SW10/HCC: Summer of Discontent #4: The Myth
Scott Eiler
seiler at eilertech.com
Fri Sep 30 18:32:12 PDT 2011
On 9/26/2011 1:13 PM, Andrew Perron wrote:
> On Sep 18, 8:20 pm, Scott Eiler<sei... at eilertech.com> wrote:
>
>> The engineers of The Trillions were working in the control room. They
>> looked curiously at the intruders for two seconds, then went back to
>> work. The U.S. party quietly found one unoccupied computer station.
>> The Marine with the computer plugged a cable in. Five minutes later, he
>> quietly said, "Got it!"
>
> ...you know, this whole time, I've been vague on what they're actually
> trying to *do*.
Did I manage to explain it acceptably?
>> One Marine broke in. "My dad told me, Vietnamese had amulets for lots
>> of stuff. Lots of them were in the name of their real king. Lac Long
>> Quan. The Commies must have taken away lots of the old amulets. This
>> fake king must have tracked down all the other ones he could find.
>> Except this old one. It just made the difference."
>
> Interesting. Makes sense, though I'd have figured a dollop of actual
> magic in there.
Maaaybe. Other witnesses would probably figure that too, if they
believed in magic. Now, were there any other witnesses in the room...?
>> I *do* have disposable characters: two hundred or so from the archives.
>> And I can always make more. But they will not sell their lives
>> cheaply. I hope I made the disposition of Swordhand and the nameless
>> Marine both mean something.
>
> Neither death was cheap, definitely. However, I think they both
> needed more buildup; in particular, I would've liked to see some setup
> for the whole "weakened in captivity" thing.
I'll have rewrites on the site shortly, because Friday night isn't
*just* for doing the laundry. 8{D>
--
(signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> --- http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2011/
Turns out I'm an anally-fixated oedipal paranoid with
south-of-the-border schizophrenic delusions... But never mind, I've
found me the ideal job. I'm going to run for President!
- Major Honey, scripted by Grant Morrison, Doom Patrol #46, August 1991.
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