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- Well, you've got guts and/or imagination to pull -this- cross
- off, let me tell you. Only this little break (chapter 5) seems to
- pull a few too many coincidences together at once - not that I
- mind, they need one, and there are far less plausible ways to go
- about it...
Thanks. One of the things I've been trying to do is make this fairly realistic,
at least as realistic as anything with rampaging robots and unearthly gods in
it can be. And it didn't really take too much imagination since Biles and Rod
M. started COAEG. They got me reading a bunch of Lovecraft and the rest sort of
fell into place at the end of Mote in the Eye of Eternity (not a plug, really,
I swear).
- Oh, and while it may be easy to type out a boomer serial number,
- actually -saying- it is something else entirely. Consider reworking
- the dialogue to mention it by association (the Arkham boomer) rather
- than by number.
True. I'll modify that as soon as I can.
- Hmm. Is the research boomer organic, partly? While a machine may
- certainly malfunction dangerously when it breaks down ("Oh, there
- you are, sir." ::KABOOM::) actual insanity of the sort described
- requires a willful misperception (or perhaps an accurate perception)
- of the world, one which requires a functioning, abstractive mind
- to work on. Without some meat for the agent to get a grip on...
- well, it's your call, ultimately.
I'm working under the assumption that boomers are capable of actual sentience
in a different way than humans. (By the way, there is some cannonical evidence,
especially in 2040). The motives will get cleared up in the final part
(hopefully coming out soon) and I think I've got all bases covered.
- There has to be _some_ sort of influence beyond simply orders
- being given the boomer, or else why would the warding gesture
- have worked?
The warding gesture scares all agents of one side of the conflict (Elder Sign
scares Old Ones/protects against them)
- Perhaps I'm thinking too much.
I'm happy to inspire some thinking. Never can tell when it will pay off to
think about insane robots.
- Beyond that, it's pretty darn impressive, and you did a great
- job setting things up. But where do you go from here?
We'll see when I get there. I've got a good grasp of what I want to do to
finish this thing up, but as I've learned before endings are the hardest part.
Thanks for the comments and read,
Jerico
FnOrd