City of The Slushies | Chapter 22 | Quaraun The Insane (The PortCon Maine 2017 Novel)

City of The Slushies | Chapter  22 | Quaraun The Insane (The PortCon Maine 2017 Novel)

While Quaraun and Unicorn argued over wither or not Unicorn should be allowed to eat the captured Elves, GhoulSpawn took to asking each of the Elves their names, making a list, and then alphabetizing it. It was found that there were exactly 101 Elves who gave their names to be:

Abahtaur Dewglitter Borela Shiverwarp

Adezi Cairnrat Braidroot Chillcraze The Uncatchable

Afado Songsnake Ddahd Snowgibber

Afely Earthbard Eige Warpfreeze

Ahaniliub Blackfollower Elmfury Chillspawn The Ghast

Alanupars Songfang Blazekill

Aralohd Rodfletcher  Chillblink

Aselduin Streakjuggler Herbweed Ghastfreeze The Haunter

Ateries Gleamjester Angerspirit The Angry

Babalaat Bonewolf Hicya Evilflicker The Warped

Beregant Cairndash Madfreeze

Bivas Cairnspell Cursespring Hauntghast The Frigid

Blue Sunrise Alderthicket Goreflicker

Bubble Twirl Honeybraid Chillflicker The Evil

Cators Goldwarrior Twistspawn The Insane

Cedar Rocket Copseclaw Oozegibber The Skeletal

Cedartock Marrowleaf of Biontra

Cerednars Grintraveller Rageshiver The Evil

Copper Strike Mossshrub Freezespawn

Crystal Runner Maplewood Evilchill The Flash

Danattarh Dayzephyr Flaredream The Battler

Debovnez Stormfinder Gan Icefreeze

Delightful Neon Oddtrunk Furytear The Uncatchable

Dusenadl Ironstorm Evilfreeze

Edabail Shotpacer of Madcraze The Haunter

Ekire Bloodwound Veingrinder Foulfear

Elniub Silverfire Oldsprig Furyblink

Enesinien Battlefighter Evilshiver

Epdehr Highbranch Weedfury Ghoulcurse

Eroak Ratkiller Rowanvine Leafroot

Erokutuc Breakcarver Pinetooth Ripzap The Cold

Etciir Fightermolder Warpchill The Twisted

Eveon Moonbreaker of Conytedz

Fexikub Pearlfire Gorefreeze The Chiller

Foambloom Quicktimber Madfreeze The Berserk

Ganahhiir Brushjester Rotshiver The Cold

Gasanear Windstrike Madchill The Chiller

Heribanb Battlephoenix Snowflicker The Ripper

Hulheth Swampcutter Springfury The Worm-ridden

Ifinubat Silentdream Icebrood The Uncatchable

Ihilatuar Starhail Mindtrack The Quick

Ihisduhl Druidhider Murkmaw The Boss

Ileke Fighterbreaker Wildmane Ragechill The Violent

Inirida Hailseer Zapflicker

Ipnagr Lakecutter Zapcraze The Unstoppable

Irnitn Lowpanther Madsoul The Hateful

Jade Pepper of The Dark Blade

Jirarese Lapis Reader of The Fearful Sword

Kadte Longboar Madchill The Rotten

Kayofrur Vineclaw Winterwillow Snowspectre

Lanihnaen Gemjuggler Demonchill The Fallen

Lebifem Curseseer Brainwave

Lydi Grimtraveller Lakedream The Chiller

Lyro Doomsong Iceshiver The Decrepit

Madirbid Caveclaw Oceanmind The Drowner

Nabibhaor Battlearcher Armfrond The Bloody Dagger

Nacuner Songshooter Freezedemon The Ghoul

Nanahc Divemark Waterfang

Narahh Windbreaker The Hell-born

Nerunash Foxbrewer Bentchill The Insane

Nirdech Lancebreaker Freezeghoul The Damned

Nirlaog Starpotion Brownbeard of 

Noratlean Breezehare Aquabrood

Olrif Longbreaker Ghostghoul Ghostspectre Riverbrain The Frigid

Opal Swirl Farberry Crazefreeze The Crazed

Orlad Snaketwister Evilgibber

Pearlshores Twistgreed The Cadaverous

Pteganyt Akira Flamesnarl of Eiha

Quacola ReelmHerbfrond Flametool

Quadept Glassbuds Ghoulsoul The Haunt

Quallohaco Toothpacer Bentfreeze The Decayed

Quarotin Markthief Hazeltalon Crazetwist

Qui'Arrowknots Eviltwist The Rotting

Quidamerus Redvine Ghoulspectre The Ghost

Quorock Fighter Riverspawn The Cold

Rarar Hopewanderer Marrowsprig Souldemon

Razka Demonruler Bentfreeze The Mouldering

Rena Ivoryrod Shroudblow Icefreeze The Ghost

Rezusihe Wisedemon  Crazetwist The Frigid

Rhyme Sentry Mossash Crazerot

Riyonnas Ashsnake Evilbrood The Mouldering

Rock Shimmer Shockstone Iceghoul

Roti Cursejackal Seashiver The Frigid

Rugaih Dewstar Springlimb Oozegibber The Insane

Ruvebmad Pathhawk Icesoul The Hellish

Silver Shimmer Viletrack The Devourer

Spark Screw Smartbeast

Tanodgaib Reddruid Strangeleaf Shiverspawn The Demon

Taredohh Happybull Treeember The Quick

Tenoshiis Hammertracer The Hellish Executioner

Tileah Witvictor Shiverspectre The Evil

Tinarinu Gashdreamer Summershrub Seawave The Drowned

Utinpaar Watersinger The Vicious Serpent

Vadhahn Cloudshadow Shiverspirit

Wranohiiz Rodcurser Wandfury Waterdream The Drowned

