Comments from the archivist:

                This is "A Blast From the Past" and is a sequel
                to "Disappearances Can Be Deceiving"

    I have set all messages to a common paragraph indentation, and converted
any all-caps messages to upper and lower case, as well as converting things in
present tense to past tense.  I have also corrected spelling mistakes and bad
punctuation.
    While the messages originally all had titles, most of the titles were
random-titles.  For clarity, I have left only the titles that were NOT random.
The message headings, as they appear in this archive, are not actually as they
originally appeared.  I have simply placed the username in brackets, followed
by the title of the message when appropriate.  This was to leave things less
cluttered.
    Occasionally, there is a notation "post production" on a message.  These
were written after the fact to fix continuity errors or to clarify something.
    Very occasionally, I have had to add something inside another person's
message.  These additions are marked off in brackets.
    Any modifications to an individual message -- except ones involving
punctuation or grammar -- were very minor and are purely for continuity.  For
instance, maybe someone put the wrong word in place, or got names switched
around.
    Other times, a poster may have misread the intent of an earlier message,
and later posters failed to notice the aberation and, having read that earlier
message RIGHT, continued the plot thread as that earlier message's writer
intended it be taken.
    I have modified any messages only as far as was necessary to correct such
mistakes.
    It became necessary, oddly enough, to change the order at which certain
segments appeared.  Certain scenes, as written, had to take place some time
after other events in the story.  For instance, one said it was taking place
some days after a certain story event, and yet was posted AMONG other segments
that were taking place within moments of each other, and set only a short time
after that same story event.  The appropriate scenes had to be moved closer to
the end of the story.
    The relevant scenes, focusing on Koala Bear and on The Insomniak, were
originally mixed in with the scenes involving the underground chamber, mostly
in chapter four.
    Plus, there were several scenes that were posted online while we were still
writing the tale, written to fix mixups by others, with notices on them saying
"This segment will be placed before such-and-such message."  I have put all
such segments into their indicated positions and deleted the placement remarks.
These appeared in chapters four and five.

                                       Nomad of Norad, September 1993


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    Chapter1          \
        through        | The story
    Chapter7          /
    Storylst.txt     List of the other Intrepid Group stories, in sequence