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New Questions abound, large and small (Patreon)

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2020-08-31 03:42:36
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Hello everybody! As you will have noticed, Sword Bow and Horse is up now. Stallion of the line will be up tomorrow, as will FILFy. Nad Destroyer got it back to me earlier tonight, and I will go through it tomorrow. Stallion is with Hiryo and Tomon, who will hopefully be able to get it back to me sometime tomorrow as well as I would like their opinion on several points within the chapter. Regardless, it will be posted before midnight tomorrow.

Anyway, with the August stuff done or nearly so, it is time to think of the future. And in the pursuit of that, I have some questions to ask you all. This will not be the only post I make, but it will be the one to actually have questions about specific stories

1. With the work on SB&H finished, it should come as no surprise that the first questions are about it. 

A. In the last chapter, I tried to use Ranma as a sort of jumpstart to getting Valentina, and through her a lot of other people – mostly OCs- thinking in terms of guns, and steam in the future. This was so that I could introduce steampunk elements later on, a type of story I’ve no yet been able to delve into. So my question is, did it work? Is it interesting enough to follow through? Or do you think it just is too silly, and I should give it up? Just have Tina develop muskets instead.

B. This is a question for a few chapters in the future: how strong should Thenardier be in comparison to Roland and Elen? His style more resembles Roland, and he was able to beat Elen off in canon, but his body wasn’t up to standing up to an arrow to the forehead from Tigre. So I am wondering where he should be in terms of durability? Should I make it that the arrow penetrated due to being shot far faster than any other arrow due to the black bow, or should he be a glass cannon, able to do damage but not take it in turn?

C. Should Ranma go on an anti-slavery crusade in Muozinel in the future? I have other ideas of what he should be doing, but I am wondering if people would like to see him use more espionage and trickery and so forth to try to overthrow an entire society based on slavery? Warning: this is not going to be as easy as in 

2. My next two questions are about FilFy Teacher. It should come as no surprise that I try to finish off the Ireland stuff in the next chapter, and after that FILFy will be on a month long hiatus before being one of the small story poll choices. After that will be a aftermath chapter and then a transfer to Egypt and the adventure there (not all in one chapter LOL). My question is about the Egyptian adventure. 

A. First, is there have anyone among you who has been there? If so, could I respectfully ask to pick your brain? PM me if so.

B. second, if there are any among you who have studied Egyptian mythology, I will also cheerfully inquire about that from you as well.  Again, PM me so we can talk without spoilers being shared.

C. I would like to introduce a man or boy from the church, an exorcist who won’t leap to conclusions about Asia. Are there any such characters already existing? Beyond that giant bald priest guy whose name I can never remember. I’m not looking for a permanent character, but someone who can start to sooth the troubled waters between Harry and the church, since Irina and Xenovia are not really representatives of that body.

Other questions about FIlfy will be forthcoming after the chapter is posted, due to fear of spoilers.

3. And now a hop over to my other DxD crossover, GDWHOM: 

A. This question is about two chapters away from being important, but it’s one I have fought with myself over. My initial thought in this story was to have Sairaorg Bael and Kasumi meet and for the two of them to fall in love. But I am having second thoughts about introducing Bael so soon, simply because he is so much stronger than any of the characters at present. Ranma has more potential, but he can’t use the magic of Jusenkyo very well just yet. So should I keep this pairing and just push it back, or have one of the other male characters (not Ranma, they are bro and sis) show interest in her?

B. I intend to use this story to explore other mythologies a lot – yes the characters will be traveling the world LOL. So after Japan and China’s, what mythology most interests you all?

C. For DxD experts, beyond Sun Wukong, are there any other Chinese mythological figures mentioned in DxD canon? And I’m not talking about weapons, but characters here.

I have several questions about Stallion of the Line, but all of them have a slight spoiling smell about them, so they too will wait for now.

4. Because of that, we will go on to Fate Touched.  There is only one question here. What does everyone think of Tauriel, and pairing her with Harry instead of eventually pairing him with Eowyn? This is a BIG question, since having Harry be in a relationship with an Elf or even just interested in an Elf will change how he spends his time in the intervening years between the events of the Fellowship (or what I will be writing instead LOL) and thus would change a great deal of the, call it the middle of the story I suppose. It would also mean having Harry be pushed towards effective immortality rather than wanting to be more mortal/normal. Further, what will be his impact on Tuariel, not just the reverse? Big topics, all leading back to a single question here people.

