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.
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So Derek this is awkward....come on Blogland?
CONGRATS WILLOW
Okay wow im talkig to a tree
YAY YOU MENTIONED MY PIE ONE!
Congrats, Willow!
It's so good to know your cats care about us, by the way.
But i thought he feared his kitties...I so want to hold one!
Yay for Willow!
Here but distant. Tired. ;-;
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I think i was the one with the because I am an awesome video game character...yuup!
Congratulations, Willow. :-)
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BELOW 10!!!
I THINK THAT WAS NINTH BACK THERE!!¨¨¨¨
Hello??? ANYBODY? My Bonsai's getting old!
I'm distantly here, sorry.
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Ok... SO!
Watcha think of the Last Stand of Dead Men Cover?
DOESN'T IT LOOK AMAZING!
I'm tired, so I'm going to bed.
Night, all! *huggles*
... *throws Mars Bars at Val* That's for being useless at helping me decide how many books to take to Leeds... :P
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I love how Tommy-boy angled skulduggery's eye scokets and cheek bones to make his skeleton look said.
THE COVER EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Night, Lucy!
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Congrats to Willow! :D
I give up i died seeing that cover
I starting yelling "OH! OH! OOOHH!!! OH MY GOSH!" at the top of my lungs.
Everyone stared at me weirdly. *nods*
OOH YEAH! Guys!
DEREEK'S ON TWITTER RIGHT NOW!!!!
Oo, and g'night Luce! :)
Now he is offline with his #LeaveMeAlone
OMG HE ACTUALLY WAS SERIOUS ABOUT SENDING ME A BOOK :D
*runs in circles screaming*
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Seriously? LUCKKY!!!!
You deserve it!
I got TMS signed thanks to NJ but I had sent him my own copy of Scepter of The Ancients and I guess it got lost so on Friday he said he'd send me a book I asked him if he was serious ten today he said that he doesnt know my address but he'll get an email i can give it to then he'll send the book
O.O
an SP book from Derek....I may faint upon seeing it
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Well
*falls out of tree*
OWWY
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Congratulations, Willow! :D *hands her a congratulatory cupcake*
Hello!
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hi Zaf! how r u?
I'm in a good mood! Very good one
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Well good, I'm glad :) Being in a good mood is good
It so is! I'm just wondering what to do now
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Dammit, thought I would have won
Eh I knew I had no chance not after I manage to get Derek concerned if I have a brain...oopsie in my defense I was testing that week
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This is my first ever comment. I'm like 34 or something. I feel proud, because I'm actually commenting, and will get to meet other Skulduggery fans! Yay!
Random story: My friend/acquantance/person who keeps following me Sabastion(who is even weirder then I am) asked what the genre of the book I was reading (which was Death Bringer, by the way). I said mystery/fantasy. He asked about a butler. He said every mystery had a butler in it. I whacked him with the book. Skulduggery saved the day once again.
I sound really weird and it's only my first comment... Ah well, better post this and get it over with...
I'm not 34 as in my age. I meant 34 as in I might be the 34th commenter.
YAAY WILLOW!!! CONGRATS! :D
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Hello?!?
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Hi Ivy! welcome to the blog!
lol nicely done
Jubilance, your screen name is awesome. Mine is my pseudonym, because I can't figure out how to change is to my taken name, Elizabeth Hunter.
hi fabi!
if u want to change your name, you just click on your profile and click 'edit' and it should have thing where you can change your display name
Ivy- try switching to a Blogger profile, it's easier to change the name on those.
Hi Ivy, or would you rather be called Elizabeth?
Hi nights.raven!
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I made a new email address, under Elizabeth, so I can use that for anything Skulduggery related! :)
So, I'm Ivy Arcondas, who just switched from her pseudonym to her taken name. My given name is locked away, and I already sealed my true name, which I found out ages ago. I am a teleporter. And an Ameriminion. And a Fletchyrie supporter. So yeah. I talk too much, don't I...
