I have added yet another creature to my steadily growing collection of Spore creations! I present... QUINCY from NexGen. His hobbies include being paranoid, clinging to Aleta's shoulder & advising that the NexGen characters avoid danger on a more frequent basis than they have been currently.
The shade of the aqueduct cleared a path through the wide swatches of sunlight, broken here and there where the workmanship had ruptured over the centuries. The harsh insect sounds of the desert scratched around the deep shadow, pausing only when the traveler passed through.
A
week of walking had taken him along miles of the structure. Always in its shadow, he walked through the
nights and days. The infrequent and
troubled rests lent his steps an occasional stagger. As the sun reached the curved edge of the
world on the last day of the journey, he gave up trying to keep to the shade and
stumbled alongside the time-eaten curve of the aqueduct. A scattering of other stones peered out from
the dust and sand alongside. Following
the path of the stones, he finally found the lake.
The land
dipped deep where the water had once been, leaving rings around the small
valley. At the edge of the first ring were the ruins of the city. The remnants of the aqueduct tapered into
them and ended amongst the rubble.
He followed his guide to its end and found a place to sit on one of the larger stones. Leaning up against the cooling rock face, he waited for the others to arrive.
Now that my hubby & I have gotten the 'full' creature creator for the Spore game, our careless hands have been hard at work creating all kinds of creatures. The displacer beast has to be among my favorites right now. I didn't want to be shown up, so I've made us a kobold. Put a spear in one hand, an iPod in the other, & a Walmart vest on him.... and he'd fit right in with the other Kommandos!
I've been slacking. In general. I'm going to blame it on vampires. Not because they had much to do with it, but because it's fun to blame things that don't have any connection to the real causes.
About those vampires. Pants & my hubby were recently discussing the glut of crappy teen vampire books that are overwhelming the market. According to the Pants, I simply need to write some vampire trash to get my break in publishing! Genius, I say!
Well, I actually might or might not give that one a try. But I thought it would be nice to have a novel where the attractive, tortured male vampire has a younger vampire 'sibling' who is anything but attractive, athletic, sexy, emo, etc, etc, etc. A sibling who watches the classic vampire romance take place & gets to make commentary. Like if Edward from Twilight had someone who saw what a silly, over dramatic, whiner Edward really is. (Sorry, Pants, but that's how I feel about him). This person could try to talk sense into the girl who will inevitably have terrible things happen to her because she is so obsessed with the romance of her vampire romance. (Though, I doubt that this tactic would work. Have you ever tried to talk sense into a teenager in love with an idea?)
What a delight to have a character who could make snide comments on the vampire romance from inside the story. Because no matter how much we might enjoy the escapism of our teen vampire romances, there will always be that little voice in the back of our heads saying, "Really? Really?".
