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Topher Lydon

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  1. It's nice to see the Budding friendship between Hollis and T'Virith pay off. Even if they are carrying each other's pillows.
  2. Also I am aware there are 30 babies, not 29... my AI editor which runs consistency checks, does not. It seems to think Rudy is something else entirely. So instead of me manually editing reams of text, I will refer to Rudy as the Hollis-ling, because it is more amusing and less work for me. Long live Rudy Hollis!
  3. Some of you are aware that I have been very unwell of late. I am getting through the other side of it. But it has meant that my usual output is severely curtailed. This is as much as I have written so far of this little tale. So I am going to put a TO BE CONTINUED on this story, and switch tomorrow to something else. I will return to the crew of the Zodiac, and their adventures. But I need to write some more of it and let my health recover some. Thank you for understanding.
  4. The lower cargo bay of the USS Zodiac smelled distinctively of ozone, recycled air, and the lingering, unmistakable scent of burnt synthesized coffee. It was a cavernous, dimly lit space where the bulkheads were scarred with plasma burns and the deck plates were a patchwork quilt of mismatched, scavenged metal. It was a space that spoke of desperate survival, reckless improvisation, and a complete disregard for Spaceforce aesthetic regulations. Currently, it was serving as a classroom.
  5. Three hundred pounds is a good start, enough to fend the debtors off for a little while. And keep the tennants fed... maybe get essential repairs done. And buy medicine for Tom's mother. It won't clear debts, but it buys them a bit of time.
  6. Paddy is a treat that I am writing in. Surrogate father to Eddie, and keenly aware of little Tommy Harker's plight. I like how he's seen the true measure of Edward, and approves. This is a good man in ruin, and despite that ruin, Eddie is doing his best to live up to his responsibilities. Jonas is good for the little Lord.
  7. With the Toddlers, pretty much
  8. He's got to baby sit the incredibly bored, incredibly horny intern or doom.
  9. Good Morning The boys are up to no good
  10. The cold that descended upon the county of Kent in the deep, unforgiving dead of December was not merely an absence of heat; it was a physical, malicious, and entirely predatory entity. It did not simply chill the skin, it actively hunted for the marrow of the bone, seeking out the vulnerabilities of the living with a ruthless, icy efficiency. The winter wind howled off the frozen, desolate stretches of the northern marshes, sweeping across the barren fields to batter mercilessly against the dec
  11. Spike would like to remind you, that a couple of extra inches are always welcome.
  12. Special Agent Arthur Crin stood in the shadow of a commercial dumpster in a downtown Los Angeles alleyway, the humid night air pressing against his bespoke Italian suit like a damp towel. He was a man who appreciated order. He believed in systems, in hierarchies, and in the overwhelming, irresistible force of the Federal Bureau of Magical Investigation. He had spent his entire career neutralizing threats that defied the laws of physics, and he had done so with a cold, terrifying efficiency that
  13. I wanted to capture a moment for Hollis, a sense of loss. His sacrifice allowed Tweek to be found. But Melvin Hollis will not be so hard to forget. Rudy Hollis has some big shoes to fill.
  14. "We did not trigger the chronological fracture," Hollis said, his voice terrifyingly calm, projecting the absolute, uncompromising authority of a man who had faced down warlords and cosmic horrors. He sat completely rigid against the bindings. "We are an exploration vessel. We came to offer assistance." "Lies," the alien commander spat, his scarred face twisting with revulsion. "You are Terrans. You are a plague of interference. You shattered our world, and now you hover over the ruins lik
  15. Ashworth Hall has slipped into ruin, doing the Maths Edward is about 25000 - 30000 pounds in debt. A debt that runs about fifty times the income from that an estate in this condition would bring in through it's ruin. Even with the best intentions, the debt his father left him is catastrophic.
  16. Home and Hearth Lord Edward is learning the cost of that title Good Morning
  17. The journey out of London had been a blur of cold, mud, and the bone-deep, soul-hollowing exhaustion of a man who had stopped sleeping three days earlier. The hired carriage rattled violently over the deeply rutted roads, the wooden wheels slamming into potholes hidden beneath the freezing slush, sending jarring shocks up through the thin leather squabs. Edward sat rigid in the gloom, his eyes burning with fatigue, watching the man he loved slip further and further away. Jonas had not spok
  18. Park left standing holding a pink sea shell and a tear. We all know Guy's his sweetheart.
  19. The transition from the blinding, sterile white lines of warp travel to the cold, static void of real-space was violent enough to rattle the teeth in Daniel Hollis’s skull. The USS Zodiac-A dropped out of faster-than-light travel with a bone-jarring shudder that tested the absolute limits of the brand-new inertial dampening field. On the bridge, the thirty cadets were thrown hard against their freshly unwrapped consoles. Sirens immediately began to wail—not the proximity alarms of the Sp
  20. Edward has found himself the most dangerous thing to an eccentric like Amelia, Interesting. She, herself is a fascinating non-conformist. Refusing marriage, keeping herself out of the traps of the Ton. She often wore men's clothes, rumoured to have a child out of wedlock. Possibly a Lesbian (but as the classification did not exist in the 1740's was just "affectionate" to her female companions) She is one of the few people that were untouchable in that era. Even her Nephew George III would routinely be scolded by her later in life. Most importantly, she was no one's fool, had a spy network that was second to none, and guarded her father closely.
  21. Interesting fact about the highly intelligent, and very dangerous Henry Fielding, the Magistrate. He wrote Tom Thumb. He also wrote Tom Jones, as well as Amelia Often credited as the father of the Modern Novel.
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