The original plan for this scene had Syr’Nj contributing a lot less. Best’s arrogance and overall… Best-ness, losing contact with the others, the overall strain of leadership, and her suicidal quasi-boyfriend would have made her snappish, leading Best to curb […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So yeah, kind of like Vulcans are into five-letter names that go “S???k” or at least “????k,” the “B*y*n” construction really seems to get buy-in from Battleshireans, and that’s by design. They won’t be able to defend Byron from his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Perhaps it’s clear now what this trap is meant to do. If one or maybe two thieves came in, this room would be sufficient to hold them until they were retrieved or starved, but a larger group would find themselves […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our buffer was largely nonexistent at this point, but we were still outlining pretty firmly, so we knew that this chapter would end with the actual Basin of Foresight. And it wasn’t hard to tell that that was the key […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I like the feel of this cliffhanger: it uses the slightly off-balance feeling of the rest of the chapter to its advantage. (“We’re not SUPPOSED to wait till halfway through to start an adventure! We’re not supposed to have started […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
