MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 686 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Re: by myktshr-+AT+-ldd.net (miyako hirao) 2) Re: BTMIW!!!!! by Jake 3) Oathblustered / Book Drive / Holly Lisle by Jake 4) Re: key chains by "Ian Macdonald (CS)" 5) Re: Roving RennFaires by Tensen 6) Re: Oathblustered / Book Drive / Holly Lisle by Korendil 7) Re: BTMIW!!!!! by Korendil 8) Re: key chains by lamberch-+AT+-alize.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Benoit Houle (Atlan irknium)) 9) Re: Oathblustered / Book Drive / Holly Lisle by Korendil 10) Re: kethry & Tarma by Sal 11) Re: Roving RennFaires by michele meredith 12) Re: key chains by michele meredith 13) Re: Braiding time! by Sal 14) Re: Re: kethry & Tarma by Korendil 15) Re: speedos, keychains, etc. by michele meredith 16) ??? by Kintara-+AT+-aol.com 17) Re: OP, Rolan, Pterry, Debbie by undine 18) Re: Vanyel/newbies/divorce by Megan Smith 19) Mark Shepard by awand123-+AT+-pipeline.com 20) Re: ??? by michele meredith 21) Re:wolves, parodies, and more by David Snyder 22) Re: BTMIW!!!!! by David Snyder 23) re: comanions by Sal 24) Re: Dutch Braid - Reply by Sal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 16:49:43 +0000 From: myktshr-+AT+-ldd.net (miyako hirao) To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Re: Message-ID: <199607122146.QAA12733-+AT+-cdale1.midwest.net> At 8:57 PM 7-12-96 +0100, Raingcats-+AT+-aol.com wrote: >>> Yep, I'm 19. I'll be 20 in November. So I'm not too far from you in age.. >>> > > Hey!!! I turn 20 in november too!! So i'm not far from either of >>you!!! catwoman--when is your b-day? Mine's the 11th. Just >curious :) >>(sorry to put out this little measly post, but I just *had* to! > > :) megan > >Hey, I was born in November too! So was my dad. I was born on his birthday >(there's a piece of trivia for ya!) November 29. I'm only 14 though. My >father's 44. (There's another piece of trivia for ya - ooh two in one post! >) Sorry for the short post but I just couldn't contain myself! How many >people were born in November anyway? At least one more -- I was born on November 3. I will be 15 this coming November. Love, Summersong ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:20:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Jake To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: BTMIW!!!!! Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19960714181016.08bf47f8-+AT+-webspan.net> TAMMY wrote: >"WHAT?? NO!! IT CANNOT BEEEEE!!" Lady Tammy shouts, >upon hearing the news. "JAAAAAAKE!!!!!" she wails, then quickly >pulls herself together and sends a mindcall to the Ladies and >Champions in Green, dispatching them to Florida, known to be the >hiding place of TMIW. "And that damned Bird better not know >anything about this, or....." she swears to herself. Tammy sends Mat >a quick mind message, warning him that TMIW were active again. >Musing to herself how handy mindspeech is in a crisis, she fades away >in a puff of green smoke. Alright. I know I'm going to go on with this, so why don't we take it to the Magewar list? Wait a day though, because I have to resubscribe to it. ------------ Merry Meet, and Merry Part, and Mary Tyler Moore... Jake / Rynath in Green God of Parody and Top Ten Lists / Avatar of Humor Misty Humor and FAQ archivist ~ http://www.webspan.net/~rynath Roses are red Violets are blue Space is warped And so are you. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:34:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jake To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Oathblustered / Book Drive / Holly Lisle Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19960714182357.082f0a82-+AT+-webspan.net> > -- RE: OATHBLINDED AND TORTURING NEWBIES I wrote: >> Yes, I do. But I already *said* the book doesn't exist. It's not my fault >> people on the web don't update their pages, and have lists three years old >> saying it's a possibility. I for one am convinced it's a hoax. And anyway, >> I just realized that quote was from _Oathblustered_, the fourth book in the >> series. >I read that one. It wasn't as good as the others. Not as good that fourth book in LHM that Kory keeps talking about. But I like it better than _Octarine Gryphon,_ the fourth book in the Mage Wars written by Misty and Terry Pratchett. Imagine a Misty and Pterry collab? I was talking to Stormcloud today about it, and I could see them making a Valdermar-esque country on A'Tuin and running WILD. %$#-+AT+-#$%^&&(())(*&#-+AT+-!