Post by Katie on Jan 1, 2009 9:04:13 GMT -5
Happy new year everyone. Welcome to 2009. Grace and peace and God bless ya'll.
I thought I'd take a moment to recall some of KU's finest moments from 2008. They are selected for their humor, white-knuckled suspense, awww! factor, downright scariness, and various other reasons. They are listed in no particular order.
See if you can guess who said these and in what circumstances:
1. "Thank you Flyer" he added as Hydralic lifts raised the 400 kilo weight of the Hunter in armour. "Thank you for coming back for me"
Awesome rescue operation.
2. "Seriously Nex...stop it"
~ Common, you're going to be late for the briefing. Eliar called it. Means something big is going down and I'm getting outfitted with big guns and missiles that go boom ~
"You realize pilots need sleep to function properly and having you force your way through our door isn't the best way to wake me up"
~ I knocked if that is any comfort ~
"You fixing our bedroom door is a start"
What are Tahu and Elenath going to do when they have both kids and Nex?
3. "And whatever happens --"
He hesitated, looked away, second-guessed, decided to finally tell her anyway.
"-- I love you," he whispered.
"And -- and I -- I --"
. . .
"You take this."
He paused. Thunder rumbled softly overhead.
"Don't get struck by lightning."
He smiled ironically. As if getting struck by lightning was the greatest of her worries.
Finally!
4. "I am going hunting," she answered quietly. In a flash, she was gone. . . One thing was for sure: she felt like pushing the records.
Phoenix is scary. By now, I think all my characters have made a mental note not to antagonize her.
5. "Couldn't have said it better. I've been wanting to kill something lately"
-rolls eyes- Some of these SpecFor people... scary.
6. "Wahl, haaaii, gaaalll!"
A quiet, contemplative drunk Major Frost could not be. No, he just had to be an embarrassment, and in his best dress GRA marine uniform too...
"Wuutcha priiiitee laaadiie liiike you doooin' ahhhll baaai yo' looooonsome?"
Phoenix getting hit on by a drunken idiot. XD It was bound to happen. Surely there are some nice young soldiers -- Vazkar or otherwise -- around for her to terrorize -- I mean, date. I would volunteer one of my charaters, but... Will is taken, Marcus is taken (well... sort of), and Ghost is probably not going to -- -puts foot in mouth- But that would be telling! Actually, none of my characters in the current Rabbit Hole plot arc have a very good chance of survival right now. >D
7. "From what I hear, you were in safe hands once Pheonix here caught up with the ben tian sheng de yi dui rou that was causing that trouble."
"I don't pretend to be a student of languages," Will put in, addressing Tahu, "but I think she just said that Mortimer's not on her Christmas card list this year."
Phoenix curses. Will provides a very rough translation -- not so much word for word, but intent is conveyed.
8. "May I kiss you?"
".. Yes.."
"Please don't tell Aunt. I'll never hear the end of it, if she finds out," he murmured, grinning slightly.
Tilting his head slightly to the side, he leaned in towards her.
And then --
He had leaned the wrong way. One of his crutches had slipped off the dock's edge. He lost his balance and tipped sideways. Unfortunately, there was no dock to catch him. He was falling, and even worse, he was pulling Taita in with him. he tried to disentangle himself and push Taita back onto the dock, but it was too late.
Will managed to get out a strangled, "Taita -- !" followed by a curse of dismay.
They hit the water together. They went under.
The water roiled and heaved for a few moments. Eventually, it returned to a glassy smooth calm. Trepian Lake gleamed in the moonlight.
A pair of crutches floated on the surface of the water for a while. But finally, they sank beyond moonlight, into the midnight black deeps of Trepian.
Neither Will nor Taita ever resurfaced.
A year and a half in the making! The first kiss scene you've all been waiting impatiently for! And... too bad it fails miserably! >D But hey, it started a new plot... where a few characters die and not a few are mangled and/or undergo major, irreversible alterations.
9. “You wouldn't happen to know of a couple appearing recently? Male and female walking around in a confused manner. They may be dressed a little differently, middle aged, the woman scared of nearly anything” he asked.
Very funny Entarmor. Will is a combat pilot; he does not get lost -- just momentarily disoriented. And Taita isn't scared of everything -- just horses.
