Chat Transcript: Feb 9 '08
Just prior to Patty's joining the chat, GreyDrakkon had been chatting with me about the calligraphic martial art she's studying. Also, I had mentioned that Patty was coming as soon as she finished nuking an egg roll, which explains the rather odd opening lines . . ."
5:59 Patty Empanadas <grin> not egg rolls
5:59 GreyDrakkon Je Yin Keun is a style that emphasises the mind as much as the body, in other words, you need to learn how to write. ;)
5:59 Raven Hi Patty
5:59 Janilee Hello
5:59 GreyDrakkon so chinese calligraphy is a large part of it
6:00 Spring Welcome Patty
6:00 Patty Hey everyone :) Welcome to tonight's chat
6:00 Zeute empanadas are yummy!
6:00 Has-is-awake Hi Patty
6:00 jen77 hi patty
6:00 jonnyp joins Main
6:00 Raven
6:00 Zeute Hello!
6:00 Hollie Hey, Patty!
6:00 CRash joins Main
6:00 GreyDrakkon Is it time to start the chat? If so, I'll give a reminder of the rules
6:00 malika Ah. Tai Chi is all about the balance of mind, body, and spirit, but nothing about calligraphy. I might like that though-- I do English calligraphy when I can.
6:00 malika Hi Patty!!!!!!
6:00 Patty Yes, go ahead GreyDrakkon :)
6:00 GreyDrakkon It goes in order of arrival, So Malika asks a question , Patty answers (or doesn't. ;) ) and then I would go
6:01 malika Yay! Give me a sec to copy-paste my question.
6:01 Rather joins Main
6:01 Rather Hola
6:01 malika I was just wondering something about the proximity of the Fae reservation, the vampire seethe, and Adam's pack-- at one point you had said that the location of the pack was due to the nearby nuclear/military installation as an explanation for why the pack was located in the Tri-Cities as opposed to a big city or a middle-of-nowhere town, but I was wondering if perhaps Bran is playing a bit more
6:01 GreyDrakkon since I'm a controlling mod, I'll tell who goes when (since the list likes to change position of people's arrival it's not always obvious)
6:01 malika subtle of a game than that, ie. having caused a pack to form there also to be able to keep an eye on the Fae reservation because of his suspicions of what they are doing there with the Underhill anchors, and also to keep an eye on the vampire seethe, which it sounds like is the closest one to his stronghold in Montana. Also, if this is true, does Adam know all of this, or is it a Bran thing that
6:02 malika that he is keeping to himself in the larger strategy game he is playing with the entire werewolf society?
6:02 GreyDrakkon also, if you want to chat with someone, click their name and you have that option
6:02 malika sorry grey thought you were done.
6:02 Jenn joins Main
6:02 GreyDrakkon nah nah, that's fine
6:02 Patty I don't think Bran is too concerned with the fae right now.
6:02 Patty He feels that his wolves can defend themselves from the fae.
6:03 Patty The pack formed in the Tri Cities for a number of reasons.
6:03 Patty One of which was the military industrial complex that was there.
6:03 Patty a lot of wolves find themselves in the military :)
6:04 Patty The Seethe predates almost everything else there.
6:05 GreyDrakkon Aw, here you could have made it look like Bran had a master plan! ;)
6:05 Patty Marisella was exiled -- and the vampire who did it just put a pin in a map where there was nothing else
6:05 Kiersten joins Main
6:05 Patty The Fae reservation was put there by chance -- the same way other reservations happened.
6:05 Patty No one wanted the land it was on.
6:05 Kiersten hi
6:05 GreyDrakkon ('lo Kiersten)
6:06 Has-is-awake hey kiersten :)
6:06 Patty Seethes are actually pretty common elsewhere --usually in bigger cities than the Tri Cities. Where prey is plentiful.
6:06 Kiersten (did i miss much?)
6:06 Patty So it wasn't a secret plan of Brans :)
6:07 GreyDrakkon (just scroll up and look, Malika is the first one to ask a question so you can still see it)
6:07 GreyDrakkon That answer your question, Malika?
6:07 Kiersten (thanks)
6:07 malika ahhh... too bad a secret plan would have rocked. Thanks for answering my question though! I can't wait for the next book to come out. You're my favorite author right now :-) Grey, yes, that was good. Hi to people who just came in too.
6:08 Patty However the fae, the vampires and the werewolves have started to attract other supernatural critters <grin>
6:08 jen77 that was sly to slip in there.
6:08 Patty Sly? Me?
6:08 malika yay I like extra info! thanks!
6:08 CRash slimey
6:08 GreyDrakkon O.K., my go. Oh you tempt me Patty! But I'll ask what I was wondering about in the first place. I don't THINK I've asked this already, but ...Oh jeeze, every name I know just slipped out of my head. :(
6:09 jen77 You play the innocent card so well too Patty.
6:09 Patty I am Proper noun impaired, Grey. I had to ask Mike how to spell Marsilia's name -- and he got it wrong!
6:10 Kiersten ha ha smooth
6:10 Rather lol
6:10 Patty Thanks, Jenn *sly smile* er . . . no I mean Innocent smile
6:10 GreyDrakkon Tim? I think it's Tim...At the meeting at his house, a girl was there who was his cousin. Since I'm a disturbed individual, I think up creepy things, and it occured to me that the girl might not have been his cousin at all, and was instead another victim of his
6:10 GreyDrakkon (or was his cousin and still a victim) so my question is, does Mercy meet her again and find out more about her?
6:10 Kiersten ohh wow
6:11 Patty Nope. She's his cousin. And yes, she's showing up in the next book.
6:11 GreyDrakkon Ah that'll be...Interesting
6:11 Has-is-awake ohhhh I just remembered- Mercy gave her - her business card hmmmmm
6:11 Patty I though so :)
6:11 GreyDrakkon Well that was succint. ;) Hollie, your turn. :)
6:11 Raven Trouble?
6:12 Hollie All right, I think I have one here..
6:12 Kiersten yeah, she did didn't she
6:12 Hollie I’m just kinda pulling this one out of thin air, but...now that Adam and Mercy are together, will they eventually bring up the problem of Mercy continuing to age? I mean, it would become an issue at some point in time, right?
