Lotsa questions

[rezie]

My mind wanders far too often, so I have a bunch of questions.



1. What is everyone's sleep schedule?

1b.Who has to sleep and who doesn't and if they do when?
For example, Toni sleeps during the day, Crispo sleeps at night.

2. Who has to eat and who is only doing it for the heck of it all?
IE Charby eating chicken instead of drinking blood does he do it because he likes it or does he need the nutrition. (In particular Kavon and Toni)

3. Do they have cable?

4. Does Crispo go through Toni's things?

5. Is there anything incriminating in the shed (that isn't Daray's)?

6. Does the houshold do laundry or do they just "magic" new clothes when needed?

7. Is there a bathroom in the house or an outhouse or something of that nature around? For that matter where does everyone bathe?

8. To what extent do the Alps transform? Is it an illusion that is slightly solid, or is it their actual bodies being changed?

9. Do Alps dream when they sleep and if they do; do they have an effect on other person's dreams?

10. Will the house ever be expanded or will it continuously be packed with bodies?

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Yeah I want a map of Kellwood but I'm pretty sure that's not gonna happen(ever!).

[Amelius]

*chases down questions and tackles them* Here we go!

1. Menu, Charby, Tony, and Zeno are mainly night-owls while Mye, Hex, Phineas and Kavonn have rather inconsistent sleep schedules, often staying up late or waking up early to work or be with their friends. Crispo, Daray, Mannick, Fay, Azelea and Foomy prefer to sleep during the night but don't like missing out on the excitement of the night crowd either so sometimes they stay up late. Tony and Charby seem to get the least sleep in the house, with Zeno just now suffering a bout of insomnia. Remote beast rests but rarely sleeps deeply. The other pets prefer short naps.

2.All of them have to eat, if only for the energy it provides. Hex and Mye might not die of starvation but it will certainly leave them feeling a little under the weather, and Charby eats mainly to stave off his hunger for blood. If he eats nothing, he risks going into his bloodbeast form and recklessly killing all his friends! But he can go on a small sip of blood for quite a while before he needs it again.

3. Nope, just basic tv. Since the comic takes place before that ridiculous TV upgrade, they're still getting TV with no problems!

4. He's tempted, but he's also afraid of what Tony might do if he found out...so mostly he just looks at the pictures in his little "shrine".

5. Maaaybe, but Kavonn keeps that under lock and key. Though not incriminating, there's a closet loaded with paperwork from the cabin's previous owners and blueprints for several machines they were working on before they died.

6. Mye does all the laundry, she uses cleansing spells on them. Sometimes she does make new outfits though.

7.2 indoor bathrooms in fact! Both with a shower and tub. The toilet floods in the hallway bathroom that is just to the left when you walk in the front door. The other bathroom is located in the hallway just beyond the kitchen. Mye nearly beat Tony down with a plunger in that bathroom! We have yet to see the other bathroom, so far we've only seen Crispo peeking out of it's door after having had the wizz scared out of him!

8. I believe the form is actually solid as opposed to illusionary, but an alp most likely can't transform any bigger than a large horse. so yes their physical body actually does change!

9. Indeed they do, at least in CTV. I wouldn't think that they'd have too much effect on anyone unless the alp was sleeping right next to them, which in that case I can see dreams getting transferred quite by accident.

10. The basement itself is pretty large, being that it's actually a cave formation that extends beyond the house itself. I made a sketchy blueprint of the house and cave right here:
I didn't have room for the attic, which is basically Charby and Menu's rooms, separated currently with a curtain. I also didn't have room for where the cave bottlenecks, an I left a lot of details as an approximation (like there's way more clutter in the basement then I drew, but I wanted it to be quick so I didn't bother mapping out where every box and shelf and weird machine was located) whether people get their own room or not seems to be the only problem however. Fay took the last room when she moved in, which is why Crispo shares with Tony. Phineas lounges around the water and usually sleeps there, Azelea shrinks herself and has taken up residence in a vase of dead flowers (she's since revitalized them however) which is on the shelf in the hall by the smaller bathroom. Foomy sleeps in the basement where he can't set things on fire by accident.

And a map of Kellwood is actually being made to replace a really crappy one I made a while ago, so keep an eye out and you'll have that wish fulfilled!

[rezie]

Thanks a lot Amelius, I've been wondering about the sleep thing since Crispo moved in, and your amazing <3

Also Thank You for the map!

