Question Halloween Dance / Invasion Arc (In Search Of...)

*Please read the topic subject in your best Leonard Nimoy impersonation*

I've scanned through the forums and haven't found a topic that covers this. Perhaps, if there is interest, this topic could be 'stickied' for others searching out specific stories.

I recently started a re-read from the beginning, using the 'by publication date' list and have reached 'Devils Dance 1 & 2' however they end just as the fight actually starts. Before I go too much further, I'd really like to read the rest of Halloween 2006. It has literally been years since I last read those. Can anyone point me to the remaining story(ies) related to those events?

I remember the show fondly and I'll leave it at that.

As for Halloween story arc I point to the following whateleyacademy.net/index.php/forum/old-...istra-is-now-bannned . As I believe she is the creator of it.

As you have noted there are a lot of stickies but there is a lot of backdated info there as well. And as we all know time holds back nobody or old msgs. Unfortunately there is a lot of talk already about previous stories that have not been either completed/lost/or removed. You will find info if you look hard enough about characters that people are fond of but have in essence put on a plane/train/bus or slow moving trike. This was not because of wanting to but because of needing to with the creative authors having left for various reasons and the hope they would one day return. You will also find info of where readers have suggested others take over the mantel but there are several reasons such as ownership/creativity/ and just plain not wanting to due to new authors having their own characters here now.

This is not to say they won't but really can't because readers will find nuances that only the originator could effectively show. This is there to and has been stated many times over but alas it keeps coming back. Why? Sorry to say because people don't care to read older msgs and the numbers creep up exponentially as new stories are released.

So if you find any stories with said characters you favor they may only be for ref and so forth and so on. Its at time a touchy subject because for many of us all its painful.

Also as for creating 'New' topics that are unrelated I'm sure you'll understand why its not done fully. This is a site about Whateley and some various deviations to it. This is only blessed by the cabal I'm sure as things can get unruly when you have other stories that don't pertain to what the sites about. Oh don't take me wrong, there are a 'LOT' of off topics but they generally die out never to be looked at again.

And of course if your looking for specific stories and can't find them its either as I've stated above, removed, lost and so forth. One of the best offered areas to look is at ' crystalhall.wikia.com/wiki/Whateley_Academy_Wiki .' A lot of people put in their free time to keep it updated and expanded. Sir Lee being the foremost but many others, whom I applaud. To put up a list here would be useless as its like a stream and in constant motion.

Please don't knock the capabilities of the search engine that's been brought up also and unless you have time/experience/or money to which many have eluded to as its been said/kicked/beat and throttled. The people that provide you these stories do it as a labor of love, want and in some cases need. And as they say please don't knock what you get for free, because they are underpaid, overworked and malnourished at times as they put their creative thoughts to words and play.

So there you have it. Your not the first and won't be the last. Maybe perhaps a message such as this would be better served in the Public Announcements as a must read for returning readers and to hopefully slow down what many have said before.

cherokee43v6 wrote: *Please read the topic subject in your best Leonard Nimoy impersonation*

I've scanned through the forums and haven't found a topic that covers this. Perhaps, if there is interest, this topic could be 'stickied' for others searching out specific stories.

I recently started a re-read from the beginning, using the 'by publication date' list and have reached 'Devils Dance 1 & 2' however they end just as the fight actually starts. Before I go too much further, I'd really like to read the rest of Halloween 2006. It has literally been years since I last read those. Can anyone point me to the remaining story(ies) related to those events?

The Insanity Prerequisite stories tied in closely leading up to it and part 4 picks up where the Devil's Dance parts leave off...

here's a link for part 4
whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-t...-prerequisite-part-4

And, by the way, Tristra had absolutely nothing whatsoever with the writing of any canon story. The "Halloween" stories that were mentioned in one of the messages quoted were fanfics she authored, NOT canon. Since I haven't actually read those fanfics, I don't know if they even have anything to do with the Whateley Halloween 2006 Attack. As far as I know, they might have been about her fanfic character manifesting during Halloween sometime in the Nineties, or something like that.

I'd advocate a thread title change for clarity, if we're changing topics... *sigh*, I'm blind. Or that just occurred.

The arc should probably be called the Halloween Dance Arc, or the Invasion Arc, as its mainly about the Invasion, and Eldritch and stuff, are Aftermath, which goes on for a while...

The point here was not to start a whole discussion on this specific story arc. It was a request for specific information. Information that the second respondent provided in a clear and simple answer.

The other portion of the original post was a recognition that there are no easily found threads where this type of question could be asked and a suggestion that this could be such a thread for those with a question on finding a particular story quickly (when they cannot remember the author/title) without having to spend hours wading through hundreds of posts and multiple (and many times unknown) alternate source sites.

