Are you going to eventually write about what effect their presence has on the present time canon of the PJO reality that mystic dawn is in? Plus it would be really interesting to see what effect they have on PJO canon. It would also explain why Sally Jackson could see through the Mist if she was from Mystic Dawn.
--Edit-- You're welcome, it's an excellent series.
Comments from author:
That's actually sort of an amusing idea. I've got a couple too many projects right now but I will probably eventually come back to Mystic Dawn. Exploring the current time period would be interesting... I'll have to see how it goes. Thanks for the review at any rate.
Review By [Doodle] • Date [11 Mar 13] • Rating [10 out of 10]
You know, starting off, this fic was weird. It then went totally screwy before somewhat straitening out, but the entire time remained a fun read. This is now going to go on my recs list. Well, thanks for writing this, bye for now.
Comments from author:
I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was fun to write.
Review By [deathgeonous] • Date [5 Feb 13] • Not Rated
Review of chapter "Chapter Twenty Two" from kvamic
Review:
i seen you go into game werse atm what woud be fun to see was something like maybe some game universe like starcraft, red alert, the longest yourney, doom duke nukem :P
Comments from author:
While it's possible that I might do something with starcraft, I would have to look at the game again and it's been a long time since I've messed with it. Red alert doesn't really have much appeal. I've never looked at the the Longest Journey though reading the summary it has some potential. I'll have to give it some consideration at least. Doom doesn't really sound like a fun world to visit. And Duke Nukem probably has too much radiation to make it a safe place to visit.
You kept Xander a virgin for about a year but his creation gets to have random sex when she's barely a week old plus gets pregnant. Then there's the million jumps into other crossovers that i skipped. Don't mark something Xander-centered if it's not. Only the first few chapters centered around him then it was about everybody else BUT Xander.
Comments from author:
He was adjusting and trying to be nice and everything. There are several jumps into other crossovers, it is a crossover after all. It's marked as Xander centered because it was about him even if he wasn't in part of it. Even when he wasn't physically there his presence was. But you're right, perhaps I should have changed the classification but I still think it was about Xander. You're welcome to disagree though.
Review By [Downery] • Date [31 Dec 11] • Rating [4 out of 10]
I really enjoyed this fic. It was a lot of zany and somewhat overpowered fun. Oh, and just so you know, I went through a lot of trouble to read this today, because the dang site up until around chapter twenty seven or so, would kick me off every time I hit the next chapter link/button. Very annoying. Well nothing you could do about that, nor your fault, I just wanted you to know that I was enjoying your fic so dang much that I preserved through great technical annoyment to read this fine fic. Well, thanks for writing this, bye for now.
Comments from author:
Glad you enjoyed it enough to read it even with the difficulties.. I'm not really sure why it would do that, normally I don't have any issues with the site.
Review By [deathgeonous] • Date [9 Sep 11] • Not Rated
What a ride!! I admit it made me giddy at the possibilities and the sweeping epic feel of it. I look forward to reading the sequel.
Also: I see nothing of which to feel guilty about as far as Xander is concerned. He was a consistent presence in the story. Anyone who says otherwise wasn't paying attention.
*good thoughts*
Comments from author:
I had a blast writing that story, just the open visits and the shear what can I do now. The idea of do you cling to your values or do you go crazy with making things before you really understand. I thought he was a fairly solid presence all the way through but people are entitled to their opinions. That being said, I'm glad you liked the story enough to review it.
Hopefully you enjoy the next story as well.
Review By [Katrina] • Date [5 Sep 11] • Rating [10 out of 10]
interesting if a bit strange, a bit more background to what happens with X before would be nice. Would make understanding this much easier.
Comments from author:
So noted. It went off another fic/challenge and at the time I hadn't thought it would go as long as it ended up. If I had known I would have put more work into the back story. But I guess that's what hindsight is for. Thanks for the review.
Review By [Hawklan] • Date [25 Jul 11] • Not Rated
Hmm, this was a really pretty good story. I loved all the parts with the different dimensions and powers. I did notice you seemed to focus an aweful lot on magic as opposed to technology, but that's all well and good, as magic tends to be capable of more things while being not as complicated, at least seemingly. You had some really interesting choices for different dimensions to visit.
Now for the bad things. I've already commented a couple times about things I didn't like, but to summarize it.
1.) Far too much meaningless sex, it added nothing to the story and dragged everything out.
