Late comment, but I really hope you make mr. politician pan, so my male mc can romance him. 
Otherwise the law student seems cute too. Also any chance of rekindling things with our villainous ex?
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Hey there everyone! Brief announcement thing:
So my writing time has been kinda cut by… well, a lot (like 3/4). Long story short: for the next 3 weeks I won’t exactly be able to write as much as I was able to. (Doesn’t mean I’ll have no time, it’s just that my main block of time was affected by this certain event therein making a pretty significant impact on the amount of time I usually set aside for working on IS/MCU.)
As is such, it’ll take little longer than originally anticipated to update both of my stories. So… yeah. That’s about all. Just a slight bump in the road that’ll take a little longer to navigate around. (Not too long, hopefully, since I’ve already got a good head-start on the update section).
Same here!
When I was really young I got into an argument with my preschool teacher because I refused to solve a math problem about two cars heading towards each other on the highway and ‘what time would they crash?’
Never, was my answer. My reason? They’re in different lanes.
Haha! And to think last time I was convincing you about going for Finley, then the Ex, now Ricky. At this point we just need to wonder which RO’s path I’ll try to get you on next…
Fine, but I’m still bartering with him for his elevator-man outfit! I mean have you seen those things? Those jackets are awesome.
We can Cerberus guard them all! Then we can give him treats for being a good hell-puppy. (What do demon dogs take as treats? The souls of the damned? I can do that, if he learns to sit and stay first.)
Would it be sad if I told you it took me a good minute to make sure that pun worked out correctly?
So I’m a brilliant con artist who manages to impersonate several people…?
I’m liking it. You’re on, Hanratty.
That’s gonna be our Culture Committee’s motto, doesn’t it?
Cue the screams of the injured echoing around the pit for days on end…
Damn, guess that means I’ve gotta put the spikes back into storage again?
Always talk it over with PR, how else are we going to hide the spikes?
Somehow I can see this backfiring.
Don’t know why.
Don’t know how.
Just an inclination.
Odd, isn’t it?
Ahaha, go ahead and squeal. If nothing else the character is going to be included as an NPC, I’m still trying to work out how a villainous RO would work out. (I do know what I’m not doing, seeing as I was researching some more villainous romantic interests in stories and stumbled somethings that were rather… not the best… Buut it also didn’t help that I was shown a video of a deer exploding- I had no idea the deer was going to explode going into the video- by someone and that imagery was already stuck in my mind. So maybe I need to revisit them once my head is free of deer intestines splattered over a windshield?)
Yeah, I normally have a style of song I associate with certain stories or characteristics. (For example, for this one I usually use songs by the band Arctic Monkeys to get inspired since they’re all pretty energetic, but for IS I use jazz/swing/electroswing since that fits more into the feel and time-period-esque setting for that story. That was actually how I found this song, while listening to music and writing IS. Funny how projects overlap, no?)
No but they might give you a paperweight on your five-year anniversary of working for them.
Spoiler: it’s just a rock.
Hm… Can’t think of any right now but I’ll be sure to say if I can come up with any.
Oooh, I hadn’t heard of Jill Tracy before but I just looked her up and listened to her “Evil Night Together” and wow, she’s _amazing!
I love swing and that sorta steampunk-ish style music. Have you listened to Alice Francis? I love her songs “St. James Ballroom”, “French Affair”, and “Sista”.
She can also do some very playful and (I’m not sure how to describe it- sassy? aggressive? A mixture of both kinda.) songs, which are great as well. Her voice is just amazing.
I like this second plan. I volunteer to crouch in the shadows with the net.
I’ll give the landing a 10/10, although you hesitated a bit on the entry into the jump, but what the heck, the bow makes up for it. Perfect score.
Welcome to the Pit.
No such thing! All are welcome in the Pit (since that’s pretty much become the name of this discussion) at any time. We’re a 24/7 business.
