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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Oct 25, 2010 22:53:58 GMT -5
New chapter out tomorrow. I think.
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Oct 25, 2010 23:55:19 GMT -5
Good. I can't wait. I like getting the creeps.
With all due respect.
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Post by Emma “Emmz” Squalor on Oct 26, 2010 7:35:38 GMT -5
I'm lookin' forward to it, too. You know what I realized yesterday? That this installment debuted just in time for Halloween. Awesomeness.
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Oct 26, 2010 8:47:06 GMT -5
Such a shame book the Tenth won't be out for Halloween...Oh well.
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Post by Dante on Oct 26, 2010 9:36:09 GMT -5
You even keep up the foreshadowing outside of the books themselves. One of these days you should do a Snicket-esque interview with yourself in which you completely avoid every question put to you. I wonder what Book the Tenth will be - The Persnickety Pumpkin-farm? The Grim Graveyard?
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Oct 26, 2010 9:50:48 GMT -5
@dante: That's a great idea, Dante! ^^ I did think about the title The Grim Graveyard before, but not for YASoUE. You got the initials for Book the 10th correct with the other title though. It's TPP.
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Oct 26, 2010 10:15:56 GMT -5
Chapter Ten 'After we're done rescuing Cindry, we should also get Audrey out of here too.' Klaus said, as the Baudelaires treaded a new section of the Asylum, judging from the map, they would soon arrive at Cindry's room. 'Let's go down this staircase, it will take us to an adjacent hallway to the one where Cindry's room is.' Violet said, examining the map with the flashlight. The Baudelaires descended the staircase, and when they got to the bottom, they heard voices. 'You can't do this! You're mad!' said an unknown female voice. Violet detached from her siblings and slowly peeked around the corner. She saw Lisa, Susanna and Mr. Maillard, the inmates they had met in the cafeteria. They were standing before Nurse Ratched, and she had a knife in her hand. 'Stay away! I must do this! It is all part of Dr. Finch's experiment! I must free all of the inmates!' 'No! Some of them might kill everyone!' Susanna shouted. 'I'm so not mad, I shouldn't be here, but you, you are insane!' Lisa attempted to grab the knife from Nurse Ratched, but the nurse sliced the air, cutting a lock of Lisa's blonde hair. 'You almost cut my face, nutjob!' Lisa yelled. 'I'll kill you!' Mr. Maillard held Lisa. 'Lisa, let's go away! This is a chance to escape!' Susanna said. Lisa stopped kicking and looked at Susanna for a second, and smiled. 'Yes, escape! This is Dr. Finch's marvelous gift to you, Addams Asylum patients. Dr. Finch believes that madness should not be contained. Because if you contain it, sooner or later, it explodes! Madness should be released into the world! Because...the world is mad!' Nurse Ratched shouted in the darkness. Lisa, Susanna, and Mr. Maillard took a step back. 'Lisa, Susanna, this is our cue. Let's get out of here!' Mr. Maillard said while pulling the two girls away from Nurse Ratched. The nurse then opened a door and steps were heard; there was descending staircase behind that door. Lisa, Susanna and Mr. Maillard wandered off into the darkness, south-bound, they were headed for the Asylum's entrance. After witnessing such scene, Violet called Klaus, Sunny and Beatrice and they continued on their walk to Cindry's room. ' Everyone here is insane, in one way or another...That is what's wrong with Addams Asylum!' Klaus said, while they walked in the darkness. 'Yes. And we have to get out of here.' Violet said. Soon, they came to a distressing sight. Violet shone her flashlight towards the door of Cindry's room. It was open, but more than that, it was busted open. A black ribbon had been caught in one of the wooden frame's splinters. 'Natalie.' Violet said, examining the ribbon. The room was empty, the belts and buckles that tied Cindry to the bed were loose, Cindry had been taken! 'The ruined ward. That must be where they took her.' Violet said. Then, the Baudelaires had voices and screams coming from the hallway, coming from the basement level of the Asylum. Nurse Ratched had set her plan in motion. The Baudelaires could hear running and screaming. Fearing the worst, Violet turned off her flashlight and hid with Klaus, Sunny, and Beatrice in the darkest corner of Cindry's room. Then, in the darkness of the hallway, the Baudelaires could see many dark silhouettes running past the broken open door, screaming with mad joy, making lots of noises all the while. The Baudelaires were frozen with fear; the basement level had the most dangerous inmates, and they were now on the loose. Soon, the consequences of the mass breakout would be heard all over, and I do feel it is my duty to report that while most of the asylum inmates were in fact recaptured and locked back in, a good portion of them did make it out of Ophelia that day. And I'm sad to say that the Baudelaires were fated to meet with some Addams Asylum inmates again. When the noises and screams were finally distant, the Baudelaires took the courage to exit the room. Violet led the way with the flashlight, and the Baudelaires ventured into an unexplored part of the Asylum. After a few twists and turns, they arrived at the same ruined, derelicte hallway Natalie and Nathan had shown them. The entrance to the ruined ward. 'Let's go. Be very careful. This whole place is condemned.' Violet shone her flashlight towards a bright yellow ribbon with the word CONDEMNED written in black. The word condemned, of course, here means 'a building or section of a building that is doomed to crumble and self-destruct.' Going into a condemned, ruined ward in a full moon night while many asylum inmates had just been released, and a mad doctor was also on the loose was not exactly pleasant, but the Baudelaires had to do it. They had to do it for Cindry Fulfillment.
