Saturday, December 30, 2023

Cabin in the woods

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Gary is glad he doesn't have kids.  Steve and his wife are actively trying to have a kid.  His wife has already child proofed their drawers.  Steve is not handling it well.  He fills his coffee cup til it overflows and then pumps a ton of money into the vending machine to buy a bunch of crap.

Wendy Lin comes along with bad news.  Stockholm has failed.  Now it's down to just Japan and them.  Japan has never failed, but even so, it's a little extra pressure that nobody needs.  Everyone is going to be real tense.

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Dana likes to rock.  She thinks Dave Grohl is hot.  Her friend Jules thinks he's old and gross and hairy. 

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Monday, December 25, 2023

The blinding knife ch 79 to the end.

 Ch 79

Gavin isn't ready to check on Dazen yet.  He wants to do sex to hus sex slave.  But shes not here s o he just goes to sleep.  He wakes up to someone sexually pleasuring him.  He thinks its his sex slaves but it's not.  It's one of the meangirl Hogwarts students.  He's kinda halfheartedly pushing her off as Karris, who has decided to have sex with Gavin (who she knows is really Dazen) pushes her way into the room.  She sees him sexing and runs away.  Gavin kills the Hogwarts meangirl.

ch 80 pg 397

Karris is called to do her black guard duty cause Gavin killed the Hogwarts meangirl.  This is a pain cause she's still dressed for sex, not fighting.

Gavin puts on an invisibility cloak and hides from the people that intend to take him to justice.

Ch 81

dazen escapes for real.  Not into another color prison, but our one of the tunnels Gavin uses to visit Dazen.

Ch 82 pg 407

Kip and Teia talk about the black guard challenge fights and based on who has challenge coins and who's gonna fight who when what the likely end rankings are.

Kip wants Teia to sign the freedom papers.  Teia has a better idea.  The whole system is built around slavery and so if a person is a slave and becomes a black guard their owner gets paid a ton of money.  So kip holds onto Teia's ownership until she becomes a black guard and they split the money.

Ch 83 pg 412

I know Dazen is really Gavin and he was a horrible person.  But I'm always gonna root for a prison break.  Go Dazen Go!!!!

He doesn't make it.  He might have been close, but he set off a booby trap that spelled out the word almost and then dropped him down into the yellow prison.

ch 84 pg 418

Gavin goes down to face Dazen. Lots of screaming ensues.  It seems like they eventually come to am agreement that Dazen will save the world and not harm kip or Karris and Gavin will be exiled to an island for the rest of his short life.  Then Gavin pulls out guns and shoots Dazen dead.  I guess hating your brother is more important than saving the world.

Ch 85 pg 427

 The gurds that were guarding gavin's room (one of whom is naned Gavin) give their testimony to the white about Gavin murdering the higwarts meangirl.  They say Gavin didnt killer.  He pushed her out on the balcony, but then she jumped.  Not sure whats going on here.  In Chapter 79 it seemed pretty clear Gavin threw he r off the balcony.  So maybe theyre lying to protect Gavin or maybe thats what they thunk t hey saw for some reason.

Also, the white gives Karris permission to date Gavin.  That's against the rules currently if any black guard tried ti date the person they were pritecting it woukf be againat the rules.

ch 86 pg 433

Gavin climbs out of the prison and does sex with his sex slave.

Ch 87 pg 437

Kips grandfather summons gavin and says a bunch of mean stuff.  That's his whole deal after all.

ch 88 pg 439

th black guard recruits are doing another mission.  They are split up into teams.  Most of the team is guards and one of them is the "color" and the goal is to get the color to the exit point.  Theyve got money and the gamgs in the area have been informed of the drill so it won't be easy.  Kip's group is kinda doing OK cause kip is their color and he is allowed to shoot people with luxin.

Speaking of shooting, someone with a gun shoots one of the black guard trainees in the neck with a bullet and she's super duper dead.

Ch 89 pg 448

Karris is wandering about the city looking for Gavin.  She gets jumped.  It's very very bad.

Ch 90 pg 451

But not as bad as the black guard recruit we know is already dead.  Her name was Lucia.

It's time for the black guard to go to war.  The trainees will go to war with them. Today is the last fight day.  If you're in the top 14, you are in.  Kip wins a few fights.  He realizes at one point that he has a bit of a conspiracy on his hands.  A group of trainees that are all really good fighters but are currently low ranked, did this on purpose so they could stop him from making it in my challenging up.  So kip challenges as high up as he can and loses the fight.  Things don't look good for Kip.

Ch 91 pg 464

Not sure whats going on here.  My guess is it's kips grandfather looking for the blinding knife.

