Young Writers Society

AstralHunter: Buggie be online! *hugs the bugs*

Buggiedude2340: Hunter is here! *squeezes back*

Oh my gosh, Hunter I love Raikou already.

AH:

I'm delighted!

B: He's like me when I'm at school.

AH: I can definitely draw the parallel between you two.

B: /puns/

AH: Yup.

B: Beautiful, Hunter.

So are you writing more SB posts now, ore reviewing?

*or

AH: Raikou has the approval of the Supreme Spunstress of the Universe. He can die happy now.

Speaking of puns, I wrote a letter of complaint to the press that would make you proud.

B: Oh?

What did you say?

AH: The letter of complaint was about the "Roaring Lion Restaurant". I used such terms as:

"a royal disappointment awaited us instead";

"the waiter had an imperious demeanour";

"it took him fifteen minutes before he graced us with his presence";

B: Oh gosh...

AH: "he called the manager, who was not amused"

B: Oh my.

AH: And the coup d'grace - "Sometimes, you should just swallow your pride and admit you are wrong."

B: All this about a restaurant? Goodness me.

AH: It was the perfect opportunity for a pun - or should I say several!

B: *claps hands rapidly* Go you!

Oh, I watched Shakespeare's Twelfth Night yesterday. It was fantastic.

AH: I'm busy with another post, but I need an excuse for it to be separate from my previous one, so it is from a different character's POV. I'll get back to Jewels after this one. Then, I'll post from someone else's POV again, and come back to Jewels one last time before I'm done for today.

B: No Gabriel?

AH: That's great! However, I have never seen it myself. I prefer watching concerts.

Maybe. I'm undecided what the subject of the fourth post should be.

B: (Do the puzzle for the mystery dungeon, please.)

(It's about mixing poisons or something... I think.)

AH: Ooh! Then I get to introduce Keldeo. Okay, mind's been made.

B: Yay! Oh, and did you want me to write the dungeon, or Char?

AH: You - Char wants to do the battle.

B: Cool. Hopefully I'll start on that today.

AH: Just to be sure, it's the puzzle, then the dungeon with the hostile PM, and then the Guardian? Is that how all MDs go?

B: Yeah.

AH: Okey dokey.

B: I bet Gabriel would be good at mixing potions... he's so logical. Of course, if you'd rather not, Flurry was a mathematical prodigy as a human.

AH: He, she, and Keldeo can work together. Speaking of those three, are you all right with him joining you?

B: Of course.

AH: Joining us, come to think of it.

Keep in mind, he'll say he did Gabriel a favour, and this favour will have to be repaid later on.

(I already know what this favour will be, but it will only resurface much later.)

B: Cool.

Oh, and will Gabriel ever go back to not being sullen? I have ideas...

AH: As fewer and fewer Plates are left to be found, the Resistance will have to send more and more members along to find them, seeing as they'll become ever mroe difficult to obtain.

Maybe.

Let's just say, the Fighting Plate will be bad for his health, so before he gets it, perhaps. Afterwards, unfortunately not. If anything, he'll get even worse.

B: Yeowch.

AH: You have no idea.

B: The amount of agony people put their characters through amazes me.

AH: Unfortunately, I love letting my characters go through hard - VERY hard - times and then letting them emerge better off.

It's not that I want them to suffer - I suffer along with them, believe me - but they just... do/

*do.

B: Maybe it has to do with the fact that all of my writing is aimed at younger people.

AH: My writing tends to be rather mature and serious/sombre, yes.

B: It takes all kinds to make a world!

AH: All kinds?

B: What do you mean "all kinds?"

Or rather, why do you ask?

AH: Don't deflect my question back at me. [Confused]

B: I didn't understand the question!

AH: It takes all kinds of what to make a world? ← that's what I meant.

B: Oh... all kinds of everything?

AH: :s

B: It was a famous phrase, so I used it.

(I like to use big words I don't know in order to sound more photosynthesis.)

