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Round robin anyone?
Round robin anyone?
Doesn't matter! If no one responds I'll write NaMaWriMo myself!
We haven't had a good round robin since Meadow's reeeeeeeeeeeally long long long one (remember, with Ahtnamas, and the Wraith versus the Wave). What happened to that anyway? I just went thorough every. single. page of the Inkwell and it's not here. I think the Admins took it down. (Is that right, Admins?) Evil Admins. 
So!
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Mattie was sitting in her room, in the magical space, wedged betweed her bed and her dresser and her wall. She pulled her night table in front of her and settled down with her favorite book.
She hadn't read a page before her triplet younger brothers waltzed into the room. She stood up with a sigh.
"What is it? I just started reading!"
"Mommy says she busy and you're to take us outside!" said Sammy.
"And we wanna go to the candy store! And Mommy says you're going to give us money!" shrieked Logan.
"She did not!" yelled Devon. The two tussled. Mattie pulled them apart.
"We'll go in the backyard and play some games. Quit fighting!" she said sternly and marched them out of the house.
Their mother Jane watched them from the kitchen window. She regretted that Mattis had to take care of them so much. Thirteen was young to share mothership of three five-year-olds, but that was how it was. She couldn't watch them and feed them.
As Mattie read and the boys romped in the yard, she suddenly became aware that someone was watching her. She turned quickly. It was the nice boy from school. She waved and smiled. He waved and smiled back. She asked him what he was up to. He was off to the store on an errand. He went on, and Mattie turned back to her book. It was nice and quiet. So restful. As if...
Mattie sat upright, dropping her book. The boys were nowhere to be seen. She looked around frantically, then called their names. A sound like pressure released from a can of soda made her blood run cold. A sinister cackle sounded behind her. The hair stood up on the back of her neck. But no one was in sight. What had happened?
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Have fun!
No, we didn't take it down...strange! Perhaps the Chattebox ate it.
Admin
submitted by Oregano, age guess, Unknown
(May 10, 2011 - 12:46 pm)
(May 10, 2011 - 12:46 pm)
Oh, sorry about that. I figured that you just wanted someone to post, so I did. I'll try to read through the storyline again later today.
(May 20, 2011 - 7:50 am)
Actually, no, wait. That would be really interesting if Mattie had been lied to all along. Her family is going to the dungeons now and she has to save them now, and why was she lied to? She isn't the king's daughter after all, she's to be his mate. What do you think? Or should we stick with where it was originally going?
(May 20, 2011 - 11:03 am)
*moans* Someone post here please... save me from the terrrifying monster of thread death... he'll kill me... save meeeeeeeeeeeeee *moans again*
Spammy/ThreadDeathMonster: uaog!!!!!!!!!!
*screams*
(May 21, 2011 - 3:44 pm)
I don't really care. You can choose.
(May 22, 2011 - 4:04 pm)
OK, if you say so :).
Mattie sat down on her red loveseat, exhausted. She made herself sit up straight and think straighter. There was a toothbrush on her night table. She picked it up, and noticed toothpaste next to it. She stepped out of the room. There was a bathroom next to her room. She went in; it was a private bath, and it was empty. There was a toilet and a sink.
She brushed her teeth with her eyes shut, leaning against the wall. The dinner had been awful. The food was good enough, but... She leaned over the sink to spit out her toothpaste, so tired. All other thoughts were lost in a face-splitting yawn.
She stumbled sleepily back into her room. Sthris/qi-se was there, holding up a long flannel nightgown. "This should fit you too," it hissed. Mattie changed into the nightgown and Sthris/qi-se left. Mattie lay down, pulling the covers up to her neck, mind attempting to be awake.
The dinner. It was hard enough to enjoy a meal with her father smiling at her. Her father. Whom she at once loved and hated. Who looked young enough to be her boyfriend. Who was going to throw all her family into the dungeons. That made the dinner so much harder. Sitting across the table from her father with the triplets on her left, enjoying the adventure, and her mother on the right, looking wistfully at the king and also unbearably sad. That was hard.
Mattie reached for her light to turn it off. There was a knock on the door. "Come in," she said, sitting up and dropping her hand.
It was Jane. She shut the door behind her and sat on Mattie's bed. "Mother!"
"Mattie." Jane's voice was sad. "Your father is ill. He -"
"Sthris/qi-se explained it to me," said Mattie. "How he'll send you to the dungeons as his last act as king."
"Who is Sthris/qi-se?" said Jane, puzzled.
"Sthris/qi-se is one of the Sters/gunt-si, the slime machines. She... it... Sthris/qi-se said it didn't have a gender. It gave me a bath and those clothes."
Jane looked a little confused, but let it pass and said, "I am hoping to let the triplets escape."
"I am hoping all of us can escape!" cried Mattie. "But I do not think we can... I will do my best to halt the execution order before it is carried out. I think that's all that can be done."
"Oh, Mattie." Jane leaned over and put her arm around her daughter.
"She - it also said that someone might listen to our conversations."
"It doesn't matter," said Jane. "You're right, we can't escape. It was a false hope."
Mattie hugged her mother back, fiercely. "I'll try and find a way."
"Don't risk it." As Jane said it, she slipped a piece of paper into the folds of Mattie's blankets. Then she kissed Mattie and went to the door.
"I don't know if we'll see each other again," she said, "so I will say goodnight, goodbye and enjoy being queen." She smiled.
"Goodbye," whispered Mattie with tears running down her cheeks. "Give the boys my love."