Honestly, I still have no idea about Ricky’s sexuality.
So I’ve kinda made that his sexuality.
Somewhere along the line my mind just went, “Well, if you don’t know then you can bet he doesn’t know so why not have him question his own sexuality?”
But, that being said, he’s probably gonna end up pansexual- but I think it’d still be interesting to write such a self-assured character such as Ricky Dempsey questioning himself, so I might end up actually working that into the romance with a non-female MC?
I have no idea, it’s all up in the air at this point in time but I’m leaning towards pansexual with Ricky.
Jacob’s great (he’s always so fun to write because of his energy… though good luck keeping that kinda energy if you romance him. 
)- you might actually meet him in the next update! (Depending on where you go).
Yep! Even you decide that you didn’t love the ex when you were married, you can still rekindle things! (Er, well, I suppose just kindle things if you weren’t in love beforehand).
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I knew I was forgetting something.
I’m sure at least one villain around here wouldn’t mind agonized screams.
Nope, I don’t think we have any cushions so we need something to cushion falls.
Very carefully? One thing I have to know, who’s your pit spike supplier? Mine had a very… unfortunate accident last week.
A villain head-over-heels in love probably wouldn’t though. That was oddly poetic by the way.
At the very least I could see them stalking MC enough to know where they live and show up at MC’s door with a dozen roses (with thorns) and maybe inviting themself in. Another thing, maybe they should meet as civilians before MC has to figure out the secret identity of the villain? A stranger in a bar scaring off unwanted attention toward MC in a bar would give a completely different impression than a super villain would.
You should probably give it some time, exploding deer, that’s kind of a sickening thought. I hope it was a scene in a movie, but I feel like I’m going to be disappointed.
Do you keep playlists for your characters? I like to have at least five songs, no more than ten, per character. Two characters can have the same songs, except one, and they’d be completely different characters because of that one song, y’know?
It’s the magic of ideas! 
Why wait for the five-year anniversary? I could probably go out right now and find a better rock than the one they’d give me.
Thanks!
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Oh no, I hope everything is ok 
Take all the time you need. Don’t worry, 3 weeks isn’t very long! I hope whatever’s come up gets taken care of soon.
Ha, I hope you got points for that answer! Also, we definitely would’ve gotten along in grade school 
I wouldn’t necessarily call it “convincing,” since I was already pretty convinced in the first place, at least for Finley and Ricky.
Finley, Ricky, Ex and MC, k-i-s-s-i-n-g, that spells poly-am-ory!
Well, who am I to say no to a free jacket?
Kharon: [scoffs] “Kid, this jacket is about as free as I am alive.”
“Come on, man. What do you expect two dead girls to be able to pay you? My soul?”
“Both, actually”.
"Both? You want both of our souls for that dusty old marching band uniform of yours!? What, were you a “Welcome To The Black Parade” extra in your last life?"
You: “Aliya, what are you doing?”
“Relax, I got this.”
“What I did or didn’t do in any of my past lives is none of your business, and I’ll have you know this jacket was stitched together by the Weavers themselves!”
"Right, and in one of my past lives, I was a purple seagull who laid MnM’s instead of eggs and sounded like an opera singer getting a rectal exam."
“I can prove it!”
“Then, by all means, do. After all, we only have all the time in the world.”
Kharon removes the jacket, showing us the tag inside, which reads “WeaverWear Outfitters; Est. beginning of time.” Then, I punch Kharon in his smug mug and take the jacket while he’s distracted. Before he can react, I take my Swiss army knife out of my pocket and hold it against the jacket, ready to puncture the fabric should the undead bellhop try anything unwise. Kharon freezes, pained and desperate. He drops to his knees and cries,
“Please, don’t, I beg you! My entire timeline – my fate – past and future, are sewn into that jacket. If you damage it, my entire being will begin to unravel!”
“You don’t think I know that?”
“B- But how?”
