#electric sounds nice in theory but i dont think its for me just yet?

[terramythos]

My commentary on October Daye #10 or "Whodunnit: non-Electric Boogaloo" OR "Golly there sure are a lot of references to book 3 in this one. For some reason. I'm sure it's just a coincidence and theres no reason for that at all".

This is the first one that's just a liveblog, not a reread. And there's 2 more after this one. Which I'm told are just devastating. Woo!

-Holy shit, 10 books in and we got a map!

A map!

An honest to God fantasy map!

-Quentin/Dean is.. cute. Again, I like that Dean will probably get more development now that he's more relevant to the plot.

-So. Yeah. Last book introduced the goddamn cure for elf shot, which is A Big Deal Gamechanger. So this whole book is dedicated to like.. the political implications of that

-High King Aethlin Sollys: *shows up*

Me: well crap

-Aethlin: how dare you go behind my back and use the elf shot cure after I expressly said no

Toby, dear toby, literal changeling street rat: I mean, this whole situation IS technically your fault

Everyone in the room:

Aethlin:

Toby:

Aethlin: that's fair

-Oh yay The Luidaeg is going to be involved in this one. I missed her last volume. And since this is about the whole elf shot cure thing, Walther will ALSO be involved :>>

God I love The Luidaeg.

-Interesting backstory re: Quentin's parents. Which explains why they're so cavalier about a changeling training and raising the fucking crown prince 🤔

-Aethlin: I met the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life

Maida: I had pox scars on my face and chicken shit in my hair

Aethlin: you hit me with a broom

Maida: I hit you with a broom.

-Lol @ Colorado being called Highmountain

-its interesting to see monarchs and characters from other parts of the US, since we've pretty much only experienced San Francisco and Portland.

-Power move is Arden acknowledging Tybalt as a King and unsettling all the racist fucks in the audience 👀

-think I found some retcon? Cause according to book 5 connor died to elf shot because he was shot in the heart. But this one is saying that elf shot is fatal to all selkies because they're basically human. Whatisthetruth.png

-The Luidaeg just consistently protects and helps children, huh. Here she's super kind and gentle to Karen even though it briefly cracks her badass intimidation facade in front of a bunch of people. She personally carries one of the kidnapped Undersea kids back home. She uhhh literally helps Toby kill her brother Blind Michael, a literal child predator, way back in book 3. And she rescued Toby when she figured out what Amandine was doing to her. I mean. It all makes sense based on her backstory but BOY is that a consistent trait.

I took this pic on a plane but omg

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-King Antonio: *dies*

Oh no... I uhhh hate when assholes I just met get killed off suddenly

-That being said, getting a glimpse into what it's like to be a Candela with those Merry Dancers as constant, loving companions. Definitely interesting enough that I hope we get more Candela in the series.

-Night haunts night haunts NIGHT HAUNTS their scenes are always cool.

-And Antonio's disoriented "where are my girls?" Talking about the Merry Dancers, when he emerges as a night haunt. That's pretty oof. :(

-OK so night haunts keep the form of the person they eat for as long as that person was alive. So imagine if The Luidaeg had perma died in book 8? The lucky sonofabitch night haunt that got to eat her would have a solid form for tens of thousands of years? That's bonkers. That's bananas.

- That's assuming Firstborn even get eaten @ all. I mean, Blind Michael got killed in book 3 and we haven't seen him with the flock.

- ....... 😳 UH. WAIT. Hold up. Hold the fuck up. No. I'm not exploring that line of thought.

LMFAO SYLVESTER.. *WHAT*

-Neeeeew MONTH NAME! September, Sylvester's dead sister, just got mentioned. I know she's shown up/been mentioned in some of the short stories, buuuuut...

-month names so far: January, April, May, August, September, October

Not introduced (yet): February, March, June, July, November, December

And we still dont know what is with the FUCKING month names. Only connection is they are all female characters and they all seem to be related in some way to Sylvester slash The Torquills. Some (like May) are a stretch there, but...

Oh lore?? OH LORE?

- Simon and Patrick were BFFs? 🤔🤔

-That.. had to have been introduced for a reason. Come on.

-Of course Raj likes romantic comedies. Of course he does

I LOVE the Luidaeg. Have I mentioned. This bit is even funnier knowing she can't lie. Which means she has an actual hierarchy of how much she wants to stab everyone she knows

BIG LUIDAEG LORE.

