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www.PeterAndTheVampires.com
- 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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9 comments:
daymon34 & Um the Muse -
Awesome info on the phone lines in your comments from several days ago! I actually wasn't thinking about whether phones lines carried any charge, but I remember a phone technician hooking up my line outside my old apartment building, and he would run his fingers over the connections to see which ones were 'live.' So yeah, it makes sense that there would be current.
But daymon, you gave me the perfect out with the part about all the phones are cut off in the dorm, so there's probably no current in the phone lines! And even then, 12 volts would be doable. And once they're on the line, they're fine. You can even hold onto a power line midair as long as you're not grounding it, and the electricity can't use your body as a conduit.
Anyway, thanks for bringing it up, you two! I learned some cool stuff on telephone lines!
Ooh! And there we go with the vocal range, as well, with a language capable of commands (or suggestions, or anything to teh effect of "Jon, get away from that window and help".
This brought to you by Broken Record Comments (in affiliation with I Couldn't Think Of Anything Else To Say Incroporated).
Here in New Zealand, telephone talkpath voltage is 48 volts DC. Ringing voltage is 90 volts AC.
I've felt both. 48 v DC just wasn't noticeable. 90 volts AC (I had the bare wires in my hand when somebody called) made me say, "Goodness me! This pain is extreme and I wish it to cease immediately!" (Or something along those lines involving about three words.)
V-word seems appropriate for someone hanging at a height. "inetenow", as in "I want a net NOW."
Is it midnight yet? I have only a vague sense how much time has passed.
Oh dear, oh dear. This is not good. My first thought was that it was sagging because it had a Chubbs on it. I hope the boys can get to the roof of the other building.
I'm also surprised that Kyle hasn't gotten out yet. I mean the knock on the noggin may have stunned him briefly, but after all this time I thought he would have gotten out, at least through a window or something.
Also most lines are shielded in someway, can't have the tech get zapped when they work on it. Only high voltage lines are bare I think anymore. I can't say that I have looked though in a while.
All lines have a sag, to much tension and it would snap all the poles when a wind storm came in. Maybe Peter and Dill can hit him with there shows, or Dill can hit him with his underware.
I all kinds of facts running around in my head, got a question about something just ask and I will do my best.
Rubberduck -
Well, you know that prairie dogs have a language, right? I saw a special where these scientists recorded prairie dogs, slowed down the recordings, matched them against events, and found that they had words for dog, human, hawk, non-hawk bird, and even modifiers, like 'blue human' for a human with a blue shirt on.
MistyCat -
I didn't know you were a kiwi! (Hope that term's not mean or boorish in New Zealand - I certainly didn't mean it to be...)
Todd -
I'd say it's roughly 10PM. Roughly.
Rai -
Hmmmm...
Well, he DID fall about thirty feet (at an angle, going much faster than the acceleration of gravity) and then slammed his head directly into a solid oak door...
daymon34 -
Not only that, but two other good reasons for the sag: contraction during winter and expansion during summer, and it's almost physically impossible to get a heavy line to NOT sag. The amount of tension necessary to have a straight line of cable is incredible.
I'm a Kiwi. No worries, mate. Sweet as.
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