These injections are paying off for you, though I can’t imagine the nerves of steel you must have to remain still and let them administer them. I can’t even stand to let them give me the pressure test on my eye, so I just can’t imagine how you’re enduring an actual needle penetrating your eyeball. Jeezus.
Shreddums is next level I tell ya.
Oooooo… Interesting. I’m curious what this one’s personality will be.
Oh my…
Ooooooo…
I’m psyched! Oh my goodness. It’s exciting to think how the story will come together. Is it true that no one’s more interested to learn the manner in which a tale will unfold then the writer themself?
Still need Murlocs, Eredar, Taunkas, Furlbogs. Name more if you can think of more but those are the races I can think of right now that should already be playable by a lore count.
She’s an immortal masquerading as a naive youth. At one time, she used her dominion over communications and the airways to disrupt messages and intercept secret missives. Most of this information was sent by corporations rather than governments and she got wealthy selling secrets to the highest bidder. She has an agenda which targets one of the other three characters and considers the other two a back up, just in case.
This is a naturally-manifesting affinity. This character is hot-headed, and sometimes a punch is made of magma and a kick is a lightning bolt.
Hers is actually the saddest story. She always felt alienated, in a world all by herself - isolated. Her only friend was her cat. He was her confidant and her soulmate. When he died, she was unable to cope. Her grief triggered her connection to the dead and she brought him back as her undead familiar. I’m having lots of fun writing her.
I say Druid for lack of a better term. This character would really be something akin to the Earth Mother dreaming she was a modern human who was logged into World of WarCraft and playing a Druid pretending to be the Earth Mother.
It is! This is the beginning of the story, and the portion I had considered the least for the bulk of my narrative development. As it takes shape, it refines a lot of specifics that come up later. Until it’s down on the page, it’s impossible to say what you’ve got. If you really understand your characters and accept them for who they are, they’ll tell you exactly what they want to do every step of the way.
I’ve been thinking of having a little inquisition spring up out of a backwoods country church with a prophet who points out these four heretics and their unholy powers while in a trance. I have a whole subplot surrounding what goes on in those places.
It is absolutely true. I really don’t know how things will shake out until they do. Everyone acts like themselves and events unfold in a sort of improv. If a character makes a weird decision, it’s not my task to go “That’s a mistake. I’ll change it.” It’s my job to understand why I felt like they would make that decision and to explain their weird behavior in a relatable way. The moment I force a character to do anything they don’t want to do, they stop talking to me and the character becomes an empty shell - a theoretical character-that-was who exists only as a point of reference. I can decide outcomes, but I have to watch intentions unfold in order to understand the story.
