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Al B. Harper

Member Since: Mon Jan 04, 2016
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HH

Subj: Proceeded.
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 at 11:58:31 pm EST (Viewed 447 times)
Reply Subj: Proceed.
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 at 09:08:25 pm EST (Viewed 3 times)



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    It took Rhiannon and I an hour and a half this afternoon just to find references for all the damn in-story links.


Thank you both in advance. I do enjoy the footnote and reference links, but worry it is burdensome for you.


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    Tragedy leads to growth. Or dressing up as a bat.


BatAsil?


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      *Insert appropriate exclamation - nothing I type seems to convey enough emotion for me* How could I have missed that?!


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    Alien abduction lost time?


Wouldn't be the first time either has happened to Al B. *insert hyperlinks here*


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      Posted Christmas 2012? Maybe I was elsewhere? But what a fantastic story to find and read right now. I really really like it when you go into depth in the mythos like this. And what a lot we learnt here:

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        - The story behind Tanner's curse reveled at last. And gives us some interesting thoughts to muse - the first being that he is approx 2000 years old!



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    Like Larry Talbot from the old black and white movies, he is more or less immortal with certain big exceptions.


Like, he can actually die? Say with a silver cut to the heart? Or maybe decapitation?

It's interesting that he gained lycanthropy through a cursed spear and not by another werewolf bite.


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    It's not canon until it's in a story, but my working theory is he's from the Ciarraghe ("the dark people") who gave their name to Country Kerry. They appear in various old "histories" like The Annals of the Four Masters and the medieval genealogy of Flann Feórna, with supposed mythical links back to Ulaid hero Fergus mac Róich to the Míled an Espáin.


Nice! He's Irish? I never realised that. Perhaps I wasn't paying enough attention. I presumed Scottish or Welsh. I suppose he's really none of those anyway given he predates those labels. Naturalised American now?


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    But I might come up with something better later.


*nods*


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    He was once a candidate for fame.


I just can't see him joining the Gothematropolis York School of the Performing Arts, no matter how hard I try.


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    I don't remember writing that, but that's no guarantee these days. I just reread the start of "Saving the Future" and was as mystified by the mystery (that I apparently wrote) as anyone. I solved it in time, though, so younger-me was clearly playing fair.


Or was he?


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      - The Hallows. Sword, Cup, Spear and Stone. Hmmm.....



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    Have fun working out the Parodyverse analogues.


Well, you footnoted them in the story:

The Hallows, sword, cup, spear, and stone, appear in many guises in mythology, and even on our standard deck of playing cards. In the Parodyverse, the Cup of Life played a major part in the story of Valeria of Carfax, slave-girl from the Dreary Dimension, who eventually became the Keeper of the Chalice after many issues of Untold Tales. The Stone appears to have migrated to Candia, the alternate-universe version of Canada from which Rabid Wolf originates. The Spear of Destiny is rumoured to lie beneath Herringcarp Asylum, which is surely worrying for those who know of the Hooded Hood!



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    It's just in my head, unfortunately.


That gives me cause for relief to be honest.




Dammit. My memory is like an open drain - let alone a sieve.


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    Glad you liked it.


I really did!


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      PS: Is it time for a De Soth family tree?



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    I doubt it.


Awww. I might try then, from known sources.


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    Good guess, but no. However, she does make a brief contribution to UT#354. Because why not?


Because white zippered jumpsuit with the zipper undone, that's why!


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    I'm pretty sure he [Visionary] did that 3D Poser Shoggoth.


I don't think I've seen that one. But we've already established my memory is shot.


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        It's a good theory. But wrong.

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        So, not fake Knifey. Kinki then. Definitely Kinki.


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    Nope. Strike two.


Gah!


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    I was discussing this today over lunch out with Rhiannon, who is home for a long weekend to pick up her birthday presents (a DVD from me and a laptop from her mum!). We were trying to work out the mechanics of how this would work both in-story and with the PVB community. The in-story stuff is much easier than the other.


Happy Birthday Rhiannon. In-story would be easy - just start writing about it. Let the filler 10 years fill itself or not over time about what happened to everyone else.

It would certainly be an interesting way to re-vamp.


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    Some people have written story that by definition post-date where I am in continuity, for example Jason's LL line-up revamp where all his characters join; or else that is an alternate reality.


I'll have to re-read that, I've forgotten it. Was it just Yuki, Chiaki, Keiko and Laura Night with no one else left as members? Now there's a Kooky Quartet!


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    My current working practice is to utilise comic book time, so the LL formed about ten years ago and finished the Parody War just over a year since. FA is 20, Kerry is 19, Sam Featherstone is about 15, Mags and Griffin are about 12/13, and Shep is, by demand, 22 and will improbably remain there. Mumph will be 162 next February 19th.


Which would make Kara/Cody about 20 as well then. Hmm, is Al B. ready for adult kids?


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    The time may come if I ever write enough PV stuff. In the meantime there's still The End of the Future.


I just got side tracked and spent an hour searching for that alternate dystopic future story I wrote where Al B. salvages Hallie into his wristwatch. I couldn't find it, and I know I've searched and found it before. Don't you hate that? I think it was a reply to someone elses story too.


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    My best novel, one I'm keeping back for a better publishing deal with proper advertising and distribution, is a story called The Fall of Babel, a murder mystery in the fabled Biblical tower as things quite literally fall to pieces. It's Conan Doyle meets Conan, with the detective being Nimrod the Hunter, last ruler of Shinar. He's a barbarian king, she's a sacrificial virgin - together they fight crime!


Sounds interesting! I hope there's a snake person involved somewhere?


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    I once had to spend five days going through a manuscript correcting the corrections.


! This is why people should use track changes.


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    I do like to read people's replies, though. There was a high level of debate and banter in some of those now-lost threads.


Half my stories were replies I'm sure. Speaking of - I did come across some email correspondence from us circa 2009 re: Al B. Harper's family history. Very interesting.






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