Language, Mr. Ferret! Just because I go into sailor mode when something makes me angry doesn't mean you should try and get out ahead of me. :)

Besides, this was a pretty good idea, apart from my having wanted to keep the old versions around for archival purposes.

>would be to remove the original versions of the Diqiu
>Suite's third movement and added extras if you're happy with the
>Director's Cut version. It could be confusing for new readers.

Hmm, that's true, although I did kind of want to keep them available, just in case. Here, I know. How about this?

When I get to re-packing the audio, I'll have to remember to include the old version and Storytime / Fire Hazards standalones in a subdirectory, in case someone just wants to listen to one or the other without having to paw through all n hours of the whole 400K story to find them.

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I hate to be so parochial but I am Australian and we have quotas to hit.

>Besides, this was a pretty good idea, apart from my having wanted to
>keep the old versions around for archival purposes.

Thanks!

>>would be to remove the original versions of the Diqiu
>>Suite's third movement and added extras if you're happy with the
>>Director's Cut version. It could be confusing for new readers.
>
>Hmm, that's true, although I did kind of want to keep them available,
>just in case. Here, I know. How about
>this?
>
>When I get to re-packing the audio, I'll have to remember to include
>the old version and Storytime / Fire Hazards standalones
>in a subdirectory, in case someone just wants to listen to one or the
>other without having to paw through all n hours of the whole
>400K story to find them.

That looks really good, the footnote thing works well. It's amazing how the change makes the whole movement feel more comfortable now, as well.

Well, the only actual change to the order (apart from the Goodbye and Hello Director's Cut repack, and the alterations to the Overture and those two bits of Symphony No. 4, which would've happened anyway) is that I moved Le Droit du Dragon to before Try, Try Again, and that mainly because I thought the slight air of mystery about Izumi (what is a Kyoshi Warrior doing there? That won't be explained until the next story) would make for a nice tradeoff for not interrupting the flow from Try Again to Honeymoon for new readers.

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-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

Also, you may notice some pretty uneven sound where I've done the edits to the OOTR/DS files, particularly the "director's cut" assembly of Goodbye & Hello. Sort of inevitable when recording in an uncontrolled environment like this; the acoustics of my living room-slash-office change with the weather and whatnot, and most of those files were recorded before I got the pop filter and boom arm for my mic. That's why I'm re-recording Clarion Call, because I couldn't make the differences even approach being acceptable - the master rec level on the original files was way too low.

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I've been on the Internet for so long now, I can't tell if this is serious or the most fantastically savage sarcasm I've been privileged to experience for some time. :)

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(wait, crap. same problem.)

And so is this.

(damnit. still doesn't help.)

Okay, how about this: in your experience, am I more often bitingly sarcastic or geniunely excited and babbling at length about relatively minor details?

More often the latter, I grant... although not always. :)

(I was mostly kidding - hence the smiley - but recent events do kind of have me in dog-that's-been-kicked mode.)

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Hmm.

So I forgot about that, and when you pointed it out I went and looked at the page to see if I could work a couple of discreet links into it without making too much of a mess. I wasn't really happy with any of my options there...

... so, at long last, I finally went and learned how to use the <map> tag. (This has been the month of new tools for me so far. It's a bit weird.) Just click on the titles of the things that are crossed over in the Dìqiú Suite logo and you'll be whisked off to the appropriate base page.

>Other than the bits moved from Prelude to that S4 story, and the
>renaming of what's left of Prelude to Overture in A Minor, and the
>consolidation of several previously named stories into the Director's
>Cut, are the changes to the rest of what was formerly S5 pretty much
>title changes only?

As far as I can recall, yes. I'll be making a few small fixes to the earlier bits of OOTR as I record the audio, because I always run across some minor errors I missed before when I do that, but there have been no scene edits or other significant content changes.

>Bordering on amusing/funny is the title of the "next story" after
>Diqiu Suite in the OotR line: "Technical Difficulties"

Heh, that's actually a complete coincidence. That's what that story's been called since it was originally going to be a Mini. (It's the "B'Elanna Joins the CorpsKlingon Navy" side story.)

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Hooboy, now that's going to be a real fasten-your-seatbelts wild ride. So many good stories have come out in the last little while I'd forgotten all about where B'Elanna went. Although... isn't there a brief scene somewhere of her talking to Utena about wanting to be involved in the Tau Ceti excitement?

Thinking back to her last bit of dialogue with Zargh, I hope she doesn't have to perform too much percussive maintenance on the crew...

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Unable to save the day: File is read-only.

Correction: While recording the audio for Ash Knight, I decided to tack the Mini-Story Matalde the Red (written four years after the fact, but set immediately afterward and pertaining to one of its key events) onto the movement as a post-credits sequence. Neither the movement nor the Mini have been significantly edited, I just spliced them together, and both text and audio now reflect this.

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There's a code error in Ash Knight. I think it's at the splice point where the mini went in - a "<" sign is missing I think. Here's the code around that point to help you search it:

<p>After a moment, Shuten straightened and took his hand away from his side, and his eyes burned with an inner fire all their own.</p>

<p>div class="timestamp"><p>Friday, February 19, 2410<br>
Asgard</p>

<p>Corwin and Anne were eating breakfast and trying to figure out which of Asgard's sights to hit that day when there came a knock at the door.</p>

Jeanne

	Jeanne Hedge http://www.jhedge.com 1st Courier of the Heavenly Prophets for Tianxia "Never give up, never surrender!"

That's nowhere near the splice, but it was broken. I guess I'm like Microsoft now and beta-test things by shipping them. Thanks.

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Think of it as encouraging community involvement.
-VR
“But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.”
― Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees

Binned. Oh my Grodd, so utterly, utterly binned.

--G.
Just once, why can't somebody not notice something like that?
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Can I notice long enough to applaud the removal? The script format grates on me in general, but it really bugs me here, because I'm used to finding the stories in third-person, or the occasional first-person. I like the intent of Altered Appleseed, but the presentation was unappealing.

Peter Eng
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Also, I imagine you could write the story again, hit the most important plot points, and make it much better if you really needed to.

There's actually a trick to writing in script if you're not actually writing a script. Once you realize that, you can get a lot done with it; as a format, it is best deployed if you're writing something that's heavily dialogue-dependent with a lot of meta-humor in it, in which traditional prose transitions would actually get in your way and hinder the story.

I'd never try it for a serious piece, tho.

-Merc
Keep Rat

*Digs into the saved file collection.* Ah. That one...

No great loss.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

That was actually the script written by a film student in Olympus before the Olympus Fall/Earth Alliance Restructuring before the War of Corporate Occupation. Inexplicably, it got made into a made-for-TV movie, hence the major historical inaccuracies. It sometimes turns up on the late-late-late-late-night movie channel in various broadcast zones.

--- Philip

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