6:13 Patty Hollie, yes. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that. It won't be in the next Mercy book, but I'm pretty sure the one after that.
6:13 Hollie Ahh, okay. Thanks! :)
6:13 Rather U should make her immortal
6:14 Hollie But how?
6:14 GreyDrakkon oh that's no fun. :)
6:14 Rather i'd cry if she died
6:14 Patty Immortality is the faster than light engine problem of Urban fantasy.
6:14 Patty No matter what you do, it's unlikely and cliche.
6:14 Kiersten yeah i think its an interesting dilema
6:14 Rather true
6:15 jen77 I would have to agree sometimes it ends up seeming like a cop out.
6:15 GreyDrakkon True, if everyone who wanted to become immortal did, then the world would have people out into space because they'd be so stacked
6:15 malika plus there would not be much drama in her exploits if we knew she couldn't die...
6:15 GreyDrakkon Question answered Hollie?
6:15 Firewire joins Main
6:15 Hollie Yep!
6:15 Has-is-awake and from the books you maybe immortal but there is always a price- and most werewolves dont live long!
6:15 GreyDrakkon Spring, you're up!
6:15 Spring With the new cover for Cry Wolf Anna is shown very dif. from short story. Does that mean she changes in the book?
6:16 Spring Or we get to see a different side to her?
6:17 Patty Actually, I'm not sure she's different. Are you talking about the cover of On the Prowl? The description of Anna in "Alpha and Omega" is minimal and pretty vague.
6:17 Spring No the new cover for Cry Wolf
6:17 GreyDrakkon I think she means attitude-wise, Patty. That cover did not have a cowering girl on it. ;)
6:18 Spring You also saw her human with claws
6:18 GreyDrakkon http://hurog.com/images/covers/crywolf_big.jpg is the cover she's talking abotu
6:18 Patty Anna is in a different situation in Cry Wolf.
6:18 jonnyp joins Main
6:19 Patty The cover from On the Prowl wasn't supposed to be Anna -- just a generic supernatural chick.
6:19 Kiersten i think she simply means that she looks fiercer than the original description
6:19 Patty My favorite thing about the Cry Wolf cover is the freckles <grin>
6:19 GreyDrakkon Heh, lots of people commented on those. ;)
6:19 charmed joins Main
6:20 malika freckles rock. I have them too. It makes her more human....
6:20 Patty Anna's never really been the cowering type -- just forced there for survival.
6:20 Firewire sorry I'm late =/
6:21 GreyDrakkon Question answered, Spring?
6:21 Spring I was not comparing covers but the change from the description in short story to the new cover. I am looking forward to reading Cry wolf
6:21 GreyDrakkon (no problem Firewire! We're just going down the line for asking questions)
6:21 Patty One of the things I've learned in my career, is that the cover sometimes doesn't reflect the story inside. Particularly if it's the cover of a novella collection.
6:21 Has-is-awake hi Firewire
6:21 Spring Yes Thank you!
6:21 GreyDrakkon Zeute, it's your turn. :)
6:21 Zeute Pass :)
6:22 Patty Spring, yes -- Anna doesn't need to cower with Charles around.
6:22 GreyDrakkon Looks like Rob isn't here, so Has, your turn
6:22 Has-is-awake Is Adams inbetween shape common for werewolves to have or is it just an innate ability that he has due to being an alpha
6:22 Kiersten joins Main
6:23 Patty Not common. Mercy's never seen it before. I think it's something Adam just invented. He was so angry, but needed to stay human enough to talk.. Maybe now other wolves will try it <grin>
6:24 Kiersten it looked like it took a lot out of him and the others in his pack
6:24 Patty Yes. Not an easy thing to do at all.
6:24 Has-is-awake 
- so even he was really Peed off he had that much control over his shape?
6:25 Kiersten quite impressive
6:25 Patty Uhm. More like too much control to change all the way -- and settled into something that did the job.
6:25 Zeute joins Main
6:25 GreyDrakkon makes sense
6:25 Kiersten ahh
6:25 Kiersten yess it does
6:25 GreyDrakkon which is odd for a werewolf. ;)
6:26 GreyDrakkon Question answered, Has?
6:26 Has-is-awake yep 
6:26 Patty Werewolves without control don't survive. Adam has a terrible temper -- so he needs even more control.
6:26 Has-is-awake thanks Patty
6:26 GreyDrakkon Janilee, you're up.
6:26 Kiersten gotcha
6:26 Janilee First, I want to thank you for the enjoyable read you created. Second, I want to ask if Cry Wolf had the same cover artist as the last three Mercy Books?
6:27 Kiersten yes, i really like his work
6:27 Patty Janilee, you're very welcom :) Yes, it's the same cover artist -- Daniel Dos Santos. They are trying to make the covers have a different feel, though. So people will know which series they are picking up.
6:28 Patty welcome
6:28 Patty Spell check is a good thing.
6:28 Kiersten ha it helps
6:28 Janilee That makes sense. Thank you.
6:28 GreyDrakkon FH, looks like you're up. :)
6:29 FH Thank you.
6:29 FH How long is Cry Wolf? I mean, do you know how many pages does the book have as a mass-market paperback?
6:30 Patty I don't yet, but it's about the same length in manuscript as Iron Kissed. The actual page length depends upon the font they choose.
6:30 Patty Blood Bound, for instance is a lot longer than Dragon Bones, but it doesn't look like it.
6:30 Kiersten cool, i didn't know they had any choice in font
6:31 FH All right, I got it. Thank you!
6:31 GreyDrakkon Raven you're up.
6:31 Raven If mercy is imune to most magic and if the change from human to Vamp or werewolf is magic wouldn't that make here imune to a conversersion or is it just after the human converts they get the magic
6:31 Raven I know it don't sound right
6:32 Raven buit I ws wondering
6:32 Patty Mercy says that her immunity is not total. The more likely the magic is to hurt her, the less likely that her immunity will work :) I think that's a little bitter <grin>
6:32 Kiersten ouch but isn't that life
6:32 Patty And not quite right. However, I agree. I think that her being a walker would definately impact a Change to werewolf or conversion to vampire.
6:32 CRash poor mercy ;)
6:33 Firewire Maybe she would end up some type of hybrid
6:33 Raven so it would negate a true blood bond as well?
