- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Unfortunately Master Lucky, I've retired the PM alert system for now, mainly because dedicating over an hour at any time to alert people is too taxing, which sounds incredibly lazy to everyone I'm guessing, but I seriously have time management issues these days.
Linkage once more. This Fanfic is still being reviewed over in the Official Fanfiction Group, and per request from some of the members, I'll be linking to it for the next while until the polls close. I'm sure this should help rise their member list higher, and also generate more input into the actual "review" process.
So if you have the time, stop by, rate this story out of five, and shed a few words of enlightenment upon the rest of those weary souls. Even if its something so deliciously verbose as:
"This story = teh greatness!"
or
"Clark sux, he kiled mah dog!"
Granted I'm certain I've never seen your dog, so my ending its life might be hard to do, though I have been known to possess psychokenetic powers, so perhaps I may have inadvertantly killed it, and if that's the case I'm truly sorry.
Oh yes, and a last little few words for everyone.
I 100% understand some of the mixed reactions to Chapter 22. Even I didn't like it too much. As it is now, I feel it to be a shell of what it once was. We all can remember all the terrible sordid details that resulted in Chapter 22's lateness, and many many many many rewrites. They were horrid, and that leaked into my writing. The bane terror that is my hatred.
I rushed scenes, cut elaboration, and generally kicked the chapter out the door as soon as humanly possible. This was the right decision for me, as I'm sure the chapter would have otherwise turned into a snuff fic, where I kill everyone and everything...(not that it won't wind up happening anyway though..heheh)
Unfortunately that also led to a great deal of confusion over the one greatest aspect of Chapter 22. Cyriacus' awakening and overwhelming of John's body and senses. The character we see from the halfway point onward, is not the Master Chief, he is something new. Will he stick around for awhile longer? Maybe, maybe not. John has to get back into the story don't you think, and one of the main focus' of Chapter 23 will be John's fight for control over his consciousness. Anticipate much symbolism and allusion, much to I'm sure, some of your chagrin.
And yes, I have officially started Chapter 23. It's release date is so convoluted that were I to give you an estimate, I believe it would be in the year 1976. Yes, I have the power to release chapters before you were even born! Or at least that's what my mind seems to think when its deprived of sleep.
Oh wondrous sleep, I miss thee.
Yeah, that's my cue to exit.