The lastest installment in the STL SR1066 stoty arc is fabes doing script work, or tie-in comics? I may be semi-vanished for the next half hour, don't mind me. So you did. I'll read it After this, if that's alright. He's not wrong! Another STL. i will read it after chat, bri :) Sure. I just thought I'd inform people. It's a short issue. But very topcial Well, the board has been quiet of late, so any contributions are welcome. Will probably read it on Tuesday. every time i think "this will just be a short story" ... well, it's not i have trouble limiting myself Me, too. I have no set limit for my stories. so many pop culture sources to reference They are the length they'll be. I'm the original short-story challeneged writer. I thought this UT arc wouuld be 6-8 chapters long *** Dancer (~Applet@1B54B49AB8C81.chatzone.de) has joined. Dancer! a lot of my tie-ins average about 800-1,200 words, on their own Hi guys! :-) hi sarah! Hello! Good evening, Sarah. read all our stories! ;) I am 100% up to date on the stories, just not on the relyiong but the last two stories i've written are about 2,500 words Good good stuff :-) Have you read the story i just posted? are you worried about our characters' fates? ;) So you escaped from Mr Perfect then? Tell you later :-P Oh dear God, it's her. *hides* No, I haven;t seen the new L! story. Hold on.... bill has become the neo-finny? *holds on* *points at Nats* Ha-ha! Neo-banjoooooo I might be the neofinny. Messenger dared me to write a PV story. Neo-Oen! It may end up taking all summer, at this rate. Mmm. Delicious, Brian. I'll read that tomorrow it's amazing how shocked the japanese are by godzilla attacks in their movies Ok. Your stuff is getting so good Brian Thanks. Bill, you should write a weekly PV story Read the story now. Alas, on top of the cider I didn't take it in so I will have to reread it on tuesday anyway... If I wrote a weekly anything, I'd die. And your point would be? Ian, I need to talk to you about a plot point they've been getting attacked by godzilla every year since the end of WWII. even FEMA wouldn't be that slow to develop a response ... I'm plotting comics at all times. I've got to do a few good columns for Comics Should Be Good. "Hai! It is Godzilla season again!" And I've got to do this PV story. Which could be my last ever. And it might suck. License it to Dyson, then. Isn't that true of every story any of us write? Not necessarily. I'm still trying to figure out what I want to say with it. So I don't have, like, a plot. Or characters. Yet. Say: Nats is back. Yay!!! so, you have more than any rob liefeld or chuck austen story ever written Well, I must go again. Mr P is waiting :-) Just called in to say Hi because the Lord and master summonsed me. "oh noes! my father is the devil, who can never come to earth, but he's trying to escape, by coming to earth and impregnating earth women ..." can you spot the plot hole? I suggested you might want to join us, that;s all, Guys, sorry, but I really can't stay awake any more. Catch you later. Bye Dancer. don't go, sarah :( or chris Bye Chris!!! Sweet dreams sleep sux Or... Shoggothy ones anyhow Thanks. *** Manga_shoggoth has left.( Need a chat for your website? www.chatzone.de ) And Kirk, I have to go. I'm kind of on a date right now:-) :P With Mr Perfect, apparently okay Bye guys. Have fun! I intend to :-) Bye Sarah & Chris! Don't do anything that Kirk wouldn't do. ewww IS there anything...? Bye folks :-) *** Dancer has left.( Need a chat for your website? www.chatzone.de ) Well that was brief. yes it was. :( so, what do we want to talk about? * CSFB multitasks with his godzilla marathon Pot pies. I guess we're not as distracting as Mr P. ok. Well, that Mr. Papadoapopolous is demanding. here's a crazy thought ... we've never done it before, but how about we talk about porn? ;) No. Different Mr P. Honestly. heh my birthday is this sunday This one's not as good a match for Shep as mr papadapopolis would be, and Mr papadapopolis has a wife and six kids. Then again, Kirk, have you heard about Alan Moore's Lost Girls? i have if i had the budget, i'd get one of those ultra-spiff editions Alan Moore's doing scratch and sniff comics noa? now? limited edition hardcover like a hundred or more bucks Happy Birthday, Kirk! I'd do that too if people would buy them. And yes, happy birthday i'll be interested to see the american press reactions to alice, dorothy and wendy having teh sex *** AnimeJason (~Applet@C815A894A3D5D.chatzone.de) has joined. Good evening. hi It's an all star line up tonight. Hello. My dinner will be ready soon but I'm here till then. Plus Vizh, when he gets back. *** GangLand has left. Hi, Jason! And the aftermath of a tornado we don't have tonradoes in Seattle just rain. and meth houses