I'M BACK, BABY! WOOOO!!!! That's right, people! Madeline is BACK AT SCHOOL! And that means she HAS A RELIABLE INTERNET SOURCE!! Yay for college! (My dorm room is seriously AWESOME!) So, point of story, I'm back to being a functioning member of the fictionpress community! And, a treat for all you people who've been with me for quite some time...
I'M REDOING URF!!!!!!! Look out for a new Urf this fall and winter. I'm not sure if you're allowed to resubmit something that's already made its rounds on Fictionpress, but I'm doing it anyways and I plan to edit the hell out of it. So, if you're a veteran, take solace in the fact that I won't be switching points of view every other sentence. If you're a n00b, welcome to what promises to be the most COHERENT installment yet!
XXX
And now, a bit about me...
Name: Mad (or Madeline, if you'd like to get technical)
School status: COLLEGE!
College Major: Animation and Motion Media, baby! Woo! Look for these lovely stories in the future in amazing Mad-generated cartoony animated goodness!
Likes: very fast music, all anime, the TV show Lost (I wuv Desmond!), wikipedia, writing, drawing, cooked eel, Terry Pratchett and Stephen King books
Dislikes: ANGST!!! I HATE ANGST!!!
I work in a system I call the "Manyverse". Multiverse was taken, so I had to make due with the name. (my apologies if it's been taken as well, or if you've come up with something similar or the same) The "manyverse" denotes the various alternate worlds I've created, and the list is always growing. I've got this crazy-insane overactive imagination (or possibly clinical ADD (but it's UNDIAGNOSED!)) that's continually running away from me. (get back here, you!) If I don't update a story for any amount of time, chances are I've gotten bored with it and need to rekindle my love for the premise (it'll happen, it just takes time).
And I suppose I should put lil' summaries of my stories in here, eh? Since all I really give you are the characters in my actual two-line summaries.
BASTIONS
A very lazy woman needs a husband. A mage who specializes in erasing people's memories is hard on cash. They make a deal: the mage will find her Mr. Right and he'll keep the money he owes her. So, doing what he does best, our mage finds some unconscious guy out on a battlefield, erases his memory, reprograms him to like miss lazy-bones and everyone lives happily ever after. That is, until the princess of the Kingdom needs a bodyguard, the prince becomes homicidal, a crazy assassin is pulled from the depths of prison, and Mr. Right's REAL past comes back to haunt everybody. Mix together magic, marital issues, identity crisises, identity replacement, foreigners, freaks (though they prefer the term Odder), gods, goddesses, deviants, cushy furniture, cushy jobs, not so cushy jobs, werewolves, warmongering, telekinesis, torture, royalty, royalties, miscommunication, misinformation, siblings, rivalries, skewed families, skewed family values and vague inner voices...and you've got something that more or less scratches the surface of what it means to be a true Bastion.
Go to my homepage to see pictures of Bastions characters, including Morry, Hernan, Ethan, Norman and others.
SHELL
Imaginary friends help to get children through their early years. They help to promote creativity and an active imagination. Unfortunately, this elite guard's imaginary friend developed when she was thirty. And what's worse, this supposedly imaginary friend is trying to tell her that he's real and being tortured unmercifully. Which isn't that odd really...there are people out there with long-range telepathy, after all; this guy could merely be trying to contact someone from far away to help him. What's so strange about that? Well, it could be the disturbingly cheery way in which he describes everything he goes through. Or his complete lack of fear. That'd make somebody doubtful, right? But, acting against her better judgement, our guard goes off on some mad quest to find her imaginary friend, to prove he doesn't exist, or so she tells herself. To make matters worse, she has two brothers from a rival Kingdom as her only allies. To make matters much worse, these brothers are cursed to always be together, and what happens to one happens to the other. To make matters as worse as they could possibly get, she's got a former coworker hot on her trail, trying to make sure she doesn't sully her Kingdom's name. And, what happens if this imaginary friend turns out to be not so imaginary? What in the world is our guard to do THEN?!
Go to my homepage to see pictures of Shell characters, including Ursula, the twins, and a few that have yet to make an appearance in the story.
THE ORDER OF THE EBOY FROG
Life is good in the swamplands for those of the amphibian persuasion. And our hero, being an amphibious humanoid, is leading an easy life as head of an altogether meaningless Order that no one pays any attention to. The swamps border the mountains, impossibly tall things always shrouded in clouds, and the mountains with their clouds generally keep the lowlying areas nice and wet. Everything is calm and peaceful, nothing out of the ordinary tends to happen...until one day a stranger comes along. A very, very disoriented man comes into everyone's lives, a man who apparently has never seen so much 'ground' in his entire life. Which gets everyone to thinking...where the hell has this guy been? Too much ground? It's like he fell from the mountains...oh...oh wait, he did? And the big question: how did he survive the fall? Why are his people being thrown off the mountains? What's happening up there? So, our hero and his meaningless Order begin the journey from their comfortable, flat swamp up the trecherously steep mountains to bring the stranger home, to stop the people from falling off and to figure out what's amiss in the sky.
Nobody up on my homepage yet. :( But they're coming in the future:)
EUDEMONIA
Ever have one of those days where your entire Kingdom is in upheaveal, your aquaintences aren't who they say they are, and you realize you're a living portal to a horible astral plane filled with millions of reality-bending monsters attempting to gain your favor and wreck havoc on the world? Where your friends are the last people in the world you'd think to be friends with, namely a crotchety old crone and a mute with anger issues? Where your greatest ally is the very person who tried to assassinate the entire royal family? Where you get doted on, thrown in prison, forcibly knocked out of your own body and nearly hanged? Where you have to save the Kingdom, the king, your wife, her sister, their brother, the jackass that threw you in prison, that same assassin, your crone and mute friends, and yourself all at the same time? If you have, then Kevin pities you, because Kevin too is having one of those days. (Bonus points to whoever can tell me what the word 'eudemonia' means. It is a real word, folks. I didn't make it up.)
Go to my homepage to see pictures of Eudemonia characters, including Kevin and Ossmund.
EGRESS
Nothing much going on with this one yet, but I do have some pictures up of the main characters on my homepage. Look for Jack, Theodora and Elton.
BATTERY MAN
In the works. My first venture into science fiction. Read it and tell me what you think! Thanks!
URF
Coming soon :)
THANKS FOR READING!
-Mad
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