/me starts humming "Magic Dance" for reasons that are completely unrelated to spoilers. 
My next group is arriving on a vehicle too, but it kind of stretches the definitions of both of "magic" and "vehicle". I've been using fey as psychopomps (for lack of a better word), because I'm assuming they better than most will feel the instability in the multiverse, and know the ways across it to the island of stability. So that includes characters like Cait Sìth, Elias Ainsworth, Chiyo-chichi, and eventually Akari Mizunashi. There's no reason to think that the goddesses are the only players in interdimensional transport. Why not throw Oberon and Titania in the mix too?
And also, as a writer, "they just appear" seems a little deus ex machina to me, and while it's an acceptable unicorn in the garden, it's more interesting to me to have some sort of cause and effect. Team Cardcaptor is just going to show up in Los Angeles, with no vehicle. But they were probably doing something magical at the time that weakened the fabric of their home universe, and once I figure out what that is, I'm planning on that being something of a "cause". Just a way of changing "and they appear" to "therefore they appear".
I'll try to post very soon, but my dayjob has been really busy the last two weeks. Microsoft is a pretty demanding client -- not in a bad way, but more in forcing us to deal with the problems we should have fixed years ago. And I need to make sure that I don't get too far ahead of my own story. I have chapter 1 published, 3 and 4 are ready, but chapter 2 has a lot of holes, and just places where I need to decide if showing is too boring, and I need to tell instead. It's hard, because sometimes nothing wants to come out, and then other times I'll start writing a scene, and more unplanned scenes naturally flow from the way the first one turned out. Farce is my favorite genre, so I gotta ride the jokes to see if the bloom into something better (or mercilessly cut them if they're useless).
Oh, and if anyone can come up with an excuse for why Cinder Fall would visit and cause trouble in Venice/Santa Monica/West L.A., let me know. I only have the barest hint of an idea, but I do need her presence for the undines.
My next group is arriving on a vehicle too, but it kind of stretches the definitions of both of "magic" and "vehicle". I've been using fey as psychopomps (for lack of a better word), because I'm assuming they better than most will feel the instability in the multiverse, and know the ways across it to the island of stability. So that includes characters like Cait Sìth, Elias Ainsworth, Chiyo-chichi, and eventually Akari Mizunashi. There's no reason to think that the goddesses are the only players in interdimensional transport. Why not throw Oberon and Titania in the mix too?
And also, as a writer, "they just appear" seems a little deus ex machina to me, and while it's an acceptable unicorn in the garden, it's more interesting to me to have some sort of cause and effect. Team Cardcaptor is just going to show up in Los Angeles, with no vehicle. But they were probably doing something magical at the time that weakened the fabric of their home universe, and once I figure out what that is, I'm planning on that being something of a "cause". Just a way of changing "and they appear" to "therefore they appear".
I'll try to post very soon, but my dayjob has been really busy the last two weeks. Microsoft is a pretty demanding client -- not in a bad way, but more in forcing us to deal with the problems we should have fixed years ago. And I need to make sure that I don't get too far ahead of my own story. I have chapter 1 published, 3 and 4 are ready, but chapter 2 has a lot of holes, and just places where I need to decide if showing is too boring, and I need to tell instead. It's hard, because sometimes nothing wants to come out, and then other times I'll start writing a scene, and more unplanned scenes naturally flow from the way the first one turned out. Farce is my favorite genre, so I gotta ride the jokes to see if the bloom into something better (or mercilessly cut them if they're useless).
Oh, and if anyone can come up with an excuse for why Cinder Fall would visit and cause trouble in Venice/Santa Monica/West L.A., let me know. I only have the barest hint of an idea, but I do need her presence for the undines.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto