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Subj: Maybe a pancake.
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 11:27:45 am EDT
Reply Subj: Not one omelette?
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 11:52:16 pm EDT


> > > I suppose we also have to assume that Danny can swim, otherwise that was a whole lot of trouble 'rescuing' him for naught.
> > If it's any help, as soon as the tide turns there'll be a lighthouse for him to swim to.
> A lighthouse with no island? Should I have bought flood insurance?

Well, it perhaps has a bit of Willingham rock with it.

You have fire insurance, right?

> > Now I'm really looking forward to the tie-in.
> I probably won't be able to write anything this weekend, with family visiting, but I'd like to join in again when I can.

I think now #9's out we can slow down a bit to let people tell the stories they want to tell.

> > I spend a lot of time trying to balance various things in my Parodyverse writing. Whimsy versus drama is one of them. Making sure various characters get due respect is another.

> You probably shouldn't spend too much time worrying about it, as it's very easy to accept just about any action in the Parodyverse. I'm not really put out in any way by the Beth plot... I can agree with the logic (with both Beth and Haggie involved, the team was certainly qualified), and have no problem with things that need to happen for story reasons.

If it's any help, the LL have been sandbagged by security issues in their own home far less than the Avengers, the X-Men, the Justice League, and especially the FF.

> For instance, I would imagine that Glory would be able to track beyond the smell of chocolate, but I accept it readily enough because it was necessary for her not to be able to do so, and going for another option of stopping her would have been mean. (I believe in Terry Pratchett's "The Truth", the main character thwarts a werewolf member of the city guard that was ordered to follow him by smashing a bottle of aniseed in her face, frying her senses and leaving her ill.)

Maybe chocolate works on Glory like kryptonite?

> As for making the mystery anticlimactic, you did blow up the mansion in a nuclear explosion multiple times, and then made it zap out of there entirely. It's hard to argue that you didn't jazz it up some.

At some point around #5 I decided I'd just better stop fretting and go for it.

> > I'm impressed you worked out as much as you did.
> Many are impressed that I tie my shoes without help, so there's something to be said for keeping people's expectations low.

Aren't those slip-ons?

> > > And Dancer is back in town! Or, at least, she was. Wonder where she and Liu Xi were spirited off to. But Mumphrey and Sam are back as well! Um... okay, same deal, though possibly not disappeared to the same place.
> > I decided to see what happened when we cleared the Earth of all the usual "go to" people who cope with metahuman problems.
> So we won't be turning to much-absent characters like spiffy to take over?

If and when Mark posts a tie-in we'll assume the quarantine imposed on Badripoor is over.

> > > In any event, if we've all disappeared to Hatty's land where the women wear furry bikini's, then things are looking up! Until we learn how it's all going to kill us, certainly.
> > You think just the women wear furry bikinis?
> I've done my time in a furry loincloth.

Now there's a chat up line.

> > I'm suffering from cascading guilt about hijacking the fun round robin you and Dancer started.

> Stop giving me credit for this! I was more or less ordered to continue it.

"I was only following orders" didn't help at Nurenburg.

> And I think you can be absolved of any lingering guilt in where you took the story... It certainly livened up the board and produced a lot of tie ins, and what more should a round robin do?

I suppose so. Let's see if people are keen to continue it in its new phase (part two of three).

> I'm curious as to how to handle the Legionless world, since so many of the supporting characters have disappeared along with them. Not that I can't dredge up a few more...

There's always Kerry and Fleabot. And Ms Pfeffercorn, assuming she can think of a new name (see #9).




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