ethical dilemma i am having in Fallen London (major spoilers for the railroad storyline, minor spoilers for Heart's Desire):
I spent two goddamn irl weeks learning ancient and forbidden knowledge and gambling on goat-demon hockey that isn't being played in a place that doesn't exist and swearing oaths that i didn't swear so that i could duplicate gilgamesh to give him his heart's desire without him betraying his true love (something he didn't seem concerned about when he was trying to scare me into losing at poker in his nightmare garden!!!)
and now. i am at the two-in-one wedding/heart transplant ceremony. and i don't think i should let him marry the tower!!
At first I didn't think the ancient sapient tower really cared who it married as long as they were willing to be turned into a city, but now that we're here I actually think it really wants to marry the multi-faced human leader of the tracklayers union. Who would make a better city of the tracklayers anyway.
OTOH I am a ______ __ ___ ______ so fuck what anyone else wants. and i spent SO LONG making illegal moves in the nonexistent goat demon ice hockey games i was gambling on in order to correctly arrange the standing stones for this.
The spider-demon-solicitor-baroness says that substituting Gilgamesh for Mrs. Helmet Head is not a violation of the board's contract with the tower, but the tower will be mad about it.
I'm okay with the tower being mad at me (since it's contractually obligated not to destroy my railway line) but I don't want Furnace to be mad at me, because we're friends and I'm a terrible ______ __ ___ ______.
Is it a bad decision, stylistically, to have a bunch of incomplete sentenced? I'm trying to capture this high-sensory mood and attaching a verb and action to everything is killing the flow. Can I just go "His dad's Italian leather in sharp relief against the gray concrete. His mother's pale toes squeezed into pink pumps." And not have to attach "He saw" at the front of it??
EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt
eyes roll at her correction , but he doesn't bother challenging it. smile soon appears back on his face , though , brows raising as he glances back to her. " well i don't need to add anything ! but we can always put it to the test someday , huh ? i'd happily buy a tape measure if it means proving you wrong ! " head shakes , laughing as he goes back to his bookshelf. " ah , yeah . 'cause i'm the reason they're not about right now ! " offering her an amused look as she approaches , he turns , leaning himself up against the shelves. " come on , now . you don't really want me to go anywhere ! " teasing words given before he gestures towards the books on offer. " i'm looking for a copy of alice in wonderland . sounds stupid , i know . but rumour has it that it's haunted ! " proclaimed dramatically , hands shaking in front of him , clearly not believing the tale. " my friends think i'm going to be too spooked to retrieve it , but i'm going to prove them wrong just like i'll prove you wrong someday ! " nudging her shoulder , grin widening as he leans in closer. " so . seen it anywhere ? "