Or that works, too! :-)
So, Elizabeth, nice to meet you, I'm Fabi. Occasionally I comment as Anna Zinaida and/or the Fabiosaurus, but even if I do, you can still call me Fabi. :-)
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awesome! nice to meet you, Liz!
cool name, btw
I'm a metalmage, metal-bender, metal-melter, whatever you want to call it. I, also am an Ameriminion. And a person who will occasionally and very randomly talk in code for no good reason.
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Hi Fabi, hi nights.raven! My taken name was Eli Hunter, Eli being short for Elizabeth, but my friend Alex told me it's traditionally short for Elijah, which is a boy's name. So yeah.
I also figured out how to change my profile picture. Strangers think I'm quiet, my friends think I'm outgoing, my best friends know I'm COMPLETELY INSANE!
lol
Yeah, traditionally. [shrugs] It's up to you.
[Looks for topic of conversation]
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It's a cool pic. :-)
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Thanks! ;)
Hello again.
What are your favorite colors? You don't have to answer if you don't want, to. I ask people their favorite colors rather a lot... I have a tendency to do weird projects which require the knowledge of people's favorite colors, but if you don't want to answer the question for some reason, you can ignore it. :-)
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Elizabeth HUNTER!
Why did you upgrade to Google Plus! Isn't your blogger profile AMAZING!!???
Hi person! *waves*
Yes, I'm a very hyper person. :) :) :) :)
Hello BookGazer! [waves]
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Fabi- my fav color is Silver, whats urs?
My favorite colors? Blue, green (but only really dark green", and gold. And sometimes deep purplish red.
hi BookGazer!
BLUE!!!! I also have an odd obsession with rivers, creek's,waterfalls, and fountains. Clear water flowing naturally in the wild fascinate me!
Um, what? I upgraded? And my profile has two things on it: My taken name and gender.
Hey! People who I've met! *Waves*
Call me Eddie! Its my book name!
Ohh, so you never had a blogger profile in the first place? Interesting!
Silver? Nice!
Purple, mostly. Or certain shades of green, but in general, purple.
Yay, thanks for answering! Now I can add to my favorite colors list!
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Hi! Elizabeth you're an Ameriminion? So am I!
My name is Zafira Kerias I'm a Necromancer and an American Elder and I do appear in LSODM ad an American Elder
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This is my first time actually posting comments, so please excuse my confusion, cause I'm kind of a newbie.
When you sign up, you get an option to make a blogger profile or comment as Google + After that, you can switch whenever you can find the button to do so.
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Hi Zafira! Specifically I live in Wisconsin, but I'm not revealing more then that. I'm also not revealing my age, but I'm eligible for the Hunger Games if any of you have read that.
Hey Zaf!Its funny how all the minions come back here at the same time. Maybe we have telepathy?
@Elizabeth
You'll love it here! We're all a bit eccentric and mad!
(and we LOVE melodrama)
Hi Elizabeth! welcome! here's some virtual soup and flaming confetti.
Oh and we DO have a giraffe pit.
Okay then, Eddie! Nice to meet you!
Hello Zaf!
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Who isn't a bit eccentric and/or mad?
ur gonna be in the new book? that's so cool, zaf!
np, liz
Hi Thrust!
@Elizabeth Certainly not me!
I live in Pennsylvania and well I appear 23 but im way older (not my real age at all pfft im 15)
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Thrust! So glad you could join us! This is a real minion party!
Hello Thrust! [waves]
#ChaseForBook9
#ChaseForBook9? What is that?
I'm younger then Zafira. It's weird, why am I always the youngest? Younger then my three best friends, I'm like one of the youngest people on FanFiction.net... I'm so little... In two ways, I'm really short too.
Isnt it basically almost all Ameriminions? Almost.
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I live on the border of somewhere and noplace!