~~~#$%^&&*())(*&^%$##-+AT+-!~~~!-+AT+-#$%%**((()))(*&^^^$##-+AT+-! >> -- RE: HELPING THE DEBSTER AND GOOD KARMA Debbie? You out there? Do you want the drive? The only reason we have to ask you is to get your address; if not, then we would be sending them already. #$%^&*()(*^%$#-+AT+-!~-+AT+-$^()()*&^^&##$#$#-+AT+-%^%&^(*)__+)*&^%$$-+AT+-!~!-+AT+-#$^&**(())_)_ Ian was asking about Holly Lisle and her mail to him. A hoax? Well, I know Holly wrote Stormcloud about Stormy's homepage, and it was the same address... I would imagine that it is the original article that is writing you. Merry Meet, and Merry Part, and Mary Tyler Moore... Jake / Rynath in Green God of Parody and Top Ten Lists / Avatar of Humor Misty Humor and FAQ archivist ~ http://www.webspan.net/~rynath Roses are red Violets are blue Space is warped And so are you. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:31:20 +0000 (GMT) From: "Ian Macdonald (CS)" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: key chains Message-ID: On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, michele meredith wrote: > Heyla! > > I just wanted to do a little double checking here. If anyone who has > sent me information about the keychains and has not recieved a reply > yet, please e-mail me again. I went a little slap-happy when I was > deleting old messages. Sorry about that. I'm a little tired here, I just > read about 260 messages and replied to certain ones. I hope I didn't > hurt anyones feelings, I'm feelin' a litttle silly today. > > Love, luck, and lollipops, > Mishi > I was interested in the key chain, but as I said I am in the UK. I don;t really have any favorite colours so surprise me Ian < all of a sudden a whisper of sound occurs then the sound of a body hitting a keyboard. "Good thing we had darts", one of the white coated men said to the other as they dragged ian's body from the terminal.> < ism-+AT+-tardis.ed.ac.uk > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:04:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Tensen To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Roving RennFaires Message-ID: On Sat, 8 Jun 1996, michele meredith wrote: > Tensen wrote: > > > I thought the Pocono RenFaire didn't exist anymore? > > > > Perhaps we should try and get a small gathering at the PennFaire. > > I made a bit of an oops! I answered Tensen's question to another message > , but yes it is gone I forgot. Like I said in the other I was worn out > and I was drolling over the thought of being able to go to two of them. > > I'd love to get together at the faire. I think a gathering is a good > idea. Just let me know when if you all out in e-mail land decide to do > that. > Hmm, well we still don't know time frame of when we are going. My friends are usually undecisive and go at the last moment. Usually dragging Gyr along with us. Tensen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 19:18:22 EDT From: Korendil To: Subject: Re: Oathblustered / Book Drive / Holly Lisle Message-ID: <9607122318.AA26550-+AT+-raptor.icubed.net> >Ian was asking about Holly Lisle and her mail to him. >A hoax? > > Well, I know Holly wrote Stormcloud about Stormy's homepage, and it was the >same address... I would imagine that it is the original article that is >writing you. Not only this, but I remember, in the end of my Age of AOL (hehehhee.yes, Michal, I did that on purpose;P), in the Arrows Online...wossname...aol terminology for like a newsgroup...bulletin board? Holly posted there. The real article. So it's always possible that she's seen the Light, and has moved on to an ISP;P Korendil, Knight of Elfhame Sun-Descending, Squire of the High Court, Magus Minor, One In Black, Firstborn Child of Danaan, God of All Things Nocturnal, Bibliomaniac, Ailurophile, #Macintosh Op, and #Asgard Co-Owner. _____________________________________________________________________________ Email: korendil-+AT+-icubed.net |~You build worlds with steel and stone Email: jon_rubin-+AT+-bam_online.tfnet.com|/ I build worlds with words alone~ IRC: Korendil on #macintosh; Undernet|--Heather "ICSTPAMISLG" Alexander ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 19:24:57 EDT From: Korendil To: Subject: Re: BTMIW!!!!! Message-ID: <9607122324.AA26758-+AT+-raptor.icubed.net> >Alright. I