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Oct. 12th, 2012 01:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingToday was supposed to be my day off, but AS got sick so I went in and covered his shift, 4-9pm. Which is fine -- I think it will kick me into overtime for the week, and I can use the money after missing so many hours when I was sick -- but kind of annoying because it throws off my plans. Ah well, such is life.
The only vaguely interesting part of the evening was actually not interesting at all in practice. There was a bomb threat on the Commons, so the SWAT team was called in and a large area was roped off with caution tape while the police investigated. What happened, apparently -- and I have this story entirely second- and third-hand -- was that somebody left a cardboard box labeled "bomb" at Bank of America. *headdesk* And for that, the police were out for at least three hours, from before 4pm to around 7-ish.
SO STUPID.
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I wrote about 650 words of "Trollstuck" after I got home, some of which replaced a section I wrote yesterday. I made the change because it hit me that if Equius were in the room when Jothan came to, that would make this section the first live, in-person dialogue in the story. And I don't want that! That change in storytelling technique should mark a dramatic, climactic moment in chapter 7, not a stupid comedic interlude thing. So I shoved Equius off to salvage Jothan's rocket bike and made him leave a note instead.
I also wrote a couple hundred words of "Damaged Goods," which is the Karkat-POV Narutostuck story I started months ago and stalled out on. I have just about maneuvered him to his first meeting with his new teammates and teacher, which now requires me to figure out how and why he previously met Dave. (Terezi is easy; they were childhood friends before Karkat got locked up on account of ~illegal mutation~ and also being the Sufferer's descendant and stuff.) I am pretty sure Dave and Karkat were in the same prison at some point, but I am very unsure of the details and obviously cannot proceed until I nail them down. Hmm. Also I need to figure out Terezi's backstory with Vriska, because while Vriska is (of course) responsible for Terezi's blindness, the details cannot be the same as in canon. *ponders*
The only vaguely interesting part of the evening was actually not interesting at all in practice. There was a bomb threat on the Commons, so the SWAT team was called in and a large area was roped off with caution tape while the police investigated. What happened, apparently -- and I have this story entirely second- and third-hand -- was that somebody left a cardboard box labeled "bomb" at Bank of America. *headdesk* And for that, the police were out for at least three hours, from before 4pm to around 7-ish.
SO STUPID.
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I wrote about 650 words of "Trollstuck" after I got home, some of which replaced a section I wrote yesterday. I made the change because it hit me that if Equius were in the room when Jothan came to, that would make this section the first live, in-person dialogue in the story. And I don't want that! That change in storytelling technique should mark a dramatic, climactic moment in chapter 7, not a stupid comedic interlude thing. So I shoved Equius off to salvage Jothan's rocket bike and made him leave a note instead.
I also wrote a couple hundred words of "Damaged Goods," which is the Karkat-POV Narutostuck story I started months ago and stalled out on. I have just about maneuvered him to his first meeting with his new teammates and teacher, which now requires me to figure out how and why he previously met Dave. (Terezi is easy; they were childhood friends before Karkat got locked up on account of ~illegal mutation~ and also being the Sufferer's descendant and stuff.) I am pretty sure Dave and Karkat were in the same prison at some point, but I am very unsure of the details and obviously cannot proceed until I nail them down. Hmm. Also I need to figure out Terezi's backstory with Vriska, because while Vriska is (of course) responsible for Terezi's blindness, the details cannot be the same as in canon. *ponders*
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Date: 2012-10-12 04:23 pm (UTC)Well, the bomb thing might have been a real bomb that was placed with a warning because the bomber only wanted to destroy buildings and not kill people! idk. they had to make sure anyway i guess.
aw, sad, Equius sounded like he'd be fun. leaving a note should be funny thouhg. Also shorten the scene. XDD
... Narutoverse Davekarezi team fic!!! eeeee~~~♥
Maybe Dave was in prison because of Bro? I mean, to put pressure on him or as a collateral or because he was helping Bro do stuff and wasn't fast enough not to get caught?
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Date: 2012-10-13 02:58 am (UTC)Equius leaving a note definitely shortens the scene, which is useful because I was able to fold Eridan's long chatlog into the void into the same post. Which is now up, incidentally. :-)
Mmnh. That might be why the secret police went looking for Dave in the first place, but he stayed locked up for other reasons having to do with the signature jutsu styles of Space Country and the village of Hidden Time. *evil grin* I just can't figure out why he and Karkat would've been in contact, since Karkat wasn't useful the same way that... oh. Hey. Wait. The Condesce wanted to break Dave so he willingly worked for her. Given Karkat's obvious connection to the Sufferer, she might have tried breaking him for propaganda purposes, even if he didn't have any immediately obvious ~special affinities~ or anything. Which would also explain when and how they both met Vriska, come to think of it. *eviller grin*
Alas, I'm still at sea about the specifics of the Terezi-Vriska-Tavros-Aradia clusterfuck, except that it started partly as a way for Vriska to prove herself to Mindfang and did NOT end with Aradia dead. I really need to plan that out.
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Date: 2012-10-12 07:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-12 07:53 am (UTC)And it was such a pain, too! Nobody could get into a whole section of the Commons, so a bunch of stores and restaurants lost a lot of business. Also people kept coming in and asking/telling me about it, as if I had somehow failed to notice the giant SWAT van parked right across the street from the smoke shop's front door. :-/ I get that people want to talk about an event, but after the first five times, it is no longer news; it's just annoying.