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[10 Ring Tao]

It felt kind of odd for the seemingly much younger NC to be lecturing the seemingly much older Lorenzo on 'the lifestyle'.

 

[sm]

“Well, I did take a guy’s head off with piano wire for her.”

That means ya'll going steady now don't it ?

None of that sharing a Chocolate Malt with two straws with Jill or giving Jill your class ring stuff, for Lorenzo, oh no, Lorenzo gots style and couth!


Something To Talk About -Bonnie Raitt

Let's give 'em somethin' to talk about
(Somethin' to talk about)
A little mystery to figure out
(Somethin' to talk about)
Let's give 'em somethin' to talk about
How about love?

 

[Oleg Volk]

Think about it. In your life, for whom would you risk your life and end the lives of others? For me, that's a very short list.

 

[sm]

Oleg ,

Agree. We spoke of this...

 

[qlajlu]

Welcome, BigFunWMU. Glad you could join us. I also see you been lurking for a while. Been hooked on the story by NC and Corriea, have ya? Well good. Along with the rest of us, I might add. By the way, Newbie posters get to buy the ammo (course you probably already know that by now). I'll take a case of .357 mag JHPs, thank ya. And stay out of them ditches, jus' leave that there stuff for the young 'uns.

 

[Nightcrawler]

It felt kind of odd for the seemingly much younger NC to be lecturing the seemingly much older Lorenzo on 'the lifestyle'.

Surreal, isn't it? But think about it. NC has seen more violence and combat in six years of his life than most people outside of military special forces ever will. The dichotomy of him being so young yet having been aged by such a horrid lifestyle is a major part of his character.

Lorenzo is a theif. While he's good in a gunfight, and is in a lot of ways a better fighter than NC, his job is avoiding fights and stealing stuff. Very different philosophies there.

 

[the naked prophet]

I think the one piece of dialogue was better before:

"I think she likes you"
"Well, I did take a guy's head off with piano wire for her"
"I hear girls like romantic stuff like that."

 

[ilcylic]

"She's alright. She's got the hots for you, too."

“Well, I did take a guy’s head off with piano wire for her.”

“Women are into sappy romantic stuff like that."

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!

 

[DRZinn]

I hate to pick nits, but wouldn't it be better if that last exchange went like this?

"Watch your six," I told him.

"Watch the news," he said, turned, and walked out the door.

 

[Legionnaire]

I like that, Doc. Sounds like a very plausible exchange.

 

[Correia]

Once again, written on my lunch hour.

 

[springmom]

Keep it coming!!!!!!

Springmom

 

[airmonkey]

Awsome story!!! saw how long the thread was and almost didn't check it out. Now five days later(I don't get much internet time) I'm caught up and must say very well written esp. for a rough draft. NC and Correia you guys should do this again sometime, hopefully not to far in the future. Can hardly wait for the next chapter.

 

[Jamie C.]

Oleg Volk wrote: Think about it. In your life, for whom would you risk your life and end the lives of others? For me, that's a very short list.

Heh... in the end, isn't anything we do really for ourselves?

Think about it; aren't the people you care about only of importance to you? (relatively speaking )

The point here is that I spend my effort on the people I deem having some value to me. The rest of you do the same, whether you realize it or not.

So I guess, in the end, I'll only make the effort to save myself some grief. How much or how little is yet to be determined.

Even a stranger on the street can be of some value... it only takes looking at it from the right perspective.


J.C.

P.S. The next trick is to honestly determine what is of value to you. Until you can do that, the prior question is of little value.

P.P.S. To our story-tellers: Nevermind these little cross-...conferences?
More please.

 

[Jim March]

If a moderator locked this thread, would we see the first online riot in web history?

 

[Correia]

Well, Jim, since one of the two writers is a moderator, and the owner of the board is enjoying it, I think we're probably okay.

 

[Thefabulousfink]

The Suprise Ending?

I can just see it now...

Nightcrawler: Ok guys, the next post is going to contain stunning, explosive, like nothing you've ever seen ending.
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Correia: OT

<THREAD LOCKED>

 

[springmom]

noooooooooooooooooooooo..!!!!!

I can be patient for the ending, but I'd be a very unhappy camper if the ending weren't coming.

Sort of like the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Twelve books, the guy has amyloidosis and may not live to finish the series where the hero has to save the world. Obviously, his illness is a matter for compassion, but if the man had just gotten it done before now....

/end rant

Anyway, waiting, waiting, waiting <virtual drumming of fingers>.

Springmom

 

[itgoesboom]

I can be patient for the ending, but I'd be a very unhappy camper if the ending weren't coming.

I wouldn't worry about that. Of all the writers out there, NightCrawler is the least likely to start a story, get everyone hooked, and then disappear to some foreign country and leave us all hanging.....

Oh.

Wait.

I forgot.



Just teasing ya 'Crawler. You know I am loving the story.

I.G.B.

 

[Correia]

I'm just waiting for NC at this point. If he goes back to the middle east, I'll use my super-dooper admin powers to log in under his name and write his ending for him.

Though he probably wouldn't like the part where his character gives up being a stone cold killer and is magically turned into a Carebear and is whisked off to a magical fairyland by happy little leprechauns.

Man, I love being a moderator.

 

[qlajlu]

NC has seen more violence and combat in six years of his life than most people outside of military special forces ever will. The dichotomy of him being so young yet having been aged by such a horrid lifestyle is a major part of his character.

Lorenzo is a thief. While he's good in a gunfight, and is in a lot of ways a better fighter than NC, his job is avoiding fights and stealing stuff. Very different philosophies there.

I like that explanation.

If he goes back to the middle east, I'll use my super-dooper admin powers to log in under his name and write his ending for him.

I didn't know NC was under that cloud. No, I don't think that he would like to be turned into a Carebear.

Speaking of bears, what has happened to BluesBear? It has been two days since the last episode appeared and he hasn't made a post. I hope he is alright.

 

[Jayman]

Springmom, if Jordan had finished the thing around the point he originally intended, i.e. 3-4 books in, I'd be a lot happier. The first several were tightly written and fun. The last few have been heinous, I stopped reading at book 10.

 

[springmom]

buy the most recent one

Not "A New Spring", that's a hideous prequel. I don't right off the bat remember the title. But it's really good, ties up lots of loose ends, gets the series ready for Tarmon Gaidon (the end of the world to you non-Jordan folks). The middle 6-7 books were indeed hideous. But he got his mojo back on this last one.

Springmom

 

[Thefabulousfink]

I have liked all of Jordans WOT books, just some more than others.

I agree that in books 6-10 the characters get soo spead out and the plot gets soo complex that you need a map and a flowchart to follow along. The great thing about Jordan is he can do that and then tie it all back together (like he did in the last book). I can't call any of his books hideous, since they all have kept me up until the wee hours of the morning when I should be sleeping or studying for class.

 

[springmom]

oh. me too

I was plowing through books 6 & 7, I believe, while working on my masters'. The choice to read psych or read Jordan was a toughie. However, let's face it, THE MAN NEEDED AN EDITOR. And he needed to stop drumming on the women grumping at each other all the time. There were probably an entire books' worth of pages that I just skimmed because I got sick of Elayne vs. Nynaeve, Nynaeve vs. Egwene, Elayne vs. everybody, and those wretched women they found in the seaport as the Seanchan came ashore. The man didn't have a clue where he was going through the middle books. Way too many characters, way too much verbiage.

That said, the basic story is one you can't give up on. Especially now, with his penultimate episode published.

sorry for hijacking the thread, all you non-Jordan readers......

Springmom