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Reply Subj: With you throwing me bones like the Tanner/Haggatha story pointer inside I'll be the one making myself comfortable, thanks. Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 at 07:48:44 pm EST (Viewed 701 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: All done now, except for one EEE epilogue scene. Heh.Quote: *insert Al B. afraid remark*It took Rhiannon and I an hour and a half this afternoon just to find references for all the damn in-story links. Quote: Quote: George died facing the Parody Master in UT #301. At his last meeting with Asil at the farewell party the night before, UT #299, she ran away rather than kiss him.Quote: Dang. I'd forgotten that till you reminded me. Poor Asil will be ruing that decision forever.Tragedy leads to growth. Or dressing up as a bat. Quote: *Insert appropriate exclamation - nothing I type seems to convey enough emotion for me* How could I have missed that?!Alien abduction lost time? Quote: 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:Quote: - 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! Like Larry Talbot from the old black and white movies, he is more or less immortal with certain big exceptions. Quote: - Have you determined if he is from a particular or known Iron Age tribe? If he's from the Ordovices or Silures I'd love to see him in a geology lecture. "Really - we're reduced to this?" Or maybe not. 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 MÃled an Espáin. But I might come up with something better later. Quote: - Tanner is a Tanaise! (or was anyway). I had to google that. Also had to google athame. Did I mention I love it when you get deep into this stuff?He was once a candidate for fame. Quote: - There's still a Tanner and the dragon story waiting to be told (or have I missed that one too?).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. Quote: - The Hallows. Sword, Cup, Spear and Stone. Hmmm.....Have fun working out the Parodyverse analogues. Quote: - Oh I see that Visionatus Improbablus reference too. You are a master planner extraordinar. Do you have all this stuff written down on cheat-sheets in your study or is it all in your head?It's just in my head, unfortunately. Quote: - This is the first PV appearance of The Cailleach isn't it? I remember thinking I hadn't seen her before while reading the Vinnie novel Nope, we've seen the Cailleach before, starting with UT #187: The Stains of Evil. In that they tend to call her Callie. Quote: Aside from all of this - it was a great story too. I really enjoyed it. The build up to the threat of both Tempestus De Soth and wolf-Tanner was intense. It's great to see this background to both Tanner and Haggatha which cements aspects to their characters. Thanks Ian for bringing it to my attention and apologies I'd overlooked it the first time around. Glad you liked it. Quote: PS: Is it time for a De Soth family tree? I doubt it. Quote: Quote: Indeed. Who could do such a thing? [break through EEE! defenses]Quote: It's Kinki isn't it? Good guess, but no. However, she does make a brief contribution to UT#354. Because why not? Quote: Visionary has never graced us a Shoggoth picture to my knowledge (and sadness). I'm pretty sure he did that 3D Poser Shoggoth. Quote: And because I no longer want to scroll - let's continue with the other discussions here:How organised. Quote: Quote: It's a good theory. But wrong.Quote: So, not fake Knifey. Kinki then. Definitely Kinki.Nope. Strike two. Quote: Quote: Of course, if we went with Vizh's concept of jumping the PVB forward in real time, then Sam Featherstone is now leading a Lair Legion line-up of Kerry, FA, Gaz, Mags, Griffin, MLA, Glitch, and Trickshot Jr. And Danny is not a member.Quote: I have been following that discussion. I suppose there is merit to considering it, sure. Though, I also see that as "an alternate future" and one of just many possibilities. 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. Quote: Somehow, I can accept that even though the LL's last appearance was just yesterday in 2005, it's now 2015 and not a day later. Like a rubber band has been stretched for those 10 years, and now snapped back into place. People haven't aged, but politics/popular culture/everything else has caught up. Think of it as Parodyverse magic time. Or maybe (likely) there's a villain behind it. In anycase, it works for me. Stories continue and we're not stuck having to reference 2005. 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. 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. Quote: Having said that - if folks want to write stories about Sam Featherstone's team as the current status quo then I can but say - go for it! Who knows where it will lead. The time may come if I ever write enough PV stuff. In the meantime there's still The End of the Future. Quote: Quote: Historicals take more time to write because of the research. Mysteries take more time because they require more intense plotting. Historical mysteries are the worst and damn near kill me.Quote: Historical mysteries are so enjoyable to read though, but please don't die for it. 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! Quote: Quote: At the minimum one hopes for an editor who does not correct mistakes one hasn't made and introduce new grammatical and spelling errors by their 'improvements'.Quote: Yikes! I once had to spend five days going through a manuscript correcting the corrections. Quote: Quote: Then Jason has redone the board architecture so that archive page links no longer map to current page link conventions, so even where those pages are still there they won't work remotely from my site. Quote: I doubt it would be worth the effort. We can still find what we want, and searching is part of the fun. Or we can always chat about it - also enjoyable. 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. | |||||||