6:33 Patty Vampire is unlikely anyway. Bran would never allow a vampire to hold her long enough for a conversion.
6:33 Firewire that would be interesting
6:33 CRash a werewolf Change? yikes
6:33 GreyDrakkon since she hasn't heard of it happening, we wouldn't know since she doesn't...But I wonder if the vamps would know...
6:33 Patty Raven, it would mess with it anyway.
6:33 Kiersten yeah unless it was stefan, but i don't see adam giving her up to him with his feelings either
6:33 Raven
6:34 Raven ok
6:34 Raven
6:34 Raven ty Patty
6:34 Patty Bran wouldn't let Stefan hold her either -- even if she wanted him to.
6:34 Kiersten yeah
6:34 Raven
6:34 Raven lol
6:34 GreyDrakkon Looks like Zohra's up
6:34 Patty Nope, Adam wouldn't be happy -- but Bran has more firepower.
6:34 Zohra pass
6:35 GreyDrakkon Jen77 you're up
6:35 Kiersten yep also with adam as the slpha the vamps wouldn't want the chance that he would get upset at them either
6:35 Kiersten alpha*
6:36 GreyDrakkon Paging Jen77, Jen77 can you come to the keyboard? ;)
6:36 jen77 Patty, for some of my friends IK was all about the "decision". I want to let you know that by the second or third chapter I was so engrossed int eh mystery I didn't care who she chose.
6:36 jen77 Thanks for a great book. That's all grey.
6:36 Kiersten (nice grey)
6:36 Patty :) For me it is all about the story. The decision was part of it -- and where it came kinda surprised me too :)
6:37 Patty That doesn't mean that Mercy's not still going to have a "complicated" love life.
6:37 Kiersten yeah i loved the overall plot
6:37 jen77 come on give the girl a little bit of a break.
6:37 GreyDrakkon good reccommendation Jen
6:38 Kiersten ha when do people ever get breaks?
6:38 Patty It's tough being the heroine of an Urban Fantasy. That's all I've got to say.
6:38 jen77 LOL
6:38 GreyDrakkon Jonny P, do you have a question?
6:38 jonnyp pass
6:38 GreyDrakkon CRash you're up
6:39 CRash Okay...Sort of from Hollie's earlier question: Charles was born a werewolf...and yet he obviously aged to adulthood. Was there a certain cutoff where he suddenly stopped aging? I was just curious.
6:39 Kiersten (see i've gotten better since my last chat, i'm not in your way grey ;) )
6:39 Patty Right. We humans reach a point sometime in our early to mid twenties when our bodies start breaking down.
6:39 GreyDrakkon (::pats Kiersten on the head:: >;D )
6:40 Patty There's actually a chemical (I think) released that starts the process of aging.
6:40 Patty In werewolves, that just doesn't happen.
6:40 Janilee Find that chemical!
6:40 Kiersten ohh i did not know that, you learn something new everyday
6:40 Patty So if they are Changed young, they age to mid-twenties and stop.
6:40 Patty People are looking for that chemical signal.
6:40 Kiersten like kara will be yes?
6:41 Raven so that lill girl will never look more than 20?
6:41 Kiersten thats kara, right?
6:41 Patty But if they've found it *Patty puts on her tinfoil had* they're not talking. There was a lot of talk about ten-fifteen years ago. Now you don't hear much.
6:41 GreyDrakkon there is something in the body that regulates it, that's for sure. I saw a show that had children that aged incredibly fast
6:41 Kiersten ohh cool info though, i might just look that up
6:41 Patty Yes, Kara will age to her mid twenties and not be stuck as a teenager the rest of her life.
6:41 CRash Very interesting! Thanks Patty :)
6:42 GreyDrakkon looked like they were 80 by the age of 8
6:42 Patty er . . .tin foil HAT.
6:42 Kiersten wow grey, was that on the deiscovery channel or something?
6:42 GreyDrakkon I believe so
6:42 Kiersten discovery*
6:42 Patty Grey -- right. There's a movie called JACK starring Robin Williams about that, I think.
6:42 GreyDrakkon Rather your turn
6:42 malika I think I saw that special. It's was so weird....
6:42 Kiersten yeah i think thats a mental disorder though
6:43 Rather hmmm i hav 2 que
6:43 Patty If Mike were here, he could tell you what the genetic disorder was called. I haven't actually seen the movie . . .
6:43 Firewire good movie
6:43 Firewire I suggest watching it
6:43 Kiersten i saw it and now i think it was about aging, i should look it up
6:43 Hollie Aww, that movie always made me teary-eyed
6:43 Kiersten it was good, sad though too
6:43 Rather when do we get 2 read an excerpt from CW
6:43 Raven I have to go masive head ache starting Thank You again Patty you are a very nice person have a great night everyone
6:44 Kiersten night Raven
6:44 GreyDrakkon (It's Progeria!)
6:44 Patty Good night Raven.
6:44 Patty Thanks, Grey.
6:44 Firewire gnight raven
6:44 Has-is-awake night raven
6:44 Spring Good night!
6:44 Kiersten (aha thanks grey!)
6:44 FH Good night raven
6:44 Patty And probably about June, Rather. I usually post them a month or two in advance.
6:44 Rather
6:45 Kiersten cool, it could come out on my birthday!
6:45 Rather oh, thx, can i ask the other?
6:45 Patty I'm okay with that.
6:45 Rather
6:45 GreyDrakkon up to you Patty.
6:45 CRash (looked up that extreme aging, it's called "progeria")
6:45 Kiersten (grey found it)
6:45 Firewire grey beat ya to it crash
6:45 CRash lol i'm slow
6:46 Kiersten thanks too
6:46 Rather how did bran get to be the Marrok. Waz he jus like im gonna be the Marrok an every1 waz cool, er wat?
6:46 GreyDrakkon (I'm the master googler. >;) )
6:46 Patty Thanks CRash :) Nasty genetic disease. Breaks my heart to see those kids.
6:46 Patty Bran was here first.
6:46 Kiersten yeah, so sad
6:46 CRash (I bow to your mighty skills, grey)
6:46 Patty He's very old and er ALPHA
6:46 jen77 lol
6:46 Patty And no one wanted to challenge him. You'll see a bit about why in Cry Wolf.
