[MV] The Super Wizard From Space #41: Do While Rw Nw Prt M Hrw, Part 5

[Andrew Perron]

On Wed, 1 May 2013 00:33:19 +0000 (UTC), Wil Alambre wrote:

> On 2013-04-30, at 3:10 PM, Andrew Perron <pwerdna at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:54:09 +0000 (UTC), Wil Alambre wrote:
>> 
>>> "Because-I-*chose*-to," M spat back. Even ruined and restrained, he projects a
>>> powerful defiance, so much that We instinctively step away from him.
>>> "I-*decided*-to. My-decision. Not-a-royal-responsibility. Not-the-command-
>>> from-super-computer-gods. Not-the-suggestion-of… manipulative-vipers. 
>>> This-is-the-decision-of-a-mind, not-a-machine."
>>> 
>>> He has gone insane. He no longer makes sense.
>> 
>> Oh, Queen Buzzz. You're so dense. <3
> 
> It was pretty interesting trying to get things across to the reader
> through the point-of-view of a character who *doesn't get it* :)

I think you pulled it off in the end - at least for me.

>>> The holographic light of M's headdress jumps madly. The decorative stripes
>>> oscillate with screaming desperation. M is unmoved. In fact, he is making a
>>> show of ignoring it. He stares directly at Us as his deity pleads for help,
>>> "Yes, well... I've-outgrown-the-need-for-gods."
>> 
>> This badassery was wonderfully ratcheted up to, over the course of this
>> issue and the last. <3 You're really seriously like MEGA good at that.
> 
> I admit I didn't *plan* for that moment, but once I thought up the line,
> it was one of those "aw yeah, that is going to be AWESOME" moments that I
> *had* to include somehow :P

Naturally, right? <3 <3 <3

>>> The conclusion of the "Do While" story arc.
>> 
>> How's it supposed to be spelled, anyway?
> 
> The title of the story is "Do While Rw Nw Prt M Hrw". The "do while" part
> is computer lingo to initiate a loop until certain conditions are met, and
> "rw nw prt m hrw" (and it is spelt that way) is the transliterated name for
> the original Egyptian book of the dead :)

Ahhhhh, I see! I thought you were, like, taking vowels out of a phrase.
That makes more sense.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, do loafing.