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Overlady: Attack of the Minions (Thread II)

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Sooooo, when will we get a showdown between 'Overlady of the North' and 'Dark Queen of Elvenkind'? :D
 
I...think the prophecy refers to all the voidmages. It only uses gender neutral terms for the 'heir' and is sufficiently vague as to be applicable to all four.
 
Oh... those kids are naturals at this.

As it always happens the Elves only got some details right.
 
Silly question but... EarthScorpion, are you planing to write a fantasy novel, or something like that?
I'd certainly buy it.
 
Children are innocent.

That doesn't mean they're nice.

And those poor Elven Dippies. They just had to go and find themselves a Supreme Leader.

One possessed of desire, resentment and -if I'm reading these implications right- more than a touch of ruthlessness and pragmatism. Add a dash of power and bake with (Bad, naughty, wicked drugs) in a Civil War oven and soon you'll have yourself a budding rival Overlady.
 
Well, that's a lot more loving than you usually think of when you hear the words "Evil orphanage," but I can't dispute that it is one. A most wicked interpretation.

Also, I want to give Tifa a hug and a lot of food.
 
Winged One said:
Well, that's a lot more loving than you usually think of when you hear the words "Evil orphanage," but I can't dispute that it is one. A most wicked interpretation.
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It's an Evil orphanage because the orphans are Evil! They're better at coming up with Evil plans than those dimwit elves who're more Greenpeace than Warriors of Gaia.
 
JumperPrime said:
It's an Evil orphanage because the orphans are Evil! They're better at coming up with Evil plans than those dimwit elves who're more Greenpeace than Warriors of Gaia.
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It's more that Tifa is clearly nurturing their Evil tendencies, albeit in a way that lets them cooperate with her and each other. I suspect that they've sometimes helped her get stuff for the group, actually.
 
Salty said:
Children are innocent.

That doesn't mean they're nice.

And those poor Elven Dippies. They just had to go and find themselves a Supreme Leader.

One possessed of desire, resentment and -if I'm reading these implications right- more than a touch of ruthlessness and pragmatism. Add a dash of power and bake with (Bad, naughty, wicked drugs) in a Civil War oven and soon you'll have yourself a budding rival Overlady.
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Personally, I do like the way it was handled in the Naruto fic called "Time Braid". That it is not innocents who truly matter, when Evil comes. It's the righteous ones that do.

Now, that was a delightful sight to see such an orphanage. Get them while they're young, after all, is a thoroughly effective method.

Now, as for the three-month freeze... I guess there is only one thing to say.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! :eek:
 
Hmm. So Tiffania has gotten her Then Let Me Be Evil (or maybe I'm thinking of the wrong trope) moment, but really, she comes by it honestly. She has very legitimate grievances with both sides of the Albion Civil War, after all.
 
TheSandman said:
So was the Duke vile because he considered himself to be in a genuine relationship with his elven consort (as opposed to simply using her as a receptacle for his lusts, which is acceptable so long as it's your men doing it to their women and not the other way around), or because he had the temerity to have profitable and/or militarily useful lands that were obviously not being used in the best interests of the kingdom (seeing as how the king wasn't the one who was using them)?
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Well, it might have been that.

But all things considered, it was probably more due to the worship of Dark Gods, infernalism, selling peasants to the Abyss, consorting with dragons, and of course, the way that he was co-conspiring with an exiled elven traitor in something that - as far as the evidence can best be evaluated - was a conspiracy of a small cabal of Evil nobles to murder the entire royal family and make sure the Duke got the throne, as next in line. [1]

[1] Louis de la Valliere: "Small time. These Albionese have no long term vision or subtlety."
Mutton said:
I'm not sure if there is any additional commentary I could give that's not just applause; well done. I do wonder however, in dealing with our 'Murica Elves; are we talking the more modern sterotypical Texan, turn of the century robber barons, cyberpunk dystopian "corps run everything" or some other mismash of funny principles?
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Technically speaking, whatever is most applicable for the current joke or object of satire.

However, certain things can be concluded. For example, the elves wear cowboy hats (like canon). They have lots of guns (like canon). They live in an inhospitable desert (like canon) and rely on their magical cooling things that humans do not have to survive in those climates (like canon). And they view themselves as being much better and more advanced than the people living in the Europe analogue (like canon).

Unlike canon, they have chronic obesity problems (especially among the poor) from too large portions of double-lembas bread with a super-sized drink of sweetened nectar, and want their damn long-haired rebellious offspring who hang around wearing dark clothes and making troubles for the elders to get a haircut and a job.
K9Thefirst1 said:
Lastly, earlier this week, a thought came to my mind about the Abyss, and the question(s) it raises keeps bugging me:

Since the Abyss is based on Modern Culture... How modern are we talking? Do they have something analogous to the Internet? Or are they more like the 1980s... As presented in Watchmen and similar properties?
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Whatever is most applicable to the joke at hand, even more so than the elves. They're a mess of the Victorians, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the Eighties, the modern day, and cyberpunk dystopias. Demonic children get beaten as child labour in vast polluting factories while the rich waste their money on trying to look good for the journals and in acts of petty spite against each other (and not so petty spite). There's vast, systematic, pandemic racism based on your species with damned souls right at the very bottom. The de facto queen of the Abyss (Scarron's sister) isn't the brightest knife in the drawer, but makes up for it with extreme viciousness and brutality, setting her vast number of daughters to work who all know that if they displease her, they have lots of half-sisters more than willing to take all their privileges, and paying smarter people plenty of money to take down people who think they're cleverer than her.

