Unofficial GZG Fiction

Folks,

If you would like an introduction to NAC Captain James Gloster (from DST
"Piper") and the recovery of some Kra'Vak bodies from the Ross 149 system,
check out;

http://nemesis.com.au/fastjax/stargrun/fiction/karla.html

Regards

> If you would like an introduction to NAC Captain James Gloster (from

You... you... self promoter you!:)

> Jeremy Sadler wrote:

Jeremy, Most enjoyable!

The NAC 17th Battle Squadron is in the area undergoing wargames with the FSB
(Frei Stadt Beyern, Baverian Free State)
battle group 'Hurtgen'.   It would be truly unpleasent if this
UNSC and PAU force entered the posted wargame exclusion zone. What is your
position? At what locations should I post the
scoutships/exclusion markers?   Looking forward to and interesting
and exciting addition to the training schedule.

Reapectfully yours, Commodore Lord Brian William Kensington XIII

Bye for now,

> Jeremy,

If you're talking about "Karla's Kidnap" on the Unofficial SG2 Web Site
(from now on: USG2WS - I hate typing the whole thing over and over!)
then that was written by Robert Deakin. All kudos should go to him.:)

Jeremy Sadler jsadler@earthling.net

> Jeremy Sadler wrote:
then
> that was written by Robert Deakin. All kudos should go to him. :)

On Sat, 31 Jan 1998 20:33:19 -0800, John Leary <realjtl@sj.bigger.net>
wrote:

> Robert,

Well, maybe not everyone. I found the grammatical errors to be annoying. I
wasn't too crazy about some of the dialogue; there was too
much Rod-and-Don-ism.

What's "Rod-and-Don-ism"?
> ----------

> Allan Goodall wrote:

Allan, The conduct of the conversation sounded very much like meetings
I have attended at work.   Very realistic!   Flaws help add a bit of
reality to the work.

Just a thought,

Jermey: The 13th NAC Battles Fleet is competing with the 17th for the William
Tell Award (best shots in the fleet). Presently both fleets are neck in neck
in the competition and would love to start shooting at real targets. Please
provide vectors so we can join in the fun.

Admiral William Fuchs 13th Fleet Command

Cheers..
  John Fox

> X-ListName: Full Thrust Combat Game Mailing list

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998 19:55:00 +1000, "Glover, Owen"
> <oglover@mov.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> What's "Rod-and-Don-ism"?

It's a science fiction literary term. It's where one character
explains something to another character--which the second character
should already know--for the sake of exposition. It comes from a
conversation by two characters, typically "Rod" and "Don."

"Oh, no," said Rod, "they've broken out the Vorpal Ray!" "You mean that weapon
that can cut through our armour in a single shot?" asked Don. "That's right!
And, as you know, only Venusians have the Vorpal Ray. That must be a Venusian
starcruiser!" "Which means that it is susceptible to our Prune Mines!" "Right
you are, Don!"

The story in question wasn't anywhere near this bad, but I got the feeling a
couple of times that characters were saying something that the other
characters should have already known.

On Sun, 01 Feb 1998 08:00:10 -0800, John Leary <realjtl@sj.bigger.net>
wrote:

> The conduct of the conversation sounded very much like meetings

Unfortunately, real conversation usually makes for poor literary
dialogue. There's an excellent book (called _Dialog_ by Lewis Turco
and published by Writer's Digest Books) that explains this rather well.

Unfortunately, I no longer have the link to the story so I can't show examples
of what I mean in relation to it.

If you think that's bad, check out "The Eye of Aragon". It was run at Cancon98
as a competive playreading (and it's really, really bad!)

http://brie.bmsc.washington.edu/people/merritt/books/Eye_of_Argon.html

'Neath Southern Skies
*********************
Smeartrek: These are the voyages of the Starship Bubbles. It's continuing
mission, to destroy new worlds, outbreed alien civilizations & to boldly go
where not even idiot's dare to venture.
http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/

> -----Original Message-----

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:39:52 +1100, "ROBERTSON,Brendan"
> <Brendan.ROBERTSON@EMPLOYMENT.GOV.AU> wrote:

> If you think that's bad, check out "The Eye of Aragon".

Oh, man, that was HILARIOUS! I haven't read it all, I was waking up my wife
with my cackling. I had tears streaming down my face at one point. I REALLY
needed that. Thanks!

Wait until you get 4 or 5 people trying to read it in turn without making a
mistake (they don't have the GM comments in it) & a GM interupting with all
the comments. The highest record at Cancon was 1,189 words (out of the 5,500
words). The lowest was 0 (ZERO) words.

'Neath Southern Skies
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> -----Original Message-----

> Allan Goodall wrote:

Also known as an 'As-you-know-Bob'.