#because I have a dope as hell mental image for it that I'm not sure where to place in the story but I want to put in so bad

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Yeah uhh I feel like the major problem with Tubehell Challenge 'The Mimic' story is uhh fitting it in a small space. I can make The Storyteller more interesting, but because Andrea couldn't fill the space of a 19-20k story, I have only 16570 to work with, a lot of which can be cut out given it's mostly guff about nothing and Burrows talking about scuba diving with pretty models. There's 19207 words in The Mimic, a lot of which is loading chekov's gun they never fire and scrambling to make it 'scary' so... hm...

I can do it for sure, it's just a case of building Edwin, David and Mimic's relationships properly in a short time frame. I have some structure ideas that will help with that, and also gonna shimmy around which important parts are revealed in which story, so that should give me a lot more room to work in The Mimic, but also further limits The Storyteller so... hmmm... I'll know for sure how clever I'm going to have to be with screentime when I actually start it I think.

This post is just to say that this is going to be interesting to figure out lmao in case you were wondering how it was going

#pop rox talks #I'm working it out! #these word counts ALSO include repeated information that's not necessary to repeat across stories #or could have been given in a way that ALSO contributes to the story #instead of being dumped on the page as exposition #can hit two birds with one stone with these and probably use less words to get further #I'm largely cutting the Fazteam in The Mimic btw which means I can focus on the broader story #that's literally almost exactly HALF the word count so that gives me much more space #Fazteam aren't being removed entirely though. they're just being restructured #I have a fun idea for them that could potentially make them a lot more interesting than just #the fnaf equivalent of the live cow they drop in the dinosaur enclosure for enrichment. #I have ideas! #I have plans! #I'm ALSO giving an answer to how Mimic was STOPPED #because I have a dope as hell mental image for it that I'm not sure where to place in the story but I want to put in so bad #THAT is how it was stopped. That's how they got it. #oh it's SO good okay? I'm hoping when I write it #that it gives off the haunting vibes I want for this because BOY OH BOY WOULD THIS BE GOOD