The Housecat Speaks: Write on, GaliGee! (part 1) by Galikat Saturday, November 1, 2003 You guys all know what yesterday was (and your dentists will get rich this month), but you likely don't know what today is. It's Author's Day, and what better way to celebrate than with a series about the most well-known author on BZPower? GaliGee joined on June 5th, 2003, and posted her first story, [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=16731]Interview with Gali[/URL], on June 16th. Originally it was in two parts, but sometime later she moved them together into the same post. Where did she get the idea? Well, Toa Nuva vs. Makuta started a topic in Storyline and Therories about how Takua could be Tahu and Gali's son, so GaliGee thought she might find out the truth straight from the source. What did she find out? Well, as Gali said in the story, "Takua is definitely like a son to me. But he isn't REALLY my son!" As the interview progressed, GaliGee discovered the hard way why no one ever asked Gali about her love life. In the story, GaliGee gets her house totalled for the first time, a sign of disasters to come. After her Interview with Gali, GaliGee got inspired to do an [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=16778]Interview with Onua and Lewa[/URL]. Her intent was to find out if Onua is really Lewa's babysitter. ("Now put that axe down before I send you to your room.") Turns out that despite (or because of) their differences, Onua and Lewa are really good friends -- and like really good friends, they bicker and kid around with each other a lot. "You want a piece of me?" "Yeah, I'll take that #3 plus rod right there." (Originally it was a #4 plus rod, but someone pointed out that Onua doesn't HAVE a #4 plus rod.) Next up was [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=16851]Interview with Tahu[/URL]. Tahu reaffirmed that Takua was not his son, but when he saw Gali and Pohatu coming forward, he couldn't resist playing a joke. "Why, I'm very proud of Takua. After we defeat the Bohrok, Gali and I plan to have some more children -- please get your hooks off my neck..." Poor Tahu. He went on to talk about the other Toa, his arrival on Mata Nui, and what it's like being the leader. If you read down the first 10 posts or so, you'll also find out a bit about why Tahu wanted GaliGee to pay for the call. After that, GaliGee did an [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=17029&hl=]Interview with Lewa (again)[/URL] because he had a few more things to say. For example, he said that he and Onua don't really fight all the time, and he didn't mean to sound disrespectful to Gali during the interview with him and Onua. However, the interview was a bit short, considering GaliGee already talked to him once before. Of course, GaliGee had to do an [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=17151&hl=]Interview with Onua[/URL] after that to get HIS side of the story. After that, of course, GaliGee interviewed [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=17380]Kopaka[/URL] and [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=17479]Pohatu[/URL]. If you read Interview with Kopaka, you'll see that Kopaka says that the Toa have just a couple of Gahlok krana left, while later when GaliGee wrote her Toa biographies she used a different order of krana collection. (You'll also see in the picture that poor Kopaka put his arm on the wrong way. I guess Lego forgot to include an instruction booklet in his canister.) Last, and most certianly not least, GaliGee [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=17580]interviewed all the Toa together[/URL]. a few days after that, she posted one of the very few MOC interviews she has ever done, [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=18099]Interview with Yotanua, Toa of Time[/URL]. After that, everyone thought that GaliGee's interviews were over -- but they had just begun. To be continued... The Housecat Speaks: Write on, GaliGee! (part 2) by Galikat Thursday, November 6, 2003 GaliGee's interviews continued when Madcat II won a contest to choose who the next character GaliGee would interview was. He guessed which Toa was GaliGee's favorite (all the Toa, since her favorite Toa tends to change) and chose Makuta as GaliGee's next interviewee, never guessing that he was starting one of GaliGee's most well known series, the Makuta series. Poor GaliGee had no iea what she was getting herself into when she wrote that interview In [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=18809]Interview with Makuta[/URL], Makuta hacked into GaliGee's phone call (she was ordering a pizza) and had a chat with her. First he claimed to be innocent, then he claimed that it wasn't his fault he was evil, and after that he revealed his evil plan. Last but not least, he offered GaliGee a job working for him. GaliGee refused. "I'd rather die," she said. "That can be arranged," he replied. After that GaliGee told him exactly what she thought of him, and the telephone exploded in her hand. (Oddly, this