Sylum Clan

Q: Ernesto Olivietti (GOD I love that man) has referenced the events at the Colosseum in reference to Nico more than once.  What happened there or at least which story is it in? I haven’t found it and the few Sylum fans I know to ask can’t remember either.

A: *snickers* It’s amazing how Ernesto snuck into the series and made everyone fall in love with him!!  Colosseum Incident is a story that is coming … I would say soon but there are re-writes for Arcs still in the works.  Once the 10th Anniversary Edition is finished.  Colosseum Incident is the next big story.   It’s a big event that will change the course of many lives.  *evil tease*

Q: Will NCIS New Orleans have an impact on future storylines?  Considering that Tony and Gibbs transferred to the area and that Lucas Black is playing a character in the series.

A: NCIS New Orleans will have no impact on Sylum.

Q: Has there ever been an idea that you’ve fallen in love with but just didn’t work (either because it didn’t work in the story line or you had massive writer’s block on it)?

A: Many many ideas.  Did I mention many?  I’ll mention a few of them.

When Timothy was working on Demons and Angels and I on Roads Untraveled, one of the main things that we were trying to work out was if we should Mate Ernesto with Patrick.  *leaves that there for a few moments for everyone to absorb*  We went round and round and round, discussed what was already written, what was coming up in future storylines, and in the end it just didn’t work.  Though it’s still something we both would have loved to do.

When Sylum was started it was based on a small selection of character choices.  So some pairings, ideas developed from that concept.  Some of these I never liked or wanted.  Which is why in the re-writes your seeing changes in variety of pairings and characters.  Thomas now Mated with Brass.  The de-Mating of Greg and Gil.  The switch of the Rays for Benton.  Riddick’s Twins being re-worked and re-casted.

One idea that popped up that hasn’t left us alone is Nico Mated with Ezio.   Unless we wanted to literally toss everything out, we had to come up with how to work it into major story structure we already had – including dealing with Warrick.   We could never get it to work.   And believe me we’re good at making things work for us *cough* Its him but not him *cough* *shifty look* – so that bunny still sits in its corner, staring.   That doesn’t mean we didn’t work in some good  history and story with these two characters *smirks evilly*.