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Subj: There's a story right there.
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 09:10:56 am EDT (Viewed 2 times)

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Now that's funny, CSFB! being his own distraction while he goes and gets the artefact.

It's not like he had anyone else.

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I knew Yuki would figure it out. Now the question remains whether she'll torment Killer Shrike for days to come.

I doubt it. Things would likely turn nasty.

One of the problems with mutli-writer universes like this is that if writer A writes writer B's character vs writer C it creates bad feeling because B or C could feel that their character is "punked", shown at a disadvantage. This gets harder still when one of the characters is a villain, since generally sooner or later they have to lose. I've struggled with this evry single time I've used Baron Zemo, Dr Moo, Pierson's Porter, Grim Reaper, Balefire, and many more. Sometimes I get it right.

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And also the big question remains - whether the entire scavenger hunt specified in the contract is a trick that will bring about something horrible. The choice for the Lair Legion being, when they find out what that is, whether to forfeit to save the world and give up the Ghost Taxi Co, or whether to take on whatever happens.

There's doubtless some twist in the tail. Right now I'm having an especially horrible day so I don't feel like writing it.

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btw I tried to think of a decent tie-in but I fear I can't really top that first one with Liu Xi.

No problem. As you were.

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#332: And Even More Untold Tales of the Ghost Taxis: Stop The Meter - Complete · The Hooded Hood continues to chronicle the Legion's occult scavenger hunt · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 07:32:08 pm EDT
- Ah, so it all works out in the end. · Al B. Harper · Sat May 02, 2009 at 11:45:31 pm EDT
- Hey, the end of the story was put up! · Visionary is always the last to know. · Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 10:45:31 pm EDT
  - So it was. · HH · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 06:13:02 am EDT
- At least we avoided the Carry On Cabbie jokes... (no text) · Manga Shoggoth (Briefly passin' through...) · Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 03:32:45 pm EDT
  - Possibly because I've never seen the movie. I didn't even know there was a movie. (no text) · HH is not very contemporary culturally connected · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 06:24:17 am EDT
    - Dating from 1963, it is slightly older than me. One of the best in the series, in my opinion. (no text) · Manga Shoggoth · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 10:54:32 am EDT
      - You or the movie? (no text) · HH · Sun Apr 26, 2009 at 04:53:33 am EDT
- That can't be good. It also can't be good. · Anime Jason · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 09:27:22 pm EDT
  - And that's bad · HH · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 06:22:24 am EDT
    - Re: And that's bad · Anime Jason · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 09:15:14 am EDT
      - Re: And that's bad · HH · Sun Apr 26, 2009 at 04:59:33 am EDT
        
        Re: And that's bad · Anime Jason · Sun Apr 26, 2009 at 09:17:44 am EDT
        
        Re: And that's bad · HH · Fri May 15, 2009 at 12:14:22 pm EDT
        
        Re: And that's bad · Anime Jason · Fri May 15, 2009 at 04:54:11 pm EDT
        
        Re: And that's bad · HH · Sun Jun 07, 2009 at 05:56:27 am EDT
- That was an extremely manipulative, bastardly plan on [spoiler]'s part. I approve. :) (no text) · CrazySugarFreakBoy! appreciates liars · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 08:47:11 pm EDT
  - He did apologise in advance for it. (no text) · HH · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 06:22:45 am EDT
- A rousing conclusion · killer shrike · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 08:23:20 pm EDT
  - Thank you. · HH · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 06:16:48 am EDT
- Wow. · Rhiannon · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 05:05:59 pm EDT
  - Re: Wow. · HH · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 06:15:04 am EDT
- Makes for good airline lounge reading! (no text) · Al B. Harper has another plane to catch and tries to catch up on things in between flights · Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 03:32:04 am EDT
  - We don't offer air miles. (no text) · HH thinks Roni Y Avis is slipping · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 02:05:22 pm EDT
- Nice. Very nice. · L! · Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 10:31:41 pm EDT
  - Middling nice maybe. (no text) · HH · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 02:05:44 pm EDT
- I enjoyed the feint-within-a-feint, as well as my own role. :) (no text) · CrazySugarFreakBoy! · Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 07:45:22 pm EDT
  - Everybody gets a turn at being the action hero sooner or later. (no text) · HH has a rota system · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 02:06:40 pm EDT
- I'd worry that a larger allowance would just lead to better bomb components. · Visionary · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 10:48:40 pm EDT
  - Parenthood is full of tough choices.. · HH · Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 09:20:34 am EDT
- Last Cab Home sounds like a bar in a bad neighborhood. · Anime Jason · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 12:29:09 pm EDT
  - There's a story right there. · HH · Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 09:10:56 am EDT
    - Re: There's a story right there. · Anime Jason · Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 02:03:41 pm EDT
      - Re: There's a story right there. · HH · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 02:03:14 pm EDT
        