This is gonna take some unpacking. Most notable here is IS THIS THE SAME RIDE FROM BOOK 3? You know, Blind Michael's Ride, the Halloween horror show where he kidnaps kids and forcibly turns them into monsters? What is this flashback supposed to imply? The Ride used to be something else? The MONARCHS of ancient Faerie actually did kidnap kids like in the stories and Blind Michael took it over when they disappeared? The Ride maybe CAUSED them to disappear? What the fuck?

(Also my vampire crack theory gains more ground. Just look at that first paragraph. And then a couple pages later Toby sees the room covered in her blood and mentions feeling hungry looking @ it. Come on.)

-Support for my theory that this reminds me of: both the Dochas Sidhe we know of have the smell of blood as a part of their magical signature. Toby is initially "cut grass and copper" but as she gains power it becomes "cut grass and bloody copper". Amandine is "blood and roses" (which, interestingly, is what Toby tastes when she wakes up in this scene?) August and Gillian are the only other two characters we know of that have Dochas Sidhe heritage, and who knows what their magic smells like...

-The Luidaeg calling Shakespeare "a fucking dumbass" in a series full of Shakespeare references and motifs is, in fact, hilarious.

-Tybalt getting (basically) mortally wounded, so Toby tastes some of his blood. And sees herself from his perspective and how much he loves her. BIG OOF.

-Also interesting that the more powerful Toby becomes as the series progresses she's now the one saving Tybalt's ass. Was the polar opposite for the first 6 or so books.

-Colorado rep -- Highmountain are the big bads. Lmfao

-Well Toby is *actually* immortal. Like how else do you explain the shit that happens in this series lmao. (Also, turns out being that hard to kill is the shittiest superpower)

-Aw Toby forgave Sylvester... we will see if he actually redeems himself, I guess.

-You can tell Toby is embracing the "hero" role with that whole rousing and surprisingly coherent speech at the end.

This is just a real good character development vignette. We've come so far ;-;

-And of course the cure gets greenlit cause.. of course. But The Luidaeg's line "none of those assholes wanted to think about how confused they'd be if they missed a hundred years of internet memes" is, shall I say, Iconique

-multiple people have asked toby and tybalt to get married @ their house. And now the high king and queen fucking asked. Lmfao

-So this book was... interesting. I liked the political drama aspect. It was another whodunnit which we pretty much got a fill of with book 2. The conflict seemed to just kinda be.. there? I'd call it a filler book, but a lot of like.. lore got established, and we got some of what I assume are big hints/setups. Guess we'll see.

-to be fair books 1 and 2 also seemed like filler and turned out to be Super Fucking Important actually. So

-also there is just straight up a 70 page novella starring Arden at the end so I'll see if anything major happens in it.

-it's mostly a character study of Arden, turns out. But we DO learn that Cassandra, Karen's sister, is also a Seer, which... could be relevant (also I mean come on of course she is, did you see her name). Also Walther and The Luidaeg show up so thats fun.

-And it's funny to see what other characters think of October. Mostly she's a train wreck/practical joke that's somehow become extremely relevant to the surprise of literally everyone

-me seeing the total page count is 420: nice

-Anyway. The next two books sound like a gut punch conga line so let's get reading them

[evajellion]

Part 6, beware of salt

Richie decides to taint MOTHER, so one of my friends can rip him a new one once they read it.

Let’s get the most painful part out of the way first… Ness and Lucas.

Ness and Lucas were busy exploring the ruins of Porky's labs.

"Any luck?" Lucas called.

"No. Nothing yet. It's seem that someone has destroyed most of Porky's army and left its sleeping capsule where Porky is trapped in unscathed" Ness said.

Are we going to get an explanation as to why Ness knows about this? Did he travel to the time period Lucas is in? Also, why is he talking?

OOC Counter: 19

I’m gonna try to avoid spoiling anything MOTHER 3 related, even if the game is over 10 years old now.

"But who would do such a thing?" Lucas asked. Ness touched the rubble and sees something shocking and he fell over. "Ness, what's wrong?" Lucas ran to him.

"The Hands, Master and Crazy!" Ness gasped "They did this, but they seemed to be controlled by an ever greater evil."

"But who could have controlled the hands?" Lucas was shocked.

"I don't know but right now, many of our friends and some unknown people are fighting towards that place. We gotta get there first! Lucas, I need your help!" Ness said getting up and straightening out his hat.

"Of course I'll help but where we're going?" Lucas asked getting up and following Ness out of the ruins.

"We're gonna help the Hands and defeat this evil which controlled them. I only hope we're not too late" Ness said as they set off.

Just leaving this here for my friend to make fun of really.

"This is the place" Ness said as he and Lucas walked into the arena. "This is the place where the evil one is."

"Wow. Sure look spooky" Lucas said a bit scared.