Ch 92 pg 465

As expected, the group that's working against kip work real crafty like and challenge fighters above kip to push him down a notch.  That is until its Aram's turn.  He's the ringleader of the group.  Kip shames him into picking kip to fight.  Part of this is that you pick the colors you want to fight with. Kip says "ALL OF THEM!!!!" And he thinks this is gonna be awesome.  But then he's told that there are rules against omnichromes using all the colors in black guard fights.  So they end up fighting with just Green.

Aram ends up winning but the fight is so brutal that Aram is disqualified from fighting for the rest of the day.  

Kip goes and sits down next to Gavin and they watch the rest of the fights.  Teia ends up 7th.  Cruxer ends up first.  When the fighting is over Cruxer makes it clear that the testing is over and anything that happens now would count as training.  He then kicks Aram in the knee so hard that it's irreparably broken forever.  Training "accident" and Aram is out and Kip is in.

Ch 93 pg 477

After getting beat up karris tries to limp back home.  Some kindly man finds her and takes her back to the Chromeria.  She wakes up in Gavin's bed.  She is pretty doped up and tells Gavin she wants to see him naked.

Ch 94 pg 479

When Karris wakes up for real Gavin tells her he's Dazen and then he tells her everything else.  But I don't think he tells her he's lost blue and green.  They make out.  The white shows up and they get married.  Now it's Gavin off to plan the war.

Also, we're pretty sure it's Kip's grandfather that had her beaten up and sabotaged Kip's entry into the black guard. 

Ch 95 pg 487

Gavin goes into the war room and sees tjay nobody there was involved in the previous war and tells the generals they don't know what they are doing and leaves.

Ch 96 pg 490

Ironfist tells Gavin He's gotta get a ring. He decides to give her his mom's ring.  He goes to his mom's apartments and finds her slave who explains that she said she'd be freed and Kip's grandfather's man Grinwoody was somehow in charge of the paperwork.  Kip's grandfather being a dipshit Gavin isn't gonna stand for this shit.  He breaks into Kip's grandfather's apartments and gets her paperwork and steals a deck of magic the gathering cards.  

He goes to his moms and gets some money to give to her slave and the ring to give to Karris.

The ring has already been resized for Karris.  It sucks that Kip didn’t get to hang out with his grandmother.  She sounds great.

Ch 97 pg 497

Gavin and ironfist get in a boat and use magic to go real fast and they find the color prince's army.  Also Ilytian ships supplying said army.  

I'm very confused about directions and distances here.  Looking at where the chromeria is and where Ru is It seems like you would head east to get to the Atashian coast and then go north.  But they "overshot the Color Prince's army, going too far south"  but they wouldn't be going south.  They'd be going northeast.  Maybe the map and the words in the book aren't actually related.

Gavin and ironfist go all the way from Ru to Idoss and back and get all the intel they'll need to murder a bunch of relatively innocent sailors tomorrow.   They meet up with the navy headed to Ru and get people ready for tomorrow.  Kip finds Gavin and tells him he wants to come tomorrow.  Gavin has one question,  if he sees Liv and she's attacking will he kill her?  If the answer is no, he can't come.  You can't watch someone's back unless you're willing to kill anyone that would try to stab them.

Ch 98 pg 502

Gavin has a bunch of skimmers and he shows the black guards how to make them go.  They find a big pirate ship.  They talk about how to attack it.  The first three rules of skimmer fight club is go fast.

Ch 99 pg 508 Liv 

Liv and the guy that tried to kill Gavin with the blinding knife are doing sex a lot.  The color prince comes to talk to Liv.  He has some grand plan for her and he isn't telling her what it is.  He has her try to guess.  She does not guess.  

We also find out they don't just have some help from Ilysian ships, they have the full support of the Ilysian navy and they have all but wiped out the Atashian navy already.

Ch 100 pg 513

Kip and his dad and a bunch of black guards go to fight a big pirate ship.   Kip does a cool thing where he uses ultraviolet luxin to draw lines to all the guns every pirate is holding and then sends ultra red to blow them all up.  His dad infects a rat on the ship with red luxin and makes it blow itself up in the gun powder room and it blows up the rest of the ship that Kip's shenhannegans with the guns didn't finish up.

Ch 101 pg 524

Kip's dad goes back to seer Island.  The seer tells him he's gotta go get Karris.  If he doesn't he'll die.  He's gonna die pretty soon anyway, but he's got time enough to do what must be done if he gets Karris.  If he doesn't, he'll die and the old gods will come back.

