X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.sex.bondage: 15854 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!rutgers!ukma!hsdndev!dartvax!mars.caps.maine.edu!maine.maine.edu!io00038 Newsgroups: alt.sex,alt.sex.bondage,alt.sex.bestiality,alt.prose Subject: Journal Entries - A Compiled Commentary, Bibliography, Glossary Message-ID: <92015.100240IO00038@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> From: IO00038@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Anthony J. Albert) Date: 15 Jan 92 15:02:40 GMT Organization: University of Maine System Lines: 386 Xref: spcvxb alt.sex:41817 alt.sex.bondage:15854 alt.sex.bestiality:1322 alt.prose:1029 Recently, there have been several requests for more background inform- ation about the Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik, mainly concerning vocabulary and what the story plot lines are. So I have compiled a series of excerpts from the occasional administrivia files that Elf has posted. For each post, I have taken the liberty of editing out much of the posting information - what was yet to be posted, etc. - because it is out of date with this fresh reposting. If anyone is interested, I have the complete postings available on request. Just send mail to: ======================================================================= Anthony J. Albert |Usenet is distributed network anarchy |at its best--or worst, depending on ajalbert@watson.eece.maine.edu |what is posted on any perticular day. io00038@maine.maine.edu | --David Fielder in _Byte_ ======================================================================= Enjoy, and I hope this makes at least a few things clearer in this (IMHO) excellent series of stories. ======================================================================= [Editor's Note] The next segment is from the 'Journal Entry Administrivia', posted 24 Sep 1991 ======================================================================== The first question is usually "What is all this?" Welcome to "The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik, et. al., and Related Tales," a now 55 or so story-long chronicle of the life and loves of Ken Shardik, whose actual job would be almost impossible to explain. It is set in a science fiction universe not unlike our own, and spans at this point a period in time from approximately Terran 1883 to Terran 3030. The stories are mine (Elf's) and I write them for the fun of it. If you don't like them, that's fine; if you have trouble figuring them out, stick with 'em and they might become clearer. Never know. I've been writing them as a series for three years now, although the orignal Entries date as far back as November 1983. The second question is usually "What the Hell is the xxx / yyyy" format? The date! The first number is the number of days since the New Year, and the second number is the year itself. I keep my archives in a YYYY.DDD format. There are 292 days in a Pendorian year. (Oh, yeah, the homering is named "Pendor." The star is "Pin." There's also one planet in orbit, "Pandora." It provides a place for people to go watch sunsets and suffiecent gravity to produce tidal effects. Work it out yourself... As long as Pendor and Pandora are in the same plane, Pendor does NOT exert a sum total gravity vector in any direction on Pandora). The third question is "Is there any explanation for all of this?" No. The stories speak for themselves. The fourth question is "Are there any FTP sites for The Journal Entries?" Not that I know of. Any FTP site containing material of an adult nature becomes so swamped with requests that it quickly shuts down. And my 'net access consists of a 1meg Amiga with two floppies... please don't ask me for copies. I would if I could... Very Serious Administrivia. These stories often feature very non-vanilla scenes. Homosexual sex, Sadmasochism/Sexmagic, and alien partners abound in these stories. Quite often in the past I have been chastised for posting bondage, gay, or more "bestial" scenes to alt.sex when there are "appropriate" newsgroups for them. I enjoy much of what I write about; some I have only witnessed, much I have participated in. It is all sexual; it all belongs in alt.sex. I will not ghetto my stories to one audience, or one newsgroup, because someone out there thinks it's inappropriate. So anyone who was concerned last time need not be; _all_ the Journal Entries _will_ be posted to