"Spooky? You're gonna wish for spooky when we're done with you" came a voice which make them spun around. Evil Cole and Radec were behind them.

"Argh!" Lucas hid behind Ness who stood firm.

In which Lucas summons his inner pirate.

"Tell us who you kids are, and why we should let you walk away" Radec said.

"We're here to save the world. And I suppose you are with this evil too right?" Ness snarled.

"If we are, what would you do?" Radec said.

Ness then shot a PK Thunder at them but Evil Cole blocked it with his lightning.

"If you two want to play, then I'm gonna tear you two apart" Evil Cole said.

"Not a chance! Lucas! Don't be scared! Give them everything you got!" Ness called.

"R-Right..." Lucas said getting his bravedo back as they face off against the two.

Had to just copypaste from Sir Daniel’s rival scene, huh Richie?

My friend pointed this out actually, the meeting between Lucas and Colonel Radec? Could have been much, much more interesting. 

For those not familiar with Killzone…

“The Helghast homeworld is a hostile, harsh world dominated by ferocious storms and electrifying skylines. Over the years, the Helghast have proudly embraced their formidable planet and have adapted to the dangerously toxic environment.”

(from the page on Helghan)

[1/9/17, 11:22:46 PM] Batan Q: originally, Tazmily was a nice, clean place with no pollution and very nice people [1/9/17, 11:23:03 PM] Batan Q: at the end of the game, you get to New Pork City, which is crowded, polluted, and awful

(from my good friend on Skype)

Combine this with the fact Colonel Radec wears a gas mask and is a high-ranking official, Lucas would probably have some bad flashbacks to what happened in the events of MOTHER 3, and assume Radec is a threat. Not helped by how Radec can be a bit cruel.

… Richie unintentionally made something that could have been clever, but botched it.

Boring Polygon Man scene, moving on.

Returning to Onett, they sat at a coffee table.

"Well, that is something different" Lucas said.

… I can’t take this seriously. After all that, they’re sitting at a coffee table. I mean, that’s a thing in Earthbound I know, but pfft.

Pretty sure what Lucas said was ripped from Ratchet & Clank’s ending too.

"Yeah, some warriors are very interesting" Ness said "The important thing, the Hands have been freed and the world is safe again."

"Why would that whatisname been calling people from all over the universe?" Lucas said.

Damn, that’s fucking sad. Even Lucas doesn’t remember Polygon Man’s name.

Gonna slap an OOC Counter for how Lucas is acting in general.

OOC Counter: 20

And yet, Richie managed to spell the bolded part wrong too.

"I have a theory, but it may be incorrect" said Ness but then Paula ran up to them.

"Ness! Lucas! You're back! We got a problem!" Paula cried.

"Paula, what's wrong?" Ness asked concerned standing up.

"It's Porky's Army. They are coming over here again!" Paula said "Poo, Jeff and the others are holding them off as we speak."

"Again? But don't worry. We're prepared for them this time" Lucas said as he and Ness glowed blue.

"Let's go!" Ness called and they head off for battle again.

… I’m just gonna let this one sit here. Anyone who has played MOTHER 3 probably know what’s wrong with the above exchange.

Here you go Paula!

OOC Counter: 21

--

Now for Radec and Evil Cole, where I’m gonna be… mildly upset, fair warning.

Evil Cole was sitting around the ruins doing nothing, watching the destruction. Suddenly, a Helghast air-cruiser appear before him.

Doing nothing??

Not taking the lives of people, or searching for more power? Just, plainly doing nothing?

"Heh, well look who comes out to play" Evil Cole said as the cruiser landed and Colonel Radec came out "Leader of the Helghast. Why are you here? Are you here to be destroyed by me?"

"Of course not. But I do bring you news" Radec said "As the war between the ISA and the Helghast goes on in my world, I do sense another battle going on. A battle between dimension, and all with great power."

"And? What does that have to do with me?" Evil Cole said.

"I just thought you be up for a challenge" Radec said "You can take their energy as well as well as the huge being who has returned again. I do hope this time, they have worthy opponents."

No, no no no… no.

OOC Counter: 22

Radec would NOT be this “sporting” to someone who sucks the lives out of others for power! He would be very cautious. He may be a dick, but he’s smart.

He recognizes Evil Cole’s power, then he should be able to recognize Evil Cole would also betray him at the right chance. Radec would only turn to him, if he was desperately running low on options. Like, his other options would have to be Fat Princess, Sir Daniel, and Dont-- excuse me again, Dante, in order for him to pick Evil Cole instead.

