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Iced Cocoa posted:And it looks like compiling all the text from the ~*~Fanfic~*~ cracked my brain. I had my first Twisted! dream. I dreamt that I was visiting HorriblePencilist, and he had every published work of Miranda. All about Twisted! Some old comic/novel combo (where Railrunner befriends african-american bumper car and there are horrible racist undertones), and the first manuscript of Vertigo. I think there were 4-6 hardcovers in that collection of his, all first editions. That wasn't a dream, that was a prophetic vision, you just haven't accepted it yet.
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attackbunny posted:Twisted rollercoaster names: Railrunner, Thunderbark, Firetrack, Shadowtrack, Angeltrack, Ironwheel, Mistymetal, Moonblood, Redrail, Freakshow, Prototype. To be fair, Ironwheel sounds like a pretty legit name for a roller coaster. And all coasters were called Prototype in the beginning Bobbin Threadbare posted:Between her fixation on mild swearing and the pages missing from the "sex" portion of relationships, I get this feeling that Miranda may have been raised in a strongly conservative religious environment. It's not a terribly uncommon upbringing here in the United States, particularly not in a Southern state like Tennessee. This would make a lot of sense, especially seeing the gender roles in play here.
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# ? May 22, 2013 18:47 |
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Iced Cocoa posted:And it looks like compiling all the text from the ~*~Fanfic~*~ cracked my brain. I had my first Twisted! dream. I dreamt that I was visiting HorriblePencilist, and he had every published work of Miranda. All about Twisted! Some old comic/novel combo (where Railrunner befriends african-american bumper car and there are horrible racist undertones), and the first manuscript of Vertigo. I think there were 4-6 hardcovers in that collection of his, all first editions. I had an idea for an fanfic where reading this book sent josephwong off the edge and he started to experience were roller coasters in his real life. Then I remembered I'm about as talented a writer as Miranda and could never compare to the amazingness that has been posted here.
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# ? May 23, 2013 02:46 |
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SeXReX posted:Then I remembered I'm about as talented a writer as Miranda And that is why you need to write that story!!
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# ? May 23, 2013 03:06 |
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I don't understand. This Railrunner guy is the worst. When the focus is taken off him for a mere second, he goes berserk. How can anyone mistake him for a good guy? So far, he's been a bigger antagonist than Ironwheel. I haven't been paying attention, but has Ironwheel actually done anything that was, y'know, evil?
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# ? May 23, 2013 03:10 |
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Well, his throne room is full of skulls. And Railrunner's "friends" have been telling him that Ironwheel has terrorized countless
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# ? May 23, 2013 03:19 |
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GrizzlyCow posted:I don't understand. This Railrunner guy is the worst. When the focus is taken off him for a mere second, he goes berserk. How can anyone mistake him for a good guy? So far, he's been a bigger antagonist than Ironwheel. He apparently kills MLP characters for fun and he got really steamed when the messenger told him that another red was born. Frankly, who could blame him on either point?
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# ? May 23, 2013 03:40 |
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attackbunny posted:Twisted rollercoaster names: Railrunner, Thunderbark, Firetrack, Shadowtrack, Angeltrack, Ironwheel, Mistymetal, Moonblood, Redrail, Freakshow, Prototype. Hahaha just think about how much better this would be. "My name's not Rodney! It's really Saw: the Ride©!" Even better if he wouldn't allow nicknames or shortening or any kind.
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attackbunny posted:Twisted rollercoaster names: Railrunner, Thunderbark, Firetrack, Shadowtrack, Angeltrack, Ironwheel, Mistymetal, Moonblood, Redrail, Freakshow, Prototype. Well, you're not the only one thinking they're bad: quote:“First of all it’s not Woody – its [sic] Thunderbark.” He said as he stood there stone still while he barely breathed. He then dipped his head low, letting his long hair drape over his shoulders. The coaster engineer simply stared down, his eyes growing darker still. And why does Thunderbark believe that Railrunner should remember anything, given that he was a newborn when he was moved across? Or is this a case of Miranda just reworking the plot of the book without editing what she wrote before?
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Iced Cocoa posted:And why does Thunderbark believe that Railrunner should remember anything, given that he was a newborn when he was moved across? Or is this a case of Miranda just reworking the plot of the book without editing what she wrote before? My bet? Unlike human infants, rollercoasters are aware of their world and surroundings from birth, because they weren't enough of a Mary Sue race already. Speaking of which, I took a Mary Sue Race Test for Miranda and her coasters as presented so far. A score of 11 or more indicates that your fantasy race is "Most likely a Sue race." Twisted coasters get 29 points! Congratulations Miranda!
