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The Scholar
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[X] Daddy's Little Girl
Im down for that if Silently writes it. Being serious here.
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Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)
- Thread starter Silently Watches
- Start date
- Location
- Georgia
Yet another author post with more bad news.Or, rather, maybe not bad news so much as news of maybe change in plan. I spent several days at the end of last week (after posting the latest chapter of Spells in Silence) trying to get in the frame of mind for next chapter. As an FYI, that was supposed to be the yellow Burn the Sinners event, wherein the Behemoth branch of the Fallen decided to go on a rampage of revenge for the loss of the Simurgh branch.
The reason I'm telling you that and spoiling the surprise is because my brain went firmly "Nope, don't wanna".
I have found that when my brain does this, trying to force the chapter out is going to be futile and it's time to change plans. Mostly I'm just not feeling the multipart fight-in-the-middle-of-Kansas-City idea I originally had. What I could do is just scrap it and maybe give you guys a third social event or something next week? It isn't a fair trade for a main activity, but considering it's week four already…
I don't know. What do you guys want?
There's always the Leviathan branch if that appeals to you more, as it would be sticking to the vote that won. I didn't vote for it, and don't mind it not happening if you can't bring yourself to write it now, but your phrasing suggests not that you don't want to write a Burn the Sinners so much as the specific idea you had no longer appealing to you.
Of course, since I've been trying to get it passed since a year before DLG came around to give us a main event chain, my vote would be:
[X] Daddy's Little Girl
On the contrary, SW has explicitly said that it would not be a depressing angst fest.
I suspect that, so long as we start it, we'll be allowed to continue it in the next arc. The only examples we've seen where we lost the ability to continue a plot line into a subsequent arc was when Simurgh came and kicked over the board. There have been a number of main plotlines that were continued because we didn't finish them within a single arc.
[No] Another Social Event
[X] Daddy's Little Girl
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- Location
- Argentina
For the Heroes to stop being freaking useless and deal with the rest of the Fallen now that the Masters are no longer a problem?
That being said a social event would be nice.
Apparently they were starting small by dealing with the Empire successors.
If I had known they would actually deal with it, I would have voted for "Daddy's Little Girl", but based on past experience I thought that if we did not stomp that fire out immediately it would mushroom into a Neo-Nazi gang taking over the city similar to the way that other gang started to take over.
Honestly, I wish I could go back and change my vote, but it's too late now.
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- he/him/his
[X] Daddy's Little Girl
- Location
- Argentina
[X] Extra social event
That's a one city problem at worst. The Fallen are a nationwide treat, the Masters are gone, why aren't the big Heroes taking the rest of the Fallen out?
That's a one city problem at worst. The Fallen are a nationwide treat, the Masters are gone, why aren't the big Heroes taking the rest of the Fallen out?
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Hm. Vote appears to be tied at present.
- Location
- Earth, Sol System, Virgo Supercluster, Earth-1218
Finally caught up on the discussion! Whew that was a long one.
[X] Daddy's Little Girl
I wanted to do this one last vote but SW implied in a comment or two that "Dire things would happen" if we didn't help out vs. The Fallen 3* or do Bone of the Father 3**, since SW's Muse is vetoing doing Fallen 3 we might as well do Daddy's Little Girl (IIRC this arc is supposed to have 4 or 5 weeks, so we'll have at least one more week after this)
*At this point if the PRT and Protectorate can't handle The Fallen then they kind of deserve all the shit talk we can give them. Heck, if they attack a major city: Declare them an S class threat, sound the Endbringer alarms and treat them like the monsters they want to emulate. (If the S9 can get Kill Orders for being a member of a Gang, why can't The Fallen as a whole?)