Jane nodded and went out.
Mattie whirled onto her pillow and sobbed herself to sleep.
(May 23, 2011 - 7:37 am)
Someone post here please! Or this thread will die, and you will all be murderers!!
(May 24, 2011 - 1:21 pm)
SOMEONE POST HERE!!! THIS THREAD IS DYING!!!! HELP ME SOMEONE!!!!!!!!
Spammy/TDM: kcmb!!!!!!!!!
Dying RR: ...nooooooooooooooooo...
(May 27, 2011 - 7:27 am)
WHERE IS EVERYONE??? POST AND SAVE MY THREAD!!! CONTRIBUTE TO THE WONDERFUL AWESOMENESS THAT IS THE SLIME MACHINE ROUND ROBIN!!!!!!!
Spammy/TDM: wvce!!!!!!!
Slime Machine RR: *starts to die a tiny bit* nooooooooooooooo.......
(May 27, 2011 - 12:44 pm)
I'll post later, okay? You can post again if you want to while you wait.
(May 27, 2011 - 2:25 pm)
Hey, this story is really fantastic! So many surprising twists, makes me want to read more...I guess I'll have to write it before I can read it. ;) I can't stay on long at the moment though, so now isn't the best time to write part of a novel...I'll try to add some more later this week. You buggies really are great authors! :)
(May 28, 2011 - 12:12 pm)
TOP!!!! THIS THREAD IS SLIPPING!!!! COME BACK ME AND KIMBERLY AND MEADOW AND EVERYONE ELSE!!!!!! HELP ME SAVE THE THREAD!!!!!!!!
(May 31, 2011 - 11:31 am)
Oh, all right! I'll post again!
When Mattie woke up much later, her room was flooded with light. She rolled over and looked up, remembering that she was underground. On the ceiling were rows of lights. She sighed. She missed the Surface, the sun, the birds, the grass, leaves, trees, plants, animals. Here there were brightly lit tunnels. She looked around her, closely. There in her bedside lamp was something strange. In the switch was a tiny grating - a microphone. So they could listen in on her. That was all right, she would let them. But she wouldn't let them spy on her with a camera. She got out of bed. There wasa piece of paper there - what was it? That's right, her mother had given it to her. It was a tiny scrap, folded in half. She started making the bed, and picked it up inconspicuously. Just in case. She laid it on her table and fluffed the pillows. Sthris/qi-se came in.
"Good sleep?" it said.
"Yes," said Mattie, "thank you."
"Good. Come look with me here." Sthtris/qi-se opened the chest at the foot of the bed. "This should fit you." It pulled out a light purple dress of cotton with a white collar, princess seamed, opening into a full skirt. The sleeves were longish and had white cuffs. Mattie started to take off her nightgown, then said, "There aren't any cameras in here, right?"
"No," said Sthris/qi-se. "I do not think so."
Mattie changed into the dress. Sthris/qi-se put a greenish-white shrug around her shoulders.
"Okay," Mattie said a little hesitantly. "I guess I'll brush my teeth, then."
"Don't take too long," said Sthris/qi-se. "Your father summons you to breakfast and he does not like to be kept waiting."
Mattie picked up her toothbrush and toothpaste from the table, along with the piece of paper, and went into the bathroom. While she brushed her teeth she unfolded the piece of paper and read it.
"Dearest Mattie,
Walking from my room to the main hall I saw a service exit. Please ask about it or explore it. The boys and I are watched very closely. They send their love and I send all of mine. We must escape or we will die. Love always,
Mom"
Mattie ripped the paper into tiny bits and flushed them down the toilet. Tears streamed down her cheeks. How had she been so selfish? Of course they would die if she didn't help them. Their lives depended on her. She would help them. She dried her tears and went back to her room.
What will happen to our heroine next? Read on to find out! Spammy says evnt. There will be a big event!! Oooh, I can't wait!
(June 1, 2011 - 7:54 am)
TOP! TOP! toptoptopTOP, topTOPTOP, TOP! toptoptopTOP, toptoptoptopTOP, top, TOPtoptopTOP, topTOPtoptopTOP, topTOP, toptoptoptopTOP, toptoptoptop, toptoptopTOP, toptoptoptopTOP, top. TOPtopTOPtopTOPtoptoptoptoptop! TOPtopTOPtopTOPtoptoptoptoptop, TOPtoptop, TOPtoptop, toptoptopTOPtoptoptoptopTOPtoptop.
(Have you ever noticed that the longer you stare at a word, the weirder it looks? Try staring at "buffalo." Type it out a few times. Your head will start spinning. Mine does.)
(Oh, and I think Guess Me is Princess P.)
(June 2, 2011 - 7:04 am)
TOP! toptoptop, toptoptop, toptopTOPTOPTOP, toptoptop, toptoptop, topTOPTOPTOPtop, top!!!!!!
THIS THREAD IS DYING!! WHERE IS EVERYONE!!! HEeEeEELP MEEEE!!!!!!!!
Spammy/TDM: eoxt???!!??!??!?!?!?
"Slime Machine" RR: Noooooo...
(June 4, 2011 - 12:47 pm)
This thread is dyyyyyyyying.... save it someone... you will force me to finish the story myself... I'm fighting an uphill battle here trying to get people to post... nooooooooo....
TDM: akbe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *growls menacingly and triumphantly*
*thread starts dying (AGAIN!)*
(June 5, 2011 - 10:03 am)