6:47 GreyDrakkon oho
6:47 malika ooooh.... neat. now I really want the book to hurry up and come out!
6:47 Patty You'll get a big dose of Bran history in Cry Wolf
6:47 Kiersten ohhh awesome
6:47 CRash hurray
6:47 Spring Can not wait!
6:47 Firewire great, I look forward to reading it
6:47 Has-is-awake yay more bran I miss him
6:47 GreyDrakkon question answered Rather?
6:47 Rather sounds like fun
6:48 jen77 Bran doesn't have me fooled. He is a sneaky powerful man...not to be messed with despite how he acts.
6:48 Rather Yes thx,
6:48 Kiersten sure is
6:48 malika bran is my favorite. i love the don't look at me, i'm really not that dominant, then he kicks your a**....
6:48 GreyDrakkon (I'm with you Jen, I'd turst him as far as I could run away from him in a hunt)
6:48 GreyDrakkon Jenn you're up
6:48 Jenn Will there be a lot of resistance in the pack to Adam and Mercy being mates and will it have a negative impact on their relationship
6:48 Rather See u next chat, night everybody
6:48 jen77 (Exactly Grey.)
6:49 Patty 'night Rather
6:49 Jenn and thanks for fantastic books
6:49 Has-is-awake bye rather
6:49 GreyDrakkon night, Rather
6:49 Kiersten night rather
6:49 jen77 bye Rather
6:49 Patty Bran's pretty fast <grin>
6:49 Jenn night
6:49 hobble joins Main
6:49 Kiersten i would trust him as long as i wasn't going against him ;)
6:49 GreyDrakkon (and I hate running!)
6:49 FH Night Rather
6:50 Kiersten (me too grey)
6:50 Kiersten (and i play lots of sports, go figure)
6:50 jen77 nope Kiersten not even then...he knows too much that he isn't always willing to share until he thinks it is best. I can't trust him yet.
6:51 Firewire you can trust him to keep the packs best interest
6:51 GreyDrakkon ...
6:51 Firewire other than that no way, not yet
6:51 malika don't have to trust him to like him though! I admire sneaky people, I can relate.....lol
6:51 Kiersten yes thats true
6:51 GreyDrakkon ...::pokes Patty with a stick and runs::
6:51 Kiersten me too malika
6:51 Janilee If you understand what the pack's best interest is.
6:51 Has-is-awake and he definitely cares for his family - just that his methods is sneaky
6:51 Patty Patty doesn't run. Patty rides Horses who run <grin>
6:52 Kiersten haa haa nice, i'd ride a vampire or werewolf to beat the horse
6:52 GreyDrakkon ::points to Jenn's question with stick::
6:52 Jenn LOL
6:53 GreyDrakkon think it got lost in the "goodbyes"
6:53 Has-is-awake Grey have you been taking lessons from Cole?
6:53 GreyDrakkon you saying I'm acting squirrely?
6:53 Kiersten are you kidding she probably taught him ;)
6:53 Patty Jenn -- sorry I missed that! Yes, I expect to see resistance in some quarters. And we all know how Mercy listens when people tell her not to do things. .. .
6:53 Kiersten i'm kidding grey
6:54 GreyDrakkon ::snorts::
6:54 Has-is-awake Well just a little bit
6:54 Jenn thanks Patty
6:54 GreyDrakkon Kiersten, you're up
6:54 Kiersten we love you grey
6:54 Kiersten really, cool
6:55 GreyDrakkon ...good thing I said you're up before you posted that
6:55 GreyDrakkon would make it look like I'm taking bribes
6:55 GreyDrakkon (by the way, my address is 12345, Bribe Me Way....)
6:55 CRash you mean you're not? no more compliments for you
6:55 Midangel joins Main
6:55 charmed Grey, whe is it my turn?
6:55 Janilee Praise is a cheap bribe!
6:55 malika what, you're opposed to a little gratuitous graft? j/k :-)
6:56 Kiersten ha ha you guys
6:56 Has-is-awake 
I love you too grey
6:56 GreyDrakkon (after Firewire, Charmed....The chat room is shuffling your name since you got here)
6:56 Kiersten okay, so i know its from a different series (i just finished reading the Twilight series) and i saw that the vampires had some special powers and i was wondering if the vampires in Mercy's world
6:56 Kiersten had some powers too ?
6:56 Firewire woohoo
6:57 Patty Yes. Marsilia and Stefan, for instance have that "quick getaway" they have used. Other vamps can do other things. We'll see a lot more about the vamps in the next book (at least I think so)
6:57 Kiersten they could read minds, invoke pain, see some of the future etc and i was wondering if any of these vampires could too
6:58 Kiersten okay cool, thanks patty. i'm content with my answer grey, next up.
6:58 Patty I don't know yet, what they can do. I can tell you that the older ones are stronger.
6:58 GreyDrakkon Firewire, you're up
6:58 Firewire Can both females and males be Omegas? If so which is more common and why?
6:58 Patty And can do more. Wulf, though, has other things he can do.
6:58 Kiersten cool thanks
6:59 Patty Firewire. Yes. There are more male Omegas -- because there are more male werewolves. However, in Cry Wolf, the only Omegas we see are both female.
6:59 Kiersten interesting
6:59 Patty Just coincidence.
6:59 CRash plural!
6:59 Firewire great thank you very much =)
6:59 GreyDrakkon o_O another omega?!
6:59 malika oooh neat there's more than one?
7:00 Firewire the plot thickens
7:00 CRash it'll be good for Anna to meet another omega
7:00 Patty You'll just have to see :)
7:00 GreyDrakkon Charmed, your turn to run with it. ;)
7:00 Firewire I like anna it will be good for her
7:00 Kiersten sounds great
7:00 malika can't wait seriously patience not my strong suit.....j
7:00 charmed Patty, I really enjoy your books and the time you take to do these chats. This question is for Ellyl: Is the Fideal a kelpie, in the book, or something related but different?
7:01 Kiersten ohh, nice of you to ask ger question
7:01 Patti joins Main
7:01 Patty Fideal is a *real* critter. There's a place in (Ireland I think -- you'll have to find a copy of Katharine Briggs's Encyclopedia of Fairies to check it out for sure)
7:02 Patty He's not a Kelpie. He's a critter that lurks in bogs and waits for straying children to eat.
