Thread:AngryLance/@comment-37028137-20200128044919/@comment-37028137-20200419153504

Greetings Lance,

Saw this yesterday but I couldn't respond I had to wait for the shakes to die down a bit otherwise my typing was just a bunch of gobbledegook.

Yes I really wanted to take Vellantha up  to that moral line without crossing it. I was pushing for a sense of uncertainty and fear and those two together can drive a normal person to do unspeakable things.

At this point in the timeline Mamono-Kind hass access to modern technology, it's only the Order that are still living in squalor. Which is one of the reasons Vellantha wants to free Humanity from the chief god. So modern medical attire wouldn't be remiss. And actually they will have Starships and be exploring space and time eventually. Vellantha is basically a genius who excels at Magi-Tech engineering so she starts creating Starships to leave the planet and the Order behind. But of course it doesn't go to plan.

As for Nick's scars well when you've lived as risky a life hopping across inhospitable Dimensions fighting evil, you're bound to get beaten and bruised. The tattoo will come up later but I figured it would be good to show it there first so the reader can have some recollection of it later on.

The Baphomet is a nurse because like all medical practices it's based on skill. I wouldn't let a Ryu with no medical training operate on me, no I'd rather have the Honey Bee with twenty years experience. As for just being a nurse well Nicholas is the Commanding Officer of the whole medical branch but since he's only been there a short while (I think five weeks since the time jumps haven't started yet.) he doesn't really know who has skill and who doesn't. That'll come later.

Mm, yes everyone always pushes the fact that the Order are basically a fanatical totalitarian regieme bent on genocide out of mental view. The 'chief god' is usually called the 'false god' by Vellantha because she utterly hates her, since she believes a real god would never murder hundreds of thousands of people. Frankly I don't know how I'm going reconcile the 'Original' chief god and the new one. I'm not even sure how their story will end.

Yes well I wanted to give thwe characters a few issues to wrestle with. Seeing that Vellantha is in charge of the entire military, she's seen a lot of horrible things during the war with the Order. The same could be said of Nicholas, but you'll get there.

Yes since TARDISES are sentient I thought it would be neat to have her communicate and interact with the other characters, give advice that sort of thing. She actually has three names. The first is her Gallifreyan one but it will never be revealed in the novel since only Time Lords can hear old high Gallifreyan as the temporal ressonance is undetectable to non chronometric species. Nicholas actually called the TARDIS Silmë  seperately to the other characters, which he explains to the confused Vellantha.

--“Thank you for coming along with me Nick I wasn’t sure you’d want to when Emma and I came up with the idea.” Cocking my head to the side I mentally grasped at straws trying to discern what Vellantha was talking about. “Who? ...Ah yes your name for Silmë still not sure of it. But I’m glad you invited me.” “As am I… Out of curiosity why do you call your TARDIS that particular name? It’s so hard to pronounce and so strange.” I grinned under the dim lighting back towards my drinking companion as I composed my thoughts. “That may be so but it seemed to fit my TARDIS and her personality perfectly. You see the term Silmë is part of the Quenya language and means starlight, roughly translated at least. There’s nothing exact in your terms. But I chose that name because Silmë raised me, took care of me, kept me safe, she’s family and she was the one speck of light for me during a very dark time in my life. That’s why I refer to her in such a manner, it’s special and it reminds me of what’s important in life every time I utter it.” “That is…beautiful and sad.” Shrugging I let out a sigh. “Most beautiful things in life are sad Vellantha.”--

Vellantha actually gives the TARDIS her third name, Emma because she can't pronounce Silmë (That's a running joke no one besides Nick can pronounce it.)

Silmë is actually a Hologram made from Hard Light, if you've seen Star Trek Voyager, they have a Holographic Doctor onboard, so that's where I got the idea from, at least in part.

Yes the teleport was a bit sudden

--“You’re right I can’t move far from my interior, you know most people realize when they’ve been teleported."--

But I wanted it to be a bit of a jolt since Vellantha was stuck in her thoughts she didn't notice the change. Yes Nick just vanished but it's explained further on.

Well hope everything's going well, right now I'm in wait mode so to speak, I was hoping the Role Play session would pick up some steam by now. Hmm ah well.

Cheers,

The Weary TimeLord.