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07-20-2005, 10:31 PM
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I DON'T KNOW WHAT DO!!!
I have a character, Ark. He's a BIG main character in my story(ies, it's three parts, his main role is in two and three). A nuke-type thing is about to hit the city. They've escaped into a bunker, but i don;t know if i should make that he can clos ethe door if he goes in, or if he has to close it from the outside and sacrifice himself.
HELP ME! WHAT SHOULD I DO!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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07-20-2005, 10:40 PM
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Well if it's a safety bunker, and it was made for this type of thing... It wouldn't make much sense to have to close it from the outside, would it? That's a pretty big design plan for something that's supposed to save people's lives.
Also, it would then have to be opened from the outside, and if a Nuke is going off, then everyone outside is dead, and those within the bunker will die of starvation and thirst since they are now trapped inside...
So, are you going to make it too full, and then he chooses to go outside and spare everyone else?
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07-20-2005, 10:40 PM
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Cause & effect: What would happen if your character did die? How'd it affect the plot?
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07-20-2005, 11:02 PM
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it's actually not a bunker, it's more of a....................it's a sewer, but it's like twenty feet underground, and it's not neccisarily a nuke.
Cause?effect - If Ark dies, it may trigger a reaction in Asher, the only remaining main character, that which'll make him turn into this shadow-being that has ahppened whenevr he;s been attacked or something,
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Ark knows where the bad guys are, the other two don't.
I'm still so confused!
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07-20-2005, 11:07 PM
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It's your story. If you're confused, imagine how your readers will feel.
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07-20-2005, 11:15 PM
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Question, would a fall from forty feet into about four and a half feet of water kill you? There's concrete after the water.
I'm assuming it would..........
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07-21-2005, 12:37 AM
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It could kill but if he fell right he could come out without a scratch, or perhaps minor bruising. It's a matter of timing a roll into the water as you hit the surface.
You could have Ark outside & survive. If the Nuke-type thing isn't right on top of him, a rock cliff or deep ditch could protect him from the blast & it doesn't have to be a dirty device or perhaps you could have him get radiation sickness & fix him up further into the story.
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07-21-2005, 01:33 AM
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Hmm... If Ark dies, and the others don't know where the bad guys are, then the others will have to find the bad guys. I think it'd make for a great plot-twist.
At the same time, killing a character is a big deal. It's all up to you. It's your story.
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07-21-2005, 07:09 AM
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How about this, he's just covered the hole, adn if he feels this weird vibration, knows the bomb has hit. S ohe's lets go, knowingf he'll have more ocntrol f his fall, and now he's unconcious, and really beat-up
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