Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-28428152-20181109081206/@comment-28428152-20181109195759

Hey, you caught me while I was already on the site. I can see where you might think Mike Erikson is supposed to kill the Wyrm, but he's not. There would be no believable way for Mike to kill a cosmic horror, so don't worry, that's not his purpose. He does have one, but it's much more feasable for a Human to do. And their appearances in this are more of a nod to my story The Skeleton in the Throne, in which they appear as old monarchs rotting away before the eyes of a Maggot (not the same one from The Summoning of the Wyrm). Figured I'd draw some more lines there.

Also i realized when I woke up this morning that I forgot to add two points in Mike's journal entries, which I'm going to add in the final draft. Since that'll be a while, I'll just say it here.

The biggest thing I need to add is that Penny kills herself after Larry dies. I mean, her son dies, her dad's in jail, and her family is just dying around her. Though I did just think of an alternative....

The other point is something that's not really relevent until stories after The Book of Agony. As you might have guessed by this chapter, Mike is the one responsible for discovering that there are an infinite number of other universes. Also, since Mike is a very science-oriented guy, he theorizes here an undiscovered quantum energy field, which in the lore of my stories permeates throughout the multiverse and is responsible for the supernatural and magic to occur (magic won't be used much in the main universe unless you consider the supernatural as magic). In here he'll decide to call it the Qi-Field as a joke, though the name sticks.

But I can understand your frustration with the tropiness. But hey, I gotta fill a big-ass plot hole here, which is: why the hell didn't the Mother just kill the Wyrm to begin with, and why the fuck aren't they doing jack shit now? Also I need the Wyrm to live for other stories. But they're to be feared, so I can't make them weaker than the Wyrm either.