Kevin's Watch

Screw it. My moves are in.

Stone, that entry was bloody excellent!

Montresor wrote:Stone, that entry was bloody excellent!

*nod*

What Montresor said.

The writing among the players here gets better and better.

*grateful for your occasional help with such, Stone*

Contest entry in! I decided to go a little less dark than the others!

Montresor wrote:Stone, that entry was bloody excellent!

High praise indeed!

Menolly wrote:

The writing among the players here gets better and better.

*grateful for your occasional help with such, Stone*

The only help you've needed, or that I've given, Menolly, is to help you recognize your own talent!

Stonemaybe wrote:

Menolly wrote: The writing among the players here gets better and better.

*grateful for your occasional help with such, Stone*

The only help you've needed, or that I've given, Menolly, is to help you recognize your own talent!

*blushing*

...that's untrue and you know it...

...although yeah, you insisting I pick up the submittal story for Turn 4 got me to write more than I ever would have...

Fist and Faith wrote:

Murrin wrote:I know I sent mine: I remember that moment just after hitting send, where I think "Wait, did I forget something?"

That's the most exciting moment of my life!!!! Turn after turn after turn, I live for that moment!!!!

Can't bring myself to do it yet. Still 23 hours to go, so I'll try again in the morning.

Damelon, you must have read some of Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan, I take it? I was actually going to ask you if I could write a myth for your Orcs (so I could do a pastiche of Japanese folk tales), but you've beaten me to the punch. Well done.

He did not quote the source, but I asked Damelon via messenger how did he ever conceive of his tale and he said it's partially based off a Japanese Noh (type of theater) play having to do with false suspicion of adultery that he Westernized.

I have no idea who the playwrite is, or the play in particular. But I love learning where people get their ideas from. My own exposure to different styles of literature is so limited; I really do need to branch out more...

If it's Noh, than it's not Hearn (Hearn was a Greek American writer who, tired with life in 19th Century USA, moved to Japan and became a citizen. He then wrote Kwaidan, Stories and Studies of Strange Things, which later became recognised as one of the great works of modern Japanese literature. Four of the tales from Kwaidan were turned into a Japanese horror film from the sixties, touted by many as the greatest horror film ever made. I don't agree, but it is astounding and utterly unique). Stylistically, Kwaidan has a lot in common with the fairly matter-of-fact style of most Japanese folk tales. I recognise the style a mile away as - for my first thesis - I read about a thousand of them.

They're a joy for me to read, so I loved Damelon's.

My explanation was beaten to the punch.

Knowing you admire Japanese culture, I figured you'd spot it, Montressor.

Back when I watched the movie Kagemusha, I was struck by the scene with the Noh play. I looked up the genre and was browsing through the different plays and was struck by one, Izutsu, though I'd run across a better description somewhere other than where I cite. So I took the basic theme of the plot and made a couple of twists.

Turn in!!

Xar, did anybody not send theirs? 'Cause I'll kick their ass if you let me know! Straight up, man!!! Don't mess around with deadline!!!

a couple of hours late but in nonetheless. PHEW.

thanks to those of you who helped me this turn. you know who
you are!!

major hugs!!!

Also a little late, but in nonetheless. I must do these things before Sunday morning when I am always hungover.

What???? In slightly less than 4.5 hours, it will have been 24 hours since deadline passed - and no cryptic hints yet??? What the hell is going on around here?????

I'm catching up with sleep and household stuff after returning from holidays.... and tomorrow I'll have to catch up with work again too, so don't expect too much for the next couple of days

Servicable villain! As duteous to the vices of thy mistress as badness would desire!


Uh... I mean...

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DAMN!!!

*sigh*

Yeah, ok.

Fist and Faith wrote:What???? In slightly less than 4.5 hours, it will have been 24 hours since deadline passed - and no cryptic hints yet??? What the hell is going on around here?????

Life dies. Death lives. Undeath gets stoned. Earth and Sea fall in love and everything turns to mud. Sun gets screened. Lights go out. Analgesia overthrows Pain. Outcasts are embraced. Wisdom develops dementia. Mutation gets into a positive feedback loop. Forests curl up too close to the campfire. Justice and Fate play a game of strip poker - to the death. Disease catches the plague. Metal sings ballads. War and Peace write a book together. Weather gets blown out. Vengeance whimpers. Oblivions falls off the bar stool, and Time is called.

happy now?

Stonemaybe wrote:

Fist and Faith wrote:What???? In slightly less than 4.5 hours, it will have been 24 hours since deadline passed - and no cryptic hints yet??? What the hell is going on around here?????

Life dies. Death lives. Undeath gets stoned. Earth and Sea fall in love and everything turns to mud. Sun gets screened. Lights go out. Analgesia overthrows Pain. Outcasts are embraced. Wisdom develops dementia. Mutation gets into a positive feedback loop. Forests curl up too close to the campfire. Justice and Fate play a game of strip poker - to the death. Disease catches the plague. Metal sings ballads. War and Peace write a book together. Weather gets blown out. Vengeance whimpers. Oblivions falls off the bar stool, and Time is called.

happy now?

Hey Luci, looks like we're getting our kit off!