<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><span>Welladay... brief and intriguing; it pulls the reader deeper looking for more. And more I certainly hope we see in due course.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417146692398_5391" dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417146692398_5385" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417146692398_5386">Is there a particular date in which this unfortunately deceased individual is composing his missives, and to whom? If he claims himself to be 'friend in the south' - south of where? There's not much north of Metamor where one might expect letters to be sent, whereas there is quite a bit southward.</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:55 PM, christian okane <chrisokane@optimum.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7997182422"><style></style><div><div class="yiv7997182422WordSection1"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Looks good! Welcome to Metamor Keep!</span></div><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">A good start to the story!</span></div><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Chris</span></div><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">The Lurking Fox</span></div><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";"> mkguild-bounces@lists.integral.org [mailto:mkguild-bounces@lists.integral.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jack Moore<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 26, 2014 9:55 PM<br><b>To:</b> mkguild@lists.integral.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Mkguild] Letters</span></div></div><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal"> </div><div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">AN: This is my first story. Or at least my first on here. I admire this universe. I hope to create something good. Their is more to the story then this, it will come in a few days.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">Letters</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">To My Friend in the North</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">I don't know how to write about Metamor Keep. What can I say that others have not?</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">I never thought you would force me to write this my friend. If I never had to write this, I could keep it perfect forever in my mind. Even now as I stare at this inchoate letter, my mind goes blank. I've heard the words in my head, why don't they come?</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">What we want and what will happen are always very different. When we're young there is no limit to how we perceive ourselves. Leaders, trailblazers, luminous stars that will light the future.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">Then we grow older and we realize we've failed to be what we imagined. We settle for what we are.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">But not Metamor Keep. Only there can you be as you wish.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">Everyone I met at first was thrilled with their transformations. I knew they had to be lying, no one would accept the form of a beast or a child. Of course I knew, I always knew better. Just as you or anyone who reads these letters inherently knows better.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">My travail is writing this because in doing so I expose myself. For all of my faults and imperfections, now exposed for the world to see. Do you think the readers shall judge me fairly?</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">This is the third resencion of this letter I have composed. These letters are not about me really but about Metamor Keep. I hope to create...perhaps not a panegyric of the Keep, but an understanding for those outside of it.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">Do you suppose the readers will figure your identity? By your request I shall not reveal it. Upon my death you will publish these letters, I expect, anonymously.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">What has come to amaze me is this world in which we live. Metamor Keep is the microcosm, a place in change and growth, not always by choice. It is our modern world, a place where time moves on! Yet it is still influenced, not overwhelmed by the past. Will anyone understand that?</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">This is what I will achieve with these letters. I will to show what this place is too those outside of it. I will show how it changes and it changes those within its boundaries. And I will answer a question, what is Metamor Keep?</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">Not a valley or fortress, that is simplistic nonsense. It is not just a place that needs a E added to the end of Metamor. Is it a place defined by a curse? By transformation? By those who build up its walls? You have an answer I'm sure but I am also certain you can't address all of my quandaries.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">And yes I know I am rambling. Forgive me, we elderly do ramble as we approach our end, we can't all be like you.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">I wish I could see it as I did the first time, though not as the obstreperous youth. The first time your eyes look upon the many, the different forms, it is overwhelming. I wish I had appreciated it then</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">Alright my habit of circumlocution is showing through. Just as you dwell upon these letters, ask yourself my question. And enjoy your life, as I have so enjoyed mine. Let us start this cycle with the first important event in my change; let us discuss the day that I died.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">Your Friend in the South</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> J.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">Post Script: If you wish for a title for this first set of letters, you may call them Jack: Of Man and Beast.</span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_3120"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv7997182422yui_3_16_0_1_1417056464710_2937"><div class="yiv7997182422MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica", "sans-serif";color:black;">AN: Any thoughts are not only appreciated but needed.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>MKGuild mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:MKGuild@lists.integral.org" href="mailto:MKGuild@lists.integral.org">MKGuild@lists.integral.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild" target="_blank">http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild</a><br><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div>