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AmigaDragon Registered User
Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 840 Location: Far Northern Minnesota
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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Do you have even a rough sketch of what the Bowtie Beast might look like? I gather from the various descriptive snippets that it's not merely an animal nor a machine, but more like a cyborg. _________________ "Cogito, ergo es. I think, therefore you is." Ray D. Tutto (King of the Moon) to Baron Munschaussen |
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Tigermark Site Owner
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 855 Location: Hopkinsville, KY
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:15 am Post subject: |
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You'd need to ask Silver Coyote about that, AmigaD. The Bowtie Beast is his creation, so he'd be the one to give you a best guess at the Beast's actual appearance.
TM. _________________ Tiger, tiger, burning bright...
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The Silver Coyote Registered User
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 491 Location: Rogue River Valley, Oregon
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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I actually tried to post a reply to Amiga's question, but the PF server crashed, or lost it's link to the outside world, while I was in the process of writing it. <looks around furtively> If it crashes again now, I think I'll go hide for a while...
Anyway, here's what I tried to submit a few nights ago:
Well... lessee. It's big. And green. It's skin is possibly similar to aluminized leather and quite thick. It drools a chemical compound similar to ethelyne glycol mixed with digestive acids. In some places it bleeds a mixture of blood and hydraulic fluid, in others blood and oil. It's not sentient, but it has moods and an annoying ability to break down at the worst possible times. This, of course, causes the poor furs who depend on it to wonder if this is an intentional occurrence. It doesn't speak, at least not in any language that most furs might be able to interpret, yet it communicates quite effectively with Joe in it's own way.
It's large enough to carry several furs about from place to place, either over the surface or (thanks to Tigermark's possibly over-active creative streak) through the air. It can haul / lift significant amounts of weight besides passengers, thus our heros can carry all sorts of whatnot along with them on their missions when the beast is along. When traveling over the surface it can also tug or tow heavy loads that are on wheeled contrivances of their own (otherwise known as "trailers").
It's most potent weapon system is too disgusting to describe in a PG venue. Let's just say that it might have been distantly related to the Stuka dive bomber and leave it at that...
Think you favorite old clunker car mixed freely with the visage of a wyrm. Mix in hefty helpings of calcified recalcitrance, a questionable attitude, an unpredictable nature, and a deep sense of loyalty. Don't forget a pinch of the devil... and slap a familiar looking bowtie logo on it's rump somewhere.
What all this nonsense really means, dear Amiga, is that like so many things about ALN, we're not really sure what the beast is or what it looks like yet. To be perfectly honest, it's reliability and outward appearance (drooling, wheezing, raising clouds of dust, and making rude noises) seem to be based largely on my 1994 Chevrolet K1500 Suburban, a vehicle with which all three authors are familiar. The beast sort of seemed to develop a life of it's own as the story progressed.
Then again, there are some who consider that some aspects of the beast are actually patterned after one of the authors. <coughs humbly> Not that I'd know which one might be affiliated with which descriptor...
Speaking of ALN, I hear rumblings in the north, and suspect that Aramis may be getting cclose to lavishing another section of ALN upon us all. <elbows the kitty> Right, buddy?
SC _________________ =====
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, I think I saw something very simalare come out of the water last time I was at the beach. _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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The Silver Coyote Registered User
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 491 Location: Rogue River Valley, Oregon
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:19 am Post subject: |
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<laughs>
You must have been down at Huntington Beach right after the last storms...
SC _________________ =====
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Tigermark Site Owner
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 855 Location: Hopkinsville, KY
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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:04 am Post subject: |
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GREAT celebration and Hoopla! Part XIII of ALN has been added! Go to the story and either scroll down and scan to refersh yourself to the story until you get to the new part, or just click the link in the header that says Jump to the newest section. Either way, Enjoy! SC, the ball's in your court.
Tigermark (BTW, Aslaug has joined our merry round-robin exercise in creativity. She'll do the next section after my next turn with it. As I said, GREAT Hoopla! ) _________________ Tiger, tiger, burning bright...
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Tigermark Site Owner
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 855 Location: Hopkinsville, KY
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:04 am Post subject: |
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Hurray! The next part of ALN, done by Silver Coyote, has been added to the story. The link is on the site's front page. Go, read!
TM _________________ Tiger, tiger, burning bright...
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The Silver Coyote Registered User
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 491 Location: Rogue River Valley, Oregon
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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While modesty dictates that I should refrain from crowing too loudly about the most recent addition to ALN (everyone *knows* how reserved coyotes are), I did take a moment during an chat on YIM this evening to mention ALN to Mike Regan of The Raccoon's Bookshelf fame. He had not heard of the story. Hopefully he will take a moment to drop by and check it out.
Causes me to wonder if any other recognizable names have visited ALN. Chris? James? Hikaru? Ted? Cirrel?
Just wonderin'...
SC _________________ =====
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Tigermark Site Owner
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 855 Location: Hopkinsville, KY
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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The next section of ALN, part XV actually, is up for your reading pleasure. Done by yours truly, the pen now passes to teh newest member of the writing team. Aslaug, the amazing filly of Transitions fame, is already hard at work on her first piece in the actual ALN saga.
Tigermark _________________ Tiger, tiger, burning bright...
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Tigermark Site Owner
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 855 Location: Hopkinsville, KY
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:42 am Post subject: |
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I told you she was hard at work. Aslaug's contribution to this round of A Little Nothing is posted for your pleasure. Go! Read! COMMENT!!!
Tigermark (And the filly makes four!) _________________ Tiger, tiger, burning bright...
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Aslaug Site Owner
Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 1861 Location: Slagelse, Denmark
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:19 am Post subject: |
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Well, I know it was a bit wicked of me to bring Aslaug in that way, but it made for a suitably gritty and nasty sequence. So...now it's the 'three amigos plus one'.
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Tigermark Site Owner
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 855 Location: Hopkinsville, KY
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 2:17 am Post subject: |
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The newest piece of A Little Nothing is up for your reading pleasure. there are some coding issues in one section, and we're working on them right now, but the text should still be understandable. This is section XVIII, done by the inestimable Silver Coyote.
Now, IT"S MY TURN! Bwahahahahaha!
*blinks* Er, well, anyway, I'll get my section out as soon as I can.
Tigermark _________________ Tiger, tiger, burning bright...
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Teric Registered User
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2566 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hehe fun read! Seems like most of you speak (or at least understand) spanish. That's cool! I would read along, and hit a spanish sentence, and I could totally understand what was going on.
Then I hit Aslaugs... Dutch? What language was that? I was completely lost.
Fun interplay between the religious beliefs of the three vs. Aslaug's beliefs. 'Turn the other cheek' vs. 'Hit me hard enough to make sure I don't hit back otherwise you're dead.' Haha! Nice, gritty, tough femme you've got there, girl. _________________ Styx: "Oh sure like flaming a dragon going to do massive damage, brave challenge there Teric." |
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Tigermark Site Owner
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 855 Location: Hopkinsville, KY
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:41 am Post subject: |
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The language used by Aslaug (such a mouth on that gal, hehe, j/k) is Danish. With her, possibly ancient Danish. What she said wasn't too far from what Joe said in Spanish a few lines earlier. SC is the most fluent in Spanish of our group, but I dabble a bit, too. Still have to babelfish some things, but I get the idea pretty quick.
Thanks for reading, Teric.
Tigermark _________________ Tiger, tiger, burning bright...
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The Silver Coyote Registered User
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 491 Location: Rogue River Valley, Oregon
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Hi Teric.
Essentially Aslaug is agreeing with Joe. Her reply, roughly translated, means "I too know deception when I hear it." Now I may know a little bit of Spanish, but I don't know jack about Danish, so I confess I had help (a lot of it) from Joan with that bit. Seems what I wrote originally was the comic-book equivalent of what I wanted, like a three-year old might say it. <grins> And that won't do...
Joan translated what I wanted for the story into something that furs from her part of the world might actually be able to read and understand.
<tips hat to the Filly>
Thanks, dear.
And thank you, Teric, for checking out our little story. Drop by often. We enjoy the company.
Later,
SC _________________ =====
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