A cure for this group's boredom!

I was recently struck with an idea. ATD could have a chain-fiction Daria fanfic. For anyone not farmilliar with the concept, it's a story (in this case, a fanfic) that one person starts, then another adds to, etc. I havent really decided on how long each person's section should be, so i'm just throwing it out to the group for criticism/debunking/organizing. Any thoughts, or story ideas? I'm thinking something like the "moving to Lawndale" story, but i'm sure someone will think of something better. --- ~Po

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I've done something like this in another newsgroup. It's fun. The main problem is if it's done through posting to the group, you can get more than one reply to the same chapter.

I wrote:

Then Jeg777 said:

Well, i was thinking about that today as i was mowing the lawn, and i came up with a semi-reasonable solution. Anyone who wants to participate has a set time (one week, two weeks) to write up a chapter of the story. At the end of that period, there will be a set day that the chapters are mailed to me (or someone else who's up to the task). The first 5 submissions that I get will post to the group, and everyone gets to vote for their favorite once. (I still havent decided how i want the voting process to go.) Once one has been picked, it gets set as the official chapter number x, and we start the cycle again. One rule i might add is that no person gets to write two chapters in a row, otherwise the story would probably get somewhat dominated by one person.

What do we all think of this idea? --- ~Po

CROWDSURFERS WILL BE EJECTED FROM THE BUILDING. It can be harmful, and most of all disrespectful to climb on other people's heads. Crowdsurfing should only be done naked and in the privacy of your own home.

Thank you The Beastie Boys

On the mountaintop, [email] (CrtoonDude) spake thusly:

It's a good one, but you'll want to set a deadline on voting. Otherwise one chapter could drag on for months. A web-based survey might be a good idea, and a cool addition to the survey portion of a lucky Darianite's website.

-Mindy

On 2 Jun 1999 21:15:51 GMT, some letters randomly coalesced from individual pixels, claiming to be from [email] (CrtoonDude), and it said:

This kind of defeats the purpose; that is, the spontanious reaction to the stuff written by the previous poster. I actually like it when the thread splits; the story begins to exist in several places at once, and so long as nobody is too anal about absolute accountablity of times and places, it's cool.

On 2 Jun 1999 01:08:56 GMT, some letters randomly coalesced from individual pixels, claiming to be from [email] (CrtoonDude), and it said:

Some places it works, others, it doesn't. I first encountered this sort of thing on alt.games.computer.ultima.dragons, and it worked rather well. I tried to introduce it to alt.games.daggerfall, and we had three writers, so the thread lasted about seven in. I wonder how it would fare here? Poorly, probably, due to the fact that differing interpretations of characters would probably produce... an impasse.

I think that a story would be a good idea but it would be difficult with our different opinions. Like for example how not everyone (at least i don't think) is a big Daria/Trent relationshipper like i am and somepeoples stories might be aimmed towards that rather than a certian story line. I agree it's a good idea though. It would be fun to read. DeVitoFreq (Christina) "Oh Daria,don't be shy.Show me your boobs"--Jane("Too Cute"),"I can't shoot my own mother.Not with paint,anyway."--Daria("The Daria Hunter"),"I'm not miserable,I'm just not like *them*"--Daria("The Misery Chick")

In article , [email] (DeVitoFreq) wrote:

If anyone that's participating doesn't like how the story is going, they can always change it ;)

Sounds like fun (I hope you don't have to do too much at a time, or I would run out of gas quickly)

But that could be fun, too. Imagine someone trying to rewrite the previous chapter....Daria and Trent are together, then apart, then together again.... :-)

On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 21:37:08 -0400, some letters randomly coalesced from individual pixels, claiming to be from Jeg7777 , and it said:

Bwahaha.... I can see it now ;D Let the communal fanfic begin! Hmm... how should we start?

[email] (Tarvok) wrote:

It was a dark and stormy night. A door slammed, the maid screamed. Suddenly a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!

(Your turn.) ;-)

rich.

Jane: All I want is to make beautiful things!