Xarekexi Nightsinger The Howling Strumpet

Yratori Weaseltaker Snowdemon The Cold

Yratut Strongfighter Wisebramble Spirithaunt The Spectral

Zinak Redfighter The Bloody Knave

Zisp Rana Icerage of Losamon

GhoulSpawn read this list of names to Quaraun and Unicorn, but niether was listening to the Half-Elf, who sat down on the floor and began re-reading the list of names over and over again. After a while he stopped reading and looked up at the Elves. Then back down at the list.

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"Quaraun?" GhoulSpawn called out, trying to get the Elf's attention.

He wasn't listening.

GhoulSpawn got up and went over to Quaraun and poked him.

"What?" Quaraun yelled.

"You might want to look at this."

"What is it?"

"The names of these Elves."

GhoulSpawn handed the list to Quaraun. Quaraun glanced at the list.

"So?"

"You didn't read the names."

"Why would I?"

"I think you should."

Quaraun sighed and looked down at the list again, this time half pretending to read the names.

"What wrong wid names?" Unicorn asked looking at the list but not being able to read, saw nothing of importance.

"Do you not feel anything about this place?" GhoulSpawn asked. "Either of you?"

Quaraun looked up at GhoulSpawn and then back to the list. This time he started reading the names.

GhoulSpawn started pointing out the names and reading out loud only parts of them...

"Look... Shiverwarp, Chillcraze, Snowgibber, Warpfreeze, Chillspawn The Ghast, Chillblink, Ghastfreeze The Haunter..."

"They're Liches," Quaraun said. 

"Is dey?"

"Frost Liches."

"Why we no feel dat?"

"I don't know."

"That's why," GhoulSpawn said. "They responded to you. Why we couldn't fight them, but you rounded them up in seconds. You're a Necromancer with power over Liches."

"One hundred and one liches, all together? Why?"

"I think that's why the desert is frozen. That many frost liches in one area. They just froze the region. All the planets and trees died. Left nothing but a frozen desert behind."

"I think you're right. But, how do so many liches get in one place like this."

"I think this is some sort of prison. Not just this dungeon. I mean this whole place. This whole realm. It looks like a prison for liches, which would explain how you got here. He's a lich."

GhoulSpawn pointed to Unicorn.

"And it would explain," GhoulSpawn continued. "Why you arrived here with no memory and him with no powers. This place has some sort of hold over liches. These Elves, they don't know they are liches. They don't remember. Just like Unicorn. They arrived here with no memories."

GhoulSpawn looked at the pale, ghostly Elves, while Quaraun read the list again.

"I think," GhoulSpawn said. "This also explains the slushies."

"How does this explain the slshies?" Quaraun asked.

"Think about it. Liches don't need to eat. But they do any ways out of old habits of the flesh. No one in this place eats anything but slushies. And what are slushies?"

"Frozen, flavored ice."

"Exactly. And you can't survive on eating nothing but flavoured ice. Did you notice the people... they are Humans but they all say they can remember Bazooloo from hundreds of years ago. Humans don't live that long. And there are no children in this place."

"Every one here is a Lich."

"Everyone except Bazooloo."

"Slush Master Bazooloo," Quaraun muttered to himself. 

"Bazooloo is not what he says he is."

"He's a Thillid."

"All Thullids are psyion. He's a power hungry psyion."

"Then the Thullids are up to something."

"Bazooloo, must be a Necromancer."

"Bazooloo is a priest."

"A priest can become a Necromancer."

"But why hoard up liches? And why lock these up below the church while letting the others roam free?"

"These are insane. Twisted. Clearly they don't meet his purpose."

"Which is?"

"I don't know."

"So, Unicorn is here because of something that draws liches to this place. And you're here because I somehow wished for you. How did I get here?" Quaraun asked.

"You're soul bound to Unicorn, aren't you?"

"You know that."

"You have half of his soul in you. He has half of your soul in him. That makes you half lich."

"I'm a lich?" Quaraun asked. "I never thought of it that way before. I'm a lich."

"I think we have to get out of here."

"That's what I've been saying."

