{"id":75,"date":"2006-03-23T23:43:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T03:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-10-26T23:45:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T03:45:47","slug":"duke-cerebus-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/75","title":{"rendered":"Duke Cerebus Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll edit part seven tonight, so that it&#8217;s ready to go when six is approved in a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>Just added the beginning of a new map for the nation of Agreseus, where Danica is sent on a task in part six to the city of Gottside.<\/p>\n<p>Had another surge of votes, and unfortunately that tenth 5 vote put Part 5 in troll territory.\u00a0 A single 1 vote dropped it down completely off the radar, and a subsequent 5 has done little to recover it.\u00a0 Such is the way of things when you&#8217;ve got people hanging around with nothing better to do than try and kill story ratings.\u00a0 At least it made it&#8217;s &#8220;H&#8221;, and I suppose it genuinely could have been someone who just didn&#8217;t like the story, it just doesn&#8217;t seem all that likely under the circumstances =P\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got two parts yet missing H&#8217;s, and they both have straight fives as well.\u00a0 Odds are they&#8217;ll both end up in the same boat unless they pick up a four or something along the way.\u00a0 Making the top 10 is a guranteed troll slap it seems.\u00a0 I guess it is always possible a Lit Troll sweep could wipe out those 1&#8217;s and recover my real rating, so I guess I can hope for that.<\/p>\n<p>Duke Cerebus is transforming even as I write it.\u00a0 A character I slapped in there more or less for the sole purpose of introducing the main characters and the setting has jumped her reins and taken on a life of her own.\u00a0 This is now starting to feel more like a small series than a short story.\u00a0 I guess you&#8217;ll not only get introduced to Mindblind and Christi in this tale, but\u00a0 get to know Arilee as well.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be learning about her at the same time you do, because frankly I think she&#8217;s writing this one at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll edit part seven tonight, so that it&#8217;s ready to go when six is approved in a couple of days. Just added the beginning of a new map for the nation of Agreseus, where Danica is sent on a task in part six to the city of Gottside. Had another surge of votes, and unfortunately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}