There are a few moments where name confusion is intended. Such as Fergus’ giving to Jessie of a letter of introduction to Michael Finnegan, and then seing that Terin knows an Arlen Finnegan. That was intended.

There are other times, though, when some character names or titles started off one way, and over the course of the playing of this Play By Email game, were changed to provide better pnemonic flow (at least in my opinion), or to help me break away from an image in my head.

I think at one point, Mikkelson’s first name had been Martin, and then while re-reading the Magician: Master series by Raymond E Feist, I had a very strong mental image of a Martin, and I wanted to dissasociate the character I was writing about from it. This caused a name change that, clearly, i didn’t completely filter out.

There is one other thing, though. I don’t update the typos on these. My main file is now one word document on my computer, and that is what I refer to, and as I re-read it, that is what I update. So I am continuously finding and correcting mistakes on my word document, but that isn’t reflected here.

Eventually, of course, the word document will be used to make an E-book from one of the self publishing firms, but all of this is and ws the written turns of a role playing game, and I’m sure everyone could agree, it’s not nearly up to publishing quality as is. At the best, it’s a rough, rough draft. :)

I merely publish it here, because I think it’s FUN. I truly hope that the quality of writing and the mistakes aren’t so jarring as to remove any pleasure you might have had in reading it.

For some more fun, I started out intentionally misrepresenting Duke Arneghast as Duke Arneghal at times, because I wanted to show that people would confuse the Duke of the land with the name of the central stronghold he ruled, Caer Doneghal. Along the way, while writing and rolling along at high speed, I actually succeeded in confusing myself, and misremembered his name as Duke Arneghal while Terin was speaking, which was not intended. I’ve fixed it in my word document, but you can have a great deal of fun trying to follow who called him Arneghal and who called him Arneghast.

You see… the story shifts away from Terin next week, in a completely new direction that you might not expect!

But as far as Terin’s part goes, when next we return to Terin, it will be live, yes.

You know, it always amazes me how little action there is in this format, when I read over it. It takes so damn long to describe things and set up the situations and provide enough information for James or Manny to make informed decisions.

At the time, it seems fresh and vital and exciting… but I have to wonder if that’s only because none of us know how it’s going to really turn out from week to week, because no matter how brilliantly I plot things (no ego there, oh noes), the story changes with every decision the main characters make, and they are in control of thier destiny.

Ask Lauchlin. He made his decisions, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t plan for him to end up dead at that point of the story… let me check my notes.

Nope, that wasn’t supposed to happen. But what can you do? If the lady grabs a massive battle axe, shouts the activation phrase and attacks the ancient tree… well, there may be consequences of imnproper pronunciation. Them’s the chances you take.