That’s all for now folks, hope you all had a fun and safe August. Watch out for the September polls to be posted tomorrow, and happy reading!

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Tom smith

3a yea just pushed back. 4 yea elf pairing ftw

Novus

Wanted to actually read Sword, Bow and Horse before I replied. 1A) I love steampunk and hope you do add some in! I'm not AT ALL familiar with the source material of the Vanadis series, but with that caveat, you seem to be doing a decent job so far of drifting that way. 1B) I have no idea on account of having zero clues about the source material. 1C) I'm always on board with anti-slavery campaigns. It's among the most horrible things one human can do to another and I suspect it would bother Ranma a lot. For numerous reasons. 2 & 3 - I don't read your DxD fiction for reasons I've mentioned before. I have, however, been to Egypt before and could answer at least general questions. Obviously, I can't answer anything specific to those stories, due to the aforementioned not reading. 4 - I can't describe how strongly I say YES to HarryxTauriel. Just...Yes. honestly she's a much better fit for him, I think. For all that I like Eowyn, she's...kinda a bit too much Harry's opposite. Harry might have a saving people thing and a willingness to take action...but he's honestly not really an adventurer seeking adventure. You've shown an understanding of that basic character trait throughout your Harry/Whatever stories...and that runs directly counter to Eowyn's thirst for glory/to prove herself. I just can't see them fitting all that well together.

vimesenthusiast
>>43305799

1A. Next stage will be to introduce a think tank, and then have enough characters willing to ask the questions of 'does this work' or 'what happens if i do this'. LOL. Should be fun. 1C. Sad part is it's still with us in a massive portion of the world - except it's not normally about work any longer, but sex and power. It does bother Ranma a lot, but the problem is, in Bosco it was based on an economical thing - the salt mines, and the power of the various slavers. Here, slavery is part of the societal bedrock. Not certain Ranma has the tools to deal with that. Free a lot of slaves, maybe, but really change the society? And slave revolts are like peasant revolts. A whole lot of blood. Look at the Russian Civil war, or the rise of Stalin just as an example. 2&3. That's what I'm after right now. So, to the point: how crowded are the villages and towns? What are the people like, i suppose - i know that's vague, but it kind of has to be.. And what is the food like? Is it as bad as it is often portrayed in movies and TV shows away from the tourist areas? 3. Harry has no thirst for glory no. A thirst to explore, do what is right, yes. As for Harry/Tauriel, Everyone seems to agree that's a good idea, so with a few caveats, I can say it is a lock.

