The part where Mer shows what a lazy bum she is and doesn't want to do disclaimers at the start of each of her chapters and instead makes a mega-long page in front of her story for disclaimers. Yes, that is a great, terrible, horrible run-on. Mer says, "Bite me." If you don't care about disclaimers or what Mer has to say, just read the little bit below to the line and then jump on.

Heyho lovelies, and welcome to (or back for those whom read my original version of this called 'Shattered'), Hope (the new name will be explained in later updates).

For those of you that were around here before, 'tis the same drill as last time. Except, much less on the crazy side and more basic.

This is what I call my 'Disclaimer/Update Page'. As being something that is exactly what it says on the tin, this page has my disclaimers and my notes for chapter updates. You can bounce back here and see my tiny bit of commentary on each chapter at the bottom- if a chapter has released, you can bet this page just got updated.

My policy on stuff is pretty loose. Please review, do not bash, enjoy what you're reading, and please do note that I have no absolutely controlled update schedule. I have lots of real life stuff that really likes to tie up my own time as well as my own original pieces of writing. The piece is also largely experimental, and growing to the point where in several places in my notes, it flat-out kicks the canonical/modded content I'm basing Hope off of where the sun doesn't shine and runs away cackling. Please excuse the terribly cheesy summary- I'm terrible at summaries. Leaving the genres "general" for now. Really have no idea what I want to put on them since there is more than two. Only reason I have an M rating on it is just in case I decide to skip rope with a character's intestines while juggling cheese (oh wait, wrong game reference!), or... various other things that would give an M rating. *Wiggly pervy eyebrows* *Never would have the guts to actually post content connected to wiggly pervy eyebrows*

So... enjoy! And like before, don't decide to come on a witch hunt for me and burn my house to the ground for bad writing.

Thanks for reading!

Meredead Sea'death

The ALL IMPORTANT, ALL SEEING, EVER-KNOWING GREATEST SPAWN KNOWN AS THE GREAT AND POWERFUL "disclaimer":

Don't own Baldur's Gate, don't own any of the characters. Wouldn't have had the ideas for some of the characters without the excellent modding community out there (so many cookies and thanks to you all, from the smallest to the biggest). Only things I own are this computer, the sticky-note covered monitor, this poor darn keyboard that is so overused some of the letters are smudging off, and these two poor sods I call "Nimue Winter" and "Tristan Winter". No complaining, no suing*.

* Actually, you may want to sue me after. The hell I imagine I put most of my characters through while I'm planning alone is probably a crime against humanity somewhere...

~ UPDATES ~

10/5/13: We begin again! Yay! This time, much farther along in the arc, and much more in a darker spot. Ooo! Torture already? We're beginning with fun stuff right out the gate! For those of you that read the first one, you may recognize that blip at the start. Sit back, get the popcorn, and enjoy the new chapters.

12/5/13: Chapter II is up! Ending is... meh. It was getting long to me. Also, it's a bit jumpy. Sorry about that. Enjoy!