Just got word- The End Of The World has officially been released.
I thought it wouldn't be available until the 1st of March, World Book Day, but apparently they release their books a week or two early so that people will have them in their hands for the day in question. I think the vouchers can be used in participating shops from tomorrow onwards, but if you don't have a voucher the books themselves are real cheap, so it shouldn't break the bank.
TEOTW isn't the only World Book Day book, of course, so look around, see if anything else takes your fancy.
The A/NZ version of TEOTW will be released tomorrow, I'm told. The only difference between the two versions are the extras at the back. In the A/NZ, there's the short story using characters created by Minions -with-funny-accents right here in this Blog (and don't worry, this story will be collected along with all of the others and released to the world sometime between now and Book Nine).
In the UK and Ireland version of TEOTW, instead of a story, we have some deleted scenes from my first draft of the first Skulduggery book. I figured it might be interesting to give you a peek into what Val's home life would have been like if I hadn't come up with the idea of the reflection. Here's a hint: it'd be completely different. No warmth, or humour, or Melissa rolling her eyes while Desmond does something odd. Have a read, and then see which one you prefer.
Oh, and to all you competition winners who have been sent the signed books, I still have to send you a signed copy of Death Bringer. I've signed them and everything, I just haven't, er, sent them yet. Ahem. The upside is that now I'll be able to send you signed copies of TEOTW as well- so yay me!
Oh, and as usual, even though TEOTW is only a novelette, keep spoilers to an absolute minimum in the comments section. You may continue to babble now.
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Made that just then.
that story is incorrect in so many ways
Mine?
yes, yours
It was off the top of my head. Sheesh. And, you know it, that was a pretty good story for a off-the-top-of-my-head-momentarily-story.
yeah, but Ivy was a bad character to use for that
I just wanted to use Ivy. I dunno why. But I'm going to use everyone to make a really short story.
Ivy is evil.
Everyone will have their own one.
*smiles* It's incorrect in the way that Ivy is a psychopathic murderer, who is scared of practically nothing, and she scares everyone else, becasue she looks like a walking corpse, at the very least.
And I need to walk the dog. Be back in 10.
No, she isn't.
first you need
permission
and description
first you need
permission
and description
Okay, Ivy was a bad choice for that.
Uh, actually, Ivy IS evi. Very evil.
*evil
See, you should read the story. Nix, shouldn't Dylan read the story?
she tore of someones arm and beat him to death with it
yes, Dylan should read the story
and mine as well
Nix, check your email.
I didn't beat him to death with it, I threw it back at him and it hit him in the side of the head. Then I kicked his head off.
yes, Dylan should read the story
and mine as well
Ivy Animosity chased Valkyrie, laughing as she jumped the rooftops with ease. She started to hum a little tune. And then another tune was whistled, and Ivy turned her head to see Skulduggery Pleasant beside her, jumping rooftop to rooftop.
"Hi, there. You have a pretty knife. I don't think Valkyrie appreciates it much, though. And you're too pale," Skulduggery said.
Ivy let out a cackle and continued to chase Valkyrie. Valkyrie came to a dead-end and Ivy ran with unnatural speed to corner her. Ivy swung her blade, ready to plunge it into Valkyrie. But then, another blade parried her blade away, and then Ivy growled, cheated out of her kill. She looked over at Dylan Silver, clad in black, wearing his long coat, wielding his mighty sword and wearing black boots with what looked like silver vines, identical to the other boot, on them. Dylan Silver was a master swordsman. Ivy had no issue admitting it. Ivy wondered if she was a match for Dylan. And then, bright flashing lights. She saw a flash of white skull, a tie and suit, and then blacked out.
Mist, you don't mind if i cahnge a few things back
I need them for the next chapter
*freowns* Ivy can't meeet Skul in Val. They're from different story-worlds. There are only seven sorcerers for Ivy, and she's one. And she has practically every power.
Nixion, could you give me your characters bio? But set it out properly, like this:
Name:
Age:
Hair Colour:
etc...
Ivy, I clashed your person with Skulduggery Pleasant. That's my style at the moment. Clashing Minion characters with Skulduggery characters.
Name: Nixion Strange
Age: 14, almost 15
Magic: Adept
Adept Ability/s: Bone Breaking – Tesseract
Gender: Male
Appearance: Nixion is thin, just taller than the average 14 year old with brown eyes that carry a pitiful tormented look in them. He wears a protective jacket on special occasions, but most of the time, Nixion just wears black leather jacket, black jeans and a t- shirt. Black boots cover his feet and he carries a machete with him at all times.
