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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 1327986" data-attributes="member: 1025">One other kind of sad funny thing: When Bandeeto asked me to tell him what I thought ought to happen next I kept starting and then stalling out and saying--no wait--that won't work--we've lost Tarnby. He sat there and smirked at me as I realized what a hole I'd painted myself into. I mean, Tarnby.  Ok, the theory was that Syyalea picked him because the girls are so chaotic inside that he wasn't certain he could work them predictably. Tarnby is a very simple, straightforward kind of guy, so it was a lot easier to guarantee that he'd do what Syyalea expected him to do on stage. Syyalea's the kind of artist that likes his own work to be novel and interesting, but doesn't like his media to provide the surprises. But underneath that literary justification was an instinctive sense I had that Tarnby was the least developed of the four, and therefore A. In need of some exploration, and B. Expendable. And now I come to realize that while he was less exciting that the others to write, he was also the only really mentally stable member of the group. One of those glue characters that keeps the party together.  I find that now that I come to think about whether to go on with them or not, I miss him a lot more than I thought I would.</blockquote>