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OK, will make that clearer.
They were all buried by volcano, but dug themselves out to get chopped to pieces, regenerated, chopped to pieces, regenerate chopped to pieces (which is standard for killing demons in the Abyss) but some (D’Orcs too) probably stopped to watch the battle and shiver in the cold/play in the snow.
Maybe another brief interlude or Arg-nargoloth musing on how the D’Orc vs Demon battle turned into a snowball fight; since that was something that never ever happens in the Abyss.
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[-o< Too evilly true dude... Oh wait; dude is an '80's term...(well I think its immortal)...(if not an immortal word choice, have exposed myself as an 80,000 year old demon) __ On related note, and this I suppose ties to the "Fierd" issue...Beta 4 was full restraint mode; that (Hell Freezing) would have taken a LOT of refinement to perfect, the place is Abyss not Hell and so subtwining the two...Abyss freezes over vs Hell. [OK, thinking of adding more of that...see post on recruitment etc.] Now that being said, Hel is a Norwegian/Viking goddess (and yes I love the Almighty Johnsons) she would it right in with the Jotungard plot. As many do, I love the fact that equatorial (Middle East mostly) see the "bad" afterlife as heat, hot searing agony. Whereas polar groups (Vikings) see the "bad" afterlife as cold, miserable etc. Going back to post on Amazon and why I like reincarnation and new sets of rides at an amusement park. A hot hell represents Chaos/Change/Transformation Cold "heaven" represents Law/Order/Stability/Sameness Who wants boring for eternity? Yes it is comforting for the first billion years, or maybe first half and last half...you get it. At least Hell/Abyss/Chaos gives you some hope for spontaneity/change (unless in contract)
So this morning I was thinking about another series I am writing, hopefully for first book release before too long and realized that the suggested name: “Agent of Chaos” actually works better in that series.
In particular, Book 1 is called “Chaos Rising” and “Agents of Chaos” (slightly different) would be perfect for Book 2. (The series is set in a superhero type universe)
So; I would prefer not to use Agent of Chaos for Book 3 of this series; even though it would work equally well.
I am wondering if this implies an overall theme to my writing that Chaos is so integral?
In any event; I think I want to steal “Agent of Chaos” to become “Agents of Chaos” for book 2 of my other series.
New suggestion: Apostles of Doom
This would be in reference to Vaselle, Gastrope’, Damien, the shamans, Fer-Rog, Rupert.
Haven’t tried Edison want to; just haven’t had time to play with it, nor P2B+. Actually haven’t done “microcontroller” stuff for over a year; I just keep tripping over my toolbox full of add on toys.
The Pi 2 B is absolutely insane in terms of what it packs compared to earlier stuff. I started with mc’s about 2 years ago for building my own environmental monitoring systems but I am moving slower than the technology.
Yeah, I started with the Arduino’s and that is what I’ve mainly used for the sensors, but I then moved to the Pi for little mini servers; it’s just so much easier to have a regular OS to build on; particularly for a min-webserver or other services. RabbitMQ being the perfect example. It’s great for this. Traditionally I always used MQ Series (aka Websphere MQ) or MSMQ for things with very high transaction volumes on larger boxes; but RabbitMQ is great, and I love its low overhead.
I am purposefully trying to not look at Edison because I know it will suck me back in; particularly with the Arduino breakout boards for shields.
I can seriously imagine. I do Android/iOS apps using Delphi/RadStudio and just doing “normal” apps can be tricky, the platform is so perpetually “almost there” but not that full featured, and the ground keeps changing out from underneath you; I imagine doing telemetry would be quite problematic.
Hi,
I need a book description or blurb, for the back cover; Amazon book description.
I am more than open to suggestions from you guys! Submit your own ideas!
Here is a first pass from me; feel free to comment/redo/suggest something else entirely.
[quote]The Council of Wizardry Besieged!
Two armies surround Freehold, the capital of the Council States. The first is the Rod of Tiernon, the military arm of the Church of Tiernon; the second is the Oorstemothian Skyfleet. They have come to Freehold in pursuit of the mysterious Lord Edwyrd and his demon army only to find the city infested with over one thousand lesser demons, completely unbeknownst to the Council of Wizardry!
