Sunday, February 27, 2011

This week

This week I will share my 1-page story for Carter that I am about to write. At 9:34 pm. I'll probably be done around 10:30. Let's begin!
Dylan Waters
Story of Epic Proportions!
By Dylan (Blue (El (JaK Fross) Coolio) Lightning) Waters
       
        The bombs went off. All of our equipment went flying off our cart, into the endless sea of sand. Yes, this is Egypt. A land of little water, mummies, and lots and lots of sand. I worked part time at a small taxonomist. OF PHARAOHS! Anyhow, our cart went flying, and when I say we, I mean me, my master, (as I was his apprentice,) and me camel!
Yes, sir, were we a team. But into the good part. A new pharaoh had died. That meant work for us. But since our cart exploded, there was no time. We had to preserve him immediately. So we poured salt on him to dry him out. Then we waited 30 days in the hot, dry sun. We pulled out his brains piece by piece and then we cut out his organs. We wrapped him up tight, and then we built a pyramid real quick. We stuffed him in there and then we skedaddled back to Cairo.  I hope you enjoyed this interesting literary compository. It took me nearly 14 minutes to write my story about mummification. Also, the characters in this story are fictitious. Any relation to any person(s), living or dead is purely coincidental.
That concludes my story. My actual version had several pictures, but they were lost due to Microsoft's lameness. I am also now stuck on double space, which is really bugging me. I will transcribe a later post possibly tomorrow, but until then, mental fatigue is making my hands type the following.
Until next time, The is Jak Fross/El coolio/Blhar/Brutehorn/Kub Bopo/Blue Lightning/Gargoyle Moe/Dylan Waters, signing out.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

I never knew that goblins would be my friends

At D&D, my character right now is a Human Rogue named Azaroth. He uses a sniper crossbow because that's what his job is. A sniper. Another player, whose name I cannot remember at the moment, also plays a rogue, but he uses a club to own his enemies. In the game, that character is my brother. We both got arrested and he spent his time working in the jail yard while I spent my time figuring out how to kill the jail yard gaurds. Soon we had broken out. We fled to the nearby city and hid there. Then an offer came up to protect a group of pioneer/pilgrims and start a new city in the ruins of an ancient kingdom. We also got land permits and my character's grand idea was to start a horrible crime city with me and my bro being the crime lords. The first monsters we encountered were stirges, which are like big mosquito type things that mostly attacked our horses. After a battle of rolling in the grass, I ended up with a bad case of ticks, and Azaroth sat the next battle out. This is because I forgot my character sheet.
So in the next battle, we fought goblins who wanted the herbs that some lady was digging up. Weird, I know, welcome to D&D. I had a wizard character as a back-up, so I played him for the battle. I was excited to fight goblins because they usually have some piece of treasure that they took off of some merchant they killed. But no, the merchants they were planning to kill were us, and therefore they did not have anything good on them at all. While that happened my main character, Azaroth was kidnapped by other goblins that were raiding our caravan. Fudge. The goblins however, accepted me, being a criminal and as mean as a goblin. So now I am on my way back to the caravan from the middle of the woods. With a band of goblins. I seriously mean a band. They all play different instruments. So I'll have to kill them before I get back, otherwise they'll think that I'm some kind of hobgoblin. All of my characters seem to be the same. They all kill random people because they are more evil than good. I usually don't enjoy D&D encounters very much, but this current chapter is really exciting. Usually are lives are at stake and our reward is not being executed or killed in some other brutal manner.
As I read A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickenson, I have decided to share my favorite part with you. Also how come everyone elses' blogs have comments on them but mine? Makes me feel left out and rejected. Not cool, guys. I mean, I know I'm not cool and I was told that (insert one of the variety of disgusting things that Cody says about me here.) I never knew I did any of those things. Any how, onward with my favorite piece. It is located in Chapter 2 of book 2:
"He'll be drawn on a hurdle to be half hanged, and then He'll be taken down and sliced before his own face, and then his inside will be taken out and burnt while he looks on, and then his head will be chopped off, and he'll be cut into quarters. That's the sentence." --Random man at the court case
Until next time, this is Blue Lightning, signing off to go play the drums, because that's what I enjoy doing for my life, because I have no friends, and this sentence keeps getting longer.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

I love Volleyball!!! (In which I don't at all.)