AH: Supreme Spunstresses... can't take them anywhere...

B: Shh... at least I don't have chlorophyll... yet.

AH: Only Fleur should have that. Flurry isn't a Snover.

B: I meant me, but alas you disagree.

AH: Oui.

B: Rhyming for the win. Also I don't think I spelled that right.

AH: No, you did.

B: *pumps fist*

YES.

"Rhyme" is so troublesome. More so than psychic and physics.

AH: If you enjoyed my previous post, you're going to slather this one all over your toast and eat it with syrup.

B: (I don't eat toast or syrup, but excellent metaphor.)

AH: You'll like it so much, you'll do so anyway.

B: (We don't have any in the house.)

AH: Fine, you'll like it so much, you'll order it online and eat it the moment it arrives.

B: (Why would anyone order food online?)

AH: Plenty of people order groceries online. (Apparently.)

Whatever, you get the idea.

The point remains, you'll love it.

B: That's terrifying! I prefer to buy my food where I can see it.

AH: *facedesks repeatedly*

B: (Shh, I get it. I'm just poking fun at you.)

AH: *sfufefrs from a mild concsussion*

B: *gives Hunter grapes*

AH: *eats chocolate isntead*

B: Wow...

So, how do you think you'll fare against your opponent in the cup?

AH: Not to sound vian, buit I shall wipe the florr with him if I getht e time to review. [I suffered from a concussion here → my opponent is actually a great reviewer.]

B: At least you're confident.

AH: Yup.

B: I'm up against FORTIS.

AGH

AH: And desperate, isnce I;m still drowing.

B: I am always drowning, Hunter, but I do it with grace and style.

AH: yeah, Yeah.

B: The perks of being a lady...

AH: *has recovered from the concussion*

B: What a speedy recovery.

AH: *I ate a Sitrus berry*

*(I ate a Sitrus berry.)

B: I see.

AH: Yay! I got it right! I looked the berries up yestarday.

Okay, not fully recovered, it seems.

B: (I don't know what most of them do, actually.)

AH: Let's see, what can I remember...?

Oran = 10 HP regained

Leppa = 10 PP regained

B: Cheri = no paralysis

AH: Right!

*fails to remember the rest*

B: Pecha = no poison

That's all I know...

I mostly just like pokemon because they look cool.

AH: Except for some, who look ridiculous.

B: Yes, but they don't advertise with most of those.

AH: It would be foolish of them if they had. [Wink]

B: Imagine seeing mr. mime in an ad... I would be terrified.

AH: *nods*

B: Oh, and y'all were discussing a prequel earlier... mind letting me in on that?

AH: The idea started when I suggested Silver make Aegeas an old humon. Everyone was intrigued by the idea, so after this SB is done, we are to write about the previous time humans were summoned.

B: Ooh.

I could write a skitty.

AH: I dibssed a Houndoom, but I think I'm changing it to a Goomy.

Yes! Do that.

B: *gasps* Goomy is so adorable!

AH: Just beware of Wailords.

B: Why wailords?

AH: You don't know the Skitty-Wailord joke?

B: No...

AH: Ask Tort to explain it; he'll be able to it better than I can.

*to do

B: Okay...

AH: Let's just say, it mocks the fact that Skitty and Wailord share the same egg group.

B: WAIT WHAT

That is terrifying.

AH: I know → that's why it's so funny! XD

B: Do you know what other pokemon people have claimed?

AH: Many things, I suppose, but I don't know of what specifically.

B: Ah. Okay.

AH: Well? Aren't you going to tell me?

B: Tell you what?

What was I supposed to tell you?

AH: *facepalm* ← not falling for the facedesking again

B: If it's about your post, I haven't read it yet. I'm reviewing a rather long piece of work.

AH: Nevermind...

No, it wasn't about my post. *sigh*

B: What was I supposed to tell you?

(This is going to bother me all day; just tell me!)

