Season Three - rough roadmap

Ps. I'd like to invite the Inquisitor to Commanders' Log as well if you guys are up for it.

By this point as well I can't help but think that the other characters are going to start questioning Al. It will no longer be a deal breaker - given that he has proved himself at this point; but there is a lot of questions that the other dangerous characters are sure to have. By this point most of them will have noticed that's he's not as drunk as he pretends to be (his ability to pilot the way he does can only be explained away by luck for so long), and that he is far more observant that he's letting on. They are also going to be wondering about his past.

Obviously Al-poc doesn't have to answer any of these questions, but at the very least Vex is going to start asking them.

This could also be a chance to clarify the mystery which is Al. To give it shape even if there aren't any answers. If Al is a jigsaw I think we want to start defining where the edges are, even if we can't see the whole picture, and the others asking questions with him volunteering any more information will help with this.


I would also like Al to be a part of the resolution between Vex and Sou. In the absence of Souvarine I'd like Vex to turn to Al as a confidant. This might be a good opportunity for Al to show a side of himself which is not "complete nutter", in the same way as he does with the Octopus, but I leave that up for you Al.

As for Vex himself - he's going to go nomadic. A bit of soul searching, a bit of wandering the galaxy. He's going to feed intelligence back to the Octopus as detailed in the other thread.

T and myself talked a while ago about a scene where Vex recuses Sou from the hands of federal intelligence, but this has never found a place. I was thinking that the culmination of the Vex/Sou dispute could be Sou rescuing Vex from something similar. Maybe with Al's help?

I like your ideas Rob, works for me. Maybe start hinting at the "why" of Al but still keeping some of the "who", "what" and "where" of his past a mystery. Using the interactions with Vex to reveal that it was a lost love that set Al along this path and his running from this is why there is no history, that sort of idea.

I've also been thinking about it and I would like Tan Gorn's first message to us to constitute the final chapter in Season Two. I think it makes a far better cliffhanger - leaving a big fat "who the fuck is this?" which is a really smart cutoff point. Does anyone object?

(The Inquisitor might of course - have asked him)

And for me too.

I'm going to pull a small necro on this thread rather than start a new one.

Things have changed slightly for me obviously, with me killing Vex and introducing Tanith. So here is the rough road map for Tanith and a posthumous Vex.

Everything bellow is going to be interspersed with AAR's from "An Inquisistion Agent" which will actually be Ronnies goings on with the inquisition based on Ronans actions.
The first 4 posts are already in drafts and ready to go up over the next week or so culminating with "By the Cold Light of Day".

There will then follow the following posts in the order bellow.

5. Tanith goes to Opila and meets Caia (a former lover of Vex's), who points her in the direction of...

6. Candecama, where the trail goes cold. There can be quite a long gap between this and Opila if needed because it's going to be about the futile search since Candecama and how there's not a word of Vex.

7. At rock bottom Tanith finally gets a break and is pointed in the direction of a mysterious imperial agent who has been operating in the local area. "If anyone know he will"

8. Tanith meets said agent. The agent is Ronnie though he won't be mentioned by name. His ship will however be mentioned, as will the region of space (Malaikudi) so someone who is paying attention will work out that - a, it is Ronnie and b, Ronnie is working for the Inquisition. Ronnie points Tanith towards Vex's mission in Archon Delaine Space (he's an inquisitor - he knows things)

9. Tannith heads back to Gia and asks her for some pointers when it comes to looking for someone in the region of space, since she did her tour of duty there. She give Tanith some pointers and sends her on her way.

10. Another place for a long gap - Tanith recounts her hunt for Vex, the close calls and strange people she's met while in the arse end of space. She's just been pointed towards a Sirius Security squadron who operate in the area. Maybe they know more.

11. Dexter Vex is dead. The security people don't know what he was doing in the area but he clearly pissed someone off and despite his best efforts was destroyed around planet [to be named]. The security wing saw the destruction of the Vindicta, and saw that the Vex refused to eject, preferring instead to ram the last Kumo Crew pilot left. Tanith decides that she is no posision to avenge his death but she can take news of his passing to his next of kin, now to find them.

12. City of Brass - She heads to Kaushpoos, the only one of Vex's haunts that she hasn't visited - hoping to find more information about the man and his associates. While there she here the story of the demise of Judith Priest and charms the Fed Security officer into letting her see the incident report. She finds Sou's name - and links it to the report of his return from the Galactic core. With that it's off to CD-63 201.

Obviously that's my plan. What follows is a suggestion for how this could fit with everything else that's going on. From my point of view that's a vaguely logical place to leave Season 3, and it lets me do Tanith breaking the news of Vex's death in the same format that we've done the prologue. Also by that point we will be into about 30 posts in season 3. In that time Sou, Al and Ronnie will have had plenty of time to bond as a team (particularly Sou and Al) and we have had the opportunity to find out more about Al.

What do we all think?



P.S. While I remember Al, I was reminded reading your and Sou's dialogue about your plans vis-a-vis Al and Arissa. I'm not sure if you know, but it is worth bearing in mind as you develop that that FDevs only stipulation about using stuff for private projects is to not God play their characters. So a full blown torrid affair with Arissa, followed by meeting her in person is I'm afraid going to be right out. I think the get out card will be "Of course if anyone asked her she'd deny it immediately", and to give FDev's character complete and utter deniability. We also cannot write conversations from the point of "Tier 1 Characters". Just a thought, I don't even know whether or not it's applicable as I don't know what you've got in mind.

I was toying with the idea of his wrecked escape capsule and black box being on the planet he was fighting around. Sou could go hunting for them and then bring the body of his friend home.

Cheers Rob! I had assumed it would be something like this, I guessed anything directly involving ALD would not be possible and already starting to think about how to "end" Al's story arc when it gets to that point. However, you make a good point about how to allude to a past that doesn't interfere with the main canon or annoy FDevs. I think I will continue it being entirely from Al's point of view, with there being no concrete evidence and therefore it could equally be the ramblings of an obsessive madman as it could a scorned ex lover.

Is a 'necro' revisiting an old thread? And is that considered bad form?