You work so hard writing for us Wil. Thanks and while the no deadlines may slow it down a little, it’s probably for the better and will result in a better story.
Yeah, don’t we know it. Too bad I’m apparently not or possibly well-known good enough that people will immediately post comments the minute I start writing something ….
I understand your reasons, Mr. Martinez… and, I agree deadlines are only necessary if you make it a living.
But, you do have to understand… I can accept no excuses.
walks away, back turned, as a certain gaming store in Puerto Rico gets blown to oblivion.
I am sorry to hear about your setback, but I am glad that you are not rushing things. And I shall be happy to give you more information about my character should you require it, especially about my character’s special abilities, since they were too lengthy to describe in my profile.
I too can understand what its like to attempt creativity while under the pressure of a time limit. For me the results tend not to be pretty.
Also the only thing I would probably needed to discuss was the details of my character’s online persona, but I was also thinking since you’re the one writing this I figured that you probably had some other plan in mind. However, if you do have some questions about my character you still wish to ask then I’ll be happy to provide any answers necessary.
NOTE: If you wish, Wil, you could have something (perhaps a doppelganger) take my place and fool everybody else. I think that it would be an interesting twist. Of lime. Mmmm… lime.
Thanks for the support, guys. The good news is, I’ve done a major rewrite of the story, and I feel like I can start it tonight!! You see, I was trying to cram too much into a single plotline, but then I realized, "Hey, waitaminute. Why do I need a SINGLE plotline? I could have two, even three, and just interweave them as the story goes along! (this will probably mean our characters are going to split up for a while, but on the other hand, it may help focus more on each on them.) Amazing how this writing stuff works, no? One moment you’re stumped, the next it all fits together like a perfect puzzle. Frustrating, yet fulfilling! 
And Yar: Nobody read my stories when I started, either. One day somebody said, “hey, this are cool!” and I’ve been popular ever since. So don’t give up. (Sorry I haven’t commented on your story myself, but I have been busy, as you can guess. Later, OK?)
And, in other news: “A Board Game store next to a Video Game store in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, just exploded, for unknown reasons. Police are already looking into the matter, the FBI has been alerted about the possibility of a terrorist attack…”
PC Glenton: “Damn, missed by this much!”
:hahaha;
Well I can’t wait to see what you have come up with Wil, I’m sure it will be interesting.
And yeah having multiple storylines sounds like a good idea to me.
Whee, possible update tonight. and yeah, more agreements about the no deadline thing. do it at your own pace and I think it’ll turn out much better than if you were trying to rush it.
I’m available by pm if you need any additional info too.
Wil, I’ve been meaning to write up a character profile and whatnot to join in, but haven’t got around to it yet. Would it still be okay if I did it in the next day or so?
Sure, Demi. You’re still in time to be inserted in the story in a meaningful spot. But hurry up, please!
Btw, folks, my rewrite of the story (with multiple plotlines) means that some of your characters may not show up until late in the story. But trust me, everyone who joined WILL appear in it, sooner or later.
People read my story when I started. Then I got flown all around to see if I had a disease named after a mountain range, although accidentally, and never got around to finishing it.
Wil, although this may seem like a duh thing to you, it’d be cool to merge all the plotlines in the end, with many of the common threads coming together to solve something. That’s how writers usually do it in this case, anyway.
Magma: That’s what I have done in the past, however this year I’m trying something new. There IS, however, something that connects all the plotlines, which will probably only be revealed towards the end of the story.
Next chapter should be up either tomorrow or Friday, depends on what I have to do (I have to babysit Luis on Thursday.)
You’ll have to give me a bit of time to digest all this, Wil. It’s been awhile (and probably an alternate membership, since I don’t remember who I was, the last time I started reading your Christmas story. Were Terror and I still on AOL at the time? o0;;):runaway: bouncy
What really sucks is, I wrote everything out, and when I tried to post it, the darn system lost it, and told me that I was logged out, to boot. growl
LIIIIIZZ!! So glad you’re joining!! :biggrin: It’s OK, you’re still early enough that I can fit you in the story in a meaningful part. And if you somehow can’t post it, send it to me and I’ll post it for you!
