. The point about breaking down what Googlemesh's <br>story telling purpose was into three constituent parts is well taken.<br>At first blush I do like the idea of using some of the non-western <br>mythologies: goodness knows I've done that enough myself, and sometimes <br>not even a safely dead non-Western mythos. That said, if that became too <br>difficult (for whatever reason) then we could synthesise a new character <br>with those attributes; effectively pulling the Triumph/Sentry/Kid Macro <br>trick of bringing back a character who'd been forgotten to history. In <br>any case, depending on exactly which extant mythological character was <br>chosen, then there's a good chance that he'll combine the first two <br>attributes anyway, and it would be trivially easy to include exploits to <BR>encompass the 3rd.<br> <br>On a purely storytelling level I'm glad you reminded me of the plot <br>dangler of the dragon wanting Googlemesh dead. I suspect that the death <br>of Googlemesh will need to be kept off-camera, but the prospect of the <br>Recovery Man returning to the dragon with a box, saying 'I have what you <br>wanted', and the dragon looking in the box, nodding, and concluding their <br>deal would be a good way of moving the story on to the next level. <br>Whatever other distractions there may be about multiple spoons could be <br>swept away as the Recovery Man gets his hand on 'the one' Spoon/manifestation <br>of the Spoons which has the power to draw in all the other quantum-thingummy <br>duplicates. (And depending on his exact personality and/or level of genre savy, <br>the Red Shirt thug sent by WHATEVER to be part of the team will either be <br>crowing at having been part of a villainous triumph to kill off a net.hero, <br>or seriously freaked out that the scheme actually worked and realising that <br>he's now in deeper than eh expected).<br> <br>That's all I've got at the moment.<br> <br>---<br>Saxon Brenton<br> <br><BR><div></div> </div></body>
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