Before - Legends Epistles to a Master (JA, AU, Qui/Xanatos/Obi) - *Complete, 03/01/08*

This is quite simply, fantastic!

Really made me grin from ear to ear, Xanatos simply has no shame!

and little Obi was soooo adorable!

I shudder to think of what future descendents of the Solo clan might inflict upon the Republic. And hope that Obi-Wan, at least, has the good fortune not to come into contact with any of them.



Oh please do add me to the PM list! This is delightful!

 

Love all you guys for the great feed-back - I'd be lost without you. Will reply individually (I promise, after this post) - I figured you needed this.

A short one...but I'll be back with more.

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Message No: 675474pplk
Time: 254.59.08
Sender: Jinn, Qui-Gon [Affiliation: Council-Member (Jedi Order)]
Recipient: DeCrion, Xanatos [Affiliation: Knight (Jedi Order)]
Subject: Your new mission

***************BEGIN ENCRYPTED MESSAGE****************


Xan,

I trust you?ve reached your destination safely. Thank you for informing me about when Obi-Wan will reach Coruscant. You may call Solo?s ship a creaking bucket of nuts and bolts?but it works, my padawan, it works. And that is all I require, at the moment. I?m sure Captain Solo will escort Obi-Wan safely. I had hoped to see you as well, but that must wait until your mission on Mersa is ended.

I received a half-letter from Obi-Wan, before the message was interrupted. It appeared that he wished to ask something?a visit to the Temple gardens on his return, perhaps. I must teach him in the ways of spelling before he disgraces himself and his master. Not to mention the ways of technology. To have every message littered with error warnings cannot be a good thing?imagine his plight when he?s forced to encounter more advanced forms of communication ? a holo-recording, perhaps. I don?t want him to end up like Captain Solo, after all.

Padawan Muln wishes to communicate his compliments on the successful conclusion of negotiations at P?abar. I did not urge him to do so ? he did it of his own volition. You appear to have assumed the enviable position of the greatest Jedi he is acquainted with. (He knows three, including his crèche Master ? and I am the second.)

Aside from the fact that everyone at the Temple heaves a great sigh of relief at your extended absence, there?s nothing else to report. Masters Koon and Mundi have undertaken the Penance of Solitude, which means that the rest of the Council splits its sessions.

Yours,
Qui-Gon.

*******************END ENCRYPTED MESSAGE***************

Message No: 869689ght
Time: 256.62.08
Sender: Jinn, Qui-Gon [Affiliation: Council-Member (Jedi Order)]
Recipient: DeCrion, Xanatos [Affiliation: Knight (Jedi Order)]
Subject: Urgent - Respond At Once

***************BEGIN ENCRYPTED MESSAGE****************

Xan,

Please respond to this message at once. It has been three days since Obi-Wan?s start from P?abar, and he has not arrived at the Temple yet. I waited, keeping in mind Captain Solo?s erratic schedules, but I have been unable to trace him as well. There have been no weather anomalies severe enough to disrupt flight in any of the planetary systems they were to stop at. My bond with my padawan is tenuous. I do not deny that I?m uneasy.

Of your continued good health, I have no doubt. But the Council wishes to hear confirmation of your having reached your destination. I hope you will respond as soon as possible.

Qui-Gon.

*******************END ENCRYPTED MESSAGE***************

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Message No: 787457TPMCODED
Time: 258.64.08: Check-Time: 258.64.08
Sender: Piell, Even [Affiliation: Council-Member (Jedi Order)]
Recipient: DeCrion, Xanatos [Affiliation: Knight (Jedi Order)]
Subject: Assignment No. 99824-AeedW ? Acknowledgement mandatory

Notice: This message and all attachments herewith enclosed are the property of the Jedi Council and Knight Xanatos DeCrion. (Headquarters: Jedi Temple, Coruscant) Any attempt to intercept, hack, or learn details herein, will result in severe punishment under Senate Laws: Section 3565, Clause 345(Ivt), Protection of Galactic Affairs (Matters Involving Jedi Intervention) Act, Year 4679BB.
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Oh no, what's going on?!

That was...oh no, come back and finish the post. That was scary. It was so terrible, that Qui-Gon started out as he always does, and then slowly, the transmissions became desperate and riddled with fear.

You...you are evil. But this, I already knew.

I loved it, of course. CAN'T WAIT for more.

