Monday, May 27, 2013

Spirit Lake: The Winner

Wow.

Okay, that was one of the most fun competitions I've run so far. The Exquisite Corpse competition is shaping up brilliantly— the standard on display is just mind-boggling— but the Spirit Lake contest has just been fun from start to finish.

So here's what I did.

I collected all of the names of the people who entered, both here on this Blog and on Twitter, and I divided them into bundles. I made sure that each and every one had a valid reason for why they should be a video game character. Some of these reasons made sense. Some were just odd. Some were VERY odd. There are people, both Minions and Ronda Rousey fans, who are just unsettling. I'm not entirely sure how their brains work— if indeed their brains work at all.    

To give you a hint of what I've been dealing with, here are a few reasons you people gave. "Because of my neurax worms." "Because I like pie." "Because I'm short.""Because I've watched Robot Wars.""Because I have a psychic elephant.""Because I have a need for speed.""Because I'm not very smart (which will make the player feel better about themselves).""Because I am Dr Who.""Because I sometimes think that I'm the only human being in the world. The rest of you are all aliens.""I would make an awesome video game character because I already AM an awesome video game character.""Because I am actually Lakota (the Spirit Lake people are my Dakota relatives)."

So I divided you all up, and those of you who entered multiple times got your names put into as many groups as possible. From each of these groups, a winner was chosen. The winners were then put into a hat.

(Not an ACTUAL hat, since I don't own one, but a METAPHORICAL hat.)

(Okay, fine, I wrote all your names on a sheet of paper and I let my cat walk on it, and the closest one to where her tail touched down was the winner.)

And sooooo... without further ado... the winner is...

Willow Kowalski!

Yayyyyyyy Willow! The only thing I know about Willow is that she's five years old (so, er, she can wait a few years before she starts reading my books) and she's a Ronda fan... It's a lovely prize, and I can't think of anyone it'd make happier.

4,956 comments:

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Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Ok, seriously now, I'M DISTANT!

Star Inkbright said...

HELLO IENI! :)

#ChaseFOrBOoKnNine

Requiem Noble said...

Mara/Fabi, I'd love to see the ded

Also, Hi Star.

Yeah Skyril, I do

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

CHEDDAR! Okay, really going now....

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

Zaffy is not blonde! Zaffy has light brown hair

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

I WANT TO SEE IT. '~'

*pulls pickled puppy eyes out a jar and hands to Fani*

#ChaseForBOokNine

Star Inkbright said...

*Fabi

Dammit. :P

#ChaseForBOokNIne

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Requiem, do you have a Blogland email, or...?

I'll type it out tomorrow... But I gotta go. Seriously.

Anyone? Going once, going twice...

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

[Nods] If you send/sent it to me, I can send it to other people.

See you, Mara.
Okay, see you Arra.
[hugs both]

#ChaseForBook9

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

We could create one email for it and then just send clips of us talking using that email! it'd be awesome! :D

#ChaseForBook9

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

@Requeim
OF COURSE!
Boiled peanuts are awesome!
Especially the cajun ones, but the original ones aren't so bad either... I mean, no one can REALLY mess up boiled peanuts. :-3

It's a Louisiana thing.... I have yet to meet a Bloglander who has even HEARD of boiled peanuts -_-

Requiem Noble said...

So, Zafira, you're good at explaining stuff...How come you're an Elder?

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

I WANT TO SEE IT!

Uilliam Kinsella said...

May I please see the the ded.
#ChaseForBookNine

Requiem Noble said...

Skyril-I;ve never tried boiled peanuts...

Mara (or anyone if she's not here) blogland email address?

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

well that took longer than expected to post...

Star Inkbright said...

Gah . . . That would need me to figure out how to record and send via email clips, but yes. :)

IT WOULD BE SO FUN.

#ChaseForBOokNine

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Well you COULD just take a video, but cover up the lense or something... xP

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

#ChaseForBook9

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

An email under your taken name that you feel comfortable sharing over the Internet, Requiem. That's what Mara means. Like I have an email address as Fabi that people know, and one as ML that people don't know.

