While I'm not one hundred percent back to normal, I'm certainly getting there. The medication I've been given seems to have scattered my mind a little bit, making it hard to focus- but there are only a few pills left, and once they're gone, my great and glorious mind shall return...
In the meantime, I just want to let you know that at some stage over the next few days, I'll be posting the REAL cover to Skulduggery 6 here on this Blog, and not Tom's sketch that has been doing the rounds on the interweb. Along with that, you'll also be getting the official title, which may or may not be what you're expecting.
At the moment, Tom is finishing up the cover and it's looking- no surprise here- absolutely amazing. You better have a bucket handy, because when the cover is revealed your heads are going to explode and your brains are going to need something to leak into. Which is, I'll freely admit, somewhat gross.
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Green elephant
have you been eating those soft mints
iv got them all except playing with fire for some reason.
yeah... hmm... derek... what is WITH YOUR SIGNATURE? it's like... two huge long lines with squiggles at the end...
*looks confused*
Playing with fire is the Scapegrace one
Lilith its still a signature thats the main thing
*looks at mints*
no vlad! i just like bananas, and the green elephant came back from the time when gepard used magic to strip off the girls-
...
yeah... hmm...
yeah iv read it but i think i just stole it off me brother...
hehe i love scapegrace though :) hope he doesnt die...again
You know I heard scientists made a blue banana once
my fave character is finbar! NO COMPETITION! :D
Scapegrace is funny because hes cowardly and big-headed
yeah vlad, you can get blue, red, and purple carrots!
Why Finbar
i use skulduggery's quotes really often! i have one on my profile!
BECAUSE FINBAR IS AWESOME! hold on! i'll get you my fave part!
I mean hes weak and skinny...is it because hes a hippie with all the "dude and"man" stuff
haha. is it dark days when the zombies attack the hotel and scapegrace let them eat folk so they went rogue?
like with the hey skully man stuff he doesnt sound much
Yeah its Dark Days
I'm watching Little Fockers, it's funny...
Even when he was Zombie King he was weak
i think thats one o my FAVE moments- when scapegrace told val then sanguine went mantal :)
So your typing and watching at the same time huh Dragona
*Lets out a chuckle when Rachel points that out*
'Skulduggery looked at Valkyrie, his better-looking head tilted at quite a smug angle. She sighed then gestured to the fat man on the table. "Is it OK to be talking about, um, business stuff with...?"
"Oh don't worry about him," Finbar said. "He came in as soon as we opened, asked for a growling panther on his shoulder blade. He fainted the moment I started."
"A growling panther?"
"Yep."
"Then why are you giving him a tattoo of a kitten?"
Finbar shrugged. "I'm just in a kitten kind of mood, y'know?"
Yeah I remember that part book 5 right?
no, 4.
How do you think the fat man reacted to the kitten
haha that bits good :) i think i need to read mortal coil again soon to refresh some o the points thatll be in the next book. its wierd, i only take like a day to read any of the books cause i can never stop
LOL, that bit was funny :)
Niether do I
umm... vlad he probably didn't really like it but... y'know, finbar wasn't attacked by the guy (as far as we know) so there you are!
Best Finbar moment I think
*sighs*
i want to go take a shower and then i need to eat
byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I liked when he used"pillow torture " on Solomon
Bye Lizzy.
yes it is vlad! :D
oh yeah! pillow torture was funny! i'll find that too if ya' want?!
haha
wats wrong dragona?
lilith- did u post anymore fanfic?
btw part 4 o my epic tale is- http://rachelsawesomenessofablog.blogspot.com/
Hes half scapegrace half sanguine i think
i mean hes naive , unpredictable and not too smart
no rach, i haven't yet... i'm working on it...
Rachel, I'm just fed up :P
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anything u want to talk bout- we're all ears. but i dont want to pry :)
everyone gets like that...
Hi again Kallista :)
Hello world!
