Matthew Moulton (@Onideus)

Wow, this crazy is all kinds of crazy! She has some kind of schizophrenia in which she imagines herself as a writer, but all her writing ideas are just superficial trope combinations she largely riffed from kids cartoons. Adventure Time in this particular case, with a bit of D&D thrown in. Let's look at her concept though! Okay, first, why would a knight want to end themselves? Suicide, even undead suicide, isn't really the way a knight would operate. And how would you "kill the Lich"... isn't that immortally undead? Most depictions of such a being involve the Madoka premise, that you can convert a soul into a magical artifact. Presuming he's targeting the Lich that ~made~ him undead, well at that point you're in a Dragon Quest 9 side story, but at least that was entertaining in that involved amnesia and the knight didn't know that he was dead and there was a mistaken love interest involved... look, this entire concept has already been done, a lot and with WAY more interest and intrigue. She seems to be working off opposites. It's like the laziest form of writing because all you need to do is take something that already exists and then just flip it around. It's senseless though because it burns reason and continuity for superficial absurdity disguised as "new". Let's see... how could I improve on this boring concept? The Spawn rendition of this concept was nice. I could just use this... https://gab.com/Onideus/posts/113894397816256053 That's the concept of "inescapable omniscience" or "evolution through agony" or simply "be careful what you believe in". Let's do something different... let's say you have a party of knights searching for the Holy Grail and they stumble upon it! Let's say it's guarded by a zombie dragon! It's not just impossible to kill, it's impossible to kill! They find that out the hard way and wind up trying to retreat out of the zombie dragon's lair but instead they get lost in a series of tunnels that eventually leads them to the Holy Grail... or so they presume! The writing on the grail reads as follows... "Destroying the deceit will make you everlasting." This causes the party to question "the deceit". They must destroy the lies to gain what they're looking for... but what is the lie? This leads them all to start offering up potential and probable lies and there's all kinds of fun potential mysteries, but the bottom line is that they focus on the lies they're familiar with, rather than the unfamiliar lies. This eventually culminates in the knights going crazy from no food, no water, no escape and no answers. In absence of any apparent answers they start to slaughter themselves for immortality! Only one remains... he does not achieve immortality and all his knight friends are dead. He then gets incredibly angry and frustrated and destroys the imagined Holy Grail with his sword. Nothing apparent happens. Now he believes he's alone, trapped and without any prize to even obtain. So then it suddenly dawns on him... that he must be the lie and so then he tries to kill himself. Except it doesn't work. He stabs himself and finds his body is rot. It's like stabbing into a sack full of wet ash, there's no blood and no feeling. He's like a zombie puppet... because he is. The entire setup was created by a Lich to trap and enslave immortality seekers. You see the magic won't work on just anybody, most people can enter the cave and there's just nothing there. But if the trap artifact smells adventure, if it smells the pursuit of immortality, then it becomes the object of desire. Like a monkey's paw; the greater the wish, the greater the price. The good news is the zombie dragon was freed. Wait, that's bad news. Apparently not like "freed from immortality" but rather "freed from artifact control". The lie was destroyed... the idea that you can be trapped by an object. That's the true power of a Lich, it turns irrational fears into immortal nightmares. Like a Boggart with a budget. The knight willingly traps himself, now perceiving himself as an immortal monster he becomes as he imagines, slowly losing his sense of self as he slips into the unrealized role. The monstrous lie must be destroyed to attain immortality, so he becomes rabid as a result and instantly attacks anything entering the cave to try and court destruction with unrestrained malice. It's not always a dragon. Some knights imagine themselves as other sorts of undead monsters. As long as there are grail seekers there will always be undead monsters roaming the land. That's why no one ever goes looking for it anymore. They figured it out and then simply started trapping all the ones that were on the loose. This is now the prequel to "The Cabin In The Woods". You're welcome. #HashDate0125 #Newsreal #Weedstorming #Godwork