Also, the seer and the general are married now.  I suppose we gotta couple the main characters with sexy lamps before the end of the book.

Ch 102 pg 533

Zymon ( the guy that failed to kill gav in with the blinding knife) is planning to betray the color prince.  Liv recognizes in this moment just how insane and unstable Zymon is.  She had previously planned to have a prolonged period of making Zymon not like her.  But shes gotta pace up that plan quite a bit.  So she goes to the color prince and tells him about Zymon's planned betrayal.  He knows.  This was his great purpose for her.  To get confirmation that Zymon planned to betray him.

What we hear next is what i presume to be the color prince sending Zymon on  suicide mission.

Ch 103 pg 537

The black guard get in thir lttle boats with their luxin bombs and blow up some bad guy boats.  One of them gets shot.  They go to a nearby village to see a bunch of whales having beached there.  They talk to a guy who tells them about not only this weirdness but also all sorts of other insanity.  Theres a wrongness to things.  The green luxin users can feel it the most.  They go home.  When ironfist goes out the next day he doesnt bring any greens with him.  

kip's grandfather invites him to play magic the gathering.  So hes got something to do instead of blowing up boats.

Ch 104 pg 542

Karris and gavin do sex.  More importantly, they talk about their feelings.

Ch 105 pg 552

Kips grandfather apologies for trying to kill kip and make him not get into the black guard.  He had thought of doing the freeing after his wife, but torturing kip has renewed his will to live. He thanks kip for that. 

ch 106 pg 556

Gavin goes to the Chromeria heads and tells them what's what as far as the war effort is concerned. 

Ch 107 pg 558

Gavin is leading a group to destroy the green blight.  They go to Ru to see whats going on there.  Based on ship positions that the color prince already has the fort amd jes going to lure the Chromeria ships in with his weak middle and then destroy them with the guns from the fort.

but they're not here for that.  They use their greens sense to feel tje wrongness of green.  The y make it to where it feels as wrong as it has and they only see a handful of boats.  Gavin makes a realization that the blight is under water.  They attack the boats and the blight suffaces and its hella scary.

ch 108 pg 566

Ironfist's group is tasked with retaking the fort.  He takes Teia with him because she can use her xray vision to see through walls and tell if soldiers habe armor on under their cloaks.  They kill a bunch of dudes on the path up to the fort.

They get some resistance and some black guards get killed.  Teia is surrounded and is gonna get shot to death and then she kills all those guys with xrays.

They take over the cannons just in time to see the green blight emerge from the ocean.

Ch 109 pg 581

Liv is with the team thats sneaking into the city through a secret tunnel to I guess get the main doors open so the real army can attack for real.  It goes OK.  The city of Ru had a pyramid with a mirror thing at the top.thays controlled by ultraviolet luxin. Liv uses it to send green light to the green blight.  

She does this seeing that Gavin and Kip and Karris are down there trying to stop it.  She knows they're going to die, but it will be worth it if they can remake the world.

Ch 110 pg 592

Kip kills the green God with the blinding knife. Iron fist helps a bit with shooting cannons at the green tower as it tried to birth the green God.  Gavin and Karris are still alive.  

Ch 111 pg 610

Kips grandfather summons gavin.  Kip goes with. Somehow kip figures out that his grandfather is a red wight.  He goes to take off his glasses so Gavin can see.  Kips grandfather stabs kip.  Kip stabs his grandfather.  Kips grandfather man gets in on the fight and somehow Gavin ends up getting stabbed in the chest with the blinding knife and falls overboard.   Kip jumps in after him.

Ch 112 pg 616

Kip saves Gavin.  As much as you can save someone with a sword in their chest.  Who really saves them is gunner.  His ship finds them and pulls them up out of the water.  He also pulls the sword out of Gavin and he's still really alive.

Ch 113 pg 619

Liv and the color prince talk.  They have largely taken the city.  Further brutality and depravity will ensue until they fully control it.  The color prince thinks Zymun is dead because he knows at one point they took the point but then the Black guards took it back.  So he probably died in the fight.  Also he says he knows Gavin is dead.  What he really knows is that Gavin no longer has control over any powers and so Banes of every color will emerge.

He gives Liv a choker and says he has a true great purpose for her ultraviolet powers.

Ch 114 pg 620

I guess stabbing Gavin with the blinding knife stole the color from Gavin into Kip's grandfather. His eyes are back to normal.  No longer a wight.  He thinks he has 10 good years left.

I guess kip was thrown off of Gunner's ship as he washed up on the shore.  Zymun is there.  And he has news.  He is Gavin and Karris's child.  They're brothers.  Kip has a brother, how lovely. He has been communicating with Kip's grandfather.   

