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Author's Note and Acknowledgements

Wow. Time really does fly when you're having fun. Seems like it was just a couple of days ago when I posted the first installment of this story, wondering if anybody was going to see it and maybe even like it. That was May, and here it is December.

I have a great time writing these stories; it's very nice to have a place to put them where more than just a couple of friends will read them and understand your strange obsession with a bunch of fictional folks.

"Wrong Place, Wrong Time" grew out of a game that I ran for my other SR group (the one I'm the GM for). Since Dan runs all the published modules in our games (he doesn't have time to come up with his own ideas), I'm forced to plumb my twisted creative depths and come up with an original story once every couple of months or so. This one was one of the first ones I ran. The game was a success; the players seemed to like it, and I had fun. When I was looking for a subject for a serial story, I decided to take the plot framework for that game and see how da boys ('Hawk and Ocelot) would deal with the same situation. Quite a bit differently, I found out. :) While the basic plot structure is the same between the two, the actual implementation is not.

Anyway, I'm already hard at work on the next story (which should begin appearing very shortly) and have ideas for at least two more after that, so this series should be plugging along for quite some time now. Hope you continue to enjoy them.

Acknowledgements

I'd like to acknowledge a few folks who've contributed in one way or another to this story's existence, or at least encouraged it...

  • First there's Dan, the GM of our game, my best friend, and the mind behind Ocelot. Although about 95% of the characterization of Ocelot in the story is mine, Dan's invention and continued exploration of the character have made it easy.

  • Then there's Bob, Doug, and Taggart, whose characters, along with Dan's other one, had to play through this sick little scenario the *first* time.

  • Steve and Ken, who, although their characters don't appear in this story, have contributed a great deal toward the development of all the characters in our game.

  • Thanks to Shapcano and Spydrr, who have sent me numerous bits of praise and encouragement during the course of the story. Compliments like theirs make it even more fun to keep doing this.

  • Finally, thanks to anybody else out there who's read the story, sent me comments (good or bad), criticisms, and/or compliments. I'm looking forward to posting the next story soon.

Cheers,
--Rat