Commonwealth of Marathon

[Pat]

Dustin intresting indeed there and gotta love a twist!!! Gotta love that video there as well too...

[kimcar]

  Nice evolution for your highway Dustin It`s not always easy to get a great render but when we find it that give a great satifaction. I like the way who give the curve on the last pic. My only sugest it if is possible to get this way with your fences section . Not absolutely round way but

  more same look each side of the curve. Hope you understand whst i mean  Anyway it`s only a suggestion. you are the boss Looking forward

[bat]

Nice work there on the highway! And also wonderful pictures!
Looking forward to more...

[Jmouse]

Dustin, that curve looks great! Dave is really good at figuring things like that out, but don't tell him I said so! I really like the walls you're using, too. It's amazing to see how things are turning out since you first laid out the terraforming and dragged a few highways.

Later...
Joan

[thundercrack83]

Earth quake: Merci bien, mon fidèle ami! I can always count on you stopping in with your very kind words of support!

David (Simpson): Thank you so much, David! Your great comments here in Marathon are always appreciated~

Paul (squidi): Thanks for coming by, Paul! I understand about being too lazy to comment, too! There's so much that goes on here at SC4D, it's hard to comment on all of it!

Pat: Thanks, my friend!

kimcar: Actually, that picture was taken by Dave (tooheys) and sent to me by PM. Your idea for filling in those gaps is a great one, though, and I will most certainly be making the most of it! Thank you so very much!

bat: Thank you, bat! It's great to see you here, my friend!

Joan (Jmouse): Don't worry, your secret's safe with me, Joan! I know what you mean about Dave, too—he does seem to be good a figuring stuff out! (I knew there was a reason we kept you around, Dave! Heh!) Thanks for your support, Joan!



Well, here we are! 200+ replies, over 3600 views, and all in a span of about 25 days!

Friends, I don't really know how to thank all of you for taking the time to come to Marathon, whether posting or just checking thing out. When I started this MD—and even before...ask Robin (rooker1)!—I was worried that I didn't have any worthwhile to show, or that I was only rehashing ideas previously examined by our great minds here at SC4D and elsewhere. Whether that is the case or not, all of you have made the first 25 days of this MD some of the best time I've spent here at SC4D! If the next 25 days are half as great as the past ones were, things can only get better!

And speaking of Robin...I have to give my very good friend a special thank you, since he is the man responsible for Marathon opening in the first place! About a month ago, he and I were discussing the possibility of my opening an MD on MSN, to which he responded with daily pleading, prodding, persuading, and other words that begin with "P" as well, until I surrendered! While I had many ideas in my head, without Robin's support, I would never have gone into the game and put those ideas into action. And for that, alone, I owe him a great debt of gratitude! Thank you so much, Robin! So if you're a fan of things here in Marathon, make sure you thank our friend Robin!

It's almost 2:00 AM here in Pennsylvania, so just a quick note. I've made a banner for the Table of Contents...

...and it's up in the first post of the thread.

More from Marathon will be coming soon! Thank you all again, from the bottom of my heart!

[rooker1]

Congrats to my good friend Dustin for a very well earned award.



Robin 

[Pat]

well even though you are not in recently published anymore Dustin Congratulations for Winning the MD award!!!! Robin thank you for lighting the fire under Dustin to do the MD!!!!

[threeswept]

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR AWARD!!!!!

[Ryan B.]

A well-deserved award to the fastest-growing MD I've ever seen.

Congratulations, Dustin - and keep the good times a-rollin'!

[Heblem]

Dustin, congratulations for the award! and im new to here at your MD, sorry for not being here in your last updates.

I watched the entire MD, and your antetion to details its great! im really impressed, also your skills in LE are perfect i think your better than me, hehe

Can't wait til your next update,
take care
Eblem

[Lilojame]

Hi there, my friend!


Seriously, you deserve it!

Yours truly,
Karin

[Jmouse]

Congratulations, Dustin, and thanks, Robin. You guys make a winning duo in the MD department!

Later...
Joan

[kimcar]

With a great start no doubt you deserve this award  Congrats Dustin

[JBSimio]

Congratulations, Dustin!  It's been such an amazing start and I can't even begin to imagine what you might have in store for us in the future.  All I know is that I'm looking forward to seeing it... whatever it might be!      

JB

[bat]

Congrats for your award, Dustin!!! Nice work on your MD there and also in the Recently Public - section (only 2 weeks in that section )...

[metarvo]

It may have taken you a while to start an MD, but I really don't know why you waited so long.  CoM is proof that you really do have it in you, Dustin.   On the other hand, you might not have been in Recently Published at the right time to win this award if you had started CoM earlier, so I suppose it worked out.  Congratulations, Dustin.  With progress like this, it may not be too long before this wonderful MD gets moved to Classics.  I do hope you're careful with that gift you received. lol

[art128]

Dustin, congrats on this very well deserved award 
The last update I forgot, is really nice my friend, excellent terraforming 

and welcome to the OSITM, it's very well deserved, for a great start of your MD 

[paroch]

BIG congrats Dustin on both the MD award and the movement to OSITM.  With the sheer volume of comments and the interest CoM has generated it would have been a crime if you were not here!!

Enjoy the month and I look forward to seeing what you deliver for us.

Paul

[Pat]

Hey Dustin congrats on winning your award again and also going OSITM!!!! WOW you got a biiiiiig month ahead of you!!!!

[thundercrack83]

Robin (rooker1): Wow, thank you so much for doing the honors, Robin! I couldn't have gotten better news from a better person!

Pat: Thank you, my friend! And thanks for thanking Robin, too—he deserves it!

threeswept: Wow, thank you!

Ryan (burgsabre87): Thank you, Ryan! I'll definitely try to keep'em rollin'!

Eblem (Heblem): Thank you for coming by, my friend! And thank you for your kind words, too! Your support is very much appreciated!

Karin (Lilojame): Thanks so much, Karin! And congratulations on winning Best Newcomer, too!

Joan (Jmouse): That Robin guy's all right, isn't he? I'll say he is! Thanks, Joan!

kimcar: Thank you very much!

Jon (JBSimio): Thanks, Jon! I'm looking forward to it, too—I don't really know where things are headed yet!

bat: Thank you, bat! I appreciate it, my friend!

metarvo: Thanks, my friend! Like I said, I was reluctant to start one because I wasn't sure if I'd be successful at it. Thanks to you and everyone else, it seems like things are going OK! Thanks again, for your continued support!

Arthur (art128): Merci, Arthur!

Paul (paroch): Hi, Paul! Thank you for taking the time to stop in with your kind words! You're a true friend!

Pat: Thanks, buddy! I hope December's as good as November was!



Well, this is getting overwhelming!

First, being awarded Best in Recently Published after only spending 10 days in the section was great, but now I've been selected for Of Special Interest This Month in December!

There have been more than a few MDs that have done some wonderful things with their time in OSITM. Heck, look at the group we had in November—Pat, Robin, Paul, and bat—now that is a group of MD authors that know how to celebrate OSITM! I only hope that I can use the time half as well as they have!

So, first item—

Each day in the month of December, we'll be posting a different picture of something random from Marathon. Kind of as a teaser, but more as a celebration of the time in OSITM.

Here's...

DECEMBER 1

I also have a bit of a surprise in the works, but we'll get to that in due time...

Also, of course, updates will be posted like they always have been, so with any luck, things here in Marathon should be pretty busy for the month of December!

One down, 30 to go!