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>11:45 AM (EST)
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>>Harcourt Mudd (related or parents were just fans?) "Mac" Mackenzie is,
>>officially, now my favorite original character in all the Eyrie canon.
>>Just thought I'd mention that.
>
>I've been waiting for someone to say something like that since Hunted
>Rose was first plotted out (which was, if memory serves, while
>Questions of Faith was being written). Thank you, thank you, thank
>you. }:-{D

Well, you're welcome, you're welcome, you're welcome. :)

>Harcourt McKenzie was named by his (now deceased) grandfather after a
>dear friend of the family, the infamous con man Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
>Mac is ashamed of his middle name for two reasons: to most of the
>Federation, Mudd is a notorious con man; and to most of the
>Freespacers, Mudd is a notorious -incompetent- con man. Thankfully
>there is no blood relation, and Mac's father left the smuggling
>business when dear old Granddad was killed.

Oh, I dunno. Harry might've been a shitty con artist, but he always had style. I can understand why the Freespacers might not appreciate incompetence in those fields, though.

>There's a story in that, but I've only written the introduction thus
>far.

Well, there's always a story. It wouldn't be UF if there wasn't. ;)

>Alas, Mac will not get many more chances to shine as he might in HR
>and in the upcoming entr'acte. He was meant to be the token ordinary
>guy, and once things settle down he'll go back to being ordinary...
>with a noticable anarchic streak. }:-{D

Bah, it's the quiet anarchists you have watch out for. The loud ones give you too much advance warning. >:)

>>G'Kron and his trusty Louisville Slugger: Well, I suppose it was
>>inevitable...
>
>It's not like we didn't give you plenty of warning... }:-{D

This is true, this is true.

Mr. Fnord, quiet anarchist.
--
"'Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle.
'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: 'explanations take such a dreadful time.'"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland