Old fashioned digging through anonymous FTP!

And, far as I can tell, between fifty and two hundred current students here at WPI have, if not read it, know it in detail from people who talk about it.

-Craig

Obviously, when I first read UF, I didn't get all of the references, but it was still a good read; good enough that I've been reading Eyrie works pretty steadily since then.

I bought, off the bargain rack at my local bookstore, a copy of the Jack McKinney Robotech novel Homecoming.

Shortly thereafter, I did a websearch on Robotech, which led me to Robotech: The Misfold (unless I misremember the name). When I had finished that, I started poking around the site, and things snowballed.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter

-- Sean --

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

"It's not easy being green." -- Kermit the Frog

Fireball
fireball_woohoo@yahoo.com

".....A-BOMB LAUNCH DETECTED....."
"Oh, this is gonna hurt..."

Blev

I am absolutely positive that I am not sure.

(and if you're a DIFFERENT Nathan Baxter, then you have my apologies)

Why do you not reply to my emails? :(

Yep, 'sme.

Wait...

:o You've been emailing me? :o

I've received nothing.

I've just mailed you... Did you get it?

Blessed be. :7
Nathan Baxter, Grand High Emperor of the Lobsters

--Michael
Napalm. It sticks to ignorance.

Well, email has worked for a while now. ;-)

(Thanks for the compliment BTW.)

-MegaZone, megazone@megazone.org
Personal Homepage http://www.megazone.org/
Eyrie Productions FanFic http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

I haven't tested it, but he uses redneck@detnet.net in his Usenet posts.

Peter Eng

And I'm rambling so I'll shut up now.

--NE

Human beings are, a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we, are the cure.
--Agent Smith

Not when you read your email from a UNIX shell account. ;-)

The three folks in this house at least don't use PC based emailers - all Elm users I think. (Yeah, yeah, I really should switch to mutt.)

-MegaZone, megazone@megazone.org
Personal Homepage http://www.megazone.org/
Eyrie Productions FanFic http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

Speak for yourself, unsupported mailer boy. ;)

--truss,
mutt user since about two years ago
(though I have it aliased to 'elm' cause I'm a creature of habit).

you are a choad

--G.
(stupid injoke, don't know why I think it's funny)
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

In joke? I thought that was a South Park joke <or perhaps an Parker/Stone creation, they seem fond of the word>

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

I thought it was a Tripping The Rift joke.

--------------------------------------
Whoa! What IS it?!

Well, color me relieved that I'm not the only one.

Don't ask me why, but the few times that I've tried to email anyone at Eyrie I got stuck in absolute sophomoric fanboy mode. I'm hoping I'll be able to behave more decorously in this forum. We'll see.

D'A

And both Elf's work and the stories on this site have kept my mind and heart, if not my hands, into the possibilities of my own writing, which I will reclaim at some point.

And they were better than coffee for keeping me awake and attentive at 3am six nights a week, too. :)

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"I think we used too much."
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Chad Collier
Digital Bitch
J. Random VFX Company

Elf Sternberg, indeed.. That's actually where I discovered UF; it was his only graphical outgoing link, and I was in sore need of reading material.

(I just realized I hadn't mentioned where'd I'd heard about UF. It wasn't at WPI, more like 45% of the reason I chose WPI as my college.)

Whole buncha people seem to have tracked in from that site, which is pretty nifty. Recently, I've been uh.. coercing my friends (gizmo and jar on the board) to read UF, and addicting as it is, they've both got it on their Palms, and spend more time reading it than they should (sleep, classes, etc... these are just incidentals now).

Oh yeah, and BTW.. Are you three Shamrockians going to be around this coming weekend? Cause we're still bored, and still have a car, and still know where you live :)

E.O. Stinson yostinso@wpi.edu
AIM: Eostinso ICQ: 3513296
Admin: http://www.wedgerats.net
Yostinso <-- crazy fanboy

Gryph is in Maine - don't know what day he's coming back.

As for me - I tend to have the Incredibly Undefined Schedule. I come and go pretty much at random.

