much niftyness...jsut finished reading it ;)

as a slightly nitpicky aside, Gryphon...you have "Giant Robo" in one location where (I suspect) you meant "Tiny Robo"

other than that, it was great, and had the same effect as all previous parts...I want *more*! :)

*snicker*

Presents! PRESENTS! --*>_PRESENTS!!!!!!_<*--

Azlynn IS idic.

I don't think I've mentioned it, but I just love the way tiny little details keep showing up and turning over an aspect of this universe that I've never looked at before.

Umm... Doesn't Ed say that D&D is STABLE later on? If so, what's up with his message to Janice?

Hunter? WTF?

I'm reminded of a scene... two, actually, tho I only saw the later one... Marcus says to Ivonova, >You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.<

Tribble chow. Now he only needs to get her a tribble...

*snerk* Anecdote my Physics teacher once told (He, by the way, is the absolute battyest man it has ever been my great good fortune to meet.) Apparently, one of his college professors was to be the target of a joke involving a fan and a strobe light. The teacher got back at them by writing the days notes in a single line all the way across the blackboard... and the wall next to it. And the side wall. And the back wall. And the OTHER side wall.

"Hello!" <shatter completely and utterly>

I thinks I likes Wakaba, yes I does.

Bodyguard? *snicker* Poor Utena.

Y'know, first time I read that I thought she'd glomped him. Either way, just goes to show what a breathtaking lady she is.

Ya want fries with that?

That's... ow. <shatter>

Photo album! Good plan! Good plan!

Awwww...

LEAAFFS! Actually, the closest I've ever come to being interested in hockey was the time they made us play floor hockey in physed. I actually made a half decent goalie.

Mac! Buzz! G'kron! BATHERSON'S COLLEGE!!!

"No."

I think I'll just skip most of the concert, at least as far as commentary goes.

I've got this sudden picture of Miki standing in front of a telephone booth with little question marks on his lapels...

Damn I wish this were a real movie. I'd really love to get that cut of 99 Luftballons. I love that song.

Soundproofing is good.

Quote of my original reaction: The 1HW is CORWIN'S?!?!?!

Is, like, the entire Hutchins clan retro? If so, cool.

Okay, I gotta scram. I'll pick up at the first appearence of the Jackboot Brigade's minion.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter

Just FYI, a lot of this is really context-challenged.

>Umm... Doesn't Ed say that D&D is STABLE later on? If so, what's up
>with his message to Janice?

Durandal is stable. He sent that message to Janice during the stage at which Ed and Ein were still filtering all his traffic, though, so he had to get creative with the way it was sent.

>Hunter? WTF?

It's a reference to Phantasy Star Online. Ask Ard, I just work here.

>That's... ow. <shatter>

>Awwww...

Remember when I said some of your comments had serious context problems? :)

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

For more info on the game-- it's worthy, I found it a lot of fun and others of the Usual Suspects agree-- you can look here:

PSO v.1

Basically, when I was looking for a decent world concept for UFme that wasn't taken, Ragol came up as a Likely Candidate, because:

a) no one else was using it;

b) I have played the game, read the sites, know the backstory, and I could work up something feasible from there and feed it to Gryph.

And no, he's not kidding when he says he knows nothing about it; Rob Shannon and I are doing most of the information legwork for him.

Ard

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA

Of course, I've liked most of the PS universe story in general. I'm actually a little surprised that Phantasy Star stuff hasn't crept into the Multiverse here yet.

Tom 'Dreamshadow' Tjarks
------------------------
Student of Kawaii-fu, way of the exploding wai!

Thanks. I'm still on the lookout for a copy of the Book of Hunters artbook, to give Gryphon some more background, when I've got the cash for it. Right now, my main source of info is the game, a few websites, and the Strategy Guide.

I am *very* pleased to hear that the RAmarl (female ranger-- a gunslinger/ sniper type, for those unfamiliar with the game) class will be making an appearance in the GameCube version. :)

>Of course, I've liked most of the PS universe story in general. I'm
>actually a little surprised that Phantasy Star stuff hasn't crept into
>the Multiverse here yet.

Usually, if something hasn't shown up, it's because either there's not an immediately-apparent place for it, or because no one's really thought of it yet. Rob and I have been tossing around possible hooks for PSO concepts in the Undocuverse, but nothing's really come up yet that sticks. Possibly because, really, UFme was kind of a one-shot giggle who decided she wanted More Development Than That. :)

Ardie

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA

Now here's a question: Is Janice a Hunter, a Ranger, a Force, or something completely different?
I'd plave my bets on Ranger, but Hunter might be amusing, just to have somebody running around
with an energy glaive.

