Tales of the Parodyverse - "And kick yourselves down the stairs on the way out!"

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Subj: "And kick yourselves down the stairs on the way out!"
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 02:06:58 pm EST (Viewed 4 times)

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I deliberately didn't plot this run out in detail so I'd be surprised at what happened (as I often was back when I wrote Untold Tales regularly). I knew what the situation was going to be and I let the characters determine what happened after that.

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It's a fun way to write. I don't think I ever progressed much past it though - the problem with most of my writing is the lack of actual plot, and time spent plotting. Hey - at least I'm aware of this. I just need a wealthy friend to invite me and a few others to spend a week by a lake in Switzerland so I can work on my plots without any other concerns, right?

That also has to include quite a few psychotropic substances and a deal of partner-swapping.

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Like I said, what happens next is a poster call.

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Isn't Chronic a poster (was once a poster)?

Yep. Chronic is somewhere around my "long abandoned characters" mental list that I feel it's okay to occasionally raid when I have a good plot for them. But that's different from my "long left behind by their posters but with a list of instructions for use" list and my "posters have given me carte blanche with these characters" lists. I'm fairly confident that I'm not doing Chronic any disservice by writing him in chasing down a hot future-chick.

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Well, he did volunteer for that Order of the Observing Eye trip with Beanie and Fly-Girl that time.

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Good Lord Ian - your memory! Colour me impressed.

I actually remember writing that one.

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Gaz feels like this problem is in bhis wheelhouse. He's happy to sit back and let life wash over him on the outer space trips and when villains want to fight, but when it gets theological he has to take it seriously.

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Well, we don't want him serious all the time, but, yeah, he art Donarson for sooth!

Well, when he gets to star in a chapter he probably needs a bit more meaty material than usual.

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Not sure I understand why there is no fire in hell though - isn't that an oxymoron? Or is this the 'piss-weak' layer? Lol, someone should mention that to old Grimpy.

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Grimpenghast constructed this hell-dimension to a specification suitable for trapping Kerry; hence the lack of flammable items. It's her personal hell!

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Ah, makes sense. Though I still think "Verily, this art piss-weak hell" is a quote just waiting to happen.

Noted.

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Lucy is looking for payback for all the times she's been disrespected by her older team-mates, before she goes and wipes out her annoying goody-goody big brother and everything he stands for.

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I'm expecting him before the end of the story.

I'm not currently planning for him to appear. See my comments to Jason elsewhere in the thread about from-left-field characters turning up to resolve the plot. This one is down to the Juniors with nothing but Checkov's gun to help them.

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I have just one more chapter to write to finish this - once I work out how to get out of the end of chapter five.

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"Chop Chop" (as they say)

I'll proof and post chaper 5 and then get on with it.

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Untold Tales of the Senior Junior Lair Legion #355: The College Years - Complete · HH tries to remember how to write this stuff · Thu Dec 01, 2016 at 02:54:44 am EST
- keg stands and bad decisions- ah, to be young again [Spoilers] · Jack Having a good time so far. · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 01:31:38 pm EST
  - One need not be young to make bad decisions [Spoilers] · HH is mentioning that for a friend · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 03:03:14 pm EST
- keg stands and bad decisions- ah, to be young again [Spoilers] · Jack Having a good time so far. · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 01:31:31 pm EST
- These kinds of scrapes are usually the fault of messing with a cursed puzzle box or ouija board · killer shrike · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 07:49:20 pm EST
  - Or a cursed ouija board from inside a puzzle box. · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 04:17:14 am EST
- wait a minute.... · L! · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 01:42:09 pm EST
  - Re: wait a minute.... · HH · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 01:59:39 pm EST
    - Oh... Ok. · L! · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 01:49:28 pm EST
      - Re: Oh... Ok. · HH · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 03:11:16 pm EST
    - By the way, I'd like a story-consult with you but I don't think I have a valid e-mail address for you any more. · HH · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 06:00:01 pm EST
      - Sure. (no text) · L! · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 01:50:08 pm EST
- Well this was fun and unexpected. Here have a tie-in · Al B. Harper · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 12:21:07 am EST
  - Have a tie-in back: Kara Harper and the Infernal Concert · The Hooded Hood · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 05:55:05 am EST
    - Can this kind of thing qualify as a "meet cute"? · Visionary · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 10:53:54 am EST
      - Meet ugly? · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 02:05:05 pm EST
    - Awww · Al B. Harper · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 02:57:40 am EST
      - You Awwwed? · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 05:03:24 am EST
        
        What's not to awww at? Young love beginning. Just wait till her mother finds out. · Al B. Harper · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 05:52:55 am EST
        
        And now her not-brother has new ammunition. · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 01:46:56 pm EST
        
        Hmm. · Al B. Harper · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 06:16:14 am EST
        
        Yes. · HH · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 04:02:18 pm EST
        
        Indeed! · Al B. Harper · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 04:30:28 am EST
        
        Indubitably. · HH · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 04:06:05 pm EST
        
        For sooth! · Al B. Harper · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 03:50:26 am EST
        
        Gadzooks. · HH · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 12:00:19 pm EST
        
        Re: Gadzooks. · Al B. Harper · Sat Dec 10, 2016 at 05:02:47 am EST
        
        You may have omitted any new text from that reply. (no text) · HH · Sat Dec 10, 2016 at 01:43:33 pm EST
        
        Yes I've been getting errors when replying sporadically. I'll try to summarize when i get a chance (off to a Christmas party). (no text) · Al B. Harper · Sat Dec 10, 2016 at 10:42:35 pm EST
        
        Re: What's not to awww at? Young love beginning. Just wait till her mother finds out. · Visionary · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 11:48:10 am EST
        
        I'm sure we must have gay cast available. · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 02:02:34 pm EST
        
        Mr Limpqvist? Also... · Al B. Harper · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 05:53:55 am EST
        
        He may be free, but he's never mentioned being out. · HH · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 04:06:51 pm EST
        
        He probably has a wife and eight kids. Never believe the stereotype. · Al B. Harper · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 05:32:14 am EST
        
        Two simultaneous wives and eight kids. Like Patrick Troughton. · HH · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 04:15:22 pm EST
        
        And now I can't stop picturing him playing a recorder. · Al B. Harper · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 03:25:30 am EST
        
        Could be worse. · HH · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 11:42:05 am EST
  - A Gatecrasher, eh? · HH · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 04:08:29 am EST
    - As an Alphan she had a legit invite. · Al B. Harper · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 04:58:31 am EST
      - Turns out she wasn't actually the crasher. · HH · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 06:01:31 am EST
        
        Well, you know your party is a success if you have gatecrashers. True story. · Al B. Harper · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 02:46:54 am EST
        
        But then you fire security. · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 05:37:13 am EST
        
        "Security! I need you to get rid of Security!" · Al B. Harper · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 06:13:48 am EST
        
        "And kick yourselves down the stairs on the way out!" · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 02:06:58 pm EST
        
        Re: "And kick yourselves down the stairs on the way out!" · Al B. Harper · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 06:49:22 am EST
        
        Re: "And kick yourselves down the stairs on the way out!" · HH · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 04:12:23 pm EST
        
        Re: "And kick yourselves down the stairs on the way out!" · Al B. Harper · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 05:15:32 am EST
        
        "hey kids, let me tell you about the time your old dad was denounced from the pulpit..." · HH · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 04:29:35 pm EST
        
        Re: "hey kids, let me tell you about the time your old dad was denounced from the pulpit..." · Al B. Harper · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 03:22:11 am EST
        
        Re: "hey kids, let me tell you about the time your old dad was denounced from the pulpit..." · HH · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 11:49:52 am EST
        
        Re: "And kick yourselves down the stairs on the way out!" · Visionary · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 05:31:48 pm EST
        
        Re: "And kick yourselves down the stairs on the way out!" · Al B. Harper · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 04:57:34 am EST
        
        Okay, Al B. wins that .gif clash. (no text) · HH · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 04:16:20 pm EST
        
        Huzzah! Is there a trophy? (no text) · Al B. Harper · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 03:08:35 am EST
        
        Feel free to make yourself one. (no text) · HH · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 11:50:18 am EST
  - I'd renew my AAA roadside assistance membership if the tow-truck drivers looked like that. · Visionary · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 01:01:06 am EST
    - And you would deliberately break down, wouldn't you? · Al B. Harper · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 01:12:58 am EST
      - I might lock my keys in my car now and then... · Visionary · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 08:37:14 pm EST
- Sorry I'm late. Had some awful distracting things happen. · Anime Jason · Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 03:32:10 pm EST
  - Perhaps you need a more pleasant class of distraction? · HH · Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 09:54:32 pm EST
    - I wish I had one this weekend. · Anime Jason · Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 11:28:24 pm EST
      - The internet is still there, right? · HH · Sat Dec 03, 2016 at 03:15:28 pm EST
        