Novus
>>43305799

So, two caveats first. My information/memories of Egypt are from the time around 2000. I don't know when you've set your stories, so it might not be a perfect match. And second, I mostly stuck to the cites and towns, so villages I can't speak much about. Not, at least, aside from what little I saw when more or less passing through, or about the ones that sprung up around tourist sites, which probably aren't all that accurate a genearl feel. Having said that... So, a couple of generalities first, that might be helpful. The first...Egypt is basically a giant open-air museum. To the point that one of the towns/cities (Luxor) actually has that as it's 'nickname'. However, while Luxor is an extreme example, it's not all that muct more so than a lot of the rest of Egpyt. Bluntly put, there are ruins EVERYWHERE. Every city, every town, even those few villages I passed through? All of them have at least a few ancient walls, statues, pillars, or similar. To the point that even the archologists just don't bother with most of it. In part, this is because of just how very very LONG Egypt was a major power in the ancient world. However, there is another factor here that's important. That being the second general bit...which is a partial answer to one of your questions (regarding crowding). The Nile is everything. Period. The bullshit you see in movies about trekking out into the deep desert to find some ancient location is, in fact, almost entirely bullshit. While there are a few osasis's that make that statment very slightly untrue...the truth is that even in modern times 95% of Egypts population lives on the Nile. And that was even more true in ancient times than now, since they didn't have the capcity to bring in lots of water (not even for work crews to build thing). The Pyrimds, the Valley of Kings, all the major cities and towns, EVERYTHING is on the Nile river. Which leads to something predictable...population density is actually pretty high. Egypt has a population in the 100 million range, and it almost all lives along the Nile. I myself never travelled out the the oasises, so I can't say if it's true out there, but along the Nile cities/towns it was almost always somewhat crowded. Not horribly so in the smaller cities, but more than you'd expect in similarly sized towns in the U.S. or Europe. Small multistory houses, densly packed together, with most of the open areas actually being around ancient sites and such, kept open by rules against destroying them combined with the desire to draw tourists. While the handful of fishing villages and such MIGHT be different (I don't know) virtually all of the populated places I visited were pretty crowded. Food. Yes it's bad. In point of fact, it's actually pretty medicore even in tourist areas. I swear the hamburger I had at a resturant just across the way from a 5-star Hilton hotel HAD to have been antelope or something, not hamburger. Because it sure as heck didn't taste like beef. Inside tourist areas, it's usually all at least edible, and the DRINKS are just fine (a lot of bottled water and common sodas like Sprite and Coke were avialble pretty much everywhere). But it wasn't 'great' even in the nicer tourist places, and the farther you went from them the lower the quality was. Mind you, that Quality comment is important. Strictly speaking, the food isn't actually BAD so much as it's Low Quality. Imagine the loewest quality ground beef you've ever bought in the United State or Europe, then consider that the Highest Quality of meat you'll find outside high-end places catering to tourists. The actual dishes might be strange, but not bad...they just suffer BADLY from poor quality ingrediants. The people...that's a hard one. Technically, most of them tend towards being overly freindly to the point of it being horribly fake, at least when interacting with foreigners. And they badger everyone with 120% energy, making used car salesmen looks plebian and honest in comparison. More on that later, though. When/if you can manage to get past that, they seem to have only two states of esistence. Calm and hospitiable...and utterly...frenetic. That's the best word I can find for the them if you get the engaged with something. At rest they can be very calm, almost zen seeming, and very warm (assuming you're male, women have a more mixed experiance). But the moment they start doing...anything, they tend to turn in very fast talking, gesticulating, very excitable, directions. Not all are that way, of course, but it was startlingly common. The second to last generality I'll cover is this: it surprised me how many of the locals spoke at least broken English. In part, this has to do with it being an ex-colony of the UK. However, one of the local guides I spoke with at length explained there was/is another reason for it, which is most of the reason I mention it at all. According to him, there are actually SO MANY differant dialects of Arabic, that any two speakers of it might actually find it seriously hard to hold a conversation in Arabic with each other. Since Egpyt is sort of a mixing pot of Arabic speakers, drawing in a lot of non-natives from the middle east region due to it's properity, this is actually enough of an issue that a significant chunk of the population actually knows enough English to use it as a sort of trade language. The fact that tourism is such a huge part of their economy also has an influence, since the sterotypical picture of hustlers pawning things on gullible tourists is VERY accurate. They are EVERYWHERE, near EVERY historial site. If you're white, or otherwise forgein, you'll be fending off a constant, never-ending chain of souvineir peddlars. I'll never forget the sheer stupid number of times I got offered whole armloads of stuff in exchange for 'yankee doodle dollars.' And yes, they actually call American currency that. And, at least when I was there, they prefered it over Egyptian pounds. Like, by a lot. The constant stream of badggering is actually bad enough that some shops will put up 'No Badger' signs just to draw in people with the promise of NOT being badggered to death to buy things -_-. Lastly, something else on the subject of money...there is a huge stumbling block for most people visiting Egypt. Pretty much every local guide or experianced traveller will warn you about it. Namely, tipping (or what they call Backsheesh, though I rarely heard the word actually used there). It's actually a cultural thing, big time, and it's expected from not just toruists but locals, and in what we (westerners) would consder WEIRD places. Personally, the weirdist for me was the bathrooms. Most of the public ones have attendants, who you're expected to tip (very small amounts) in order to recieve a few squares of toliet paper from. Weirded me the heck out. But that was only the oddest example. Locals will happily tell you all about the history of a place (which may or may not be accurate) but expect a tip in exchange. Virtually anyone will give you directions, but it's considered common courtesy to tip them if they do. And they always prefer you to be non-obvious about it, simply folding a small bill in your hand and shaking theirs with it. I didn't believe it when I was first told, until I saw it all at work. It's everywhere, for everything. Thankfully, the amounts ARE small. Usually just 1 or 2 Egyptian Pounds (which were worth less than 1/3 a US dollar when I was there, and I think it's actually much worse now). Hmmm....ah. One more thing. Cairo. I have no idea if you intend them to have your characters visit Cario. However, it is a COMPLETELY different animal from the rest of Egypt, so I figured I'd mention that fact. Cairo is...imagine if New York had twice the population densitiy, the city planners had given up and were crying in a corner, a bottle of cheap rotgut in hand, traffic laws were barely suggestions, cops were armed with sub-machine guns and more like soliders than cops, and half the city looked like it would fall apart if you breathed wrong on it. That's Cario. Much like a city such a New York, the people of Cairo tend to be less friendly then those in the smaller cities, and far more...desperate. I felt reasonablly safe in most of Egypt. But far FAR less so in Cario then anywhere else. There's a lot of soliders scattered throughout the town...for good reason. It was the only part of Egypt that I felt genuinely unsafe leaveing the tourist areas. And the sheer sprawling oddness of the place was almost alien. It had it's modern buildings...right next to ones that were clearly built out of ancient sandstone blocks, looted from places like the pyramids. I'm not sure it wasn't an exaggeration, but a local guide there told me that something like a third of the older part of the city had been built out of materials like that, long before the pyramids had become a protected sight. That's...about all I can think of :-).