        Re: There's a story right there. · Anime Jason · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 04:36:09 pm EDT
        
        Re: There's a story right there. · HH · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 06:06:45 am EDT
        
        Re: There's a story right there. · Anime Jason · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 10:04:00 am EDT
        
        Re: There's a story right there. · HH · Sun Apr 26, 2009 at 05:16:35 am EDT
        
        Re: There's a story right there. · Anime Jason · Sun Apr 26, 2009 at 11:54:05 am EDT
- Icy is beginning to sound like Apu from the Simpsons: would like a slusshee? (no text) · Jack · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 10:45:13 am EDT
  - Sorry about that. (no text) · HH · Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 09:05:29 am EDT
- Too many double crosses and triple crosses to keep track (no text) · killer shrike · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 09:03:49 am EDT
  - Sorry about that. (no text) · HH · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 09:45:19 am EDT
    - Some elaboration: [Spoilers] · killer shrike · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 05:07:51 pm EDT
      - Re: Some elaboration: [Spoilers] · HH · Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 09:21:22 am EDT
        
        Re: Some elaboration: [Spoilers] · killer shrike · Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 05:25:52 pm EDT
- Clever. Both you and the people in the story that is. (no text) · Rhiannon · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 07:17:20 am EDT
  - * [Insert falsely modest reply here] * (no text) · HH · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 07:37:18 am EDT
- I sense that you're working out some personal cultural issues within the story. ;) (no text) · CrazySugarFreakBoy! · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 10:36:57 pm EDT
  - Not really, although I am ruthlessly exploiting stereotypes. (no text) · HH has very happy memories of some Scottish girls · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 06:56:43 am EDT
- I have to say... · Visionary · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 08:00:26 pm EDT
  - Well, if you have to. · HH · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 07:00:49 am EDT
- Interesting. · L! · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 01:38:31 pm EDT
  - Not weird? (no text) · HH says "I told you so" to Rhiannon · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 03:33:48 pm EDT
    - No. This is the sort of stuff I'd expect in the PV, elsewhere it might be weird. · L! · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 11:18:22 pm EDT
      - The world really needs more occult haggises. (no text) · HH · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 07:03:00 am EDT
    - Told me what? (no text) · Rhiannon maintains that 'intersting' and 'weird' are not mutually exclusive, weird is just very condensed interesting. · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 05:01:31 pm EDT
      - Told you that it wasn't so weird. Nobody else thought it was weird. Only interesting. (no text) · HH points to the thread above. · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 07:02:17 am EDT
        
        If it had been in a not-almost-real-world location in would have been just interesting, as it is it's weird. (no text) · Rhiannon fails to understand why you can't just accept the occasional bit of weirdness as a good thing and accept a compliment. · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 07:23:22 am EDT
        
        What would he have to talk about then? (no text) · HH · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 08:21:25 am EDT
        
        An awful lot of other things, an awful, awful lot of things. (no text) · Rhiannon, currently up at 3:17 due to the awful lot of things. · Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 10:17:21 pm EDT
        
