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(Message started by: Vikki on Nov 3rd, 2003, 5:40pm)
Title: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Vikki on Nov 3rd, 2003, 5:40pm
This thread may be needed if Lesley doesn't save Hilda...............


Part one is here (http://members.lycos.co.uk/thecbb/Lesley'sadventures.html)
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Catherine_B on Nov 3rd, 2003, 9:37pm
How about we make the punishment fit the crime tonight, and kill Lesley off by drowning her in our tears?

*too glum to be properly cruel*
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 3rd, 2003, 9:44pm
How's this for fitting the crime. We cut'n'paste bits of that horrible bit of Real CS and exchange Hilda for Lesley and then have a nasty confrontation between Lesley and EBD!
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Catherine_B on Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:05pm
Like this, you mean?


Quote:
“I have made an extensive study of pain, Lesley, one of the many things I have discovered is that, if someone is exposed to constant, unremitting, severe pain, the body becomes tolerant, the person develops a higher pain threshold and they can continue leading a fairly normal life.”

She stood up abruptly and walked to the door, “I will not allow that to happen to you,” she said softly, “you will never know how long the next bout of pain will last, or how severe it will be, you will never know when the next session will start....

The author smiled, “now it seems, instead of this being purgatory for me, I can create it for you, Lesley!”
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by KB on Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:21pm
Ooh, now that's fitting!!!
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Lesley on Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:24pm
Nothing that you do to me will make me feel any worse than I am already feeling. That final post with EBD and Hilda has been written for weeks, yet I found it exceptionally difficult to post it on the board.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by KB on Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:31pm
Plot bunnies can be controlled, Lelsey. The fact that you didn't stop yours shows that this is how you wanted the story to go. Equally, you could find a way out of this if you really wanted to - but I believe you don't.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:38pm
*starting to feel- just a little- sorry for Lesley*
*but on the whole agreeing with KB!!*
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Carolyn P on Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:44pm
I want to devise dreadful things and torture poor Lesley, but somehow just don't have it in me after reading that.

Part of me understands Lesely, what the plot demands it demands and sacrifices sometimes have to be made. I do think she could have managed it without that last cruel scene though. That seems wanton cruelty and I just want to make her face Hilda and Bill in some way and make her explain to them why she had to include that last scene, with Hilda's clear eyes drilling into her.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:53pm
Part of me sympathises too. The literary part can see that there's a certain rightness in Hilda being the one to not get through- that in a way it was inevitable. *BUT* as KB pointed out, PBs are PBs and can be controlled and we've all been begging for WEEKS that Hilda be spared. My only remaining hope is that she somehow be reunited with the school in the very last bit of the story, but even that hope is fading fast.
Emotionally, I'm so upset it's worrying!!!!!
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Catherine_B on Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:55pm
I think the awfulest thing is Hilda going on and on, and Bill not knowing.  It's just so terrible.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Lesley on Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:57pm
Logging out now - crying.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:58pm
oooop- feeling guilty now!
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Carolyn P on Nov 3rd, 2003, 11:14pm
Hope Lesley isn't too upset. In a way this is a compliment to her. We have all got so caught up in this story mainly because of the wonderful way she wrote it. Nothing dreadful has been said tonight, the worst was eother making her face Hilda, or rewriting her into her own story.

I for one think that the story and writing are brilliant, cannot praise them enough. Just wish that what had to be done could have been done in a different way.

Lesley forgive us, or reactions are from a sense of loss and breavement, and that comes from your writing. Just think about what emotions you have been able to provoke. Hope that you recover quickly from the emotional upheaval.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Rachel on Nov 3rd, 2003, 11:25pm
I just felt so guilty I sent Lesley a PM apologising for my behaviour    :(

Maybe everyone could send her PMs of support - lets flood her inbox with lurve   :D
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 3rd, 2003, 11:37pm

on 11/03/03 at 22:55:28, Catherine_B wrote:
I think the awfulest thing is Hilda going on and on, and Bill not knowing.  It's just so terrible.


