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Amidst the swirling maelstrom of fiction, there can be found a small region of relative calm. Here knights and vampires, superspies and cyborgs, mutants, magicians, and everyday people live out their lives as woven by the fingers and imaginations of their creators. Nothing is unexpected, all is possible, and the only limit is the boundary of the mind's eye. Universes collide, fate and fortune rule, and no being escapes unscathed or unchanged. This is the Spiral of Worlds. Featured Threads, October 23rd, 2004~ Posted on Saturday January 21st, 2006 at 9:51pm by NeugeWell, the update’s a bit late, but there's been more suitable action on the Spiral since last time. JadeKyle landed another entry on The Fire, presumably a chronicle of a young mage's progress in a difficult art. Limbo continues, with Garet unleashing the powers of Hell upon an unsuspecting modern-day community. xfiend has begun crafting his grand experiment, trying to create a non-dying fantasy thread on the presupposition that the missing ingredient is an entirely new world, rather than relying on Tolkien, the Forgotten Realms, D&D, Diablo, or others. Check out Hern's Haggard Halberds for all your fantasy needs. Other threads, including Royal Blood, Mondu Island, and Age of Empires: War and Peace, have been updated by sundry members. And then there’s Parasite Eve. Now, I'm sure there's some backstory I'm not familiar with, but it seems like a freakin' nifty story. Which is why I picked it for a summary. *** Members: Bizzy, Shattered Dreams Joseph (Bizzy) and Alexandra (SD) are two operatives for the FBI in some future state of the USA. Part of the team used to hunt down and neutralize Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures, the two are sent by their superiors to a strange little town in the Rockies that is reportedly plagued by the new lifeforms. NMCs are apparently new evolutionary species that exhibit some sort of molecular instability, disintegrating slimily when killed, which is something our heroes do almost immediately. Surviving an NMC attack after a cursory investigation of the town, Joe and Alex bunk at a small hotel staffed by a weird lady who lives next door to a creepy mechanic. While Alex recuperates from injuries, Joseph battles a massive NMC with a cannon in its mouth. Daylight comes, and the pair prepare to investigate a nearby bunker the town residents (all two of them) have mentioned. A strange soldier has shadowed them, jumping Joe at one point before fleeing. The bunker apparently has some connection with artificially created NMCs. In spite of Alexandra's growing paranoia, the duo continues their investigation. But where’s that freaky soldier gotten to? Review: A well written thread thus far, albeit slightly hard to read due to the large amounts of really short posts. Still, the simplicity of plot makes it easy to follow and (in true Bizzy style) all the weapons are specifically identified, almost down to year of manufacture and serial number. Seriously, 'shotgun' sounds quite dry and insipid compared with 'Benilli Nova Tactical pump-action.' A little more detail on the creepiness of the situation might be necessary for full immersion, especially when entering the narrow halls of an abandoned bunker when you never know if some slavering artificial lifeform will be lunging out of a hidden panel for your jugular. Overall though, it’s a pretty good read. *** And that's the news from the Spiral of Worlds, where the women are sometimes seen, the men are making up unbelievable stuff, and all of the threads are above average. Featured Threads, October 2nd, 2004~ Posted on Saturday January 21st, 2006 at 9:44pm by NeugeThis week, the Spiral of Worlds forum has been dead. Really dead. I'm talking stone-cold, iced-over, six-feet-under, unquestionably dead. Six posts in two threads in seven days. I can count them on one hand. Well, okay, almost one hand. Props to Garet and RileyKenobi for not letting me be the only one active there. So what do we have? Reality's End and Limbo are the breathing threads this week. The first, crafted by yours truly, with much enthusiastic support by the other two members, covers the adventures and mayhem that occur in an independent big-city coffeeshop that's frequented by elves, aliens, spacers and dwarves... as well as the occasional normal person from the everyday world. The only problem now is a lack of a given plot, but that will grow eventually. Garet's Limbo, on the other hand, has little of the lighthearted fantasy department. Starting with a narrative of your average high school soap opera, it quickly moves to a sudden "death by jealous ex-boyfriend" scenario, and then a chilling post-mortem experience by the murdered individual. This one looks freakily promising. Stay tuned. We might get some more action next week, but if not... well, that's life on the boards when school's in session. ~UnknownSector |