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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.
7 comments:
Oh, Peter... When the reasonably polite and friendly supervillain offers to save your life from the rampaging horde of maniacs, the sensible thing to do is say YES, and save the moral outrage for later. As Dr. V said, not really a good time for grand gestures.
Then again, I'm kind of pragmatic that way. I suppose this is why I am not the hero of any sort of adventure series.
WV: sidean: folkloric term referring to the distortion of time associated with travel in and out of the faerie realm.
Sorry I haven't commented in a long time. I've been terribly busy, but I'm not now.
I'm not particulary scared of heights, but I don't think I'd be able to climb down from that high.
WV: bedursa
A type of bear that is in hibernation for 95% of it's life. It is extremely rare and easily irritated.
Finally all that climbing trees and stuff has paid off for Dill! Or maybe he's better at analysing his own fears and immediately decides he'd rather climb down. But that seems a bit introspective for him...
Does Gwen have a fear of heights as well? Or is it just fear at the whole situation (which, to be honest, I couldn't blame her for...)?
And I bet the huge crazy will try and climb down after them (he is crazy, after all). Or maybe just jump down (for the same reason).
Gilip = The sound a frog makes in France, although not for very long.
*sigh* What would you do without me Mr. Pillsbury? Destroying any member of the Toxicodendron genus with flames is a bad idea. Why you ask? Because then you take all those lovely itchy chemicals (urushiol I believe) and release them to the air! Poison ivy on the inside is not a good thing, I assure you.
But you can use a flamethrower for some other purpose I'm sure. Like for hunting zombies!
And now to the actual story commentary (you really shouldn't let me go on these biology rants. Once I start it's difficult to get me to ever shut up).
Sounds like Gwen may also be afraid of heights, but really if I had my choice between a reasonably stable cable and a horde of ravening lunatics, I'd take the cable. Better yet I'd take the helicopter. At least it's been a while since Dr. v has actively sought their demise.
And of course the above was yours truly, broadcasting Anonymously for forgetful reasons.
Who said the cable was sturdy? It had been ripped off its moorings, after all.
It will be especially hard if the big guy follows, or if the cable doesn't reach all the way to the ground.
To Rubberduck -
Hope you're doing okay in New Zealand! Dang, man, it's crazy over there - waaaaaaaaaay worse than Los Angeles ever was!
misslynx -
If he'd been thinking that the ravening hordes beneath him might break through, I believe Peter might have altered his decision.
But, y'know, hindsight's 20/20.
Rubberduck -
Yeah, I think Dill's just like, "Which is scarier? Okay, let's go the other way."
I think Dill is a daredevil when it comes to heights. Gwen has a perfectly natural aversion to them, and Peter probably borders at the far edge of phobic.
Yeah, the jumping would be baaaaAAAD.
Rai -
Ewwwwww.
That's...that's HORRIBLE. I will definitely not use my flamethrower on poison ivy. Thanks for the tip.
Um the Muse -
Wellllll...it's a copper or aluminum cable. I'm gonna go with aluminum cable.
(I now have to rewrite the entire 'rubber casing' part. Oh well, that's why it's good we do these comments. At least for me the writer.)
9/16" aluminum cable is pretty sturdy, considering too that they would have been very careful to attach the cable securely to the roof because of the previous incident 60+ years before.
Mr. Kott pulled the cable out of the little U-shaped spikes in the wall so he could climb up it (but hey, he has almost superhuman strength). However, it had to have been attached securely (maybe even welded) up at the top of the roof, so it could hold about 170 pounds of his weight. (Sheldon's a beanpole.)
3 kids, each sliding down the wire, would be 180 pounds distributed. In fact, Dill was at the bottom before Peter even started down the wire.
So I think it'll hold, it just got ripped off its moorings and is dangling slightly away from the brick wall.
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