Re: Mirrorspace: The Wonderseekers

> >    Wow, that's really good.  I would have never have thought about
putting
> >the two together; nicely done :)  Been watching lots of Survivor & Big
> >Brother? ;!)
>
> no, actually i _hate_ the very concept of these series. when i first heard
> of big brother, i thought someone wanted to take me for a ride. when i
> realized it was true, i felt a cold shiver going down my spine... that was
> several years past. but suddenly i found some use for those sorry efforts
> of tv-entertainment: turn them into a story of decadence and vanity. :-D

    Heh, I'm the exact same way...I refuse to watch any one of those shows.
:)  Doesn't mean you can't mine them for ideas, though ;)

> >    I can imagine a dwarven citadel with tapestries to train prospective
> >wonderseekers the art of adventuring in STYLE ;)
>
> you know that now i´m expecting nothing less than a detailed writeup of
the
> citadell, preferably with a keyed map! ;)

    LOL!  Right now I'll be happy to get all the articles linked up into one
XML or something :)

> you´re right. i didn´t think about that disgusting
"swallow-what-countless-
> others-swallowed-before-you"- aspect of it. no empire of beauty would
> favour such revolting solutions (at least not in public).

    Heh, too true.

> i´m a bit sceptic about the wanderlust, for it might govern too much of
the
> Watched One´s emotions, and too much influence in a show like that could
> meet resentment from the side of the audience: "my favourite candidate is
> under the influence of that blasted potion! he would act much more clever
> without it! sabotage!!!" or something like that. on the other hand, who
> said that the use of the potions was commonly known? and then, in a realm
> like Mirror, almost every oddity could have been possible! :)

    Hey, scandel sells!  But either way, it was just an idea I figured I'd
toss out.
>
> there could very well have been a kind of "joker-potions" with unknown
> effects, akin to the deck of many things. the bored audience would
> certainly find them highly amusing! perhaps the winner of every match
could
> drink one, or perhaps everyone was granted one at the start and could try
> to find clues to what the potion probably does during The Show...

    Now *that* would be interesting...

Adam