alt.sex. Comments and questions are encouraged; I don't get paid for this, I do it for fun. The only way I know if I'm doing well is to get feedback from my audience. So write me! My address is: sumax!halcyon!elf or halcyon!elf@seattleu.edu ======================================================================= [Editor's Note] The following is from "Journal Entry Administrivia... The Titles Page" posted 14 Oct 1991. ======================================================================= This is the list as it looks right now. There are days when I can't beleive how _long_ this list has gotten over the ages. There are days when I despair at ever getting all the continuity errors ironed out, looking at the list this long. There are days when I wonder "Why in Goddess's name has Travelogue hit 112K?" And there are days when I wonder "What _new_ thing can I write about?" Almost by the end of those days the brainstorming list is 30 entries long. DATE TITLE Special Goodbye, Kris 095 / 0010 M'Ress on the Plain 227 / 0019 The Courage of My Convictions 201 / 0052 Brieanna 136 / 0068 The Kitten'n 031 / 0081 P'nyssa's Introduction 125 / 0090 P'nyssa and M'Ress 262 / 0106 Goodbye... Donna 073 / 0119 Kitty 080 / 0119 Kitty and the Dragon 080 / 0119 Kitty in Kendre 081 / 0119 Fall Of The Dragon 108 / 0120 Greta and the Hall 136 / 0152 The Second Kitten'n 078 / 0229 Plain Dangerous 019 / 0264 P'nyssa's Child, Concept and Conception 025 / 0264 P'nyssa's Child, Week One 248 / 0264 P'nyssa's Child, Week Minus One 254 / 0264 P'nyssa's Child, Birthday 075 / 0312 Susan 292 / 0312 Candy Cane 123 / 0320 Oenone 025 / 0412 Kathy Hawkwind 169 / 0412 Kathy's Scene 117 / 0413 Kathy On The Beach 171 / 0413 Kathy On The Beach, Redux and Epilogue Addendum P'nyssa's Letter 030 / 0477 Unmask! Unmask! 031 / 0477 Rainy Day 233 / 0484 Stardiver Accidents 026 / 0512 Aaden's Revenge 123 / 0512 Kathy On The Table 245 / 0514 Lynn's Birthday 246 / 0514 A Day At The Castle 247 / 0514 Ally 204 / 0519 Aaden's Kiss 187 / 0523 Aaden's Dance 193 / 0523 Aaden's Heart 163 / 0527 Hex Reunions 179 / 0527 Convers[at]ions ??? / 0528 *Distracting Aaden ??? / ???? Aaden's Punishment 097 / 0533 Working Out 192 / 0622 Space, Again 261 / 0622 Kathy And The Sphere 017 / 0623 Amanda 067 / 0623 Kathy and Pan Unknown Kathy's Tattoo 199 / 0675 Making Choices 112 / 0677 Teasing Ramsey 180 / 0681 FleaBitten 282 / 0733 Princess Anni 019 / 0737 Princess Anni II 045 / 0739 *Anni's Rescue ??? / 0912 *Travelogue 179 / 0916 Rats and Engineers ??? / ???? The Last Journal Entry 57 Entries. The ones with stars aren't done yet. The ones with question marks don't fit into the continuity yet. Elf !!! ======================================================================= [Editors Note] The following was taken from "Journal Entries -Commentary, Bibliography, and Glossary, posted 22 Apr 1991 (Yes, I know these are not in chronological order, but I felt that there was more continuity in this arrangement.) ======================================================================= SOME VOCABULARY: AI Artificial Intellegence. Angwurth "iron death," cancer. Ceep From CP, Cyberpathic, able to interface with a computer without additional hardware. Centaur traditional Centaur. Coimelin Mate, lit. "Love of my life" Eldarfaroth (left as an exercise to the reader) ELF eldar-los-faunos, the holographic image an AI uses to represent hirself in public. lit, "ghost of an elf." Felinzi The smaller of the two feline species. Gerion A semi-feline race with serpentine lower torsos. Markals Anthropomorphized rodents. Mephits Anthropomorphized skunks. Mustel Anthropomorphized ferrets. Nanobiotics A specific variety of nanotech for medical purposes. Nano-proph Birth control-oriented nanotech PADD Personal Access to Data Display Pallaeon Elen lit "To the farthest star." Pandora A planet circling within the orbit of Pendor. Pin The sun of Pendor Pindam The moon of Pandora. SAE Solid Artificial Ergasythesis, a technique of powering nanotech from radiant sources. Satryl A feline satyr-like species. SDisk Teleporter platform Securor A variety of combat-oriented robot. Shirow A variety of powered armor. SSphynx A feline hexaped, or Cat-centaur. Tindals A blue-furred humanoid species with tentacular manipulators. TDisk A simple conveyance, a self-propelled tray. Teek from TK, Telekinetic Tellakelvar lit "The Last, The First To Run" Tleil Any animal grown in a tank. Unczia The