Tales of the Parodyverse - Princess Amaralyn got too close

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Al B. Harper

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What do you mean, "now"?

Well, true. But you bring it on yourself.

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Clean shirts and some groceries would be more practical. And a new garderer, since mine is apparently in prison now.

Would that I could in a practical way.

And, what did he/she do to end up there?

I just did some work in the garden, there was/is a stubborn thorny asparagus fern which was really growing wild everywhere and has multiple root stocks. As I was working to get rid of it all I actually blamed spiffy out loud.

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At this stage I need to bring a lot of strands together and the "short chapter focussed on one person" format is a bit of a limitation. So we've had several chapters where focus characters either report on or see what is happening in the other plotlines. I'm afraid it is inevitable as we get towards a resolution.

It's a good way of keeping things moving without having to go into the detail.

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Trying to find fresh ways of doing that (with Laurie and Beth's visions and Zania's cosmic senses and so on) is a bit of a challenge. So I was happy to have a character at hand who could legitimately see some borders and the events there.

Yes, it was quite different but worked.

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Doubtless Lisa would claim she was ending an old life. Like her cat, Lisa can be an old softie. Honestly.

I wouldn't refer to the cat that way.

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Nope. Not even Wilbur managed that.

Ah well.

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We're still light on ethnic minorities from non-Western countries.

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Like Zania ever bothered to answer my phone.

Good help is hard to find?

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You'd think it would work that way.

The author or his editor perhaps.

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Well that narrows down the field.

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Indeed.

Melissa
Troia
Enthralless
Lisa
Cobra
Sorceress
Hagatha Darkness
Valeria
Laurie Layton
Ziles
Grace Kelly
Shazana Pel
Yuki
Cleone Swanmay
Uhuna
Citizen Z

It strikes me that the daughter of a Sea-Monkey-Human combination would possibly be rather exotic or have some kind of powers.

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And wait - Mac? It's not Regret is it?

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Interesting guess.

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She was the freshest "bedraggled girl that Mac encountered" in my mind.

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So she was.

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Untold Tales of the Secrets of the Parodyverse #359 - Complete · Once more with feeling from... the Hooded Hood! · Sat Dec 31, 2016 at 03:48:13 pm EST
- Continuing Al B.'s respitory commentary from down the board · HH · Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 06:15:04 am EST
  - Respiratory perhaps? · Al B. Harper · Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 07:01:30 pm EST
    - Yes, that too. I need a breather. · HH · Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 10:47:56 am EST
      - We'll be waiting with baited breath. · Al B. Harper · Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 05:49:41 pm EST
        
        What sort of bait? Garlic? Curry? Peppers? · HH · Tue Jan 10, 2017 at 07:50:00 am EST
        
        Click? · Al B. Harper · Sat Jan 14, 2017 at 11:07:50 pm EST
- Continuing the threat from below about Vizh's submission to female rule · HH · Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 05:22:39 am EST
  - I'm fine with anyone of any gender taking over if they're willing to do the paperwork instead of me. · Visionary · Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 07:08:54 pm EST
    - There's a t-shirt slogan. · HH · Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 10:51:38 am EST
      - Re: There's a t-shirt slogan. · Visionary · Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 01:31:40 pm EST
        
        Re: There's a t-shirt slogan. · HH · Tue Jan 10, 2017 at 07:38:15 am EST
- Continuing discussion with Jason from below: the SF possibilities of the SEC · HH · Thu Jan 05, 2017 at 05:20:29 am EST
  - That sounds like a clickbait title. · Anime Jason · Thu Jan 05, 2017 at 10:37:19 am EST
    - That would be "Ten Sexy SF Possibilities of the SEC" · HH · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 04:17:11 am EST
      - That's general clickbait. The first one is more like vlog clickbait. · Anime Jason · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 12:14:08 pm EST
        
        I had to look up what a vlog was. · HH is old · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 03:05:30 pm EST
        
        I bet you were disappointed. · Anime Jason · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 08:45:26 pm EST
        
        Perhaps I should start one? I could just tell PV stories straight to camera and save some typing. · HH · Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 07:21:12 am EST
        
        Not enough fluff to make it a vlog. · Anime Jason · Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 01:35:04 pm EST
        
        Body fat doesn't count? · HH · Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 04:45:12 am EST
        
        That's more squish than fluff. · Anime Jason · Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 01:14:17 pm EST
        
        The terrible truth! · HH · Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 10:35:35 am EST
        
        That's what we're here for. · Anime Jason · Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 01:39:47 pm EST
        
