I meant to put this author's note in the last chapter, but I was a total IDIOT and forgot to. Basically, I just wanted to thank those who submitted an OC, which would be KhaosOmega (Jet Brazie), RoseMarie Fanfics (Rose), and Atomicon (Dark Moonlight). Thank you for allowing me to implement your character in this wacky and crazy tale! Also, I wanted to apologize for not updating sooner. Now, without further ado, here's chapter 4!

While the King is Away, the Koopalings will Play

"AHHHHH! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!" Ludwig screamed as a Toad latched onto his head and gnawed on him. The Toad had single handedly drained the entire soda pool as his friends had encouraged him, chanting his name as he drank gallons of the liquid. Eventually, they realized their mistake as he bolted out of the dry pit and, quite literally, bounced off the walls, hopping from head to head as he did so, laughing insanely as he rode his sugar rush. He seemed to have taken a liking to Ludwig's head, clamping onto it and biting him.
Ludwig stumbled around, trying his best to swerve around dancing bodies and talking people as he furiously tugged at the mushroom headed menace, listening to their confused voices as they witnessed the spectacle.
"I said...get...OFF!" Ludwig gave a great yank and succeeded at pulling the Toad off of his head. He landed hard on his back in front of the Koopaling, but was back on his feet in a matter of seconds. Ludwig wasted no time in hightailing it outta there.
"That is IT!" he complained, weaving his way through the throngs of people. "This party has gotten out of hand! It's time to find Roy and tell him to shut it down."
Ludwig didn't have to search for very long. Roy was relaxing on a plastic, inflatable raft in the pit that was once the soda pool.
Ludwig jumped down and walked towards him.
"Roy! We need to talk!"
Roy lifted his sunglasses for a moment, only to reveal another pair underneath them. He looked around him, his eyebrows raised in surprise. "Whoa! When did this happen?"
Ludwig yanked him to his feet and scowled at him, clearly displeased. "When one of these freaks decided to drink the pool. Then he started bouncing around and attacking people. And he's not the only crazy one. ALL of these people are insane! We need to end this party, now, before something really bad happens!"
Roy chuckled slightly and put his hand on his brother's shoulder. "Oh, bro, bro, bro. Don't you understand? That's what this party is supposed to be like. And besides, look at all these happy people!"
He waved his arm to the party goers around him. Most were smiling and talking to their friends, but some were up to more sinister antics. A group of teenagers swarmed a boy and hoisted him up by his feet. Then they flung open the door to a nearby Port-A-Potty and proceeded to dunk him headfirst into the toilet.
"You think that kid's happy?" Ludwig countered. "And look around you! There are plenty of dangerous things going on!"
Roy shook his head skeptically, but didn't want to admit that he knew Ludwig was right. The backyard had turned into battleground as two sides fought each other with poles, plates, and other blunt objects in order to gain control over the last box of pizza. Dodge balls fell around them Armageddon style, creating craters in the grass before sailing back into the air and returning to the game above. Someone had commandeered the mechanical bull, slathered it in gasoline, lit it on fire, and rode it around the yard, chasing away any who dared to venture close to their snack stash. The cyclops that had been on the dodgeball court above had fallen and landed on a few guests, the impact knocking it out cold, the people desperately trying to crawl out from under the beast.
Roy scratched his chin as he examined the chaos. Then he threw his hands in the air in a carefree manner. "Well, waddaya gonna do? The guests are happy, I'm happy. The only person who doesn't seem to be enjoying themselves is you, bro."
Ludwig sighed, annoyed with Roy's lack of concern. "Listen, I really don't care about the party. I was just pressured into it by the others. I tolerated it at first, but now it's getting out of hand. Especially since...she is here..."
Roy noticed Ludwig shudder at the last sentence and grinned. "Ah, you mean Rose? What, you don't like her?"
"I would like her more if she wasn't trying to flirt with me constantly. And she never gives up, no matter how many times I turn her down!"
Roy walked towards the snack table and Ludwig followed him. Roy grabbed a drink and gulped it down before talking to his brother again. "I dunno, man. She is kinda cute. I would go for her too, but she's really not my type."
"You have a type?" Ludwig snorted.
"Yep. But come on, brotown. You finally have a girl hitting on ya and you reject her! Seriously, you don't exactly have girls lining up to date you. Take what ya got."
Ludwig shook his head furiously. "No way! She's just...weird. Anyways, can we please talk about stopping this party?"
"No can do, my most brodaciois bro." he said. "I worked too hard for this party, and I am NOT, under ANY circumstances, shutting it down."
Ludwig glared at him then whipped out his cell phone. "Fine then. I guess I'll just have to inform dad about this."
