Dreamteam Calamaties: The Find published.

[elfs]

Well, they're as ready as they can get. Yes, each story as a standalone is really good, probably some of the better stuff I've written in a long time. On the other hand, reading them once more I realized there's not enough cross-story chatter; these characters talk about how much they care about one another, but I felt there could be more showing and less telling.

Still, the prime point of these stories was that Shardik hadn't been getting much loving in the past couple of stories, and I decided to come up with an idea that would get him laid. I took a page from the traditional "harem anime" concept, but like a lot of those stories, the fans don't get into them unless the story is about something.

The theme of Dreamteam Calamaties is fundamental: who are you if you don't understand where your wants and desires come from? How do you come to terms when your own wants and needs conflict with each other? And, interestingly enough (even for the author), the two characters with the strongest opinions on the matter come to completely different conclusions.

Episodes will be published every Friday for the next six weeks. Enjoy! If you want to know the contents, look at alt.sex.stories over the next few days; I do label my ASSD posts with story codes.

078 / 01312	Dreamteam Calamaties: The Find
098 / 01312	Dreamteam Calamaties: Wish
126 / 01312	Dreamteam Calamaties: Freya
177 / 01312	Dreamteam Calamaties: Wish Upon A Star
184 / 01312	Dreamteam Calamaties: Katrina
189 / 01312	Dreamteam Calamaties: Wren

Comments

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Oh, heck. I published a Villa story before posting The Fall of Castle Shardik (A story I orginally wrote on a lark, but became an interesting telling point). Yes, this is mostly about the administrative duties being foisted off-- on the llerkindi, as we'll learn later.

I should have been more specific. After 1116 (the year 3000 A.D.), Christianity has a bit of a falling off (it's still around, and there are more religious characters in later stories). The Genesis 2:19 Cathedral was a victim of that post-millenialist hangover.

Religion is still a big factor in many peoples', even Pendorians', lives. There not all rabid Randite or Marxist atheists. The biggest screaming matches over Terra are still abaout who gets to maintain which rock somewhere in Jerusalem.