AH: "Do you know what other pokemon people have claimed?"

B: I asked that of you...

AH: I thought that was a "Guess what?" kind of question.

B: Oh...

B: No, I really was curious.

I have no idea what everyone is up to.

AH: Everybody finds it amusing. A whale and a cat... honestly.

I know this because I read up a lot.

B: Goodness.

AH: I'm good at ferreting out things like that.

B: That you are.

AH: O_o

How would you know? Is it that obvious?

B: You just said it?

I don't know. You're always looking up random things, as far as I can tell.

AH: You agreed, but I only just said it. It's like me saying, "A strawberry is NOT a berry, but a banana IS a berry" and you agreeing, when you did not even know that beforehand. (I'm not saying this is the case, I'm simply using it as an example.)

Oh, okay then.

B: Hey, I trust you... most of the time.

AH: XD

Though a banana really IS a berry.

B: Totally.

AH: I'm serious!

B: Let me just look that up...

Holy cow... you're right.

AH: Where'd you look?

B: I just typed the question into a search bar...

Ah, it was from the Stanford alumni website.

AH: Quote: "I told you so."



B: You're always tricking me. This is why I only trust you sometimes.

AH: What? [Surprised] When have I tricked you before? *halo*

B: I don't know... but I get tricked a lot anyways.

Like that one time I was tricked into going to homecoming with this kid...

AH: If I thought you were gullible, I'd have told you that if you say "salutations" repeatedly and in quick succession, it will sound like "cheese".

B: Come on. I'm not that gullible.

AH: I know. That's why I didn't try it.

(It DID work with our mathematics teacher, though. XD)

B: (Though I admit I considered trying it for a moment...)

AH: XD

B: Exactly! So I have to be wary of tricks.

AH: You have no idea how amusing it is reading this conversation to my brother. x3

B: So you told him I was tricked into going to an unnecessarily romantic school dance?

AH: We didn't stay for long on that.

*We didn't linger on that.
B: Good. That's embarrassing for me.

Also, I am going to beat you to the fifth star.



AH: Totally.

B: Is that sarcasm?

AH: (My favourite kind of pun is when you repeat something someone else had said to you. XD )

Nooo!

B: (You know what, Hunter?)

AH: (Yup.)

B: (UGH.)

AH: (No, I only know who and where, not what.)

B: (Oh, so do you know why and when?)

AH: Yes, I don't.

B: That was beyond contradictory.

AH: *actually chuckles*

B: Oh, so you weren't actually laughing at my wit and wordplay earlier?

I'm hurt.

AH: I cannot remember said wordplay because the concussion erased my memory of it.

B: Has the concussion erased your memory of Snap-Dragon's update as well?

AH: Cheeky. Humph.

B: Of course I'm cheeky. My cheeks happen to be my most attractive feature. (Probably why I'm always getting pinched...)

AH: I am copying this conversation after it's done and posting it in the DT. I just have to share this with the other guys!

(Yes, I did just say "guy". Savour it - it doesn't happen often.)

B: You are a fiend.

AH: Take That, You!

B: En garde!

AH: *draws rapier*

On guard, yokel!

(Just kidding you're not a yokel. ← I almost said "not not a yokel", which would be contradictory and twice as offensive.)

B: Oh... I have to do something for a few minutes.

Goodness... I leave for a minute, and when I return, the computer has crashed.

AH: That's horrible!

B: Technology...

Oh, Char is here!

AH: Yay! Wait, another distraction? Hide!

Oh dear...

B: Hmm?

What's wrong?

AH: Nothing, except I now have two hours to write four posts.

B: Oh my. I shall refrain from distracting you then.

AH: Hey, at the moment, I'm playing Minion Rush so I can get enough bow ties, so don't feel bad.

B: Tsk tsk, Hunter!

B: At least I have been reviewing.

AH: If it makes you feel any better, I just got ran over by a minion transporting cake.

B: Good.

