No, I haven't read your mission yet, but I am starting to work my way through all the stuff I've missed, so I'm sure I'll get to it soon.

Yeah, things have been pretty good for me. A little dull maybe, but I'm out of my slump now.

Nice to meet you. Allow me to offer you an even more belated welcome to the Board.

Hmm, I still have some of these Karaoke Knights around - if you've always wanted a small toy knight that can only sing off key versions of popular songs, then this will be the perfect gift for you!

That was the sound of pretty much everything you just said going right over my head. I recognised the word 'Pokémon', at least.

Still, thank you for the gifts. Now I'm going to go and poke them with a stick until I find out what they do. Don't worry, I'll be very scientific about it - I'll take notes and everything.

I'm sure I'll be able to find a use for those Spikes.

Your gift did conjure up a rather odd mental image - I read the first part as 'shed feathers', as in, the feathers from a garden shed. I picture this creature as a sort of cousin to the Dread Gazebo. It must have been quite a battle to get them :)

What a curious little animal. I wonder if it eats bookworms?

In that case, allow me to offer you an extremely belated welcome to the Board.

*hunts for a gift*

Here, take this Karaoke Knight. This 1 ft high figurine of a medieval knight in armour is capable of singing (badly) any song you care to name.

Yeah, I think our co-write might be the project that I've been neglecting for the longest - a somewhat dubious honour.

I agree, we should definitely get that finished.

Cool. I'm slightly jealous of anyone that sounds like they have lots of free time.

I really should finish my second mission. I think it got it to about 90% done, and then just never got around to giving it that final 10%. Out of interest, what continua are your missions in?

I don't think we've met before, have we? I don't recognise your name. Apologies if that's just my poor memory.

Thanks for your gift.

I should warn you, there has been some doubt about my exact level of Irishness before, much as there has been doubt about my exact level of Samuraishness (which is totally a real word, even if the spellchecker doesn't recognise it). Still, I'm normally up for betaing stuff.

Ooh, thank you. Hmmm, from here it smells like a campfire... but if I go over here it doesn't. Dunno if that knowledge is useful to you or not, but thank you for the gift. Tea is always good.

Congrats on getting your Permission Giver hat.

Mmm, SPaGhetti, sounds good.

Yeah, it's been a while since I was here. Looks like today might be my first time posting this year - I knew I had been away for a long time, but I didn't think it was quite that long!

Life's been good, if a little dull due a lack of writing and reading of silly Sues getting their comeuppance. Still, I should be able to remedy that now :)

Congrats on getting your Permission Giver hat, by the way.

Unfortunately I have no idea who/what Jacksepticye is, but thank you for the welcome back anyway.

Yup, that was me. I plan on writing some more interludes for the adoption agency, because kitties are awesome.

TAKE THIS COOKIES! TAKE THIS CAKE! AND REMEMBER - NOTHING STOPS... THE SQUATCH!!!


Sorry, JackSepticEye can only by quoted in caps.

Well, I normally shorten it to 'Irish' myself, but I have been thinking of re-branding myself as the Dark Lord 'He Who Shall Not Be Present' - that way I can justify my absences as "being in character".

Yeah, Ispace Wars is one of the many projects that I was thinking of. I think I sent my chapter to you, but that we were going to do a co-write bit as a follow up to it or something? It's been a while, I'm not sure anymore.

What's that I hear, hS? 'I 'm going to have to suggest another UK Gathering'? Sounds good to me :P

-the Dark Irish Swordsman Who Is Not To Be Present in Hibernia (and is also a Lord)

And I've just noticed that it was hS who used the phrase 'dropped the ball', while you used 'fell through the cracks', thus making my previous response slightly less coherent than I'd intended.

I know I've been gone a while, but it honestly never occurred to be that I could get out of practice at reading a comment and then replying to it.

Still, it's good to be back :)

Not gone for good, just an extended hiatus - that is not yet gone which can eternal procrastinate... or however that saying goes.

As for the Gathering report, I think I was meant to be writing most of that, so I think I dropped a bigger ball... or dropped it from higher up, or something. I might need to do some fishing too. The Gathering report was certainly one of the unfinished projects that I was thinking of.

I'm glad you were able to find a new job, hopefully the better hours is balancing out the not-as-goodness. Yup, I have your interlude and mission open in other tabs (Happy Birthday by the way, even if I am a couple of weeks late saying it) and have already read Phobos's Catastrophe Theory piece. I'll have a review for him soon.

More reading material certainly doesn't hurt, but mostly what drew me back was remembering how cool the community was (wow, that sounded far less sappy/cheesy in my head - ah well).

I'm good, and yes, work is keeping me busy. But the good kind of busy, rather than manic busy. Manic busy was earlier in the year. Still doing quite a bit of travelling for it too, which is cool. I'm getting a lift in to work with a friend these days, so I think I've actually done more mileage in hire cars in foreign countries than I have done in my own car, which is a little weird. But now that I'm out of the manic busy stuff (fingers crossed that lasts) I should be able to start doing some writing again.

-Irish