I'm hyperlinked out, but I think from memory that the poster child case was around UT#297ish. Although maybe that one didn;t have enough... probing.




Yes, his curse includes ways of destroying him so that he can be damned. Unfortunately, as Tanner says in the story, he wasn't really paying attention to the small print.

For a different perspective on this, see Vinnie de Soth and the Bride of the Werewolf, which also features other De Soths.




For ancient means of becoming a werewolf (including diablic pact, enchanted wolfskin, cannibal rite, and feral child upbringing, see Revd Montague Summers' seminal Victorian works The Vampire, His Kith and Kin and The History of Witchcraft. The Curse of the Werewolf isn't just an allegorical way of saying rabies bite infection.




He's a citizen of the world. I reckon he's probably got half a dozen passports.







It would be a very different musical.







Oh, I always play fair. It makes destroying one's enemies much more satisfying.










Ah, so I did. Well done, me.







Because one bullet could save the world?







Most of it is listed in the Who's Who.







Noted.







For some reason it;s not archived on my site, but I remember using a photoshopped cutout version of it in some of the 10th Caphan accompanying arc.

It is just possible it came from Dancer, who I think also produced this:


Meanwhile I came across this forgotten (by me) Vizh charactern(by Vizh), Garrick's future-daughter:


And just to remind me of happy days when Shep was photoshopping garments onto nude models (while steadfastly refusing to pose again herself), here's another long-overlooked minor PVB character:








Not today.







I don't remember. It may have had Anna and some cat girls in it too. And Hat-Man to boss around. Unfortunately it came out at the exact time my attention was most diverted elsewhere and no PVB stuff was really getting through my screens. I remember worrying that the remaining poster community might not go along with the changes and that Jason would be hurt.




I assume they're off at college somewhere (maybe even at college off-planet) during the current UT arc.




Yes, I hate that. It's like there's a horrible retconning force leaking into our reality, slowly conmsuming it.







There's a case to be made that there's no magic in the story; in fact that's one of the debates that might offer means and motive. On the other hand, there's an evil magician and a guy named Abraham who has weird blasphemous ideas about there only being one God. Both are suspects.

It also includes possibly my favourite opening sentence:

'Nimrod the Hunter turned round and kicked his high priest into the fire pit.'







Final proof copies are usually sent as a pdf, requiring sticky notes to be added where changes are to be made. To track changes requires converting the text back to word and ignoring all the end-line markets etc. that Adobe adds in. Even then it's not perfect. It is especially hard to check footnotes. When I got to 300 amendments and was 40% of the way through the book I told the publisher to get it redone or I was pulling it.

Even that wasn't as annoying as the time I was asked to write the first story in a planned superhero team series that revived and updated some obscure Golden Age )out of copyright) characters. I agreed to a 10,000 word story, and then the guy sent me his "bible" and plot notes for what he wanted in the story, which weighed in at 6,000 words. I pointed out that there was no way that could translate into a story that short, so we agreed on a 30,000 word novella (half a book).

So I did the novella to the approved template but got it sent back for rewrites four times, each requiring major changes. The editor was getting frustrated because I wouldn't "stick to his suggestions". I was getting frustrated because his suggestions didn't work in the story. After about three weeks he went quiet, and then a couple of months after that he admitted that he wasn't going to publish that series after all. I have never wasted so much time writing anything that will never see the light of day for no pay.




Splendid. Proceed.