9th
Excerpt
from: Invisible Vampire Hunter
“I guess so.”
“You know my name,” Dana said.
“Was it, Dana?”
“Yes, what is yours?”
The
roommate twirled the end of one of her pigtails. "Um, I'm not sure I want
to give it out to an invisible presence," she said shyly.
“A shy
one,” Dana commented to herself.
The
roommate sat on her bed. “You can call me VJ.”
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Excerpt
from: The Memorial Dance Incident
“Definitely.”
“And so, as you can see, I have some ideas already,” Jane
said.
Brittany wandered around the room and saw her friend’s
usual creativity exploding out onto various papers. She had always admired Jane
for it, as her art was more tame by comparison. “I see you’re making
caricatures,” she commented.
“Kevin is quite easy for it,” Jane said.
“I can imagine that. And Mr. DeMartino.”
“I just have to be careful not to make his eye too big.”
“True, otherwise it would be creepy,” Brittany said.
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Excerpt
from: Mysteries of Neverwinter
“I have
travelled far,” the bard said when she had reached the bar.
“How
far?” Sylvia wondered.
“From
Candlekeep, all along the Sword Coast, seeking out the Jewel of the North, as
this city is known, relying on hearing, touch and smell,” the bard answered.
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Excerpt
from: Mysteries of Aurora
They found a desk nearby and
started leafing through it.
The first pages were colour
coded by topic. They could indeed see that all topics were scattered about the
Library. “But these are the top level by discipline,” Alexia said. “I would
think the more in detail topics are held together in whatever section.”
“I agree,” Freya said. She
looked at the time. She had plenty of time before her next, class, which was
after lunch.
They found what they were
looking for in the middle of the book. The Ancient Section, in the middle was
coloured red, then it shifted through the rainbow, such that the sections built
in the 20th Century were marked in purple. “This is interesting,”
Freya said.
“But does it go into further
detail?” Alexia asked.
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Excerpt
from: Chronicles of Time - The Danae Error
“That is why I’m here,” Jess said in a similar tone. “Because
the timeline has changed.”
“In what way?” Catherine asked.
“Who you may know as Danae, is actually Daniel in my
timeline.”
“Are you sure?”
“I am sure,” Jess answered. “We had just been to 3002 for
the first time. When we came back. Daniel’s room was now Danae’s room.”
“A trip to the far future…” Catherine considered. That
wasn’t where the problem lay. “So you think the timeline has changed.”
“I know some of what is different in my time.”
“Which is?”
“2002.”
“Not that far ahead,” Catherine murmured. “1998.”
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Excerpt
from: Genie Universe Continuity
“I’ll go back to Dubbo through the portal now,” Hannah
said, as they had found a portal in the house during the night.
“I’ll see you later,” Jane said.
“Right.”
Dubbo
Hannah emerged from the portal and then headed westwards
along Birch Avenue in the direction she was sensing the opal. She didn’t need
to go back and tell Jane.
In West Dubbo at the Alwyn’s house. "Elias, could I
take Jeremiah to your grandparents place?" asked Hayley Draper. Hayley was
Elias and Jeremiah's cousin who had travelled back in time to become involved
in the events with the genie, Jeanine.
“Of course, Hayley,” Elias responded.
“OK, Jeremiah, let’s go.”
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Excerpt
from: Mary Jane – Spider-Girl
“Why not?”
“It’ll cost the school extra.”
“I don’t care!” Felicia said fiercely.
“Go ahead,” Mr. Harrison said in a resigned tone.
“You’re allowed,” the paramedic said.
“Thanks, Felicia,” MJ said as the ambulance got under
way. She then fainted again.
“Um…” Felicia said.
“She’s fainted again.”
After the ambulance arrived at the Emergency Room,
Felicia was sent to the waiting room.
She couldn’t rest, and couldn’t read the magazines that
she didn’t like anyway, as her mind was full of worry for MJ.
“Felicia Hardy?” an orderly asked.
“Yes. How is MJ, Mary Jane?”
“She’s stable, but sleeping off the venom.”
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Excerpt
from: Spider Quinn
“Jane
will be found soon. I promise that.”
Twenty
minutes later, Quinn had made her decision. She went up to Dani. “Dani, you’re
hired.”
“Thanks,
Quinn,” Dani said.
“You
do realise that you have to start right away, right?”
“Of
course. The play starts in half an hour.”
“And
you may need to clean up any mess Beck left behind,” Quinn pointed out.
“Of
course.”
