Katia Roman for helping me start and run Ficta for years...
And lastly, Shaun McWhirter for not hating me eternally.
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Introduction by the Author
Katia and I started this little role playing game in 1998. We had known each other for a year or two and did other RPGs. We only did them with two other people: Heather Barbaria and Shaun McWhirter. Katia informed us one day that Shaun had been cyber-cheating on Heather and he instantly became our greatest enemy. As revenge for Heather and ourselves, we created the so-called �Anti-Shaun Fiction,� later shortened to the Latin for fiction- Ficta. It was a story about two X-Files-like FBI agents called, then, Allison Kilgore (later Alyssa Kilgore after it was discovered that a porn star had this same name) and Katie Gharradey. They chased after Shaun in an attempt to get revenge for murders he had committed in their youth and recent murders. During this three-month long story line, Katia was killed twice, there were heavy sexual scenes with Katia�s characters, and Allison expertly killed Shaun. These were the good days of Ficta. We should have killed it then, but after that �Strawberry Summer,� we continued. Katie got married to several people (Jonny Gharradey, Matt [no last name given], Justin Timberlake, Bogden Roman, Joseph Roman, and, lastly, Robert Lago). The cases dwindled. Suddenly all the FBI agents did was play practical jokes on each other and put random spy cams everywhere. In the hopes of rekindling Ficta, we created new lives for our characters. Katie was a selfish model and Alyssa was her FBI bodyguard. Katie was a newbie agent and Alyssa was the seasoned veteran of the Bureau. Lastly, both of the girls were students at the illustrious Oxford University in England that grew up to become FBI agents.
All good things die, that is known. Ficta has come to this point.
Unfortunately, Katia and I don�t correspond much anymore. Instead of letting these beautiful people die unseen, I will give them a hopefully eloquent ending. It�s been fun, Katia. Anyone who reads this, I want you to realize that these characters have been my projections of happiness for years. Alyssa has been my window to things I cannot do.
I hope to continue this, whether with or without my true friend Katia.
Katie, I hope this ending satisfies you. Medlin-sama, I hope you enjoy
this and perhaps will see that I really can write, even if my poetry analysis is really bad. Sarah, Whitney, Adam, Joel, Jaclyn� thanks you guys. I love you like family (and you love me because I give you bread!). Mihoshi, Luna, Thara... I�m so sorry we�ve been reduced to only corresponding on the Internet. I love you like I love Shinohara Tomoe! Heather... I don�t know what I can say� your sweetness is too hard to put into words. You are such a geek ^^!
Read, enjoy. Remember- I am not insane; I just write like I am.
Ficta now dies. May it be graceful.
-Mei�ri Stillwell-
Chapter One