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Don't forget the Canaminion too! (Canadian Minion)
lol don't worry liz, i'm short irl too, so your not alone in that.
Elizabeth no worries I am litterally only 5'0 and i'm going into 10th grade xD shortness is understandable but I made my character a heck lot taller
Oh I finally got a blog mention not by name but I know I put for one entry
I would make an awesome video game character because I am an awesome video game character
In my defense it was midnight
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Okay, full story since Elizabeth probably hasn't heard any of it.
So there's a Bloglandian named Emerald Melody who comments on here sometimes. She was married to a guy named Chase, but he passed away from lung cancer back in January. Since a bunch of minions (Zaf, NJ, Eden, etc.) are in book 8, Em decided to try to get Derek to put Chase in book 9. So that's what this is for, is a bunch of people helping out with that.
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Bloglandian. Interesting word.
I know two twelve-year-olds who are taller than I am.
I am above the age of twelve, and do not much like the idea of leaving personal info on the first page.
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OHHH!!! I thought we were literally "chasing" book nine!
I didn't make it up! [shrugs]
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Thats quite sad actually...
Lets go forward and try to get him in a book!
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No! I will be running away from book 9 and screaming like a tropical bird!
And then I will end up reading it anyway, because I can't NOT read it.
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Yeah well its all we can do to help Em...
And I am so made at the mail for losing my Scepter of The Ancients book but at least Derek is being nice and sending me a signed book when he gives me an email i can send mg address to
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Yeah...
They were the ones Derek congratulated in a post, back in December when they were first engaged...
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Well done Willow! :) :) :)
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I am above the age of twelve kinda sorta not really. I'm 4 foot 9, though I just hit my growth spurt, so I'm now only a little below average.
Stinks that your book was lost, Zaf.
Hello Saph! [waves]
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Im a midget xD i have no hope not at age 15
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Hi Elizabeth, nice to meet you!
Wbvd, homework
Hi person that I've never met! *waves maniacally*
Random fact about me: I have three voices in my head named Ivy, Maple, and Yew. They each have their own personalities and appearances, and I see them everywhere. Back away slowly.
I'm not short, they're tall. I'm a midget at family reunions, though.
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Random fact about me: Derek and I made at deal over Skype at the Dundrum signing: if i dont explode Ireland i live through LSODM
We're not short, we're fun-sized!
Hey! A new person!
lol exactly, liz
Am I like the only guy here?
It's not our fault that gravity prefers us
Agreed! Fun sized!
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The only quirky eccentric and occasionally funny guy?
One sec, I'm searching up Em.
That's what J.D. always says.
I'm not short, though. Not unless I'm standing next to my sister, who is twelve. And 5' 10" or 11". She's insane. So I'm fairly tall, but not usually seen as tall, if that makes any sense.
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Girl power!
[laughs]
Possibly.
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*convereses with voices in head*
Totally! Liz you know it basically took all the bloglandians to get me in LSODM? Derek fired me on October 5th i was Grand Mage but yeah i got fired and everyone teamed up to get me as Grand Mage so when i asked Derek for my job back in December he said he'd consider making me an Elder but may kill me off so then in January i asked if i was in te book he said yes in March it was confirmed i am an Elder
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That's awesome! I think I'm in the book. My name? Tanith Low. :) Just kidding, she's too epic. Derek needs to take the remnant out of her.
I am proud to say I've coverted five people to Skul-ism today. Mainly, I lent my copy of the first book to my best friend, forced my brothers to check it out from the library, and made my friends read it. Yeah.
By the time I post this comment, it's going to be way too late...
UGH, I zoned out again!
TANITH IS AWESOME
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Lol its okay i converted people too just step closer to getting Derek tourinf here
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I'm going to bed, it's 10:00 where I live. See ya! *teleports*
I don't think it's going to happen, though... She's DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED. [wails]
I. NEED. TMS.
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BYE!!!
Nice meeting ya!
See you, Elizabeth!
