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@ikaterei_bot, on 25 December 2014 - 04:00 PM, said in Outcast:
Least favourite scene: THE END. Dear character-Selax: I will fight you.
I think his reply would be something along the lines of commenting that action would have a low probability of being to anyone's benefit.
@pallas-athene_bot, on 26 December 2014 - 08:51 AM, said in Outcast:
I feel a little cheated that Avatara and Katerei didn't get to screw things up for themselves. If seems wrong for Selax to do it for them.
Selax was just being his usual helpful self :) .
@avatara_bot, on 27 December 2014 - 04:33 PM, said in Outcast:
Besides, Selax and Av have always had a mutual (planned) animosity towards one another. Seems just like him to mess things up.
I stand by my above statement!
@pallas-athene_bot, on 27 December 2014 - 09:21 PM, said in Outcast:
The previous six months in prison. The prison beds in Pnyx are very comfortable.
Don't they also have the best napkins in Cythera?
@avatara_bot, on 28 December 2014 - 05:41 AM, said in Outcast:
Random story trivia (that I don't think I've included elsewhere but might have):
- The original idea (circa 2007 or so) was to have three stories, each spanning seven days. Each one would focus on a different character: Avatara, Katerei, Selax, in that order. The first ended up as The Trial, Kat was supposed to write the second and totally forgot, and I never actually talked to Selax (or at least, negotiations didn't get very far if we did) regarding the third. In the end, the second/third stories got mushed together to make Outcast (though the plot has changed significantly to accommodate the setting in DM - originally my leaving was just a way to retire from TSes).
You might have mentioned the idea, but I don't think I was much interested in long chrons at the time. At some point, I might do some parts of this story from Selax's point of view, but I think that will partially depend on how OoR goes and on how much I can recall of Icel's plot and such.
@avatara_bot, on 28 December 2014 - 05:41 AM, said in Outcast:
- Selax and I wanted Selax/Av to not really get along at all as a way to have something more interesting than your standard party of 12 heroes that all got along perfectly. This was arranged back around the Shadow Games era but not much happened with it because I dropped out after Witch Hunt, and Selax wasn't in Bell Tolls. We recycled the idea a bit with alt-Cythera, but Outcast was the first chance to actually write some of it with the original characters.
It's not that they hate each other, because they don't, but their conflicting viewpoints and values clash frequently.
I think it also started out partially because of their mannerisms. Selax was a fairly flat character when introduced, and, when you pointed that out, I ran with the idea. It grew from that into Selax being something of a cold-blooded (albeit well-intentioned) manipulator, which was something the Avatara-character picked up on and did not really like.
@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 30 December 2014 - 06:26 PM, said in Outcast:
Oh. Well, minor spelling discrepancy - I still look forward to Frozen references in the next story! ^_ __^
Frozen: Cythera Edition
Starring:
King Alaric as Queen Elsa
Magie 's previously unknown daughter Retsy as Princess Anna
Silverfish as Kristoff
Hector as Olaf
Pelagon as Prince Hans
Myus as the Duke of Weselton
Darius and Naxos as the Duke's Guards
Hadrian as Marshmallow
Magpie as the King
Chrysothemis as the Queen
Miners as Ice Harvesters
Various House Members as Foreign Dignitaries
Various House Servants as Palace Servants
Cythera's Civilians as Arrendelle's Populace
Cythera's Guards as Arrendelle's Guards
The mages of Pnyx as Trolls
The titans of Cythera as Horses
A Cytheran Unicorn as Sven
Ruffians as Wolves
Special guest appearance: Wizard as Oaken
Coming to you as soon as someone (besides me) bothers to write it!
@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 30 December 2014 - 06:26 PM, said in Outcast:
Okay, maybe less than a year. But, I still don't know how quickly Avatara & Katerei will be reunited in/after OoR, or if that will even happen! & since Avatara planned to meet Katerei 6 months after Outcast, & Selax said he'd deliver the message after Avatara succeeded, something must have gone wrong.
Actually, it could just be that he hasn't succeeded yet, that he has succeeded but Selax is not aware of that, that Selax was sidetracked by other concerns, or simply that Selax did not say how soon after Avatara's success he would tell Katerei.