Tales of the Parodyverse - You'll scare Adam away with comments like that!

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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 06:20:58 am EST (Viewed 2 times)

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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 04:54:31 am EST (Viewed 4 times)

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We've also got the revelation that The Abyssal Greye is/was Buckland Dean (or was that already known?), former leader of the Improbable College, and forebear of FFF.

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I've known who Greye was for a very long time so I may have dropped hints, but I think this is the first time it's been plainly stated, and indeed shown.

Well it was quite the origin. I'm not sure how many people would willingly allow themselves to be eaten like that.

I do also like that Sarah worked it out. You captured her shock there.

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It was a mistake and has now hopefully been entirely corrected. Hieronymous del Lune would have been quite out of his timeline here.

A timeline would be helpful. But maybe that can be done after.

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Sarah of Dunboggie came through the time-gate-thing with the rest of them, but she wasn't/isn't our Sarah is she?

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This is the same serving-girl Sarah who appeared in the 1770 story, who still hasn't had her big break but is still a swashbuckling undercover agent for the Improbable College. She's the same Sarah who encounters the Marquis de Herringcarp and Lady Circe D'Aosta over eighty years later on her deathbed and makes a deal that puts her consciousness inside Aunt Sally. She is therefore the same Sarah who just charged the Apostate on the other side of the galaxy.

That's right! UT179 had the scene where she became Sally. And a nice scene it was too.

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Also, what happens to the mind/soul of the former self when one takes over a former self - does it just sit in status somewhere and then snap back once the future self has moved on? These heroes are all still in their past selves bodies aren't they?

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Those travellers sacrificed their corporeal forms, so yes, they are occupying ancestors or historical analogues of themselves. The question of whether these historical versions are different people or just other-lives versions of the same people remains unknown.

Probably not something we want to think about too much really.

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Visionary and Hallie are still to join up again.

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Well, there were 150 years earlier, but that's now moot.

It is?

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Also this got me going back through Parts 14, 15 and 19. And then some of the links in those to other older stories.

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There were several characters mentioned who I assume were (and in some cases have been established as) forebears of current LL members and cast.
I'm wondering if some were just coincidental rather than forebears?
Some of course are reliving the lives of said ancestors now.

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Living the lives of their past ancestors (??) The justiciarâ€™s clerk, Blow-Ye-The-Trumpets-In-Sion Aivry (Visionary), and Black Helen the Greenhag (Hallie).

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We're really into metaphysical speculation here. Hallie is a sentient being who was originally based upon the engrams of a murdered computer genius, Helen MacAllistair (she who it turned out did not cheat with Al B. when he was dating Muffy Framlicker). Yet Hallie is not the electronic ghost of Helen. So is Black Helen the Greenhag an ancestor of Dr MacAllistair's? And if so is she a direct descendant, because if so Black Helen has some spawning to get on with?

I don't know. And again, perhaps best to not think on it too much? But the name "Black Helen the Greenhag" is a pretty cool name, all things considered. (Not quite as cool as Blow-Ye-The-Trumpets-In-Sion of course).

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That same leaving-descendants argument also affects Fredo, Cap'n Biancaneve etc. We can safely assume that Buckland Dean will not now be dating much.

I got the feeling he was a bit older and probably had already got that (and children) out of the way?

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Some of these seem very close to the current protagonists to be just ancestors (The Purveyors for instance)?

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Indeed.

Jarringly close...what are/were they up to!

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There were also references to some others:
"The adventurer de Clement,â€ he wheezed. â€œThe explorer. He returned along the Silk Road from the court of Liu Xia Zhou, the Lord of Fire.â€ Presumably DBS and Liu Xia Xian?

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We have previously established a long lineage for Liu Xi's forebears, albeit they now had an original progenitor who never existed.

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A shapely peasant brunette, Sarah of Dunboggie: That timeline version of our Sarah since she wasn't with them originally?

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I may be reluctant to significantly feature poster-characters of absent posters but I have my workarounds.

Heh, that works.

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a tall glass jar of constantly roiling emerald fumes (Impossibilityium?)[/a]>

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It was CSFB!, so yes.

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All just forebears? There's a whole lot of familiar connections going on...coincidence?

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CSFB! has written great screeds on why CrazySugarFreakHeroes! keep cropping up.

Well, yes his are well documented. It was all the other connections (implied-real-or coincidental) I was thinking about.

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I'm confusing myself now. $\:\)$

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It's good to share.

It helps to work it out.

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My problem right now is climbing ivy. It's on every outbuilding and this week I removed it from the living room windows. It is now trying to invade the cellar via the coial chute.

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Presumably you mean coal chute? I read that as coital chute and had confused thoughts about what occurs in Yorkshire cellars.

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Yes, I mean coal. Get your mind out of the coal chutes.

"I'm just going down the the cellar to get some...coital."

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The Visionatus chapter, which has to bear an excruciating amount of expositon, will be very hard to assemble.

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And footnote I imagine.

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I got one and a half scenes in before the dreaded dealine doom took me.

Aww, sorry to hear. Hope you get over it.

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Now to get everyone into a single room to reveal whodunnit.

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You're almost there.

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Not even close. There are cast who haven't even showed up yet.

Yikes! You really are going to try to fit EVERYONE in.

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All of those meet some criteria. Also Champagne and Gurl.

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I must have missed those names in Chapter titles.

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Champage's name appeared in every chapter of her own series. Gurl had headlined long ago too. And did we mention Pegasus?

Well, if we're being that broad we may as well add Crazy Penguin Lady in there too.

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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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Noted.

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I have my guess.

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Splendid.

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And whilst you are wrecking your brain, do not forget:

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"the yellow-coated corpse" = Visionary.
"a raven-feather quill" umm, Chronicler?
"a matted clump of purple rabbit fur" Yo!
"a rusted Antikythera-like mechanism" Al B. or Yuki, or Hallie.
"a dusty ball the size of a small fist" ?
"a dried leaf rotted to brown flinders" who is our nature character again?
"a stoppered stone bottle with crusted white mould around the cork." ... Sorceress?

As if I could forget the da Visionary Code! I'm now more thinking the various items are indeed the side-kicks. ie: Quoth, Rabbito, probably Fleabot. I figured the ball was CSFB! but now as a sidekick I'm not so sure. leaf is spiffy's fern? bottle still has me stumped.

Has Rhiannon worked it out yet?