I wanted the kids' display to get some more screentime. But I couldn't manage to write up something properly impressive.

Bleh.

lljdflskj.

And I only got around to writing this now because I spent today... doing other stuff. oh well.

It's still good, Blurb... It's still great as ever.

Woohooo!!!! Go Rhen! She opened the box! YAY! I love this competition! Great job Blurble! You know how awesome this story is right?

I love this story!!!!!

I love the way you described the box!

great great great!

hehe, i wonder if lars had opened the box yet...

oohh! question! do all the boxes have the same spell on them?

probably, but it's a spell specifically designed to have multiple ways of getting around it. Rhen's was surprisingly simple and at the same time incredibly hard to do, so I imagine she got pretty high points for it.

however, swordsingers and sorcerors have different spells from each other- since their styles of magic are very different it wouldn't be fair, otherwise. (In this category of the competition you can think of it as the two disciplines being separate categories in the same competition, as opposed to directly competing...)

umm, maybe i missed something in your past chapters, but what sword did rhen bring to the competition?

she hasn't used it yet =)

Now that you mentioned it, I don't quite get what she did to the box... You just said "the magic"... Don't stress yourself too much if it's a hard question, though... Here, have a cutesy pixel animation to make you happy:



Off topic: Link to the template for the animation above, in case you want to use it for your avvie. LOL, shameless promotion

Sorry if it wasn't clear. In the particular case of the box, once she was able to draw out the magic, she didn't actually have to do very much because it "clicked" into position and opened.

(Maybe I'll rewrite it to make it clearer- and introduce a bit of surprise on Rhen's part because I don't think I indicated sufficiently that she was not expecting that)


ETA: also that animation is ADORABLE. *fangirls*

rule of writing number one: if you need to finish a story by a certain (extremely close) deadline, you will not have any inspiration.

Fortunately, there's rule number two:

If you desperately need to sleep, and it is two in the morning, you will not be able to because of a sudden influx of inspiration from your very charming little muse (who has a sense of humor that only she finds funny).

Sorry, still off-topic, but you probably won't get any more of these in a while because you'll be gone and stuff, so...

Inspired by your avvie:

I THINK I ADORE YOU.

no wait I knew that already.

(you made their costumes change! you made them change! askflkjdkljg.)

well, I did say it's inspired by your avvie. YOU made their costumes change, except that you missed the student outfits. Funny, I thought I sent them along with the other pixels. Oh well...

The storyline is great. The best part is that you did not DESTROY Lar's Character like most fanfics that make him a humble, non-arrogant guy that he could never be

@daeva_agas: You did.

But I was sort of trying to tell a story with the avvie of the progression of the relationship... first they hate each other (matser/slave and student-student... but I felt master-slave better epitomized the nature of their relationship, the cause of their hatred, etc.) then they have a gradually increasing respect for each other over the course of the journey, then they finally fall in love.


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@theone: Lars is no fun if he isn't a bit arrogant.

@Blurb: Same here, except I just went ahead and made the master/slave thing part of the journey (costume change with every step they take) and how the love grows with each step (heart grows bigger as they walk ).

right so in my journey they're not steadily headed towards eachother.

they're facing apart, then facing each other but distant, then close.

I want to incorporate your kiss but gimp is being mean to meeeee.

also I desperately want to get the next chapter up but my muse is being mean to meeeee. And I need to pack. kldfgjlkd.