Ch 115 pg 623

Gavin is completely color blind.

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Time machine ch 7 through 14

 Ch 7 pg 121

Time traveler decides he's gonna go to the big palace he can see in the distance.  If any place is safe so the morlocks won't be able to get to him and eat him it's that place.  So he takes Weena and heads that way.  But it's way farther away than he thought and also he's got shoe troubles and ends up  throwing away his shoes slowing him down further.

This guy sucks.  What was that book where the kid goes up to Alaska without any preparation and dies in the woods?  I didn't feel bad when that guy died.  I wouldn't feel bad if the time traveler did the same.  In a way it's a shame I know he won't die.  Also I'm watching 11.22.63 on Hulu and he's similarly unprepared for anything and I'm feeling similar feelings about him.

Ch 8 pg 135

Time traveler makes it to the palace. He finds some stuff that might be useful.  He ends up leaving with an iron bar, matches and some camphor.  He figures his time machine is in the sphinx and he can pry it open with the iron bar and the matches and flammable camphor will scare away any morlocks.

Ch 9 pg 149

They head back the sphinx and once again it gets dark in the woods.  The mordocks start to head up from the caves below to feed.  But time traveler is no easy meal.  He uses the matches and camphor to scare them away.  He picks up weena and the iron bar amd runs away.  At some point he keeps lighting fires and running and killing mordocks with the iron bar and realizes he's not sure where he's going.  Luckily one of his previously lit fires has burned completely out of control so the choice of it is kind of taken away from him as all he can do is run away from the fire.  At some point in this he loses weena.  He presumes she's dead. He ends up on a hill where he can see the palace and the sphinx.  

Ch 10 pg 164

The time traveler makes his way to the sphinx.  The doors are already open.  He goes in and starts to set up the time machine for travel.  The doors close.  It was a trap.  The morlocks attack. But he fights them off and gets the levers in place to do the time travel.

Ch 11 Pg 171

Timetraveler goes way far in the future. There's green moss and giant crabs.  He goes further into the future and there's no sign og life and there's an eclipse. He goes way further like millions of years and there's a floppy tentacled thing on the beach.

Ch 12 pg 182

No one believes the time traveler. But narrator kind of does now.  He went to see the time traveler right before he disappeared. He has been gone for three years now.  Narrator suspects he will not return.

Epilogue pg 193

Narrator thinks about where the timetraveler might be.  Back with the dinosaurs or in the stone age.  He'd like to think he went to the future but not nearly so far as the time of the morlocks.  A time when man is still man but a lot of our current problems have been solved.  If the time traveler found such a time, I could see him deciding to stay there.

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

The blinding knife 40 through 78

 Ch 40 pg 173

Karris tells Gavin he has her blessing to fuck the seer.  He tells her to shut the fuck up.  There's no room in his heart for love. Only darkness.

Ch 41 pg 175

Dazen is in the green prison. A blue loaf of bread comes down the shoot. It's blue enough to draft.

Ch 42 pg 17 teia

Teia meets her owner.  This is the first time she's meeting her face to face.  Turns out her real owner isn't who she thought. Who she thought was her owner turns out to just be a fake paper trail.  Her real owner is the sister  of the former governor of garrison. Gavin killed him.  That's her motivation for revenge against Gavin.  Teia tells her about the extra training kip is getting and the person she saw get murdered with her secret color.  

Teia is rewarded with a promise of extra training in her secret color.  Shes also rewarded with a necklace with a vial of olive oil.  A gross reminder that if she displeases her owner she will be sent to a brothel where olive oil will be vitally important as shes repeatedly raped.

Ch 43 pg 187 kip

The librarian is helping him get better at Magic the gathering. They hit a snag when they figure out Kip's grandfather is using old cards that are largely banned.  Even the books about playing with those cards are banned.  But she tells him to go see old lady Boring and she call tell him about the black cards.

Ch 44 pg 193

Old lady boring makes Magic the gathering cards.  She makes cards based on real people.  She has the ability to see the truth about people.  She's starting to make a card based on Kip.  She knows he's far smarter and magically powerful than he knows.  She kind of tells him he's an omnicrome by asking if he wants to be prism.  She also kinda tells him he's not gavins son by telling him Gavin has two secrets and kip isn't one of them.

Ch 45 pg 197

The seer tells Gavin that something called the bane was in the sea and he was going to find it and fight it.  If he brought karris,  his odds of success were high but so were the odds of her death.

Ch 46 pg 200

Liv and the color prince talk about a lot of stuff.  One super cool bit that comes up is that the color prince seems to know that his assassination attempt on Gavin was partially successful. 

