Posted - 2007.11.19 17:49:00 - [1]

 

It's that time again, and now we're going for a double portion. The first story is part of our regular storyline, and is in fact a crucial part that you don't want to miss. Nothing will be the same after this.

The second story is a background piece that gives you insight into the faction that is the Society of Conscious Thought. Since it doesn't forward the Black Mountain storyline I decided to publish it alongside a more regular story. I'll do the same for the Sisters of EVE later on.

Posted - 2007.11.19 22:01:00 - [6]

 

Edited by: CCP Abraxas on 19/11/2007 22:22:32
Weird. The apostrophes show up perfectly normal when viewed with Firefox, but not with IE. We'll sort it out; sorry about the inconvenience.

Edit: It's been sorted, only half an hour later. All hail our Web Cell.

Originally by: Elise Masutra

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great story as always. keep them coming, although i miss the little unrelated chronicles a bit

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Thanks. After Black Mountain is done (March or April of 2008), I'll probably go back to the regular, self-contained chronicles. It's fun to do a serial novella every now and then, for variety's sake.

Posted - 2007.11.28 00:14:00 - [20]

 

Originally by: Melainia

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Great read. I was able to tune out my instructor while reading it, which is rather hard as he talks loud

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Excellent. I'm always glad to ruin someone else's education.

Originally by: Pottsey

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We have been having storeys based around the Jove for months now. Any chance we could move on to the other interesting advance races like the Yan Jung or Enheduanni or one of the others?

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We have? I could've sworn the Jove were quite elusive. We haven't seen a single one in Black Mountain; at least, not that we know of.

Originally by: Razoran

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anyway, setting aside, weve finally had the obligatory surreal experience that seems to be in every piece of writing nowadays. Not that theres anything wrong with it mind you, just that after awhile, u can put together the whole scene just by reading the first line...

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I usually skip over dream-sequences, because all they do is foreshadow what's going to be happening in the rest of the story, and since I'm reading the bloody book, presumably I'm going to find out anyway.

This one, though, wasn't a dream sequence, and will have very serious consequences for the rest of Black Mountain, so I'd consider it worthwhile. It also has some fairly blatant literary references, and if you get those, other things (including the names of Nale and his teammembers, and the description of Draea's cohorts) are brought into sharper focus. There was once someone who stood on Black Mountain and didn't jump.

Originally by: Cyberman Mastermind

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Question: Did I miss it, or does Nale not have a last(?) name? I'd like to name a ship after him, but "Nale" alone is a bit short. "Sister Nale" isn't much better...

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I don't often reveal characters' last names, particularly if there's some symbolic significance to their first names. (It's hard enough making this stuff up without having to do it twice over ). In Nale's case, though, he has no last name at all. Funny, that ...