*bounces in on a trampoline*
Hi Octa!
Rachel, it'd take too long...
You mean literally dissapear our figgurativeley
Hey Vlad!
http://evilminionplans.blogspot.com/2011/04/petition.html#comments
*bounces up and down*
Goooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Dear Octaboona
Hello
From world
:) i'm just finding the part with pillow torture now! :)
hey octa, kallista
fair enough Dragona :) im sure talking to the wierd bunch on here should lighten the mood though
Kallista can we go for a talk?
Ive got my own trampoline and we got it free from a friend
*Gets out his trampoline and starts bouncing on his*
*divebombs the Tampoline, sending Kallista and octa bouncing high into the sky*
*Runs around trying to avoid Kallista and Octa landing and crushing him*
HHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP
*yells up to Kallista flying in the sky*
Am good thanks :)
*waits to hug her when she lands*
*Stands still and closes eyes*
please dont crush me
"If you have seen this fight, if you knew PRECISELY when I would arrive, then why did you attack me with a cushion?"
Finbar hesitated. "I'm... I'm toying with you, is what i'm doing. Hitting you with a CUSHION instead of my fists of fury is gonna, like, take LONGER, draw out your agony. Kinda like water torture with cushions. Cushion torture."
ow
*looks at all the trmpolines*
*sits on floor and reads Skulduggery Pleasant*
*rushed over to the Kallista/Vlad tangle*
*hugs em, then wonders how to get them untangled...*
Oh dont mind me Lilith im only in agonising pain
Relax its one error the computers are fiddly and are you right handed
*pulls Vlad and Kallista apart from their tangle*
:P
*bounces back in*
Rachel your story is so amazing!
*lets loose the Vraskin*
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!
Its easier for right handed people to make errors because of the way its made
*sees vlad*
*shrugs*
you weren't like this to me with the pole incident...
*sighs*
NO!! octa, u cant unleash it!!
WE'RE DOOMED!!
*arches eyebrow*
Octa what on earth is a Vraskin?
*rolls eyes*
*disintegrates into black smoke and blows away in the wind*
The Vra- what
*sees it and starts to run*
VLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!
You didn't siiiiiiignnnnnnn!!!!!
*bounces off the trampoline and starts sinigng the tigger song*
*ghostly voice is heard* yeah octa! what IS a vraskin?
The Vraskin!
Rachel created it in her story.
It's truly terrifying!!!
Vladthedemonboy asked a BOATLOAD of random questions, of which I'm only going to answer these...!
Will we see more of the white Cleaver because he vanished after book 3
Yup.
And Solomon is he dead or just missing?
Solomon's fine and dandy.
Can you give us a clue to Skulduggery's given name like a game of hangman or something
Nope.
Is the Angel of death going to be involved (AKA Grim Reaper) because Skulduggery cheated death
Er, no...!
Hey Derek when are you going to put more characters on the character page its only had that many for 3 years
Ah yes, I keep on having this conversation with the website people..! Hopefully we'll update it soon.
Derek could you estimate how many pages there are in it?
Book 6 will be, I'd say, approximately ten percent longer than Mortal Coil.
Lilith asked:
1. Do you have a favourite character, and if so, who is it?
Val!
2. Is anyone going to die in this book coming? (I know that you probably won't tell me, but one can always hope...)
Someone WILL die, yes.
3. Did you purposefully say that there would be nine books, and start them off with Val being twelve? Because I've done the math, and for the last book, she SHOULD be exactly twenty...
Ah, but that's only if every book takes place a year apart- which they don't. Some books take place only three months after the last one.
4. What would you say would be the number for 'too many questions'?
Octa's 64 questions is sounding pretty daunting right now...!
5. Do you prefer strawberrys or bananas?
Strawberries!
6. Will you ever forgive me for cutting a picture of your face in half? I DID only choose you 'cause I admired you, then my teacher told us to cut the pics!
Er... you're odd.
