BWAH!!! New Eyrie!

[Logan Darklighter]

Gryphon, ya bloody bastich! Why did you release this on Double XP weekend in City of Heroes? That's just mean, man!
Of course it was well worth the read. ^_^
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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[Sweno]

New Eyrie + DW 5.3 + Double XP weeked = no sleep.
someone seriously need to figure out how to fit more hours into the day.-Terry
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die." - Carmen Boyle (Olympic Luge Gold Medal winner - 1996)
Mary Sue's theme music
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Black Aeronaut]

I just pull forty-eight hour sleep cycles myself. Awake for 36 hours, down for 12.

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Aerospace Solutions for the discerning spacer
"But first, let's test it on the penguin."
"Meep?" O.o

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[Kokuten]

this is one of those times I'm grateful that I'm _not_ playing any mmorpgs. I read both and still got to bed on time.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

[zero sum mgame]

It's probably the last new one for a while, based on what Gryphon's said in the forums. Enjoy it while you can.
-z

[WengFook]

I wonder if the pacing of the latest eyrie story was done on purpose to make it seem more the reader was reading a comic book
I just feel like certain parts of the story stood out more like panels in a book _______________________________
We're definitely playing this game wrong. I thought Vampire was
supposed to be a game of personal horror, not about ninja airstrikes
at night.
- A friend after playing ax session of Dark Ages Vampire.
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.

[mephron]

This one's been sitting around for about six months. And if it seems that way, then yes - there were scenes here that really did pop into my head as images that I then got down.Brazil has decided you're cute.

[Star Ranger4]

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I just pull forty-eight hour sleep cycles myself. Awake for 36 hours, down for 12.

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So, did you adjust inside of a week, or suffer the inevitable psycotic episdoe forst?

As to the commentary, lets just point out, that as Geoff notes under the name he uses here, that there are authors besides G. While I cant help but cheer Gryph on in his actuall attempt to make a living at his avocation, let us not forget that while he may be editor in chief, he's not the sole source. Just the one with the best few of the big picture... and the only one who knows just WHICH bed Sutur really is hiding under."I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Black Aeronaut]

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So, did you adjust inside of a week, or suffer the inevitable psycotic episdoe forst?

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Nah, I've done this before, going on longer and longer stretches. For some reason, though, I'm more or less immune to that kind of punishment. I've been told by a medical profesional that I have an irregular sleep cycle, but really I think if the planet's rotational cycle were 12 hours longer, then I'd be sitting pretty.

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Black Aeronaut Technologies Group
Aerospace Solutions for the discerning spacer
"But first, let's test it on the penguin."
"Meep?" O.o

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[ECSNorway]

It was actually proven, once, in a scientific study, that the natural wake/sleep cycle of the human body, deprived of external time cues, is approximately 25 hours.
There really aren't enough hours in the day - literally!--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[mephron]

I will note that there's at least one more story sitting in the workpipe, and I have one that happens between "Last Transport" and the 2-in-1 that I've been outlining and refining. (If I can find the guy, there's even a piece of artwork for it out there for it.)Brazil has decided you're cute.Brazil has decided you're cute.

[Bob Schroeck]

So, Geoff...
Mitsuwa? I thought you liked dinner there that one time!
And boy does Deadpool remind me of someone, but I can't put my finger on precisely who...
All seriousness aside, great job. A good, fun read, the pacing worked for me, and the appearance/identity of Sister Destiny was a kick. Oddly, I had some issues at first with the specific divine guest appearances in the story, and then I sat back and essentially said to myself, "Hey, Belldandy et al. are okay in UF, but he isn't? That's just a little inconsistent, isn't it?" So I slapped myself around a little and went back to enjoying the story.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

[WengFook]

I'll admit after getting over the initial kneejerk reaction to seeing that biblical character in the story.... It was okay in my books :O People will write fanfiction about anime and everything under the sun, so why not that divine guest? _______________________________
We're definitely playing this game wrong. I thought Vampire was
supposed to be a game of personal horror, not about ninja airstrikes
at night.
- A friend after playing a session of Dark Ages Vampire.
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.

[Herr Bad Moon]

For some reason, I mentally pictured Him in the outfit he was wearing in Robert Kirkman's Battle Pope, but maybe not so goofy sounding.---------------
-Jon
Being the Mariner hitting coach is like being the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts.
-Poster on USSMariner.com
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Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

[Bob Schroeck]

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I'll admit after getting over the initial kneejerk reaction to seeing that biblical character in the story.... It was okay in my books

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Plus, over at EPU the consensus is that it was either Odin or Balder in a robe with a fake ID.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

[Star Ranger4]

Am I apparently the ONLY person who didnt have a problem with that guest appearance? because personally, it just seemed to 'fit' to me..."I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Sirrocco]

I had to laugh at the sheer audacity of having him *pass the ammo*. Does that count?

[aeroprime]

The phrase that ran through my mind when I read that part was, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!"
-aeroprime
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"Been there. Done that. Can't remember why."

[Acyl]

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Am I apparently the ONLY person who didnt have a problem with that guest appearance? because personally, it just seemed to 'fit' to me...

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The, er, guest appearance didn't bother me either. Heck, it made me grin madly.
I like, and I mean really really like what Gryphon did with the Ignatines. I mean...they're warrior monks. CHRISTIAN warrior monks. The brief mention in Warrior's Legacy just made me smile, and the way he developed it in UF (or rather in the BPGD entries) was great.
Geoff Depew's expansion of the concept, and the way he's portrayed it...well, that's just gravy. Like, you know, the really good gravy that you just wanna continue spooning and eating even when the actual food's gone, making your mom squint at you and say something about bad table manners...but you can't stop, because the gravy's that good.
Right.
Yeah. So.
(Possible spoiler text in white)
I found the notion of Sister Destiny getting a life-changing vision...insanely compelling one. She had a Damascus moment, as it were. So there's a certain thematic link, a kind of narrative continuity, when UF-Geoff has his own encounter in the heat of battle.
And actually seeing you-know-who fits the whole notion of the character's evolution. There's the sense that although he was training to be a Cleric, UF-Geoff didn't really have faith as such. Heck, he wasn't a fully functional person. Now that's changed. It ties in with what he explicitly says at the end of the story. That's well done.
-- Acyl