I am so tired right now; let's get through this hour as hourly as possible... I need to get up like, well by tomorrow it's going to be four posts, on my other blog; really have been letting the ball slip there... Did have a post that did go up but it wasn't ready turns out... I do have today's post planned out but turned out to be too lazy to actually write any of it... that's two right there... Focusing, anyway.
Alright, now. Finnegan Moon(e), the master of the tides.
...Actually wouldn't be that poor of a name. Tidesman, or something. No? Too on-the-nose? Alright.
Scrying and fortune-telling
How advanced is the level of surveillance? We've got this idea of "supernatural surveillance;" when we hear that phrase we think always some kind of scrying pool. Having that here, just spying from a magic mirror, would be ridiculous to a ridiculous degree... but it's not an idea we can ignore offhand, seeing how it's the first image that comes up.
If we all had those, or if they were 100% reliable, it would be a very different world... a world with no secrets... If we had panopticon technology in real life, how would that affect espionage? We'd still need some way to crunch all that data... And we'd still need fingers on the field to pull triggers. But everyone else would know where the fingers are... And we'd know that they'd know... No fog of war, it does change the battle drastically, but not in ways unimaginable. I'm no expert, and I'd really need to do more research on the subject, but the idea is beginning to sound less and less ridiculous (not that I'm just going with it straight no chaser wholesale or anything.) And just because you can see all does not mean necessarily that you know all. If your enemy is delivering commands to his dudes in Afrikaans, and you can hear it, that doesn't mean you know Afrikaans. Any maneuver they pull on you still has the potential of coming as a surprise. Intelligence is still the name of the game.
And/or/but what about the future? Another great (large) part of supernatural, um, ism, scrying and all that, soothsaying. That's a whole 'nother can of worms... Involving much the same thing, but now with the question of how accurately we can foresee things. Basic time-travel stuff; all sorts of different ways you can take it. Moving on for now.
Working out the twist
How the heck is Finn supposed to be the mole, without remembering it? How can you be the mole without knowing it? Alright, fine, Michael doesn't need to be the mole, at least not actively in the present, but he can still have set himself up, preset to be leaking things from his... workstation, thingy. Whatever the heck they've got with magic instead of computers. He set himself up, and then-- pulled a deliberate Jason Bourne. Which just smacks of the Number 23, putting it that way, and not in a very flattering way...
Shut up, it's cool. Alright.
I did have this idea for, well, I'm pretty sure you don't want to know the specifics, but this "brain bleach" memory wipe technology (that is to say, well by definition you don't want to know the specifics of why it's needful. eww.) The idea was sort of for something else entirely, but... Maybe it's in the same universe, maybe not, but it's the near-future Parasite setting, which, does have Illuminati, albeit in a fairly different capacity... Government and paragovernment conspiracies, and genetic engineering, and basically superheroes, some of which come out better than others... There's this guy that (the FBI?) need to rendezvous with at one point, and his muscles have been developed for incredible elasticity-- but not his bones... Brain bleach, extra strength, yeah. Could hijack that idea here, set up the fact that this technology exists, probably as a gag so it's not so terribly obvious that it is a plot device being established there...
Still doesn't explain motivation for anything. Maybe he's a double agent for the Illuminati.
Which is, ooh, a neat idea, but it's kind of being thrown away keeping it as a twist needlessly like that. Can tuck that away for a later day, where the implications of that can be explored more prominently... maybe he joins in, end of book two, gives it enough breathing room.
No comments:
Post a Comment