InvidiaRed
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There’s several ways to write it. A pressure plate that subtly starts the mechanism when wax sloughs off the candle in response to heat. wax, tallow or even the wick could all be mixed, coated or otherwise applied with somnolence inducers or even a mixture that all applies different dosages if only to have an ironclad punch together. Depends, on what flavor you’re going for? Transition? TotalPartyKnockOut? Or even A la I Have You Now My Pretty! Even a wire on the door that pulls a lever that starts the gas the moment its opened. Traps really give you a handy card the trick is working backwards from effect. Might be that weird title on the floor at the entrance. Might be a countdown mechanism. Could be all of the above?! Who knows? Only the trap builder and the architect, and the person who funded it know for sure.
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Still revising, its a good thing I’m going through chapter by chapter and have an outline cause I can tell there’s this weird tone shift I have to solve.
Anyone else ever look at your own writing go be confused of a weird tone shift?
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Usually an unwanted tone shift is caused by putting the project down and coming back to it months/years later.
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Or it was that damned midnight snack of peanut butter and bananas on toast…
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I legit had that last night.
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Revising 100%
Page Count :527
Word Count: 76147
Now I have to read through it.
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Tarnished Lion has 40,000 Views!
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Congratulations, always good to see that hit counter go up!
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The goodnews 90% done with the revamp. Tying the loose threads into a serviceable plot. Trying so hard everything will be ready soon!
The Badnews, Having to deal with the fact my 90 year old grandma is a hoarder.
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I can laugh at it now.
The bruises are gone but I don’t think I’m going to step into that house for a long time nomatter how much I love my grandparent.
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Oh, good, you survived. Did you need search & rescue to pull you out?
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Well between getting conked in the head by 1970’s ads in boxes , three outdated encyclopedias and essentially covered in every single issue of 1981’s readers digest surprisingly not.
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https://www.biospace.com/article/researchers-answer-how-and-why-infants-die-from-sids/
They found the cause of SIDs!
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Here’s a language funny.
If Tomb and Womb have the same sound
then shouldn’t bomb be pronounced Boom?
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Not to mention cough, rough, dough, and bough.
Also, I’m glad they called it a vowel shift and not a vowel movement.
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“Bomb” typically pronounces itself “boom,” so there is that.
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75% done. Haha!
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Dunno what you’re up to, but good work!?
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Fun fact and a bit of trivia
The first mention of orange as a color was in 1502 and was a description of clothing for Margaret Tudor
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and to add to that
the fruit was originally called a norange, but some scribe messed up and changed it to an orange, and it stuck…
same thing a nadder changed to an adder and a nickname used to be an ickname
::*whispers* tell me you watch too much QI without telling me you watch too much QI::
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Who is the POV/Main Character?
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60% done with the revamp. Had to rewrite and shove things into book 2 and three lol
So there’s that.
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Like rolling dough thinner and thinner, every time I “rewrite”, things inevitably get longer.
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Its true though. Absolutely is that age old question brought to life.
Why are things happening? Because people are flawed drama llamas living in a world where gods and monsters are active make no pretense of being human or having human values and the horrors of the dark age just barely passed.
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Characters w/o flaws? Tends to make for rather short & boring stories.
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It can work, With the major players no longer on the board so to speak and only lesser factions. Its the perfect time for a changing of the guard and new powers to rise But… Here’s the devil in the details. What kind of setting is it? What happens if the hero is wrong? It’s these intrinsic questions you have to answer to be faithful and consistent to the lore and setting. If it’s a dark fantasy/grim dark vs. more light hearted fantasy. Does she make the most of the admittedly embarrassing situation or does she automatically accuse him of sexual assault? Does he do his best about the situation? Or does he fall apart from the lapse of control and skewed judgement. It’s going to be a big decision for the both of them. He’s going to have to deal with the fact he just potentially undermined his own beliefs and values with this indiscretion one way or another as did she. Not every character has to be romantic some people really do just antiromantically do it/ make the most of the situation and jointly decide they’re a thing now. Even if the beginning situation is embarrassing for both of them. They both have agency and on some level they connected enough to do it even if they don’t remember much of it. The Rubicon has been crossed and the genie is out of the bottle.
