Thursday, January 25, 2007

Last post for a few days
Just here to tell ya there's no chance of me visitin' over the weekend. Spendin' the whole weekend out of state, comin' back late on Monday. Super Spy High buisness's been slow lately, but I'll have some more up before too long, don't worry. Just I'm gonna see what I can squeeze in during the weekend. Other than that, the Sarge's just gonna relieve y'all til next time. DISMISSED!
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Friday, January 19, 2007

New fanart
Well, I thought I'd show you guys one of the characters of my other manga Super Spy High, which I've decided I'll post instead of Fantasma Cidade. There's a bunch more on the way, dunno when I'll have them up here, but there's 11 more to go. (What? I figure I had to represent the whole world population, cover all the positions and possible "meanwhile, back at the dorm" stories.) Anyway, I'm real low on time today, so til next time, this is the Sarge relievin' ya. DISMISSED!
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

I've made up my mind
Okay, I've decided I'll work on Super Spy High for now and maybe get to Fantasma Cidade later. I think it'll be a lot easier to write Super Spy High cus I'm the same age as most o the characters and I got the stories to write about and that kinda experience. The guys in Fantasma Cidade are a little older. So I think I'll blow that one off for now.

Anyway, what up with you guys? Sorry I ain't been around for a few days, I'm back but I think I missed a lot. Tell me what y'all've been goin' thru lately, I'm just bored and stuck with too many quarterly exams. Hope you guys are better off. Anyway, til next time, this is the Sarge relieving ya. DISMISSED!
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Sorry to keep ya waitin'
Yeah, I know I haven't updated in about two weeks, but now I'm back and I got news for y'all. I've gotten more ideas now for my other manga, Super Spy High, so I dunno which one I'll post on theO. Maybe both if I got enough time over the summer. So, to remind ya of the stories, here's their briefins all over again:

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--FANTASMA CIDADE-- (Literally means "Ghost Town")

Over 250 million "Casa dos Sonhos" lottery tickets were sold, but only three people would win. What was up for grabs wasn't cash, however, but a pricy mansion in sunny Rio de Janeiro. People in the Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and the United States were all praying for this season's dream house. When the final numbers were drawn on January 16, 2007, three older teens were ecstatic when their tickets' numbers were announced as the winners. The winners' names were Vicente Cavalcante, Adriano Baricelli, and Tânia Nakamúra, and they packed their things and jumped on the planes for Rio immediately.
Everything seems fine until weird things begin to happen at night. The oscillating clock on the end table in one of the kids' rooms suddenly begins to spin rapidly and stops just as fast. Blank stares are exchanged (as in the eyes are completely white.) Candles go out without being blown out. Mist enshrouds the house and areas on the outskirts of the city at night. Bulges appear in the walls— in the form of faces!— and wind screams on rainy nights. Apparently, nobody knew that the house is haunted by evil spirits— or the entire big city, for that matter! These spectres seek revenge, causing bad luck and trouble everywhere they go. The kids will have to stop them— but with barely any experience and millions in opposition, the chances of prevailing look slim to none.

I haven't made too many characters yet, still workin' on names for many of them. But here's the main characters:

Vicente Cavalcante— A Portuguese Brazilian-American writer from Boston who never believed in any legends other than "Legends of the Hidden Temple." He speaks Brazilian Portuguese fluently, but is nervous when he has to speak it instead of English. Once he gets over this, however, he stays cool and laid back unless the goin' gets tough. Vicente gets on Adriano's nerves a whole lot of the time, but havin' Tânia there to break things up might be good after all.
Vicente is a creative writer, though his ideas often seem strange and make teachers worry. He is actually a year older than either Adriano or Tânia, but he’ll have to repeat 11th grade because the school years run differently in the U.S. and Brazil and so he’s missed at least 60 days unexcused. Vicente is easily pointed out thanks to his spiked-up blond hair which is usually lined up right down the middle of his head.

Adriano Baricelli— A black Brazilian sports fanatic from Belo Horizonte (Cape Verdean mother and Italian father) who’s also tryin' to invent a new martial arts style. He frustrates easily, which may be his biggest flaw— his aggressive personality rushes him into really bad situations (or just another fight with Vicente.) Vicente and Adriano tend to clash— aggressive Adriano apparently just can’t seem to put up with laid back Vicente. But somewhere deep under those dreads and deep in that head there's a caring side of him, just don't give up lookin' for it. If he doesn't make it to a World Cup-winning soccer team someday, he at least wants to create the best martial art since Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Adriano has a little trouble coming up with a name for his martial arts style, but he soon decides on Arcortando. (That’s “air-slicing,” a reference to the swift roundhouse kicks that’re his best moves.) Vicente and Tânia eventually pick up a few moves too.

