Long ago and far away, some of us at alt.fan.asprin were writing a round-robin collaborative fan-fic piece, based on Robert Lynn Asprin's then-defunct 'Mythadventure' fantasy/comedy novels. If you don't know who Robert Lynn Asprin is, go check out my handy-dandy FAQ page. I contributed some chapters to this story, and, doing my best Phil Foglio imitation, also drew a picture for each chapter.

The fan-fic eventually trailed off and died. I decided this wasn't acceptable, and wrote an epic multi-chapter ending on my own.

This story takes place after Mything Persons, and sort of spins off from there into a alternate timeline from the official books, particularly when my chapters get going. Certain background details are different from the orginal stories as well.

Below you will find the original 13 chapters of the story, my 13 drawings for those chapters, and my ending, which I called 'Myth Communication'. There are no drawings for the 'new' chapters, but who knows; maybe someday I will get inspired and ambitious.

Disclaimers...

• If you don't like the ending I wrote, write your own and post it.
• If you want remember the original story as it ended with the 13 chapters, don't read my ending.
• If you have moral and/or legal objections to the concept of fan-fiction, please leave now.
• If any lawyer-types in positions of authority ever come after me for posting this stuff, it'll be yanked so fast it'll make your head spin, so enjoy it while you can.
• Before posting the original chapters, I did do a spot of grammar and spelling correction, even to the extent of adding a single line here and there to clear up the narrative flow. However, no new plot has been added, and several minor contradictions and inconsistancies remain, as a token of the fact that several authors worked on this thing.
• I came up with an opening quote for each of the four original chapters which didn't have one.
• IF YOUR WORK APPEARS HERE AND YOU DO NOT WISH IT TO, PLEASE CONTACT ME AND I WILL REMOVE IT.
• IF I HAVE MISIDENTIFIED ANY OF THE AUTHORS, PLEASE CONTACT ME AND I WILL CORRECT IT.

Also... another a.f.a. denizen wrote a short Myth story called 'The Naked Truth', and posted it to the group. Here is the picture I drew for this story.

THE ORIGINAL CHAPTERS	MY ENDING
Chapter 1	Chapter 14a	Chapter 24a
Chapter 2	Chapter 15a	Chapter 25a
Chapter 3	Chapter 16a	Chapter 26a
Chapter 4	Chapter 17a	Chapter 27a
Chapter 5	Chapter 18a	Chapter 28a
Chapter 6	Chapter 19a	Chapter 29a
Chapter 7	Chapter 20a	Chapter 30a
Chapter 8	Chapter 21a	Chapter 31a
Chapter 9	Chapter 22a	Chapter 32a
Chapter 10	Chapter 23a	Chapter 33a
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13

If you want to read the story all in one fell swoop, you have various options.. .txt files. Just the text, which can be read either with your internet browser, or with something like Windows Notepad or Wordpad. original chapters and my chapters. .pdf files. Thanks to the generous efforts of a site visitor, these have been assembled to look as much as possible like an official Starblaze-era print-and-ink MythAdventure novel, with my illustations included. You can either read them as-is, or print out the pages and make an actual book out of them. NOTE: These are large files and can only be accessed with a copy of Adobe's Acrobat program. original chapters or all the chapters And here's a cover if you should want it. .zip file. The original-chapter drawings. Needs a program like WinZip to open.

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All MythAdventure characters, concepts, titles, etc. © Robert Lynn Asprin.
All original chapters © 1998 their respective authors.
Anything left over after that is © 2000 Robert M. Cook.
Drawings created with JASC's Paint Shop Pro.
Last Updated June 29, 2000.