Thinking about
Mood:  irritated
Topic: A Passage
I've been reworking the prologue to "A Passage" by going into Riddick's thoughts and background. This section is based around Butcher Bay at the start of the game. I'm tempted to play the game again to get the entire thing focused in my mind again. Not to mention that there are some great screenshots I could get from the game. Ah... I've got time, yeah?

One thing I wanted to do was to go into Riddick's childhood some. It would be nice if I could remember the timeline I and several others worked out on PlanetSlam.com. I think I remember most of it and with some research I could pull it back together.

What does this have to do with "A passage"? Well for one I'm planning to extend chapters as I repost them. Eventually I'll put the new ones up at Fanfic.net too, if the site lets me. So far this week it hasn't. Grrr...

The prologue is 3700 words. My limit per chapter will be 10,000. Some of my expansions have really pushed that while others have fallen far short. It's not that I want to be excessively wordy or anything but I feel that reading something 'meaty' makes it worth the wait if I cannot update but once a month, or something...

So my goal for the prologue is to combine the Butcher Bay outline / plot with the "Johns' Chase Log" and the "Slam City" re-enactment leading upto the point where Jack enters the story. By doing this I might run over my limit and end up with a pre-first chapter to the version I've already posted. I guess if it makes it a better story then the adjustment is worth it.

Slams Riddick's escaped from.
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Intel on Riddick's 'Verse
I've been itching to get this down again.

Here's the list as I know: Mind you, most of the intel here comes from the Pitch Black and CoR movie sites. The "Black Box" re-enactment, the "Slam City" webtoon, and the "Hunt for Riddick" flash game all give lists of the prisons Riddick's escaped from. I've got screen caps of them.

The "Hunt for Riddick" game actually provides two lists. One of them, the first one from Toombs, shows the same slams that Johns provides as part of the "Black Box" data on the Pitch Black site. The second one is unlocked through the course of the game and is keyed to Riddick's DNA rather than his name.

This is important as it ties to the Pitch Black book that says Riddick's first trip to prison was "deep storage" after he ratted out on the Company over something that happened on Sigma 3 (See page 27 of Frank Lauria's novel).

Going by that unlocked info I deduce that Riddick spent his first "nearly 3 years" in deep storage (Which according to EFBB is triple max cryo containment), in this prison, accounted for by only a DNA sample. The Company wanted to lose him and the evidence he'd collected. Makes me wonder what happened...

Oh, I imagine you want the goods, huh?

Right. Let's work from the older stuff first.
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Here you see the screen from the Black Box data found at the Pitch Black Movie Site (Check out my links on the left if you want to double check it)


Now here's Toombs data from "Hunt For Riddick" before the other records are unlocked.


And After... Notice the "Altiar Prison Network" on there? That's new.

So Here's what I've got:
Altiar is the mysterious location of Riddick's "Deep Storage" time before he actually killed anyone.
Other slams he's been to include Slam City (Ursa Luna), Butcher Bay, Hubble Bay, Ribald S. Correctional, and Tangiers. And, of course, Crematora.

I think it's safe to assume that Riddick did spend 11 or so hours at Ursa Luna while on the run from Johns... After he ditched him from the escape at Butcher Bay. It's likely Riddick took goggles from there because he lost his at the end of EFBB. As to if Cutter actually gave Riddick a shinejob or not, well, that's another blog...

Background Data: Got that here!
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Intel on Riddick's 'Verse
Alright!

I just spent all day building this webpage. I've neglected my cats in favor of teaching myself how to write html. Can you believe that? Me either. Amazing.

On my old homepage there was a small group of us that debated several topics in the Riddick 'Verse. Top of these were the role of the mysterious 'company' Sol Trak and others. Another hot topic was the eyeshine. Of course Riddick's background and the number of slams he'd escaped from and their security level also occupied us. I worked up a timeline for Riddick's life at one point along with a list of slams he was known to be held in. I've got the research still and plan on attempting redoing them.

One final thing: I have chapter 26 of "A Passage" finished and for some reason cannot upload it to Fanfic.net. If this remains a problem I shall post the entire story here for my readers. See... I knew I shoulda done this from the start.

My Homepage
Mood:  a-ok


My old homepage seems to be dead. I'm sad to see it go but folks just didn't seem to stick with it. My solution is to make a page of my own for my story. It's a blog format clearly because I, um... suck. But that's another issue altogether, hehe.

This entire undertaking is designed around my addiction / obsession with the Pitch Black / COR mythos. For several years now I've fought with voices in my head that are seeking to tell the story of Jack B. Badd (or Audrey according to the original script and book) and Richard B. Riddick as well as answer questions raised by the strange choices that led to a different actress taking up the mantle of Kyra, who is supposed to be Jack. Bah.

I've got theories of my own, timelines, info, facts, links... Heck I've got picture evidence and books too. I aim to prove that Kyra and Jack can co-exist and that they might not be the same person after all.

Interested? Check out "A Passage" at "A Passage" on Fanfic.net. If you came here from there have a heart and give me a few days. I'll be posting the story here, hopefully with new details and supporting evidence.

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