Like, Radec would try to recruit Emmett Graves first (and force him to cooperate) probably before going to Evil Cole. Unless, Radec knows very well how to manipulate Evil Cole.

"Well, you fancy my tickle" Evil Cole said as he goes up to him "And you want to team up with me to crush them?"

Uh, I think you mixed your words up, Evil Cole. I mean, if your intent wasn’t to flirt with Radec that is…

"Exactly. Those who oppose the Helghast and you shall be eliminated. What do you say? A temporary truce for now?" Radec said.

"Why not" Evil Cole agreed "Sound like fun. A lot of special people huh? Let's find them."

"Good" Radec said as the two head off "We'll will find them, and we will show them what true power looks like!"

No mentions on how Radec should be on his toes about the whole thing? Richie, c’mooooon, I’m seriously not gonna get off your back about how bad you are with writing him.

"I'm afraid our search for a worthy opponent may have been in vain. If this is the true threat to the Helghast, we have nothing to worry about" Radec said as they reach their destination. He then saw Evil Cole saw someone and he saw Ness and Lucas coming up to them. "Well... now they sent kids after us, huh?"

Did Evil Cole or Radec say that? It sounds more like something the former would say.

Copypasted from their own rival scenes too. Ugh.

"Good afternoon, kids" Evil Cole said approaching them grabbing their attention "Anything we can help you with?" Lucas hid behind Ness a bit afraid as Ness glared. "It was a simple question".

… So it was Radec saying that first bit? Then…

OOC Counter: 23

"I can sense dangerous powers within you two. Are you in league with this evil?" Ness said.

"Even if we are or not, you two seemed to be worthy opponents. Now, are you going to stand there mumbling, or do you know how to use that power of yours?" Radec said taking out his knife.

Holy shit, Radec, they’re just kids!

OOC Counter: 24

I’m pretty certain he would be thinking “do not mind them, they are children”, then be attacked by crazy, PSI attacks or something, so he changes his mind about it while Evil Cole is ready to take their powers.

Radec wouldn’t care for someone younger and under his league. Only if they were intentionally picking a fight with him to begin with, or fought their way up, would he perhaps let them “humor him”.

Remember, he’s not at war with ISA here, and… he kinda can’t kill anyone here. Radec’s just curious about what opponents can match his talents, all while reaching Polygon Man.

Evil Cole just wants more power, and wants to see what weirdos are around.

"I guess we have to fight" Lucas said.

"We won't let you get away with this" Ness said "we're gonna teach you a lesson!"

"OK, kids" Evil Cole said, getting fed up with them "How about instead of candy, I stuff my foot in your mouth!" He then spark electricity in his hands.

"Good. Let's hope this provides more than a momentary diversion, though somehow I think it won't!" Radec said as they prepared to fight.

Copy and paaaste, copy and paaaste.

Just press control-C, then a V,

And you’ll copy and paaaaste.

… That was my copypaste song, I hope you liked it.

"You two again? Not after my power are you?" Polygon Man said.

"Ah, the threat to the Helghast, we meet again" Radec said.

"But not for long" Evil Cole said as they prepared to fight.

Polygon Man just sounds irritated here, like “ugh, I don’t have time for you two, go home”. It actually kinda works though for his character.

As for their endings?

HE LITERALLY COPY AND PASTED THEIR RESPECTIVE ENDINGS. No changes, just boring monologue! 

Interesting turn of events where Evil Cole betrays Colonel Radec? Or maybe he can’t, and reluctantly only takes half of the power, but wants to find a way to pursue Radec?

Nope! Richie was out of any “creative” steam I guess.

Uuuuuuugh… Okay, now…

How much should have been changed? A lot. In fact, there are three fucking different ways to rewrite this.

Scenario 1: Change this rivalry, so it’s Lucas and Toon Link, against Colonel Radec and Sir Daniel Fortesque.

For Lucas and Toon Link’s story intro, Lucas finds himself warped to the Great Sea, which is stormy. Tetra doesn’t understand how the heck Lucas boarded her ship, or why the Great Sea is so chaotic, so they set course for where the source of this madness could be. Although Lucas is unsure about the circumstances, Toon Link makes it clear that they’ll work together to stop the stormy weather.

In a last ditch effort to find someone to help him, Radec threatens his rival to cooperate with him, knowing that Sir Daniel cannot rest again because of Polygon Man’s coming back. Radec does not plan on sharing any power with Sir Daniel, and will drop him back to his grave once he’s finished.

