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Formerly untitled zombie RP
Topic Started: Nov 27 2014, 09:06 PM (16,023 Views)
Strompy
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More posts, more Busey.
Wait what happened to the second?

Edit: oh wait sorry.
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DoctorYerishi
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Dude, wake up! We've got a world to save.
Strompy, you didn't respond as Emily :(
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Strompy
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What? Wtf? God damn it. How does this happen? I distinctly remember writing it up. Hold on.
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DoctorYerishi
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Dude, wake up! We've got a world to save.
I have to admit, now that he's seemingly safe for now, I was constantly worried you were going to kill Brandon off there. Particularly after the off-screen torture and at certain points of the tail end of the car chase.
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Strompy
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I flipped a coin. Three times.
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Make-7-Up-Yours
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Is that so?
If Brandon had gone down to see Cory himself, then Willow would have gone with him. And I had a coin flip planned for Willow there. Based off my preliminary runs, it would have been ugly.
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DoctorYerishi
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Well gee!!!!

Glad Brandon made the right decision in-character on that last one.
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DoctorYerishi
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And lo, you will know when my arc officially starts. You will know by the posting of the longest post yet in this RP (by a not-insignificant margin). So, uh, hope you'll be okay with some light reading.

By the way, this is not me bragging. If it is, it's a brag with a big asterisk next to it because length-wise this kind of got away from me and I recognize that. But I'm not reporting to an editor so why should any writing have to go to waste?

I'll explain what happened, and the thinking that got me there, a bit later.
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DoctorYerishi
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Hoo boy, I repeat -- this is long. Too long. There's a pride in having this be the longest post, but there's also shame. I swear I didn't do this for vanity. It just turned out this way.
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Strompy
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Proceed.
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DoctorYerishi
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So lots to say and post -- but for now, here's where we are:

http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ashley/learn...stelprdb5274691
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Strompy
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Holy fuck, man.
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DoctorYerishi
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You got two warnings! TWO!
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DoctorYerishi
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So I'll explain myself, as I said I would, even if the explanation is ultimately pretty simple. I knew I wanted to introduce a whole group, and not just one or two people. It turns out, 4,500 words is about what was needed to introduce all of them, show them in action, and get a look at their intra-dynamics.

It's also kind of a play on that device novels with multiple sets of characters use. They will cut away from one set of characters when they're in a precarious position and then stay with another set, making you wait for the answers of what happened to them. That also kinda happened here, and I dig it.

Finally, I don't think it's a spoiler to say that this group will encounter ours. I didn't want to bother with the tension of 'Are they who they say they are? Can they be trusted? Are they secretly cannibals? Are they a threat?' After spending so much time with them, we know they're mostly well-meaning, so the tension will hopefully become 'is our group (and, you know, Eli in particular) a threat to them?'

So that's a look at why it ballooned.
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DoctorYerishi
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Sorry, woulda just jumped into the content of the meeting, but I gotta go!
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