10. "I love this man. And we have been through too much together for me to turn my back on him, and if that means that I have to risk everything I have left in this and any other world to get him out of here alive, then I will risk it. If he is being taken to the Pools, then I will go. There must be a way to get him out of here or there.."
Here Taita declares in no uncertain terms that Marcus can take his predictions of doom and shove them, because she, Taita Eliza Collins, loves Will, and she will drag Will back from the very gates of hell if that's what it takes. Because if Will doesn't make it home, how on earth is Taita going to explain to the formidable Natalie Snipes that she lost her nephew?
11. She began to cry softly. "M-- Master F-- Farr, I-- I'm s-- sorry--"
"It isn't your fault Erin," he said softly. "It's mine."
These two have more problems than any other couple on KU. And that's really saying something.
12. "Love you," he whispered. Then, very carefully, he moved close and leaned forward. And then, very gently, very slowly, he kissed her.
So it took two years. But we finally got there. In about two more years, Will's going to propose marriage. Said proposal will occur in the middle of the apocalypse.
13. "Don't be absurd warrior. I am a very busy man, and I believe you can help me. However, I also want to thank you for helping me cure the disease, I could never have done this without you. However, I ask of your assistance in another manner..."
Kryhs stands up to Entarmor.
14. "I really hope that is what Ice remembers it to be."
Bonding time for Ghost and Phoenix!
15. "The legends talk about this place. There are very few still living who have seen this cavern, and some people doubt it even exists." Marcus smiled thinly. "Well, it does, so maybe the stories are true. It's almost directly under the fortress of Lumina." He chuckled darkly. "I've always liked the idea of Lumina being the first to go when these eggs finally break open and all hell breaks loose."
You would Marcus. >D
16. "Don't you tell me to do anything, Marcus! How dare you come here -- slinking into Lumina -- sneaking around in the dark -- with a whore -- and she's pregnant -- she's pregnant with your child -- with your bastard -- with your half-blood!?"
Marcus's mother goes ballistic. Taita gets called Marcus's pregnant whore. Marcus gets chewed out big time.
17. "He's gone."
Will dies! -sob-
I thought I'd take a moment to recall some of KU's finest moments from 2008. They are selected for their humor, white-knuckled suspense, awww! factor, downright scariness, and various other reasons. They are listed in no particular order.
See if you can guess who said these and in what circumstances:
1. "Thank you Flyer" he added as Hydralic lifts raised the 400 kilo weight of the Hunter in armour. "Thank you for coming back for me"
Awesome rescue operation.
2. "Seriously Nex...stop it"
~ Common, you're going to be late for the briefing. Eliar called it. Means something big is going down and I'm getting outfitted with big guns and missiles that go boom ~
"You realize pilots need sleep to function properly and having you force your way through our door isn't the best way to wake me up"
~ I knocked if that is any comfort ~
"You fixing our bedroom door is a start"
What are Tahu and Elenath going to do when they have both kids and Nex?
3. "And whatever happens --"
He hesitated, looked away, second-guessed, decided to finally tell her anyway.
"-- I love you," he whispered.
"And -- and I -- I --"
. . .
"You take this."
He paused. Thunder rumbled softly overhead.
"Don't get struck by lightning."
He smiled ironically. As if getting struck by lightning was the greatest of her worries.
Finally!
4. "I am going hunting," she answered quietly. In a flash, she was gone. . . One thing was for sure: she felt like pushing the records.
Phoenix is scary. By now, I think all my characters have made a mental note not to antagonize her.
5. "Couldn't have said it better. I've been wanting to kill something lately"
-rolls eyes- Some of these SpecFor people... scary.
6. "Wahl, haaaii, gaaalll!"
A quiet, contemplative drunk Major Frost could not be. No, he just had to be an embarrassment, and in his best dress GRA marine uniform too...
"Wuutcha priiiitee laaadiie liiike you doooin' ahhhll baaai yo' looooonsome?"
