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 Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 4:08 pm
We needed a new death thread, for serious. The old one dated back to '05.
What's your killcount, CAA? What methods have you used? What methods do you plan to use? What are some past deaths that you've changed?
I don't kill off characters as much as I used to. Back in the Day, it was a mandatory thing, like it couldn't be a Good Story or a Dramatic Story until somebody died.
Off the top of my head I think my current body count is a rather unimpressive five. That includes two gunshot deaths, a poisoning, a suicide-by-hanging, and a strangulation. Good times.
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 4:25 pm
Oh, I hear you on the Death is Mandatory thing. That's how my first fantasy stories were, except everyone would take turns dying...and then coming back. @_@ I never said I was a particularly bright child.
If you count everyone who dies in the time between the start of the story and the end, two: Richard and Evahrie. If you count pre-story deaths, lots. And if you count people who don't matter, tons. Every character but Nathan is missing a parent, everyone Vitae knows is dead, etc. etc. But I only really count those first two.
Evahrie died of having his throat slit, Richard died of falling down the stairs.
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:35 am
Oh, ********. I probably can't count for everything I've written. I'm primarily a military writer, so I kill off a lot of characters. Lets just count out the kill count for any writing done concerning the armed forces of the Saori Federation, my favourite military organization, and further limit the kill count to include major characters only. From there we have, from the top of my head, at least a couple dozen deaths, mostly comprising of main characters' friends/family.
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:10 pm
I have a major propensity towards flinging my characters' family members off the pre-story mortal coil, too. That's another thing I'm doing less than I used to (before, all parents were Dead -- now they just tend to be estranged, or the character has never met them).
I should probably work on characters that actually have relationships with their family members. H'm.
Counting pre-story deaths would take R&N up to five. Six if you count the guy Janus killed.
It would take 5M up to about ten, though, because Leon's entire family is dead.
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:26 pm
The death count for my WIP is:
-one beaten to death
-one stabbed to death with a pocket knife
-one shot in the face
-one tortured to death
Nothing too impressive, but i think they do the job
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:37 am
Ahem.
Foxglove:
- one stabbed with icicles
- one executed with magic
- one executed with magical fire
- one stabbed in a duel
Fantasy:
- one shot in the head in battle
- one shot in the head in bed
Sphinx:
- three clawed to death
- unknown, but four named, mauled and eaten
- one dropped to her death
- one suicide by bullet
- one stabbing
- one throat slit
Hero:
- one shot by accident
- one suicide by bullet, or possibly execution (still not resolved XP)
- one execution
Lady Lowdreamer:
- everyone dies, that's the point.
Moose:
- one drug overdose
- one drunk drowning
- one suicide by poison
All the others are comedies or for younger audiences, so tend not to have deaths. razz
LOOK HOW SHORT THE FOXGLOVE LIST IS. eek
*returns to lurking*
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:52 am
So far, for The Royal Contest, ( I really need to finish this darn thing, gosh-darnit-to-heck-and-back ) the death toll stands at:
3 goats: mangled by wolves
1 stick: broken by Dire Hank
2 squires: mauled by [spoiler deleted]
1 [spoiler deleted]: gang-banged to death by several guards
Total: 7
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:35 pm
Dark Polaris (the one Drazzy's in): Egads. I... umm... Well, not counting unimportant characters, which pushes the death toll into the hundreds, if not thousands due to the long timeframe of the story, I'm not sure how many have died. NewNamePending and Isaac die of old age, Erin kinda dies, but she doesn't count because she comes back, Ardane dies, Symira dies horribly (<3) and both Eclipse and Drazzy die by the end of it. Evidently, you aren't important unless death happens at least once.
DP: Ragnarok: It's the end of the world, so I need to discount unimportant people AGAIN and then I need to figure out just how many people Rags slaughters by the end of it. Rags dies from a heart anuerysm, Sigrid dies from blunt force truama, and Jotun dies from Rags-induced stabby. Not sure if Rags counts; she comes back. And continues to spontaneously combust if she takes too much damage.
Ashen Wings: Depends on the route taken; most of them wind up with at least one or two deaths.
Fuzzy's Adventure: One, for most endings. Whether that's you dying in one of the dozens of horrible ways that will get this cutesy little game an M rating at least or you actually beat the game and kill the thing causing the problems, there is generally only one important death. Monsters are never counted in games.
Other then that, I don't think there is a death toll in most of them... I need to check that.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:24 pm
Planned deaths in 154 alone?
- The trolley man with his head crushed in the door by 154
- various armed forces by 154 though various methods
- Poseidon by 154 with shotgun
- a seagull by 154 with a handgun
- two "gangstas" with their heads smashed together by 154 (They were still alive when he left, died later from hemorrhaging in the brain)
- Zeus, in some way by 154
- Hades Prototype in some way by 154
- Hades by 154
- 154 himself by gas poison, just after finding out that he was a failed product investment and his ability to think freely was a mistake.
Yeah, I never realized it, but 154 does raise a very high death toll. And he always goes for the head when making an unarmed kill.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:34 pm
Lesee... death toll for Winter's Requiem, only counting people with names and personalities:
-Katya, either by hanging or beheading, I haven't decided whether Ice Kingdom's got a guillotine yet
-Vierad, hung, drawn, and quartered
-Possibly Sherlock and Expy, in a duel with a poisoned rapier
-Titania, Oberon, and various other Ice Kingdom nobility, beheaded in the overthrow of their regime
-Lenore, by jumping off a cliff
-Ophelia, at the hands of the combined parties
-Elia, run through a sword by the Hero
And there's some more, but they're not planned enough to count.
Death toll for Sum of All Desires:
-Everyone in the universe, but they get better
-Alemande, by asphyxiation
-Claire, by a monster because everyone thinks she has a protection charm
-Allemande's rival, who probably has pink hair, at the hand of Lucile's minion
-Lucile's minion, at Lucile's hands, probably not very nicely, either
-Various others, at the hands of various monsters
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:25 pm
Add to MOSI's death toll the numerous rats Jericho and Yinda have killed, cooked, and eaten in the past chapter and a half.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:57 am
In my current project? ... XD; um... all of the major characters, less two. Counting named and nameless characters, we're talking some 15000... not all explicitly killed one by one, of course...
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:11 pm
My most recent story, as of now, has a VERY low planned body count. There are only two.
Sid Vandowelle: Suicide in the prologue (which takes place the night after the last chapter). She slits her wrists after trying to cut out her own eye. "clean" herself. (This takes place after she has been a part of a disgusting murder. The last line of the story is "Out of her good eye, she watched Oz stand up and walk into the kitchen. Out of her bad eye, she saw Danny". A major point in her sideplot is that she has one white, glazed-over blind eye from a birth defect). So after the murder she goes home and, tormented by what she has done, kills herself.
Danny Lynne: Strung up in a basement over a weekend and tortured by his friends until he finally dies (pretty much the whole story works up to this scene)
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:26 pm
Eyeliner_Saint Danny Lynne: Strung up in a basement over a weekend and tortured by his friends until he finally dies (pretty much the whole story works up to this scene) Now I'm intrigued. Why do his friends torture him to death?
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:45 am
"In my world(s) Death is a humble gift that I throw down from the heavens like chainsaws." But yeah I rarely kill characters, but when I do it's more because I feel really guilty more than anything. My characters lives are always some eternal hell in a since, so I'll kill them to make them feel better. Besides being a gift, it can be a curse to those who don't die. I use death to torture my characters by killing their loved ones and other people around them. My deaths range from tortured to death to spontaneous combustion, oh and there was this one guy I killed with a poisonous frog. biggrin
~Jonesy pirate
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