Shadows

You know, we can't really be sure that's Stanton. Do you realise how long it would take to strip a body that well? Was he really away from the group for that long? I don't think so. My gut tells me that Stanton is still alive and part of this whole scheme, using his apparent death to get away from the group for whatever reason. The fact that he had a field guide tells me he was doing research into survival in the wild, which is pretty much what he'll have to do for as long as he is away from the group. Nope, he isn't dead, we'll see him again before this is all over, and it won't be good. Still, with plenty of bones to go around, I suggest we all take one. I'll go for a nice tibia, seeing as it's the stronger leg bone. Just made for whacking.

Oh yeah, that too. *starts making a really annoying whiiirrrrrr sound* Phase 3 alert is in effect! Repeat: Phase 3 alert. Is. In. Effect. This is not a test of the emergency broadcast system, this is a real damn emergency. No basements, no closets, no attics, no forests and no nudity. Sorry ladies, but every time one of you takes off your top in one of these things, somebody ends up speargunned or worse. Please stay tuned for further updates.

A CLUE! Either that or the venom isn't completely out of my system yet. NO! It's a clue! A clue? Where? What? Oh, right! What was all that? The clue! YES! ... I can't remember now. ... OH! Fred! You said you confiscated 8 knives when we came aboard, but there are only 7 left. I don't know why we didn't ask at the time, but I'm asking now... who owned the 8th knife, the missing one?

As far as I'm concerned we might as well return the knives, and if mine isn't the missing one, someone else can borrow it. Can we move on now???

I sure hope that's the drop of blood from the end of the last chapter before all of this, the one that fell from the ... HEY! Was Jack already stuffed up there by then? That would change everything! But how??? We were all in here, weren't we? I'm beginning to lose track. Maybe someone with a good connection photographic memory could recall that and let us know where Jack was at the end of the last chapter back then.

With the sword. While someone was murdered. Great. Phantom place. Ruins: clearly here. Shadow people: your dad and others, I guess. If we can save them, that seems like a good place to start. Skeleton wolves: *hold up the tooth he found before all that screaming* Seems one of them might need some dental work now. Now we know why he was here, if only we knew what he was doing to get himself killed like that. He must have figured something out and now we need to. Let's try to examine the area that seems to have changed. What seems smaller, specifically? Seems like a good place to start.

The bloodstains would mess up the colour balance? That's a good idea. At some point, let's examine the body to determine how exactly he split personalities like that. As for humans with very sharp swords and demonic possession, you never know, maybe neatness counts.

Our little boy, he's grown up so fast... Happy Birthday from the boys in the BMI!

Thanks. I'd like to check how much ammunition there is and share that info with the group so we can keep track of it's use. *prepares to fire a shot into the air to indicate his presence, but decides to save the ammo* YO! Just out of curiousity, could you tell us where your son in law was just before that last incident? I know you wanted everyone to go to the bus, but you weren't all there when it started and I'm more than a little worried about how someone cut poor Jack in half with a simple knife...

I'd like to direct this to Fred and then the group. I want the revolver. If anyone is shot, you'll know it was me and it probably has very limited ammo, so it isn't like I could kill all of you before you'd stop me. Remember folks, we aren't just fighting demons, assuming there even are demons, we're fighting the cultists who I'm sure are human. If we're smart about this, we can still split into 3 groups, each with at least one weapon: sword, rifle, revolver. That way, we can be in 3 different places but still have some protection. There must be a way to stop this from getting worse, and hiding in the bus isn't it. We've got a temple to conquer. As it is, we don't know who took the knife, so unless we're going to conduct strip searches, we have at least one very human deadly enemy among us. Given that the last one was stolen when no one was around, we have no reason to believe that can't happen again. We need to either destroy the remaining knives or we might as well divide them up. At this point I am willing to believe that random luck is with us and more would end up with normal people than cultists. Who agrees?

Plus they aren't an official licensed theme, sadly, so they don't go in Licensed anyway. They could, however, go to Sci-Fi, which was called Space back then.

And old. We're young and virile and ready for action.

I miss your wife, too. Magick? This man speaks of witchcraft! How Grim!

NO FONTS PEOPLE! NO COLOURS! JUST GOOD OLD FASHIONED TYPE. Please. And thank you. Sally who? Where is this lovely Sally? Shall I call Mssr. Reutal Sally? That might work.

If I was turned, wouldn't it have gotten me in the smartass then? Ow, that stings a bit. Thanks, dear, I wasn't sure you still cared. Maybe we should discuss things some more before making any decisions about the future... Whew. Where's the first aid kit? Oh nurse, I'm wounded here!

Aw, what a great story and lovely family, especially the baby! I found the whole thing very touching, especially the touching part. Nice job!

Hello to you all. I am Michel Shadón. My name is quite annoying as my writing fingers do not naturally produce the little beauty mark above the o, so I may not always use it, and you must not feel compelled to either. Here is my carte-de-visites, as requested, along with a modern reproduction of it. I am not understanding the use of modern here, but I am knowing all about the reproduction as is the way of my people. ~ Speaking of which... where are the ladies? Oh my. No ladies. Well, you'll have to do. What you'll have to do we'll discuss in my tent. First you can show me what you've got, Root all!

They aren't still lit from before when everyone played with them in various configurations?

We wouldn't want things burning off on reentry...

*hears the audience screaming "Don't look in that window, oh no, he's gonna look in that window, dear god no, don't do it man!" YES! Just as soon as I run back inside and take one of the torches from those silly statues and hold it in the window. As we've learned from LEGO Indiana Jones, the scorpions will all move away from the torch and I'll be able to see safely.

We can't even find your end.

Exactly! Don't we still have eyes?

The 4504 Snowtrooper 'variation' if you want to call it that (it was simply a torso mistake) is done in light bluish grey, just the same as the hips. It is the exact same torso as all those plain episode 3 battlepack clones. With one of them and the current Hoth Imperial pack you could make this figure yourself. What you'd do with the spare parts is beyond me, however.

... and blogged!