7:02 Kiersten ohhh how cool
7:02 Kiersten not the eating children part, the other part
7:02 Patty Kelpies are cool and probably related.
7:02 charmed is there a name for hsi kind of critter?
7:02 GreyDrakkon definitely checking that book out
7:02 charmed his
7:02 Kiersten me too grey
7:02 Patty He's just "The Fideal"
7:02 charmed ok, thanks
7:03 GreyDrakkon like "the bogeyman"?
7:03 Patty Lots of the bog-dwellers seem to take horse or cow form
7:03 Patty Yep Grey
7:03 charmed I had noticed that
7:03 Kiersten interesting, i wonder why. won't see many of those creatures in the bogs
7:03 Has-is-awake Do you think the Swamp monster was based on him? 
7:03 Patty So I added that to the Fideal's abilities on my own.
7:03 GreyDrakkon Hobble, you're up
7:04 hobble about how old is kyle
7:04 Patty Has, I don't know. There's something about a bog that makes you think monsters and slimey things . . .
7:04 Kiersten hmmm
7:04 Patty Kyle's in his mid thirties.
7:04 Kiersten ohh cool
7:05 Patty If you tell him I told you, though, he'll be mad. He looks much younger.
7:05 Hollie Oh my, I don't think I can stay up any longer. I haven't stayed up until 3am for a long time. :P Thank you for taking the time out to chat, Patty, hopefully I can make it to the next one as well. :) Nighty night, everyone!
7:05 GreyDrakkon vain creature
7:05 malika smiles...
7:05 Patty Hollie -- good night :)
7:05 Has-is-awake night Hollie
7:05 GreyDrakkon night, Hollie
7:05 malika bye hollie
7:05 FH Good night Hollie
7:05 Kiersten ha ha thats the impression i got from kyle (that he looks younger)
7:05 GreyDrakkon question answered, Hobble?
7:05 Spring Good Night Hollie
7:05 Jenn nite hollie
7:05 Patti Good night, Hollie
7:05 Hollie Hollie quit
7:06 hobble yes
7:06 Kiersten night hollie
7:06 GreyDrakkon Midangle, you're up
7:06 Kiersten i'm going to have to go in about an hour too :(
7:06 GreyDrakkon oops, angel, not angle. >_< confusing my geometric shapes with diving creatures again
7:06 CRash yay geometry
7:07 Patty Devine? Grey?
7:07 Kiersten ha ha i always had a problem with that too
7:07 Kiersten ha ha another one!
7:07 Has-is-awake Divine !!!! lol
7:07 GreyDrakkon ....::eats keyboard::
7:07 Midangel Oh I'm such a doofus, I came along here not realizing the chat was in progress * mental slap*
7:07 Patty HAS -- got me. See. I need my editors.
7:07 GreyDrakkon that'll teach it for switching letters around when I'm not looking...
7:07 Kiersten ha ha you two
7:08 Has-is-awake I am not great with spellings and I switch and miss letters entirely 
7:08 Firewire I appologize for interupting but I have to go. A friend is in a movie and I am going to go support him.
7:08 GreyDrakkon hah, that's alright Midangel, did you have a question to zing Patty's way off the top of your head?
7:08 Patty Me too. As if you haven't noticed.
7:08 Firewire take care, thank you very much Patty
7:08 CRash I have to leave as well--great chat all, and thanks Patty!
7:08 Patty Bye Firewire! Waves.
7:08 Has-is-awake cya soon Firewire- night
7:08 Kiersten how cool firewire
7:08 Spring Take care Firewire
7:08 GreyDrakkon night, Firewire
7:08 Firewire see everyone on the forums
7:08 Kiersten bye guys
7:08 FH Bye firewire
7:08 Patty Night CRash
7:08 Kiersten will do
7:09 Jenn nite
7:09 Spring Good bye CRash
7:09 Has-is-awake night CRash
7:09 jen77 jen77 quit
7:09 FH Bye CRash
7:09 GreyDrakkon well looks like Patti is next
7:10 Kiersten hi patti
7:10 Has-is-awake hey Patti
7:11 GreyDrakkon .......and looks like she fell asleep on her keyboard. ;)
7:11 Patti Good night Firewire & CRash Hello everyone. Um. Will either Mercy or Charles & Anna come to Seattle
7:11 GreyDrakkon ah there you are
7:11 Patti Sorry, just got in, cooking at the same time.
7:12 Patty Charles and Anna look promising. I don't know yet :) They're going to do a lot more traveling than Mercy.
7:12 GreyDrakkon (::is ready to boil the keyboard:: )
7:12 Nottled joins Main
7:12 Patty Does that make it taste better, Grey?
7:12 Kiersten yup i'm watching chocolat now too
7:12 GreyDrakkon makes it learn fear!
7:12 Kiersten cool, i'd like to see anna and mercy meet. that'd be great
7:12 Patty Kiersten -- the movie or the food?
7:12 Patti Boiling is for dust specks. Thank you for the answer, Ma'am. I'm going to be quiet now.
7:13 malika ah grey that's funny!
7:13 Patty Kiersten, I don't know if that will happen. Confusing for me :)
7:13 GreyDrakkon Nottled, you're up!
7:13 Kiersten the movie (just finished a chocolate choco chip cake though;) )
7:13 Nottled Holy Crap I'm late!!!! I got caught up in the great retainer search!! Dam kids
7:13 GreyDrakkon you're just in time for your turn. :)
7:13 Has-is-awake Jonny Depp and chocolate- is a great combo
7:13 Kiersten (making it not eating it, i will do that later)
7:13 Has-is-awake hi Nottled
7:13 Kiersten it really is!
7:14 Nottled Hi Patty!!!! Okay, will our beloved Sam ever come close to love? I'd love to see him with a girl who really knocks his socks off!
7:14 Kiersten yeah, i figured it'd be hard to write, but great to see.
7:14 Kiersten aww good question
7:14 Patty I'm sure he will. I just don't know when. I don't think it'll be soon, though. He has a lot of issues to work through.
7:14 FH Yes!!
7:14 Patty For right now, he's where he needs to be.
7:14 FH Good question, I mean
7:14 Kiersten yay for sam!
