https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php?title=Podcasts/Episode_29
Every reality has its own The Void, but all The Voids are the same (as in, they always operate the same) - the Void is intrinsically linked to physical reality (each to its own physical reality).
I took a break from my chronological listen through of the original podcast episodes from 8 years ago, and listened to this one from a mere 6 months ago, because the topic was something I couldnât risk having never listened to in case this archive someday disappears.
I have a lot of thoughts, but some of them may require spoilering once I figure out how to do a proper job of that, so Iâm just going to say a couple quick off-the-dome things for now, and likely revisit this topic again well before I return to it being the latest one on my list.
When they started talking about a Scion for Ra and Fanatic to lose to, I immediately metaphorically shouted at the proverbial screen, âItâs Apophis!â Theyâd already vetoed the Beast of Revelations, and would presumably refuse Apophis for the same reason, but I donât care, I like this idea. Iâm specifically thinking of the version of Apophis from the movie âGods of Egyptâ, where that version of Ra tows the Sun above Egypt every day and battles the serpent of dark chaos which is, itself, the night (the battle doesnât take 6-12 hours, but itâs a movie so it couldnât anyway). Thatâs an astonishingly good monster design, and the idea that Ra once battled that creature and destroyed it, only for OblivAeon to resurrect it as an even more obscene and horrific beast, would have been super cool to me. I also had various Host-related ideas that they didnât touch on.
What they did instead wasnât a bad idea overall IMO, but I hated the name they chose (especially since Christopher spelled it out as starting with an S-O-G, when hearing the name pronounced instantly made me assume it was just S-G). They didnât pick a vision for how it looked, and I have a really cool idea, but as per the âno homebrewâ rule for the forum, Iâll avoid mentioning it at least for now; Iâm unlikely to forget it, which is my big worry about anything I donât post here.
Speaking of names being spelled âwrongâ IMO, I mostly like the name Frenzy for the time shark, but I think it needs to be spelled Phrenzy, just so the name isnât something mundane that any villainous mook might have used. On this one I again have ideas about how it should look, but this time I think itâs a sufficiently obvious notion that I doubt any problem could arise from my sharing it: rather than a full sized shark (at least at first), I envisioned it as simply a disembodied piece of skeletal shark jaws, which manifests into reality as an open maw full of time-ocean stuff, then bites closed and obliterates a chunk of space and time from existence. A simple example of how this works might be to have a chain of six islands, and this manifestation is spotted occurring, and after that there are only five islands and nobody ever remembers a sixth one existing, without the distances among them being any different. There are other possibilities I can envision, but this seems like the most obviously âcorrectâ one.
Bjornson I have absolutely nothing to say either for or against; they did a good job on that one and I have nothing to add or change.
The letters page had a lot of fun jokes, and I donât know whether thatâs typical of this late period or if this one was exceptionally good. Weâll find out when Iâve chewed my way through the intervening 250ish episodes.