**Somehow losing the entire PRT Mages corps or one of them being taken and forced to reveal the Guardian Beast ritual would have been fully in line with our unfortunate track record of "Incomplete quests are worse than unstarted quests"
[X] Daddy's Little Girl
I wanted to do this one last vote but SW implied in a comment or two that "Dire things would happen" if we didn't help out vs. The Fallen 3* or do Bone of the Father 3**, since SW's Muse is vetoing doing Fallen 3 we might as well do Daddy's Little Girl (IIRC this arc is supposed to have 4 or 5 weeks, so we'll have at least one more week after this)
*At this point if the PRT and Protectorate can't handle The Fallen then they kind of deserve all the shit talk we can give them. Heck, if they attack a major city: Declare them an S class threat, sound the Endbringer alarms and treat them like the monsters they want to emulate. (If the S9 can get Kill Orders for being a member of a Gang, why can't The Fallen as a whole?)
**Somehow losing the entire PRT Mages corps or one of them being taken and forced to reveal the Guardian Beast ritual would have been fully in line with our unfortunate track record of "Incomplete quests are worse than unstarted quests"
I've held off in voting one way or the other because I'm frankly tired as heck about the whole topic of DLG and am on the verge of wanting it to win if only to have people stop bringing it up and discussing it again and again.
- Location
- Canada
Excellent, our plan is working then😏
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Erm, I don't know how you got that. If its about the Privateers they would have gone off the deep end anyways since Taylor never really got involved with them. What partially doing the questline did was allow us to salvage parts of the Privateers (i.e. Lacey and Tim) and get them away from the Privateers before the group crossed the point of no return.
There's also some members of the privateers that left before the point was crossed (partly probably because of Taylor).
I honestly can't really recall which questline ended up being worse having been partially completed than not taking the questline at all.
Maybe when we met the Undersiders and made a terrible first impression, but that was because we picked the wrong conversation tactics, and even then I'm not sure it was worse than a missed opportunity.
- Location
- USA
That can tend to happen when you desire to not see a particular story turn succeed ... only to see it voted on again and again until it finally squeaks through on some quirk of turnout that week.
Can't remember if i've felt that previously in the story, or still carrying wounds from Quests past (wsia is a likely candidate).
Maybe if people think Taylor still needs a Dad, we should consider who Samantha might go a-chasing next? How old is Myrddin anyways...
- Location
- Georgia
You just had to say something.....
I know you were joking, but being that close to finally closing this out, to finally getting to see what was through that door, and getting a vote against it because of the joke is frustrating.
The comments from SW weren't 'dire things WILL happen if you, personally, are not around to manage them', but more a matter of 'There will be consequences to your actions. Do you want to be involved with those consequences', and even that was only on Burn the Sinners. The attack on the resort was already a consequence of Ziz being taken out, so taking out her branch of the Fallen was bound to cause more problems, but we discussed that extensively in the thread before SW included that in the description for the BtS option of the current vote.
The consequences of not doing the gang arc would most likely either have been nothing happening(as there is no need for the Pentagram assault to happen at this exact time), or them breaking up this group but with a number of people(capes and mundanes) escaping. Remember, every last Mage is the equivalent of a Brute 5 or so, on top of their other abilities, so losing even one or two Mages was unlikely, but not impossible.
A note, though: The people we just fought beside were not the entirety of the PRT forces. They were the flight capable members.
The Privateers would only have gone off the deep end from the result of the second vote of the entire game. It was losing Danny that made the Philly group self destruct, a role we could have stepped into if we had worked with them more in the past or if we were willing to expend several votes rebuilding the team.
The first part of the group we lost were the people who didn't come to Philly with us after BB got Endbringered.
The number of assertions that run directly contrary to what SW has said or that get repeated over and over despite SW never saying such a thing bug me. I know we're all guilty of them, including me, but I try really hard to question my assumptions, including my assumptions about what I'm assuming and whether a thing I remember seeing did actually happen.
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- Canada
I know, I'm kicking myself right now. I was hoping they would get the message that if they want this to die down somewhat, they should give us a win here and now. Because I will never stop voting for DLG so long as it keeps appearing as a possible option (and even beyond that if necessary).