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Abandoned The Stranger Trilogy by serpant sorcerer - M

Discussion in 'The Alternates' started by Rahkesh Asmodaeus, Sep 10, 2005.

  1. LuxDragon

    LuxDragon Fourth Year

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    You're a hero!
     
  2. rededison

    rededison Second Year

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  3. LuxDragon

    LuxDragon Fourth Year

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    Fantastic. Thanks for your help.

    Is there a chapter 7? There was a link that said there was one more left for now...
     
  4. Chime

    Chime Dark Lord

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    Chapter 7 is still "Writing in Progress" and will be for probably another month – or so I've read. The author is busy with college.
     
  5. The Fine Balance

    The Fine Balance Headmaster

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    It's up to being Beta'd, actually. Hopefully it won't require much of a rewrite after it does come back. I, like the next person, like 50k chapters but I'd rather than the 17k that are only a month apart.
     
  6. Vengashii

    Vengashii Banned

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    A BIT!? You call three to five months between updates a BIT slow?!

    Jono needs to learn to fucking break up his chapters into reasonable sizes. 50,000 words per chapter is not reasonable.
     
  7. Anme

    Anme Professor

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    Lol, I quite like it to be honest.
    I mostly forget about the story and then I suddenly find myself with
    50k to read.:D
     
  8. Chime

    Chime Dark Lord

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    That's good to hear. Though, Jono has like 20 betas, so we've probably got another month left.

    What Jono needs to do is sign up here and post his stuff as WIP – that way we get to read it ahead of time and safeguard Harry from becoming a puss.
     
  9. JohnThePyro

    JohnThePyro Headmaster

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    That may be needed depending on the direction the fic seems to be going. I don't like how all this talk of "Harry only knows the sword, we need to teach him about other tactics".
     
  10. HSRTG

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    I gotta agree here. What's wrong with the sword anyway? After all, it worked for Genghis Khan.
     
  11. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    I've been worried about that too. But I think that Jono likes Harry being strong, he won't make him too pussyish. After all, he went through the whole first story trying to come to terms with being able to kill easily and efficiently, Jono wouldn't throw all that character development away for nothing.
     
  12. Palver

    Palver High Inquisitor

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    Yeah, already Harry had no problems with attacking and torturing Borgin, attacking and threatening with knife St.Mungo's innocent guards and using lethal curses on Grindelwald.
     
  13. White Rabbit

    White Rabbit Hippity Hoppity DLP Supporter

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    Has anyone heard news on when the update will be? I'd ask the author if I knew his email, instead of getting your hopes up.
     
  14. Hari Seldon

    Hari Seldon Groundskeeper DLP Supporter

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    No idea, Strager in the Promise Land has chapter 7 as "Comming soon" as of April 14th... So my guess is he's (or she) is taking a break...
     
  15. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    ...

    Goddamn you. Go check his yahoo group if you want to know, we don't exactly have inside knowledge.

    All I know is that the chapter is done, and it is betaed, but Jono had exams when he recieved the betaed chapter back, so he didn't have a chance to look it over. That was a month or so ago (probably more), so he's had enough time to see if it was good enough to be posted -- so I'm guessing he's rewriting parts of it like he has for most other chapters. It should come out soon. Though "soon" for Jono is about 2 months...
     
  16. Chime

    Chime Dark Lord

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    Yeah, about a month or so ago, it was finished. Jono had like 50 betas though, so while it shouldn't take that long to proof and correct his work, it just does.

    Sure, having to wait six months for a new chapter is kina ridiculous, but considering the content, it's generally worth the patience.

    Don't post here please. I was excited :( I thought he'd updated.

    We should see the newest chapter by August, at any rate.
     
  17. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    Lol, so after a few months of Jono not even leaving a message up on his Yahoo group, he finally came back and apologized for being absent for so long. Amusing, because just before he came back there was a huge debate over whether or not the readers had a right to complain that Jono was taking way too long to update, and even let people know of his progress. Apparently he just sent the next chapter off to the betas just now.

    Anyways, he gave us a small preview of chapter 7 because people were bitching so much. Nothing much, just a brief intro to the Dumbledore/Grindelwald battle shown in Tom's perspective.
     
  18. Boo

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    Well its better than nothing i guess.
     
  19. Magus

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    Fuck, I'd rather the drought continued and was lifted with one huge motherfucker of a chapter, instead we get a teaser.

    If I read that teaser I'll go fucking insane waiting for the next chapter, especially as the previous chapter was so full of win!

    Argh!!!
     
  20. Vengashii

    Vengashii Banned

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    Jono is quite the cunt.
     
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