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I am still alive.
Next season is coming all at once, I’m getting it finished and proofread in entirety before posting. So it’ll be awhile. Not abandoned!
No chapter tonight either
Essay to write, speech to prep, math test to hopefully pass
Weekly uploads moved to saturdays
Friday is my only psudo-day off and I tend to avoid spending time on anything worthwhile.
Where you been, yo?
Rereading the story, ATM. The chapter as it stands is serviceable, but a little disconencted, and I’m rereading what I’ve done since starting the rewrite so that it’s a little bit more inspired.
Chapter tomorrow
Don’t have time tonight
No episode tonight
Got an essay that needs writing. Look for it Sunday, probably.
Alright, here's a fantastic poster for the three prologue episodes, drawn by DarthAnYang! We intend to get a poster drawn for every new episode as it comes out, and the poster for the latest one is already on its way!
Chapter later tonight
Sorry I haven’t been reviewing much. We’re both busy, it looks like. I just wanted to let you know I am reading and loving your story. And I have more suggestions, of you’re still interested. As always, I can’t wait for the next update.
Thanks anon. For those wondering, no chapter for this week. It’s about 2/3rds written but I still have editing to do on it as well and I’m almost surely not going to have time tomorrow.
So look for it next Friday!
No preview tonight
Chap may or may not come tomorrow.
Sorry, busy life. Sorta. 70% busy life, 30% minecraft addiction because I am a child at heart.
EP 1: Dead Powers Rising 2 - School of the Dead
Janna awoke to screaming and chaos in the distance, but couldn’t be sure it wasn’t just the ringing in her ears. Then two thoughts came rushing in:
1. She was definitely not at her desk like when she normally fell asleep at school.
2. Unless the book had been coated in choloroform, not only had she just cast a spell, but she hadn’t even been awake to see what happened.
She looked up and saw Marco barricading the door in a frenzy, and what spell she had cast finally clicked into place in her brain. Those screams definitely weren’t her imagination...
This week, Janna gets to live through the very real, very nightmarish consequences of deciding to defy nature’s laws. Remember when I said last week that I was just going to reedit the first chapter?
Yeah, we’ll see how that goes.
Great chapter this week. I was just wondering if you guys are still trying to emulate the episodic format of the show or doing your own thing seeing as the pilot's a two parter. (Also, is there on update on the discord?)
We’re moving away from it. The stories will still be organized into ‘episodes’ but each one of those episodes will be anywhere from 3-5 parts, and overall will range from slightly-longer than the OG length (rare) to anywhere from 3-8x the length of what was established previously.
Think of it less like following a western cartoon story format, and more like it following the story format of a Japanese anime. Like when Saitama fights Boros or the Deep Sea King in One Punch Man, or, better yet, Jojo fighting the final pillar man, or even better, the entire Naturals Election arc for Kill La Kill. It’s one plot spread over multiple episodes, not particularly self-contained but still somewhat segmented by nature.
Make sense? No. Darn.
I’ll PM you a link to the discord. If anyone else wants one, holler at me - frankly I’ve only kinda been keeping track of the few of you who’ve asked.
Janna Vs The Forces Of Darkness - Dead Powers Rising - Part 1
Is now up for your perusal.
Check it out here:
FF.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12180355/33/Janna-Vs-the-Forces-of-Evil
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20547362/chapters/48774269
No this entire rewrite wasn’t just so I could use the spiffy collection features on AO3, shut up.
Ep 1: Dead Powers Rising 1 Preview
It was Saturday afternoon and Janna, to her greatest displeasure, was still at school.
She’d been on-campus without other students around before, of course, so the empty corridors weren’t a new sight for her. But when she would’ve normally been sabotaging classrooms or ‘improving’ the mascot statue out front, she was instead under the watchful eye of the school janitor as they scrubbed down the halls, scoured bathrooms, cleaned desks, and generally did dozens of other things that Janna would’ve normally rather caused than repaired.
She was still wearing her charm around her neck, as an ever-present reminder of why she was stuck doing labor to begin with. She’d tried using it on Skullnick, her sister, Marco, and even her best friend Jackie Lynn Thomas, to no avail. Whatever it had done had, apparently, been a one time thing.
