The Dragon's Inn

"If you will practice being fictional for a while,
you will understand that fictional characters
are sometimes more real than people
with heartbeats and bodies."

NOTE that most of this writing dates from the early 1990's (1992-1993 were the peak years for these pieces, although there's stuff here up through 1997).

The newsgroup alt.pub.dragons-inn, which involves The Dragon's Inn in the town of Generica, on the world of Nexus, stayed active for years after the stories on this page were completed and still gets some occasional traffic. Some of the links below to other sites include stories that continued years after most of these stories ended (I actually posted a couple of pieces in 1997), and may even someday contain stories through to the present time.

These are NOT write-ups of gaming campaigns or Live Action Role Playing. There are two COMPLETE stories: [MG] - The Mage Guild thread and [Witts] - the first (and only) adventure of the Witt's Enders Gang. [MG] has some posts missing, but is overall very complete. (Some threads near the end, where parallel story lines and subplots were being cleaned up, are not neatly represented, but they do not detract from the whole.) There are also several stand-alone pieces on the Jameson W. Walker page, and a half-finished story called "The Long Walk Home."

Some ADMINISTRATA:

(The newsgroup is still occasionally active, so these are probably not the final versions, though they impart the flavor of the consensual writing reality that was alt.pub.dragons-inn...)

• The Frequently Asked Questions Guide (April 1995)
• The History of Generica (December 1994)
• An Atlas of the Known Lands (circa February 1993, slightly fudged by me)
• The Directory of Players (November 1995)
• The Guide to the Mage Guild itself (circa 1994, December maybe?)
• A How-To Guide on writing the Inn NPC characters and topography (December 1994)
• The Story Buyer (aka an easy way to introduce yourself) (December 1994)

• Other alt.pub.dragons-inn Web Sites:
  • The Hutch-meister's Stories (which includes stuff by Penny Hutchison)
  • The Lovely Phyllis Rostykus, aka Liralen Li and her apdi page
  • Corey Venour's site (no apdi stuff though; it used to be at http://dragon.dzmac.com/)
  • Stiltman's The Unlight Zone is gone (used to be www.teleport.com/~stiltman/stories.html)
  • ...sage AKA Pete Calvert's page
  • The Archives of Mr. Hyde (This WAS an ftp site but now it's GONE! Replacement will go here when it's up...)
  • Alfvaen's Den of Ubiquity - although he's taken down his apdi pages
  • Chris Meadows (aka Robotech Master) & his online fiction page - PLUS, Chris put up ARCHIVES!
  • Fox Cutter's Apprentice Inept stories
  • Christian Girard's website and his Timelord and Rollik stories written with Steven Cavanagh
  • Erik's Creative Writing web page

• And finally, my comments about this page and stuff...

Next, some WRITING:

The following works are copyrighted by their respective authors. Do not re-distribute without permission. All rights are reserved.

Jameson W. Walker

My primary character's Intro page.

The Mage Guild Thread

An extensive thread involving MANY people, including me (writing Jameson)

The Witt's Ender Gang

A MUCH smaller, more entertaining thread (wherein I wrote the character Danu).

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