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Detling Adventures · 1Y ago

“You are, after all, fictional”

Breaking character once again to post a video of a short play I co-wrote a year ago. The event was Blitz Smackdown, where plays are written overnight and performed that evening. A full account is here. The play is a comic choose your own adventure mystery, and the reason I’m posting it now is that [
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Detling Adventures · 2Y ago

Tes and I chat about meeting Morgane

Consider this reminiscence a follow-up to Arthur’s last post, in which he introduced my old roommate Tes and our friend Morgane. 9:10 PM me: I was looking through the journal I kept at that time. short4tesla:I remember your journal! 9:11 PM me: My first impression of you is rather amusing now. short
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Detling Adventures · 2Y ago

Ella’s college buddies

Two Saturdays ago Ted Spindle had a party at his home to commemorate the spring equinox. Among the guests were me, Ingrid, and Ella, and Ella brought her college roommate Tesla. Tes had about the same petite stature as Ella, with light brown hair, and appeared to constantly have an expression that m
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Detling Adventures · 2Y ago

Maestro does not appreciate my roguish charm

From last post: We both jumped. It was a voice from my balcony. A commanding, resonant voice that I thought I recognized. I went to the balcony door and slid open the blind. Looking back at me was a cold, aristocratic figure. He was alone, so while our second meeting wouldn’t have the same danger [.
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Detling Adventures · 2Y ago

Problems

Something disquieting happened to Pike shortly after he posted his comment about Pickman’s footage: someone broke into Pike’s home and stole the camera. And nothing else. And the folder on Pike’s computer containing the files he transferred from the camera was gone too. There was some transferred fo
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Detling Adventures · 2Y ago

Awkward

From last post: Leticia stopped fighting and had the same blank stare she did when Pickman first showed up. Then, with a look of fury, she ran toward me. Leticia grabbed Pickman and flung him. She raced to where he landed and threw him again. Ella, Ingrid, and Pike stagger-jogged over to me and we [
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Detling Adventures · 2Y ago

The bride of darkness

From last post: Leticia was standing in front of Pickman, her shoulders perpendicular to his. She was holding her right arm straight out and in her hand was what I guessed to be the dart Ingrid had fired. Leticia looked over her shoulder at us, eyes wide and fangs bared. “Oh crap,” said Ingrid. She
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Detling Adventures · 2Y ago

Pickman’s model

Two weekends ago Ingrid notified me that, as promised after our Twilight trip, she was ready to hunt the creature in Pickman’s video. She had been doing some searching over the last several weeks and discovered tracks that she thinks it left. The party would be Ingrid, me, Ella, Pike and Leticia, an
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Detling Adventures · 2Y ago

Another message from the creator

Hello again, readers. I’ve annotated another set of posts. Learn why I associate the color purple with Miriam’s magic, the real-life model for Pike, and why the name Leticia has special significance for me. Annotations 2 (PDF) Annotations 2 (MS Word)
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