Using My Imagination
I’ll just be honest, I have never set foot in a Mormon church and I don’t know a whole lot of Mormons. I mean, I think I know some but we never discuss Mormon stuff. This part of the story was actually written long ago when I had a thing for an ex-Mormon girl and her story kind of fascinated me because it had kind of left her where my characters are at. Not sure what they believe or what they stand for. I thought it would be a good back story of Andrea, so I stole elements of it. I could have changed it, but I decided I liked it because it’s kind of unexpected. Mormons are almost always used as a joke or an overtly religious bad guy. It’s pretty rare that there are characters in a story that just happen to be Mormon. I’m sure I have Mormon readers who will keep me on my toes. I consulted with a few Mormons before I wrote this stuff but I’m bound to get something wrong.
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Actually, Ethan- I’m LDS myself, and I don’t see anything glaring. To be honest, I’ve really appreciated your respectful depiction.
I’ll bet two chiksticks that Gogs doesn’t know how to work a radio…
As far as our buildings go, the glass front doors would definitely be the weak points. Other than a couple couches and some folding tables, there’s not much to shove in the way. Architecturally, many of them have the same general layout – the chapel and the overflow/cultural hall/basketball court are encircled by a hallway, which is ringed by classrooms along the outer side of the hall.
As far as resources inside the building, there isn’t much. The kitchen isn’t going to have food in it. The library would be good for paper, VHS tapes, miscellaneous office crap, and a variety of archaic media devices. For improvised weapons, you’ve got a few basic kitchen utensils, a couple hundred metal folding chairs, anything you’d find in the janitorial closet, some fire extinguishers, and, if you can break it off, the bladed arm from the paper cutter in the library.
Good to know. Some other Mormons I talked to said that they are big on end times prep so they would have a lot of canned foods and stuff like that on hand.
Mormons are likely to have food, water, and maybe fuel stored at home to fall back on in case of natural disaster, economic difficulties, etc., but there typically isn’t anything like that stored in church buildings.
When did Killdeer get his axe back? Didn’t he leave it behind when they jumped the bridge?
Well he still has it when they are at Joel’s house. He does swap out the splitting maul at one point from the garage and that gets left in the fire bear’s skull. I never really specify where it is. He does run out of arrows. But his axe I assume he always grabs and keeps close to him between panels. Think of it like inventory on a video game.
Okay, the fact that Ken was going to shimmy the door with a card is really funny to me. Speaking from experience, it is doable (though you generally need a second card or something else thin to help if you can’t just pop it under the…whatever that part of the mechanism is called)
And that personal experience was assisting a janitor who locked their keys inside a locked office (I saw them go outside, then realize as the door closed they couldn’t get back in) and it was a AAA card & a pocket knife to get the door open again.
I’m a Mormon, and I definitely recognize your depiction of our buildings as accurate. As for everything else, we’re Christians, so that should help.