Vashkoda writes...

517) affected

So Greg, have you decided what the next contest is going to be? The topic may help motivate people to finish this one.

Anonymous writes...

Is the next contest goinng to be another fill in the blank? If so which series? Timedancer? Pendragon?

Shavri writes...

I had a nightmare last night, Mr. Weisman, and it was about you. In it, you died, and in one of the suckiest ways, too. You fell backwards off a bunk-bed ladder and cracked your skull. It was so horrible! I saw it in slow-motion over and over again; you falling down, your mouth gaping open in a scream, then, "BOOM, CRACK," and I think there was blood coming out of your mouth when you were lying on the floor...you looked so pitiful and helpless. You weren't even that high up (about 2 or 3 feet off the ground)! I wasn't there, but somehow I saw that event (you know how weird dreams can be). I remember seeing somewhere in a comment room and on the news that you had died, and then I was flashed with the image of your horrific death. I felt so bad! I was thinking about how you weren't going to be able to answer the question I asked you yesterday, or any question for that matter. It broke my heart to think that, if a "Gargoyles" movie was going to come out, you wouldn't be there to see it or critique it; and how you'd never be able to work on another show if you were given leave to. I mean, you fall 2 or 3 measly feet off a ladder and die! What a horrible way to end your life! It must have been one of those dreams where you couldn't tell whether it was a dream or not, because I woke up thinking you were dead and how badly it sucked. I was thinking, "Wait a minute IS he dead?"...And trying to remember if someone had said you were or not. Then finally, I got over my disorientation and remembered you were NOT. Please don't think I'm crazy or anything. I'm not sure what brought this on. Probably partly because of the injury that caused Dale Earnhardt's death(a fractured skull), and that somehow incorporated itself into my dream. I really don't know why you were in it. Mr. Weisman, Dear, Sweetie, even though I don't know you personally and vice versa: would you do me a favor and PLEASE, please, BE CAREFUL around LADDERS(especially bunk-bed ladders) or ANYTHING else. Maybe you should wear a helmet or something when you climb one (yeah…I know what you're thinking, but still). If you die should from something stupid I will be VERY unhappy with you for not heeding my advice. So BE CAREFUL, please, don't make me into a psychic.

Vashkoda writes...

Ray> I posted the address to both sites in the S8 comment room a while back (sorry for not adding a link to it here). The Clans Contest Page is at: http://crossroads.dragonmists.org/fantasy/avalon/gargclans/index.html

The Contest prize is summarized at: http://crossroads.dragonmists.org/fantasy/avalon/gargclans/scripts.html

Nice work on your own page, btw. I hope that people will take advantage of it, especially if one needs to type in the entire story to get the last point.

Ray Kremer writes...

"It would probably help if some fan did what Vashkoda did for the clan contest and set up a website that fills in the blanks. I think that would help get this horrible monster of a contest I created over with more quickly. So, please, somebody... "

Ask and you shall receive. I've been keeping a running tab, a quick html conversion gives us:
http://bobcat.bradley.edu/~rkremer/garg/
Not fancy by any means but it gets the job done.

But how come I never heard that someone had a clan contest website? And what about this?
"(It was described as a cobra's tail in Vashkoda's prize...)"
I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering now, what's the URL where we can see this?

Todd Jensen writes...

I've been staying out of the "Gargoyles 2198" contest so far (largely on account of the fact that I felt that, since I'd won one contest already, it'd be good manners to step aside and let the other fans have their turn), but after seeing your somewhat taken aback response to how the contest has gone, I thought that I'd ask you this.

In light of the results of this contest, can we safely assume that all (or nearly all) future "Ask Greg" contests will be of the "Why did Demona choose the word 'alone'" or "Why is Hyena" smiling variety, i.e., contests whose focus is on analyzing the on-screen actions of the characters, rather than of the "fill-in-the-blanks/guess-the-names" variety?

Robin Wynn writes...

Gargoyles 2198 Contest

450. EARTH
455. WORLD

Robin Wynn writes...

Gargoyles 2198 Contest

244. GARGOYLE
290. WORLD
317. FOUR
374. FORWARD

Anonymous writes...

Would you use the fill in the blank to reveal information about your other spinoffs besides 2198?

Bud-Clare writes...

Now that I've gotten this nasty contest out of my system, I have... a suggestion for the next contest. It's totally and completely frivolous, but it'd be a lot more fun than this one. (I'm very tired right now, so correct spelling and grammer are optional.)

I thought that your answer to the question of what Elisa would have been like if she had been born in Hong Kong during the Industrial Revolution (or something like that) was really funny. So, I was thinking... maybe for the next contest, you could think up another bizarre hypothetical question, and we could write those tiny little essays, and the person who makes up the best answer wins, say, that box of paperclips off of your desk. _I_ think it sounds like fun, anyway. (Of course, I'm very easily amused, so maybe you should get a second opinion.)