Ladies and gentlemen, for those who haven't heard, head over to the Waterstones site for a very special special edition announcement...
http://www.waterstones.com/blog/2014/08/the-dying-of-the-light-black-edition/#more-59340
This is something I've had in mind for years — a super supreme limited edition of only 1000 copies— the Black Edition. Those lucky few who have managed to get your hands on a proof copy of the first book should recognise the design we're echoing, bringing the whole thing full circle...
We're working with Waterstones on this, and so the Black Edition will only be available in their shops. You won't be able to preorder these. You won't be able to reserve one online or in person. Not even Waterstones STAFF can preorder these for THEMSELVES! On the day of publication, they will be put on the SHELVES — not on a table, not in the store window, not on a table out in front, but on the SHELVES. So you'll have to go hunting for them.
We already have 5000 copies of a Special Edition that comes signed, with that stunning cover, but the Black Edition will NOT be signed, and there will be a ONE PER PERSON policy. Basically, we're torturing you. We're making you choose.
The fact is, because there will only be 1000 printed, and so each store will only get a limited amount of copies, the chances of YOU, individual Minion, managing to snag one is pretty low. Because there is no way to guarantee that you get one, you're just going to have to be EXTREMELY lucky. Oh, and you should also check Twitter that day, because the stores will be tweeting how many copies they've got left. Until they tweet, there is no way of telling how many copies a particular store will have received.
Ooooh I can't wait to get mine....
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*looks at kes*
its Flick.
*reaches Flicks house and runs in*
Flick?!
*lays on the floor, convulsing*
Sil...please...
*curses again, following her inside*
So Leri, what do you eat?
((poofed))
*stops when she sees Chloe*
*moves over and kneels by Flick*
*takes her hand*
Hey...its okay...
((Bye Elleni!))
How are the babies Chi?
(Bye El!)
(byii El)
do...it..now...before its...to ...late
*doesnt know what to do*
(Farewell Elleni, your legacy shall live forever, this I promise...)
Flick...
*squeezes her hand gently*
Not until you change. That was the promise.
My race is... vegetarian. Vegan. We struggle for space and having cattle takes up too much for it to be efficient.
*watching*
Can I...do something? A pain removing sigil?
*screams*
*fur starts sprouting all over body*
*starts losing all rationality*
*runs over and kneels beside her*
*frantically, to Silente*
Will serum work? Will it stop her changing?
Kes get ready to grab her...
*taps the sigil on her nose, opening a portal to an enclosure made especially for Flick*
I don't know. It has hemlock in so it might just kill her.
*presses symbol on her forehead, and then presses hand against Chloe's*
*muttering* that should make her go unconscious...
And wolfsbane won't help...
Thistle root!
*screams becomes the howls of a blood thirsty wolf*
*everything goes black*
Kes, through the portal, now. Please.
*looks at the Flick wolf*
Before she wakes up.
Dammit, that should've worked!
*taps symbols on arms for for strength and then attempts to pin the wolf down*
*lifts her and pushes her through the portal*
*closes the portal behind Flick*
*she'll be in a decent sized forest, surrounded on all sides by high fences that won't go down or be dug under*
*wakes up groggy*
*growls*
*stands up and gets into pouncing position*
*jumps and hits a wall*
*growls and makes other violence noises*
*scratches and attacks the wall*
*turns to Sil*
So. What exactly just happened?
*notices trees*
*runs for them*
*spots a deer*
*dashes for it*
*sinks claws into it and rips its throat*
*tears it up and eats*
*stalks away looking for the next meal*
What happened? We lost a friend.
*gets up*
*opens a portal back to the clearing*
*steps through, leaving it open for Kessy*
The babies are fine Viv, thank you for asking.
*swallows her tears, then points a shaking finger at Chione*
... Just because I'm not very good at fighting, doesn't mean I'll let you push me around...
I don't know why you were horrible to me, but I was just trying to help...
Hey Chi.
*waves*
Did you get the flowers?
*follows*
Okay, and that's sad and all, but what actually happened to her? If she's a werewolf-and I'm assuming she is- then why is she changing now? It's not even night
((Again, sorry for Kes being a jerk. Also, she doesn't know that Chloe's a vampire, so))
(vampire?)
