I'm back home for a bit before my last weekend away, and I've spent today wandering around the house staring blankly at things. It's only when I'm back for a few days that I start to decompress and behave normally, so it looks like I'll have to wait a while for that to happen...
My few days in Ireland were awesome, as usual. I signed in Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Drogheda and Cork. The Cork signing was probably the longest, because I haven't been there in a while, but everywhere there were enthusiastic readers laden down with books. Some truly bizarre and cool people.
Then I had a few days off before my event at the Mountains to the Sea festival, where I chatted on stage with Dave from Eason bookshops about movies that have influenced the series, and we even got to show clips.
Dave showed bits from Starship Troopers (awesome!) and A Nightmare Before Christmas (amazing!) and It's a Wonderful Life (uhm... what?)
I showed a few trailers for a few things, but I don't think I'll tell you what they were... In fact, it might make an interesting blog post, discussing these movies and showing clips... Oh goody, I've worked out what I'm going to be talking about next time!
I headed over to the UK on Friday- just in time to experience the heat- where I signed in Southampton, Bournemouth, Dulwich and Bluewater in London. Last year, I was signing in Bluewater for four hours. I figured there was no way I'd be signing for any more than that this time. Five hours later, I had changed my tune. From people coming in costume- I'm thinking of a skeleton morph suit in particular here-
to people who had made their own Skulduggery T-shirts (and a certain tall blonde with the most awesome T-shirt ever, festooned as it was with lines from the books)-
there was no chance of my smile ever dipping. It's the sheer enthusiasm and energy of the people who turn up to get their books signed that energises me every single time.
And the hugs...
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No, we all died.
How can socks be skulduggery-ish
What do you mean val ?
* makes the bouncy castle even bouncier*
*bounces higher and higher!*
*bumps head on the moon*
Wow that must've been a high jump
My socks have skulls on them so kind of....
Okay so I guess you could say they're skulduggery -ish
Yes I suppose they are.
*my head falls off* Umm Eden could you umm pick that up?
*picks up Maya's head and puts it on her shoulders*
Thank you. WAIT A SECOND. If this is my head. WHose head is *epic pointing* THAT one?!
Oh I know.Actually that's my other head. *laughs embarrassedly*
I seem to be alone. So I shall leave Goodbye!
*picks up other head and skips off*
Hi!
msd
No, Maya, come back!
*leaves*
Strike that. Anyone here?
Hey kessie
...Hello?
EDEN!
L.!
*shrieks*
msd
Yep, and now I have to go. Bye!
Or not.
I have a question. Do deleted comments still count towards the 5000?
Ok, NOW I have to go.
Heya, Kes!
Awh, bye Kes!
Hey luce if your still there
Heya, Eden.
You know 'cause you love me, 'n all...Mind using a capital letter for names and a full stop at the end of your sentences?
Just to make it easier for me to understand, because I'm not very good with understanding things atm. :(
*looks at Eden* See? Me, Sparky, and Flame aren't the only ones who can't exactly understand it.
Okay, its just I didn't know if you guys were on or not.
YAY! YOU USED PUNCTUATION AND CAPITOL LETTERS!
*gives him a gold star*
*pins gold star to my top* Yay.
Thanks, sweetie!
I'm just a bit funny at the moment and it's difficult to concentrate on anything, really. But good spelling, punctuation and grammar is incredibly helpful! :3
No problem Luce.
Next step is commas, Eden;)
Thank you. *hugs*
No problem, *hugs*
You guys still here?
Yeah, I'm still here. Kind of...
And if you are, I think we can all agree that Eden's grammar/spelling/punctuation/capitalization is nowhere near as bad as Brave's.
Hello L.! *waves frantically*
BALLOP
Dammit! I have to go again!
That's true, Kes. But I've not seen Brave for a long while, so...
Msd...
Hello, Nix.
Bye, Kes.
Hey guys I'm back, and thank you Kessie. I try.
Hello?
Hey Willow.
Howya?
I'm fine, I guess... You?
I'm just after sending an email to Derek's publishers, using the email adress on the website. So I'm pretty happy with myself.
So in short, quite good
Isn't it a bit late for you, Eden?
I am back! It will probably only be a short while though.
Hey Willow. How are you?
HELLO!
Will be distant; I'm reading through Kingdom of the Wicked again...
Eh no, I'm not a baby *jokingly* I've pulled plenty of all nighters. It's mostly because I'm at my dads, so I have Internet 24/7 so I intend to use it 24/7
Hey Kessie and Val.
Don't torture me Val.
