Contents of this archive:

    Comments       >         This file

    Guns1          \
    Guns2           >        Book One
    Guns3          /

    Intermission   >         Intermission

    Jumping1       \         Book Two
    Jumping2       /

    Storylst.txt   >         List of this and other stories in sequence


Comments from the archivist:

    This is the original "Villain" story, the major classic first Intrepid
Group story which started off a long series of inter-related stories on
CommHex.
    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, some 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.

    When putting together this collection of archives, I had originally
intended to wait until I had them all ready before releasing them.  But it
became necessary to release the later ones first.
    The reason I sat on this one was because I did not have all of the
original messages.  You see, I had made the mistake, in earlier releases of
this first story, of deleting the message-headings.  This was because all of
the other stored BBS stories I had seen didn't have such things, and it never
occured to me that the headings might be important.  I always deleted them out
of hand as extraneous.  Actually, the other preserved stories I had seen had
generally been written by individuals rather than groups, unlike the stories I
collected, so any message headings with those, if such had existed, were less
important, anyway.
    Now, I DO have SOME of the messages, but only of the later part of the
story, not the beginning.  I was going to wait until I found someone else that
had this material, and I may still find someone.
    But I got tired of waiting.  I decided to partially restore this thing.
You will notice that the first two "chapters" of the story, part one and two
of "Gun's Don't Kill, Bullets Do!" do not have the headings restored.  But the
third chapter does, as do both chapters of "Jumpin' Jehosiphat!"

    When I got into this restoration, I discovered some material I had deleted
from the original.  It was not really part of the plot, per se, but it was
part of the story, sort of.  It came after the major cliffhanger at the end of
"Guns Don't Kill..." and before the beginning of "Jumpin' Jehosiphat!" Trouble
is, putting it back into Chapter Three of "Guns..." would have lessened the
impact of the cliffhanger, and it would have been a distraction if added to
"Jumpin' Jehosiphat!" so I left it seperate and called it "Intermission."


                                       Nomad of Norad, October 1993