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Radio! posted:Hahaha just think about how much better this would be. "Hey, Saw: The Ride©! I'm Superman: Escape from Krypton©!" "Hey, Superman!" "It's Superman: Escape from Krypton©, if you don't mind." "...I DON'T THINK YOU REALISE HOW INCREDIBLY SPECIAL I AM." Being Saw: The Ride© would explain a lot of Railrunner's dickassery. ETA: quote:“Don’t mock our names they are warrior names.” Woody said crudely. “Your real name Rodney is Railrunner.” "That's a great name!" "This makes perfect sense!" Unless what you are trying to communicate is that this is brilliant and makes total sense, in which case you're just divorced from all reality. attackbunny fucked around with this message at 11:04 on May 23, 2013 |
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Pththya-lyi posted:My bet? Unlike human infants, rollercoasters are aware of their world and surroundings from birth, because they weren't enough of a Mary Sue race already. I applied this test to how I envisage dwarves and my constant reaction was "oh christ no". Also how did you apply the rollercoaster attributes to this test? They get retconned every few chapters so I'm not sure if you're going by past or current.
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# ? May 23, 2013 11:50 |
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Chapter 36 – Arenaquote:
“A place from the most imaginative mind” has exactly the same variations of weather as the “real world”. quote:
Why even bother putting on a disguise? In Chapter 33, Freakshow had discovered Railrunner’s hiding place, and in Chapter 35 Railrunner had again made his location known by roaring “the BIGGEST earth shattering roar I had ever heard” which “echoed all through Amusement Park Between”. quote:
Odds on Merrylegs joining Railrunner’s harem – Rising. Domestic abuse / Stockholm Syndrome subtext – Rising even more. Recall that Merrylegs was fearing for her life from a tantrumming Railrunner in Chapter 35, yet here she is “being close to” Railrunner in the very next chapter. quote:
A statement contradicted by everything that Railrunner has ever done in the book. quote:
Wait a minute. “Zegria was about the size of the shopping mall back in Huntersville”. This means an entire “city” in Amusement Park Between is only as big as one shopping mall in the “real world”. “Zegria was about ten times bigger than Trenzon”. That means an entire “town” in Amusement Park Between is only 10% as big as one shopping mall in the "real world". In Chapter 21, it was stated of Trenzon that “The buildings were ten times the size here than in the real world”. This means that even though Trenzon’s buildings were ten times the size of those in the “real world”, the whole of Trenzon was still only 10% the size of the shopping mall in Huntersville. Just how friggin’ enormous was the shopping mall in Huntersville? quote:
“A place from the most imaginative mind” has class / racial stratification as rigid as anything in the “real world”. quote:
“A place from the most imaginative mind” is just a random mish-mash of architectural styles from the “real world”. quote:
For a world with “technology that is far more advanced than any humans”, the local economies sure are reliant on ad hoc day-labourers. quote:
I’m baffled as to what it is that they apparently find amusing in the above conversation. quote:
And there they go, leaving Railrunner alone again. Don’t they ever learn? quote:
57th sigh of the book. quote:
This is the first time I’ve ever heard of trench-coats described as “grim reaper monkey suits”. Is this a Tennessee regional slang word? quote:
If I may repeat myself, Railrunner has already blown cover by roaring “the BIGGEST earth shattering roar I had ever heard” which “echoed all through Amusement Park Between”. Also, 58th sigh of the book. quote:
There’s nothing about this bartender that suggests that he has pro-rebel sympathies. What happened to “I could not screw up and blow cover”? That was less than 10 paragraphs ago in the same chapter! quote:
Threatening to maim people is certainly a good way to win their trust and support! quote:
And in Amusement Park Between, my above statement is unironically true. quote:
“A place from the most imaginative mind” retains the blood-sports that the “real world” has largely criminalized or sanitized. quote:
That bartender was incredibly nice to Railrunner, after Railrunner had threatened to kill him, and this is how he repays the favour. This isn’t heroic behaviour, or even anti-heroic behaviour – it’s just rear end in a top hat behaviour. quote:
Isn’t a roller-coaster a “thrill-ride” as well? quote:
No, don’t “give in”, call security! Who puts up with this kind of behavior? Why does Railrunner keep getting his way with behavior that should instead have gotten him pounded into the ground? quote:
Don’t blame your “instincts” for your terrible conduct! Take responsibility for your own actions! quote:
Why the hell is Railrunner shocked that the “Arena” is a “battle arena”? What kind of “Arena” was he expecting? How does Miranda Leek keep managing to push Railrunner’s intelligence even deeper into the ground? quote:
“Gentlerides”. quote:
Pot, meet kettle. quote:
I have no sympathy for Merrylegs and Static – they should already have known that this was the kind of thing that happens when Railrunner is left to his own devices. JosephWongKS fucked around with this message at 14:12 on May 23, 2013 |
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quote:Just how friggin’ enormous was the shopping mall in Huntersville?
