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Monthly Archive for January, 2010

Boat Story 027 Notes

New reader? Start here. Back to Part 026 Notes – Forward to Part 028 Notes More flashbacks. Hello, past Rose. I’m trying something out here. Aside from spending time letting the crew run around the ship, I had some history I had to drop. It’s safe to assume that everyone on the Rose knows who [...]

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Boat Story 027

New reader? Start here. Back to Part 026 – Forward to Part 028 Two and a half years before The Rose left port of Hin on the western coast of Lingguo, the weight of its cargo pushing the boat lower in the water. All twenty one of her crew moved about the boat, securing crates [...]

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Boat Story 026 Notes

New reader? Start here. Back to Part 025 Notes – Forward to Part 027 Notes We’re leaning towards a Xiphos-heavy middle of this act. Sorry, that’s how this story is flowing. We lost Nina, and that loss is what’s driving a good portion of the story, and since Nina was Xiphos’s girlfriend, Xiphos is going [...]

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Boat Story 026

New reader? Start here. Back to Part 025 – Forward to Part 027 Since he had taken over, Toby had the guest kitchen to himself. This is where he carefully constructed each meal, almost always in silence, usually by himself. Usually. As he washed the dishes he’d need for that night’s meal, Xiphos stood by, [...]

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Boat Story 025 Notes

New reader? Start here. Back to Part 024 Notes – Forward to Part 026 Notes I may have mentioned this before, but the New Archer Revolutionaries are old characters of mine. I have a habit of taking out of place characters from their old, unused series and placing them into a new environment. Xiphos came [...]

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Boat Story 025

New reader? Start here. Back to Part 024 – Forward to Part 026 Four years before Loaded with cargo, brimming with passengers, the Rose set out from New Archer. The Rose was in the throws of a shift change, the fresh crew coming in to replace the night team. Tre had just been relieved from [...]

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Boat Story 024 Notes

New reader? Start here. Back to Part 023 Notes – Forward to Part 025 Notes Two things happening in this section: Preparing for the Information Traders, and meeting the Information Traders. Billy, as a due to his experience in the navy, leads the way. A couple of things about the Information Traders: They are pirates, [...]

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Boat Story 024

New reader? Start here. Back to Part 023 – Forward to Part 025 Billy laid out scrap paper from the Relay feed on Cait’s desk. He sketched with a pencil the Port of Voys, in Lúme. He moved his hand quickly, marking little boxes for city blocks with ease. Before long he had a simple [...]

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