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- by Darren Pillsbury
PETER AND THE VAMPIRES is a horror/comedy web novel (and a free podcast!)about a normal, 10-year-old kid who moves into a sinister town filled with supernatural horribleness. The series is composed of different "monster of the week" stories - kind of like THE X-FILES crossed with THE SIMPSONS (if Mr. Burns were a ghoul and something terrifying lived in the town dump). "Peter And The Dead Men" is the first story in the collection. A new page is posted every day.
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11 comments:
That ride actually got outlawed in my state for being too dangerous. :)
~Rai
Really?! Wow...I had no idea...I went on that thing a dozen or more times as a kid...
I got terrible motion sickness, yet that ride never bothered me a bit. Weird, huh?
My gawd!
I <3 this ride!
I've actually gone on it when it was empty, so while it was moving I tried to move from one spot to the next. I got in trouble for trying to do so.
=P
~N7
It always cracked me up that some people would sink more than others...and people with long hair presented very interesting pictures
Todd -
That is strange. Your stomach must have been like, "Well, I'm moving, but I keep coming back around to the same place...so it must be okay."
N7 -
I would have LOVED to have been on an empty one of those rides. I would have tried to get myself plastered sideways to the wall, with my body parallel to the floor.
Stormy Llew -
I loved that most every dude's baseball cap got smashed against the wall, and sometimes wound up on the other side of the ride.
I've been on that ride, only instead of the floor dropping out, the whole thing tilts up 90 degrees, so sometimes you're flat on your back looking at the sky, other times you're lying on your front looking at the ground (a loooong way down), and everything in-between. It's really weird at the top, where you can literally feel the fight going on between gravity and centripedal force and you're momentarily weightless. I'm glad gravity never won, since there was nothing to hold you in.
I don't think normal motion sickness applies to rides - probably something to do with adrenaline and the speed and so on. Though I remember going on a school trip to Alton Towers, and on the way back the coach just felt wrong, like it should be going really fast and looping the loop and stuff :D
Cat -
The ride you describe sounds like it belongs in the SUPER Evil Carnival of Death.
I don't think I ever got carsick at night; nothing made me more carsick than sunlight streaming through the car window like so. I've heard carsickness has to do with the body's confusion between how you're moving versus how things around you are or aren't moving.
The comment about looking up at the sky and down at the ground makes me wonder if we're talking about the same ride. The ride I'm talking about looked like a flying saucer without windows.
Actually I can only remember the type Cat described. I remember that there was a change in regulation several years ago (I'd guess 15) after a few accidents. I think nowadays you have to be strapped down like in a roller-coaster, but as I never enjoyed riding them, I don't remember any details.
I just went to the state fair here in Lincoln in August and they had both the Gravitron ( the space ship without windows where the pads on the wall slide up at different intervals) and the 90 degree on it's side one and I went onthem several times each the 90 degree one did have a loose rope that went across your hips but that was all in the way of restraints. I asked the opperator of the Gravitron and he said it generated 3 G's not sure about the 90 degree one though. But they were both awesome!! the best strange positioning I saw on the Gravitron was a guy sitting cross legged on the wall, head staight out into air and butt firmly planted on wall, it was wild!! I tried lifting my head off the wall and it made me wanna puke so I guess he had an equilibrium of steel.
Amy
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