#ChaseForBook9

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Hiya, Zaf!
~hugs~


@Requiem
If you get a chance, here are a couple of my favs, although I really like most of their songs.

Brass Goggles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDRHx4cPgbE&NR=1&list=RD02ZiPptuW5x6Q&feature=endscreen

Steamboat Shenanigans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiPptuW5x6Q

Suspender Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6dW5aH6GTc&list=RD02ZiPptuW5x6Q

Requiem Noble said...

Ah ok Fabi, thanks

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Okay.
I'll set up the email address and everyone else set up their recordings.
It'll be something like sp Bloglandians.
Sound good.
#ChaseForBookNine

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

WE SHOULD TOTALLY DO THIS!!!! :D

#ChaseForBook9

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

msd...

Maralie Lily Charm said...

CAN I SET UP THE EMAIL SEEING AS IT WAS MY DREAM?


please? :P

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

SURE! :D

#ChaseForBook9

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Ah, I should be gone :P

Oh well. Msd.

Requiem Noble said...

I'd love to join in but I'll warn you, being new, I'll be awful...

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

@Requiem

I assumed thus.
Boiled peanuts SOUND disgusting, I realize, but I've been eating them since I was... 6? 7? Younger? They're not crunchy like peanuts, they're... mushy. Again they taste much better than they sound xD.

I've determined I'm going to bring a bucketload of boiled peanut to a Derek Landy book signing... one day.

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Or maybe, Instead of emailing it to everyone else, We can just email it to the email using that email...

if that makes any sense... :-/

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

We should!

I'll be happy to participate when I'm no longer sick. :-)

#ChaseForBook9

Emerald Melody said...

Hey Eden, once I'm finished making Blogland on minecraft, would you be able to help me set up a private server for just Bloglandians??

I am such a newbie at this, it is frightening!!

Plus I remembered that I need to add in a ballroom for requiem balls...

#ChaseForBook9

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Sure Mara no problem.
#ChaseForBookNine

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Ok, what are you guys talking of doing?? I'm supposed to be distant O_O

Requiem Noble said...

Well...boiled peanuts sound...interesting...

If you bring some to a signing and i'm there (because I want to go to one) I'll try some.

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Hello, Em!
~hugs~

Uilliam Kinsella said...

No problem I've already helped my brother set up a server for him and his friends to play survival games and race for wool.

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Okay, the email is bloglandians@gmail.com and the password is dereklandy123 :)

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

@Requiem
Sounds good. :D
I actually wonder how many Bloglandians will actually like them... I suspect not many >.<

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

YAY!!
#ChaseForBook9

Uilliam Kinsella said...

If you're looking for a youtube video there's one by a guy called danwanstech.
You can email me about it but I think it would be brilliant.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

#ChaseForBookNine

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

It's been exactly 20 minutes, and since the new page, and there have been over 83 comments posted. O_O

Ieni Strider (Ieni The Ninja Aeroplane, Eater of Fabi's armses) said...

*hugs Fabi* I hope you get better soon:(

#ChaseForBook9

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

NOO FABI DON'T BE SIICCCKKKKK

#ChaseForBook9

Uilliam Kinsella said...

So what do we out the clips in drafts?
#ChaseForBookNine

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Aw, I hope you feel better too, Fabi!

~Gives a pillow, a cuddly bear, and some chicken noodle soup~

Uilliam Kinsella said...

*put

Maralie Lily Charm said...

How about we send our clips to the others using that email?

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Yeah, it's really busy...

[hugs back]

Thanks, Ieni.

#ChaseForBook9

Maralie Lily Charm said...

FABIIIIIIIIIIIII

*tacklehuggles*

Get better soon! :(

Requiem Noble said...

How do we know what other Bloglanders emails are?

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Yeah... I'm still not sure what everyone's talking about...

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

OKAY JUBI. [nods]

Thanks, Skyril

If I may suggest... Send it to yourself as well do it isn't obvious who you are because of who you aren't?

#ChaseForBook9

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Well, I have two emails... if that's at all relevant.

