The same goes for stupid things.<\/a><\/p>\nA bit about the story after the jump…<\/p>\n
This final entry was massive. I’d grossly underestimated just how much dialog it was going to take, and I completely forgotten just how long that last quest is. I actually expected this final entry to be short, and it ended up 150% the size of a normal chapter. Over 3,000 words. Whew. I’d have split it into two entries, but i didn’t think it would be fair to postpone the end after promising it to you last week. (Note to self: This is why you need more lead time, idiot!<\/strong>)<\/p>\nThis was pretty much the ending I had planned from the start. I wanted the story to begin and end with Amdir, as it made a nice arc. The series was originally going to end around entry 15 or so, but then I ended up doing both the Human and the Hobbit epic quest lines, which prolonged the series. It was a good move, I think, and it made the final quest that much more interesting.<\/p>\n
I was actually kind of surprised at how sad Lulzy’s ending seemed once I wrote it. The whole “RANGERS ARE ALL MORONS AND I HATE THEM BLARG!<\/em>” shtick was getting old near the end and I had a sense that joke was going to wear out its welcome before we got there. It’s also a nod to the setup of the original work, where groups are all led by these tall epic noble heroes but populated by losers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All good things must come to and end. The same goes for stupid things. A bit about the story after the jump…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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