From: "L-Soft list server at Indiana University (1.8d)" To: "ARTF@MemoryAlpha.nil" File: "LOISCLA-GENERAL-L LOG0003A" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:25:22 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Marilyn Puett Subject: Nfic allowed here? Is Nfic allowed to be posted here? Thanks..............SuperMom ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:43:02 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: sharper Subject: Re: Nfic allowed here? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Is Nfic allowed to be posted here? Not on this list, Supermom. However, we have a restricted listserv (lcnfanfic) for just that purpose, as well as an nfic list that Debby Stark maintains. In addition, AMCiotola houses the nfic archive. It's a good thing to distribute your stories through one or more of those outlets because a lot of people don't frequent the message boards. Sheila ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:25:50 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Tara Smith Subject: Yeah, it's me again . . . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You know, I'm really not good at names and such. I'm trying to come up with another name for Mags. New costume, new name, yada yada yada. What do you think? You guys want to give it a crack? This is a good guy name, by the way :) I've got Darkstar for the darker name. Oh, and does anyone want me to resume posting Threads? I've gotten one person who says she wants me to, but I don't want to push my story on people when they're really busy already with the Kerth stuff. Let me know, ok? Tara "May the schwartz be with you!" Yogurt, Space Balls ----------------------------------------------- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 02:12:39 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Hazel Subject: Re: Yeah, it's me again . . . In-Reply-To: <385376729.951891950848.JavaMail.root@web09.pub01> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Tara wrote: >You know, I'm really not good at names and such. I'm trying to come up with >another name for Mags. New costume, new name, yada yada yada. What do you >think? You guys want to give it a crack? This is a good guy name, by the >way :) I've got Darkstar for the darker name. Tara, I'm pretty sure that "Darkstar" was used in the comics for a *good* superheroine. Tank will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Donna Troy (Wonder Woman's sidekick?) was called Darkstar for a while. If this doesn't botter you, you could use something like Nightstar for the "good" version. Hazel ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:29:16 +0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Phillip Atcliffe Subject: Re: Yeah, it's me again . . . In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000301091147.009114a0@actcom.co.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 02:12:39 -0500 Hazel wrote: > Tara wrote: >> You know, I'm really not good at names and such. I'm trying to come up with another name for Mags. New costume, new name, yada yada yada. What do you think? You guys want to give it a crack? This is a good guy name, by the way :) I've got Darkstar for the darker name. > Tara, I'm pretty sure that "Darkstar" was used in the comics for a *good* superheroine. Tank will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Donna Troy (Wonder Woman's sidekick?) was called Darkstar for a while. If this doesn't botter you, you could use something like Nightstar for the "good" version. < Actually, there was a whole corps of Darkstars, and Donna (ex-Wonder Girl, ex- and once again Troia) was "merely" Earth's local agent, after the alien originally assigned to the planet was framed by his boss -- but that's not important. Unfortunately, the Darkstar organisation has since been destroyed, although there are a couple of them still around -- but mostly without their uniforms, which is what gave them most of their "powers". As for names... if you want something to contrast with Darkstar, then it's a shame that Irene has already grabbed monikers like Starfire, but how about: Starlight Flare Nova Sunfire And then there are names which don't have the light or solar connotations, like Ultra Woman, etc. Phil ------------------------------------------------------------ "Sic Transit Gloria Barramundi" (Or, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!) -- not Douglas Adams, but me: Phil Atcliffe (Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:05:48 +1100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jenny or Joe Stosser Subject: Re: Yeah, it's me again . . . In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000301091147.009114a0@actcom.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hazel, Nice idea, but Nightstar's been used too... she's the daughter in the future of Nightwing (Robin/ Dick Grayson) and Starfire (Koriand'r). In fact, I suspect most names anyone can think of have been used in comics. When Donna Troy was about to be re-created (almost literally) I spoke with one of the writers and discussed what names were possibilities for her. One suggestion they really liked was Avatar, but unfortunately, someone else already had dibbs on that name, so they were stuck with using Troia again (it had been one of her codenames previously)! Jen At 02:12 AM 01/03/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Tara wrote: >>You know, I'm really not good at names and such. I'm trying to come up with >>another name for Mags. New costume, new name, yada yada yada. What do you >>think? You guys want to give it a crack? This is a good guy name, by the >>way :) I've got Darkstar for the darker name. > >Tara, I'm pretty sure that "Darkstar" was used in the comics for a *good* >superheroine. Tank will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Donna >Troy (Wonder Woman's sidekick?) was called Darkstar for a while. If this >doesn't botter you, you could use something like Nightstar for the "good" >version. > >Hazel > > jenerator@ozemail.com.au -*-This message is umop ap!sdn (Jenerator or Some1Else on IRC) -*- JenerEight on AIM -*- ICQ: 11477318 Photos of David (7) and Megan (4) on the Stosser Family HomePage: http://geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4583 Please sign our guestbook! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:10:38 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Nicole Wolke Subject: Re: SIP: Connections - part 12 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit * * * S P O I L E R * S P A C E * * * Carol, I know I'm repeating myself, but this section was so *wonderful* I just have to say it again! I laughed at the scene when Clark realized he had been a little bit to enthusiastic about his own and his appartement's appearance, especially the "golden chain" reference had me cracking up. Did you have Woody Sams in your mind when you wrote this ? The kissing scene was amazing! I sat at my computer and felt so drawn into the tension between them in the short moment before they kissed, I forgot everything around me. I came down to earth when Lois started pacing around, as I'm sure Clark did, too :-) I also loved Clark's reaction to Lois proposition. His "Are you nuts?!" following the steamy kiss. Whoa... loved it! I'm very concerned about the whole New Krypton thing though. Can't you just pack them back to their stupid planet and let Lois and Clark do the waffy stuff in peace ? Nicole -- AKA CKgroupie on IRC NKWolke@eifel-net.net Are you always searching for news about Dean Cain? And don't you have the time to go and find them? Here's your solution: Go to "The Dean Cain News Page" http://members.tripod.de/Ckgroupie/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 05:07:31 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Debby Subject: Wealth of story ideas... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Digging up Genghis Khan: Chicago lawyer heads quest for the Mongolian warlord. By J.A. Getzlaff http://www.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/02/28/genghis/index.html?CP=3DSAL&DN= =3D661 Extravagant abandon: Helmut Teissl's photographs capture the sensual heart of Rio's Carnival. By Don George http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/02/26/rio/index.html?CP=3DSAL&DN=3D= 661 Daredevil jumps from Pisa's Leaning Tower: Italian police are still looking for the suspect. By J.A. Getzlaff http://www.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/02/17/jumper/index.html?CP=3DSAL&DN= =3D661 The alien home: A globe-wandering writer discovers that home is the most foreign place of all. By Pico Iyer http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/02/19/alien/index.html?CP=3DSAL&DN= =3D661 Seductive seafood: Spicy, tangy and oozing, cebiche makes a great aphrodisiac. At least that's what Jorge whispered to me, across the table from my parents. By Michele Back http://www.salon.com/travel/wlust/2000/02/25/cebiche/index.html?CP=3DSAL&DN= =3D661 Throw another stereotype on the barbie: An Aussie in New York wonders what it means when Mum's Sunday standby becomes Gotham's hot cuisine. By Christine Kenneally http://www.salon.com/travel/food/feature/2000/02/25/aussie/index.html?CP=3DS= AL &DN=3D661 Take me back: How to find that great San Sebastian festival again, plus tips on getting to Uruguay and crossing the Canadian border. By Donald D. Groff http://www.salon.com/travel/advisor/2000/02/24/sanjuan/index.html?CP=3DSAL&D= N=3D 661 This is my home: We clarify ourselves among the foreign, make camp where we'd least expect to. By Pico Iyer http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/02/23/alienthree/index.html?CP=3DSA= L& DN=3D661 Skepticism and salvation in Cyprus: An unorthodox tour of the second and final tomb of Lazarus puts a strange twist into our correspondent's Larnaca layover. By Rolf Potts http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/2000/02/22/lazarus/index.html?CP=3DSA= L& DN=3D661 A very foreign life: In Nara, Japan, a universe of connections and contradictions unfolds daily. By Pico Iyer http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/02/22/alientwo/index.html?CP=3DSAL&= DN =3D661 Ecstasy in Borneo: Chinese exotic dancers offered me drugs and sex in Indonesian Borneo. Never underestimate a Lion's Club connection. By Chris Taylor http://www.salon.com/travel/wlust/2000/02/18/ecstasy/index.html?CP=3DSAL&DN= =3D661 Dumpling-free Hong Kong: Hong Kong is changing. On a four-day tour of the city's culinary highlights, you can avoid the dumpling, but not the theme restaurant. By Jamie James http://www.salon.com/travel/food/feature/2000/02/18/hongkong/index.html?CP= =3DS AL&DN=3D661 Homeward bound: Our travel expert offers advice for immigrants heading home, tips for finding lodging in Guatemala and discouragement on the Madrid-Bilbao drive. By Donald D. Groff http://www.salon.com/travel/advisor/2000/02/17/immigrants/index.html?CP=3DSA= L& DN=3D661 A short guide to Cura=C1ao: Our roving connoisseur explores the Caribbean island's history and highlights. By Burt Wolf http://www.salon.com/travel/food/col/wolf/2000/02/17/curacao/index.html?CP= =3DS AL&DN=3D661 Key to the city: The door to Rilke's room in Spain was locked, but it turned out there are other doors to the culture. By Lucy McCauley http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/02/16/ronda/index.html?CP=3DSAL&DN= =3D661 Debby Debby@swcp.com Only slaves love being powerful. --Hans Erich Nossack ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 06:58:17 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: James Tull Subject: Re: Yeah, it's me again . . . MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Phillip Atcliffe wrote: > As for names... if you want something to contrast > with Darkstar, then > it's a shame that Irene has already grabbed monikers > like Starfire, but > how about: > > Starlight > Flare > Nova > Sunfire > > And then there are names which don't have the light > or solar > connotations, like Ultra Woman, etc. Those are nice Phil. I especially like Flare. It matches the personality that I have seen so far. As to posting more of Threads. I love the story, but at this time I am trying to concentrate on reading the nominees for the Kerths. I, myself have put 7 days of Superman on Hiatus until after Voting closes. It is awfully depressing to post a story and not have anyone respond to it for several weeks. I know,because I posted Part 5 during the nomination process and NO ONE responded back to me. So I decided that it was Kerth related and am being VERY patient. James ===== Mr. D8a - Colossians 3:2 - Set your minds on things above not on earthly things. James' love is Elisabeth, but... his lil sweetheart is Rosa! Go to WWW.FREEWWWEB.COM for the best Free Internet access! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:40:13 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Judith Williams Subject: Laser Op MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey everyone: I'm off in a few minutes to have Laser repair of a torn retina, so I probably won't be writing anthing for a few days. Prognosis is good, but I'd appreciate your positive ions flowing this way. Wouldn't like to lose any more of my vision. Cheers! Jude ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:42:08 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Rose Cookson Subject: Re: Laser Op MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/1/00 11:41:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, judithwilliams@PRODIGY.NET writes: << Hey everyone: I'm off in a few minutes to have Laser repair of a torn retina, so I probably won't be writing anthing for a few days. Prognosis is good, but I'd appreciate your positive ions flowing this way. Wouldn't like to lose any more of my vision. Cheers! Jude >> Good luck with your surgery, Jude! Rose ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:55:55 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kate Crane Subject: Re: Laser Op MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jude, All good things to you.....they can do miracles with this stuff these days. Kate ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:39:27 -0600 Reply-To: truitt22@flash.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: timothy truitt Organization: tnt technical services Subject: Re: Laser Op MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ditto kate Jude merry Kate Crane wrote: > Jude, > All good things to you.....they can do miracles with this stuff these days. > Kate ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:40:00 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Ann E. McBride" Subject: Re: Laser Op MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good luck! Hope everything turns out OK. Ann ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:50:35 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Nancy Smith Subject: Re: Laser Op MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Good luck, Jude. Hope everything workds out all right. Nan ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:47:27 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: Re: Laser Op MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Jude! I hope you get better fast and I will send some good vibes your way. I hope your vision is working when we meet in the next couple of weeks! If you don't know what I'm talking about, ask Nancy. =) Alexis ;-.) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:56:56 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Tara Smith Subject: Re: Yeah, it's me again . . . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks, Phil! This is exactly what I was looking for! :) Thanks to everybody else who responded, as well! You guys are the best! In case you were wondering what this is for, it's for the time-travel story I'm working on. It's not going to be ready for anyone to see for awhile yet, since I have to finish Threads before I start posting it. :) Tara ------Original Message------ From: Phillip Atcliffe To: LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Sent: March 1, 2000 8:29:16 AM GMT Subject: Re: Yeah, it's me again . . . On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 02:12:39 -0500 Hazel wrote: > Tara wrote: >> You know, I'm really not good at names and such. I'm trying to come up with another name for Mags. New costume, new name, yada yada yada. What do you think? You guys want to give it a crack? This is a good guy name, by the way :) I've got Darkstar for the darker name. > Tara, I'm pretty sure that "Darkstar" was used in the comics for a *good* superheroine. Tank will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Donna Troy (Wonder Woman's sidekick?) was called Darkstar for a while. If this doesn't botter you, you could use something like Nightstar for the "good" version. < Actually, there was a whole corps of Darkstars, and Donna (ex-Wonder Girl, ex- and once again Troia) was "merely" Earth's local agent, after the alien originally assigned to the planet was framed by his boss -- but that's not important. Unfortunately, the Darkstar organisation has since been destroyed, although there are a couple of them still around -- but mostly without their uniforms, which is what gave them most of their "powers". As for names... if you want something to contrast with Darkstar, then it's a shame that Irene has already grabbed monikers like Starfire, but how about: Starlight Flare Nova Sunfire And then there are names which don't have the light or solar connotations, like Ultra Woman, etc. Phil ------------------------------------------------------------ "Sic Transit Gloria Barramundi" (Or, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!) -- not Douglas Adams, but me: Phil Atcliffe (Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk) ----------------------------------------------- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:23:10 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "C.C. Malo" Subject: SIP: Connectios -part13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi -- I'm wondering if there's too much inner reflection in this part. Should I cut some of it? Anything else? Thanks, Nicole for you comments on part 12 but I wonder what you will think of this part. Jude, I hope your eye surgery has gone well. Carol ------------ Connections, part 13 As Clark and Lois got about about half a block away from the Apollo Hotel, they spotted two men, both on the wrong side of seedy, looking like they moonlighted carrying brass knuckles and baseball bats. One of them carried a brief case which he handed over to the other as he was getting into a cab; then the first man turned briskly back into the Apollo Hotel. As Lois and Clark got closer to the building, Clark happened to look down and spotted a used condom at the corner wall of the hotel, right beneath some lurid graffiti whose message, coincidently, had something in common with the condom. He also noticed that two basement windows of the Apollo were shattered, leaving jagged fingers of glass backed now by plywood, and that all the street-level windows had metal bars on them. "When are you moving from this place?" "Moving?" Lois followed his eyes to the broken windows and shrugged. "I've been redecorating. Can't move for awhile." "This isn't a safe neighborhood." She looked sideways at him. "I've stayed in a lot rougher places than this and I bet you have, too." "But I'm Superman," he pointed out. She grinned. "Oh, yeah, I keep forgetting." When he raised his eyebrows, she said, "Really. When we're together like this you just seem like Clark." His features softened into a smile. "That's because I am," he said as squeezed her hand briefly. "But back to the point -- you should move." "Clark, I just got here," she protested. "Don't worry -- I can