 

~mouth hangs open in shock~

Master! What have you done!?

Where are Xani and Obi? Where????

~desperately waits for more~

 

LE: I am evil??? I could name some other authors who were masters of cliffies... but I suspect you don't want to hear about them. I shall come back with rest - when I've let you stew a bit. Besides, you're more worried about Obi, aren't you??

Thanks, dear!

Seven: Where are Xani and Obi, indeed. Patience, padawan mine.

River_Stone: <reminds self to clobber R_S for rampant plot-bunnies> Thank you, dear one. I'm truly honoured that you like my writing - . And here's your update. Small and evil, I hope. I need more cake for the longer ones! And you'd better repair your crystal ball. I'm beginning to see things...

shards of foretelling

You have a way with words.

Fluff-Slayer: To the sleepy, yet happy reader - has your mum reported to the Ministry yet? LOL. I love writing a witty Qui-Gon, and a sneering Xan.

Are we going to have a regular-chapter epilogue? *Smiles hopefully*)

Now you've planted a picture, and I can't get it out of my head! <She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-(On-the-boards)looks wrathfully at F_S> You might. I couldn't really say.

Thanks!

corellian-jedi: Lol about your cousin.

the computer's contracted 3 viruses, 'error' on my stereo (I didn't even know it could display that), and obscene diagrams on my graphic calculator. I could've killed some(one)thing!

It's to your credit that you haven't. You could teach Xan a lesson or two. He's boiling mad, at the moment. Obscene diagrams on your calculator...? I wonder how he managed that one...!

Thanks for reading!

maychorian: Obi-Wan writing to Xanatos...there you go, giving me more plot-bunnies. Ow. Ow.Ow. Well, at least Obi won't be writing to Captain Solo, and vice versa. I think.

Have I given myself more bunnies?

Thanks for reading, May!

Healer_Leona: <duly splanks Leona and enjoys it hugely, as self has never done this before>

to you, for that marvellous review. I foresee lots of Quigoyles in the not-so-distant future, dear healer.

Must take time to wipe down my computer

I loved that. What were you drinking, I wonder.

Thank you so much, dear one.

Lady_Snow_Kaguya: I wonder what Xan will do, too. Mumble and mutter and go mad in the Force. Thanks!

Musing: Thanks for th ups. I get warm fuzzies...that set me off on a post. Glad you liked it all. Thanks.

Jedi_Tigris: You're much too perceptive for your own good. Lol. Wait and see...and thanks for reading.

jediGrace: Thanks so much. As far as I know, Merrill Solo is my creation - though Han's ancestor could have made an entry in the EU. Dunno for sure.

Funny to think of Qui-Gon saving Obi-Wan's kid stuff to embarrass him with, like your mom showing your kiddie photos to your new boyfriend.

Qui-Gon can be quite vicious, when he chooses.

But it made me sad to think he wouldn't get to actually see Obi-Wan reach knighthood to show him.

So sure, are you? This is AU, after all...

Arwen-Jade_Kenobi: Han got his genes from someone...

Thanks.

PadawanKitara: Fit of delusion, yes. Exactly. Thanks for reading, PK.

Aya-Na_Bashu: Thanks.

astraevirgo: Do tell when you get a copy of 1138. And I'm glad I made your family sit up. And made you laugh hard. Humour is tricky - that's why I never write 'Humour' in the titles, since I?m never sure it will be funny. But I'm glad it works.

Qui's persistent, if nothing. He'll find a way...

Thanks!

forever_jedi: More bunnies...Temple gossip...you do know that Jedi don't gossip, don?t you? Don't you?

I wonder, though.

Thanks.

JOINME: We

 

Darn P_A, how did I miss your update?

Oh, dear. This is not good. I loved how you had Qui-Gon be a little worried, then a little more, then a lot worried. Great storytelling with the use of letters. I hope all is well but I doubt that Xan would ignore Qui-Gon for something simple.

Loved the dig about Garen in the first letter....LOL.

Great job. Keep going!

 

Oh dear!



what on earth has happened to Xan and Obi?



wonderful update! I too like how you conveyed Qui-Gon's worry...

and the comment about Garen...aww little cutie....

BUT I simply must find out what happened! and soon!

 

This thread is priceless.

And now I am sick with worry. Losing a six year old in a mall is bad enough. Losing him in a galaxy would put me in the little white house up on the hill.

