Subject: Hence Narrative Misfortune Syndrome.
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Posted on: 2010-09-20 11:42:00 UTC
Poor Stormsong was the victim of a gruesome death which actually had reason to be in the plot, which naturally means the related Narrativium takes longer to dissipate from around him than it does for your average badfic victim.
I was thinking, What would happen if an agent from the real world got exposed to pure Narrativium? My thinking was that if a real person or an Agent from world one was exposed to pure Narrativium, it might give then the ability to imperfectly use abilities from the word worlds. The reasoning behind why this would work is that because if Narrativium is the elemental substance of Story, then getting exposed to a ridicules amount of it would but one in touch with the local cannon. The downside is that the Agent in question would be more heavily affected by changes to the cannon and the laws of dramatic irony and narrative comedy would jump at the chance to affect the agent.
I admit, I started thinking about this when I wondered what happened to all of the Narrativium in a good story when it gets turned into a badfic.
Since Narrativium is the substance of story, anyone in a story is already exposed to it. If they're the main character, like a PPC agent, there's naturally more of it about them than (for instance) a bit character. This is why the Laws of Narrative already affect agents as they do.
As for good stories vs. bad, I would say that good stories have high concentrations of Narrativium, whereas bad stories have only diffuse amounts. In other words, they don't hold together well.
~Neshomeh
Poor Stormsong was the victim of a gruesome death which actually had reason to be in the plot, which naturally means the related Narrativium takes longer to dissipate from around him than it does for your average badfic victim.
It's definitely a more intelligent response than what I was going to say.