2.) Far too many characters. As far as I'm concerned, you could have skipped completely over that alternate harry potter reality and all the unnecessary characters it introduced. I mean I can kinda understand getting the dead characters from another reality like harry's parents and dumbledore maybe, but all his 'sisters' and their 'pets' I could most definitely do without. I didn't even try to keep them straight, as I knew I would be unable, and I really didn't want to put in the effort. So as I was reading whenever I saw a name I didn't recognize from canon, I simply lumped them all together and thought of them as 'one of those OCs, don't care which one'. I mean I can understand one or two OCs, but like half a dozen or more that really don't serve any purpose but to have more females to have lesbian sex with is silly and needlessly confusing.
I think those are the main things. All that said, I did really enjoy the parts where you actually were developing the plot and their powers and not having the characters engage in gratuitous sex. I think I would have enjoyed it more without those things though. I found myself actually having to force myself to keep reading to get past those annoying parts.
Comments from author:
I focused on magic more because they were mostly in an ancient land of myth and legend.. it screams magic to me more than tech. I liked the dimensions I went to.
1 as for the meaningless sex, I would say they do it because it's fun. So that's hardly meaningless.
2 As for the multiple characters, I was sort of building up their land. They needed a number of oc's to make it work. As for keeping track, yeah sometimes it's a bit difficult I'll admit.
I liked the plot, the powers and the magic.
Review By [CageFire] • Date [16 May 11] • Rating [5 out of 10]
Review of chapter "Chapter Twenty One/Interlude" from CageFire
Review:
This story really is quite good with all the powers and dimension jumping stuff, but the more I read, the more I get more and more tired with all the mindless meaningless sex. I mean I wouldn't mind it in small doses every once in a while, but it seems like this entire world and story is almost being dominated by it. Not to mention I'm kinda annoyed that they're treating having sex like playing a video game, or watching tv with somebody, just something enjoyable to do. Frankly, I think it just cheapens the whole thing. The whole thing of walking up to somebody and saying "want to have sex?" and the other person being "ok. sure." Well, let's just say I am /not/ feeling the romance. Then again, I suppose with the far too numerous pairings you have in this story, having to have the character actually take time to develop actual feelings for each other would take forever. Basically, I get the idea of "Screw having them fall in love, just make em screw." I just get kinda annoyed at two characters meeting each other for the first time and then seemingly screwing after only a couple paragraphs, or by the end of the chapter.
I kinda wish you made an alternate version of this fic without all the unnecessary sex. Of course it'd probably be less than half the length it seems like, but I would find it a much more enjoyable read. Sigh.
Comments from author:
I'm not sure which characters you're talking about... Maybe I'm just not doing a good enough job showing the characters' having interactions that span more than a first meeting. Maybe you've hit on some of the characters that just like sex. Not really sure.. sorry about that. As for romance, some of the characters like it, some just like sex.
Review By [CageFire] • Date [16 May 11] • Not Rated
Review of chapter "Chapter Fourteen" from CageFire
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Hmm, I am curious why they didn't seem to design the buildings to have alternative methods of going up and down floors. You seem to indicate that upper floors require flight ability to get to, which is poor design, what if they don't have flight ability, or if some magical force or something takes their flight ability away? Aren't there any stairs or ladders or anything? Maybe you mentioned them if they do, but I don't remember reading it.
Comments from author:
In the event of not having the flight ability there are flying brooms. In the event that something takes away those and the brooms, you could likely toss a rope bridge down or a grappling hook up. More likely to have stairs on the inside between the levels than on the outside. Then again floating discs would also serve as elevators as well.
Review By [CageFire] • Date [16 May 11] • Not Rated
Sigh, I was afraid you were going to bring all those people along. Guess I was right. I'll never be able to keep them straight, and frankly all the relationships you're making between all of them makes it that much more difficult to keep straight. I'll probably end up just ignoring and skipping all that stuff, it just weighs down the story way too much. Generally the only relationships I tend to follow are those of THE main character, and since I see xander as that character(and since I really don't care much about the relationships of the girls, unlike the stereotype suggests, even though I'm male, I am not absolutely infatuated with the idea of lesbians), and so far he's only got limited ones, I'll be ignoring all the rest. If anything I find it odd that although the challenge revolves around, and the story starts with xander, it seems like he's been more of a secondary character throughout this story, except at the very beginning, and then after that he seems to take a back seat to everybody else.
Comments from author:
He's a character that helps move the story along.
Review By [CageFire] • Date [15 May 11] • Not Rated