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Post by Dante on Oct 26, 2010 11:19:01 GMT -5
Interesting to hear that we haven't heard the last of the asylum inmates, much as we haven't seen the last of the freaks. I wonder if there'll be a TPP-like reunion in store? Although I personally sense something a little more spaced-out. But to the chapter itself, it's quite tense. And the funny thing is, Dr. Finch and Nurse Ratched aren't entirely wrong. Because the world of aSoUE is mad.
Huh. Just realised. We're at Chapter Ten and there's no obvious sign of the main villains of the series. I have this vision of Esmé and the crew driving up to Addams Asylum in Chapter Thirteen and finding it already on fire.
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Post by Emma “Emmz” Squalor on Oct 26, 2010 13:49:31 GMT -5
Wow, what an exciting - and insane - chapter that was! I particularly liked Nurse Ratched's speech. And Cindry is missing! Oh, no! Hopefully the Baudelaires won't have much trouble locating the kidnapper/kidnappers, since they know their identities. Though it worries me to imagine what sort of dangers the Baudelaires shall endure once they reach them.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Oct 26, 2010 14:35:53 GMT -5
Good point about the main villains still not visible. Perhaps they heard rumors about the asylum? This chapter in itself is especially suspenseful. I think I can predict what will happen, what with the nature of the ward and the Baudelaires' luck.
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Oct 26, 2010 17:09:02 GMT -5
@dante: Don't expect a reunion until Book the Twelfth. But don't let go off your hat yet! The villains are closer than anyone thinks. Well, one of them, at least.
@emmz: Let's say the Baudelaires will be in for quite a few shocks.
@sherry Ann: Oh, I see what you mean. But the Addams Asylum's madness is too strong.
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Oct 27, 2010 1:27:58 GMT -5
Let's say the Baudelaires will be in for quite a few shocks. Exiting prospect. Things just keep getting worse. Also, I wonder what the TPP title of the next book will be. With all due respect.
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Oct 27, 2010 9:49:43 GMT -5
Let's say the Baudelaires will be in for quite a few shocks. Exiting prospect. Things just keep getting worse. Also, I wonder what the TPP title of the next book will be. With all due respect. This book is the Seventh, TPP will be book the Tenth.
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Post by Emma “Emmz” Squalor on Oct 27, 2010 10:04:03 GMT -5
Let's say the Baudelaires will be in for quite a few shocks. Exiting prospect. Things just keep getting worse. I'll say! Hmm...I have a few ideas as to where this could lead to.
