Happy Third Rezday, Hotspur!
Sunday, December 27
Saturday, December 26
WREEEEENNNNN!!!
By the Founder! What a bloody mess! It's going to take me weeks just to clean up this damage. The Baron tends to be understanding when it comes to lab accidents, but we simply cannot let this happen again.
On the good side, Wren has demonstrated a grasp of the fundamentals of reanimation in her "pet project", as well as a lack of squeamishness necessary for such pursuits. While there is one "bunneh" in Babbage in particular I wouldn't mind inflicting the rigors of Science upon, Wren needs to learn that reanimation serum is a valuable resource, not a toy.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to show her how to perform a spinal column transplant.
On the good side, Wren has demonstrated a grasp of the fundamentals of reanimation in her "pet project", as well as a lack of squeamishness necessary for such pursuits. While there is one "bunneh" in Babbage in particular I wouldn't mind inflicting the rigors of Science upon, Wren needs to learn that reanimation serum is a valuable resource, not a toy.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to show her how to perform a spinal column transplant.
Tuesday, December 22
Writing Style Tag Game. (Damn you Headburro!)
1)What’s the last thing you wrote? What’s the first thing you wrote that you still have?
See previous post. First thing I still have? I’m sure I have some captions floating around in various boards from the mid-90’s.
2) Write poetry?
Of course.
3) Angsty poetry?
At times.
4) Favorite genre of writing?
Blogfiction
5) Most evil character you’ve ever created?
Hades? The Hydra? Jeremiah before his recovery?
6) Best plot you’ve ever created?
The Assault on New Erebus
7) Coolest plot twist you’ve ever created?
The exorcism of Bloodwing from Darien Mason to reveal the Dr. Mason underneath. Everything else I’ve written stems from that event.
8) How often do you get writer’s block?
Far too often.
9) Write fan fiction?
If any story with the Wulfenbach contingent counts as fanfiction, then yes.
10) Do you type or write by hand?
My handwriting is illegible, even to me.
11) Do you save everything you write?
Yes. Can I ever find it again is another question.
12) Do you ever go back to an idea after you’ve abandoned it?
Recycling is good.
13) What’s your favourite thing you’ve ever written?
Qlippothic’s civic anthem, Caledon, my Home!
14) What’s everyone else’s favourite story you’ve written?
Assault on New Erebus, I guess?
15) Ever written romance or angsty teen drama?
Yes and yes.
16) What’s your favourite setting for your characters?
The Steamlands.
17) How many writing projects are you working on right now?
Three.
18) Have you ever won an award for your writing?
I received two honoraria for my contributions to the Caledon Wiki.
19) What are your five favourite words?
Steampunk. Reanimator. Neovictorian. Steamlands. Wulfenbach.
20) What character have you created that is most like yourself?
They all have a bit of me.
21) Where do you get your ideas for your characters?
Mythology. Comic Books. Family members. Song lyrics.
22) Do you ever write based on your dreams?
I don’t remember my dreams anymore.
23) Do you favour happy endings?
“No one in this family gets a happy ending.” - Bloodwing
24) Are you concerned with spelling and grammar as you write?
Spellcheck saves my life.
25) Does music help you write?
Always. Especially Radio Riel!
26) Quote something you’ve written. Whatever pops in your head.
Do Cyborgs Dream of Electric Goats?
27) Now, who should I tag?
Wren Mornington. Phineas Matova. Beq Janus. Misslily Nightfire.
See previous post. First thing I still have? I’m sure I have some captions floating around in various boards from the mid-90’s.
2) Write poetry?
Of course.
3) Angsty poetry?
At times.
4) Favorite genre of writing?
Blogfiction
5) Most evil character you’ve ever created?
Hades? The Hydra? Jeremiah before his recovery?
6) Best plot you’ve ever created?
The Assault on New Erebus
7) Coolest plot twist you’ve ever created?
The exorcism of Bloodwing from Darien Mason to reveal the Dr. Mason underneath. Everything else I’ve written stems from that event.
8) How often do you get writer’s block?
Far too often.
9) Write fan fiction?
If any story with the Wulfenbach contingent counts as fanfiction, then yes.
10) Do you type or write by hand?
My handwriting is illegible, even to me.
11) Do you save everything you write?
Yes. Can I ever find it again is another question.
12) Do you ever go back to an idea after you’ve abandoned it?
Recycling is good.
13) What’s your favourite thing you’ve ever written?
Qlippothic’s civic anthem, Caledon, my Home!
14) What’s everyone else’s favourite story you’ve written?
Assault on New Erebus, I guess?
15) Ever written romance or angsty teen drama?
Yes and yes.
16) What’s your favourite setting for your characters?
