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Al B. Harper

Member Since: Mon Jan 04, 2016
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Subj: Further payments depend upon interest rates
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 at 03:12:36 pm EST (Viewed 1 times)
Reply Subj: There's always the spare change to worry about.
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 at 05:52:51 am EST (Viewed 883 times)



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    Great settling! I do feel like I need to sit, absorb, and perhaps re-read before replying, but I'll press on anyway.


First impressions and considered opinions are both valuable feedback.


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    Some great character bits, Ham-Boy has really come into how own and grown as a Legionnaire hasn't he?


The team really needs a young idealist.


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    Goldeneyed's reaction was well portrayed, as was his anger and none-to-subtle threat to Vinnie.


G-Eyed's very much a spontaneous physical-response guy. Vinnie's a planner think-it-out fellow. They're never going to mesh.


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    Can we drag Bry from his real-life domestic bliss to come here and give us more on G'eyed's take on this? (For that matter, let's drag Hatty here as well - because why not?).


I e-mailed round as many folks as I still had addresses for when I first posted this arc. Hatman didn't respond and I think G-Eyed's message was one of those that bounced. But by all means, go prod them.


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    On to the other bits: Did insane Ioldobaoth really eat the flesh and drink the blood from Amnesia's corpse in order to gain the strength he needed to escape? Because that's all sorts of nasty and makes me look at the Hood in a totally different light.


As far as we know he only used her corpse as a toolkit. So that's alright.


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    Well, all that aside the Herrigcarp Gothic story was a very good insight into both what had happened to Amnesia, but more importantly, a very good insight into the Hood himself. A brutal origin years in the making.


Herringcarp Gothic might possibly make it as a novel one day. Apart from Wangmundo, there are no other people's cast in it at all.


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    The way I see it there are two ways you can read his farewell to Amnesia:



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      Already the Hood knew the limits of his power. “I may not redeem you,” he told the spirit of Herringcarp. “Too much would unravel. Too much would be lost.”



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    I'm not certain which way is the correct way, or maybe I am certain, and I just don't want to accept it.


With archvillains it is always best to leave little something up to reader interpretation.


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    So, Beth/Laurie are both somewhat better off than before. Presumably that's a win of sorts. Time will tell. The Don/Beth hug at the end was a nice touch.


In my original brief epilogue, the Beth-Graham reunion was the first addtion after the Tomb and Asylum scenes.


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    Vicki Vee was an entertaining problem but did I mention how much lawyers annoy me? I'm so glad Hatman Rumpoled that guy. So. Glad.


If I'd still been regularly posting weekly UTs then there would probably have been a courtroom-based issue to resolve all this.


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    ManMan was enjoyable and handled the Baroness well, though there is still the mystery Knifey was told not to talk about to yet be talked about. I do want to see a ManMan, STL and Pudu-Boy team up one day now.


Explaining how Knifey got back seemed like one mystery too many for what was already an absurdly long issue.


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    Speaking of mysteries, we never did find out what the weird whispering and writing in the file room was all about. Are you sure this is a conclusion?


That was a sub-plot seeded in consultation with another poster for another time, and the opening act of the Da Visionary Code and the no-time-travel peiod that Kyzo mentioned.


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    It was enjoyable to see our friends on the moon. The reference to D.D.'s emotions being behind the delay in cleaning out the Librarian's stuff was very perceptive of Vinnie.


It took me four years to clear out my mother's house after she died, and nine months after finishing it I still have a pile of unstored boxes blocking my hall.


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    Lots of hyperlinks here Ian. Thank you (and Rhiannon) for providing them. You may want to check one of the links in this paragraph and edit in the missing HTML:


I told you that link was difficult.


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    Corposant Fire. it all comes back to Corposant Fire. Return Moonraker to Life!


Dr Moo has previously posited in Saving the Future that the plane of Corposant Fire is also the origin-point of things like generated meat products, FA's generated clothing, size-changing particle matter, and all the other weird stuff that metahumans can pull from seemingly nowhere.


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    Can anyone please give me a reminder of what the six fragments of the Insanity Stones were again? (Yeah, yeah, I know we just read through it last issue).


I don;t readily recall, but I know some of them were "offscreen". They don't appear to have had any special power-giving properties, which may be why the avoided the Parody Master's Forge.


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    The obscure references (return of obscure villain the savage Jumbuck (who I really enjoyed by the by) as but one small example) is a reflection of just how deep and rich the lore of the Parodyverse is. It's really epic what has been written here over the years, isn't it?


We may have almost as many characters as a real comic book universe.


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    I do feel compelled to point out that a jumbuck is a sheep, not a rabbit - are we certain he doesn't just have a bad tailor?


DBS wrote him in a rabbit costume, so who am I to change that? Perhaps nobody wants to tell him?


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    So what did the Hood exchange with Camellia le Fey? It was bodily fluids, wasn't it?


Nope, because 1. The Hood dated the Faerie Queene, and he wouldn't cheat with her rivall 2. Camellia's not looking her best since her encounter with Magweed, and the rotting flesh, exposed bone, and burrowing maggots can be a turn-off, and 3. Camellia, even with her glamour, is shallow and vain and really not that interesting after an Amazon Queen, two Shapers of Worlds, an amorous advocatrix, a Shee-Yar warrior, and Dancer.


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    Alright, I can put it off no longer. Kyza...



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    Son of Harper is a Kylo Ren wannabe. Oh joy. Son, I am disappoint. At least he's not into Ponies, I suppose that's something.


Not that you're judging.


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    Good thing that you-know-what is about to occur and time travel will become impossible!


I suspect that if the Da Visionary Code storyline did happen, Kyza and his siblings would be amongst those deeply involved in it.


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    Yeah, fun to romp though this world again, I'm, as usual, in awe of your ability to weave and plot all these things together. It leaves me wanting more.


It was a fun return. I had to figure out what things I'd want to concentrate into Just One More Parodyverse story, since this might be my last chance, and get some resolutions and pay-offs on record.


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    Well done, and bravo!


Thank you for your feedback. Much appreciated. Don't be a stranger.






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