...that my muse would focus on the task at hand rather than stuff 9 chapters out.  Yes, Miss Abbott, you now have your moment in the spotlight.  As do you, panicky unnamed Death Eater.  Neville, I'm still deciding if I want to let you do that, but don't worry, you'll get to shine, too, one way or another.
And I must email Heather and make sure she's okay with the cameo I just wrote for her.
Now can I please go back to chapter 3?  Thank you.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-29179-4/ ... +Witch.htm Has 2 new chapters
"This hand of mine glows with an awesome power. Its burning grip tells me to defeat you....
Shining FINGER!" -Domon Kashuu, Mobile Fighter G Gundam

alright i finally got it typed up and ready, thoughts.
F-SOG
Fenspace Special Operations Group
Affiliation: Operation Great Justice
Purpose: Undercover Intelligence and direct action operations, planning and liaison work
In the wake of the debacle that was the battle for “Jusenkyou” and as the Panzer Kunst were recovering from their injuries James “Wolfboy” Bostwick took a page from his own country’s history and put together a proposal for a special operations and liaison group for use by OGJ. Like the Joint Special Operations Command was born from the disaster at “Desert One” during the 144 day Iranian Hostage Situation, James wanted a group that would pick from available OGJ forces and be tasked with coordinating and planning the operations. Furthermore, James wanted to keep a pair of “up” teams for operational immediate situations where limited intelligence was available. The persons used in the two up teams would have two requirements;
1-Military experience. - The persons on the up teams would require verifiable non-fen military or police SWAT experience or (in later years) military grade training in special operations, military police, intelligence and guerilla operations.
2-Volunteers. – The up teams would be all volunteer with current security clearances, (post boskone war these teams would count toward their faction’s reserve requirement to OGJ)
Along with planning future operations and immediate scramble situations the teams would also be the conduits to their respective factions for the flow of intelligence as well as analysis of planned and scramble operations for use in training for future situations.
“In short ladies and gentlemen, the proposed unit would be able to provide combined training to all factions as well as a flexible unit similar to F-SWAT for Operation Great Justice. This is in addition to spreading information to all factions without flooding them with data. It would also provide a backup for F-SWAT should they need it, and a heavier hammer than F-SWAT should that be deemed necessary.” This was the argument of James Bostwick before the Fenspace Convention and the head of OGJ Haruhi Suzumiya not long before the assault on Boskone Prime.
James personally feels that the lack of a unit like this is, or more accurately a group with this kind of training is what caused all the losses, (and not the fact that the boskones were waiting for a group to come in after the Panzer Kunst) to his two platoons of colonial marines and Jet Jaguar’s Panzer Kunst group in Jusenkyou.  
 

I was sure the story I'm thinking of was by Jules Verne, but couldn't find it in a list of his works... Anyway, it's about a chemical that is discovered to make tihngs grow to enourmous size, children dosed with it are twice as tall as a normal man before they can even properly walk, and hills of giant ants become a problem at one point. The kids are also super-intelligent, due to having much larger brains, and make all sorts of scientific advancements as the story progresses. I thought to read it via Gutenberg Project or something similar, becasue a Mass Effect crossover would have some serious potential, but now I can't find what it was. I know what the binding of the book I read it in looked like, I know which shelf it was on three moves ago, and I know it was in the house that burned down, but that's all I know, blast it.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

http://www.pinoyanime.tv/space-battlesh ... -2199-ova/

Quick thumbnail sketch thoughts - 

Ep 15:  

 -- OMG... you might respect and fear the regular green Gamilas ships, but the BLUE fleet will inhabit your NIGHTMARES.  Is THAT what happened to Earth, at least in part? And - it seems even the other Gamilas officers may think this guy went too far...

-- "You've reached the life model decoy of Misaki, please leave a message at the sound of the incredibly brilliant wave motion theory..." 

-- Sandor - for such a "schmott guy", you really are BLIND sometimes in some of the most basic ways... 

-- Desslok go boom? Say WHAT? 

-- Domel (Lysis) Yikes... this guy really is GOOD... This is the first time in this current version of the series that the Yamato has really been SERIOUSLY outmatched... 

Ep 16: 

-- Internal conflict with factions on the Yamato crew. Mr. Squinty Eyes is REALLY getting on my nerves. 

-- Niimi - right reasons, but wrong choice. 

-- Yamato behind schedule by a month? But revelations on Beemala below might make that a moot point. And - interesting re-do of the original episode as well.

