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Swords, Sorcery, And Then Some!

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May Die Is Right




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May Die Is Right

by ScottHicken on January 15, 2014 at 1:19 am
Chapter: 22 - The World's Edge
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Discussion (17) ¬

  1. Zenspeed
    January 15, 2014, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    Channeling some Mass Effect there?

  2. Deceptobot
    January 15, 2014, 4:30 am | # | Reply

    Did he just use a lot of words to say, “DOOOOOM!!”?

  3. charles
    January 15, 2014, 7:24 am | # | Reply

    hmmm, this page and the other “article” make me much more… I’m looking for the right word here… appreciative? Respectiful? towards Osir.

    If he gets a final narration as they return from the world’s edge to the Barbarian camp, then I would feel very comfortable with him uttering “DOOM” at the end. I feel he has earned his place as something more than a narrator now. A true Doomsayer.

    I can even see a panel after with a comforting hand upon his shoulder and a look of sympathy or slight pride from Old Mac, passing on the flame.

    I searched for reference to all this in the Ode I commented previously (mainly due to the Snozberry quoted title of a page). But now I’m seeing much more of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Narrators/Doomsayers are the prisoner who has been taken away to see the truth of the world and then returned to the chained wall to try and explain to the fellow prisoners that what they see upon the wall and afford so much value to are nothing but shadows of carvings of the real creatures.

  4. Skeffles
    January 15, 2014, 7:43 am | # | Reply

    He is chastizing us readers for wanting to see characters end up in humiliating situations, just for our pleasure. I do hope he slips and falls on his a!s.

  5. Matt [in Middletown]
    January 15, 2014, 8:49 am | # | Reply

    The narrator is the embodiment of the fourth wall.

  6. charles
    January 15, 2014, 9:03 am | # | Reply

    @Matt: No, the narrator sees through the 4th wall, yet may never pass and take his existence beyond it. He knows when we are watching and delivers his speeches as are scripted, in the most dramatic of areas, but no matter what. He and his world are all scripted, right down the the fact he knows he’s scripted.

  7. SirVimes
    January 15, 2014, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    Wait, is the waking dreamer the author or us?

  8. charles
    January 15, 2014, 9:37 am | # | Reply

    @SirVimes: the Waking Dreamer appears to be the Author, but the author is creating and telling this take to US. sharing it with us, if you will.

    We have little or no control over the dream. The Author controls it while we merely observe.

  9. Guesticus
    January 15, 2014, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    Damn dude, that is deep (probably deeper and truthfuller than you can imagine)

  10. Cerulean Lion
    January 15, 2014, 10:50 am | # | Reply

    Evil grows in the dark
    Where the sun, it never shines.
    Evil grows in cracks and holes
    And lives in people’s minds.

  11. Angrod
    January 15, 2014, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

    That was dangerously close to breaking the 4th wall…

  12. Naldru
    January 15, 2014, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

    There is an alternative to the waking dreamer being the author. They could be characters in a computer simulation. (Think of the holodeck episodes on the Star Trek Next Generation or the Reboot series.) He communicates with beings that think they control the situation, but who are themselves puppets of the author. This would explain the idea of multiple waking dreamers.

  13. O.B Juan
    January 15, 2014, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

    “You have learned too much.” (puts on sunglasses)

    And now before you go, please look at this thing I’m holding for a short vision test.

  14. Hikaro
    January 15, 2014, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

    @Naidru: So, you’re suggesting that Exiern is just some sort of Warcraft mod?

  15. Guesticus
    January 16, 2014, 8:59 am | # | Reply

    No! Not that crappy wannabe game, WAR not Whorecraft

  16. Thisguy
    July 22, 2017, 10:51 pm | # | Reply

    He know’s what you are, ScottHicken

  17. Boaty McBoatface
    October 15, 2017, 10:22 pm | # | Reply

    This is some Lovecraftian s!!t if I’ve ever seen it.

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