take care of myself. Besides I'll move when I can afford a better place." Clark paused -- he should have thought of that; it hadn't been too long since he'd been alone and broke in this city. Nevertheless, he wanted her living in a safer place than this. So he made a cautious offer. "Can I lend you some money, Lois? Just until you've been here for awhile." "No, you cannot!" He could tell he'd offended her. "Lois, it'd be just a temporary loan." "I don't want your money, Clark Kent." They were now at the front entrance to the hotel and she turned to face him. "But it's sweet of you to offer." He raised his hand to slide it through her thick hair. "I could give you anything you wanted, Lois," he said softly. "I want to give you... things," he finished trying to avoid telling her how much he wanted to give her -- the stars, his love, his life -- whatever she wanted. She placed her mittened hand on his broad chest and met his eyes. "Do you?" she whispered. He bent his dark head and kissed her softly. "Yes, whatever you want." The urgent promise of thousands of lovers across the world. "No one's ever said that to me before," she said shaken by the emotion she saw in his earth-dark eyes and in her own erratic heart. "Then," he said flashing a quick smile, "I'll help you look for an apartment tomorrow." "You will not!" But now her eyes were teasing. "*I* can take care of myself and besides, I don't want *things* from you, Clark Kent." He felt disappointed -- he had made his first tentative offer of something bigger to her and she had backed away. "I just wanted to help." She saw his disappointment and teased him. "You should be careful, Clark. You never can tell what someone will say when you make them an offer like that." "Never made an offer like that before, Lois, so tell me what to expect," he teased back. "Well, a year's supply of black jellybeans," she said thoughtfully with a blissful sigh. "Is that what you'd like?" His eyes lit up, but she knew he was still teasing. "No!" she sounded horrified. "God, I'd devour them all in a month and then you'd never recognize me on the street." She stood on her tiptoes for a second and gave him a swift kiss on the cheek. "Good night, Clark," she said and stepped lightly up the few steps to the double glass doors across which scrawled the gold letters, Apollo Hotel. He stood watching her and she turned and flashed a quick smile. "I'll tell you what, though. You can help me celebrate when I get my first paycheck -- I'll take you out to dinner." And with that she vanished into the hotel. For a moment, Clark stood watching the closed door; then he turned to walk slowly back to his apartment, not really focusing on anything, feeling Lois's presence still and dazzled by the refelction of streetlights on fresh powder snow. This was his city and it felt good to be here. But as he got closer to his place, he found that he had begun to think once again of Zara and Ching, this time dreading his next encounter with them. Where did his loyalty lie? To New Krypton where his kin lived and which now needed his help in its time of crisis? To this planet Earth which had given him refuge? To everything that Jonathan and Martha Kent had given him and taught him? He desperately wanted that happiness he'd known as their son, and now with Lois he felt, for the first time, that it, and so much more, could once again be his. But did he have the right to place his need for personal happiness, and Lois's too, above the need of New Krytpon? Did he have an obligation to these people? He didn't feel it in his gut, but he was sure he ought to feel an obligation. He did feel something for Zara, his distant kin. Ching, he was wary of. He admitted to himself that he did, in fact, want to go with Zara and Ching to see that ship which hovered somewhere in hyperspace, undetected by Earth's radar systems, waiting to transport him to a world he had never dreamed existed. But he also knew, especially after tonight, that as curious as he was, he wanted this voyage to be a short one, one from which he would return. He had studied enough Earth history to know that Zara and Ching's hopes that he, as the descendant of Zon-El, would be able to solve their current political problems, was pretty naive. And every time Zara referred to him as "my lord" he felt deeply uncomfortable. And then there was Lois. Especially Lois. His thoughts kept coming back to her. He had waited for her too long, for over a year, for a lifetime. He didn't want to leave her. Although he had known her for only a few days, already he was blissfully shocked at how deep was the connection he felt with her. His feeling for her was more profound than anything he had ever felt in his life. This attraction for New Krytpon paled in comparison. But still, it was there; to not know what was on that ship was unthinkable. He would go there with Zara but he would also explain to her why he did not think that returning to New Krypton would work. He hadn't talked to Lois about any of this. Why? This evening had been wonderful, they'd talked and notched their emotional relationship up a little, and they'd never once mentioned Superman until the end of the evening. He smiled; maybe it was really Clark Kent to whom she was attracted. Maybe it was *him* she was attracted to. He could still felt the trace of their kiss; he would always feel it, claiming him, keeping him forever earthbound. The other thing he and Lois hadn't talked about was Zara's real identity. Why hadn't he told Lois that? He'd had the chance. Was it because everything was going so well with her that he didn't want to rock the boat or was it because, when he was alone with her, he was sidetracked by how incredible she was and everything else vanished from his mind? As he opened the door to his apartment, Clark was not too surprised to find Zara and Ching waiting for him; it seemed to him they were becoming as predictable as jokes on a late night talk show. Still, they weren't a joke and he knew he could not put them off much longer. In a way, he did not want to. As much as ever, he still needed to know about New Krypton, to quell that confusion about who and what he was that had lurked in his psyche since his adolescence; and, more importantly, to meet the people whose heritage he shared and with whom he would surely feel some connection. All these thoughts flashed through his mind as he stared now at the two people standing in his living room. Ching spoke first. "Forget her, Kal El. The Earthwoman is not worthy of your attention. Your duty," he paused and then clipped out his next words, "lies elsewhere. Besides, we have women on New Krytpon who are trained to provide that sort of comfort." "What?" Clark's startled look conveyed his surprise at the suggestion behind Ching's words. Then he got angry. "Look, my relationship with Lois Lane is none of your business. And I'm not interested in the Kryptonian version of hookers." Ching shrugged his shoulders and stepped back, his arms folded as Zara spoke. "We've wasted too much time, Kal. We must go to the ship now." "All right, Zara, I'll go with you to the ship, but that's all I will agree to do." "Very well, Kal." Zara turned her head briefly toward her companion. "Ching." He nodded, touching the crystal cube hanging around his neck, altering the space they were in so that suddenly they were standing in that small apartment rented by Sara Ching, researcher for the Daily Planet. They slipped out the door and into a side alley by the apartment building. Again Ching touched the cube, and seconds later the three were getting into a small vehicle, not much larger than a subcompact car and the colour of the hazy shadows in the alley. Once they were inside, it quickly vanished into hyperspace, rematerializing in minutes outside the ship which had brought Zara and Ching to Earth. The NKSS Future was much larger than Clark had envisioned, about the size of a 747. In awe, he swept his eyes over the ships's curved exterior, curious about the logic behind its irregular shape, like that of an ominous grey amoeba floating in the protoplasm of space. Once inside the ship, Clark looked around eagerly, taking it all in. He'd been aboard Luthor's EPRAD space shuttle the first year he'd been in Metropolis and his imagination had soared as he had toured that ship. But now it seemed clunky, nothing compared to this. Here the technology was not obvious -- the interior was vast and sleek, few humans, Kryptonians that is, in sight. Doors opened automatically, lights turned on or off as they passed through the entry passageway and into the larger entry corridor. Clark watched as Zara shut her eyes for a few seconds and concentrated, surprised that he could read her thoughts. Commands, in fact. <> Then a flurry of mixed thoughts -- excited, relieved, and one voice overriding the others. <> A few minutes later, as they walked along the corridor, they were met by a man in late middle age, dressed in a long grey robe and wearing a heavy gold chain which hung from his neck to his chest. At the end of the chain was a large clear crystal pendant, shaped like an elongated hexagon. Behind him stood three men, all dressed in the austere black uniform which both Zara and Ching wore. Each carried what Clark assumed was a weapon at his side. The robed man spoke, bowing his head in deference. "Welcome home, Lord Kal El. I am Lord Trey, Chancellor of New Krypton, first servant of Lady Zara, and now your servant." Clark extended his hand, then pulled it back as he realized that Trey had no idea what the gesture meant. "Uh, thank you, Lord Trey. It is my privilege to be here." Clark meant it sincerely, but he was ill at ease. He turned to Zara. "You said you have the ship which brought me to Earth." "Yes, my lord. Trey will take us there. Then we will meet with the others." They followed the older man down the corridor and into a room which contained no furniture except an egg shaped vessel about twelve feet long. Clark approached, his heart beating rapidly as he came to a stop in front of it, hesitating before reaching out to slide his hand along its smooth metallic exterior. Feeling the incised grooves, he traced each one with his fingers, guessing they represented words. He turned to Zara, and his voice caught as he spoke, "Kryptonian?" She smiled. "Yes." "What does it say?" She took his hand, covering it with her own and moved his fingers over the runes, one more time, saying as she did, "Kal El, son of Lara and Jor El, born into the House of El, and out of the House of Lo." "The house of Lo?" Clark asked. "Yes -- it is the ancient house from whom the Ras trace their decent. The House of Lo was the first house to rule Krypton -- it's roots go back to time before history. The Ras are their descendants, descendants of the great mythical kings who brought order to our world." Zara spoke proudly. "The joining of the House of Ra with the House of El transferred to you, Kal El, the mythic power of our ancient kings." Kal El, aka Clark Kent, raised in the tradition of Jefferson and the Sons of Liberty, not to mention the Bare Naked Ladies, found all this a bit much. The best he could muster was a low keyed, "I see." Then his hand slid into a groove the size of his palm. "There is more, my lord," Zara said as she slid her hand from his and placed it in a second palm shaped indention beside Clark's. As she did, a hologram appeared of a grey-haired man, about forty years old, dressed in white. His image floated above the ship and then lingered several feet away from them, seeming to look down at them. "Kal El, my son." As soon as he heard those words, Clark inhaled deeply and stood, enthralled, gazing at the projection in front of them. His father. Tears stung the back of his eyelids and he swallowed, trying to keep calm as he listened eagerly to his father's words. Then his reverence changed to incredulity as Jor El finished speaking. Zara was Kal's birth-wife. They had been married as infants. Then Jor El fell silent. Instinctively, Clark moved from behind the ship to where the image still lingered, stretching out his hand, attempting to touch his father, to know some part of him, to keep him in the room. His father had only spoken a few sentences. Surely there must be more. Clark's heart ached to know more than these few unwelcome scraps of information. He wanted to ask about his mother, what they were like, what mattered to them. But he was to learn none of that for the image disintegrated into luminescent pixels, and then vanished leaving Clark clutching the air, holding nothing. He stood for a moment, his head bowed, and his back to Zara, Ching, and Trey as he regained his composure and then turned to face them. "It is time for you to fulfill your destiny, Kal El," Zara said softly. "Now that you know the full extent of your ties to New Krypton, you must come with us." "The extent of my ties?" "We are bound, my lord, in marriage. The House of El and the House of Ra." "I thought we were cousins," Clark said, appalled by the news of this marriage and not inclined to take it seriously. Nevertheless, it would make his time here more difficult. Still, Zara had struck him as reasonable; she would understand that he could not be bound by any arrangement where his heart was not committed. Trey interjected, "Exactly, my lord, you are fourth cousins. Both of royal blood, both descendants of the House of Lo, destined to bring New Krypton to the glory which Lo the Great prophesied. The future belongs to Krypton." Trey's eyes shone as he finished speaking. Clark's eyes didn't shine -- they were wary. He didn't want any part of this destiny; it felt wrong. A memory of his father, Jonathan Kent, flashed through his mind. Clark had just finished reading about King Arthur and his Round Table and for weeks afterwards he'd charged around the farm, caught up in games of knights and dragons and wizards. He'd learned the word destiny then and he'd said it solemnly to Jonathan one day, telling him it was his destiny to carry on Jonathan's work on the land. Now Clark saw his father's face, just as solemn, as he placed his large hand on his son's chest, over his heart. "Here's where your destiny lies, son. Where your heart takes you." His heart took him to Metropolis, to Lois Lane. "Your duty to your father, Lord Kal El, is your destiny." Ching spoke, his arms crossed, his tone stiff. "As it is for us all. Marriages within our noble caste are arranged to ensure, through family alliances, that our society remains strong and the Great Law is upheld, just as your father's marriage to the Lady Lara was arranged." "It was?" Zara smiled patiently at him, but her voice was sad. "Of course, Kal -- how could it be otherwise? But our parents would be pleased to see us reunited. The House of El will continue. And now," her voice changed, now betraying her anxiety, "with your help, we can defeat Lord Nor." Clark looked at Zara, sensing her apprehension, but his mind and his heart reeling, as, for a moment, he relived his evening with Lois, the touch of her smooth skin against his cheeks as she had kissed him good-night, heard her delighted laugh as she offered to buy him dinner. Not now, he pleaded silently to some unseen force. Not now. Not when we've just found each other. I can't leave her. I can't. He bowed his head and was silent for a long moment; then he raised it. Regardless of what he personally felt, Clark could not deny that he felt some larger commitment to help the New Kryptonians in their fight against Nor. It was not in his nature to refuse a plea for help. Wasn't that what Superman was all about, what Jonathan and Martha Kent had been about? He made up his mind. "Zara, I need to return to Earth for two days to prepare." Again, he thought of Lois, of telling her he must go, of leaving her. How could he do that when he'd just found her? "Then I will go with you to New Krypton. Once Nor is defeated, I will return to Earth." Zara's face paled. "My lord, you are my husband. You must stay. We must produce a child -- only a son of both our houses will have the aura to command the loyalty of our people so that once more we will have peace." That's ridiculous, Clark wanted to say but he quelled the impulse. He was not such an inexperienced world traveller that he would belittle the customs of a different culture. Nevertheless, that didn't mean he, himself, had to be bound by their traditional values. He took a deep breath before he spoke. "No, Zara," he said gently, touching her shoulder. "You aren't my wife and I will not stay. There are others among you who are more suited than me to rule. Others who know and understand New Krypton's needs and customs. You, for example." There was a brief shocked harrumph from Trey. "But the Lady Zara is a woman, my lord." Zara ignored him. "Very well, Kal El. We will return to Earth for two days --we will give you time to arrange your affairs before leaving for New Krypton." Her face was impassive, her thoughts blocked from Clark. ***** end, part 13 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:55:23 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Gerry Anklewicz Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit No Carol, there isn't too much introspection in this. Clark has a lot of thinking to do. I'm enjoying this very much. Re: Kal El, aka Clark Kent, raised in the tradition of Jefferson and the Sons of Liberty, not to mention the Bare Naked Ladies, found all this a bit much. As far as I know, the Bare Naked Ladies have more to do with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Kraft Dinner than with Jefferson and the Sons of Liberty, at least they do in this universe. Gerry ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:14:19 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kath Roden Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "C.C. Malo" <> Carol, I haven't commented on this yet and I feel very badly about that. I've been reading this and find myself coming back again and again to see if another part has been posted. Frankly, I like your version of the New Krypton's much better (so far, anyway, I don't know what you have in store for us yet ) I don't think Clark's reflections are too long. I think it's necessary to the story to know what Clark is thinking. I also like the wonder he feels in Lois and you've captured that so beautifully. All the conflicts, his duty vs his desire. Nicely done, subtle and real. Can't wait for the next chapter! Kath ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 03:14:38 GMT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Diyan Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Oh, Carol, this is so *good*. I know you're looking for criticism, but I've none to give. Definately not too much introspection. Great section. I especially loved... s p o i l e r s p a c e "Why hadn't he told Lois that? He'd had the chance. Was it because everything was going so well with her that he didn't want to rock the boat or was it because, when he was alone with her, he was sidetracked by how incredible she was and everything else vanished from his mind?" Great question. I was asking it myself. I personally like the second answer :) And I'm so glad Clark realized this: "He had studied enough Earth history to know that Zara and Ching's hopes that he, as the descendant of Zon-El, would be able to solve their current political problems, was pretty naive." This is beautiful: "'No one's ever said that to me before,' she said shaken by the emotion she saw in his earth-dark eyes and in her own erratic heart." whoo. powerful stuff, love. I'm so glad you're writing this story. I'm eagerly looking forward to the next part! and the next, and the next... -Dia ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:23:12 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Pam Jernigan Organization: http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam/ Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Hi -- I'm wondering if there's too much inner reflection in this part. I haven't even read this yet, but I'm guessing my answer will be no... You do great inner reflection, Carol :) Every once in a while I take the time to do extensive feedback... I'm in an expansive mood tonight, so here we go... ;) s p o i l e r s p a c e > As Clark and Lois got about about half a block away from the Apollo Hotel, > they spotted two men, both on the wrong side of seedy, looking like they > moonlighted carrying brass knuckles and baseball bats. Great descriptions I thought at first these guys were going to make the mistake of trying to mug Superman, but then it quickly became clear they were there for atmosphere, instead. > "Moving?" Lois followed his eyes to the broken windows and shrugged. "I've > been redecorating. Can't move for awhile." This is the woman who's hitch-hiked around the world, after all... what's a little seediness to her? And the humor is a great way to convey that. > "But I'm Superman," he pointed out. > > She grinned. "Oh, yeah, I keep forgetting." When he raised his eyebrows, > she said, "Really. When we're together like this you just seem like Clark." That's so nice... you've mentioned it before, I think (I'm reading a number of "in progress" stories so I *might* be mixing this one up with Learning Curves, which is also excellent but really different), but I just love it so much you can keep on bringing it up > He raised his hand to slide it through her thick hair. "I could give you > anything you wanted, Lois," he said softly. "I want to give you... things," > he finished trying to avoid telling her how much he wanted to give her -- the > stars, his love, his life -- whatever she wanted. This is so utterly romantic, I'm just loving it... (although, upon closer reading, I think you need a comma after 'finished') > She saw his disappointment and teased him. "You should be careful, Clark. > You never can tell what someone will say when you make them an offer like > that." > > "Never made an offer like that before, Lois, so tell me what to expect," he > teased back. > > "Well, a year's supply of black jellybeans," she said thoughtfully with a > blissful sigh. LOL! Lovely transition from serious to light-hearted... > This was his city and it felt good to be here. That seems like a tremendously important sentence... I like that he's not just connected to Lois, he's connected to the city, too ... sort of emotional ballast for him, to weigh against the needs of New Krypton. > He had studied enough Earth history to know that Zara and Ching's hopes that > he, as the descendant of Zon-El, would be able to solve their current > political problems, was pretty naive. Oh, thank you ... I always had that problem with the show... > This attraction for New Krytpon paled in comparison. But still, > it was there; to not know what was on that ship was unthinkable. He would go > there with Zara but he would also explain to her why he did not think that > returning to New Krypton would work. Speaking of naive... once she's got him on the ship, what's to say she'll return him? I don't think Zara's unethical, but she is very stressed, and a woman trying to protect her children might go to extremes. > He hadn't talked to Lois about any of this. Why? Not that you're asking me but I think it's pretty natural, at this stage... they've really only known each other a week. If they were any closer, he'd have to tell her, but this early, I think he's entitled to keep his own counsel about very private matters. Besides, I know that Lois is also keeping a big secret... > Kal El, aka Clark Kent, raised in the tradition of Jefferson and the Sons of > Liberty, not to mention the Bare Naked Ladies, found all this a bit much. rofl!! Well put! > Zara ignored him. "Very well, Kal El. We will return to Earth for two days > --we will give you time to arrange your affairs before leaving for New > Krypton." Her face was impassive, her thoughts blocked from Clark. Oh dear, you're making me very nervous here, Carol... I understand his decision, but, but, but... Have you written the rest of this yet, or are you posting as you go? -- ------------------------------------------------------- Pam Jernigan | jernigan@bellsouth.net ChiefPam on IRC | ChPam on AOL IM ------------------------------------------------------- "Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddism is not 'Every man for himself.' And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked 'em up." _A Fish Called Wanda_ ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:09:10 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Hazel Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Carol, very good stuff here. Since you specifically asked, I'll mention that the details at the beginning re the seediness of the Apollo Hotel were a bit... jarring. To me, it seemed like sentences inserted into place to make the point, instead of flowing through the story; maybe it's because the description was rather crude, to fit into the scenery of the hotel. I'm talking about one or two paras here, so it's hardly of much importance, and I wouldn't have mentioned if you hadn't asked for honesty. :) >Kal El, aka Clark Kent, raised in the tradition of Jefferson and the Sons >of Liberty, not to mention the Bare Naked Ladies, found all this a bit much. Er... Do I want to know what "Bare Naked Ladies" are? I note, BTW, that Ching and Zara haven't mentioned a few... um... people to Clark. Interesting views towards marriages that these Kryptonians have... And I must also say I was relieved that they didn't just blast off towards NK without nary a thought towards Clark's wishes. I really expected them to do that. NKSS sounds a bit Star Trekkish, as does your description of the ship. If this doesn't bother you, it won't bother me either. :) Kudos for giving Lois a craving for something *other* than chocolate! Black jelly beans, huh? Ooookay. ;) I loved Jon's take on destiny, and Clark's introspection, as you put it. There's not too much of it at all -- feel free to add more if you'd like. :) I breathlessly await Lois' reaction to Ching, Zara, Trey, and Trask when this all gets out; hoo boy, the fur is really going to fly! I hope you post the next part soon! Hazel ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:27:23 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Nicole Wolke Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit * * * S P O I L E R * S P A C E * * * Carol, Oh no! I know they're going to abduct him! They want to take him with them and then they'll refuse to let him return! I can't bear it. Please, let that rotten Nor come to earth soon so that Clark can fight his battle with him here!!! To your question about the self reflections. I thought it weren't too much at all and didn't see a point where you could have cut it without taking away important thoughts of him. BTW, I loved the "Bare naked ladies" reference. Did you chose them because Dean mentioned in an interview last year that he liked them? He also said that he especially liked the name, LOL. Why doesn't that suprise us? Nicole -- AKA CKgroupie on IRC NKWolke@eifel-net.net Are you always searching for news about Dean Cain? And don't you have the time to go and find them? Here's your solution: Go to "The Dean Cain News Page" http://members.tripod.de/Ckgroupie/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:19:29 +0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Carol, that was wonderful! You know, I *told* you this was a great story and that FoLCs would love it... wasn't I right? No, not too much introspection at all, but then I think I already told you that. And what there is is beautiful, and completely necessary for the development of the plot. Only now... s p o i l e r ....you have Clark about to run off to New Krypton leaving Lois behind, and Lois is still working for Trask, and you have to stop both of those things before they can be together! I know you can do it... Wendy ---------------------- Wendy Richards w.m.richards@hrm.keele.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:01:38 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Pam Jernigan Organization: http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam/ Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gerry, quoting Carol, wrote: > Re: > Kal El, aka Clark Kent, raised in the tradition of Jefferson and the Sons > of > Liberty, not to mention the Bare Naked Ladies, found all this a bit much. > > As far as I know, the Bare Naked Ladies have more to do with the Toronto > Maple Leafs and Kraft Dinner than with Jefferson and the Sons of Liberty, > at least they do in this universe. Well, the way I took that comment was, not only was Clark accustomed to an entirely different political structure (government for the people, by the people) but that his *culture* was a lot ... looser ... than that of the NKs. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Pam Jernigan | jernigan@bellsouth.net ChiefPam on IRC | ChPam on AOL IM ------------------------------------------------------- "Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddism is not 'Every man for himself.' And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked 'em up." _A Fish Called Wanda_ ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:26:26 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "C.C. Malo" Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi -- Thanks very much for your comments! It's good to know the inner reflection parts didn't seem excessive --sometimes I get wrapped up in that sort of thing so that nothing actually happens in the story. re the crudeness in the first paragraph: I did that deliberately, trying to convery that Metropolis is facing some serious social issues, and also, that Clark is now concerned about Lois living in the midst of that. Perhaps it should go. Hazel wrote: <> Thank you :) About the Bare Naked Ladies: Hazel wrote: <> Innocuous Canadian group with a sense of humour. Nicole wrote: << Did you chose them because Dean mentioned in an interview last year that he liked them?>> I didn't know that! I'll definitely keep the reference, in that case. :) Pam wrote: << the way I took that comment was, not only was Clark accustomed to an entirely different political structure (government for the people, by the people) but that his *culture* was a lot ... looser ... than that of the NKs.>> Yes, that's what I was trying to convey. :) There's a sense of humour about the Bare Naked Ladies (even their name ) that I like (the line about Dijon ketchup, for instance) . I used them to get across that Clark has a sense of humour but also to suggest that perhaps the Nk'ers are a little repressed. Pam, thanks for your extensive comments. You wrote: < >> Yes, I'd set this up before, briefly in part 6 and then more definitely at the end of part 12 so that's what you may be thinking of. This is one of the parts I was wondering about cutting because I'd already made the point, so to speak. also <> Yes, I thought that too as I checked part 13 over one last time before posting. It is naive. To be fixed. <> There's a bit more written, but I still a haven't finished the story. Close though, I hope. And thanks, Wendy, for the reminder that there is an A plot and I've been avoiding it.:). Carol ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:43:11 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Gerry Anklewicz Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 In-Reply-To: <26.27d11e6.25effe42@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit LOISCLA-GENERAL-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU writes: > Bare Naked Ladies: >Innocuous Canadian group Now really! Gerry ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:13:04 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "C.C. Malo" Subject: SIP: Connections - part 14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi -- This is a very short part. I'll post part 15 next week. Carol --------- Connections, part 14 The next morning, Lois hopped the subway for the Planet, anticipating that Clark would be there and reliving again, as the train propelled her across the city, their walk through the snow to her apartment. She was falling in love with him, probably was in love with him, given the way she couldn't seem to keep him out of her mind. Whatever this emotion was, it wasn't like anything she'd ever felt before, and somehow, she knew it wasn't going away. Did he feel the same way? Then, as unwelcome thoughts of Jason Trask and Bureau 39 intruded, she became uneasy. Trask didn't trust Superman and, by extension, that meant neither did the government. And she didn't trust Trask. Besides, she had come to feel very protective of Clark Kent and now she vowed to find out exactly what it was that Trask and Bureau 39 had in mind for Superman. Then, if Clark was truly in danger, she could warn him and also expose whatever it was the agency might be planning. Bumping into Trask that day had turned out to be a stroke of luck -- being on the inside would help. All along she'd felt Trask was holding back something, although she hadn't been too alarmed by that -- he was hardly going to divulge all the Bureau's secrets to a new contact. In fact, all things considered, he'd told her more than, in the cold light of logic, was reasonable, maybe to convince her that Superman was, in fact, an alien. Well, she had to admit that small craft he'd shown her was interesting evidence of something out of the ordinary. She'd sure like to see the lab report once Trask's techies finished with it. And what was that globe she had lifted all about? It was in safekeeping now, out in California with her friend, Jess, who had written -- actually taken pen in hand, placed stamp on envelope, and walked to a corner mail box -- a brief letter saying she had no idea what the globe was, but that it was safe with her. She also instructed Lois to destroy the letter. Jess then added that she had retrieved Lois's e-mail advising her to expect a package, and eliminated it from the black hole of cyberspace where all such things swirl in ghostly silence like immortal souls. She advised Lois to do the same. Oh sure, Lois had thought, like I know how to do that. She'd obliquely mentioned this to Jess on the phone and Jess had said, not to worry, she'd take care of it. Oh, Lois thought and wondered if she should look for that old decoder ring, the one that had come in a box of cereal and which her uncle had given her when she was a kid. When Lois did get to the Planet, Clark was nowhere to be seen. She wasn't too surprised. Smiling, she wondered where the crisis du jour was. Making a quick switch in her plans, she decided to head over to Bureau 39, see what more she could find out. How much did the Bureau know about Superman? Clark Kent she felt she was beginning to know, well more than know, she thought, but Superman -- there were still so many things about him she didn't know, didn't understand. She knew, of course, that the answers she was seeking were not in Bureau 39's files, or any files anywhere for that matter, but this morning she was restless, fighting a sense of unease she couldn't put her finger on. After a quick chat with Jocasta and Rick Vega, she grabbed a down elevator to the front lobby. When she got to Bureau 39, Trask was out, which was great. It gave her the chance to work without his muscular form looming over her shoulder. She stopped briefly at the front desk, passing through security, then slipped into the back to finish viewing the video files the bureau had compiled of Superman's activities. Trask's assistant was used to her by now and waved her into the office while he continued a phone conversation. She hoped, by now, the Bureau would have done that analysis of the crowd present at Superman's first press conference. So far, she'd been unable to discover who the woman in the white suit in that Planet photo was or why Superman had fallen to the floor. But, as she picked up the tapes, she noticed that the press conference video was still missing. God, government guys were slow. Not as slow as she thought, however. Ten minutes later, Trask walked into the office accompanied by a woman whom she had not seen before. "Lane, they told me you were here. This is Maria Zarkowski -- head of the team that'll analyze the ship. I'll be back after I take her to the storeroom." "Mind if I come with you?" Lois didn't wait for his answer but shifted to the doorway as she finished speaking, and the trio walked in silence through the narrow halls to the back of the building. Once inside the storeroom, Trask led the way to where the ship was lodged and removed the tarp which covered it. This time Lois looked at it differently --could it have possibly held Clark when he was a baby? An intergalactic cradle? She touched it gently. Trask removed the hood of the craft and Lois stared, once again, at the interior, now seeing it as something designed to get a newborn safely across the universe. "I've never seen anything like this before," Maria said as she too touched the grey metallic exterior of the ship. "Give me a few minutes, Trask, to look it over and then we'll crate it and bring it over to the lab." She pulled a small camera from her bag, checked its settings, then proceeded to take pictures of the craft from several angles, commenting as she did. "I find it difficult to believe this is an extraterrestial vehicle, Trask. There are no signs of burning or other damage from entry into Earth's atmosphere. The surface is smooth except for these notches along the side." She crouched to take a close-up of the string of characters that Lois had explored a few days earlier. "I figure it's writing, telling us who was inside," Trask said as he stood stolidly to one side, thick arms crossed, watching Maria carefully. "Piloted by a little green man?" Maria spoke laconically as she continued her superficial examination, walking to the front of the craft where she stopped in surprise. "Oh, I see what you mean," she said as she snapped a picture of the Superman crest which adorned the nose of the capsule. "Well." There was a slight indication of excitement in her monotone voice, then it returned to normal. "No other external markings than the Superman insignia and the string of runes along the side." Lois noted that Maria had a small tape recorder inserted in the breast pocket of her jacket and that her comments were actually notes. "How long will it take you to do the analysis?" "Depends. I have one assistant, and given the security involved, I don't want more people than necessary involved. But I want to call in a cultural anthropologist and it'll take time to get security clearance. Should have the chemical and electronic results pretty quickly. We'll check for biological evidence, too. If we could get some DNA..." That subdued excitement tinged her voice again and then she continued her low key commentary as she finished her observations of the ship. "Okay, that's all I can do here. Have it crated and sent over to the lab." "Bring your equipment here, Zarkowski. I don't want this out of my building." "Trask, do you have any idea how much equipment is involved? It'll take a day to get it here." "Do it." Maria Zarkowski stared at him for a moment and then shrugged. "It'll slow us down and I still may have to take the capsule off site later, but okay. You authorize it, though." ****** end, part 14 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 22:24:58 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Linda Hofffman Subject: Re: SIP: Connections - part 14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Carol Coming out of the shadows to say I love the story but if no one eles has mentioned it. I see an error.