“Call it “intuition,” call it… Actually, I don’t give a shit what you call it. Just take us down, no charge, or your fate gets it.”
Kharon, very cooperatively, escorts us down the elevator shaft to hell, not a word said between all three of us. You, now wearing the jacket, turn to me, as soon as Kharon goes back up the elevator, and say,
“What the hell was that all about? ‘Call it intuition, call it-’”
“Bluffing.”
“What?”
“Ok, so maybe I didn’t actually know what Karrie’s jacket was really made of, but I did know two things: One, that the price for passage down into the underworld was 25 drachmas per person, and two, we have exactly…” I dramatically rummage through my pants pockets for several seconds before saying, “0 drachmas. Desperation is a powerful motivator, so I took the only thing he had on him.”
“No wonder you’re in hell.”
“And what’s your excuse?”
I stopped when I realized how much time I spent on that, plus it started to feel like a sitcom. I’d watch it, though. (EDIT: I tried to put it under the “hide details” thing, but that wasn’t working for some reason, so now this post is much longer than necessary.)
Why did I imagine dog biscuits shaped like screaming skulls or ghosts? It’s terrifying, yet adorable. (Just like me.) 
I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t, considering I just made it up.
Well, of course you like it, you’re the better looking one. I’m still in, though.
It’s not like I have any better ideas.
Hope you got your nightvision goggles charged up 
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well as im in this pit now im slowly going to be working on the perfect animal…how bout a perfectly trained deathclaw that knows how to juggle so we can have some entertainment NOTE i am not responsible for any injuries or deaths involving getting close to the deathclaw
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I have no idea what you’re talking about, deathclaws are cute, cuddly, and would never harm a fly.
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Somehow Pozzo Rinascimente is slowly turning into an evil underground lair… complete with spikes and deathclaws.
Yay! Spikes! 
They’re home-made spikes.
True, true. You’ll get to meet and/or see some of the villains and heroes who’s cases you’re working on. Be it via stalking tracking or simply accidental encounters. Depends on the person’s personality (now that sounds redundant as all get-out), and whether or not they’re more likely to reclude into their secret base on the weekends or go to a bar.
That would’ve been nice. But it wasn’t. And then they played it, again.
Two exploding deer.
Not fun.
Yeah, I do something similar. Almost all of my characters have at least one song I associate with them. (Ex. Vampire and the new villain, then Willy Moon’s Railroad Track for one of the exes, etc.), but some have two or more.
You might just win employee of the month with that kinda initiative. Then you get a stick!
Everything is fine, don’t worry!
It’s basically just a job/favour-type-thing that’s gonna keep me busy for three weeks. But after that everything will open up again and go back to normal which is good. (I underestimated the amount of time it would take is all. )
I actually got extra credit for it! That teacher was chill.
Ha! Sounds like we would’ve annoyed all of the teachers.
True, true.
Admittedly I haven’t tried coding polyamory before. (Okay, not that surprising considering this is my second attempt at a CSG game, technically third attempt at writing interactive fiction but that first one was dropped a while ago because the thing I was using to code it was… impossible.)
But, who knows, this story is already my experimental lab-rat for coding, so maybe I’ll try and implement that in as well? We’ll see (I’d have to do a lot more research on the subject to do it justice).
Yay!
I love it! Though I feel bad for Kharon ahah.
I’d watch it too. (Also don’t worry about the post being long, I mean… have you seen mine? I’d be a hypocrite if I was worried about that.)
Yes I will tame the hell-puppy with screaming skull dog treats! (Also, adorable and terrifying? Not a bad thing to be, I’d say.)
I mean, It’s not like I’m gonna complain about being Leonardo DiCaprio…
The chase is on!
Ready an’ rearin’ to go.
I mean we already have a hell-puppy, so now there’s a deathclaw too.
Honestly this really is starting to sound like a villain’s lair… maybe that should be an extra case in the game? Find the lair of the Pozzo Rinascimente!
