Weo’s personality does a lot to make this basically expositional scene go down smoothly. He’s having fun, but he’s also doing important work, and those two facts are working together rather than coming into conflict. The subtext is mostly text […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Flo wrestled a lot with this page of mine…was it going too fast? Isn’t Byron’s prophecy pretty much what he already knows? Could we make a stronger statement about Goblaurence’s refusal of prophecy?…but ultimately, it ran as I drafted it, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce, this is the climactic sting to Best’s first, tragic repetition. What he’s laying down here is something almost all of us must face, one way or another. The close-up […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I like how Syr’Nj responds on this page, just pulling out her Potion of Somnolence to put Best out again. “Screw it, consciousness has now become a privilege and not a right as far as you’re concerned.” In another draft […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Weo’s original bit here was just, “I am the Oracle! Woooo! I’m spooky!” which is maybe a little more appropriate for a nine-year-old, but it wouldn’t trigger Best as deliciously as a short speech that ended with his favorite word […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