To make matters worse, Sir Talarius, Knight Rampant of Tiernon, discovered that the demons were led by not one, but three Arch Demons! In a highly unusual alliance, the Oorstemothian Skyfleet, the Rod of Tiernon and the Council of Wizardry aligned to expel the demon horde from the city.
The ever impressive Councilor Lenamare, performed one of the most legendary feats in the history of Conjury and successfully compelled all demons, including the Arch Demons, to flee in terror from the city and into the arms of the waiting armies where the panicked demons could easily be slaughtered.
Or mostly slaughtered. Councilor Lenamare’s own Greater Demon fled the city as well and in doing so ran directly into Sir Talarius. The two fought a truly legendary battle; Talarius appeared to defeat the vile demon only to have it resurrect itself and perform an unholy miracle the likes of which had never been seen in the multiverse. The Greater Demon committed the unthinkable, the untenable, the supreme blasphemy against the god Tiernon and his forces.
Now, with the Rod reeling after an unexpected, unprecedented, unforeseeable and humiliating tragedy, the Avatars of Tiernon have noticed the Greater Demon’s treachery! An Intervention is clearly called for and the Heavenly Host must assemble to ensure that Justice and Honor are restored and that Evil does not prevail! [/quote]
Thanks!
Will fix the 10X+ ones now and put the lower level ones in the to check when back from editor topic.
At this point, the big posts of errors are actually a bit easier for me. The per topic one is better for posters looking for duplicates etc. But at this point the stream is low enough that I prefer the big burst.
Oh, I seriously toyed with that; and having Tom make some send some demons back with a “I’m coming for you Jilted Bride!”
But I finally decided that would break the flow I was going for, plus throwing out threats like that doesn’t seem Tom’s style…
Me on the other hand? I’d have done exactly that and had 2 or 3 Maelstroms on my door the next day!
Of course, I could then just give them the “cold shoulder”
Actually, there will be some recruitment; probably not as wholesale as before.
I was thinking to put that into Book 3 to preserve momentum in book 2.
I do agree, the recruitment is really more like Tom.
One big thing that has changed from the original “non-fight” until now is that somehow, around the time I was writing the “Explore the crystal caves/hydra hound” part; I got it stuck in my head that death in the Abyss was permanent. Which is a common effect in many novels that have multi-layered after lives.
And this also helped explain attrition on both the demons and D’Orcs….so I just dug deeper.
However, that contradicted what I’d said in Book 1 after the fight with the dragon. And what I had originally intended for so long.
Yes it is permanent, but it’s very hard to achieve; which is why you can torture demons (and people) for a very long time–see Book 2 when they first arrive and are talking to Talarius.
I basically got a glitch in my head and when I write, I get “in character” so Tom started freaking about permanently killing “pawns” so to speak; and the demons bought into it as well, hence Lesteroth etc being so convinced they were going to die.
After this flaw in my thinking was pointed out to me in the beta process; I went “doh!” and began working to revise what I said in Book 2, in that death is permanent, but you really gotta work at it, and often then the demon/D’Orc has to sort of give up or stop making the effort to regenerate (somehow)
So…in beta 4; I purposefully made the battle with the demons more humorous with demons being ripped to shreds repeatedly.
I almost put a scene in where everyone stops a second time to watch a battle and Bellyachus complains (muffled) that he can’t see what’s happening because a D’Orc had shoved his head up his butt and he couldn’t see anything.So what I see as having happened is:
The D’Orcs were massacring the demons, but not permanently, they were regenerating, but losing mana; then Tom started sucking away the mana and regeneration really slowed down.
So the aftermath of the battle involves picking up demon parts (still alive) and putting them in wheel barrows etc. Tom will then give the same ultimatum/offer as before but this time, the demons will be defeated.
I can put this in Book 2; I simply didn’t in order to keep the momentum going. I was thinking that the recruitment thing might seem anticlimatic.
Thoughts?
Here is the first poll to select the name of Book 3.
If you have other suggestions; add them as a reply and I will put them in the poll.
You can vote for multiple names.
