Mother Mayhem Info Up on GR Site

Tights options.


Candidate for most jarring typo of 2010.

Well then, now I won't edit it.

Actually, it comes from art books on drawing the human figure, where the alignment issue was pointed out as a common mistake.

However, for the vacuum-shrunk-to-fit-the-torso designs that we have, a female character's breasts would be directed normally; that's the problem -- only the Armored upper body type presents the chest as a single chest-wide protrusion, rather than two separate breasts. Even when doing it doesn't make sense -- the lorica segmentata chest detail, in particular; the segments are supposed to be able to slide up and down over each other as the character bends, and having it shaped like the samurai chest detail, as a smooth sweep, would be better design.

Just mean at the very least they could've named them Mother Mayhem's PsychNannies or something. The PPD (Praetorian Police) was funny, but with the title of Seer being reused makes me think they just don't have a thesaurus in the office.

The point of a twisted reality is to see the twists: reference points make sense in that case. Otherwise, you could argue that having a Marcus Cole in Praetoria is also unoriginal, and the least they could do is have some other guy end up being the ruler of Praetoria.

Breaking out the thesaurus just to come up with synonyms for *everything* in Praetoria would be laughably transparent to me personally, so that's not necessarily a safe option for the writers even if they were not intentionally trying to reference the Seers directly. Its practically a form of trope. So this is somewhat a matter of personal preference.

But in this case I think its very deliberately trying to connect the Fortunata Seers with the Praetorian Seers as alternate twists on fortune telling. Recluse believes in Fate, and uses the Seers to try to alter it. Tyrant believes in Control, and uses the Seers to try to impose it. By keeping the Seers constant and changing the world around them, we get a sense of how the world has pivoted around this one commonality.