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Poller5 said :
Well, gee, I wonder where you live, Sam .

Somewhere closer to Antarctica than probably anyone else except you?

Thanks for the feedback; I'm glad I've managed to do a better job than last week

(Also, if you're shortening Sammael to Sam because you think either make up a part of my real name, they don't - if you're shortening it to save room, which I think is more likely, go ahead )

Chuk said :
Dammit, Sammael, I was going to use fire in mine. Not a wildfire, necessarily, but waves of heat make me think of fire. Now I feel like I'd be stealing your idea in part. I may just write it anyway, but I'm frustrated you got there first.

*Feels guilty*

Sorry, I couldn't help it - my first idea was centered around a farmer, but it really wasn't going anywhere, and then the bushfire idea just came to me when I re-read the prompt

The Level said :
As for the identity of the craftsman - he's a symbolic figure, but I won't say more than that because I hate it when writers push their own intentions and interpretations onto a reader, when sometimes it's just more fun the other way.

I saw him as a Discworld-esque Creator, personally. Like the one Rincewind meets once or twice, but with less of Terry Pratchett's humour and more of a subdued, serious feel - he's wrought what he wanted to, but it took everything he had, and in the end he was just too... tired, really, too tired to do anything more than fade away.

Morbid, certainly, but there was the element of "I gave myself for you", which almost made it a little sacrificial. He expended everything he had to make the new world.

(You can tell who continuously reads and writes fantasy around here pretty easily, eh?)

18-Feb-2014 04:02:10 - Last edited on 18-Feb-2014 04:06:27 by Enheduanna

18-Feb-2014 04:09:49

The Level said :
Sam, you came pretty close to hitting the nail on the head; I might even like your interpretation better. I suppose I wrote him as the Creator who made everything, presided over them as their protectors, and then found himself surpassed by his creation and eventually forgotten.

Now I'll just sit in a corner and await my ban for bringing religion onto a Jagex forum. Wait a minute, mods don't know this place exists!

Huh, well there you go then. Thank you

And heh, I think you'll be fine - my entry for the Christmas Story Competition had pseudo-subtly implied off-screen, well, to quote something I read recently, "making squelchy", and no mods appeared

18-Feb-2014 04:17:01 - Last edited on 18-Feb-2014 04:17:34 by Enheduanna

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(Also, if you're shortening Sammael to Sam because you think either make up a part of my real name, they don't - if you're shortening it to save room, which I think is more likely, go ahead )

Only Yrolg uses "full names" around here .

I guess I tried to go too literally with my interpretation, though I think I prefer it; it strikes me as odd (almost, in a sense, impossible) that something can forget its maker, or the maker not be remembered in it.

18-Feb-2014 04:25:47

18-Feb-2014 04:40:04