Necratoid:
My life has been a veritable hell lately. that's pretty much where the rage is coming from. I won't elaborate any further on the subject as it's personal business - no offense intended. I will say this much - you know how they say your personal life should not be interfering with your work life? Yeah. The only reason I'm still working on this is because if I don't I am going to go absolutely bat-shit insane in that Stepford Smiler kind of way.
Yes, I do realize I'm throwing darker stuff around. Part of it was originally intentional and the other part was simply frustration on my part. As for the freaking out over Zeke... well, that was kinda Jorlem's fault for saying that I was just conjuring an equally over-the-top baddie for Zeke... who is yet another OC. At which point, the irritable, obnoxious little troll version of me that hides in my head and likes to show up at moments like these, pops up and says, "OH! NOW we are getting to the root of the matter! GO CREATIVE RAGE!!!" Add in the fact that I was racking my brains for a suitable rebuttal to your previous post (thank you, BTW, for making me think about the plot).
Anyhow, that's a pretty cool idea of having Zeke burn out for a while during Death Busters (that's the one where Hotaru is introduced, right?). I'm also warming up to the idea of having him associate more with the other anti-Moon groups that come along. My thing is that they're not going to be the only act in town, and part of the fun is going to be seeing the baddies work cooperatively (albeit in a distrustful manner). UEC will most likely be what draws them together, just as Zeke seems to draw all the good guys together.
So, maybe instead he'll just help out AMALGAM on the side of things... a few tantalizing bits of magic that works nicely with technology... or is quite devastating to it. Essentially, ECM warfare using non-electronic devices that don't leave radioactive craters. Zeke makes a few as well, but MYTHRIL never figured they'd have to deal with it since the magical stuffs on the minority anyways. Ouch.
Jorlem:
Hrm... *pokes around at TV Tropes for a moment.*
After some searching, I find that the following tropes will apply to UEC:
Refused By The Call
The Rival
The Resenter
Rival Turned Evil
Ax Crazy
Death Equals Redemption
Sound about right?
As an aside... regarding the plot:
It's still pretty vestigial right now, and there's a reason for it. I'm trying to figure out how I want this story to end. You're worried about it being Grim Dark? Well, that's because we're seeing bits and pieces of the final conflict where the situation is always at it's most grim and dark. The entire story is not going to be like this. I don't do the whole In-The-Grim-Darkness-Of-Warhammer-There-Is-Only-War.
What I want is absolutely epic and audacious give-the-final-flipping-finger to the face of utter doom followed by a knock-down-drag-out fight so glorious that it is more gratifying than Optimus Prime vs. Megatron and The Fallen. That's right, it's that sort of Final Boss Battle where the dude has thrown his "I kill planets with this" attack at you six times, but you're still hanging strong because of all those hours you spent grinding in the dungeons. Righteousness - fuck-yeah, baby! Fuck the power of darkness! Fuck the power of light! Cause you ain't seen shit til you've seen the mother of all ying-yang bombs!
....Yeah....
So anyhow, I'm just following the traditional formula of coming up with the final conflict and resolution before filling in the rest of the plot. I may not have been before, but I am now.
My life has been a veritable hell lately. that's pretty much where the rage is coming from. I won't elaborate any further on the subject as it's personal business - no offense intended. I will say this much - you know how they say your personal life should not be interfering with your work life? Yeah. The only reason I'm still working on this is because if I don't I am going to go absolutely bat-shit insane in that Stepford Smiler kind of way.
Yes, I do realize I'm throwing darker stuff around. Part of it was originally intentional and the other part was simply frustration on my part. As for the freaking out over Zeke... well, that was kinda Jorlem's fault for saying that I was just conjuring an equally over-the-top baddie for Zeke... who is yet another OC. At which point, the irritable, obnoxious little troll version of me that hides in my head and likes to show up at moments like these, pops up and says, "OH! NOW we are getting to the root of the matter! GO CREATIVE RAGE!!!" Add in the fact that I was racking my brains for a suitable rebuttal to your previous post (thank you, BTW, for making me think about the plot).
Anyhow, that's a pretty cool idea of having Zeke burn out for a while during Death Busters (that's the one where Hotaru is introduced, right?). I'm also warming up to the idea of having him associate more with the other anti-Moon groups that come along. My thing is that they're not going to be the only act in town, and part of the fun is going to be seeing the baddies work cooperatively (albeit in a distrustful manner). UEC will most likely be what draws them together, just as Zeke seems to draw all the good guys together.
So, maybe instead he'll just help out AMALGAM on the side of things... a few tantalizing bits of magic that works nicely with technology... or is quite devastating to it. Essentially, ECM warfare using non-electronic devices that don't leave radioactive craters. Zeke makes a few as well, but MYTHRIL never figured they'd have to deal with it since the magical stuffs on the minority anyways. Ouch.
Jorlem:
Hrm... *pokes around at TV Tropes for a moment.*
After some searching, I find that the following tropes will apply to UEC:
Refused By The Call
The Rival
The Resenter
Rival Turned Evil
Ax Crazy
Death Equals Redemption
Sound about right?
As an aside... regarding the plot:
It's still pretty vestigial right now, and there's a reason for it. I'm trying to figure out how I want this story to end. You're worried about it being Grim Dark? Well, that's because we're seeing bits and pieces of the final conflict where the situation is always at it's most grim and dark. The entire story is not going to be like this. I don't do the whole In-The-Grim-Darkness-Of-Warhammer-There-Is-Only-War.
What I want is absolutely epic and audacious give-the-final-flipping-finger to the face of utter doom followed by a knock-down-drag-out fight so glorious that it is more gratifying than Optimus Prime vs. Megatron and The Fallen. That's right, it's that sort of Final Boss Battle where the dude has thrown his "I kill planets with this" attack at you six times, but you're still hanging strong because of all those hours you spent grinding in the dungeons. Righteousness - fuck-yeah, baby! Fuck the power of darkness! Fuck the power of light! Cause you ain't seen shit til you've seen the mother of all ying-yang bombs!
....Yeah....
So anyhow, I'm just following the traditional formula of coming up with the final conflict and resolution before filling in the rest of the plot. I may not have been before, but I am now.