thread: 2006-01-24 : Still More Character Ownership
On 2006-01-25, Vincent wrote:
It's the responsibility of the fiction that comes after to make it mean something. We can let it happen for no reason, if we trust the fiction that comes after.
Which, see how that's so totally consistent with my "let the events of the fiction name the protagonist(s)"?
This makes TB go "Goddamn YES!"
I've never hugged a man with a beard before...
Yeah - if you know that the death will be made meaningful, that's all it needs.
This makes VB go "and what's awesome is..."
We don't have to know how we'll make it meaningful, or what it'll ultimately mean. Instead, we get to FIND OUT.
This makes TB go "that is THE awesome..."
I have no clue how to write that system though.
Wow.
This makes ecb go "awesomeness in action"
Play PtA.
This makes TC go "That's the first step..."
But there's more.