know I'm going to go on with this, so why don't we take it to >the Magewar list? Wait a day though, because I have to resubscribe >to it. Hey..speaking 'bout the list, is it still even *up*? I subscribed last...what was it? monday? and still haven't received anything from it ::sniffle::...of course, that might just might be due to my ISP's mail service, which our Honorable Listmistress has decreeds the sole answeer to is 'having him [my admin] shot'..... ObMisty: SPeaking of mail, is there a postal service on velgarth? No...their must be, 'cos of Lendel's line (Mpawn, page 160): "Purple ink?" Tylendel said increduously, looking over Vanyel's shoulder. "Am I really seeing purple ink? And *pink* paper?" And then all the letters from home asking Van to visit--hmm. BUt is it truly *organized* mail, or just by courier? I guess that means no worrying about disgruntled postal workers, armed with crossbows, though.... Korendil, Knight of Elfhame Sun-Descending, Squire of the High Court, Magus Minor, One In Black, Firstborn Child of Danaan, God of All Things Nocturnal, Bibliomaniac, Ailurophile, #Macintosh Op, and #Asgard Co-Owner. _____________________________________________________________________________ Email: korendil-+AT+-icubed.net |~You build worlds with steel and stone Email: jon_rubin-+AT+-bam_online.tfnet.com|/ I build worlds with words alone~ IRC: Korendil on #macintosh; Undernet|--Heather "ICSTPAMISLG" Alexander ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:36:47 -0400 From: lamberch-+AT+-alize.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Benoit Houle (Atlan irknium)) To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: key chains Message-ID: Key chain... Could somebody tell me more about it i'm lost ... What Key chain?... and what price? ?? Lost in Montreal Benoit -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Atlan Irknium, The elven druid [Benoit Houle] Member of the verbena e-mail: lamberch-+AT+-alize.ere.umontreal.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 19:45:41 EDT From: Korendil To: Subject: Re: Oathblustered / Book Drive / Holly Lisle Message-ID: <9607122345.AA27309-+AT+-raptor.icubed.net> >Not as good that fourth book in LHM that Kory keeps talking about. But I >like it better than _Octarine Gryphon,_ the fourth book in the Mage Wars >written by Misty and Terry Pratchett. > >Imagine a Misty and Pterry collab? I was talking to Stormcloud today about >it, and I could see them making a Valdermar-esque country on A'Tuin and >running WILD. Jake, come now..didn't you know? In the back of one of the books...gods..can't remember which, I'll have to search later; Misty finally tells us the truth! There is no 'Larry Dixon'...the collabarator on all of her Dixon books was PTERRY! Its just that everything he said got garbled over bad phonelines, and that's why the books are so horrible...sad but true. The guy on the back with Misty is some brawn hired from the an escort service for a loooong time; he goes around to the conventions with Misty, posing as 'Larry'! It's been Misty's plan from the start to make the Valdemar books fit in with the Discworld novels. That's why when the final book is written, the full sum of Velgarth books will be a multiple of 8! Let's see what we have so far: Black Gryphon White Gryphon SIlver Gryphon Octarine Gryphon Invisible Gryphon Magic's Pawn Magic's Promise Magic's Price Magic's Redempition Magic's Call Oathbound Oathbreakers Oathblinded Oathblustered Oathkept Arrows of the Queen Arrow's FLight Arrow's Fall Arrow's Loss Arrows of the Prince By the Sword In the Sword Through the Sword Killed by the Sword Cleaned the Sword Winds of Fate Winds of CHange Winds of Fury Winds of War Winds of Peace Storm Warning Storm Rising Storm Breaking(upcoming) Storm Passing(upcoming) Storm AFtermath(upcoming) Obviously, Misty has QUITE a ways to go in each series..I don't know about you, Jake, but I can't wait!;P ObMisty: Why doesn't anyone take the eneregy to write to Misty and find out whether or not Oathblinded was ever a possibility? Korendil, Knight of Elfhame Sun-Descending, Squire of the High Court, Magus Minor, One In Black, Firstborn Child of Danaan, God of All Things Nocturnal, Bibliomaniac, Ailurophile, #Macintosh Op, and #Asgard Co-Owner. _____________________________________________________________________________ Email: korendil-+AT+-icubed.net |~You build worlds