was before she went Nuva, and her GaliGee character had hooks for hands then, as most people now know. But that was back before Road Trip with Onua, so no one knew she was a prototype.) Even after this... incident, GaliGee wasn't finished with the Toa telephone interviews just yet. In fact, she had one more Toa to interview -- but she didn't know it just yet. In her [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=18611]Interview with Takua[/URL], she talked to the one Matoran who would eventually become the Big T himself, Takanuva. (Of course, no one knew yet!) In the interview, Takua referred to the astrologer in Ga-Koro as Notu, but after the MNOLGII came out GaliGee changed the name to Nixie (the official name). GaliGee didn't have the game Tales of the Tohunga, so in the interview she had Takua be confused about his past. She also gave Takua a crush on Nixie... aww. After her interview with Makuta, GaliGee had no intention of subjecting her character to any more danger. (If she only knew.) So she had FallenTurtles handle the [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=18978]Interview with the Bahrag[/URL]. Poor FallenTurtles discovered that Gahdok had an attitude. He also found out just why the Bahrag are red and blue. If you scroll down, you'll find one of the first cases of Makuta hacking GaliGee's posts. (He wields such POWER, muah hah hah.) GaliGee continued on to talk to [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=19538]Hafu[/URL] and [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=19995]Huki & Maku[/URL]. After that, she tried her hand at writing a comedy, [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=20259]Barbies Invade Mata Nui[/URL]. In the story, twelve of Sally's Barbie dolls head for Mata Nui to try to find husbands after Sally marries off the only Ken. When they land, they pair up two to a Toa -- but when they find out Gali is actually a girl, they decide to give her a makeover. You HAVE to read this one! Although GaliGee had stated that her interview with Yotanua would be her only MOC interview, she decided to interview FallenTurtles' character [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=20916]Fatoro[/URL], who took care of the Hoi in Le-Koro. (Hmm... FallenTURTLES... Fatoro... Hoi turtles... Hoi FLYING turtles... ?) GaliGee was talking in Le-Koronan slang for a few hours afterwards. Next up was [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=22672&hl=]Gali interviews GaliGee[/URL], where GaliGee was the one to actually ask most of the questions. (It's in her blood... if you could call it that.) She also found out just what happens in between comics. (A whole lot of nothing.) After Barbies Invade Mata Nui, GaliGee decided to try writing a comedy in epic format. What started out as a bedtime story became [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=23284]Gali Loses Her Head[/URL]. Somehow Gali and Pohatu's heads got switched. (Read the story to find out why.) Even that was nothing compared to what was to come in the months to follow, when GaliGee would start her epic writing carrer with Onua's Golden Kanohi. To be continued... The Housecat Speaks: Write on, GaliGee! (part 3) by Galikat Thursday, November 13, 2003 On September 4, 2002, GaliGee posted the first chapter in [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=25258]Onua's Golden Kanohi[/URL], her first serious epic. It starts off with Onua finding his Akaku, which he uses to look through a cave wall when Whenua's drill senses great power. Much to his surprise, he finds four Pakari, which he delivers to the other Toa in approximate MNOLG order. (He visits Ga-Koro instead of Ta-Koro first, but who wouldn't? Actually, the update for Ta-Koro came before the update for Ga-Koro, but the way the game goes makes most people think Ga-Koro is first.) Needless to say, he crosses paths with Takua more than once, which is an important part of the story because both Onua and Takua travel around the island helping people. (Hmm... and they both wear a Pakari. And both their names end in -ua. Am I missing something here?) Her epic got rave reviews. MataNuiHero said he'd been waiting for GaliGee to write an epic since her first interview, and the only thing he seemed dissapointed about was that it wasn't about Gali. (Of course, GaliGee eventually wrote an epic about Gali. Who wouldn't?) Schizo Kaita wrote that there was no competition for an epic like Onua's Golden Kanohi (OGK from now on). Considering he writes some great stories himself (read Tiki's Journey), that's a high complement. Meanwhile, my brother Lewanut wrote a review just like a movie critic. (He's a little strange. Then again, I'm a little strange. Okay, I'm a lot strange, but that's not the point.) GaliGee accepted all of the praise, but stated that she wasn't going to post any more epics anytime soon. (That was true if you don't count Road Trip with Onua.) A lot of people wanted GaliGee to do an interview with the Turaga, and while she hasn't really done it yet (but certian recent events in the Bionicle world will likely lead her to do so), she has transcribed [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=27496]A meeting of the Turaga council.