For The Love

[Bondwriter]

Hmm, I trust you that's it going to be really cool! And what about that 'blood thicker that water'? Is Eric adopted?

Hey, Ieshwar, welcome to the thread! I thought about it too, but since CJames has vowed not to use clich

[old bob]

OK, I do have some news; I'm leaving for up to two weeks. I'll be leaving the evening of June 6th, heading for Wyoming to do some camping and hiking, deep in the wilderness. I'll have little if any chance to log onto the 'net.

All being well I'll be back in under two weeks

CJ

Hi CJ,

have a nice trip

When you are back, tell how was the hiking

In the meantime I will read with pleasure all your chapters.

Take care ( snakes, pumas, aso..... :2hands: )

old Bob

[TalonRider]

If you see a bird flying around above you, it just might be me keeping an eye on you.

 

Jan

[C James]

Your posting average is going to plummet! Keep being shy in Wyoming!

 

But I almost never post anyway...

 

Have a safe and happy trip, CJ!

I'm at a conference for a couple of days of next week, so I may be slow to read the next chapter. I'm looking forward to it, though.

Cheers!

Graeme

 

Thanks Graeme! Have a safe and happy trip yourself!

 

I don't know about Steve but I sure will! By the way, do goats and echidnas like spiders?

 

I finally managed to catch up with the chapters and decided to post a comment. James, it's a really wonderful story. When you read it, you're sure going to enjoy it. I did! So you're doing a great job! I wonder what's about the data stick? Hmm, I trust you that's it going to be really cool! And what about that 'blood thicker that water'? Is Eric adopted?

C ya soon

Ieshwar

P.S Well, GA will seem empty without the lurker!

 

Hi Ieshwar, welcome back!

 

I think Echidnas eat spiders... uhoh!

 

I can't answer about Eric, except to ponder one possibility; what if the contents of the data stick are the details of a cloning experiment gone amiss, and Eric was the one cloned, there now being thousands of him?

 

Hey, Ieshwar, welcome to the thread! I thought about it too, but since CJames has vowed not to use clich

Edited May 27, 2007 by C James

[TalonRider]

Uhoh... do birds of prey eat goats???

 

Considering the size of your average goat, I don't know if there's a bird of prey big enough to tackle one.

 

Jan

[Ieshwar]

Jan, watch out. Don't forget the dead red laser beams behind those black googles. Goats can be VERY dangerous!

 

Ieshwar

[C James]

Considering the size of your average goat, I don't know if there's a bird of prey big enough to tackle one.

Jan

 

I'm very relieved!

 

Jan, watch out. Don't forget the dead red laser beams behind those black googles. Goats can be VERY dangerous!

 

Ieshwar

 

Thank you, Ieshwar!

 

Yes, there is a reason I wear sunglasses.

[Bondwriter]

 

If this bird (a condor) is big enough to lift Snowy in the air, what about

 

CAPRA HIRCUS? Depicted underneath: less than 2 ft high, weighing UP TO 50 lbs.

 

 

(Sorry to put up goat erotica, since the animals are in the nude, and it may get some strong reaction from the goats seeing this. It's not considered illegal, since the typing/ speaking goats haven't been banned and prohibited - yet.)

[TalonRider]

Now those I could probably handle.

 

I've added a borrowed phrase from one of my favorite sci/fan stories to my siggy.

 

Thanks for the warning Ieshwar. I'll add an accessory to reflect the beams back.

 

Jan

[C James]

 

If this bird (a condor) is big enough to lift Snowy in the air, what about

 

CAPRA HIRCUS? Depicted underneath: less than 2 ft high, weighing UP TO 50 lbs.

 

 

(Sorry to put up goat erotica, since the animals are in the nude, and it may get some strong reaction from the goats seeing this. It's not considered illegal, since the typing/ speaking goats haven't been banned and prohibited - yet.)

 

Banned or prohibited, yet?

 

Awww, what discrimination I face! It's not easy being a goatwriter...

 

Condors are, fortunately for me, mainly scavengers of carion. In other words, very big vultures. I've only seen a Condor in this area once, though it was easy to distinguish; the biggest birds we normally have around here are Eagles, which only have a wingspan of about 6 or 7 feet (2 meters for our foreign contingent. ) The Condor has about a 10-ft wingspan, (over 3 meters) so nothing else is quite that big.

 

Condors are very odd birds... But, they are called the California Condor, so some weirdness is to be expected.

 

Now those I could probably handle.

 

I've added a borrowed phrase from one of my favorite sci/fan stories to my siggy.

 

Thanks for the warning Ieshwar. I'll add an accessory to reflect the beams back.

Jan

 

Now, now, goat-hunting is beneath a great raptor such as yourself! Surely you would prefer more challenging prey, a 747 perhaps?

 

BTW, Due to my looming vacation in next week, Chapter 28 won't be posted at midnight tonight (monday, Arizona time) becuase it will be posted on Tuesday afternoon (the exact time depends on work, which I cannot predict, sorry).

