To gaijin. They had to rebuild large parts of their culture from scratch, and they did a very poor job of it. It couldn’t have helped that Japan lost some 4% of its total population during the war — most of them young men of military age. Probably cut down a lot on the pool...
The short answer is that bumps and slides give me more ways to understand what goes on in a story, whether I'm creating one from scratch or analyzing a finished work. Who are Optionlocks Tied To? I started off thinking the Optionlock applied to the Protagonist in the OS, then just the...