Sunday, October 30, 2011

Haunted

SPOILER WARNING for anyone who hasn't read Mortal Coil. Look away now.

Just a quick note to say that the Halloween story will be appearing as soon as I've finished it. HOPEFULLY that will be tonight, but it might be tomorrow, and appear on Halloween itself. I have to say, it feels good to be writing about Tanith once again, even if she IS ever so slightly evil...

SPOILER OVER

And speaking of Halloween, look at the desktop thingy you can download. Yay desktop thingies!





In keeping with the general creepiness of the season, may I also direct your attention to Haunted, a compilation of ghost stories by various writers, of which I am one. It's out now, and as part of the promotion, the writers are appearing as guests on various blogs around blogland. I had the good fortune of writing a piece for the Bookwitch, which can be found here:

http://bookwitch.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/the-haunted-tour/

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Izz said...

Actually make that triple distant.
It sounds better.

Eve the ROCK said...

Hi Izzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Zathract Mist said...

Okay Eve, okay Izz. By the way, ch 3 of Battle for Blogland is up, Izz.

Izz said...

Sweeeeet.

*thinking*
I need a song about love...

Izz said...

Now that I have a look. It appears I've already read it.
There was something else I was going to say but it ran away...

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Brrrrrr... I'm coooooooooold.....

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

*deperately looks for something warm to put on feet*

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Aha! I found black slippers!



Hello Izz! Hello Mist! Hello Eve! *hides blood*

Eve the ROCK said...

Hi Val!

*pours hot coals in her feet*

Eve the ROCK said...

The coals are much more effective, trust me. *is holding a pin*

*grabs Val's hand and pricks her thumb*

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

OW! *pulls feet away from coals and jerks hand away from Eve*

Izz said...

Servus Val.

I still can't remember what i was going to say...

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

I think you were going to say "NOBODY MOVE! THERE'S A MAN-EATING TURNIP ON THE LOOSE!

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Note to self: When going to your little sister's soccer game, bring an umbrella and a better coat to avoid having to huddle.

Izz said...

Yeah that probably it.

Izz said...

*that was

Izz said...

*glares at Netspace again*
What do you want from me!

Here I have money. Take the money please just let me see that page!

Eve the ROCK said...

Fine, don't appreciate my wonderful gifts.

*sees man on Australia's got Talent* Aw no. I know him. I saw him perform in the street in Sydney. He was really good. But he keeps dropping the torches. Agh.

Izz said...

Ok if I sunddenly disappear it's either lunchtime or Netspace has blocked me.

Zathract Mist said...

Hi Val! Okay, I'm here properly now.

*puts guitar back on stand*

Zathract Mist said...

K, Izz.

Zathract Mist said...

Did everyone die?
Do I need to copy Val and call the cemetery?

Eve the ROCK said...

*sneaks up to Mist and tackles him*

Zathract Mist said...

Agh!

*gets tackled and tries to get up*

Gabriel said...

...

Zathract Mist said...

Hi Gab.

Zathract Mist said...

People. Say something...!!

Eve the ROCK said...

*rolls off him* I told you I'd be distant.

Hi gab

Izz said...

*air-drums to song*

*grins*

*shocked face*

Stupid slow school connection!!

Zathract Mist said...

Yes, I know that you'd be distant but Val and Gab aren't.
And I though Izz had vanished.

Izz said...

*grins again*

I still remember this video on Triple J Tv. It made number one music vid for weeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Yc3HhSl1Q

Eve the ROCK said...

...Yeeeeeeah. Enobaria is awesome. :D we have so much in common.

Gabriel said...

I'm distant..

Izz said...

*whistles happily*
Music always makes me happy.
School internet filtering programs always make me angry.

Izz said...

*sniffs*
I can smell the apricot coconut slice cooking across the hall...

Oh Golden God. Please allow my friends to see my need for their food.

bell soon. Auf wiedersehen alle!

Zathract Mist said...

Bye, Izz.

Eve the ROCK said...

Bye Izz!

