hot_heart wrote...
Drussius wrote...
If I can figure out the best way to make it
clear to the reader that the little bits of conflict are from a future
event and the rest is taking place beforehand... hadn't really thought
that part through.
If you try and tie elements together, sort of mirror things in a way. That's probably my screenwriting talking.
Off
the top of my head, I'd have a line of dialogue ring in the head of a
character. Something relevant. Obviously, you'd italicise it to show
that it's thought/memory then you 'cut' to that same line being said at
an earlier moment in time.
In formatting terms, FF.net has a horizontal line that makes it easier to separate distinct sections
I didn't quite go this route, but something similar. I've basically chosen to start with a certain moment when things suddenly go crazy for the characters, and use a few paragraphs about what a specific character is doing when it happens, then cut back to what that character was doing some time before. Then what a different character was doing for a few paragraphs and then what that character was doing before... and so forth. So by the time I get "caught up," so to speak, the reader will have knowledge of the events leading up to that moment, and a complete account of the events that occurred during the scene in question. So basically if you took out all of the "now" scenes and cut them together, you'd have a solid scene of what happened with that one event. I'm just spreading it through a couple of chapters instead.
So far, I like how it's working out. Although it DOES mean yet another rearrange/edit of the same two chapters i've been messing with for a week now.
hot_heart wrote...
fluffywalrus wrote...
I like to hope there would be enough extra dialogue to further my suspicions that the AI is lying, but I don't mind if there's not. My headcanon is that the AI is lying, and offering up a self-serving series of options.
I wouldn't call it 'headcanon' (I hate that word), just a valid interpretation. I don't think you would even need to feel the AI is lying; you could just outright reject the logic and even their solution.
I am not holding my breath for the EC. I had been excited for a while, hoping that they would close up some plot holes and give some extra closure, but I never believed that they were going to change anything prior to the end sequence. No additional Starchild dialogue, no extra choices, no new endings. I haven't actually seen the podcast talking about the EC, but from what I've heard about it, all we're going to get is Bioware trying to assure us that somehow the destruction of the relays doesn't destroy all intelligent life in the galaxy by wiping out their systems, and perhaps a few extra scenes in the ending cinematic itself.. possibly even a few epilogue slides, Dragon Age style.
Perhaps I will be pleasantly surprised. But I doubt it. However, since it's free, there's certainly no harm in downloading it and taking a look. I currently have an ME3 playthrough waiting at about the Thessia mission, so I won't be too far off when the EC comes out. I can just finish my playthrough and check out the differences.
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