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Post by Joxcenia on Feb 17, 2005 17:09:06 GMT -6
I started writing something today... hopefully I won't get distracted before I finish it. 
 Déjà Vu? 
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Post by Phalon on Feb 17, 2005 23:35:38 GMT -6
Yeah, Joxie. Didn't I see the same exact post over in the Scrolls?
Looking forward to reading something.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 18, 2005 6:13:31 GMT -6
Scrappy, My Dare Taket or Leave It. Fire up the Harley....Phalon's got a new theme song, stuck in my head since last night's RenPic Word Assoc....
GRINDHOUSE (A-Go-Go)
Listen to the dream of life - a conversation
Hustle me beneath a spark - flesh or reflection
Faith can't hold insto-matic soul - trapped the light
A fool for love stand'n still - deep is the night!
(Jump in the back - a pack attack! Gimme that - dig in!)
Lethal mind - fugitive kind - Hustle!
(Jump in the back - a pack attack! Gimme that - dig in!)
Lethal mind - fugitive kind - Hustle!
Steal'n back the past ahead - that's how I'm roll'n
Trick racer so desperate - that's how I'm livin'
Dead heat shred the midway air - I see forever
Drag-O-Rama kick'n in - no say'n never!
(Jump in the back - a pack attack! Gimme that - dig in!)
Lethal mind - fugitive kind - Hustle!
(Jump in the back - a pack attack! Gimme that - dig in!)
Lethal mind - fugitive kind - Hustle!
(Scrimshaw m**bleepity-bleep-bleep bazooka 5-star cat a howl'n!
Kitten got a whip but no escape to bait the prowl'n, yeah!)
GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO...
If hell is like a woman, said "Take me to the fire!"
Shot down!! Another desperate love crucifier!
(Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah....)
Boiling out of nowhere - crazyhead decision
(Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah....)
Skintight on the action grind into collision, yeah!
(Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah....)
Breath'n seeped into my head - the gang is bang'n
Pump the creature daddy-o - spring-loaded hang'n
Everything ya always need - right for the taking
Shoot the works the haunted hill house is a shak'n.
White Zombie
Let's go create havoc for that Sword Wielding Maniac, (no, not Phalon, silly - the other one.)
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Feb 18, 2005 9:55:04 GMT -6
I'm working on it....really....almost there.....
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Post by Phalon on Feb 18, 2005 10:56:47 GMT -6
I was thinking more about another ride on your Harley - had so much fun the last time, but if you've a post in the works - too cool.
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Post by Joxcenia on Feb 28, 2005 22:38:01 GMT -6
Okay... I've got 132 words as of this post...  I'm writing it up in Word and checking on the board every now and again... hopefully I won't get distracted yet again.
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 2, 2005 0:36:27 GMT -6
I'm workin' on another post... gonna try and get it done soon so I can get off here and go to beddy bye!
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Post by Phalon on Mar 2, 2005 0:47:09 GMT -6
Another one, Joxie! Wow, you really must have been walloped good by the Muse lately. Uhm....tap, tap, tap <foot tapping impatiently> And where's that Scroll post you said you had coming?
"Worms crawl in. Worms crawl out." Creepy, and not a nice image to have in one's head before going to bed.
Scrappy, a beautifully written, powerful post from you.
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 2, 2005 0:51:49 GMT -6
No need to tap that foot... the post is added and ready to be read. I'll add some more scary images later... don't want to scare myself so bad I won't want to turn out the lights to go nighty-night.  
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Post by Phalon on Mar 2, 2005 0:57:44 GMT -6
No, the tapping is for the other story, Madam. You know, the one in which you posted in that section's "Bards' Banter." I think I recall you writing that you'd have a post ready. Getting your stories mixed up? BOLL.
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 2, 2005 1:03:21 GMT -6
Oh... I added a post to the scrolls a couple of hours ago...