And Eden, I have not yet pulled any all-nighters, but when KotW comes, I plan on doing just that.
Hi, Kes!
Hey,, Val!
WILLOW!
How are you?
I'm fine.. I guess
I've done them as I have said, but they're no fun unless you have a book to read, a movie to watch or someone to talk to. And I finished KOTW before I had to pull an all nighter.
How'd your character list go Val?
And whats wrong Willow?
Oh yeah the character list, how did it go
I havent been here in ages... I MISS THIS PLACE :P
Eden, yes, I am sure I will finish it without the all-nighter unless it comes on a Tuesday or Thursday, but I am going to do it anyway.
And I suppose I HAVE done them, but not real ones. Only at sleepovers.
Oh forgot the ?
A lot of stuff. It's not important.
I got through book one and book two so far. I can type them up, if you'd like.
Hello Izza.
Can I call you Izza? I feel like we've become friends in the last 10 seconds.
BELLA!
*hugs*
Hello Isabella, howya?
*blinks* Isabella Midnight?
*tackle hugs*
I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN FOREVER! Do you remember me?
Val, are you including minor characters? Like Kallista
Yes please Val, if it's not too much trouble.
Yeah. I got EVERYONE in book one and two. Including people who were only mentioned.
EVERYONE?! Wow. When I can't sleep I try to name an SP character for every letter of the alphabet, but STILL.
Like when they were reading out people Scapegrace tried to kill.
I shall return to watching Barbie, if you don't mind. I shall comment occasionally.
Barbie? Ok...
I must try that Kessie, it would kick counting sheepskin butt.
Barbie? Okay whatever floats your boat.
What? I'm twelve and I like Barbie.
Or the boy who crushed his leg jumping off the pier?
Or little Jasper with the unfortunate ears.
Or Hannah Foley with the Chines-Crested dog?
Actually I think she's only mentioned in Dark days. Never mind.
Okay, every man, woman or inter dimensional being to his, hers or it's own.
?
No, Hannah is mentioned earlier, the dog isn't though. (note to Val don't forget Hannah Foley's dog).
Don't get me started on Jasper
The people on the forums think he's Mevolent
That inter dimensional being comment was about Willow and Barbie.
I tried to count sheep to fall asleep after reading Kingdom of the Wicked.
It didn't work.
I could only imagine Darquesse killing them in all sorts of ways before they could run, so... Yeah. Not successful.
And that isn't a spoiler, by the way.
The people on the forum are idiots Nix lol
We've already established that with their uneducated attempt at a necromancy debate.
Oh! And...
S'up bro!
*brofist for Nix*
Guys. I already have the characters you're naming off. I flipped through all the pages of books one and two so far.
Hi Em!
Hey nix, what they think a little boy is mevolent ?
Does it give you the little snippets of the first draft of Skulduggery Pleasant in the Australian version of The End Of The World ?
Hey Em, wazzup?
Not in TEOTW, but I found it in a special edition Dark Days
Okay, well does it say that Jaspers parents told him to stay away from the Edgely girl?
Book One Characters:
Gordon Edgley
Stephanie Edgley/Valkyrie Cain
Skulduggery Pleasant
Melissa Edgley
Desmond Edgley
Fergus Edgley
Beryl Edgley
Crystal Edgley
Carol Edgley
Gladys
Jasper
Mr Fedgewick
The man from the house
Skulduggery's old partner
The man in the bow tie
China Sorrows
Faceless Ones
Ancients
The Last of the Ancients
That guy in a truck that drives past Stephanie when she's hiding
Nefarian Serpine
Hollow Men
Mr Bliss
Clemet Gale
Alexander Slake
Shuffling old lady outside Bespoke Tailors
Ghastly Bespoke
Vampire security (guy)
Vampire Security (lady)
Tanith Low
Troll beneath Westminster Bridge
Razor
Phoenix
Jet
The reflection
Small group of tourists
Small American boy
Tour Guide
Cleavers
The (good) Administrator
Eachan Meritorious
Morwenna Crow
Sagacious Tome
Oisin
Skulduggery's Wife
Skulduggery's child
The White Cleaver
Dog Monster in the caves
Tentacle Monster in the caves
Prisoner who snags Tanith's coat
The wall that grabs Skulduggery
Gordon Edgley
Stephanie Edgley/Valkyrie Cain
Skulduggery Pleasant
Melissa Edgley
Desmond Edgley
Fergus Edgley
Beryl Edgley
Crystal Edgley
Carol Edgley
Gladys
Jasper
Mr Fedgewick
The man from the house
Skulduggery's old partner
The man in the bow tie
China Sorrows
Faceless Ones
Ancients
The Last of the Ancients
That guy in a truck that drives past Stephanie when she's hiding
Nefarian Serpine
Hollow Men
Mr Bliss
Clemet Gale
Alexander Slake
Shuffling old lady outside Bespoke Tailors
Ghastly Bespoke
Vampire security (guy)
Vampire Security (lady)
Tanith Low
Troll beneath Westminster Bridge
Razor
Phoenix
Jet
The reflection
Small group of tourists
Small American boy
Tour Guide
Cleavers
The (good) Administrator
Eachan Meritorious
Morwenna Crow
Sagacious Tome
Oisin
Skulduggery's Wife
Skulduggery's child
The White Cleaver
Dog Monster in the caves
Tentacle Monster in the caves
Prisoner who snags Tanith's coat
The wall that grabs Skulduggery
Oops... I posted that twice...
