You know what's fun? Sleep deprivation mixed with absurd levels of caffeine intake. I have never felt so simultaneously shitty and alive.

Let me explain some backstory. I needed to finish the last DHT entry for today. It was not finished yet. So, on Wednesday (which we had off to remember our veterans [one does not celebrate Veterans Day, y'see]), I decided to stay up until 1:30 to make some headway on the middle and ending. In order to remain effective at 1:30, I drank around 2 mugs of black coffee. Anyways, on Thursday I felt pretty good. I wasn't too sleepy, despite having woken up at 5:30 AM... I decided to do it again for Thursday night, partly out of necessity, partly because I wanted to see how fast I could get addicted to coffee (The answer is fast, judging by the fact that black coffee now tastes delicious).

Well, I drank about 6 mugs, I guess. Um. Yeah. So I was pretty wired, heart racing at random intervals... Worked until 2 or so, went to bed, got up five minutes later to add something cool I thought of, and then slept. BTW I wrote possibly my favorite scene ever during this time.

So cue today starting, and my heart's still doing the whole "Oh hay yeah, let's pump super hard without warning!" thing. My skin feels ultra dry even though I'm sweating, eyes are aching a bit... Basically, my body felt fatigued as hell, but my mind was ridiculously alert and concentrated. I periodically experienced nausea, and at the mo I've got a killer headache. BUT I FEEL FANTASTIC. Oh and breathing feels weird.

This may be because the entry's finished, of course! The fantastic feeling, that is. Anyways, wivvout further ado, I wanna talk about it.

So this entry is the last one for me, no matter what. Last Ingvar story? I hope not! Despite myself, I've taken a liking to the guy. Which is probably a bad thing, since I've spent the last few months making him as miserable as I can. Bottom line: IT'S OVER!

Stuff Spoilerific

-Okay, that favorite scene I was talking about? The one where Ingvar goes to try to rescue Showstopper and finds him with nameless Arularian #1's corpse (She was a #1 Nameless Arularian, and she will be missed). So many things I liked about that. Too many things. I'm probably insane for liking some of the things I like about the scene.

-No Skrael again! Yeah, he's dead for real. Just an FYI. Zev did him good and proper. Still kinda sad about that, but we all have to move on. When did I know he was gonna need to die for real some time? When he beat the fuck out of Ingvar, then jerked off. That was a pretty good clue.

-Violence level was sorta minimal in this one, I thought. Sure, there was some gore and stuff, but mostly horror-style stuff. No murdering until like page 16 or something! So fucked up. Fight scene between Showstopper and Ingvar was one I wanted to do basically the way it happened: a one-on-one fight, both of them going in to kill the other. Never actually got to do one of those until now! Which always felt weird, since some folks made (damn fine) entries that were basically just that arena-style combat.

-Showstopper is sofa king fun to write with (read that out loud if you don't get it, then realize with dawning horror that I am so tired ATM that so limpid a joke actually made me chuckle). I made a huge list of possible quotes for him to use during the planning stages of this round, and whenever he had dialogue, I'd look at it to see if any fit. Often times, one did! This was depressingly entertaining to me (I am a boring person!).

-I need to make a character for the league, and I need to figure out if I should submit myself as a potential judge. When I get involved in the league, I swear, the stories will be much less related to one another. Much, much less.

-Croesus came across as genuinely sympathetic for me in this entry, which was not something I'd expected to happen when I designed him. Of course, I also didn't expect to get this far, either. Wanna hear something funny? I had the entire Collector thing worked out pretty much from square one, along with a bunch of other demon hierarchical BS - only recently did it ever need to come up.

-This was a hard entry to do, but I think it turned out well. BYE.

- Wallofplastick says they need one more guy at his tournament!

SONGS YEAH AWESOME WOOH
I have warned you about my taste, and how it exists only in physically immeasurable amounts, right?
[link] Vicarious, by Tool.
[link] Pictures, by System of a Down.
[link] Eraser, by NIN.
[link] Right In Two, by Tool.
[link] The Mark Has Been Made, by NIN.
[link] Teotihuacan, by Noel Gallagher.
[link] Worry About You, by Ivy.
[link] My Apocalypse, by Arch Enemy. (Holy shit. That's a girl singing? Apparently, yes.)
[link] This Is Your Life, by The Dust Brothers (Credited to Tyler Durden on the soundtrack).
[link] Attack, by System of a Down.