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"High Epics! You're awful! "Why won't you die?" Ray sank to the floor And she tried not to cry. "There, there," said Nighthound As he sat down beside her His hand traced her cheek Like a satanic spider. "No need for theatrics. "No need for alarm. "You're my pet, aren't you? "You won't come to harm. "Well," added Nighthound, "Not after you break. "Holding me off for forever "Is your first mistake." Just as Ray thought To put a lance through his foot There was a great clatter On top of the roof. "High Epics! We have one! "Make sure he dies!" Then came a new voice: "Let's do this, you guys!" "Who are you?" said Ray When a man then appeared His hair was greying And he wore no beard. "Name's Prof," he growled With a glare at Nighthound, "Come Ab'ram! Come Cody! "Let's put him in the ground!"
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I just finished the first Alcatraz book, and I think I've figured out Brandon's thought process for his various series. Mistborn: "What would happen if I took every trope the fantasy genre holds dear and deconstructed them to oblivion?" Warbreaker: "What would happen if I took all of the tropes the fantasy genre takes for granted and turned them upside-down?" Steelheart: "What would happen if I played the comic book universe tropes so straight it made them terrifying? And if I made all the superhumans irredeemably evil, just for kicks and giggles?" Alcatraz: "What would happen if I lost my mind on the page?" And all of those works are things of beauty.
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Orson Scott Card once talked about endings, how they need to arise naturally from the story. As an example, he mentioned a short story a student in one of his workshops wrote, about a cult leader leading his followers up a mountain. Well, she did fine up until they got to the top of the mountain, but she had no idea how to end it, so she had a dirigible fall from the sky and crush cult and cult leader. If Nighthound becomes a cult leader, this is the only acceptable ending for that subplot.
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Having a Bad Day? Stop here for a Good Rant!
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
Your guess is as good as mine. When you said "I work at Walmart," my first inclination was to say "I'm sorry." I know how that is, though. I've had some pretty terrible managers, and the funny thing is, most of them have horror stories about terrible managers they've worked for. My guess is that they work so hard to avoid the things that made their managers terrible, that they do the opposite of what those managers did, and they wind up taking it so far that they become terrible in a completely different way. I think it was C.S. Lewis who said that evils are sent into the world in opposites—the hope is that you'll react out of one and into the other. The same applies to managers. (Oddly enough, the one manager I had at JC Penney who wasn't terrible hated his job. Hated it. Complained about JCP every chance he got. When most managers closed the store, they would make us stay for nearly an hour after the store closed, nitpick stupid things in departments they didn't like, or let the women's department slack off while the rest of us had to go down and finish their work for them. Not this one. When he closed the store, all associates rejoiced, for they knew he wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible and would let us out as soon as the store looked decent. Funny, that the fact he hated his job made him a much better manager than all the rest.) -
Keeping Altermind's ringtone from becoming "I Love My Lips" or "To Hell with the Devil" is entirely Lightwards' responsibility. I am not accountable for any actions she takes while the phone is in her possession.
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Nice! Sob-onto-Remington's-shoulder hurt? Your wish is my command. Moral Guardian create code: 4T1O095270FEFEFE000000035000045E5NN1837205021000N0000000EAF27204107F3FCC004CB2 Accessories: 066CC66066CC66066CC66066CC664D6C65A04E8FBAFFFF8C066CC662A000D1066CC6629600D1 Express your disapproval today!
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Will their inevitable falling-out happen when Nighthound points out that while a woman chose to follow him willingly, Lightwards must literally murder his followers and strip them of their better judgment before they do the same? Shall I pose him with a variety of facial expressions so I can post a picture every time Nighthound does something reprehensible?
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Export the pony and background image to your desktop and save it there. Then go to https://dumpyourphoto.com and upload the photo. (You'll probably want to open a separate tab for this.) When that's done, right click on the image, select "Copy Image Address," and then come back to this site. Paste the image address into the image embedder in your post, wrap it in spoiler tags (like this
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Moral Guardian…. Not that at all. We just like to give players a chance to ponify their own creations before someone else does it for them—no one knows your character better than you, after all. We use General Zoi's Pony Creator. It's super user-friendly—just select the attributes you want and adjust until it's the way you want it.
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Does Moral Guardian need a pony? I think he does.
