24.5.2002

Ender: Well, first of all there's obviously a new layout for the entrance and contents pages. Like it? Made it myself. ::bows to applause:: Anyway, the big news is that...::drumrolls:: the Ender's Game movie has a director and a studio! Wolfgang Petersen, who has also directed The Neverending Story as well as other Hollywood movies, will be directing Ender's Game as soon as he's finished with his next movie and Orson Scott Card finishes the script. Warner Brothers will be releasing the movie. ::grins:: And even better! Shadow Puppets will be out this August 17 (Peter's birthday!) and the first three chapters are up for preview on the Hatrack River. ::jumps up and down cheering:: I'm so ecstatic! (By the way, this next book has, among other developments, Ender's mother's name. Theresa Wiggin. How dull.) Oh my goodness. And Fresco Pictures is promising to release video games before the movie comes out! Guess who's going to be hooked on Peter's Playstation? In any case, my siblings aren't here right now, but I needed to share the news with anyone who didn't know already. I'm going to be on a high for the rest of the day.

21.9.2001

Peter: Well first, let me tell everyone that today is the little one's sweet sixteen. And secondly, let me tell everyone that September 7th was the other little one's birthday. (If you're confused on whose birthday was whose, you are pitiful, and you shouldn't even call yourself an Ender's Game fan. I mean think about it, who's older, Valentine or Ender?) And most importantly, let me tell everyone that I am doing this update by myself, risking Ender and Valentine's wrath. (I'm also endangering myself to much editing, but oh well.) Well, I can't wait to see my siblings' faces when they realize there's a new update and that none of them were part of it. And let me just inform you that this is the first update that Ender is not a part of. Muahaha! (You can go and look through all our conversations, and see that this statement is true.) Well, as for an update, there's nothing new; the site is still the same as before. Just wanted to inform the world of Valentine and Ender's birthdays.

18.8.2001

Ender: Ho Peter!
Peter: Excuse me?
Ender: ::sighs:: Never mind. Oh, by the way, happy 16th birthday. For everyone who wants to know, Peter's birthday was yesterday, the 17th of August. And he still hasn't taken over the world yet.
Peter: Shush up!
Ender: ::smirks::
Peter: We still have updates to put up, you know. I'm sure they don't want to hear us babbling around like this. Well, I want to announce that I finally have the chance to announce the updates! Because of some people who like to hog the keyboard, I never got the chance to announce it all on my own before.
Ender: It's not our fault that you're slow.
Peter: Excuse me!
Ender: You're excused! ::looks innocent::
Peter: ::grumbling:: Anyway, we have finished quotes from Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Ender's Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon. Also, the Launchies section has an FAQ section and the Toon Leaders has new top tens. Go see, go see!
Ender: By the way, the quotes have a lot of typos, but don't worry, they'll be fixed soon.
Peter: Not my fault. I'd like everyone to know that Valentine has gone on a trip without her two brothers. This is further proof of how cruel and evil she really is.
Ender: Hey!
Peter: Why are you saying "Hey!"?
Ender: She's supposed to be the sibling that I like. While you are the sibling that I'm supposed to hate.
Peter: ::sniffs::
Ender: Don't worry, I don't really hate you. Orson Scott Card made me that way.
Peter: That sniff was because I have a cold, you butthead.
Ender: ::rolls eyes:: Yeah, right.
Peter: Eh, you're still a butthead, don't worry. Oh look, Battle School language!
Ender: Used incorrectly. "Eh" means "yes."
Peter: Oh, who gives?
Ender: Me!
Peter: No one else but you.
Ender: Why do our conversations get longer and longer and longer with each update?
Peter: We don't know how to stop. But this is excessive. And I have to go watch Trigun. ::waves hand at reader in dismissal:: Go away, leave me alone. ::drags Ender out with him::
Ender: ::calls out over his shoulder:: BYE!