(I think). Clark and Zara have his spacecraft on their vehicle(part 13) and now Trask has it at Dept 39 headquarters.(part 14) I don't think it can be in both places or is one ship a duplicate. Linda lindah46@erols.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:39:40 +0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000302090602.00902ae0@actcom.co.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII This is weird - Hazel's message, posted yesterday early morning, only got to me *now*! On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:09:10 -0500 Hazel wrote: > Since you specifically asked, I'll mention that the details > at the beginning re the seediness of the Apollo Hotel were > a bit... jarring. To me, it seemed like sentences inserted > into place to make the point, instead of flowing through > the story; maybe it's because the description was > rather crude, to fit into the scenery of the hotel. Funny, I didn't find that at all - quite the opposite, I thought that the description was very evocative and really gave me a good impression of where Lois was staying; among other things, it made me contrast, mentally, her current accommodation with wherever she might have lived before, all of which could add to her need to re-establish herself - that, possibly, could also be why she continues to work with Trask. Is she looking for that one big story (now, perhaps, a B39 exposure) which will make her name, get her a great and better-paid job and enable her to return to her former standard of living as well as her previous reputation? Wendy ---------------------- Wendy Richards w.m.richards@hrm.keele.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:03:05 GMT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Diyan Subject: Re: SIP: Connections - part 14 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Clark >and Zara have his spacecraft on their >vehicle(part 13) and now Trask has it at Dept >39 headquarters.(part 14) I don't think it can >be in both places or is one ship a duplicate. > Linda I was wondering about that too. When you described the craft in section 13 on the NKSS Future, you said it was 12' long. It's been a long time since I saw it, but wasn't it smaller than that? Yet the rest seemed to fit perfectly--Clark's reaction to seeing his father, grasping at the empty space. However, I suppose it's possible that the NKers have created a ship and a message for Clark to view; he wouldn't know if it was real or not, as he's never seen the craft or his birth father. It seems less likely that Trask would have a duplicate. This is an intriguing A-plot with Lois working for Trask and the NKers there all at the same time. And, have I mentioned? the first meeting between Lois and Clark in the barn was wonderful. -Dia ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:27:55 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: Looking for URL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm looking for the URL for B.B. Medos' site. My link to it doesn't work anymore. Help is appreciated. Thanks, Irene ===== Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:22:18 -0600 Reply-To: truitt22@flash.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: timothy truitt Organization: tnt technical services Subject: Re: Looking for URL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit the url is " http://booksanctuary.com/partnersincrime/loisnclark/l&c_fanfiction.htm" merry "Irene D." wrote: > I'm looking for the URL for B.B. Medos' site. My link > to it doesn't work anymore. > > Help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Irene > > ===== > Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. > Groucho Marx > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 18:02:57 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: James Tull Subject: 30 Days / Dark Places I posted the rest of 30 Days / Dark Places on the UBB. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:37:55 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Erin Klingler Subject: Kerth Voting Now Open!!! Comments: cc: LNC list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everyone! Voting time has finally arrived for the 2000 Lois & Clark Fanfic Kerth Awards! For the next two weeks, the polls will be open for you to submit your votes for your favorite nominees in this year's Kerth Awards. Before you vote, you need to read the nominated stories, though, right? :) Well, thanks to Genevieve, there is now a "one stop reading" web site with links to all the nominated stories so that reading this year's nominated stories is extremely easy and convenient! Her URL is: http://users.erols.com/nightsky/kerth.html Thanks for all your work on this, Genevieve!! Then when you're finished reading through the nominated stories, you're ready to vote! An automated voting ballot has been set up (thanks Lauren! ;) on the fanfic archive for everyone's convenience: http://www.lcfanfic.com/kerthvote2000.html But before you go rushing off to vote, be sure to read through the voting FAQ on my webpage!! http://www.ida.net/users/davek/kerth_voting.htm It'll save both of us a lot of time and grief if you have all your questions answered before you vote. Okay, I think that's it. If you have any questions, feel free to email me! Otherwise, I'll look forward to seeing everyone's votes!!! Happy reading and voting! Erin :) __________________ erink@ida.net Visit my LNC/Kerth Website: www.ida.net/users/davek ***** "It's not the years that count, it's the moments...right now, as they happen." __________________ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 00:01:45 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Genine Murray Subject: Re: Kerth Voting Now Open!!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/3/00 11:41:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, erink@IDA.NET writes: > Hi everyone! > > Voting time has finally arrived for the 2000 Lois & Clark Fanfic Kerth > Awards! ARGH, Erin, so glad to hear from you! ;) Where've you been? Well, now that we know you're alive and well, I have to resort to *begging*!!! I'm really *dying* for the next installment of "Darkest Hour," which you *promised* us back on Febuary 24th. Scary that I actually know the date, I know, but I am thoroughly enjoying this story and I really want more!! ;) *Please*?!?!?!?! Poor Lois and Clark have been in those woods for an awfully long time now, when are you going to get them safe??? I can't take this torture much longer!! ;) Genine (this'll teach me to start reading a fic before it's finished ... ) SuperGem4@aol.com SuperGEM on IRC ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 05:28:40 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: "ADITLOM" (RPG), Nineteenth Installment, Week #20 (Part 1 of 1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is the nineteenth installment of my rpg on yahoo called, "A Day in the=20 Life of Metropolis." For more information, please go to: Yahoo! Clubs= =20 adayinthelifeofmetropolis=20 Public and private feedback is more than welcomed! =3D) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Cast List Clark Kent : Alexis W. (that's me!) Lois Lane: Alexis W. Cat Grant: Renda Mayson Drake: Renda Anya Starr: Tabitha Bruce Wayne/Batman: Sam F. Sam Falcon: Sam F. Nightwing: Dave Ellen Lane: Tina T. * * * * WEEK #20 (2/21/ TO 2/27) Re: Shake,Rattle and Roll Catherine Grant stood watching the ominious movement of the trees on the=20 terrace below her and Lois. "That looks like movement that I've seen in=20 LA before!" Cat said out loud. She turned around to see Lois chasing=20 someone in black. =93That woman is going to get herself killed!" Cat said=20 to herself. Cat decided to climb down the veranda and onto the terrace=20 below. "I=92m going to see if this structure is truly moving so it=92s safe=20= for=20 people=20 to be in!" Cat said to herself as the dropped the rest of the way down from=20 the=20 trellis she climbed onto. The movement continued and it seemed to be swayin= g=20 worse. Cat turned to look into the alley below. *That looks like Diego and=20 Perry!* =20 But she couldn't be sure. Suddenly the pavement in that alley seemed to roll= =20 up like=20 a roller coaster. Cat scrambled down off the Obsevatory and ran for safety. Looking back, the building swayed like a blade of grass in the wind. >tbc<=20 =20 * * * * Re: Ramone and Mayson! "Mayson we must get out of this street!" Ramone told his lovely date and=20 pointed up to the swaying Obversatory. Mayson looked up and a scream got=20 stuck in her throat with the fear that froze it there. Ramone picked her=20 up in his arms and ran down the street as it too seemed to move under=20 the hum beneath the Observatory. "Ramone! Isn't that Diego and Perry=20 over there?" Ramone looked up to see his brother shielding Perry from=20 debris falling from the swaying Observatory. Ramone dashed into a cab=20 where the driver was sleeping. "Hey man step on this thing! We need to=20 pick up those two men!" The cabbie woke up and he saw the building and=20 got so scared that he jumped out of the cab. "Ramone! Do something!"=20 Mayson screamed and pleaded to him. Ramone jumped into the driver's side=20 of the cab and drove it cautiously towards Diego and Perry.=20 Diego looked up as the cab approached him and Perry White. "Wow!=20 Brother, you are saving me this time!" Diego said and smiled at his=20 younger brother. "Diego if we don't get out of here we=92re all going to=20 die!" Diego nodded agreement as he helped Perry into the back seat next=20 to Mayson Drake. The Dela Vega brother's surveyed the streets and=20 decided to take the less swaying ones, in order to get to a phone or=20 police station and get help. Diego smiled as he watched Ramone drive.=20 *In situations like these, Ramone looks so much like our father!* Diego=20 thought to himself. Looking up they all shouted at the same time "Stop!"=20 Just as a large chunk of building material fell in front of their taxi. >tbc< =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =93Holy Mother and her blessed Son! Diego and Ramone crossed themselves and prayed to the Holy Mother and=20 her blessed fruit Jesus. Diego jumped out and cleared the side walk so=20 that Ramone could drive the taxi down it until they passed the debris.=20 Once back in the taxi and on the street again. Diego looked for the=20 Interpole van. Spotting it, he motioned to Ramone. He nodded to Diego and=20 pulled the taxi next to the van. Diego disappeared inside and called the=20 fire department and police. He told them that it looks like the only=20 building shaking is the Obsevatory. "Yes, that is the building that is=20 swaying. No, Senior I do not think it was evacuated." Diego told the=20 dispatcher. "Si, I will try to help you all that I can." Diego told him=20 and hung up the phone. While he was in the back of the van he got a=20 fresh battery for his cellphone. Diego thanked the Interpole operative=20 and told him that he should move his van. The Agent nodded and turned on=20 the motor to the van. Diego and he planned their next rendavous point=20 and Diego went back to the taxi. "Drive on Brother!" He told Ramone.=20 "Let us get you and Mr. White and Mayson to safety at the Celtic Queen=20 Hotel and then I shall join the Interpole Agent again to assist in this=20 mess." Ramone smiled and replied. "I am going to assist also, Brother!"=20 Diego nodded in agreement, too tired to argue with his brother. >tbc< * * * * Re: Shake, Rattle and Roll/Cat! Cat crossed the alley and stayed up against the buildings that weren't=20 shaking. She managed to make it to a calmer street. Reaching into her=20 evening bag she pulled out her protection. "A girl can never be to=20 careful, walking the streets of a city at night," she said to herself.=20 She walked a little further and tried her cell phone. Dialing 911 she=20 got the operator. "Yes, I want to report some kind of quake or other=20 phenomon at the Gotham Observatory." Operator: "Yes, we are aware of the=20 problem and have dispatched the proper units." Cat: "Thank you!" Hanging=20 up her cellphone she decided to find a cab. >tbc<=20 * * * * Clark to the rescue! As soon as Clark re-entered the Observatory, the shaking had stopped. He=20 used his x-ray vision to scan the building for any damage. There was=20 nothing. Clark decided to go look for Perry and the others, when the=20 shaking started up again. "What is going on here?" he asked a loud.=20 Suddenly there was an ear-splitting scream that echoed throughout the=20 structure. It was Lois and Clark quickly ran over towards her. When Clark found her, the shaking had been going on for a little over a=20 minute. He didn't have the suit to change into, but he didn't care.=20 Clark couldn't let Lois' life hang in danger. The room was in so much=20 chaos, that no one would notice, "the ordinary man" flying. Lois was on the other end of the room, holding on for dear life onto the=20 last reminants of the old rusty staircase. "HELP!" she screamed as her=20 fingers began slipping. "Oh, somebody please help!" Lois cried. "Don't worry Lois, I'm coming..." Clark said under his breath. To avoid the crumbling floor beneath him, Clark hovered ever so slightly=20 above the tiles. He did this as a precaution. If anybody was watching,=20 he wanted to make it look like the rumblings from the earthquake were=20 giving the illusion that he was flying. Clark got far enough off the=20 ground, in time to catch Lois as her fingers gave way and she screamed=20 out her last plea for help. >tbc<=20 =20 * * * * Re: Clark to the rescue! Anya began to wish very hard that she hadn't chosen the elevator when=20 she felt the building move. The lights flickered in the elevator.=20 "Stupid, very stupid," said Anya under her breath watching the numbers=20 flick with each passing floor. Suddenly the lights went out. "I know I=20 should've taken the stairs," she said and banged on the elevator door.=20 "Hey can anyone hear me! Some help would be good," she yelled=20 >tbc< * * * * Re: Shake,Rattle and Roll/Cat! Cat had just about given up on finding a taxi or any vehicle when lo and=20 behold up drives her limo! The driver jumped out and exclaimed. "Ms.=20 Grant, I have been looking for you for about an hour. How can I protect=20 you if I know not where you are?" Cat smiled at him and got into the=20 back. Then she started thinking about what he had aske her. "Protect me?=20 Protect ME!" She lowered the glass between them and asked, "Why did you=20 say protect me?" He turned around and replied, "Your father pays me to=20 look after you." Cat got angry, not at the driver but at the over=20 protectiviness of her father. "Well, as you can see, I=92m a big girl and=20 fully capable of taking care of myself." She raised the glass and=20 reached for her train case. The then took off her designer gown and=20 slipped into a black cat suit and put on the matching boots. "Well,=20 a tleast I=92m dressed for rescue and recovery now!" She lowered the glass=20 again and told the driver to take her to the Observatory. "Are you=20 crazy?" he asked her. "That whole building is still shaking, and other's=20 may soon quake too!" "Listen, I=92m the boss here and I pay your salary!=20 To the observatory." The driver nodded and mumbled to himself. "She's=20 got a death wish. I swear it!" >tbc< * * * * Not being there He sat in front of the computer, looking for answers to his questions.=20 Those answers weren=92t the ones he was looking for. He slammed his fist=20 on the consul. =93This isn=92t helping. I=92ve got to stay one step ahead o= f him.=20 There seems to be one key piece that I=92m missing to be able to do that.= =94 He=20 paused. =93What does he want?=94 he whispered. He switched the view on the=20 screen to the internal cameras. He started with the one outside Sam=92s room= .=20 When there wasn=92t a noise from inside he started going through them one by= =20 one. No one appeared to be in the house. He switched to the one outside th= e=20 front door. The car he was hoping to see, wasn=92t there. He then switched t= o=20 the=20 one inside the garage. The spot where the limo should be, was still empty. =93What, where in the h*ll are they?=94 A light on the consul flashesed. He switched the screen to a newscast on=20 GNN: Breaking news Gotham Observatory: The guests at the Environmental Ball= =20 being held at the Observatory, have just experienced what appears to be an=20 earthquake. Only the building and surrounding streets have been affected at=20 this point. No one=20 knows the actual amount of damage and the total number of injuries involved=20 yet,=20 but we will have reporters on the scene to bring you continuing coverage. Geologists at Star Labs have no explanation for this sudden and obviously=20 very unexpected earthquake . . . =93I=92ve got to get back there.=94 He rushed to the bat wing and started ba= ck=20 towards the city.=20 >tbc< * * * * The Van Jimmy was led out to a black van parked a few feet away from the=20 Observatory. Gerty opened the door and shoved him inside. Mr. Lake stood=20 behind him so he couldn't escape. "What the..." Jimmy muttered to himself. "Oh honey, look! Isn't he the cutest thing you've ever seen! Too bad we=20 can't keep him for our collection..." Amber Lake sighed.=20 "Tie him up so he won't get away," Gerty instructed. "Let me go!" Jimmy struggled as Tim Lake shoved him into a chair and=20 tied his arms together. "I'll call for Sup...mmpf..."he tried to say before= =20 he=20 was gagged with a hankerchief. "Give him some of this," Gerty said as she handed Amber Lake a vile of=20 liquid. "Oh...don't worry sweetie, this'll all be over real soon," Mrs. Lake=20 cooed as she stabbed him in the neck. "We need to get this done before he wakes..." "I'll do it, Ms. Gerty!" Mr. Lake volunteered. "Great! Now go, before he comes to!" >tbc< * * * * Re: Back at Ellen=92s Place Ellen just sat there staring at the front door. She was angry. "I can't believe, that I ever thought that we had a chance of getting=20 back together. I would never get back together with someone who keeps=20 insulting me." She turned off the TV and the lights and went to bed.=20 She thought as she was drifting off to sleep, that maybe it would be better=20 in the morning, knowing it wouldn't be. >tbc< * * * * Re: Shake, Rattle the observatory Cat! The driver pulled the limo up as close as he dared to the quaking=20 Observatory. Catherine Grant got out and told him to go help the fire=20 department with anything that they might need him to do. He nodded and=20 drove away. Cat looked around her and decided to go back into the=20 shaking building. "I must be crazy!" Cat said to herself as she walked=20 around, looking for a safe way to enter without getting crushed or=20 slammed against the hard, cold granite! >tbc<=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Re: Shake, Rattle the observatory Cat! Cat found a safe way to enter the Observatory. She climbed through a=20 window in the office of the security guards. Standing up and dusting=20 herself off, she found a guard lying on the floor. Bending down she felt=20 for a pulse. "Good, still alive and pulse is stable. Cat picked up the=20 phone on the floor, it was dead, so she pulled out her cell phone. "What=20 is your emergency?" the operator on the other side asked. Cat replied,=20 "This is Cat Grant inside the security office of the Observatory, one=20 guard is down apparently he sustained a blow to the head when the=20 building shook." Operator: "I'll let the paramedics and fire personnel know where to pick=20 up the guard."