Oh well. I dedicate to all those characters.
(Even Serpine, who has been called a toerag.)
You know who my favorite character is in the entire series? The milkman. Truly, the hero of the Irish people. I'm going to disappear now.
What about the sorcerer punks in Venice Val?
That list is just book one. I'm typing up the one for book two.
Oh, I thought I saw Alexander Remit and you were doing book 2 as well
Well, I think that's the only reason jasper is mentioned. So they can say "stay away from that Edgely girl she's trouble" at the end.
They only say that in the deleted scenes.
And, some of those characters are already dead so they can't be killed off in the last book.
Hello. Sorry about that. I really need to reread Sceptre of the Ancients:
And blow up Amazon.
Yeah, because jasper was in the first draft and they had to cut him out of the end bit because the book ended differently. While they could keep the start bit because that is the same in both the book and the first draft.
I can help blow up amazon, Kes *grabs virtual dynamite*
Vaurien Scapegrace
Alexander Remit
Sofia Toil
Cothurnus Ode
Armiger Fop
Gregory Castallan
Bartholomew
Thurid Guild
Baron Vengeous
Skulduggery's colleague who “ruptured”
The guy Vengeous kills when he enters Ireland
Dusk
Spring-heeled Jack
J.J. Pearl
Minion One
Minion Two
Grace Kelly
Kenspeckle Grouse
Stentor
Civet
One guy who died because of China's necklace
The other guy who died because of China's necklace
China's associate who crossed Dusk
Billy-Ray Sanguine
Old woman who walks past Valkyrie and Sanguine
Echo Gordon
The Torment
Lightning Dave
Hokum Pete
Hieronymus Deadfall
Deadfall's sister
Pool Player One
Pool Player Two
Brobding
Hannah Foley
Skulduggery's cannibalistic cousin
Grotesquery
New Administrator
Infected woman who explodes
Argus
The man who wasn't there
Sanctuary official 1
Sanctuary official 2
Sanctuary official 3
Goth-punk 1
Goth-punk 2
Goth-punk 3
Goth-punk 4
Goth-punk 5
Sanctuary official in Venice
Woman in the pinstriped suit
Old man in the lobby
Young man in the lobby
Foreign lady
Foreign guy
The Sanctuary guy Jack kills
Finbar Wrong
Sharon
The guy who was sleeping on Skulduggery's black case
Valkyrie's dad's cousin
The lady who talks about her dogs
Sev
Zephyr
Portly man who was throwing his wife around
Portly man's wife
Other dancer portly man's wife bumps into
Band idiot 1
Band idiot 2
20+ Infected
Guy Sanguine was on the phone with
Sanguine's Erstwhile employer
Stunning Italian girl 1
Stunning Italian girl 2
Vampire who comes at the end
I still have to do the Faceless Ones; will be distant.
I think the guy Sanguine was on the phone with, WAS his employer.
Bot nessecarily. We know that BATU was his employer, he might have been talking to GALLOW or someone.
Well, see, I thought of that, but it could've been someone else. That's why they're listed as different characters.
In Faceless Ones it said Sanguine had never met Batu
So it was Gallow, not Batu
I should say it's more likely that it was Gallow
*sits*
Point taken, but is there still not a chance that it was gallow he was talking to on both occasions, since in TFLO Batu never deals with Sanguine directly.
Oh, are you using grammar now, Eden?
