Memento Mori

Memento Mori – Intro Post and Word Counts

: memento_mori_11; December 1st, 12:00

Keaalu's NaNoWriMo 2011

Hesger was once a gem of the Outer Rim; a young colony on a small forest world, important for its scientific prowess, and popular among holidaymakers for its beautiful scenery and health spas.

...all that was before the arrival of Hah'zeepti haemorrhagic fever. Released accidentally by one of the teams researching a cure, the bioweapon ravages the population, killing all but a handful of mutilated survivors, known as “blights”. The technological revolution collapses, the cities grow derelict, and electricity itself is but a distant memory.

It is on this quarantined world that Blink, a lovelorn robot girl trying to find a place to belong, finds herself, after being abducted by a group who wanted her expertise to break into the planet's largest science institute, but whose vessel crashed before they could get there. With a future that looks otherwise pretty bleak, a dying cross-dimensional being “gifts” her with a new body – a gift that is meant to help her survive, but feels more like a curse.

Blink must now come to terms not just with her new body and newfound mortality, but also that she may be trapped on this world for the rest of her life, with no way to even tell her family what has happened, and in constant danger from those who... don't precisely have her best interests in mind. Perhaps most importantly, however, she and her new friends must figure out the hidden extra that came with Frond's unwanted gift – a hidden extra that might just save the planet.

(Throw in some sentient bees, drug use, “werewolves”, and a confused lesbian trying to work out the meaning of life love and the universe, and... maybe it'll be a fairly ok read?)

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Wordcount widget – to be added when they have been configured on the NaNoSite.
Edit: 07/11/2011 - still no official widgets. :(
Edit: Official widget!

( Word-count Progress )

Current count:
OK, so I stopped uploading the count a while back, haha. So it's a bit of a jump (both in date and count, and target) from 14/11 to today (25/04):
25/04/2012: 125214 out of 200000

: memento_mori_11; May 7th, 16:15

( In spite of a day of hard work in the Library garden, the resident ghost hadn’t slept well at all. Sarmis woke before it had even got light, and after tossing and turning for a while, unable to get back to sleep, he simply lay muttering quiet invective to himself, wondering how it was that he’d managed to screw himself over yet again. )

131523 ♥ 200000

: memento_mori_11; April 23rd, 13:30

( Blink might have decided to trust that her little would-be saviours had good intentions at heart, but the further she followed the feeble glow from the lantern, the less sure she became that they weren’t unwittingly leading her into a worse situation than she’d been in moments before. Where the tiny creatures could walk almost upright with comparative ease, the fessine was reduced to an awkward squirm on her stomach. )

125214 ♥ 200000

: memento_mori_11; April 1st, 17:36

( A particularly noisy herd of hooting deer passing under her window roused Halli from an uncomfortable half-doze some time just before the sunrise. She glared resentfully down at them – as if her rest hadn’t been fragmented enough already, the roosting animals HAD to prod her out of the only good sleep she’d got so far. )

118695 ♥ 200000

: memento_mori_11; March 12th, 5:27

( With a dull headache and aching joints, Rae didn’t manage to get a whole lot of sleep. He sat in his window and watched as a surly grey dawn gradually broke over the landscape, the sun staying hidden behind a blanket of thick cloud. He couldn’t help thinking that on any other day, he’d have happily done the same – curl up under his blanket, and pretend there was no world outside his window for a little while longer. )

111467 ♥ 200000

: memento_mori_11; February 26th, 17:25

( Determined not to just roll over and give up without a fight – not to mention, barely able to sleep in her cold, dank cellar, needing something to keep her from spiralling into despair at her current predicament – Blink had busied herself during her waking moments with another ill-advised attempt at escape, working at the ribbons binding her wrists, rubbing and wriggling her pinioned limbs and trying to get the fabric to loosen. If only she could have reached the knots with her teeth! ~...and I definitely think it’s getting looser...~ )

104841 ♥ 200000

: memento_mori_11; February 12th, 15:41

( I really should have waited until I’d learned the map better before I ran, Blink considered, for the eighth time in as many minutes, dithering at a junction and struggling to catch her bearings. She didn’t remember it being so hard to navigate back home, even in the more derelict parts of her home district – or to get so thoroughly LOST, so EASILY, AND after taking what she thought were fair precautions to study the map before deciding to run. )

98965 ♥ 100000

: memento_mori_11; February 5th, 23:17

( Another morning dawned fresh and breezy, hazy with residual drizzle and the air smelling of fresh vegetation after an overnight shower, but Rae found himself unable to enjoy it. He and Halli had devoted all of the previous day to searching around the Library’s outside perimeter for clues to where Blink might have gone, but came up completely empty-handed and were forced to admit defeat as dusk began to deepen the shadows. )

92938 ♥ 100000

: memento_mori_11; January 21st, 18:52

( ''...Rae?'' ~ Ugh. ~ Why did his dreams always have to come alive when he had a hangover? Hoping that if he ignored it, the voice would go away, Rae grunted and tried fruitlessly to worm his way back into the dream he’d just been nudged out of. )

85407 ♥ 100000

: memento_mori_11; January 9th, 13:37

( Blink’s journey down the hillside and into the suburbs took a more tortuous route, trying every trick she could think of to break her scent trail and make herself difficult to follow, but she knew her pursuers couldn’t be far behind. Every time the wind changed directions, she could hear them talking, snapping at each other. They didn’t seem to be getting any CLOSER, but equally, she hadn’t completely lost them. )

(Temporary count) 77999 ♥ 100000

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Page Summary

Memento Mori – Intro Post and Word Counts
Chapter 26
Chapter 25
Chapter 24
Chapter 23
Chapter 22
Chapter 21
Chapter 20
Chapter 19
Chapter 18

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