I remember the plunger incident...though that has to make me wonder since before Charby didn't even notice Toni when they first met and here's Mye being all suspicious...or maybe Toni was just staring too hard.


More questions:

11. Is Kavonn still "human" or has being the keeper of the hat turned him into some sort of daemon? (permanently/temporarily)

If that would ruin any future plot you can ignore that one completely!

12. You mentioned that Toni is also vampiric, but you mentioned that it's unnecessary for him to "feed", so why does he do it at all?

13. Do you have the in-universe date for the "beginning" of Charby? I noticed the date on Kavonn's journal and pondered the flow of time in the CTV universe.

14. The first comics are still out of order (and a few are gone since I've read through the story) do you think you could do a "backissue" of the old comics that are not online?

15. Is that cave linked to the daemon king's palace or where the previous owners just trying to find ancient buried treasure? (I always thought that the basement was just modeled like that for their comfort not that it had always been like that)

I want to ask questions about Toni falling for Mye, since trying to re-read the story and gotten in the 150's I see that he doesn't like her quite as much as later on...anyways...Daray must sleep like a log from the way Kavonn describes the walls, and that bug is veery suspicious.

[doodlesthebear]

Whoa, you answered my question on the comic (inadvertantly) here. Cool beans.

[Amelius]

11. Short answer is no, he's no longer human, but we may indeed see more on that later. ^_^
12. An alp is only vampiric insofar that it enjoys the taste of blood, but is not really a "vampire" beyond that. So he doesn't need to feed, but he does get a bit of a kick out of causing nightmares...so I suppose you could call the distress he causes in people's dreams an energy which he "feeds" on. At least that's what I've assumed from alps!

13. Yup, indeed I do! I've sort of kept time going at the pace that it was when I started posting it online to keep dates and ages straight. It just saves a lot of trouble and confusion to leave it at the present date being 2004.

14: What do you mean by out of order? You mean from before when it first went online before the crash? I assure you they are in the proper chronological order, but I did move a few of the old pages that were good back a bit but only if they had no bearing on the storyline itself. I might do something with old issues, but quite frankly those are embarassing to show anyone! Some things do skip ahead a little fast (like how Charby's transition from pirate killer to the modern days is glossed over in 3-4 pages) but I am working on a project that will hopefully fill in the gaps!

15. Nope, it kinda stubs off right where the deep pit is located, but there is a waterway that is under the cave which leads to one of Kellwood's rivers. In fact that's how Phineas snuck into the house, and where the water from the pump system comes from!
The owners before them were actually just kinda crazy geniuses, and most of the basement structure was actually a bomb shelter. They built their cabin over the mouth of the cave and sort of molded rooms around the some of the pockets in the cave.

As for Tony and Mye, well that is a matter of him not really owning up to his own feelings for a while. He speaks pretty fondly of her to Menu when he asks him why he's being such a jerk to her, but that's only a subtle hint. This is also why he was particularly mean about Zeno getting shot down all the time, since he was a little jealous of the ambition himself! Before then, Tony really tried to find someone else to take his mind off it and sort of came around to realise what he really wanted...and that was already taken! Part of the problem again is that I didn't re-do a lot of the comics that focused around Tony and Mye's friendship, which was a little unwise of me, but I suppose I do like to surprise people with things anyway and making it *too* obvious wasn't in my plans anyway.

[kanidasha]

I know this is a stupid question, but today I was talking about shows that have different seasons (ya know season 1, 12 episodes, stuff like that) and I was wondering....with how long CTV has been going...if it were made into a show, what season would the series be on? (There currently being 795 pages so far)


(I know this is a REALLY stupid question, you don't have to answer it if you don't want to. ^_^" )

[rezie]

You know what that is a good question.

I think personally that first season would be just everyone getting to the house to the DHA arch, yeah and the DHA arch would be the season finale...

Though in general cartoon shows have fifteen or so episodes in each season.

[kanidasha]

True, very true. Or maybe the climax of an arch would be a season finale and a new season would take off from last season. (I hate when series do that, lol)

[rezie]

Also I wanted to ask Amy if it'd be okay to use images from Charby on this page:

www.fanpop.com/spots/charby-the-vampirate

[Amelius]

Hmmm....I gotta think of that one! It's somewhere in the teens probably though.

Also yes, go right ahead and use any images you please!