[/URL] What sorts of things really go on in there? "My Toa can FLY now." "My village is a mud hole!" "Excuse me, but did you just call Nokama 'honey'?" "Onewa has suggested we award our Matoran heroes somehow. Like Takua. We’re so proud of him in Ta-Wahi." "Is that why you bootkicked him out last year?" "[click] [beep] [whistle] [buzz] [click]" (Guess which one was Nuju.) Needless to say, the Turaga could all use a vacation -- although compared to what was going on in Metru-Nui, what they had to put up with WAS a vacation. Go figure. If you've been clicking all the links and reading all the stories, you'll notice that most of GaliGee's interviews have pictures. While up to this point in time GaliGee had never set her blue plastic foot on Mata Nui, she did have a Ga-Matoran photographer named Kimi to take pictures for her. You can read the [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=27875]Interview with Kimi[/URL] here. It explains a lot about the pictures (like why Tahu's firesword is touching Lewa's leg in the group photo in GaliGee's story topic). After that, GaliGee continued her Matoran interviews with [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=28979]Interview with Nuparu (and Taipu's here too)[/URL]. It explains how Nuparu was able to turn an $8 Gahlok into a $15 Boxor, and it also explains why Taipu was prancing around with that Gahlok headplate on his head. (Read the story to find out.) Kimi took a picture for that one, too, but for some reason the orange parts look pink. Maybe it had to do with her camera's flash. While GaliGee had stated a month earlier that she wasn't posting any epics anytime soon, she was inspired by Blue Cajun's Harley moc and wrote [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=29350]Road Trip with Onua[/URL]. I highly recommend reading it, reading it again, printing it out, and putting it on your bookshelf. I sure did! I'm not going to spoil the plot, but I'll tell you that GaliGee and Onua run into some trouble on the way to San Diego and back. (Not to mention going to Legoland California!) Turns out the Toa Nuva got a little vacation time... but they sure didn't seem rested in [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=30678]The Toa Nuva at Kennedy International Airport[/URL]. It seems whenever GaliGee and Bionicle characters meet, property is destroyed. Sigh. GaliGee wasn't finished yet. She made a short two-page Bionicle comic called [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=14&t=30951]Tahu Enslaved[/URL], which was, in her own words, a comic "Lego would never do". If you read it, you'll see why. After writing comedies, interviews, epics, and a comic, GaliGee tried a short story. She came up with [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=26&t=31856&st=0]Kopaka's Nightmare[/URL], a story about a dream Kopaka has as he plummets to certian death after losing his powers. GaliGee interviewed all six Toa about the dreams (each Toa had a similar dream) and came up with a lot of material. (She also learned about wildlife diversity on Mata Nui.) [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=32182]Kopaka Suspended[/URL] [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=32460]Gali Pensive[/URL] [url=Onua Embarrassed[/url] [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=32560]Tahu Incensed[/URL] [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=33194]Lewa Jesting[/URL] [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=33453]Pohatu Amused[/URL] It's only fair, after reading about the Toa's dreams, to read about one of GaliGee's dreams. Israeli Toa wrote [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=33646] Seven Heroes, One Destiny[/URL] for GaliGee's birthday. Unfortunately, although the Toa reassure GaliGee that nothing will happen, something does. As always. On New Year's Eve, GaliGee posted her last interview of 2002, [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=40010]Interview with Kongu and Tamaru[/URL]. Her next challenge: get inside the head of the Toa of Water. At last she would write her Gali epic. Who wouldn't? To be continued... Correction by Galikat Thursday, November 20, 2003 In last week's blog, I said that GaliGee's interview with Kongu and Tamaru was her last interview of 2003. Actually, I left out her [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=35653]Interview with Wairuha[/URL]. I apologize for any inconvenience, and also recommend you read the interview. It's funny -- but aren't all of GaliGee's stories to some degree? The Housecat Speaks: Write on, GaliGee! (part 4) by Galikat Thursday, November 20, 2003 On January 2, 2003, GaliGee posted the first chapter in [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=35961]Gali's Heart[/URL], her second Toa epic and the first one to cover the life of a Toa from arrival