Phoenix getting hit on by a drunken idiot. XD It was bound to happen. Surely there are some nice young soldiers -- Vazkar or otherwise -- around for her to terrorize -- I mean, date. I would volunteer one of my charaters, but... Will is taken, Marcus is taken (well... sort of), and Ghost is probably not going to -- -puts foot in mouth- But that would be telling! Actually, none of my characters in the current Rabbit Hole plot arc have a very good chance of survival right now. >D
7. "From what I hear, you were in safe hands once Pheonix here caught up with the ben tian sheng de yi dui rou that was causing that trouble."
"I don't pretend to be a student of languages," Will put in, addressing Tahu, "but I think she just said that Mortimer's not on her Christmas card list this year."
Phoenix curses. Will provides a very rough translation -- not so much word for word, but intent is conveyed.
8. "May I kiss you?"
".. Yes.."
"Please don't tell Aunt. I'll never hear the end of it, if she finds out," he murmured, grinning slightly.
Tilting his head slightly to the side, he leaned in towards her.
And then --
He had leaned the wrong way. One of his crutches had slipped off the dock's edge. He lost his balance and tipped sideways. Unfortunately, there was no dock to catch him. He was falling, and even worse, he was pulling Taita in with him. he tried to disentangle himself and push Taita back onto the dock, but it was too late.
Will managed to get out a strangled, "Taita -- !" followed by a curse of dismay.
They hit the water together. They went under.
The water roiled and heaved for a few moments. Eventually, it returned to a glassy smooth calm. Trepian Lake gleamed in the moonlight.
A pair of crutches floated on the surface of the water for a while. But finally, they sank beyond moonlight, into the midnight black deeps of Trepian.
Neither Will nor Taita ever resurfaced.
A year and a half in the making! The first kiss scene you've all been waiting impatiently for! And... too bad it fails miserably! >D But hey, it started a new plot... where a few characters die and not a few are mangled and/or undergo major, irreversible alterations.
9. “You wouldn't happen to know of a couple appearing recently? Male and female walking around in a confused manner. They may be dressed a little differently, middle aged, the woman scared of nearly anything” he asked.
Very funny Entarmor. Will is a combat pilot; he does not get lost -- just momentarily disoriented. And Taita isn't scared of everything -- just horses.
10. "I love this man. And we have been through too much together for me to turn my back on him, and if that means that I have to risk everything I have left in this and any other world to get him out of here alive, then I will risk it. If he is being taken to the Pools, then I will go. There must be a way to get him out of here or there.."
Here Taita declares in no uncertain terms that Marcus can take his predictions of doom and shove them, because she, Taita Eliza Collins, loves Will, and she will drag Will back from the very gates of hell if that's what it takes. Because if Will doesn't make it home, how on earth is Taita going to explain to the formidable Natalie Snipes that she lost her nephew?
11. She began to cry softly. "M-- Master F-- Farr, I-- I'm s-- sorry--"
"It isn't your fault Erin," he said softly. "It's mine."
These two have more problems than any other couple on KU. And that's really saying something.
12. "Love you," he whispered. Then, very carefully, he moved close and leaned forward. And then, very gently, very slowly, he kissed her.
So it took two years. But we finally got there. In about two more years, Will's going to propose marriage. Said proposal will occur in the middle of the apocalypse.
13. "Don't be absurd warrior. I am a very busy man, and I believe you can help me. However, I also want to thank you for helping me cure the disease, I could never have done this without you. However, I ask of your assistance in another manner..."
Kryhs stands up to Entarmor.
14. "I really hope that is what Ice remembers it to be."
Bonding time for Ghost and Phoenix!
15. "The legends talk about this place. There are very few still living who have seen this cavern, and some people doubt it even exists." Marcus smiled thinly. "Well, it does, so maybe the stories are true. It's almost directly under the fortress of Lumina." He chuckled darkly. "I've always liked the idea of Lumina being the first to go when these eggs finally break open and all hell breaks loose."
You would Marcus. >D
16. "Don't you tell me to do anything, Marcus! How dare you come here -- slinking into Lumina -- sneaking around in the dark -- with a whore -- and she's pregnant -- she's pregnant with your child -- with your bastard -- with your half-blood!?"
Marcus's mother goes ballistic. Taita gets called Marcus's pregnant whore. Marcus gets chewed out big time.
17. "He's gone."
Will dies! -sob-