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Big Finish continues to be Having A Bad Month
https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/temporary-bf-app-solution

But I appreciate them sharing the work around.

I am not exactly short on existing content so I think I don't mind having to wait or use the website but I can see how this isn't going great for them.

Today I finished listening to Classic Doctors New Monsters 3, which had two stories about dream crabs which are shuddery thingies. As they should be, obvs. But the story with the Tivolian was easier, and quite fun. The one with the Hoxx had Tim Treloar and Sadie Miller as the Doctor and Sarah Jane, and I had a bunch of complicated feelings about that, but suspect the negative ones aren't the rational ones. The story was nice though.

That's not a full review but I dont have review shaped thoughts of them today.

Hope things go better for BF soon.

Wrath of the Righteous xover bunnies

I keep going back to Wrath of the Righteous and imagining throwing new different characters at it or making more plot around the edges of what the Knight Commander was doing. Fanfic stuff, obvs. But I dont think there's really an audience for my multiverse xover mixing the computer game with the paper one and beyond. So I just circle it a lot and worry at it like a problem set.

... wants to redeem more characters. The story keeps dangling them in front of me and then going oops nope can't help this one. So I'm like watch me. But by introducing them to people and situations from other stories and genres.

Like, Adam, from Torchwood, applied to Camellia, from Wrath of the Righteous. Big spoilers for game and for Torchwood episodes from... lots of years ago... ( Read more... )

I just have that feeling where it seems like you could rotate these characters just right to click
and get a new and possibly better for them or probably just very dramatic story out of it.



And that's without even getting into the fact that almost the first thing you learn is Resurrection is possible in this game. Terendelev's scales. Then scrolls at the Defender's Heart. The computer game doesnt have True Res but in theory all he needs is a name, or optimally a name, date time place of birth, and same of death. Ianto has that in his mental files for we don't know how much of Torchwood. ... plus about 823 had the same date and place of death, which is a bit easy to memorise...

Huh, just checked via wiki and wayback, and the website said 823 total staff of whom 27 survived. I had it memorised as 823 down out of 850. oop.

ANYway:

Ianto Jones, Torchwood survivor, dropped on a planet where True Res is a thing, is going to start trying to save enough gold to start saving people.

Which makes him a very different guy from the canon Knight Commander, who only has the context and friends the game gives him.

Plus while one can imagine Ianto being very on side with closing the Worldwound, Torchwood does have form with wanting to exploit rifts, and the Trickster path has ever so many temptations on that front, so you'd want to bring back friends who would be on several sides of an argument.

Also, imagine Owen being the one to pick up the wand that triggers the Undead mythic path. Tangly. He'd understand exactly what he was risking, or he'd think he did, but if he tried taking it he'd find himself in way too deep. You could fit an entire story arc into one of the time gaps for the Knight Commander. Would need to tweak the logic a bit though. Or, use the DLC where Nahyndri gets involved, and all paths say the Knight Commander isn't the only one who tried getting on that boat of bones.

Plus greed is a temptation for everyone, but when every gold piece gets you closer to another life saved... Owen has such a list. All of them do. And if they start bring back their guilt list instead of filtering for how they'd cope, ever so many stories arise.

... kind of want to play through with Owen now and get to the what have I done point... but I don't want to play evil...

Anyway! Throw different people at the same story, get different story, obvs. Throw different story at the same people, also get different story. Including an excuse for a continuation of it.



Still turning them around in my head for now though...