        For a given value of 'here'. · HH · Tue Jan 10, 2017 at 07:34:24 am EST
        
        Only this one. · Anime Jason · Tue Jan 10, 2017 at 11:07:05 am EST
        
        "You are here" is a brutally terrifying conclusion. · HH · Wed Jan 11, 2017 at 08:24:04 am EST
        
        It depends where you are. · Anime Jason · Wed Jan 11, 2017 at 12:01:48 pm EST
        
        Well, where I am, then. · HH · Fri Jan 13, 2017 at 05:29:13 pm EST
        
        Right there. · Anime Jason · Sat Jan 14, 2017 at 06:18:29 pm EST
        
        Or wrong there. · HH · Sat Jan 14, 2017 at 10:10:47 pm EST
        
        It's good to know right from wrong. · Anime Jason · Sat Jan 14, 2017 at 11:14:18 pm EST
        
        I've shifted my reply to the end of our conversation thread for UT#360 · HH · Mon Jan 16, 2017 at 04:38:08 pm EST
- Picking up on replies to Al B.; because torment should never cease · HH · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 11:46:41 am EST
  - Tell that to the Chain Knight · Al B. Harper · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 06:41:33 pm EST
    - I tend not to get that close. · HH · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 09:52:06 pm EST
      - Princess Amaralyn got too close · Al B. Harper · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 10:45:03 pm EST
        
        Princess is a high risk occupation in fantasy stories. · HH refers you to Game of Thrones · Thu Jan 05, 2017 at 05:51:23 am EST
        
        Poor Princess Magweed · Al B. Harper · Thu Jan 05, 2017 at 07:31:58 pm EST
        
        She had her time. · HH · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 04:54:31 am EST
        
        You'll scare Adam away with comments like that! · Al B. Harper · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 06:20:58 am EST
        
        It's quite obvious from previous evidence that he just can't look away. · HH · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 08:57:05 am EST
        
        Enough about the Fake Man, let's talk about Part 30's big revelation(s)! [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 06:28:53 pm EST
        
        They were really medium-sized revelations, really. [Spoilers] · HH · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 08:48:56 pm EST
        
        Well, I gave a medium level gasp then. [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper · Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 03:59:06 am EST
        
        Appropriate-magnitude gasps are always appreciated. [Spoilers] · HH · Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 07:59:11 am EST
        
        Can I give a big gasp now? [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper · Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 08:36:17 pm EST
        
        Continued above [Spoilers] · HH · Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 06:16:03 am EST
        
        It's true... may god have mercy, it's all true. (no text) · Visionary · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 12:51:01 pm EST
        
        Re: Princess Amaralyn got too close · Visionary · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 11:10:24 pm EST
        
        Vizh may have got there! · HH · Thu Jan 05, 2017 at 05:52:57 am EST
        
        Or may be embarrassingly off base! · Visionary · Thu Jan 05, 2017 at 11:17:02 pm EST
        
        You'll make it to base one day Visionary. · Al B. Harper · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 12:05:59 am EST
        
        This is a baseless accusation. · HH · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 04:57:42 am EST
        
        As accusations go, it was far more acidic. · Visionary Steps up while the Shoggoth is too busy to pun. · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 12:25:54 pm EST
        
        If we start with caustic puns there will be an unpleasant reaction. People will become sulfurious. · HH · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 04:24:00 pm EST
        
        No really, she got too close. I still shudder at that story. · Al B. Harper · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 11:48:39 pm EST
        
        She should have read her story appearance contract more closely · HH puts small print in there for a reason. · Thu Jan 05, 2017 at 05:55:05 am EST
- Things are moving along. (no text) · killer shrike · Mon Jan 02, 2017 at 04:49:26 pm EST
  - Let's just keep the line moving. (no text) · HH · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 01:25:30 pm EST
    - Sound strategy (no text) · killer shrike · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 04:13:43 pm EST
      - Needs streamlining. (no text) · HH · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 05:49:54 pm EST
        
        Isn't that what's been going on? (no text) · killer shrike · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 05:53:08 pm EST
- Who's Jikininki? · killer shrike · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 07:14:29 pm EST
  - Re: Who's Jikininki? · HH · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 07:20:51 pm EST
  - She's the Japanese vampire coven leader (or was) · Al B. Harper · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 07:20:31 pm EST
- Now we're getting somewhere! Even if it's technically nowhere. · Visionary · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 12:08:05 pm EST
  - But you're getting there fast. · HH · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 12:55:51 pm EST
    - I do like to make good time. · Visionary · Mon Jan 02, 2017 at 06:15:37 am EST
      - That may not be the motto you want to adopt. · HH · Mon Jan 02, 2017 at 01:54:48 pm EST
        