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My dealer had these beautiful gold-plated spikes that had ornate silver inlays, sadly they have disappeared. You should’ve seen them, very befitting for Pozzo Rinascimente. 
What if MC accidentally stumbles into the villain’s hideout on a weekend?
I am so sorry you had to watch that twice.
Railroad Track is a good song, too bad Willy and his wife are assholes. I suppose his wife more so than he is.
I could still cut off a better stick from one of the trees outside. Waitaminute I could tie the rock to the stick and whack Triple N CEOs in the head with it! Could I win employee of the decade? 
Happy signup anniversary! 
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Oh, good. At first I thought it was some kind of unfortunate emergency, but sometimes my mind tends to jump to the worst scenarios before even knowing what’s going on. Glad that’s not the case. 
Aha, good thing they weren’t one of those killjoys with very exact rules as to how you’re supposed to solve the problem. That was always the issue between me and math teachers; I was just happy to know what I was doing for a change, but they just had to rain on my parade and tell me I was doing it “wrong.” What does it matter how I did it, if I end up getting the right answer anyway? Ugh, I hated math class. At least, most years.
Definitely a few, but some teachers actually liked me. English teachers especially, but a couple others. I got a lot of comments on my “enthusiasm” and “intuition” in class. It was my work ethic outside of class that was the biggest problem. Oh, and the attention-deficit thing.
Oh, no pressure. I just like when it’s an option in games, but I don’t need it to be. Of course, there are surely people who would prefer to see it be an option in games more often. I actually use it as an opportunity to be a little experimental, myself. I’ve only played the polyamory path twice (well, many more times than that, but in only 2 games), in the Versus series and in Tin Star, though that may be the only CoG games where that’s an option(?). Anyway, I’ve never officially considered myself polyamorous, so those games gave me a chance to see how comfortable I’d be in that kind of relationship. I like the MC/Breeze/Venuma thrupling path in Versus the most, and I’m excited where that path will take us in the third book. But anyway, I’m no expert on what it means to be poly, so I’m not the one to ask. Plus, I can see how that would be more challenging, from a coding standpoint. But if that’s something you decide to include in the game at some point, good luck!
Haha, it’s funny because that’s not something I’d ever really do in real life (or death). That’s kinda just how it turned out because I had those sick burns and then I thought “where would this go from here, anyway?” I don’t even have a Swiss army knife, but, now that I think about it, I probably should… I’d probably just ask him where we could get one of those jackets, probably throw in a compliment so as to hopefully make him more agreeable to the fact that we were short on cash. If that didn’t work, maybe I’d flirt with him, then say something like, “what are you, the troll under the bridge?” when plan B doesn’t work. Hopefully, your improvisation skills are more fruitful than mine…
Now that I think about it, that sounds a lot like the little girl @Lux_Inferni “evicted” from the pit…
Who has more Oscars, though? 
Keyword: “stumbles.” That implies that it was an accident, like “my hand slipped on the keypad that unlocks the doors, and I accidentally set off the security measures. Woops.” That’s the kind of bullshit excuse my MC would give when this villain, who I thought wasn’t home, catches me hanging upside down, my ankle held by a robotic limb that extends from the ceiling.
“Hey, stranger! What are you doing here?”
“This is my place of work, Aliya. The better question would be: what are you doing here?”
“That is a great question. This is all very explainable, trust me. You see, I was on my way to work, but I was running late, and it was such a beautiful day. So, I thought I’d take a shortcut. So I’m speed-walking down an alley, when this dog appeared, wearing an astronaut’s helmet! I thought, I gotta go see what this is about. So, I follow the space dog and-”
The villain flips a switch on the wall and the robotic hand lets me go, from several yards in the air onto the cold, inhospitable floor. Luckily, I managed to fall on my ass and not my face.
“Listening to you babble on is a worse fate than being left up there to die. Now get out, before I decide to kill you.”