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Mine is maralielilycharm@gmail.com :P

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

We don't have to email it to the other bloglandians. We can just email it to Bloglandians@gmail.com using Bloglandians@gmail.com
that way, when they check the email, it'll be in to inbox.

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

*the inbox
#ChaseForBook9

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

One-hundred comments in twenty-five minutes.

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Doing something like in the top comment, Skyril.

How about anyone who wants to participate emails the Bloglandians email?

#ChaseForBook9

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Clever, Jubi.... *nods*

Good god, my dreams have big impacts on Blogland XD

#ChaseForBook9

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Or that would work, too, Jubi.

#ChaseForBook9

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

MARA'S DREAMS ARE MESSAGES FROM THE FUTURE!!!!

#ChaseForBook9

Requiem Noble said...

Yeah Mara, they do...

I gotta go, see you all soon. Probably on the next post. Hoping it's soon!

Bye!

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Yup!

[skydives]

[tries to put out fire and save Alexis]

[goes to Nando's with Mara and other Bloglandians and meets 1D]

#ChaseForBook9

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

heh heh I put a random message in the Drafts section of the email

because I'm just THAT WERID.


xP

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Ahhh, THANKS, FABI!
~glomples~

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

See you, Requiem! [waves]

#ChaseForBook9

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Oh, Byyyee, Requiem!
~hugs~
Hope to see you next post :D

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

BYE BYE REQUIEM!!! *supermegagoodbyetacklehugsofdoom*


#ChaseForBook9

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Don't email it with your own because then everyone would know.
Log into the Blogland email and email it.

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

So... there's a blogland email?? And everyone has the password?

Maralie Lily Charm said...

Gtg, bye! *hugs* *poofs*

#ChaseForBook9

Ieni Strider (Ieni The Ninja Aeroplane, Eater of Fabi's armses) said...

Whoaaah...

Was the Val or the reflection on the cover?

#ChaseForBook9

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Or put it in the drafts.

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

*frowns* Good question Ieni...

#ChaseForBook9

Uilliam Kinsella said...

#ChaseForBookNine

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Does anybody else like the word quixotix?

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Bye, Maralie!
~hugs~
Hope to see you again later!

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

BYE MARAAAA!!!!!! *supermegagoodbyetacklehugsofdoom*


#ChaseForBook9

nights.raven said...

Hello hello hello!

son of the moon said...

The way Skulduggery looked...I'm pretty sure it's Val. [hopes I'm wrong]

#ChaseForBook9

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, Raven!
:D
~glomps~

~wonders if Derek Landy actually knows how many times Rae has read SP~

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

RAVEN!!!! *Supermegatacklehugsofdoom*


hi.

#ChaseForBook9

nights.raven said...

HIIIII SKYYYYY! *hugs*

JUBI!!!! *hugs*

son of the moon said...

Sorry..my phone crashed.

Bye Mara [hugs]

Hi Raven!

#ChaseForBook9

nights.raven said...

Hi Fabi!

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Hey raven
#ChaseForBookNine

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

That's alright. Welcome back, Fabi!

nights.raven said...

hi eden!

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

So- I repeat xD- there's a Blogland email to which everyone knows the password??

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Oh hey someone sent an email to the Bloglandians email thingy... xP

#ChaseForBook9

Star Inkbright said...

Why doesn't someone make the email, then email in the Blogland to everyone else with the password?

Or are we doing that already?

Sorry, I'm real distant.

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Mara just created one for the voice recording thing, Skyril. So not really.

#ChaseForBook9

Uilliam Kinsella said...

I know who it is.
It's kind of obvious if you know what country people are from.
#ChaseForBookNine

nights.raven said...

hi star!

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Star the email is bloglandians@gmail.com
Password is dereklandy123
#ChaseForBookNine

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Star, the email is Bloglandians@gmail.com and the password is dereklandy123

Star Inkbright said...

Thank you, Eden! :) :) *murders my distance*

#ChaseForBookNIne

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Where do we post who we think it is?
#ChaseForBookNine

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Who's gonna comment comment #4949??

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Just reply to the email

Star Inkbright said...