She's a sort of werewolf. Well she was. Now she's just a wolf. Indefinitely.
((Chloe, who?))
*rolls eyes*
Why? I can't try to fix anything without knowing why it's happening
(A little background:
basically she is a 16 year old werewolf who has control of her wolf.
when she was younger, she was kidnapped by scientists and they injected her with something. she was rescued and forgot about the experiment- which is for her to lose her humanity
her family get murdered and she goes away and settles in a cottage in the woods)
I don't know. Her changes went wrong. She started turning more and more animalistic..and now she's changed fully. Forever. Or until we fixed it. She asked me to kill her when this happened..
(you said 'chloes a vampire too')
((Chloe, excellent, thanks :)
Kes still has no way of knowing that, though, unless Sil explains))
(sil doesn't know that.)
((Chloe, sorry, meant werewolf :/))
Well, that's just dandy. Where'd you send her?
To a small enclosure. It'll be big enough for her. There's no other wolves there. She should be fine...
*Kes nods*
Okay.
Are you planning on trying to help her, or are we just leaving her there?
*pours Leri some tea*
Can you have this?
*pours Leri some tea*
Can you have this?
Helping her. Somehow. Blood samples might need to be taken...
(Sil, is it okay if theres, like, some sort of big cat in the portal?)
*sits near Viv*
Flick's gone.
*sighs*
I suppose it would be too much to ask for you to have some?
((*waves at Viv*))
(big cat?! Do you think Sil would put Flick in danger like that?!
..only one. No dead wolf at the end of it preferably.)
No... I can't drink tea. Incompatible proteins... I'm dextro-amino, whereas humans are levo-amino... It means if I ingest human food or drink it gives me an allergic reaction...
To have some what?
*looks at Kessy*
(okay, I was thinking just the one. I wanted her to go to a cave and find bones and then this cat comes along. They fight and she sustains a scar on the face but kills the cat and resides in the cave)
Blood samples
Dear Mr Landy,
Well played. I imagine a fair amount of scuffling, and screaming, and broken nails, and broken hearts. I'll look forward to the Twitter enslaught. The enraged Minions in the comments. It's going to be fun, eh?
So what about me?
I'll be jetlagged, chillin', waiting for my (much better looking) Shadow Edition to turn up. And I have WORK to do during that time.
I think this is an interesting marketing tactic. Sorry, did I say interesting? Limited editions and artificial scarcity are kind of old tricks. But I'll do you a favour.
When I start and finish my IT Security Coursera, I'll do a Marketing one. I'll give you some tips. Sound fair? And you? What do you have to do in return?
Nothing.
You don't have to send me flowers or a free book or, I dunno. No seriously, I dunno. So yeah. I'll give you some tips down here in the future, write another open letter.
In the meantime, remember this:
You are our leader but we lead ourselves.
Yours in Boredom,
Random Person on the Internet Who Reads Your Books
How about just hot water?
*stares at Leri, her eyes narrowing*
(thats fine Flick. Mountain lion.)
*opens a portal as big as a kitchen cupboard*
Look in there. Blood samples from bloglandians. I might have some of hers.
(@Flick is it okay if we have a sample already?)
((Why am I being waved at?))
*looks at Chi*
So I presume you DIDN'T get the flowers?
I did.
((VIV, cause I just noticed you :3))
((If Eve were here, we could just send her for blood...))
I've got to go (again) bye!
Oh. Good. Er....good. I think...
(That's fine)
*finds a cave and goes in*
*looks at a mass of bones*
*a growl comes from behind*
*takes out two pairs of cuffs and hands one to Chi while Sil is distracted*
(bye Kessy!)
*turns and smiles at Viv*
Don't I get offered tea?
*looks around and spots a mountain lion*
*its pounces at her and she attacks back*
*claws and it*
*lion swipes at face, leaving three bloody gashes*
*jumps an bites on its throat*
*lion grows silent*
*lion dies*
I can drink water, but nothing else here...
... What, Chione?
