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>When did you decide to include it and any other time stuff?
Time stuff was included from the word go-- remember Ellery getting dumped into the Redux timeline? I had to decanonize a few parts of the OG Drowned epilogue, but didn't want to decanonize all of it, so the setting had multiple timelines from that point forward. As I developed lizard-people stuff in the background, this turned out to be a natural fit for their advanced technology...
...Hold on, quick tangent. I gave the agents advanced technology because they were lizard-people, and that's the gig, but also because I thought it was way more interesting for Richard to not be "magic." I think it's integral to the Drowned setting that almost 100% of the weird stuff going on is treated matter-of-factly, and that it has a psychological or scientific-ish (metaphysical) bent, rather than a mystic one. This is what keeps the tone from going completely wackadoodle. And so an invisible talking snake is actually a guy on a computer in another dimension, and magic is reserved for the genuinely divine and ineffable. Okay, tangent over...
...a natural fit for their advanced technology, and it was also a convenient way to explain how the lizard-people stayed secret: they each got their own separate timeline to muck around in. (In theory. Both Management and #301 went rogue.) Horse Face factored into this because, uh, I needed to explain why he was such an incorrigible model-stealing bastard, and because it was a funny concept. That's all. In my notes, he's just a private detective!
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Okay. Wrap-up tomorrow for real! Good night and happy early Thanksgiving, folks.