“Oh, I’d love to, but we both know that if you wanted to kill me, you would’ve done it already. Why waste time talking, when you could be doing?” I ask, stepping closer to them.
“Maybe I just like watching you hang yourself,” the villain says with a smirk.
“Been there, done that,” I scoff. Running a hand up the villain’s arm to the back of their neck, I look at them, matching their smirk, and say, “I know what you really want.”
Wrapping their hands around my waist, they ask, “And what is that?”
I push them up against the wall they were leaning on and close the distance until our faces are barely an inch apart.
“Me.”
This is where we make the trade: pleasure for information. I’m thinking this particular villain is a part of an exclusive committee of other villains. But, they’re not totally dedicated to the lifestyle they’ve been leading, so they’ve become my own personal mole. They started out a genuine villain, then I started staking them out. I eventually got all the info I needed to expose them, but I also learned that they were having doubts about their current career path. So, I made them a deal: if they gave me as much information as I needed to expose the other members of this villainous council to which they belonged, I would keep their own identity and personal information a secret. Then, at some point during this co-workership, each of us realized the other was hot, and… the dynamic became somewhat less professional. (This also was not what I was thinking when I started this headcanon; I pretty much made it all up on the spot.) I may need some help getting my head out of the gutter…
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Yoooo there’s going to be a show on NBC called Powerless its premise is similar to this game i’ve never been more excited about a show on NBC (since it might get canceled after season 1) 
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I love how you put evicted in scare quotes.
Oops? Hehe, bad habit. I guess I won’t be getting away with murder anytime soon (“Your Honor, I accidentally tripped and fell into the victim. I happened to be holding a knife, but I can’t help it if someone decides to get in its way when I fall.”)
That was awesome! I can see this going in somewhat the same way for my MC, except the villain would be completely dedicated to the lifestyle when in costume and the villain would want to be the top villain. In this case my MC made them the deal their life for information, keeping identity a secret, and pleasure (my MC wouldn’t mind since they would’ve been shamelessly flirting with Villain) since I don’t think the villain in my case would let MC go otherwise.
Why? If you don’t mind me asking. 
@avidreader Never trust a show that has less than three seasons. Lifetime burned me on Blood Ties and Syfy burned me on Dominion. I would’ve watched Moonlight, but it was cancelled after the first season on CBS. Dominion hurt the most, the last episode of the second season is a permanent cliffhanger of the worst kind.
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And some shows keep going after their logical conclusion I won’t name names though (Supernatural)
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oh god, why do you have to play me like that?
Was so ready for a million more words XD
Really loving this, everything from the writing style to the new perspective that you don’t see much of! Plus, its always fantastic when you can be a sarcastic little sh*t while about to plummet to your death!
Can’t wait to see what you have in store <3
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I love this! Back burner stories are okay too!
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A few more:
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“They hit my fist with their face.”
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“My finger slipped on the trigger.”
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“I tripped and accidentally kicked them in the groin.”
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“I sneezed and accidentally hit their face with my own face.”
Feel free to add onto this.
You mean the villain wouldn’t let the MC go unless they agreed to keep the villain’s identity a secret right? Because the part where the villain doesn’t let the MC go unless they have sex with the villain would classify as rape… (oh shit wait that’s totally predictable of a villain, especially an entitled male villain, who perceives the MC’s flirting as consent oh shit I hate that)
Just desperate and lonely, the usual.
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He ran into my knife…
He ran into my knife ten times!
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The gun jumped in my hand and it pulled its trigger.
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They accidentally slipped in a puddle at the top of the stairs.
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They confused the bleach for water then asked me to tie them to the chair.
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I didn’t know there was cyanide in the powdered sugar and flour.
[spoiler]The way I see things, any man that acts entitled (regardless of how heroic, villainous, or normal they are) is insecure in their masculinity. It’s a turn off and annoying.
