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Alice Grove MCDT - February 2015

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BenRG:
Okay, Ardent? It's nighttime. The chances of you finding anyone awake to hang with is low, to say the least! I can see the two of them asleep in the town square until they are awoken by the town waking up at the break of dawn.

I'm pretty sure that Gavia is worried about nothing in regard to the townsfolk. They don't strike me as aggressive. Once they are sure she isn't going to blow up anything (with the possible and deserved exception of her brother), I'm sure that they'll warm up to her.

I'm going to make a few predictions:

* Ardent and Gavia are going to make friendships in this chapter that will change their lives;
* Alice is following them; we'll occasionally see her tackling beasties so that the kids don't have to;
* Alice is going to watch silently and not interfere until it's time for the kids to return to the cottage; she may even flash back to her arrival, years back.Overall, this is going to be a chapter of character building and more than a little fun.

Wildroses:
Yeah, it totally occurred to me too that Ardent may not realise Alice's town has no night life. It also occurs to me that the last time any townsfolk saw Gavia she was unconscious and badly beaten, and Alice was responding to queries about what she was going to do with Gavia by saying things like: "That's none of your concern" and "Help me take her to my place. I want answers." So there is a chance some people may respond to Gavia with pleased surprise rather than appalled surprise. "You're still alive? How wonderful! We thought Alice killed you."

I'm hoping this chapter we get to see townsfolk talking about Alice when she isn't around. Or when they don't know she isn't around. The open eye when Ardent sneaked out means she is totally following unobserved.

explicit:
Girls that actually are up at night are the people Ardent is looking for. If he find them he'll be ecstatic (if they don't hit him anyways).

BenRG:
I've got so many ideas of what I'd like to see in Alice Grove. One would be for Doc to have a crush on Alice. Normally, he's the voice of her conscience and the only one in the town who doesn't treat her as the 'witch' who can 'put out the sun'. However, he's also very concerned about how she isolates herself. He knows enough basic psychology to know the problems that causes.

"I don't have any illusions about you, Alice. You're ageless; you've been here at least eighty years but don't look a day older than when you arrived, if the Town Elders are to be believed. You're invulnerable; I've seen you walk into infernos to save people trapped by fire and not even get singed. You can do things that no other human can do. With all that, though, you're still human and, if you won't bend, you will eventually break."

I'd love for her to ask him where he's got all this and he points out that he learnt most of it as a child sitting at the feet of a blonde woman who lived in a cottage out in the woods, just as she had since his grandfather was young.


--- Quote from: explicit on 24 Feb 2015, 00:52 ---Girls that actually are up at night are the people Ardent is looking for. If he find them he'll be ecstatic (if they don't hit him anyways).
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They typically expect payment, something about which Ardent has imperfect comprehension. Additionally, they're professionals with standards. I think that Gavia is going to be laughing herself into a hernia before the night is over if explicit's scenario comes true.

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I'd also like for there to be something of a running joke that goes like this: When Jack wakes the Vicissitudes up, tomorrow morning, he nervously asks Gavia if she is going to blow anything else up. She is offended: "Hey! I didn't hurt anyone! Besides, I had a good reason!"

"Really, what?"

She gestures at Ardent. "I was mad at my idiot brother!"

"Oh! That explains everything!"

Basically, as Jack shows them around town, everyone who asks Gavia if she's still blowing stuff up gets the same answer with poor Ardent exclaiming "Hey!" Finally he asks why it's "Let's dump on Ardent day!" Gavia's response?

"Brother of mine, are you saying that, in your sixteen years, you have never realised that every day is 'Let's Dump on Ardent Day'?"

Method of Madness:

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I can't recommend Pain and Gain enough.

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