Little sick

Alright. I'll address the thing I found again. I had a thought and decided to take it to the police, just in case my neighbors are into overly elaborate, complicated, and easily discovered, drug running. They tore the package a bit and said it was a book and gave it back to me. I asked if they wanted to keep it as possible evidence for something else but they said they didn't have the time for every random thing brought in. They must think I'm staging this. Fine. Be that way.

It's still wrapped up for the most part, they only ripped a little bit on the back to check. I put it back in the plastic bag and threw it back into my closet. I don't feel like getting driven insane by the crazy writings in a little leather bound journal.

In other news I'm starting to feel a bit under the weather. It feels like a regular cold though so I should be fine by next post. My parents are in the medical field so they always take really good care of me whenever I get sick. No horrible bouts of coughing thankfully. Just a runny nose and general lethargic-ness.

I wrote a bit more. I'm up to 93 pages on the journal. I suppose I should go into secondary characters now. I think I'll stick with 2 a week to pad this out until I have plot things to talk about.

Our young lead is Leon, an Angel who is a fairly normal, cheerful, happy go lucky guy. His family is a little messed up but he's got amnesia related to a specific event. He doesn't get all emo about it though. Most Militaristic based angels have pretty tough lives. They just get used to that sort of thing. He was paired with Zero due to Zero having worked with his father before he died. Also expect a lot of Angel characters to have dead parents, if any at all. They're sent to war a lot and they die a lot, it just happens. Leon uses mostly holy and ice for his spells and special attacks and wields a traditional 1 handed sword. And yes I have worked this all out.

A female Angel that's mentioned a lot but isn't actually IN the books is Seight. She is Zero's lover and her death triggers Zero's involvement in the plot (As well as Leon's and any angels Zero brings with him I guess). She was also an Ancient One but by birth instead of creation. Her parents were both Ancient Ones, Zero once again having been with her father when he was killed by the Origin. They found out her mother died about a week later, same fate. Seight isn't terribly younger than Zero is but it takes her a bit to get over these deaths. Thankfully they all happen several thousand years before the story actually picks up. Most Ancient Ones use all elements for spells and such, Seight being no different. She's more of a spellcaster but she was strong enough to get by if things got close combat-y.

That's it for this week. I may start updating Wednesdays and Saturdays. What do you guys think of that? ... I mean Grim... What do you think of that... I've gone and made myself depressed.

Mini update

I found a thing. Buried under that tree that fell over a few weeks ago. I didn't see anything earlier but I'd never inspected it as closely as I did today. Plastic bag not included. I don't think it's been there long but I don't feel like letting loose a bunch of tiny insects into my house. It's wrapped heavily in tape and what appears to be the kind of tissue paper you wrap your fine china in to keep them from breaking. That said, unless it's already broken it's pretty damn light, and flexible along the horizontal axis of the picture. Not sure what to make of it. It. It doesn't seem to have been there long. At most it's been buried for maybe 2 days. Any longer and it would have been wet from the constant rain.

I'm not opening it. I've already broken the "Don't go in the woods" rule. Woods surround my house, I have to walk a good half of a mile through the woods to get to my mailbox.

If it's a tape, I'm not watching it. No seven days bullshit, no visual tearing, no nothing.

The thing is currently resting in the very back of my closet.

Characters

So, things are finally, really and truly back to normal. Other than that one Canada Goose incident nothing has happened all week. I suppose that needs an explanation. I might have mentioned that our house gets mobbed by Canada Geese, most of them have already moved on but there's still about 20 that visit the house. Wednesday I found one torn apart. We have foxes and Racoons and such around here, I wouldn't put it too far out of the realm of possibility that there's nothing other than predation to this. The stories of animal mutilations from several bloggers made me note it though. Although my paranoia has faded significantly. Mainly because I've stopped reading other blogs, about Construct and Marble hornets comes out with a part maybe once in a blue moon.

Although I have taken to filming myself with my Cellphone camera. I've got one of those fancy iPhone things so the quality is ok. I only film when shit gets crazy and there's nothing remarkable on the footage.

I'm falling back into some ruts I was trying to avoid though. My blood pressure has gone back to being low so I'm getting dizzy often for no reason. The really bad ones are followed by minor seizures but that's nothing out of the ordinary. For me anyway. I've been dealing with this problem for years, I just have a few allergies that make it tougher for me to keep in good health. But I manage. Other than the new part where I'm starting to get winded quicker, but I attribute that to my lack of activity since the quarter ended and I decided to take summer off. I just need to start jogging again, that'll clear up.

