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Blake shall overcome. I want to believe.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 09:56 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 12:39 |
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I wonder if that 'deal' with the Light God is going to bite Blake in the rear end. Either the god answered a small bit of worship/prayer in helping Blake curbstomp Ur or it was an act so minor the god was running on autopilot. In the first case it might not have been a freebie.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 10:52 |
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I don't know, there are worse things to fill up the cracks in your being than a god of light.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 11:20 |
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Happy Yeti posted:I don't know, there are worse things to fill up the cracks in your being than a god of light. If wildbow's style has taught us anything it should be that a god of light is not necessarily a god of good.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 11:32 |
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chthonic bell posted:By the way, I bit the bullet and re-started my serial. The first update, circa 4k words, is up. Next chapter's gonna be up Friday. I think this got swallowed up in Pact update speculation, but I still wanna get some eyeballs on it. There's three updates up (though one of them is a tiny intro) and there's about 8k of words to read. Link goes to the very first update. The site's called Celestial Abyss but the serial itself is Under A Fell Star. It's about necromancers. They're trying to build a golem, the world might be ending and there's queer angst from the main character. Here, the blurb from the about page describes it better than that, I think: Under A Fell Star posted:Anzu Menelik is nineteen, queer as a five-speed-walking stick and apprenticed to the necromancer, alchemist and cultist Raimut Hellewege, his mysterious and often cruel benefactor, mentor and lover. Raimut seeks immortality and Anzu seeks knowledge and a place in a world that’s often cruel to a swishy young man, especially when he’s transgender and bears within him far more Spirit than most people have Flesh – Anzu is painfully attuned to the magic of the sun from birth, able to produce fire and light as easily as thinking about it. Many find this terrifying. Raimut finds it useful. Anzu finds it a nuisance and is far more interested in the ancient art of golemsmithing, that his people, the qarnot, practised for millennia before it was lost.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 12:26 |
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Namarrgon posted:If wildbow's style has taught us anything it should be that a god of light is not necessarily a god of good. That's true, though if not good, he's more likely to be an opportunistic rear end in a top hat than truly evil, so it's still better than a demon darkness and oblivion.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 15:58 |
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Hey y'all, like 16 pages back Tollymain mentioned The Solstice War (thanks for that by the way) -- I'm the author of that! I found this thread through the linkback like a month or two ago and read through a lot of it out of curiosity, and spent the intervening time wondering whether to post. I didn't even really know web fiction was such a thing until I found this thread and read about webfictionguide, so thanks! It's helped a lot.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 18:30 |
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Like what you have so far, though I'm not really sure what's going on yet
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 18:53 |
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Thank you! I think I might've overdone the avoidance of infodumping. Hopefully Saturday's update will clear up some things, at least.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 19:04 |
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Happy Yeti posted:That's true, though if not good, he's more likely to be an opportunistic rear end in a top hat than truly evil, so it's still better than a demon darkness and oblivion. See, all that this makes me think is the demons aren't the WORST things out there, they're just protecting us in their own way from the REALLY scary poo poo. Like in the Dresden Files.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 23:41 |
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nah, in this case the demons are the horrible outside things and nobody's fighting them off
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 23:43 |
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I'm pretty sure that the mystery entity (entities?) behind the lawyers; the ones that 'get a stronger foothold' every time a new lawyer comes into the company are going to be bigger pains than the demons. At least I believe these mystery beings were never specified to be demons specifically (YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT LABELS).
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 23:59 |
Namarrgon posted:I wonder if that 'deal' with the Light God is going to bite Blake in the rear end. Either the god answered a small bit of worship/prayer in helping Blake curbstomp Ur or it was an act so minor the god was running on autopilot. In the first case it might not have been a freebie. I figured it was trading worship for light. Not a 'deal' so much as just powering up the god with a tiny bit of worship (American Gods, Small Gods style)
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 08:37 |
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There. The Barber is confirmed as a demon. I guess Wildbow got sick of speculation about that.
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# ? Aug 9, 2014 06:02 |
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And Blake is behind the mirrors. Is his experience with the mirror world different from Rose's? I thought for her that world simply didn't exist save for what mirrors could reflect. I'm pretty sure there are not a whole lot of mirrors near Ur- or the factory it's in I wonder why he's gone to Rose first, and not Mags?
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# ? Aug 9, 2014 06:33 |
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Also, I just gotta say: those last two lines utterly kill me, dang. VVV: Tollymain fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Aug 9, 2014 |
# ? Aug 9, 2014 06:38 |
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At least nobody can touch him now.
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# ? Aug 9, 2014 07:12 |
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This seems off to me somehow -- like this is a trial like what he went through with Carl, but about the present. It just doesn't seem to fit, in a way I have a hard time putting into words.
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# ? Aug 9, 2014 07:14 |
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i think blake himself feels that way
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# ? Aug 9, 2014 07:19 |
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I meant that I am expecting things to dissolve/reset much like they did with the Carl thing. Up to and including Blake's realization about his (lack of?) past. The way Blake is interacting with the world (and vice versa) just seems different to me from what has come before. On the other hand, pretty much every other prediction I have made about this work has been wrong. So there's that.
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# ? Aug 9, 2014 09:13 |
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Grundulum posted:On the other hand, pretty much every other prediction I have made about this work has been wrong. So there's that. 'Sup prediction buddy?