Zathract Mist said...

On a computer now.

Eve the ROCK said...

Kay Mist. :)

Zathract Mist said...

*smiles and pulls Eve onto the couch*

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Yay! My internet is working again!

Eve the ROCK said...

*sits next to him and smiles*

Zathract Mist said...

Hi again, Val.

Zathract Mist said...

*smiles back*

Eve the ROCK said...

How do you pronounce Seneca?

Zathract Mist said...

I've never seen that word before. No idea...

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

http://dereklandy.blogspot.com/2010/07/things-that-scare-me.html


I have the same fears as Derek! But he makes them sound so laughable...

Zathract Mist said...

Oh, I saw the post that Derek put up with you and your friends for Skulduggery's Death Day and Derek's Birthday, Val.

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

That post was AWESOME!


I screamed that day. I screamed very loudly, in public, at school.

Eve the ROCK said...

Not a word. A name. The Head Gamemaker who was killed after the first book. Seneca Crane?

Zathract Mist said...

Yeah, I've done that a lot. Except in my case, I don't actually have any reason to be screaming. I've already earned the reputation of Insane by half the school. It's fun.

Oh, him. No idea. Sorry. :P

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

I got the reputation of the insane and scary girl on the first day of middle school when I introduced myself by talking non-stop about Death Bringer, decapitating things, and obsessing over Ireland.

Zathract Mist said...

It doesn't surprise me.

Zathract Mist said...

Anyone in particular want first?

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Not exactly.

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

I got stuck with the nicknames "scary girl", "Ireland" and "Valkyrie", because that's all I ever talked about.

Lavender Hope said...

Hi anyone who's here. :)

Will be distant.

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

HI LAVENDER!


Sorry, I needed a reason to be weird.

Lavender Hope said...

*thinks that over*
For now.

Lavender Hope said...

HI VAL! :)

Sparky Braginski said...

I'd like first.

Zathract Mist said...

Metallica Music Videos are weird...

Sparky Braginski said...

First?

Sparky Braginski said...

First?

Zathract Mist said...

That was fast. Hi, Sparky. Hi, Hope.

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Mist. Hi Gab. Hi Sparky. :)

Eve the ROCK said...

Hahahahaha. I have a fear of public bathrooms. I swear, every single time I walk into the one at school, all goes silent and I am alone. But the bathroom that is actually really freaky doesn't scare me at all. :D

Eve the ROCK said...

Hi Sparky and Lav!

Eve the ROCK said...

*gasps* Stalker Necromorphs are the worst.

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Eve. :)

Zathract Mist said...

Necromorphs look a whole lot like Genestealers...

Zathract Mist said...

Well, not Genestealers in particular I suppose, but they look a lot like Tyranids in general.

Eve the ROCK said...

Necromorphs are scarier though. The noises they make...

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Sparky's here! YAY!

Eve the ROCK said...

http://i2.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens12386191module112191831photo_128032614212-wheezer.jpg

Does this look like a Tyranid to you?

Sparky Braginski said...

I dedicate this page to-

I can't dedicate anymore. I've gotten so bad at it. I used to be able to stick the words together in the right order, but I can't anymore...

Anyway, dedicated to Alfred, Flame and Derek.

Alfred, (even though you probably won't read this) you are the best friend a girl could hope for. You're funny, comforting. Shy (not often), supportive, trustworthy. You helped me find a plant that had leaves that weren't green to prove our science teacher wrong. You rock.

Flame, what can I say? I love you Flame, and that's really all there is to it. Without you, the world would be duller. Duller and darker. Never go away.

Derek, now, really, what can't I say here? You're a complete and utter genius, without you I wouldn't be here and no one else would either. Without you there wouldn't be Blogland. And Blogland is like family to me. Without you, there would also be no SP, and THAT would be a real tragedy.

Okay, I think I'm done here.

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

I have something to say about what Sparky said about Derek... If he hadn't written SP I'd be wearing all pink right now!

Lavender Hope said...

