New Testament?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I like the idea of running with the Payne-as-Christ theme.

[hooplala]

I think it would be easier with a fictional character.  Not that Payne isn't fictional...

[Payne]

Yeah. I'm largely fictional.

We could do some truly kick ass things with a completely new fictional character that has no reputation or other baggage.

[hooplala]

What do you think?  Male, female, or hermaphrodite?

[Payne]

Male. It's easier to write a stupid male character, which he'd have to be at points to make it sound Gospel-y.

No saying that we couldn't have an ambiguous name, of course, and make the gender interchangeable across different books, or even within single volumes.

[hooplala]

Male. It's easier to write a stupid male character, which he'd have to be at points to make it sound Gospel-y.

No saying that we couldn't have an ambiguous name, of course, and make the gender interchangeable across different books, or even within single volumes.

Agreed.

Here are a few names off the top of my head:

-Oxo

-Prim

-Divit

-Dorko

-Sim

-Sitch

Any of those strike anyone's fancy?

[Richter]

I like the sound of Oxo.  "Oure St. Oxo the Prophet"


I've got a Letter and a Miracle report framed.  Can't do much more without name / character / central dogma, so I'm eager to get started.  

[Payne]

Which part were you agreeing to?

Also, Sim is quite good.

[hooplala]

Which part were you agreeing to?

Everything you said.

[Payne]

Some ideas, that I haven't particularly thought out (I guess that's what brainstorming is).

~ The geographical location doesn't particularly matter so much, no doubt it will largely be set in familiar locations for whoever is writing it. Same goes for era. Unless we are trying to make a specific point with either of these things, they don't matter. Our very contempt for unifying locations and timescales too much is a message in itself.

~ The more ordinary the character, the better. It'll make whatever messages we impart more universal. The weirder allegories can be binned because we aren't making a genuine spiritual revelation, and we can't really hope to have people spending TOO long reflecting on what they read.

~ A strong and visual image for the death* of the character. One of the most powerful symbols in Christianity is the crucifixion, for obvious reasons. People reading this will be wanting to see specifically what we are going to replace that symbol with. I'm thinking a scene of Horrormirth (much like the original, really ) but of the Discordian flavour found and explored here on PD.

More as I think of it.

*He doesn't have to actually die though, I guess it could be a final crisis or profound epiphany.

[hooplala]

I think it would be interesting if he was an orphan.  And an useful plot point could be for him to be some sort of outcast? 

[hooplala]

And maybe spent time in a nuthouse?

[Payne]

That could work well. It also makes it more believable that he'd be a curious kinda guy with a lot of doubts, for later character development.

[Payne]

And maybe spent time in a nuthouse?

Depends. You could have that fairly early on as a character driving plot device, or later on as a key part of the plot itself.

Both ways have some intriguing possibilities.

[hooplala]

What about a surname?