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			<title><![CDATA[ The Sacred Age: The Chaos Priest (Previously 'The Land of Ilvar: Forgotten) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>OK, so here&#39;s the prologue. You may have noticed that I have changed the name, but I wasn&#39;t so sure about it in the first place. So, any feedback?
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:09:38 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Being There ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p><strong><font face="Verdana,san-serif">Here&#39;s a short story I spun up as part of an online contest. The task was to write a biography of somebody
participating in a Mars Endurance Mission</font></strong></p>

<p><font face="Verdana,san-serif"><strong>MEB - Being There</strong></font></p>

<p><font face="Verdana,san-serif"><strong>Name:</strong> Scott E. &quot;Spindoctor&quot;</font></p>

<p><strong><font face="Verdana,san-serif">Background:</font></strong></p>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:46:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Land of Ilvar - Forgotten (Intro) ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/2258/t/The-Land-of-Ilvar-Forgotten-Intro-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Intro for a story I am writing. Thie is the INTRO, not the prologue. This comes BEFORE the prologue. Any feedback/suggestions are welcome:
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understood by mortal minds; such evils scourge all realms, ever plotting, ever scheming.</font></span></p>

<p... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:18:55 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Secret of Schloss Schwartzwulf ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">The Secret of Schloss Schwartzwulf</strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">TRANSYLVANIA</em><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">, October 25,
1943</em></p>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:20:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The MISSION episodes 1-4 ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div>
  I&#39;ve had several different people want me to post a story I&#39;ve been working on but I didn&#39;t want to since its not complete (But I don&#39;t know
  if it ever will be) I started this story a few years ago and have learned alot from this. And I&#39;m still learning with every episode. Right now I&#39;m
  working on episode 14, but for now heres the first 4 episodes. Hope you like it!
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This takes place around our time but WW2 never ended.
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One... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:09:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Once. (OT) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>I have this memory I can&#39;t shake. Maybe it was but a dream, it&#39;s hard to say. It&#39;s a cloudy, fractured vision of a girl I once knew. She was so
beautiful, such a smile on her it could melt the ice from the coldest heart. Bring peace to the lonliest of souls. It did once. It&#39;s been so long since
I&#39;d seen that flash of pearly white, wreathed in the tuscan red flame of that vision&#39;s passion. So long it&#39;s like trying to remember the first
Christmas morning, with the... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:20:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Darkness Chapter One of Thunderous Vengeance ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1565/t/Darkness-Chapter-One-of-Thunderous-Vengeance.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ This chapter opens the last book of a projected trilogy. 
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<p class="MsoTitle" style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 3pt"><strong><font face="Arial" size="5">Darkness</font></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt">The young man shivered under the warrior&#39;s intense gaze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> The
warrior&#39;s dark eyes were deep set in the scarred and weathered face, his beard ill kept and... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Ngren 3 - Proper Young Lady ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Last bit for now.  This is all I have written (other than an outline) an I really can&#39;t spare time to do more for a few weeks.
<br>
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Chapter 3 - Proper Young Lady
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    Kateka sat with her back straight and stiff, her hands in her lap.  Her eyes followed the movements of her tutor as he slowly poured tea from a silver pot
into cups for each of them.  He carefully and methodically poured the steaming, green tea, added honey and milk to each, then handed her the cup and saucer.... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Ngren 2 - Birthright ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1534/t/Ngren-2-Birthright.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I am not trying to flood the boards with Ngren, I just have a few chapters already written, so thought I would post them.  Once I get up what I have it will be
a while before more comes, I promise.
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<br>
Chapter 2 - Birthright
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    The Supreme Lady of Blade Clan sat at her desk looking over the spring-blooming garden.  Nashenke read the message from her childhood friend and wiped a
single tear from her red-scaled cheek.  The Emperor was very ill, dying.  There was not much time... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Ngren 1 - Stargazer's Lament ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1533/t/Ngren-1-Stargazer-s-Lament.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The ACTUAL first chapter of the Ngren story.<img src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif" alt="image">
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<br>
Chapter 1 - Stargazer&#39;s Lament
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    The flagship of the Star Clan was docked at the customs station in orbit around the planet Ngren, capital of the Ngrengan Empire.  The vessel was old, but
still the most modern and advanced of the imperial clan fleets.  Nothing else could match it; that was sure.  Star Clan regularly made the voyage between the... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ THE PINE BOX ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1530/t/THE-PINE-BOX.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <strong><em>   <u>THIS STORY IS BASED ON A STORY READ LONG AGO IN UNCLE CREEPY/COUSIN EERIE MAGAZINE. IT IS ONLY A RE-TELLING
