Subject: Do missions that never got finished count?
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Posted on: 2010-01-02 10:51:00 UTC
I've got an unfinished (and pretty much abandoned) mission into a Brothers Grimm fic, in which one of my agents has to adjust to the fact that her partner set her disguise as Pus in Boots.
Other than that, I don't think I've ever cut more than some lines of dialogue.
Sometimes, when writing a PPC mission, I have found that a scene just didn't go. Other times, a beta reader advised me against a scene. I'm sure this has happened to a lot of you, too.
One such scene, cut from Eternal Balance, was set in FGenMS11, and was to establish the following things about the Venomous Tentacula: It has three lieutenants (Lord Tulip, the Bonnie Blue, and one other whose name I disremember), it does not automatically execute underlings for failure, it does not tolerate infighting among its underligns, and it does sometimes eat captured PPC Agents or disobedient Defectives. Furthermore, Lord Tulip does not like Discworld jokes about its name.
A scene I cut from either The Legacy of Rust or Eternal Balance was to have Tangara's return. However, I was cramming too much in, so that scene got cut.
What scenes have you had to delete?
I've got an unfinished (and pretty much abandoned) mission into a Brothers Grimm fic, in which one of my agents has to adjust to the fact that her partner set her disguise as Pus in Boots.
Other than that, I don't think I've ever cut more than some lines of dialogue.
It's called Pain. The title is listed on our agent pages. It's apt. It's been there for almost a year now. It just... sits there. Occasionally, when Trojie's feeling very brave, she opens the doc, stares in blank horror for a while, writes a line, and then goes to gibber in a corner.
It does, however, contain bits of our personal canon that have been referenced later. We sort of view it as, well, there must be a lot more missions take place than just the ones that are recorded (otherwise some agents are slacking big time). So, for now, Pain is an unrecorded mission, and one day it'll be recorded. In the meantime, we sit and weep.
Other than that? We get ideas while talking over gchat while writing in gdocs, but not all the ideas we come up with end up getting worked in. No full scenes that were deleted though.
Yum yu- I mean, I'll take that if you don't need it...
That was me not taking time to look something up because I had to clear the dinner table.