-- That appears to clear up THAT particular love triangle... Someone's not happy... 

-- Plants within Plants within plants... And squinty-eyes gets his come-uppance! Woot! 

Ep 17: 

-- Mostly a flashback episode - showing events in the past of some characters lives. A lot of interesting revelations. Good character stuff. The framing plot moves the story - and the Yamato - forward - through a space gate toward a confrontation at Planet Balan...

-- Meanwhile... Domel may be a great General, but he SUCKS at politics. His wife and he are both accused (falsely) of being in on the plot to assassinate Desslar, and Domel is sentenced to death...

-- A naval review of a large portion of the Gamilas fleet is being orchestrated at Balun. Over 10,000 ships... 

-- And we FINALLY find out who the real Iscandarian member of the crew is for real!

Ep 18: 

I only have one major comment to make about this episode... 

Captain Okita...

You...

...Insane!

...MAD!!

...UTTERLY MAGNIFICENT SON OF A -BITCH-!!!

No wonder they had to give the Yamato to you! Only a battleship that
size could -carry- your PURE TITANIUM COJONES!!

HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! 

(I know the writing side is rather... weak, but then, this is more about what I was experimenting with.)



Huh, now why has Mender Silos assembled his core team of Menders?

Oh.

Hmm...


Oh Crap.


It seems that Nemesis has discovered that not only is Mender Silos a future version of Nemesis, but that he has been manipulating the Steam Prince, sabotaging and destroying his schemes. Nemesis is convinced that convinced that he would have been victorious by now, if only Silos hadn’t meddled.


Silos however, finds this hilarious, as he reveals that his past self was always doomed to failure, the heroes prevailing over his madness time and time again, regardless of outside interference. The Mender has actually been manipulating his past self to help the heroes become even stronger in preparation for the Coming Storm. He notes that as a ‘Training Dummy’, Nemesis has been very helpful.


All things considered, Nemesis takes it well.



Shortly afterward, a disturbance in Atlas Park reveals the only possible conclusion of this fight between present and future.


Nemesis, battered and broken, appears at Ms. Liberty's feet, having been brutally humbled by a man that will always be one step ahead of him, and possibly hates him more than anyone else in existence.




“I know you like to think of yourself as the master manipulator boy. That the world moves to your will. Don’t get me wrong, you’re very good at it. But I’m better. Both in experience, and in motive. I don’t expect you to understand. It will take centuries, millennia even, to get through that arrogance of yours, before you finally understand just how misguided you are.”



“Until that day, we’ll be keeping an eye on you...”

Will someone tell Ed Becerra that his fenspace self is possibly living in a nice space station with catgirls and other Furry-types. I believe that's what someone snuck in at somepoint, with filled off serials. For in his last post in 'Candle in the Dark' that I read is coming across as been a bit freaked out.

--Rod.H (lurker of fora)
"Why, yes I contemplated 'waving up a M35 Mako, did some design roughs, etc. But at the time I'd no heavy fabber's, so Catgirl Industries got their first. However, Makotaxi...."

Mystery author and Catholic priest Andrew Greeley http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 7800.story]passed away last night.  He was the author of the "Bishop Blackie" mysteries, long a favorite of Peggy's and mine (and which intertwined with at least one other of his book series), the "Angel" series,  and numerous other works.  The first book of his I ever encountered was one of his few SF novels,  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Game_(novel)]God Game, some 25 or so years ago, and even though it's very obviously dated today, I still recommend it highly.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I have of late been doing some re-engineering of the plot, upon realizing I was trying to stuff too much into the first month of school.   (Neat stuff!  Now!  )  I've also, sadly, had to retire the "first DADA class of the year" scene I wrote oh-so-long ago, because the plot has evolved substantially since then, and it no longer fits, to be honest.  (If you're curious, it's here, but between the Great Blanking lo these many years ago, and the mangling of plaintext posts when Yuku bought ezBoard, it's very hard to read.)  I will no doubt recycle parts of it, but for the moment it resides in my discards file.
Subsequently, when next I update the file progress notes, you will see the size of Chapter 3 drop.  Don't worry, it's for the best.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://www.jackvance.com/jackvance_05262013/]Jack Vance died last Sunday.

(tips hat)

I think we all know who he was, and how big an influence he had on fantasy fiction (and, by extension, dungeon-crawl roleplaying).
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012