So, do people mind if I ask a little bit about the Parodyverse? what would you like to know? ;) I don't mind. But I don't know if I'll have answers either. Only I need to kind of get my head back in the game for doing some writing about it I'm roughtly one-third of the way through the final part of the 1066 story, which wasn't an ideal time to stop for two weeks. Ask away! Okay. So for starters, do we still go for a big Parody War sequel, or don;t we have the strength of numbers of oomph for that? or oomph, that is i think we might benefit from an intermission I'd always planned a week or two's gap. How long were you thinking? not from stories, but from the saga I wouldn't mind a intermission for an issue of two. Donar suggested a theme week, with a round robin if anyone wanted to show their characters taking a breather ... *** Vizh_will_return is now known as Vizh Welcome back, Mr Diller. Hello again hihi I'd planned for there to be a week in-continuity between the two arcs. I could find ways of making it longer. I have a suggestion: The war with the Parody Master first, but then after that 1066 will still be around and the war caused even more distrust of heroes Why? Why the set-up, I mean. kind of reverses the ever-escalating threat levels, tho, doesn't it? Because the war with the Parody Master will unite the LL. The aftermath will force them to make choices. the 1066 stuff should conclude, after which the parody war can hang over their heads By that I mean there might be a few LL'ers who decided that after the battle and 1066, they've had enough. i don't like having the 1066 stuff hang around after the parody war Either during or after the Parody War megaplot I'm planning on doing a UT arc called the Da Visionary Code or even before it Now that I've dropped that on you, dinner's ready. brb. :) *** AnimeJason is now known as AnimeJason_is_eating will your story also be shamelessly stolen from other, better books, like dan brown's was? ;) I hope so. I expect to address the Visionatus Improbablus stuff, and do a bit of time travel too Shamelessly stolen from? the da vinci code itself does not count (once again, "better" being the disqualifier) It's a Parodyverse. it;s got to parody stuff. Hrmm. I did the whole Improbable College thing to parody Umberto Eco's "Foucaults' Pendulum" and so on. i guess my problem with da vinci code is the fact that it was basically The Firm, except with a bunch of conspiracy theories i'd already heard of at least a dozen years ago Foucault's Pendulum is Da Vinci Code for grown-ups, by the way. No, the Da Vinci Code was basically Holy Blood Holy Grail with a little thriller plot tacked on. Said thriller plot is the same in EVERY DAN BROWN BOOK EVER. I want to be Dan Brown. Write the same book several times and become famously wealthy. I'm afraid I haven't actually seen or read the Da Vinci Code, so I can;t really comment. again, that thriller plot comes directly from john grisham, who in turn stole it from joe esterhas, and so on ... I have no opinon "hi, i'm john grisham. my next novel is about a sheepdog who witnesses something he shouldn't have, and gets out of it 'his way'" Anyhow, I want to cover the history of the Improbables, and tie up a few plot points "that'll be four million dollars, please" I want to explain the HV's I want to touch on the Sect of Buto you know more about the improblars than we do, don't you? :) Do the HVs need explaining? I want to explain why Visionary has a tomb under the Lair Mansion They're the Parodyverse's immune system. He does? Visionary is actually a Fairly Old One. Like Illyria. But kinda lame. I have some notes from a very ol;d conversation with Neil about what the HVs are about. Well, okay. what time frame of history are we talking about? renaissance? I want to write Sersi again. 1702, I think. You certainly have a CrazySugarHero! who fits that period hm. location is europe, or america? And there's undoubtedly a Bookman about too. I started an Improbable College story once. It had Leviticus Reed, Nats' vampire ancestor. Ahh. Yeah, I never did anything with that. There might be. I like Leviticus reed. We need more of him! But, the bookman history is to confusing to think about. i might have to create a character. there's a gap in my line about then It's Europe to start with, but at some point we need to get the cast to parody island. And of course, that's around the time the horrible Billbeard was roaming the seas. Or not, I just made that up. We even have the Marquis of Herringcarp to contend with. I like Billbeard too, but we really need Leviticus Reed. Anyhow, we're getting a bit away from whether to go for a Parody War. That was, of course, just a snippet to introduce Leviticus so I could have him show up in a present day story somewhere. Well, he could meet Grace O Mercy Sometime I need to figure out the Bookman family history. Indeed. There's to many Bookman's wondering around unacounted for. Shrike? Vizh? Hello? I'm here. I'm just operating on 3 hours of sleep from last night, so not terribly alert. A good date, then. If only. i already set my swashbuckler/pirate hero in the 1650s, so ... hm. did you go out with a Booth Babe? Not recently. Maybe you need a female hero who's a famous courtesan? KookyKarmaFrankensteinLad! Did you see "The Girl in the Fireplace" yet? I'm not suggesting Vizh needs a famous courtesan, by the way. oh, tonight's episode? not yet Not that we'd judge. *hangs up phone* how rude! No, "Fireplace" is the new series 2 episode 4, featuring the infamous Madame de Pompadour, uncrowned queen of France you didn't even say goodbye. That was a great episode. i've only seen some spoiler text for season 2. i'm trying not to watch those episodes yet And as close to Sherlock Holmes' Irene Adler as the Dr Who series will ever get. ANYHOW... Parody War? On or off? Makes a difference to how the next Untold Tales ends maybe delayed The Parody War isn't the Resolution War, is it? How long? I like the idea of at least a short break between them. not too long of a break, yes The Parody Master intends it to be the Resolution War. It really depends if he wins. A break for the posters or in-continuity? Damn caffiene-less root beer... in-continuity break More than a week? there should still be stories I don't think my chraracter could take a war. characters In what ways? STL & crew are the best fighters. I'd expect the actual war to be protracted, perhas six or nine-months in-continuity World Without A Lair Legion? HB isn't the best fighter either. And to have effects on society, not just on the heroes fighting it Lee is busy. That leave Chad & Ronnie. No one wants that. :) But the point is, it;s a major writing commitment for me, and I don't want to start it then not get to the end I have some instory plans that I'm not sure could happen if a war happened. But likewise I don;t want to exhaust the board hmm quite a sticky wicket we got here. i'm not sure me,either. It does sound big and daunting. I'm literally exhausted right this moment, so I can't quite say. what do Mike & Vish think? definitely a break, but how long will depend a lot on you yeah. Well, plotwise - and trying to avoid spoilers - I think the shape goes like this... Well, *I* think you should write what you want and everyone else can write what *they* want and death to all this continuity stuff. Phase 1 - the first wave. A mega-fight as the invasion begins. All out action in the peerless Parodyverse oatter, patter *** Bubblez (~Applet@E46D8769489B5A.chatzone.de) has joined. hey Phase 2 - the siege. A few weeks, maybe two months, of guarding the barricades Phase 3 - the overseas campaigns - espionage, sabotage, invasion *** Bubblez has left. Phase 4 - Dunkirk. Phase 5 - the last push Hmmm... I woldn't mind see this. maybe a two-week break, especially if donar has a theme week he's going to do? Not sure what a Dunkirk is. In World War II, the allies got pushed back to the beaches of Dunkirk, beaten The troops were trapped there, under fire, dying The oridnary citizens of ENgland took little boats, even rowing boats, over the Channel and evacated a whole army, under fire It was one of the most glorious defeats in military history in american history, dunkirk tends to get overlooked in favor of d-day This sounds like an interesting story. I'd read it! And instead of it being a turning point where Germany won, it preserved the military machine and made another attack possible - D day The point is, after D-Day it really looked like the end. England expected to be invaded within a week. And nobody gave up. I'd like to have a point in the story where everything goes wrong, and the heroes still get to be heroes Sounds like the makings of a good story. Oh, and I want to do the POW camp break out too yes do it! Colditz. who would be klink? Kink? or Wang if you prefer. And I want to give Hatty a Patten moment: "We will return..." I think you mean MaCathur i was gonna say ... Sorry, yes. McArthur Hello Mike. Mike! Howdy We also need Casablanca, Raiders of the lost Arc, Bridge Over the River Kwai... The Dirty Dozen Stripes Hmmm... *thinking of how my characters fit into this* On the homefront we have the Parody Cult as fifth columnists And what happens when some of the supervillains want to sing up to fight for their planet? Does Anvil Man get to join the LL? sing up How good is his voice? sign up. sign up that is] shades of the final episode vof JLU ... I haven't seen that yet. Good? yes. Not really. No, not really. In my opinion, that is. *** AnimeJason_is_eating