Well, bear in mind, this is (though nobody in law enforcement knew it at the time) actually a list of crimes committed by two people (over the course of 92 years, no less). Ironically, a number of these crimes probably are things the real Gryphon did during his exile (resisting arrest, for instance, and impersonating a police officer, the latter of which probably relates to his time as a cop on Earth). The rape, uh, most likely not so much.

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Well, sort of. I've long thought that Secrets could use a do-over, not because of changes in the UF universe so much as because it's rubbish. But I held off for a long time, for three main reasons:

1) I've long had a bias against wholesale revisions. This is mainly a holdover from the early days, when our primary release mechanism was Usenet, and so revision control was problematic at best. Nowadays, with things going out through a website over which I have direct control, this is a lot less of an issue.

2) I have many, many other things to do, and retracing old steps isn't a particularly efficient use of time.

3) Perhaps as a corollary to 2), I always promised myself I wouldn't undertake such a thing unless I had a Better Idea, and for a long time, well, I didn't have one.

That last part? Changed a while back...

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>1) I've long had a bias against wholesale revisions. This is mainly a
>holdover from the early days, when our primary release mechanism was
>Usenet, and so revision control was problematic at best. Nowadays,
>with things going out through a website over which I have direct
>control, this is a lot less of an issue.
>
Fair enough.

>2) I have many, many other things to do, and retracing old steps isn't
>a particularly efficient use of time.
>
Also understandable.

>3) Perhaps as a corollary to 2), I always promised myself I wouldn't
>undertake such a thing unless I had a Better Idea, and for a long
>time, well, I didn't have one.
>
>That last part? Changed a while back...
>
Ahh.. so it's not so much that you're rewriting Secrets, as you've relegated it to apocryphal status and will be showing is the real story at sometime in the future. looking forward to it :)

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There's just so much going on there that's... wrong. I've often thought over the last few years that it'd be nice if the story of the end of Gryphon's exile didn't involve quite so much brainless criminal irresponsibility on his part or quite so much, uh, consequence-free mass murder on Kei's. I mean, what?

>Ahh.. so it's not so much that you're rewriting Secrets, as
>you've relegated it to apocryphal status and will be showing is the
>real story at sometime in the future. looking forward to it :)

Basically, yeah. When it's all said and done, there likely will still be an Exile story with that title, but it won't cover the same span of time. As for the one that does, it's now in progress under the working title Manhunt.

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So long as Amberson is still around, then dude...awesome...

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Oh yes.
-Rage-

er, yes... (tug collar nervously)... about that...

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Aww...I liked him. I mean, he was lifted pretty directly, but...I always wanted to see him and Corwin interacting with each other. For, you know..shits and giggles.

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Oh yes.
-Rage-

>Basically, yeah. When it's all said and done, there likely will still
>be an Exile story with that title, but it won't cover the same span of
>time. As for the one that does, it's now in progress under the
>working title Manhunt.
>
Cool - I think this is the first time I've gotten you to reveal the title of an upcoming piece before it was announced in any official way. In any case, as always, I'm looking forward to whatever comes out of your publication (queue|stack|jumble) :)

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-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
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I always saw this as the early days' "the overall tone of UF hasn't quite sorted itself out yet" phase - It seems like back then you guys were often back and forth between "space opera serious" "cartoon reality," "parody" and a few other modes.

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