This will negate any fame or fortune for the discovery of the previously unknown Noun of Doomador, along with finding the Doomador god, of which Sythyry is a favorite of.
*checks dates* Hmm, 115 years ago. 4260+. Which is around, er, 86? terrestrially. Or a little less, it's what, 9 months to a year and 27 days to a month and 27 hours to a day, so ... I think it works out to 3/4ths. Or something. I have a hard time intuiting WT time. There's 27 minutes in an hour and 27 seconds in a minute, but WT seconds are a bit more than twice as long as terrestrial seconds so you can kind of ignore that. I think. Maybe.
On a serious note - I was actually glad for the (apparent) ebbing of doom. Having something that keeps going down and down and down can get rather wearying to read if the people don't get enough of a break now and then.
(I actually had to stop reading a webcomic a short while back because the characters kept having *everything* turn against them, with their few victories too minor to really grant a meaningful reprieve.)
An emotion curve that's little more than a slightly bumpy downward slide can be depressing. As someone who struggles with clinical depression myself, that's the last thing I need. Occasional victories are good for the soul - in the readers, I think, as well as the characters.
You've hit the nail on the head, my dear fellow. This is also what the very notion of comedic relief is about; too much tragedy is too strong to swallow, so a little comedy clears the pallet before the doom resumes. It all allows for heightened catharsis when the resolution comes about.
Here in lies a bit of trouble for our zi ri narrator; zie is capable of quite a lot of comedic relief, and therefore quite a bit more doom.
Yup. Sythyry's going to win this one, over the next week. Not a perfect win of course -- sort of like in the fight against the pirates -- but a win anyhow.
I suggested an expensive knock-off of Mata Hari because that ties into the established action in so many ways: * tension between various city-states * dark secrets and espionage, or allegations thereof * Sythyry recently impersonated a prostitute * Sythyry's money is mostly out of reach right now, and even if retrieved, will be inconveniently smaller for a while.
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Date: 2010-06-05 04:30 pm (UTC)Whereas Destroc Doomador does actual physical harm to doomed objects and people.
Ruloc doomador *can* be used to get rid of doom, though... by shifting it onto someone else.
It's the second law of thermodoomnamics, the total level of doom is monotonically increasing.
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Date: 2010-06-05 08:56 am (UTC)You fool! You'll bring Pazi-Pazi down upon us all!
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:34 pm (UTC)*looks it up*
Okay, 27 minutes to the hour, each about 2 minutes long. That means a WT second (27 to a minute) is about 5 seconds long.
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Date: 2010-06-05 01:34 pm (UTC)(I actually had to stop reading a webcomic a short while back because the characters kept having *everything* turn against them, with their few victories too minor to really grant a meaningful reprieve.)
An emotion curve that's little more than a slightly bumpy downward slide can be depressing. As someone who struggles with clinical depression myself, that's the last thing I need. Occasional victories are good for the soul - in the readers, I think, as well as the characters.
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Date: 2010-06-05 04:49 pm (UTC)Here in lies a bit of trouble for our zi ri narrator; zie is capable of quite a lot of comedic relief, and therefore quite a bit more doom.
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:49 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2010-06-05 03:24 pm (UTC)* tension between various city-states
* dark secrets and espionage, or allegations thereof
* Sythyry recently impersonated a prostitute
* Sythyry's money is mostly out of reach right now, and even if retrieved, will be inconveniently smaller for a while.