Ch 47 pg 206

Kip and old lady Boring are talking and it rapidly becomes not boring.  The cards are based on real people and that's a big part of the game's appeal. It's people you know or know of and in this case it's someone kip is related to.  Zee okenshield and old lady Boring has the original card.  She has most of the original cards cause she's the one that makes them.  While drafting luxin and touching the card Kip is transported as if he is Zee okenshield on the battlefield. She also pretty much tells him he can draft all the colors.  And she keeps saying "is being prism not enough for you?" As if he knows fuck about shit.  Really most of what she says is rhetorical as Kip could not be a useful part of this conversation since he hasn't been told the whole truth about anything. 

One very valuable thing she tells him is that he will never beat his grandfather using the deck he is given.

Ch 48 213

teia is getting training from another paryl user.  She shows her what her eyes look like when she adjusts to see paryl.  Theyre completely black.  They talk about the man teia saw kill with solid paryl.  The tutor says to never tell anyone.  Theres a cycle with paryl users where its ok for a while then someone finds out you can kill with paryl or spreads rumors of it and paryl users are killed as heretics.  So if teia doesnt want to end up dead she should never talk about solid paryl again.

Ch 49 pg 218

Kip plays cards with his grandpa and loses again.  He's playing with a white deck and after losing he sees the blinding knife card.  Based on his reaction grandpa knows he's seen it.  Grandpa knew that kips mother had it all along.

Next game will be high stakes.  They play for Teia.  If grandfather wins she becomes his slave and probably does unspeakable things to her.  If kip wins, grandfather will give her to kip.  

Ch 50 pg 224

Grandpa has kip moved to a private room.  For a number of reasons this passes kip off.  He goes to old lady Boring and asks to make a deck of black cards.  She repeats the thing she said last time about him being smarter than he thought.

Ch 51 pg 226

Gavin is looking for some big dangerous blue thing and it's not going well.  But the tyreans have show up and their settlement on the isle of seers is going well.  Karris yells at Gavin for not being a better father to Kip.

Ch 52 pg 232

Old lady boring tells kip she'll give him a deck of black cards.  But she also explains that a single black card is worth more money than kip has ever had.  A deck of black cards is worth more than kip might make in his whole life. Kip has an idea.  Don't use priceless originals.  Use copies.  Old lady boring calls him a genius at this.

Ch 53 pg 234

Gunner is back!!!!

He and his pirate steal a boat.  It's a good boat with big strong slaves manning the oars.

Ch 54 pg 240

This one is a doozy.  The black guard scrubs are dropped off in the bad part of town and are loudly given a lot of money and told to make it to wherever ironfist is.  Not sure where that is but I remember there was a fountain.  Teia has a baller idea and she gives their money to a currier to take it to ironfist.  Pretty much every one else ends up forming a corporation and fighting their way to iron fist.  Some of them make it with all their money.

Ch 55 pg 250

Gavin finds an island out in the sea 🌊 made of blue luxin.  This is rough for him because he can't see blue so he kinda takes a while to figure out that's what he's seeing.  It's populated by blue wights.  Wait, it gets worse.  There's a central spire of blue luxin and when the sun hits it at noon it starts to form human looking body parts.  No, not human, godly.  This is the birth of the God of blue luxin.  Gavin can't have this, so he kills the God as it's being formed.   Then the blue island of luxin sinks into the sea he kills every blue wight. So much murder, so little time.

Ch 56 pg 257

The lady that owns Teia gets a visit from a very bad man under the employ of Kip's grandfather. He comes in and right away demands that she sign Teia over to Kip's grandpa.  She tells him to fuck off and he runs away and she sends guards to beat him up.  He returns, I assume after killing her guards, and starts to torture her.

Ch 57 pg 260

It's fighting day and it's not going well for kip. He gets beat real quick in his first two fights.  In his third fight he's not liking his odds as the kid he's up against is one of the best fighters.  Luckily for Kip, the color of the fight is red.  Kip just figured out how to make solid red luxin.  The kid he's fighting is blue green.  So he's able to stick the kid to the ground with red luxin and then punches him in the face and breaks his nose.  Kip goes to sit down on a chair and he breaks a chair.

At this, Cruxer, the blackest of the black guard trainees gives a speech about black guard names.  He dubs kip breaker.

Ch 58 pg 264

Kips grandpa immediately makes fun of Kip for his new name.  He talks about the legend of the light bringer and how he's also called the breaker.  He says rich people fear the light bringer cause if he breaks the world order they might not be rich anymore.

