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Comments for the week ending January 12, 2014

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Changed things yet again! Here's my real spring.me account:
http://spring.me/Shingospud

Anonymous

ESG: Great to hear, mate.

Hope you enjoy 'em!

Masterdramon - [kmc12009 at mymail dot pomona dot edu]
"But back home he'll always run...to sweet Melissa..." - The Allman Brothers Band

Between Birthday and Christmas, I got the rest of Gargoyles on DVD and the Young Justice comics. Very sweet.
ESG

(Guess not. Let's try this again!)

So, I've heard of slow days, but a slow week? Or week-end as it were! Sheesh!

At any rate, I felt it was time to clear the air about what I've been up to. I just about gave up trying to roleplay with the SpecGargs folks and simply go back to the background, responding with the occasional riff, relevant or otherwise!
Shame really, as I would've liked to see my ideas implemented. If anybody cares to see my old responses, just click below!
Finally, a bit of background info on A.I.N.T.: yes, I named him as a take-off on Harlan Ellison's AM, of "I Have No Mouth" fame. The difference being as AM is a huge, immobile supercomputer, and as such both misanthropic and insane, AINT is a free moving "super-program" who happens to be friendly and helpful, though often playful and mischievous. (Also, it helped that a human psyche was needed to help bring him online. Namely mine!) And yes, AINT was apparently written by a Virtual Adept mage from the Old World of Darkness, a supposedly surviving fragment from that now fallen reality.
Still, my concept, among many, would've been interesting. Happy Belated New Year everyone!

AintIsGone...

Uhh, is the Comment Room broken again?

(This is only a test BTW!)

Anonymous

Whoa, Greg had a mystical experience at Tintagel? Do tell.

Since Greg has revealed that Merlin is Oberon's son, I would guess that he would do some play on this when choosing a last name for him - whether it's making Ambrosius some foreign-tongue version of the name Oberon or a name Oberon once went by, or making it his mother's last name that he chose to go with because he doesn't get along with his father - something like that.

Arlo
Gargoyles need not apply.

Matthew: Thanks!

It was a truly incredible experience, and I'm really glad that Greg appreciated my fanboyish-ramblings-trying-to-pass-for-a-con-report.

Hopefully I can do likewise at CONVergence...but that's a question of finances right now, and a rather tight one at that.

I suppose we shall see...

Masterdramon - [kmc12009 at mymail dot pomona dot edu]
"But back home he'll always run...to sweet Melissa..." - The Allman Brothers Band

So I was reading through the ask Greg responses and wanted to commend Masterdramon's excellent memory and writing down Greg's live responses. Also wanted to thank him for the shout out, now that I think about it I think Greg was a little weirded out by the fact that I held the sign up for over an hour. (I was too excited to meet him to be tired.)
Matthew
I have nothing more to say...So why am I still talking?

I have been unable to post a comment thus far today; my code response has been continuously rejected thus far. It would appear this glitch is now resolved along with others on Ask Greg thus far.
Brainiac - [OSUBrainiac at gmail dot com]
There is balance in all things. Live in symmetry with the world around you. If you must blow things up and steal from those around you, THAT'S WHAT RPGS ARE FOR!

Endless Strategy writes...

Did Demona and her clan sleep at Castle Moray during the time she was allied with Macbeth?
Greg responds...

Often. Though never the entire clan at any one time.

Well, that answers that.

ESG

A couple of Arthurian answers at "Ask Greg" today.

1. Someone asked Greg Weisman about his 1981 visit to England in search of Arthurian sites, and which ones he visited besides Tintagel (where he had a mystical experience, and which was a part-original for Castle Wyvern). Greg replied:

"We definitely saw a version of the Round Table. (Old but not convincing.) And went to the hill where some scholars thought Camelot was. And we went to Stonehenge."

The Round Table replica was probably the one at Winchester (which is indeed old, but not that old; the painting of Arthur on it looks suspiciously like Henry VIII), and the hill is probably South Cadbury in Somerset, which a Tudor antiquarian named Leland claims was called "Camelot" by the locals, who said that King Arthur often stayed there. (Archaeologists have discovered that a wealthy chieftain seems to have lived there in the late 5th century, though we don't know if he was the original for Arthur or not.)

I've visited those places myself, and was glad to learn that Greg's been to them as well.

2. Someone asked him if "Merlin" was the famous wizard's real name or a name or title that he assumed later on. Greg replied: "It's his name. Though not his full name."

I can guess at the rest of it, since in Geoffrey of Monmouth, Merlin's full name is given as "Merlin Ambrosius", which he often bears in more recent works. Presumably he goes by "Merlin Ambrosius" in the Gargoyles Universe as well, though that's just a guess and might be proven wrong by later revelations.

Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders

That was supposed to be the Japanese symbol for 10!
Greg Bishansky
Here's the problem with most fanfic writers: they seem to think Dominique is a second life. It isn't. Demona spelled it plainly in "High Noon." She's a gargoyle. Dominique is just a tool to help her in her goals. She'll use the form because she changes into a human, whether she likes it or not, but Dominique is not another life for her.

じゅう
Greg Bishansky
Here's the problem with most fanfic writers: they seem to think Dominique is a second life. It isn't. Demona spelled it plainly in "High Noon." She's a gargoyle. Dominique is just a tool to help her in her goals. She'll use the form because she changes into a human, whether she likes it or not, but Dominique is not another life for her.

Ninth

Click my name for a link to the Comic Book Central podcast hosted by my friend Joe Stuber. He interviewed both Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes, and they both mention Gargoyles and how much they enjoyed the show.

Phil - [p1anderson at yahoo dot com]

Eigth!
Neill - [neillgargoyle(a)gmail dot com]
Watch my Demona video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNGrg5Wm12E

Seventh
Anthony Tini

(666)Sixth!!!!!!
Vinnie - [tpeano29 at hotmail dot com]
Mark Twain: "Don't argue with stupid people. They'll take you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Fifth!
Matthew
I have nothing more to say...So why am I still talking?

Fourth!
Matt - [Saint Louis, Missouri, USA]
"For science, which, as my associate Fang indicated, must move ever forward. Plus there's the money... and I do love the drama!" - Sevarius, "Louse"

Third in the name of weather providing an extra day of winter break!
Ross
"The future is in the past! Onwards, Aoshima!"

Second (and likely my last post from D.C.)!
Brainiac - [OSUBrainiac at gmail dot com]
There is balance in all things. Live in symmetry with the world around you. If you must blow things up and steal from those around you, THAT'S WHAT RPGS ARE FOR!

First
Chip - [Sir_Griff723 at yahoo dot com]
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ~~C.S. Lewis