Keeper Jonas on 26/12/2006 at 09:07
Indulge me:
1.) Do the Mechanists have several hundred members or just over one thousand members? Please pick one of the two.
2.) Hypothetical: You are an adept of your faction out on the City streets at night, you hear a loud "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAA" followed by the charming hybrid laugh/growl/yell that the burlier Mechanist women make. You whirl, they're flailing maces and headed towards you at top speed. Do you:
1.) draw a weapon and get ready to fight
2.) run
3.) surrender
4.) attempt to shake them long enough to hide and escape
5.) attempt to shake them long enough to hide and then ambush
6.) give them a Mr. Spock eyebrow raise
3.) Warden Rubin's residence, would it look more like Lord Bafford's or more like Ramirez's?
4.) Are Servants capable of carrying on a conversation about the weather with their masters, or are they obedient vegetables that can barely muster affirmative and negative responses? One or the other, making this point too ambiguous would actually be cliche, I'm going to develop them one way or the other.
5.) Would Gorman Truart use a Musk cologne or something like Old Spice?
6.) A Keeper Enforcer versus a Haunt in a cage fight, each with full abilities, who wins?
The Rogue Wolf on 27/12/2006 at 04:42
1) Being a splinter sect that was only a couple years old, I can't imagine them having more than a few hundred members- though given the likely population of the City and its surroundings, even a few hundred members is a pretty impressive roster.
2) Answer 4. Then I'd find out where they lived and steal everything they owned. ;)
3) I'd say Ramirez's.
4) The Servants would only utter something like "This one will comply" or the like. In between whimperings and pleas for death.
5) Musk. If not actually the musk of a rutting stag. Machismo, thy name is Gorman.
6) The Enforcer would get one shot off, and then the Haunt would beat him into a psychotic paste. Odds: 9-5 Haunt, 100-1 Enforcer.
This is going to be one odd novel, isn't it? :laff:
Digital Nightfall on 27/12/2006 at 12:39
Oh this is fun.
Membership for the Mechanists... depends on when your novel is set. If you are putting it during/near Thief 2, I'd say that close to or slightly over a thousand makes sense. They DID get Angelwatch and the Soulforge complex built <i>quite</i> quickly, not to mention a huge archaeological project to boot.
Re: what I'd do question. What faction is this that "I" am part of, now?
Considering that Ramirez is a warden and Bafford is not, it'd have to be "more" like Ramirez's, however, it should really be "more" like "neither" as it's a new place and shouldn't be based on any existing one, don't you think? Size shouldn't even be taken as a precedence. A warden's home should reflect his personality.
Do you mean Mechanist Servants? I'd venture to say that a simple "yes" or "no" would be beyond their capabilities. They'd simply carry out their task while quietly crying.
We would be so lucky should Truart BATHE at all, let alone use a cologne.
A captured Keeper enforcer in such a situation would first commit suicide, long before his captors got him anywhere near the haunt, followed quickly by them dissolving into dust. The Haunt would then rattle his cage.
Keeper Jonas on 27/12/2006 at 19:36
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
Re: what I'd do question. What faction is this that "I" am part of, now?
Any faction you want. You must first decide if you are a Hammer, Keeper, City Watchman or any other faction you like, then tell me which option you'd select as a member of that faction.
CalmBeforeTheStorm on 29/12/2006 at 09:18
Thief novel, eh? How are things?...
Keeper Jonas on 29/12/2006 at 23:13
Quote Posted by CalmBeforeTheStorm
Thief novel, eh? How are things?...
Just fine. As I said above, right now I am focusing on research, though I can say that I have begun writing. Anyone interested must be patient, I am also in the middle of applying to grad school and keeping my visual art output at a certain level, but this project is by no means on the back burner. I recently finished my AV project and got it onto SVCD, so that frees up more time.