Personality: Nixion Strange is very prone to mood swings. They can vary from becoming suddenly violent to being lost in thought to a cheerful teen. In a fight, Nixion can get overly violent and take it too far, sometimes accidentally injuring himself and his allies if in a rage which will occasionally allow him to lose control.
History: At the age of ten, Nixion was kidnapped by a Sorcerer criminal and was forcibly taught the Bone Breaking Adept discipline. This was done with an insane combination of brainwashing and extreme torture upon Nixion which eventually changed something in his mind, thus creating his sudden mood swings. Finally, at 11, Nixion was abruptly released with no warning whatsoever. For a while, he lost himself to insanity and killed heaps of people (so he is quite often hated by most)To this day Nixion attempts to fight the brainwashing done on him which also explains his over-the-top violence at times. A year after he was released, Nixion Strange was saved by Zathract Mist from a horde of zombies and the two kind of latched on to each other. It isn’t safe to say they are friends at all, but they are allies but also seem to be arguing constantly over almost everything.
Nixion Strange lives in Australia and helps Zathract Mist on cases for the Australian Sanctuary.
Dylan works at the Aussie Sanctuary, too! Go Aussies!!... AND US! :D
Yeah, but she can't clash with them. She's not a fanfic character by any means. And she would be impossible to make into one.
well, not completley immpossible
and Dylan
Even though my profile says im sometimes cherey, i am never
Always angry, okay?
Exactly.
And Dylan, most of the characters here are in a world with no Cannon characters which means no Skul, no Val, no Ghastly.
Nix, if you change them, send it back to me with the changes HIGHLIGHTED, PLEASE!
The exactly was agreeing with Val.
And those short story things are just gonna get old if you're the hero and saves the day in every one of them.
yeah, sometimes, in a story, the main character loses
It's what makes it fun. It's no fun if the main character always wins
If Ivy met up with skulduggery and Valkyrie, she'd tear them apart, just because she can... I can't let that happen...
Jack Rank sped through the streets and turned a corner sharply setting Zathract off his pursuit. Cursing darkly, he crouched and slid to slow himself down and continued running, now charging down the corner, closing in on Jack. And then he snapped his palm at the air and Jack stumbled and fell.
Instead of lying down, however, Jack struggled up, shot a small object that looked like a rock at Zathract and tore off.
"Hell..." Zathract muttered before launching himself sideways before the rock made contact with the ground and a huge explosion set off in the street. Dodging a large bit of debris the flew at his head, Zathract rolled, rebounded off a building and tore off after Jack who had just rounded a corner.
However, when Mist arrived at the street, Jack was no longer running. Instead, Vathrasi stood there, tall, dark and menacing with Jack dead at his feet. He had failed to kill Zathract, and so Vathrasi had killed him.
Now he would have to finish the job...
http://valkyriesstories.blogspot.com/
Read the story. Now. (I'm talking to you, Dylan.)
*that
what's this for?
Something I made up quickly and gives a hint that Zathract will fail.
That was just a short thing like Dylan's to show him that hero's sometimes make the entire story bad.
Sometimes it's better when they loose.
Jack and Vathrasi are the bad guys in case you didn't get it.
yes, see
A story's no fun if the main character is so powerful that no one can stand up to them
A challenge, a big fight, that's what makes an action story
Dylan Silver sat in wait for Nixion Strange. They were assigned a case together. Dylan didn't fancy being assigned with someone else, seeing as Dylan liked to get the job done himself, despite the fact that Dylan would ask for help when needed. Nixion Strange showed up forty-five minutes late, and Dylan saw him, and there was a spot of blood on Nixion's face.
"You're late," Dylan said, not looking at Nixion.
"I know," Nixion said, wiping the blood from his face. "I had a... vampire issue. No biggie, really. I got hit in the face a couple of times..."
Dylan wasn't mad. He was concerned. He had read the biography of Nixion, and got the sign he was somewhat of a sociopathic killer. But Dylan doubted that. Dylan stood up, gesturing Nixion out of the building. Nixion sat at a bench, and Dylan sat next to him.
"Zathract Mist was captured yesterday," Dylan said.
"What?!" Nixion shot back.
"He was captured by Dusk and Billy-Ray Sanguine."
Nixion gritted his teeth. I hate them. A vampire and a bloody freak who can pop in and out of the ground," Nixion sneered.
