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Aunecah_Skywalker Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 10/29/02 9:23am Subject: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 4 11.18.02] (Special Announcement) - Date Edited: 1/1/03 12:44pm (5 edits total) Edited By: Aunecah_Skywalker
	Well, I was going to write an AU OT story, but this idea just came to me, and since I foresee as this being shorter than the other one, I thought I would write this one first. This takes place only a month or two after Mara and Luke got married. Some of you might be familiar with my dislike toward Mara, but have no fear. I'm not going to turn her into a whiny teenager who isn't good at anything. I'll try to stay true to her character. Summary: Luke and Mara and Han and Leia get stuck in a virtual reality game that might be more real than the rest. (gasp) Author's Note: //...// = conversations through the Force. ~...~ = thoughts. Disclaimer: The usual. I don't steal toys. I'm only play with them. I'm currently putting this 'fic on hold. I started this to teach myself how to write action better, but I've just come to realize how uninteresting a story is if all that there ever is in the story is action. At any rate, DRL struck again, and I don't have time to concentrate on more than one 'fic at a time. Aunecah
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Aunecah_Skywalker Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 10/29/02 10:11am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H)
	Yay, I got a post done! . . . . “Thank you so much for coming, Your Excellency.” The old man bowed to his waist, appearing genuinely thrilled that the Rebellion’s heroes and the New Republic’s founders were to attend his show. Today was the one hundredth anniversary of the Virtual Reality Games Company, and hence a game show of special splendor and magnificence was thrown together for the pleasure of the millions of audience watching. “The pleasure is mine, Mr. Shûngü,” Leia Organa Solo replied smoothly, her face shining with a smile more radiant than the sun. Ever the ambassador that she once was and will always remain, Leia made sure her eyes were fixed on their host—at least most of the time. Her husband, however, was not the one to be bogged down by such niceties. “Lando!” he exclaimed as soon as he spotted his old friend amidst several delegates standing a respectful distance behind Mr. Shûngü. Completely oblivious to Leia’s scowl, he moved forward to shake hands with Lando. Leia would have that, after heading several governments or organizations for years, Lando would have shown some humility or reluctance in meeting Han, but, for once, the other seemed to have forgotten everything he might have learned in the near past about rules of etiquette and decorum. Leia smiled thinly at Han, and then looked at Shûngü, forcing her false smile to enlarge as she tried to find some suitable words to explain her husband’s behavior. “It has been a long time.” “I understand, Your Excellency,” said Shûngü. To his credit, his smile never wavered. “In fact, I believe your husband’s friend, uh, already … volunteered to show you your rooms.” His tone suggested that Lando ordered, blackmailed, or threatened him rather than volunteered himself into service. Leia couldn’t think of anything to say that wouldn’t give away her feelings on the matter, so she kept quiet. Suddenly, Shûngü said, “I mean no disrespect, but why hasn’t Master Skywalker arrived yet?” He suddenly looked at her with the excitement draining away from his face. “He is coming, is he not?” “He most certainly is,” Leia acknowledged. “He just happens to be on Yavin IV.” “Ah, I see.” He looked distracted. Leia noticed how his eyes seemed to keep slipping over to something or someone behind her, though Leia doubted it was any other honorary guest. “I suppose you would like to go to your rooms and get ready for the afternoon?” Leia nodded courteously, clearly taking the politely-worded dismissal signal for what it was. Shûngü looked at Lando, who promptly nodded. Han and Leia followed him away from Shûngü and the rest of the delegates who had come to receive them, and Shûngü started in the opposite direction. Leia could distantly feel his nervousness. She peered behind her shoulder, wondering who Shûngü was so eager to meet, and got a glimpse of a tall, burly man with dark hair before they both disappeared into an alley. “Leia?” “Hmm?” Leia looked at her husband to see that both he and Lando were giving her strange looks. She decided to save them the trouble of finding the words. “I just got a feeling that something is happening behind the scenes. That’s all.” “Something is always happening behind the scenes,” Lando pointed out. Leia opened her mouth to retort, but Han got there first. “Well, yes, buddy, but when Leia says she’s got that kind of a feeling, you better believe it. Last time she had it, we ended up being chased by two dozen stormtroopers.” “Nothing is going to happen to you two, as long as you are in my ward,” Lando said, chuckling slightly and shaking his head. “I have heard that before,” Han answered grudgingly. “Yeah, but this time it’s true.
