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NO SPOILERS!
Sorry again, folks, to those of you who catch Dreamland via RSS.
In my feeble attempt to get your attention… I blundered into MAJOR SPOILER territory.
I hope you can forgive me.
You’d think after almost 2,000 pages of comics… I’d have LEARNED this.
Sigh.
Anyways. Thank you all for your show of love and support for Nastajia and for all of your speculations on her future.
Reading all of your views on what plot twists would make you happy makes me want to write MULTIPLE outcomes for all of you.
I love where the story would go if I take it in these directions.
But, alas… I have had the story plotted for over a decade and as most of you know… I’m a SAP.
I’m a softy. I love happy endings. And while I LOVE soap opera plot twists and such… I think those of you who’ve known me/read Dreamland long enough will know how this will all pan out.
I know there’s no way to make EVERYONE happy. But I hope those of you who are looking for a Game of Thrones type of story can still appreciate my writing.
Thanks again!
Have a WONDERFUL weekend!
Scott
Wow… actually first?
Anyway, I am loving the comic! A good story is built on twists and turns, and I will still read your story no matter where it goes! So the question now is; will he feel beaten down, or will he rise to an even higher level and open a even bigger can of whoop … 😉
Whew! Okay, now hopefully they’ve just ticked Alex off royally for freaking him out like that. And this was silly, I hit my Dreamland bookmark & it was still yesterday’s page. So I clicked to read the comments, then when I clicked “page back” the new comic was up! Took me a minute to figure out what I was looking at. lol!
Huh. That looks kinda like when Alex wakes up. Where do Dreamlanders go when they wake up?
*cheer* There’s still hope!
don’t let your readers tell you where the story is going. They’re on YOUR ride. The only thing you owe them is tell the best story you can.
If they don’t like the ending there’s a fix for that, it’s called fanfic. But that’s not your job.
okay, back to normal commenting.
CALLED IT 😉
I was thinking this story wouldn’t have much of a happy ending of Nastajia and Alex are parted by death!
At least he’s smart enough to hang onto the sword.
Alex: “So?! It was only a TRICK?!?! Well NOW you’re REALLY gonna get it, nobody mocks my love! RRRAAAAAAARRRGGHHHH!!!! DIE!!!!!!!!!!”
Take us wherever it is you plan to go, we are ready for the journey. 🙂
Also don’t forget to vote everyone, I know we can make it to 10th again!
The movement of Alex’s right arm from panel one to panel two would cut her in half, or at least cut off her legs.
Whu-what? Nastajia?! O.O
Well… she was dead anyhow…right?
I’m just gonna keep reading each day and wait and wonder. I’m not gonna make any speculation. But I do want to say I’m riveted. And I’m so glad yesterday’s page wasn’t a Friday page. Major cliffhanger.
Heh, now Alex knows a bit what it’s been like for Nastajia all this time, when he disappears on her.
Yayy!! So she’s ok and it’s all good 😀
Waittaminute….
Nasti’s waking up somewhere else? Hmm… There’s a solution looming towards the ‘be the be king–>are not accepted as such, but keep Nasti’ and ‘Let Dan be king–>as it apparently “should be”, but Lose Nasti’ -problem??
Interesting…
I still think it was an important moment for Alex to realize the possibility of losing her, and what effect it might have on him.
Oh and I’m on the bet, that Niviene is the Nightmare Queen. Hey if Dreamland can have a usurper to the throne, why not the Nightmare realm as well.
Not yet just think if she is not dead yet then where is she?
Called it I knew it was too early to have her killed and this is a nice way to show why there was no blood…..unless it was being drunk? o_O
Hey Scott were you going to wait to show her disappearing until a few people threaten to stop reading altogether?
I would like to see how Alex would be in a fight going all out rage.
For some reason that last panel makes me think “The Force will be with you. Always.” 😉
That was a pretty big gamble on the Nightmareans’ part. A belief that his girlfriend had been killed could propel him to fight even harder for revenge.
even though when you know everything will be ok, whether because the author told you or that’s just how they write, that’s still plenty of room for the story to work it’s butt off to get there. I have all faith in Scott!
so…seemingly alone in the Nightmare Realm, what will Alex do?
Just to let you know, I love the story. And I HATE Game of Thrones. If you’re a sap, so am I. So there. You’re vindicated.
I saw what you wrote yesterday, Scott, but shouldn’t there be some kind of wound on her neck…? Or you could turn the angle of the camera to hide the bite marks…
Those NR beasties are closing in on Alex and maybe he’ll turn around with veins bulging from his neck and his mouth open that his teeth look like fangs as he cuts them down and when the dust clears,he’ll vow to rescue the elfin woman he loves and bring Lord Abaddon down!!!!
I agree. I love to know how this plays out as well. Even though this shocked me yesterday, I am rather more intrigued than sad at this point.
*happy dance*
I do that all the time in my fanfictions. I have yet to kill off a character, but boy do I make it look like everyone’s dead. constantly. my readers still buy it sometimes. 🙂
Can’t wait to see what comes next!
