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Recent content by Death by Chains

  1. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: She Came All The Way from America, cont. [3]

    Deputy Headmaster Barry Gordon's office, Administration building, St. George's Academy 13:37, Friday, March 29, 1996 Gordon massaged his eyes as Xander finished laying out his version of events. "Last day of term, and I get all the Americans," he sighed to himself, before redonning his...
  2. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: She Came All The Way from America, cont. [2]

    “... Good to know, thanks.” Buffy was kind’a squicked by that ‘free-for-all’ line, but let it slide. “And if I have a burning desire not to flunk all my classes?” “About a block down the road there’s a strip-mall, the Balmoral Shopping Centre. Look for Scholastic Assistance Services, they...
  3. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: The Action of 13/14 December 1993, pt.1

    Okay, now that I’ve managed to get ~5500 words out of this in the last four days(!), it’s time to get the rough draft out before I do my usual trick of nitpicking and editing myself into inaction for the next six months. :rolleyes: I post this in hope of opinions, insights, detailed feedback...
  4. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)

    More of an observation than a snippet or update, but... in trying to turn Action of 13/14 December 1993 into an actual battle-sequence, I found myself spending two afternoons in Paint.net creating a proper map of my fictional Waikato Sun Club, because it turns out that terrain matters as much to...
  5. Death by Chains

    With A Bared Sword

    Things are getting to the absolute crisis point, so I need to put up or shut up about that ‘my canon character calls Victor out for being a dumbass’ idea I had (mentioned on the counterpart SB thread)... but also since I write so slowly, and the plot is going to leave the chance behind very...
  6. Death by Chains

    With A Bared Sword

    In the canon TL, it was Ryan Steiner working in cahoots with Psycho!Kat. But here, Kate is sane and focused on fulfilling her responsibilities rather than conniving at regicide/matricide and usurpation, so my lead suspect is Ryan. Of course, drakensis isn't above throwing us a curveball, so...
  7. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: She Came All The Way from America

    A test-balloon for something that came to me a couple of weeks ago. What if the Council influenced events so Buffy went somewhere other than Sunnydale? Right now it’s just Buffy dealing with culture shock, but we all know that’s going to be the least of her problems soon enough.... – –...
  8. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: After-Action Report, Action of 13/14 December 1993

    As noted in my previous snippet (for which I have received several likes but, alas, no comments), Fun in the Sun wants to turn into a proper fic, and part of that revolves around the fact that as a Slayer, whether or not Taz gets to take 'time away' from her Calling is not necessarily up to her...
  9. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: “Fun in the Sun (Club)” pt.1 — two styles for comparison

    Sure enough, my NSFW snippet “Fun in the Sun (Club)” wants to turn into a near-full-length fic — I’ve written over 7k words in the thing and still haven’t gotten to the bits that would get me an X rating from the MPAA, let alone to the end of the snippet or the rest(!) of the plot — and I find...
  10. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)

    Not so much a snippet, as a mother/daughter exchange that occurred to me as I was mulling over certain backstory events: “You realise that your relationship is technically illegal.” “Mama, if the cops ever have a go at me, it’ll be for ‘having an SKS’, not ‘having the S-E-X’.”
  11. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)

    They say that you should be able to sum up a character’s core drive in one word. Taz’s word is “Justice”: there is just too much about the world that is wrong and unfair, and she wants to fix it, even if it means beating it into the right shape with her own two hands. As shown by her first...
  12. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: Alt-historical background: Operation MATCHBOX

    A little of the world-building behind the [alt-history] situation in New Zealand during the timeframe of Taz and Misha’s adventures. = = = = = Operation MATCHBOX was a CIA-sponsored arms-smuggling program whereby Stormhawk agents and logistical apparatus, with the complicity of CIA...
  13. Death by Chains

    Alea Iacta Est - a Worm AU Fanfic

    AFAIK, “cop it on the chin”/“to cop something” as slang for receiving a negative/painful event (usually as a direct impact) is Commonwealth English, rather than an Americanism. I know I saw it in WW2 accounts of Charlie Upham receiving his first VC on Crete, with someone yelling “Oh, no, the...
  14. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: With ‘Allies’ Like These

    An out-take from the next installment of Valhalla Can Wait, showing us one of the worst enemies with which a Slayer or Watcher will ever have to contend. (Image links are crucial. I spent a lot of time on those props, dammit!) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –...
  15. Death by Chains

    Valhalla Can Wait [Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Original Characters]
    Threadmarks: Rolling out the welcome wagon

    95 Vigor-Brown Street (Zyrianov residence) Napier, New Zealand 15:41, Friday, 18 March, 1994 Taz stalked down the driveway, her mouth a hard line. Even Miss Geoghan’s impromptu pizza party (she and Steve had split a large meatlover’s) and Misha’s quick thinking to solve the problem of...
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