========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:33:44 +0100 Reply-To: "N.Duncan" Sender: Highlander TV show stories From: "N.Duncan" Subject: Discoveries : Author's note Discoveries : Author's note Disclaimer: All characters from Highlander the TV series are borrowed without permission, and no copyright infringement is intended. Feel free to copy this work as much as you like, but please don't try and make any money from it. (It would be difficult anyway :-)). Well here's the sequel to Dividing of the Ways, I hope you like it. Methos is in this one, but please be aware that Timeless has never happened, neither has Something Wicked or Deliverance, although some information from these episodes has been used. It's still a Richie piece, but everyone else is around as well and there's quite a lot about Watchers. All comments are welcome. Any problems, just mail me. Enjoy, {} Tasha nd3@ukc.ac.uk {]@@||=========- {} Dividing of the ways is available at : ftp.highlander.org or http://eleceng.ukc.ac.uk/~nd3 or email nd3@ukc.ac.uk and I'll mail it to you (please specify if your mailer requires small messages or I'll send the whole thing in one). ********************************************************************** A plot synopsis of Dividing of the Ways for those who haven't read it but wish to read the sequel now. /~\ (^) (*) S S |@| @ @ P P |@| @ @ O () O |@| []=======[] I ()==||=========- I {}======={} []=======[] L () L {}======={} |^| E E |^| | | R R ||| | | ||| | | ||| | | ||| | | S S ||| | | P P ||| | | O [] O ||| | | I -=========||==[} I ||| | | L [] L ||| | | E E ||| | | R R ||| | | ||| | | ||| | | ||| | | ||| \ / \|/ | + Ch 1 : Richie meets Angie again and finds out she's engaged to a doctor by the name of John. Ch 2 : Duncan mets up with an old friend: Madelaine Seaton and she invites him and Richie to dinner at her hotel to meet her adopted, pre-immie son Chris. They reach the hotel and Richie collapses for an unknown reason. After recovering he finds out why when he meets Chris : his identical twin brother. Ch 3 : Next morning Richie goes for a walk in the park to think things through and interviens to prevent a bag snatch. He meets Beren Danworth and even with everything else, falls for her. Ch 4 : Beren's new in town and Richie invites her to breakfast with him Duncan, Chris and Madi. At the end of breakfast Richie remembers he promised to meet Angie : he leaves rapidly with Chris and Beren. Chris astounds Angie, but he explains why her old friend is late. Ch 5 : All characters make a holiday of the next few days: Richie gets close to Beren. Beren's father, Paul, is an archeologist and the group visit the site and return to his house for tea. They find out Paul has studied Darius and has actually met the "current" monk of that name. Richie, Chris, Beren, John and Angie go clubbing one last time and at the end of the evening the others wait in the parking lot as Chris goes back for the keys he left in the club. All except Beren are happily drunk, but Richie sobers quickly when he feels the prescence of another Immie. Two other men level guns at the mortals in the group and Richie is challenged by Craven Manheim. After a test battle one of his mortal henchmen shoots Richie and kills him. All are loaded into a van and can't understand why a dead body is being handcuffed. Chris incoherently runs to get MacLeod. Ch 6 : Richie awakens in the van. Manheim has captured him to play a twisted trap and puzzels game: his life and those of his friends are on the line. If he reaches the end without dying three times he gets to fight Manheim for real and his companions will be freed. Richie is given ten minutes to explain about Immies: Craven is obviously insane. Ch 7 : Chris tells Mac what's happened, he's somewhat distressed because he felt everything Richie did. As he finishes his explaination he informs Duncan that his brother has woken, wherever he may be. The game begins for Richie. Duncan decides it's time to go and see Joe Dawson. Richie reaches the end of level room which he has to cross to save Angie and John. Ch 8 : Last room involves ropes and climbing frames and at first it seems impossible. After a close shave something seems to guide Richie across the obsticles. Joe meets Chris and is astounded no watcher has ever noticed that twin Immies will one day be walking around. Richie reaches level two but dies at the crossing : poisoned. Chris feels it and in the exchange finds out Manheim's name. Ch 9 : Richie wakes and starts level two. Dawson comes up with the information on Manheim: the would be rescuers leave to find his hideout. Richie has to fight four men to reach the end of level two and thanks to Mac's training he wins. The crossover to the next phase is, however, once again leathal. Something about Richie has changed when he wakes again: his guiding light is back. Level three is traversed easily. Mac and friends reach the house. There is no way to win the last room so Richie fakes his own death. Duncan challenges Manheim, but Richie storms in after having dealt with Craven's hirlings and demands the battle for himself. Richie is about to take his opponent's head when one of Manheim's mercenaries shoots Chris as he mistakes him for the Immie. The game divides as the quickenings of every Immie who died at mortal hands or by accident passes through Richie as Chris dies for the first time and joins all Immies in the room. They flee the building as the self-destruct goes off. Ch 10: Manheim is nolonger insane and prevents his henchmen from atacking anyone. They return to Duncan's appartment. Richie is unconcious and is put to bed. Paul Danworth has turned up with a book that Darius told him to give to Duncan in a letter he couldn't read until that evening. Everyone trys to figure out exactly what has happened: noone can read the book. The Immie realise they can no-longer bring themselves to kill any of their companions, others, however, will not be a problem. Craven explains how he became the monster who had kidnapped Richie and friends. Chris, Madi and Beren choose to stay, the others leave to get some sleep. Ch 11: Richie wakes first and gets up, notices the book and sits down to read it. Amanda turns up. The others recongregate and Richie explains the book is a diary of an Immie who forsaw the dividing of the game and killed himself so his quickening could not strengthen an evil Immie and prevent it. They are the alternative to the gathering: they share their quickenings : they are one. Richie shows that they can pass knowledge between them and explains they can increase in number. The game continues, but until all of the circle are dead there is an alternative. CH 12: Duncan brings Amanda into the sharing on her request. Richie and Beren get it together at his home. *******************************************************************************