By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 4/18/2008
“Looks like the Professor is making some changes around here. Check that new banner with Drummer girl in her office.”
“Lots more room, huh?”
“I think it’s neat. Talitha-chan says we might even move the comics to the book side!”
“Sweet. Let’s make sure we find all the new stuff for the announcement.”
“We always do great announcements at least.”
“Yay! Come on!”
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/27/2008
“Who’s Sai Magnen?”
“Doesn’t sound too good to me.”
“Fury of the Venom Legion Page Seven has been published. Visit every Thursday for a new color page.”
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/19/2008
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/13/2008
“Ooh! Isian Badlands. That’s Isia! The same place from the trunk we found in my attic in The Dreamspeaker!”
“Good eye, Goofy Bird, good eye. I wonder how far that is from where we showed up? You think the Venom Deeps might be around there?”
“I still want to know who she is. Maybe she really is that Vicereine person from Call of the Huntress.”
“She seems mean, though.”
“Well you’d be mean too if some guy was trying to stab you with a giant knife.”
“I’d zap him with my lantern like the Halloween monsters!”
“Little bit is fearless, isn’t she?”
“Heheheeeee…”
“Page Five has been updated. Fury of the Venom Legion updates every Thursday with a brand new color page.”
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/13/2008
“Alanna-sama’s gonna help me answer a question about her warrior form from my coolest Jessie’s Letters page! Hi Alanna-sama!”
“Hey Hoshi, what’s up?”
“Okay, we gots this question from ‘Score’ and it says Alanna-sama, your balance is really good right? In Ajan form can you walk in a straight line blindfolded?”
“Alanna can do anything if she has her staff. She’s really fast too!”
“The Quarterseeker’s most powerful ability is that it gives me perfect balance. I don’t have to be able to see to use it’s powers, so yeah, I suppose I could walk straight if I had a blindfold.”
“Okay, so what if, like, you get knocked down? Does that staff keep you from falling?”
“What are you going to knock her down with? She can jump 30 feet in the air from a standing start!”
“Sugoi!”
“Well, let’s just say something runs into her in a fight. Does the staff keep her from falling down?”
“Probably not. It doesn’t make me invincible, but it does allow me to use my speed and quickness in combat without having to worry about momentum pushing me off balance.”
“Slick. If you want to read about Drum Major girl in a tough fight, check out this Chapter from Winterdancer when she beats up like five guys at once. Just plain win.”
“Hooray for Alanna-sama! If you got a question, send e-mail to meeeeee Jessica Hoshi on my Jessie’s Letters page! Ja!”
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/13/2008
“That’s Talitha’s barrette! See the one with the two leaves? The green parts are emeralds and the gold parts are real gold! Talitha wears it around like all of us and she can turn it into a big shield.”
“Hey Professor!”
“Hmmm?”
“Talitha-chan! Looky at your new design! Isn’t it super-cool?”
“Yep, Forest Girl is looking pretty tough.”
“Wanna fight?”
“Ha!”
“Is Forest Girl talking smack over here?”
“That’s what it sounded like to me.”
“Haha, owned.”
*giggle*
“Professor, you’re too tough.”
“We gots lots more illustrations soon! See ya!”
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/3/2008
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/3/2008
“Leila-sama! We got another e-mail question from my super-neat Jessie’s Letters page!”
“It is a question with profound meaning?”
“Uh uh.”
“It is a question that seeks the deepest mysteries of the universe?”
“Nope.”
“It is a question that will challenge our understanding of our existence?”
“It’s a question about being a drummer in marching band.”
“Oh, that’s easy.”
“Sometimes Leila frightens me.”
“Heheee… okay. The question says ‘In your story you said the drummers play a cadence. What’s a cadence?’”
“Cake question.”
“Cadence is when the drum section plays a rythym so the rest of the formation can keep time with their steps. We have four cadences in the Lions Band. The first two are full cadences.”
“That’s the one you start!”
“Yeah. Full Cadence Green starts with a roto-tom solo.”
“The other one is our ‘good morning’ cadence.”
“Full Cadence Gold starts with a full section downbeat and cymbal crash.”
“Good morning cadence?”
“We like to play Full Cadence Gold on Collins Circle over behind the school so if anyone in the neighborhood across the street didn’t hear their alarm clock we help them wake up.”
“Yay! Ohayo minna! It’s a bright sunshiney day!”
“Well, except for that one guy who stood in his driveway yelling at us that one day last year.”
“I think he thought we were trying to annoy everyone. Until we marched past his house in parade formation and played ‘National Emblem’ during after-school practice. His wife baked cookies for all of us the next day and brought them to the band room. She said he was so proud to have a parade in front of his house he almost cried. What a nice old couple too.”
“That’s cool. What are the other two cadences?”
“We have one called a ‘Silent Cadence’ if we’re marching up to a performance area at parades. There’s a couple hundred yards where bands aren’t allowed to make a lot of noise because it disrupts the bands in the performance area, so we play that cadence on the rims of our drums.”
“That’s the tick-tock cadence. All drum rims, traps and glockenspiels.”
“That’s the one that sounds like a carnival! I like the tick-tock cadence best.”
“The fourth one is a simple corps cadence. One snare plays the measure downbeats. We use that for starting formations on the field.”
“Now which one do we play in the tunnel at Brown Stadium?”
“Full Cadence Gold, baby.”
“Yeah!”
“Maximum volume. Maximum power.”
“Yay! Arigato minna-san! If you got a question or a comment or just wanna say ‘hi!’ you can send me e-mail on my Jessie’s Letters page and we might even get to answer your question right here on our site! Ja ne!”
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 2/26/2008
By: Rebecca,
on 6/15/2007
Rebecca OUP-US
Happy Friday to you all! I am in Minneapolis this weekend for the American Association of University Presses Annual Meeting. If you are around you should come hear the panel I am speaking on at 3:30pm. We will be talking about my favorite topic, blogs. (more…)