Yes, but BATU is still his "Erstwhile employer"
Why, yes I am, thank you for noticing
Yeah, but the name was given by Skul and Val, so they can be wrong about who he was calling. It might have been someone working for his Erstwhile employer
That's what I'm saying Eden. It's most likely that it was Gallow on both occasions in PWF
brb
Not necessarily Kes, you if Sanguine never met him Batu is not the character in book two, even though he is by dint of being Gallows boss Sanguines employer
Hello?
Bye Barbie Bye!
I know nix, I was agreeing with you, and taking Kessie's point.
I seem to be dead too all but Eden...
Hey Sparky. Hey Willow.
*to
Hi Sparky.
Hi Sparky!
I never said Sanguine MET BATU, I'm saying that BATU is the erstwhile employer.
Well then maybe your a figment of my imagination Zathract.
Okay I agree with that statement Kes.
Hi Mist! Hi Sparky!
Are you guys really still discussing who that character could be?
And Zathract if you are a figment of my imagination, what cool stuff can you do?
Hey, Zath.
Hello, Zath.
Hello, Sparky.
Hello, anyone I forgot.
*hugs all*
Sorry for being so distant. I'm just in a little bit of pain, at the moment.
Yes we are, Val.
Hi Val!
And I wouldn't know, Eden, seeing as I am not a figment of your imagination.
You forgot me, hi Luce
Zath, you can say thank you to me now.
I calmly sat Eden down and in the manner that is only described as EPIC!!!
I explained to him that it's less hassle if he uses the same rules in here as he would in his English class
Well Zath that's just a shame, I've never had a figment of my imagination talk to me before.
I said hi to you earlier, Eden. When I asked you to correct your capitals and punctuation. XD
GCHKJLAFD
You're no Skulduggery, Eden.
Hi Luce! ...
Hi Em! Thank you!
Exactly, it has to be proper grammar or like in English class the teacher will hit me on the side of the head with a book (hardback usually).
Wbd. Reading fanfics. :)
Except here you'll be hit with a hammer
What do you mean by that, Sparky?
Or blown to bits...
Or shadow cut...
Or have your heart ripped out...
Or simply be eaten by me :D
I mean, in DD Skulduggery mentions that his figments of imagination talk to him-
With more singing and dancing.
Just, making a reference.
Oh no Nix, please don't hit me with a hammer that'd hur, a lot.
I'M the HIMANITARIAN!
I gtg, bbl
I'd prefer Em's options to Nix's.
Bye Kes!
Yeah, but Kes, I'm the insane violent one with a almost unlimited suply of weapons
Bye Kes.
Bye Kes!
*laughs* You guys amuse me...
*climbs a nearby tree and sits there* I like being up high...
Really? You'd rather be blown up, ripped apart by shadow blades and have your heart ripped out of your chest and then eaten rather than be hit with a hammer?
Bye, Kes! Again. :)
Ooow Nix, if your supply of weapons is unlimited can I have one?
Getting hit by a hammer is sore.
He said 'almost unlimited'.
And being blown up isn't?
Almost unlimited
And it'll cost ya
*sits next to Lu*
Hey.
Oh well still can you give me one ? * does the puppy dog eyes on Nix. Teleports in my puppy and then we both do puppy eyes on Nix*
How much? *smile forms on face*
...
My dream has ruined puppies for me
No, it'll cost ya if you want one
*hits Eden with a hammer*
*laughs and runs off*
How much?
Hello. *smiles st Sparky then looks at the ground*
How much?
I don't want money. If I wanted money, I would just kill someone for it
I get payed in favours and the like. What sort of skills do you have?
Being eaten by me is not painful???
Eden I'm assuming your head is not screwed on properly
Then again, teleporters never have them lol
*holds hammer wound * You monster, you so evil you are beyond compare.
Don't suppose you're planning on replying to that email, Luce?
I'm Darquesse. What else did you expect?
*hits Eden with another hammer*
well Nix I'm an expert on European history and I can be pretty annoying when I want to be.
*mutters something about Eden being annoying even when he doesn't want to be*
*shakes head*
How would that help me?
Can you be expected to murder?
Can you steal things?
*Cradles second hammer * DEAR JESUS!!!!!!!!! That hurt.
*nudges Lu just enough to push her out of the tree*
Oops.
Yeah I can kill people, both by hitting them and annoying them to death.
I grew bored of checking my e-mail. *shrugs* Doubt it, Zath.
No, not kill...
How good a theif are you?
And I could probably steal things, nice watch by the way * looks at Nix's watch after I stole it*.
Annoying? Sometimes? You amaze me, Eden...
Thought not. Oh well. Just read it at some point, okay?
That's not a skill, Eden, that's called God Modding.
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