on Mata Nui to just before the Kal saga. The story has seven chapters -- one for each other Toa, one for Nokama, and the "finale" chapter. Each one focuses on the character's place in Gali's heart. I recommend making sure you read Tahu's chapter and Kopaka's chapter even if you don't read any others. (Like anyone could pass up a GaliGee epic!) Each chapter is different. Lewa's chapter is mostly GaliGee's own ideas, but includes a bit from comic #2 at the end. Nokama's chapter is entirely GaliGee's, and is a good example of her imagination and ability to transfer her thoughts to paper. While Tahu's chapter begins with a scene from comic #3, the rest is something only a good writer could pull off right -- and something Lego would never do. (Oh, the suspense! You'd better read it for yourself.) In that chapter, GaliGee also used a part from her interview with Gali -- she states that the great beings sent help to Gali in the form of tahu and his fire sword. (Those were more or less her exact words.) Onua's chapter was mainly recycled bits from Onua's Golden Kanohi, but GaliGee's fans didn't mind. Actually, they enjoyed seeing it from Gali's point of view as well as Onua's. It also includes some new bits, including how Onua helped Gali get her Matatu. (Gali's hooks make her really bad at digging.) Pohatu's chapter was made up of parts from comic #5, the Bionicle.com updates, and ideas from GaliGee's "little transparent yellow brain". (Next week: why GaliGee doesn't say that anymore.) Kopaka's place is entirely GaliGee's, and hints at her Tahu Enslaved comic (although in her "official" storyline, it's a bit different). It includes one of her best scenes yet, and I recommend you read it. The last chapter begins with part of comic #9, but the rest is pure GaliGee magic. As you know if you read the rectraction above, I made a mistake in part 3. GaliGee's last interview of 2002 was actually [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=35653]Interview with Wairuha[/URL]. Of course, one good interview deserves another, so she wrote [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=38603]Interview with Akamai[/URL]. Wairuha drops in as well, with chaotic results. Let's just say that the while Tahu, Onua and Pohatu don't lose their heads, they lose a few other pieces. (Notice that Wairuha's bottom katana is a bit bent... but, hey, GaliGee has two kids. Both girls. And all three females in the household love Bionicle. Must run in the family.) GaliGee's next interview was with [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=40970&st=0]Takua and Jala[/URL]. It chronicles (no pun intended) Tahu returning to Ta-Koro as the Toa Nuva of fire and getting defeated by Tahnok-Kal, but it shows a slightly different account than what the flash update afterwards depicted. (But, hey, that's life on the edge of the storyline for you. All danger.) Takua also shares a mysterious dream he has, and tells about his almost-date with Nixie. Ah, love. Poor GaliGee. She's always getting bothered by the Bionicle bad guys. Just look at her [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=41310]Interview with the Bohrok-Kal[/URL]. (I wonder if the Morbuzakh will be calling her -- but can a plant use a phone?) Poor GaliGee gets her couch set on fire, her window broken, her drywall crumpled, and her refrigerator plasmatized. Needless to say, she went out for dinner that night. After writing Gali's Heart, GaliGee decided to write from Tahu's point of view about that... incident. Behold [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=43382]Tahu, Master of Fire[/URL]. If the chapter titles sound familar, they're (for the most part) from the Bionicle quiz BZPower did a while back. GaliGee's next interview was ghost-written for MataNuiHero in a test to see if the popularity of a writer has anything to do with the number of reviews people give. See the results in [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=51460&st=0&]Interview with the Powerless Toa Nuva[/URL]. After that was another [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=52253]Interview with Makuta[/URL] which introduced readers to Makuta's big plan which led to a whole section's worth of stories -- he tried to get her to believe that he was in love with her. Of course, that didn't work, so he collasped the ceiling on her. (Good thing she has that drywall contractor on speed-dial.) After Tahu, Master of Fire (from this point onward TMoF), GaliGee felt like she should write epics for all six (now seven) Toa. Her next project was [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=53550]Pohatu, Solid as Stone[/URL] (PSaS). However, in the middle she got... distracted. By Makuta. Read [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=58732]Road Trip with Makuta[/URL] to find out exactly how. And when it looks like it's the end, scroll down some more -- that son of a (coupe-de-ville convertible drives by at an astounding speed) hacked into GaliGee's account. (She never should have changed her password