7. Do you think I should stop here?
Possibly...
8. How are you able to come up with such great lines for your characters?
It's cuz I is so smart, like.
9. What do you think of my pictures of Val and Skulduggery? http://mikethevampiresblogformates.blogspot.com/ (go down the page)
ohhhh nice
10. Did you answer all of these?
Yup!
Octa- respost the 64 questions and I'll answer them when I can.
Horsegirl asked:
1.) I live in the U.S. and I was wandering if any of your other books are going to be published in the U.S.? or am I just going to have to break down and buy theme online?
To be honest, there are no plans yet, but hopefully we'll get something sorted before too long,
2.)And if they do is there a chance you are going to do a book tour in the U.S.?
I'd love to, but we'd have to wait for book sales to rise considerably...!
Kallista asked:
In the 1st book it was stated that echo stones are rare and hard to come by. SO how does a person go about getting an echo stone then?
Like anything rare, it's all about who you know and the resources you have at your disposal. Gordon was quite rich, and had many contacts, but even so, finding one was difficult.
its my monster off my fanfic :)
YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME THERE WAS A SONG
DEREK!
Hiiiiiii!!!!
1. Do you have a middle name? If so what is it?
2. Did you know Derek Landy is an anagram of Deryn Dalek? (I’m odd I know)
3. What is Desmond Edgley’s true name?
4. Is Mevolent truly dead? (The same way Lord Vile was believed to be dead but isn’t). Will he return?
5. Does Kenspeckle have a brother?
6. How did the Faceless Ones arrive on Earth in the first place?
7. Will you give us a random (it can be irrelevant but must be TRUE) fact about Book 8?
8. How did Oisin die?
9. Have you written yourself out of the proverbial corner of the powerful Jitter Girls yet?
10. What day is your birthday? (More specific than October please!).
11. How does it feel to be the Golden God of thousands of little minion-y fans?
12. Have you decided who to dedicate the remaining 4 books to? How about us minions?
13. What magical powers would Crystal and Carol have when they reached 21 (if they are able to do magic).
14. What is Valkyrie’s address?
15. Is Haggard a real town?
16. How on earth are you going to torture Tanith now she is inhabited by a remnant? What could be worse? Because you do intend to torture her in each book yes?
17. Will you write a prequel series?
18. What was the last thing Skulduggery ever ate?
19. How did Beryl react when she discovered the brooch was missing?
20. The series seems to be composed of “trilogies”. The first one dealt with the Faceless Ones. The next seems to be all about Necromancy (Darquesse, Remnants and Lord Vile). What is the last trilogy about?
21. Who is the Unnamed?
22. Can you answer the question you’ve always wanted to be asked but never have here?
23. What is the life story of Skulduggery’s first partner?
24. Will Scapegrace and Thrasher remain zombies until they decompose or will they ever return to life?
25. Does Skulduggery ever learn about China leading his family into the trap?
26. What does Skulduggery do with his spare head?
27. Will Cat die now Tesseract is too dead to look after him?
28. Do you like the name Aggoroth Shandular?
29. What century did Oisin come from?
30. Where is the soul located? Does Nye ever find out?
31. How many Jitter Girls are there?
32. What was the present that Skulduggery brought Valkyrie for Christmas?
33. Did Valkyrie ever get her big stick?
34. Are any more of the SP titles going to be based on Shakespeare quotations?
35. Why is a soap bubble round?
36. Did Kenspeckle like cheese?
37. Is the reason the Faceless Ones are evil because they had no one to read them bedtime stories when they were small?
38. Purple? or Purple?
39. What are you thinking right now?
40. Can you tell us a really good joke?
41. Does the walker choose the path or the path the walker? (Huzzah for Garth Nix quotations)
42. How useless is a chocolate teapot?
43. This is a statement cunningly disguised as a question?
44. Who is the person who wiped Davina Marr’s memory?
Thanks Derek
Yay! You're getting better! :D
I can't wait for the cover and the title! It'll be good not to listen to people thinking they know the title already from a fanfiction title :P
And now for questions from various other minions!