Better for Bill that she doesn't know.

We've all been loving the story, but would it have had the same impact if Hilda had escaped?

I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to think of a word to describe how I feel, I think Lisa came up with the answer when she said 'traumatised'.  
That was one of the most affecting things I've ever read in any work of fiction.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Carolyn P on Nov 3rd, 2003, 11:44pm

on 11/03/03 at 23:25:50, Rachel wrote:
I just felt so guilty I sent Lesley a PM apologising for my behaviour


I've also sent her a PM of support, having already asked forgivness above, sinned publically, apologise publically, that what happens in CS land.

SORRY AGAIN LESLEY!

The only problem is she won't see her in box until she logs in again. If any of you have her email, or better her phone, tell her to log back in for a little while.

LESLEY, WE LOVE YOU. NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 3rd, 2003, 11:48pm
I sent a message too! LOL She'll have a positive deluge of messages to answer when she's back. And i said pretty much what you've just said, Carolyn.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Carolyn P on Nov 3rd, 2003, 11:51pm
Per the index she's back.

Come on Lesley, please tell us you forgive us. I don't think I can go to bed till I hear it. I certainly won't sleep.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Rachel on Nov 3rd, 2003, 11:53pm

on 11/03/03 at 23:44:58, Carolyn P wrote:
I've also sent her a PM of support, having already asked forgivness above, sinned publically, apologise publically, that what happens in CS land.LESLEY, WE LOVE YOU. NO STRINGS ATTACHED.


lol - that's partly why I decided to mention that I had PMed her! The whole "admitting your faults in public" thingy  has obviously been well drummed into us all!
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Catherine_B on Nov 3rd, 2003, 11:58pm
OK, I'll apologise publicly too.  SORRY Lesley, for being so nasty for so long.  Your drabble is the best thing I've read in years, and your resolve in the face of all our bullying is quite remarkable.  Please don't cry (or at least, only over Hilda - not 'cos we've been horrid).  We all love you really!

And you're real, and the Abbess isn't.  (Painful though it is to admit!)  It's just that your writing brought her to life so wonderfully that we've often forgotten.  
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Vikki on Nov 4th, 2003, 1:32am
I think I'm very glad that I was out tonight!!
I'm also not sure if I want to go to Real Cs and read what I've missed!!!!! :'( :-/ ???
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 4th, 2003, 1:42am
Lesley, I'm sorry - you did the right thing,
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Vikki on Nov 4th, 2003, 1:52am
I hope Lesley's alright!! ???
*admits that if she'd been home tonight, she'd have participated in the haranguing of Lesley, and apologises for what she might have said if she'd been here!!* :'(
*offers Lesley a hug!* :-* (and everyone else too!)
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Lesley on Nov 4th, 2003, 7:05am
Thanks to everyone for their messages - will be continuing story later.
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Carolyn P on Nov 4th, 2003, 8:15am
Glad to have you back with us Lesley. Hope you are recovering from the traumatising events of the last few days.

Would you like this thread shut down?
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Lesley on Nov 4th, 2003, 8:46am
No, when you were torturing me it gave me a laugh!
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Catherine_B on Nov 4th, 2003, 8:56am
*slightly worried about Lesley's state of mind*
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Vikki on Nov 4th, 2003, 4:12pm
I'm now seriously worried about Lesley!!  How anyone could enjoy some of the things we came up with, I'll never know!!
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 4th, 2003, 8:31pm
*remembers that Lesley was still being tortured in spite of the rash of denunciations and apologies*
*Advises torturers that they can back off now and starts to contemplate untying Lesley...when she's delivered!!* ;) ;D
Title: Re: Lesley's Adventures continued
Post by Vikki on Nov 4th, 2003, 9:28pm
Sounds fair!!
The torturing stops, but the ropes stay on at the moment!!! ;)


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