History of the Watch?

[jackgiantkiller]

I may of asked this B4 but is there a history of the Watch? who started it? I found it after I accidently saw Runes in Smiths and couldnt belive SRD had gone back to TC after all that time, I couldnt nbelive it when I found out other readers were as passionate about it(the whole chron~) as me.

[dANdeLION]

Here's the true origin:

The Origin Of Kevin's Watch

The Watch was created in December of '69, a couple of hours after danlo woke up from a drug-induced coma in the empty field where Woodstock had happened a mere three months earlier. His first thought was, 'Man, Jimi ROCKS!". Then, the dream came back to him. See, during danlo's drug-induced coma (did I mention his coma was drug-induced?), he drempt of the illustrative characters we have come to know and grudgingly accept as High Lord Jay, Alynna, Vain, Sevothtarte and the like. And danlo drempt of a special place where they all lived; a place filled with all sorts of cool people dedicated to truth, justice, and repelling the evil forces of the Terry Brooks Hack Team, and the one known only as the Dark Bird. Oh, and he drempt of the THOOLAH idiots, too. That's what you get for dropping acid, danlo.

Anyway, back to my riveting story. Lying in the field next to him was a young Bill Gates, and when he awoke, danlo described his dream to him. Intrigued, Bill agreed to create and market small, affordable 'Personal Computors' for people to own and use, so that danlo would have a venue to house his concept of a 'Kevin's Watch', and get filthy rich in the process.

Albert Gore happened to be wandering nearby when he overheard this fascinating discourse, and agreed to help danlo and Bill by inventing an 'Internet' by which danlo could share his wonderful ideas with the rest of the world (and help Bill get richer, while winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his altruistic efforts.).

Together, they decided to contact a professional writer to write several books that would be the basis of the whole 'Kevin's Watch' concept; the writer they chose is known to us all as the inmitible Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen King, their first choice, threw them out of his house, shouting "O, Discordia!"). The reason the Watch appears to be only five years old is because A) these ideas take time to complete, and B) danlo crashed his VW bus into the arch of time, bending it somewhat.

And thus, so born was Kevin's Watch.

[Orlion]

It's truly the greatest story ever told

[3rd warrior on the left]

History like they teach you at school:- nil
Crazy conspiracy theories:- zillions

[sindatur]

History like they teach you at school:- nil
Crazy conspiracy theories:- zillions

I was ready to dismiss it as a Crazy Conspiracy Theory myself, until the end finally explained the Time Discrepancy.

[peter]

Not to sound stuffy (he said sounding stuffy), but I too am interested in Jacks question. Does anyone know the true 'story' (or should that be the real story) of the watch or are all the originators gone to the 'Great Land in the Sky'.

(Occurs to me that anyone who knows s**t is probably engrosed in AATE at present anyway - why aren't I? Ahh. The answer to that question is way too sad a story for this place.)

[High Lord Tolkien]

Jack, your search-fu is weak.


I asked the same question a while back.

kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... highlight=


Jay gets more specific on this thread:

kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... 54&start=0