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Post by Phalon on Mar 2, 2005 1:07:07 GMT -6
Get out!!!! Busy, busy. Take a break. Put your feet up. No, no - not on your desk. Too close to the computer and, dang, they are stinky. <passes out from stinky feet stench wafting through cyberspace, and out her computer> |
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Post by Phalon on Mar 2, 2005 1:11:44 GMT -6
Oooo, nice posts, Joxie - in both places.
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 2, 2005 1:18:01 GMT -6
Thank ya... I can now go to bed and smile in my dreams... at least I hope I'm smiling in my dreams and not stuck in some tunnel losing light fast!  Oh, and my feet don't stink....  
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Post by Phalon on Mar 2, 2005 1:22:55 GMT -6
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Post by guru on Mar 2, 2005 1:54:28 GMT -6
Any "Charmed" fans in the House? I described my possession post to a friend ... who said she just saw that basic idea on tv not too long ago. I'm bummed out. And here I thought I had something original for once.  |
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Post by Phalon on Mar 2, 2005 2:00:44 GMT -6
Hey, that happened to me too. The sword ramming post in the beginning of the story. A similiar scene appears in the movie, "Van Heisling", and I was all bummed when I saw they'd stolen my idea. LMAO. Mine was better, (rolls eyes) Ridiculously ridiculous movie, with an even more ludicrous plot and nothing at all like this finely tuned piece of art we are creating, with its well developed plot.
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 2, 2005 18:21:28 GMT -6
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 2, 2005 23:06:54 GMT -6
I watch Charmed too. And I agree with Jox. No more original stuff. Heck even disney is stealing from Shakespear now. The Lion King was a remake of Hamlet!
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Post by guru on Mar 5, 2005 6:02:46 GMT -6
There was a South Park episode serving as the ultimate reality check for this topic. Every time Butters (dressed as his evil alter-ego Captain Chaos) proposed an evil plan of destruction, his playmate (dressed as the faithful co-conspirator General Disarray) would intone, "Simpsons did it!"
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Post by Phalon on Mar 8, 2005 22:56:51 GMT -6
Soooooo....I cheated again. I was looking back in the Zena Scrolls for a detail I'd forgotten but needed for a post in that story, and came across something I'd written over a year ago. I thought it was ironic that I'd written just a couple posts prior in this story that Phalon felt that her robe was part of her, having so little here that was hers - how she'd feel lost without it, and then found a previously written post describing a dream about the same thing. Too coincidental to pass up. Just a tiny bit of tweeking and perfect fit - except the onion thing - but she's probably still hungry, and would love some fried onion rings, so I left it in.
But then, after talking with Scrappy, I got to thinking....
Because Phalon is sort of a "crossover" character, appearing in both stories, she already has a history. I feel, perhaps ridiculously, that I need to stick with what was previously written concerning the character, rather than make up a new "history" for her for this story.
I use the names of the characters in the Zena Scrolls here, to emphasis her longing for home - that she can not remain in the present time and be happy. Those characters are a part of her life, and the desire to get back to them, and to her home is the thing she is striving to accomplish....somehow.
But, by mentioning characters' names that do not appear in this story, am I making things too confusing? Too much? Let me know, and I'll drop it, and just stick with "misses her family and friends".
Thanks.
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 8, 2005 23:06:16 GMT -6
Since I read and write for both, I'm fine with it. Don't know about those who only write &/or read this tale. Maybe it'll get them started reading the Scrolls. 
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Post by Phalon on Mar 9, 2005 10:14:35 GMT -6
Damn, damn, damn. Argh! Ok - I just realized I messed up a bit in the "Finders, Keepers" post. Phalon does not understand English, and I have her doing so. Scrappy - you are supposed to point these things out, you know! LMAO.
So I'll adjust it somehow.
Later. Off to ski.
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Post by Freebird on Mar 10, 2005 23:10:53 GMT -6
I watch Charmed every week.
I used to watch it at 6:00pm on TNT but I don't have cable anymore.
Trying to get back on my feet again.
My car accident hurt more than my body.