Roy's expression instantly changed and he lunged at Ludwig, snatching his phone away. "No! Don't do that, bro! I...I was just kidding! Yeah! We can totally stop the party, so there's no reason to tell dad."
Roy chuckled nervously, but Ludwig wasn't buying it. "Oh really?"
"Yeah, yeah! In fact, let's go get my megaphone right now so we can tell everyone that the party's over, eh?"
Ludwig smirked victoriously and folded his arms. "All right then. Let's go."
Roy led the way back into the castle and Ludwig followed him, the two dodging various obstacles such as a wild biker gang tossing flaming bottles at people and a fat Shy Guy who was puking everywhere after eating too much.
As they strolled through the castle, Ludwig gaped at how chaotic things had become.
People were running amok, shouting and tossing food at one another. Tires had been placed on the bottom of a giant amplifier and a Hammer Bro clad in a red cape and crown wielding a microphone stood atop it as two muscular minions pushed it through the foyer. He spoke into the microphone and told anybody who would listen that he was now their king. His first royal decree was for his loyal subjects to seize the kitchen and plunder it of all its ice cream. A squad dressed in red and black sped through the crowd and hopped onto the amplifier, pelting the 'king' with corn bread.
"Viva la resistance!" one of them shouted and they ran off, the 'king' ordering the minions to capture the rebels.
The Spores were performing one of their songs, "A Lonely Little 'Shroom" onstage, and a large crowd had gathered, chanting the lyrics to the song as they danced, most bumping into statues of Bowser and sending them crashing to the floor. At one point the lead singer sang so loud that the windows shattered from her voice, much to the delight of the fans.
Eventually, Roy stopped in front of the doors to Bowser's throne room.
"It's just in there, bro-go. Mind fetching it for me?" he said slowly.
Ludwig gave him an odd look then opened the doors. He walked in, but didn't see anything different at first. Same long red carpet, same huge, spiky chair at the end, same large windows that gave a great view of the lava lake.
He heard a loud bang behind him and he spun around. The doors had shut.
He ran at them and tried to open them again, but they were locked.
"Roy! Roy, let me out right now!"
"Sorry, can't hear ya!" Roy said as he walked away, Ludwig's phone still in his possession. He then said to himself, "I promised that I wouldn't cancel this party on any circumstances, and I intend to keep that promise."
After a few more attempts, Ludwig gave up on trying to open the doors. He sighed, closed his eyes, and leaned against the doors, defeated. When he opened his eys again, he was greeted by a smiling face.
"Hey Ludwig!" Rose said cheerfully.
"Gah!" he gasped and pointed a shaky finger at her. "W-what are you doing here?"
She grinned and looked around. "Roy told me to come and wait here, so I did. What a coincidence that we're both here, huh?"
Ludwig growled in fury. Roy! He must have planned this!
"This is no coincidence! It was all Roy's doing!" the blue haired Koopaling yelled. "I swear, when I get out of here, Roy is SO gonna get it!"
Rose backed away from him, a curious expression in her face, her mind moving a mile a minute.
'Roy planned this?' she thought. 'Yes! This means I finally have Ludwig all to myself! Thanks Roy!'
She sidled closer to him, blushing slightly. "Well, Ludwig, I guess it's just the two of us here, together, alone..."
She was practically leaning on him now as she moved in to kiss him, but was interrupted as Ludwig said something.
"You are the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
Rose backed up a bit, her heart beating faster and faster.
"L...Ludwig...you finally feel the same way!" She leaned forward and attempted to kiss him again, but he pushed her to the side and rushed forward, his grin growing wider as he approached the object he had become infatuated with.
It was an ebony piano with sleek, ivory keys. The surface had been polished so well that the light reflected off of it. An angelic chorus could practically be heard as Ludwig ran his hands across the magnificent instrument. He sat down on the stool in front of it and gingerly rested his hands on the keys, almost hesitant to play the divine piano.
Finally, he pressed down on one, then two, then three. Soon he was stringing together chords and notes. The sound of his music emanated from the instrument and reverberated off the walls.
When he had finished, he burst into tears and hugged the piano. "You are the most beautiful thing in the world!"
Rose stared at him awkwardly. "Really? You like that dusty old thing?"
"Don't talk about Sasha that way!" he spun around, instantly hostile.
Rose laughed dryly. "Sasha? You named it?"
"Why wouldn't I? An instrument of this caliber is so rare that it deserves a name. And the name Sasha is as beautiful as she is." he said wistfully.
Rose watched as Ludwig muttered to the piano and embraced it. Then she sighed in disappointment. She had been so close to finally kissing the love of her life, and he ditched her for a piano.