 

The double-length chapter, #29, will be posted Wednesday, June 6th. (Emoe and Bondwriter willing, that is, as I don't have it back yet)

 

In further story news, I'll resume posting on a regular schedule when I return (so the hiatus should be under two weeks) and shortly thereafter I'll start posting, alongside the final 5 chapters of FTL, the first chapters of my next serial, "Let the Music Play". LTMP is very different in many ways to FTL, though it is still an action/adventure.

[Conner]

...

In further story news, I'll resume posting on a regular schedule when I return (so the hiatus should be under two weeks) and shortly thereafter I'll start posting, alongside the final 5 chapters of FTL, the first chapters of my next serial, "Let the Music Play". LTMP is very different in many ways to FTL, though it is still an action/adventure.

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Hey there goat buddy, Mr. Moderator goat-dude! I have an idea. I get one every year around this time. :wacko: I don't have them often 'cause they make my head hurt.

 

How about posting something from LTMP in the Sneak Peeks section. Like Now!

 

Just a suggestion. please please please please please please please please

[Bondwriter]

How about posting something from LTMP in the Sneak Peeks section. Like Now!

If only there could be a goats only forum, you'd have read chapter 1 already. Drugs, rock n' roll, no sex though. But I wouldn't want to spoil it for you.

[C James]

If only there could be a goats only forum, you'd have read chapter 1 already. Drugs, rock n' roll, no sex though. But I wouldn't want to spoil it for you.

 

Ahh, but there is a goats-only forum! You just aren't allowed in there. You lack the prerequisite number of feet.

 

Hey there goat buddy, Mr. Moderator goat-dude! I have an idea. I get one every year around this time. :wacko: I don't have them often 'cause they make my head hurt.

 

How about posting something from LTMP in the Sneak Peeks section. Like Now!

 

Just a suggestion. please please please please please please please please

 

There is an old saying: Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it.

 

The prologue for "Let the Music Play" is up in the sneak-peeks forum. The genre, BTW, is action/adventure though it is quite different from FTL.

 

:nuke: WARNING: :nuke: This is unedited, un-betad, un-proofread, un-anythingd.

 

Criticisms are very welcome.

[TalonRider]

Now, now, goat-hunting is beneath a great raptor such as yourself! Surely you would prefer more challenging prey, a 747 perhaps?

I never said I'd be goat-hunting. This is what I said, "If you see a bird flying around above you, it just might be me keeping an eye on you."

 

Jan

[C James]

I never said I'd be goat-hunting. This is what I said, "If you see a bird flying around above you, it just might be me keeping an eye on you."

 

Jan

 

I have no objection to being kept an eye on, I just don't want to become lunch.

 

Chapter 28, "Data Stick Shuffle", is up!

 

Enjoy!

[Conner]

Chapter 28 was stupendous, CJ!

 

A whole lot is revealed in this chapter. Two things struck me as being particularly important.

 

First there's a pool party coming up for Chad's birthday!!! oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!

 

Second...

 

Steve and I left, trying hard to keep straight faces, succeeding until we pulled away in my Jeep. Steve laughed, "I think we wound Veronica up pretty good. It's not often that somebody manages to get her goat."

 

Veronica has a goat! Isn't that sweet!

 

I hope the 'somebody' who got her goat gives him back!

 

Thanks, CJ!

 

Conner

[C James]

Chapter 28 was stupendous, CJ!

 

A whole lot is revealed in this chapter. Two things struck me as being particularly important.

 

First there's a pool party coming up for Chad's birthday!!! oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!

 

Second...

Veronica has a goat! Isn't that sweet!

 

I hope the 'somebody' who got her goat gives him back!

 

Thanks, CJ!

 

Conner

 

Thanks Conner!

 

I couldn't resist the "got her goat" line.

 

One other important bit of info in the chapter; we now know who Eric's real father is.

 

Oh, and a comment from GRaeme on the last chapter;

 

Another good chapter. Lots of action and lots of useful information. We still don't know what's going on (for sure), but unless CJ is an absolute bastard (always a possibility) we should find out what's on the data stick in next chapter.

 

However, because I'm sure CJ is a bastard (no offense intended towards his mother), Dex is going to run out of money and the pay phone he's using will cut out at just the wrong time....

 

I can offer no other explanation other than Graeme is psychic; Dex didn't run out of $$$, but he got the rest spot-on (and this chapter was already back from Emoe before Graeme made that comment, so i didn't just copy the idea).

Edited May 29, 2007 by C James

[Jack Scribe]

One other important bit of info in the chapter; we now know who Eric's real father is.

 

LOVED THE CHAPTER.

 

"I say, humph, praise the Lord and pass the porno," the Rev growled in the background.

 

To me, the dribble of one line that stated the data stick "contains thousands of..." is an important key.

