CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Headstall]

15 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

It's currently pouring outside. 

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It's regular rain, not spiders!

 

It rains in hell?  

[spike382]

14 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

It's currently pouring outside. 

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It's regular rain, not spiders!

 

Oh thank god, that was a close one for you sweetie.  I’d hate :cough: love :cough: for you to get stuck outside again. 👀

[Albert1434]

2 minutes ago, spike382 said:

Oh thank god, that was a close one for you sweetie.  I’d hate :cough: love :cough: for you to get stuck outside again. 👀

[spike382]

2 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

This is both beautiful and horrifying. 

[Page Scrawler]

@Drew Espinosa I have a story pitch I think you might like. It's loosely inspired by Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with more of a Thai/Vietnamese influence. 23-year-old Lamon is fresh from the police academy in the Floating City of the Dragon. His first assigned post: to return to the neighborhood he knew as a child. Seeking out familiar faces, Lamon goes to a well-loved noodle shop in the old neighborhood. Inside, he finds his childhood friend, Boon-Nam, who has assumed ownership of the restaurant following his grandmother's passing. Some thugs are causing problems, and so, as an officer of the law, Lamon is forced to act. Lamon's timely appearance rekindles old feelings Boon-Nam thought he had buried since he was a teen; feelings that Lamon might actually reciprocate. But Lamon's intervention sends ripples through the city's criminal underworld, ripples big enough to swell into a typhoon that could plunge the city into anarchy.

 

[Drew Espinosa]

20 minutes ago, Headstall said:

It rains in hell?  

[Drew Espinosa]

20 minutes ago, spike382 said:

Oh thank god, that was a close one for you sweetie.  I’d hate [redacted] for you to get stuck outside again. 👀

How should I threaten you today?  

[Drew Espinosa]

20 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Stop messing around with AI, Gorgeous!

[Drew Espinosa]

6 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

@Drew Espinosa I have a story pitch I think you might like. It's loosely inspired by Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with more of a Thai/Vietnamese influence. 23-year-old Lamon is fresh from the police academy in the Floating City of the Dragon. His first assigned post: to return to the neighborhood he knew as a child. Seeking out familiar faces, Lamon goes to a well-loved noodle shop in the old neighborhood. Inside, he finds his childhood friend, Boon-Nam, who has assumed ownership of the restaurant following his grandmother's passing. Some thugs are causing problems, and so, as an officer of the law, Lamon is forced to act. Lamon's timely appearance rekindles old feelings Boon-Nam thought he had buried since he was a teen; feelings that Lamon might actually reciprocate. But Lamon's intervention sends ripples through the city's criminal underworld, ripples big enough to swell into a typhoon that could plunge the city into anarchy.

 

Ooh, I love it!

[Page Scrawler]

1 minute ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Ooh, I love it!

Glad to hear it; I thought you might. 

[spike382]

4 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

Glad to hear it; I thought you might. 

Page was that something you came up with?  It sounds awesome.  

[spike382]

9 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

How should I threaten you today?  

The teasing writes itself.  It's reflexive.  I have no conscious control over it... 

[Page Scrawler]

6 minutes ago, spike382 said:

Page was that something you came up with?  It sounds awesome.  

Yes, it was. 

[Drew Espinosa]

3 minutes ago, spike382 said:

The teasing writes itself.  It's reflexive.  I have no conscious control over it... 

Ayan is now being questioned by Vegas.

[spike382]

2 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

Yes, it was. 

Well I'm really into cultivation stories and isekai and xianxia, and multiple western stories inspired by those kinds of stories.  So I would be all over that story. 

[spike382]

3 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Ayan is now being questioned by Vegas.

I don't know, Ayan has pretty good counters against anyone threatening him physically.  Vegas better watch out, Ayan might just seduce him, and he'll be letting him go before he even realizes it. 

[Drew Espinosa]

2 minutes ago, spike382 said:

Vegas better watch out, Ayan might just seduce him, and he'll be letting him go before he even realizes it. 

That worked on Akk because Akk was a bit clueless. There's nothing clueless about Vegas though.

[Page Scrawler]

7 minutes ago, spike382 said:

Well I'm really into cultivation stories and isekai and xianxia, and multiple western stories inspired by those kinds of stories.  So I would be all over that story. 

Well, I guess it could be considered a "cultivation" story---but the only individuals capable of using it are foxes/gumiho. They were more prominent in the past, but have mostly hidden themselves away as technology and industrial-scale magic became commonplace. Also, as far as this story is concerned, there's only "one world". No reincarnation, no alternate dimensions, etc, so it isn't an "isekai" story. 

[Drew Espinosa]

18 minutes ago, spike382 said:

Well I'm really into cultivation stories and isekai and xianxia, and multiple western stories inspired by those kinds of stories.  So I would be all over that story. 

Get to watching The Untamed then!

[raven1]

12 hours ago, Headstall said:

Um... Terry... I thought you were my friend...   Don't be throwing me under the Drew bus.  

Sorry Gary!  I did it in a moment of panic.  

[spike382]

46 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

Well, I guess it could be considered a "cultivation" story---but the only individuals capable of using it are foxes/gumiho. They were more prominent in the past, but have mostly hidden themselves away as technology and industrial-scale magic became commonplace. Also, as far as this story is concerned, there's only "one world". No reincarnation, no alternate dimensions, etc, so it isn't an "isekai" story. 

Well it didn't sound like a 1-for-1 of any of those genres, I just meant that I like the eastern inspiration, something somewhat in the same vein as similar stories that I've read.  The industrial-scale magic idea sounds really interesting.  

There's been a few "sci fi" cultivation books I see getting indy releases the past few years.  Some writers trying to pair cultivation with cyber punk of all things.  So you get that Blade Runner/Ghost in the Shell setting, and yet people meditating and expanding their cores to greater as they journey towards the heavens.  Pretty strange actually.    

[Drew Espinosa]

38 minutes ago, raven1 said:

Sorry Gary! 

You shouldn't be apologizing, Terry!

[Albert1434]

A little gift for Drew!

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[Drew Espinosa]

1 minute ago, Albert1434 said:

A little gift for Drew!

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[Drew Espinosa]

Morning y'all!  

 @Headstall if you're still not feeling any better, I'll have to ask you to bend over.