7Z7Z7Z7

"That was a hit! You're out!" Jet Brazie called from the referee's table.
The Goomba muttered and limped off of the court, obviously injured from the dodgeball that had struck him.
On the blue team, Dark Moonlight was still going strong. He vanquished countless enemies, dominated the cyclops, and done it with style. The only thing that stood in his way now was the Koopa team captain. There was no one left on either team except for the team captains, and everybody was on the edge of their seats to see the results of this sudden death match.
Dark Moonlight smirked as he took aim and fired. The ball flew out of his hand at Mach 5 and barely missed the Koopa. He retaliated and threw a ball that broke the sound barrier. It sailed past Dark Moonlight's head and off the side of the platform.
The two were equally matched, but they were wearing each other out. At some point, one was going to give.
"Fresh smoothies! Fresh smoothies! Come and get 'em!" Iggy called.
A Toad girl approached him and smiled. "I'll take one! How much is it?"
"For a pretty girl like you? Not a coin!" Iggy said uncharacteristically.
The Toad giggled and pondered which flavor she should have.
"Might I recommend the Iggy Special?" he said, pointing to his icon.
The Toad shrugged and pushed the button. The boxing glove flew out and nailed her in the face.
"Ow! You jerk!" she shrieked and walked away.
Iggy didn't hear, he was too busy rolling on the floor and laughing.
Morton saw this and approached him.
"So, you're running the smoothie machine? Why?"
Iggy stood up, his chuckles slowly subsiding. He wiped a tear from his eye and said, "Oh, it'll make sense soon. Just don't drink one."
Morton raised an eyebrow in suspicion and was going to ask Iggy what he meant, but was interrupted.
"Dark Moonlight swiftly dodges to the left! He counters! Konnor deflects the attack and throws another ball! Ooh, that missed Dark Moonlight by inches!" Jet commentated on the match below.
Dark Moonlight ducked, dodged, and dove between shots from his enemy. He returned fire as often as he could, but he had to admit, he was getting a little worn out. Konnor the Koopa was in a similar state. Balls whizzed by his head and he tried his best to move out of their path. Both competitors were exhausted, but neither were ready to admit defeat.
The crowd was on the edge of their seat, making bets and anticipating who would win this duel.
Larry spotted his brothers nearby and walked towards them.
"Hey, guys, either of you two seen Ludwig? I've been looking all over for him, but I can't find him."
Morton shrugged and Iggy only tapped his foot impatiently as he watched the game. Finally, he threw his hands up in exasperation.
"This is taking too long! It's time for the real action to begin!"
He turned to his smoothie machine and pushed a few buttons in a specific order. A secret panel slid open on the back of the machine and he pressed the button in it. Instantly, a long metal rod extended from the top of the machine and pointed vertically into the night sky. Iggy giggled maniacally as he pressed the button again. A cyan colored beam shot from the rod and towards the sky, making a straight path for the moon.
A few seconds later, a bright flash of light blinded them. When it had faded, the moon no longer looked like the moon.
Instead, a giant, spinning disco ball was in its place. Light reflected off of its surface and created elephant sized tiles of light that glided across the floor.
"What the heck?" Larry exclaimed. He was then pushed over by one of the partygoers. "Ow! Watch where you're-" he began, but stopped when he looked at his face.
The image of the disco ball was permanently imprinted in the Toad's eyes. He was dancing strangely, as if he was in a trance.
"It works! IT WORKS!" Iggy cried.
"What did you do, Ig?" Morton asked, staring at all of the guests who had suffered the same fate as the Toad.
"I've made all of these people minions against their own will! For no one can resist the power of dance! Everyone who drank a smoothie is now our slave! Now, we have an army of hip underlings who will do whatever we say! World domination, here we come!"
"Iggy!" Roy's voice boomed from the other side of the roof. He ran toward the other Koopalings, anger rising within him with each step.
When he had reached Iggy, he held him off the floor by his throat. "Why are we surrounded by hip zombies who won't stop shaking their booties? What did you do to my party!?"