         Now, Volleyball, is a very strange sport indeed. And in my opinion, it should only be played by hot babes on the beach. Because that's the only time it's cool. So, in gym, we are playing volleyball, which wouldn't be so bad if our team wasn't completely dysfunctional. Now there's BJ, (whose name has been changed to protect his identity.) and he's probably the best person on our team. Then we have an over-confident kid who thinks he should be the only one to hit the ball. One person says, "Good Job!" every time we attempt to hit the ball. Two people on our team run into eachother in their attempts to dodge the ball, because they think it's some deadly weapon out to kill them. There's a baldish kid who just stands there, and there's a girl who is so weak, that when she hits the ball, it falls faster towards the ground. But I'm not much better, but at least I don't run away from the ball. So there's my rant.
         Now, Big J, whose name has also been changed to protect his identification, recently had a dream about space pirates who fought against other space pirates. Now, I have been recruited onto his team as the mechanic. My only skill is to hit some pipes with a wrench and then say, "Yep! They're frozen!"
        This has inspired me to do something incredibly nerdy. Create my own space pirate role-playing game. Which also gives me a new tag entitled role-playing. So I might talk about that more later.
          Anyhow on Thursday the NBC shows were on. Now if you watched Community you will see that they were playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, or AD&D for short. This version of D&D came out in 1980. This was also known as 2nd edition. Now, D&D is in its 4th edition. Which is different. It now has stuff in the middle of the table, and everyone rolls their own dice. This is due to the increasing lack of imagination in people. Later I might show you of an image of an actual game of D&D. The game concept is basically the same, which is involved by rolling a twenty sided die. On the show, he had to roll at least an 18, which has only a 15% chance of happening. Now, in my own campaign, I will be applying what happened in the episode in my own adventure. Now an essay about commas:
Hello, I am going to talk about commas. Many things are important to grammar, including commas. They are very important, but many have no idea how to even use them. Many people, including you, have no idea where commas should go. Commas are used to offset interrupters, after introductory material, to join sentences, separate items in a series, and to punctuate quotes. Unripe bananas, which are bad for you to eat, can lead to health problems. “Sometimes bad bananas lead to health problems,” said a doctor somewhere. “Many animals in the ocean do not use commas or eat bananas,” spoke a speech analyst. Bananas and commas can be good for you, but overuse is not good. So in short, bananas are pretty good when they are ripe, and commas help make what you are communicating clearer to your audience. I hope that this short, introductory, interesting, encouraging and overall exciting essay has shown you the light.