"No... I mean... I think, Bazooloo is up to something and he's gonna try to use you for something evil. And you need to be out of here before he tried doing whatever it is he's gonna try and do."

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this chapter is still being written.... this page will be updated when more of this chapter is available

Volume 59: The City of the Slushies

Quaraun and Unicorn wake up in a frozen desert, with no knowledge of where they are and memory of how they got there.

Assuming that they have once again been sucked out of their own time and space by yet another of GhoulSpawn's unstable portals, the two wizards set off to find a way back home, and come across a strange isolated Human city, where a squid-headed priest controls all the water sources, forcing people to worship his god or die of thirst.

Slush Master Bazooloo of the 8 Arms has brainwashed the citizens to depend upon the magical properties of the life giving slushies. Generations have passed since the last Human saw a natural water source, and with Bazooloo handing out Slushies only to those he deems worthy of living, the citizens have divided off into sects, each controlled by their devotion to one flavour of slushie.

When Unicorn shows the people how to make their own slushies and introducing new never before seen flavors, disrupting the belief in the mythical 9th flavour, he is seen by some as the Slush God whose coming was foretold and by others as a heretic sent by the evil Slush Maid to destroy Bazooloo's reign.

We interrupt this novel to bring you: Twerking Dragons! (Twerking Dragons, coming soon to a City of Slush near you.)

NOTE:
These are not finalized chapters.

What you are seeing here is the unedited first draft as it is being written. The published version may be vastly different.

Expect what is seen here to change, be added to, and expanded upon during the editing and revision process.

Some parts may read awkward, as a simple sentence may be being used as a "place card" for an entire scene. The sentence will later be changed to a full scene in the published version.

Fire and Pearls by Brett Pierce

The premise of this story was created in a brainstorm session workshop at PortCon Maine 2017, in a panel called "Foundations of Worldbuilding" by Brett Pierce.

A group of about 60 people collaborated to create the basic structure on which this story was built.

Thank you to everyone who was part of this workshop and helped to create this portal world for Quaraun and Unicorn to visit!

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I was in a 1-hour writing workshop last month and we were given the challenge to write a story based of a set of ideas that the group made together. The idea was to come up with a theocracy that was not evil and did not involve the worship of a deity.

In the end, we agreed to write this:

1. A Fantasy set in an isolated city in a frozen desert, where the people worship slushies, and the leader is a slushie seller who has been elevated to god-statues by the people due to their belief that magic slushies are sacred objects. While the Slush Master himself rules his theocracy peacefully, the members themselves have divided off into sects, each sect worshiping a different flavour slushie and shunning anyone who worships any other flavour. 8 flavours exist, but a mythical 9th flavour is said to soon be coming to save humanity. People in the surrounding countries refuse to do business with them, believing them to be insane, resulting in their complete and total lack of any trade or merchants.

I don't know if anyone else in the group has actually gone on to write a story based off this idea or not, but me, I'm 7 chapters into writing a novel based off this idea. It's fun to write because it goes against a lot of the norms you see in a fantasy theocracy. 

The world I'm dropping the story into is one I've already got several volumes published for.

The government system of the region is basically a group of wealthy, pompous bigot magic users (think, Ku Klux Klan, if they were Elf Wizards) who've declared every one who practices any form of magic (and you'd be surprised what they consider "magic" to be - like 1500s witch hunters they can "see" "magic" in everything, so long as it serves their purpose) without their permission, to be a traitor and must be executed. They started out as a wizarding guild, but then they killed off all the other guilds are are the only guild left (thus people refer to them simply as "The Guild"), they went on to over throw the government (a quasi-clanish-tribal-monarchy system) and declare themselves the law of the land.

I'm not sure what type of government you would call it - it's kind of like gangsters of the 1920s, where big bullies who can out bully the other bullies end up in power. Basically they are a gang style terrorist group that is slowly taking over all the governments.

They rule things similar to the Vogan in Hitchhiker's Guide, where they have documents and papers for everything and won't allow anyone to make a move without long lists of paperwork approvals and people who don't get the proper permits for something are executed. They are kind of terrorist/gangster/bureaucrats who are Elf wizards and basically want all none Elves dead ad all wizards who are not them dead because they don't want the competition.

So, tossing a wacky slushie worshiping theocracy into the mix... I don't know how the Guild is gonna react to that. They are used to overthrowing small "tribal" monarchies (not medieval style monarchies of kings in castles; rather I based them off the small clan kings of ancient pre-Celtic Scotland, which were very tribal). This'll be my first time writing them vs a theocracy and it ain't a traditional theocracy.

I have no plot, plan, or outline so no clue how this story is gonna end up going.

okay.... so according to this: https://www.pinterest.de/pin/305611524690656094/ (see image embedded below)

what I just described is a type of government known as a "Junta"

Junta: A group that takes control of the state after overthrowing the government by force.

Cool. Now I have a name for what type of government The Guild is.

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