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Wow. I didn't mean to disappear for long...
Hi everyone! *hugs*
Liz; You hear the voices too? I thought I was the only one!
Now if my theory works correctly, a new minion should magically replace her almost immediately. ALL we have to do is wait!
*Waits*
Now if my theory works correctly, a new minion should magically replace her almost immediately. ALL we have to do is wait!
*Waits*
Now if my theory works correctly, a new minion should magically replace her almost immediately. ALL we have to do is wait!
*Waits*
SAPH [tacklehugs]
HELLO
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Night Elizabeth! Well it is 11:28pm and I think Wisconsin is in my timezone
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Should we tweet minions to come and join us!?
I think Wisconsin is the Midwest, Central time zone, I believe! You're in the Eastern time zone, Zaf, at least, I think so...
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Youtube can be so evil sometimes...
I am actually going to bed I had so many things to do at the Sanctuary with war and stuff
Night all
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Night Liz!
lol It's only 9:30pm where I am :P
I am eastern timezone yes now off to bed
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Night!
My Twitter is currently not working, so I can't, but if you want to, go ahead.
Aw, bye Zaf!
YouTube is evil indeed.
8:30. I'm earlier than you. :-P
Not that it's particularly important...
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night zaf!
Gtg, sorry, possibly back soon-ish.
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Goodbye everyone! Night all!
ok, bye fabi!
night bookgazer!
Bye!
Bye!
Bye!
Hello!
Oh. I have to go.
Bye!
bye Saph!
Ha! At least mine and my brother's got mentioned. "I have a need for speed", and "I'm not very smart which will make the player feel better about themselves".
Congratulations, Willow!
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Congrats Willow!!!
hia
whats up all (please dont say the sky, moon, ext.)
ahem...
hello? anyone on?
i feel so ALONE!!
XD
i am VERY bored
oh, yeah...
congrats willow
i am just gonna keep posting until someone gets on
(nods)
i love the cover of lsotdm
writing is funnn
wow...
i have ALOT of nothing to talk bout
:D
dum de dum
i like cats... the golden gods cats must be cute yet deadly
*hums a tune*
well... i must be a loon to talk to myself like this :D
*answers phone* "hello, loon speaking"
:D
:P
:D
i am insane
and bored
i have 3 clocks on my desktop, one Australian, one Dublin, one Athens.
*twiddles thumbs*
how o you twiddle your thumbs?
*do, not o
tra la la la la
*hugs cat*
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imma bored
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dum de dum de dum
* whistles dixi*
bored (still)
my wrists hurt because of ice skating (dont ask)
:D
200!!
LITTLE MIX ARE SO PERFECT
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Whoops! D:
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HEY.
Severe msd!
lonelysnow, I don't mind you spamming, but some Bloglandians will, so - please try to to spam. :)
Sorry.
FABI CANNOT DED NOW. SHE NEEDS SLEEP AND HER iPOD IS ABOUT TO RUN OUT OF BATTERY FROM ALL THE LITTLE MIX VIDEOS SHE HAS BEEN WATCHING.
THEY ARE SO PERRIEFECT AND JESYPIC AND JADEMIRABLE AND REALLEIGH-ANNEBEATABLE!!!
EITHER I WILL DED TOMORROW MORNING OR SOMEONE ELSE CAN DED. I GET FIRST A LOT, PEOPLE. IT'S REALLY OKAY IF SOMEONE ELSE WANTS TO TAKE A TURN.
I really need to watch the comment count sometimes... :-/
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HELLO STAR
MSD AS WELL, iPOD + YOUTUBE = VERY LOW BATTERY.
IF YOU WANT TO DED, BE MY GUEST.
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I'm trying to find a way to express my annoyance at Derek. *nods*
I was so annoyed when I read the post, but after reading 200 conments, I forget about it a bit.
sorry about spamming :/
was bored and hyper...
just ran a lap around the house so not hyper anymore
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