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[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

"Ahab" was excellent so far (I'm not sure if everything is wrapped up now). The atmosphere was so consistently scary and grim and urgently, no matter where the logs played. Best parts for me were
#the 'Nathan & Ororo halve a bomb' scene for outstanding coolness,
#the 'Jean & Forge & Essex' log for containing Essex and all the references to his old history with the school
#the 'Scott & Rahne and the saxophone' for being so poetic in the final line, and
#the whole 'Jenny-repair time with Jim' log for making me cry a lot and for pure awesomeness. I can't believe that these mindscape logs became my favorite piece of X-journal, but they totally did.

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[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

Thank you. There is more in store for the good Doctor in the future, believe me.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Î noticed that he was demoted from super villain to persona non grata already.

[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

Aww... thanks so much. :)

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Eeee. Thank you so much! *blush*

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Oh! I didn't comment back then, but Jenny's crisis around the anniversary of her mother's death, especially the log where she made sort of a contract with Marius - that was great too.

The thing that I like best about Jenny is that she's so believable.

Hee, I hope this isn't praise overdose or something. But then again I didn't say anything about Jenny on that meme some time back, so it's only fair. :)

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Oh not at all. It's not like I print these out and stick them on my wall or anything. ;)

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The astral logs can be tough, mostly because it can be kind of tough finding variations on the theme even when your brain hasn't completely imploded.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

I can imagine, with a lot of terrain already covered in older stories too. I still remember a few impressive astral logs with Amanda, and at least one with Allison and I bet there were lots more. But you are doing great.

And it still makes me jumpy when Jim astral-smokes in other people's brains. :D

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

I should probably read some of the old astral logs. I think I've only read Nate/Alison, Scott/Betsy and Charles/Betsy/Kwannon of the prehistory . . .

Jim's astral chainsmoking was something I lifted from Haller's mother Gaby in New Mutants canon. Despite being completely cut off from the real world, she persisted smoking all through being trapped in her kid's brain. In XP it's a Jemail habit; Jem was the one who learned to use telepathy, so that's sort of who Haller defaults to on the astral plane. It was also the only habit Jemail could keep all those years he was locked in Haller's brain, and it tends to reemerge whenever Haller is engaging in or having conversations about reconstructive telepathy. David's the more intuitive half, but Jem's the one who developed the technical skill and has the real tenacity. The smoking is a bit of a symbol of balance, since none of David or his alters do themselves.

Although there's always the odd log where Jim forgets who he is in mid-drag and chokes.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) The log was a blast to do.