Sounds deliciously ominous, stardf. I can't wait to see what you have up your sleeve.

And I'm eager to 'meet' your new characters, narnianerd.

And I'm writing a little snippet to send off to a co-conspirator soon.

*plunk* Segment!

Interesting, stardf! Is your storyline pretty stand-alone for this story?

Great stuff, JP! I laughed out loud about the

How we'd microwave a person, I'm not yet certain...

Isn't that what a mobile phone is doing?

I think that's still up for debate- and possibly dependent on your cell phone. But I'm talking about the possibility of microwaving a person's entire body without killing them, in the segment.

Ouch.

I've enjoyed the latest segments as well. And after some reflection and discussion with another writer, perhaps it's best to resume our collaberations by PM; it seems to be less confusing that way. So please disregard my request above, and feel free to PM me (or others) about what might come next. Thanks.

(Sonny, starkat and narnianerd, I think Abby's ready to receive visitors at the Emporium, should your characters be so inclined).

Shastastwin! It's been too long! I enjoyed your post, but I must say I'm a little bit lost. Should go back and re-read the end of the last story so I remember where all your dudes are at. Are you going to be getting entrangled in this story then?

I'm going to do my best, JillPole. This seggie was basically

So don't worry about being lost. It's not going to be major.

We will be getting back to my two main arcs for this story as soon as I can write the next few seggies. And then once that happens I can send someone into the "main plot" (which I assume is still lurking about).

New seg! This is the first of the "pre-invasion segs", marked as such; it takes place before the seg I last wrote.

At about this point, the story will get significantly more complicated... stay tuned, because right now some things just haven't been revealed yet. And after a bit, if things are still too confusing, I'll try to explain...

And yes, I am pretty much operating independently with this storyline, for now. (Too busy to be doing joint seg work, unfortunately, at the moment.)

Hmmm... interesting...*wonders if we've herd of that guy's name before, too*

My apologies to my co-conspirators for sitting on this segment for so long. Last week was rather crazy. Here is our long awaited installment.

Thanks to narnianerd, Sonny, and stargazer for everything! This was a 4 way production.

It was fun writing with 3 others for this segment; it helped flesh things out and added a bit of each writer's personal touch to the finished segment.

I'm eager to see what's next for

Hi, guys...yes, I'm still alive. If only barely. I'm really, really sorry for my really long hiatus; somewhere along the line, I think I lost track of what I was doing here, and since then...yeah, let's just say it took a while to put the pieces back together. Anyways, I actually have a segment written that...for some reason, I didn't post right away. And I think one of my PMs got deleted back in January, so I apologize in advance to my co-writers if I was supposed to be waiting for you...I really can't remember anymore. ^^'

So, this segment starts back with Ryana's flashback, then leads into the explanation...which, hopefully, will be wrapped up fairly soon. I'm hoping no more than two, thre segments, but I've recently discovered I don't know the meaning of "concise explanation". Hope you guys enjoy!

By the way, I have been following the story in the meanwhile...and, you guessed it, you're all driving me crazy. Great segments!

Hey, Rya, loved your segment! It took a while to remember what had happened (since I was too lazy to read back and find out), but I think I got it. I am so glad that

Rya! Great to see that you're alive. Loved the seg, too!

Anyways, new pre-invasion seg up, and I apologize for the rather monstrous length this time around, as there was pretty much three times the content to be squeezed into one post. The first part will unravel more about all the chaos that is going on, the second part is a bit of a look at Isaac's and Nerrha's history, and as for the third... see for yourself.