patentdragon | New "Developments" ;-) (Reply)

In Today's Episode... Mariella looks back on the events chronicled in "Coming Home", and wonders what these, and other events mean for her. And in the meantime, just why is she needed elsewhere...?

Release Notes... Expect the design of Mariella's blog to be refined over time.

Development News... Here we go - the development cycle for the remainder of Darkhawk Season 6 is underway, and one of the first results is that the next story, TDD-605 "She Returns", will have two separate story threads, with equal importance as The Unified Response prepares for direct confrontation with The Pandemonicum.

I've dug out an old Confederacy time-line file to help this process, but already, there are several digressions from what has been actually written, such as the circumstances of Salya's rescue from The Lost Gods - if it's already "on the books" (for either The Darkhawk Diaries, or The Secret Adventures of Mane-of-Night), it's official, and the previous version is consigned to the realms of "What If?". It's interesting how things have developed since the earlier material.

Meanwhile... Oh great - the attraction of the New Year sales are going to be rather blunted by the upping of VAT back to 17.5%. So far, there's no indication that the scope of Value Added Tax is going to be expanded (exempted currently are (I think) books, childrens clothes and food), and no hint that Gordistair are going to pull a fast one, and grab some extra tax off us all...