: Agreed. Though I suppose you could always claim that while the player may
: know the dream speaker's identity, it can be assumed that the character he
: plays does not. In the context of the story, it may be a very genuine
: mystery to Marcus.
If i remeber the reame's story bit correctly (if I don't, correctly) Marcus had just come from the end of infinity, while the merger of Thoth and Durandal was probaly very freash in his mind.
: Part of the challenge in writing the dream terminals was finding the right
: voice for who the dream speaker truly is, a Durandal-Thoth combo
: super-sized. Instead of blending the tones of their speech into a puree'd
: shade, I tried to sort of use a stream-of-conciousness approach where one
: personality dominates the speaking depending on what's being said; the
: intent being that each dream terminal would have two harmonious
: "voices". But also in this the personalities have, a bit,
: contaminated each other. Durandal made Thoth's speech flow better and
: improved his vocabulary while Thoth took the wit and sarcastic edge off
: Durandal.
Ithink you did an exalent job at melding the styles.
: Most of these were written pretty late into the night. I was working at a
: distribution center in Mississippi at the time and seeing as I had a key I
: usually stayed after everyone left. Being alone and usually hopped up on
: diet pills and caffeine I was easily able to write until I was content,
: not to mention red-eyed and nearly delerious. I find I have a hard time
: writing when I'm totally clean and sober, so sue me.
I've always thought that in order to write well, you had to be a bit apart from what most call completly sane.
