Quote:Diesel is for unbelievers, electricity is wroooonnggg...
She fed some more coal into the firebox with a mental command that felt sort of like swallowing, and waited for the boiler's pressure to rise to combat levels with a sense of anticipation that should have had a very nasty grin on her face.
Steam has got the power that will pull us along
There's a light at the end of the tunnel
There's a light at the end of the tunnel
The inside might be as black as the night
But there's a light at the end of the tunnel
There's a light at the end of the tunnel
The inside might be as black as the night
But at the end of the tunnel there's a light!
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Light at the End of the Tunnel", "Starlight Express"
So, yeah, that line totally made me happy. Steam-powered robot-thingy inhabited by a teenage girl's soul. Cute.
What is that thing? I take it...it's some kinda techno-magical war machine designed to house a human soul? Which, frankly, is kinda creepy and evil there.
Quote:Do you see that happening within the in-game timespan...as in, like, rolling a new version of the the character someday...or is it purely theoretical, and in any case, looking too far ahead?
one of her big motivations for walking the hero's road is that it should, eventually, give her access to the tools, contacts, and resources needed to build a replacement frame comparable to, say, Naomi Armitage.
-- Acyl