Iggy struggled and grabbed at Roy's hand, trying desperately to free himself. He managed to choke out, "I...did what...you...said..."
Roy dropped him and Iggy gasped for breath. "What?"
When Iggy had finished taking a few deep breaths, he said, "You...you told me to make a doomsday machine...so I did..."
"I never said that, you idiot!"
"Really? During our meeting, I thought you said, 'Iggy, I want you to make the most mindblowingly awesome and efficient world domination tool ever, and I want it to be used during the party.'"
Roy face palmed. Iggy was always trying to make stupid things that would take over the world, even if he had to lie and make up excuses to create them.
"Just get rid of this thing!" Roy yelled.
Iggy only grinned and pressed a button on his remote. Nothing happened. He tried again. Still no response.
"Come on, you stupid thing..." he mumbled as he gave the machine a swift kick.
It shuddered and the whine of the laser changed, along with its color. A scarlet beam shot out instead, instantly changing the moon back to its original form...more or less. An ugly, freaky face was on the side closest to them, and it seemed to be getting larger. Soon, they realized that it was getting closer to them instead.
"Okay, my psychic powers are pretty powerful, but I know I did not do that..." Jet said as he stared at the menacing moon. "I'll try to use my powers to hold it back while you guys fix it!" Though even with Jet's powers opposing it, the moon still descended at a rapid pace. Bells began to ring slowly and ominously as their demise neared.
"Iggy!" Roy screamed, worry rising in his voice. "You gotta fix that thing, right now!"
"I'm trying, I'm trying!" he said as he took the scientific approach to solving all of his problems: mashing buttons and hoping it would fix things.
This only made things worse. Blue dots appeared near the moon's face and they quickly enlarged. Soon, tear shaped comets were falling around them, threatening to obliterate someone with each impact.
"Whoa." Konnor said, awestruck by the sight. "...does this mean the game gets called off?"
"No way!" Dark Moonlight shouted. "Nothing's gonna keep me from winning this game! Especially not the apocalypse!"
Konnor looked back at him, not to fond with the idea of being crushed by the moon.
"Look, man, this is getting out of hand. Let's just call it a tie and get out of here."
Dark Moonlight scooped a ball off of the ground and threw it at him in response. Konnor barely dodged it.
A particularly large moon tear crashed into the center of the dodgeball court, and they both froze. The wood splintered and cracked until it finally began to crumble away.
Konnor screamed in terror and fled back to the roof, Dark Moonlight chasing after him, trying to get a good shot. They both jumped and hopped as the floor gave way and fell far down below, threatening to take them with it.
Finally, just as Konnor was about to reach the safety of solid ground, a moon tear fell in front of him, making him stumble backwards.
"Gotcha!" Dark Moonlight exclaimed and launched the ball. It sailed out of his grasp and hit Konnor in the back of the head. The force from the ball sent him tumbling forward until he crashed into the machine.
It jumped and immediately changed its beam to a green color. The moon's face faded away and it was moved back to its original position in the sky. The meteors stopped falling too.
"What happened?" Roy heard the voice and turned to the Toad who had shoved Larry. He looked normal again, just a bit confused. Everybody else had been reverted to their regular state again, each asking about what had happened. Nobody really knew an answer, so they all just shrugged and went back to partying like nothing ever happened, not even questioning the fallen meteors.
Jet sighed in relief and looked back at the court, surprised to see the remains of it settled at the pool below, more than a few people groaning in pain after being crushed by the pieces.
"I guess this means that the winner of the game is...DARK MOONLIGHT!"
"Yes!" the Boo cheered and danced in victory, mocking Konnor. "Take that! I won! In your face!"
His gloating was wasted, however. Konnor was out cold, buried under the pieces of the smoothie machine.
Roy wiped sweat off his brow and sighed. That had been a close one.
"Oh well. Time to party again!"

