Does anyone read me? Let's find out.

[md_donighal]

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[skjam.livejournal.com]

Hey, first on the list!

Hope you're having a decent day.

[md_donighal]

Reasonably good so far.

[ahsatan-natasha.livejournal.com]

Urk? Whut?

-- to_the_fairest1

[terribleangel.livejournal.com]

w00t

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Hm?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_cheshirecat/]

Eh? Hallo, Mr. Donighal.

[vincentursus.livejournal.com]

I seem to have missed something.

[aberrantangels]

Briefly, it was an automatic script that would display the names of the last ten people to read your LJ. I checked robinbobin's journal, and apparently, they've got the script-generator down for upgrading.

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

Hey, Michael. Post. You've been neglecting your journal of late.

Although I suppose it's possible you're involved in some sort of bizarre deja va/alternate universe/flashback thing. IIRC, in another world, you introduce the Null Manifesto in three months, don't you?

[md_donighal]

(Sorry it took me a while to get to this, but aberranteyes would insist on checking his entire friendlist back to around 8:30 yesterday morning before he let me on the computer, and by the time he was done, it was his dinnertime.)

You've been neglecting your journal of late.

Sorry about that. When Austin set it up, he was expecting me to use it for theatrical_muse, but as time went on, my interest in TM waned, and not much has taken its place. My life before I arrived in this 21st century is largely an open book; for my life as it is now, I prefer to keep my silence rather than be tracked down by thrill-seekers. Most of my activity of late has been on sages_of_chaos, where I occasionally drop references to the old home cosm (such as in this recent thread).

Although I suppose it's possible you're involved in some sort of bizarre deja va/alternate universe/flashback thing.

(chuckles) Not quite so much. It's not prima facie odd seeing years that begin with "20" again, given how few calendars there were in my Personal Space. (grows serious) I'll concede, however, that it's a little saddening to know that a universe away, an earlier iteration of me is making the same mistakes I made. Austin has spoken of doing a plotline (for either the Sages or milliways_bar in which I travel to the relative-present-day Trinity Universe and team up with Max, Whit and/or Jake to try and reform Æon from within, but it's contingent on finding people willing to play those worthies and any other Nova Age personalities who might show up.

IIRC, in another world, you introduce the Null Manifesto in three months, don't you?

I did indeed. And if the plotline mentioned above gets started before Halloween, that's one of the things I'd try and change for the better. (In this discussion with _vanguard_, I did some evaluation of how I'd do the Manifesto differently if I had it to do over.) I'd also try and warn my younger self against the Night of Long Knives (which, as I note here, was my single biggest mistake and the thing I most regret). Of course, both of these are contingent on my ability to get my younger self to listen. (sighs)

Respectfully submitted,
Michael Daemon Donighal

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

Austin has spoken of doing a plotline (for either the Sages or [info]milliways_bar in which I travel to the relative-present-day Trinity Universe and team up with Max, Whit and/or Jake to try and reform Æon from within, but it's contingent on finding people willing to play those worthies and any other Nova Age personalities who might show up.

Best of luck. I'd see if I could entice Max to show up, but my attention is somewhat dispersed over a myriad of projects. I may not have the attention span necessary.

I did indeed. And if the plotline mentioned above gets started before Halloween, that's one of the things I'd try and change for the better. (In this discussion with [info]_vanguard_, I did some evaluation of how I'd do the Manifesto differently if I had it to do over.)

Well, to be honest, it was a pretty decent, forward-looking document/announcement. I don't think anyone faults you for how it worked out. It's only in hindsight that the flaws become obvious.

I'd also try and warn my younger self against the Night of Long Knives (which, as I note here, was my single biggest mistake and the thing I most regret).

When did the Night of Long Knives occur, anyhow? Aberrant: Teragen claims it's sometime "in the next five years" from 2008, but existing supplements take the timeline up to 2015 and it doesn't appear to have happened yet, unless I've missed something.

Remind aberranteyes to update me on his TSH chapter progress.

[md_donighal]

Best of luck. I'd see if I could entice Max to show up, but my attention is somewhat dispersed over a myriad of projects. I may not have the attention span necessary.

Not a problem. Unlike Austin, you've got a real job. Don't take time away from it on my account or Max's. (Though you are one of the few people I'd trust to bring him into this.)

Well, to be honest, it was a pretty decent, forward-looking document/announcement. I don't think anyone faults you for how it worked out.

I do. The novas outside the movement had a less intuitive understanding of Teras than those inside, leading to Terat-wannabees like Battle-Cry and the Sa'ati assassins. From those who made it into the Teragen, we gained plenty of new Marvels and Monsters, but a paucity of Portents. (It didn't help that most of the Portents we got were later purged, along with the ones we already had, because their visions clashed with mine.)

It's only in hindsight that the flaws become obvious.

In hindsight, I should have blown the lid off the cover-up then and there. (In the altered-Æon plotline, I intend, at the very least, to let those I recruit know about the coverup of previous Inspired ages.)

When did the Night of Long Knives occur, anyhow? Aberrant: Teragen claims it's sometime "in the next five years" from 2008, but existing supplements take the timeline up to 2015 and it doesn't appear to have happened yet, unless I've missed something.