Kip uses the decks he got from old lady Boring to beat his grandfather and become Teia's new owner.  Grandfather is very very angry.

Ch 59 270

Kip has a magic the gathering card experience.   Now that he kinda understands what's going on he can really dive deep into the memories of the person in the card.  So much so this time it's like he is that person and when he comes back into himself after it's a crazy disappointment. This guy was just being given orders to kill old lady Boring.


Ch 60 pg 274

Kip tells Teia that he owns her now.  Her first thought is he probably wants to do sex to her.  Of course he does, but not Like this.  He does have a bit of an internal conflict but before any sex happens he tells her he has freed her.

She leaves wherever it was they were and kip realizes he's all alone.  He doesnt see any spies.  He goes down to the dorm to see if his knife is still there.  It's not.  Bunks have been reassigned he goes into the chest where it used to be and somebody catches him and accuses him of stealing. He turns right around and accuses that guy of stealing.  Kip goes to the lost and found and he finds his knife there.

Ch 61

Kip decides to go to old lady Boring house since she is good at hiding valuable stuff.  Maybe he can leave the knife there.  He gets there and the door has been broken and it smells of gun powder and blood.  He goes inside and kills two assasins with invisibility cloaks.  They're not invisible to him cause he's an omnicrome. He finds old lady Boring still a little but alive.  She tells him to grab the deck out of her tobacco box.  She has extra booby trapped the house to explode if stuff gets stolen.  Kip runs away carrying her as the house explodes.  Also,  old lady Boring dies.  

Ch 62

The color prince is taking the army east to take over Atash.  He doesnt go right for tue big city.  He sends people out to the country to get food and other supplies.  He takes over the silver mines.  He crushes a town on his way back to the big city.

say what you wil about him, but he's legitimizing sex work in a way that i find is bery really respectful.

ch 63

Theres a lady thats a blue drafter.  She knows that gavin is dazen.  Shes being held by the color prince, much like how Karris was being held with the hope she will join the army.  But shes trying to escape.  Then at the end of the Chapter its not really her that we're in this chaptwr with.  Its someone thats channeling her magic the gathering card.  so thats a cool thing ti know is possible.  I wonder if that was what the assasins that were sent for old lady boring were after.

ch 64

Kip is on the run from the world at large with four priceless treasures.  He gets the idea to go to iron fist.

He is let into iron fist's room.  He pits the four priceless things on the bed and uses subred luxin to dry off.  He kind of goes into a shame spiral about how he could have used Magic to do all sorts of things he didn't think of tonight.  He then decides that instead of waiting for iron fist and explaining the situation he's gonna go confront his grandfather right now.  He tells the black guard guarding the door he'll be back in ten minutes.  I'm real confused about this as I thought his grandfather's place was kinda a ways away.  But I guess it's here in the main chromeria building. 

He forces his way in and accuses his grandfather of killing old lady boring.  His grandfather explains that no amount of card game shenhannegans would motivate him to kill a demiurge.  I guess a demiurge is a maker of magic the gathering cards.

Also, he was friendly with this particular demiurge, for a time.  She made a card of him and let him see what other people would be able see if they channeled it.  This is a great honor and if kip now feels very foolish. 

Ch 65 pg 302

Another magic the gathering card scene.  This time it's a lord commander but the identifiable person in the scene is named finer and they are injecting green luxin into their knees so that they can jump down a cliff and be ok at the bottom.

Ch 66 pg 304

Kip is back in iron fists room.  He's looking at the cards.  He finds his grandfather's card.  In this card his grandfather is a young warrior and he has the blinding knife.   And the card of one of the assasins that killed old lady Boring.  He finds one he thinks is commander ironfist. Commander ironfist shows up and says it's not him.  It's his brother. Kip explains everything to ironfist.  Kip says one more thing.  Ironfist, as a joke,  says what, you got another legendary thing you found?  Kip shows him the knife.  Also, one of the jewels now glows green.

Ch 67 pg 310

Dazen uses the blue bread to escape from the green prison.

Ch 68 pg 313

Gavin is making the general the Satrap of seers Island. Among other things this means the color prince can't kill Liv or he'd risk uniting all the other Satraps against him.  Gavin and karris leave.

Ch 69 pg 318

Iron fist does not love the position that kip has put him in.  Between the cloaks and the blinding knife and the cards there's enough motivation to have kip declared a heretic and killed for any normal person. Luckily iron fist isn't a normal person.  He's abnormally loyal.  

Gavin shows up and (for reasons I don't really understand) ironfist has to go on the run.  It's something to do with Kip's grandfather. 

