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  1. I have a question about your name: is it meant to be said bones-eee or bones eye-eye-eye?

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      bones triple 'i'. :)

  2. So, I have a big reply to your latest topic, but BZP apparently has a glitch now that prevents posts... and PMs (I tried that too). Profile comments seem to be working, so letting you know here. The simple answer (to that also-common question :P) is the Turaga were afraid some Matoran would try to return, and get killed or infected by Makuta. And there could be any number of tunnel ways down. Hope this gets through... >_>

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Aaaand posting is working again. Reply got through this time in the topic (and got partially Ninja'd, but not my fault this time :P).

  3. Well, looks like I hit the bandwidth limit for a free photobucket account (which I used for the retelling art, after Brickshelf glitched). My options there are to pay $3 a month to remove limits, or wait until the 17th and when monthly bandwidth will reset to zero. I had planned to use brickshelf, but the folder for the images glitched. I'll look into what to do. For now, the images for the chapter on Wed. will be on brickshelf.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      That would be part of the looking into what to do. :P For starters, I can switch a lot of the URLs to the brickshelf ones that didn't glitch. And maybe I can just make more folders on brickshelf.

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  4. Wow, you're 2 posts away from being top poster.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      *looks at top poster stuff*

       

      Whoa... apparently now I already AM the top poster... I thought I was far away from that. Weird... I -have- been posting a while, so I guess... But weird.

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  5. Wow, you're 2 posts away from being top poster.

  6. I was looking for a good Vamprah pic to download, and I found your amazing drawing of him on Google. It's now on my files and on my lock screen.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Glad you like it. ^_^

  7. Retelling progress report: Takanuva is explaining to the Toa Nuva about the energy storms; they are about to head for the Codrex.

  8. Retelling progress report: Takanuva is explaining to the Toa Nuva about the energy storms; they are about to head for the Codrex.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      As of this comment now, 11 and a half chapters to go. :) (Of about 20 pages each, though I may extend that maximum for the last few ones, depending on how it goes.)

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  9. New Year's Eve retelling update: I'd hoped to have the whole (first draft) written by tomorrow; that's clearly not happening, but I'm getting very close! Only 15 of 90 chapters left to write. Ignika is in Dekar's hands. Now almost certain I won't need to add any extra chapters.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Also possible I'll start breaking the 20-page maximum rule in the final ten chapters, but I don't have much of a sense of that yet.

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  10. New Year's Eve retelling update: I'd hoped to have the whole (first draft) written by tomorrow; that's clearly not happening, but I'm getting very close! Only 15 of 90 chapters left to write. Ignika is in Dekar's hands. Now almost certain I won't need to add any extra chapters.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Well, I doubt I will. However, from the start I've had a 20 page maximum per chapter, and most early chapters ended well short of 20. The lengths have gone up consistently as I have gone on (intentionally, but I mean the plans have happened :P), so it's -sort of- like having extra chapters. It's more content-rich as the end approaches. Many chapters I've just written in the past month have been 20 full pages. So there's that. :)

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  11. OH MY GOODNESS BONESIII. WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO RELEASE SOME OF YOUR BOOK. I'M DYING TO READ IT.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Well, I was hoping to get the first draft written by New Year's. I've now obviously missed that date, but only by 15 of the planned 90 chapters. At the rate I'm going I'm still pretty close to the mark. Then there's proofreading and stuff to take care of. No set date but ASAP!

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  12. Retelling progress: Finished a long chapter of almost totally non-canon events between Takua's summoning of the Toa and the canisters actually arriving. Also going back to earlier chapters' comments to add links to story source YouTube videos!

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      To the end. (Likely will stop short of TYQ and TPTB.)

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  13. Retelling progress: Takua has been banished.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Progress: Not much since last update. Whenua has been rescued by Takua (going through the plot of the GBA game now).

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  14. Retelling progress: Takua has been banished.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Ironically my non-canon protagonist knows that Takua being banished will be good (somehow) in the end.

       

      But he didn't cause it... on purpose... He would swear to it. :P

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  15. Progress on Bionicle history retelling: mostly done with the 59th chapter; everything up until the sinking of Mahri Nui is done (about to write that). Well, need to add a few words about the founding of Koli, but not really sure where that properly goes chronologically; I'm putting it before Mahri Nui but who knows.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      And now Mahri Nui is sunk.

  16. Progress on retelling of entire Bionicle history: Ahkmou has arrived on Mata Nui and he's already been bad. (How so is spoilers. :P)

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      There won't be a link until I finish writing it, proofread, and then start posting. :P Keep watching here, on my blog, and in my sig for the link when it does start. :)

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  17. 56/~80 chapters done in The Destiny of Bionicle. Matoran awoken and Toa Metru Turaga-ized, groups heading out to found the villages.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Also... haven't actually reached the 2001 plot yet. The founding of the villages is technically 2004-5, and I'm doing it chronologically in-story.

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  18. 56/~80 chapters done in The Destiny of Bionicle. Matoran awoken and Toa Metru Turaga-ized, groups heading out to found the villages.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Started before the Core War. It's the ENTIRE history. :)

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  19. Hello. This is an update. See? It's weird and stuff.

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Did everybody think I was talking about Lewa, the character, lol?

       

      It was just a reply to some member asking me if I was delayed. Whose name somehow or another involved "Lewa". XD How it ended up as an "update" and not a reply to that post in-context I have no idea.

       

      That was really weird. Moving on with life...

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  20. Why in the world is this ancient reply stuck in my main profile page, but new comments aren't? o_O *testing stuff...*

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Weird... So apparently one comment got turned into an "update." Oddities abound.

       

      *makes a different "update"*

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  21. So, how's the BIONICLE retelling going and when can you expect it will be done?

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      I've just finished the Toa Metru's confrontation with the EP entity; they're now on their way to deliver the Karzahni plant his ironic death vial lol.

       

      I make a point of never predicting the future as far as dates and times 'cuz things have a way of becoming unpredictable. But at this rate, I should be done well before New Year's.

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  22. Just saw one of your posts in "An open letter to Greg Farshtey". As a southerner and a grammar nerd, I feel obliged to point out that "y'all" should have an apostrophe in it. :P

    1. bonesiii

      bonesiii

      Somehow I forgot about this profile feed.... Hello.

       

      The leaving out of the apostrophe is intentional as I've mentioned before (somewhere, I forget where but I think the blog). Since Standard American English does not have a "plural you" that is distinct from singular "you", I think it should. And the apostrophe makes y'all unnecessarily lengthy, so "yall" is my proposed plural you for SAE -- turned into one word with the contraction y'all as its...

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