At
Lawndale State, Scott and Andrea entered one of the computer labs. “Thanks for
letting me do this,” Andrea said.
“Again,
I want whoever is abducting people to be caught.”
“Of
course, but there is a risk to you.”
“I
will deal with it,” Scott said as he lead Andrea to the back. “We should go
unnoticed. But there will be logs.”
“I’ll
deal with it.”
Scott
logged in. “There. As you can see, they’re still running Windows NT 4.0 on
these systems.”
“What
about the server?” Andrea asked.
“That
is Unix, but I’m not sure of the specifics.”
“That
is fine,” Andrea said as she sat.
Brittany
returned to the Historia to find that there was a line up. ‘Not surprising,’
she thought as she headed to the backstage area.
Dani
came up to Quinn and Daria.
“What’s
the situation?” Daria asked.
“The
effects seem to be normal projected effects,” Dani said. “Mostly the storm at
the beginning and some of Prospero’s magic.”
“That’s
what I expected,” Daria said.
“But
there might be unexpected ‘bugs’ that Beck left in,” Dani added. “It might
cause some hiccups.”
“I
knew that might happen,” Quinn said.
“But
I’m sure that it will go well,” Dani said. “Even if people have been comparing
it to another of the Bard’s plays.”
“I
can guess which one,” Daria grumbled.
“Huh?”
Quinn asked.
“One
of Shakespeare’s other plays is referred to as the ‘Scottish Play’ because it
involves a power struggle in Scotland and is rumored to include real magic, and
thus was cursed,” Daria explained.
“Got
it,” Quinn said.
“And
it involves swordplay, and therefore accidents can happen, including broken
legs,” Dani added.
“There’s
not much action in this one,” Quinn said.
Soon,
everyone was in their seats and the lights went down, and the curtain went up.
Agent
Leung joined Peterson out in the lobby. “The play has started?” he asked.
“Yes,”
Peterson answered. “There are plainclothes officers all around the building,
including in the café.”
“That’s
good planning.”
“But
it took last night to happen.”
“I’m
here and so is my partner,” Leung said.
“And
SpiderGIrl, as her secret identity.”
“You
sound uncertain.”
“That’s
because I’m not entirely sure, and I promised myself that I would protect her,”
Peterson said with annoyance.
“Then
keep it to yourself,” Leung said. “Between you and I, My wife has been ordered
by SHIELD to find out the identities of the vigilantes, but she has ignored
them so far.”
“Is
that wise?”
Leung
shrugged. “It’s up to her.” He looked at Peterson again. She seemed guarded.
‘Maybe SpiderGirl isn’t only one she suspects the identity of.’
Sandi
had overheard the two talking from inside the café. ‘So, Peterson suspects
someone is SpiderGIrl,’ she thought as she took a bite from her dinner.
“A
thought?” Harry asked.
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11th
Excerpt
from: A jilted Elf Maiden
Elara danced through the glade, the belle of the ball. She
looked to the dashing prince, Orion, who had just arrived.
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Excerpt
from: Berk in Time
“Of
the fifty species loaded, only one has had any difficulty surviving. All the
others are thriving, and we expect them to be able to repopulate.”
“So, the Atlanteans took the dragons off their island to
take them elsewhere through time?” Astrid asked.
“But Time Travel should be impossible,” Fishlegs said.
“How do you figure?” Tuffnut asked.
“It would take too long to explain and you won’t
understand anyway,” Fishlegs said.
“Anyway, we’re on the ship, and we need to find Hiccup
and the Jorgensons,” Astrid said.
“Maybe there is something here?” Ruffnut asked.
“Probably, but I don’t want to messing with mechanisms I
don’t understand.”
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Excerpt from:
Genie Universe Continuity Reboot – Remembering Clare
Saturday,
9 November 2024
Geurie
Elias
looked at the post. He didn’t quite believe it. Clare Berry had died! He read
further.
Others
were expressing disbelief, and acknowledged that Clare had been rather kind.
But it
was one that struck him, that she had had a long illness.
He hadn’t
know that, but then he had lost contact with her after school. The fleeting
contact that social media offered was no substitute for actual meetings or in
depth emails.
As the
day went on, he realized that he hadn’t really known Clare.
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Excerpt
from: Mysteries of Aurora
“Yes,” Freya answered. “There
are more shades for each subdiscipline in each area.”
“I see that.”
“Let’s copy this.”
“Wait,” Alexia said.
“We’ll then look at more pages.”
“Sure.”
