This seems familiar - I might even have been part of the discussion if it was on the GMCA board or FFML during one of my active periods, with the reply-like mention you make of using all five senses to add to the audience's immersion, since that's kind of one of my things. The coppery tang of blood from a split lip, the smell of scorched grass where (character) barely dodged a fireball, the feel of a wire-wrapped weapon gripped in a palm slick with adrenaline-rush sweat, the faint rustle of leaves as (s)he strains to find the enemy's new hiding spot, even the play of light and shadow that dapple the clearing near the tree line, an incongruously cheery wildflower bobbing from one to the other in the breeze... MOVE! A lightning dodge as shuriken fly in from the side! Then dash and leap to a new vantage point to return the favor, before the enemy has time to get in position!
Obviously that's going overboard a bit, but throwing in a scent or touch now and then can be quite effective, espescially if the character has an enhanced sense that the audience doesn't - I was really impresed with an Oz-centered BtVS/Stargate fic I was reading a couple days ago that made note of scents to set the scene and describe characters as much as visual descriptions, because when scent is as much a discriminatory sense as hearing it just makes sense to do so.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Obviously that's going overboard a bit, but throwing in a scent or touch now and then can be quite effective, espescially if the character has an enhanced sense that the audience doesn't - I was really impresed with an Oz-centered BtVS/Stargate fic I was reading a couple days ago that made note of scents to set the scene and describe characters as much as visual descriptions, because when scent is as much a discriminatory sense as hearing it just makes sense to do so.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows