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Subject: Halo Fanfic: The End of a War

No soldier should be honored for doing what is expected
of him. He is after all, just doing his job.

Posted by: the green grunt
(|__/) This....This is bunny
(x..X) Keslo Killed it
('') ('') what a nice guy

It's Lucky that you have chapt. 22 on your email, but it's bad that the spartans in the hospital are infected, sad, anyways, here's an idea, don't buy an apple ibook, they are only good for office work, buy an IBM good for being trash around, old, new, and 2nd hand, they are all good. P.S I don't have one, i only have a Toshiba, and it suck man!!

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  • 10.16.2005 9:36 PM PDT

Posted by: LIME31
I got his sarcasm...one person has to implement sarcasm and then you get a pile of terrorist chipmunks crashing your party, not fun at all..

Yeah G5 are like killing machines, only computer typeish.

  • 10.17.2005 12:41 AM PDT
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Geez, you guys I think we've been taking Clark for granted.

If you haven't noticed he really doesn't have the best kind of luck. It really makes his life hard at times, and especially when I look back and remember some of the things that happened during High School, I really wonder how he can be so strangely upbeat and happy all the time.

Like when we were in Japanese class a few years ago, and he got up to speak with the Murakami-sensei, his chair hit the cabanet behind his desk, and the vase up top fell over, and the water inside fell into his backpack, completely soaking all his binders and books. He thought it was pretty funny, but if it was me I probably would have chucked that vase across the room.

Jacob didn't put it in perspective at the time, but the Hard Drive failure really did set him back to March of this year.

He had TWO seperate original novels he's been writing that he intends to get published. One is the militaristic novel some of you know about, and the other is a fantasy book he first got the idea for when he had a dream about it. Both probably weren't too far along. I think the last time he let me look at them they were about 60,000 words each. Add them together though, and you have this story right here. That's like losing this entire Halo story, with only a couple outlines and early chapter drafts from his backup remaining.

I don't even want to know what I'd do in that situation.

So, what brought about this guilt trip I'm trying to put everyone on?

Clark and I have known each other since Junior High, when we met in an Japanese class for beginners that was being offered after school hours. We're close friends I'd say. Half a decade is a long time.

So when I finished the editing of Chapter 22, and realized that Clark hadn't actually saved the final version of Chapter 22, but an earlier copy that ended about 6 pages shy of where he told me it would, I immediately called him on his cell. I explained what happened, he said a few choice words about his ability to do nothing right, then quickly asked if it would be alright if he came over to work on it (his hatred of WordPad at work here).

Last night was his night off, so he didn't have to worry about work. I on the other hand have school today, so I was off to bed shortly after he got here.

Flash forward 8 hours or so, and I come downstairs ready to grab a quick bite to eat before rushing my ass over to catch the bus to school. Can you imagine who I found slumped over beside our computer?

I don't know how long he spent writing before succumbing to exhaustion, but something tells me it was at least awhile because the chapter looks finished, including the final little Author's Notes at the end there. That last line is meant for us, and I hope when you guys read that line you realize that he's telling the truth there.

My morning classes have been cancelled but I need to meet some people, so I'm disappearing for now. I'm not sure what Clark's going to do when he wakes up, I'd imagine he'll post the chapter. I'm leaving a little note that I have connivingly taped to the back of his head asking my mother not to wake him up, so don't be surprised if he takes awhile.

I think for a guy that does this much for something that pretty much brings him nothing but anguish, and so much joy for all of us...

Well I just think we can maybe put a little bit more effort in being nicer with each other. He doesn't ask much from us, but when he does I think we should maybe sit up and try out best to do it right?

  • 10.17.2005 6:31 AM PDT
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You definitely have the worst luck I've ever seen. It didn't even hit me until Konoka said you lost two other works-in-progress. I hope things start looking up for you soon. I'm sure every single one of your fans (including me) would take some of that bad luck off of your hands if it were possible. I really hope you saved/emailed at least part of those works somewhere, for your sake. Have a nice nap, and don't kill yourself trying to get these chapters out quickly. Thanks for the best read on bungie.net, I hope things start looking up.

  • 10.17.2005 8:19 AM PDT

Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
Is it?