The Steamlands.
17) How many writing projects are you working on right now?
Three.
18) Have you ever won an award for your writing?
I received two honoraria for my contributions to the Caledon Wiki.
19) What are your five favourite words?
Steampunk. Reanimator. Neovictorian. Steamlands. Wulfenbach.
20) What character have you created that is most like yourself?
They all have a bit of me.
21) Where do you get your ideas for your characters?
Mythology. Comic Books. Family members. Song lyrics.
22) Do you ever write based on your dreams?
I don’t remember my dreams anymore.
23) Do you favour happy endings?
“No one in this family gets a happy ending.” - Bloodwing
24) Are you concerned with spelling and grammar as you write?
Spellcheck saves my life.
25) Does music help you write?
Always. Especially Radio Riel!
26) Quote something you’ve written. Whatever pops in your head.
Do Cyborgs Dream of Electric Goats?
27) Now, who should I tag?
Wren Mornington. Phineas Matova. Beq Janus. Misslily Nightfire.
Monday, December 21
Sunday, December 20
Santa Claus, the Reanimator!
Gleaned from this site:
Not only did he reanimate three children at once (not an easy feat, I can assure you, especially if the pieces were jumbled together. That must be a well-stocked workshop indeed!), but he turned the perpetrator into an undead servant!
No wonder he has such impeccable taste in the scientific equipment he brings me every year. Happy Holidays!
One of the most famous miracles associated with Saint Nicholas is the tale of how three seminary students were murdered by an evil butcher, who chopped them up and hid the pieces in barrels. Nicholas reassembled them and brought them back to life. That’s all in the standard biography of the saint. But in France, Saint Nicholas became Père Noel, who was said to have enslaved the murderous butcher and transformed him into the immortal Père Fouettard (Father Flog), who whips bad children while Père Noel brings presents for the good ones.
Not only did he reanimate three children at once (not an easy feat, I can assure you, especially if the pieces were jumbled together. That must be a well-stocked workshop indeed!), but he turned the perpetrator into an undead servant!
No wonder he has such impeccable taste in the scientific equipment he brings me every year. Happy Holidays!
Saturday, December 19
Her pet project
My new daughter Wren seems to be socializing well, and met a few other constructs in a local establishment last night. This morning she dangled a dead lepus in front of my face, begging to keep it. I gave it a small dose of reanimation serum and told her she needed to fix the rest of the damage herself as a homework assignment. That should keep her busy for a while, and tell me if she has a Spark as well.
Wednesday, December 16
I'll turn the darkness into light
The quiet duties have kept me busy. Frequently I visit the infirmary to check on Miss Clara. I've ordered stock of laboratory equipment for the Consulate. Occasionally I'll unwind at one of the midnight shows or rousing pub crawl.
Last night was different. Those who have suffered a trauma will tell you that there are times when one feels exactly as they did at their moment of greatest terror, and are then drawn back into that very scenario in their minds.
Maybe it was just a cat yowling in the snow. But I swear, ever fiber of my being told me it was the neko that my father had raised as his servant. The one to which I had given my heart. It was in this same sort of merciless December wind that I hacked off the padlock to my father's supply shed and pulled Lucian from the toxic fumes that bled off into the night air.
I had abandoned my correspondence with the Baron in mid-sentence and bolted through the twisted streets of Babbage. I made out the ever-present Clockwinder's stoic visage on the corner. I'm sure he suspected more of my "usual madness" as I called out my lover's name. I had no time for another leisurely double-distracted conversation this night.
My intellect knew I wouldn't find her. But I did find someone else.
The miserable waif had curled up on the manhole cover, trying to find protection from Winter's embrace in the cloak of fetid steam. The wind was too strong tonight. The added humidity and quite possibly the vapors from the sewers below may have hastened her demise.
The Urchins of Babbage cared for their own, and several shelters and inns welcomed and fed them, especially in this weather. What could explain this? I examined her pupils for signs of life. They were swollen and infected. Effectively blind. Her hands clutched tight a box of matches. A pile of charred splinters lay on the slick surface of the manhole cover.
The story was clear to me. She had been enslaved by some wretched excuse for a guardian, and she had burned her eyes away making the matches without even the cheapest pair of goggles for protection. Did she flee her Master, or was she turned out to raise funds for his loathsome ends?
"Herr Scientist! What is going on over there?"
I could not answer as I brought her into the laboratory and lay her frozen form down on the table. I rifled the inventory, screaming for a turnkey and finding none. This was not Mason Labs. Tools were not arranged and supplied to my specifications. Did I give up? NO! Not when I could hear her soul crying out to me, begging for another chance at a life squandered by another! I was a combat medic, dammit! You think I don't know how to improvise?
