Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (Page 24 of 77)

Got no writing done last night. But I have to say, the shift was interesting. What is it about the heat that makes people shoot shit? I mean, come on guys!

Back to the coal mines for more...

Guns. Definitely guns.

Drunks.
Pedestrians vs cars.
Drunk pedestrians falling.
Gunshot wounds.
Earned my paycheck last night.

Sorry, but you asked.

A

Breathed into by god? Expressing and writing exactly what God intended as an expression of His will?

It applies to Dirk's book, certainly :-)

Or maybe the Chronomancer...

I missed all of those clues. Either I'm duh! (quite likely), or they weren't as obvious as you think. Your other readers would be a better judge.

I think you didn't notice them because Anver didn't. He just feels healthy and fit.

Wait till he realizes that Founders have an aura that makes worshippers of Behira more obliging. (Remember Kat's willingness to help Sil? This makes Katerin's relationship with him suspect. Did she fall in love with him or did the Founder make it happen?)

I'm gonna mess with him. Poor Anver...

My goal is something like Babylon 5. We'll see if I can make it happen.

And presumably we'll learn why Kha gripped the Black Staff.  Does he even know what happened?  Or did he lose that memory in the Earthwound?  Interesting that it hasn't been discussed; one might almost wonder if it's under the Veil.

To whom did it belong, anyway?  Faulter?

Could the same lash-up that Anver used to clear Kha be used to overwhelm even a mage like Faulter?

I actually asked more than four.  But if you're trying for B5, it's hard not to guess you're trying for the end of an era, and maybe the end of all on which that era stands.

Y'know, when you finish with this, I'm gonna lose my best reviewer

Hmmm.  Not the hidden Shadowbook page?  Man, Zyrt is really gonna raise Kha's consciousness!  Kha is starving to understand and Zyrtec keeps feeding him magic nightmare mushrooms.

With B5, that possibility doesn't occur until it becomes a necessity, somewhere between seasons three and four.

What we have here are stories that are woven together, with overtones of dark magic and supernatural involvement.  They come to a common climax, via multiple streams of rising action.

The need to break =Acts= into two books will leave the storylines a little out of balance unless all three storylines join in it.  In which case, it might make sense in the final version to open the =Mantle= with the less dominant storylines (ie, not Anvers) and then tie them together quickly.