Late night reading...

I've been thinking about doing a text version of '11 will die', because of a regrettable tendency I've noticed in my writing to never kill off anyone ever. '11 will die' was a finitely-bounded comic strip by Kelvin the Lion where he had a secret cabal vote on which of the 12 characters would die in each chapter, as they all tried to race for a prize hidden in a dungeon. I don't think I'm going to use a dungeon... and so far, I've only come up with 10 characters that I think I could write well enough to use.

But that's not the point of this. While mining for extra characters, I read through the old archives I have up on the web (http://home.earthlink.net/~aaronm1/archive.htm) of (some of) the story posts I wrote to alt.devilbunnies way back when. So I started re-reading them. And coming to the conclusion that while I still found the jokes funny, the plot was... kind of scatterbrained.

So, let's see if I can summarize it:

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