The Elephant Gambit
May. 13th, 2011 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Chapter 4 is now posted. This is Inception, Arthur/Ariadne, and rated PG-13. Cincoflex encouraged, gently corrected, and guided, and gifted me specially with the banner! I especially love Philippa.
Production notes are below the cut. Please note that this time they contain spoilers.

“Reannie” is a bit cutesy, but “Ariadne” seems like a mouthful for a six-year-old.
I found Nash interesting for several reasons, and I wanted to explore him a bit. Admittedly this ploy is a bit extreme, but as I said before, I enjoy playing with characters in this situation.
It was something of a delicate balance, trying to leave our heroes enough clues without making it either too hard and thus unbelievable, or too stupid. I hope I found a happy medium.
I dream about secret passages in buildings sometimes. Unfortunately the closest I’ve ever been to one was a servant staircase in a house near my parents’. Unusual, because no other house in my childhood had two sets of stairs between the same floors, but not really secret.
Production notes are below the cut. Please note that this time they contain spoilers.

“Reannie” is a bit cutesy, but “Ariadne” seems like a mouthful for a six-year-old.
I found Nash interesting for several reasons, and I wanted to explore him a bit. Admittedly this ploy is a bit extreme, but as I said before, I enjoy playing with characters in this situation.
It was something of a delicate balance, trying to leave our heroes enough clues without making it either too hard and thus unbelievable, or too stupid. I hope I found a happy medium.
I dream about secret passages in buildings sometimes. Unfortunately the closest I’ve ever been to one was a servant staircase in a house near my parents’. Unusual, because no other house in my childhood had two sets of stairs between the same floors, but not really secret.