"So, are you up for it? If you go into a rage, I'll have you trialed and arrested. I'm immune to your Adept powers, so you'll be unable to splinter my body into bits. Which is fortunate. So, are you going to come or not?"
Nixion nodded. "I'll come," he said.
Dylan grunted, and Nixion turned his head to Dylan. "What?"
"They're using a cloaking sphere. I can tell. There's Hollow Men there."
Nixion nodded. "Nixion. You, stay here. I'll tell you when you're needed."
Dylan ran accross the yard, and jumped up onto the brown roof of the house, remaining upright on the shingles. He bent over and poked his head down, and his head disappeared from Nixion's view. Dylan could see half a dozen Hollow men lined up next to eachother, three on each side, all of them close together. Dylan clicked his fingers, igniting a flame into his hand. He threw it at one Hollow Man, and it ignited the gases within, but the fire clung onto the next Hollow Man, and the next, until there was nothing but ashes left. Dylan gestured to Nixion, and Nixion came into the yard, next to the door. Dylan jumped down, landing in a crouch and picked up the small sphere. He turned it back, and the haze that had erupted from it faded back into it. Dylan put the sphere in his red velvet pouch, which he was going to give to the Sanctuary's Repository, where a sphere was already there. Now they would have two.
Dylan and Nixion walked into the house, and it was poorly lit, and a rat scuttered from one door to the next. Dylan could hear Sanguine talking. And then a scream. Dylan sneaked behind a pillar and saw all the lacerations on his face. Dusk wasn't there. Nixion ran over to Dylan with unnatural speed, and Sanguine didn't notice, too busy looking for another place for his straight razor to cut.
"Can I explode his skull," whispered Nixion eagerly.
"No," Dylan said, and Nixion frowned. Dylan grabbed a chair from another room and smashed it over Sanguine's head. Sanguine fell to the floor, his straight razor falling with him. Dylan kicked the razor away, and Zathract's head was down, and he was drooling blood. Nixion pushed his head up, and Zathract's eyes widened. And, oh so weakly, he spoke. "D- Darquesse..." he said, and he blacked out. Dylan turned to the door, and Darquesse was standing there, with a grin on her face.
Dylan, that is nothing like Nix.
okay...
You got me pretty good, i admit.
But same problem. You're immune to my powers? why?
Darquesse would never just stand there.
And Nix doesn't actually WORK for the Sanctuary, he just happens to find himself helping Mist all the time.
And Nixion wouldn't follow any orders.
Because I went to China Sorrows, and got her to etch symbols on me, so I'm immune to your power, because I didn't want to actually be caught in your rage, just in case. Precautionary.
How is Dylan immune to his powers? He is an elemental, that kind of thing is impossible.
She just walked in the door.
That is a terrible explanation.
For being immune I mean.
I don't know all of your characters PERFECTLY well, so excuse me if I didn't nail it. I tried my best, and all I hear is your complaints. I spend a lot of time on these stories.
Yeah, but she's DARQUESSE. She's gonna be out destroying the planet, not after a few specific people or whatever. She would be fighting Vile or something instead.
Vile is not coming back. Skulduggery crushed the armour and put it in the sea.
hey, I'm not trying to complain. I understood why you got Ivy wrong and stuff, but this is Darquesse.
Uh, no, he didn't.
One: if i wanted to blow up a skull, i would just do it, not ask
Two: if i couldn't kill you with my powers, i would use my machete
But for not reading my stories and stuff, pretty good for a first try
No he didn't. Unless that is in EotW, it's not happening. At the end of DB he promised to use Vile if Darquesse was going to kill her parents.
And we weren't complaining, we were telling you how to get them right. Advice, man.
Well, no, he promised to stop Darquesse.
constructive critism
In a response to Val asking him not to hide the armor away because she wanted him to use if she turned and was going to kill her parents.
hey Mist, how about this for a chapter title
Bloodsukers, fighters and death idiots
I know. I'm just saying that he never specifically SAID he'd use the armour for it.
He said "Won't be needing this anymore and left it in the sea.
Umm... How about...
Death-Obsessed Idiots, Bloodsuckers and the Girl
No...
When the bloody hell did he say that?
Good
OK, cool. And did you highlight the changes?
still going
and i've put a comment besides one, so remember to get rid of that
When Lord Vile and Darquesse stopped fighting, and Darquesse had launched Lord Vile into the sea, and then they were normal again; Valkyrie and Skulduggery, Skulduggery took off the armour piece by piece and left it in the water, and it sunk.