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quote:I actually liked her company; I could tell she was trying to be a better friend. quote:I wanted to laugh at it; quote:I found the ride somewhat humorous.
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JosephWongKS posted:Wait a minute. Lets find out. So, lets say that Huntersburg/berg/ville is in pseudo-Tennessee, so let's check the biggest malls there... Well, apparently Tennessee doesn't have big enough malls to make the wiki list, so just lets say that Huntersburg/berg/ville was at one point called King of Prussia and it is in Pennsylvania. The largest mall in America is located there. It is 2,793,200 square feet. Now then, lets head back to Tennessee and find any towns the size of that, so we can have some measurement. 2,793,200 square feet = 0.1002 square miles. But there is no town that size. The smallest town as far as I can see is Cottage Grove, which is 0.2 square miles, with the lowest population in that size category, 88 people. Well, this is going nowhere, so lets check the other town, Trenzon. We know that it's 10th of the size of Zegria, and it had forty rides. Trenzon's size is 279,320 square feet, that divided by forty makes... Population density is 3992 per square mile (1541.4 per square kilometer). Which is somewhere between Denver and Chicago. Screw it, have the picture from the upcoming re-release that comes with this chapter: Iced Cocoa fucked around with this message at 16:13 on May 24, 2013 |
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I love that nobody can tell what color he is just because he has a coat on. His loving face and hands (and presumably legs, but really nothing past the roller coasters' torsos ever matters in either the art or story, does it) are fully visible. Couldn't they have just spray painted him, his skin is metal Also if roller coasters can only be harmed by each other, why would they make any other rides fight them in an arena?
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quote:I then slung him with all my strength; he flew succorless toward the wall. He hit with a loud crack, the wall cracking with him. The ride then fell into the pit below the platform. Succourless means without help/assistance, which doesn't fit at all. I think the thesaurus strikes again and the word Miranda was going to use was 'helplessly'. I mean I can see how she got there but they don't have quite the same meaning. FairyNuff fucked around with this message at 15:29 on May 23, 2013 |
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Voltin Bolt posted:I love that nobody can tell what color he is just because he has a coat on. His loving face and hands (and presumably legs, but really nothing past the roller coasters' torsos ever matters in either the art or story, does it) are fully visible. Couldn't they have just spray painted him, his skin is metal Not to mention, the coat must be twenty feet long. What's stopping it from flying or up towards Railrunner's back end? Does it have an individual sleeve for each leg? Is it held on with bungee cords? Really, it just proves that Miranda Leek barely remembers that coaster trains extend past their first few cars.