        It's a little late in life to start practicing good sense. · Visionary · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 12:26:19 pm EST
        
        You speak sooth, alas. · HH · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 01:32:55 pm EST
        
        Well, I do get quoted in the lastest chapter... · Visionary · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 06:47:53 pm EST
        
        You used to make so much sense. · HH · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 07:14:48 pm EST
        
        After 2016, it seems like everything used to make more sense. · Visionary · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 08:10:00 pm EST
        
        I know that I did. · HH · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 10:01:57 pm EST
        
        The way I figure it, our nonsense is the millennial's burden to bear. · Visionary · Thu Jan 05, 2017 at 09:29:59 pm EST
        
        It's the patriarchal way. · HH · Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 05:11:45 am EST
        
        Either that or the highway, I'm told. · Visionary · Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 12:29:39 am EST
        
        It's a man's world, but it wouldn't mean nothing without a woman or a girl. · HH · Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 08:23:17 am EST
        
        I'm fine living in a woman's world if they'll let me put my feet up on the sofa. · Visionary · Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 04:22:53 pm EST
        
        Continued above · HH · Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 05:24:18 am EST
- Ah. More fun with feedback loops. · Manga Shoggoth · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 07:37:09 am EST
  - 'More' suggests there was fun before. · HH · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 12:47:42 pm EST
- Looks like a lot of things are duplicating. · Anime Jason · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 02:05:29 am EST
  - Well, we don't have enough characters involved really, do we? · HH · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 06:48:54 am EST
    - Duplicates don't really count, though. · Anime Jason · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 05:32:42 pm EST
      - Tell that to Asil. · HH · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 06:59:10 pm EST
        
        How many times? · Anime Jason · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 07:57:21 pm EST
        
        Quite a lot. She has a complex. · HH · Mon Jan 02, 2017 at 09:46:19 am EST
        
        If they all have a complex, then there will be trouble. · Anime Jason · Mon Jan 02, 2017 at 01:35:59 pm EST
        
        Sounds like a story. · HH · Mon Jan 02, 2017 at 01:51:43 pm EST
        
        It kind of is, isn't it? · Anime Jason · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 11:35:09 am EST
        
        Well, there's potential. · HH · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 01:25:02 pm EST
        
        Everything has potential. · Anime Jason · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 03:47:09 pm EST
        
        Now we're getting philosophical · HH · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 05:55:32 pm EST
        
        Someone has to. · Anime Jason · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 02:48:36 pm EST
        
        Why? · HH · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 09:42:15 pm EST
        
        That's the real question, isn't it? · Anime Jason · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 11:43:58 pm EST
        
        Continued above · HH · Thu Jan 05, 2017 at 05:21:21 am EST
- Of course! [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper · Sat Dec 31, 2016 at 07:42:47 pm EST
  - Simple, eh? [Spoilers] · HH · Sat Dec 31, 2016 at 08:01:05 pm EST
    - The best solutions often are. [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 04:40:20 am EST
      - The problem comes when the answer is counterintuitive [Spoilers] · HH · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 06:54:25 am EST
        
        Leave everything as is? [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 07:11:56 am EST
        
        No call-out fee for that! [Spoilers] · HH · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 12:52:07 pm EST
        
        Re: No call-out fee for that! [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 05:57:11 pm EST
        
        Re: No call-out fee for that! [Spoilers] · HH · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 06:18:55 pm EST
        
        Heading to Part 2 [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper · Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 07:48:11 pm EST
        
        I've just finished chapter 28. [Spoilers] · HH thought it turned out better than he expected · Mon Jan 02, 2017 at 10:16:59 am EST
        
        Chapter 26 isn't bad either [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper · Mon Jan 02, 2017 at 06:43:17 pm EST
        
        Long. That's my lasting impression of it. Quite long. [Spoilers] · HH · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 01:13:30 pm EST
        
        28 or 26? Because 26 could have been longer, with battle scenes shown. [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper is looking forward to the director's cut edition · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 05:14:02 pm EST
        
        Chapter 16 was twice the length of other chapters in this arc and took far too long to write. [Spoilers] · HH · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 06:45:35 pm EST
        
        Silicone Sally & the penguins. It was a good one. [Spoilers] · Al B. Harper · Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 11:34:24 pm EST
        
        Continued above. [Spoilers] · HH · Wed Jan 04, 2017 at 11:47:39 am EST
- I had thought about (spoiler destination) [Spoilers] · killer shrike · Sat Dec 31, 2016 at 04:18:20 pm EST
  - Re: I had thought about (spoiler destination) [Spoilers] · HH · Sat Dec 31, 2016 at 07:50:49 pm EST