Whoa, I was just looking through one of my old notebooks, and I found a part from before I made Ivy the bad guy. She was the good guy - it's so unnatural for her - and Anomaly betrayed her to work for Saturine, and Anomaly was, like, 15. It was so weird!
just read it, and no it didn't
*Saturnine
What book are you reading, Dylan?!
Nothing like that happened in Death Bringer...
They didn't go anywhere near the sea...
They did fall in the water, though.
I don't know if you're kidding or not, but either way...
ebooks
*snorts*
can't trust 'em
I'm
Getting.
1st
1st
Firerrst.
FIRRRST!
1st
1st
1st
1st
Damnit, Zathract!
Hahaha, you guys are all so desperate for first. I've gotten it, like, a gazillion times, before any of you CAME to the blog, so I ran out of dedications.
*shrugs*
neh
Can I do the dedication, Mist?
I ain't desperate, I just like getting it. I only said 1st once. The second was my damn mouse somehow clicking twice...
No, you can't, Dylan.
Hey, if you had to guess, how old would you think I am? (If you know, don't answer)
Someone give me the URL of their story, I'm bored.
Dear Darling Derek!
You’re back… so soon. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a GOOD thing. It’s an AMAZING thing. It’s a BRILLIANTLY PHENOMENAL thing.
Just so you know.
I’ve finished TEOTW… it isn’t how I expected it to be- it’s a LOT better. What is it with you and adding twists to stories? I mean… MUH! That’s right. MUH! One of my friends said that Valkyrie looks too realistic on the cover and because of that it was a horrible cover. In reply (especially after your dedications) I said ‘Don’t make me hit you, Mitch.’ I laughed at myself. Oh. Oh, funny day. Because, after all, it was just another Friday night...
JAFN (Ha. Ha. Jafn.) is amazing also. I LOVE how the characters were used. Really well written (What of your work isn’t?) And the last page of the book made me scream and squeal and jump and kick things with excitement. Almost to a point where I bashed my head against a wall. But, no… I wouldn’t do that. I’d do it to someone else. It’d be A LOT funnier.
And, Derek… my world needs more awesome. It really does.
One of my friends said that you only use the word pretty to describe someone. I said that you’ve used ‘purty’ to describe Pixie Lott, and then we thought about China. She’s called beautiful quite a lot, now, isn’t she…
Also, on the back of TEOTW, Death Bringer has a spiky bubble thing around it saying ‘PB OUT JUNE 2012’… What is a PB? Because, honestly, Skulduggery Pleasant Peanut Butter would be really cool. GO ADVERTISING!
‘I generally go for older guys’ = Valduggery? Well, that’s how I took it!
Write on, Derek!
XXXX ~ S'K
I know already...Darn.
Hurry up, Nix.
Oh wait, it's already there.
http://mistandnixseries.blogspot.com.au/
it starts on an old page
Hello??
No it isn't...hurry up, Nix.
Heya Lynxia.
PB= paper back
Oh, dedications.
This page is dedicated to every one of my friends on blogland with a special shout out to Eve.
Also to my poor grandfather...
The new paperback for Death Bringer is out March 29...
Hey Val! *hugs* Sparky says in the next part of the fan fic I try to make you smile!
DEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREKDEREK!!!!
(And that was without a single copy+paste…)
GO HERE NOW BECAUSE I FOUND AN AWESOME PICTURE THAT I KNOW THAT YOU’LL LIKE AND I’M NOT EVEN KIDDING AND I BET THAT THESE CAPITALS AREN’T DOING A THING TO HELP MY CASE…
http://acacianess.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/ta-dahhhhh.html
http://acacianess.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/ta-dahhhhh.html
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*laughs* You try to make me smile? in what world is that possible for the Ivy part of me?
I'm a Necromancer, too. I forgot to leave that out. Dylan meditates every day, so when his magic settles, he can use two types.
No idea. Sounds funny though.
Paperback… Wow that’s… Stupid. Of me. Thank you! Brain dead day!
THE PAPERBACK IS SO COOL LOOKING. Skulduggery's wrapped in shadows, trying to escape...
Hi Dylan. Hi Nix. Hi Zath. Hi Acacia. (If you're still here.)
Val, did I nail Ivy in the story I made for you? Or...
*smiles*
someone had to tell me that as well...
Not really... You have to know me well to nail Ivy.
*looks in the distance* OH MY GOD IT'S A UNICORN.
Lynxia, you'll definitely like me. I'm sure of it. Absolutely sure. I'm insane, random, cool, funny, weird, odd, and best of all... [Mental blank]
:D You'll like me. I'm sure of it.
