OOooh! I just totally got a plot point for my not-nanowrimo-no. Wonder what happens to a woman between her first kill and the second. What makes her turn serial and not just, you know, your everyday household murderer.
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Liese S. - Dec 03, 2004 8:26:52 am PST #3307 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Betsy HP - Dec 03, 2004 8:27:33 am PST #3308 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
You have friends, right? Co-workers? You have to think outside the box, or you just get lost in the annals of history.
Yeah, but if the entire Java department at t very large corporation drops dead unexpectedly, it does tend to draw attention. Especially police attention.
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2004 8:29:33 am PST #3309 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if the entire Java department at drops dead unexpectedly, it does tend to draw attention
I'm thinking if my entire extended family dropped dead, attention would be drawn too.
Liese S. - Dec 03, 2004 8:30:06 am PST #3310 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Maybe their Krispy Kreme poison can be slow working. And randomized! Maybe it can be nanobot Krispy Kreme infection that can be triggered by radio control!
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2004 8:31:09 am PST #3311 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And randomized!
You totally randomise. Put them in a bit of the Boston Creme mix, and Bob's your uncle.
Liese S. - Dec 03, 2004 8:31:21 am PST #3312 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hey, that's a good question. Is the longer time to apprehension related to a longer span between crimes? It seems like it would take longer to court, marry, kill, rinse, repeat than it would to just kill all the nurses in the Philadelphia area or something.
Betsy HP - Dec 03, 2004 8:32:17 am PST #3313 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
You really want your classical mysterious two-step Asian poison.
Half the poison goes in the Krispy Kremes. The other half is smeared on the victim's telephone. Neither half separately registers as a poison, but put them together and whammo!
God, I miss '30s pulp fiction.
DXMachina - Dec 03, 2004 8:32:50 am PST #3314 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Hell, just dust them with arsenic powder. You could pretend you're Harriet Vane.
Kristen - Dec 03, 2004 8:32:57 am PST #3315 of 10001
Okay Adam spilled the beans at the FF board so I can say it:
He's gonna be on The Inside.
brenda m - Dec 03, 2004 8:33:09 am PST #3316 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Maybe their Krispy Kreme poison can be slow working
And here I thought Flowers in the Attic had been successfully scrubbed from my brain.