Wow Sparky. Love the ded. :)

YOU would be wearing pink if Derek had never written SP, Val??? O.O

Whoa.

Eve the ROCK said...

*frowns at self*

...

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Yep, I'd be wearing pink. Hard to believe, huh? I used to be the girliest girl in my entire school. Then, after obsessing over skulduggery, I became the scariest and creepiest girl in school.

Zathract Mist said...

Yes. it looks like a Pyrovore.

Sparky Braginski said...

Really Lav?

Eve the ROCK said...

That's scary and creepy in itself, Val. :O

Lavender Hope said...

Yes, Sparky. Really. :)

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

I know it is, Eve, I know it is. No one who's one of my newer friends believes me when I say it...

Did I mention that I only wore dresses?

Zathract Mist said...

*is searching frantically for Tyranid Codex*

How did I lose it?!?!

Eve the ROCK said...

I don't see any-

*sighs and scowls at self*

Zathract Mist said...

*looks at Eve*

What's up?

Lavender Hope said...

I gotta go. bbl.

Eve the ROCK said...

*grins* I just realised how much I live to argue. I just told myself I wouldn't argue unless extremely necessary.


Not...working...

Zathract Mist said...

*emerges from a two metre pile of junk*

FOUND IT!

*lays the only slightly battered Tyranid Codex on the table*

Eve the ROCK said...

*love

Yay, you found it! :D

Zathract Mist said...

Bye, Lav.

Eh. Arguing is fine. I argue far too much. Often unintentionally.

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

I argue with myself, out loud, in front of other people... Usually I end up talking in a random accent that no one else can understand.

Eve the ROCK said...

Bye lav!

*sighs with relief* I was just going to say that "I don't see any resemblance". :D

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

I don't even see any resemblence and it was me!

Zathract Mist said...

I argue with myself. That in itself is weird, but you should hear some of the things I argue with myself about. Most of the time it about whether or not I'm tired or if I'm going to be bothered to get the drink of water on the table in front of me. And even then, the topics jump from one thing to another really quickly.

"I am tired."
"Shut up, no I'm not."
"You are though. Look, you're half asleep already."
"If I strangled you, would you stop talking about this?"
"Obviously I would. I'd be dead. But so would you."
"I know."
"Because I'm you."
"I. Know."
"And you're me."
"I know! Shut up!"

I actually get angry at myself when I argue. It makes everyone who hears think I belong in an Asylum.

Eve the ROCK said...

*grins* Wasnt talking to you, Val. *throws a scalpel at her*

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Either way, a pink and girly me? No resemblance. *dodges scalpel*

Zathract Mist said...

Of course there isn't any resemblance...

*picks up Codex and looks through it for a species that looks like a Wheezer Necromorph*

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

I'm gonna go, but I'll probably keep stalking your comments anyway... Bye!

Zathract Mist said...

BIOVORE!

*slams Tyranid Codex shut*

A Biovore, Eve!

And I really cannot picture you in a pink jacket, Val...

Zathract Mist said...

Bye, Val!

Zathract Mist said...

Be right back. . .

Eve the ROCK said...

I argue with myself, but in my head. Normally about things that no one would think relevant to anything that was happening during that time. But they happen to be very important battles with my mind. They started when I lost my moral compass. Now I only hope I can read minds.

Sparky Braginski said...

Zath, have you written anymore of BFB?

Eve the ROCK said...

Bye Val!

Still don't see how they are alike. I see no lungs sticking out of their backs, and necromorphs are demented humans. Tyranids look more like dinosaurs. :D

Eve the ROCK said...

Kay. *waits for Mist*

Eve the ROCK said...

Oh my god...they sound exactly like screaming little kids...and they look like them too, a bit...

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

SCREAMING LITTLE KIDS ARE MY WORST FEAR!


Well, just little kids in general, but close enough.


I'm not really here!

Zathract Mist said...

I have, Sparky. But not much. I'm 405 words into Ch. 4 so really not much at all.

Back now.