with steel and stone Email: jon_rubin-+AT+-bam_online.tfnet.com|/ I build worlds with words alone~ IRC: Korendil on #macintosh; Undernet|--Heather "ICSTPAMISLG" Alexander ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:54:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Sal To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: kethry & Tarma Message-ID: On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, philip dancause wrote: > In the begining of BTS, when Kerowyn goes to plead for Kethry's help, it is > implied that both Kethry and her partner are feeling their age. Tarma > certainly wasn't any spring chicken when she took Kero & Daren on as > students. After Kero leaves to join the Skybolts, Kethry & Tarma seem to > fade out. In the Mage Winds and Storms books, kero seems to be getting > old. Whatever happened to Tarma & Kethry? I mean, by this time they'd be > pretty ancient wouln't they? > > :) > Ami Yes, Tarma and Kethry would be ancient by that time... by Velgarth reckoning, I'd put their ages at around 120 years by the time BTS occurs (and that's being generous and saying they were in their late teens when OB/OB was going on...). TARMA shows up in one of the Mage Winds books as a le'sh'ye (sp?) kalanedral, so she's gone to the Star-Eyed's side... don't remember exactly where, but there's a quote, to Elspeth, something like "exactly so, student of my student," and a reference to bright, winking blue eyes... Kethry isn't mentioned beyond BTS that *I'*ve caught... but I could have missed it... - Sal %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Somebody should have labeled the future 'Some Assembly Required.' % % - Michael Garibaldi % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:02:16 -0400 From: michele meredith To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Roving RennFaires Message-ID: <31E6E788.448E-+AT+-prolog.net> > > Tensen wrote: > Hmm, well we still don't know time frame of when we are going. My > friends are usually undecisive and go at the last moment. Usually > dragging Gyr along with us. > Well, I'm still interested in meeting you all there. When you decide to go let me know and hopefully I'll be able to make it. If I don't have to work, I should be able to make it. Just send me an e-mail Love, luck, and lollipops, Mishi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:09:30 -0400 From: michele meredith To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: key chains Message-ID: <31E6E93A.7A95-+AT+-prolog.net> Benoit Houle (Atlan irknium) wrote: > > Key chain... > > Could somebody tell me more about it i'm lost ... > > What Key chain?... and what price? ?? > > Lost in Montreal Well, basically Chen Chen and I are making keychains for the members of the list so that we all have something to tie us together. If you would like to have one please just e-mail me back at mishi-+AT+-prolog.net with your snail mail address and what your favorite color is. I'm not sure about the price or even if there is going to be one. I'll get back to you about that. Love, luck, and lollipops, Mishi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:14:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Sal To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Braiding time! Message-ID: On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Sarah Worley wrote: > On July 11, Korendil wrote: > > wow, you won't believe this. I was absolutely POSITIVE Lenny was dead in > > JH. I even went to get textevd. And there I was, typing in a paragraph > > from page 38, when I decided to read ahead....where it said he *was* > > alive. Oops;P Doesn't sound like he has much longer, though.... > > Huh? Where does it say he's alive? (Argh. I want my books. They're > all in Minnesota. Hopefully I will be getting them soon.) I could have > sworn Larry said (or someone said!) that he was dead. Nope. As of JH, Len is dying of AIDS, *very* ill, but still alive. He probably won't last out the next book... - Sal %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Somebody should have labeled the future 'Some Assembly Required.' % % - Michael Garibaldi % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 20:25:36 EDT From: Korendil To: "Misty List" Subject: Re: Re: kethry & Tarma Message-ID: <9607130025.AA28324-+AT+-raptor.icubed.net> >In the begining of BTS, when Kerowyn goes to plead for Kethry's help, it is >implied that both Kethry and her partner are feeling their age. Tarma >certainly wasn't any spring chicken when she took Kero & Daren on as >students. After Kero leaves to join the Skybolts, Kethry & Tarma seem to >fade out. In the Mage Winds and Storms books, kero seems to be getting >old. Whatever happened to Tarma & Kethry? I mean, by this time they'd be >pretty ancient wouln't they? > >:) >Ami Ok..this is something a friend of mine and I go over every once in awhile....what we need to figure out, is numbers, which we're always too lazy to do. Go look at a timeline, figure out what the year is in Storm Rising (since the timeline has everything from AotQ to Rising under one year), then figure out how old Keth is at the beginning of oathbound, subtract that many yuears from the year for oathbound, and subtract that year from the year rising is in. Oh yeah, and Tarma's dead. Look in..um..WoFate? "Good work, student of my student" Sorry this reply is so late, but after Mel's Fiddling(TM) yesterday, I had a one-way connection to the list till today;> Korendil, Knight of Elfhame Sun-Descending, Squire of the High Court, Magus Minor, One In Black, Firstborn Child of Danaan, God of All Things Nocturnal, Bibliomaniac, Ailurophile, #Macintosh Op, and #Asgard Co-Owner. _____________________________________________________________________________ Email: korendil-+AT+-icubed.net |~You build worlds with steel and stone Email: jon_rubin-+AT+-bam_online.tfnet.com|/ I build worlds with words alone~ IRC: Korendil on #macintosh; Undernet|--Heather "ICSTPAMISLG" Alexander ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:36:44 -0400 From: michele meredith To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: speedos, keychains, etc. Message-ID: <31E6EF9C.316E-+AT+-prolog.net> Heyla all!!! Well, let's see first things first. Lady Crysania if you are interested in a keychain e-mail me at mishi-+AT+-prolog.net your address (snail mail) and your favorite color(s). I'm sorry to put this on list in general, but for some reason my computer doesn't like your e-mail address. Second, (actually and Third, too) Rehoboth Beach and Speedos. Oh, well even if it is becoming a gay resort that's not going to change the fact that men in white speedos are going to be completely yummy looking. I'm just going down there for the scenery after all . BTW, Cennyadd, your quite welcome to join me down there, I'm going down by bus though. Fourth. Thanks Korendil (I think it was you anyway) for finding that passage in the book for me. I guess it doesn't really prove that Kero and Eldan are lifebonded though, it doesn't actually say that just about them being a couple. I still vote for them being lifebonded though. Fifth, I think I sent a post to the list that was susposed to be sent just to Benoit. Sorry. Okay this is long enough now. Time to get back to work on the keychains. :-) Love, luck, and lollipops, Mishi, the (hopefully) soon to be named Goddess Of Hyperness and Overbubbliness ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:39:41 -0400 From: Kintara-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: ??? Message-ID: <960712203940_236600338-+AT+-emout14.mail.aol.com> I am lost... I just subscribed to the mailing list and so far I have read around 25 letters and am totally clueless about what is going on. Could somebody fill me in??? I really enjoy Mercedes Lacjey and would love to know what's going on. Totally mind blown in the States ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:40:51 -0400 (EDT) From: undine To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: OP, Rolan, Pterry, Debbie Message-ID: Cennydd mentioned: 1. Amazon.com--totally cool. Cennydd's right-it's certainly worth looking at! 2. About S&SIII not being "officially" out-of-print. Don't hold your breath waiting for new copies to show up. Frequently publishers don't declare something OP even when they have NO intention of EVER printing more copies. Why? Because as long as a book hasn't been officially taken out of print, they (publishers) don't have to write that final royalty check. 3. _Lord of Light_ is a favorite. My copy is in tatters. 