In their rival scene, Lucas can tell Colonel Radec is probably not a “good” character, and is reminded of the Pigmasks a bit. Toon Link, reckless as ever, thinks Sir Daniel is a monster, so he attacks. Sir Daniel is confused as to why children are attacking, and asks them what’s wrong, only to be not understood. Colonel Radec tells him to stop messing around with children, and that they should be disposed of if they’re going to get in the way.

Alternatively, Radec questions Lucas and Toon Link on what they’re doing, in which Sir Daniel says to go easy on them since they’re young… which is followed by Toon Link firing an arrow into Sir Daniel’s empty eye socket. The undead knight is annoyed even further when Radec mockingly asks if Daniel really believes they’re “so harmless” now. In both cases, a fight breaks out.

In the ending for Lucas and Toon Link’s scenario, they head back to Tetra’s pirate ship. The storm has cleared up, but Lucas has not found a way to return to his era. Tetra is about to suggest sticking around for a while, but Lucas realizes that upon defeating Polygon Man, he obtained a new ability. With it, he opens a goddamn portal back to his era. Toon Link bids him farewell, and Lucas hopes to see him again, wondering if he can now save his own world with the new power. Tetra doesn’t understand what’s going on, but sets off with Toon Link, leading to the events of Phantom Hourglass possibly.

In the ending for Colonel Radec and Sir Daniel, Radec drops Sir Daniel back into his time period, where the undead knight lays to rest. Radec makes a speech about power making its way to him, and how the Helghast will win this war… until he figures out, only a shred of Polygon Man’s power is with him. It instead, was more attached to Sir Daniel, for being a noble hero. Furious, Radec attempts to turn back, to wake Sir Daniel back up for his power, but the knight’s soul has already ascended back to the Hall of Heroes.

Scenario 2: Radec and Evil Cole face Wolf O’Donnell and Wario… yeah, I know. Hear me out on this though.

On the side of the Smash Bros, Star Wolf finds unusual activity going on in the Lylat System, and wonder if it has to do with the Aparoids, even though they were all destroyed. Wolf suddenly gets a contact from Wario somehow, of all people. Wolf is annoyed, and says he’s going to turn it off, until Wario explains that there’s some crazy stuff going on, with “those two gloves” being taken away by “a giant head”, and that it could mess everyone up. Although Leon says not to trust him, and Wolf is reminded of Pigma’s greed every time he sees Wario… he has to give him the benefit of the doubt, as Wario suggests that if he saves the galaxy, Wolf and his gang could remove the bounty on their heads, while Wario can go back to making Microgames with nothing bothering him.

Radec is far more wary and threatening towards Evil Cole, saying that he could use someone with power on his side for now, but is willingly to dispose of Evil Cole, should he betray Radec. Otherwise, mostly plays out the same.

In the rival scene, Wario says they shouldn’t be far off from the source of the craziness, but they run into Radec and Evil Cole. Wario tells them to get out of the way, and pushes Radec without a second thought, while Wolf tells them that the one responsible is “his target”. Radec and Evil Cole… don’t take it well, and start a fight, without even saying a word to Wolf and Wah.

Alternatively, Radec has his sniper pointed at Wolf, but he manages to avoid the shot, and Wolf questions Radec on what he’s doing exactly. Radec explains that he just wanted to see if the “hairy mercenary” was as skilled as he appeared. Evil Cole taunts Wario (who is picking his nose), and Wario says he wants some of the power that Polygon Man has, which amuses Evil Cole, saying he’s got some interesting competition. Leads to a fight either way.

In the Smash ending, Wario betrays Wolf, and takes all of Polygon Man’s power for himself, saying he’s going to use it make as many Microgames as possible, replace "that red-capped idiot” as the main hero, and become rich. Wolf is tempted to shoot him, but when contacted by his teammates, Panther tells him it’s not worth it, and that Wario isn’t going to be able to handle that power… Panther ends up being correct, as Wario is sent flying, Polygon Man’s power cannot be contained by him.

In the All-Star ending, Radec and Evil Cole pause for a moment, knowing each other well enough. Evil Cole is clearly going to pursue Radec if he takes all that power, and he’s aware. With no other way around it, much like in Heihachi and Zeus’s ending, Evil Cole says he’ll fight Radec for it, and the loser walks away… without power, and without their life. Who exactly wins, is up to the reader.

I would have also said… Ness and Lucas maybe fight Kat with (Good) Cole or Emmett Graves, but I just didn’t want to try fixing this mess anymore. Plus, Kat is so friendly, that I don’t think their rivalry would work.

Too bad this fan-fic was made before Smash 4, because I think we can all agree that Dark Pit vs. Evil Cole is the fight we want to see.

Next time is… Snake and Sonic, against Raiden and Good Cole. Prepare for a load of “meh”.