Schemes and Dreams
Hey everybody.👋 Welcome to my second story. I'm hard at work on getting things ready for this one. I thought I would go ahead and start the thread and give you an idea what's going on. I'll post occa...
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@_Gina Thank you very much.❤️
@Ellupelluellu Thank you so much.❤️
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When I read your reply earlier I thought you had said Inna was being bossy. But I see now you wrote Elle. I was going to say any bossiness from Inna was the fault of poor editing. I changed and deleted a lot of dialogue from both Rayvn and Judith aimed at Inna, but I forgot to edit her part. Rayvn and Judith were really letting her have it so the push back from her would have made a lot more sense if I left everything in. In Elle's case, well she is a thoroughly evil vampire so bossiness is part of the package with her. The ritual is my sticking point for now. It wasn't a big deal at first because I didn't expect Inna and Rayvn to hit it off and pick up friend status. That along with the backstory I gave her, I want her to escape right along with Rayvn and Judith. I just have to figure out how she can get out of the bonding. Inna with Rayvn, Tianna, Harley, and the party crowd at The Orchid would be fun. I mean, talk about culture clash. One minute you're 276 years old and still living in the 18th or 19th century and just like that you're in 2023.
@Ellupelluellu Thank you so much.❤️
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Please don't worry about making me angry. I can't think of a single thing you would ever say that would make me mad at you. I love to hear your thoughts on both of my stories.? I haven't played a save with Inna in it for so long I forgot how much fun she is to have around. The friendship she struck up with Rayvn was a wonderful surprise and it was what made me have her help them. Judith will be Judith. I did enjoy having her eat humble pie and acknowledge that for probably the one time in her life she knew she wasn't the baddest in the room. Not even close. Elle and Lilith have centuries more experience at being mean, nasty, and getting exactly what they want by any means necessary. And not caring what the world thinks of them, so long as the world isn't getting in their way. Just as ask Ivan what what happens when you get in their way. Oh wait, you're going to need a seance table for that.
@luciusstorm Thank you so much too❤️
Now that I've set up my happy ending, I can explain where this was going originally. It did take some very dark turns and totally turned Rayvn's story upside-down and inside-out.
@luciusstorm Thank you so much too❤️
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I'm really happy you enjoyed the twists. I can say I had a good teacher, teacher. I'm super happy you feel like this was more like me. I was definitely wanting to walk it back from the last chapter, but I was a bit afraid that Elle and Lilith's conversation over wine and then Lilith's surprise attack on Ivan might have been even darker than the previous chapter. I had reservations about doing both of those scenes, but I felt like I had to make them work to escape. Thank you to @Metior_Ice for his thoughts of making Alexander work to regain his voice for the inspiration. If Alexander has to earn his voice back, the ladies needed to at least face real peril in order to get back home again.
Now that I've set up my happy ending, I can explain where this was going originally. It did take some very dark turns and totally turned Rayvn's story upside-down and inside-out.
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The way I had it set up was Judith was going to make a deal for her own safety and give Rayvn to Elle and Lilith. That would so be a Judith thing to do. Save her own skin even if it meant sacrificing someone else's. In exchange for her freedom Judith was going to help cover up Rayvn's disappearance. Judith was going to take her cellphone back and 'lose' it in a rough part of DSV along with some of her other belongings. Meanwhile, Rayvn was going to be fighting and not going along with Elle and Lilith's plans, at first. She was going to come around to their way of thinking with the promise of power and the removal of her bond to Forgotten Hollow. She was then going to start popping up here and there to mess with Judith, before she finally pounced and really made life miserable for her. Rayvn's reappearance would have been a pretty good bombshell cliffhanger. But honestly, just typing this synopsis up took a lot for me. I'm not someone who really enjoys stories that dark. For one thing it would have ended Rayvn's pursuit of an acting career, because she would have been a vampire and I'm not sure how I could have had her suddenly reappear from the dead and resume her old life. I want this story to be edgier than Under The Tartosan Sun, but not that edgy. Someday maybe I'll do one like that.