 

*Updated!*

What happened to Xan and Obi? Or the bucket of bolts for that matter?

Argggh! You're killing me with the questions!

Cute sidenote about little Garen, though.

P.S. I cannot describe in detail the "graphs" that my cousin managed to draw on my calculator (heh - don't exactly want to get banned ) ... but let's just say that I've never managed to come up with results like that with any of the sets of data I've plotted.

 

More more more!!!

You can't just leave us hanging like this! It's inhumane!

Hmmm... I don't suppose Captain Solo just got lost? Sidetracked by a game of sabacc where Obi ended up being part of the stakes? Oh, the possibilities...

 

My sisters, poor souls that they are having to put up with my obsessive tendencies and ability for new addictions, have both been pressed into reading this.

As it is Sunday, the one is not available for comment until her church day is over, but the other made the mistake of coming over between her meetings, and was dragged to read this darling familial thread.

My son, looking over her shoulder, began to laugh at something the ever adorable Obi-wan wrote and said it was the single funniest line he had ever read. Don't ask me which one, just pick anything in this thread.

Please, sir/ma'am we want some more

 

I have a very bad feeling about this...

What's happened to Obi? And why isn't Xan answering?? More soon!

 

Oh no - what's happened to Obi and Xan ?

I suppose the two possibilities are that they've both come afoul of some misfortune, or that Xanatos has turned, and kidnapped Obi ...

Why do I have the feeling that whatever Obi was trying to tell Qui, before he was cut off, is significant?

Great fic, P_A - I really love the unorthodox format.

 

Uh Oh this doesn't look good for Xan or lil' Obi-Wan

 

Have I told you lately how much I love this fic, talented authoress mine?

Very heart-wrenching. Poor little Obi, lost in the middle of a great big universe! (Or, perhaps, kidnapped!)

I'm struck by how much emotion you can render into so few and precise words. I can just picture Qui-Gon, hurrying out to meet a ship...

Pleaaaaaaaaaasee update faster this time!

(And, yes, Mother DID report me. I am currently in a holding cell at said Ministry. I wrote this letter with my tongue <I've been...restrained>, gave it to my owl, and sent it to Tilley, who must have typed it up for me if you're reading it now.)

Tilley's Word: And she drooled all over it, too. Ugh.

 

uh-oh....Obi got kidnapped ywt again, didnt he? That poor child..

Update soon! *hug*

 

~pouts as her master teases her and has yet to update again~

Master! This really isn't fair!

 

Uh oh, I have a bad feeling about this! I wonder how they got so sidetracked. Though, maybe little Obi just sneaked off to stay with Xan and then made some trouble with his technological skills.

I love how the messages go from lighthearted like before to increasingly worried. Nice job! Another update soon?

 

Oh no! What happened to little Obi?

Please update really, really soon!

 

Talk about killing your readers with suspense! You have captured the definition of EVIL by sucking us in with a sappy, sweet, mushy, funny little Obi story, and then the author just vanishes, leaving us (and poor Qui-Gon) wondering what the heck you did to our little tyke!!!! *grumbles*

...knows shes got it bad when the computer at work doesn't reload this link and just tells her "No, not yet! Back to work!"
*grumbles again*

 

We need a posty.

 

I knew it! I knew it!

Obi-Wan has followed Xanatos, hasn't he? He (stares into crystal ball) sensed he was in danger from something on the last mission and wanted to be with Xanatos to warn him/help? Or (looks again into crystal ball)he went to get a pizza...(looks again) with fries.

It worries me that Xanatos is not responding and that little Obi is also missing. What could have happened to them both? You must continue soon!

And the more plot bunnies that nibble at your limitless creativity, the better. So ha!

(wonders off to go second-guess other people's fanfictions and to trick them into writing more stories)

 

My my my Partner... you are very devious.

~begins to lay out bunny treats~

Perhaps we should see about attracting more bunnies...

~goes off to plot~

Seven

 

I missed the last update till now, thank goodness! How would I have made it through the past week if I'd been worrying over little Obi's disappearance! Please tell me there's more soon, the kid's gotta be found!

 

Ohh-kay, time to push this up top again.

It worked before, so there's a good chance it will again, right, ithesock? [-o|

I mean, we just can't leave poor little Obi in limbo. It's inhumane!