Hello!

[Bob Schroeck]

Literally yes, since the direct inspirations were Undocumented Features Core, Twisted Path, Legion's Quest, and Bert Van Vliet's Bubblegum Zone, that itself crossed over with the latter three, along with shades of Drunkard's Walk II which I believe is also tied to them and Oh My Brother

DW2 has direct ties to BGZ and The Next Generation -- Bert and Amanda Yumeko's cameos -- and of course Legion's appearance therein. It has an indirect link to Twisted Path -- it was originally supposed to take place in the same BGC universe as TP4 and the Legion's Quest installment there, and the massive node under Megatokyo was my explanation why Twister's magic was all screwy. There's no UF connection in DW2, Core or otherwise, although I do have a passage written somewhere for something unreleased in which Doug references a quiet summer he had working as a groundskeeper at a private school on a moon of Epsilon Eridani IV.

Twister, as I noted a while back in another thread somewhere on the boards, appears to be doing well as a brewmaster in a Canadian brewery somewhere; at least the Darren Steffler working there was the right age and living in the right part of Canada. Given how old he was when he wrote what exists of TP, he probably regards it as an old shame.

I think Chris views DW5 as pretty much the conclusion of the OMB saga (Chris, if you're reading this, feel free to correct me if needed). That is, except for Paradox's upcoming appearance in DW8, which is little more than an extended cameo.

Not sure what Ed's up to these days; I haven't spoken to him in literally years, and I really should give him a call and apologize for that.

Bert's still around on the Net; I trade the odd message with him every now and then.