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A few days ago was dress up like a superhero/supervillain, which I have the best supervillain costume. Myself. Which happens to stand for:
MONSTROUS
YELLOWISH
SUPER
ELECTRIC
LAZER
FIEND
So you just got owned. or maybe you got pwned. Or maybe even p0wnededd. Anyway I am getting pretty good at the drums, so maybe I'll give you some way to here me play some of my beats. Maybe. I'll make a longer comic to put up here, too. It will be me in my post apocalyptic life. In which me, who happens to be taking a tinkering class, (just in the comic) builds some cool robots with this big guy, and we fight off random stuff. It features lazers, penguins, nuclear missiles, sniper rifles, assault rifles, and just normal rifles. Exploding pandas and mutated lizard men are also contained in the action-packed sci-fi horror. Just to let you know, the comic will be at the end. but first, another section of my story from November.
A fiery dagger, the orb turned into a flaming dagger with spikes. “This is amazing!” He shouted, “Absolutely amazing!”
            Then he tried a shield. It turned into a shield. He turned a coat of chainmail and the orb morphed into a suit of chainmail. He jumped up and down in his excitement. He tried thinking of other weapons. A chair could be a weapon he thought. The orb turned into a chair. This made him realize that anything could essentially be a weapon. That meant that the orb would turn into anything if he wanted it to. With this realization he suddenly felt very tired. He got into the old wooden bed and got to sleep.
            The next day he left town. He saw the bard, thanked him again, and said goodbye. He saw the guard and said goodbye. He walked out of the Iron Gate and began to walk around the lake on the dusty dirt road. There were many travelers on the road which made it very crowded. Grobble pushed his way through so he could run the rest of the way home to his family, who were waiting on him in eagerness. As he passed by many people, he found that they were trying to sell many of the goods to people for double the price, in order to make a profit. He had used all of his money though, and was eager to head back home. He made his way to the front of the crowd and took off.
            Grobble made it home in the next three days. He lived inside the town of StormForest, which was known for its large diversity among its peoples. Not only humans, but Orcs, Dwarves, Elves and Faeries were allowed to colonize here too. The Faerie people were the ones who founded the mountainous town, and they eagerly invited all sorts of different people to settle in their peaceful city. The city started out huge and expansive, the first of its kind to accept all people, leading to trade and a massive economy. This also led to problems for many species. Clans of a certain race could come and learn secrets of other clans and would soon exploit them. Many Dwarven blacksmithing secrets were discovered. Elven magic became easy to find and learn. Faerie inventions were discovered and then mass produced. This led to many clans leaving and many dying off too. The town would have eventually disappeared if it were not for the gargoyle uprising. In the 456 ck a mountain lair which had been sealed off for years using some kind of arcane and archaic ritual, which used runes unknown to most species, a faerie opened the magic lock and set the race of gargoyles free to wreak havoc. Thanks to Elven magic, the mountains surrounding the lair were sealed off and the gargoyles were trapped again, but could roam free in the mountains. The gargoyles attacked StormForest, and eventually conquered the city. Now over a hundred years later, the gargoyles are a bit more civilized of a race, and now everyone in their city once again has their freedom. The year was now 587 ck and although the gargoyles have remained the rulers of the town, many people now come and go as they please, not worrying about becoming enslaved by gargoyles.
            Grobble came upon the gate and heard the guard shout as the gate opened. Grobble hurried inside, and began to make his way to the far side of town. The town was old and many of the buildings were old and falling apart. Many more had signs saying empty; no trespassing. Penalty to follow rules will result in 500 silver coin fine. Silver was the standard money in StormForest, so it was ok to put the fine in silver. If had said 50 gold coin fine, the whole town would have been outraged by the huge price of the fine, even though it is the same value. Putting a 5,000 copper fine would have seemed too cheap for anyone. Same goes for a 1,000 steel coin fine. Grobble headed down through the broken cement path, soon reaching the richer part of the city where he dodged faeries, horses and gargoyles. He got out of that section and reached his Borderhouse, which was a common sight in this town. A borderhouse was a home where many races all lived as roommates as they got along peacefully together. In Grobble’s house there lived an old dwarf who, in Dwarven years, was still very young. He had Golden-gray hair on top of his hair and a pure gray beard with gold tips lived on his chin. He had very large muscles, and many scars from his past days as a warlord.  There was a small tiny creature with unkempt hair and scrawny arms who was known as a Gnome. He had a high pitched voice that cracked as he spoke and he had a fair knowledge of magic and could cast some very interesting spells. His favorite one was to breath life into a inanimate object. His final roommate was a tall, Elven woman with some Orc blood in her. She was an expert of magic, the bow and the blade. She could handle any situation with calmness and skill.
            Grobble opened the door and walked inside. The gnome was the first to notice him.
“You are back!” He said with delight. “Did you find my book?” the gnome had large pale blue eyes that stared up at him eagerly.
            Grobble pulled off his backpack and handed him the 14th volume of enchanting and charming, the magic book which the gnome needed. The gnome had a photographic memory, and would memorize the spells completely, instead of carrying around all of those books. The gnome just wasn’t built for heavy lifting. Upon hearing the gnome shout, the Elf and the Dwarf lumbered down the stairs to greet Grobble.
            “Well what took you so long?” Grumbled the Dwarf, “I could have crawled faster to the festival than you could have ran! I was starting to think you had died. Well, I guess I better throw out that gravestone I made in memory of you. Did you get me my tools? If you didn’t I am going to clop you right in your head. You will be spinning for days, you will. You will wish that you never messed with Travok GoldenBeard.” While the Dwarf sat down and took a breath, the Elf took a chance to talk.
            “Well I am just glad that you got to prove the old man wrong. Not to be to the point, but did you get my wood? I won’t be surprised if you don’t find it. It is a pretty rare type of wood.”
            “Well,” said Grobble, “ you do not need to worry, either of you. I found all of the tools from an old dwarf, just like you.”


So until next time, this is Blue Lightning, signing off.