Ch 70 pg 326

The color prince and hus army make it to the big city.  He meets with the guy in charge of the  city,  who is the Satarap's son.  He's gonna do horrible things to the city if they don't surrender. 

 CH 71 pg 334

The white convinces ironfist to stay.  Kips grandpa may want him out, but that doesnt mean hes going to get what he wants.  If ironfist runs he gives kips granfpa what he wants.  Have faith in Gavin.

Ch 72 pg 340

The color prince Gave big city til noon to surrender. Noon comes and no surrendering yet. So they take one of the women they captured from the smaller city and launch her into the city walls with a catapult.  They do better with the next lady.  She makes it over the wall and we'll into the city.  Eventually the surrender happens.  Also Liv got a letter from her dad telling her to come home .  She's not gonna do that.  She's gonna have sex with her tutor.  

Ch 73 pg 348

Gavins back and he's got lots of business to attend to.  But he does take some time to talk to kip.  He tells kip that he has all the powers and that he shouldn't worry about the whole lightbringer thing cause he's pretty sure it's nonsense.  

Ch 74 pg 357

Magical congress is meeting to vote on war.  Gavin felt kinda ok coming into this meeting.  But things have gone badly for him.  First,  the lady in charge of whatever country is the green is dead.  She died of a stroke.  Donuts to dollars, she's the lady we saw murdered with peryl.  There's lots of explaining who's which color and what country they're from.  The hammer drops at the end when Kip's grandfather shows up.  Gavin is pretty screwed.

Ch 75 pg 361

Karris shows up to black guard training.  She demonstrates a takedown by poking cruxer in the eye and breaking a finger and then she flips him.  Flips him for real.

Ch 76 pg 363

Through some political shenhannegans Gavin gets congress to approve the war. He also declares that kip is his legitimate son.

Ch 77 pg 379

Smite, one of the Black guards that's been escorting Kip around, comes to Karris.  She confesses a secret long held.  She was beholden to kips grandmother because she saved her brothers from pirates.  She gives karris a note from Kip's grandmother. It says Dazen has always loved her and has always loved her.  Two big important things here.  Dazen didn't alope with karris because he honestly thought she loved Gavin and Dazen didn't want to interfere with karris's happiness.  The other is that Dazen didn't storm into her family's house and murder her brothers like karris and pretty much everyone else thinks.  He was lured there by her brothers into a trap.  They chained all the doors shut and flooded the house with red light cause they didn't know Dazen could draft red.  Her brothers may have died at Dazen's hand, but it was self defense.

Smite, as per Kip's grandmothers instructions,  gives karris a gun and a fancy dress.  She chooses the fancy dress, assuming to go make woopy with Dazen.

Ch 78 pg 383

Kip's grandfather summons Gavin.  He says Gavin has to marry and have children.  Gavin says he'll only marry Karris.  Kip's grandfather says that won't do and he's to marry a rich lady's sister.  A green drafter. Kip's grandfather appointed her to be THE green but Gavin in manuverings to get his war vote got her removed from that position. Kip's grandfather wants Gavin to marry a woman that hates him because it's politically convenient.

Gavin says he won't and Kip's grandfather makes some threats.  Threats that Gavin is sure are related to secrets the real Gavin knows.  But fake Gavin doesn't know what the hell Kip's grandfather is talking about and he's worried if he says anything Kip's grandfather will realize that he's fake.  

So Kip's dad does the only thing he can think of.  He leaves without saying a word. 

Friday, November 17, 2023

The time machine ch 1 through 6

 Ch 1

The timetraveler is having a bit of a salon with other academics. He's explaining how there's four dimensions to be traveled. Height, width, depth and time.  He talks about how we can only easily travel width or depth wise easily.  Height requires machines to aide us.  It is the same with time.  He can travel through time with a machine.  He has a tiny time machine and in a demonstration he declares to be sending it in time.  What we see is that it has disappeared. We assume it must have traveled forward in time as if it had traveled back in time we would have seen it on the table in the past.

Ch 2 pg 25

Narrator goes to hangout with the time traveler again.  He shows up and there's another group of intellectual people. The tike traveller's not there.  Eventually he shows up and he's in bad shape.  He's not even wearing shoes.  He says he's been time traveling and he will tell the tale as long as nobody argues with what he says or interrupts the story.

Ch 3 pg 37

Time traveler tells the story.  Most of it is him going back and forth in time without do8ng anything other than explaining that the physical effects on him caused by the time machine suck.  Certainly not the sort of thing he would suggest after saying "who wants to have a good time?  

