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JasonUlloa (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#14526: Jan 27th 2014 at 11:27:58 PM

I just started my Spring semester, but I can try to continue my clean-up/fine-tuning work from where I left off on the weekends or when I get some free time (which I've been seeing less and less of, as of late sad).

Specular Since: Sep, 2011
#14527: Jan 28th 2014 at 9:35:46 AM

@Jbstormburst:

You know, if it's a thing of skill, I have to wonder if Specular may possibly be interested in working on finishing Book 1. He definitely has one of the best insights to the series, as his omakes have shown, and I know it's been said on this thread that Brian was a fan... Maybe?

I appreciate the vote of confidence, but that's way too much of a tall order for me. Admittedly, all I can produce are snippets in a serious need of beta-ing and most of my knowledge of the English language is self-taught (I'm a Spanish native speaker), which makes me a less-than-qualified person for the job.

Still, thank you for remind me that I used to write stuff like that. Reading through the material reminded me of all the fun I had writing them and I even found some of my old notes with a few unused ideas that I'd like to explore. For old times' sake, if anything.


@bdh-vn team:

Good to hear you guys are working on the Kinetic Novel again. Are you still using the site bdh-vn.blogspot.com to publish updates/report progress?

My K:BDH Recursive Fanfiction
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#14528: Jan 28th 2014 at 9:51:58 AM

[up] I seriously pegged you for a native English speaker — and for the record, people seem to always mistake me for a native English speaker if they don't know me or where I come from.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Jbstormburst Since: May, 2011
#14529: Jan 28th 2014 at 10:57:25 AM

[up][up]OK, you definitely fooled me into thinking you weren't ESL. Damn, when you do write, though, you can certainly write.

Also, if we're talking the VN, I tested out the build from a few days ago with the other files from the official release, and after some editing (Harry BC Dresden, you really need to stop using tab instead of spaces for indenting), I was able to get the .exe to commence successfully.

Halbarad Since: Sep, 2011
#14530: Jan 28th 2014 at 11:40:08 AM

Okay. This is the first of what I hope will become weekly updates on the fic's status.

Good (?) news: I will be attempting to finish book 1. Semi-bad news: I won't be able to start researching in-depth for at least another week. I have a business trip (that will coincide with a remembrance lunch for Brian) through next Wednesday, but once I get back I plan to start an in-depth re-reading of K:BDH itself. Once the re-read is done, I'll be sorting through my PM notes between myself and Brian to try to get a handle on what's coming up next, and then I should be able to start doing some actual writing.

I anticipate that the re-read and notes review should take 2-3 weeks. Part of the reason for the weekly updates is to help me stay on track with writing; my biggest hurdle in getting any writing at all done is keeping myself accountable to do it, so keeping you all updated should help me with that.

I will probably look into getting the incomplete chapter 63 posted once I get back from my trip.

I can only help one person per day. Today's not your day. Tomorrow's not looking good either.
Eamil from Somewhere over there. Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#14531: Jan 28th 2014 at 12:45:33 PM

In all sincerity, Halbarad, thank you. Like I said before I can't imagine what you're feeling in all this, and I think it means a lot to all of us that you'd even consider stepping up and taking the reins.

Is it wrong to be worried about the fate of a story in light of what happened? It makes me feel bad but I only really "knew" him as the author of this and his other stories. =/

edited 28th Jan '14 12:45:46 PM by Eamil

ThraggLootrippa Moodswing King from In front of a laptop in California Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: Sinking with my ship
Moodswing King
#14532: Jan 28th 2014 at 2:36:44 PM

I wish there were stronger words for this. All I have is "thank you". Doesn't matter how long it takes, just that you decided to try.

@Eamil

It's natural to fear for a story in such uncertain times. Excuse me if this seems kind of sappy, but we got a measure of Mr. Randall through his work.

edited 28th Jan '14 2:36:59 PM by ThraggLootrippa

Always late for everything.
Savoie Since: Mar, 2010
#14533: Jan 28th 2014 at 5:10:06 PM

I've been silent for months and months on end, but it must be said: thanks for taking this up, Halbarad, and godspeed. In the eyes of many cultures through the ages, his spirit would be seen as living on through his works and name, and there would be no greater crime than to let it sink away in neglect.

CarrieTheTroper Just a nobody. Yep. from South Dakota Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Just a nobody. Yep.
#14534: Jan 28th 2014 at 8:50:30 PM

Thank you very much, Halbarad! I'll very much look forward to the weekly updates, and the upcoming chapter as well, even if incomplete.

The Clock is Wound, The Future Must Commence! (tm)
FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#14535: Jan 29th 2014 at 1:32:55 PM

I wish you luck.

If there is any information relevant to this fic beyond soulriders and Fanfiction, in regards to this Visual Novel, notes, or expansions, I hope I can find it all here.

My condolences to those who were close to the author.

edited 29th Jan '14 1:34:30 PM by FOFD

arizth Since: Aug, 2009
#14536: Jan 30th 2014 at 10:31:22 AM

On an attempt for a more positive note, is there a up-to-date epub to KBDH?

I ask because I'm taking some time to organize everything posted on the main site into a library for the memorial re-reading for Brian, and I figured I could generate an Epub for anyone who wants one after I'm done.

