This is your narrator speaking. You know, that all seeing, all knowing entity who helps move things along, makes arch comments about the dire predicaments in which our heroes find themselves, and probably never tips the book sideways so that someone can escape a gruesome fate by sliding down a block of text. So now you've met our cast of characters...
...Maybe I should narrate them into a room with no exit and let nature take its course. Except of course I can't, since these stories are all true. Yes, Virginia, they all really happened. Swear to deity-of-your-choice. Assorted other characters will come and go, including perhaps some Red Shirts.* Probably I'll throw in various personages for no apparent reason who may not ever connect with the main thrust of our story at all.
[*For you non-Star Trek savvy readers, a Red Shirt is a minor character whose entire role is to die a plot-advancing death. So named due to the color of their tunics, their fate is obvious because a) they have never appeared on the show before, b) usually no one bothers to give them a name, and c) their death occurs within the first ten minutes of the episode.]
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