Annotated 14-14
I’ll be honest: I’ve never seen Dirty Dancing all the way through and I was imagining a very different context for this line before I looked it up. At least I didn’t misremember it as coming from Million Dollar Baby.
Not sure it’s really earned to give Taro full credit for that twisted back, Bandit, even if it happened while you were avoiding his blow. I mean, his plan seems to have been to kill you immediately.
Actually, I’m a little irritated with myself on this one: that “the kid’s sharp” bit was something I added to Phil’s original draft, and you generally need to just let your characters be smart, not have other characters say they’re smart.
You can also make every non-“smart” character be blathering idiots, making the smart character seem smart by comparison!
Little free advice, a pro tip for you.
“Dude, everything’s gone 8-bit!”
My thought is that Bandit’s respecting her enemy’s intelligence, telling us a good deal about her thought processes, and that she’s… not exactly overconfident. She’s confident in her abilities, but she also factors luck into her risk assessment.
Alt text…
Fixed!
“At least I didn’t misremember it as coming from Million Dollar Baby.”
Or Bringing Up Baby; that would be a very different context for putting Baby in a corner.
BTW, the alt-text is missing again.
Fixed!
Was only a little bit disappointed that the alt-text didn’t say “She’s had the time of her life. No, she never felt this way before.”
One thing I’ve never understood is how much of the “PCs” like Bandit are people with their own agency, and how much they are avatars controlled by people in sepia world. Bandit grunts as she avoids Taro’s swing, and mentions twisting her back. Is that the sepia world player role playing what is happening in game, or is that a real person experiencing that pain and thinking their own thoughts?
Yes!
Okay, I know that’s an aggravating answer. But I always saw players and characters as traveling together for a while, with the cause of their joint actions being ambiguous. Did they come from the player, the character, or some third force? Unknown.
Chrissie has not been traveling with Bandit every minute, she has to log out sometime. But she’s there for the big adventures.