Tânia Nakamúra— A Japanese-Brazilian glamour gal from cramped São Paulo who’s just glad to be able to move out of her tiny apartment and into a huge house. She is a slave to fashion— she can't seem to keep a hairstyle for more than three months before she thinks it's gettin' old. Though it looks like plain black hair just a little more than shoulder-length with just one longer lock is enough to please her for now. There's no limit to how many reais she'd spend in one sitting (unless she winds up bankrupt, of course.) Tânia’s glad to be there to help Vicente, a newcomer to Brazil. She’s also the superstitious member of the group and collects tribal masks, thinkin' they would keep evil spirits away. She has a major flaw, however— one pretty face can knock her for a loop, makin' her completely forget what she was talkin' about only a second ago.
Tânia doesn’t hang out with Vicente or Adriano in the halls of the school, however— her two friends there are both girls but almost polar opposites. Short-brown-haired Andréia Russo is quiet and always wishing for something good (maybe a way to get rid of her overweight looks), but curly-blond-haired Gabriela Tozzi does whatever she wants and throws her cigarettes wherever she wants. As always Tânia is the “great bridge” character who has to keep clashing personalities from… well, clashing.

And I've planned to make it like a TV series in that each book represents exactly one episode. For now I'm thinking of making just 40:

Episode 1: Welcome to Dead House
Episode 2: The Masks
Episode 3: Grudge
Episode 4: Hide and Seek
Episode 5: Monster Blood
Episode 6: Pulse
Episode 7: Poltergeist
Episode 8: The Scorpion King
Episode 9: The Mask of the Red Death
Episode 10: Zuleica
Episode 11: Nightmare in the House of Dreams
Episode 12: Scream
Episode 13: Thirteen Ghosts
Episode 14: The Beast Within
Episode 15: The Exorcism of Vicente Cavalcante
Episode 16: Deep Trouble
Episode 17: The Cabinet of Doutor Cabral
Episode 18: The Invisible Teenager
Episode 19: Night of the Flesh-Eaters
Episode 20: Blood and Gold
Episode 21: I Walked with a Zombie
Episode 22: Lost Souls
Episode 23: A Kiss of Shadows
Episode 24: Interview with the Vampire
Episode 25: The Midnight Beauty
Episode 26: Caro
Episode 27: Bag of Bones
Episode 28: The Wolf’s Hour
Episode 29: Servant of the Bones
Episode 30: Pet Cemetery
Episode 31: The Face of Fear
Episode 32: Midnight
Episode 33: All the Rage
Episode 34: The Eyes of the Boi-tata
Episode 35: Misery
Episode 36: The Jewel of Seven Stars
Episode 37: The Language of Fear
Episode 38: Created By…?
Episode 39: Queen of the Damned
Episode 40: The Fall of the House of Nakamúra

Yeah, you got me— with only one or two exeptions they're all named after horror movies or books (but with any names replaces with those of the characters in Fantasma Cidade, of course.)
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--SUPER SPY HIGH--

As its name suggests, it's about students at a boarding school in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in trainin' to become secret agents. Instead of some classes there’s a rigorous three-year course to train their students to be spies, and everyone who goes to Espionage Island’s gotta take it. The school has two main buildings and four dorm buildings— Connery, Brosnan, Moore and Lazenby.
Over 1200 students from thirty different countries have passed the challenging Super Spy High entrance exam, and they make up the seventh graduating class of Super Spy High. And in a place this huge, anything and everything will go wrong. With action, suspense, drama and skintight leather pants, Super Spy High is not your average boarding school.

And here's a few of the main characters, there'll be more to come:

Tyson “Ty” Avila— The main character in Super Spy High, and by far the most complex. Ty is from Kill Devil Hills, NC and is very close to his "Daddy Billy." On the last day before leaving for Super Spy High, Ty's dad gave him the black down vest that used to belong to him. Now when he wears it, Ty shows a different side of his personality: the tough, southern military side he calls "the Sarge." (Yeah, I based him off me but gave him a different name. Surprise, surprise.) His signature move is the "Sergeant Drill"— he slingshots off the wall and into a dizzyin' midair roll to unleash an unpredictable attack. One tactical maneuver y'all don't wanna be on the wrong side of.

