Parallel Crossroads has an interesting background! Elfie and I first met Nikki on Mission to Mexico in 1997. We found out she was a writer as well, and she told us about the Star Wars story she was working on. We thought it was a great idea and decided to create our own characters. Each of us would write the story from our own perspectives, and since the characters would meet and interact, the stories would cross and overlap—hence the name Parallel Crossroads. Well, we spent a lot of time hashing out story info and having a real blast, but eventually I stopped working on it. One day, though, I had the brilliant idea that we should do a Star Wars RP in Riv. So I dragged Frogstorm in (even though she's not a Riv regular), assigned characters to as many of my friends as I could convince to join, and helped the others make up characters of their own. Pretty soon we had a full-blown storyline going and were having loads of fun with it!

Phew...loooooong story! Here you'll find a summary of the Parallel Crossroads story we were writing, at least the part that leads up to the roleplay, at any rate. After that point, it continues from where the RP first started, when Kev and Kella first leave Ricalia. Here are the chapters it's divided into, in the hopes of making it a bit more organized:

Woohoo, characters! Well, even though I'm the GM, my character isn't the main character, so we'll start with Tempest first.

Ooh, got some goodies for this RP! First of all, wooOOoo! We have the first three chapters of Parallel Crossroads, here for you to read at your leisure! These were written mostly by Nikki, but wherever Kella appears, I had a hand in the writing. (She's my character, after all!) Elfie and I also helped with a great deal of the brainstorming for other parts of the story, as well. But please, even though this is fanfiction, do not redistribute it without written permission from Nikki! It is posted here for your own personal enjoyment only. As Nikki says, "The general populace can read my story as long as they know that if they copy any of it, I will personally hunt them down and sic my wombats on them. After which they will be toasted by Tatsu." (See below for a pic of Tatsu, the dragon-like Ryo!) And believe me, you don't want to make Tatsu—or Nikki, for that matter—angry. ^_~