Sparky Braginski said...

Gotta go.

I'll see if I can come back in a few.

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Oooh, am I in it yet?



(I'm bad at pretending that I'm gone...)

Eve the ROCK said...

Bye Sparky!

Yay. :)

Zathract Mist said...

Bye, Sparky.

You aren't yet, Val, but you probably will show up in Ch. 4.

Eve the ROCK said...

Eww. The last thing you want is to be puked on by a necromorph.

Zathract Mist said...

Writing Battle for Blogland now. . .

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Officially gone now...

Zathract Mist said...

Okay. Bye, Val.

Zathract Mist said...

Wait, Val, have you read Catching Fire?

Zathract Mist said...

Gah, I bet she isn't here.

Zathract Mist said...

Oh well. It's in the next Chapter anyway, so I have time...

Eve the ROCK said...

...My brother just made me play Dead Space. Ugh.

Lavender Hope said...

Back. :)

Lavender Hope said...

*hand are sweaty*
Ugh.
*wipes them on shirt*

Eve the ROCK said...

Hi Lav. :)

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Eve. :)

Zathract Mist said...

*hears Die Hard With a Vengeance playing in the other room*

"Yeah, there's a chance someone's still watching, but we can't just sit here with our thumbs up our ass waitin' for the freaking thing to blow up!"

Zathract Mist said...

Hi, Hope!

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Mist!
*laughs*
I watched one of the Die Hard movies. Parts of it were funny. :D

Zathract Mist said...

*is laughing at the Outtakes*

He's smashing the wrong window. Ahahaha!

Lavender Hope said...

I love watching the outtakes from movies! They're so hilarious!

Zathract Mist said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlDfEMzFyGo&feature=related

Lavender Hope said...

*opens link*
I watched those before, but I'll watch them again. :)

Just, at the moment, I can't.

*starts making a post*

It's going to be funny. :P

Star Inkbright said...

Hi people!

Star Inkbright said...

I HAVE FIVE MORE MINUTES, PEOPLE!

Eve the ROCK said...

Oh, clever Peeta.

Hi star!

Lavender Hope said...

Posted! Here it is!

http://blog-of-random-things.blogspot.com/2012/04/furry-crocodiles.html

Eve the ROCK said...

Ack. Brb

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Star! Cool pic! :)

Lavender Hope said...

Okay, Eve.

Star Inkbright said...

*laughs*

Lavender Hope said...

I'm guessing you saw, then Star.
*smiles*
Funny right?

Star Inkbright said...

*groans*

How long till the first of june?

Coz that's when we close for half term. Can't wait.

Star Inkbright said...

Gtg now! Bye! Bbl!

Eve the ROCK said...

Back

Eve the ROCK said...

Bye Star!

Lavender Hope said...

Sorry, Star. I'm not going to be here later when you get back from school or during the time you're on before bed... I've been busy with things now...

Lavender Hope said...

Sorry, forgot to add.

Bye Star!

Hi Eve. :)

Lavender Hope said...

Will be distant.

Eve the ROCK said...

Okay lav

Mist, still here?

Zathract Mist said...

Im back!

...My comment didn't publish...Why is it that the comments that don't publish are always the ones that say I'm leaving.

Eh. I'm back anyways!

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Mist!

brb.

Eve the ROCK said...

Yay! *hugs him*

Zathract Mist said...

*hugs back*

Hi!

Eve the ROCK said...

I want Enobaria to live. Enobaria is awesome.

Star Inkbright said...

Back!

Star Inkbright said...

*grins* ha. Going to the orthodontist today, so i have more time in the morning:)

Zathract Mist said...

Hm. I don't like going to dentists/orthodontists...

Star Inkbright said...

Narwhals, narwhals,
Swimming in the ocean,
Causing a commotian,
Because they are so awesome,

^most annoying song ever!

Star Inkbright said...

I don't, usually . . .

But i get to stay on here longer, so, big smiley face:)

Eve the ROCK said...

Ugh. Orthodontists.