Samantha Anderson— One punk-rocker-in-training you do not wanna mess with. She's best in hand-to-hand combat and was vote "Roughest and Toughest" in the yearbook at her school in Dublin last year. (She don't got no Irish accent, thou.) Her signature move is the "Sonic Boom," which includes a loud battle cry and a drop-kick with all her power.

Ayesha Ali— Samantha's L.A.-born roommate wanna be a hip-hop fashion designer who even make her own clothes. Turns out her best tactical maneuver's disguisin' her and her agents, and now she's workin' on a virtual disguisin' computer. Her signature move is the "Master of Illusion," which makes use of a hologram generator to make a ton of false copies. Ayesha's also got an older brother Montana, in senior year at Super Spy High. (His signature move is the "Krav-Mega," a non-stop attack based on the martial art he been takin' for three years.)


Reina Velazquez— A Latina girl whose life revolves around chance. She's from Boston and her strategy of wingin' it really stands out when she's preparin' for combat. To quote her friend Ty Avila (as his alter ego the Sarge): "She's either braver than a baby in front of a ragin' bull or dumber than a box of rocks." Reina's signature move is the "Wheel of Fortune"— a crazy life-riskin' midair flip that could damage the enemy or really hurt herself. She always announces this move by shoutin': "I'm gonna press my luck!"

Kristian Bennett— One agressive L.A.-native, who demands he be call Kris. Sure he acts real mean, but somewhere DEEP under that touf, gritty skin and bones beats a heart o' gold. His signature move's the "Fist of Fire," a flip attack which ends in a mega-powerful punch (or sometimes a blast from a hidden weapon.)

Sohini Sen— An aspirin' writer from Vancouver, was brought up speakin' both Khmer and English. She's full of imagination— but when it come's to crackin' a case, she always goes right to the unthinkable. Her signature move is the "Whirlin' Fortress"— a rapid spin (and often sliding across a floor) with an active weapon in each hand.

Staci Alvarez— A girl from Orange County who's given a dorm room with Mich Blum. Both are what you'd cal glamour girls— always got new clothes the day they hit the racks. Staci's fluent in Spanish, and her signature move is the "Misteriosa"— really any attack that starts with a fast midair flip.

Michelle "Mich" Blum— Another glamour girl who quickly makes friends with Staci Alvarez. She comes from London, and prefers bein' called Mich. She also has a habit of voting herself leader— a habit her friend Ty Avila don't like. Mich's signature move is the "Full Throttle"— a direct charge attack which transforms into a series of faster and stronger handsprings. Staci and Mich also have a catchphrase— they shout excited in unison: "Let's rock!"
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Well, I guess I'll have to remove the "coming soon" line for Fantasma Cidade in the profile. Now, you guys gotta tell me which one you'd like to hear about and I'll see if that one up quicker. But either way, til next time this is the Sarge relievin' ya. DISMISSED!
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Saturday, December 30, 2006

Happy New Year's a day or so early
That's right, I won't be able to post on New Year's Eve. Just like we've been doin' as long as I can remember, we all go to my gramma's and she don't got the internet there.

Let's see, we order up some Chinese food (my favorite next to Brazilian food) and we all hold coins when the clock ticks to the new year. Just a way to hope we all make a lot more money in the new year. What about you guys? How do y'all celebrate New Year's? And… heh-heh… how was your Christmas? (I just realized I never asked.) Love to hear about it next year. So, til 2007, this is the Sarge relievin' ya. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Okay, I admit it— I set my expectations to high. There's now way I can get the first episode of Fantasma Cidade up next month. I'm still workin' on it, but I'll need alot more time. (I kinda just realized this when I found out how long my friend AceGallagher's been workin' on her story, Ace of Spades. Almost a year if not more.) I'll get Fantasma Cidade up here eventually, but there's no tellin' how long it's gonna take. Sorry to keep y'all waitin' a lot longer. But no matter how long it's gonna take, this is Staff Sergeant Rai relievin' ya for now. DISMISSED!
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Well I'm back again
Sorry bout the long wait there, but things're busy over here. I've got an account on another forum and I've spent the past few days over there (talk later.) Thought I'd remind y'all of my new story, Fantasma Cidade first:

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--FANTASMA CIDADE-- (Literally means "Ghost Town")

