Spoiler alert for chapter 245 - Army of One and chapter 246 - Fatal Flaw.

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Spoiler alert for chapter 241 - Full Potential and chapter 242 - Breaking Point.

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Note that this blog post will reference events through chapter 212 - Fixing What's Broken.

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Spoiler alert for chapter 160 – Breakthrough and Breakdown.

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So while I was watching "Fame and Misfortune," – the most recent episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic as of the time of this writing – I noticed that one of the minor characters was a reporter from Canterlot. More specifically, he said that he was a reporter for the "Canterlot Chronicle."

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Just to be absolutely clear, this will contain spoilers for the chapter mentioned in this blog post's title.

I've been quite forward about the fact that many of the characters in Lateral Movement, particularly Lex and Sonata, have their powers and abilities represented via RPG stats under the d20 System, the game engine upon which Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition and Pathfinder, are built.

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Lateral Movement is, in simplest terms, the story of Lex Legis, my original character. However, if you've read the previous entry in these design diaries, you'll know that the character actually predates the story by over a year; even his first appearance in David Silver's A Dangerous Sparkle came over eight months after his first write-up

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If you're a reader of my story Lateral Movement, you might have noticed a comment I made a little while back wherein I confessed that I wasn't utilizing Sonata very much, in terms of her making use of her powers and abilities to their fullest extent. Moreover, I let it slip that the reason for that was because I wasn't sure of what her game stats should be.

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"The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children." –Benjamin Disraeli

Despite the wisdom of the above quote, I wanted to write about the events that led to my writing this story in general, and the conception and evolution of its main character, Lex Legis, in particular. It's my hope that this will serve as an interesting peek behind the metaphorical curtain for fans of this story.

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