larger of the two feline species. Valturme "Powered Armor" Vatare "Father", hence Vava: "Daddy" Vy Dul Moria "Head with a Hole," Empty-headed, stupid. White's Theorem "A space-faring species' first encounter with another space-faring species is most likely to be a distress signal." Species Notes: Centaurs, developed and decanted in the year 0000. The first two Centaurs were Paul and Carroll Lewis. They are classical centaurs, and as such have a native language of Greek. Humans. Year 0003. Standard. Felinzi. Year 0006. A light-weight Feline race, with a muted muzzle and a wide variety of fur patterns. Traditional Felinzi names consists of a first name prefixed with the first phenome of the family (or clan) name. Unczia. Year 0008. The heavier feline race, averaging over 2.5 meters tall, covered in a grey, shaggy pelt. A design flaw gives them poor body-temperature maintainence; before this was corrected the majority of Unczia had established themselves in two climatorial belts running the circumferance of Pendor. These lands have become extremely valuable, and yearly physical competitions for the right to hold land in the UCZ have become traditional, with the land closest to the Vinyare' Ocean being the most sought-after. Tindals. Year 0049. A less classical species, Tindals are blue-furred humanoids averaging about 175 cm. The fur color averages from light blue to deep indigo, although many Tindals have splotches of fur with no tinting to them whatsoever, making them white. More rare is a light grey coloring, and exceptionally rare is gold streaking. After the fur color, the most striking characteristic of Tindals is that rather than lever-hinge elbows, Tindals have supple tentacles slightly longer than human arms, ending in a large pad with opposoble thumb. This pad has no bones, so is extremely supple and variable in geometry. Although this makes them physically weak as a species, this is made up for somewhat by the fact that they evolved into a pre-existing technological base, and by their telepathic abilities, which are the strongest of any Pendorian species. Other characteristics include solidly-colored eyes, ranging from deep brown, through green and yellow and blue, and their exceptionally large ears, which stick straight up from the sides of the head. Some Tindals have a slight bend to the tips of their ears. Satryl. A semi-feline humanoid race, they are relatively indistinguishable from Humans when fully dressed. Undressed, however, from the hips down the legs have a distinctly feline appearance, becoming thinner and stronger, with an even more feline foot than Felinzi have. A fine, dense fur runs up the back and sometimes exhibits itself as far as the cheeks of some individuals. The most common fur coloring pattern is a greyish-white shot through with orange and the common black circle-and-ring pattern most often assiciated with cheetahs. Dolphin. Traditional. Mephits. Year 0103. A more traditional anthropomorphosis of the common Skunk. Ssphynx. Year 111. A hexapedal feline race, i.e. Cat Centaurs. A rather reserved and private species. Dragons. Year 118. Traditional, and not quite all-organic. Dragons can reproduce normally, but the mechanisms of reproduction are accompanied by a symbiotically linked nanotech mechanism. Markals. Year 122. Averaging 155 cm in height, Markals are a rodentine species. Although classically thought of as 'nervous,' Markals are actually quite calm. Geryon. Year 116. A feline race with a large, fur-covered serpentine base rather than legs. Pamthreats. Year 575. Technically, there were originally only two Pamthreats, although by accident these two formed a gestalt personality and are known collectively only as 'Karri.' Since I haven't written anything beyond Karri's mere existance, I'm leaving the future of her species up in the air. Mustels. Averaging less than 100 cm, the Mustels are the smallest of the Pendorian species. Anthropomorphized ferrets. ======================================================================== [Editor's note] Here a long section relisting all titles to date was deleted. ======================================================================== And now the part that more or less belongs on alt.angst, but I'm putting here for archival reasons. Why I started writing the Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik. Skip it unless you're real curious. I started writing the Journal Entries down in 1981. At the time, I was at a very elite boarding school in Pennsylvania, the kind where I had to wear a tie and go to chapel daily. Daydreaming was my major source of escape. Especially since at the time I was going through a major depression, being 1800 miles from home and family. At the time, that seemed important. It all came to head on Thanksgiving, 1982, when I was stuck there for the holiday. By this time I had copious notes on characters, situations, a few scrawled maps, just to keep my fantasies straight. 