7Z7Z7Z7

"Ah, Sasha, you beautiful little thing, you! I'm so glad we met!"
Rose sighed in frustration as she listened to Ludwig talk to his precious instrument. She had been sitting on Bowser's throne for the past half hour waiting for Ludwig to stop playing the piano and talk with her, but it didn't look like that was gonna happen. She got off of the fancy chair and walked towards him.
"Ludwig, are you sure you don't wanna try to get out of here? You heard those crashes outside. Something big could be happening, and we're missing it!"
He didn't even glance in her direction.
She glared at the stupid piano, despising its very existence. Then, she got an idea that would fix both of her problems. She smiled mischievously as she came closer to the piano.
"Oh, Ludwig? Do you mind if I take a closer look at the pi...uh, Sasha?" she asked innocently.
Ludwig gave her a suspicious look, but rose from his seat anyway and backed away to give her more space. "She's beautiful, no?"
Rose inspected the instrument until she finally found what she had hoped to see. Wheels on the bottom of its legs.
Ludwig noticed her staring at them and said, "Ah, yes, the wheels. Those will be perfect for me if I ever have to take her somewhere."
"Like to the door?" Rose said and pushed the piano to the other end of the room.
"Yes, yes! Like to the-wait, what are you doing?"
Rose rushed at the doors and slammed the piano into them. The back end of the instrument crushed and Ludwig gasped in horror.
"ROSE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" he ran at her, but she pushed him back.
"It's for your own good Ludwig!" Rose rammed the piano into the doors another time, then another time. With each strike, the doors opened a little more and the piano became more mangled and damaged.
Finally, the doors gave way and flung open. By that point, the piano was dilapidated and smashed beyond recognition.
Ludwig knelt down before it, tears in his eyes.
"Forgive me Sasha...I couldn't protect you..."
Rose felt a bit sorry for him. She hadn't wanted to hurt him, but at least this meant he was available again!
In fact, she was about to deliver a really corny pickup line before she was interrupted by three Koopalings.
"There you are, Ludwig!" Wendy exclaimed. "We were looking everywhere for you."
Just then, Roy, Morton, Iggy, Larry, Dark Moonlight, and Jet were walking by.
As soon as Roy spotted Wendy, he spun around and started walking the other way, casually whistling.
She grabbed him and dragged him back.
"Oh, Wendy!" he said nervously. "I bet you're wondering what's going on here. This is just a...study group? Yeah, that's it! We're just performing...experiments, for, you know...science..."
The parade of soda chugging Goomba Vikings and toga clad Koopas said otherwise.
"Oh, please don't tell dad!" Roy begged. "Please, please, please, please, please don't tell him!"
"Would you stop groveling for a minute? We have bigger problems!" his sister said as they returned to the group.
"Bigger problems?" Jet asked.
"Yeah! There's a monster coming to the castle to devour us all!" Jr. screamed.
This caught the attention of many party guests, each staring at the group with confused expressions.
Wendy frowned and herded the group into the throne room. Then she closed the doors behind them.
"What's this all about, Wendy?" Iggy asked.
She sighed. "Let me start from the beginning.

7Z7Z7Z7

FLASHBACK:

"Geez, that movie was really scary..." Lemmy moaned.
"I don't think we should have watched it..." Jr. was curled up in a ball, trying not to think about it.
"Would you two hush up! You're annoying me." Wendy said, trying not to show how uneasy she felt.
"So you were scared too, sis?"
"What? N-no I wasn't!" she replied unconvincingly.
Lemmy jumped at her and screamed at the top of his lungs, and she fell back, startled. Lemmy giggled as she got up, glaring daggers at him.
"Okay, so maybe it was a 'little' bit scary, but at least I'm not cowering like that wimp." she pointed at Jr. who was rocking back and forth, trying to convince himself that the monster didn't exist.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Lemmy said, walking to the window. "Now let's get some light in here. It's too dark."
He raised the blinds and was surprised to see that it was already dark outside. They had been watching the movie for longer than they had thought. He squinted outside, trying to distinguish the path to the castle and the forest from each other. After his eyes had adjusted, he noticed movement on the path.
A large, dark, slow moving figure was making its way up the path. It sort of looked like...
No, no! Lemmy shook his head. It couldn't be the monster from that movie! But just in case...
"Hey, guys. Check this out."
His siblings stood beside him and peered outside as well. He pointed out the figure, and Jr. shrieked.
"It's the monster!"
Wendy bopped him on the head. "Oh, knock it off! That's not the monster."
Lemmy ignored them, transfixed as the figure stopped beside a person.

