OOC

I'm okay for the ride in clarkes car. although we will have to see if he has a cellphone first. A car with two teenage males you dont know the last name of and have known only for a few minutes is not something a good little girl like nora would do. Quite dangerous. In fact, one could almost argue, insane and asking to be stabbed to death on some lonely road in the middle of no where, after being raped repeatedly.

So, therefore, we can get a ride in clarkes car. but i will suddenly be a black belt in karate if it starts to get illegal. nora is a nice girl, and i want to keep her out of trouble. completely.

Oh, yeah. i forgot to put this one in the last one.

How is everything related? I mean, as someone pointed out (i woudl give credit, but i cant remember), clarke is in 2 places at once. (or, someone is. i dont know).

What time frame are we working in? Like, is the mall 20 years down the track from the after-school bus? and is everyone the same person?

Because someone (once again, cant remember who) made the gun fights at someones house kids playing imaginary games. at the same time, one of the kids is blowing up the mall.

Do we have to link one thread to another? are they independant stories? are we supposed to stay the same people? i mean, nora coudl run away and join a cult in the middle of the desert, or get on drugs, or quite school. She is not the same person after these things, and we dont know what the time period is between events.

Can we clear this up? because it is quite...difficult.

Heres What I know, from talking to Martin/Seth
The threads are not linked. The after school thread is in no way linked to the gunfight (which is real btw, not an imaginary one)

And the mall is anyone's guess. Clarke linked it obscurely with a post at the start of his gunfight thread, but I'd prefer to keep it separate. Any other replies would be appreciated.

BTW, What's Clarke's view on the Mall? I'd like to know whaty kind of a character he is, and exactly why he is a wanted man.

"Not all who wander are lost." -- J.R.R. Tolkien

I was writing a page rant about the science of inconsistancy (displayed very effectivly in The Simpsons, which is both consistant and inconsistant from episode to episode). Suffice to say, some things (such as the character's deaths in the halloween episode) are obviously non-consistant and do not effictively exist in the Real World. Other things, such as Mrs. Flander's death, the fact that Bart and Lisa are siblings, and the number of hairs on Homer's head, are consistant and will apply in every episode.

I am not a fan of rules; regulation is the nemesis of life and bane of creativity. Things are the way they are because they are not any other way. That is reality.

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If you have trouble with this concept, you may use a model or 'rule' to define reality in a context that you can process comfortably.

I put forward this model:

There are two kinds of thread.

One is 'real' and exists in a completely plausable world. All real threads relate directly or indirectly to one another. They are seperate windows into a single world.

The other type of thread is 'unreal' and is pretty easy to spot, but we could even label them if you really wanted so that people don't get confused. Unreal threads are the twisted fantasies of desperate minds and exist outside of measurable time and space.

An Unreal thread is the holodeck, the dream-scene, the part in Die Another Day when we see Moneypenny kissing James before the machine turns off and we can see it isn't real.

Did Clarke and Chris really have a gunfight with massive weapons that left both of them unharmed? They undoubtably did... but somehow I doubt it was the same Clarke and Chris who met Nora at the bus-stops.

It was probably easier to say "no, the three threads arent related, but other ones could be if you set them up to be directly linked"

Yes, I suppose that would do the trick.

I now like to think of it this way ... Each thread is like it's own seperate short story. Perhaps with a slight editorial slant on some of them (not looking at Seth/Martin for his job on the detention thread). Perhaps some will be violent and evil, others will be semi pornographic, others will just be simple slice of life. I think that I have no need to try to exlain the links between the threads, I will just treat each Clarke Anderson with the idea that he has done none of the other things he has done in other threads. I will show these people a world with rules and boundries. A world without you. Where we go from there is up to you.

...And thus it becomes apparentn why no new people are joining your board...

YOU PEOPLE MAKE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE!

Bane, you just need to know what to ignore and what not to. If you're looking for logic, ignore anything that isn't. Consider it spam. Seriously. If it doesn't make sense, pretend it isn't there.

Finding your way around is easy - just avoid the mall. If you're feeling lonely, start a thread.

There used to be rules, but someone deleted them.

I abuse moderater powers and edit posts, but only in certain threads. If you start a thread, you can basically set your own rules.

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Ok, I'm just confusing the issue. I'm gonna go start a new thread

Not to mention deleting posts that are very important, and as i said in my post that magically disappeared, can you (Martin) please either delete the 3am deserted in town, so i can start again, or change the first word to Martin, but that would then involve you.

AND PLEASE MAKE MY POST RE-APPEAR, EDITED IF YOU MUST

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ March 15, 2003 01:23 AM: Message edited by: Seth Donovan ]</font>