carhamgrater Yes. I’m planning on bringing over all of the Harbor City Universe over eventually. Pharma will be at the heart of it. Though, I will have to veer from one of the planned scenes in an upcoming chapter due to the rules against inter-species activities. The Vegemite was going to return, along with one of Bob’s hunting dogs. I think I’ll handle that off-screen. But Pharma will be one of the first stories I bring over.
The problematic stories will be Bob’s tales and Purity. Everything else was either already above age limits or can be easily modified to meet them without damage to the plot. But those two will be tough. I might be able to modify the girl’s ages in Bob and subsequently in Lake Hiawatha, though some stuff will happen off-screen. That will affect Stacy’s story, but I think I can do some kung-fu with her plotline to make it work. Then again, they come from a very fundamentalist upbringing, so 18-year-olds being treated like younger kids is pretty common.
I just had an idea, and it’s one I tripped over a while back with Diana Meadows’s age. George screws up ages and dates when he’s drinking. I will do some edits on the stories to make them fit the new rules, but in case I miss something in that story. Lake Hiawatha was 600 pages long as a screenplay and I still had to cut some stuff out.
That raises a question. How much can I refer to things off-screen? LH’s main plot point was how this detective took down a large child sex trafficking ring. I cut out a lot of the worst stuff, but describing the existence of some of the crimes might run afoul of the rules. I can do some in screenplay edits to “cut away” before showing anything wrong, or just focusing on reaction shots instead. With some well-placed edits and cut-aways, it should work. Assuming I get to it before I get distracted by something shiny.