'S funny how badly I wanted continuity. But I wasn't writing them down, not in any real way. Just keeping track of names and dates. But I was depressed, and that day, even the daydreams didn't help. I had created this character who was so much better off than I was, so I could escape into his world when I was in a bad mood, but it just wasn't helping. I guess if I'd wanted to identify more strongly with him, I could have given us the same first name, but I didn't. I can't explain what happened then. But I started talking to Ken, arguing with him. I guess I went just a little crazed. It finally came down to "Well, if you're not going to make me feel better, I'm going to make you feel worse!" At the time I had a character in my fantasies named "Donna," although everybody called her "Hyzen." (The name is left as an exercise for the reader). Shardik was very much in love with her, in a fatherly way, because she was the firstborn of Carroll, Shardik's firstborn Centaur, and about whom Ken has more than a few hangups. The fantasies about Donna were completely non-sexual; they were about the simpler things in life I wasn't being given because I had to be, well, 'preppie.' That afternoon I wrote down the first Journal Entry, and it went into a folder. It was six pages of hand-written story, in a very tiny block writing, in which Donna was killed during a visit to Terra, by anti-Pendor protestors. It was a sophmoric story on one level, but deep down it was rather revealing. Ken now was more miserable than I was, and that made me feel better. The villians told me who I was blaming (all of 'YOU', i.e. humanity), for what they were doing to me. In the end, it was a "write-or-swallow-a-whole-bunch-of-pills-and- see-what-happens-next" night, and I chose to write. Which is why I'm still here today. And why I'm still writing. I suppose I could have followed the path of my friend, Mark K., whose writing took him down the dark path to madness and murder, and who is now incarcerated in the State Mental Health Facility outside of Montreal. But I chose to keep at the higher side, the more fun. So why are they being posted now? Well, I've only had my computer for two years. It's kind of hard to post without one. But also, I've only recently begun to move away from the wish-fulfilment tales I wrote when I was younger. Don't take this badly, but while I enjoy writing erotica and science-fiction, this does give me a forum to express my personal opinions and to subject you to them. So far I seem to be doing okay. But on a distinct level, Donna died for me. And I doubt I could ever forget this. I don't care if you care to disbelive this, but just writing that phrase, "Donna died..." hurts. Hurts a lot. Even now Oh, and I did mention a soundtrack. Forget it. I looked at the first few entries and said, "They'll never believe me." They were: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major Iron Maiden Flight of Icarus Sheena Easton Sugar Walls. I decided no one would ever believe my 'writing' tape has a list like that, so I decided to forgo the list. But, I should mention that two of the pieces on the tape are Tom Leher's "SMUT!" and the opening soundtrack to BubbleGum Crisis (if you have to ask...). So, what else do y'all want to know? I've been thinking of a B&W GIF of a few simple maps. Shouldn't be that big a deal. Elf !!! ========================================================================= [Editor's note] Well, this marks the end of what I have that has been posted. I hope this has cleared up some confusion. Enjoy! ======================================================================= Anthony J. Albert |Usenet is distributed network anarchy |at its best--or worst, depending on ajalbert@watson.eece.maine.edu |what is posted on any perticular day. io00038@maine.maine.edu | --David Fielder in _Byte_ =======================================================================