Should Rose come looking, tell her my author has church and will be back around 6pm my time.
*puts one cuff on Sil's wrist and one on her own*
*stays sitting*
Now what?
Hey!
*pulls away from Chi, standing up*
No this AGAIN!
(Omg I'm still aching from last nights Tabatas class)
*activates her computer and raises it at Chione*
... What are you doing?
Yeah Chi, WHAT are you doing?!
(Hello?)
(Where has everyone gone?)
(Hey)
El! Why the hell is she cuffing me AGAIN?!
*pulls against Chi again*
*looks at El*
*raises an eyebrow*
Well?!
VIEH: how?
WELL?!
*drags a dead deer into cave*
*eats as much as her stomach will let her *
*finishes and falls asleep *
... What, Elleni? She's trying to hurt Silente again...
El! What the hell?! You're working with her, AGAIN!
*stares at El, disbelief in her eyes*
... If I'm not helping, tell me what's going on... please...
Leri I already told you what's going On. stop being a bloody idiot and trying to keep the peace. Peace cannot work. We have tried.
*sips tea even though she doesn't like it*
*stys sitting*
*pulls against Chi as she sips, making her slop down her front*
Release me Chi!
Owch that's warm...
*rubs where the tea fell with her other hand*
That was rude.
*laughs* how did I see this coming? Nice move, Landy.
*laughs bitterly*
And cuffing someone to you ISN'T?!
Stop calling me names! I'm trying to help... You might be stronger than I am, but stop treating me like this... I've done nothing wrong to you...
*is pulled by Elleni*
... Oh...
*looks at Elleni*
I honestly don't know what to do. Well I do, but you won't allow me to. But that would save all of our problems... Apart from you know what.
*pulls again and yanks Chi from the seat, hopefully dumping her on her butt*
*glares at Leri*
*she's going to mess everything up*
No Silente, it isn't rude. I have a perfectly good reason why.
*flips and lands crouched over*
Not LIKING someone ISN'T a 'perfectly good reason' Chi!
We can't. You said the device may be in Ireland, but where? Do we have any friends that can locate it and bring it to us?
Oh, no that's not the reason.
I like you Silente.
I don't like Leri'heesa. That comment was towards her.
...Why don't you like me? I've barely even spoken to you...
*pauses at what Chi said*
*frowns*
*bursts in* PEACE WILL ALWAYS WORK
YOU TRIED ONCE?
I'VE BEEN TRYING FOR A YEAR AND I'M STILL TRYING EVEN THOUGH I'VE GIVEN UP
DON'T YOU TALK TO ME ABOUT PEACE BEING WORTHLESS
#PEACE
#FORGIVENESS
#HARMONY
#NOREVENGEPLS
*bursts out again*
. . .
*bursts back in*
*drops a businesscard*
*bursts out again*
*dreams*
*only of a girl with short dirty blond hair and crystal blue eyes*
*she would be a yummy treat*
(....*hugs Star*....)
*bursts back in*
#TRUST
#SMILINGISAFORMOFREBELLION
#LOVE
#HOPE
*bursts out again*
((Also, what the hell DID Leri do? :/))
*hugs Elleni and Silente* :) Thanks for the hug.
Wolves are great. :) I've never actually ever seen a wolf, but I've read about them in fiction books and they sound cool.
Leri, I don't like you because you think there is a harmless solution to every problem. There isn't. We tried to think of one, but we needed Silente out of the way to save blogland and destroy the sigils then we were going to release her. But then Dugglyn release her before we destroyed any sigils and they're still out there. Blogland is still in danger.
(Good point but I'm keeping it like that because it shows how she is intelligent but loses all sense of rationality)
*adds to comment*
Wolves only fight each other for dominance. Dogs are much more vicious.
HOWEVER, werewolves are not normal wolves. And werewolves are half-human and humans are much more horrible than dogs, let alone wolves.
... You don't know me, Chione... You know nothing about me... And yet you dislike me... Just because I'm not violent... it doesn't give you a reason to call me names...
Sigils?! This is STILL about the sigils?! They're, for, DEFENSE! Did iI NOT prove that YESTERDAY?!