Polychrome

Former RAcast

Among her other hobbies, Janice shoots tactical pistol. You figure it out. :)

Though Martin Rose initially guessed that she was a Newman Force... personally, I have yet to get a good grasp on how the technique system would apply to the Undocuverse's previously-established rules for handling magic/ psionics/ etc.

("I think I'm inclined to call that a gizmo, not a creature, looking at it." --Gryphon, confronted with a picture of a Mag.)

Ard
...oddly enough, I don't shoot IRL. I know a bit about guns, but I don't like handling them. Personal quirk.

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA

Can't be a Ranger then, Rangers never use pistols. Probably a Force then.

Polychrome

Thanks for the link. Sounds like an interesting game even though I prefer mindless slugfests. Now I have completely understood a reference in one of Gryphon's stories!

>Thanks for the link. Sounds like an interesting game even though I
>prefer mindless slugfests.

Oh, then you'll love it. It bears a lot of resemblence to Everquest, presuming that's the kind of mindless slugfest you like. No flames, of course: it's a different game than Everquest entirely, but generally, it appeals to the same target audience.

Mmmm, but call me a purist. I still think it's betraying the originals.

-Craig

Heh. I despise EQ. This could be because I've seen several marriages go wildly awry over it (and, yes, other issues that were grossly exacerbated by the lovely communication-avoider that is EQ). Or, it could be because I'm merely too antisocial to play MMORPGs (you want me to team up with people I don't know who talk in all caps? are you nuts?), and hence play PSO in offline mode pretty exclusively.

The one time I wandered into a PSO lobby, I fled within two minutes. The cartoon speech bubble thing just _really_ bothers me... although it can be used for some unintentionally kawaii effects on big, burly Rangers. :)

My idea of fun, of course, is Diablo 2, but I just DON'T think I could've gotten the D2 game world past Gryphon as a viable homeworld for UFme. :)

And yes, some actual roleplaying would have greatly helped PSO-- but for what it is, a PC-style MMORPG on a console, it works pretty darn well.

OTOH, on the "purist" side of the equation, I'm still livid that Old Man Nintendo decreed that Metroid Prime needs to be a first-person shooter. I *liked* Metroid; aside from the occasional bout of Marathon or Half-Life, I hate FPS.

Ard

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA

This is offtopic, but I am unable to contain this comment...

*WTF!?* Metroid as an FPS? ::shudder::

<disclaimer: I love FPS, I own nearly a dozen. I've also played quite a bit of Metroid. The combination does not bode well>

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

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Sometimes fanfic is a love letter to canon, sometimes it's a polite disagreement, and sometimes it's 95 things canon did wrong nailed to a door."

Before you complain too loudly about FPS games, I *strongly* recomend you go out and play System Shock 2. Even the Demo will give you a fairly good idea of what an FPS is capable of outside of shooting. (Heck, you don't even encounter an *enemy* until about halfway through the demo.)

It's not the perspective, but the execution, that's important.

ObUF:

Did the SHODAN crisis happen in UF? (Presumably during the Exile.)

Thanks
Luc "Nanite" French

Not likely, but conceivable. Not of historical significance if it did.

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

...don't feel bad, I didn't know where Aya Nakajima and crew came from until _last week_. :)

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA

I still don't know. Where?

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter

Star Trekker: the Manga Parody.

Redneck

Red wizard needs money badly...
www.wlpcomics.com
White Lightning Productions - don't tell the Pope

And you're still ahead of me, because I don't completely understand the PSO references. Like I said, I just work here. :)

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

...that's OK, I confess to looking really dumbly at some of the upcoming stuff and going "I haven't seen that show." I think we're probably about even. :)

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA

>Tribble chow. Now he only needs to get her a tribble...

Background info here:

Tribbles (specifically, the Jones' Tribble, named after its credited discoverer) are a restricted dangerous animal under Federation law. It requires a special license to own a tribble as a pet, and part of the requirements for such a license is that the owner shall own, at any given time, no less than five pounds of a special formulated animal feed which suppresses the Tribble reproductive system. Given the incredibly robust nature of said reproductive system, the feed is -very very- expensive, and having 100 pounds of the stuff show up on your credit card bill one day is a rich person's equivalent of, "What do you MEAN six ten-minute calls to Paraguay??"

In the 25th century pet industry, the joke is, 'Few things are as cheap as a tribble, and few things are as expensive as tribble chow.'

>Mac! Buzz! G'kron! BATHERSON'S COLLEGE!!!

Is Mac supposed to buzz his roommate, your college, or both?

Or is this some bizarre display of support for an alma mater?

>"No."

(And anybody else besides Moose and Mac, knowing of Mac's experience with the instrument, would say, "Hell, no.")

>Okay, I gotta scram. I'll pick up at the first appearence of the
>Jackboot Brigade's minion.

Righto.

