Comments from the archivist:

    This is the long-delayed "second" villain story.

    (Actually, it was the third:  There was another "second" villain story that
was abandoned unfinished, by majority decision, because it got too flipping
crazy, and had The Villain doing things that were completely out of character
for him.  The people also decided that that incomplete Villain story "never
happened," in effect making it non-canon.)

    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.
    Other than the above, any modifications to an individual message -- except
ones involving punctuation or grammar -- were very minor and are purely for
continuity.  For instance, once or twice someone put the wrong name in place,
say, swapping names accidentally in a scene. (Example: "A few minutes later,
Doid came in the room dragging Doid by his foot.")  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 also maybe one or two messages deleted from the story, they had
no bearing on the tale, though.

                                       Nomad of Norad, August 1993