You definitely have the worst luck I've ever seen. It didn't even hit me until Konoka said you lost two other works-in-progress. I hope things start looking up for you soon. I'm sure every single one of your fans (including me) would take some of that bad luck off of your hands if it were possible. I really hope you saved/emailed at least part of those works somewhere, for your sake. Have a nice nap, and don't kill yourself trying to get these chapters out quickly. Thanks for the best read on bungie.net, I hope things start looking up.

agree with that compleatly. Also I would add to it that its the best read on fanfiction.net.

  • 10.17.2005 12:35 PM PDT
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I will always place the mission first.
I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade.

You are a good friend Konoka chan for helping Mr. Clark out and Mr. Clark I am sad to hear that you lost your two books you were working on. I hope you have better luck in the future.

  • 10.17.2005 1:08 PM PDT

"It's like a cake filled with pies." -Pete "Mango" Parsons

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wow, I had no idea what had went on "behind" the scene until just now. Wow dude, you are one dedicated guy. It is really good to see you not loosing hope, hopefully it will stay like that through out your carrier/life because that is the thing that will either make you or brake you. take your time, do not rush it and do not let ur life be at stake here man. You are doing this for fun, remember that.

  • 10.17.2005 1:20 PM PDT

"And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former
master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can
to keep it stable - keep you safe. I'm not so foolish to think this
will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I
would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall
be my example." -Mendicant Bias

Hey Mr. Clark.

I have followed your story since the day it was posted. I was a fan of Sir_Brilliant and then you came along and blew him off this planet. I am astounded at your talent of writing. You have inspired many people to write their own fan-fics (not me however) with your brilliance. One thing you should not take note of. Do NOT rush your chapter for those that have little patience. I would much rather wait a few weeks more and read yet another outstanding chapter than have a chapter that is rushed, while it would be better than anyone else could write, it would not be up to your standard (which is very high). Please do not exhaust yourself doing this.

  • 10.17.2005 1:28 PM PDT

He watches every Hodgetwin video they put up...on ALL their channels. He calls them the Hodge Triplets, and considers himself the 3rd triplet. He's started talking and acting like them now. Every other line out of his mouth "Thaaas some BULLLLLL**** maaayne" or "Gotta make dem gainzzzz". He calls his biceps "gains". When he eats post-workout, he talks to his biceps, "Don't worry gains, I'm feeding you. Daddys gonna feed you, gainz *kisses biceps*".

Posted by: Konoka_chan

Well I just think we can maybe put a little bit more effort in being nicer with each other. He doesn't ask much from us, but when he does I think we should maybe sit up and try out best to do it right?


Konoka, the flame wars are over. Can we just stop talking about them?

That's really uncool about Clark's luck. Hope life becomes better for him soon...

  • 10.17.2005 1:49 PM PDT

"I hope nothing, I fear nothing, I am free"
"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of martyrs" - Hasan al-Basri
Black Chapter, for all religious and political debate that doesn't fit in the Flood.

Hey dude... I agree with this lot... I got into the fan fictions reading sir brilliants... but I found yours and... well... wow, there was so much depth, and if you could do with an original work what you did with this fan fic... well, you'd hit the best seller list with your first book, lord knows i'd buy it.

So keep your head up, you got our support all the way, and for an un published author, you have a huge fan base.

Best of luck, hope things start looking up.

  • 10.17.2005 3:33 PM PDT
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Mr Clark,

I have deep respect for your dedication to people you don’t even know and for your mind boggling writing skills. I have never actually read a fan-fic let alone a published novel better than this and I read alot...

Irrefutably The Best Fan-Fic About Halo Ever, Anywhere.

  • 10.17.2005 3:47 PM PDT
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I only just started reading this late yesterday, consequentially I am incredibly tired. I coudlnt stop reading it, it is just so good... from the start to chapter 21 I didnt stop reading until I was through. I have just read konoka's post which is incredibly sad, Mr Clark you are a very good person. To care that much is beyond the majority of humans.

Uber Thanks for such and Insane read,

  • 10.17.2005 3:54 PM PDT
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yes clark seem to have the worst luck ever lol dont rush it eventho if you did it would be the best. i never even read a fan fic till i just found this thread and now im hooked if you publish a book i will buy then and send you to autograph so i could keep and then some day sell it for millions that would be so cool and would be true boecouse every would be wonting one

now who wont to tell me to go back to preschool and learn how to spell lol

  • 10.17.2005 6:31 PM PDT
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Having read your post Konoka, I would almost believe that the world has ended.

Mr Clark please don't ever stay up all night finishing something again on our account.

I think you should take some time off.

  • 10.18.2005 2:18 AM PDT
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I wonder if I can sneak in here without anyone noticing?

Yes! I'm alive! I didn't die of exhaustion, and even better I never took my own life in depression!

I've got a few things to get out of the way before I disappear again (don't worry just sleeping this time).

First!

Konoka, you are too sentimental. You make me sound like a wounded animal that needs nursing back to health. As appealing as that sounds, I'll have to assert my total mental facilities here. I'm not going off the deep end just yet. I've been living with my unnatural bad luck for the majority of my life, and I've learnt to roll with the punches, though the punches are coming awfully fast these days.

I laughed my ass off when you posted that bit about the vase and the water falling into my backpack in Japanese. I totally forgot about that one, and it's one of the more amusing stories.

See, the vase not only soaked my books/binders/gym clothes, but it also completely destroyed my huge English written assignment. I was supposed to turn it in that day the next period after Japanese, but it was drenched, and pretty much unreadible. I tried explaining it to my teacher, but she wasn't very forgiving and simply gave me a nice big 0% on the thing.

So yeah, you see? That's just one tiny little story in the list of bad things that happen to me. I'm used to it by now.

Don't believe me? Well how 'bout this one. Last week, as you all recall, my wisdom teeth were killing me and on a helpful suggestion I went to my dentist and she prescribed some medication that would take it away. The downside was I'd be completely out of it for the rest of the day, and that means no work for Jacob. Being the responsible person I am, I called into work right away and left a message for my supervisor telling him I wouldn't make it in. Nice of me huh?

Well, flash forward to tonight, and I come into work, finish my long-ass shift, and as I'm drudging towards the door to leave, my manager calls me up to the head office. I knew I was in trouble. You never get called upstairs for something good.

I go up there, and boy was I right. I get read the riot act about missing that shift last week, and never calling in to tell them I'd be missing. I calmly explained I had actually called in, but apparently calm reasoning doesn't exactly flow well with managers, and he promptly suspended me for the rest of the week, which sucks cause I'm needing to save every damn penny lately (I'm moving next year with some friends to another province). So yeah, my life is not exactly a fine example of living with ease so to speak.

Bad luck is my middle name, but with my luck they'd spell it wrong and my middle name would become "The Dumb Guy" or something like that.

All right, enough examples. Onto what you guys actually care about. Chapter 22.

Thanks to Konoka's kind nature, I was able to get a lot of work done on the bits of the chapter that was missing because I'm an idiot and sent the wrong file to my e-mail before the big Hard Drive Crash of '05.

Konoka misspoke though, she said that about 6 pages were missing from the chapter. Unfortunately that wasn't the truth, because when I got to her house and started working on the chapter, I realized it was 12 pages missing. Yeah, major head banging insued after that realization.

I'm having another insomnia bout lately, so I was up for about 9 hours before I finally conked out at the desk. I was down maybe ten minutes before Konoka sneakily came downstairs. In the recesses of my subconscious I can remember hearing a shower going, and then later on someone giggling maniaclly as something was taped onto the back of my head. Yes, she wasn't kidding, she actually taped a note to the back of my head, much to my chagrin, as I didn't realize it till I woke up and walked all the way home. I'm sure I got plenty of stares along the way.

Anyways, I did about 8 pages in that horrifying 9 hour spurt, and I admit a lot of that time was spent rubbing my face earnestly with my hands wondering why bad stuff happens to such an awesome guy like me (when I'm sleep deprived I get delusions of grandeur).

I slept about five hours at Konoka's before waking up with the worst pain in my back from my poor sleeping position. I quickly saved the document and sent it to my e-mail account, then I went home where I slept a lot more before going to work, and now I'm home, sad and dejected from being suspended.

So basically, I have four pages left to go, which I'm 100% certain I'll get done tomorrow, barring any other emergencies. Just for you guys I'm gonna work on it on the hulking desktop pc in my house (I have an unnatural attraction to laptops) to get it done sooner. No need to worry about me rushing, as I think I need to get this out as soon as possible, just so I can go back to not having anything nagging at the back of my mind all the time.

Thanks for worrying about me, but I'm gonna keep on chugging along. I've survived 19 years of bad luck, I think I'm conditioned to it nowadays.

  • 10.18.2005 5:48 AM PDT

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My Novel, available on Amazon.com

Homepage

Oh my...

A lot has happened since my last visit. And while I don't post often, I do keep my eyes open on your "Virtual" home here. The death of a PC is never fun, and loosing work... guh... I shudder. Your a Soldier Mr_C, and by the time these "trials" are done, you'll be all the better for it. One day we'll have to meet, share writing stories of our past, and marvel at our successes...

Mr_C: "Remember when I lost twelve pages of my chapter and the readers were going crazy."
SG: "Yeah, that was nuts! I was one of the crazy ones."
Mr_C & SG: "ha ha ha..."
SG: "...I hate writing."
Mr_C: "...yeah, It is the bane of my existance."


lol, just kidding.

I'm patiently waiting, so take your time. I'm not going anywhere. *prays that stones don't crack the back of me skull from other fans*

-soulguard

  • 10.18.2005 6:58 AM PDT
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Wow Mr. Clark, I marvel at you. How you can go through this and still have energy, I just don't understand. If I had been working on two original novels and I had written as much as you have in this story, and then just had it all deleted in a stupid hard drive accident, I'd commit suicide. I'm not even kidding, I'd just get up and kill myself. Hell, one time I wrote about a twenty page English essay only to have a power-outage right before I was able to print it. I figured that Windows option that saves all work in Word and opens it up when you restart would help me, but nope. After I rebooted my PC when the power was back on, MSWord just told me that the file was corrupted and the data couldn't be retrieved. I wanted to kill myself then, and that was only after twenty pages. That's not even a fraction of all the work you lost. I admire you man, I admire you.

  • 10.18.2005 7:29 AM PDT

He watches every Hodgetwin video they put up...on ALL their channels. He calls them the Hodge Triplets, and considers himself the 3rd triplet. He's started talking and acting like them now. Every other line out of his mouth "Thaaas some BULLLLLL**** maaayne" or "Gotta make dem gainzzzz". He calls his biceps "gains". When he eats post-workout, he talks to his biceps, "Don't worry gains, I'm feeding you. Daddys gonna feed you, gainz *kisses biceps*".

Heh, I have great pity for you, Clark, but no advice. I don't know how to fight bad luck, other than emailing your chapters to yourself more regularly. Thanks a lot for all your hard work to please the masses. You've got to be a chick-magnet, because bad stuff always happens to you and they're all, "awwwww, poor Jacob!"

  • 10.18.2005 8:32 AM PDT
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O woe doth follow you like a bad rep.
Man, even your life is like your writing, up and down, like a good novel.
You are the living incarnation a great novel's plot twists.

  • 10.18.2005 9:59 AM PDT
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ScorpTank did the same thing. Is this a gang?

  • 10.18.2005 1:00 PM PDT

"It's like a cake filled with pies." -Pete "Mango" Parsons

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so you are 19 now!! trying to sneak that info by us eh?? well when did that happen, i remember you telling us that you are only 18 and now you are 19. O wait, this is old info isn't it?


EDIT: No prowlaz, chicks dig guys who wear pink polo T-Shirts and who pop their collors.

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  • 10.18.2005 1:30 PM PDT
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this is a large post...a large post indeed

  • 10.18.2005 1:33 PM PDT
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wooow, its always kewl to hear about peoples backgrounds and their day to day lives instead of their scapegoat internet lives, but yours wasnt the one we all want to hear. im glad to see you're still kickin though, its good to see that ur still goin against that oncoming wave and pushin out the chapters.

I saw this site yesterday on some infomercial, its where you can actually get your book published, you take your chapters and give them to the site and from your sales they take a certain chunk to pay for the printing and binding, you can have your own cover, set the price, and then set it out to market for people to buy. Im sure that some people would be more than happy to pay a small amount for a book as great as yours. if you want some more info on it you can just PM me.

ive been posting my fanfic on redvsblue.com and ive talked quite a bit about you when they ask me where i got some of my ideas and such. some of them have been asking me to show them these marvelous chapters that come from your mind to them, im hear to ask you permission to post your chapters on the redvsblue site. I feel bad about posting them when they dont come from me, so my other alternative was to have u sign up for an account. Either way im fine with it and i can help you out on the site.

farewell
teh koke man

  • 10.18.2005 4:23 PM PDT