=20 Cat: "Thanks! I'll hang a purple flag out of the window." Hanging up the=20 phone and putting it back into her bag she hung the purple flag outside=20 the window for the fire personnel to find. Then she made her way out of=20 the office. >tbc< * * * * Re: The Elevator She leaned back against the wall. It was absolutely quiet, except for=20 her slightly labored breathing. "I guess I better let someone know I'm in=20 here." She carefully moved over to the panel on the wall. She hit the alarm=20 button and a loud.obnoxious alarm started to sound. After a few minutes=20 she turned it off. "Okay, that was a good idea. Maybe someone heard it.=20 If not, I'll try it again in a few minutes." Then the elevator started to=20 shake=20 again. She sat down on the floor of the elevator car. >tbc<=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Re: The Elevator Slowly, Nightwing desended down the long, narrow shaft. Dick could smell=20 the mechanical oil and milldew as he made his way down the cable, hand=20 over hand. As he got lower, the dim light in the shaft faded. Dick reached=20 for his utility belt to produce a small mag-light flashlight. He shined the=20 thin=20 beam of intense light below him to see the top of a stalled elevator a=20 few meters below. Dick frowned, as he thought he could hear someone=20 talking in muffled tones. Was it Sam? And didn't he hear Anya too? Quickly, Dick swung from the cable to land solidly on the elevator.=20 "Hey?!! everyone okay in there?!?!" Dick kneeled down to knock on the=20 cold metal.=20 >tbc< =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Re: The Elevator Sam thought she could hear something in the elevator shaft. She looked up, but didn=92t move. >tbc< =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Next time take the stairs Anya heard a voice. "Hello?" she yelled but the voice was muffled as if=20 it was some distance away. She looked at the ceiling and grinned. One part of the elevator's ceiling looked to be loose. She jumped a few=20 times, each time pushing on the elevator roof till it came off. "Oh yeah,=20 this is good," she said and grabbed the side and hoisted herself up to=20 the roof of the elevator just to see another elevator a few feet above=20 hers on the other side. She also saw someone on top of it but couldn't make=20 out who it was. She looked over the edge and immediately regreted doing=20 that as she looked at the dark void of the elevator shaft. "Next time I=20 am defiantly taking the stairs," she said. "Is somebody in that one too?=20 Hey who are you?" she yelled up at the person on the other elevator.=20 >tbc< * * * * Re: Next time take the stairs Cat made it to the first set of elevators and banged on the door. "Is=20 anyone in here?" she called. She listened for a time, not hearing=20 anything, she started to walk away. Suddenly she heard tapping,=20 actually it was a code. Cat stopped and listened. Morris code... Trapped=20 in elevator car...stop...roof caved in on myself and my=20 wife...stop...need help...end... Cat picked up a piece of granite and=20 started tapping out a morris code message...Heard=20 you...stop...understand your situation...stop...phoning in your location=20 to the fire department and rescue...end... Cat listened and=20 heard...Thanks...end... Cat walked on into the main room of the=20 Observatory and saw a man pinned under a large table. She looked=20 around for leverage. Finding a large pole she put it underneath the table=20 and heaved on it until she could roll the heavy table off the gentleman. "Oh God! This is bad!" She said to herself. Getting her cell phone out again= =20 she phoned the fire station outside and told them about the man in the main=20 ballroom. "Yes, I got the table off of him. But he is in shock and losing=20 blood."=20 "Affirmative, Ms. Grant, our people will be there shortly to get to that=20 man and the people trapped in that first elevator. We have the security=20 guard and he is on the way to Gotham Memorial." "Thank you for getting=20 him out." Cat told the fire chief. "Cat Grant, out!" Cat mingled through the Observatory that looked more like a bomb scene=20 she'd witnessed before. "Man, time is running out!" Cat said aloud and=20 heard a man reply. "Yes, it is ma'am but we are doing all that we can to=20 rescue everyone." Cat turned to see the fire and medical personnel. She=20 smiled and nodded and made her way on through the carnige. >tbc< * * * * Re: Clark to the rescue! "Lois, are you all right?" Clark asked as he brushed back her beautiful=20 long brown hair, from her eyes. "Huh?" "Lois, it's Clark..." "Clark...you...I..." she stuttered as she regained her senses. "Wait,=20 you...you...save," Lois tried to say as she noticed she was craddled in=20 Clark's arms. "Yes Lois, I saved you." "Oh God, Clark, I thought I was going to die!" Lois cried. "I saw my=20 life flashing before my eyes and I realized I have so much to live for!" "Hush Lois, you're safe now..." Clark softly wiped her tears away with=20 his hand. "I would never let you die...I couldn't live with myself if=20 something happened to you..." "That sounds likes something Superman would say." "Well Superman's a smart man..." Lois held onto Clark's neck tightly, when she heard a loud bang echo=20 through the Observatory. The shaking had been going on for a little over=20 three minutes. By now, Clark knew that this was a "man-made" trembler.=20 He had never known of an earthquake in nature, lasting more then three=20 minutes. Then again, maybe one existed, but Clark had never been in the=20 middle of it. "Lois, I need to leave you here for a bit." "NO!" she yelled as she wrapped her arms tighter around Clark's body. "Lois, I have to...I want to make sure Perry and the others are safe..." Clark walked over to a small corner in the Observatory and sat Lois=20 down. "Here take my jacket..." He stripped off his tux jacket and=20 wrapped it around her shoulders. "I promise I'll be back as soon as=20 possible..." "Clark..." Lois called out as he was starting to walk away, "...be=20 careful..." "I will Lois, I will..." Clark said as he brushed his hand down her=20 flushed cheek. "And Clark..." "Yes Lois..." Suddenly Lois pulled Clark's face towards her own and gave him a long,=20 hard kiss upon his soft lips.=20 "Wow..." Clark muttered to himself as he ran off in the direction of the=20 falling debris. >tbc< * * * * Batman He had almost made it all the way back to the Observatory. "I hope those two are all right, I never should have left." He closed his=20 eyes for a second. "God, I hope Sam's all right. They should have gotten=20 back to the house a while ago." He activated his glove mounted=20 communicator. "Are you two okay?" "I'm fine," Batgirl replied.=20 >tbc< * * * * Cat finds the Count Catherine Grant made her way through the Observatory carefully checking=20 for signs of life, reporting anyone that she found to the Fire=20 Department and rescue personnel. Cat stepped gingerly across a fallen=20 beam and noticed a familiar looking man. "God! It is the Count that=20 Diego and Ramone know." Cat gasped and tried to move the heavy beam.=20 Alone she wasn't able to lift the beam. "Help! I need help here." Cat=20 called=20 out to the rescue team behind her. They came to assist her. Together, they= =20 all=20 lifted until they had the beam off of the Count. Cat knelt down and assisted= =20 the medic's, checking his vital signs. "He=92s still alive but going into=20 shock," the=20 medic told her. "Yes, you've got to get him out of here and fast. He is the=20 Count De Torunae from France." Cat told the medics as they lifted him=20 onto a gurney. They nodded and whisked him off to an ambulance.=20 Cat kept searching for Perry, Lois, Clark, Diego and Ramone. "God if any=20 thing has happened to them, I'll never forgive myself." Cat could only=20 hope that they had all made it out of the building. She remembered=20 seeing two men that looked like Diego and Perry, but she couldn't be one=20 hundred percent sure. Cat found some more people trapped by a beam that=20 had fallen over the door of the closet that they had ducked into. She manage= d=20 to lift it out of the door way and open the door to free the trapped people. Cat continued on looking for any one else trapped in the shaken=20 building. >tbc< * * * * Re: Clark to the rescue! Clark scanned the Observatory once again. He had no luck in finding=20 Perry and the others. In fact no one from the Planet seemed to be stuck=20 in the building except for Lois and himself. *I sure hope they're all=20 safe!* Clark decided to zip quickly from place to place, trying to keep the=20 crumbling pieces of the building together. He had just finished reconnecting= =20 a huge beam that was located on the other side of the room, when he=20 heard Lois scream. He looked up to see a huge piece of concrete hanging=20 right above her head. "LOIS!!!!" Clark cried. >tbc< * * * * Look for Week #21 coming to a PC near you! ;) Enjoy! Alexis ;-.) {"ADITLOM" arbitrator} =20 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 07:11:45 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "C.C. Malo" Subject: Re: SIP: Connections - part 14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nice to see you comming out of the shadows, Linda. About the ship: <> and Dia, I appreciate your analysis of that question. Carol ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 09:15:10 -0600 Reply-To: truitt22@flash.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: timothy truitt Organization: tnt technical services Subject: Re: Kerth Voting Now Open!!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ditto the request on Darkest Hour merry Genine Murray wrote: > In a message dated 3/3/00 11:41:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, erink@IDA.NET > writes: > > > Hi everyone! > > > > Voting time has finally arrived for the 2000 Lois & Clark Fanfic Kerth > > Awards! > > > > ARGH, Erin, so glad to hear from you! ;) Where've you been? Well, now that > we know you're alive and well, I have to resort to *begging*!!! I'm really > *dying* for the next installment of "Darkest Hour," which you *promised* us > back on Febuary 24th. Scary that I actually know the date, I know, but I am > thoroughly enjoying this story and I really want more!! ;) *Please*?!?!?!?! > Poor Lois and Clark have been in those woods for an awfully long time > now, when are you going to get them safe??? I can't take this torture much > longer!! ;) > > Genine (this'll teach me to start reading a fic before it's finished ... > ) > SuperGem4@aol.com > SuperGEM on IRC ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 10:35:03 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kate Crane Subject: Re: Kerth Voting Now Open!!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks so much for the links page, Erin and Genevieve!! Kate ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 12:23:40 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Pam Jernigan Organization: http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam/ Subject: Volunteers Needed -- Kerth Award Ceremony MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey guys! :) Now that the voting's open, I think it's time I started working on my end of things... so I'm officially recruiting volunteers to help out with the awards ceremony on IRC (March 25th). Mostly, I need people to present the various awards! It's fun, and easy -- and I know a bunch of you have had experience with it now, at the nKerths last fall or previous years' Kerths. But even if you're new, you'll do fine with a little help. :) I also will need a wav jockey (Anne, you up for it?), some control-booth techies, and a Master/Mistress of Ceremonies... So please, anyone who would like to be a part of FOLC history, send me an e-mail **offlist** to: jernigan@bellsouth.net and I'll get you set up. If you'd like to present for a particular category, please let me know; I'll accomodate you if I can. (Wendy's already asked to present for Best New Author :) Wendy, Chris, Anita & Alexis, I have you guys down already... thanks :) Kathy, consider yourself drafted ;) -- ------------------------------------------------------- Pam Jernigan | jernigan@bellsouth.net ChiefPam on IRC | ChPam on AOL IM ------------------------------------------------------- "Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddism is not 'Every man for himself.' And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked 'em up." _A Fish Called Wanda_ ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 11:48:18 -0600 Reply-To: truitt22@flash.net Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: timothy truitt Organization: tnt technical services Subject: Re: Volunteers Needed -- Kerth Award Ceremony MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pam - I'd love to but I can't. I have a business dinner to attend that night. I do hope you have a complete log that I will be able to read after the fact. merry Pam Jernigan wrote: > Hey guys! :) > > Now that the voting's open, I think it's time I started working on my > end of things... so I'm officially recruiting volunteers to help out > with the awards ceremony on IRC (March 25th). > > Mostly, I need people to present the various awards! It's fun, and easy > -- and I know a bunch of you have had experience with it now, at the > nKerths last fall or previous years' Kerths. But even if you're new, > you'll do fine with a little help. :) > > I also will need a wav jockey (Anne, you up for it?), some control-booth > techies, and a Master/Mistress of Ceremonies... > > So please, anyone who would like to be a part of FOLC history, send me > an e-mail **offlist** to: jernigan@bellsouth.net and I'll get you set > up. If you'd like to present for a particular category, please let me > know; I'll accomodate you if I can. (Wendy's already asked to present > for Best New Author :) > > Wendy, Chris, Anita & Alexis, I have you guys down already... thanks :) > Kathy, consider yourself drafted ;) > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Pam Jernigan | jernigan@bellsouth.net > ChiefPam on IRC | ChPam on AOL IM > ------------------------------------------------------- > "Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of > Buddism is not 'Every man for himself.' And the > London Underground is not a political movement. > Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked 'em up." > _A Fish Called Wanda_ > ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 12:55:18 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Melisma Subject: Re: Volunteers Needed -- Kerth Award Ceremony In-Reply-To: <38C1469C.D925F23D@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I volunteer again... What categories are left, Pam? Melisma (sticking her head out from the pile of fanfic she's buried under - no need for a rock today!) At 12:23 PM 04/03/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Hey guys! :) > >Now that the voting's open, I think it's time I started working on my >end of things... so I'm officially recruiting volunteers to help out >with the awards ceremony on IRC (March 25th). > >Mostly, I need people to present the various awards! It's fun, and easy >-- and I know a bunch of you have had experience with it now, at the >nKerths last fall or previous years' Kerths. But even if you're new, >you'll do fine with a little help. :) > >I also will need a wav jockey (Anne, you up for it?), some control-booth >techies, and a Master/Mistress of Ceremonies... > >So please, anyone who would like to be a part of FOLC history, send me >an e-mail **offlist** to: jernigan@bellsouth.net and I'll get you set >up. If you'd like to present for a particular category, please let me >know; I'll accomodate you if I can. (Wendy's already asked to present >for Best New Author :) > >Wendy, Chris, Anita & Alexis, I have you guys down already... thanks :) >Kathy, consider yourself drafted ;) > >-- >------------------------------------------------------- >Pam Jernigan | jernigan@bellsouth.net >ChiefPam on IRC | ChPam on AOL IM >------------------------------------------------------- >"Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of >Buddism is not 'Every man for himself.' And the >London Underground is not a political movement. >Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked 'em up." >_A Fish Called Wanda_ >------------------------------------------------------- >http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam > > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:09:50 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Judith Williams Subject: Kerth Award Ceremony MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Would love to be a part of the "doin's" but my vision doesn't permit me to read fast enough to keep up with an IRC. Hey all you aspiring journalists out there; how about posting a Lane and Kent style scoop of the proceedings for all of us who can't attend? Jude ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 16:12:03 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Erin H Subject: Re: Kerth Award Ceremony MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit << Would love to be a part of the "doin's" but my vision doesn't permit me to read fast enough to keep up with an IRC. Hey all you aspiring journalists out there; how about posting a Lane and Kent style scoop of the proceedings for all of us who can't attend? Jude >> LoL, I'd love to do that :-D That is..if you guys want me to. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:34:56 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Judith Williams Subject: Re: Kerth Award Ceremony MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hooray! You know you have my vote. Jude ----- Original Message ----- From: Erin H To: Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 1:12 PM Subject: Re: Kerth Award Ceremony > << Would love to be a part of the "doin's" but my vision doesn't permit me to > read fast enough to keep up with an IRC. Hey all you aspiring journalists > out there; how about posting a Lane and Kent style scoop of the proceedings > for all of us who can't attend? Jude > >> > > LoL, I'd love to do that :-D > That is..if you guys want me to. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:41:32 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Judith Williams Subject: Good thoughts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to all of you for your positive thoughts during my recent laser op. They must have worked because everything went perfectly in spite of having the tear in a difficult location. Won't have final results for about a month but have my same old (impaired) vision back with no complications. You guys are great. Jude ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:09:22 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: Re: Kerth Award Ceremony MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/4/00 4:10:38 PM EST, judithwilliams@PRODIGY.NET writes: << Would love to be a part of the "doin's" but my vision doesn't permit me to read fast enough to keep up with an IRC. Hey all you aspiring journalists out there; how about posting a Lane and Kent style scoop of the proceedings for all of us who can't attend? Jude >> Jude- Well since I am a journalism student and I seem to live close by to you, I'll write something up for you and then send it your way. ;) I'm going to be presenting, so i'll be there the whole time, unless a netsplit happens again like it did at the NKerths last year. ;( Alexis ;-.) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:39:24 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Pam Jernigan Organization: http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam/ Subject: Re: Volunteers Needed -- Kerth Award Ceremony MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for volunteering, Mel... you guys haven't disappointed me. I sent out a plea for help and got five volunteers within the hour! We still need another ten or so, however... So far, people have asked for Best New Author & S6 ... so it's pretty wide open. The only restriction is, I won't allow you to present in a category you're nominated in (d'uh! ) and I'd rather not schedule you right *after* a possible win, either. But I get a lot of non-authors who just want to give something back for all the reading pleasure they've received, so it works out pretty well. Oh! and when you volunteer, please let me know what your IRC nick is ... I know a lot of them, but not all :) Thanks... -- ------------------------------------------------------- Pam Jernigan | jernigan@bellsouth.net ChiefPam on IRC | ChPam on AOL IM ------------------------------------------------------- "Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddism is not 'Every man for himself.' And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked 'em up." _A Fish Called Wanda_ ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 18:08:20 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Ann E. McBride" Subject: Re: Good thoughts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Glad to hear everything went OK. Ann ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 18:34:05 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: Lois and Clark to attend Kerth Awards! =) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My FoLC partner in crime Erin (aka: ErinFoLC) are teaming up together to bring coverage for those of you who cannot attend the awards ceremony this year. I'll be going as Clark Kent and Erin will be going as Lois Lane. We will have the IRC names of CKDP and LLDP. We will be interview some of the nominees during the festivities and then creating a small fic out of our experiences. Don't worry Pam, I'll be up on stage with my rightful name when I have to present. We'll just say that Clark had to take a Superman flight... ;) BTW, Lois and Clark are going to be in the dating stage, "pre-sman revealation stage." Look for a website to go along with this little project. Erin is the website guru so I'm going to leave that up to her. ;) She or I will let you know when it's up and running. Thanks, Alexis ;-.) {aka: "Clark Kent"} I can't wait to interact with all of you for our Kerth project ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:22:21 CST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jessi Mounts Subject: Re: Lois and Clark to attend Kerth Awards! =) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed That's sounds like it'll fun to read. Good luck! I'm looking forward to it. Jessi jessi914@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 04:12:00 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: Re: Lois and Clark to attend Kerth Awards! =) and volunteers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, I'm looking for volunteers who want to be interviewed by Lois and Clark at the Kerth shindig. Even you die-hard, Kerth award attendees can participate. Just email me privately with your IRC name if you're interested. That way we can compile a list of people to talk to. Then (just like Lois and Clark) we'll divide up the list and interview those people. As a side note I've decided to change my IRC name for Clark to Farmboy. I was kinda inspired by a fanfic that dealt with screen names on a chat room...(I can't remember the name of it right now...) anyway I thought it would be kewl to do that instead. I'm not sure what Erin will go as but I'm emailing her a few suggestions. Alexis ;-.) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 10:01:30 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Rowan Fuller Subject: Re: Lois and Clark to attend Kerth Awards! =) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 04/03/2000 23:34:34 GMT Standard Time, LoisLane9397@AOL.COM writes: << Look for a website to go along with this little project. Erin is the website guru so I'm going to leave that up to her. ;) She or I will let you know when it's up and running. >> Wow that idea is neat. As I don't know if I'll be able to go however I would love to hear about it. Rowan :) -- -- -- LaneKent@aol.com http://members.aol.com/lanekent For news of updates to my site: http://www.onelist.com/commun ity/LaneKent ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 14:26:27 CST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jessi Mounts Subject: Looking For Email Address Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Does anyone know Sharon Gilbert's email address? I'm trying to send her feedback for Power To Forgive, but the address on the archive keeps sending my mail back. Anyone have any ideas? Jessi jessi914@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 21:46:39 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kathy Brown Subject: Tough crowd (was Re: Kerth Voting Now Open!!!) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Genine Murray wrote: >I'm really > *dying* for the next installment of "Darkest Hour," which you *promised* us > back on Febuary 24th. Wow, tough crowd. Nine months pregnant, 3 other kids at home already, experiencing premature labor pains, organizing the Kerths ... and they want you to write, too, Erin. Kathy (amazed at all Erin does, and ROTFL thinking of the uproar if she goes into labor before the story is done. ) -- ______________________ Kathy Brown kathybrown91@home.com kathyb@lcfanfic.com KathyB on IRC ______________________ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 21:50:57 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kathy Brown Subject: Re: Lois and Clark to attend Kerth Awards! =) and volunteers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Alexis wrote: > As >a side note I've decided to change my IRC name for Clark to Farmboy. I was >kinda inspired by a fanfic that dealt with screen names on a chat room...(I >can't remember the name of it right now...) anyway I thought it would be kewl >to do that instead. I'm not sure what Erin will go as but I'm emailing her a >few suggestions. I'm guessing you mean Zoomway's "Cyber Link"? A 1998 Kerth nominee, btw ... Great story. Kathy -- ______________________ Kathy Brown kathybrown91@home.com kathyb@lcfanfic.com KathyB on IRC ______________________ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:15:29 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kathy Brown Subject: Re: Volunteers Needed -- Kerth Award Ceremony Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Pam wrote: >So please, anyone who would like to be a part of FOLC history, send me >an e-mail **offlist** to: jernigan@bellsouth.net and I'll get you set >up. Please respond to Pam privately, as she requested, unless you have a question you think others would benefit from having answered. Thank you. (Hey, look! My first official list mom post. Just to let everyone know, Farah no longer has time to monitor the list, so I'm taking over -- at least for the time being -- as peacekeeper/rule enforcer. See my muscles? Don't they look good on me? Seriously, you can talk to Farah if you need technical help, like in subscribing or unsubscribing, but if you feel compelled to complain ;) about something related to posting, please contact me. And Pam, I don't mind being drafted ... you aren't gonna shave my head, are you? Kathy -- ______________________ Kathy Brown kathybrown91@home.com kathyb@lcfanfic.com KathyB on IRC ______________________ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:36:55 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Genine Murray Subject: Re: Tough crowd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/5/00 10:46:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, KathyBrown91@HOME.COM writes: > Genine Murray wrote: > > >I'm really > > *dying* for the next installment of "Darkest Hour," which you *promised* > us > > back on Febuary 24th. > > Wow, tough crowd. Nine months pregnant, 3 other kids at home > already, experiencing premature labor pains, organizing the Kerths > ... and they want you to write, too, Erin. > > Kathy (amazed at all Erin does, and ROTFL thinking of the uproar if > she goes into labor before the story is done. ) > -- I'm perfectly aware of everything that Erin has on her plate right now, and I really didn't mean to sound pushy. It's all meant in fun. I can't help it. She's just so good that I want more ... and I know I'm not the only one. Of course only Erin knows how much she can handle at one time, so all we can do is hope and pray that we will get another installment soon. We obviously have no choice but to wait, but that doesn't mean we can't beg for more in the meantime. ;) Genine (In a perfect world, there would be more hours in the day to spend on fanfic. ) SuperGem4@aol.com SuperGEM on IRC ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:02:32 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Erin Klingler Subject: Re: Tough crowd In-Reply-To: <6d.1c6dbad.25f48fe7@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathy wrote: >> Wow, tough crowd. Nine months pregnant, 3 other kids at home >> already, experiencing premature labor pains, organizing the Kerths >> ... and they want you to write, too, Erin. >> >> Kathy (amazed at all Erin does, and ROTFL thinking of the uproar if >> she goes into labor before the story is done. ) to which Genine responded: > >I'm perfectly aware of everything that Erin has on her plate right now, and I >really didn't mean to sound pushy. It's all meant in fun. I can't help it. >She's just so good that I want more ... and I know I'm not the only one. > Of course only Erin knows how much she can handle at one time, so all we can >do is hope and pray that we will get another installment soon. We obviously >have no choice but to wait, but that doesn't mean we can't beg for more in >the meantime. ;) LOL! I haven't laughed so hard in ages. ;) Don't worry, Genine, I felt nothing but elated by your email begging for more of 'Darkest Hour.' It made me want to find a few spare sessions during this week to get on with it! You have no idea how great it feels to know that ppl are so eager to read more of something I'm writing. It makes my day, week and month!! So don't apologize for begging! It's a pick-me-up like no other. ;) And Kathy...you had me cracking up. ;) And don't you *dare* jinx me by saying I'll go into labor before it's done! Because that would most likely be before the Kerths, and we definitely couldn't let *that* happen! It probably sounds like an hollow promise at this point, but I do promise to send another installment of DH very, very soon! ;) >Genine (In a perfect world, there would be more hours in the day to spend on >fanfic. ) Amen to that!!! ;) Erin :) __________________ erink@ida.net Visit my LNC/Kerth Website: www.ida.net/users/davek ***** "It's not the years that count, it's the moments...right now, as they happen." __________________ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:11:31 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Nicole Wolke Subject: New list Mom :-) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathy wrote: > (Hey, look! My first official list mom post. Just to let > everyone know, Farah no longer has time to monitor the list, so I'm > taking over -- at least for the time being -- as peacekeeper/rule > enforcer. See my muscles? Don't they look good on me? Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Annette Ciotola Subject: No Alibi Promo (OT on some lists) Comments: To: afolcslife@onelist.com, LoisandClarkNAOS@onelist.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry to anyone getting multiple posts ... I haven't seen this up yet. But the No Alibi promos have been airing. This is actually the first one I've seen and it helps when having and east coast & and west coast feed. Anyway, like almost everything else on my site, it's not linked to anyone page ... yet. I may get around to doing that someday soon ... but here's the direct link if anyone would like to check it out. :) http://www.simplyorganized.simplenet.com/noalibi.rm If they air anything different, I'll try and snag it. Anne :) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:38:19 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Petra Steudle Subject: Re: New list Mom :-) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathy wrote: > (Hey, look! My first official list mom post. Just to let > everyone know, Farah no longer has time to monitor the list, so I'm > taking over -- at least for the time being -- as peacekeeper/rule > enforcer. See my muscles? Don't they look good on me? Well, it's a me too to second Nicole's message. Thanks Farah for the great job you did as list mom :) And Kathy, thanks for taking over this job. Congrats and good luck :) I hope you won't have a lot to do with this list. Hey, FoLCs, let's behave to ensure that Kathy will have a nice and peaceful time as our new list mom, what d'ya think? ;-) Petra aka KiwiPit on IRC "What you need is something I have neither the time nor the inclanation to give you." "Oh! And just what is that?" "Two weeks with a good man at Niagara Falls." * * * * * * * * * * * * take care! * * * * * * * * * * * * mail to: petrast@gmx.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:28:20 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Marianne King Subject: Perplexed...as always! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please excuse my lack of knowledge, but what is Nfic? Also, does any one know if there is a list of all the acronyms that "FOLC's" use? I get some of them like FOLC but sometimes I'm just stumped. (WAFFY comes immediately to mind). Please help.... A confused FOLC. a.k.a. Marianne. ----- Original Message ----- From: sharper To: Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 5:43 AM Subject: Re: Nfic allowed here? > > Is Nfic allowed to be posted here? > > Not on this list, Supermom. However, we have a restricted listserv > (lcnfanfic) for just that purpose, as well as an nfic list that Debby Stark > maintains. In addition, AMCiotola houses the nfic archive. It's a good > thing to distribute your stories through one or more of those outlets > because a lot of people don't frequent the message boards. > > Sheila > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:57:44 PST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: genevieve mactavish Subject: Re: Perplexed...as always! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Nfic, I believe, means something to the extent of naked fanfic or in other words you have to be 18 to read. WAFF, if memory serves me, means full of "warm and fuzzy feelings" I don't know if there is a list but another one I ran across was WOW which is "wild over whalin" That's about the extent of my knowledge.... hope it helps a little. Geni.. aka Clois Kent ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:24:12 -0000 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Marianne King Subject: Re: Perplexed...as always! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks Geni. >From a less puzzled Marianne. ----- Original Message ----- From: genevieve mactavish To: Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 7:57 PM Subject: Re: Perplexed...as always! > Nfic, I believe, means something to the extent of naked fanfic or in other > words you have to be 18 to read. WAFF, if memory serves me, means full of > "warm and fuzzy feelings" I don't know if there is a list but another one I > ran across was WOW which is "wild over whalin" > That's about the extent of my knowledge.... hope it helps a little. > Geni.. aka Clois Kent > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 21:50:06 GMT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Diyan Subject: Re: Perplexed...as always! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed > >Please excuse my lack of knowledge, but what is Nfic? Also, does any one > >know if there is a list of all the acronyms that "FOLC's" use? I get >some >of them like FOLC but sometimes I'm just stumped. (WAFFY comes >immediately >to mind). Please help.... > the nKerths are the naked Kerths, but nfic is naughty fic. it contains sex and is avilible only for those age 18 or over. a WAFF is a Warm And Fuzzy Feeling a WHAM is a Wrenching, Heartbreaking, Agonizing Moment (or, it you want you use the original, Wistful, Heartbreaking...) a FoLC is a Fan of Lois and Clark FDK is FeeDbacK (see Hazel's story, 'the Ultimate Drug': http://listserv.indiana.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0001C&L=loiscla-general-l&P=R409 ) I *think* most of the other ones are used in most internet communities and are not specific to LnC, but feel free to send me a private email if you have more questions grin evil grin very big grin -Dia zimri@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:51:35 CST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jessi Mounts Subject: Re: Perplexed...as always! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >Please excuse my lack of knowledge, but what is Nfic? Also, does any one >know if there is a list of all the acronyms that "FOLC's" use? I get some >of them like FOLC but sometimes I'm just stumped. (WAFFY comes immediately >to mind). Please help.... > >A confused FOLC. >a.k.a. Marianne. > I saw you're specific questions about acronyms have already been answered, but for a list of a whole bunch of others, go to the FAQ: http://www.zoomway.com/loisandclark/lc-faq/contents.htm It's very helpful. Jessi jessi914@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:05:42 CST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jessi Mounts Subject: Re: Perplexed...as always! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >I saw you're specific questions about acronyms have already been answered, >but for a list of a whole bunch of others, go to the FAQ: >http://www.zoomway.com/loisandclark/lc-faq/contents.htm It's very helpful. > >Jessi >jessi914@hotmail.com > It just occured to me that I used an acronym in my explanation of acronyms, so just in case, FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions. Jessi jessi914@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:10:44 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Marilyn Puett Subject: IRC help I've never used IRC but would like to become familiar with it and try to join in on the Kerth Awards fun. Can someone point me in the direction I need to go in order to find out 1) what it is, 2) what I need to download to get it, and 3) how to use it once I have it? Thanks........ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:06:48 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Hazel Subject: Re: Perplexed...as always! In-Reply-To: <20000306215006.42951.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >FDK is FeeDbacK (see Hazel's story, 'the Ultimate Drug': http://listserv.indiana.