45. Which languages do you speak?
46. What is your favourite book (not one of yours).
47. Do you write in cursive or......not?
48. Did you know the oldest cat lived to be 38?
49. Did you know that cats can have vocalization sounds of 100 different kinds and dogs can only have about 10?
50. What is your favourite colour?
51. Has Skulduggery Pleasant ever had any pets?
52. Have you ever looked at a goldfish and wondered if it remembers you from the last three seconds?
53. Can vampires be animals? Or is it can animals be vampires?
54. What’s your favourite dessert?
55. Do you like orange juice?
56. Which competitive sports (other than Martial Arts) do you like?
57. White chocolate, milk chocolate, or dark chocolate?
58. What's your favourite fruit?
59. What's your favourite weather/season?
60. Where would you like to spend your holidays?
61. What will you do after you finished the SP series?
62. What is the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow?
63. What is your favourite letter in the alphabet?
64. If a munchkin were flying on the back of a giant elephant with the wings of a monkey and the tongue of a dinosaur and the giant elephant was wearing rollerskates with sparkly unicorn horns attached and this were a world where air resistance could be up to 10% less and carbon dioxide and oxygen were neither present so the density of air also reduced and the value of pi was the weight of a fish would chocolate taste the same?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! DEREK! YOU ANSWERED MY QUESTIONS! YAY! BUT! I HAD ANOTHER! CAN VAMPS DO THEIR WEIRD CHANGING THINGY WHILE UNCONCIOUS?!
Derek theres a preview of the book in Skulpedia is it the real one
I reposted the questions!
Oh and Derek are you ok now? What were you ill with???
*sees the Vraskin taking away Kallista*
*sprints towards the Vraskin*
*bashes into it*
*twists it around, rips its throat out*
*pushes it through 999,999,999 brick walls and then chops it up into pieces, being careful not to hurt Kallista*
haha nice to hear from the Grand Master himself :)
haha lilith- he thinks ur odd :) in a good way of course :D
WOAH- my Vraskin is becoming kinda good at getting all the bloggers
OH COURSE I'M ODD! I CAN'T STOP USING CAPITALS! YAY!
Oh and Derek!!!!
I'm possibly going to Ireland in August....
Where will you be?
*Stares at the Vraskin's remains and vomits at the sight*
Oh this is horrible huuuuurgh why me huuuuuuuuurgh
... :O dragona killed my Vraskin!
but if u wait till the next parts, ull find they have a few tricks up their sleaves...
huuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh
1. Do you have a favourite character, and if so, who is it?
Val!
2. Is anyone going to die in this book coming? (I know that you probably won't tell me, but one can always hope...)
Someone WILL die, yes.
3. Did you purposefully say that there would be nine books, and start them off with Val being twelve? Because I've done the math, and for the last book, she SHOULD be exactly twenty...
Ah, but that's only if every book takes place a year apart- which they don't. Some books take place only three months after the last one.
4. What would you say would be the number for 'too many questions'?
Octa's 64 questions is sounding pretty daunting right now...!
5. Do you prefer strawberrys or bananas?
Strawberries!
6. Will you ever forgive me for cutting a picture of your face in half? I DID only choose you 'cause I admired you, then my teacher told us to cut the pics!
Er... you're odd.
7. Do you think I should stop here?
Possibly...
8. How are you able to come up with such great lines for your characters?
It's cuz I is so smart, like.
9. What do you think of my pictures of Val and Skulduggery? http://mikethevampiresblogformates.blogspot.com/ (go down the page)
ohhhh nice
10. Did you answer all of these?
Yup!
*cries*
THIS IS THE MOST WONDERFUL MOMENT OF MY LIFE! THE GOLDEN GOD ACTUALLY NOTICED ME!!!!!
oh this is disgust-huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh...i'll get a wipe
Well this is the 4th time I have been noticed by Derek and the 5th time I've been mentioned!!!!
