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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sagiro" data-source="post: 1393284" data-attributes="member: 726">Hi Talix!  I'm glad you've enjoyed the story so far, and were willing to slog through the whole thing up to now.Let's be honest -- you're doing me a courtesy when you say the beginning was only slightly dry.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  For those who don't realize:  the early parts of the campaign diary were never meant for public consumption.  I wrote them for my own benefit so that I wouldn't forget later what happened during the runs.  For the most part it's crude, uninteresting shorthand, and I wouldn't pretend otherwise.   Only later, when I started posting here, did I begin to describe the campaign in true narrative fashion.If days were 36 hours long instead of 24, I'd go back and rewrite all that early stuff as story, rather than as notes.  As it is, I'm almost done with a special "bonus feature" for all you longtime sufferers -- er, readers, I mean -- of the story.  It's a 20-page "prologue" about what each of the original 7 characters was doing when Abernathy's summons came.  (It's meant to replace the three lame opening paragraphs of the current version.)  I'm only waiting now for Piratecat to get back to me with comments and changes for Dranko's, and then I'll be ready to post it.  (Not that I'm inviting you to hurry him up or anything -- he's a busy man!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)Regarding the links:  I don't think they're hard-coded to a sever anymore.  If you go to the link on the first page of this Story Hour, it should all just work.  If it's still bad, let me know.Finally, your last comment makes me realize that I should put a link to StevenAC's jaw-droppingly-cool .pdf at the start of this Story Hour.  Thanks again for reading!  Now I need to go pack a million boxes.-Sagiro</blockquote>

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