Tales of the Parodyverse - Parenthood is full of tough choices..

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Subj: Parenthood is full of tough choices..
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 09:20:34 am EDT (Viewed 1 times)

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It's always good to have the laundrymat looking out for you. Usually that just means getting the starch levels right, but I guess some places are more full service.

I felt that since I'd thrown them in at the start of the story I needed to give them a nod near the conclusion.

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An entertaining scramble to the finish line! I was glad to see the new almost legionnaires make an appearance in this... I had noticed some mention of Champagne's family before, but wasn't expecting the thief herself.

I was feeling guilty that I'd omitted characters whose posters had previously expressed a desire to have involved. I don't know if Champagne or JJJ is reading right now but I didn't want them to feel left out.

That said, I agree with Shrike's criticism of the story. I'm not happy with it now.

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The CSFB action was impressive, especially for how much was conveyed in such a short story segment.

It was really a neccessary mopping up of unfinished plot thread.

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I also enjoyed the only threat that would work on shrike... exposure to more Dancer. If only the Bush administration had thought of that tactic, I bet we could have emptied Guantanamo long ago.

I was struggling with an outcome that didn't have Shrike going to jail or escaping scot free. I considered omitting the scene altogether and showing Hatty taking down the funeral parlour but I thought I'd get more humour out of a Hat/Shrike confrontation. I figured the Dancer threat (and being gypped on his expenses by the WNC) would give an out to Shrike to pass on the info, since as a merc he usually wouldn't blab.

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As for Hallie's body heat, that's a story for another time... Still nice to see Urthula though.

It's an overdue story for another time.

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Looking forward to the big finish!

The big finish is going to have to wait, I think. Life has just come back and jumped on me and I'm not really in a mood for creative writing.

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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