It took Rhiannon and I an hour and a half this afternoon just to find references for all the damn in-story links.







Tragedy leads to growth. Or dressing up as a bat.




Alien abduction lost time?







Like Larry Talbot from the old black and white movies, he is more or less immortal with certain big exceptions.




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 Míled an Espáin.

But I might come up with something better later.




He was once a candidate for fame.




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.




Have fun working out the Parodyverse analogues.




It's just in my head, unfortunately.




Nope, we've seen the Cailleach before, starting with UT #187: The Stains of Evil. In that they tend to call her Callie.




Glad you liked it.




I doubt it.







Good guess, but no. However, she does make a brief contribution to UT#354. Because why not?




I'm pretty sure he did that 3D Poser Shoggoth.




How organised.







Nope. Strike two.







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.




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.




The time may come if I ever write enough PV stuff. In the meantime there's still The End of the Future.

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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.

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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!

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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'.

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Yikes!

I once had to spend five days going through a manuscript correcting the corrections.

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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.

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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.