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[Fniff]

Sorry to people on the waitlist, but I don't think I'll be replacing players at this point. Everyone's kind of built up their profile and, I won't say much, but we're pretty much reaching the midgame right now. Apologies to all on the waitlist, but it'd be more awkward the other way.

[Xantalos]

Well, Jules is probably going to want [spoilers that Fniff knows about] once Nate bites it.

[Digital Hellhound]

Midgame, huh. Didn't even consider that yet.

I'm writing my post now! A very busy turn for me, it seems. Mafiya ladies, shady meetings, reanimating heads...

[Xantalos]

Yeah, I didn't see the fact that it was mid game.

Then again I can see it. We've all more or less set up and now are beginning to enter the game of magical thrones, whether we want to or not.

[Fniff]

Also, the fact that something is counting down is a sign that shit is about to get real.

[Xantalos]

Indeed. Good thing I spent all that time preparing defences.

[Caesar]

Has anyone noticed that the Fniff in the original post has a different profile picture than the Fniff in almost all other posts? I didn't know that that was possible.

[Xantalos]

Doesn't look that way to me.

[Fniff]

Rotating avatar. It's quite neat.

[Caesar]

I see, I see.
If that's the case, I either never noticed, or I always got to see the guy behind the desk so far, against all odds.

[Xantalos]

Ah, I see.

So, since Elf dropped out, do we assume Nate died in the Swat raid? Will we get one last viewpoint of him getting shot in the face and the various powers' reactions to this?

[Digital Hellhound]

I had an amazing dream about this. I suspect Age of Fire had been turned into a tv series, which is really amazing news for all of us.

We followed... an unidentified god, who I have to suspect was the non-canon Jean Coupe from my short stories. He'd been told by Merlin he couldn't get his powers back except by finding something in this shipwreck, and was going around visiting other gods trying to get them to come with him to the shipwreck without revealing why (I imagine he didn't want them to know he'd lost his powers). At the same time, all the gods were building this vast stronghold (or maybe it was a visual metaphor for their growing empires - there was like a desert, with each building their own thing without even noticing the others, so it seems like it), while Jules and the Stranger watched over them with really fucking foreboding narration. Jesus Christ, guys.

Anyway, our protagonist, carrying the dead body of Magnus he intends to reanimate (possibly with the shipwreck, possibly with an Act), and with some goon of his (they're trying to prop him up so it looks like he's alive, go figure), try to sneak into a vault of Jack's in the fortress (not so metaphorical anymore, I guess). They go from the lobby to a waiting sort of area, where they find waiting Jack and her female assistant, who both proceed to smug-superiority-snark at them and be all 'tch, tch, so predictable'. Our protagonist counter-snarks until Jack asks him directly what he wants, and he admits 'I need your help.' I got the impression the writers of the show had merged his and Red's character, here. Jack asks what, and...

...amazingly, the show then cuts to both of them in a convertible on a cliffside road, with the protagonist happily exclaiming 'Road trip!'. The last bits of dialogue before I woke up were;

JACK: No. No. No.
PROTAGONIST: C'moon, atleast you'll get to keep what you find from there!
JACK: Let. Me. Out.
PROTAGONIST: Bawww.... *drives on anyway*

And then the dream ended, though I also suspect the episode ended there as well. I had the feeling Fniff had intended the next update to gather everyone for a climactic battle, and that this amazing plotline and scene were going to go to waste with them diverted back into the main conflict somehow. Though now that I think about it, it would make perfect sense for him to regain his powers just in time and them to come back as the cavalry.

...anyway, this dream tells us that... Fniff, we need a shipwreck somewhere? Huh. There were other bits in the dream, especially earlier, but sadly I can't remember. I love that I had a dream about this game, though.

[Xantalos]

That was awesome.

Now I have to have a dream about this game too. Good thing I'm about to fall asleep.

[Fniff]

Wow. I'm not sure if my games have inspired dreams before. Or anything I've written. Definitely putting that shipwreck in, I think I might have an idea of how to fit it in. Also, the idea of a desert filled with gods making buildings without anyone else noticing each other is eeriely close to an idea I had for a godhood set in the same universe.

[The Alchemist]

Just thought I'd let everyone know that I'll have something out by the end of the day on Friday.