A Lockpick! Writing – Blackbeard!
Jun. 21st, 2010 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesI got myself a lockpick! (FBI, MI5, this does not mean I’m about to embark on a life of real life crime) This is in Oblivion and I stumbled across some grumpy god who’d had her eye nicked. “Fear not, dear grumpy,” I declaimed, “for I shall go and defeat the nasty baddies and get your eye back as long as you give me something good.”
So, having defeated the evil Argonians (by sneaking into their hut and eavesdropping on their conversation) and having been all heroically wet in a cave, I found the eye and brought it back to Ms Grumpy.
Oddly, she gave me a lockpick which opens any lock in the kingdom.
It seems an odd thing to give a hero. Just as well I’m a thief, assassin and generally no good scallywag who robs and plunders and otherwise weasles his weasley black guts out then, isn’t it? mwahahahaha! There are peculiar rules in this game. You can steal anything that’s not nailed down as long as no-one sees you do it. Suits me! I was actually pretty pants at lockpicking, and being a vampire, most of my travelling around has to be at night, so all the shops are shut. This is a bit of an inconvenience. So now I don’t need to bother to wait until they are open. Handy!
Two thousand words on “I Knew Him” – today. Very happy with that, and extremely pleased the way the story is being introduced, and the characters are coming into play. Wish I could say more. I wish I could!
Had a lovely reader’s letter (in fact, two, as we’ve been corresponding) and she asked me about my endings, and how she felt a little dissatisfied with Transgresssions and Standish. I don’t blame her for that, the endings are deliberately written like that, but to have done them any differently simply wouldn’t have been right for either book. There was no way that Jon and David would skip off into the sunset and set up house. I like to think that, eventually the pair of them made it back to Kineton together to go that—but there’s probably a whole ‘nother book before they could do that. And Standish? well, I’ll never apologise for that ending. It had to be that way—but as the programme says “the clues are there” and if you read the last chapter carefully (and have been paying attention throughout the book, with the Mauvaise and Quinn plots) you’ll know exactly what happens, and why. I felt that to SHOW IT would be wrong, and somehow anti-climatic. I didn’t need to see what happened.
As I said to the reader—I suppose I blame my mother, or blame me – because even as a child I was never satisfied with the last scene in a film where they fell into each others arms and it faded out. I was all -- “yeah, but – he’s got to meet her mother and that’s going to be tough” or “”But the police are outside!!”
Now – I know I’ve mentioned Horrible Histories before, but they really get better and better. This is from the new series – and if you like history, pirates or Gilbert and Sullivan – you’ll love this. I love ‘em all, so this is right up my street.
and don’t MISS THIS ONE.
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Date: 2010-06-21 06:32 pm (UTC)(yes, I know I'm a geek. But these things bother me!)
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Date: 2010-06-21 10:18 pm (UTC)I miss gaming with you.
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Date: 2010-06-22 08:01 am (UTC)No crowbars. bah. How are you supposed to play without one?
You got a console that can do online?
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Date: 2010-06-22 10:33 pm (UTC)And if I did, I doubt I would be saying 'Ooh, sparkly'!
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Date: 2010-06-21 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-22 08:02 am (UTC)