By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 4/19/2008
“Ooh! Looky! Talitha-chan is playing the piano at the community center!”
“It’s our new Sketchbook Gallery. We’re going to put up tons of our artwork for everyone to see.”
“Professor’s got her emerald barrette too. Ready for action if the baddies show up.”
“Heheee… we gots lots more art soon minna. Ja!”
“Have a great weekend!”
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 3/21/2008
“Z-bot to Hana. This is a Gamepowa Video Alert. Transmitting.”
“Errrr.. Report, Z-bot?”
“Data located by secondary criteria directive from Ranko Yorozu, ninth grade student. Keywords ‘tough girls’ returned two versions of Nim’s Island movie trailers. Standing by with secondary transmission.”
“Yeah uhhh.. heh heh heh… I told Z-bot to find some games for tough girls.”
“Yeah Ranko used my communicator to talk to Z-bot and I said I like adventure movies too!”
“Looks like a cool movie. Let’s go with it.”
“Yay!”
“Hana computers set to continuous-scan. Transmit when ready, Z-bot.”
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/20/2008
“Now I’m sad for her because she looks like she’s really sick or something.”
“I wish we knew who she was.”
“Page Six is up. Visit every Thursday for a new color page.”
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/19/2008
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/19/2008
“You push that button and then Z-bot talks to you and then Acey talks to you. It’s just like your phone except it calls Acey’s spaceship!”
“Okay, I press this one?”
“Yeah! It’s the little blue button with the white ring on it.”
“Hellooo.. is uhhh… is Acey listening?”
Priority com signal detected. Voice print negative. Activating identification protocol.“
“Hmmm… nobody home?”
“Acknowledging priority communications. Please identify yourself.”
“Hi Z-bot!”
“It’s Shannon Ka Yoru. Can I talk to Acey?”
Positive voice print identified as Cecilia Daichi, fourth grade student. Second voice print positive match for Shannon Ka Yoru, tenth grade student. Priority transmission source identified. Activating secondary com channel“
“Now Z-bot says ’stand by landing party’ so he can call Acey’s spaceship.”
“Stand by landing party. Relaying transmission.”
“See?”
“What’s a landing party?”
“Z-bot to Hana.”
“Hana, Acey here.”
“I have a priority transmission on voice comm channel Gamma Four from Cecilia Daichi and Shannon Ka Yoru, switching Hana to voice net.”
“Hey Shannon and Cici, what’s up?”
“Hi Acey. We’ve both got big Gift Shop and Gamepowa Store updates today so I thought we could do them together.”
“That sounds like a great idea. I’m just passing Saturn at the moment. I should be in Earth orbit in about an hour. See you then! Hana out.”
“Okay Cici, be ready for the big update. We’ll be back soon, folks.”
“I’ll bet Acey’s got lots of new video games. I can’t wait.”
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 3/14/2008
Teko’s Magical Treasure of the Week!
“Teko found the hooded sweatshirt with the Fury of the Venom Legion Winged Crimson Heart logo, which is the Magical Treasure of the Week! Be sure to visit our Gift Shop today. We made a ton of new stuff this week, and we’ll have more new designs soon!”
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
Teko’s Magical Treasure of the Week!
“Looks like this week’s Magical Treasure is our brand new Ajan Warrior of the Sunrise black t-shirt.”
“Ooh, nice design. I guess this means we’re going to have a new Sunrise page in the Hall of Warriors pretty soon.”
“Yeeeee! I can’t wait. The best part is Shannon-sama donates some of what the Gift Shop makes to benefit the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls! We got lots more gifts in Shannon-sama’s shop too. See ya!”
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 2/28/2008
“Okay, now I’m starting to wonder who he is.”
“What does exsamency mean?”
“‘Excellency,’ Cici. It’s a way of addressing nobility.”
“She’s a noble?”
“Page three is up. Fury of the Venom Legion updates every Thursday with a brand new color page.”
By: Scribe Chronicler of Aventar,
on 2/26/2008
“yeep!”
“Something good is about to happen to the Warrior of the Sunrise page.”
“No kidding. Wow.”
By: Rebecca,
on 6/15/2007
Rebecca OUP-US
We have a lot of debate at OUP about the type of web presence authors should have. There is no definitive answer, since the web is still one big experiment but over at the Penguin UK blog, Colin Brush has taken a serious look at the issues.
Which makes me wonder, what author blogs do you read? (more…)
