The Metal Gods Update by Jay Neale III produced by EEK! Text & Graphics Welcome to our Fourth Digital Web Edition! You can find the back issues of this fine publication by using the links on this page, so if you are new to the Metal Gods Chronicle or the StoryTeller System in general, please feel free to browse at your leisure. What's Goin' On? We've had an intersting month. This time, however, the cause was a bit more sinister than Jay visiting the lovely Kahira in Toledo. This time that brilliant woman, Diann, Jay's Ex-Wife, decided that leaving a $30,000 + a year job (not including bonuses), leaving the great state of Texas, moving to Kansas to take a job as a secretary (which she had not secured before the move) and living in her sister's basement would be the most logical step in an oh-so-logical series that has left her owing money to just about every human being she knows, including, but not limited to the $1,000 she borrowed from Jay's mother and never paid back. Oh, and did we mention that she took Jay's six-year-old son with her? Small oversite, won't happen again. YES! She moved Trevor to Kansas. To actually live there (we hear that people do live in Kansas but have yet to see any real proof). Trevor had his father (Jay), two grandmothers, two great-grandmothers, two aunts, one uncle, a great-uncle and several cousins living within driving distance of his former home in Fort Worth. In Kansas he has his mother and one aunt. And Diann's reason (at least the one she's admitting to) for moving him? "He needs to be closer to his family." That's a direct quote. Swear to God! And someone gave this woman a degree. The last day Trevor and Jay were together was Thursday, October 10, 1998. Trevor will be home for Christmas. Also on Oct. 10, Kahira surprised Jay by showing up at the airport where he was told he was picking up his friend, Tony. She flew in from Toledo at 10:45 PM, and it seems that 8 or 10 people, including Jay's sainted mother, conspired to spring this wonderful surprise on him. She felt that since Trevor was leaving so suddenly that Jay shouldn't be alone for the first couple of days. Her efforts were greatly appreciated, though some of the neighbors might have a slightly different view of the matter after that second evening. ••• Cornelius Moore had a dream. Two of them, really. The first was a flash-back to the attack in the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens that resulted in the deaths of his wife and children at the hands of a gang of white supremists. The second... well the second was not so much a dream as it was a warning of what the world could be like without people such as Mr. Moore (no Monty Python reference to be inferred). He was witness to a world in which everone was treated equal... they were all opressed, forced to dress in unform "fashion" and had absolutely no say in the way the world was being run. All this at the whim of the controling faction, the I.P. "Blackened: An Adventure in Mind" took place at the end of summer, 1998, just after Cornelius was invited to live with Gwen, Kris, Sarah and Daniel in their new chantry house in Flower Mound, Texas. ••• Daniel, Sarah, Paula, Gwen and Kris, soon after an experience the would like to forget, stumbled into a real mess. They have had many questions of late concerning a winged thing that claims to have a deal with Sarah guaranteeing him her soul in one year. And in the midst of this a little boy named Chuckie was chased down by three Fomori in the back yard of their new home/chantry in Flower Mound, just north of Fort Worth. The boy was saved and returned to his parents (less than two miles away), but later that evening his family's house burned to the ground killing him and his father. The mother was charged with this crime after she claimed that her husband and son were possessed and she was freeing them with fire. That same day the Troupe had received a letter from someone called "J.D." telling them they had less than 24 hours to live. Much talk insued, many ideas were bandied about, but little was done to find the person who had written the note (a letter in the same hand was found on one of the Fomor that attacked Chuckie, the little boy), and during breakfast the next morning a man appeared in the chantry to inform all present that they had been poisoned and would soon die. Kris put Daniel in contact with a man named Merlin Jones who did what he could to save the Troupe but, tragically, Gwendolyn Norsworthy did not survive the experience. She has finally gone to her lover's arms and will suffer no more on this plane. "Force 10" and "Force 10 Squared" took place one week after "Blackened." R.I.P. Gwen... you will be missed. ••• Special Note: Saturday, November 21 was the night of the P-1 party at the home of the lovely Bridget, whose slinky black-clad form matches her sultry voice perfectly (if I had a picture I would have put it up here...sorry). While it wasn't Nut-to-Butt all night long it certainly was entertaining. Thanks to her and all in attendance for a great evening which no-one outside the 11.5 would understand. And if you are wondering what "P-1" and "11.5" are then you aren't one of them. So there. ••• By the way... the background on this page is called TLN0007 and was created with some rather extensive help from Trevor, Jay's son. We hope you enjoy it as much as Jay and Trevor enjoyed the creation process.  Trevor, 10/22/98, the last time Jay saw him. "I love you, Trevor. I will see you in December."  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