Still, it never hurt to keep trying…
She’d been left to clean a girls’ bathroom, while her overseer cleaned the boys’. It was a blessing in disguise - thinking so intently about the necklace helped her avoid scarring herself by having to think about what she was actually doing.
The Janitor entered with his mop and bucket as Janna finished her own room (having learned quickly that it was better to do the job fast). She could hardly smell anything but bleach, which was completely for the better.
The janitor nodded in approval, but didn’t smile. He never smiled. “Next,” he only said.
Janna sighed deeply. It was now or never! ...Again.
She held her necklace up and looked the older man dead in the eyes. “Actually, I want you to let me go early,” she ordered, and the Janitor didn’t so much as blink.
“I’m sure,” he said. “Come on, we’ve got the entire cafeteria to do next.”
“I need you to let me leave.” Janna raised her voice slightly. The effect was noticeable in the otherwise-quiet bathroom.
The Janitor sighed and dropped his bucket, then turned back around. “Listen kid.” He said. “You don’t want to be here. I don’t want to be watching you. But you’ve caused as many of my headaches as the rest of the school combined. Deal with it.”
Then he left, and Janna gathered her supplies before following. It was all she could do to keep her teeth from grinding in frustration as she did.
The worst part of the experiment, she’d decided, was that she couldn’t be totally sure that the charm had actually worked to begin with. Marco had definitely acted like something happened, which was why he’d chased her so determinedly - but she hadn’t felt the effects herself… and as time went on and her failures mounted, the sparkle in her memory had started to seem less and less obvious.
So if it was magic, it wasn’t working. But did real magic just run out? The necklace had sat in a dusty crypt for hundreds of years - would its batteries go dead like that? Maybe it wasn’t really magic… but if it wasn’t, why had Marco acted the way he had?
Only worsening this problem was that Marco himself was doing everything he could to avoid talking about ‘that.’ Any time Janna brought it up to him (which was basically every opportunity she could), he either changed the subject or else quickly walked away.
This was, in itself, not a new phenomenon - topics garnering similar reactions included Marco’s overly obvious crush on her best friend, and a few of the more embarrassing favors he’d asked of Janna over the years. Topping the list was, of course, the myriad of pressure points surrounding his ‘safe-kid’ reputation, the most famously well-known being when he’d decided a bicycle helmet had been an appropriate just-in-case for an after-P.E. shower.
Still, having it applied to information she so desperately needed to confirm was maddening.
At this impasse, she joined the janitor in the cafeteria as they began stacking tables, picking up stray trash, and mopping floors. She reached for her phone to check the time, and found it flashing a low-battery icon. Setting her jaw, she decided that the necklace must be going through something similar - it had a dead magic battery… somehow. A charging session was in order.
If I can’t charge it tomorrow, she decided, I’ll give it up. I mean, if it actually was magic, there’d be other magic stuff out there, right?
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See you all tomorrow.
EP 1: Dead Powers Rising 1 - Dumpster Diving For Fun And Profit
Despite the action-packed events of the previous week, a sense of normalcy has once again settled over Echo Creek, with only Janna’s community service and a few rapidly fading bruises to remind her of what happened. Despite this, she can’t get the charm’s seemingly-magical effects out of her head, trying everything to get it to work once again.
Only, her community service also proves to be a boon - as what she finds in the dumpsters behind the school will change her life forever...
This week will highlight what you should expect for new content going forward, through the remainder of what I’ve written already thus far. I’m not going to break the first real chapter of the story apart, but instead, expand on it from either side, while reediting it to expand the core story as its center. Overall, this will easily triple, or even quadruple the length of the story - but do so by expanding on what’s there, rather than continuing a march forward. It’ll help tie the episodes together better, and give more time for Janna and Marco to be themselves outside the action.
Excited to get started!
Janna Vs The Forces Of Darkness - Prologue 2 - Marco
Is now available for you to read!
You can read it here -
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17421428/chapters/48574886
FF.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12180355/32/Janna-Vs-the-Forces-of-Evil
Enjoy! See you monday.