Killer, killer tale m'man.

When I'm on my SF game, I am *on.* A not-a-fur story, that just happens to have a sorta
fur MC.

Commentary on this one will have some things to say about that.

Stalled novel where Ximerfell-Captain came from should be dusted off, restarted,
furrified. Theme was *heavily* sexual; might go down well around here? Oh yah. :- >

Well, I'm not a big fan of bird anthros, myself, but I liked this, it was well put together, and entertaining.

That's brilliant actually, if only a tad short.

Might be room for some more 'colour,' from the Captain's point of view. First time he's
seen the inside of a human home. What does he see and how does he react?

Beyond that, expansion could turn it into a very different story.

Oviously there's a *ton* of stuff before the events here. And afterwards. How to keep
that from intruding on the core plot? More or less insert a synopsis in the middle.

Then Bang! Zoom! Straight to the snap ending, and the last sentence that resolves the
piece. If I could write more short stories like this I'd be a richer SF writer.

Stay tuned for the Journal tomorrow. More to say about this. And thank you.

This is an excellent SF short story. Even though you drop the reader right in the thick of the plot, you give enough information to let the reader kind of fill in the blanks. And then keep feeding details so it enhances and expands that kernel of information. Well done, I would be interested in seeing more of this.

There's more where this came from. Maybe four-five older SF pieces that are fur-related
in some way.

Then after that a bucketful that can be 'furrified,' similar to what I did to Betty
Heavy (located Here.)

Ironically, all the fur writing for SexyFur--that was supposed to be short--blew up instantly
to novella/novel size. SF content there too; wait for it.

And thanx. As the saying goes, tell your friends. :- )

Clapclapclaps. Please read this one to Mevrea, she will love it. or at least give me permission to do so. the Tuesday night crowd will love it.

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Yup, thought this'd make ears go poing. As for 'read this one to Mevrea,' this is
only a practical project if I know who Mevrea is. Can haz mo' data, pls? :- )

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ And from the use of the term 'read,' am I to jump-to-newbie-conclusion that FM is a
*verbal* thing? As in voice, as in we're talking [literally] about delivering work-as-speech,
not as text. This is muck neo here, remember.

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ This is not a jump-to-conclusion I'll put any cred on, but the concept does make ears go
poing on this end. And/or this turns my mind to speech-to-text software, on top of the
muck technology; less typos, maybe. You mentioned how muck clients display text, sooo...
's all got nuthin' to do with voice? (Drat. Done shipping-containers-worth of public
speaking; good at it).



​ ​ ​ ​ ​ That said, TY tha appreciate re. Bird, and forgot to say, equal TY re. Showing Off. Broke
more'n a few poen lit rules, but in the end got away with it. Donna can say the same
about her end, come to think of it [mild pun :- ) ].

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Since Tuesday arrives soon, and I doubt I'll be set up muck-wise before then, by all means
deliver Bird on my behalf as you please. And pencil it in as an intro to the group,
pending me jumping-up-and-down on some new software that I'm *sure* will work just
spiffy the first time out.

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (Ha!! :- ) )

 fwbrown61

http://www.furrymuck.com/ is the URL of the main site,

http://www.softwaresea.com/Windows/.....5-10286791.htm a good if older client that I use.

Mevrea is a Badger girl who runs the Owlhaven Literary Lounge. talk to her, and she will put you on the list to receive the Log, which is the recording of the stories on any given Tuesday. you don't have to be there to read it, so if RL calls you away that day, you still get to read what happened. this assumes your able to get on.

several attendees loved the story and agreed that it should be posted there.

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Whoo-hoo!! We have a winner. :- ) Good to hear.

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ If by 'posted there' you mean the .ODT file, bueno. If you mean a copy of the .HTML pages, not
sure if that's optimal. All work posted here has been specifically/carefully formated to look good
on FA, and might look fubar on it's own.

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Just a link to the story: That's obviously perfectly kosher.



​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Study on MUCK's, and FurryMUCK's documentation, has yielded [moderate] enlightenment. FM
describes itself as a 'game space,' allowing everyone to roleplay fursonas and simulate
activities and social interactions within various created 'environments.' As if I knew
this before now. As if I've got much of a fursona to roleplay. :- /

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ It's out of things like FM that we get things like Second Life, that does it all in a
graphics 'n avatar kind of way. FM et al did it first. And does it with a *daunting* command
language that lets users take actions within the MUCK, and create and manage various
environments.

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Which can and do all have specific command-sets of their own, since the MUCK allows users
to write scripts/programs that define the things that can be done in those environments.
Somebody's put in a lottta hacking to make all this work. Duh. :- )



​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Good thing I'm a programmer; this is not foreign to me. Still, 'mo time/study needed to wrap
head around alla this. Lessee where I am by next Tuesday, and maybe with another story to show
off. At the least, gotta think about just how much I'll be able to actually participate in FM.
Beyond, that is, just dropping in every so often with some text or something.

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ FM is a social space, and people/furs come to it to 'be social.' In a virtual way. Ditto for
FA. And even here I'm cautious 'n careful about everything, since one wrong footpaw can
create some real time-wasting aggro, and not that fake aggro you can buy at Sears. Also, I
suppose I type too much. I don't write comments, I write letters.



​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Does it show? :- )

 fwbrown61


PS: Reply to other PM: For later.

had I been smart, downloading the file and running it through Word would have been easier. Instead I painstakingly tried to edit out all the spaces in notepad, my bad, and was called on it. but they enjoyed the story anyway.

one aside, Not everyone stays In Character all the time. you can be Out Of Character if you want to talk about the funny noise your car makes or what not.