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0001C&L=loiscla-general-l&P =R409) Wow, Dia, a free dose of FDK. :) Thank you! Hazel (who is honored to have a throwaway fic find its way into FoLC mythology like this, even if it's just temporary) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:14:44 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "C.C. Malo" Subject: SIP: Connections - part 15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi -- here's the next part. Is it moving too slowly? Does everything make sense at this point? Any mistakes? Feedback welcome as always. Carol ----------- Connections, part 15 Clark was a little late getting to the Planet that morning -- not just because of his nocturnal expedition to the NKSS Future but also because of a more earthly plane which had crashed into the icy currents of the Potomac. It had been a fluke that he'd spotted it just as it dove, out of control, towards the river. Restless after his decision to go to New Krypton, he'd done more than his usual patrol over the city of Metrolpolis, soaring outwards, lost in thought, until he was brought back to reality by the screeching hiss of the 727's descent. Now, as he stepped out of the elevator, he scanned the newsroom, looking for the woman who'd dominated most of his thoughts on his early morning flight across the city. He was deeply disappointed not to see her. More than anything else, he wanted to spend the next two days with her, before he left for New Krypton. And he needed to talk to her about his decision to go -- even though they hadn't known each other for very long, he felt, in a sense, it was her decision too. Although they had not clarified how things were between them, he was beginning to feel that she was attracted to him. Well, she had admitted that, he thought with an inner grin, recalling her blazing eyes as she paced his living room last night. But how much deeper her feelings went at this point, he wasn't sure. Although he hoped that he and Lois were destined, whatever that might mean, to be together, he couldn't be certain. As far as he could tell, his parallel self had experienced an easier time of it that he had here. And, no, he wasn't feeling sorry for himself, he thought with a wry smile. But that Clark still had his parents, had been happily married to Lois Lane for nearly a year, and had never been engaged to Lana Lang. Not to mention never having had Heston and Presley as presidents. The other Clark's life didn't seem half as disaster prone as his own had been. Now, he wondered what the other Clark's experience with the New Kryptonians had been like or even if there had been such an encounter. Although he and the other Lois had talked while he had been in that alternate world, they really hadn't had much time. Lois, of course, had often been working, and furthermore, she had been deeply anxious about her husband, while he himself had been busy substituting for Superman. Besides, after that scary moment when he and the other Lois had nearly kissed, they had adopted an unstated policy of keeping some distance between them. No mention had been made of New Krypton. Other than that one reference which he had not understood but now did. It had come from Jonathan Kent as he stood comforting a tearful and exhausted Lois while he, Clark, had looked on helplessly. Jonathan had said, "Remember, Lois, my boy has always come back to you, even when the odds seemed against it. Even when he left for another world." Clark had been about to ask the older man about that "other world" when the high-pitched frequency of distant sirens had alerted his supersenses and he'd taken off quickly for a massive collision on the interstate which cut across the north of Metropolis. At the time, he'd been intrigued by Jonathan's comment, assuming that his other-worldly double must have travelled here, to this universe, but somehow the two had never met. Then he had wondered if there was some kind of quantum reason, like Newton's unknown fifth law or maybe some corollary of the Theory of Relativity, why a person could not meet his double from an alternate universe. Maybe competing energy forces would neutralize each person, cancelling each of them out. But that theory had been disproved when the other Clark had come home and, for a brief time, the two Clarks had shared the same space and actually touched as they had shaken hands. So maybe the "other world" that Jonathan had mentioned had been New Krypton. Anyway, Clark had no guidance from an alternate universe as he entered the newsroom that morning to begin his final two days before he would leave Earth. So where was Lois? Zara, he knew, would not be here today, to give him the space he needed to get ready to leave. He appreciated that. He had decided to keep his departure secret so as not to create a public panic about aliens visiting earth. All he would do was ask James Olsen for a leave of absence although he wasn't sure for how long, aware there was a chance he might not return. Zara had promised him that, once Nor was defeated, the NKSS would transport him back to Earth and he believed her although he also hoped that his trust was not misplaced. He'd always been a pretty good judge of character, he thought to himself; then, for some reason he imagined Lois Lane teasing him and saying, "Everyone is, of course." He smiled ruefully and then brightened as he recalled that Zara had not made any attempt to keep him on board last night. True, she had been reluctant to agree to his request for the two days but she had done so, without fuss. That proved he could trust her, he thought. No, the greater risk was that on New Krypton, where he wouldn't have powers, there was a chance he could be killed in the war between the two contending families for the throne of New Krypton. Did he have the right to ask Lois to wait for him? Did any man who had ever gone to war have that right? He felt a constriction in his chest as he thought about this. He didn't want to leave her, to lose her, not now when they'd just begun to really know each other. Why wasn't she here this morning? Where was she? He knew he would tell her everything. He knew he could trust her. It was funny how a person could know that so quickly, he thought, but he knew that about Lois. Today he would work with her on the Hobbs River story and tonight he would tell her. He wanted one complete day with her, one normal day. Was that so selfish? He heard her steps on the few stairs leading down to the newsroom floor from the elevator and he immediately looked up, tilting back in his desk chair to watch her as she dropped her bag on her desk. She was smiling at him and he wondered how it would be to have her smile at him like that every morning. "Hi. Why so serious?" she asked. "I take you very seriously, Ms. Lane." His voice was light as he attempted to mask his feelings. Lois raised one eyebrow and tilted her head slightly to one side, regarding him for a brief moment before speaking. "Good, because we have a lot to do to-day." She reached across her desk to pick up a file. "Sara left this with me and I spent a couple of hours on it yesterday. Remember I told you about it last night?" "Yeah, you said you'd found out more about the girl's background." "I'm assuming the accountant has something to do with the Taylors so I thought I'd follow the less obvious thread first and see where that led. I've found out a little more about the girl. There wasn't much reported about her at the time -- the stories all concentrated on the accountant, not the girl. She disappeared pretty quickly from the headlines, maybe because she was a prostitute. I called Henderson." Lois smiled as she remembered her chat with an incredulous Bill Henderson, the MPD detective with whom she had an amiably hostile working relationship in the past. "He sent me the information on her -- he said, as a one-time resurrection present." She grinned at Clark as she repeated Henderson's words. "Then he wanted to know if I wasn't in that grave, then who was?" She sobered as she said this, her face losing its impertinence. "It's a good question." Clark watched her as she spoke. "Shall we find out?" "Yes, but not right now. Let's finish this story, first." She planted the file in front of Clark, emphasizing her point. "The girl had just turned eighteen about a week before she was killed. She'd been on the streets for three years, running away from a stepfather who'd sexually abused her. Pretty similar story to that of many girls and women who work the streets so I guess the media wasn't much interested. But I'd like to find out who she knew." "Okay." Clark pulled a picture of the dead girl from the file in front of him, and looked at it thoughtfully. "We're not likely to find many people around this time of day who might have known her." "I know. Maybe ask in a couple of coffee shops. We should try the Metro Club, too. Should be some staff there, setting up for tonight." "You're on the wrong track there, Lois," Clark said as he walked beside her to get their coats form the rack in the lounge area. As they rode the elevator to the Planet's basement level garage, Clark looked at Lois and then spoke hesitantly. "*I* might turn out to be a problem here, Lois." Curiously, she looked at him. "Why?" He spoke slowly. "People know me. I can poke around in the background or cover the big events and the press conferences -- but this sort of thing. It's hard -- I tried it after Superman showed up but it doesn't work -- people react, you know?" Lois looked at him, saw the apology in his eyes as his meaning dawned on her. Why hadn't she thought of that? "Oh, of course. I see." She stood there silently as the elevator glided to its destination and the heavy stainless steel doors slid apart. Not speaking, she proceeded across the cement floor of the dimly lit garage, still lost in thought; then she turned to look at him. "So how do you manage to keep being a reporter?" He shrugged his shoulders. "I do a weekly column. In the beginning, I got some flak but not so much lately. At first it was like Superman's not supposed to have opinions. But I'm hoping everyone will accept that I'm Clark Kent and this is what I do." Clark spoke with determination and then added, "And I count on back up research -- the fact finders." "Like Sara?" Lois asked, watching him as she asked the question and a little distressed at the transformation of his face to an impersonal mask. "Yeah, and Jim cuts me some slack. He's been great." "Do you miss the street work?" "Yeah -- I miss it a lot," he said frankly. He touched her elbow for a brief second. "That car over there," he said pointing to a nondescript late model compact, one of several which the Planet kept available for its employees for business purposes. "Then we have to figure out some way for you to be able to do it." "We?" He liked the sound of that. She grinned across at her tall companion as they climbed into the car. "We," she said firmly. "If you're gonna be my partner, Clark Kent, you've gotta pull your weight." "Yes, Ma'am," he said, a touch of laughter in his voice. Then he thought to himself, As she twisted to the driver's side in order to fasten her seatbelt, Lois put her hand on his arm causing him to turn to face her. She looked at him appraisingly. "You need a secret identity." Clark remembered the other Lois's telling him the same thing and also how, without pausing in mid command, Lana had immediately seen through his Superman disguise. Now, Clark raised his eyebrows skeptically at the woman beside him. "Can you speed change?" she asked. "What?" "Speed change? I mean, how fast does it take you to put on the Superman costume?" "A nanosecond." "What do you do with these?" Lois fingered the sleeve of his coat. "Not really sure how it works -- but I leave them in the hyperspace equivalent of where I changed here." She looked at him astonished. "Your life is a little weird, isn't it?" Grinning, she added, "But I guess you know that." After a long pause she threw out a suggestion. "Then why can't you do all that with a third suit? Something that doesn't look like Clark Kent or Superman?" She stopped speaking. "A little too complicated? I mean, this would have to be secret, even from Planet staff if you're to have any anonymity out here," she gestured to the street bustle around them as they pulled out of the garage into the bright daylight. "It's a nice idea, Lois, but how are you going to disguise me? You can't make me taller or shorter. And it's gotta be easy to do." She squinted her eyes at him critically -- "You could be fatter and have a beard and dress kinda sloppy." "What?" "Yeah. Or maybe use a wig so your hair's a different colour." He couldn't resist. "I could become a redhead like you." Her eyes acknowledging a hit, she corrected him. "It's auburn." "Ah. Can't wait to see it's natural colour." "Can we get back to my idea here?" "I'll think about it." "You could be a photographer, back me up." "Thought I was the senior partner?" "I don't think so." Mischief sparked Lois's eyes as she grinned, continuing, "You'd need a new name. Um, let me see -- what would be good for a photographer? I know -- Cliff Kinnear." "You have a bossy streak, Ms. Lane. You know that?" but he said it teasingly, happy to play this game with her, this second last day of his time with her for a while. "Anyway, the initials CK would give me away." "Bossy is just what guys call women with organizational skills," she said primly. "Leo Lambossa, then." "Who?" "You. Leo Lambossa, photographer." "I don't think so -- I sound like a cheesy dance." She shot him a narrow, eyes half hidden, glance and further embellished her portrait. "Leo Lambossa, photographer for Granite -- underground internet, and really, really obscure, news service. Drinks a little too much beer and is also a hamburger eater." Clark laughed. "Tell me more. Do I have a girlfriend?" "You have a motorbike." "Not a good substitute, Lois." "Guess it wouldn't fit in that hyperspace closet of yours, huh? But then neither would the girlfriend." He turned to look at her. "Then you'll just have to do." He was pleased when he saw her eyes flash in alarm at that. "Gotcha, Ms. Lane." Then he noticed her eyes distracted by something she'd caught in the passenger side mirror. "What is it?" "Nothing. Just thought I saw someone I know." But it wasn't the truth -- she thought maybe they were being followed, this morning's meetng with Trask still in the back of her mind. Ten minutes later, she was sure. At first she'd thought it was Trask but she got a better look when they stopped for the lights at Presley and Reagan streets. She'd never seen the man before. >From this distance he resembled Trask in build but now she saw that the driver was fair where Trask was not. She glanced at Clark and saw that he was now aware of the tail. "Who did you think he was Lois? How long has he been with us?" "Probably since we left the Planet." Clark swerved turned into a side street in a useless attempt to shake the tail. "This is what I mean, Lois," he said bitterly. "Superman. They've left me alone for a couple of months but I guess it's a slow news day." Lois hadn't thought of that explanation and she looked at him with sympathy. Probably he was right. "Then he can follow us around while we talk to whoever we can find in Riverside. Should be exciting for him." "Look, Lois, I'd better let you take the lead on this. I'll stay in the background in case I'm recognized." "I don't like that." "Me neither. Right now your crazy idea is beginning to sound less crazy," he said as he drove through the tunnel that divided Riverside from upper Metropolis. ******* end, part 15 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:12:54 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Tara Smith Subject: Re: Tough crowd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >You have no idea how great it feels to know that ppl are so >eager to read more >of something I'm writing. It makes my day, week and month!! I know what you mean. That's part of the reason I stopped posting Threads--not enough responses. It's kind of depressing to post a story part and have nobody say anything about it. :( Tara "Always give generously--a small bird or rodent left on the bed tells them, "I care."" from All I need to know about life I learned from my cat. ----------------------------------------------- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:45:05 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: LnC tape project #2 Comments: To: afolcslife@onelist.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay, okay...I know I have a thing for making LnC audio tapes...LOL! Anyway, this past weekend I needed to get my mind off some things, so i decided to make a tape full of songs that I feel remind me of Lois and Clark. =) To my surprise I filled up one tape. I'm also almost done with the 2nd tape too! I listened to the tape myself and personally i think it turned out pretty darn good. Anyway, I'm offering Tape #1 to any interested FoLC out there. Now this Tape #1 is not to be confused with the last Tape #1 I made. The last one i made is full of LnC sounds and songs played on the show and mentioned in passing on the show. If you're interested in this Tape #1 I can provide you with that one too. So, if this song thing sounds interesting to you, please email me privately at LoisLane9397@aol.com Thanks! Alexis ;-.) PS I'm sorry if you get this email twice! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:55:24 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Alexis W." Subject: Re: Tough crowd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/6/00 8:14:08 PM EST, jilectan@EMAIL.COM writes: << "Always give generously--a small bird or rodent left on the bed tells them, "I care."" from All I need to know about life I learned from my cat. >> That quote seems awfully familiar. I think I read that book a few years ago. Hehe. Alexis ;-.) {huge cat-lover!} ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 21:58:36 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Judith Williams Subject: Tennis, anyone? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is anyone out there a serious tennis player? I've just finished a short (4000 words, 24k) story with a tennis theme and I would like someone to check it over for correctness of tennis terms. jargon, tournament protocol, etc...Knowledge about Wimbledon would be a plus but not essential. Any takers? Jude ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 01:36:13 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Singin Drew Subject: Re: Tennis, anyone? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was on my tennis teams in high school and college if you'd like me to check it for you I'd be glad too! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 01:59:14 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Anne Carlson Subject: Re: Tennis, anyone? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Jude, You should talk to Erin - although she is so busy with the Kerths and such that she probably can't see straight. Her 4.0 USTA Tennis Team keeps winning up there in Idaho. It seems as though they go to the state finals every year. I play on a USTA team here in California. I could check out you story if you like. I haven't played tournaments for a long time, but the rules are pretty much the same. Let me know. Anne (The San Jose, tennis playing, horseback riding one.) Hi Erin :) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 03:16:53 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Alicia Utowski Subject: NEW: Meanwhile... (1/1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just want to thank everyone that sent me FDK for Silent Fears... I can't r= emember if I thanked everyone personally, but I want everyone to know that I= really appreciated it :) School has been hectic lately, so I relly can;t r= emember if I sent responses or not :) Now on with my story This story is set after "Contact" right after Clark broke up with Lois "for=20= her own good." This reconciles some of the emotions I am sure Clark was fee= ling after his decision, even though I know I am taking some liberties with=20= the episode. And it is also a little of what I thought should have happened= . The song is called "Meanwhile" and it was written by Fred Knobloch and Wa= yland Holyfield and is performed by George Strait on his "Always Never the S= ame" album. Meanwhile=85 by Alicia U. (alicia3456@aol.com or lxu2@po.cwru.edu ) A dejected Clark Kent flew in through is bedroom window. What had he ju= st done? He did have to do it; that was obvious. But why, if it was the ri= ght thing to do, did he have such a horrible knot forming in the pit of his=20= stomach?