I'm sorry, Jean. Consider the matter dropped.


(As an aside, the Deians were lucky they tried to make contact with others when they did. Their homeworld is at the edge of the Kzinti Zone of Influence - the region of Fed space which used to be part of the Hegemony until the Border Declaration. Had they tried to reach out to the universe at an earlier time, they could have ended up like the Cygnans or Peladine for their troubles...)

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 09:37 pm: Edit

Loren
I promise you if it comes to my torture versus "I can't talk about it until PD Tholians is printed" I'm going to win.

My ex fiance one year before Christmas started making a big deal "Wait until you see your present, you'll never guess what it is." Over and over again.

One day I came home from work and put some bags on top of the television and said "Those are your presents. Don't look at them."

Believe me. I know torture!

regards
Stacy

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 09:44 pm: Edit

Torture is what my subjects beg for.

By Gary Plana (Garyplana) on Monday, March 29, 2010 - 12:51 am: Edit

Other Gary:

If I was a member of a species that had First Contact with the Federation during the General War years?

The conversation would go something like this:

You're at war with several other empires and you want us to do what?

Whaaa? Join the Federation?

We don't have nothing against the bumpy-heads and their pet kitties ...

I like being neutral during a really big war ...

Come back and talk to us after you WIN the war. If you LOSE, forget you ever met us!

Universal Translator clicks off; followed by silence ...

By Terry "Full Stop" O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Monday, March 29, 2010 - 02:37 am: Edit

[Jean straps Loren to a table with a huge laser pointed at it]

Loren: "Do you expect me to talk?!"
Jean: "No, Mr. Knight. I expect you to finish PD Tholians."

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Monday, March 29, 2010 - 02:59 am: Edit

THEN he can die.
regards
Stacy

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Monday, March 29, 2010 - 11:06 am: Edit

No killing Loren on the BBS. It tends to get blood on the BBS and make it slippery. Scorch marks mean scrubbing.

However, there is nothing that says that you guys cannot continue playing with inserting Loren into "interesting" movie scenes and altering the dialogue ...

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Monday, March 29, 2010 - 01:05 pm: Edit

In the PD Feds topic?

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Monday, March 29, 2010 - 02:55 pm: Edit

Jean
We're not talking about killing Loren on the BBS. We're talking about killing him on the table with a laser beam!
regards
Stacy

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 12:27 am: Edit

Stacy, the BBS is like a house and the topics are like rooms. You are killing Loren with a laser beam in the Feds Background. That is sure to leave scorch marks all over the place.

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 12:31 am: Edit

Terry
Let's drag the table OUTSIDE!
regards
Stacy

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 01:05 am: Edit

* Smacks Stacy's knuckles with the # 8 Griswold cast-iron frying pan *

Young man, what have I told you about trying to take the furniture outside? Drop it right now. And do not even think of messing with my laser or I'll show you what a laser is good for.

Loren, sweetie, bless your heart, but if you don't start writing really fast, I don't know what these other boys are gonna do to you. And I have to sleep sometimes...

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 01:09 am: Edit

See that! She bawls me out, but still uses the threat of me as the enforcement of her will!

WebMom is a LOT more like Olivette than she'll admit!

regards
Stacy

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 01:39 am: Edit

Can't write. I'm dead.

Right?

Can't write when your dead.

Unless I'm undead. But that would be really boring. PDT would be about how Tholians just go around eating the peoples of their enslaved worlds only to keep endlessly searching for something more raw and less cooked.
"It was raw when I killed it, but it cooked itself on the way from the kitchen to the table! Curse our super heated environment!"
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"The Seltorians are Revolting! The Seltorians are Revolting!"

"Tell me about it. Maybe we could try them with a little more salt?"
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The title story: Web of the Undead.
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From the deep black of outer space comes the menacing dark empty exoskelitons of searing hot stone, bent of blistering your flesh and melting your brains!

Aaaaaah!!!

Beware of the....
.
.
.
Zombie Rocks from Sector 3019!

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 01:56 am: Edit

Loren
We haven't killed you YET. And death may not be the worst PART of the threat. There is after all the METHOD used to cause your demise, of which those of us who have been waiting PATIENTLY for you to write P(erpetually) D(elayed) T(holians) have MUCH imagination!

Write Loren! Write!!!

regards
Stacy

PS Who SAYS you can't write when you're dead? L. Ron Hubbard is STILL cranking them out!

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 10:36 am: Edit

You guys know that while some writing remains, that has not been the hold up. Many other projects have taken priority and the process of producing finished books has changed. It is sensible that the foundation books for PD be done first and it is my hope that PD Feds will be the finishing piece to the strong foundation.

It used to be very difficult to product PD products because it took 100% SVC time, but now we have Jean. The theory was great (she'd run PD and products would flow), but her value to ADB is so great that she is used for ALL projects. The net result is that the PD tap flows just a little better while the tap for all other ADB products has improved (and with better quality water, I might add).

I promise, I'll not be the hold up when PDT is on the table.

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 01:24 pm: Edit

Loren
Here's your leg back. It came off when I pulled it...
regards
Stacy

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 02:08 pm: Edit

I know you were playing, Stacy. But it did get to a point that I was concerned what others my read into it.

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 07:35 pm: Edit

Loren
Just wanted to make sure you knew...
regards
Stacy

By Terry "Full Stop" O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 09:28 pm: Edit

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Quote:

Here's your leg back. It came off when I pulled it

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By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 10:22 pm: Edit

Terry
Apparently one less than when we started...
regards
Stacy

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 11:01 pm: Edit

Tholpeds do.

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 01:03 am: Edit

Loren
You're a rat to throw something like that out without explanation!
regards
Stacy

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 01:30 am: Edit

Stacy, he is entitled. After all, he's the one you pulled the leg off of. Only fair he gets to wave kewl stuff around in a bag and not tell you anything ...

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 02:08 am: Edit

Jean
Then I'll do with his leg to him what Beowulf did to Grendel with his arm!

And whether he is or is not entitled, I note you do not dispute that he's a rat!
regards

Stacy