Less is not the same as none.







It's an ongoing preference. retruning to the PV for a while required me to think things out a bit more consciously.







Well, I do enjoy PV stories but they have such a very small currency now, no more than three or four people really, so I don't feel I can indulge myself much. If we still had a thriving, active, populated community I'd certainly be there. They are also quite easy to write, so I don't really have to challenge myself to improve or innovate.




That bit is just a matter of channeling my inner Mumphrey. Or inner Hooded Hood.







"Premium Delivery To The Centre of the Earth" does in fact include a character who somewhat matches that description. It is possible she may encounter our hapless hero.







The current on-Earth Caphan line-up is somewhat more diverse than the previous nione pleasure slaves. If I ever got round to using some of them in a story then the dynamic might be different.

Mostly I need to establish how Vespiir and MLF function as part of the Juniors.







It was either a chat or a reply thread, I forget which.

In terms of their main plot, though, they became a much more protracted and complicated version of Valeria of Carfax, who was previously ceded to a Legionnaire as a slave and ended up retrning home in triumph. I felt in retrospect with Val that I could have played out the themes better and more coherently. I'm not sure I succeeded with the Caphans either, but it wasn't for want of trying.

In terms of translating Caphans to my novels, I'm cautious for another reason too. As you'll recall from our conversations via e-mail I go to some lengths to make sure that I strain out other posters' IP except where they have granted explicit and specific permission. Some of the Caphans' key development came in Vizh stories and perhaps one DBS story, and their interactions with Visionary certainly defined their PV versions. I'm not sure if they work as well seperated from those incidents.

I would surely love to check that my now-rather-ancient consent from Shep to use Dancer in stories was still current, though. She'd make an interesting lead character or a foil for Vinnie - and she'd bring Kerry and FA along too.