Alexia saw that Freya was a
little different and it wasn’t just her pink hair.
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Excerpt
from: Genie Universe Continuity Reboot
“You
have said it,” Olivia said.
“We’ll
wait for another half hour, then we will send someone else to investigate,”
Jane said.
“We may
need to discuss that,” Danielle said.
“Of course,”
Jane said.
Destiny
“The
interference is starting to clear, Captain,” So’lek reported. “The sensors are
picking up the genie near the corner of Tamworth and Gipps Streets.
“And are
we also picking up the opal?” Captain Phillip Callacouros asked.
“Negative.
It is still shrouding the opal.”
“Acknowledged,”
Phillip said. Despite being tired, he decided to stay on the Bridge for a while
longer.
Dubbo
Hayley
Draper exited the forest into South Dubbo. She realized that she probably
should have gone around.
Nicola Jefferies, Aliadine Sultanalie, Danielle
Stewartson and Renee John had finished helping one family in Jubilee Street.
They crossed the road, back in the direction that Nicola and Aliadine had come.
“Do you think that more events like this will happen?” Renee asked Nicola.
“I hope
not, but it is likely,” Nicola reponded.
“We will
continue looking for the opal soon,” Danielle said. “More neighbours are
helping.”
“I have
noticed that,” Nicola said.
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Excerpt
from: Spider Quinn
“I overheard
something out there.”
“That
they’re going to find Jane?”
“More
about SpiderGirl,” Sandi answered. “The officer thinks she’s here but isn’t sure.”
“I
see.”
“The
fourth vigilante and Dafoanairi might be here too.’
“How
do you figure that?” Harry asked.
“They
were here last night.”
Harry
thought about what Sandi said. ‘SpiderGirl didn’t show up, but Ninja Talon did.
The fourth vigilante and Dafoanairi did, but there was no mention of the Shadow.
Tania
entered the stage as Ceres. “Hail, many colored messenger, that never disobeys the
wife of Jupiter.
Who
with your saffron wings upon my flowers diffuse honeydrops, refreshing showers.
And
with each end of the thy blue bow does crown my busy acres and my unshrubbed
down.
Rich
scarf to my proud Earth. Why has my queen summoned me hither to this
short-grassed green?”
“A
contract of true love to celebrate,
And some
donation freely to estate
On
the blessed lovers,” Nadia said as Iris.
There
was a flicker, as of something.
“Uh
oh!” Dani said. “I’m on it. It seems minor.”
“It
doesn’t seem minor,” Quinn said.
“A
little more major,” Dani said as she changed to another screen. “He has left some
scripts running. But I can manage it. There.”
Quinn
saw that the flickering was over.
Neither
Tania, nor Nadia were flustered and thus continued their lines through the
disturbance.
“Honor,
riches, marriage blessing,” Cindy sang.
‘What
other surprises are waiting for us?’ Daria wondered.
However,
the rest of the play went by smoothly and when the curtain went down there was
a standing ovation.
At
Lawndale State, Andrea was slowly making progress. Scott asked for progress when
he came back from a vending machine.
“Slowly,”
Andrea answered. “There are a number of cameras along Main Street. It’s taking
time to locate the ones near the Historia. I’m sure the play is over now.”
“9:00,
I’,m sure it is.”
Daria,
Quinn, Joey, Robert, Brittany, Jennifer, Dani, Peterson and Leung met in the café
ten minutes after the play had ended.
“The
play went off a minimum of hitches,” Quinn said.
“True,”
Dani said. “But there is no telling what else Beck may have put into the
system.”
“And
it is lucky that Tania and Nadia stayed composed,” Brittany said. She twirled a
pigtail. “They are usually that way, but others may not have reacted that way.”
“I
agree,” Daria said. “We got lucky.” She turned to Leung. “Any thing you can say
about your investigation?”
“We
were still scouring the area within a mile downstream of the Jefferson Bridge
as of nightfall,” Leung said. “The search will resume as of first light.”
“I
see,” Quinn said.
“I
can also report that LDPD didn’t see any suspicious activity around the theater
during the play,” Peterson said.
“Like
it’s quiet,” Jennifer said.
They
all looked at the usually quiet blonde.
“Like
maybe this Quentin Beck is waiting for something,” Jennifer added.
“That
is likely,” Daria said. “But how to guard against someone who seems to use the
stormwater system with impunity.”
“We
can’t guard all the manholes around the theater,” Peterson said.
“We
need to stick to guarding the theater itself,” Joey said.
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