=20 He needed to protect Lois at all costs, even if that meant sacrificing t= he one thing that made him feel as normal as an alien with superpowers could= in this world. No matter how much he loved her, he had to break up with he= r. If he and Lois took their relationship any farther or even possibly got=20= married and if people found out that Lois was his wife, every criminal alive= would use her as a lure for him. =20 This had happened again just recently, and Lois had nearly died because of i= t. Her life was more valuable than his own happiness; that was for sure. W= hat was he thinking, trying to create a normal life for himself? He was Sup= erman, so how could he dare want anything more? It was his own selfish tend= encies that had put Lois at risk today. As much as he loved Lois, he couldn= 't take the chance that she might get hurt because of him. She just meant t= oo much to him. So he had obviously made the right decision. Earlier, at her apartment, she had looked so happy to see him. She had=20= that shine in her eyes that made her irresistible to him. Her eyes were lik= e a drug for him, the only thing in Earth that could intoxicate him. When s= he got that look in her eyes, he was putty in her hands, and he would give h= er whatever she wanted, he'd even fly to the moon if she told him to. Howev= er, today Clark resolutely decided to talk first, not to let her get a word=20= in edgewise. He was right, and he couldn't have her trying to contradict hi= m. His resolute wasn't as firm as it could have been, and one look into her= eyes would make him lose his conviction. He walked into her room, dressed as Superman, and firmly avoided any eye= contact with her. She obviously wanted to tell him something, and she was=20= obviously happy about it, but he didn't give her the opportunity to talk. I= f he had even heard her sweet voice, he would not have been able to stick to= his resolution. He had to break up with her so that she would no longer be= in danger. =20 He snuck a quick glance over towards the bed. She had a concussion, and= she still looked like she was feeling the effects. Maybe it wasn't the bes= t time to spring such a decision on her, but the longer he waited, the less=20= likely he was to stick to his decision. One look at her face would make him= change his mind. So, against her protests, he explained to her how they needed to break u= p. Her face dropped, she obviously was not very happy about the situation,=20= but he had already made his decision. He turned his back so he couldn't see= the tears streaming down her cheeks, and he flew away quickly so he couldn'= t hear her sniffling. When he got home, Clark spun into a pair of sleep shorts and flopped ont= o his bed. He then turned on the radio to a country music station, and Geor= ge Strait's sweet, baritone voice floated out from the speakers=85 *She sparkles she dazzles=20 *She lights up the room *We walk together to a table for two *Every man stares but her eyes are only for me *We take to the dance floor, she squeezes my hand *I can't believe how lucky I am. Images of the first time they had danced together as a formal couple, du= ring their first date, only a few months ago floated through his consciousne= ss. Lois truly had lit up the entire room. She was the single most beautif= ul, ethereal creature he had ever laid his eyes on. Everything about her ma= de Clark go weak in the knees. He loved the way her hair framed her lovely=20= face, the way her high cheekbones were so well-accentuated in the restaurant= 's light, the way her dress clung to certain parts of her anatomy, and, most= importantly, the way she looked at him. The sparkle in her eyes could not=20= be mistaken. She was in love with him, and she only had eyes for him. Of a= ll the men she could have had, she had chosen him. He was absolutely the lu= ckiest man in the world. =20 They glided across the floor to a song he could no longer remember the w= ords to, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway. Each was so lost in the othe= r's arms that the music no longer mattered. The only important thing was th= at they were finally together, after two years of denying their feelings, an= d it just felt so right. Clark could almost still feel her soft skin next t= o his, feel her warm breath on his cheek, smell the slight flowery scent of=20= her shampoo, touch the silky fabric of her dress, feel her warm hands around= his neck, and see the look of pure contentment on her face. That look of c= ontentment was something he had never expected to see on his partner's face.= It was as if they both knew that they belonged together. That night had b= een the most perfect night of his life, the night when he finally felt like=20= he belonged on this planet. But now he had blown it. Even if he wanted her back, she would never take h= im. Besides, he was right, if Lois loved him, she would become a target for= every criminal in Metropolis, as well as the rest of the world. People wou= ld use her to get to him, and he couldn't let that happen. He loved her too= much to let that happen. He had to do whatever he could to protect her, ev= en if that meant making her hate him and depriving himself of his one true l= ove =20 *Meanwhile=85 *Back in the back of my memory *You're still dancin' with me *And I'm holding you once again *Meanwhile=85 Clark's treacherous mind floated back to that same night, when they shar= ed their first kiss as a couple. Their lips had touched, ever so gently at=20= first. And then Lois gently pried his lips open with her tongue and pushed=20= her tongue into his mouth. At first he was shocked at her boldness, but exc= ited at the sensations he felt at her touch. Their passionate kiss lasted l= onger than either of them could count, and each of them knew that this was w= here they belonged. Their bodies fit together perfectly, almost like God ha= d made them especially for each other. =20 Clark's body ached as he thought of that kiss and all of the others they= had shared since then. But none of that mattered now. What mattered was t= hat Lois was safe, and no one was going to hurt her because of him any more. As the song continued, a single tear rolled down Clark's cheek. Was he real= ly doing the right thing breaking up with her? She was the love of his life= , and he missed her so desperately already. *We move to the end of a beautiful night *Tender the kisses, soft candlelight *She draws the curtains, slowly we climb up the stairs *And reach for each other, the passion begins=20 *We fall together as lovers and then Clark grabbed his pounding head and buried it in his pillow. He didn't=20= want to imagine what could have been between himself and Lois. They hadn't=20= made love yet, neither exactly sure when they would be ready, but it was som= ething that Clark ached for. He had known from the moment he had set eyes o= n her that Lois was the woman he had saved himself for. But now it would ne= ver happen, and he would remain a virgin forever. =20 Parts of his body protested violently as he pushed thoughts of Lois to t= he nether reaches of his brain. His primal side told him to fly right over=20= there right now and take her in his arms for now and forever. However, his=20= rational side, or what was left of it, told him that he had done the right t= hing, and that he couldn't ever let Lois get hurt again that way. =20 *Meanwhile=85 *Back in the back of my memory *You're still lying with me *And I'm holding you once again *And I try and I try, Lord knows I do *But each time my heart beats back to you Another tear rolled down Clark's cheek as he realized how true the words= of the song were. He fought the urge to don the suit and fly over to apolo= gize to Lois, and he buried his head into his pillow, trying to fall asleep.= However, he had forgotten that he left the radio on. *Meanwhile=85 *I'll go on living my life now *I'll find a way somehow=20 *But meanwhile=85 *Back in the back of my memory,=20 *You'll always be with me *But I'll never hold you again All night long, Clark slept fitfully, dreaming of the life he could have= , and should have had with Lois. He tossed and turned in bed, occasionally=20= waking up and realizing he had the phone in his hand. He wanted to call her= , to apologize and make everything better. Things could go back to the way=20= they used to be. This was the biggest mistake he had ever made in his life.= Something inside of him kept telling his heart that he and Lois could not=20= be together, and that force was the only think that kept him from flying ove= r to Lois' apartment and taking her in his arms and holding her forever. *And meanwhile=85 The next morning, Clark was jarred awake by someone that that sounded ee= rily like Lois shouting, "Help, Superman!" It sounded like it was coming fr= om around Lois' apartment. Clark hopped out of bed and spun into the suit a= s quickly as he could. He flew the fastest he ever had over to Lois' apartm= ent. Surely it was Lois screaming for him, but she was in no trouble. "Lois, what's the matter?" Lois blinked her eyes several times, looking at Clark incredulously. "Y= ou sure have some nerve, Kent. You dare ask me what's the matter. Do you k= now what I was going to tell you yesterday before you came barging in here?" Clark shook his head timidly. He was right. Lois hated him. "Clark, I was going to tell you I'd marry you. I love you so much, Clar= k. And I am going to take yesterday's little outburst as just that, an emoti= onal outburst caused by stress. I'm right, aren't I, Clark?" Clark blinked several times before he could see straight again. Leave i= t to Lois to leave him speechless again! He nodded slowly, not entirely sur= e what he was agreeing to. The more he looked at Lois, the less his rationa= l side invaded his thoughts. He wanted to be with Lois more than anything e= lse in the world. He'd give anything to hold her in his arms forever, to wa= ke up with her every morning and fall asleep next to her every night for the= rest of his lift. Against all the odds, and his better judgment, it looked= like he might have that opportunity. Clark thanked whatever deity that had= been looking out for him, and just nodded his head in agreement. "Good, that's what I thought." Lois smiled a huge smile that radiated= her love across her whole face. "And I know you were just kidding when you= told me that you had to break up with me, but that was NOT a funny joke! D= on't ever do it again if you know what's good for you." What else could Clark do than smile and nod? He had his love back, and=20= after that fitful, sleepless night, he realized that was all he wanted and n= eeded. Clark smiled as he floated towards her. She extended her arms towar= ds him and they embraced. It was the most powerful experience either had ev= er had. Electricity passed between them, and when they broke their embrace,= neither could remember exactly why Clark had originally decided to end thei= r relationship. From this moment on, they would be together, and nothing wo= uld ever come between them again. They were meant for each other, soulmates= , and they would spend the rest of eternity in each other's arms. Lois looked up into Clark's eyes after their embrace had broken. "So, C= lark, where's my ring?" The End=20 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 06:53:26 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "C.C. Malo" Subject: Re: NEW: Meanwhile... (1/1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Alicia, spolier space * * * * * * * * * I posted a response on the MB's but I just wanted to say I especially like how you have Lois acting so level-headed when Clark shows up in the morning -- it makes for a nice contrast with his emotional state and was exactly what he needed at that point. :) Carol ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:30:08 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Re: SIP: Connections - part 15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just popping in here to say No, it's not too slow. I love detail Just keep it coming and I'll keep reading. So far the only comment I can make is it's great. Charlotte ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:43:28 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Re: SIP: Connectios -part13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/2/00 1:24:07 AM !!!First Boot!!!, Ccmalo@AOL.COM writes: << Hi -- I'm wondering if there's too much inner reflection in this part. Should I cut some of it? Anything else? Thanks, Nicole for you comments on part 12 but I wonder what you will think of this part. Jude, I hope your eye surgery has gone well. >> In a word, No! Don't cut a single word. Just thought I'd send this one which has been sitting in my box to reaffirm the other I sent today. Charlotte ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:06:07 EST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Alicia Utowski Subject: Re: NEW: Meanwhile... (1/1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks Carol :) I thought that would provide a good contrast, and that it might sober him up a bit Alicia :) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:00:43 PST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: genevieve mactavish Subject: Re: Perplexed...as always! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed No problem, just glad my trivia knowledge was finally put to some use!!! Geni ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:52:00 CST Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Jessi Mounts Subject: Looking For Email Address Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I already asked this earlier, but it turned out the address I got in the one reply (Hi Jude!) isn't valid anymore either. So I'll ask again. Does anyone know Sharon Gilbert's address? Apparently the one in the archive doesn't work. Jessi jessi914@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 22:30:58 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kathy Brown Subject: Re: IRC help Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I'm glad you are interested in learning to IRC, Marilyn. The Kerths are such a great time, I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself. Hopefully these nutshell instructions will also help others who want to join in the fun. :) IRC stands for "Internet Relay Chat". It's a way of talking in real time to other people via the computer. It's similar to the "chat rooms" you may be familiar with through AOL or heard about through the media. Basically, people join a "channel", and by typing to the channel window, you can communicate with others also on that channel. You can also send messages privately to someone, in a one-on-one conversation. For the Kerths, we will have two channels going at the same time -- the ceremony channel and the chat channel. The ceremony channel is "moderated". That means only certain people may 'talk' -- the emcee, the presenter, the winner, etc. The rest of the viewers just sit back and watch as the ceremony unfolds, like when you watch on television. The second channel, the chat channel, is where everyone can gather to discuss the stories, cheer the winners, ask questions, and basically have a great time. :) To join us during the ceremony, you will first need to download some software. Fortunately, both Windows and Mac platform users are able to get great software for little or no money -- both programs I recommend offer a free 30-day trial. If you like the program after that, you can pay the shareware fee. (Ircle is $15, if I remember correctly, and mIRC is somewhere around there.) But for those of you who just want to get on for Kerths to see if you like it, there is no risk or obligation. :) For Windows users, go to www.mirc.com. For Mac users, I recommend www.ircle.com. Download the program and install it on your machine. Once you launch the program, you need to select the server you wish to use. There are many different servers on IRC, but the main thing to remember for FoLCdom is that we use the *undernet* list of servers. Your program should have a list of servers built in, so skim through it to find the segment you are looking for. Undernet servers are identified by city/state/country. Some servers to try include: washington.dc.us.undernet.org dallas.tx.us.undernet.org los-angeles.ca.us.undernet.org Once you choose a server, open a connection and you'll be on your way! I know this is a short explanation of IRC. If you have questions once you sign on, your best bet is to ask someone who uses the same program you do. I would be happy to help anyone with Ircle (Mac), and I know there are many FoLCs who use mIRC (Windows) as well. BTW, would anyone be interested in attending an IRC tutorial this year? We've held one for the last few ceremonies, and feedback was positive. If people are interested, we could look into setting one up for this year as well. Kathy -- ______________________ Kathy Brown kathybrown91@home.com kathyb@lcfanfic.com KathyB on IRC ______________________ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:05:38 -0800 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Melisma Subject: Re: IRC help In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hey Kathy, Thanks fo bringing up the IRC tutorial :) That's how I learned to use it, last year around this time. GAWDESS... has it only been a year?!?!?! Anyway, I would be willing to help coach on one, like Zoom and Eileen and several others of you did for me last year... Let me know when and where you will have it, and if at all I am able - ie, don't schedule it when I'm at work; I'll schedule anything else around it if I have to :) - I'll be there! Melisma (under her rock, encouraging anyone who doesn't know how to use IRC to attend a tutorial, and anyone who DOES, to be a coach :) >BTW, would anyone be interested in attending an IRC tutorial this >year? We've held one for the last few ceremonies, and feedback was >positive. If people are interested, we could look into setting one >up for this year as well. > >Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 22:10:21 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Anita Dicker Subject: Story Burnout Comments: To: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello I'm one of the individuals that is writing a Lois and Clark story. It's nearly done. It needs a few scenes to tie a couple of things together. I have a problem: I don't want to look at the story anymore. I was doing well until the Kerths came up, and I had to do a lot of reading. It's getting to the point I avoid working on the story for days at a time. I'm driving my family crazy, the only one that sticks with me is one of the dogs. The first 45 pages are written.(not grammar checked but done) I have about 10 additional pages that are in a state of messy. There is a scene that I had written for this story, but the thrust of the story has shifted. If I remove the scene it will match a story that I had to read.(Kerths) Maybe I should start over and never finish. It has some scenes that my husband said made him misty eyed. Those are in the last 20 pages. So I must have written them okay. Yes I'm whining. I need help, not a rubber room. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:39:42 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kath Roden Subject: Re: Story Burnout MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Anita Dicker" > Yes I'm whining. I need help, not a rubber room. Anita, do you need a proofer? or just sympathy? It's funny, I hear this from time to time from some of the other writers as well. I don't write, so I can only imagine what you're going through. I know when I do presentations, I start out thinking it's great and as I keep practicing, I start to loose my mind. Maybe you need a break? I sure it's great! Kath "Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of pure imagination..." --Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory