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Reverb, Chapter 15
Well, here's something to get the weekend started -- this is the last chapter of this story (well, novel . . . ).
There is still an epilogue to come, but no further cliffhangers. Those of you who have been waiting until it's finished can consider starting at this point; or wait till the epilogue is posted as well.
Anyone who still wants to make spoilery comments or discuss chapter 14, you can do so by clicking here.
Chapter 15 teaser:
Chapter 15: Direct Object
MacGyver sat at the big wooden table up in his cabin, hunched over the radio. He hadn’t fired up the stove yet and he was still wearing his heavy coat, although the cabin wasn’t all that cold in spite of having been left empty for a week. It had been designed to get the most out of passive solar heating, and he’d found several ways to improve the insulation. But the ambient temperature couldn’t touch or ease the chill inside himself.
Later, he’d have time to adjust to the drastic rearrangement of his mental furniture. Later.
Right now, he was listening to Nikki’s voice on the radio, in full tirade.
“MacGyver, what the hell is going on? You’re damned lucky I was still where they could get hold of me. I wasn’t expecting a radio check-in at all. Why didn’t you email me the – ”
“Nikki, the internet’s out.”
“Oh, for God’s sake. Don’t tell me your grandkids took your computer apart this time!”
“Nikki, watch what you’re saying for pity’s sake! They aren’t up here with me and you know that! Anyway, I can’t tell if the radio’s been booby-trapped or not, so I’m using the backup unit. Just in case.”
“Just in . . . you mean Felix Sandoval got up there? How?”
“I don’t know! I mean, I don’t know if he’s been here or not. But it makes sense. It’s what Murdoc would’ve done.”
“Oh God, Mac, get out now! The whole cabin could be a mass of traps!"
Chapter 15 is posted here, and the story actually starts here.
'Beth
August 2010
There is still an epilogue to come, but no further cliffhangers. Those of you who have been waiting until it's finished can consider starting at this point; or wait till the epilogue is posted as well.
Anyone who still wants to make spoilery comments or discuss chapter 14, you can do so by clicking here.
Chapter 15 teaser:
Reverb
Chapter 15: Direct Object
MacGyver sat at the big wooden table up in his cabin, hunched over the radio. He hadn’t fired up the stove yet and he was still wearing his heavy coat, although the cabin wasn’t all that cold in spite of having been left empty for a week. It had been designed to get the most out of passive solar heating, and he’d found several ways to improve the insulation. But the ambient temperature couldn’t touch or ease the chill inside himself.
Later, he’d have time to adjust to the drastic rearrangement of his mental furniture. Later.
Right now, he was listening to Nikki’s voice on the radio, in full tirade.
“MacGyver, what the hell is going on? You’re damned lucky I was still where they could get hold of me. I wasn’t expecting a radio check-in at all. Why didn’t you email me the – ”
“Nikki, the internet’s out.”
“Oh, for God’s sake. Don’t tell me your grandkids took your computer apart this time!”
“Nikki, watch what you’re saying for pity’s sake! They aren’t up here with me and you know that! Anyway, I can’t tell if the radio’s been booby-trapped or not, so I’m using the backup unit. Just in case.”
“Just in . . . you mean Felix Sandoval got up there? How?”
“I don’t know! I mean, I don’t know if he’s been here or not. But it makes sense. It’s what Murdoc would’ve done.”
“Oh God, Mac, get out now! The whole cabin could be a mass of traps!"
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Chapter 15 is posted here, and the story actually starts here.
'Beth
August 2010
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LOVED the story. Have to admit I'm bummed that Murdoc really is dead, though. I was holding out hope (until around Chapter 11 or so, I think) that he was actually still alive, somehow. Of course he wouldn't - couldn't - be and that's okay. It's just that I love the character, and his interaction with Mac, so much, it was a bitter pill to swallow. :-)
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On the other hand, since I also established that (at least in my Mac-verse) he didn't die until 1996, if I get a good juicy plot for a Murdoc story, all I have to do is set it earlier than that.
I actually didn't like Murdoc as a character until I got into writing this story. I found him, well, just too implausible. So I undertook to make him real, at least for me. And I ended up finding out what a damned fun character he can be to write, so I really did one on myself there!
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Some of the series episodes, especially in the later seasons, did try to have more realistic villains, I think.
I knew almost nothing about Michael Des Barres until I started writing this story; now I'm a fan. I stole some elements of his own background for Murdoc's backstory, along much the same lines of how RDA's own background infuses into both Mac and Jack O'Neill.
If you don't mind my asking -- in this story, how did Murdoc work for you in terms of reality? Not just the Big Challenge of presenting a plausible solution to the Not Dead Yet business, but handling Murdoc overall -- tyring to make him seem genuinely dangerous and creepy, not just pompous and laughable.
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And isn't Des Barres awesome? The guy has been thru some shit - both good and bad - but he seems like a genuinely nice person. Quite talented, too!