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Formerly untitled zombie RP
Topic Started: Nov 27 2014, 09:06 PM (15,999 Views)
DoctorYerishi
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Dude, wake up! We've got a world to save.
It's hit 3000! Strompy, you must stop this before its too late!
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Strompy
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More posts, more Busey.
Let's wrap it up, people.
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DoctorYerishi
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Eli is Puerto Rican!
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Make-7-Up-Yours
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Is that so?
Antonio don't know that!
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DoctorYerishi
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I don’t think I ever did a proper debrief of my last mega-arc, looking back. It happened so long ago as to be almost irrelevant now, but I think these debriefs are a fun tradition so I’m going to write one anyway, just before Strompy presumably finishes up his most involved arc to date.

To recap, it went from 179 to about 233. It started after the Mad Max-ian road-war outside Green River with Cory and his forces, with a time-jump of roughly a full day and night -- which isn’t much, but I think has been the longest time jump as yet. The first post was the introduction of the Kelly family and Noah, Lowell and Alma. At about 5,500 words (including the Eli and Annie parts), that post is by far the longest in the RP. Though I actually have an upcoming post that will hopefully drop soon that will threaten it in length (sorry) but not surpass it.

Anyway, the arc went from there to the Kelly’s arriving at the ranch, to them teaming up to wait out a horde, to picking up Gregory and then arriving in Salt Lake City, to all the Salt Lake City shenanigans, then all the way to the train rescue of Willow and Annie. I’ve said this before in here, but it accidentally turned out to be two arcs (that were particularly long arcs in themselves): the Swett Ranch arc, and the Salt Lake City arc. I severely underestimated how long and involved both of those arcs would be.

Some notes:

- Originally, at the ranch, Jimmy was going to lead a mission that distracted the horde and sent them off in the other direction. Either Brandon or Emily suggested hunkering down in the cabins and waiting them out, however, so I decided to do that instead. So I’m at least a little bit adaptable!

- I was also pretty adaptable when it came to the pursuit of the train after it left Salt Lake City, starting from the attack on the train station and the capture of Leonora. The gang’s actions from there to the ultimate rescue were pretty much all Brandon-driven. My authorial hand just interfered to force Leonora’s escape. (And I engineered a reason to stop the train, but how else were they gonna catch up at all?)

- As for stopping the train, you might remember a mysterious group of savages the New Dawn called ‘Ghosts’ were involved. That won’t be the last we hear of that faction (I hope), but it may be a while. But for sure, we haven’t heard the last of the New Dawn.

A few things I enjoyed:

- The fall of Eli. His unraveling started after Randall's death and culminated with that failed intervention in the New Dawn's jail cell. And even though that character arc was designed to be Eli losing it and in the wrong, in writing it and justifying everything from Eli's perspective, I still kind of felt myself being on his side! Still, though, I thought that was good stuff.

- The rise of Brandon. I thought the election was a fun scene, and have liked Brandon in a clear-cut leadership role.

- Eli & Kelsey! For two of the longest running characters in the RP (Brandon & Willow are the only others that remain from the Mount Kisco start-point) they had interacted shockingly little leading up to this arc. Before Randall's death, I think their interactions were limited to Eli barking an order to her during the first border crossing. After Randall died, they had an important scene where a super-intense Eli freaked her out by telling her he would die before anything happened to her, and then nothing again until this arc. At the ranch, Eli had her fight some some toothless zombies (without telling her they were toothless), then afterwards berated her about hesitating to kill rotter-Jen. Now that they're off on their own together, I've enjoyed developing that relationship.

And there you go, there's way too many words on something that happened over a year ago!
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DoctorYerishi
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I have stopped writing that upcoming long post, except for whatever I'll need to write at the time that I don't know about. E.g. maybe there will need to be a part that responds to Brandon or Emily, or someone else. It'll be comparable in length to the Kelly family introduction, but I think ultimately will not exceed it.

Hope to get to it soon!
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DoctorYerishi
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I don't know if Strompy is going to do a debrief of this current arc, just in case he doesn't I gotta say this:

Elko has an annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and there was not one single cowboy poet in this arc. Huge missed opportunity.
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Strompy
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I thought it would have been trite to include it considering how every single zombie apocalypse fiction set in Elko features an obligatory cowboy poet.
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DoctorYerishi
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except imagine him with a moustache, like here:

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I'm just not happy with the True Detective image quality, and all his sour facial expressions in them, I prefer the higher quality OINTB portrait
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DoctorYerishi
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Big post incoming -- it doesn't look like I'm gonna have to respond to anything as the Elko characters, so the previous word count record (the Kelly's intro) should be safe.
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DoctorYerishi
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Came in at 5104
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Strompy
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I'm eager to see what the "Ghosts" are exactly. If they're giving the New Dawn hell they might not be all bad.
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DoctorYerishi
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That's like nine posts back! We're talking about the unnecessary length of the latest post now
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I know but I only just noticed the thing with the recap mentioning the Ghosts. Your post has set a high bar.
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Make-7-Up-Yours
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His post sets a high bar. But my common rebuttal is...

"I could do that too. If I felt like it."

But yes, I am looking forward to the reappearance of the New Dawn AND the Ghosts. Knowing Yerishi, he has some surprises in store for us.
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