The old Crystal Hall community was actually EXCELLENT at this. I find that I am becoming rather disappointed with the current community.

Cherokee43v6/Starbuck
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^ - Hmm... I'd wonder how many of us made the transition, and hazard to place more fault at the inabilities of our technologies.

Kirstin is doing the best she can, I'd say, its just that what we've got, can't compare to what we had?

The previous separation of forums and stories, made us think differently about navigation between both.

Yes, but the reason that the previous forum had those threads in the first place was primarily that they began as the active discussion threads at the time the events were published. Very few threads here are discussing the older storylines, because, well, they happened before this forum was created.

This isn't to say such a discussion can't be re-started here, and some have. I think that a lot of those reading this assumed that this was what Cherokee43v6 was trying to do, even if they started simply by asking which story was the follow up to "The Devil's Dance".

As already stated, this would be "Insanity Prerequisite, Part 4" , which is part of the larger Sara story arc started in "A Simple Game" ; the first , second , and third parts of "Insanity Prerequisite" cover the events after Team Kimba's confrontation with the Goths and the Whateley Academy Martial Arts Cheerleaders.

You might be wondering why this is the case. Well, the truth is, "The Devil's Dance" was a side-story, not the main story. The Halloween Invasion arc was part of the larger story arc about Sara's struggle with the part of herself that was The Kellith, as well as the conflicts with Rev. Englund and the Goobers. "The Devil's Dance" was written to give the perspectives of people who weren't directly involved in that storyline, but who were inevitably affected by the invasion at its culmination, in the moments before the invasion began.

To really understand what was going on in the Halloween Invasion, you would have needed to read the earlier parts of "Insanity Prerequisite", but for anyone not interested in the Carmilla stories, that wasn't really necessary - until the Invasion itself is underway, because the course of that is tied directly to Sara's story.

The invasion itself is entirely in IP4, and without having read most of the earlier parts of IP, there are key sections of it that won't make sense.

To those I have offended I appolgize. I was not trying to overstep any bounds, but like I have always done, I did. And as I usual do I did so in my usual fashion. Most of what I had written is wrong as I usually am 8/10 times hence why I usually don't comment like I once had. I should have known better and will leave this site to those that have better communications skills than me.

I'm tired of being the fool even in jest so with no further adieu I will take my leave.

OK, so we had a tag for the Halloween stories, but I hadn’t yet managed to tag the Renae stories with it yet. Now fixed, you can access all the Halloween stories by clicking on the Halloween Invasion tag.

E M Pisek wrote: To those I have offended I appolgize. I was not trying to overstep any bounds, but like I have always done, I did. And as I usual do I did so in my usual fashion. Most of what I had written is wrong as I usually am 8/10 times hence why I usually don't comment like I once had. I should have known better and will leave this site to those that have better communications skills than me.

I'm tired of being the fool even in jest so with no further adieu I will take my leave.

I quoted you in whole so you would know I'm talking to you.
So: a) please stay, if only as a bystander. b) I've seen a lot of your posts on active stories and find you are insightful rather than inciting. c) Please do not take criticism so personally. That is one big difficulty we have with online forums. People (myself included) tend to take any criticism as a personal attack on themselves.
The above said in c) People, we need to be careful with our words and not make what is not personal into a personal thing. That is why we strive not to discuss whether or not we are flaming socialists or flaming anarchocapitolists....

First off, let me absolutely and uncategorically state that I have nothing but respect, admiration and love for the work that you put in, often thanklessly, to bring this site to us. My comments were neither aimed at you nor the mechanics of the site.

My comment about the 'community' centers on the fact that a simple question's first two responses were an attack on the location of the question and an immediate 'like' of said attack by another patron. You will notice in the logs that I also almost immediately thanked the patron who provided the requested answer to the question. I will admit that I did report said first reply to the mods as I felt it was an inappropriate reply to the request for information.

At that point I left the forums to READ said story, only to come back afterwards to find the whole thing had blown up like a random path crossing of the Alphas with Team Kimba.

A community is not a location, it is people. And while I know that the old community wasn't all roses and puppies, I recall us being rather better than that.

I sincerely apologize if I have ruffled peoples feathers with this, but I choose not to be a doormat.

cherokee43v6 wrote: A community is not a location, it is people. And while I know that the old community wasn't all roses and puppies, I recall us being rather better than that.

The nostalgia effect. The old community got so bad at times that it literally drove some of the canon authors away (some of whom have not been heard from since, even in other groups or universes) and caused some significant trauma to some authors. On the other hand, there were times when everything was great.