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Namarrgon posted:I found out Wildbow has insight in low screentime characters and his writing process scattered around the internet. Mostly for Worm. Apparently there was a realistic chance Taylor would have died during Leviathan, as he rolled dice to determine survival for his mass extinction scenarios. His original choice was to have continued on as Aegis, but we see how that worked out. And people say grrm is capricious with the fates of his characters...
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I read qntm's Fine Structure today. It's a hell of a story, he covers a lot of similar territory to what was later in Ra.
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Namarrgon posted:I found out Wildbow has insight in low screentime characters and his writing process scattered around the internet. Mostly for Worm. Apparently there was a realistic chance Taylor would have died during Leviathan, as he rolled dice to determine survival for his mass extinction scenarios. His original choice was to have continued on as Aegis, but we see how that worked out. Wonder if he/she/it did that for Parian's girlfriend whose name I can't remember during the S9 finale. 
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Feb 6, 2015 06:32
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All authors should dice roll for character life or death in battle This will only make books better.
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Namarrgon posted:I found out Wildbow has insight in low screentime characters and his writing process scattered around the internet. Mostly for Worm. Apparently there was a realistic chance Taylor would have died during Leviathan, as he rolled dice to determine survival for his mass extinction scenarios. His original choice was to have continued on as Aegis, but we see how that worked out. I would have preferred this because while I think she was well written, I did not like Taylor at all.
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Neurosis posted:I would have preferred this because while I think she was well written, I did not like Taylor at all. Takes some balls to kill your protagonist off and switch though, very few books can pull it off. I liked Taylor but Worm's relentless escalation got to the point where I was just "Okay, there's no way she should be alive by now" and it really killed it for me. Pact is starting to get to the same point, but if it's really ending it might do it just in time.
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Feb 16, 2015 16:31
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idk, taylor's absurd survivability started to make more sense when it became clear that her shard at its core was about pulling a solution out of the resources at her disposal
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Yeah it became obvious that her shard was more of a thinker shard akin to the numbers man etc than some random low level power. "Queen administrator" rather than "insect girl."
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it just happened to latch onto the concept of bugs as a fairly omnipresent and versatile resource during the moment of traumatic awakening, really
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I forget how off the wall the ending got, I really didn't follow all of it and missed that part. Or just plain forgot over time. But since you don't find that out until near the end, it didn't really help that I was getting a bit incredulous around the Slaughter House 9 arc and definitely lost any sense of actual threat for the events that followed with Dragon or Noelle and that's still waaaaaaay off the reveal that it was the Shard all along. Worm felt like it should have ended with Coil. He was the last bad guy who really hit the mark for me, Jack's just a psychopath, Scion is some alien minded thing and Mother we just never got to spend enough time with to care about. If there was a time to kill Taylor off and start with Worm 2.0 it was after Coil got dealt with. Fans fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Blake mentions that he is subject to Rose’s weakness while possessing her. The Barber is possessing Johannes.
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So under ideal circumstances, fighting a mortal practitioner in their own demesne should be near-impossible right? Good luck Blake and co.
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Feb 17, 2015 13:03
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Well the practitioner they're fighting isn't mortal! That's something right?
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Feb 17, 2015 13:13
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"Ah, you see, but the fact that you cannot be killed is actually a weakness!"
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Namarrgon posted:"Ah, you see, but the fact that you cannot be killed is actually a weakness!" Knowing Wildbow this might actually be the case.
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Well I didn't make it up out of nowhere; it was hinted at with the Sphinx. Others that are very long-lived tend to think on a longer timescale and may be more affected by demons. Presumable being human or something in a similar timespan makes you a bit more reckless and ready to do things long-lived Others might not see coming. I have no idea how that would apply to something like the Barber though. BTW, Lola is still Padriac right?
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No, I think Lola's who everyone thinks she is. Joanna is the fake, I think.
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Feb 17, 2015 14:21
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Everyone who isn't Human is just a fuckin' Fairy anyway... Isn't that something that we saw in the different scenes shown to Blake when he inherited the Thorburn karma/etc?
