LAST EDITED ON Aug-25-01 AT 04:27 PM (EDT)

> 1.1) Who's text is the AI history lesson?

Mine.

>2.0) Can I get a list of the Dantrovian Religon?

A list? You mean of the holidays? Heck no. That would prevent me from making them up arbitrarily as the series goes on.

> 3.1) So, if Kate's on a run, and Lesser Mazinger is hanging out, and
>she catches some Black ice, will he chop the cable?

I imagine he would, yes. Though, since Kate isn't really the "invade secure databases" type, I don't see it actually happening.

>4.0) Are the crab Rangoons at ping's really that good? Good enough to
>fight over?

I dunno. I actually don't like crab rangoon in general.

> 5.2) You are an evil, evil man. Making people listen to a
>proselytizing Narn. Bad Gryph, Bad.
> 5.3) Have I mentioned that I like Mac?

Kris takes partial credit for 5.2 and almost complete credit for 5.3. I was fishing for Galaxy House denizens and he provided.

> 5.3.1) Is Mac really gonna be Moose's AoN understudy, or even
>learn to play the bass?

Probably no on 1, probably yes on 2.

>6.0) Bowling?* Kate and Juri like to Bowl? What could they
>possibly like about the most boring sport in the world? (Well, short
>of shuffle-puck that is)

Well, I don't know where Juri picked it up - she mentions in one episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena that she's been bowling since she was seven - but Kate got it from her father. Like her, I am an enthusiastic but lousy bowler. :) As for why they like it, that's sort of like trying to explain tastes in music, or Harley-Davidsons. If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand.

And we've already had this discussion in another thread. The most boring sport in the world is, in fact, soccer.

>Being "Of electric Sheep?"(Sorry, couldn't resist)

That is, indeed, the obvious joke.

> 8.1) "God, Kate, those pajamas," said Corwin with an indulgent
>chuckle, pretending to shield his eyes from their tiger-striped glory.
> "I c-c-could be w-wearing the set Aunt B-Bell made," Kate
>pointed out.
> When I read this, the bit that popped into my head was the
>unmentionable's mentioned somewhere, by Gryph I think. But I'm too
>lazy to go look up where, so I'll just leave it as mentioned
>somewhere.

No no. Those were Urd's, not Bell's. Or rather "will be".

>9.0) Why do I somehow get the feeling that Juri's not really over her
>piss at Utena?

Because, historically speaking, Juri never gets over being pissed off about things?

> 9.2) Why are the hot ones always so damn bitchy?
>'Cause they get grabbed and burned at a young age? 'Cause people
>classify them as "The Hot One's"? 'Cause they're women, who have a
>tendency to be more vocal about there feeling's, which males can take
>as bitchy-ness? Take your pick.

Well, OK (in Juri's case, I think point 1 is most likely); but as far as point 3 goes, Janice isn't male, and she's taking it as bitchiness. I think the cold, hard truth of the matter is that Juri's being bitchy in this scene. :)

> 10.1.1)Juri shook her head. "It's not that I don't -want- to
>believe," she said. "I've... why am I explaining myself to you?"
> "People do that," Azalynn replied.
>
>I've noticed that a lot of people talk to azalynn who normally
>wouldn't talk to anyone...she is a null psi, right?

Yup. No powers to speak of; she's just Azalynn.

> 10.1.2)"C'mon, let's go for a walk. Down to Tortilla Sam's for
>fajitas. I've got all kinds of insights to share," she added wryly.
> Why do all of the insights come about either in resturants, or
>in the Worcester Crowne Plaza?

They've got atmospheres conducive to insight.

>Oh, and whole
>tomatos, in a sugar, flour mix, come out edible, but just barely.

If you consider tomatoes edible in the first place. Blech.

>13.0) I say Kate has a unfair advantage when it comes to GalHis203.
>She's heard like half the stuff that everyone else is cramming for as
>dinner tales.

True, although most of the important things get missed out that way; the dinnertime conversation tends to be about more personal-scale incidents. The dates and places and such of galactic wars and the like tend to slip our memories too; having been there is no guarantee of accurate recall. :)

>(Yes, it's long. You asked for it Gryph.)

Indeed I did; but I like this kind of thing. I like knowing what individual bits tickled and/or irked people. It's one of the reasons I think it's fun to sit around reading, writing, gaming or what have you in a room with someone who's in the process of reading one of my pieces; I can get their reactions to individual bits in real time. :)

Oh - clumsily, I deleted the comment about the audition duel. That piece is the work of our very own Juniper, who sneaked through the new-author ban by being a geographically proximate enough that she could start as a sort of consulting editor, then do that for long enough that she received the universal-structure briefing by a sort of painless osmosis. (She also runs Earthdawn, though not the game I have a character in, which made her well-suited to take the helm for a T'skaia scene.) I was stuck in the middle of the duel, and she came in and bailed me out.

(Before you get excited, assume that the universe is now open again, and start sending me outlines, whoa up. This is what we in the industry refer to as "a special case", or, more simply, "nepotism". And there's a big difference in my-effort-required between being a scene contributor and developing an entire sequence. Perhaps I should change the wording of the "thank you, but no" blurb to a "By Invitation Only" kind of thing.)

While I'm giving credit where it's due, G'Kron's proselytization scene was Kris Overstreet's - G'Kron is my creation, but Kris does him better than I do :) - and the Tortilla Sam's scene marks Special Guest for Life Phil Moyer's second contribution to a Symphony story, and the first that isn't all surreal and stuff. :) If this keeps up I'm going to have to move Phil and Anne to the staff page. I probably should anyway. :)

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