is now known as AnimeJason back Probably much more satisfying if you're a fan of DC. What did I miss? I'm a fan of DC. I think JLU was a very lackluster show. Ian wants to inact WWII in the PV. (Of course, "I'm a fan of DC" = "I'm a fan of comics and labels are stupid") I'm outlining some of the points I'd like to touch on if I proceeded with the parody War storyline I'd expect to fold in the campaigns in Faerie and the Mythlands I'd cover the behind-the-lines stuff offworld, including Caph Maybe some submarine-type shennanigins with dimensional dreadnaughts I finally thought up a Zebulon story I was all excited to tell, and then work became unbearably busy. The invasion of hell Somebody has to steal an enigma device. Yes, that's a good addition And sort out Nat's love life. And then we have the Hooded Hood as Joe Stalin. But better with the ladies. I intend to tackle Nats' love live very very soon. Within say one issue's time. Huh. 'bout time someone tackled those ladies. Y'know, I really should have gotten around to doing that Nats in hell story. But then I stopped caring about the character. Time for Nats: Sword of Atlantis. I'm not just wanting to use WWII, although I would like to get a feel of those old black and white movies And the old Bill can have a big squidbeard. But mostly I want to know whether it;s going to be worth the major commitment of time and energym or if it'll be counterproductive I don't think so. I think i gave my opinion already, so i probably should head on out I'm excited for this story. I don;t mean to chase you off, Kirk. i need to get to my folks' place before dark Because of curfew. i don't like driving late If you have the energy and will to write it, then write it. It's not good to be traveling on the moors at night. heh. it makes me sleepy If you write it, they will come? and i already have a couple of scars on my forehead from driving sleepy The only questionable part from my point of view is: Will this be tie-in compatible? :) take a break for a week or two, then go ahead I'll try and provide points where people can tie in if they wish But I'll also try not to muddy the whole pool so folks can ignore it if they prefer I've already agreed a big Donar plotline to include if we do it. And I'm in negotiations for the wartime wedding issue too, but no promises. Yeah, as long as you don't put half the characters in prison there shouldn't be any tie-in problems Dancer not ready yet? Dep[ends how tonight;s date goes, I guess. I hear he's perfect. By the way, she dropped in earlier. I paged up and saw. Nice to hear from her. Sarah seems to think so. I think she;d be better with Con Johsntantine What's with this wartime wedding thing? I'm guessing Hatty. *** dmt (~Applet@58829CCDAE66E.chatzone.de) has joined. Well, wartime romances are very passionate. And there's the old trope about the soldier marrying his girl before he goes off to the front. *** dmt has left. Yes, well, I'm off. Good luck with whatever you decide, HH. Yeah, we haven't heard from Zdenka in a while Thanks for your input Night Mike *** killer_shrike has left.( Need a chat for your website? www.chatzone.de ) She's in the next arc. *** Christieee (Applet@161CFDA407CB5.chatzone.de) has joined. *** Christieee has left. and with that, again, i should take off too Goodnight, Kirk. Drive safely. Okay, Night Kirk *** CSFB has left.( Need a chat for your website? www.chatzone.de ) Well, I'm working with the theory there's a tenatative mandate to proceed with the arc after a couple of weeks of break tentative Seems in line with what I saw. What do you mean by "break"? yeah. Other things happening. I think things have kind of ground to a halt... People might be more enthusiastic once everything starts up again. I think we'll try the "Time of Your Life" round robin that we discussed. but there will be stories, right? Hm? what does that intail? The backlash of the Parody island defences causes a temporary time anomaly... Part of the reason I'm trying to stay on top of things is because I think people are sick of me writing extended plots that are out of date. :) For a few hours, everyone comes face to face with their younger self... From say the time the Lair Legion first formed... I don't know that people are sick of anything... They get to talk with their younger self (who won;t remember this when they return to their own time)... Some of the earlier versions might be shocked at what their older selves have become, or suffered... Each part could be funny, or poignant, or adventurous hmmm... I'm not sure if I join. Each writer really only needs to add one scene, with their own characters meeting themselves from seix or seven years back Lee of past stuff Is a little iffy for me. But again, it's entirely voluntary