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As all rides do, I remember when I was first plugged in. The smell of diesel fumes mingled with the scent of straw from the field nearby filled my senses, and to this day those scents are nostalgic. I never meant to end up in the Arena. Nobody does, really. No ride lights up one morning and thinks "Today I'm going to Amusement Park In Between and I'm going to fight in the Arena". But really what else could I do? After the economic collapse took a hatchet to humans' disposable income, so few people made trips to the parks. I, along with so many others were decommissioned as our parks closed. I spent some time wandering from town to town in Amusement Park In Between, but what can a spider ride do when surrounded by such magnificent roller coasters, Ferris wheels and drop towers? Sure, I worked factory floors for a bit, but my extra legs kept getting in the way. And lets face it, rides, just like humans just hate spiders. You don't know what it means to be poor in Amusement Park In Between until you've scanned rain puddles for tell-tale rainbow patterns letting you know that there's oil. Slurping tepid water off the ground to get even the tiniest hint of carbon taste is about as low as it can get. So that's how I ended up in the Arena. I could barely keep myself upright as I entered, and who do they throw me up against? A red loving roller coaster. I don't know who he had on the take, or what I ever did to piss anyone off, but I knew immediately I was done for. Everyone knows that roller coasters can't be killed, hell they can barely be hurt in physical combat by anyone other than another coaster. And not only do they match me up with a coaster, but a red one at that! Widely known as the most volatile, destructive and indiscriminate of all the coasters, reds are just bad news all around. Don't get me wrong, all coasters are bad news, but reds? gently caress reds. I was a ride in the Human world for a long time. In that time I encountered every kind of human a ride can encounter. Of all of them, the ones that were the worst were what other humans called 'douchebags'. They were all the same for the most part. Shirts unbuttoned, stupid gold chains and ridiculously bad fashion sense all trying to hide the fact that they were immature, insecure and unstable children. Now I faced the ride equivalent in the Arena. I stood across from me wearing his stupid loving chain, a loving hoodie of all things, and glaring at me like I'd done something to him personally. I'm not sure what made me snap. It could have been how he looked. It could have been anger at whoever had rigged the match. Hell, it could have just been from lack of food. All I remember is that I lost it and attacked that dumb looking red son of a bitch. Of course the fight was over in a heartbeat. He grabbed me, tossed me out of the ring and pranced around like a massive tool. At least down in the pit there was plenty of oil to scrape up. So that's how I ended up here back on the streets, resting up and licking my wounds. Sure, I'll go back to the arena again. There's nothing worse they can put me up against, and everyone must've seen he red in the middle of the arena. They never last for very long. And if I get knocked into the pits again? At least there'll be some oil. So I guess I was wrong. At some point, rides DO wake up thinking that they'll end up in the Arena.
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attackbunny posted:Not to mention, the coat must be twenty feet long. What's stopping it from flying or up towards Railrunner's back end? Does it have an individual sleeve for each leg? Is it held on with bungee cords? Really, it just proves that Miranda Leek barely remembers that coaster trains extend past their first few cars. Imagine any kind of a coat or covering on that thing that'd obscure all the red parts? I can't. Also remember that the first four pairs of limbs are the arms, so whenever it's "standing up" it still has seven cars trailing it uselessly.
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The coat was literally given to him by a voodoo shaman. I just felt the need to point that out again because I still can't get over how that is. How did Railrunner manage to fight in this coat and not get it scratched or torn? He used lightning while wearing it, surely it should be burned. And it doesn't cover his arms. How does anyone keep missing his red arms?
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# ? May 23, 2013 18:38 |
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Well, he's obviously going to get revealed as a red (ugh) in the arena anyway. Not that it'll have any consequence whatsoever ("omg! it's the red! everyone genuflect!")
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# ? May 23, 2013 18:45 |
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Why do they even have clothing?
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# ? May 23, 2013 21:35 |
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You still haven't seen the most absurd piece of clothing in the book yet.
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Iced Cocoa posted:You still haven't seen the most absurd piece of clothing in the book yet. Oh, sorry, the touching-and-makeouts doll.
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Is it me, or is Railrunner a bit of a coaster supremacist? And it beginning to seem as if everyone in Amusement Park Between are all just assholes. They can stand Railrunner because they expect a coaster to be an utter dickhead.
