Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 The Chesire Cat is an unreliable guide to the worlds beyond the Wardrobe. He's here, he's gone, oh there he is, nope… Therefore the title for my piece is Misguided Youth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 Option: Book cover art: Sea Storm and Shipwreck (oil on wood) by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich Best available version I've found on line is here And our title is: Death of a Fleet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 Of course, no tale of Regency-era romance and intrigue would be complete without a proper estate for the happy couple to live happily ever after in. Well, this estate isn't exactly proper. There's something...well, unnatural about it. But it's what they'll have to work with. Option: Manderley Estate in Cornwall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 Option: Hercule Poirot Title: Murder on the Seussical Express Old Man and Cancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted March 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 5 hours ago, Logan.1179 said: "You can fly?" "Sometimes," said the little girl. She smiled as she floated lazily in the air. "If I have fairy dust." Hermione scrunched her face in disapproval. Fairies were bad business as far as she was concerned. "That's amazing," said Violet. "Indeed," said the cat as he flew in a loop up to meet Wendy's face. "I never met a flying girl before. Do you like tea?" "I adore tea!" she said happily as she bounced in the air. "Too bad we don't have any tea," said Frodo, not for the first time, or the last. "Oh," said Wendy sadly as she sank to the ground. ------- I wasn't going to go this direction, but with my last option pick she's still here, so I select Wendy Darling from Peter Pan. Title forthcoming. Wendy first appeared in the play. No good. oddly enough, Peter Pan is legit, because he first appeared in an earlier novel that wasn't really about him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 Title: A Ring for A Sorcerer. I'm spending the night at work mulling over my last option ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 27 minutes ago, Sociotard said: Wendy first appeared in the play. No good. oddly enough, Peter Pan is legit, because he first appeared in an earlier novel that wasn't really about him. Play? What play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted March 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 Barrie returned to the character of Peter Pan as the centre of his stage play entitled Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, which premiered on 27 December 1904 in London. Barrie later adapted and expanded the play's storyline as a novel, published in 1911 as Peter and Wendy. There was a novel first, but Peter was just a cameo. He was still a baby flying around Kensington Gardens after fairies taught him how. Wendy and Neverland and Hook and the rest of the mythos don't appear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted March 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 There was a Johnny Depp movie about the writing of the play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 So at some point, someone wrote a screenplay for a movie about a play that inspired the novel that inspired the film? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted March 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 Yes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Sociotard said: Wendy first appeared in the play. No good. oddly enough, Peter Pan is legit, because he first appeared in an earlier novel that wasn't really about him. Really? Well, learn something new everyday. Now, where did i put that backup character i had... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 Option Jim Hawkins from Treasure Island. A true adventurer joins the group! Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 Almost, not quite, sniped. He was on my list and then I found a couple of others. Good pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 Poe's writings on the Unruly Girls ends here lost... unfinished, or perhaps never started. Puss in Boots was on his last life about to pass away from an arrow wound delivered by Susan's madness and archery. Baba Yaga's cried in pain as Pippi and a giant Alice tried to pull the old witch apart like taffy. And... in all this, a desperate Mary Poppins does the unthinkable to save the children, grabbing the monkey's paw and wishing that what ever dark hold was over them be broken! Edgar Allan Poe was meant to live a long life of near a century, during which he would take characters from beloved stories of others, create some before others could, and work on a manuscript in what some would today call 'fan fiction', but as in the bowels of Fantastica, the place where our world and stories touch, the paw is used... he finds himself dying at age forty, crying out "Lord help my poor soul!". While Alice, Dorothy, Pippi and Susan would instead be remembered far differently.. some would say as they should be. And numerous works of dark wonder are lost. And the price would not end there. In this new reality, Mary Poppins, despite her true creator's wishes, would end up with her very image forever in the grip of Disney- not a fate for the faint of heart and not always pleasant. And with her own memory of her desperate wish lost... and old woman , muttering in Russian, walks along the woods and looks for a lost monkey's paw. Picking it up, she calls for her Hut. Her new Familiar in his fine boots behind her. Option: Setting Fantastica (AKA Fantasia in the film but not in the book- Neverending Story) Option: The Fourth Wall is broken long enough to save the day at a great cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted March 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 I actually read fantastica! Good book. And Falcor's introduction made more sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 On 3/13/2020 at 12:49 PM, Bazza said: UOption: Co-authors (George Orwell, & Richard Adams). Emily Bronte wrote the manuscript. George Orwell took a pass through it and rewrote parts of it in his ‘voice’, still left it in manuscript form. Richard Adams found it, rewrote it in his ‘voice’ and published it as “Fiver & Company”. The genre of the story is “gothic tragedy”. Part Wuthering Heights, part Animal Farm, and part Watership Down. Title: Fiver & Company”. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 I need two picks and a title. I am picking Jane Marple as my last hero, and Mrs Seeton as my last optional character . The title is going to be a train bound to nowhere Title: A Train Bound To Nowhere Author: Walter Gibson Character: the old man in the corner (The Case of Miss Eliott) Character: Professor Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine) Character: Nick Charles (The Thin Man) Character: Father Brown (The Innocence of Father Brown) Character: Lord Darcy Character: Mr. Harley Quin (The Mysterious Mr. Quin) Character: Jane Marple Option: The Orient Express (Murder on the Orient Express) Option:Nora Charles (The Thin Man) Option: Mrs. Seeton Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 Option: Secondary Setting, The Dreamlands (H.P. Lovecraft). Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted March 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Hmm, better fill out my list: Character: Lili "Alice" (The Alice Network) Character: Adela Quested (A Passage to India) Option: President Earl Warren (Second Contact) Option: The Midwich Cuckoos (The Midwich Cuckoos) Story summary: The Martians invade in the thick of WWI. They colonize, rather than exterminate. This novel is set in the early 60s, and the Martians are leaving. The Narrator is interviewing people to generate an oral history of the occupation. This includes reports of the Martians psychically feasting on prisoners. The Martians are leaving now, and it seems rather sudden. They claim to be satisfied we will be done with our 'inter-tribal warfare', but there is a rumor that their feeding eventually had a side effect: children with terrifying mental powers. The odd thing is that people who spread these rumors too openly, suddenly recant or claim no memory of having said anything. Mankind is free now, or is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Dear Exalted Commissioner, my lowly title is missing from my humble listings ... Sociotard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted March 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 Great game everyone! I'll make a vote thread next week. Here is a copy of Fahrenheit 451 that requires heat to read Logan D. Hurricanes and Pariah 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 Oh, I forgot about this. Stand by. Sociotard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 Do your best, and do it fast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 Right, here we are then: Option: The Da Vinci Code Option: The Celestine Prophecy Option: The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) Title: The Correct Answer Is... Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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