        Go to bed. (no text) · HH · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 01:47:33 pm EDT
- A great chapter, with some laugh out loud lines in it · killer shrike · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 01:37:51 pm EDT
  - "Haggis" is an innately funny word, · HH · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 03:36:56 pm EDT
- Nats seems to attract vomiting. · Anime Jason · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 12:58:23 pm EDT
  - So does his fictional counterpart. · HH · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 03:40:21 pm EDT
    - Re: So does his fictional counterpart. · Anime Jason · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 06:50:26 pm EDT
      - Re: So does his fictional counterpart. · HH · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 07:04:05 am EDT
        
        Re: So does his fictional counterpart. · Anime Jason · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 12:30:46 pm EDT
        
        Re: So does his fictional counterpart. · HH · Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 09:11:41 am EDT
- I feel bad for Grace O'Mercy, that sounds like a real ER she's working. (no text) · Jack · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 11:36:45 am EDT
  - She's a hero in her own way. (no text) · HH · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 03:55:23 pm EDT
- This was unusual, I don't think even Untold Tales gets this weird very often. (no text) · Rhiannon · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 11:16:15 am EDT
  - What was weird about this? It's one of the few sections set in a near-real-world location. (no text) · HH · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 11:25:46 am EDT
    - Have you considered that the almost-real-world location might have been part of the wierdness. (no text) · Rhiannon · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 04:59:24 pm EDT
      - I have now. (no text) · HH still doesn't see it · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 07:05:54 am EDT
- And with added return of the side bar role call. · Al B. Harper · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 06:41:20 am EDT
  - Lair Legion, Line Up! · HH · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 07:43:52 am EDT
- It's never really a party until it's been crashed by Chad & Ronnie. · L! · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 01:01:24 am EDT
  - Undead C & R doesn't really bear thinking about. (no text) · HH suggests staking them now, just in case · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 05:40:18 am EDT
    - They have been to Hell but who in the PV hasn't done that at least. · L! · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 11:17:30 pm EDT
      - I think Mr pPpadapopolis has never got further than the conceptual plane. (no text) · HH · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 07:06:36 am EDT
        
        That's Papadapopolis. (no text) · HH's fingers will obey him · Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 07:07:49 am EDT
- Quite a lot of names dropped in this story · killer shrike · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 11:45:28 pm EDT
  - One day we'll have to pick a few up. · HH · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 05:43:34 am EDT
- I especially enjoyed the Cocktail Party of the Damned chatter. :) (no text) · CrazySugarFreakBoy! · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 09:09:46 pm EDT
  - I was trying to work out which of your cast might have been there and I came up blank. You need to work on that. (no text) · HH · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 09:13:53 pm EDT
- Those are big words in the taxi business. · Anime Jason · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 08:49:05 pm EDT
  - It means the journey has definitely ended. · HH · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 09:04:40 pm EDT
    - Re: It means the journey has definitely ended. · Anime Jason · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 10:55:24 pm EDT
      - Re: It means the journey has definitely ended. · HH · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 05:56:43 am EDT
        
        Re: It means the journey has definitely ended. · Anime Jason · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 11:53:33 am EDT
        
        Re: It means the journey has definitely ended. · HH · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 03:48:47 pm EDT
        
        Re: It means the journey has definitely ended. · Anime Jason · Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 04:25:58 pm EDT
        
        Re: It means the journey has definitely ended. · HH · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 01:51:53 pm EDT
        
        Re: It means the journey has definitely ended. · Anime Jason · Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 04:25:38 pm EDT
        
        Re: It means the journey has definitely ended. · HH · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 05:49:25 am EDT
        Re: It means the journey has definitely ended. · HH · Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 05:49:23 am EDT
- This is brilliant, well worth the trouble I know you've had with it. (no text) · Rhiannon · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 08:02:34 pm EDT
  - I think I might have even more trouble with the next bit, seeing as it has to have actual story development in it. (no text) · HH hates the bit where he has to make the plot make sense · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 08:44:05 pm EDT
- I prefer my parties with cake and ice cream. · Visionary · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 07:57:46 pm EDT
  - There were crusted things and screams. That's close. · HH · Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 08:49:53 pm EDT