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Blasphemeral posted:Ok, if that's actually where he is. If not, talking about that spoils the end. Hence people asking him to clarify what he's talking about. I mean, thinking "gently caress this Saint guy" before then is totally a thing you could do. Very belatedly - yeah, that's where I was. Saint did the bad thing. But everything turned out okay for Colin and Dragon. :3 TOOT BOOT posted:I'm getting increasingly bored with Pact. It just hasn't been interesting in like a month or more. I want some serious plot-advancing things to happen and instead we're getting tons of filler action. We didn't really need 50,000 words about Blake killing some DuChamp redshirts or 20,000 words about a Dragon and Giant that disappeared off the stage as quickly as they entered it. This is what happened to me, unfortunately, right at the dragon and giant part. I loved Pact when it started and I still think the world is really cool, but Blake went through so many changes so quickly and it never had the, well, slick coolness that Worm had. I'd still rate Pact highly but it's more of a 3.5-4 out of 5 than Worm's 5/5, if that makes sense. Pact just had so much fighting and, honestly, doesn't have the same character moments like Worm does. Even if I really liked a lot of the characters (Green Eyes, Evan, etc) they just don't grow and develop as much. Compare virtually any of them to, say, Armsmaster. Great world though.
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Completely true on all accounts. So, did the Barber just cut off the 'weak/dying' part of the dragon and essentially fabricate a new one? That is actually somewhat funny.
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Feb 21, 2015 12:01
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I get the impression that he finished his cut just before Blake made his stab.
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Feb 21, 2015 17:32
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Same thing really; net result is that Blake murders the 'weak' dragon and the Barber spawns a 'strong' dragon.
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Feb 21, 2015 17:43
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Peter is a loving godsend.
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Namarrgon posted:Same thing really; net result is that Blake murders the 'weak' dragon and the Barber spawns a 'strong' dragon. Which is, to be fair, better than the alternative of Blake NOT having killed the 'weak' dragon...
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How many arcs are left do we know? This is getting out of hand.
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Not many, there's another month or so of updates at most I think?
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Looks like one more update, the Epilogue, and then we're moving on to Twig.
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It had it's ups and downs, some of the slow parts dragged on a little too much for me, but in the end I enjoyed Pact. Wildbow keeps on coming up with characters I get attached to. I was hoping he went with Face out of the four story introductions, but Pact was good as well.
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I really hope Twig doesn't have the same sort of pyrrhic ending that Worm and Pact both had. Can we please get a Wildbow protagonist that eventually winds up ahead, and stays there?
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Pact posted:“Go, Buttsack!” Mags ordered. You don't have enough badges to train me!
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People keep talkign about Twig, where does the name come from? Do we know the setting yet? I don't follow the comments, FTR.
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blastron posted:I really hope Twig doesn't have the same sort of pyrrhic ending that Worm and Pact both had. Can we please get a Wildbow protagonist that eventually winds up ahead, and stays there? Part of the reason I like Wildbow's work is because I don't see too many pyrrhic endings in other works.
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I'm not sure it makes sense for him to immediately start his next story. Pact ended up being a badly plotted mess in spite of starting with an interesting premise and character, probably because Wildbow was forced to make it all up as he went. Worm was better on most levels but suffered badly from author fatigue and a rushed ending. He should take some time writing up some background material before leaping headlong into another year of writing of dubious quality.
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Velius posted:I'm not sure it makes sense for him to immediately start his next story. Pact ended up being a badly plotted mess in spite of starting with an interesting premise and character, probably because Wildbow was forced to make it all up as he went. Agreed, he had written so much in the Worm setting before he ever started publishing it and you can really tell (especially the early parts). Part of me hopes he eventually does a Pact reboot in a different setting with different characters and uses the Blake story in a similar manner to the unpublished Worm stuff. I thought it was a really cool world but the action was mostly physical rather than magical which I found less enjoyable. I was hoping for more magic/strategy not just chopping stuff up with the hyena.
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Overall I liked Pact but it had some rough patches.
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Lyon posted:Agreed, he had written so much in the Worm setting before he ever started publishing it and you can really tell (especially the early parts). His big break into tradpublishing will be when he sells the first Maggie Holt novel to Scholastic.
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I would not be opposed to a Maggie Holt book, their arc was just a lot more satisfying than any of Blakes. Though that may be because Maggie at least had some idea of whats going on, while Blake never really gets to the point where he has a clue and pretty much brute forces his way through the entire plot. Also Goblins.
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Velius posted:I'm not sure it makes sense for him to immediately start his next story. Pact ended up being a badly plotted mess in spite of starting with an interesting premise and character, probably because Wildbow was forced to make it all up as he went. I thought the roughness was due to real life taking a serious toll on him. His mom in the hospital, his brothers wedding, his moving... I'd totally trust 'bow to immediately move on to greener pastures.
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Velius posted:He should take some time writing up some background material before leaping headlong into another year of writing of dubious quality. At this points I think a lot of his income's been coming from the donations his stories bring in. No updates probably means no donations.
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Pavlov posted:At this points I think a lot of his income's been coming from the donations his stories bring in. No updates probably means no donations. He's got a Patreon account closing in on 2k a month from supporters. If kicking some money to him every month helps keep his writing going, I am more then happy to do so.
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