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<blockquote data-quote="Everett" data-source="post: 6327432" data-attributes="member: 21712"><p>Okay, my turn.</p><p></p><p>I first happened on the Story Hour in 2005, which is almost a decade ago. Since then I've moved from San Francisco to New York city; I've gone through dozens-on-hundreds of different work gigs, plays, relationships, creative projects. I played my last tabletop D&D game in 2008, and though I grew up immersed in fantasy literature I read very little of it these days. There is really nothing at all that I can point to as a constant through all of those transitions.</p><p></p><p>Except Abernathy's company. </p><p></p><p>I grew to know all of these characters intimately (as any reader does, when the imagined world becomes to them tangible and enduring and a thing beyond the author's control), and I can look back at the Company's exploits like milestones of my own. When Grey Wolf (nearly) died to prevent Naradawk's return, I was there; when they learned of Mokad's possession of Praska, I was there, and through the Ritual of Seven Stars to banish him from her body, and the Black Circle's discovery, and the 18-second battle to destroy them. I was there when Grey Wolf mysteriously chose a monkey as a familiar, and when Bostock began to speak, and when they met the boy wizard Wellington and his stupid spider familiar. I was watching when Farazil nonchalantly possessed Ernie's mom to make first friendly contact, and when Sagiro Emberleaf returned from the dead. I explored the Crosser's Maze. I was with them when they first met Cranchus; I pondered the tragic tale of Condor and grappled with Moirel. I watched Kibi sink into the ground for the very first time (he played tag with Scree). I was wary of Parthol Runecarver, and always enjoyed seeing the eyeless butler Eddings or the condescending genie, Al-Tarqohz. I witnessed the scene from somewhere behind the <em>Heroes' Feast</em> table when One Certain Step took his final step, and I still remember how magnificent it felt. I remember when Abernathy died.</p><p></p><p>Each of those is a moment, and there are many more, like pearls I happen across from time to time, and inspect, and find that they still shine.</p><p></p><p>It is <em>strange</em> to me that the story is done, that in the future I won't read new installments of it. And it's strange that we'll never know if Kay, Morningstar and Dranko chose to return to life, if they ever got out of the Underdark. They'll all always be finally lost, in some sense. Or so it seems to me. Writ in water...</p><p></p><p>...but like the Crosser's Maze, like the ocean, the story cannot be given. Only found.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--Everett</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Everett, post: 6327432, member: 21712"] Okay, my turn. I first happened on the Story Hour in 2005, which is almost a decade ago. Since then I've moved from San Francisco to New York city; I've gone through dozens-on-hundreds of different work gigs, plays, relationships, creative projects. I played my last tabletop D&D game in 2008, and though I grew up immersed in fantasy literature I read very little of it these days. There is really nothing at all that I can point to as a constant through all of those transitions. Except Abernathy's company. I grew to know all of these characters intimately (as any reader does, when the imagined world becomes to them tangible and enduring and a thing beyond the author's control), and I can look back at the Company's exploits like milestones of my own. When Grey Wolf (nearly) died to prevent Naradawk's return, I was there; when they learned of Mokad's possession of Praska, I was there, and through the Ritual of Seven Stars to banish him from her body, and the Black Circle's discovery, and the 18-second battle to destroy them. I was there when Grey Wolf mysteriously chose a monkey as a familiar, and when Bostock began to speak, and when they met the boy wizard Wellington and his stupid spider familiar. I was watching when Farazil nonchalantly possessed Ernie's mom to make first friendly contact, and when Sagiro Emberleaf returned from the dead. I explored the Crosser's Maze. I was with them when they first met Cranchus; I pondered the tragic tale of Condor and grappled with Moirel. I watched Kibi sink into the ground for the very first time (he played tag with Scree). I was wary of Parthol Runecarver, and always enjoyed seeing the eyeless butler Eddings or the condescending genie, Al-Tarqohz. I witnessed the scene from somewhere behind the [I]Heroes' Feast[/I] table when One Certain Step took his final step, and I still remember how magnificent it felt. I remember when Abernathy died. Each of those is a moment, and there are many more, like pearls I happen across from time to time, and inspect, and find that they still shine. It is [I]strange[/I] to me that the story is done, that in the future I won't read new installments of it. And it's strange that we'll never know if Kay, Morningstar and Dranko chose to return to life, if they ever got out of the Underdark. They'll all always be finally lost, in some sense. Or so it seems to me. Writ in water... ...but like the Crosser's Maze, like the ocean, the story cannot be given. Only found. --Everett [/QUOTE]
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