Anyway My characters. I've been dancing around actually telling their names because they seem kind of... Narcissistic? The Mentor character I've been talking about is named Zero. "But wait, Your nickname is Nihil, Your email address has Zero in it. Have you modeled this guy after you?" No. I use the name Zero because of that character, not the other way around. I came up with him a long ass time ago. Most of the stoic master type characters have always been this guy and when I finally decided to stop and write everything down, he of course had to be in it.

Zero is an Ancient One, the oldest of Angels, one of the originals created to fight... The Origin, My villain. As the name implies He's The Origin of all things, the first lifeform. He and the universe were born at the same time and all life came from him. "But. This is the villain. What gives?" He kind of went insane. If you couldn't sleep and were completely immortal, you'd probably go insane too. Especially if you have the thoughts of all living things flowing through you as an incomprehensible wailing. Plus as he built civilizations (That would be the Gods) they tended to not like the idea that he could kill them all if he felt like it. Eventually they started rebelling against him, trying to preserve their civilization by attacking the most powerful being in the universe. You can imagine how well that went.

There was one god that the Origin had made to be ALMOST as strong as he was. As a constant companion. This god led the movement to destroy the Origin, since he knew how batshit the Origin really was getting. This God was the one that was able to create powerful angels able to hold their own against the Origin. But the Origin is still the Origin so all attempts to destroy him completely have failed. He's been beaten, but can never die. Unless you do his job for him and destroy the universe, which kind of beats the purpose of fighting him in the first place.

I'll go into more detail if you want but you've got my main Protagonist and my main Antagonist now. I'll talk of side characters and other leads later on.

Calming Down

I'm getting a late start on this one. A few things happened, and if I was able to I would have posted them as they happened. When we got back from Atlanta and opened the doors to our house we noticed that the A/C was out. Fine. Georgia heat made us get a hotel but when we went to check on the A/C units. Both of them were fried. Completely unresponsive, had to have someone come in and replace a few parts. They think the units both got hit by lightning. Sure. I live on a lake. Lightning happens. Not quite sure why it struck the fairly grounded A/C units but whatever. The A/C units are by my far window. Hm. What's really tall that I know that could be stalking me without me noticing? I wonder if Lightning strikes even slow the bastard down?

Also. Our dock was torn up. To shreds. Granted it was a pile of crap but that kind of damage doesn't inflict itself unless there's some kind of river whale that I'm not aware of. We've got someone fixing it, making it nicer than it was but that was crazy to say the least. Anyway I talked Dad into letting me come with him to drop my cousins off at their home in Florida because we haven't had enough driving to do. That went off well, normal stuff and all that, nothing out of the ordinary chased us. There was some rain out of no where but it's Florida, that comes with the turf.

Anyway I've been resting from all the bloody driving. My spine is not built for that kind of activity. We had a nice little fourth of July celebration. Went out on the town. They shot fireworks off by where we live yesterday, which was cool until hour 3 when I wanted to go to sleep. I didn't personally get to set any fireworks off but that's probably for the best given my pyromania and what happened...

Regardless, This is coming in much later than normal. But thankfully things have settled down. I'm planning on going into town and getting that book everyone keeps telling me about. House of Leaves I think. I had gotten one called Zombie Apocalypse by Stephen Jones. It was a good read. Gonna try to keep myself from reviewing everything I ever do in this blog.

On a Trilogy related note, I've started back up on the Journal again. I had writer's block something fierce but I've managed to shake it off for the most part. I wasn't sure how to have the mentor react to the death of a character. In the book I just had him slink off and be out of focus but I can't do that in a journal written by him. In the end I think it worked out ok. I just had to settle with writing shorter entries. I'm up to Entry 18 now, almost 100 pages in. Pretty sure there will be something around 30 Entries in total, maybe a bit more. At least, 30 Entries for the events of the first book.

Maybe I should start naming these characters for you guys. There's always next Friday, er... This Friday.

Timely updates?

Right. Well. Blogging is surprisingly easy to do, even when I'm as busy as I am.