vimesenthusiast
>>43305799

Thank you for all this. It was precisely what I wanted to create the feel of Egypt as Harry and co. head there. I suppose a specific question would be an opinion: what would the reaction to Asia be there, do you think? And how should I play the Muslim aspect...

Novus
>>43305799

You're welcome, I'm glad it was useful! Fair warning...Patreon seems to have cut me off on my first attempt to reply. So if there's two comments, ignore the first (incomplete one) :-(. As to your specific question about Asia...there's two aspects of that. For the first one, timeline matters somewhat, as there was a pretty big upheval in Egpyt circa 2011, that caused some ongoing issues for women's equality there. I mention this not just for Asia, but for the other's traveling with Harry (since, from the bits of FILFY I've read, they are mostly women? I'm afraid I haven't read the other story at all and only skimmed parts of FILFY). Thankfully, because Egypt is tourism heavy, the government has (much like the United Arab Emirates with Dubai), largely come down HARD on attacks on foriegn nationals. However, despite that, women traveling ALONE in Cario specifically are likely to be verbally harassed to some degree. The rest of Egypt is less volatile in that regard, though there might occasionally still be very mild issues. Physical confrontation against foriegn women travelers is unlikely, thankfully (though that's sadly very much not true for locals). The aspect I think you were mostly asking about though would be the relgious bit. Which is...something I can't speak out from personal experiance, as I didn't advertise that I myself am Christian. Strictly speaking, religious freedom is assured by the Egyptian constitution, and Christianity IS the second largest religion in the country. However, that only amounts to around 10%, and the local Christian communities have had...trouble...with the government. Not from the top, so much as from the more local authorities. The trouble with your question about Asia specifically is that...I have no idea how the locals would react to someone openly displaying Christian faith. I also, as a reminder, haven't fully read either of your works and am only losely familar with the source material. If your Asia is wearing the nun outfits I've often seen her pictured it...the reaction might be negative to such a blantant display. Anything short of that, or of attempting to preach to the locals, she'd PROBABLY be fine, since she's a foreginer. They might not be happy with her, exactly, but probably wouldn't caused any real trouble. Of course, that's all based on our world. If Islam is your setting has it's own supernatural power structure...who the heck knows? I'm not even sure how that would WORK, from what little I know about DxD, since both religions technically follow the same God, but violently disagree on a lot of what that means, as well as what else to follow. SInce, as I understand it, one of the factions is DIRECTLY invovled with the church in DxD...how would that even work?