Happy Blog Day Everyone
I think everyone is familiar with the drill by now. There's no Phantom Dawn this week, but as I'm feeling a little bit better, I'm hoping that it'll start up again in a fortnights time, jumping back in to the fight between Kurz and Mason (which started here).
Whilst I'm still not writing as much as I would like, I'm getting things done and a recent part I've been working on has meant that I had to take a character back to the drawing board slightly to figure out how her powers actually worked. I'd had an idea in my head for them, allowing me to write scenes where she'd looked the part, but the actual mechanics weren't there. If I had just left as is then her powers were incredibly broken and over powered.
The character in question is one Lady Morgana, who, simply put, could make things explode. My rationale at first was that she was doing something with the oxygen in the air, and already you should see the problems with such a power, seeing as we need oxygen to live and that it gets carried around our bodies by our blood. If left, she could literally blow people up without them even knowing what was coming. This works fine at a distance, and can be seen as intimidating to other characters but I need her to be more than that (especially in the future, which is why it's so important to get this right now). The fights would end up very one-sided leaving me to have to show my hand quite aggressively in order to do it properly. I know there's merit in using it to create dramatic tension ("oh snap, how is so-and-so going to survive this!") But the victory has to be somewhat believable otherwise you get things like: "Why didn't she kill him as soon as he opened his mouth? How is this a challenge?". My aim is more to create fights like that seen in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventures manga and anime series, where the author often comes up with ingenious ways to end fights. If I accomplish that remains to be seen, as the character in question will be stepping into the limelight in future books and is only getting started here.
As it stands, work on Daemon Soul 2 continues apace and all thats left to do is wrapping up stuff...and edits, oh God the edits are going to break me.
Things have seemingly turned around this week in order of content, so let's finish up with everyone's favourite duo.
The Comic Tales of Brennan and Riz
Originally this strip was supposed to be called Chances Are a Million to One (why yes, I have been listening to Jeff Waynes Musical War of the World, how can you tell?), sadly I couldn't back it up within the strip so that's how you ended up with this!
Not sure what the bigger question is though, the fact there's life on Mars or how Riz borrowed money from them...
That's all for this week.
Till next time,
Keep on writing.
Peter James Martin
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