We'll have a nice relationship. Don't you think? Me too. Really? Surely not. It cannot be. Oh, sure. I know. Fancy that! Yesh, indeedy.
Banana. <3
I have a T-Shirt that says 'Unicorn real! They're just fat, grey and we call them Rhinos!'
-Unicorn lifts it's tail and rainbow blast disintergrates person and blood explodes-
I want that shirt!
*smiles*
someone had to tell me that as well...
*slaps Dylan* That is the kind of relationship I have with things. Violent.
I'll post the link when my computer loads it.
Lynxia, are you one of the people who reads every chapter of my story? Because chapter seven is up on my blog.
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/unicorns_exist_o_tshirt-235123325446739758
I've got all of their T-Shirts and a new one is coming out soon. It says ' Forget Twilight! I'm Team Percy Jackson!' I can't wait!
Will go read!
sent it Mist
*is reading over Chapter Seven*
I'm getting a few things from reading over this:
1. I'm awesome
2.I should probably describe some setting...
Added, changed and ready to be posted!
I've read it! So awesome. Oh and did you say something about wanting the pic where you killed us all?
post it brah!
I did, yeah. Can you send it to me?
and i want the pic of me fighting Mist
Oh, and thanks about saying it was awesome :)
Nix, Ch 3 alone is 33 pages long.
OK. Will get your e-mails from Collab. Do you want the pics bigger because they're quite small?
Yes, bigger would be good. And you already have my email, don't you? Because I'm fairly certain I have yours...
im getting 24
but it's
almost nine thousnad!
No, I don't got the list now though.
Oh, and did I mention that I ordered the End of the World a few hours ago? I'm excited! Of course, some of you have already read it...
I'll make the pic big enough to fill a T-Shirt then you can just down size it to how big you want it.
Okee.
that took up an whole pge of blog...
http://mistandnixseries.blogspot.com.au/
READ IT NOW! OR YOU'LL NEVER FINISH!
Mist...?
Damn Blogger... Shuts the comment window on me... FACE MY WRATH!
*tears Blogger's arm off*
MWAHAHAHAH!
8, 463 words in Ch 3.
Val... did you ever have one chapter take up a whole blog page...?
A whole blog page... one chapter...
That's so weird because there's meant to be 10 posts on the page. Ours is just so long!! :D
Noooo... But that's because I make all my chapters range from 2,000 to 2,700 words.
Val's font is so much smaller, though.
a whole page...
My font is small because large font makes my eyes hurt. Isn't that weird? You'd think that it would be small font that bugs me, but nope, it's the large one.
Oh, it has been my dad's birthday for the past 19 minutes here.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD!
one chapter bigger than 10 posts...
That's like the amount of words for two of my chapters. Must be pretty long.
over 8 000...
Nappa: Vegeta! What does the Scouter say about the word count?
Vegeta: IT'S OVER 8, 000!!! *smashes Scouter*
Hey, who wants to read a short story I wrote last year, in sixth grade?
i do... as soon as i get over the fact of how long the chapter was...
Me! MEEE!
...Everyone knows that Dragonball Z line...right?
For Nappa and Vegeta I mean.
Hi val, nix, zathract.
sorry, gota go
Be back in 30
Hello Star!
The next Chapter of Nix and Mist is out! And it's...
Vegeta: OVER 8, 000!!!
My brother used to think he was a Super Saian or however you spell it.. I've seen just about every Dragonball Z episode there is.
I'm still here but waiting for the e-mail to load. Might be a while...
*smashes second Scouter*
Saiyan...SAIYAN...
I do, val!
And Dragonball Z Abridged is so awesome. It's more hilarious than SP...the first time you see it anyway.
Hi lynxia.
SORRY! I can't spell words that make no sense... My brother was seriously obsessed with Dragonball Z, though. Like, it was ridiculous.
That happens...
Not to me though. *cough*
I DO have nearly every Dragonball - Dragonball GT game every made though...and have every season of Dragonball Z on dvd...and have thirty DBZ action figures on my book shelf...*cough*
But I don;t really like it much any more. Actually.
I still role play my own DBZ characters though. That's fun.
Someone other than me say something...
...
That's a lot of drangonballs things
Nah. You should see some of the people on the forum...god...
For those of you who wanted to read it, I posted my short story on my blog!
Okay! Going there now! I'll bb later, people!
It shouldn't take you too long to read - it's shorter than one chapter.
Nix, did you get the pic?
Nix, did you get the pic?
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