Range Patrol #7: Maiden of Ice

http://www.tektoonics.com/rangtoon7/rangtoon7001.html

Call it three and a half pages. We start with some insight into what Beamer's future love's life is like now...and why she'll be so especially glad to meet Beamer in the first place.

And yes, the Shrike Team stories 2-6 are now subscriber only.

very nice.

(I had a momentary panic session when I couldn't find my ST password....I had accidentally deleted it, fortunately GMail hadn't emptied my inbox)

So, what's the deal with her? Why don't people like her?

Originally posted by Darth Executor
So, what's the deal with her? Why don't people like her?

I don't mind explaining since I did say it somewhere else. Her "skin of ice" is a sort of emotional disability which makes it hard for Jelica to express emotion. In an agonistic society like eastern Hearthstone's continents, that's especially troublesome because you're expected to offer appropriate displays of emotion even if you don't mean it (like the paid mourners in the NT).

So they're all shunning her, basically, because she doesn't cry at funerals, or laugh at jokes, etc. Very cruel indeed.

Originally posted by jpholding
I don't mind explaining since I did say it somewhere else. Her "skin of ice" is a sort of emotional disability which makes it hard for Jelica to express emotion. In an agonistic society like eastern Hearthstone's continents, that's especially troublesome because you're expected to offer appropriate displays of emotion even if you don't mean it (like the paid mourners in the NT).

So they're all shunning her, basically, because she doesn't cry at funerals, or laugh at jokes, etc. Very cruel indeed.

Ouch.

A bit off topic but they have paid mourners in my native country as well (usually old ladies). They put the real mourners to shame. You'd think their entire family got rolled over by a tank.

An interesting start. How does Jelica get that connection with Lady Hubred, anyway? Did the Lady like her work, or does she know her father, or something?

Not one of your best pieces, but interesting...

Anyhow, I was wondering: if JP really wants to attract wider attention to his and/or other peoples' works, he should try to appear on that fantasticmagical TV-show, which would do well in bringing him to a larger group of (mainly) younger Americans than he has already:

JP should try to appear on The Colbert Report!

I mean, N T Wright has done it, and since I'm sure he's maybe not all that familiar to certain elements in the younger American generations, maybe it would bring even more attention to his work - and load him with even more e-mails per month!

Originally posted by JonLanceBarker
An interesting start. How does Jelica get that connection with Lady Hubred, anyway? Did the Lady like her work, or does she know her father, or something?

I won't necessarily be dealing in the background, but I think we can assume that Lady Hubred knew her father and that the dealings with her family have been extensive. In addition, it is not for no reason that I have plotted it so that Lady Hubred is an Amentazari. Of all the races in the East they would be the most likely to "overlook" something like Jelica's disability or even encourage her.

The Colbert Report?

I'd upstage that rat fink if I could.

Originally posted by jpholding
The Colbert Report? I'd upstage that rat fink if I could.

I don't know what you mean by 'rat fink'

, but anyhow, you could stand up to Colbert's use of satire with your own use of satire, get some angry boo's from one or two audience members, and have one or a pair of your books promoted. What's there to lose?

´... oh, yeah, your political neutrality...

I know I'd sure thoroughly enjoy seeing JPH on The Colbert Report

I actually kinda like that idea.

(Not that I'd see it before it got online, or anything...

)

Originally posted by MikO von Mirtos
I don't know what you mean by 'rat fink'

It's just a general derisive comment. Colbert thinks he's funny, but he seldom is when he does political stuff. He IS funny at other times, to be sure, but I find his satire unremarkable because it is against caricatures mostly, not reality.

INFIDEL!

It's like saying Jim Carrey is a type-cast, exaggerating slapstick comedian!

Colbert used to be funny. Now he just sounds like a bitter old man and I can't stand listening to him much. I also suspect he's gay.

Are you serious? He's married and has children!

Originally posted by MikO von Mirtos
INFIDEL!

It's like saying Jim Carrey is a type-cast, exaggerating slapstick comedian!

He is.



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