After Gwen had completely regained herself, she looked around the room.  It was rather dark, owing to the lack of windows, but something about it seemed halfway cozy.  As cozy as one could really feel when on the run, she thought.

Archi, closely followed by Robyn, came further into the room and sat by Gwen on the floor.

"This just occurred to me," Robyn began.  "If you didn't follow us here, how did you find us?"

"Thank the awesomeness that is Enrique," Gwen replied.  "I managed to find him in the back alleys.  He saw you guys, then told me how to find you.  He also mentioned LitPol might be in the area (and really, when are they not?), so I ran like there was no tomorrow."

She turned to look at the two, noticing how Archi's dolorous eyes stayed locked on her.  Gwen sighed with a small smile.  Although she knew full well that Archi had tipped off the officers at the Tower, there was just something about the Chief Squid that resonated with the Irish Pianist.

"Long time no see, eh Archi?" Gwen began, punctuating the question with a nervous laugh.  Archi attempted to smile, but the heavy sorrow won out.  "Look, Archi, I know you let spill that I'd break into the Tower, but it's forgivable.  It sounds insane, I know, but who isn't insane at this point?  You were worn down, you'd kind of lost it, I could see that.  Partially I take some of the blame for it; I should've stayed, I could've talked you into coming with me, us.  You needed somebody, but nobody recognized it.  Geez, I think I'm rambling now..."

"No no," said Archi softly.  "Go on."

"The point is, if there's no hard feelings on your end, there certainly aren't any on mine.  And even if there are a few hard feelings, my 'hard feelings radar' is completely clear."  She offered her hand to the Chief Squid with a smile.  Archi considered the hand for a moment, smiled, and smacked it in a firm high five.  Gwen laughed with a bit of relief.  It felt good to really laugh, momentarily free from the weight of the world.

In a flurry Archi fled from the room, but returned before anyone could exchange confused glances.  She dropped something thin and roughly book-sized in Gwen's lap, still smiling.  Cautiously the redhead flipped it over.  After a moment's inspection she squealed in excitement.  "Archi!  Where in hell did you find this?!"

"What is it?" Robyn inquired.

"It's an EveryBook!  You can find any book, pamphlet, pretty much anything ever published in the entire history of literature with this thing!" Gwen explained breathlessly.  With another squeal she threw her arms around Archi.

Kai looked a bit perplexed.  "That's great, but how will this help us now?"

"I did mention that this has unmonitored access to every single scrap ever published, right?  Both Internet and print stuff, books and periodicals, from mainstream publishers to underground presses.  We've been on the run so long, we don't know who's still out there, what's being said about who; besides, we still have to consider we know nothing about these Rippers or this Bard guy.  There has to be at least one underground snippet-ee-doo-da about those guys, we should find something about them before heading back out into hell."

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Author guidance for This story

This Author's Guidance is updated continuously... please take the time to read it as there is VITAL information there. Who is who, who is where, that sort of thing.

********BEFORE POSTING*********
**READ THE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS**

This helps you get a feel for the story. I know there's a lot, but if you don't you're going to miss stuff and we will loose the flow of the story. Until now we've done a good job and there haven't been too many glaring errors and they've generally been fixed quickly.

The basic premise is similar, creative/artistic minds are the outcasts of society. They're shunned, even hunted by the rest. And we, a literary society known as the Protagonizers, have formed a resistance movement.

Come as you, come as your protag-self, and let's stick it to the man!

********SOME SUGGESTIONS********
---> Mark all the posts relevant to your particular storyline as you go along.
IE: Asheyna and Afroferret are travelling together, I've (Asheyna) marked all posts written by us so I can find them easily and refer to them when writing.
---> If you're going to write and include other characters in your chapter there's two great options:
* Leave the ending open, allow them to respond to what you've introduced
* Confer with them before committing them to a course of action
* Neither of these are necessary, just something to consider when writing as you may be unaware of an ongoing plot-line that is developing behind the scenes between other authors
---> Last but not least, aim for continuity, whether it's character personality or events in the story.

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The Story So Far (July 2)

Sly - on the move with Pvt Addams

*Unknown Hideout - New Safe?*
Darkliquid, Robyn, Kai, Gwen, Archi, Druidx
-Dru appears unable to speak... is she having a change of heart?

Raven - formerly Bluejay, met up with her father, heading to Eastern Canada to get new ID?

Asheyna and Afro - trapped by LitPol on a train
-Afro just revealed to be former agent, has be betrayed them?

*Bard's Hidout*
Brenden, Spockeh and crew
-the Bard has been helping Spockeh et al? can he be trusted? is he really the Bard?

*In a hospital*
Faltarego - unclear as to what's going on around him... no ID to tell the hospital staff who he is.

*RIP*
Bluejay's guard
Eloosive
"Bluejay"
Jack

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Further Guidance:
The Protagonists are a non-violent group. They stand for creativity and free expression. While they have no clear set "mission" they are attempting to remind people what it used to be like. Showing people beauty in art, literature and music.

After their main meeting place, The Safe, was compromised by Spockeh he was instructed to blow it up (taking a few LitPol with it). A new building is now needed for the Safe, as well as a method to alert other Protagonists as to it's location.

updated Jul 2 '09 by Asheyna