I tend to play male characters with silver tongues, to varying degrees. In my MC’s case they also wear modified stiletto nails and haven’t been shy in gouging out more than a few eyes, or worse, when people get a little too handsy.
Me, I’m a romantic, most of my headcanons, in this sense, are consensual. The only exception here is MC and Ex’s marriage, MC was drunk while Ex was sober, but Ex never forced MC to sleep with them and didn’t take advantage of MC after the wedding.[/spoiler]
(Note: I see the MC and the villain as male if it makes any difference here.)
With that said, I probably should’ve explained more. In my mind the villain wouldn’t be so arrogant to fall for MC’s attempt at flirting their way out of danger. MC, however, tends to use flirting as a distraction, at least enough to reverse the situation and steal whatever isn’t nailed to the ground and a secret identity. Maybe a credit card too. Villain has a background check done on MC. MC is secretly impressed, excited, and a little nervous.
We’ll say that background check took at least three hours, for whatever reason. That leaves MC three hours to banter flirtatiously with Villain (not to mention shamelessly) with the occasional snappy comment about dangling from the ceiling upside down. Three hours later Villain knows MC works for The Rust and MC is given a choice: keep Villain’s identity secret and continually give them information or die. MC would renegotiate the deal to include payment for the information.
Villain takes MC out to dinner, intending to discuss their new partnership and negotiate how much they should pay MC for information. MC steers the conversation toward the personal and the villain refuses, so MC gets up to leave. (Villain asks “Where do you think you’re going? I could kill you right now.” “You won’t, you aren’t hiding behind a mask. Sure you could threaten to blow up my workplace, but I can ruin you before you have a chance to plant the bombs. Do you really think, with my line of work, that I wouldn’t have a hero or two on speed dial?”) MC has the upper hand and both of them know it so the villain agrees and nicely asks MC to sit back down. Conversation starts flowing and soon enough they’re talking about interests, hobbies, and work.
One thing leads to another and they end up sleeping together. In the morning Villain wakes up to MC attempting to steal their credit card, MC shrugs it off when they’re caught. Villain offers to renegotiate their deal. (“Would you mind if we added sex into our deal? If money is an issue I can pay you.” MC gives the villain a hurt glare, “Do I look like a prostitute to you?!” “I thought-- never mind, I’m sorry and no, you don’t look like a prostitute.” MC’s glare lessens and they eye the scratches covering Villain, “Fine, but next time don’t treat me like I’m made of glass and don’t keep any secrets from me.”) MC agrees and Villain seals it with a passionate kiss which MC returns then shoves the villain back on the bed. MC grabs an obsidian statuette of a cobra before leaving. (“I’m sure you can afford another one.” “You’ll just steal that one too.” MC winks at Villain before leaving the room.)
Better? Worse?
Join the club, I’m just waiting for Valentine’s Day so I can have a two-day sulking marathon.
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Wow, okay, hi, sorry for not replying to anything. Sadly my dog’s back legs have been going out from under him (he’s pretty old, and a corgi so this is kinda what happens to corgis when they get old), so I’ve been pretty preoccupied with that (he’s going to a vet on Wednesday to see what they can do to help him… I’m hoping it’s nothing serious…)
But, uh, yeah. Just fwi in case I end up going MIA and not responding to anything in here for a couple more days. Puppy comes first, y’know?
Not if this music is playing throughout the Pit!
Damn, now I’ve gotta look into decorating the spikes as well with this kinda artsmanship.
There’s just not enough renaissance spike-makers in the world, are there?
If anyone can achieve this the MC can.
Same here. Honestly, I don’t know what was the reason for them showing me this. It was just like ‘hey you’re gonna watch a thing’
‘Okay? What am I- HOLY SHIT.’
‘Let’s watch it again!’
Pro tip: Don’t show people exploding animals with zero forewarning.
Huh, really? I never pay attention to the singers, I had no idea.