Over 250 million "Casa dos Sonhos" lottery tickets were sold, but only three people would win. What was up for grabs wasn't cash, however, but a pricy mansion in sunny Rio de Janeiro. People in the Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and the United States were all praying for this season's dream house. When the final numbers were drawn on January 16, 2007, three older teens were ecstatic when their tickets' numbers were announced as the winners. The winners' names were Vicente Cavalcante, Adriano Baricelli, and Tânia Nakamúra, and they packed their things and jumped on the planes for Rio immediately.
Everything seems fine until weird things begin to happen at night. The oscillating clock on the end table in one of the kids' rooms suddenly begins to spin rapidly and stops just as fast. Blank stares are exchanged (as in the eyes are completely white.) Candles go out without being blown out. Mist enshrouds the house and areas on the outskirts of the city at night. Bulges appear in the walls— in the form of faces!— and wind screams on rainy nights. Apparently, nobody knew that the house is haunted by evil spirits— or the entire big city, for that matter! These spectres seek revenge, causing bad luck and trouble everywhere they go. The kids will have to stop them— but with barely any experience and millions in opposition, the chances of prevailing look slim to none.

I haven't made too many characters yet, still workin' on names for many of them. But here's the main characters:

Vicente Cavalcante— A Portuguese Brazilian-American writer from Boston who never believed in any legends other than "Legends of the Hidden Temple." He speaks Brazilian Portuguese fluently, but is nervous when he has to speak it instead of English. Once he gets over this, however, he stays cool and laid back unless the goin' gets tough. Vicente gets on Adriano's nerves a whole lot of the time, but havin' Tânia there to break things up might be good after all.
Vicente is a creative writer, though his ideas often seem strange and make teachers worry. He is actually a year older than either Adriano or Tânia, but he’ll have to repeat 11th grade because the school years run differently in the U.S. and Brazil and so he’s missed at least 60 days unexcused. Vicente is easily pointed out thanks to his spiked-up blond hair which is usually lined up right down the middle of his head.

Adriano Baricelli— A black Brazilian sports fanatic from Belo Horizonte (Cape Verdean mother and Italian father) who’s also tryin' to invent a new martial arts style. He frustrates easily, which may be his biggest flaw— his aggressive personality rushes him into really bad situations (or just another fight with Vicente.) Vicente and Adriano tend to clash— aggressive Adriano apparently just can’t seem to put up with laid back Vicente. If he doesn't make it to a World Cup-winning soccer team someday, he at least wants to create the best martial art since Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Adriano has a little trouble coming up with a name for his martial arts style, but he soon decides on Arcortando. (That’s “air-slicing,” a reference to the swift roundhouse kicks that’re his best moves.) He has more distinguishing features than his dark brown dreads— the two tattoos on that beefed-up right arm of his. On his upper arm is some sort of a hand axe with a snake coiled around it, and on the lower arm a long lightning-like pattern.

Tânia Nakamúra— A Japanese-Brazilian glamour gal from cramped São Paulo who’s just glad to be able to move out of her tiny apartment and into a huge house. She is a slave to fashion— she can't seem to keep a hairstyle for more than three months before she thinks it's gettin' old. Though it looks like plain black hair just a little more than shoulder-length with just one longer lock is enough to please her for now. There's no limit to how many reais she'd spend in one sitting (unless she winds up bankrupt, of course.) Tânia’s glad to be there to help Vicente, a newcomer to Brazil. She’s also the superstitious member of the group and collects tribal masks, thinkin' they would keep evil spirits away. She has a major flaw, however— one pretty face can knock her for a loop, makin' her completely forget what she was talkin' about only a second ago.
Tânia doesn’t hang out with Vicente or Adriano in the halls of the school, however— her two friends there are both girls but almost polar opposites. Short-brown-haired Andréia Russo is quiet and always wishing for something good (maybe a way to get rid of her overweight looks), but curly-blond-haired Gabriela Tozzi does whatever she wants and throws her cigarettes wherever she wants. As always Tânia is the “great bridge” character who has to keep clashing personalities from… well, clashing.