And thank you Jubi! :) :)

#ChaseForBOokNIne

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE SKYRIL! xP

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

SOMEONE COMMENT SO I DON'T GET IT XD

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

oh hey.....

nights.raven said...

*hums*

nights.raven said...

lol Jubi

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

YAY!! I GOT 4949! :D *runs around in circles* I haven't done this in a WHILE!

nights.raven said...

run around in circles or get 4949?

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Jubi got it!
Just barely :P

I'm Jubilance Glee / Occasional Haiku-er / And a dinosaur said...

Run around in circles xP

#ChaseForBook9

nights.raven said...

I see

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Running in circles us fun AND entertaining.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

I didn't know it was the first to post I would have won by ages.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

#ChaseForBookNine

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

lol, Eden. :P

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Attempted to record myself, but it sounded horrid. Definitely going to wait.

Forwarding Mara's ded now. [nods]

#ChaseForBook9

Uilliam Kinsella said...

I told you all mine would be obvious.
A might as well have sent out a clip of me singing.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

#ChaseForBookNine

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

LOL, my sentiments precisely, Fabi...
I mean, that's the way my voice would be. I just don't work well mechanically :P

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

I'm the one that sounds all scratchy, like a frog and all! XD

#ChaseForBook9

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

And yeah, Eden, it was kinda obvious.

#ChaseForBook9

Uilliam Kinsella said...

What?
#ChaseForBookNine

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

Hi! I'm back!

nights.raven said...

wb!

Uilliam Kinsella said...

I thought it would have taken a Sherlock Holmes to get me.
#ChaseForBookNine

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Welcome back, Arratay!

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

*#ChaseForBookNine

I just read the comments on my post in ARCK. The first three made me smile, the last one made me cry... :')

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

#ChaseForBookNine

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

Thanks Sky! *gives brownie*
#ChaseForBookNine

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Well, the repetitiveness. You said it would be obvious and then you said it would be obvious.

HELLO ARRA

#ChaseForBook9

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

HELLO FABI :D
#ChaseForBookNine

Star Inkbright said...

AND I THINK I MUST THEPART NOW. :(

FOURS!

#ChaseFOrBookNine

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

What's this about recording and sounding rubbish?

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

BROWNIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE
~sends brownie to fix clean my room~

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Oh, wait, you meant the edible kind of brownie, didn't you?...

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

BYE STAR! *huggles*

I gotta go too... I CANT BELIEVE IT THIS IS THE THIRD TIME TODAY THIS HAS HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!! XO Ah well. Bye guys!
Attack Valkyrie with a goose! Not OUR Val, THE Val.

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

@Arratay
Some people are thinking of recording their voices and sending it to other people, and the other people try to guess whose voice it is. Like the first comment on the page.

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Oh, Farewell again, Arratay! xD

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

Ah. Yes, I did, dear.

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

Bye! Miss you!

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Bye Star...

A bunch of us are doing a project where we record our voices and try to guess who each other is! You're welcome to join. :-) Unfortunately my voice sounds like a dying frog just now, so I can't do it at the moment! XD

#ChaseForBook9

Elder Arratay Shadows said...

Okay!

nights.raven said...

bye star and arratay!

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

Bye Ara

Msd...

#ChaseForBook9

Fabi S. - Fashion-Conscious Fire Wraith said...

This is crazy...

#ChaseForBook9

Uilliam Kinsella said...

A haven't had that much fun on here since the requiem ball
I can't wait to see who else will post.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

#ChaseForBookNine

nights.raven said...

*hums*

nights.raven said...

*hums some more*

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

REMEMBER THE OLD-TIMERS!
~grins~

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

Really, Eden? That's too bad. I have fun every time- even when there's no one on. I go INSANE.
It's funny.
Ish.


Well, maybe not, but you know... :P

nights.raven said...

wow we're close...

Well, until next post everyone *hands them all cookies*

Skyril A.K.A the Vociferous Chatterer, Loyal Forever and Always, The Ever-Present, the Pluviophile said...

REMEMBER THE OLD-TIMERS!

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