The Lord of the Crystal Shard : Take Two

By Semdai Bloodquill

Prologue

(Stage set for a talk show with lots of comfy armchairs, where Semdai and Jarlaxle are seated side by side)

Semdai - (dramatically) No, you're eyes aren't deceiving you! The original Lord of the Crystal Shard no longer exists!

Jarlaxle - Damn.

Semdai - The original story was terminated due to violations of the Writer's etiquette.

Jarlaxle - Etiquette is such a weird word. Is it even English?

Semdai - I think it's French.

Jarlaxle - It's weird.

Semdai - Anywhats, the people upstairs got rid of the original story because apparently we're not allowed to have polls in our stories. Which I can see why because someone might abuse that ability if we had it. However it still sucks.

Jarlaxle - Yep.

Semdai - Therefor, we will be re-establishing Lord of the Crystal Shard.

Jarlaxle - (happily) Yay!

(Out of nowhere a little Siamese kitten jumps into Semdai's lap)

Semdai - (high squeaky voice) Minime!

Jarlaxle - What is that?

Semdai - (pets cat) This is my sister's cat, Me Mini My Mommy, or Minime for short.

Jarlaxle - Where's your cat?

Semdai - I don't know, Scooby's kinda of a scaredy cat. She hides all the time. (pushes Minime off her lap) Go play Minime, I'm working now. Back to business.

Jarlaxle - For those of you wondering about the awards at the end of each chapter, have no fear. The awards will still be given out at the end of each chapter and readers can still vote.

Semdai - However we will be conducting business a little differently this time around. I puzzled about this for days until I found a loophole to jump through. Instead of sending votes directly via the review panel, all votes must be e-mailed to me. It's either that or the awards go bye-bye for good. Normal reviewing is still highly encouraged, but don't send your votes there, or I will be punished again. Punishment is not fun. They take away my uploading privileges and then NOBODY can read my work and everybody suffers. Not fun.

Jarlaxle - Semdai's e-mail address will be written at the end of each chapter so that readers don't have to go all the way over to her bio to get it. Although her bio is cool and all.

Semdai - (puzzled) Which E-mail should I use?

Jarlaxle - There's more than one?

Semdai - Well I have my one with Hotmail and one with Yahoo.

Jarlaxle - Use the Yahoo one. That way you'll be motivated to actually check that one. And the people upstairs wont have a reason to complain since you're not using the e-mail that you're registered under to jump through the loophole.

Semdai - Wonderful idea. Yes, send ALL votes for the awards to and help us defy the higher powers. MWAHAHAHAHAHA! (runs off stage laughing maniacally)

Jarlaxle - In other news, Semdai's younger sister, Luna Bloodquill, recently joined So if you want to see her stuff check her out. Yeah. And when the Lord of the Crystal Shard chapters go back up, re-read them, they will have new stuff thrown into them. See if you can find the new stuff.

Semdai - (returns) I think that's all.

Jarlaxle - I do too.

Semdai - Now I need to do some work on the Mini-Halloweenies. I thought up a bunch of new ideas for episodes over the weekend. (superhero stance) Children of the Corn Pops!

Jarlaxle - What are we doing later?

Semdai - I don't know... Hows about we watch Indiana Jones?

Jarlaxle - Which one?

Semdai - I was thinking either Temple of Doom or The Last Crusade.

Jarlaxle - It's been a while since we watched Temple of Doom.

Semdai - That was the first Indiana Jones movie I ever saw. I remember it very clearly. Mostly because a seven-year-old will think it's weird that a dancing singer is blocking the title when it appears.

Jarlaxle - Temple of Doom then?

Semdai - But The Last Crusade has Sean Connery in it too. This is a tough decision.

Jarlaxle - (imitates Sean Connery) You call this archeology?

Semdai - We'll decide this later. Work awaits. Bye every body! (waves)

To be continued...