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Jedi_Liz Title: Former CR Lincoln NE, USA Registered: Apr '00	Date Posted: 10/29/02 10:34am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 1 10.29.02] - Date Edited: 10/29/02 10:44am (1 edits total) Edited By: Jedi_Liz
	This looks interesting. Make sure you tell the fan club that this story is now starting.....and since it does have Luke and Mara.........you can add a link to the Luke/Mara stories database (which can have stories with Han and Leia as characters to). I'll be watching closely. EDIT: Yes, and that's fine. Any Luke and Mara story - humorous or serious is welcome in the L/M stories database - its my creation after all. -----signature----- Current Fic: Lightswords of Fury: Special Edition - L/M Romance http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/24270936/ Chapter 19 posted on 7/21/08 Coming SOON: Mara Jade of Chandrila Grove Coming SOON to SAGA Fanfic
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Aunecah_Skywalker Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 10/29/02 10:39am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 1 10.29.02]
	Jedi_Liz : I figured you would get the first reply. I will do that, but you did read the part where I said this is not a serious Luke/Mara story, right? This is just a light-hearted (bordering on humor) story that I am using to shape up my skills. Well, if anybody cares, the next post will be up soon (in around half an hour). Aunecah
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Aunecah_Skywalker Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 10/29/02 10:43am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 1 10.29.02]
	And here it is. It's a shortie, but I felt I needed to break the scene right here. . . . . “You think it’s coincidence that these are our quarters?” Leia asked with a raised eyebrow. Outside, the city was a bustle of activity. The air traffic buzzed around like flies against the background of Bespin and the sun. “I have long since stopped believing in chance,” Han said, flopping onto the lone bed in their capacious room. He didn’t appear any less comfortable knowing that he was in the same room that he had been during his last visit to Cloud City, in the dark years of the Empire. “Don’t worry, Princess,” Han said in his typical roguish self. “This is my friend we are talking about. He is responsible now, remember? And respectable.” “At least as respectable as Lando can get, you mean,” Leia said diffidently. She sighed. “I don’t like this, Han. You never know what to expect with Lando.” ~It wasn’t as if she thought Lando would betray them again … No, it was Shûngü that was troubling her. There was something odd about him.~ Leia sighed again. It didn’t help that she had been against the idea from the very starting. If Han hadn’t insisted on this vacation, saying that they will never get another chance like this (and that they might as well seize the opportunity while it was still present), she would still be in the Senate on Coruscant, probably going through another round of empty babble and pointless debates. Leia was, she supposed, happy to get away from that boring routine for a change, but the nagging feeling in the back of her mind refused to relent, and kept begging her to leave (or to at least pay careful consideration before doing anything). “Leia?” Leia had a strange compulsion to look at the floor, and she did. Reflections of the early evening sun were playing on the floor, dancing in a brilliantly-choreographed ballet. “Hmm?” “I thought there was a reason why Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin are with Chewie.” Han’s voice was suddenly soft, permeating her dark mulling like warm water. She tore her gaze away from the floor to look at her husband, and saw him roll over on the bed to make space for her. He raised an eyebrow at her, and Leia felt a small smile playing on her lips. Giving the locked door a quick glance she strode over to the bed, laying next to Han, who came over his shoulder to look at her. “Forget about the rest of the galaxy for a moment.” He fingered her jaw. “I’ll try.” “Remind me to tell the kid to drill that ‘try’ quote of his into your mind.”
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Aunecah_Skywalker Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 10/29/02 1:47pm Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 2 10.29.02]
	Okay, I finally got the plot done. Well, at least as much plot as this story can have. There are going to be exactly eight posts after this, and I'm not going to be updating this story daily (as all those posts save the next one are going to be long). Aunecah
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Jedi_Liz Title: Former CR Lincoln NE, USA Registered: Apr '00	Date Posted: 10/29/02 1:50pm Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 2 10.29.02]
	cool, Aunecah. I think you got Han right......he always calls Luke "kid". -----signature----- Current Fic: Lightswords of Fury: Special Edition - L/M Romance http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/24270936/ Chapter 19 posted on 7/21/08 Coming SOON: Mara Jade of Chandrila Grove Coming SOON to SAGA Fanfic
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Aunecah_Skywalker Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 10/30/02 5:21am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 2 10.29.02]
	Jedi_Liz : Thanks. Aunecah
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Sologal Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 10/30/02 5:32am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 2 10.29.02]
	Great start Aunecah. I can't wait to see where you take this.
