Comments from the archivist:

                This is "Time and Time Again" and is a sequel
                to "Chessmen of the Apocolypse"

                It is the last completed story ever written on
                CommHex BBS.  The end of an era.


    Here come the borrrrring formatting comments.  These paragraphs are all
more or less the same as in the Comments for the other archived stories.
    You may skip or skim the next six paragraphs if you've read those.

    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.
    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.

    There were some segments that needed to be expanded upon.  One, for
instance, was a scene with Devastator aboard his starship, in the midst
of a space battle.  He had things that should have been in seperate places
all connected together in a jarring sort of way, and left other things
too vague, though he thought they were not vague.  I have corrected the
scene, under his guidance.
    I have also somewhat rewritten the ending, or rather, I have expanded on
an ending that was rushed and that didn't seem to do justice to itself.  I
had the freedom to do this rewrite because, actually, *I* wrote the original
ending!  :-)

                                       Nomad of Norad, January 1994


Contents of this archive:

    Comments            This file
    Time1            \
        through       | The story
    Time5            /
    Alternate.Ending    The original, less satisfying ending.
    Afterward           Closing comments by me about the end of the tale
    Storylst.txt        List of the other Intrepid Group stories, in sequence