I… uh… There’s a few flaws with your logic there I’m afraid. First of all being that if you do that there might not be anyone to give you the award.
Also this is late a late thank you but thank you! (I can’t believe it’s been a year, wow! Definitely doesn’t feel like it… )
I used to hate math as well… now I find it relaxing (weird, right?)
But, yeah, I get what you’re saying- everyone has a path to the answer and sometimes those paths vary from one another. Just because one way of doing things is different than another doesn’t mean it’s necessarily wrong- heck, sometimes there’s more than one answer to these kinda things, depends on the situation in which the problem is presented.
In fact I wholeheartedly believe that you need people like you who have different ways of solving problems in real life. After all, if one way doesn’t work you’re gonna want someone who can think of another way to get it done. Otherwise, everyone just ends up stuck.
Were you a victim of the chronic procrastination that so many feel during school?
Yeah, I’ve always wanted to try writing it like in Versus and Tin Star, but the problem more lies with how I write and incorporate romance. For me I incorporate it into the overall story and characters but I like to have each character have their own personal story and path within the book. I also like to space these out over the series of chapters. So as a result the MC will often be presented with a series of choices, each of which pertaining to which character’s path (be it as a friendship, romance, or rivalry/enemy kinda thing) they go pursue at that specific moment. That usually means that the MC is interacting with one or two characters at the most (depending on who’s interlinked with the other character’s story), which makes polyamory… hard to work out. Since they’d be pursuing multiple characters, which path would they take? How would they be able to do both when both events happen at the same time? (Since the character’s lives continue on whether or not the MC was there to witness and intervene, so the event would pass, just without the MC’s knowledge or interference/help).
I’d need to work out some kinda system or change the way I write character’s personal stories in order to figure out how to write polyamory… but I wanna figure it out since A. I’m always up to try writing anything, and B. It’d allow for more people to enjoy the game and in the end that’s what this thing is all about- fun.
They were some sick burns. Maybe we should call the hospital.
Somehow I’m not sure equating someone to a ‘troll’ is flirting 
Ha! My improv skills are like a dice roll, sometimes they go well, other times it’s just… not good.
Are you her in disguise, secretly here to get your revenge?
Ouch, low blow… low blow…
This image is just… beautiful.
This excerpt is even more beautiful.
Dang, at this pace you guys will write this better than I ever could solely through hypotheticals and comedic coincidences involving the “accidents” and the MC’s “good luck”. (It’s amazing, and I love it.)
Really? Might be time for me to pick up the ole TV remote and actually watch a show again! (Shows on NBC have a tendency to get cancelled, I assume?)
“Your Honor, I dropped the baseball bat on their head by accident. I also may have accidentally been holding a gun, and the trigger went off by itself you see. The third guy? What third guy? Oh- ah, that one, yes, you see, I had completely forgotten about the highly toxic cyanide-filled syringe I’d been carrying- why was I carrying it? Well, I found it by accident after stumbling into a villains research lab on my way home from work. Anyway, I totally didn’t mean to push it into the man’s veins, I tripped you see, much like with the knife. What knife? Oh, you mean you didn’t find the fourth body? Oh, right… Uh, he may have coincidentally rolled into a ravine approximately 20 miles away from the site. I only know because I tripped on his hand while jogging.”
Wow! Well, thank you! I’ll be sure to put some more up soon!
Oh, trust me, there’s gonna be so many sarcastic options (since that was one of the goals of this- the ability to be a sarcastic reporter even in the face of super-powered villains!) I love sarcastic characters, too.
I’ll do my best!
Thank you! I think so too, they’re good for unwinding and just having fun once and a while!
I just imagine the first one being the initial defense, and then the office just giving you a really sarcastic and disbelieving look as they say, “He was stabbed ten times.”
Cue the second excuse.
Try great.
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hopefully this is what will happen. 
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He had it comin’! He had it comin’! He only had himself to blame!
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