On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Thomas R Jefferys wrote:

<<INCOMMING MESSAGE FROM WYRM! EMERGENCY COMMUNIQUE!>>

Y'know, while all this organized chaos is great, ^_^ we've forgotten one
MAJOR point.
We're anime fanfic writers, and we all know that in almost all
action/adventure anime(which most of us write) there is usually a Bad Guy,
ESPECIALLY in something this major. @.@

It should be someone NEW, powerful, with nice 3-D sinister
characteristics,and with lots of nifty
Henchpeople(politically correct :). And that no single Author can beat him
alone.

Any takers? ;) Let's decide first before writing anything about them. Hmm?

I think I've got it! It's so perfect that it's revealed truth! Well...

Our Big Bad Villian is...

Undefined

Yes, that's it! He/she/it/them is/are undefined!

It's a character that's a mystery even to its creator. The thing is when
you first read about a character, your mind goes off on tangents of
possibilities. He might be a god, he might be some low life, he might be a
fighter, or he might be a complete nobody. But the thing is, until you read
more about his character. Then he doesn't seem as imposing, because you
know something about what he/she is and what he is not.

Somehow, one of the characters in our unfinished fanfics became aware of
our existence. He was declared (at least internally) but he was undefined,
he could therefore literally do ANYTHING, because he had no limitations;
they weren't defined yet!

A good idea, Wyrm.  A very good idea.  I kinda like it, though it reminds 
me perhaps too much of TGACFH!'s "Man in the Black Trenchcoat".  

First of all, I think we need to decide, as a group, who we want as an 
enemy, even if it be as undefined as tan(pi/2).  From there, we need to 
figure out how this fits in the current plans.  Personally, I recommend 
that the fight with the enemy occur after the home plane is free of 
threats i.e. vindictive anime characters.  In other words, the fight 
would take on the following form, based on current setup:

October 31, 1996:  The revenge begins.  Scott is visited first, then each 
of us, one by one, fall to the onslaught of characters.

Early November 1996 - November 3, 1998:  Transition.  Life goes on.  
Things are quiet on the ML.  The enemy is safe, free to do as it pleases, 
as the cursed bards find themselves warriors now, rather than storytellers.  
They quietly prepare in the nice little pocket universe (My apologies, but 
"fred" will always be to me a cozy little place in the Memorial Student 
Center at Texas A&M University) and set up their clandestine connections, 
waiting for the right time to strike.  A few well-trained souls, like Wyrm, 
take the fight to the anime universes, but these are largely isolated 
events, designed to destroy necessary "trouble spots".

November 3, 1998: The counterstrike.  The fanfic warriors take the fight 
to the anime universes, eliminating any future threat to their 
existence...or so they think.  At this point, the enemy, seeing the 
limiting factor of the anime characters destroyed and fearing the permanent 
curtailment of its power, makes plans to go after the writers face-to-face.

November 4, 1998 - ?: The battle between the fanfic writers and the enemy 
ignites, eventually requiring all of the warriors to stop it.  

Tell me what you think of it.

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Nicholas (Nicole?) Leifker, aka "Nightelf"
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"He's so beautiful when he's unconscious."
-Kodachi Kuno, "Kurobara"
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