Eamil from Somewhere over there. Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#14537: Jan 30th 2014 at 11:56:18 AM

I think Specular was the one handling the epub format? Or maybe that was PDF. I forget who was doing epub actually.

arizth Since: Aug, 2009
#14538: Jan 30th 2014 at 12:58:58 PM

Hmm.

Well, I'm going to work on it when I get home from work, so if I don't get a definitive no by tomorrow evening, I'll go ahead and post it.

Cheers, lads.

Zfish9 from the Tropics of Antartica Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
#14539: Jan 30th 2014 at 2:00:15 PM

It really shouldn't be that hard to make an .epub version. Anyone who downloaded the .mobi version could toss it into Calibre and get the .epub back. You might have to tweak the chapter detection and chapter threshold first, but it should work alright. Only reason why I'm not doing that now is because it would probably work a bit better if the original document was converted to .epub instead of the .mobi version, and Eamil has that.

Eamil from Somewhere over there. Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#14540: Jan 30th 2014 at 6:10:47 PM

Yeah, I could do it easily enough, I just remembered someone else was keeping an epub version updated a while back so I didn't want to be all "OH HERE'S MINE." tongue

Specular Since: Sep, 2011
#14541: Feb 2nd 2014 at 6:47:55 AM

@Halbarad:

Thanks for your efforts, we really appreciate it.

Also, while I'm a frankly lousy beta reader, I like to think I'm good to spot self-consistency issues and the like. It's not much, but I hope that it will be of some help with those continuity mistakes and contradictions that are likely to occur when another writer takes over a work as extensive like K:BDH.


@Eamil:

I think Specular was the one handling the epub format? Or maybe that was PDF. I forget who was doing epub actually.

I posted the PDF. About the EPUB, I found this link in my bookmarks, but I don't remember who made it. Currently, this version is updated until the finale of the Resolution Arc (Chapter 62).

My K:BDH Recursive Fanfiction
Agasa Since: Jan, 2011
#14542: Feb 7th 2014 at 1:46:54 AM

Um, about the VN, i'm trying to set up Github once again, but it's not collaborating. If anyone wants to lend me an hand, it'd be most appreciated.

EDIT: It turns out it wanted an updated .NET framework. Working smoothly now.

edited 7th Feb '14 5:29:30 AM by Agasa

Halbarad Since: Sep, 2011
#14543: Feb 10th 2014 at 10:40:49 AM

Missed the update last week due to work travel, but there wasn't much to report in any case.

I plan to start the in-depth reread of K:BDH itself later this week, and I've already started sifting through my private message logs. I'll also be contacting folks on IRC in the next day or two to see about getting chapter 64 up; I still need to add an editor's note to it, and come up with a title and epigraph for it, though.

I can only help one person per day. Today's not your day. Tomorrow's not looking good either.
Specular Since: Sep, 2011
#14544: Feb 10th 2014 at 12:32:27 PM

@Halbarad:

Thanks for dropping by to keep us up to date. BTW, where the next chapter will be updated to? I don't really know why but using Brian's old site doesn't sit well with me even though I understand that fragmenting the story isn't the most pragmatic thing to do.

My K:BDH Recursive Fanfiction
Halbarad Since: Sep, 2011
#14545: Feb 11th 2014 at 7:20:45 AM

My plan is to add this chapter to his site, since it was the last of what he actually wrote himself. I hadn't yet decided about where to post them as I move forward - whether they'll go on my ff.net account or his site or a combination of the two.

Edited to add: I also came across an old document where we'd collected some fic ideas that we'd considered writing at some point in the future. I'll probably clean up the list and get them posted on Soulriders later this evening, with the exception of Fragmentation (which is an Asakura-centric fic that I started a couple of years ago, but haven't worked on in an age.)

These won't be related to K:BDH specifically, but for those folks that enjoyed Brian's writing beyond K:BDH, it might be interesting.

He did specifically say that anything he'd come up with was free for public use, so if someone else wants to use anything that's posted to try their hand at writing, feel free. You can ping me for further details if you're interested in picking anything from the list up, as most of these came out of PM discussions with Brian and I can likely dig out more details from my logs if needed.

edited 11th Feb '14 9:11:40 AM by Halbarad

I can only help one person per day. Today's not your day. Tomorrow's not looking good either.
Arrdeem Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
#14546: Feb 20th 2014 at 4:43:12 PM

@Specular

I'm the one who put that epub together actually. Should be up to date now tho. Forgot to update that copy when I added the new chapter.

Agasa Since: Jan, 2011
#14547: Feb 27th 2014 at 4:50:18 PM

So, i just gave my last exam today - a month of bureaucracy and i'll have my degree.

Just so you know. I'll try to be around more now.

silverwind91 Since: Jan, 2010
#14548: Mar 2nd 2014 at 4:49:44 PM

While it feels late, I would like to add my condolences as well.

CarrieTheTroper Just a nobody. Yep. from South Dakota Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Just a nobody. Yep.
#14549: Mar 5th 2014 at 3:30:50 PM

Not too late at all to add them, actually.

I hope Halbarad is all right, no weekly update since Feb. 11...

The Clock is Wound, The Future Must Commence! (tm)
Eamil from Somewhere over there. Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#14550: Mar 6th 2014 at 12:12:01 PM

I'm sure he's fine. I got the impression he still had a busy time coming up IRL but I could be wrong.

edited 6th Mar '14 12:15:40 PM by Eamil


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