Right, events have moved on just enough (
just!) for me to start writing Part 8! Huzzah! So right now I'm trying very hard to make notes of part 5; this is not nearly as easy as it was making notes of parts 2, 3, 4 and the first bit of part 5. As I explained in a very recent conversation with Dripik which went a little something like this...
(Censored to remove spoilers)
Converting these parts of the RPG into the story is going to be much harder, even if it is all better written. Already I've massively rearranged the events in W@RF 5. There was a post where Stivik is having conversations with Kix, Dionysia, Otto, and Gappiqu, all on different topics and all at the same time.
So instead of doing it all at once, I'm going to 'untangle' the plots and play them one at a time. So the first chapter or two will be mopping up after the ____, including ____ telling ____ about ____, which happens in the RPG on about page 25. Then we'll go a bit further and have ____ be ____ by the Cartel, after which he'll mope and have some of the conversation he had with ____ in pages in the high teens, low twenties. Then we go back to page 8 and have ____ arrive; ____ will cross over with ____ a bit, with events from the high teens. After that, we go to the last couple of pages of Part 5 and have ____ talk to ____ about ____. And finally go back to page 9 to introduce ____ and start his relationship to ____.
Plus somewhere in all that I've got to establish ____ as a friend to ____, describe their relationship, introduce ____ to ____ and keep ____, ____ and ____ involved.
The rest of ____ and ____'s relationship, which took place entirely in W@RF 6, I want to spread out over W@RFs 7 and 8. Also, their relationship first starts when he sees her ____ over ____ leaving. But since he now hasn't arrived when ____ leaves, I'm going to have her ____ over a meeting with ____ instead, but this happens before ____ first came in the RPG. so I've got to make ____ a new first visit, establishing his relationship to ____ and to ____, which will mean bringing in events from W@RF 6, while trying to leave enough there to give body to what happens when he actually does come in the RPG. Oh, and I've got to find a totally original way for ____ to reveal his friendship with ____ to ____ which doesn't involve him openly declaring an undying, romantic attraction.
And somewhere in all that, ____ gets ____ and I have no idea who by or why, which means I've got to work out how ____ will react to Dek operating on ____. Then Dek will need to discover ____’s ____ and I have no idea if he'll be working alone or with Slap the intern or Praetyre the vykker. An intern would work better since Arnie's supposed to be skint, but Dek would need to have the sort of relationship with this assistant as he would with a vykker. Then I've got to work out how he reacts to this and why they don't tell ____, since being distracted by a meech seems unlikely. On top of that, I've got to work out if the assistant is still there later on and either why not, or how he'll get involved in later events with ____ that previously only involved ____. Then ____'s got to threaten this ____ that I don't even have a name for. And I've got to find a way of cheering ____ out of that particular well of depression that doesn't involve a native coming to the factory, meanwhile keeping Kix, Javi and Dean involved even though they’ve long-since left the RPG.
I think when Part 7 is written I'm going to hold a competition to see if people can fill in those blanks
In addition to that, of the seven sligs in Rupture Farms at the end of the last chapter, only two of them will still be there by page 7 of W@RF 6, (#7 and Arthur who aren't that involved anyway) and only one new slig will have come in to replace them (who will be very involved, but one out of six...). From where I am now and onwards, there is a real shortage of players who stayed more than a couple of months; no new characters stick around long enough to have any real impact, so finding sligs to keep the factory staffed is gonna be hard for me. I'm going to have to combine various characters together I think (sorry in advance to Uros), but really I'm facing a challenge. Plus i have to wade through heaps of
awful posts in W@RFs 5, 7 and 9 in particular. So on day two of converting W@RF into notes, I'm feeling very demotivated.
Plus upcoming RL things like jury duty I'm doing in two weeks and an IT course I'm supposed to be starting in one week but won't be able to because of jury duty... WAH!
I did want to give people still reading this a surprise by posting the next chapter without any forewarning, but I just needed to get this off of my chest (and, you know, procrastinate from reading W@RF 5 again).
While I'm here, does anyone mind if I use the word 'inebriated' in two or three chapters' time?