        It's never a certainty with Comcast. · Anime Jason · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 02:55:53 am EST
        
        Now there's a company motto. · HH · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 03:57:49 am EST
        
        They don't really have one now, so any would do. · Anime Jason · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 09:42:28 am EST
        
        "We don't suck quite as much as AT&T"? · HH · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 02:23:01 pm EST
        
        That wouldn't be accurate enough. (edited after first posting) · Anime Jason · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 05:45:58 pm EST
        
        Well, the weekend is over now, so I hope the week works out better. · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 04:44:55 am EST
        
        It's started. So far it's not much better. · Anime Jason · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 01:07:03 pm EST
        
        Well, only four more days to the next weekend. · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 03:01:30 pm EST
        
        That's long enough. · Anime Jason · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 08:58:53 pm EST
        
        Three days now. · HH · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 04:21:51 pm EST
        
        It's beginning to look like a countdown. · Anime Jason · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 11:05:23 pm EST
        
        To fun! · HH · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 04:50:45 pm EST
        
        I almost forgot what that was this week. · Anime Jason · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 12:51:51 am EST
        
        Perhaps try to remember? · HH advises being kind to yourself for good mental health · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 11:55:19 am EST
        
        I might now that I worked almost 18 hrs yesterday, and have the rest of the week off. · Anime Jason · Thu Dec 08, 2016 at 01:29:43 pm EST
- Three years can go by so quickly... · Visionary has surely finished that great novel by now. · Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 01:12:22 am EST
  - It seems a lot longer, though. · HH · Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 12:44:09 pm EST
    - I hear that time is relative. Enty tried explaining it to me once, but I was too nervous about the adjustments he was making to the toaster to listen. · Visionary Is out of practice with the Parodyverse... I forgot how these update and missed that it had. · Sat Dec 03, 2016 at 08:13:34 am EST
      - Who wouldn't want toast delivered yesterday? · HH · Sat Dec 03, 2016 at 03:40:01 pm EST
        
        But then you have to remember to insert the bread the next day so as not to disappear in a universe-ending paradox. · Visionary · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 12:02:56 am EST
        
        There's probably a warning label. · HH · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 04:27:27 am EST
        
        As if I'm putting my face near enough to that thing to look. · Visionary · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 10:49:06 am EST
        
        Oh you. · Al B. Harper · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 05:57:46 am EST
        Still, I'm sure the toast is nutritious. · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 03:10:35 pm EST
        
        There are probably plenty of essential minerals in the shrapnel as well. · Visionary Lost the ability to quote the prior response due to some annoying quirks with his tablet. · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 07:54:43 pm EST
        
        Plus there's the healthy radioactive steam bath. · HH · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 04:25:12 pm EST
        
        Really opens the pores. · Visionary · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 05:38:05 pm EST
        
        For that deep-down acid scouring. · HH · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 06:05:40 pm EST
        
        I'll just stick to muffins for breakfast... and regift the toaster for a special occasion. · Visionary · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 12:19:32 pm EST
        
        Is that allowed under the Geneva Convvention? · HH · Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 05:06:37 pm EST
        
        Re: There's probably a warning label. · Al B. Harper · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 05:13:21 am EST
        
        Re: There's probably a warning label. · HH · Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 06:03:56 am EST
        
        Hmm, a technical glitch we can easily overcome or just ignore given what goes these days. spiffy for President 2020! (no text) · Al B. Harper · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 02:23:01 am EST
        
        Perhaps the time has come for the candidacy of... the Hooded Hood! (no text) · HH · Mon Dec 05, 2016 at 04:45:45 am EST
        
        I'd totally vote for you Hoodster! (no text) · A Junior Reader · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 05:55:08 am EST
        
        * Cleanses the gene pool * (no text) · HH · Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 03:44:15 pm EST
- You had me at "It's so 1980s." :) (no text) · CrazySugarFreakBoy! · Thu Dec 01, 2016 at 07:17:54 pm EST
  - You may enjoy chapter four then, which includes some other era-relevant content. (no text) · HH · Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 12:08:24 pm EST
- tangential comments... · L! · Thu Dec 01, 2016 at 06:48:58 pm EST
  - There before you this time. · HH · Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 12:23:43 pm EST
    - Re: There before you this time. · L! · Sat Dec 03, 2016 at 12:35:54 am EST
      - Re: There before you this time. · HH · Sat Dec 03, 2016 at 03:25:28 pm EST