When Messrs. Boulle, Aqueim and/or Soulban wrote those words, they weren't taking the alliance with the Aberrants into account. The stresses that led to the Night were building in those years, and probably would have boiled over if Sophia hadn't approached us, but the flow of personnel between us and her crew lowered those tensions. It probably won't surprise you to learn that the proverbial midden hit the metaphorical windmill around 2020.

Remind aberranteyes to update me on his TSH chapter progress.

There hasn't actually been any of late, but that's going to change.

MDD

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

I do. The novas outside the movement had a less intuitive understanding of Teras than those inside, leading to Terat-wannabees like Battle-Cry and the Sa'ati assassins.

As an aside, I wouldn't have let Scripture pick a name like Teras were I in your shoes, I don't think. Dictionary tells me it's a medical term: a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus. I mean, I can see where he was going with that, but I think another name would have been preferable.

It probably won't surprise you to learn that the proverbial midden hit the metaphorical windmill around 2020.

Not at all. Makes a lot of sense, actually.

[md_donighal]

As an aside, I wouldn't have let Scripture pick a name like Teras were I in your shoes, I don't think. Dictionary tells me it's a medical term: a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus. I mean, I can see where he was going with that, but I think another name would have been preferable.

It was partly love making me stupid and partly both of us being esoteric. In ancient times, such births were held to be signs from the gods. Marvels, monsters and portents are all omens, and the Teragen were bringers of omens. (Austin wants it mentioned that, in his Age of Sacrifice rules, he referred to Teras archetypes as "Omentypes".) A less opaque name would have been more to the purpose, but I wasn't concerned with transparency at that point, and if I wound up in the TU relatively-now, the movement's already been using that name for too long, say sorry.

[maxwell_a_mercer]

Not a problem. Unlike Austin, you've got a real job. Don't take time away from it on my account or Max's. (Though you are one of the few people I'd trust to bring him into this.)

Consider me brought in. Pleasantries aside (although it is good to see you again, Michael), what the devil are you doing here? This certainly isn't our universe, and it doesn't have the feel of your own personal continuum. This isn't your doing, by any chance?

[md_donighal]

I'm as baffled as you, Max. Whatever happened on our Earth in 2122, I felt it even through the barriers that keep my Personal Space separate from the larger cosmos. I tried to head back to Earth and investigate, but it appears that ol' rubber sheet was still shaking from whatever had been dropped on it, and I bounced off.

Or there may have been something else involved. My first attempt to return home dropped me in a bistro at the end of the universe, a restaurant/lounge populated by a fascinating cross-section of the space-time continuum's population. I've had hints that the bar is sentient, which leads me to believe that it brought me to it, and possibly to this Earth as well.

And by whatever gods there be, it's good to see you too. (-8

[maxwell_a_mercer]

I'm as baffled as you, Max. Whatever happened on our Earth in 2122, I felt it even through the barriers that keep my Personal Space separate from the larger cosmos. I tried to head back to Earth and investigate, but it appears that ol' rubber sheet was still shaking from whatever had been dropped on it, and I bounced off.

I will attempt to sum up the state of the world... many novas-turned-Aberrant, under the direction of The Colony, are attempting to retake Earth. Thus humans have explored their other evolutionary branch; mesmerists (called psions now).

One of these groups of psions have attempted to recreate the Hammersmith Incident, only thousands of times more powerful and unpredictable.

Or there may have been something else involved. My first attempt to return home dropped me in a bistro at the end of the universe, a restaurant/lounge populated by a fascinating cross-section of the space-time continuum's population. I've had hints that the bar is sentient, which leads me to believe that it brought me to it, and possibly to this Earth as well.

Curious... could I be here for the same reason, I wonder?

[md_donighal]

...The Colony. Well now. That just makes my day so damn bright, I'm glad I've kept my smoked glasses all these years.

And psychomorphs rule the roost Earthside? That probably settles the question about how desperate things would have to get before they'd accept my help, even were I genuinely in a position to offer it.

And they created their own Hammersmith Incident, with 200 years of technological advances to buff it up? Must make my own efforts look trifling. No bloody wonder I got bounced, Bar or no Bar; our space-time continuum must be fizzing like a well-shaken soda bottle.

Curious... could I be here for the same reason, I wonder?

Quite likely. At the very least, it probbly helped you follow me (assuming this was your first lateral time-jaunt as well).

MDD

[aberrantangels]

There hasn't actually been any of late, but that's going to change.

The Beacon Mal speaks sooth, chief. I'm leaving for Scotland on the 29th; I intend to have more complete, at least, chapters to you by then or die trying. I hope to have completed chapters for you, but I make no absolute promises.

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

The Beacon Mal speaks sooth, chief. I'm leaving for Scotland on the 29th; I intend to have more complete, at least, chapters to you by then or die trying. I hope to have completed chapters for you, but I make no absolute promises.

Righto. Do your best, but don't kill yourself doing it. Zach won't be able to complete his stuff until September at the earliest. I found out the seekrit project which has been taking up all his time: he's one of the Exalted 2nd authors.

[aberrantangels]

I found out the seekrit project which has been taking up all his time: he's one of the Exalted 2nd authors.

Neets! I'm envying!