@Chi: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King.
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
- Henry FOrd (what I quote at rockclimbing when peopel want to give up). (Everyone always gives up when they can do more if they really try . . . I can sense it, but I can't make them SEE it. You can always do more than you think you can. Always. However, my rockclimbing references don't work when one is actually rockclimbing. :P)
Do you think you can, Chi?
No?
Then you've given up before you've begun.
. . . But I do agree that shacking Silente may be the best solution in this situation. :P
*well, not always
*a lot of the time
*generally with new people
*shackling
BEING NOT VIOLENT IS A POSITIVE, LERI.
In case of a mass attack! Blogland is ALWAYS under attack. I figured if the reapers came back we could drain THEIR energy! I tested it to see if the concept worked!
*-Ugh. Meat sacks. Sooo annoying-*
*nods at Elleni* Hear hear. :)
(hear hear to the first part...)
Bravi! Good ded 😁
That's hard to do WHEN I'M IN A CELL!
Sorry, rather hyper tonight. :)
*watches*
(*surrounds Star with adipose*)
*flys from the shadows and tacklehugs Star* HI FRIEND
Oh sorry I was a bit shocked after being discarded and devamped!
@Silente: what
HEY SNOW! :)
(Adipose! DW? Little fat orbs?)
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Yeah. Exactly. Now, WHY am I cuffed AGAIN?! The sigils are defensive, so let me GO!
*-My lord its a good think this meat suit is such a good actor-*
(Yayayayayayay stella is on)
@Silente: . . .
Yeah, like, WHY? :P
Leri, I don't need to know anything about you. You annoy me and therefore, I don't like you. I personally think you go about things the wrong way. You can't always fix situations. Some are better left alone. And also, I think that not being violent is an alien thing. All humans have darkness in their hearts, all have the fuel to do something considered "evil" or "immortal"
Then WHY am I cuffed to my siste- to Chi?
*pretends she wasn't going to say sister*
*Chi discarded her*
*they aren't sisters no more*
... Chione, you know nothing of me or my species... Three centuries ago we made the Geth... who were used for manual labour and farming...
... We needed them to do more advanced jobs, and we made them more advanced to do it... we thought we could control the small changes we were making, but it was a mistake to have the Geth linked in a large network...
... And they began questioning us about their existence... And it panicked us...
... And there was an order to kill all of the Geth...
... And they fought back... And it started a war... Which we lost... And we lost our planet... That's why we're stuck in a fleet of starships...
So don't tell me that not being violent is an alien thing, you bosh'tet... It's a common sense thing... There's always another way, whether you can see it or not...
... We learned our lesson... What will it take for you to learn yours...?
*nods firmly at Leri* *likes this person*
@Chi: You know, plenty of people annoy me. But that doesn't mean you have to be horrible to them . . . just beacuse you have a different mindset to them . . .
People with different minsets are fascinating. One should cherish the experience instead of pushing them away.
Of course, you may not agree with me, but that's okay, even if it doesn't feel like it is. Diversity is necessary.
(remember that's rp chi....)
(Omg luke from stella ain't half tidy mind *blushes*)
(I'm worse today...)
@Death: :O
*hugs*
*tackles death* I'll punch you in the face?
(*hugs death* Loki says 6 pm his time.)
(Hi death *hugs*)
(*Cuddles everyone back*
I'll punch you in the face, Snow.
Thank Sil, I got an email from him this morning...)
(I'm actually in so much pain right now. Imagine getting stabbed. In the stomach. And needing to vomit at the same time. Times that by three, and you got me.
I can't actually do school when I'm like this. I've gone home early for the past three days running, yet my mum still continues to send me to school...)
((:(
*hugs Detah tightly*
I'm sorry . . . :/
I really hoep you feel better soon. :/))
Oh god, that sounds awful. Have you seen a doctor? Or will your parents not take you?
(Mum finally decided I need to see a doctor today...
But yeah, it sucks...)
Purple!!!!!! I'm baaaacccccckkkkkk!!!!
I thought you'd all be gone because it's 5:30 but I'm not on west coast time! Yay!!
So hi!!