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 His hands ached from the cold. Too many winters he&#39;d spent baiting traps in the frigid waters of these mountains. How he had breathed them in in his
youth. Some thirty years had passed since he first stepped foot into the wilderness. Then he was lean and stout as a bull. He&#39;d swapped pelts with the
injun&#39;s and they&#39;d come to... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:14:35 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Thunderous Vengeance Chapter ? Darkness part 01 ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1529/t/Thunderous-Vengeance-Chapter-Darkness-part-01.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A fragment from the third novel of a projected trilogy (why is every fantasy tale a trilogy, beginning, middle and end <img src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif">  )
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It&#39;s one of first chapters if not the opening chapter, still not sure what if anything comes before it.
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<strong>Darkness
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt">The young man shivered under the warrior&#39;s intense gaze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:22:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ngren - Clan Council ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1522/t/Ngren-Clan-Council.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I&#39;d like to make some figures to illustrate this story.  It is alien fantasy set in something of a pet world of mine.  The Ngrengen are lizard men who live
on a mostly desert world.  Their society is VERY LOOSELY Imperial Japanese, clan structured and rigidly caste-based.
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<br>
I am sorry this is so long.  It was not written originally with a mind to post in on a forum.  Later chapters I will try to keep more manageable.
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<br>
Edit- I found my old notes and this is not Chapter 1,... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (RebelAngel)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:37:49 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Night of the Serpent (prologue) COMPLETED! ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1500/t/The-Night-of-the-Serpent-prologue-COMPLETED-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Some of you may remember the story fragment I wrote several months ago, chronicling one of Grimwulf&#39;s adventures. Well , here&#39;s how <strong>The
Night</strong> <strong>of the Serpent</strong> <em>began....</em> 
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><strong><u>Night of the Serpent</u></strong></font><font size="2"> </font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2">Khemsa was a slave.</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:55:26 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Legend of "The Dark Wolf" ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1488/t/Legend-of-The-Dark-Wolf-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ HalgaThe Bad-Eye looked down from atop the hill, below him was the wasted settlement of of Wolin. Here in the land of The Holy Roman Empire they prospered
the first year or two but with the fruits of their labors came a new threat. Wolin was ripe for they picking. The frames of the house now stood as skeletons-
with the roof&#39;s and walls burnt away. pens and cribs had been thrown open, their captives set loose or slaughtered on the spot. Several hogs lie in a heap
with arrows bristling out... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:17:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hell Town, finale ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1481/t/Hell-Town-finale.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="2">&quot;Feels good to strike back, doesn&#39;t it?&quot;</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="2">&quot;Yeah,&quot; I replied. &quot;It damn sure does. What&#39;s the
Church&#39;s official position on the killing of Hell-spawn?&quot;</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="2">Father Bernard smiled an... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:56:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hell Town, part 6 ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1480/t/Hell-Town-part-6.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2">&quot;Father.&quot;</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><font size="2">Whose
father?</font></em></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2">&quot;Bernard.....&quot;</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><em... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:51:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Roman Nightmare ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1462/t/Roman-Nightmare.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ This is a sample of the introduction I will later post for a Germanic Berzerker figure I am working on.  Hope this fits in this section:
<br>
<br>
  &quot;Teutoburg Forest, Germania, circa 9 A.D.  Imagine this you are a Roman Legionaire under the comand of Quinctilius Varus governor of the province and
subject to Emperor Augustus.  It is winter and the long march from Weser to the winter quarters in the south begins. Your name is Valdus and you have been
battle tested.  The only thing left is... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:13:03 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hell Town, part 5 ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1458/t/Hell-Town-part-5.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2">I was driving a squad car with two other officers, Jim Ferguson and Karen Thorpe, trying to get
back to City Hall and get more weapons and ammo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> I was acquainted with them both, having worked various details
together over the years. Both were good cops, solid &amp; dependable.</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2">Ferguson was about 40,... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:53:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hell Town, part 4 ]]></title>
			<link>http://fantasynet.yuku.com/topic/1451/t/Hell-Town-part-4.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2">In the midst of all the horror, we fought to keep the creatures at bay. Every cop on duty that
night was decked out in full tactical gear, armed with shotguns or MP-5s plus our side arms. We tried to control the crowds, to move them out of harm&#39;s
way, to clear the streets as best we could. We struggled to establish a perimeter, to contain the creatures, but it was no use. People fled in every direction.
Some crowded into the... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:33:44 GMT</pubDate>
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