Annotated 48-29
FB: Alternate ending: Sundar’s “arms” comment inspires Rendar to compose the first line of the Aeneid, and he gets about six more lines in before everybody dies.
Again, this arc was Flo’s, and motivated partly by her love of a video game franchise I never quite got into, so I can’t read it without going, “Could we cut a page here?…How about here?” This page does rely on some very well-worn humor in places (see clip below).
But the page is buoyed by Flo’s obvious affection for the characters: Sundar still working in his conspiracy theory even after it’s become accepted fact; Rendar calling his brother a “big, beautiful broken clock”; Bandit threatening Rendar with the possibility of what she’ll do with only desperation to guide her. And we did need to detail Rendar’s plan somehow, and it couldn’t come to him too easily. So yeah, this one passes the tightness test.
HAHA!!! Bandit is about to heave into her bag of holding!!!
What video game franchise would that be? Are you talking about WoW, or something else?
Metal Gear.
NGL, I found the answer to “OMG HOW DO WE STOP THE UNSTOPPABLE JUGGERNAUT WEAPON,” of “let’s just tip it over” a tad anticlimactic
Rendar, the engineer, takes inspiration from Sundar and finds an answer.
This is why I like exploration games vs shoot-em-ups. Finding solutions to problems that aren’t “eh, blow it all away.”