YAYYYYYY!!!!!!
*wipes the vomit up*
haha but, as not much is known about the Vraskin Kallista, no one is prepared for what happens next...
*looks around*
*sees vraskin's remains*
*sees vlad wiping up puke pile*
*sees everyone freaking out about something or other*
I'M SO HAPPY!
Rachel, who's in your fanfic?
Its the first time hes noticed or mentioned me thank you most wonderful Golden God
google search-skulpedia book six
ANYWAY I HAVE TO GO
YAY CAPITALS
I WANNA BE IN SOMEONE'S FAN-FIC! :) ... pwease?... i put LOADS of you guys in... sorta...
no one here yet, dragona. i will start another short story at some point with other folk, but im just writing a story iv already sorted out the noo.
OK Rachel :)
*is suddenly very serious*
derek, i am forever your servant in gratitude for your mentioning me, and for your position as golden god.
*falls on knees and bows head stupidly*
bye Vlad :) see you again sometime
right seeing as how the vraskin has aroused my imagination, i will leave to write some fanfic :)
LOL hi again Kallista, can we go for a talk?
*looks at burger king crown*
hmm...
*wanders in*
Im back but I only can be for a short amount of time
*sticks tounge out at dragona*
*eats self*
Hey everyone
(I know I always say that!)
*bounces around the blog*
I come back for 5 seconds and I find Lilith eating herself
f
f
heyyy im here and IM HAPPY and i do need buckets cause my brain is big!
mine!
awwwww! so close! congrats dragona!
*eats self again*
damn...
*heals Lilith again*
Hey what happened to the Vraskin remains
*catches it in the corner of his eye and feels his insides churn*
No no more please no mo-huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh
its all happening agai-huuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh
will someone get rid of that -huuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh
Hey Isabella!!!
Hey Lizzy!
Hey Kallista!
Hey Dragona!
Hey Lilith!
Hey Vlad!!
Hey Octa! *glomps*
*eats self again*
*disintergrates the remainders of the Vraskin*
Hey Oct-huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh
oh this is vile and i dont mean Lord Vi-huuuuuuuuuuuuurgh
*heals Lilith and stops her from eating herself*
Thank you Dragona
Vlad! Isabella!
http://evilminionplans.blogspot.com/2011/04/petition.html#comments
*bounces*
LILITH >:o !!!!!!!!!!!
*glares at dragona*
No! Wait! Stop!
Don't glare. Sort this out peacefully. Please!
WHy does Lilith Nightshade keep eating herself?!
(I've just come back!)
Okay I think its stopped
*realised how much weight he lossed*
WOOO HOO- huuuuuuuuuuurgh
Hey Sadhbh!!!
Got To Go!!!!!
*shrugs at sadbhb*
i do this all the time...
Bye Vlad!!!!!
bye vlad!
LILITH!!!! >:O !!!
Hey Octaboona
*looks at green elephant*
*goes on parade with green elephant*
*dances up wall and out window*
*skips on merrily, singing*
There was once a ball of exploding gas, exploding gas, exploding gas,
A very big ball of exploding gas, exploding gas, exploding gas),
It boomed and bashed and made a very big crash,
But that's what you get from exploding gas!
:D
Octa, what do you mean by sorting it out peacefully, what's anybody done?
*yells from outside window*
WHAT ISABELLA?!
Hey Tristessa!!!!
*glomps*
@Sadhbh
You can call me Octa!!
Hi Tristessa!
Bye everyone!
I'll be back!
I don't knooooow!!!!
I'm very hyper at the moment and not fully here.
So I probably misjudged somethingggg
*bounces*
Byyeeeeee Sadhbh!!!!
