8FOLD/ACRA: Jolt City # 23, "...Their Last Adventure!", NOTES

[Tom Russell]

On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 8:29:09 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
> On 9/7/2015 5:59 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
> >     EIGHTFOLD PROUDLY PRESENTS
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> ah, yes, Notes are a good way to put information in without slowing down 
> the story.  To honor that way, I'm going to put my comments here in no 
> particular order.
> 
> *  I recall Derek and Martin were stranded on a world where *everything* 
> wanted to kill them.  And I suspect that still happened somewhere.  But 
> I think it worked out better this way.  The multiple Dereks and Martins 
> got all those good chances to express their heroism - and get one of 
> themselves back.  And that "bridge" scene made for a better scene than 
> Everything-Wants-To-Kill-Us-World would have.  (Thinking of Stanford 
> Bridge, were you?)

Well, the world they were stranded on was Earth. In every one of the alternate timelines something like that would have happened. Since none of them was more valid than the others, I felt it better not to show it.

I was thinking Vikings, but not necessarily Stamford Bridge.

Glad you enjoyed the story, Scott-- thanks as always for the comments!

==Tom