White Rabbit: Notes
1) This story is not your typical Pantheon story. It starts in the middle of the Outsider's Arc ("Dreamweaver", "True Believers", etc.) and ends twenty-to-thirty years before most of the Pantheon action takes place. It's almost all canon characters with the Pantheon leads eventually appearing as children... Let's just say it bridges the two series.
2) Because of the time frame (roughly 2000-2013), the story makes reference to a lot of events that are unexplored Pantheon and Outsider Arc canon -- they exist, but Alicia hasn't written out their stories yet -- and followers of both series will recognize many of them. HOWEVER, I'm pretty sure that this story can be understood and enjoyed by those who have not read either series.
3) The ownership/usage issues of this story should come with a flowchart: Marvel is the originator. The Outsider's Arc and Pantheon concepts and universe are Alicia McKenzie's ideas and most of the characters created therein (especially Sulven) are hers, with the exception of Dana Hawkes-Guthrie and her kin who in turn belong to Cascade (and thanks to her for their usage). Everyone else can be blamed on me. This is textual poaching and no material profit is either sought or achieved.
4) This story is more than 200,000 words split over 31 chapters. It will be posted one chapter per day. The full story is already archived at the websites listed above.
Author Notes:
Want to watch someone go slowly crazy? Watch them write a long story. Want to go crazy yourself? Volunteer to help iron out the kinks.
My thanks to Alicia for serving as my interactive Pantheon/Outsider's Arc encyclopedia, for graciously allowing me to be the basis for her own canon, for reading segments as they were churned out, and *especially* for dealing with the infinite variations of paranoia that strike me from every angle once I cross the 100,000-word mark. I marched into this universe and did my own little Sim City on it and it took tremendous faith on Alicia's part to let that happen.
Equally grateful thanks go to Sevenall, who served as beta reader extraordinaire. (I wanna be a beta like her when I grow up.) Not only did her enthusiasm buoy me through the long, dark winter of this puppy's writing process, but she also parsed without mocking my occasionally torturous syntax (tense shift!) and oft-convoluted narrative. Writing a story as long as this one is a lonely road and Sevenall can take pride in it not ending with me in a rubber room. Tack så mycket. All errors, however, are mine alone because I often fail at following directions.
And now on with the show.....
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