Sunday, May 23, 2010

Pendragon: pgs.354-370 (chp.28)

Gars are no longer allowed inside cities on Eelong. That is, unless they're dead. Yeah, the klees are allowed to eat gars. Also, Leeandra (Kasha's home city) is now the Ravinian capital city on Eelong. Anyway, Bobby has to act dead to get inside Leeandra. Kasha brings him in on a wheelbarrow. When they get to a safe place Bobby is reunited with is other klee friend, Boon. Boon tells Bobby how Ravinia took over Eelong and how the gars' rights were instantly taken away. Boon says that the klees have been assembling an army to march on Black Water. Boon takes Bobby and Kasha to see the army, but when they get there, the army isn't there. They've already started their march toward Black Water.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Pendragon: pgs.329-353 (chp.26 and 27)

(On a side note, I guess I forgot to mention that the dados look like Mark. This is because he invented them in another book which you'll have to read if you want to fully understand this concept.) Mark tells Bobby that Nevva Winter put a group of dados in charge of protecting Mark until he leaves. Elli runs off to try and find her daughter and Bobby chases after her. When he catches up to her, he sees her and Nevva calmly embraced on a park bench. Nevva tries to explain to Bobby that her saving Mark doesn't change anything, but Bobby knows better. Bobby's logic finally starts to get through to Nevva, when Saint Dane comes out of nowhere and stabs her in the back. Bobby immediately goes on the offensive and attacks Saint Dane, but he escapes. A moment later, Bobby's attention turns toward Nevva who is on the ground literally flickering away. In a desperate attempt to get information, Bobby asks Nevva where the Exiles are. Just before fading away forever, Nevva whispers, "Black Water". Therefore, Bobby decides he must go to Eelong, and back to Black Water.
And so, with that, Bobby takes a step and arrives on Eelong...right in the middle of the jungle. Oh, and to make matters worse, he's attacked by a tang (a dinosaur-raptor-like creature). After running for a long time, Bobby climbs up a tree, but the tang camps out right under him. While this is happening, a gar (gar is the word for human on Eelong) comes out from the brush and makes the tang obey him by using a dog whistle. Bobby finds this strange because last time he was on Eelong, tangs ate gars. Later, he finds Kasha, the Traveler from Eelong, who is a klee (pretty much a talking panther). She tells Bobby that there have been many changes to her home territory...

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Pendragon: pgs.301-328(chp.24 and 25)

Bobby decides it would probably be a good idea to save his best friend before he (meaning Mark) is executed. Expectedly, he is expecting that Saint Dane expects him to make this move. The room that Bobby and Elli are in is locked and the widows are too high up to reach. Bobby decides it's time to use his supernatural Solara powers. He concentrates really hard and turns into a gas (hehe, it's like he turned into flatulence, because he concentrated and... oh, never mind). He seeps under the door and turns back to normal on the other side... just to be met by a dado. He has surprise on his side, so he wins easily. He tells Elli to go back to Solara and tell Uncle Press what they've seen. Bobby puts on the dado's clothes and goes. When he gets outside the Taj Mahal, he sees a crowd gathering in front of it. Saint Dane is on the front stage, of course. Mark is also there. He is going to be executed by hanging. Bobby desperately breaks through the crowd to save his friend. When he gets close to the platform, he starts mowing down dados with a wand-weapon. He reaches the stage...just as Nevva Winter throws the switch, and Mark falls to his death. Bobby goes insane with rage only to be held down by some dados. He and Elli are taken away by some dados. As they're walking down a hall, Bobby sees Mark's dead body hanging from the rope. Suddenly, their dado escorts are attacked by a group of six other dados and destroyed. Turns out, the six dados are actually six guerillas. And whadd'ya know, one of them... ... ... ...is Mark.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Pendragon: pgs.274-300 (chp.22 and 23)

...Bobby, Mark, and Elli are attacked by a group of dado security guards while snooping around in a dado factory. They hide within the army of deactivated dados and use the needle-in-the-haystack technique. Suddenly, Bobby sees a dark figure up in the dado control room. Suddenly, their technique isn't such a good one. The entire dado army springs to life and closes in on the three. Fortunately, these dados aren't armed. Unfortunately, the guy in the control room is. Elli is knocked out cold from a static-charge shot by the guy. Mark is next. Then Bobby.
Bobby wakes up to find that they are in another room. Nevva Winter is there. After talking to her, Bobby finds out that she has no idea about the dado army. Then, unexpectedly, Saint Dane comes in. Also, Elli wakes up. Nevva questions Saint Dane about the army she hadn't been informed of, which catches him off-balance. Saint Dane pretty much avoids answering this question, but does say that he knows where the Exiles are. Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that he sentences Mark to death and takes him away...

Pendragon: pgs.250-273 (chp.21)

That night, Bobby, Mark, and Elli try to get some sleep. Before this, though, Bobby briefly explains the concept of Solara to Mark and why the Exiles are so important. The next day the three go to a factory outside the Conclave, which is where the guy who died in the gunship had just come from. Bobby wants to see what the guy saw. They take dado-killing rifles with them. Inside they find a whole fleet of brand-spanking-new gunships. They also find something that they hadn't expected- thousands upon thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of deactivated dado soldiers, ready for battle. In their daze, the three are attacked by some dado security guards...


(Sorry for the shortness of this entry, most of the chapter is descriptions.)

Pendragon: pgs.223-249 (chp.19 and 20)

Sorry about the long span of empty time, I was having computer troubles. You may need to reread some entries to refresh your memory. Nevertheless, let's begin. Bobby, Spader, Loor, and Saangi have just found Elli Winter (the Traveler from Quillan) in an imprisonment camp where the Batu tribe of Zadaa are being held. She is helping sick people in an infirmary. She tells them that she went to Quillan and there were no Exiles there. She also says that there are no longer any Exiles on Zadaa. In another conversation, Bobby says that he's noticed that Nevva hesitates when given orders by Saint Dane. He thinks that she may actually have some humanity left in her and Elli may be able to help her. Bobby and Elli go to Third Earth to be greeted rudely by a crashing gunship. Mark is there and he rushes over to the downed gunship where one of the guerillas is in a very bad condition. As the guy is dying, he tells Mark that the Ravinians found the rest of the Exiles, but he doesn't know where. Later, Bobby, Mark, and Elli decide they are going to the Conclave.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Penragon: pgs.200-222 (chp.17 and 18)

Welcome back, faithful reader. Let us continue. Bobby decides that Loor, Spader, Saangi, and he need to go to Mooraj, where there may be exiles being held hostage. Loor and Saangi steal four horses from some dados and the group heads toward Mooraj. They eventually make it to Mooraj, but see that the place is heavily guarded by dados. Ravinia is definitely hiding something in there. They find an underground tunnel entrance off to the side that isn't guarded. Turns out, it's flooded. Loor and Saangi say that there are "transfer trains" down the tunnel (which happens to be directly below Mooraj). Spader, since he's an awesome swimmer from living on Cloral, swims down the tunnel to look for the trains. Not surprisingly, he comes back with a fully operational train. They eventually make their way to the other side of the tunnel. When they enter Mooraj, they don't find the exiles. Instead they find the entire Batu tribe. They are all in a terrible state. Loor and Saangi go out into the crowd of people to find out what they can while Bobby and Spader stay in a hut. They eventually find Elli Winter, the traveler from Quillan, working in the infirmary...