He goes a ways into the future and I think the machine flips over or something and he hurts his chin.  He finds himself next to a giant sphinx looking statue.  He hears talking and sees hooded figures heading his way.  He considers getting the hell out of there.  But as they get closer he sees they're bald.  So he ain't afraid of no bald heads.

Ch 4 pg 49

He thinks this is roughly the year 2800.  The people have tentacles.  He makes sure to disable the time machine and he and the little pretty tentacled people go somewhere else. They just eat fruit.  After a fruit meal the time traveler walks up a hill to see the city.  The river has shifted quite a bit.  The buildings are completely different. Where there used to be tons of single family homes there are now just giant buildings. Most of them are ruins.  Definitely society had built up and was now in decline.

He has all sorts of theories as to how society got to this point.  In the last sentence of the chapter he explains that all of his theories were wrong.

Ch 5 pg 72

He comes down from the hill to find his time machine is gone.  He yells at some little tentacled people, but they don't understand so they're just scared and it only gets him a feeling of shame.  He ends up kinda passing out in the lawn where he time machine used to be.  He wakes up full of despair. 

He finds that theres people living underground. He figures they took his time machine.

he also figures the underground people and the above ground people used to be people and split off evolutionary at some point.  And the above ground people are oppressing the below ground people.

Ch 6 pg 108

The time traveler decides to climb down into the underground to get his time machine back.  He is whoafully unprepared. He pretty much just gets scared and runs away.


Friday, November 3, 2023

11 22 63 ch 29 to ALLOF THEM

 Ch 29

Kennedy was saved.  Sophie is dead.  Jake is a hero.  But Jake doesn't wanna be a hero.  The FBI helps him slip away and he takes a series if busses back to (so far) Pittsburgh.  Assuming he'll get back to New England 🇬🇧 and go back....


...to the future.


Ch 30 pg 787

On the way he talks to the green card guy.  Hes some sort of time cop or whatever amd hes stationed here at what he calls the time bubble.  I dont see the point as basically what they do is stand there and go crazy.  This guy also asks nicely for Jake to undo everything.

Ch 31 pg 809

Jake goes into the apocalypse future and ends up talking to the janitor.  He doesnt have the brain damage that his dad gave him in the original timeline so he is able to explain all the horrible things that have happened since Jake saved Kennedy.  Jake is gonna go back and fix it.

He goes back and the card man time cop asks him nicely to go back and reset the timeline.  He doesnt do anything and jake runs away.  This whole green card man thing is a HUGE disappointment.

Final notes pg 825

Jake is out and free in the past.  He doesn't do anything.But he does write up his whole story, put it in a lock box and bury it.

Citizen of the century pg 833

He finds out Sadie is still alive and goes to visit her.  He tells her he knew her in another life.

Afterword pg 843

Steven talks about the research he did for this and a bit of what inspired him to write this book.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

11 22 63 ch 23 - 28

 Ch 23 pg 577

Sadie's face is messed up real bad from her ex husband stabbing her.  George pretty much gives up on following lee and moves back to take care of Sadie.  He was gonna bet on the Kentucky Derby but he sees a car with a Florida license plate and is worried it's the guy that tried to kill him and walks away, no bet made.

Ch 24 pg 605

Jake tells Sadie he's from the future and here to save Kennedy.  He places a bet at a own shop.

25 pg 633

Jake gets his come uppance after the fight he bet on when some goons  related to the forst guy in dallas he won money from come to beat him up.

26 pg 671

Jake sustained some brain injury and now he can't remember who us going to kill Kennedy or where.  He does remember how because he remembers that Oswald hid his gun somewhere bear the first hotel he stayed in in Dallas.  He remembers that he has Al's notes and they're in a safety deposit box.

Ch 27 pg 689

Jake gets his stuff out of the safe deposit box.  He's gonna try to go it alone.  His plan just sorta seems to be to be there at the book depository and shoot Oswald right before he shoots Kennedy. He rents the Oswalds' old place and his plan to go it alone falls apart because Sadie shows up.  She found me, I don't know how but she found me.  RUN FOR IT MARTY!!!!

Ch 28 pg 715

HE DID IT!!!!! Jake saved JFK.  Oooohhhh weeeee it was Hella dramatic, but he got the job done.  The car blew a tire, the bus he took got run over by a garbage truck.  Sadie tried to get someone to give them a ride and the guy attacked her and she slashed him with the knife her ex slashed her with.  They end up making it to Lee right before he takes the shot.  Jake ends up shooting the window and that was enough for Lee to miss Kennedy.  Lee ends up shooting Sadie.  You wanna make an omlette, eggs will be broken.