-MegaZone, megazone@megazone.org
Personal Homepage http://www.megazone.org/
Eyrie Productions FanFic http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

I finally have a good reason to buy a Palm ;-)

<been looking for a way, other than printing it all out, to take UF with me to boring classes>

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

PS: I have to wonder, with this crowd, how many recognize my sig quote?<seems most Slashdotters don't>

If your quote is in reference to Lina Inverse's Dragon Slave spell I'd say quite a few people would.

Zack Seaholm - Anime fan, weathernut, worshipper of the goddess Belldandy.

Yep, good old Elf. I found his stuff from the alt.polyamory newsgroup (though I haven't been there in quite a while). After I read all of his stuff, I was looking at his reccommended reading links and there was this thing called undocumented features. If I remember right, his description was that these UF guys were insane. And I've been hooked ever since.

Frank

** I'm really here, but I'm not here, really...

I almost applied to WPI because of EPU, but decided I really didn't want to go across the country. Berkeley, here I come!

http://www.nukees.com/

-Craig
Need something to read?
http://www.wpi.edu/~perko

You got reamed. :)

-jer

>>So the EPU website shows up, and as they say, the rest is history.
>>I've been pestering the EPU folks ever since. Something like three
>>years now, I think.
>You got reamed. :)

*SHATTER*

-MegaZone, megazone@megazone.org
Personal Homepage http://www.megazone.org/
Eyrie Productions FanFic http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

Technically, if you trace it all the way back, it's my fault.

...you're welcome. ;)

--truss,
unapologetic.

In Nomine is addictive and fascinating, ne? I don't run it anymore, but I still collect the books because I adore the game world so. Makes for easy Xmas wish lists.

--"I invoke the rites of fiery Muspelheim, and give thy soul up to the inferno's embrace..."

I never quite got up the nerve/inspiration to GM a campaign...

<...looks around to see if Gryph or Anne Cross is glaring at him,
and saying "we know...>

...but, yeah, I just really dig the game world. The canon one, and the bastardized version of it that we used for NXE. :)

--truss.

Hehe. Part of the reason I don't run it anymore is because I picked one of the premade adventures out of the books...specifically 'No Dinero' from the Heaven & Hell book. Turned out to be a mistake, I think, partly because I didn't quite understand the background of the story and it turned out to not mesh very well with mine or my dad's political viewpoint, and partly because the players weren't as able to get into a game not made with them in mind. My fault, but I learned from it, I think. As for bastardized IN worlds...I've been wondering for a while if you actually put thought into what archangels and demon princes are around in NXE. Obviously the ones mentioned in the series (Michael, Yves) are still in there, and Belial is gone for Moloch to have replaced him. Natlateth is new, of course...are there any other changes from the canon?

--"I invoke the rites of fiery Muspelheim, and give thy soul up to the inferno's embrace..."

Yes.

:)

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

I sense another one of those questions to which I'm going to get a very indirect answer. Such as in Apotheosis Now. Kinda like my Shinji theory I posted a day or so ago...oh, well. I guess I tend to wax ecstatic about IN, the 2nd Ed. WW games, D&D2, SR...stuff like that. I admit to being interminably curious about these things. Guess I'll hold off 'til the movie is done.

--"I invoke the rites of fiery Muspelheim, and give thy soul up to the inferno's embrace..."

you are a...

... no... mustn't recycle the stupid injoke twice in the same night.

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME. HA HA HA.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

ALL YOUR MESSAGE BOARDS ARE BELONG TO BAD GAME TRANSLATIONS.

<Zero Wing, the Thing That Should Not Be>

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

misguided individual, to think that GMing tabletop is any harder than GMing a LARP. You just need the right players - and you had some pretty solid players, Truss...

>... no... mustn't recycle the stupid injoke twice in the same night.

Thank you, Gryph.

Oh well, maybe some ten to twenty years from now you'll dig out the characters again, Truss, and let us play? I've seen Bancroft Tower now, you can put it in a game setting and I'll have some idea of what the lay of the land around it is like.