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How is Moral Guardian evil, you ask? Well, he doesn't usually ask people if they want to be defended against something. While this works well for victims of armed robberies who find the robbers will flee if they simply yell "I'm calling the cops!" it doesn't work so favorably for children barred from watching TMNT for fear they'll strap turtle shells to their backs and go on a ninja rampage through their wholesome small town.
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Heeeeyyyyyyy....wouldn't it be weird if Nighthound was SO focused on the creepy new girl that Ray just kind of wandered off? And wouldn't it be doubly weird if Ray just HAPPENED to wander into a sweet vanilla guy who HAPPENS to collect military-grade weaponry and just HAPPENS to carry Nighthound's weakness around without even knowing it's his weakness? Yeah, that'd be weird, wouldn't it? Will Lucentia complain about it?
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Having a Bad Day? Stop here for a Good Rant!
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
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So what needs to be conveyed? Lightwards will soon have copies of the photos Travis took, and Altermind can put in his order for a second floating fortress. What else is on the agenda?
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'Twas the night before Christmas And all through Portland The people were hiding Too frightened to stand. For there in a suburb At the home of Voidgaze Was the one called Nighthound With poor little Ray. He wasn't near dead Though Ray'd done her best With barbs through his head His heart and his chest.
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It's a sad day when Nighthound.
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That sounds really cool. Count yourself lucky. Basically, Kubrick was a very artistic director, while Bay is the one who blows stuff up.
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Kubrick directed 2001: A Space Odessey, a The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange. Michael Bay directed the Transformers movies. What exactly would be animated? Ponies, or some other sort of drawing? It sounds super ambitious.
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I had a thought today. Picture, if you will, Steelheart: The Movie...as directed by Stanley Kubrick. Let it sink in. Embrace the thought. Then groan when you realize that although Kubrick would never agree to direct it, Michael Bay would jump at the chance.
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She knows he admires her power, even if she doesn't know what he hopes just yet. She'll be sure to do something just sweet enough to keep his hopes alive, once she cools off a bit. …. I want to say no to whatever you're planning, but if it involves an underwear-related Epic and the resulting ship is called Underwear Revolution, I'm all for it.
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That's what I thought. It just seemed like a fitting revenge to exit the MoNA after the battle, leaving Lightwards to wonder why, as he clears some of the damage, the museum seems to be missing a few raptors while trees have sprouted in previously bare spots. Still a little creepy. First rule of conquering a city: never paint your boyfriend's face on the side of a blimp. The Underwear Revelation became the Underwear Revolution when Black Fist got wind of the scandal. Their greatest achievement during the Revolution was obtaining a flag-sized replica of said underwear, which they strung from the nearest flagpole with SEE YOUR EMPEROR'S DIRTY LAUNDRY scrawled on a banner beneath them.
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Right now, she's not sure. (By extension, neither am I.) But I do know that Quota will coax out dark!Funtimes before she arrives back at the MoNA, so there's no telling what she'll do. (Though, sudden thought: what are the chances of one of the raptors being killed in action during the attack?) Whatever will annoy him the most. She'd arrive in a helicopter shaped like Nathan's face, but even she would find that creepy. Although it didn't make it into the Gazette, another thing of note happened that morning. Lightwards arrived back at the MoNA and slammed the door to Quickslide's old room, intending to sleep off the hangover, only to jump out of it with a yelp seconds later. A witness at the scene mentioned that they briefly glimpsed his entire room, floor to ceiling, wallpapered with that article from the Gazette. Everyone, of course, denied responsibility, though Sam and Nathan were reportedly high-fiving when the Emperor's back was turned.
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"Lightwards." The word was slurred out of her smiling mouth as she rested her elbows on the table. "Lighty Lighty Lightwards. What'm I gonna do with you? Should I let you walk out that door 'thout telling you you'd fall and make all your bones go splooshy?" Her hiccup became a giggle. "Or should I turn your shoes into penguins?" "I'll take the penguins," Lightwards slurred irritably. She giggled again. "Foot-eating penguins it is."
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Ask and you shall receive, my friend. That would give Funtimes the excuse she needs to get Vanilla Sabotage out of there and back to the cottage. And if she knew about the MEE attack on the MoNA before it happened, she would have an excuse to leave the "teleporter" there and take a helicopter or something back to Portland. (Lightwards didn't think she'd let his insistence on Nathan and Sightline being buddies slide, did you?)