7Z7Z7Z7

Bowser was starving. It had been hours since he had eaten anything, and his stomach was growling in protest.
He stopped limping up the castle path for a moment to admire a scarecrow his kids had made.
It wasn't anything impressive, but they had enjoyed working together to build it when they were younger, back when they all got along and didn't fight with each other every eleven minutes. A few days ago, the scarecrow's head had been blown into the lava lake during a storm. Bowser had gone out to throw the rest of it away, but his children had insisted that they keep it there. They were stubborn and refused for it to be thrown away, even though it didn't serve any purpose.
So Bowser had temporarily replaced the head with a watermelon until they could make another head.
He stared at it greedily, his hunger getting the better of him. He took it in his hands and smashed it, before realizing that he couldn't eat it due to the cobwebs over his mouth.
He growled angrily and threw the pieces on the ground, stomping up to the castle.

7Z7Z7Z7

"DID YOU JUST SEE THAT!? IT JUST KILLED SOMEONE! SMASHED HIS HEAD INTO A BAJILLION PIECES!" Lemmy yelled.
Jr. went back to his corner and curled into a ball again, whimpering in fear.
Lemmy turned to his sister, panicking and frightened. "What do we do? He's coming for us now!"
Wendy was equally scared. She had seen what had happened to the people in that movie, and now it had happened in real life.
'Okay, think Wendy, think! What did they do to fight the monster? How did they beat it!?'
Wendy couldn't think straight. 90% of what she remembered from the movie was the gorgeous Koopa, the other ten percent being the scenes of people dying. She couldn't remember how they had killed it.
"I guess we'll just have to try everything." she said. "Okay, I got an idea. Let's go find the others first, then we can talk about this!"

7Z7Z7Z7

BACK TO THE PRESENT:

"Seriously? That really happened?" Rose asked.
"Yes! And if we don't do something, we're all gonna die!" Jr. screamed again.
"Calm down, squirt. We got this!" Dark Moonlight said, a grin spreading across his face. "Let's just round up all of the party people and we'll fight this monster together!"
"That's...not a bad idea, actually." Ludwig said. "Very well! Let's make an announcement and fight this beast!"
A few minutes later, every partygoer had gathered in the foyer, their voices murmuring in confusion, wondering what was going on.
"May I have your attention!?" Roy's voice boomed through the microphone of the stage. The crowd looked up at him expectantly, and he spoke again.
"This may be hard to believe, but the castle is under attack. A monster is on its way here right now to eat every one of us!"
"Yeah, right! And I'm the tooth fairy!" somebody yelled out.
"Why should we believe you?" another shouted.
Roy thought quickly. He didn't have any proof. How was he going to gain their help?
"If you help us fight it...than everyone will get unlimited free smoothies!"
This got their attention.
"Free...smoothies? You mean those ones sold on the roof?"
"Yeah."
"Hot DAWG!" a Bob-omb cheered. "Those things are the BOMB! I'm in! Who's with me!?"
Every other voice resounded as one in a chant of agreement.
"Nice one, Roy." Larry said. "Those smoothies were mind control devices, and they're no longer in production! How are you gonna solve that?"
"Eh. We'll burn that bridge when we come to it."
The Koopalings divided everyone into groups and assigned them positions. Each person was briefed on the plan and given the tools they needed to carry out their mission.
When everything was in place, the Koopalings and their three friends huddled together, waiting for the monster to arrive.
"I sure hope this works." Morton said.
"It will. But it won't be easy." said Roy.
"All the better. I love a good challenge!" Dark Moonlight commented.
The front doors slowly opened, a large, dark figure standing in the opening.
"Looks like it's time." Jet said. "Let's go!"

Well, that was a fun chapter! I hope you enjoyed it. Next chapter might actually be the last chapter. Yeah, I know, this fic is short. Whenever I make a fic, I always seem to think that it's gonna be longer than it actually is, and this is no exception. But there's still another chapter to look forward to, so I'll update soon. Or maybe I won't. But I'll try to update somewhere close to November 2nd, which happens to be my birthday!

Anyways, stay tuned!