(Oh yes. Truss is the reason I started reading Eyrie. He pointed me at NXE.)

-- D.M.

--------------------------------------------
"Fac me cocleario vomere!"
--Onatah, on NE:CiF MUSH

GMing isn't much different... but writing (and worldbuilding) is. I've always been much better (and much more comfortable) as a brainstormer/collaborator in group writing projects than as a writer in solo projects.

And in tabletop, I wouldn't have the rest of an authorial team to work with.

--truss.

>Life ends. Dreams never does. Is it so wrong that I spend my life in
>dreams?

And I am the Evil one that lured him into this addiction, Muhahahaha!
Draged? More like dropped a few pounds of stapled printouts in your lap. When you were studying organicchemesty or some othe boring thing...

Me, who did I find eyrie? well... it all started a long time ago (two years to be exact) after I had seen NGE. I decided to do a little net searching for it and found a reference to "Misatos LEMON Chronicles". i did not know at the time beeing what the word lemon meant.... now I do... annyhow i found a link from her page to eyrie. and thats the begining of a wonderfull addiction...
and i did manage to get two of me friends in to it.
And now I'm writing me own stories, they suck but they are my own stories. they will probably never get finnished....

oh yes, I live in Sweden.....

I can assure you that you are not.

-MegaZone, megazone@megazone.org
Personal Homepage http://www.megazone.org/
Eyrie Productions FanFic http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

'Self-Insert'... Hmm, there's an off-color pun in there somewhere...

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

I wish I had gotten in in 91 or 92, then I might be able to find some of the referenced stuff <old DP tapes are damned hard to come by, as are early issues of NHS... BGC is still around... > I'll probably have to spend a fortune on ebay to get some of that stuff now... <in addition to the small fortune being spent on gathering more current (or at least currently available) series>

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

How's that for geeky?

Since most seem to think that EPU/UF/NXE is an addiction
it occured to me to share net addictions...

Check out:
http://www.digitallyimported.com for awesome trance to gweep by
http://www.sluggy.com to enter the wonderful world of web comics

Later,
Tim.

Worship the comic!

I should post the somewhat long list of web comics I regularly read...

-MegaZone, megazone@megazone.org
Personal Homepage http://www.megazone.org/
Eyrie Productions FanFic http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

E.O. Stinson yostinso@wpi.edu
AIM: Eostinso ICQ: 3513296
Admin: http://www.wedgerats.net
Yostinso <-- crazy fanboy

Is it not Nifty? Worship the comic!

other nice haha places online:

http://www.megatokyo.com <no, it has nothing to do with BGC, honestly>
http://www.exploitationnow.com <Poe knows fanservice>

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

the aforementioned, and

http://baka.keenspace.com cute robot girls + video games? :)
http://www.nuklearpower.com FF3 was never this much fun
http://www.bobandgeorge.com Megaman on CRACK!
http://www.roadwaffles.com Guns, cars, ?aliens?
http://rpgworld.keenspace.com What RPGs are really about
http://www.sinfest.net HAHAHAHAHAHA

"Uh, my name's Joey but, uh, I'm not an addict. *smoke*
Nono, really, really, listen, listen to this. I got in trouble with my computer, right, okay, and my lawyer told the judge that I'm an addict, but I'm not addicted to my computer! No really, really, *puff* I'm not an addict. I'm not, I'm not. *gulp* Can I get some more coffee?" -- Hackers

E.O. Stinson yostinso@wpi.edu
AIM: Eostinso ICQ: 3513296
Admin: http://www.wedgerats.net
Yostinso <-- crazy fanboy

-Craig
Need something to read?
http://www.wpi.edu/~perko

E.O. Stinson yostinso@wpi.edu
AIM: Eostinso ICQ: 3513296
Admin: http://www.wedgerats.net
Yostinso <-- crazy fanboy

www.seanbaby.com/nes.htm

Seanbaby is my hero! YAY! I will visit his site every day! YAY!

And Sluggy is good, too.

This man is also my hero.

