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I plan on posting Parts 3 and 4 Friday evening (tomorrow). A cleaner copy of parts one and two will be reposted for anyone who might actually be saving this story.

Part 3 is different, but short. It brings in the other women who will be important characters in the "love story" from here on out.

Part 4 is a basic mission story, as are the rest after part 3.

Do not expect some great thing to happen in this story. It's not about that. It's about some guy's life getting settled into place. Mostly I just wanted to put a guy through some cheesy adventures to entertain myself.

I have turned the basic scoring off for now because from here on out it will be more of the same until the Epilogue when loose ends come together, so save your votes until then.


Rolly is based quite a bit on a real person, an original member of UDT-SEAL team 2 who served in Vietnam. I knew him when he was in his fifties teaching scuba diving and sky diving. He had both interesting good luck, and odd bad luck with women. He was a sweet, friendly guy that everyone liked. There was no military starch to him at all, and I can't remember if even one of his war stories was about engaging the enemy in combat.

My scene with the bar wench and the hurt balls in part one is based on something that happened to him in a vietnamese bar.


p.s.

The broken sword on a shopping network a real clip.

Part two of The Tale of Roland, aka the Tail of Roland, aka Rolly Gets some Ass, is submitted and should be up today (Aug. 12th). I will be posting weekly after that. There are nine parts in all. Part Three is short so will be posted with Part Four.


I'm happy to announce that my second story is out to editors and will follow when all of Rolly is out. Then there are two long stories also finished, with people doing more or less the same thing Rolly does, walk around with a sword and kill other people who have swords. One has dragons and a green slave girl, the other has Vikings and Native Americans. I tried to make them more like Argon's stories (Well, not the dragon one, but the others), with a historical accuracy to the life and times, but written with much less skill so as not to make him feel like he has competition from a guy who rips off ideas from him.

Film makers call that 'Homage', which makes it a cool thing to do because it's a French word.


Have a good Week