WB star, btw

Lavender Hope said...

Back now. Again. :P

Star Inkbright said...

Narwhaals, narwhals,
Swimming in the ocean,
Pretty black and pretty white,
Beat a polar bear in a fight,

Zathract Mist said...

WB Star and Hope.

Star Inkbright said...

WB lavender.

Lavender Hope said...

Hello. :)

Star Inkbright said...

Narwhals,
They are narwhals,

WELL, NEVER! THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED NARWHALS, YOU STUPID SONG!

Star Inkbright said...

*hates narwhals*

Star Inkbright said...

Heeeeeeeellooooooo?

Sparky Braginski said...

Hello.

I am back from my first ever haircut.

Zathract Mist said...

Your FIRST EVER?!

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Sparky! First ever haircut? Really?
*wishes I could see what it looks like*

Sparky Braginski said...

Yeah, sad, isn't it?

Twenty days till my 14th birthday and my first ever haircut.

Lynxia Lost said...

Hello??

Zathract Mist said...

Wow...

Eh, whatever works I guess.

Zathract Mist said...

Hi Lynxia.

Sparky Braginski said...

Hi Lynx.

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Lynxia! :)

Star Inkbright said...

Hi lynxia!

FIRST EVER HAIRCUT???

We go, like, every six months or summat!

Sparky Braginski said...

Guys, I've had trims.Like, half an inch off at a time.

Four inches off.

And, because it was my first ever haircut, I got layers as well.

*glances in mirror*

SO SHORT...

Eve the ROCK said...

Hi Lynxia

First ever? Are you sure? Do you NEVER recall me snipping at your hair whenever you had your back turned?

Star Inkbright said...

*is listening to my brother and sister arguing about narwhals*

They argue about a bit in the song, then, since they can't decide who's right, they go and listen to it again. Then they keep on singing it afterwards, then one of them tells the other they're singing it wrong, then they argue again, and so on.

Lavender Hope said...

Whoa, that sounds like something I did before. I got layers with a short haircut, but now I'm growing it out.

Eve the ROCK said...

OH. WELL. Then that HARDLY counts as a first ever haircut. UH. YEAH. I LIKE MY CAPITALS.

Star Inkbright said...

*is confuzzled*

How is TRIMS not a haircut?

Sparky Braginski said...

Well, uh, it's short for me, but not short for anyone else.

Before, my hair was OBSCENELY long.

Lavender Hope said...

I have to go to bed soon, but before I do, I'm wondering-

I'm always either wondering, thinking, or realizing something... huh.

Anyway, I was wondering if you guys would like to see something I wrote. Not sure what to call it. Kinda like a poem.

But a warning: it's a bit... different. It's kinda what Sparky does on Skype. With the one word things. But I put them all together and had different words... I used only one word in a sentence(I guess you could call it) and... I can't really describe it... I wrote feelings, adjectives, nouns... maybe some other words I can't put a category to. Would you like to read it? I'll post it if you do.

I just wrote it today.

Lavender Hope said...

I want my hair long! I've been trying, but once it gets to my shoulders, I get it cut short again...

Failing.

Star Inkbright said...

*has layers right now*

I like layers.

I used to have long hair, then i had shoulder length hair, now it's, um, few inches below my shoulders?

Sparky Braginski said...

Half an inch, verses four inches.

Excluding the layers, which were probably between five and six inches or something...

Star Inkbright said...

Yes please lavender.

Sparky Braginski said...

Post it Lav!

Star Inkbright said...

*hears narwhals song again and grits teeth*

It is seriously annoying me now . . .

Lavender Hope said...

Posted.

http://blog-of-random-things.blogspot.com/2012/04/random-words.html

Star Inkbright said...

Bb in 5.

Lavender Hope said...

Very random...

Lavender Hope said...

First, I was doing something kinda for writing, like ideas and stuff(that's why the second line) but then...

Words.

Lynxia Lost said...

I want it to be next month!

Sparky Braginski said...

That's great Lav!

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