Hero's Manual: Chapter 15
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:32 pmA/N: A very domestic chapter where Vicky and Quasi actually – gasp – get along together and work quite well as a team. Except for the vest buttons.
( Chapter 15: Clothing Interlude )
( Chapter 15: Clothing Interlude )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 15
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:32 pmA/N: A very domestic chapter where Vicky and Quasi actually – gasp – get along together and work quite well as a team. Except for the vest buttons.
( Chapter 15: Clothing Interlude )
( Chapter 15: Clothing Interlude )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 14
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:31 pmA/N: A somewhat forced chapter, especially getting the characters to work the carpet. Hero is becoming surprisingly adept at the hero-work. The carpet insisted on being somewhat sentient. I never knew that making Huzzah have glowing purple ectoplasm would be so useful. (He bears no relation to the green slime ghost from “Ghostbusters”.) Oh, and everyone wants tea, what of it? Tea makes everything better. Just ask this thread and icon.
( Chapter 14: Carpet Morse Code )
( Chapter 14: Carpet Morse Code )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 14
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:31 pmA/N: A somewhat forced chapter, especially getting the characters to work the carpet. Hero is becoming surprisingly adept at the hero-work. The carpet insisted on being somewhat sentient. I never knew that making Huzzah have glowing purple ectoplasm would be so useful. (He bears no relation to the green slime ghost from “Ghostbusters”.) Oh, and everyone wants tea, what of it? Tea makes everything better. Just ask this thread and icon.
( Chapter 14: Carpet Morse Code )
( Chapter 14: Carpet Morse Code )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 13
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:30 pmA/N: This was just for fun. Again, surprisingly tender moments. I had no idea when I wrote this why Hero screamed at the shadow puppet.
( Chapter 13: Shadow puppets )
( Chapter 13: Shadow puppets )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 13
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:30 pmA/N: This was just for fun. Again, surprisingly tender moments. I had no idea when I wrote this why Hero screamed at the shadow puppet.
( Chapter 13: Shadow puppets )
( Chapter 13: Shadow puppets )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 12
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:29 pmA/N: Huzzah was supposed to be prissy, like a peeved-off Good Omens Arizaphale. I’m a bit surprised by the magic-logic I came up with.
( Chapter 12: The Billowing Cloud of Terror )
( Chapter 12: The Billowing Cloud of Terror )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 12
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:29 pmA/N: Huzzah was supposed to be prissy, like a peeved-off Good Omens Arizaphale. I’m a bit surprised by the magic-logic I came up with.
( Chapter 12: The Billowing Cloud of Terror )
( Chapter 12: The Billowing Cloud of Terror )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 11
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:28 pmA/N: This was the first thing I wrote after “The Dark Closet” many, many months later. Things hadn’t been going well, which is why there’re a few moments of comfort and actual fear. Short moments, because humour is good.
( Chapter 11: Down into the Darkest Dungeon )
( Chapter 11: Down into the Darkest Dungeon )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 11
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:28 pmA/N: This was the first thing I wrote after “The Dark Closet” many, many months later. Things hadn’t been going well, which is why there’re a few moments of comfort and actual fear. Short moments, because humour is good.
( Chapter 11: Down into the Darkest Dungeon )
( Chapter 11: Down into the Darkest Dungeon )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 10
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:26 pmA/N: Mycroft is Sherlock Holmes’s brother (coincidently, also Thursday Next’s uncle, in Jasper Fforde’s series), and Pike was a vampire in the movie-version of BtVS, (though I first got that name from Buffyworld’s actor list for their Season 8). This chapter ended on a darker note (if you take it seriously) that I’d originally intended. I couldn’t help myself from paraphrasing
ultra_lilac, quoted in metaquotes as saying: “People should never be baked into pies, you monster! The pastry overpowers the delicate bouquet of flavours in human flesh!” Gwen’s shout of “campfire” comes to you thanks to Listener who noted the rhyme in one of her poems. *pimps*
( Chapter 10: Uncle Mycroft )
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( Chapter 10: Uncle Mycroft )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 10
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:26 pmA/N: Mycroft is Sherlock Holmes’s brother (coincidently, also Thursday Next’s uncle, in Jasper Fforde’s series), and Pike was a vampire in the movie-version of BtVS, (though I first got that name from Buffyworld’s actor list for their Season 8). This chapter ended on a darker note (if you take it seriously) that I’d originally intended. I couldn’t help myself from paraphrasing
ultra_lilac, quoted in metaquotes as saying: “People should never be baked into pies, you monster! The pastry overpowers the delicate bouquet of flavours in human flesh!” Gwen’s shout of “campfire” comes to you thanks to Listener who noted the rhyme in one of her poems. *pimps*
( Chapter 10: Uncle Mycroft )
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( Chapter 10: Uncle Mycroft )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 9
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:24 pmA/N: The game of Risk comes to you thanks to
evadne_noel’s Once Upon a Freakin' Time series which revolves around the Death Eaters (HP fandom). In one chapter, Voldemort makes Harry play Risk to decide who will rule the wizarding world. There’s a bunny cartoon that works on the same idea, linked to on the comments section for one of her stories.
( Chapter 9: The Confrontation )
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( Chapter 9: The Confrontation )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 9
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:24 pmA/N: The game of Risk comes to you thanks to
evadne_noel’s Once Upon a Freakin' Time series which revolves around the Death Eaters (HP fandom). In one chapter, Voldemort makes Harry play Risk to decide who will rule the wizarding world. There’s a bunny cartoon that works on the same idea, linked to on the comments section for one of her stories.
( Chapter 9: The Confrontation )
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( Chapter 9: The Confrontation )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 8
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:23 pmA/N: Clyde exists because in 2002 I heard a song by Raymond Stevens called “Ahab the Arab”. It’s a very funny song with ridiculous details. And a camel named Clyde. Somewhat further influenced by TPratchett's "You Bastard" camel.
( Chapter 8: Evil Mascots Inc. )
( Chapter 8: Evil Mascots Inc. )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 8
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:23 pmA/N: Clyde exists because in 2002 I heard a song by Raymond Stevens called “Ahab the Arab”. It’s a very funny song with ridiculous details. And a camel named Clyde. Somewhat further influenced by TPratchett's "You Bastard" camel.
( Chapter 8: Evil Mascots Inc. )
( Chapter 8: Evil Mascots Inc. )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 7
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:21 pmA/N: This chapter was written after the dungeon ones, and was done much less freely than most of my chapters, because I had a certain information and exchanges I had to put in. This made the chapter too long, so now I have four tea/confrontation chapters, not that I’m complaining.
( Chapter 7: Tea with the Enemy )
( Chapter 7: Tea with the Enemy )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 7
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:21 pmA/N: This chapter was written after the dungeon ones, and was done much less freely than most of my chapters, because I had a certain information and exchanges I had to put in. This made the chapter too long, so now I have four tea/confrontation chapters, not that I’m complaining.
( Chapter 7: Tea with the Enemy )
( Chapter 7: Tea with the Enemy )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 6
Sep. 13th, 2006 12:20 pmA/N: One of the first scenes written, actually. Plain silly stuff. And yes, Vicky’s propositions are what you think they are. He was channeling Sidious from the Sith Academy.
( Chapter 6: Of the Garden Variety )
( Chapter 6: Of the Garden Variety )