7:15 Has-is-awake Yay
7:15 Nottled I bet but he's older'n dirt!
7:15 Kiersten thanks, at least we know it will happen
7:15 Has-is-awake whose to say she wont be either
7:15 GreyDrakkon means his lessons have to be harder. ;)
7:15 Patty With Mercy as his only pack member *Spoiler* and if you don't think that's going to cause problems for Adam and Mercy . . .
7:15 malika ooohhhhhhhh. fun and chaos, YAY!!!!
7:15 Patty Mercy can't belong to two packs at once . . .
7:15 Jenn wowwwwwww
7:16 Kiersten ahh more complications
7:16 Kiersten
7:16 GreyDrakkon oh good, I was hoping he wouldn't be "absorbed" into Adam's pack just because she became his mate
7:16 Nottled Ahhhhhhhhh.....I'm with ya!
7:16 Janilee I had wondered about that.
7:16 Patty See I told you Mercy's life wasn't going to be smooth sailing.
7:16 Kiersten i was wondering about the 2 packs problem
7:16 Patty Samuel can't be absorbed into Adam's pack . . . he's more dominant than Adam.
7:16 Patty And he doesn't want a real pack.
7:16 Has-is-awake and Adam isnt happy with Mercy living with Sam either
7:16 GreyDrakkon Question answered, Nottled?
7:16 Kiersten we don't know that just yet
7:16 Nottled Nope but it kind of makes him an odd bird...er...wolf.
7:17 Nottled Ye'sm....thankee kindly.
7:17 Kiersten i like sam and mercy as a makeshift pack
7:17 Patty <grin>
7:17 malika me too kiersten
7:17 GreyDrakkon O.K, we've gone down the line once! Woot. Malika, you're up again
7:17 Kiersten is it just me or does my name come out in bold unlikt others?
7:17 malika oh wow I get another one? gotta think
7:18 Kiersten unlike*
7:18 GreyDrakkon (the chatroom has issues Kiersten)
7:18 Patty Just you, I think Kiersten.
7:18 Kiersten now its not, what the heck!
7:18 Patty Or at least not me <grin>
7:18 Has-is-awake Gremlins - had them since day one
7:18 Kiersten (sorry for my random outburst)
7:18 Midangel ekkkkk my stupid Internet is not being nice to me. I apologize for my slow replied or non replies.
7:18 Patty Darn those Gremlins.
7:19 GreyDrakkon (at least it's not kicking people out anymore)
7:19 malika for Charles and Anna, is Anna going to end up having a big responsibility to match Charles' or is she just kindof going along with whatever he does as the enforcer?
7:19 Has-is-awake lol
7:19 Kiersten they just keep poping up
7:19 Patty Anna is of infinite value to Bran.
7:19 GreyDrakkon ('s'alright, Midangel. Did you want to aska question?)
7:19 Patty Of course she's going to have responsibilities.
7:19 Kiersten oooo
7:20 Patty They aren't going to let her go back to waiting tables <grin>
7:20 Kiersten aha
7:20 malika yay, cool. I can't wait to see more of her! I thought she might be a good partner for Charles in more than just the romantic way, because of her omega powers.... purrrrrrrr.
7:21 GreyDrakkon question answered, Malika?
7:21 malika yup. Thanks Patty!!!!!!!!!
7:21 GreyDrakkon I'll pass, so it's Spring's turn
7:21 Kiersten awesome
7:21 Midangel Have you any restrictions opposed to you by your publishers or editors on what you can write in your books?
7:21 Spring Patty you did let this slip-So why are "other" supernaturals coming to the tri-states?
7:22 lisa joins Main
7:22 GreyDrakkon oop, looks like lag attack
7:22 Patty Midangel. The only thing they made me do was turn the Hob grey (he was black) because they were afraid some reviewer would tick off the African American community. Me, I said, he's black -- like a black lab. And he's the hero.
7:23 Kiersten appears so
7:23 Patty Still grey was a more interesting choice in the long run. . .
7:23 Kiersten cool, didn't know that
7:23 Patty Spring -- it's sort of like why the gay community flocked to San Francisco.
7:24 Spring Thank you!
7:24 GreyDrakkon Zeute is on break, so Has, it's your turn again
7:24 Patty Midangel -- I don't think they'd have insisted on any other restricitions -- they publish some really hot books
7:25 GreyDrakkon saucy. >;D
7:25 Kiersten sweet
7:25 Kiersten i love that answer too
7:26 GreyDrakkon Has you there?
7:26 Has-is-awake yeh
7:26 Has-is-awake sorry
7:26 Has-is-awake i am awake
7:26 Patty <grin>
7:26 Kiersten or so says your name
7:26 Has-is-awake Will Bran appear in Mercy 4? I know he is definitely going to appear in Cry Wolf but I missed his presence in Iron Kissed
7:26 GreyDrakkon heh, it's alright was wondering if you should change the moniker. ;)
7:26 Patty I think we'll try to have the next chat a little earlier for our UK friends next time.
7:26 Has-is-awake and can I add as well
7:26 Kiersten i just had to refresh mine :P
7:27 Patty I won't know about Bran until I get farther into Mercy IV.
7:27 Has-is-awake what is Mercy's mother's reaction to Mercy being mated to Adam ?
7:27 Patty You'll get a lot of him in Cry Wolf, though.
7:28 Has-is-awake I really missed him in Iron Kissed we didnt get much of him
7:28 Kiersten sweet
7:28 Patty I'm not sure. Mostly because so far Mercy hasnt' told her.
7:28 Patty Woops, that looks odd. How about Mercy hasn't talked to her mother about Adam yet. And isn't sure she's going to <grin>
7:28 Kiersten yuup but we have heard that she interupts them
7:29 Has-is-awake shes got to guess something was up right- please give a hint for us poor sleep deprived people across the pond
7:29 Patty That's true. But Mercy isn't sure she (Mercy) is up to explaining "mating" with her mother. It's kind of a private thing among werewolves so her other doesn't know about it.
7:30 Kiersten ahh good point
7:30 GreyDrakkon question answered, Has?
7:30 Has-is-awake but she knows that Mercy is involved with Adam- Yep
7:30 Patty However, she knows that there's something going on between them -- I'm not sure how it will all work out. I'm still on the first chapter.
