House of Wind logs

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Good logs all, and yay for Tanya and for magnetokinetic owning and for Angelo and Paige weirdness.

But it was the "It shouldn't be empty" log that did it for me. And normally I don't like psychic landscape stuff very much, so that's saying something.

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[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Ooh, my first fan acknowledgement. Note to self, be in more Nathan plots. *dances with glee*

[deathpixie]

*grins* There's always the Remy/Lorna UST too - I seem to recall fan reaction to those 'fics'...

But to reiterate - good stuff. I really enjoyed the Lorna sections of this. Especially the bit with the watch. Nasty yet practical.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

That's different. Those were posted here. This was spontaneous. *g*

Thanks, I liked the bit with the watch too.

[deathpixie]

*grins* Well, there's options in the future for spontaneous Lorna/Remy UST, now there's an opening an all...

It was a very linear way of dealing with the situation. Yanking someone around by their watch. Simple and yet ingenious.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Pain is distracting. *nods*

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Paige: *gets Huge Ass Gun for Lorna, dusts off her vest, dootdoot*

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Lorna: *adores*

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Being around for event showdowns helps. :)
I could post 'this is a good log and this is a good log and this is a good log' all day, but I'm lazy that way, and it's easier to make a comment on a series of connected logs.
Be assured that Lorna always was among my favorite characters and with some of those retired she doesn't have much scope upwards left in the Ashenmote charts.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

EEEE! Thank you. I understand the whole lazy thing. Am too. Am just gleeful right now.

Really? Who is still above her? *is not at all planning on 'nudging' those characters off, no, coughcough* ;)

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm not giving you the exact rating, because I just don't want all that blood on my hands. :P You're all moving around like a crowd of mouse babies in a box anyway, depending on who is actively posting at a given point.

So, my top five favorite characters in alphabetical order:
Catseye, Jamie, Kyle, Lorna and Paige. Cain would be rank six and that's a bit of a problem right there because Juggernaut can't be stopped.

And you all must keep an eye out for Clarice, who is approaching at hazardous velocity.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Damn, too many of my favorites are on the list to start bumping them off. Foiled again.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

...because Juggernaut can't be stopped.

Except by Paige.

/foreshadowing

Ohdammit. This means I have to consistantly log again, doesn't it?

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

/foreshadowing
OMG tease!
*dies from curiosity*

Yes. Yes, that's what it means.
*puppy eyes*

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

*belated* Eeeeeeeeee.

Expect lots of nasty-fun Kyle stuff this spring. Kyle's having a No Good Terrible Very Bad .... season.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

I know :) I was proud on not being like 'Is it spring already?!' at you for a good while. And when I saw the log with Logan, I was all excited because I took that as a hint that things might get started soon.

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

One plot is in motion and logs are being written, one is on the table for re-discussion, and one is in pre-plotting process.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

*purrs*

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

*grins* Glad you liked. Everyone did such a great job, and it was so much fun to wrap up this plot finally. (Although really, without x_dazzler and x_juggernaut's players socking Gideon and Saul for me, this wouldn't have been half as good. :)

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Have to admit, I don't get Saul's personality. Okay, it's not like he had a sudden breakdown, I've seen that slow development from patronizing advice to Nathan, to trying to mediate between Nathan and Gideon, to arrival at the mansion and finally turning against Gideon, but what made him change his mind there, I have no clue. I mean, a good moment for second thoughts was like, 30 years ago and he has been happily playing the 'make Nathan's live miserable' scheme all the while?
If I had any saying in it he would get a headstone with a big WTF engraved.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

(Still me, just didn't feel like logging out and back in...)

I think, in the end, Saul's choice was about Gideon crossing a line. He wasn't ever willing to go as far as Gideon - him having left it up to Gideon to send Nate to Mistra, etc. - and Gideon knew that. Plus, Saul really truly believed that everything that had happened to Nate just made him stronger - getting killed by Gideon, however, would not have. So. ;)

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

getting killed by Gideon, however, would not have.
You never know that before you have tried. What with death being more of a temporary inconvenience for an X-Man and all. :D

I wondered if that was the key factor, but then I thought, was that conceivably the first time for him to think that Nathan might have kicked the bucket? And I kinda answered that no. (Okay, for all I know he stabbed Gideon with a fork after Nathan jumped through the tower restaurant window, we haven't seen his reaction there).

At any rate I do not think highly of his fatherly instincts. :)

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

First time he thought that Gideon himself had personally caused Nate to kick the bucket, at least... ;)

And, well, no. His fatherly instincts were a highly, highly twisted thing. *snickers*

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

It makes us stronger, but CRAZY.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[silensy]

(Still me, just didn't feel like logging out and back in...)



It is for this reason we use the ljlogin extension. Fast switching *nods* http://www.gweep.net/~slarti/Gweep/LJlogin/

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for the feedback -- the log from Nate's brain was an enormous amount of fun. I've been looking forward to exploring astral physics with Haller, and I'm glad the scene was at least half as enjoyable to read as it was to write. Gives us lots to play with later, too. *G*

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

I was kinda impressed with Haller's astral-smoking in a place that is so prone to spontaneous explosions. I bet even Bruce Willis would be to chicken to astral smoke in Nathan's brain.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Considering the environment Haller learned to use his telepathy in, Nathan's mind is refreshingly stable. Which . . . sort of explains the desperate chain-smoking, actually.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Oh, didn't think of that. Very true.

...that actually makes it cooler.

Hear, hear.

[deathpixie]

Agreed. And I was very glad to see a Paige/Angelo log - it's been waaaaay too long and it's interesting to see how their dynamic has changed since the breakup.

Overall a very satisfying conclusion to the whole saga. Although Nate really is going to be fitted for that shock collar now, isn't he?

Re: Hear, hear.

[x-skin.livejournal.com]

I think now they're just trying to work out what their dynamic is. Hence the oddness of that conversation. It is very different, though.

Re: Hear, hear.

[deathpixie]

*grins* Hence the need for more logs, to explore this difference. ;) Moreso after April. *eg*

Re: Hear, hear.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Other than, you know, "Hi, uh, excusemeneedmilkkaybyeeek!" you mean?

Oh, silly kittens.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Scott thinks that the shock collar is the perfect answer. Honest to goodness behavioral modification is what's called for at this point. ;)

[deathpixie]

Well, nothing else has worked, might as well. ;)

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Hey! Are you playing again? I see Amanda logs...

[deathpixie]

Yeah, I'm a tad embarrassed after the whole "I'm gone" posts, but I couldn't stay away. Sorted out various things and Amanda's back as part of a new section of the game which will become clearer in the next few weeks. :)

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Bah, first you made goodbye posts and then you were gone and now you come back, that's the correct order, nothing embarrassing about that. And I am happy. I missed Amanda. :)

And Madelyn? Stays abroad?
*is nosy*

[deathpixie]

*grins* Thank you. There's a lot planned, so hopefully you'll enjoy it. :)

As for Madelyn, she'll be staying gone. As an original character (created by one of XP's original players) she was providing something of an awkward precedent for the game in terms of our "no OCs" rule, so I agreed with that mods that she should be retired permanently. She may appear as an NPC if plots require it, but we can safely assume she's living happily ever after in Scotland.

It may be I pick up another alt eventually, but I'd like to play around with New!Amanda first. You'll notice a lot of changes in the character, and not just powers-wise.