@avatara_bot, on 09 December 2013 - 12:32 AM, said in Random Story Trivia:

It was one of those "pick a random cool-sounding title first and explain it later" things.

Hey, it always worked on Star Trek.

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 26 December 2013 - 09:31 PM, said in Random Story Trivia:

Bryce wasn't very involved in the story. The impression I got was that Chey tried to rope him into it without explaining how long & complicated the series was going to be ; __)

I don't think I knew how long and complicated it was going to be.

@avatara_bot, on 07 December 2013 - 01:06 AM, said in Random Story Trivia:

2. Something to do with the temple on either the second or sixth world, I forget. I believe they were the race that set up interworld travel but this story was so long ago I'm probably wrong. :p/>

Yeah, I had a vague recollection it was something to do with the inter world travel gates, or whatever they were using.

Whatever continuity problems might exist here are nothing compared to Aeon Flux. Aeon died in every episode. I can only recall one that made any attempt to explain how she could still be alive to continue the fight next time around (basically, she got cloned, gave up the war, so the cloned killed her and took her place - but that was totally self contained in that episode, and had no bearing on every other time she died.)

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 03 December 2013 - 11:17 AM, said in Favorite NPCs?:

I don't remember you using Timon to introduce the Ronin?

It was in a couple of chronicles, mostly. The first one was supposed to be a translation, by Timon, of an old document that recorded the Ronin's first appearance in the time before the elementals went to war, and in the second, he was the one that found Wolmark wandering around near the ruins of Maayti just after he re-emerged into 'current' time. I also included him in the prologue of 'For the Fun of the Game'.

Since I'm necroing the topic, back to computer names. I used to use ship names from Babylon 5, but I ran out, so there's some Star Trek and Star Wars names in there now too. The three machines I currently use at home are named Hyperion, Excelsior, Executor, Prometheus and Icarus (two of them dual boot.) My iPads are called Traveller, Nomad and Sojourner, and my iPods are called Serenade and Aria. My AppleTV is called Galileo, but that was more of a 'viewing at a distance' meme.

Timon always stuck in my mind, so he clearly made an impression. That's probably why I used him so heavily in introducing the Ronin. Then there was that whole thing with his sister disappearing, which held such promise for the sequel.

@breadworldmercy453_bot, on 25 November 2013 - 09:32 AM, said in Canon Fodder:

Chey- You didn't technically participate in LKH, you were in the immediate sequel "A New Story" which you revived after it had been abandoned for several months. It actually ended after Thieves' Cavern did, though it was started considerably before. I assumed LKH/ANS took place before Thieves Cavern, but like I mentioned above, I didn't realize so many stories were written out of order (had no idea Omen's Return followed Bane, for example).

Yeah, I wasn't sure about that one. I'm fairly certain I took part in two TSs before I started 'Requiem', though. The revival of 'ANS' was later still, I think, after someone took us to Lands' End volcano in another story and DF sicced a cave troll on me.

(edit)Of course, I might be thinking of the Undead War in the Tavern as my first TS, since it pretty much followed the TS format at the time.(/edit)

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@avatara_bot, on 24 November 2013 - 09:01 PM, said in Canon Fodder:

I don't know what to do about the rest though. There are some character defining moments sprinkled throughout them for some people, but also a lot of random OoC chaos, so it's hard to take the tavern literally. Perhaps those defining events occurred, and the rest was a bunch of drunken storytelling?

That's pretty much how I think of it. It was fairly structured at the time I started posting, but that was something of an anomaly.

@avatara_bot, on 24 November 2013 - 09:01 PM, said in Canon Fodder:

I haven't been able to finish reading through all the stories and attached chronicles yet. Do you remember when Requiem took place (relative to the stories)?

I think it was after either 'Search for the Thieves' Cavern' or LKH, whichever came last - I'm pretty sure those were the first two TSs I took part in. 'Requiem' was my third, and also the first I started.

@avatara_bot, on 24 November 2013 - 09:01 PM, said in Canon Fodder:

I'm not familiar with Omen's Return (or if I was, I'm admittedly not anymore), but I do think there was some of that unstableness shown in Bell Tolls. Maybe not to the same level, I'll have to back and look.

'OR' followed 'Bane', I think. I'd forgotten if Bri was even in 'Bell Tolls', I'll have to go take a look myself. I do recall an incident in Pnyx, which might be what you're referring to. I don't remember which story that was in, so it could have been 'Bell'.

My characters have always remained consistent, or grown organically, in any story they've been involved in, so I'd consider any of those stories to be part of their own personal canon - which doesn't preclude someone else opting their characters out.

I'd include 'Requiem' in the list mainly as the introduction for Sideline, but change the bit where DesertFox turned him into a master swordsman. I only wanted him to be average in that respect, as his strengths are more focused in other directions. I think that was also the first story with the Shadows, which I consider to have good potential as a foe (I have very fond memories of that health-potion-explosion scene, which was a critical moment in the evolution of my understanding of what Sideline's character should be ^_^ ).

I'd also include certain parts of the Tavern, for much the same reasons - intros for the Ronin, Brianna and the Scribe; even the weirdness with Mort's drinks has its place in my master plan.

'Omen's Return' I could take or leave - it did show the beginning of Brianna's phobia of the Undine, but I have no plans to take that further. The only aspect I'd like to keep as canon is the part that shows how unstable, dangerous and debilitating her panther transformation can be.

@ikaterei_bot, on 16 November 2013 - 06:52 PM, said in Chron Challenge:

There's no length limit!

I always thought of those as more guidelines than rules, anyway (I blew the last challenge I did by a factor of 11 :rolleyes: )

There needs to be a pirate smiley.

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