*gasp* Nastajia was a Jedi the whole time?!?
‘Nasti’? *snork* I can’t imagine anybody she’d allow to call her that and live to tell the tale. She doesn’t even like it when Alex calls her ‘Staj’. =)
Nah, this is the ST:Voyager crossover part, she’s was teleported to the infirmary where she’s now in the ‘tender’ care of the EMH…
After my initial complaining, I was almost stoked for a darker story. XD I love putting heroes through hell just to make them earn that fluffy ending. But I trust your storytelling skills more than mine.
Maybe She isn’t really a dreamlander. So she just woke up…?
Earn your happy ending, thats what I tell all my characters 🙂
Ha. No. This is all as I planned it.
I am totally digging all of the comments, though.
Sap Twin Powers Activate!
All is not well, yet. The question remains, where is she? What will happen if Alex wakes up and has to explain to her parents that he has misplaced her in the Nightmare Realm? I could see t he King and Queen heading to Egypt post haste with harsh criticism for Alex.
NO SPOILERS!
(Besides: they are wrong anyway!)
Wow., she pulled a Yoda? Saves on funeral expenses, anyway.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thinks Game of Thrones is too depressing to be enjoyed (read the first book and felt so down and angry by the end of it, browsed the summaries of the rest of the books and thought, “Wow things just keep gowing downhill for the good guys.” Proud to say I’m a MAJOR sap and like my stories having happy endings.
I don’t know. IS she dead? You tell us.
Also: Cannot WAIT for Monday. Of course this is a Friday comic….
Love all of it!
Scott, is it your plan to never show blood? Because it’s not gory to show blood running down someone’s body if their neck has been ripped out. You don’t have to see the neck, but even though she’s apparently an illusion…some blood is not out of order. I mean…this is the NIGHTMARE Realm, right? Give us some nightmare! 😉 I do think Alex would immediately see through an attack that didn’t show any signs of trauma at all.
Just my 2 cents. I LOVE this story!
Scott, stay with the plot. Look how far it has gotten you so far.
Love the twist!
And for those that are saying she is safe, remember what the bad guys said about taking her to the Chimera? It ain’t over yet ….
well, this is unexpected twist. does this mean she exists somewhere in the real world too? it would be even more of a twist in nast actually did die, sure it would be sad, but would make the story more interesting on how alex deals with the grief.
My personal bet is that she’s just been dragged to whatever nether in-between realm Arthur was trapped in and Merlin set himself to sleep in.
(POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING!)
I totally forgot to write this in my TWO previous posts. Two things are way “off” here:
1. The NARRATION by the Nightmare Beasts, of what is about to happen… it seems too obvious… they are MANIPULATING what is happening here. So, they control dreams.
2. Nastajia, standing still. Nobody’s holding her, yet she does nothing to help Alex. And neither does she detect or try to defend herself from the attacks – totally unlike her.
This “Nas” is a dream image, created by the Nightmare Beasts, in an attempt to make Alex scared. Just like in a real nightmare “Now, you’re all alone in a scary place”. Still there is a good chance that even Alex will see through this. (Or the sword could intervene and tell him. Not that it ever HAS, so far…)
Personally, I am just waiting for Nicodemus to enter the scene now any moment!
“WHAT KIND OF NONSENSE IS THIS!!!”
I think they may just have found Alex’s Berserk Button.
I am glad I am not the only one that thought this.
No. I’ve shown blood on Alex. Nicodemus. And a few others who were killed.
SPOILER!
There’s a reason why there’s no blood on Nastajia here.
While I anticipate the next frame being Alex on a rampage, I can’t help but want a wallpaper of the last frame of this page (as Nastajia disappears) with Alex thinking, “Huh. So that’s what that’s like.”
SQQQQQQUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
all i can think of is that she’s gonna wake up on earth. which will not happen, because that’s a little implausible given what i’ve skim read tonight. so, ja, nayway, looking forward to monday!
This doesn’t bode well…
For them.
Maybe Alex is having a nightmare.
Hehe…Alex pwned!
I thunk it was too easy to detect the illusion, as I mentioned before.
Let’s see what reaction Alex will have after this nightmare he had (literally!)
Why do I foresee him screaming “NOOOO!” In the next frame, then turning to them with fireballs in his hands saying “you will burn for this.”
Or he could say “Unacceptable”, and force her to come back and be healed. One or the other really.
“It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.”
I’m sure Nastajia isn’t dead….
I mean… “This is true love – you think this happens every day?”
(end quotes)
love love love the story.
😀
Are you sure she wasn’t biten by a werewolf. She could come back as a wolf elfen.
Hi all!
It’s Sunday night and the program killed the scene file and I had to start from scratch.
It’s rendering… so I’ll post it in the morning.
Sorry for the delay.
“the program killed the scene file” what it really means is “I left it on a cliffhanger and I’m going to make you all suffer a bit longer”
😀
No. Cliffhanger is when we jump back to Felicty without seeing what Alex does… How is Felicity faring by the way?
Got it. 🙂
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