And I've planned to make it like a TV series in that each book represents exactly one episode. For now I'm thinking of making just 40:

Episode 1: Welcome to Dead House
Episode 2: The Masks
Episode 3: Grudge
Episode 4: Hide and Seek
Episode 5: Monster Blood
Episode 6: Pulse
Episode 7: Poltergeist
Episode 8: The Scorpion King
Episode 9: The Mask of the Red Death
Episode 10: Zuleica
Episode 11: Nightmare in the House of Dreams
Episode 12: Scream
Episode 13: Thirteen Ghosts
Episode 14: The Beast Within
Episode 15: The Exorcism of Vicente Cavalcante
Episode 16: Deep Trouble
Episode 17: The Cabinet of Doutor Cabral
Episode 18: The Invisible Teenager
Episode 19: Night of the Flesh-Eaters
Episode 20: Blood and Gold
Episode 21: I Walked with a Zombie
Episode 22: Lost Souls
Episode 23: A Kiss of Shadows
Episode 24: Interview with the Vampire
Episode 25: The Midnight Beauty
Episode 26: Caro
Episode 27: Bag of Bones
Episode 28: The Wolf’s Hour
Episode 29: Servant of the Bones
Episode 30: Pet Cemetery
Episode 31: The Face of Fear
Episode 32: Midnight
Episode 33: All the Rage
Episode 34: The Eyes of the Boi-tata
Episode 35: Misery
Episode 36: The Jewel of Seven Stars
Episode 37: The Language of Fear
Episode 38: Created By…?
Episode 39: Queen of the Damned
Episode 40: The Fall of the House of Nakamúra

Yeah, you got me— with only one or two exeptions they're all named after horror movies or books (but with any names replaces with those of the characters in Fantasma Cidade, of course.)
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Well, I'll tell ya where I was. Y'see, if I'm not watchin' anime or some comedy thing like That 70's Show I'm probably lost in another Legends of the Hidden Temple. I know a whole lot about it and I'm makin' my own stories too, for those o ya who know what the heck this show is you can drop in. My name there's The Ancient Warrior (don't go by anythin' else,) and here's the link to the main page of Phantom's Temple. So now I have an allaby if I'm not here for a few days. And til next time I AM here, this is the Sarge relievin' ya. DISMISSED!
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Joke time
Well, I expanded my front page to three posts so I don't have to copy and paste the Fantasma Cidade breifin' so much. We had nothin' but subs after lunch yesterday, so we sat around in the back of the class tellin' jokes. I'm not that good at comin' up with jokes, so let me just pass on a couple:

A newlywed couple's on a golf course not to far from a big mansion. The man's a great golfer and he lands it on the green, but his wife sends the ball flyin' and it smashes a window in the mansion. So they knock on the door and go in to find out where the ball went, and they see a man relaxing on a couch in the room where they find the golf ball. So they say "Sorry for breakin' the window," but the man on the couch says "Actually I should be thanking you. I'm really a genie and that ball knocked over and smashed my lamp and I'm free. I'll grant three wishes but only if you can each get one and I keep the third to myself." So the couple agree the man wishes for a pricy mansion in every country in the world the genie snaps his fingers and it's done. The woman wishes for a million bucks in every bank account in the world the genie snaps his fingers and that's done too. Now the genie says to the man I'f you don't mind I'll take your wife. The couple say that since they've each been given such great things they can go through with this so the genie goes with the woman into another room. The genie asks how old is your husband and the woman replies 31. So then the genie says: "He's 31 and he STILL believes in genies?"

And I gots another (It's a stereotype one, I know)

There's three construction workers workin' on a skyscraper, a Brazilian one a Chinese and a blond guy. They're eatin' lunch and the Brazilian says "Feijoada again? That's the ninth day in a row! If I have to eat feijoada one more time I'm gonna jump off that girder up there." And he points some 300 feet above his head. The Chinese says "Rice for the twelfth time? I'm jumpin' of the same girder if I get rice again." And the blond opens his lunch and says "Not another ham and cheese sandwich. If I gotta eat another one of these tomorrow I'm jumpin' off there too." So it turns out they all get the same lunches packed the next day and they all take the leap of faith. And at the funeral the Brazilian guy's wife is cryin' her head off. "Ai, if he didn't want any more feijoada he couldv'e just told me." And the Chinese man's wife says "And I wish he'd told me he was sick of the same rice every day." Oddly enough the blond guy's wife isn't cryin' quite so much and the other women stare. And she says: "What? Don't look at me, he packs his own lunch."

I hope y'all like 'em. There's only a couple jokes I remember like this but if y'all have any I wanna hear them. So report with a good joke if ya have some, and til next time this is the Sarge relievin' ya. DISMISSED!