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Why doesn't Railrunner just slaughter people in the street and take their money?
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GrizzlyCow posted:Is it me, or is Railrunner a bit of a coaster supremacist? And it beginning to seem as if everyone in Amusement Park Between are all just assholes. They can stand Railrunner because they expect a coaster to be an utter dickhead. The APB social hierarchy: 1) At the top, red rollercoasters, by virtue of being stronger, faster and more psychotically murderous than other coasters. There is only one in the whole world at a time, even though there are a metric fuckton of red roller coasters in the real world. Stealth and Nemesis: Inferno at Thorpe Park, Rita at Alton Towers and Dragon's Fury and the Runaway Train at Chessington, off the top of my head. 2) Other rollercoasters. 3) Half-coasters? Having had effort put into your theming makes you a smaller and more pathetic example of a coaster. This is retribution for the greater effort Miranda would have to put into drawing you. 4) Bumper cars and carousel horses appear to rank about here, considering that Railrunner will deign to associate with them. It's possible that - since status in ABP is clearly a matter of what you can kick the poo poo out of - they rank this highly because they tend to hang out in groups. The prehistoric aeroplane that bit Merrylegs may fall into this category. 5) 'Thrill rides', loosely defined as 'none of the above' - includes the spider ride Railrunner beat up for calling him a violent arrogant rear end in a top hat. 6) Ferris wheels and gyro towers, possibly? Rides that aren't designed to provoke an adrenaline rush. 7) Swinging ships, widely used as mindless transportation. The Fallen are a special category, being widely discriminated against by racists due to the circumstances of their creation. They seem to replicate the standard social hierarchy within their group, though, considering that all the high-rankers seem to be rollercoasters. Obviously being a Fallen swing carousel or something is the equivalent of being a black woman. What this really highlights, though, is the lack of variety in ABP's inhabitants. Where are the drop towers? Pendulum rides other than swinging ships? Log flumes? What's a Gravitron? Thorpe Park has a horror maze to go with Saw: The Ride called Saw Alive. What would that be in ABP? An entity that settles into random areas and transforms them into a haunted house-type attraction? Nooo, everything's got to be a sodding
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Chapter 37 – Confrontationquote:
Miranda Leek doesn’t understand what an “instinct” is. quote:
Railrunner is stupid, Thunderbark is a crybaby, and Merrylegs and Static are useless. Truly this is an adventuring party of which legendary tales will be told in the future. quote:
“He’s the breadwinner of the family, so we mustn’t go along with whatever he says,” said the spouse of her wife-beating husband. quote:
Huh? Is that another regional Tennessee expression? quote:
Railrunner’s character bio said he was 38 years old, Thunderbark said he had been spirited away to the “real world” when he was a baby, and Moonhoof had said that there’s only ever one red roller-coaster in existence at any time, so what was the red that had been seen 36 years ago? quote:
“Elicited my claws”. quote:
Merrylegs and Static are Railrunner’s “victims”, not “allies”.
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JosephWongKS posted:Huh? Is that another regional Tennessee expression? I've said it before, but here's a picture worth a thousand of Miranda Leek's strange turns of phrase: Here's an entry she may have used for "elicit". And one for "riposte." Bobbin Threadbare fucked around with this message at 04:21 on May 25, 2013 |
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"Verbal riposte" can be use as a flowery-as-gently caress version of "comeback", but that was hardly a comeback let alone a riposte. And 80 'g's is what? Redrunner's beverage costs 6 gs, which seems to be some martini thing, served at a bar so that's what like ~30 bucks? so 80 would be ~400 dollars. Well that seems about right I guess. I haven't been to many unlicensed fighting tournaments in my life.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:I've said it before, but here's a picture worth a thousand of Miranda Leek's strange turns of phrase: I was referring to “Did anyone ever tell you to keep your belongings to yourself?” I've never heard of such a saying in anything I've ever read.
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JosephWongKS posted:I was referring to “Did anyone ever tell you to keep your belongings to yourself?” I've never heard of such a saying in anything I've ever read. Well, there's certainly "Keep your hands to yourself," which is something someone might say after getting poked in the chest. Maybe she was switching things around because the coaster's wheel-appendages aren't exactly human hands? Even though "belongings" is even less relevant?
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As a not-so-proud Tennessean, I can assure you that anything you've asked about has nothing to do with regional dialect and has everything to do with Miranda having no idea how people talk in reality.
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tentawesome posted:As a not-so-proud Tennessean, I can assure you that anything you've asked about has nothing to do with regional dialect and has everything to do with Miranda having no idea how people talk in reality. So she's a FYAD poster?