Redneck

Red wizard needs money badly...
www.wlpcomics.com
White Lightning Productions - don't tell the Pope

Explanations, now that I've been able to snicker to myself at everybody else going "WTF?"

>*snicker*

Kaitlyn nearly dropping her suitcase on Corwin.

>Presents! PRESENTS! --*>_PRESENTS!!!!!!_<*--

Birthday girl! ^_^

>Azlynn IS idic.

I agree with Professor Stuvek.

>I don't think I've mentioned it, but I just love the way tiny little
>details keep showing up and turning over an aspect of this universe
>that I've never looked at before.

Hoffmanite Steelcovers. After all, what else would you use on a 3 g world?

>I'm reminded of a scene... two, actually, tho I only saw the later
>one... Marcus says to Ivonova, >You're the most beautiful woman I've
>ever seen.<

Corwin, to Utena, >Walk in glory, my beloved.<

>*snerk* Anecdote my Physics teacher once told (He, by the way, is the
>absolute battyest man it has ever been my great good fortune to meet.)
>Apparently, one of his college professors was to be the target of a
>joke involving a fan and a strobe light. The teacher got back at them
>by writing the days notes in a single line all the way across the
>blackboard... and the wall next to it. And the side wall. And the back
>wall. And the OTHER side wall.

Professor Farr says: "Oof!" and has four blackboard covered walls.

>"Hello!" <shatter completely and utterly>

Wakaba being sarcastic.

>I thinks I likes Wakaba, yes I does.

Not sure what in particular brought this on, but it's true.

>Bodyguard? *snicker* Poor Utena.

Wakaba introducing herself to.... somebody.

>Y'know, first time I read that I thought she'd glomped him. Either
>way, just goes to show what a breathtaking lady she is.

Wakaba (again?) punching Saionji in the gut.

>Ya want fries with that?

Saionji trying not to shatter.

>That's... ow. <shatter>

Wakaba (noticing a trend?) commenting on Kait's family tree. I think.

>Photo album! Good plan! Good plan!

Explaining that selfsame family.

>Awwww...

Not sure. Wakaba crashing with Saionji, I think.

>LEAAFFS! Actually, the closest I've ever come to being interested in
>hockey was the time they made us play floor hockey in physed. I
>actually made a half decent goalie.

Utena and Saionji on the latter's choice in shirts.

>Mac! Buzz! G'kron! BATHERSON'S COLLEGE!!!

How G'kron and Mac got to Toronto. Also an imitation of my reaction to the "Revolution of the Restauraunt!" teaser. Which was Bob's fault.

>"No."

The answer to the question, "Will Mac be playing?"

>I think I'll just skip most of the concert, at least as far as
>commentary goes.
>
>I've got this sudden picture of Miki standing in front of a telephone
>booth with little question marks on his lapels...

Well, they did give him the title, "The Lord of Time", didn't they?

>Damn I wish this were a real movie. I'd really love to get that cut of
>99 Luftballons. I love that song.

Should be obvious.

>Soundproofing is good.

Amanda, Devlin, Rina and their hotel room. h_h

>Quote of my original reaction: The 1HW is CORWIN'S?!?!?!

First sight of the _One Hit Wonder_.

>Is, like, the entire Hutchins clan retro? If so, cool.

Brought on by the style of the above, but also just a general comment.

Blessed be
Nathan Baxter

Me? Or some other Bob? If me, how?

-- Bob
---------------
500 plastic ducks.
1 world.
Infinite possibilities.
http://www.ifoundaduck.com

Yes you. That was, like, the day after you came out with the Priss-picks-a-wedding-dress scene.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter
(So, you see, it was all _your_ fault... Sweetling.)

*head explodes* I want details!

>(So, you see, it was all _your_ fault... Sweetling.)
*shatter*

----------------
And the winner is... THE HYPNOTOAD! ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

I'd post the scene in a public area except I don't think that Gryphon and the other Powers That Be would appreciate it much. I'll send it your way in private mail.

-- Bob
---------------
500 plastic ducks.
1 world.
Infinite possibilities.
http://www.ifoundaduck.com

<shatter>
...ow...ow ....ow ....ow

That _hurt_ !!!

On a sidenote : R-Type , Redneck , nice fic there ^^

-Griever
I could write something here , but in my current
mood that wouldn't be wise .

Did someone invoke a DYO! around here?

--
Geoff Depew - Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Malakite of Lightning and Angel of Tech Support Professionals
(They won't give me LARTs, they say that's restricted to Michael.)

I've never been able to look at Nene the same way since...

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

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Sometimes fanfic is a love letter to canon, sometimes it's a polite disagreement, and sometimes it's 95 things canon did wrong nailed to a door."

I'm still baffled, but never mind...

>(So, you see, it was all _your_ fault... Sweetling.)

I just want to say, emphatically, that the "sweetling" is not my fault. The prereaders made me do it.