I'm heading up to Atlanta tomorrow to stay for a few nights. We have a couple of fun things to do up there for my cousins. I got myself a separate room. My excuse was that my father snores like hell and there's no way I could sleep if I stayed in their room, and if I was in my cousins' room? I think that qualifies as a few crime based on the age difference.

The real reason is pure paranoia. I haven't made contact with any so called proxies, or big spindle himself, but I've noticed some weird things around town. Signs are upside down. A lot of them. I noticed it at the mall where a Gap sign for a summer sale was upside down. Wrote it off as retardation, or some kind of stupid inception advertisement thing... Then I noticed a stop sign had been flipped, and a handy-capped sign, and an entire store's name. Then a few days later I noticed something else kind of weird. No one had bothered to fix this. It's been almost 3 days. I can forgive the street signs because they would require some tools to flip, but the sale sign? In a mall? How do you not notice that? How lazy do you have to be to not take 10 seconds of your day to flip a sign? I pointed it out to my cousin laughing, it was just so silly, she asked me what I was talking about.

I've looked around various sources. I've never seen this symptom of being stalked. I could be going insane. Or it could be Change Blindness but I'm pretty sure that's not how change blindness works.

It could be that I'm already completely insane, and this is just a symptom of completely non related things. Or my brain is already failing and is no longer flipping certain things right side up when I see them. I don't have a hyper link to explain this because the five minutes of googling and reading things didn't provide what I was looking for. My family has a history of vision problems on my mother's side so this may not be unexpected. I just would expect it to be a little more widespread than a few signs.

Anyway. Moving away from that, I've had some minor writer's block, I'm only to page 80 in the journal. This was because I had to figure out exactly how the mentor character dealt with the death of one of his charges. Originally, he just kind of slinks off and doesnt appear, but since this work is focused on him I can't exactly do it again. I think I've already shrugged this off though. The 17th entry is under way and hopefully this won't happen again.

I hope this makes up for my last update, I'll post next Friday as usual.

Cousins are keeping me busier than normal. They'll be gone in a few weeks. I'm going to start writing these in advance and updating them as the week goes by.

Sorry for shortness, I was going to blog tonight but we got into the midnight showing of Green Lantern.

If you want my thoughts, It was a good action movie, kind of silly with the villain. I think they blew their load a little early but whatever. I'm familiar with the Green lantern comics but not terribly. I'd have to do some research to find out how unfaithful it is. I bet this will be similar to my reaction to the fantastic 4 movies. They were good action movies but after I did a lot of looking into the comic and such, I didn't like it adaptation wise.

This is all coming from someone who can watch almost everything presented to him so take that with a grain of salt if you want. I'll do a special update when I have time then a main one next Friday to make up for this I guess.

Still no sighting of Construct or any proxies, I'll just count myself lucky.

Huzzah! Second post!

So, I've decided to try and update this thing once a week. Seems easy enough, until I run out of things to talk about. I do realize technically I've missed my set Friday update but my own personal hell cropped up to stop me from updating.

I have been having internet problems lately and my computer may have caught some kind of virus. If freaky things start happening with a girl in a well or a tree that is a man you guys are never going to see me online again. Probably because I'll be dead or something... Oh! Also, stupid thunder storm just knocked my power out for a good few hours. After watching Marble Hornets I couldn't even look NEAR the windows until the lights came on and I was greeted by my own reflection.

In real life news I have 2 cousins coming over to stay for a few weeks for the summer. They're really fun, almost clones of me, which is terrifying but thrilling. They came over 2 summers ago and hung out here for a month. I think they're 15 and 12? Could be a year older than that.

This has also brought up the problem of my mother being a clean freak when family comes over. I've been cleaning for about 18 hours straight at this point. I found out she will clean through a power outage, by candle light.

So. I guess I should elaborate a bit more on my books that I talked about a lot in that first post. I haven't written much more in the journal, started the next "Chapter" but haven't gotten very far. Distracted by having to remove every god damn sub-atomic particle of dirt from my floor. I can see my reflection, in concrete I think it's clean.

