It is currently 7:50 PM CST 8-30-15.
Editing will be reviewed at midnight, and I will decide if it needs further review at that point or if to post. If it is not posted then it will be posted by 7 PM tomorrow evening CST.
There’s no need to make comments — feel free to edit the text directly — unless you have a question,in which comments are the best way to go.
I don’t know who put in the line about Tela Vasir and her adventures on Korlus but I am totally using that in this chapter. 😀
Feeling kind of crappy today (ankle pain, some minor nerve pain) and my mother feels a bit down, but I was able to get some work done on TWCD.
No idea yet when I’ll do the next chapter — but it isn’t dead and neither am I.
I am now at least able to work again, for the most part. I have a big backlog of PM’s and emails to reply to, but I thank everyone for their well wishes and support 🙂
Today’s thought designed to break your mind:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk  , specifically the part about BLIT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_%28short_story%29) is relevant in terms of my version of the Reapers.
So far, I have been told the following:
So, yay. I have to go in Tuesday for something called a Myelogram with CT Scan. Whatever that is.
At this point I have no idea how long this will take. I could get off lucky, only need endoscopic ‘adjustment’ , be done by the end of next week or the week after and back to normal. Or I could need to have the more heavy duty surgical corrections/replacements/fusions done. Ugh.
If it looks like I’ll be incapacitated for a long period of time (like months) then I’ll probably release the outline drafts of the rest of the works I have and my notes to anyone who thinks they can keep the series going. Otherwise, just pretend this is another random hiatus I’m on.
If pain allows tomorrow (it seems to be a bit better today) I might write something.
I’m pretty much reduced to trying to write when my back is not forcing me to lay down at this point. I’ll have to go in and see a doctor Monday (assuming I can get in, maybe Tuesday), as this is now at a point where I’m having to stop and lay down every other hour to get the pain to decrease.
I’ve been working on two chapters at the same time, one for Liara/Telanya and one for Shepard. Based on the feedback, I think I’ll intermix the two approaches — one Sheppy chapter, then a cutaway chapter to someone else. That should satisfy everyone.
A reader is planning on starting up a ME themed role-playing session incorporating some of the stuff from my background. I think that’s a pretty neat idea, and I’ve been giving some thought to maybe trying to run a campaign online like that. There’s enough online tools (voice chat and cams, online tabletops and dice-sets and the like) that it could be done remotely, although I don’t know how many people would be interested in such a thing.
My goals for this year are as follows:
Time for more Vicodin.
Back is acting up pretty bad, and I’m on-call at work this week, both of which have derailed my update speed.
Working on the Garrus intro first. The prologue will have quite a few chapters as I set up the stage, before getting back to Shepard.
I’m going to make everyone hate Aria almost as much as they hate the Systems Alliance. But not ham-handedly. You should, in a way, feel sorry for Aria, once the whole story comes out.
ATTWN is now in the download link.
Anyone needing a .PDF or word version should comment in this post, assuming enough people want one I can make them and add them to the DL menu.
So, I’ve already got the first chapter of the next one out. I’m pretty sure that I’m tripping, since I’m listening to looped repeats of the following themes: Orichimaru’s Theme, the Atasuki theme, the Imperial March, Diablo’s Theme, and Big Boss’s End Music.
Fear. 😀
And Then There Were None has been completed.
I am … going to sleep now, and try to fix my brain before more crackfic leaks out.
I’ve been thinking it’s time to seriously overhaul and expand this thing. Break out each of the five ‘schools’ into more detailed explanations, create more information how biotic powers can be blended, how biotic explosions work, and more biotic and anti-biotic technology.
I’m interested in what YOU want to see in the Encyclopedia. After all if you bother to follow this place you are part of the team that helps OSABC grow.
Or should I focus on finishing ATTWN?
SECOND BIG QUESTION: Â I’ve put a poll up on my profile at FF.net (which is not showing, but eventually will) about possible names for the ME2 piece.
The choices are :
That Which Cannot Die
Revengance
Lost Innocence
The Sexual Adventures of Shepard With Naked Thane (only Progman should select this one)
Let me know which one you like.