-- Bob
---------------
500 plastic ducks.
1 world.
Infinite possibilities.
http://www.ifoundaduck.com

Quote.

Ahem.

TOWER! WEDDING! REVOLUTION! LESBIANS! DESSERT! STUDS! PUNCHY! LEATHER!

Unquote.

>>(So, you see, it was all _your_ fault... Sweetling.)
>
>I just want to say, emphatically, that the "sweetling" is not my
>fault. The prereaders made me do it.

It's funny even when you haven't read the story. Which I hadn't.

In fact, until it was mentioned here, I had no clue where it came from.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter

Oh. That.

Okay, gotcha.

-- Bob
---------------
500 plastic ducks.
1 world.
Infinite possibilities.
http://www.ifoundaduck.com

Your pre-readers have a very good handle on BGC in-jokes ^_^

Is Sylia still moonlighting in a merry widow?

Regards,
Jeanne

http://www.jhedge.com
http://go.compuserve.com/Anime

Jeanne

<chuckle> Well, so do I -- it was intended as a tip o' the hat to Redneck and his infamous collaboration -- but I hadn't dared originally go as far as to include the trademark "sweetling". However, half a dozen of my prereaders demanded it. And who am I to buck the collective opinion of those whom I consult for their opinions, right? <grin>

>Is Sylia still moonlighting in a merry widow?

Not in my fic, she ain't. On-camera, at least...

-- Bob
---------------
500 plastic ducks.
1 world.
Infinite possibilities.
http://www.ifoundaduck.com

Ok I've just confirmed that the full version of the song is on the Advance Music Relase of Goldfingers Stomping Grounds cd. If you can get a hold of that cd you can have the full version of the song.

>
>>Damn I wish this were a real movie. I'd really love to get that cut of
>>99 Luftballons. I love that song.
>

Actually I know where that song is and off the Grand Turismo 3 Soundtrack. Since I work at a Radio Station as a DJ the station has an copy of the goldfinger album as an advance release type thing. If I remember correctly It has all the verses on it. I'll check again during my show to make sure, but I'm really sure its off the advance release. If I'm right then the hard part would be getting a copy of the advance release from somewhere.

Shawn Earl
Michigan Tech Student

Oh, I've already got the mp3 of the Goldfinger cut... I just wanna hear KAIT, or a reasonable approximation thereof, singing it.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter

Eee. Corwin did something Marcus-like? I'm going to have to kill him off now.

Then again, DJ did a Marcus impression one time in NXE, and...

... wait.

Uh-oh.

Sorry, Cor, we'll all miss you...

>Professor Farr says: "Oof!" and has four blackboard covered walls.

Heh. That anecdote, as related, actually happened to Professor Farr (a real WPI math professor) during a session of the calc class I had with him my year at WPI.

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

the telling in RoS doesn't quite have the same impact as hearing
the whole anecdote firsthand. I think it gets cut off before ProfFarr's
reaction at realizing what he's done.

-jer

--
jer@gweep.net
Ceci n'est pas une .signature

True. Upon reaching about 15/16 of the way around the room, he paused, his explanation of the operation he was demonstrating trailing off, and said, "... which brings me to this, which is... completely... wrong. I must have made a mistake someplace around... " (He gestured vaguely at the first board.) "... You guys might as well go, it's going to take me an hour to figure out what I did wrong."

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

*shatter*

Makes me wonder how many other slices of WPI life are showing up in SotS ^_^.

-- Sean --

http://www.thebrokenlink.org The Broken Link 4.0 is live!
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true'." -- Terry Pratchett
Follow my random thoughts
Follow my creative process

SoS just keeps getting better and better and better and better and better and better and better and better and better and better and better and better and better...

drakensisthered

Yes, I talk to files on my computer. No, I havent' been observed yet. Ignore the straitjacket and the padded walls of my cell.

The management accepts no responsibility for any difficulties resulting from ill-timed use of the product. Besides, who the fuck has final exams in early November?

(How did this become the active thread? It's been dormant for over a month... )

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

Australia, that's who. Our school year starts in Janurary, finishes in November.

>(How did this become the active thread? It's been
>dormant for over a month... )

Everyone saw the screaming and figured it was a suitable starting point.

Matrix Dragon

<blink>

Righto, that's one states school year, (sounds like one of the HSC* users.)
however, February to the first week of December is the typical 7-10 Victorian secondary school year, Year 11 early-mid November before unit 2 VCE** exams, Year 12 October/November before unit 4 VCE exams.

*Higher Schooling certificate. (I think that's right.)
**Victorian Certificate of Education.

Well, that's what it was when I went through it a few years back.

--Rod.H
"Blinkin' CATs, GATs & crossbreed GCSE texts!"

Matrix Dragon, sick of studying