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Part the Two-Hundred Fourteenth In which: two of our heroes find tests before them. When the party received their charge, King Orrin described the attributes the next Chancellor would have to possess: When the liaisons ask their charges who best represents these qualities, they get many...

Hey, no forsaking here. Next update is in the pipeline and will hopefully be ready for primetime very soon. Following that, there will probably be news on the state of the story hour, and what I'm expecting to do for the next couple of months.

Oh. My. God. I... I'm out of words Destil. That was fabulous.

Gah, I had no idea that this update was going to be such a bear to bring together. The long silence was entirely unintentional. But at last... Part the Two-Hundred Thirteenth In which: Anvil finds that cold is indeed Kettenek’s element. With Lira once again alive, and being taken care of by...

Race you?

As megamania reminds us, it's good to take all of this with a grain of salt. Do what works for you. (And for the record, my updates have gotten longer as they've become less frequent, now usually between 1,500 and 2,000 words.)

el-remmen and I think similarly on this one. When I first started working on the story hour, I went to Piratecat's thread, found I post that I thought was just on the long side, copied it into Word and ran wordcount. It was about 1,100 words. So I decided my posts should be between 900 and...

Great post el-remmen. I think you've articulated some very good points about the nature of this particular beast. Especially: I know that when I was reguarly updating two or three times a week, it meant that I was literally working on the story hour every single day. And those updates were...

(I only wouldn't believe them because I spend ten minutes every morning thinking about fluffy kittens to banish the demons of the night.) Yeah, I/Lira spent some quality time going over the little score card in my head: column 1: signs Ehkt wants me to get myself killed; column 2: signs Ehkt...

Part the Two-Hundred Twelfth In which: before we continue… The pain is so strong it’s like its own being. It stands beside Lira on the deck of the Count’s barge, growling, waiting to take her away into unconsciousness. She ignores it. One of Lira’s arms hangs useless at her side. Lady...

Interesting question. I might have briefly toyed with the idea of letting Lira really be dead dead, but I don't think I ever really seriously considered it, mostly because there didn't seem to be a good reason to. At a game level, I was still enjoying playing her, at an emotional level the...

She is indeed. (And I hear you made it over to Atlas at SoCal. Awesome.)

Part the Two-Hundred Eleventh In which: our heroes return… all of them. And so, nearly six months to the day since they last left the city, the party returns to the friendly harbors of Dar Pykos. Meeting the ship are Professor Alexandra, Tenacious the Just, and Dame Jenna of the Attendants...

Yes, it's time for my traditional Wednesday before GenCon SoCal announcement that yes, we'll be there! If you're going to Anaheim this weekend look for Anvil "Bad Monkey" Jeff Tidball at the Atlas Games booth, demo-ing his new game Pieces of Eight. You might also run into WisdomLikeSilence...

It looks likely that myself and some other Halmae types will be there Saturday, possibly Friday night. "Bad Monkey" Jeff Tidball will be working the Atlas booth all weekend, so stop by and get him to demo Pieces of Eight for you. (Tell him Kettenek's Justice demands it!).

First of all, thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes! el remmen: Fajitas has nailed the explanation of the negotiations perfectly. It was just an arty time-cut, nothing mysterious. :) (Although it had never occurred to me that he [Fajitas or El-Suki] hadn't thought about how the...

Part the Two-Hundred Tenth In which: spyscribe gets to play Kiara… and has far too much fun. Tentatively, the business of the County begins to grind forward once again. Captain Bellamy shouts his guards back into some semblance of order. Although he continues to look darkly at any member of...

Yeah, that was really Reyu. And, in fact, really WisdomLikeSilence. It makes sense, but you have to mentally read it with a tone of honest confusion. I mean, Reyu can see how people can know Etienne, obviously. And she can imagine that if you saw him from a distance, and noticed the robes...

Oh, so that's why it was so important to BadMonkeyJeff that he be known at the C-wad. Penny just dropped. That's even more awesome than I thought it was. :) According to what I scrawled on Euro's character sheet when I got back to the game. Euro got a +4 to his attack while raging, and on...

When I started out three and a half years ago, I kept updates shorter than I do now, trying for right around 1000 words. Mostly because when I'm reading a story hour, I don't want each new update to be a huge time commitment. These days, as long as the story is tight, I don't worry if an...