4.Thanks for the kitsune suggestions. Do other cultures have were-foxes? Catwoman mentioned Rolan being a reincarnated ruler of Valdemar (perhaps she meant Roald?) Isn't Rolan Grove Born? And didn't 'fandes mention to Elspeth in WoF that Gwena didn't have the benefit of being human because she was Grove Born? ('fraid I don't have the book handy. I sold it :) ) Jake (who shall not be referred to as Rynath) bring on the Pterry and Misty collab. I want to read about Bards performing the Hedgehog song :) Which of the Small Gods do I make sacrifices to? Finally, count me in for helping Debbie. Undine "Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art." Charles McCabe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:17:21 -0500 (EST) From: Megan Smith To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Vanyel/newbies/divorce Message-ID: <199607130217.VAA14681-+AT+-zap.wwdc.com> Glith wrote: [huge snip = AOL article about homo/heterosexuality portrayal in fiction] >Well, any thoughts? > Personally, I have yet to find a male author (of any persuasion) who "rings true" when writing in the first person as a female character. I would imagine the reverse is true for men. As to the "superficial" coverage of the actual sexual act in ML's books, if I want to read about it in depth, I'll pick up the _Joy of Sex_ or some gothic bodice-ripper. It's nice to not be swamped in someone else's gratuitous sex. Guess I'm just not a very good voyeur! --------------------------------------------------------- Jake wrote: >Hoooooo yeah. No offense, new people, but where in the nine Shin'a'in Hells >did you all come from? It seemed like we went from nobody to >pow< all >these people. Personally, I was looking for upcoming release info and tripped over the address. However, it does explain the band-width problems world-wide - lots more people getting on the 'net these days. ------------------------------- Tammy Harris wrote: >Then there's always the joys of being a child of divorce. Uup - been there, done that, got the tee-shirt. I did it in the early 70's when it was perceived as _VERY_ unusual, and got all the crap that goes with it. Messy, messy, messy. I found that the best defence was a good offence, but I was dealing with 2 very strong personalities (and the custodial one was ... disturbed). Bear with what you can, and put your foot down when you can't. You are a person too, and deserve the same level of respect your parents expect from you! --------------------------------- Megan Smith (megan-+AT+-wwdc.com) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 01:07:44 GMT From: awand123-+AT+-pipeline.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Mark Shepard Message-ID: <199607130107.BAA05496-+AT+-pipe2.ny2.usa.pipeline.com> Heyla all! It's me, (run for your lives... or was that what they said when they were announcing hurricane Bertha was coming? :) ) the newbie whose latest attempts to delurk have all been erased by my server choosing to blow it's own cyber guts out recently, therebyu committting computer suicide. Never try to open all hundred pieces of mail at once on a lousy server. ::groan:: For my next feat, I shall attempt to play ketchup. It gets bloody... ObMisty (well, sort of) : Anyway. I was looking at my bookshelf, and I ran into this dusty copy of _Elvendude_ --which sorta rips off Misty's elven world, but ... So, what ever happened to Mark Shepard anyway? Oh, wait, dear *Gods* I wasn't trying to pun on the sheep theme, I was just... just... darn, I forgot what I was going to say. Chocolate covered sheep, anyone? Okay, now I got it. In one of Misty's afterwards, she mentions having Mark Shepard as her assistant; The Guy Who Opens All Her Letters. And responds to them, too. Well, his thing in _Lammas Night_ was sort of lousy, IMHO, but _Elvendude_ wasn't too bad. A bit on the fluffy side, but decent. Does he even *have* a writing career now, other than as Misty secretary? Hmmm, I think that's all guys. Please accept my extremely humble apologies, though, because I haven't posted ::blush:: ... I haven't the foggiest notion of what's going on right now, actually. :) Love, Kimberly (yet another sigless, wandering tourist-like person-type-thing *grin* ) P.S. In answer to someone's question about "where all these newbies came from all of a sudden," I know I can answer where two of them did ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:11:49 -0400 From: michele meredith To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: ??? Message-ID: <31E6F7D5.1400-+AT+-prolog.net> Kintara-+AT+-aol.com wrote: > > I am lost... I just subscribed to the mailing list and so far I have