14.7.2001

Valentine: Finally! Peter is excluded from one of the updates, and I am not!
Ender: I haven't been excluded yet. Although from this precedent, Peter's going to set up a conversation behind my back for the next update.
Valentine: Well, in my section of the site there have been several updates. All the character lists are now posted up under their respective titles. There are now book synopses and family trees for Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. A few book covers have also been posted up. ::grins::
Ender: And the menu works like a charm now. Mysteriously. We don't know what made it happen.
Valentine: I made it happen.
Ender: ::looks nervous:: Yes, yes, Valentine, you made it happen. Anyway, this isn't very important, but the navigation on my part of the site has become much improved. If you have a rather slow modem, please hover over each icon at the bottom of the pages until the highlighted version magically appears and explains what the icon links to. (Of course, if you had any brains in your head, the icons would be self-explanatory, and you wouldn't have to bother waiting for the second image to download.)
Valentine: Well, since Peter is in Haiti, or in the bathroom right now, (Actually we're not too sure where Peter is, but he's been gone for an awful long time. It might have been the chili fries.) I must speak in his stead.
Ender: ::interrupting, to the side:: We must speak in lieu of his head! (That rhymes, you know.)
Valentine: AHEM!! In Peter's very feminine section of the site, ::coughs::, quotes for Ender's Game and Shadow of the Hegemon have been added.
Ender: ::nods:: And he put up comments on us without our permission, which is why we're leaving him out in this update.
Valentine: This conversation is TOO long. We must think of our weary fingers and droopy-eyed readers! Good-bye! Until the next monstrosity of a conversation arrives...
Ender: NOOOOO!!! ::collapses and has a seizure::

6.6.2001

Valentine: Sorry I can't be here, because I have to go to class. I do go to school, unlike some people. ::leaves in a hurry::
Peter: But we do go to school...we just don't stay in class.
Ender: We're too smart for class anyway. Literally. So there.
Peter: Okay, we have so much stuff up now---
Ender: Oh, let's hope that your social studies teacher doesn't come to this site. She'll cut your throat if she sees that word up there.
Peter: I know. Anyway, announcements: One, we've moved to Geocities! If you haven't noticed this, you're really, really dumb.
Ender: Two, we have polls, top 10s, more downloads, character lists, another YKYBRTMESW, and a...sort of...quiz. And the Commanders section finally works! YES!
Peter: Also, once we actually finish the site, the Jeesh Entrance Exam will finally be available to you all...if you actually find it, that is.
Ender: And if we don't leave in a few seconds, we're going to be late for official class. So, goodbye, dear readers, and we've got to go, NOW, Peter!
Peter and Ender: ::leave in a hurry like Valentine::

7.5.2001

Peter: I get to announce something! Really, really quickly...A lot of new pages are up!
Ender: ::in a tired tone of voice:: Yes, we exhausted ourselves making those graphics...well at least I did.
Peter: ::smugly:: I didn't have to do anything.
Ender: Valentine, want to say something? I'm too exhausted to think of a witty comeback to Peter's lame attempts at humor.
Valentine: No.
Peter: You can go to every part of the site. Of course, wonderful Ender's part doesn't work and wonderful Valentine's is only an under construction page, so my part of the site is the only part with anything to see!
Ender: Go ahead. Rub it in.
Peter: I will. Click on the navigation bar above to go through our site. That is, the parts that are actually uploaded.
Valentine: Well, don't visit the launchies section yet. All you'll see is a logo. I'll have a character list soon.
Ender: That reminds me. Peter, you have to finish the character list for Shadow of the Hegemon.
Valentine: Have you noticed how feminine Peter's part of the site looks like?
Peter: It's undercover! Undercover work!

