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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ycore Rixle" data-source="post: 4258871" data-attributes="member: 675">A couple notes on my story and re:[sblock]Thanks for the comments, Berandor! I agree that Rhys's character as shown is a bit uneven with regards to being a bastard. There could be more of his earlier (pre-story, post-dreaming) womanizing and flouting of the court.Ok, since I didn't get a chance to post anything like this earlier, here are a couple of general notes on the story:1. Doh! I forgot to post the title. It's "The Ones That Fought for Sarntis."2. I had Lovecraft's "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" and LeGuin's "The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas" in mind while writing it. I'd always wanted to try writing about a dream-city, albeit with a different ending.3. I was trying to keep a dream-like tone to the narration in a couple of ways, like using a lot of latinate words and starting sentences with a lot of conjunctions. That was fun!4. Funny that PC and I had different takes on the sex of the figure in the boat. It's hard to tell. Maybe we both should have named that figure's character Pat. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />5. I tried to pick images (limes and limelight, clockwork tortoises) that would combine disparate elements and play to a unity vs. disunity theme.6. Also funny that PC and I each reversed moods from the first round (dark to light or light to dark).[/sblock]Good luck to everybody!</blockquote>

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