For those of you who don’t know, that was Elizabeth Ensley, of New York, my very first pen pal, from back in the dark days of the 80’s when people had to actually WRITE each other letters, you know. This lady is not only a still active fan and a great friend, but is also largely responsible for my getting to be a fanfic writer as well. So, if you enjoy my stuff, remember to thank Liz as well for it! 
It’ll be an honor to include you in the story, Liz. Let the creative juices flow!!
Btw, the next chapter of the story will most likely be posted Monday.
Hi! waves I go by liz, or Dark. I’m also on GaiaOnline with the same ID.
Let’s see if I can re-create anytthing off the top of my head.
Her name is Liz, or Dark. She has the power of Copy-editing, and a tendency towards third person, which she seems to favor in her narrative. Her organization is The Writing Circle. She does have an AI, which is the cybernetic equivalent of a Bag of Holding, that she wears on her wrist, so can sometimes seem to pull something from nothing. The AI’s name is Closetchan, because of his storage capability, and he’s a bit sardonic, biut also rather sensitive about some things, like not having arms or legs. He does like to play chess, though he is not very good at it. With greying brunette hait and glasses, she tends to wear slacks, with tee shirts in the warmer weather, and turtlenecks in the colder weather. She is commonly followed around by her “granddaughter”, Terror’s “daughter” (Terror, Bunny Terror, or Coral), named Aeris. Aeris is a grey, striped tabby who has been “fixed” (though not broken) and not declawed. In other words, Aeris has some rather sharp little claws. Sometimes, much to Terror’s chagrin, she refers to Aeris as Rissy. Terror, by the way, is her daughter.
Oh, and Dark tends to favor bad puns and impromptu jokes, sometimes too esoteric for others to grasp. She is currently on enforced hiatus from World of Warcraft and her Forsaken, Forsaken Mage.
I have a feelnig that I might have missed a few points here and there, but I have tried to re-create the information that was lost.
:toast: Is that okay? Closetchan does not hoard weapons, btw.
Background is mysteriously hidden, but may have something to do with either penguins or aardvarks, or perhaps, both.
Hmm, not bad, Liz, but could you please rearrange it in the format we’re using? (That is: Identity, Personality, Appearance, Powers, Background and Plot.) That’s so I can track down the parts I need at any given moment more easily. In particular, I need the plot- that is, what you want the character to do, or happen to her. It doesn’t have to be too complex.
Well then, here we go:
Name: Poke (usually adds “Freak” as a sort of nick-last name, when one is needed)
Ocupation: Student at the local university
Location: Lives in north Sweden, but tends to stick around at RPGC a lot.
Group membership: RPGC member and in (self-appointed) charge of the coffee-maker even though he doesn’t drink coffee himself. 
Personality: First and foremost, Poke cares about his friends. He would be more than ready to die for them if absolutely necessary, although he would prefer if everyone survived.
Other than that, he’s very easy-going and tends to take things on a day by day basis without much planning ahead.
He also avoids all things with large amounts of responsibility attached, because he knows that his devil-may-care attitude would only lead to disaster.
Most of the he is joking and fooling around, but he can at least try to be serious when necessary.
He is also very bad at admitting that he needs help, since he doesn’t like to bother people who already have enough of their own problems.
(Thinking more: “Well, they’ve already dealing with…” rather than “No, I can handle this on my own”. Even if they aren’t obviously dealing with something at that moment.)
Appearance: 22 year old human man with blue hair and glasses. Usually wears whatever he happens to pick up in the morning. His wardrobe mostly contains jeans, t-shirts and hoodies (and he prefers ones that can be opened in the front like a jacket, if it gets too warm.)
Powers: He has incredible strong powers of summoning, but he has never had any luck trying to control it. This means that even if he has the potential to be able to summon almost anything, he rarely succeeds in summoning what he wants and ends up with… Well, almost anything. 
Due to this problem he avoids using his powers unless it’s a really-can’t-get-any-worse-than-this crisis.
He also has a knack for remembering what he calls “mindre viktigt vetande” (sorta translates into “less important knowings”), little bits of trivia knowledge that rarely, if ever, can be put to pratical use.
(Like that the Tic-Tac-Tecs had the only documented naboteistic (neighbor-worshipping, so your neighbor is also your personal god) society. ^^
…Umm… It’s from a series of articles that used to be on the back of one of my favorite comics “Herman Hedning”, only availible in Sweden as far as I know, though… 
And those pages were called “Mindre Viktigt Vetande”. That’s where I took the term from. ;P)
He usually avoids carrying weapons, but if he has to he prefers to use a staff because it’s easy to use and it’s harder to kill people with it than with a sharp weapon/firearm (at least for an inexperienced used like him :P).
Background: Born and raised in a small village in north Sweden, he had a very “normal” life.
He was a bit dreamy and always a bit “in his own little world”, but hey, who isn’t sometime?
It was around his mid-teens that he discovered that he wasn’t actually “just a little out of touch with the world”, or more precisely: He was too much in touch with other realities. And he realized this because he found out that he could use that to cast summoning magic, which he discovered one night after reading too much Lovecraft.
Luckily he managed to instinctively abort the summoning, or Cthulhu would have found a new bed in the swedish city of Umeå instead of sunken R’lyeh. And that would have been the best case scenario.
He did manage to recover mentally enough to go on living a normal life since the accidental summoning happened behind him, and he never really <I>saw</I> anything.
He was also very fortunate that there was no one else around, so he could cover up the incident by claiming that he had been sick for a few days, and that’s why he was absent from school.
Needless to say; the feeling of having a great unnameable horror breathing down your neck left a bit of an impression on Poke though, and is the main reason, along with his inexperience, for his unstable powers.
After joining RPGC, he’s been thinking about asking for help, since there’s so many powerful mages around, but everytime it seems like they already have enough of their own problems, so he just keeps it to himself.
Lately he has realized that he can’t keep running away from it anymore though, since he had to use them during an attack on the RPGC headquarters, and he was just lucky that he didn’t make things worse. But as for next time; who knows?
Plot: Poke’s recently been away from RPGC for an extended period of time. He just calls it “some minor personal troubles” if people ask.
What really happened was that he had decided to try to learn to use his powers properly and discovered that he could also use them “in reverse” and appear near his intended target instead of the other way around.
If he would have to explain it, he would probably say that it’s “like throwing a lasso at something, but when you try to pull it in, you’re instead pulled towards it because it weighs more than you”.
Unfortunately, this also was very uncontrolled and he got lost for some time before finding his way back to this world again.
(I’m not sure where he’s been off to, but probably a lot of alternate Earths, while trying to find his way back to this <i>this</I> Earth.
Also, he could possibly have used you (who could probably help him) or Weiila (who’s a close friend) as an “anchor” to get himself back, so you can feel free to throw me in anywhere you feel like.)
His main concern at the moment is to get help with his powers to avoid things like this happening again, other than, of course, helping his friends and making sure that the coffe-maker stays in working condition.
Oddly enough, I feel like the last one will cause the most trouble, considering what kind of people are using it.
If he gets some more control over his powers he could possibly use them for other things like travel and portals, but so far all he’s managed to do is pull things, and mostly himself recently, back and forth between worlds.
(And just because I think people probably wonder:
The coffee-machine thing is a joke that came to me after a summer-job. We summer-workers would always take the last five to ten minutes of our day to clean the lunch room and the coffee-machine there. At first it just started with us asking what to do for the last ten minutes of our day, and we would be sent off to clean the lunch room since it couldn’t hurt to have it extra clean.
So I would jokingly say that the most important thing I learned there was how to clean out the coffee-machine, since it was apparently important enough to be done every day. And also because no working place could function without proper coffee. :P)
Well, I believe that should be it.
If you want me to elaborate on anything, just let me know.