What if someone commits suicide on purpose? If they come back and linger around our beloveds, do they count as the same character?

Sandra

This is something I never expected.

Sorry I was away. You wouldn't believe the day I had at work.  

Looks like I'm a ghost or something like that now.  Not sure.  I can be sure that my character is dead because it's marked on the tracksheet.  

I'm not sure I approve of the clone.  But what's done is done.  Thank you Sandra for tying up all those inconsistencies in a way that only you could have done it.  I'll fix the bolds for you.

I'll fix up the tracksheet soon because it's gonna take a bit to figure out.

Everyone else, remember, this script isn't expected to be completely logical.  You can follow a thread of logic that exists or strike off in your own direction.  It's more enjoyable for the readers if you try to make it logical but there's no rules in regard to that for this particular game.  

Alffy is up next and he has murder on his mind.

  

I wish I could get the other emoticons working...

Oh no! Then we'd really be in trouble!

Tracksheet is updated and emails are sent.

Oh! And an update on Blakkwolfe.  I heard from him.  He's busy IRL at the moment and says that he won't be able to make this round though he will probably make the next.  I'll look for a ghostwriter for his turn or do you think it's better if I just drop his turn?

I say drop the turn.

Why don't you write it Michael?

Your writing is always a welcome read and since you were taken out of the game pretty early...  

But wouldn't that be asking him to take four turns (the first turn and another turn in the game, a second time)? I think that's too much.  

Yeah! You could be a GHOST WRITER!

MC...we do enjoy your writing... but only you know what your work and life schedule are...so make your decision accordingly.

I'm for dropping the character...I think we have plenty going on right now...lol

Missee Sandra   I do believe that two personalitites can inhabit one body...but when you kill that body...both spiritual inhabitants are gone.

A clone is another body...identical to the first it was cloned from.  So inmy mind...it is another character...

No worries though...I will roll with this and see where it takes us. I'm still confused about Cornetto though...I'm also confused about the A and B stuff...perhaps you can give us a little more info or back story so these things fall into place.

I realize that I am more of a logical sort...but I can swing like Jane when it's necessary.   (no hidden inuendos there people! *wink*)

~M~

I was trying to fit everything in and wound up with very little time to try and integrate things. Our lovely Pia had killed our Michael, but then was asking for help when Gabriel threw Cornetto overboard: My solution? Turn Gabriel into a clone thereby creating a "good assassin". (I just don't get bad vibes from Gabriel!)

The muses always come and hit on the serious side of things-- hence: I couldn't subdue the hilarity.

Michael was doing a lot of devious smiling in the first scene and someone mentioned in the discussion about Bert bringing him back to life- that's where that idea came from. I thought heck yeah! Good idea!

In the scene with Cornetto and Morgan- where they knew each other, I thought- hey it seems these people and others know each other too. That's when the whole:

Subtle superpowers came into play. I was thinking: What if?

These people were brought to the ship because they all have these special powers. They all worked for The Agency- but The Agency has two components: The A- Good side and The B- Bad side. You know- the polarity issues we deal with in regular life: hot/cold sad/funny bitter/sweet light/dark order/chaos life/death... And somehow, the balance has been tipped cosmically and the Maya dream theme of life is being overturned by nightmares.

I was playing with the idea that none of our cast of characters are bad, but they have been working for the agency- perhaps even switching sides from A to B- just to keep order.

Zadora's character led me to thinking she might not be a complete vampire- but a hybrid... and that she might be my half sister. I was playing with the idea that all of our cast has the same soul code- hence the strange superpower abilities and the connections that were written up in previous scenes.

When Zadora said Uh oh! There is a second captain isn't there?

I couldn't help but play with the idea of Cornetto having a clone and somehow there's a link with Bert's interesting history as a doctor who was frowned upon by his peers.

When Cornetto says, "Bermuda Triangle… Ha ha, what nonsense.
Nothing bad ever happens out here." I loved that and tried to incorporate that idea.

With dialogue like this:

STE
You two know each other?

Bush raises his glass.

BUSH
Cheers!  Yeah, I’ve been to more than a few parties where Spud’s been servin’.  A d*rn good bartender, if I do say so.  Cream of the crop.

*And this:

MORGAN
I’d say it’s been a long time Cornetto…

Recognition lights his face as he turns toward her voice.  His eyes soften for a brief moment, then…turn to steel.

CORNETTO
Yes it has…it’s been a very long time Morgan.

MORGAN
It doesn’t look like much has changed…except for …you’ve gained a little weight I see.


I thought again- these people know each other. How can I create a connection? A reason for them to be on the ship together- not just random killings, but something uncontrolled and related to the Bermuda thing- a paradox.

When:

ORANGE
Purely precaution my friend. Not my usual choice of blade but, it’s definitely more...subtle.

She takes the crystal and places it on his forehead. She closes her eyes. A blue light swirls around the gem and Cornetto’s head before disappearing inside the crystal. It glows momentarily before fading.

I thought of incorporating the soul gentics idea.

Anyways, that was some of what was going on when I worked that scene. The muses were busy. I couldn't stop laughing at some of what I was writing and then I just went with it.

Sandra

Sorry Sandra, but I'm completely clueless as to what is now going on or even what was going on in your head when you wrote this last explanation post.

Where are all these clones coming from?  Were tehy somehow just cloned on the ship by the good Dr., or did they walk on with like everyone else?  Hoe did Captain Cornetto come back to life?  What's with this Agency thing?

I don't want to sound like an ass, but I don't see how anyone can carry all these themes out now.  It will be very interesting to see what the next post looks like.

I think I'm just going to stay at the bar and drink until my Elven clone appears, wearing ancient Viking battle armor, waving a "St. Louis Rams" flag.

Hello Dreamscale,

I was thinking that it might be possible that the Bermuda is distorting reality somehow. As far as Cornetto is concerned: I imagined that his evil clone was killed and that he's still alive. We need someone to steer the ship.

Zadora changed in the scene that Gabriel wrote. She was crying out for help. That's why I wrote her to be in distress- the dark side really taking over her for the most part, (the hybrid factor) but here, as she exits off the bridge, (after Cornetto was thrown over) she's fighting back- she's confused and disoriented- kind of like a split personality in ways.

Where are the clones coming from? Maybe Dr. Bert's experiments with some kind of God code- maybe he's pushed too hard on nature's limits or something and that's released a shift in the cosmos and it's messing with perceptions?

I'm excited to see where Alffy takes us next. And how does all his mail stealing figure into this? This is going to be fun! I'm dying with laughter!!!

Sandra

I'd just like to appologise for the slugs not being bold, they were when I wrote it but not when I posted? Also sorry for the change in direction but I was completely stuck as to where to go after the last post.

Quoted from Sandra E I'm excited to see where Alffy takes us next. And how does all his mail stealing figure into this? This is going to be fun!

I hope I answered this but probably not the way you wanted. You can always come back yet, although you might have to draw straws with Michael.