I'll start with the setting in this post, I'm going to stretch the hell out of this so I can cover days when my rantings have run low. I could say I used Norse Mythology as a backdrop. But really? I looked at Norse Mythology, thought it was cool, and slapped a few names on things and did my own thing. I need to be more original I guess. Anyway we have Asgard, the place the Gods live in, as the crazed highly militarized paradise that it usually is. The main characters are of Angel decent and the mentor one I mentioned is one of the oldest angels alive, termed an Ancient One. Then we have Midgard, the place where most of the story happens. Midgard is in danger of being reworked from a plane of existence to a weapon by the Antagonist. Angels, including the Ancient one, are sent down to keep him off of it, and maybe kill him. Then we have Helheim, the home of all the demons and such the Antagonist gets his legions of soldiers from. Oh, and The In-between, a part of the universe that isn't exactly IN the universe, where the Antagonist lives, making it hard to storm his castle and kill him.

Also making it hard to kill him, he's got perfect immortality, can only be mildly annoyed rather than killed, and the number of people capable of fighting one on one him can be counted on one hand.

That's a ramble for next Friday however.

Peace.

Introductions, Explanations

Alright. I'm just going to start by saying I'm probably not as pretentious as my posts will make me out to be. I'm a college student working on a book series, I can get verbose and ramble-tastic sometimes.

For one I'm a fairly massive nerd, Internet culture is my culture, even if I don't venture into the darker parts of the Interwebs very often. I play a lot of games, dabble in coding my own games, write, draw, etc.

This Blog is for me being random, and writing about whatever I'm doing, usually progress on my books, on the game, on my college education or whatever I find interesting at the moment. I mainly made this profile so I could reach out to people. A certain kind of blogger known as Slenderbloggers. The people entrenched in the war against the spindly devil himself. I have not been savaged by him, I have never seen him, I've watched most of the main videos on youtube and done some reading on here. I know full well the danger of jumping in but at this point I know too much with or without this blog. I don't know what I'll be able to bring to the table, I'm rational and good under pressure, as well as being almost completely neutral in everything I do. For now, I'll just keep uploading random accomplishments from my life, until things start going to hell like most every other blog relating to... construct? It? SlendyMcGoAway? I suppose he'd have to be after me for that last one to work.

Regardless, that book series I'm working on is probably going to be the main focus of this blog. Here's what I've got for the moment.

Rebirth: Angel of Origin - The first book of mine, it was written back when I was about 12-13 and hasn't been touched since. It's about 140 pages typed and needs some serious work to fit into the rest of the series. It is the first part of the Trilogy but as it is now... about 80% of it isn't actually considered canon. Mainly due to the fact I was 12, didn't plan ahead, and just kind of meandered for 15 chapters before hastily finishing the thing. I am working on a planned revision right now though. Revision here meaning completely rewriting the thing from scratch.

Life and Death: Angel of The Fallen - The second book I've written, 3rd story I ever finished writing. The first version I wrote right after finishing the first. I then hit the point where I woke up and started taking writing seriously. Planned everything out and then rewrote the whole thing. As it is now it's about 340 pages, I finished it around January-February this year. However this also needs another revision because I changed my mind on a trait most of the main characters share so... the first 13 or so chapters need to be completely reworked to include this. I've gotten the first 3 chapters revised as of now, working on the fourth, about half way done. I have a list of things I need to do to every chapter. It's set 2 years after the events of the first book, the characters develop lightly through the gap but not as much as they will in...

Destruction: Angel of Fragments - The final volume of the trilogy. This has not actually been written out yet, but I have outlined it completely. I couldn't decide how I was going to end the thing so I plotted out 2 endings, a "Good" and a "Bad" ending. I'll decide which one to go with after I've written them both out. It's set 15 years after Life and Death and naturally concludes the adventures of my assorted crew of characters. One way or the other... Due to the huge gap there are a few large character shifts that take place due to a few of them having grown up, a few having children, and generally settling down.

Journals of The Ancient One - A companion work to the first and second book. A set of journals written from the perspective of the mentor character who will go unnamed as of now. It's really my only chance to give this character a past, and explain why he is the way he is. He largely acts in the now, and only for the betterment of others. Not really dwelling on his sorted past. I've written about 70 pages of this work so far, and I'm going to use it as a sort of Alternate outline for Rebirth. I've grown kind of tired with the outlining format I've been using, so this is an opportunity for me to work from a different angle.

Those are the big ones, I was planning on doing a prequel that does much the same as the Journals do, and explain the mentor's past, but I doubt it would be necessary anymore. I'll write more about plot and characters later, I don't want to go on too long about these things on my first post.