11.4.2001

Ender: The Ansible part of our site is now linked to an actual part of our site. Yes, I know that's repetitive, but I'm tired.
Peter: Why does Ender get to announce everything?
Valentine: Hey, at least I was notified this time.
Ender and Peter: ::blink:: We always notify you...after we put up the update.
Peter: Okay, I'm going to announce something now...
Valentine: ::cutting Peter off:: We would like to inform everyone to maximize the browser window for all pages in this site, or you will miss its true elegance and beauty.
Ender: And who would want to miss that?
Peter: Hey! I still never get to announce anything. ::sulks::
Ender: ::bright, false smile:: Peter's going to cry now.
Valentine: ::in a sly tone:: And for anyone who wants to know, Peter's AIM is "kyute angelette."
Peter: Er...it's undercover work! ::indignantly:: That was a cheap shot!
Ender: ::snickers::
Peter: ::sniffs:: I'm a better game player than you are, Valentine.
Valentine: Sure, as Kyute Angelette.
Peter: You are going to die. ::sounds of a scuffle in the background:: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to announce (finally) that Valentine won't be speaking for a few days, months, years...centuries, millennia. ::evil laughter::
Ender: I'm going to go away now. This is too disturbing, even for me.

10.4.2001

Ender: We have a navigation bar!---that doesn't lead to anything. Apologies from the webmasters.
Valentine: I feel quite left out. What mischief have you and Peter been up to? Posting up a counter and guestbook without me!
Ender: ::whistles innocently:: Who us? Never! Oh, everyone, say hi to Valentine. This is her first time participating in a conversation on this page. Another update, by the way, we have an entrance page with a battle room graphic to link to here. (The actual room did not look like that, trust me, but we thought the stars would make it look interesting.)
Valentine: Well, you would be the only person who would know how a battleroom looks like. And yes Peter, battleroom is one word. Ender, you should just accept defeat this time.
Peter: Yes, yes. Admit it! I'm the better one. Yes, yes.
Ender: ::shamefacedly:: Hey, 3000 years does something to your memory, you know! Pardon me, you win this time, Peter, but that does not make you any better. I quote Valentine, "We scored as well as you did on everything. Better on some things. We're all such wonderfully bright children. You're not the smartest, Peter, just the biggest." (Page 13 in Ender's Game, for anyone who wants to know.)
Peter: Hey, I'm dead! And, being bigger does mean smarter...well, now it does.
Valentine: No fighting you two! You're always bickering about something! Perhaps you males are just so aggressive. ::cough::
Ender: So what, we're always bickering. You always take my side, right?
Peter: ::sigh:: Well then. Er.
Ender: Anyone notice that Peter, the eldest, is trying to use non-English words too often?
Valentine: Yes I have. I don't take your side. I simply take the side that's right.
Peter: Eh, and I'm right. And you're the one stuck up there in Battle School, fighting mock battles, when I'm here, taking over the real world.
Ender: ::looking in distaste at Peter's overitalicized statement:: You're such an adolescent, Peter. Haven't grown out of that hormonal stage yet, have you? That's a weakness, Bean would say. Besides, you can have your real world, if you want. Ick.
Valentine: You wouldn't be able to do anything without me! I claim half of the world!
Peter and Ender: Neh?!

30.3.2001

Peter: Now we have a desk at which you can leave messages, if you so wish. I believe the link is here: The Desk.
Ender: We may have nothing of actual import on this site yet, but we'd like to hear from you anyway. We're planning out the site and we promise no OSC fan will go unsatisfied.
Peter: I would just like to say that this is probably going to be the most grammatically correct site in the whole world, and it's a pretty big world.
Ender: The real Peter would sound a little more intelligent and say: "And it's not a small world either."
Peter: You know, our site presently consists of these conversations. We should put up our IM conversations.
Ender: Not a bad idea.

28.3.2001

Ender: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a counter! Congratulate us on this latest update!
Peter: Errrr....I think Ender's getting too hyper about the counter.
Ender: Well, we haven't added anything to this site since two months ago when it opened, so I do have some reason for rejoicing.
Peter: Did you know you're the first person on your own counter? ::sarcastically::
Ender: YES! For the third time, I know!
Peter: ::mocks Ender by speaking in a high, chirpy voice:: "You're a meaniebutt, I'm going to go cry to Valentine, now!"
Ender: And I'm the baby in this family?
Peter: I think I'm getting hyper now.
Ender: ::flatly:: We can tell.