The matchbook fell from her hand as her body thawed. I opened it. There was one matchstick left. Yes, yes...it was all clear to me now. On the Festical of Lights, no less! I removed the stick carefully, and placed a coin in the box. I wrapped her hand tightly around the box.
"Thank you for the match, little one. Here is your payment...not only shall you live again, but you never suffer the cold again.
I replaced her diseased heart with an oil-burning engine and a pilot light. I bade her to wake, and she arose, staring down at her new Father adoringly with brand new eyes!
The Christmas revelry at the saloon across town died down as the residents leaned out of the doors and windows to hear that loony old Scientist at the Consulate bellowing SHE'S ALIVE SHE'S ALIVE SHE'S ALIVE...
I will endure any indignity, suffer any punishment, pay any price, so long as I am permitted to continue that practice which I consider the pinnacle of my training as a master of Science and the Hidden Arts. The most precious resource of the Steamlands is not coal or cavorite, My Friends. It is its children. And as long as YOU continue to waste their lives in the factories and mines and the most unspeakable places and toss them away like scrap...in the forests, the canals, the graveyards, the sewers and snowdrifts and shacks like my sweet Lucian...I will rescue them and care for them as my own! Will it take an ARMY of them patrolling the streets to ensure that another waif need never awake with a windup heart again? THEN SO BE IT!!!
Last night was different. Those who have suffered a trauma will tell you that there are times when one feels exactly as they did at their moment of greatest terror, and are then drawn back into that very scenario in their minds.
Maybe it was just a cat yowling in the snow. But I swear, ever fiber of my being told me it was the neko that my father had raised as his servant. The one to which I had given my heart. It was in this same sort of merciless December wind that I hacked off the padlock to my father's supply shed and pulled Lucian from the toxic fumes that bled off into the night air.
I had abandoned my correspondence with the Baron in mid-sentence and bolted through the twisted streets of Babbage. I made out the ever-present Clockwinder's stoic visage on the corner. I'm sure he suspected more of my "usual madness" as I called out my lover's name. I had no time for another leisurely double-distracted conversation this night.
My intellect knew I wouldn't find her. But I did find someone else.
The miserable waif had curled up on the manhole cover, trying to find protection from Winter's embrace in the cloak of fetid steam. The wind was too strong tonight. The added humidity and quite possibly the vapors from the sewers below may have hastened her demise.
The Urchins of Babbage cared for their own, and several shelters and inns welcomed and fed them, especially in this weather. What could explain this? I examined her pupils for signs of life. They were swollen and infected. Effectively blind. Her hands clutched tight a box of matches. A pile of charred splinters lay on the slick surface of the manhole cover.
The story was clear to me. She had been enslaved by some wretched excuse for a guardian, and she had burned her eyes away making the matches without even the cheapest pair of goggles for protection. Did she flee her Master, or was she turned out to raise funds for his loathsome ends?
"Herr Scientist! What is going on over there?"
I could not answer as I brought her into the laboratory and lay her frozen form down on the table. I rifled the inventory, screaming for a turnkey and finding none. This was not Mason Labs. Tools were not arranged and supplied to my specifications. Did I give up? NO! Not when I could hear her soul crying out to me, begging for another chance at a life squandered by another! I was a combat medic, dammit! You think I don't know how to improvise?
The matchbook fell from her hand as her body thawed. I opened it. There was one matchstick left. Yes, yes...it was all clear to me now. On the Festical of Lights, no less! I removed the stick carefully, and placed a coin in the box. I wrapped her hand tightly around the box.
"Thank you for the match, little one. Here is your payment...not only shall you live again, but you never suffer the cold again.
I replaced her diseased heart with an oil-burning engine and a pilot light. I bade her to wake, and she arose, staring down at her new Father adoringly with brand new eyes!
The Christmas revelry at the saloon across town died down as the residents leaned out of the doors and windows to hear that loony old Scientist at the Consulate bellowing SHE'S ALIVE SHE'S ALIVE SHE'S ALIVE...
I will endure any indignity, suffer any punishment, pay any price, so long as I am permitted to continue that practice which I consider the pinnacle of my training as a master of Science and the Hidden Arts. The most precious resource of the Steamlands is not coal or cavorite, My Friends. It is its children. And as long as YOU continue to waste their lives in the factories and mines and the most unspeakable places and toss them away like scrap...in the forests, the canals, the graveyards, the sewers and snowdrifts and shacks like my sweet Lucian...I will rescue them and care for them as my own! Will it take an ARMY of them patrolling the streets to ensure that another waif need never awake with a windup heart again? THEN SO BE IT!!!
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