*hugs Deathy*
Awww......
Hope you feel better soon!!
Hey Dugglyn! :)
Yeah . . . you sound like you need to see a doctor. :/
Hey Dugg 😃
*huggles* if I could get to Victoria right now I would come and find you.
Hey Star!
Yes, a doctor sounds like a good idea!
(Back.)
Hi Inky!
@Snwo: But then you might catch it off her! :O
WB Dragona. :)
Shhh Star, don't ruin my plans with your logic.
School calls. Bye. *huggles all*
(HEY DUGZ!)
Tats snow
BYE SNOW!!!!
PURPLE SIL!!!!!!
@Snow: XD
Fours. :/
*tata
(Soz if distant. YouTube...also thinking about who I am :)
HOW'S BES YOUS DUGZ!
HOW'S BES YOUS EYES!!!)
Hey Star, what does fours mean? As in why do you say it when people leave?
(Has anyone seen stella)
:):):)))))))))))
IS BE'S GOODS!!!!!!!!!!!!
ME EYES BE'S GOODS!!!! DROWNING IN REFRIED BEANS AND SLOWLY MELTING BUT OVERALL GOOD!!
HOW BE'S YOUS?!!?
HOW BE'S YOUS EYES?!?!
(sure El)
Hey! If not the sigils WHY cuff me to Chi?!
(Iz bes *posh accent* contemplating my existance and who exactly I am deary. Yes. Indeed. *sips tea*)
*should probably go, because she's useless with these things*
*goes back and sits underneath her tree*
@Dugglyn: It's an Artemis Fowl quote . . . "May the fours be with you" is the full quote - I just shortened it. I started saying it for hi and bye, but then people told me it was getting confusing so now I just say it for bye. :)
No, Inky, sorry. :/
I'm going to bed now
I'll continue rp tomoz
Byiii
(Fours Flick!)
(Stayin home today... Thank God...)
VIEH: ...well its either that or make her even MORE angry...
(Hmmm...I'm a mirror...or a collage.......)
Okay, Inky. :/ Fours!
(I'm a bubble. :)
Mirrors are nice. I have the majority of someone's soul in one.)
(O_O)
(I prefer collage as a description actually...
Yes. I am a collage.)
I'm sorry you're locking me away for having SECRETS? That's STUPID! YOU have secrets! Can I lock YOU up?
VIEH: smooth.
(I, for whatever reason, have a mirror on my wall. It's surrounded by pictures of cars. And Mass Effect posters. I don't even use the mirror.)
(XD random mirrors! They'be come to claim our souls!)
(Dragona, wanna RP for a while? Mum might take the wifi but I'm going to fight to keep it here... I do need to do a project...)
((Oops . . . :P))
(Soy sauce me Poof. I'm starved!!!)
(@Star ah, ok. Just curious!)
You're locking me away for stuff YOU'VE done?!?!?!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I CLAIM SOULS
MIRRORS ARE JUST KEEPERS. :)
I don't have any posters . . .
I have two mirrows, though. :)
(Death, if you can think of something to RP, sure. Just remember that Leri doesn't fight, disease will kill her and she can't eat or drink anything that humans can. :P)
*mirrors
@Dugglyn: :) Curiosity is good. :)
(@Star yup!)
*appears beside Silente and Elleni*
(Hmm.. Star Inkbright - aka Straw Allegory, the Queen Metaphorist, Warrior Bubble, Addicted Analyser, Keeper of the Souls :) ...it suits.)
(*glues 'Kepler of Souls' to stars name*)
(Well, new Rose doesn't fight either. Her fight has been banished by Blake. Poor kid, lost his sparring partner...)
*She skipped forward, flowers in her hair. Her dress fanned out around her and she giggled. She stopped when she saw someone in front of her and she waved*
Hi!
(Ahem, from left to right: BMW poster, dinosaur poster, mass effect Reaper poster, mass effect Normandy SR-2 poster (and then another one), Mass Effect Quarian poster, Mass Effect Citadel poster, WALL-E poster, BMW poster. :P)
(**keeper)
Don't bloody groan! I thought you'd put the sanctury operative thing behind you!
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