7:31 Patty Hard for her to miss that there's something going on between Mercy and Adam *blush*
7:31 Has-is-awake thanks Patty
7:31 Has-is-awake lol
7:31 Kiersten ha ha yup
7:31 Kiersten thanks
7:31 GreyDrakkon Janilee, you're up
7:31 Janilee Has Warren decided to move in with Kyle or was that just for the movie night?
7:32 Patty I don't know. They're keeping it pretty low key right now -- neither of them wants to push the other. They have some issues to work out -- but they are working them out.
7:33 Janilee O.K., Thanks.
7:33 Kiersten aww, i like them so much
7:33 Patty Me too
7:33 GreyDrakkon FH, your turn
7:33 FH All right
7:33 FH There are stronger Alphas like Bran or Adam. I wonder,
7:33 Kiersten i would hope you like them patty
7:34 FH is there such things as 'stronger' Omegas? I don't mean physically, but more poweful as an Omega. Do you understand what I want to say?
7:34 Patty I understand.
7:34 Kiersten cool idea
7:34 Patty The problem is it's more like "differently abled" than stronger/weaker. Also, there are so few of them, they seldom meet.
7:35 FH Oh, that's interesting!
7:35 Patty But, yes. There are stronger and weaker ones -- it just doesn't matter to them the way it does for the Alphas
7:35 Kiersten wow
7:35 Kiersten cool
7:36 FH Thank you very much.
7:36 PattiL joins Main
7:36 GreyDrakkon oh that'd be ironic, posturing Omegas! "I'm the least of the least!" "No, I am! You're obviously more aggressive than me!"
7:36 Kiersten ha ha
7:36 malika hahahahah I love the mental image.
7:36 Has-is-awake make that passive aggressive Grey lol
7:36 Nottled LOL Grey.....
7:36 GreyDrakkon on that note, Zohra you're up
7:36 FH You are too funny, Grey
7:37 GreyDrakkon oh, point to Has.
7:37 Zohra hi im enjoying watching this chat - so i will be happy to pass on my turn :)
7:37 GreyDrakkon Jen77 left the room?
7:37 GreyDrakkon And JonnyP?
7:38 GreyDrakkon and Rather? Yeesh, we've had some attrition!
7:38 Kiersten looks like
7:38 Has-is-awake cant see them on the list
7:38 GreyDrakkon Jenn, you're up
7:38 Jenn what plans do you have for Kara and which series will she be in mercys or anna
7:39 jenniwee joins Main
7:39 Patty I'm not sure what I'll do with Kara, for sure. However, she'll be in Anna's books rather than Mercy's.
7:39 Jenn thanks patty
7:39 Kiersten i thought she might, for bran and charles she's more involved
7:39 GreyDrakkon oh interesting
7:40 Patty
7:40 GreyDrakkon Kiersten, you're up
7:41 Kiersten cool, i was wondering, since the vampires are going to be seen more in this next mecy books (assumed), how much are they going to figure out about andre? (without getting too spoilerish).
7:41 Patty They know [evil]
7:42 Spring OOOOOh
7:42 GreyDrakkon how intimidating. >;D
7:42 malika oh, no...... poor Mercy she's going to be in sooooo much trouble now.......
7:42 Kiersten ohh how much trouble that will bring!
7:42 Zohra Good night everyone byeeeee
7:42 GreyDrakkon night Zohra
7:42 Kiersten poor stefan too
7:42 Patty Bye Zohra
7:42 Kiersten bye
7:42 Spring Good night
7:42 FH Bye Zohra
7:42 Patty Kiersten. Exactly
7:43 Nottled Night Zohra!
7:43 Has-is-awake bye hon
7:43 GreyDrakkon question answered, Kiersten?
7:43 Spring you wonder how they found out
7:43 Kiersten yup, but soo many opened
7:43 GreyDrakkon Charmed, you're up again
7:43 Kiersten thanks patty, that will keep me worried a good long time
7:43 charmed First, Midangel wanted me to extend her apologies for leaving abruptly, her internet connection is being wonky. Patty, she says thank you for your reply and she thinks that your books are awesome and so are you.
7:44 Patty *curtsies*
7:44 Patty I know all about problem Internets
7:44 charmed Second, erm, pass. I forgot wahT i wanted to ask. 
7:44 Kiersten she's got that right
7:44 PattiL Good night Zohra. Got reconnected. Stupid 'refresh' button.
7:44 Kiersten yuup
7:44 Patty We have a couple of people who haven't gotten a chance to ask questions? Or have they just changed names?
7:45 Has-is-awake welcome back Patti
7:45 GreyDrakkon have I missed anyone? New people popped in, but I think I caught 'em all
7:45 Nottled Hiiii Patti...Hiiiiii!
7:45 jenniwee I got here really late, but I'm not sure where I land in the order.
7:45 GreyDrakkon I think lisa came in last
7:45 Has-is-awake lisa is new ?
7:46 Patty Grey? Lisa and Hobble? right. and Jenniwee.
7:46 charmed her name's been on the lsit for a while
7:46 GreyDrakkon oh jeeze, Jenniwee you snuck in there, you and Lisa are the last two to enter, Hobble came in before them
7:46 jenniwee Sorry, rugrats to put to bed
7:47 Patty And has Janilee asked a question?
7:47 GreyDrakkon next up is Hobble, then Patti, Nottled, then the Lisa and Jenniwee
7:47 Janilee I've asked two .
7:47 GreyDrakkon or is it free-for-all time?
7:47 Kiersten so confused
7:47 Patty Good ;) Sometimes I get distracted, Janilee
7:48 Patty Nope, we'll adhere to your order Grey.
7:48 FH I think Grey means Jenniwee, not Jenilee?
7:48 GreyDrakkon Hobble, you're up
7:48 PattiL And hello back to Nottled and all. Welcome to my home state, confusion
7:48 hobble pass
7:48 charmed lol
7:48 GreyDrakkon yes, Jenniwee, you're right FH. ::smashes keyboard Hulk style::
7:48 GreyDrakkon Patti, you're up
7:49 Patty I lose more keyboards that way . . .
7:49 jenniwee don't worry. if 5 people don't have a name the same or similar to mine, i don't know what to do.
