Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25086632-20151123071037/@comment-70.27.71.181-20151126005618

Hey, Cyrania.

You're right. Not everything in the allusions needs to be included in the Remnant version. But we have a choice, so I asked what you thought. Married is fun. They'll already have their screwball comedy relationship in place, and it's a clue to who we're thinking of.

Blaine's companion Dr. Watson is not such a bumbler as some of the movies make him out to be. Are there physicians in Remnant who minister to 'semblance injuries' if there are some? Or grim poison? A healing semblance...too close to the original? He had been a soldier injured in the leg and sent home to heal. Or in his shoulder. Who cares for details? One of the stories says he's fleet of foot. He could be referred to as Captain rather than Dr., a nice allusion which isn't obvious.

'Ormond Sacker' is a little weird, don't you think? One or the other, Captain Sacker or Captain Ormond ______  sounds more likely. I mean, Conan Doyle dropped the idea himself. I like the idea of Captain _______ Sacker or Captain Ormond _________ (or mix the first and second names around as you like. I'm almost of the opinion that if both or either of the names are used, the stories are so well known that it will tip people off at first reading. Do you think so?

They're on the verge of war. I'm thinking out loud here. if we put Team One and Two under Captain Sacker/Ormond's command, we have a ready-made reason for them all to be together and not sent to various places in Remnant. A specialist squad created to spy (some of them) while ostensibly investigating crime. Investigating who stole the Highnost-Schlochmyster invasion plans or is blackmailing the Prince of Atlas. (There should be one, shouldn't there?)

Today was yesterday reborn, only all my material disappeared. I'm talking about 40K words I'm going to have to rewrite. I have to get another flash drive; I'm not trusting backing up my material to the net ever again. But now I have to go away and cry in my beer. Would that I have beer!