<snip>
>where my pal TechMav was gleefully naming machines at the startup
>where he works after Asuka, Rei, Gendou... Grendel? Moloch? Lucifer?
>
>"hey, those aren't NGE names..."
<snip>

If memory serves, Grendel, Moloch, and Lucifer were NT boxes, DJ and Asuka were Sun Netra T-1's, Gendou was an EMC storage array, Ritsuko and Misato were Sun 220 servers, and Jon and Rei were Sun 420 servers. What can I say, other than it's a *BAD* idea to turn someone loose with the very detailed directions of "Build a network"

TechMav
Ronin Research
R&D Division
Indianapolis, IN

!

Where, please? Pretty please? I had to give up buying them back off of eBay because it was becoming an expensive hobby. (it is sweeter than sweet to have an original Wheeljack, though) :)

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"I think we used too much."
---------------------------
Chad Collier
Digital Bitch
J. Random VFX Company

Gerry over at robozone.com (where I'm getting mine) scored a few extra standard (silver) ones, but they'll probably go fast.

Good luck,
--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

That's where I'm getting mine from, at least.

$125 plus shipping.

--
Geoff Depew - Mephron
"I think I sprained my anterior lobe just thinking about it."

Yep! I've got a silver one and a black special one on preorder. Ought to be here next week. Good thing I'm getting paid again...

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

Same thing. Ten years and more, before the Split. Before the Web.

I still remember the Gushing Fanboy(tm) letter I sent, asking if they were going to do any more. "We might," Gryph and/or Zoner said. Who knew?

As the Other Enthusiastic Personages section indicates, I used to have dreams of jumping in myself (first "Otaku Rising" style, then another concept focusing on the WDF Academy), but lack of time, inspiration, and perceived need of the community for Yet-Another-SI-fic killed that idea. So these days I just hang out.

The most recent episode has our own little smack-homage to UF in it. I mean, a bird/lion-form mecha getting destroyed by Largo... not the most subtle, but it does give that wink-and-nod...

--
Geoff Depew - Mephron
"I think I sprained my anterior lobe just thinking about it."

Heh, everyone just loves to shoot at that guy. Some associates of mine and I have... plans... for a version of him. <its almost too bad the Knight Sabers aren't real people, I'm sure they'd enjoy the 5,012,347 ways Largo dies in various fanfics;) >

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

Actually.... Largo's the hero in my series.

http://genom.otaking.org/chessmen for my fic. (w00t! plug!)

--
Geoff Depew - Mephron
"I think I sprained my anterior lobe just thinking about it."

Bwha!?

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Confused beyond Sanity"

Largo in the Chessmen universe was created as a prototype Buma by GENOM Corporation. His initial personality programming was compiled from the engrams of a number of GENOM executives, including Quincy Rosenkreutz and Brion J. Mason. Unfortunately, a technical flaw caused the first six hours of activation to be essentially a blinding, horrific pain experience. He blamed GENOM for it.

When he went rogue, it was with his 33/S secretary, several billion yen of embezzled funds, and part of the OMS codes. The Buma Rebellion took place. The OMS, however, had a second function: wide-scale self-destruct in case of an issue such as this. Largo had disabled his self-destruct... but he was linked to the OMS and felt them all die.

In the aftermath of this, he was discovered and recruited by that universe's Sylia Stingray - no Knight Sabres here, instead there was a small group of women busy violating laws to take over GENOM for revenge in the indignities that they could each trace back to the corporation... and

...but hey, I wrote all this stuff down in the series, so...

^_^

--
Geoff Depew - Mephron
"I think I sprained my anterior lobe just thinking about it."

Another question: How many more of you guys out there have written a UF ripoff/parody? Come on, 'fess up! I want to see how many of you have written a fanfic that I've read.

Have written, past tense? Not me;)

-={(Astynax)}=-
"Darkness beyond Twilight"

Just remember that I love B5 and feel that JMS rarely does wrong. Then go read on his commentary on Anton Chekov plays.

Dat's all I'm gonna say.

--
Geoff Depew - Mephron
"I think I sprained my anterior lobe just thinking about it."