Progress Report: The Ship

The Great Driving Exposition continues. Paul starts wondering about his ex-captain's sanity.

Group Mind Query: On a related note, would anyone with a passable ability in speaking Chinese be willing to help me puzzle out a a choice in parental titles? I know Mandarin has seperate designation for Grandmother/Grandfather depending if they're from the paternal or maternal side. I was just wondering if there would any way to come up with a grammatically plausible way of referring to one's mother, if in fact you had two females contributing to your genetic makeup rather than a mother and a father. It's just a toss away detail for Paul's background that I wanted to throw in, as he's thinking about how awful both of his mothers' cooking is.

Goal: 100,000+ words
Words Today: 383
Words Total: 2,696
Words to Go: 97,304

Indiana Jones and the Proper Archaeological Expedition

On a completely unrelated note, would someone please tell me there's a fanfic out there where circa late-1920's/early 30's Indy meets with Ramses Emerson? Because I don't want to write it myself, and it would be well worth reading not just for Ramses getting back into the Great Game but for Prof. Walter Emerson proceeding to verbally bitchslap Prof. Jones on his utterly appalling archaeological methodology.

"For God's sake, man! Have you ever entered a temple that you haven't eventually destroyed?!"