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HH couldn't resist. He is horrible.

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Al B. Harper

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Subj: Postcode or convict number?
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 at 03:43:59 pm EST (Viewed 4 times)
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 at 05:15:18 am EST (Viewed 485 times)



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    Took ages to find the story wherein Amazon Isle got moved to block an access to the Parodyverse.



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    That happened? Well, let's hope the footnoting search was worth it!


That was yet another obsessively-tidy-away-absent-poster-characters bits, providing the reason we don't see Troia and Amazon Isle any more. At the time it was a bit more relevant since Mandi had left the board but a poster with whom she had had a brief online relationship was still around and a bit raw about it.

In-contiunity, the reason the scene was so hard to track was that it was only referenced in passing as part of the Parody War series, where the Hooded Hood emerges from his Portal all scorched and beaten up. He's in a foul mood because he's had to efectively seperate his daughter from the Parodyverse for all time in order to block another Parody Master invasion route. The main thrust of the scene was actually the subsequent truth-telling conversation witb Jury, former Shaper of Worlds.



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    Or it could just be *see the space between Al B. Harper #1 and Al B. Harper #2*


I thought we already covered that one?


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      Yes, [Tanner's] 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.



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    He seems to have done okay by it these last two thousand years or so without it.


I imagine he's had good times and bad ones. We might even hear of some at some point.


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      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.



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    Thank you, I shall. I can see some of his works are available online. What a thoughtful Reverend to write all this down for future pagans to study.


He was one of the most Jesuit Jesuits of all time, so Jesuit that even other Jesuits thought he was a weird cove. He was extremely erudite but physically incapable of offering citations, which make his books extremely hard to fact-check. He was also a practicing exorcist and vampire hunter. Fascinating fellow, but intensly scary; I always oucture him as Roger Delgado.


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    "Baby look at me, I'll take a bite for free.
    You ain't seen the beast in me yet.
    Give me time, I'll viciously kill the rest.
    I've got a wolf in me, it yearns to be set free.
    You don't want moonlight touching my hand.
    Don't you know who I am?
    Tanner is my name!"


It's better than Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark


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      Most of [the De Soth Family] is listed in the Who's Who.



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    Yeah, except for that guy in the Haggatha/Tanner story you just linked me to.


I suspect I may jave tossed one or two other De Soths in here and there too, but who knows now?


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    Do I need to post the picture again?


It's entirely at your discretion.


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    Really? I've never seen it, or was it the one in the banner you have here?





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    Yeah, Dancer. Perhaps I should do a Dancer appreciation thread.


I doubt anyone would stop you.


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    I note [Xanadelle] does not have a Who's Who entry.


That's because she appears in the more specialised Who's Who in the Technoverse list.


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    I assume [Kara and Cody are] off at college somewhere (maybe even at college off-planet) during the current UT arc.



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    Makes sense. Kara is probably hanging with her mother for a bit. Not Cody though, he's a good kid.


There are all kinds of opportunities for these kids.

For example, Cody may have dropped out of college (again) to front a band for Mircandalee's Intergalactic Burlesque Show for a season. Travelling the galaxy would certainly give his special talent a workout and there are lots of cute aliens out there who think Earth-guys are edgy and dangerous after the Parody War.



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    I do enjoy your magic without magic. Though one day I'd like to see you go the full magic. That Abraham sounds like a trouble maker, no good will come from his ramblings, mark my words.


He was known as "the gods-breaker". In Hebrew with his father was a famous maker of images of the gods. Abram (as he was then) quarrelled with him becuase of this.

His father got the job of making a dozen new graven images for a great temple. While they remained in his shop, local people brought offerings of food and drink each day to lay at the gods feet. But one morning all the offerings were strewn about as if there had been a food fight and eleven of the twelve statues were shattered.

Abram was accused. His defence was that clearly the gods had fallen out over their gifts and had broken each other in the fight that followed. His father argued that the gods were just wood and metal and could not do that. Abram pointed out that he had just won the argument.

The non-Biblical adventures of Abraham are really quite fun.



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      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.



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    I hope he/she apologised!


Yes. We had a good Skype conversation (as near to face-to-face as one can get trans-Atlantic) and sorted it out.


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      Even that wasn't as annoying as the time I was asked to write the first story in a planned superhero team series...



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    That's so bad! So so bad. Karma is due to get that guy.


I may one day "leak" the story to the PVB, since its the only place it could even semi-legitimately appear for review.


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    I have also decided it's time for me to look for a new job.


A life of globetrotting glamour is palling now? What next? Bunyip-taming?


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    Lack of support or clarity, not to mention unfocused management making poor decisions with no consultation or communication, and ones that waste people's time, but then get reversed anyway, so it was all for naught, will have that effect on people. I'm not alone.


Yes, those things can be very frustrating. When you start to feel that way it is probably time to test other waters.