Hiya Octa!!!! *glomps*
Hello Lilith!!!! *glomps*
Hi Dragona!!!! *glomps*
Salutations Isabella!!!! *glomps*
And, Sadhbh, greetings! It's great to meet you! *extends hand in greeting and offers a marshmallow*
*gives Octa a soft mint*
They make you hyper...
vlad said not to trust the soft mints...
*eats one*
Or, bye Sadhbh!!!
FISHIES! AND EXPLODING GAS! Not a brilliant combination, mind you... *strokes imaginary goatee thoughtfully*
*crashing sounds are heard from outside window*
*fist punches through wall*
*fist goes back out again*
*lilith shrieks as she falls off the wall*
*falls past window*
I'm back!
@Octa - sure thanks!
*SHakes hand* Yummy thankks!lol
The wonderful thing about tiggers
Is tiggers are wonderful things
Their heads are made of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They're bouncy, bouncy, flouncy, flouncy,
Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
And the wonderful thing about tiggers
Is I'm the only one!
Yes I'm the only one!
*looks around proudly*
I know that by heart
OK Kallista.
@Octa - ummmmmmm well that's good!
*shrieks as she hits the ground*
*a loud cracking sound is heard*
hmm...
i think i broke my leg...
*shrieks in pain*
Me too Octa!! Tigger rocks my socks! As does tinfoil. But that's another story :D
Though, I'm now mentally scarred about winnie the pooh... *shudders*
I'm really bored
gtg stupid murderer hunt byee lobves ya all :)
i don't know whats going on. *disappears behind a pile of papers*
Hello Kallista!!!! *glomps* How be you?
Aww.... Bye Isabella!!! *hugs*
Wait! I said that wrong
The wonderful thing about tiggers
Is tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
But the most wonderful thing about tiggers
Is I'm the only one!
Hiya Lizzy!!!! *glomps* How are you today?
thanks dragona...
*tries to find some way back inside without using the door*
*looks up at them staring at her questioningly*
*whispers* my mum scares me!
this comment was removed by the author.......NOT!!!!
Sorry I just felt like doing that......
Hi/bye to all who are coming/going!!!
*uses magic yorkshire pudding to make Lilith hover back to Blogland*
oh... thanks again dragona...
*falls asleep*
*head explodes*
er.....sorry Derek abit to late...
Kallista, I left a comment where we were talking.
I'm great thanks, Kallista!!! And you? *pokes her* Huh?
*wakes up*
*yawns*
*eats the creepy weirdos next door*
*pokes Bryony*
I want a new comic!!!
*listens to Tom Percival's song*
*sways in time with the music* <3
I'm here! I'm here!
*hides under a table*
She's not here Octa... but I will pass that message along :D
No.... *runs for the hills and beyond*
*skips back on wearing a fake moustache* Haha! *twirls moustache*
Who's everyone's favourite charater in the SP series?!
I have to go for my tea... I'll be back later, bye.
*hugs Kallista before he leaves*
Um... well my sugar rush seems to have worn off.
Not a single exclamation mark here.
*rolls eyes at everyone*
*checks on her DA acount*
umm... is it normal for a guy to say that they like your avatar?...
sadbhb... FINBAR! OH YEAH!
and umm... guys, this person is kinda weird...
i saw some of his work (can't even remember what it was!) and i said: AWESOME! :D
then he said: As is your avatar... :)
is everyone gone?!
Bye for now Dragona!!
@Octa: Wait... I think I saw one... nope, that was just a piece of dust... *drags him out from under the table and stomps her foot, pouting* NOW! I want a piggy back! ;)
Lilith.....yeah lol he's cool 8D!
*table disappears*
Um a piggy back? But but... I don't have a back!
*floating head, arms and legs*
:D
*looks at Kallista, puzzled* Gift? Huh?
*comprehension finally hits her* Oh yeah! :D
*puts on a floaty ballgown*
*eats spider walking right in front of her*
*look up at everyonwe's grossed out expressions*
umm... well, anyways, the avatar thing...
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