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Aunecah_Skywalker Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 10/30/02 1:06pm Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 2 10.29.02]
	Sologal : Thank you. Aunecah
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Jedi_Liz Title: Former CR Lincoln NE, USA Registered: Apr '00	Date Posted: 10/31/02 10:43am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 2 10.29.02]
	can't wait for the next post! -----signature----- Current Fic: Lightswords of Fury: Special Edition - L/M Romance http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/24270936/ Chapter 19 posted on 7/21/08 Coming SOON: Mara Jade of Chandrila Grove Coming SOON to SAGA Fanfic
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Ginger Registered: Jan '01	Date Posted: 10/31/02 10:52am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 2 10.29.02]
	Good start, I can't wait to read more. -----signature----- I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~ Rudyard Kipling
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Aunecah_Skywalker Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 10/31/02 11:11am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 2 10.29.02]
	Liz : You'll get one tonight or tomorrow morning. Ginger : Wow. New reader. [face_shocked] Well, now I have a wonderful beta-reader. (Yes, it is Seb . ) Aunecah
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Sologal Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 11/1/02 5:30am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 2 10.29.02]
	Up!
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Aunecah_Skywalker Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 11/1/02 6:05am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 2 10.29.02]
	Sologal : Thanks for the up. And here's a post. . . . . Luke and Mara turned up a couple of hours before the official beginning of the show. Shûngü decided to seize the initiative, and asked the four heroes if they would like a tour of the facilities in which the game was developed before the show began today. It came as a surprise to Luke when Shûngü announced that the game that was being played today would be completely new, not yet released. Anywhere up to ten people from the audience would be chosen to test-play the game before it was released tonight. The winner would be put in the VR Games: Hall of Fame as the first person to successfully complete it, and get the task of assigning an official title to this game. “The working title is Shadow Knife,” said Shûngü as he lead Luke, Mara, Han, and Leia through a maze of mostly-deserted corridors and into a walkway that lead to another building. Leia raised an eyebrow at him. Luke couldn’t quite tell if she was surprised or curious. “Oh?” “Because that is the objective of the game,” said Shûngü, “the Shadow Knife. We’ve decided that it is a working title precisely because the title is too stereotypic. There are at least a thousand games in last year alone that have the word ‘Shadow’ in them.” “Ah.” Leia gave her husband a strange look. Luke looked at her, storing it away in his mind to ask Leia when they were alone what that look meant. “And here we are, the most technologically-advanced gaming facilities in the entire galaxy.” Shûngü keyed open the door, and Luke found himself becoming more curious despite himself. His eyes met a brilliantly-lit corridor, from which large halls opened on either way. There were several people here already, wearing the gray uniform of the gaming company, working at either computers or holopods. In one hall, Luke thought he saw a human acting weirdly, sitting on all fours, and in the computer connected to the platform, it appeared as if a strange, ugly creature was doing all the moments. Some halls were taken over entirely by people who were testing the finished programs for any glitches or other technical problems. //You look like a child who found himself in the middle of raining chocolate.// Mara’s voice cut through Luke’s wonder. //I’ve never been in gaming facilities before,// Luke said sincerely. In fact, he hadn’t even played any VR game before. //We simply had neither the technology nor the credits necessary to go buy games, back on Tatooine. My only form of entertainment came from video games … or racing.// //Racing?// Mara’s interest seemed to perk up. //Begger’s Canyon,// Luke explained. //I used to race a lot until I once smashed my speeder useless, and Uncle Owen refused to buy me anymore speeders.// //Serves you right.// Luke glared at her, but didn’t retort. “What does Your Excellencies think?” “Amazing,” Leia said unabashedly. “What’s that?” She was pointing at a holograph in one room. A creature with glowing-red eyes, two tusks, and many dense whiskers coming out of it’s snout was prowling around on a platform, looking at the operators in the room menacingly, as if it wished to kill them one by one. “Oh, that’s our newest creation,” said Shûngü. “The Torantula. Very powerful, very fast, and very dangerous.” He smiled mysteriously. “But wait, the show is about to start. We must go.” . . . . And the game begins, in the next post. Aunecah
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Jedi_Liz Title: Former CR Lincoln NE, USA Registered: Apr '00	Date Posted: 11/1/02 8:16am Subject: RE: Shadow Knife (Virtual Reality Game - L/M L/H) [Post 3 11.01.02]
	great post! I have a feeling about what is going to happen. -----signature----- Current Fic: Lightswords of Fury: Special Edition - L/M Romance http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/24270936/ Chapter 19 posted on 7/21/08 Coming SOON: Mara Jade of Chandrila Grove Coming SOON to SAGA Fanfic
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