thread: 2011-05-11 : The Un-frickin-welcome
On 2011-05-03, David Berg wrote:
No. I can't.
My only objections to the fiction were matters of narrational taste—plausibility, detail, vividness, whatever.
I mean, all sorts of stuff happened that sucked for my character. But I was playing the most stubborn, impractical, trouble-making Hocus you can imagine, so I signed up for things to fall apart. I mean, plans should go FUBAR in the apocalypse, right?
I'm trying to think of my character's biggest failures. He tried to con a biker gang into being his minions, but instead they conned him into being their hostage. But I dug that, and instantly hatched a plan to knife his captors the second he realized he was a hostage and not a guest. What else... He promised his cult a way into paradise, but then failed to manipulate paradise into letting them in... So he told them to wait outside while he took paradise over.
If you had asked me beforehand, "Wouldn't it really suck if the bikers trick you? Wouldn't it suck if your followers are turned away?" I might have said, "Yeah! My character would be screwed then!" But I would have said it with a big smile.
The only hypotheticals I can think of objecting to would be stuff that'd make play less fun going forward—"Your cult members are all wiped out," for example.
