briefing -1-

posted 2009.06.04 at 23:48

The "War on Terror" pool plays no role in the story beyond grounding it in 2002. If it did, it would be a betting game between Greg and Naomi (having assessed the situation through public sources and having watched The Beast and Rambo III), with West and Xand chipping in to keep it interesting. There's a reason Naomi's winning - out of the crew, she's the only one with Real Military Experience. You've doubtless noticed that the Templar aren't really military... and while Greg is a souped-up Hypercommando, Heirotus Corporate Security (and Heirotus Colonial Authority) is a far, far cry from taking carbine fire in a poppy field hundreds of miles from the nearest toilet or telephone.

Not that that's the experience Naomi's had, mind you... but if you tattooed POOR IMPULSE CONTROL onto her forehead, grabbed her by her beltloops and flung her into a Marine Corps barracks, nobody would notice.

First Edition Metadata

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Yay for the first page of the new (circa August 2004) site design.

Briefing is an eight page scene that, as you can doubtless tell by the first page, will be filling in a somewhat jarring gap deliberately left in Chapter One, back when Raven told Tantek to lock the door. This isn't patchwork- briefing is an original part of the outline.... it was supposed to be in Chapter Two, but became the core of Chapter Three for reasons of length and theme. I realized right around the time of West's meeting with Raven and Tantek that I'd be repeating myself later if I went into detail.... so I didn't.

Man, my writing sucked ass back then. The approach to Production has changed a lot since the first briefing- hopefully it shows. :P I still have problems with West (obviously), but he's starting to become more consistent.

There's a lot of environmental production stuff I have to do over the course of the next couple of pages, so things are going to be slow. Hopefully this will leave me in a position where I won't have to worry about backgrounds much for the rest of scene, or for chunks of future scenes.

Briefing should be complete by early September.

In other news, I tweaked the site design a smidge- the date of the page at the top of the site is now a link to the permanent entry for the page, which makes spamming an update into IRC a lot easier for me. Skooshed a CSS bug in the process.

Also, ATC currently has some issues in IE.Win, which doesn't surprise me at all. Somebody who Knows What They're Doing will be looking into it, and I should have it fixed soonish.