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Maeniel
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lol, it was. But you can never be too careful with those nice types, you know? 
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Tenshi
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@AsA: If that's gory, you've got nothing to worry about... of course, I may totally be jaded from my own past experience, so it's hard to say. ^^;
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electricpanda
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: |
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@ Tinu: Don't worry, I chances are good that I'll drop out - I'll give you a fair head's up if I do.
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Asa
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:45 am Post subject: |
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Pants, start writing it now if you're in danger of dropping out! Challenge yourself to get it done. You've got a month and half this time, make use of it!
Now it's incumbent on me to follow my own advice...
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electricpanda
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Well, it's the NaNo I'm worried about, not the time. I can write a story in a month in a half, but I haven't done the NaNo before, so I'm an 'unknown quantity'.
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Asa
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:18 am Post subject: |
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Work the monster into your NaNo. Two birds, one stone!
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electricpanda
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Actually, I could probably do that... *strokes chin* Thanks for the idea!
(It'll probably be really weird, though. Given the whole vibe I want the story to have)
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Asa
Joined: 10 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:48 am Post subject: |
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So be wierd! Life's better that way.
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Dark Mirf
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| Maeniel wrote: |
For those not in the ESRPG, (and even those that are,) you could even create a character and put them on modern Earth. (American werewolf in Paris?) |
I'm sorry, I'm dense today... What is ESRPG?
I'm certain its something obvious, but my brain isnt processing.
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Tamir
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| ESRPG = Earthsong RPG = the new RPG which the Lady is running. |
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Asa
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Do you want something like a profile, or more like a snapshot?
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Maeniel
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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More like a snapshot, please. 
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Dark Mirf
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| Tamir wrote: | | ESRPG = Earthsong RPG = the new RPG which the Lady is running. |
*facepalm* D'OH!
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Asa
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Here's what I guess amounts to a preliminary draft. I'm getting critique on it in class, so I will be changing it, so if y'all have comments and critique, please let me know about it!
| Quote: | People who say Monsters don’t cry don’t know what they’re talking about. It’s not a matter of emotion; some just don’t have tear ducts. Me, I have tear ducts. I cry when sand gets in my eyes, when I win the lottery, when my mom dies, whatever. None of that’s happened yet (except maybe the first one), but that’s beside the point. The point is that some monsters don’t cry. Monsters like Bill and Freddy – Billaboz and Fredunget, the Slimeball twins – don’t have eyes, let alone tear ducts. They’re literally balls of slime, and I personally find them gross. Who could love something like them? Not me, I tell you. They actually budded, so I can’t even say they had a mother who loved them.
I had a mother. She was a lovely mother. She sang me bedtime stories and stuff like that, and I drew her pictures when I was in kindergarten. And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Monsters don’t have lovely mothers, we have female monsters who give us birth and feed us until they can fob us off on the system. I’m registered as a Bad Dream, but I’m actually more along the lines of a Bed Lurker. I think my dad must have been a Closet Monster, ‘cause while my mom is indeed a Nightmare, I’m nowhere near as bad as she is. I sort of haunt the shadows in dark corners and under beds, creating moods of despair, which does lead to bad dreams, but I don’t do it directly. I love it. It’s so much fun.
Bill and Freddy work in the deep woods, creating impressions of huge moving fungi to scare hikers and Boy Scouts, and lend fuel to the haunted-woods syndrome. Madame Greetchnik embodies the Fear of Grandmothers; she’s what you picture when you mom tells you the grandma you’ve never seen is coming to visit. I think she takes her job a little too seriously. She doesn’t actually have to look like a scary grandmother, with wrinkles and bad teeth and a hump and weird glasses. I think she does it just to be disconcerting. Most monsters don’t actually look like the humans we scare, though some come awfully close. In general, we think humans look ugly. They’re little and pink, and completely useless. Madame Greetchnik is one of the few who think it amusing to copy her fear-self in real life. The worst part is, most of us have to see her every week. She’s the registrar.
“Well, hello there, Madame!” I say sweetly as I come up to the desk. “And how is your pretty self faring today?”
“Better before you showed up,” she groused. She actually has a pretty voice, completely in contrast with her face. I guess she has some pride.
“Aw, but you know I just can’t stay away.”
“Yes, I do, which is why I’m not complaining.”
Wait, not complaining? Yeah right. I guess she’s in a bad mood today. “What happened, lovely, someone not scared of you?”
“None of your business. Go check in and get to work, I don’t want to see you again until six.”
I smile at her again – though she probably can’t see it – and make my way over to the clocking station. It was difficult. Sometimes I wish my mother had been something more… substantial than a Nightmare. If I had been a purebred, I would be completely intangible as well, just a wisp. As it is, if you’re not paying attention and I’m not exerting myself, it’s very difficult to see me, and monsters run into me all the time. I’ve got a basic form, sort of human-ish, with a head bit and four limb bits, but it’s all very nebulous and changes with my mood. I really look like an opaque shadow, and Light and I have a rocky relationship. He doesn’t like me, and I don’t like him, but we need each other to do our jobs properly and avoid each other like Plague when we aren’t working. Plague is not a pleasant character. He’s always hacking and coughing, his voice is all gummy and he’s so clingy. Always hanging all over you and getting you messy. Fortunately, I’m not solid. Oh, I can be solid if I want, but it’s not my natural state, and I don’t really have cause to most of the time. Lurking in corners doesn’t exactly lend itself to tactile importance if you know what I mean, and I don’t really care either way.
When I clock in, my slip informs me I’m working station four today. Ah, little kids, how I love thee. So easy to scare. All I need to be is deeper shadows, and they’re bawling. It’s no challenge at all, it really isn’t. Just hanging around, spinning a bit of despair every so often. Practically a day off. Sometimes I like to challenge my talent and creativity, needing to be whole complex things like helplesshopelessimpossiblelonesome, or an image of something. There was this one boy whose father beat him every night, and I had to actually do research to figure out what this guy looked like so I could impersonate him. It’s really hard to get details right, especially because my natural coloring is so bland. But after the boring research was out of the way, it turned out to be one of my nicest pieces of work. I show it off every so often, when someone convinces me at a party or conference. Mostly when I’m trying to impress bigwigs and convince them to upgrade me to Bed Lurker.
“Hoi, Light, how’s it going?” I hate his guts, which makes it all the more fun when I’m nice to him. And who names her kid by his type, anyway? So unoriginal.
Light’s perfect face grimaces. “Mirin, you’re late.” Perfect face, perfect form, perfect perfect perfect. He’s almost a celebrity, and I have to work with him. Ugh. Yeah, and nobody notices me, either! That’s what I get for being a shadow.
“I’m not late, lovey, I’m on time. You’re early!” I point to the clock in the corner, marking off everybody on station four’s shift times. Our hand reads, “Beginning Now”, in flashing letters, meaning we’re almost late. Not yet, but soon. “Let’s go then!”
I really do like my job. It’s nice to be good at what I do, to know that I have a lasting effect of the ephemeral minds of humans. Can’t forget the monsters, of course; I tend to make the weaker types wary. And pretty soon, I should be up for the Best Monster in my classification again! I love my job. |
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Asa
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Okay... does anybody have anything to say about this piece? Mane, should I tweak it any to fit the guidelines better?
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BS: "...then insist you eat a brownie."
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