Oh, and since the issue came up, have I been portraying Gabriel correctly?

AH: Sullen, serious and abrupt. Yup, that's about it.

As a human, he didn't care about others, and others didn't care about him. He buried himself in books.

B: Oh my...

AH: Yeah, he didn't have very good parents to which to look up.

B: Hmm... I feel like once Flurry gets her memories back, she'll confront Gabriel about his attitude.

AH: Whoever writes it will have to let Gabriel explode on Flurry.

I was thinking he would explode on Riley, but Flurry works too.

B: That should be fine. Flurry has dealt with a lot of exploding.

It won't be for a while though. I think all of the characters need some good emotional stewing.

And Flurry won't regain anything until someone dies...

AH: Has she dealt with someone telling her that they've been molested and doesn't know how to trust anyone because of it?

Oh. Well... then Gabriel won't be around for that.

B: Or someone will leave the group without saying anything. That would set her off as well.

And about the first comment... Flurry dealt with someone else not being able to trust anyone, and it didn't end well.

AH: Why do I get the feeling you're hinting at something...

B: Because I am?

AH: So, she'd just make things worse?

B: Maybe. It depends on how Gabriel takes her nosiness.

AH: Not well. At. All.

B: Then yeah, she'd make things worse.

AH: Their relationship will be strained thereafter.

*sigh*

B: Yeah. I'm thinking this will take place after Char has Riley run off, and then this will remind Flurry of her human past. She'll get super worried about if she did anything wrong and start bothering Gabriel about everything.

AH: Ooh! Then Gabriel would suggest she join another party?

B: Ooh, yeah! That's a good idea.

AH: That would be surper mean, but super interesting to write/read.

B: It certainly would be.

AH: I love exploring character interaction. That's one of the many reasons why I love SBing.

B: Oh yes.

I just wish there was more character diversity sometimes. I often find myself writing the only people of color in an SB... (Not this one, since you mentioned Jewels is black? I think...)

AH: Yes!

B: Flurry is Chinese, and it has a lot to do with her human life. [Smile]

AH: Why am I not surprised?

B: (There are never enough Asians in literature. Which is why yesterday's influx of Chinese short stories caught my attention.)

ACK. Fort is here now. I must get my act together.

AH: Review, squalie, review!

B: Squalie? What does that mean?

AH: It's a word that originated from Robin Hood, Legend of Sherwood Forest. (It's a very old game.)

I have no idea what the word means though. The shieldbearers use it when retreating. They then yell, "Run, squalie, run!"

As such, I also have no idea how it's spelled. I'm guessing.

B: Oh... Maybe it's like a small squall?

AH: That's what everyone thinks, but no, there is no chance that can be the case.

B: Maybe it has to do with squealing?

AH: Basically, I use it as an affectionate, playfully taunting, or admonishing term, depending on the cotnext.

No.

AH: I doubt it had any real meaning. I just use it as an undefined word.

B: Ah... it's an "endearment" between friends?

(Hey, better that then "dork.")

AH: Endearment, or a playful taunt similar to vagrant.

B: Squalie is a lot nicer than what people at school use... maybe I'll adopt it.

Or at least it sounds nicer...

AH: Plus, it's fun to say.

B: Not as fun as "ninnymuffin"

AH: It's pronounced: skwa-lee

B: Squawk.

(Shh, I was reminded of the word...)

AH: Definitely not my best post, but it's a filler. *shrugs*

B: Ooh! Two down three to go!

AH: Indeed. *sighs*

B: *pats*

You will survive.

*snorts at regis*

AH: In a good or bad way?

B: I am amazed at how Xerneas even understands Regi-speak...

It's highly amusing.

(I really want Flurry to have a run-in with one of them now...)

AH: It was very entertaining writing it.

I'm definitely doing this again in future.

B: It is beautiful.

AH: Amazing that something so simple can be so amusing...

B: It is the surprise that works most effectively in comedy.