to makutadieyouevilscum -- it was just too obvious.) On June 5, 2003, GaliGee finally finished PSaS. The next Toa would be Lewa, with Kopaka afterward. Of course, the epic master had a few more surprises up her sleeve before the end of the year came. To be continued... The Housecat Speaks: Write on, GaliGee! (the grand finale!) by Galikat Thursday, November 27, 2003 Thanks to Groucho Marx for tracking down GaliGee's Lost Comedy (and if you don't believe it's really hers, I've got two witnesses) On June 14, 2003, GaliGee posted the first chapter in [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=66893]Lewa Defies Gravity[/URL]. Two days later she posted [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=68112]The Greening of Po-Koro[/URL], a comedy featuring, Maku, Huki, the Toa, Makuta, and one strange looking kraata -- Pinky, the kraata that just wasn't mean enough. Pinky soon became one of GaliGee's "trademark" characters, and will appear again in Makuta's Island, due out in December. After the MNOLGII came out, GaliGee just HAD to do an [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=72799]Interview with Hahli[/URL] eventually, but the first one was more like Interview with Takua, Jaller, Macku, Nokama, Lewa, Gali, and Hewkii. Oh, and Hahli managed to answer a few questions, despite being constantly interrupted. Don't worry, GaliGee will be interviewing Hahli again sometime. Although GaliGee had stated that The Greening of Po-Koro would be the closest thing to a sequel for RTwM she'd ever make, when silentlunchbag34 posted a Chibi GaliGee moc of her, she decided to post a story to go with it -- a SHORT story, of course. In [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=26&t=76946&st=0]Makuta Makes Me Mini[/URL], Makuta comes calling on GaliGee again -- and GaliGee learns to never mouth off an evil megalomaniac. Of course she got fixed back up again -- but got another unpleasant surprise. (That reminds me, GaliGee, the Lego company called and said they have another extra set of Nuva armor on hold for you just in case.) The day after that, GaliGee posted the first chapter in [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=77163]Kopaka: Icy Visonary[/URL], her longest epic yet at 101 pages long when printed out. (That's twice as long as Tahu, Master of Fire was!) Want to know just how she does it? Check out her [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=77721]Epic Writing Workshop[/URL], also known as EWW (which is what she'd say if Makuta were to kiss her). It's not finished yet, though, so check back often. GaliGee got paid another visit from Makuta in [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=26&t=82558&st=0]Makuta's Last Try[/URL] -- and this time, she got a permanent change. Makuta gave her blue eyes so she'd never forget him. As if she could ever forget Makuta. While she was waiting for Mask of Light to come out (and for Makuta to meet his final demise), she made a [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=85480]Mask of Light signature countdown[/URL]. "Hey!" Takanuva says in it. "I thought I was supposed to SING in this lousy movie! Where's my agent?" Sigh. Unfortunately for her, GaliGee seems doomed to write Makuta stories. As soon as the admins allowed spoilers for Mask of Light to be posted, she revealed [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=26&t=89417]Makuta Explains[/URL], where Makuta comes back and tries to convience her that he's gone good-guy now. They happen to run into some trouble on the way, though, and all bets are off as to the outcome. While you're there, vote whether or not Makuta should return in the bonicle storyline, and then check out GaliGee's MOCkery of Makuta's rather shoddy rebuilt form. After all of these Makuta stories, GaliGee started writing a Takanuva story -- actually a Takua story. [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=95830]Journey Into the Light[/URL] is Takua's journal, kept during the Kal saga, the time of peace, and the search for the seventh Toa. It's still in progress, so check back often -- this could be GaliGee's longest story yet. While GaliGee's latest comedy is [URL=http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=27&t=97646]Interview with Takanuva and Jaller[/URL], and she's currently working on a dark comedy (Makuta's Island), there's one more new GaliGee comedy out there, floating around in cyberspace -- GALIGEE'S LOST COMEDY. [URL=http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/GaliCat/Takuas-first-day/galigeeslostcomedy.txt]TAKUA'S FIRST DAY AS A TOA -- CLICK HERE![/URL] How does she do it? Before Interview with Gali, the last time she'd written anything creative was in college (1000 years ago, she says, but I think she's exaggerating a LITTLE), so how'd she get to be such a sensation? On this Thanksgiving day, I think that the best answer I can give is in her signature: "In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one." --Eph. 6:16 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!