read > around 25 letters and am totally clueless about what is going on. Could > somebody fill me in??? > I really enjoy Mercedes Lacjey and would love to know what's going on. > > Totally mind blown in the States Heyla!! I know how you feel. When I came on I joined in right in the middle of coversations. Right now we trying very hard to talk about something Misty (mercedes lackey) related because there is nothing new out there by her. I guess our main things right now are who's lifebonded and who's not and what fantasy world we would like to live in. Any references to Oathblinded and Oathblustred? are just jokes. Feel free to join in on the fun though. The Men in White and the Ladies in Green are groups that kind of joke around back and forth with each other(I have quite figured that on out yet). E-mail privately at mishi-+AT+-prolog.net if you want to know more about the keychains (or anything else). Some of the abbrevations we use are ROFL - rolling on the floor laughing; BTW - by the way; - wicked evil grin; grin; umm I forget the others. I think Chen Chen has the whole list - hey can you help the newbie out. One other thing if your curious about the Gods and Godesses things when everyone signs their name - it basically a way of describing yourself - Ladt Thessaly has to offically name you a God or Goddess though. I hope I unconfused you a little. Welcome to the list and all the madness!!!!! Give it a while anf you'll get used to it. love, Luck, and Lollipops, Mishi, the soon (hopefully) to be named Goddess Of Hyperness and Overbubbliness P.S Don't let the number of messages scare you, we are usually not quite this talkative!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:23:04 -0400 From: David Snyder To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re:wolves, parodies, and more Message-ID: <199607130123.VAA12288-+AT+-brickell.bridge.net> At 04:48 AM 7/12/96 +0100, you wrote: >>ObMisty: I'm sure there are wolves on Velgarth...anyone remember references >>to them? >>Wasn't Warrl some sort of wolf hybrid or something? I thought that's what >the kyree were. >Ami ******************* Ok, kyree are wolf-like creatures with some attributes of the larger plains- cats. Kyree aren't too good at long runs like wolves are, they're more like sprinters. And by the way, there are wolves, the Holderkin had people on sheep- watch because of the wolves, remember? **************************** Jake, GREAT parodies, I'd probably like the first one better if I knew the melody, oh well, but the second one, oooooo, I liked it! Seriously funny stuff. ************************ Catwoman, you're thinking of Randale or Roald, but the thing is, Grove-born, like Gwena and the Monarch's Own Companion, are NEVER reincarnates, they are fresh off the rack, factory-direct, not second-hand heralds. Meaning, they are Guardian Spirits, but not former Heralds. ************************* Spirit-Blade, I want your sword collection, the description had me drooling!! ********************************* I don't want to see Di as a vampire, I don't think she'd like being a blood-sucker, and I was VERY disappointed to see Tanya Huff do that to Vicky, I preferred her mortal. I, too, think it's a copout. ****************************** Sorry, Jake, I still can't see you as an uncle, to me, you're either the favorite cousin, or annoying brother. (You seem like one of my brothers who used to do funny things to torture me. One of them held me by the feet and dunked my hair in a toilet to scare off a friend. Luckily, the john had just been washed. I still took an immediate shower. Of course, this particular brother is now afraid I'll hurt him, I started taking martial arts lessons, so I'm now tougher than he is, revenge is sweet. wicked evil laugh--heh,heh,heh.) *********************** One more thing, Jake, yes, you can use any of my answers, too. ***************************** Megan, I'm a Muppetnut too! I wanted to be a stage manager for a long time, just 'cause of Kermit!! **************************** Cennydd, you can make all the flowery prayers you want to me, I'll be certain to reciprocate when I need a favor from the God of Karma!! *************** Sorry, guys, I'm an August birthday, Aug. 17, and so's two other people in my family, which makes fully 1/2 my family August people. Lady Thessaly "My dad says I gotta live amongst soft, weak civilized Goddess of Nomenclature