My pocket got hit bad too.
Charmed is starting to get boring with the Avitars thing going.
I don't know what happend with the story line, to me it's not as interisting as it was.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 13, 2005 10:14:45 GMT -6
I've never seen Charmed, and the only avatars I've seen are the ones here, under the members' names, and I wonder why they call them that.
I hope you're back on your feet soon, Freebird.
I'm reading a very cool book: "Eats, Shoots & Leaves - "a look at our commas and semicolons to see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are." Written by a British author and full of that wonderful dry wit. One review claims, "Eats, Shoot & Leaves makes the history on punctuation a subject at once urgent, sexy, and hilarious."
Expect the semicolons in my posts to be dripping with sex in the future. Or comedy. Sometimes they are the same.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 15, 2005 1:18:27 GMT -6
Great post, Guru. All kinds of tension within. One sentence though, made me laugh. No, no...not the one about the young woman with the sword. Another one; the sentence where Guru thinks he ought to "teach a lesson to that little..." Nice of you to trail off there. She's been called the completed sentence before in the other story. Add nosy before the word little, and it fits perfectly....for the thoughts of someone being taken over by something evil, that is - as was how it happened in the other story.
Makes me wonder what's in store for the house's inhabitants? He's got a sword. And an Ion gun. And who knows what else?
Scrappy, I keep meaning to comment on your last couple of posts...I'll get around to it soon. May take awhile, though, to do it properly. Very vivid images and emotions present within the posts, and it requires a response without flippancy. Not in the right frame of mind at the moment to comment on something so disturbing as the subject matter you tackled. And tackled it well, you did.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 15, 2005 14:40:58 GMT -6
I suppose the hazard of being the writer and not the reader is you always think you could have done something better. Added something that might have grabbed a person more. I think the last couple scenes I wrote were fine, but, I think there was something missing. Some more emotional way to convey what I was feeling when I wrote it. Thanks for the kind words.
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Post by guru on Mar 19, 2005 15:05:40 GMT -6
In the Guest House, Phalon asked about loose threads in the story. Perhaps it is a natural consequence of tag-team authorship. I think the loose ends in this story could be a lot of fun if we bring a few back at the right time.
My partial list:
Laura's identity and her relationship to the current houseguests
Scrappy's lie detector eyes (reply #87)
the house's flexible architecture
"Phalon's great powers" (reply #52) -- I think she should gain a few, don't you?
Dixie's soul summoning spell (reply #44)
"something big" climbing down the outside wall (reply #40)
Mrs. Peacock's nature ... and her purpose ... and her eyes
the dead body between the walls (alluded to in reply #70)
lookalikes
gargoyles
Phalon's quest for her pot ... and the consequence of finding it
unexplained wind indoors
Guru shoots one of the guests (replies #62, 71)
Remember the recorders? Some are still recording.
Agree/disagree, anyone?
And Scrappy, I agree with Phalon on your handling of a sensitive subject. Well done.
Now I'm off to tie up the loose end of my continuing computer trouble.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 19, 2005 16:18:44 GMT -6
Yep, all of those. A few more too...
Who the heck is Wayne Rollins?
The runic symbols in the cottage and at the alter...what meaning?
What is the prize for winning this "contest"? Is there a prize?
Why does Phalon look familiar to Joxie, (I'm not as thorough as Guru and have no clue what post Joxie wrote this in).
Who is the guy who was chasing the Freebird look-alike from the 1920's. And whose blood did Freebird see in the cottage?
The 1920's dance party? The spirit servants in the kitchen? Are they still hanging about?
A partial list of general questions...a whole lot more regarding the specific characters, but I'll save those for later.
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Post by Freebird on Mar 20, 2005 3:19:18 GMT -6
Wayne Rollins is the woman who looks like Freebird's husband.
Who was killed by the same one who killed everyone else. I thought I would bring him back to the story as a leader to help us figure out the mystery and to watch over us.
If thats okay.
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