What Is Your Battle Cry?

Lo! Who is that, sprinting over the wasteland! It is ShadowPir8, hands clutching a mighty sword! He howls apocalyptically: "I'm going to pummel you so badly, your momma won't recognize you!!!"

Find out! Enter username: Are you a girl, or a guy ?

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Monday, December 11, 2006

Insanity High, Entry #1
Ya ever heard of xicondrea or xita? She's this Hispanic NYC girl who used to come on theO all the time and tell crazy stories about what's been goin' on at her school. Well Insanity High is a name I gave to her stories under my first account, and here I am takin' it back. Well, let's see I scraped my right hand the other day and there's a scab between each pair of nuckles so one of my classmates said we should call you Wolverine. And before it totally slips my mind I got alot of money with my lunch today, I found a ten on the floor as I was payin'. But that's not where the crazy starts.

Oh yeah, it was the bus ride home. Now just to give y'all an idea we've got two high schools in town and the one I go to's downtown the other one WAY off on the edges. So we take the city bus home, right? Well I sat down in the only empty seat in the back thanks to some moochers takin' all the extras, my friend comes in (not metionin' the name but he's black an' real funny) and I wanna get up to give him the seat, but he ain't movin' and I decided to stand. Everyone's starin' at the brown scabs on my hand and guess I punched somethin', I keep flashin' back to when I punched one of the bus windows last year thanks to some kid Rob lyin' about shatterin' one once. And I'm standin' in front o this one-shot kid (serious I've never saw him before) sittin' next to Rob and I don't even turn around, and what a view Rob says his friend's gettin'. (No my fly was closed, but you can guess what was in front of One Shot's face.) Anyways it's sposed to be one o' the other kid's birthdays today, Rob says Reach into my pocket I got a birthday cake, my black friend says he's lyin', and when I'm lisenin' to one of his jokes Rob licks me on my arm. Good thing I had to get off only a couple seconds later.

Well there ya have it. By the way what y'all think of my new avatar? I wanted to make a new one for such a long time now and Tyranno's one o my fave characters on Yu-Gi-Oh GX. And in other news, I'm still workin' on Fantasma Cidade, but chances are I'll have it up by the new year. (Not so sure about the clubs I promised thou, ya know what forget it, that's a side goal.) Anyway, I'm runnin' outta time, so til next time this is the Sarge relievin' ya. DISMISSED!
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Sunday, December 10, 2006

I'm back
Well, less trouble movin' things along now, I just need to write things out and I think I can draw it. I've updated the briefin' too, so here y'all go:

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--FANTASMA CIDADE-- (Literally means "Ghost Town")

Over 250 million "Casa dos Sonhos" lottery tickets were sold, but only three people would win. What was up for grabs wasn't cash, however, but a pricy mansion in sunny Rio de Janeiro. People in the Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and the United States were all praying for this season's dream house. When the final numbers were drawn on January 16, 2007, three older teens were ecstatic when their tickets' numbers were announced as the winners. The winners' names were Vicente Cavalcante, Adriano Baricelli, and Tânia Nakamúra, and they packed their things and jumped on the planes for Rio immediately.
Everything seems fine until weird things begin to happen at night. The oscillating clock on the end table in one of the kids' rooms suddenly begins to spin rapidly and stops just as fast. Blank stares are exchanged (as in the eyes are completely white.) Candles go out without being blown out. Mist enshrouds the house and areas on the outskirts of the city at night. Bulges appear in the walls— in the form of faces!— and wind screams on rainy nights. Apparently, nobody knew that the house is haunted by evil spirits— or the entire big city, for that matter! These spectres seek revenge, causing bad luck and trouble everywhere they go. The kids will have to stop them— but with barely any experience and millions in opposition, the chances of prevailing look slim to none.

I haven't made too many characters yet, still workin' on names for many of them. But here's the main characters:

Vicente Cavalcante— A Portuguese Brazilian-American writer from Boston who never believed in any legends other than "Legends of the Hidden Temple." He speaks Brazilian Portuguese fluently, but is nervous when he has to speak it instead of English. Once he gets over this, however, he stays cool and laid back unless the goin' gets tough. Vicente gets on Adriano's nerves a whole lot of the time, but havin' Tânia there to break things up might be good after all.
Vicente is a creative writer, though his ideas often seem strange and make teachers worry. He is actually a year older than either Adriano or Tânia, but he’ll have to repeat 11th grade because the school years run differently in the U.S. and Brazil and so he’s missed at least 60 days unexcused. Vicente is easily pointed out thanks to his spiked-up blond hair which is usually lined up right down the middle of his head.