men, so's I can be a kind and just ruler...and learn how MKGC torture without leaving marks!" young Alex-to-be-the-Great Lady in Green in Epicurus the Sage ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:23:10 -0400 From: David Snyder To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: BTMIW!!!!! Message-ID: <199607130123.VAA12291-+AT+-brickell.bridge.net> At 10:16 PM 7/12/96 +0100, you wrote: >"WHAT?? NO!! IT CANNOT BEEEEE!!" Lady Tammy shouts, >upon hearing the news. "JAAAAAAKE!!!!!" she wails, then quickly >pulls herself together and sends a mindcall to the Ladies and >Champions in Green, dispatching them to Florida, known to be the >hiding place of TMIW. "And that damned Bird better not know >anything about this, or....." she swears to herself. Tammy sends Mat >a quick mind message, warning him that TMIW were active again. >Musing to herself how handy mindspeech is in a crisis, she fades away >in a puff of green smoke. ***************** Lady Thessaly, hearing Lady Tammy's mindcall, immediately volunteers to spearhead the raid on the hiding place of TMIW. "Who better than the one who lives so close to that wretched hive of scum and villainy?" she thinks to herself. Awaiting her sisters, Thess pulls out her maps of the surrounding area, prepares her spells, and finds her specially spelled sword, Nightbringer. She then makes a call to her dressmaker, who pulls out the *special* package of extremely dark green (almost to the point of black) ninja outfit. Quickly changing clothes, Lady Thessaly utters a magic spell and in a quick flash of green light, reappears at the border of her enemies. "Where is everyone?" she thinks, as she starts to prepare green water/spell balloons, and trap spells. When she finishes, she climbs a tree, and awaits her comrades. What's the address for the Mage wars list? Thanks in advance. Lady Thessaly "My dad says I gotta live amongst soft, weak civilized Goddess of Nomenclature men, so's I can be a kind and just ruler...and learn how MKGC torture without leaving marks!" young Alex-to-be-the-Great Lady in Green in Epicurus the Sage ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:41:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Sal To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: re: comanions Message-ID: On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Diana L. Heald wrote: > Lighten up. I never noticed the Heralds worrying about their > dignity. They seem to be more interested in getting the job done and > enjoying themselves. I remember several times they were pairing off > just for the fun of it. The mares seemed to be the most interested > in getting together with the stallions. Heat didn't seem to matter > either. That's because, if you catch the reference from Talia in AFall, female Companions don't *do* the "heat" thing--they're just like humans--always "in season." Gee, I wonder why... - Sal %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Somebody should have labeled the future 'Some Assembly Required.' % % - Michael Garibaldi % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:43:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Sal To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Dutch Braid - Reply Message-ID: Folks in NC/SC--hope the hurricane doesn't cause you a lot of grief... -S On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Kimber Brumbaugh wrote: > ------------------------------ > Date: 7/11/96 2:04 PM > To: Brumbaugh, Kimber > From: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk > > *Peter the Great wrote: > *I suppose it dosen't count since I'm in SC now, but my home/heart are from > *Jacksonville. Heres to sand and sea water! > > *My reply: > *Yo, Pete! Where are you? I'm in Charleston ... need to find some other > *Mistyites around here! > > *Barbara the Bertha-baiter > > Well, I'm in Raleigh which isn't incredibly close to Charleston (about 5 hours > north or so), but I'm closer to there than some of the places people are > writing from :) > > Kimber > Goddess of Eternal Optimism > kimber_brumbaugh-+AT+-library.lib.ncsu.edu > http://www.catt.ncsu.edu/users/willow/www/home.html > > > - Sal %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Somebody should have labeled the future 'Some Assembly Required.' % % - Michael Garibaldi % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 686 *********************************