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The Interactives "The Book of Masks"  : A high school student discovers a grimoire that can make magical disguises."The Wandering Stars" : Sequel to "The Book of Masks.""Student Bodies" : A high school student is turned into a blue goo that can possess people.For non-WdC Members "The Book of Masks: Archives" : Dodges the "Servers Busy" barrier!"The Book of Masks (Abridged)" : Introductory storylines for new readers.Community "BoM/TWS Message Forum" : Community for readers of the interactives."BoM/TWS/SB Wiki" : Notes and documentation for authors. Spoilers!Current Polls None The Latest 2/20: Interactive: "And the First Seal Was Opened" 2/20: Public: "And the First Seal Was Opened"
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| Today's chapter— * Interactive: "For the Love of Sarah Johansson" * Public: "For the Love of Sarah Johansson" —brings that short branch to a decision and a resting point. There's a commentary thread here in the forums: "Commentary: The Mother of All Revenge Plays" Next up is a return to a place where Will and Caleb are still friends. Collaborators even. And Gordon Black is there too. It picks up with "The Temptation To Be What Another Wants" . This is the branch where Will and Caleb, while playing with masks, accidentally revealed themselves to Gordon, who insisted on joining them. He and Will even swapped lives briefly; as a result, Gordon got thrown out of his dad's house and has moved in with Caleb and his mom. The latest drama: Gordon and Chelsea have broken up, and David Kirkham got turned into a golem. (So Caleb is pretending to be Kirkham these days.)The branch ended with a couple of different chapters, each pointing in different directions, but I'm picking up the one where Gordon tells Will that he wants to go out with Jenny Ashton; and he tells Will that if he gets Jenny to go out with him, he'll set Will up inside a new mask of someone who can be Chelsea's new boyfriend. What comes next starts tomorrow. |
| I've finally got caught up enough—and got my head back into a creative space, I think—that I'm going to start publishing my backlog. I left off in the middle of a storyline with "Invalid Entry" , and instead of publishing the last two chapters in that line, I'm to write a few more before returning to it. In the meantime I'm going to continue with a sequel to "Vengeance on an Ex-Friend" That's the story where Will and Sydney are plotting to create their own Brotherhood of Baphomet, and have decided to target his former best friend, Caleb. Readers liked the choice "Start with Caleb's mother", so that's where we'll begin. Here it is: * Interactive: "The Mother of All Revenge Plays" * Public: "The Mother of All Revenge Plays" |
| A general head's up to anyone who had been corresponding with me before my last vanishing act: If your name is not Nostrum, bickuribox, or ThePrussian, then I have likely flushed all your old emails away in a giant inbox purge. If you have important business with me please get in touch. If your name is Nostrum, I think I have all your emails going back to September '23. If your name is bickuribox or ThePrussian, I think I have all your most recent correspondence but a few emails might have gotten deleted by accident. |
| ... I ain't dead. There was no crisis or anything, it was just another one of those damnable collapses. But I am so disgusted with myself over this most recent one that I am determined not to disappear again. In future, even if I find my enthusiasm curdlng, I am going to do my best to resist the temptation to crawl into a hole offline. I'll do my best to grin my way through and be neighborly and helpful here. I've got a bunch of emails to get thru, will do that tomorrow. I do know that the email box was full, and it's cleaned out now, so if there's stuff you want to email me about, you can. Anyway, there's no real story to tell about what happened. It was just hitting the wall again, and I just found it impossible to get back onto my feet. I'm still having trouble with it. Usuallly I can pick up momentum again after restarting the writing. But though I did restart writing back in October, it just petered out again real quick. Depending on what I think of the chapters I wrote when I revisit them, I will probably start posting the thin backlog I've got in a few days. We'll see then how much I have recharged. |
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