It's Hell. I make no excuses for it; it's all the worst aspects of modernity turned up to eleven and used as the place of ultimate evil (or so they like to think, at least) in a 1600s setting.

Also, their technology is powered by demons or damned souls. Hence, there's a fair amount of anachronism because, for example, "technology" requires that you be able to beat a damned soul until they learn to properly work as a hand drier.
 
So does this mean that Heaven is stereotypical modern Sweden/Norway, only with vastly more restrictive immigration laws and a superiority complex so huge it causes gravitational lensing?
 
TheSandman said:
So does this mean that Heaven is stereotypical modern Sweden/Norway, only with vastly more restrictive immigration laws and a superiority complex so huge it causes gravitational lensing?
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I refuse to confirm or deny the actual existence of a Celestial Domain.

However, if it does exist, the angels are likely;

a) very, very English,
b) measuring at least 0.75 Subarus on a properly calibrated gaydar, and
c) lootable by minions.
 
EarthScorpion said:
I refuse to confirm or deny the actual existence of a Celestial Domain.

However, if it does exist, the angels are likely;

a) very, very English,
b) measuring at least 0.75 Subarus on a properly calibrated gaydar, and
c) lootable by minions.
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Oh dear. Would one of these angels happen to run a used bookstore and have given away a fiery sword to some particularly cold and pathetic-looking sapients in the time before time?
 
Mook91 said:
I love the fact that Subaru is so gay she can be used as a unit of measurement. Reminds me of Raditzses and Kilonazis.
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...And here I was thinking of the car manufacturer. Who/what do you seem to be referring to?
 
Hm...

"Stand up, damned of the Earth
Stand up, prisoners of starvation
Reason thunders in its volcano
This is the eruption of the end.
Of the past let us make a clean slate
Enslaved masses, stand up, stand up.
The world is about to change its foundation
We are nothing, let us be all."

...

Eerily apropos.
 
Rakhasa said:
It's not a matter of gods. Overlady works on narrative settings. If your angels are shining, celestial beings, full of righteous fury, then they will fall like flies.

But if the angel is some kindly, easily overlooked booknerd, wandering priest or old gardener, then, should the enemy make the error of making them angry, they will be unbeatable. Only if they have been training a young apprentice, they can be defeated (somewhere in view of the brat, but too far for help)
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Relying on narrative concepts in Overlady is a recipe to be murdered in an alleyway.
 
As for why Overlady is going on hiatus...

... well, let's be blunt about it. I'm burning out. Comedy is hard work, and I simply can't keep up with the "chapter a week" schedule, because it takes me about 8-9 days to do a new chapter. Moreover, I've been writing to the Henrietta rescue since... well, chapter 2-1 or so. I knew basically where it was going to go for that long; my map after the rescue isn't as planned out.

But above that... I just need a rest. I need time to write other things. I need to get AGSITV out of the way, and AEE needs updates. It's got to the stage where I'm going "... urgh, I need three-to-five funny scenes for this chapter", and that's the death knell of comedy. When I got this Interlude out, I got a real positive feeling of relief, because I wouldn't have to immediately start the next chapter to get it out on time.

And then hopefully, in the intervening months I'll be able to build up a buffer again, and will come up with some new jokes [1] and plot scenes. And people will stop sending me slightly desperate PMs very humbly asking for when I plan to update AEE.

[1] Shut up Aleph; my jokes are new, or at least stolen from lots of places.
 
EarthScorpion said:
As for why Overlady is going on hiatus...

... well, let's be blunt about it. I'm burning out. Comedy is hard work, and I simply can't keep up with the "chapter a week" schedule, because it takes me about 8-9 days to do a new chapter. Moreover, I've been writing to the Henrietta rescue since... well, chapter 2-1 or so. I knew basically where it was going to go for that long; my map after the rescue isn't as planned out.

But above that... I just need a rest. I need time to write other things. I need to get AGSITV out of the way, and AEE needs updates. It's got to the stage where I'm going "... urgh, I need three-to-five funny scenes for this chapter", and that's the death knell of comedy. When I got this Interlude out, I got a real positive feeling of relief, because I wouldn't have to immediately start the next chapter to get it out on time.

And then hopefully, in the intervening months I'll be able to build up a buffer again, and will come up with some new jokes [1] and plot scenes. And people will stop sending me slightly desperate PMs very humbly asking for when I plan to update AEE.

[1] Shut up Aleph; my jokes are new, or at least stolen from lots of places.
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Thank you for having the courage to admit that before it was too late. Have a good rest!
 
EarthScorpion said:
[1] Shut up Aleph; my jokes are new, or at least stolen from lots of places.
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Technically, that's what's all good writing, including jokes, are. But yeah, you definitely need a rest, and I can sympathize. Have a nice break.
 
We (or at least, I) enjoy your writing no matter what it is, E_S; so if you need to time to work on your other projects and do some planning for this one, go ahead and take it!

I'm not saying take a sabbatical or anything (I still need my fix) but you should totally feel free to work at any pace you like.
 
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