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Chapter 38 - Check and Matequote:
Does this count as “hiding in plain sight”? In that Railrunner is counting on Ironwheel and his agents thinking that even Railrunner couldn’t be so stupid as to take part in a high-profile gladiatorial tournament while being a wanted quote:
Why drink water? Wouldn’t oil be preferable, since it not only “tastes good” but also “provides energy”? quote:
“Long Satisfied Gulps” sounds like the name of a terrible porn flick. quote:
Why do the roller-coaster characters keep referring to other mythical beings (first “sight of dragons”, now “predatory instinct of werewolves”) as though they were also real? Why haven’t we seen any of those dragons and werewolves in the book? Do they all have their own parallel dimension worlds as well? quote:
The full extent of Rozrail’s interaction with Railrunner was the 9 lines of smack-talk in the previous chapter, and for that Railrunner has categorized him as a “Fallen” and driven by “greed” and “merciless hate”. Railrunner, on the other hand, has literally butchered his way through the “real world” and now Amusement Park Between, his victims numbering in the dozens if not hundreds. There’s not enough in the world for this. quote:
Let us recall how Railrunner has treated various rides in Amusement Park Between so far: To the bartender in Zegria who told him about the Arena: “Shhh - you say –it, and I’ll cut your restraints off.” I said with an earnest tone… I took the last gulp of the Red C and then threw the glass to the ground. To the ticket-collector at the entrance to the Arena: “Please don’t start that poo poo; friend said this was a good place to catch a few g’s.” I said somewhat annoyed… “Sign me up before I shove your head up -.” quote:
Railrunner is actually seriously contemplating killing Rozrail in the Arena because of several lines of smack-talk. Our hero, ladies and gentlemen. quote:
I call bullshit. Rozrail is the local champion and Railrunner is some unknown punk; why would the spectators cheer the latter and not the former? quote:
Yeah, I’d be disgusted if I were stuck in this book too. quote:
Most writers would at least show Rozrail kicking a puppy or something; Miranda Leek fails even to as little as that. quote:
“What a jerk”, thought the person who, in Chapter 35, treated his companions as follows: ”Go away Merrylegs.” He hissed, not even turning to look at me. He then sat down and stared at the horizon with one of his deadly glares. I galloped over to Railrunner and positioned myself before him. I gulped… “You have a lot of nerve to stand in front of me.” Railrunner growled. “You’re being a jerk!” I said to him without thinking. I saw him start to tremble again. Trembling in anger, so ready to kill me. I waited for the roller coaster’s teeth to rip out my throat. I still wasn’t finished speaking my mind, so I continued. “Why are you being such a hothead! Railrunner, you have an anger management problem!” He snorted in disgust, and gave me a threatening grimace. … “Don’t press your luck, Static! [missing quotation mark] I snarled through clenched teeth. I moved closer to him still, he began to roll backwards in retreat. … Static rolled his dark eyes. I gave him a warning glare, and them flipped him off. Funny, because that expression did not exist in this world. I could flip every one I hated off on a continental basis, and no one would know. quote:
“Situated himself”. quote:
A world with “technology that is far more advanced than any humans” uses gongs to indicate the commencement of matches. quote:
Rozrail, the local arena champion, is “shocked” that an opponent could do something as amazing as “dodge the first attack”. Everyone in this book (except for the police officers and FBI agents) is astoundingly stupid. quote:
Railrunner’s cloak, one of only two pieces of “disguise” he has, specially given to him by that sagely witch Moonhoof, turns out not to be even fireproof. quote:
“That depends on what some call defeated.” What the hell does that even mean? quote:
What they have to “hope” for is a murderous, sociopathic, impulsive, violent, morally myopic, smug rear end in a top hat with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. What’s so awful about Ironwheel’s reign anyway? Halfway through the book and we still haven’t anything actually bad that he or his agents have actually done. quote:
“I jumped backward to keep my distance so as to avoid the move plus to avoid the move so as to keep my distance.” quote:
Hooray for yet another dues ex machina power from the McGuffin Jewel. quote:
59th sigh of the book. quote:
It’s embarrassing because they could not be bowing to a less deserving person. Also, how do rides without knees even kneel? quote:
No credsticks, no bank accounts, no cheques. Just coins and bills. “Technology that is far more advanced than any humans”, indeed. quote:
If “one of Amusement Park Between’s great warriors” is such a easily frightened crybaby, one shudders to imagine what the “none-great warriors” are like. quote:
As mentioned above, we have not yet actually seen any examples of “Ironwheel’s wrath”. We have, however, seen plenty of examples of Railrunner’s wrath. Perhaps Railrunner might like to start by rescuing each and every ride from his own wrath first. quote:
A world with “technology that is far more advanced than any humans” still uses stone for its buildings. Not even concrete, but stone. quote:
The wish-fulfillment element of this story has never been clearer. quote:
Why did they go to so much trouble to disguise Railrunner if there were absolutely no consequences to revealing his identity and every stupid amusement park character is so eager to throw their support behind him?
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Railrunner can travel through time, right? He's probably Ironwheel. No wonder everybody hates him so much - he even hates himself, which is the only good thing he's done over the whole book so far.
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# ? May 26, 2013 13:38 |
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Dreggon posted:So she's a FYAD poster? FYAD posters are more coherent than her though. Proof: Wayne Gretzky posted:Agreed whole heartedly. I don't mind, though, because I don't let my personal identity and self worth get tied up in the fate of different forums, so basically, the happenings of the different forums, their growth, their diminishment, etc., are, to me, like the goings-on of some different ant colonies on the sidewalk that I look down on as I stroll around.
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quote:The light hit the beam’s core, it completely disintegrated the deadly attack to a small ash that fell to the ground like a firework that had fizzled. Can you turn concussion beams to ash?
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