Speaking of Trailing Edge's first client, I was just digging through the old junk directory in the back of my Warrior's Legacy working dir - sort of the text equivalent of the back of the sketchbook where all the stuff that didn't quite work out ends up - and came across the 27,792 bytes of Battle 00: Road Trip from Hell. It's set three years before Battle 01 and was intended to cover the very first Trailing Edge adventure, starting with Our Heroes still studying at WPI and ending with their decision to bag the college thing and become full-time adventurers.The trouble is, I wrote it... oh... five, six years ago; it sprang from my head fully formed in the shape it is now in, and since then I've been able to do anything whatsoever with it. It's a nice hook for an adventure; the only problem was, I was never able to come up with the adventure. Still, as I look it over, it's got some nice character bits and it seems a shame to waste them. I'm actually rather proud of the opening.
So I'm playing around with the idea of dumping it here in all its unfinished glory, as a sort of forum exclusive bonus thingy. The question is - does anybody actually want to read a whacking great forum post whose contents are basically a story that failed? With the understanding that A, it's old and a bit clunky style-wise and B, although I'll finish it if by some miracle a notion for doing so comes to me, I don't expect that one will?
--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
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