Kobold King

I had no idea you felt that way about timeline clarifications-- Oh. Don't mention it. Backtrack post is up. I call it "In Which We Learn That Being Teleported Into Buildings Has Its Drawbacks."

“I can’t really keep him from you, can I?" the doctor said, forlornly smiling at the girl in front of him. "Take him; just… return him in one piece please. I need him to find someone for me." Backtrack shuffled his feet awkwardly as MV rushed over to hug the doctor. It looked like he was going to have a busy night of finding stray people before he could go back to Portland. And then when he got to Portland he wouldn't have anything to tell Lightwards besides that a guy named Koschei ruled The Dalles and he was a scary psychopath, and then he'd probably get yelled at and have another gun pointed at him, and then... MV turned away from the doctor and hugged him. Backtrack froze stiffly in place as MV, obviously very upset, wrapped her arms around him and sunk her face into his shoulder. This morning she was threatening to squish him under a car, and now she was hugging him. Tightly. Well, he reasoned internally, hesitantly patting the girl's back. It has been a very long day. Too soon the hug ended, and MV steered him to a far corner of the room. She held onto his shirt and brought her face close to his, beginning to ramble in her distress. "It's Alliso-I mean, Impact. She's gone, we were in the street and there were a bunch of Pandas with bows, and the pigs and then an elephant and then she was just gone and I don't know what to do but then I remembered you can find people and please, please just help me find my sister!" Backtrack stared blankly for a moment, wondering how the Calamity he was supposed to do that before he suddenly remembered he was an Epic whose sole power was finding people. "Right," he stuttered, casting hesitant glances at the clinic's guards. Carefully disentangling the girl's hands from his shirt, he began slowly edging closer and closer to the exit door. Drat. This was a bathroom. Finding the exit would really have been easier if he hadn't been teleported in here. After an awkward attempt to dart into a closet, he finally pinpointed the exit of the clinic and led MV outside, following her ghostly past-shadow as it walked backwards into town.

Be that as it may. I'm still ticked off on your behalf that there's a person in the world who's written mean songs about you. As far as I'm concerned, any song about Danielle SansSparkles that is not about her genius-level creativity, fun-loving nature, or adoration of pugs isn't worthy of the subject material. EDIT: The RP takes place two years before Steelheart. We don't know when in the official timeline Oregon's destruction took place.

I suddenly feel very sorry for you that you dated a Deathwish.

Mission accomplished. My design process for Deathwish was basically "Captain Hammer + my sleaziest uncle."

Well if we do that we might want to come up with a tentative RP timeline, so we can keep up with what date each city is on. I'm pretty sure it's been established that we're at the beginning of September right now, but beyond that we have no idea. What I'm saying is that if the rest of the RP is on September 4th, we'll have to make a special note if Corvallis jumps ahead to September 8th.

Should I put up a post for Arsenal, or shall we give Shiny Sparkle a chance to get guns pointed at her?

Well then... May you achieve that goal, TwiLyght! Ha ha... ha.. heh... okay I'll stop now.

If he doesn't arrive by day twenty, we'll probably have all three Reckoners books, an encyclopedia of Epics, and the Warbreaker sequel before he shows up.

He'd certainly agree with that assessment.

So Backtrack didn't need to resort to sitting on the curb with a "Free Hugs" sign after all.

That really sucks, Comatose. I lost a lot of posts before I learned about the auto-save. MV post, perhaps?

I would have said especially the ponies. I'd point out that he's not the one who got shot half an hour ago.

The search for like-minded copatriots, perhaps? If he heard that Epics up north were destroying cities? Angry!TwiLyght is practically asking for this.

Making that comic taught me that your OC pony is very cute with sad eyes. Expect to see her more often. It never hurts to reread such an awesome book. Though I'm not sure what his Oregon motives might have been, if indeed he had any other MO than to simply waltz into the state and start burning everything.

This is only vaguely relevant. Obliteration did try to kill David. Throughout the entire novel. Every time the two of them cross paths, except for at the very last scene that has him in it, they're trying to kill each other. So trying to figure out why Obliteration "spared" him doesn't really make sense. He's never "spared" anyone; at best, he'll put off their deaths till later.

Probably not. I got the impression that they're slabs of stone possessed by voidspren, which indicates that they're already too "full" of Investiture to accept an Awakener's Breaths.

An interesting question. They have goals that almost mesh, but not quite. Obliteration wants to kill everyone on the planet to complete the prophecies of Revelations; Lightwards thinks that the Bible is a load of hooey, and his reasons for wanting to kill everyone on the planet boils down to his desire to run a secular empire by uniting humanity under the rule of a single mind (his own.) I'm sure Obliteration would try to kill him, though. He'd probably succeed at doing so on many different occasions. Obliteration just doesn't seem like the type to hold a grudge. He's almost amiable to the people he kills; he harbors no animosity toward them. He simply does his job calmly, methodically, and without a bad attitude. He'd be commended for his work ethic in any other line of work.

Which, I suppose, is the reason why it doesn't make sense for him to spare anyone: he wants to kill everyone. Every. Single. Person. On. The. Planet. He makes it abundantly clear that anyone he isn't killing now, he will be killing at some indeterminate future date.

He said multiple times that he planned to kill Regalia. To her face, even.

Oh, it's difficult alright. It's just more difficult when we can't develop a hard-and-fast rule for his behavior. I'm trying to prepare myself for the task of writing him by imagining how he'd react to various characters. For instance, I get the feeling that if Backtrack were to break down crying in front of him, he'd start a soft lecture that would probably start with "Do not weep for the end of the world, little one." And then he'd murder him, or if he knew about his powers, would use him like a bloodhound to track down Epic's weaknesses.

That could be, but that would make it A LOT more difficult for us to predict how he'd react to fanon characters.

Forgot to reply to this. Yes, I agree. That should help us preserve the enigma and sheer level of jawdropping terror that he conveys in the novel. Only if you start calling yourself "the cleansing fire" and try to destroy the tiny Texas town I live in. So he'd go after Epics that try to hang on to their territories and kingdoms, like Steelheart and Regalia, but might be content to ignore Epics who simply wander around killing and destroying, like Nighthound or Timeport?

True. Though we don't know whether this is because of a moral conviction or mere practicality. The fact that David notes mentally several times that he can drain heat from people implies to me that at some point he has. I'm not sure. It's definitely a valid connection, especially as he already believes Epics to be the Horsemen. We should be careful about having Obliteration liken individual characters to individuals from Revelations, though. Having him spot the Antichrist or the seven-headed dragon or the Whore of Babylon in every other scene could be fun, but also convoluted. Blackhoof? Any info on Endless Dreams? Note to self: if TwiLyght ever starts thinking she's a Horseman of the Apocalypse and tries to light me on fire, snatch her glasses.