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Oct 28, 2010 17:11:01 GMT -5
Chapter Eleven The Baudelaires realized two things when they went inside the ruined ward of Addams Asylum; first, it was very ruined. A large staircase had crumbled, and now the stairs could no longer be climbed; several windows, broken; several corridors blocked with debris, which were impossible to cross or get past; walls with holes that served as doors; doors that were sealed shut, impossible to open without the appropriate tools - and I don't mean keys - empty asylum beds and utensils, such as semi-burnt straitjackets could also be found, and everywhere, the yellow tape with the word CONDEMNED plastered in large black letters, constantly remining the Baudelaires that what they were doing was very dangerous. The second thing they realized is, despite all that, it wasn't hard to find shortcuts through holes on the walls, on the floor, and lots of other means to tread the place that led them to believe someone had it made it that way; someone was constantly coming and going through the ruined ward's derelicte hallways and rooms, and that someone knew their way around every obstacle. With the map, it didn't take the Baudelaires long to arrive at the first floor; a large hall with converging staircases which ought to have been majestic in it's better days. Looking up, the Baudelaires saw a large hole on the ceiling from which the moonlight poured in. The hole acted as a skylight in the dark, ruined, ward, and the Baudelaires were sort of glad at least a little bit of light made it into that place. 'According to the map, there's a large room in the basement, with a lightning bolt marked on it.' Violet said as she examined the map with the help of the flashlight. 'I have no idea what it could mean, but we did hear Natalie mention an electroshock therapy machine.' Klaus frowned and straightened his glasses, which were uneven, examining the map. 'Maybe it's the room where they submitted the patients to electroshock therapy. Some psychiatrists believe that electricity can cure the lunatics of their madness.' Klaus said. 'I read it in a book. They put two electric nodes to the patients head, not before they've given them a tongue protector so they don't bite their tongue off when shocked.' 'That's awful!' Sunny said. She still liked to bite things, but she hated when she accidentally bit her tongue. Sunny's teeth were still reasonably sharp, and it hurt a lot more than the average tongue bite, but to think of someone biting their tongues off was too off-putting, even for Sunny. 'I don't think being exposed to electric shock can do anyone any good, at all.' Violet said. 'It's too cruel. Just because they're insane doesn't make it alright to shock them.' 'I know it's cruel, but some psychiatrists are pretty twisted. We've all seen Dr. Finch.' Klaus said. 'So, which way do we go now, Violet?' He asked. Violet examined the map and then pointed the flashlight at a descending staircase nearby, semi-blocked by old chairs that are a good reason why people should keep up on their tetany shots. 'Well, those chairs are all rusty...Stay away, I don't want any of us to get tetany.' Violet opened her back pack and put on her gloves. Wearing the gloves, she pulled a few rusty chairs away from the staircase, which loosened another pile of chairs, which toppled over and fell, crumbling downwards, with a large metallic noise. If there was a better way to let their enemies know where they were, they did not know, but they had just done so. 'Sorry! I, I...' Violet apologized. 'It's okay, Violet. Let's just go down quickly, avoiding the rusty metal, and we'll be done.' Klaus said, taking Violet's hand. Klaus took the flashlight in hand as Violet was too nervous to keep carrying it, and after each elder Baudelaire grabbed a younger Baudelaire, they ventured down the dark staircase, unsure what they would run into next. The basement level was different than the rest of the ruined ward; it was significantly colder and more humid, truly damp, with infiltrations of all sorts all around. Walking north for a while, the Baudelaires opened a door to reveal a completely flooded room, crawling with snails. 'Escargot!', Beatrice, the youngest Baudelaire, uttered upon seeing the snails and their curly shells. These snails were not escargot, however, which, in french, means something a long the lines of 'snails that people think are good to eat but I have no clue as to exactly any one, ever, would think a snail is a good thing to eat.' But, Beatrice here probably meant something more along the lines of 'What disgusting snails!' And they were. They were huge, black, and disgusting. Like Lachrymose Leeches, but landborne, and leaving a green translucid mucus behind them as they slowly crept on the surfaces of walls, and the ceiling, as the rest of the room was flooded. 'Let's close this door and continute.' Klaus said, closing the door. Klaus made a vow that day to never, ever eat an escargot, as he would always be traumatized by the sight of those disgusting snails. The Baudelaires continued on their journey though the dark basement of the ruined ward. After a few run-ins with a large ammount of rats, a few angry spiders and even what looked like a badger, but they couldn't really tell, the Baudelaires arrived at a long corridor. There was a light at the end, and the Baudelaires saw the shape of a door. Examining the map, the Baudelaires confirmed that said light came from the room marked in the map with a lightning bolt. Taking one long breath, the Baudelaires continued ahead, without knowing they were being followed. The whole time.
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