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# ? Aug 9, 2014 14:56 |
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Yeah, something feels off about that last bit to me too. Was Blake in mirror-land the whole time he was fighting Ur? We don't see any description of anything like how Rose said mirror-land was. He also has his own reflection, and isn't limited to certain places like Rose was. Also if he was in mirror-land couldn't he just have used that to jump out of Ur's factory? I feel like he might have been in real-world for the start of the chapter, and somehow accessed the mirror because he didn't have another way to get back to Jacob's Bell.
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# ? Aug 9, 2014 21:30 |
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I've started reading Pact. I'm very confused so far but quite intrigued. I hope Blake's landlord doesn't die, I liked him and his ridiculous pajama pants.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 17:30 |
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chthonic bell posted:I've started reading Pact. I'm very confused so far but quite intrigued. I hope Blake's landlord doesn't die, I liked him and his ridiculous pajama pants. For the love of God stay clear of this thread until you are current. Lots and lots of unspoilered comments that will ruin the twists.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 20:51 |
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Tollymain posted:And Blake is behind the mirrors. He probably used the mirrors to get there quicker, and maybe to protect himself from an immediate attack upon appearing out of the blue. He can clearly exist outside of mirrors, as he was doing for the whole chapter so far. But being able to slip into them for the fast travel, like Rose used to be able to do, is really kick-rear end.
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 16:11 |
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Blasphemeral posted:He probably used the mirrors to get there quicker, and maybe to protect himself from an immediate attack upon appearing out of the blue. He can clearly exist outside of mirrors, as he was doing for the whole chapter so far. But being able to slip into them for the fast travel, like Rose used to be able to do, is really kick-rear end. I really hope he can step out of them at will. It's like Sandman Slim and the Room of Thirteen Doors which helps a lot with story progression.
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 16:20 |
Pavlov posted:Yeah, something feels off about that last bit to me too. Was Blake in mirror-land the whole time he was fighting Ur? We don't see any description of anything like how Rose said mirror-land was. He also has his own reflection, and isn't limited to certain places like Rose was. Also if he was in mirror-land couldn't he just have used that to jump out of Ur's factory? Wildbow confirmed in the comments that Blake did not fight Ur in the physical world (but he didn't specifically say he fought Ur in the mirror world so
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 18:06 |
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Update right on time, interlude from the high-drunkard. poo poo's going down.
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# ? Aug 12, 2014 07:02 |
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I really like how the office and powers of the High Drunk are portrayed. Interesting that the god of revelry and passion disapproved of Jeremy and Sandra's match, which was arranged by a being of balance, the Sphinx. Wonder how far ahead Isadora sees. I hope Jeremy makes it out in one piece. I find him very sympathetic.
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# ? Aug 13, 2014 02:17 |
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Smiling Knight posted:I hope Jeremy makes it out in one piece. I find him very sympathetic. One of the things I'm really enjoying in this story thus far is that I've found most of the remaining characters sympathetic in one way or another.
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# ? Aug 13, 2014 03:36 |
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And here I was dismissing the Drunk as one of the lesser powers.
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# ? Aug 13, 2014 09:07 |
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You don't make a serious bid for Lordship without being formidable somehow
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# ? Aug 13, 2014 10:07 |
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Tollymain posted:You don't make a serious bid for Lordship without being formidable somehow Well, he did fail. Still though, point taken. Just did not expect him to be able to hold his own in combat vs the sphinx.
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# ? Aug 13, 2014 10:21 |
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Courtesy of the Space Opera thread:PupsOfWar posted:speaking of Path of the Fury/In Fury Born, I came across a web-original story the other day that is more or less a better version of the same narrative. On the Spacebattles.com forums, of all godforsaken places. I'm about a dozen chapters in and it's fairly good thus far.
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# ? Aug 14, 2014 01:55 |
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New Pact update, and it continues to be fantastic stuff. I'm glad I stuck with this so far, because an iffy beginning has lead into this part, which is awesome. Also, I absolutely loved that Blake outright described Rose as smug and condescending, because christ, it has become veeeery easy to hate her, and I really wasn't a fan before. The scene in the house was tragic though, especially Evan.
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# ? Aug 16, 2014 05:34 |
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Blake's snarky "Oh? But you're so very good at it." is incredibly satisfying to me for some reason. Let's hope he doesn't run into 'Maggie Holt' though.
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# ? Aug 16, 2014 13:11 |
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I was thinking, back in the last chapter, how did Sandra know about Blake, and that he'd come back?
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# ? Aug 16, 2014 18:13 |
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Pavlov posted:I was thinking, back in the last chapter, how did Sandra know about Blake, and that he'd come back? Perhaps she had enchanted an object to track Blake or something and that enchantment formed a pseudo magical connection that Ur didn't eat? Sort of similar to what she showed Maggie how to do in that one chapter. I'm more surprised Maggie did but I guess her connections were actually connected to the Paedric and her memories/connections were more secondary so the universe didn't strip them away when Ur ate the connections?
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# ? Aug 18, 2014 04:44 |
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Wow, Ur must be really lovely at its job if the loving pizza man still remembers Blake.
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 05:51 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 12:39 |
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Ur eats the strongest connections first, and Blake wouldn't have a really close connection with him.
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# ? Aug 19, 2014 07:01 |