On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 04:05:24 GMT, [email] (paperpusher) wrote:

Then, suddenly, there was a nuclear blast and all of lawndale was destroyed. All of our favorite characters are dead.

Next!

Quinn woke up in a cold sweat from her weird dream. In Mack's basement. There was a crowd around where Quinn was laying. Suddenly Kevin ran in, and said, "Quinn, am I glad to see you! I thought they'd begin the operation without me!" She screamed, and... Jess "Morgendorfer"

Daria: Do you believe everything adults tell you? Gupty Kids: Yes Daria: What if 2 adults tell you totally opposite things?

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...proceded to throw up everything she had eaten over the past couple of days. After her heave-a-thon, she looked around and wondered why she was sleeping in Mack's basement and why Upchuck was there wearing surgical gloves and holding a bow saw. "All I remember is riding that roller coaster after drinking some weird blue liquid." Then, and it hit her like a ton of bricks, she realized what had happened....

it was that damn Blue Raspberry Slurpee at the Second Annual Lawndale Medieval Fair that was causing these weird hallucinations. Obviously, someone decided that regular Blue Raspberry Slurpees weren't exciting enough on their own, so they added some sort of mind-altering substance to make it more interesting. Quinn groaned as the urge to spew overwhelmed her again, and she yarked all over her hallucination of Upchuck. Fitting, she thought. He began to smoke, and shrieked, "Feisty...Oh! I'm melting! Oh what a world..." Jess "Morgendorfer"

Daria: Do you believe everything adults tell you? Gupty Kids: Yes Daria: What if 2 adults tell you totally opposite things?

Suddenly a new hallucination appeared. It was Daria and Jane, except Daria had a fashionable outfit, contacts, breast implants and dyed blonde hair. In a high-pitched voice Daria asked, "Which is my best side? I know they're both good!" Then the sky darkened and it became quite breezy. Jane said in a Tiffany-like voice, "Oh no. Wind. Hair."

JMStargazr wrote in message ...

There

said,

began trembling in absolute fear as she viewed the scene in the dimly lit basement. The racks of tie die polyester clothing, Jane stood ready with paintbrush in hand, the expectant eyes of the crowd, all drove her almost to the point of madness. "no, please God no" she murmured weakly, desperately looking for any way out of this awful situation. Suddenly the lights flickered and died.......

Bettster

Tarvok wrote:

I'll set up the first scene, someone else can take it from there....

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Roll Credits (motion-picture style)

Theme music: "Holiday Road" (ala National Lampoon's "Vacation")

End credits

FADE TO: An interstate somewhere

The Morgendorffers are in Jake's Lexus, heading to Florida for a vacation. Helen is driving, Jake is asleep in the passenger seat, Daria is reading "The Hobbit", Quinn is leafing through the latest "Waif".

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Take it away folks.....

Marty Skywarn Storm Spotter KCB009

On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 19:26:03 -0400, some letters randomly coalesced from individual pixels, claiming to be from William Fowler , and it said:

Jake: (pouting) I still don't see why we have to go to dumb old Florida for vacation. Have you any idea how much those hotels cost?!

Helen: Calm down, Jake. Between us, we've made plenty of money this year, and I think we deserve a decent vacation, together, as a family.

Quinn: Besides, what _else_ would we do, go camping again? It's going to be GREAT! I can work on my tan, meet guys; <sign>, I've always wanted to hang out on the beach at Malibu.

Helen: Just be careful quinn...

[They roll along in silence for a while...]

Jake: What about you, kiddo? Are you looking foreward to this vacation?

Daria: (looks up from her book) Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Sand in my clothes, skin cancer, jellyfish, -

Helen: Oh Daria, don't you ever look at the bright side of things?

[Cut to the car rolling down the road, then cut to....

Heh, you think *you* were bored...

Hey where did you come from? Does the hospital have Net access? Did they give you the same bed as poor old Mrs. Sullivan? To think she just lay there and... never mind.

-Shez.

Unfortunately not... I'm at home.

:P