 

In a multiple choice test, this might be thousands of:

1. Credit Card numbers and porn site clients.

2. Pictures of nude pictures of Joseph Gordon-Levitt (For Myr's amusement).

3. Inspired song lyrics (For Bondwriter).

4. Shepherds Pie recipes using goat meat.

 

Jack

[Bondwriter]

I don't see how you people can go praising this chapter. Now we know how purely evil CJames is. Satan, Lucifer, Leviathan are some of his names. After about four lines reading, I scrolled down, having the uneasy feeling that indeed the shuffle stuff was meant as "I'm stalling and will hide these vital information from you". Then I screamed out loud, I cursed, I screamed more.

 

I went on reading, and with all my anger and frustration of not learning what would happen, I went searching for any flaw in the chapter. Something that would make it a pure gimmick, some problem making the trick kill the story. And I couldn't find any. All scenes work well. He gets my goat.

 

So I have to agree with Graeme's statement of last week: CJames is a bastard. Well, Eric is too. I just can't wait to learn if the Sheriff and the philandering preacher sell drugs, weapons, human beings or military secrets. Apparently it's not porn...

 

*taps his fingers nervously*

[C James]

LOVED THE CHAPTER.

 

"I say, humph, praise the Lord and pass the porno," the Rev growled in the background.

 

To me, the dribble of one line that stated the data stick "contains thousands of..." is an important key.

 

In a multiple choice test, this might be thousands of:

1. Credit Card numbers and porn site clients.

2. Pictures of nude pictures of Joseph Gordon-Levitt (For Myr's amusement).

3. Inspired song lyrics (For Bondwriter).

4. Shepherds Pie recipes using goat meat.

 

Jack

 

Before anyone lynches me for the "Data Stick Shuffle", I will say that the contents are revealed to the readers in full in FTL Ch 29.

(no tricks this time).

 

Quite some time ago, the point was raised (By Graeme, I think) that it was incongruous that a gang of criminals would accept a teen into their midst as they did Eric. The short-term "explanation" in the text was that he was providing info from the LVPD, but, now we know the real reason; It's a family affair!

 

And yes, the "thousands of" is an important clue.

 

There is other foreshadowing in the chapter, too.

[C James]

Before anyone lynches me for the "Data Stick Shuffle", I will say that the contents are revealed to the readers in full in FTL Ch 29.

(no tricks this time).

 

Quite some time ago, the point was raised (By Graeme, I think) that it was incongruous that a gang of criminals would accept a teen into their midst as they did Eric. The short-term "explanation" in the text was that he was providing info from the LVPD, but, now we know the real reason; It's a family affair!

 

And yes, the "thousands of" is an important clue.

 

There is other foreshadowing in the chapter, too.

I don't see how you people can go praising this chapter. Now we know how purely evil CJames is. Satan, Lucifer, Leviathan are some of his names. After about four lines reading, I scrolled down, having the uneasy feeling that indeed the shuffle stuff was meant as "I'm stalling and will hide these vital information from you". Then I screamed out loud, I cursed, I screamed more.

 

I went on reading, and with all my anger and frustration of not learning what would happen, I went searching for any flaw in the chapter. Something that would make it a pure gimmick, some problem making the trick kill the story. And I couldn't find any. All scenes work well. He gets my goat.

 

So I have to agree with Graeme's statement of last week: CJames is a bastard. Well, Eric is too. I just can't wait to learn if the Sheriff and the philandering preacher sell drugs, weapons, human beings or military secrets. Apparently it's not porn...

 

*taps his fingers nervously*

 

Hehehehe... What? Me? Evil?

 

Yep, Ch 28 was an effort to "get the reader's Goat" but there are real revelations in there too. For example, Eric really is a bastard, in the literal if not the figurative sense.

 

Now we know why the Williams went away; she dragged Mr. Williams to a counseling center to tell him the news.

 

[Jack Frost]

lol I love it.

 

At least I know why Eric is f**ked up...he's related to the Emoe guy and Piedmont Sheriff... I knew he had some bad blood in him.

[TalonRider]

This was a good chapter. And I had my suspicions about who Eric dad is.

 

Let's watch picking on this Emoe guy, he happens to be one my editing team.

 

Jan

[C James]

lol I love it.

 

At least I know why Eric is f**ked up...he's related to the Emoe guy and Piedmont Sheriff... I knew he had some bad blood in him.

 

ROFL! Yes indeed, and given that it's amazing that he didn't turn out to be a bad guy himself.

 

This was a good chapter. And I had my suspicions about who Eric dad is.

 

Let's watch picking on this Emoe guy, he happens to be one my editing team.

Jan

 

I once read somewhere that a writer should endeavor to make his editor feel like part of the story...

 

But, Emoe should be thankful, he could have ended up with Blackheart's role.

[Jack Frost]

Let's watch picking on this Emoe guy, he happens to be one my editing team.

I knew all the long Emoe the Editor the father of Eric.

 

Is Emoe gay? Yeah right...