Rethinking and inspiration

I'm doing a bit of rethinking of how GhostOps works. I have at least three characters (maybe four; another one's lurking in the back of my mind and refusing to tell me who he is), but I don't have much of a framework for them to operate in, which I need to get it past psych-ward scene(s) #2. Which reminds me, I need to get into the head of my female char, and that'll be complicated and annoying.

Then there's the fact that I saw Iron Man tonight, and thinking about why I like Tony Stark so much has enlightened me a bit more about what Shep is and isn't (there are some striking similarities if you approach it from a certain viewpoint, but they come from totally different perspectives). I realized I need to change some things about Shep and the team, though, if I want the story to work from a dramatic perspective. 

And I'm now thinking about what kind of technology I could incorporate, any of which would mean moving away from the spiritual realism that I initially wanted. That's actually a good thing, though; real spiritual war is a little unexciting thanks to the wildly uneven balance of power. ('S like fighting knife-wielding peasants when you have a grenade launcher. Problem is the damned peasants are extremely sneaky.)

And there's also the whole question of what, exactly, the creature called Crazydog is and what role he/it is going to play in the development of the team. 

So I'm gonna go take a bath and think about it.

I really need to get a waterproof notebook one of these days . . .