Adriano Baricelli— A black Brazilian sports fanatic from Belo Horizonte (Cape Verdean mother and Italian father) who’s also tryin' to invent a new martial arts style. He frustrates easily, which may be his biggest flaw— his aggressive personality rushes him into really bad situations (or just another fight with Vicente.) Vicente and Adriano tend to clash— aggressive Adriano apparently just can’t seem to put up with laid back Vicente. If he doesn't make it to a World Cup-winning soccer team someday, he at least wants to create the best martial art since Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Adriano has a little trouble coming up with a name for his martial arts style, but he soon decides on Arcortado. (That’s “air-slicing,” a reference to the swift roundhouse kicks that’re his best moves.) He has more distinguishing features than his dark brown dreads— the two tattoos on that beefed-up right arm of his. On his upper arm is some sort of a hand axe with a snake coiled around it, and on the lower arm a long lightning-like pattern.

Tânia Nakamúra— A Japanese-Brazilian glamour gal from cramped São Paulo who’s just glad to be able to move out of her tiny apartment and into a huge house. She is a slave to fashion— she can't seem to keep a hairstyle for more than three months before she thinks it's gettin' old. Though it looks like plain black hair just a little more than shoulder-length with just one longer lock is enough to please her for now. There's no limit to how many reais she'd spend in one sitting (unless she winds up bankrupt, of course.) Tânia’s glad to be there to help Vicente, a newcomer to Brazil. She’s also the superstitious member of the group and collects tribal masks, thinkin' they would keep evil spirits away. She has a major flaw, however— one pretty face can knock her for a loop, makin' her completely forget what she was talkin' about only a second ago.
Tânia doesn’t hang out with Vicente or Adriano in the halls of the school, however— her two friends there are both girls but almost polar opposites. Short-brown-haired Andréia Russo is quiet and always wishing for something good (maybe a way to get rid of her overweight looks), but curly-blond-haired Gabriela Tozzi does whatever she wants and throws her cigarettes wherever she wants. As always Tânia is the “great bridge” character who has to keep clashing personalities from… well, clashing.

And I've planned to make it like a TV series in that each book represents exactly one episode. For now I'm thinking of making just 40:

Episode 1: Welcome to Dead House
Episode 2: The Masks
Episode 3: Grudge
Episode 4: Hide and Seek
Episode 5: Monster Blood
Episode 6: Pulse
Episode 7: Poltergeist
Episode 8: The Scorpion King
Episode 9: The Mask of the Red Death
Episode 10: Zuleica
Episode 11: Nightmare in the House of Dreams
Episode 12: Scream
Episode 13: Thirteen Ghosts
Episode 14: The Beast Within
Episode 15: The Exorcism of Vicente Cavalcante
Episode 16: Deep Trouble
Episode 17: The Cabinet of Doutor Cabral
Episode 18: The Invisible Teenager
Episode 19: Night of the Flesh-Eaters
Episode 20: Blood and Gold
Episode 21: I Walked with a Zombie
Episode 22: Lost Souls
Episode 23: A Kiss of Shadows
Episode 24: Interview with the Vampire
Episode 25: The Midnight Beauty
Episode 26: Caro
Episode 27: Bag of Bones
Episode 28: The Wolf’s Hour
Episode 29: Servant of the Bones
Episode 30: Pet Cemetery
Episode 31: The Face of Fear
Episode 32: Midnight
Episode 33: All the Rage
Episode 34: The Eyes of the Boi-tata
Episode 35: Misery
Episode 36: The Jewel of Seven Stars
Episode 37: The Language of Fear
Episode 38: Created By…?
Episode 39: Queen of the Damned
Episode 40: The Fall of the House of Nakamúra

Yeah, you got me— with only one or two exeptions they're all named after horror movies or books (but with any names replaces with those of the characters in Fantasma Cidade, of course.)
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This seems like an out there question I know, but what d'you think your element would be? Mine's earth, slow but powerful, rock-solid body (it's like my bones're made of rock I mean, I've got a real hard punch.) What about you guys? And if you can find a quiz that determines what your element is, gimme the link so I can try it to confirm this. And til next time, this is the Sarge relievin' ya. DISMISSED!
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