7:49 GreyDrakkon I've actually had mine so long I've worn the nub off mine. :(
7:49 Kiersten yeah, its a hard time finding good ones
7:49 Has-is-awake lol
7:50 GreyDrakkon hmm, Patti may be having comp. problems right now, so we'll move on to Nottled
7:51 Nottled Will we ever meet Bran's European counterpart?
7:51 Nottled Or any other continet for that matter?
7:51 Nottled oops continent
7:52 Patty Almost certainly -- though there are several Marroks in Europe.
7:52 Nottled Per country or.....?
7:52 malika ooooohhhhh I didn't know there were more than one! cool!
7:52 Kiersten probably
7:53 FH Oh, thank you for that information. I was wondering.
7:53 Patty They aren't all happy with Bran outing the wolves. And it's not by country, but Bran has, by far, the biggest territory -- and the best control of his Alphas.
7:53 GreyDrakkon nifty
7:53 Nottled That's interesting. Considering he's Welsh and that's not even close to the oldest civilization. Verrrrry interesting.
7:53 GreyDrakkon wonder if....Hmm I'll save that question. >;)
7:53 Has-is-awake hey Nifty
7:54 GreyDrakkon ::pokes Has with the stick I had earlier::
7:54 GreyDrakkon back in line you!
7:54 charmed a Nifty Drakkon.
7:54 GreyDrakkon ;)
7:54 GreyDrakkon gah I'm getting besieged!
7:54 GreyDrakkon in any case, question answered Nottled?
7:55 Kiersten ha ha
7:55 charmed hee hee
7:55 Nottled Yep!
7:55 Janilee You volunteered.
7:55 Janilee
7:55 Spring Thank you GreyDrakkon for your work tonight.
7:55 GreyDrakkon ::snorts:: I made the mistake of typing
7:55 GreyDrakkon ;)
7:55 Kiersten ha
7:55 Has-is-awake you are just lucky Mazoku's nija cats arent here- But def great job grey
7:56 GreyDrakkon feh, you lot were hardly any trouble
7:56 GreyDrakkon didn't even have to break out the smoke and flames
7:56 charmed much calmer than last month!
7:56 malika I think the trouble makers took the night off.....
7:56 GreyDrakkon but if Jenniwee has a question to ask?
7:56 Kiersten ha i'm glad too
7:56 jenniwee Ach, questions. I always for get mine
7:57 Spring Patty, thank you for your books and your time.
7:57 GreyDrakkon (ask what you wanted to ask, maybe Patty knows. >:D )
7:57 jenniwee Ok, tell me if this has been asked and answered.
7:57 jenniwee Do we see more of the John Lauren Society in later books and does the nasty attorney out Mercy?
7:58 Has-is-awake great question !!!!
7:58 GreyDrakkon definitely
7:58 Kiersten ohh
7:58 FH Yes
7:58 Patty Yes, we'll see more of the John Lauren Society. I have plans for the nasty attorney, too <grin> but they are secret (even from me) but I'm going to use her again.
7:58 GreyDrakkon ::hisses::
7:59 jenniwee ooo
7:59 PattiL
7:59 PattiL
7:59 GreyDrakkon man I think they get my back up even more than the prior "villians"!
7:59 jenniwee They seem to have lots of potential for nastiness
7:59 Patty Also, Tim's little group isn't dead yet either.
7:59 Has-is-awake I can sense she will be werewolf meat in the future- yep I agree Jenniwee
7:59 malika bigots suck. ditto on the hissing. and growling too. for both groups....
8:00 Kiersten yep didn't like those people
8:00 Patty LOL
8:00 Patty Thank you so much for coming to chat tonight :)
8:00 Has-is-awake chucks the rotton tomatoes
8:00 jenniwee Yeah, if Mercy freaked her out what would she do if she met say, Adam?
8:00 Nottled Okay Sweet Babies...I'm having chilrens issues. Thanks for the chat Mrs. Briggs! Night Ya'll!
8:00 GreyDrakkon night nottled
8:00 jenniwee Thanks, Patty!!
8:00 charmed night Nottled!
8:00 GreyDrakkon question answered, Jenniwee?
8:00 Has-is-awake thanks patty !!!
8:00 malika is it over? Thank you Patty!!!!!!!
8:00 Has-is-awake night nottled
8:00 Patty I've go to go too
8:01 lisa what was tony's reaction to the news that Mercy was attacked and has it made him reconsider his belief that she must be fae or werewolf
8:01 FH Bye Nottled
8:01 GreyDrakkon thank you so much for coming on tonight, Patty
8:01 charmed thanks Patty, I love that you do this
8:01 Has-is-awake oh lisa didnt ask her question yet!!!
8:01 Spring Good Night Patty!
8:01 GreyDrakkon oop there's lisa!
8:01 Kiersten i'm off
8:01 Patty Tony's feeting pretty hot.
8:01 jenniwee Well enough, but as usual our hostess answers one while openning 5 more. It's a great talent. Can't wait for the next book!!
8:01 Jenn it sounds like bran and his mate has a stormy time and I wonder if he is very unhappy and how do you if ever get rid of a mate
8:01 Spring Thank you again Patty!!
8:01 Kiersten yeah i was wondering about tony
8:01 Has-is-awake cya kiersten
8:01 lisa huh?
8:02 GreyDrakkon I imagine she means Tony's pretty irate at what happened to Mercy
8:03 Patty He's pretty convinced she's something -- and Tim's death didn't change his mind. However, he's starting to realize that there are other things out there. And he's decided that she's Other.
8:03 Janilee Smart
8:03 Patty Right, he's hot about the rape -- he'd have killed Tim, too. But he's got a cooler head than Adam -- he'd just have shot him.
8:04 Janilee A much calmer reaction
8:04 GreyDrakkon (5 times, one for each extremity) >;)
8:04 Patty He's one of the reasons Adam didn't end up in a cell that night.
8:04 Has-is-awake and that policeman leaking the tape didnt help matters either!
8:04 malika i'm with you grey.
8:04 Patty Grey -- LOL Nope. He's a better shot than that. Just take care of business is his motto.
8:04 Rob joins Main
8:04 GreyDrakkon (wait, I meant 6 shots. >:) )
8:04 lisa will we see more of him in the next book?
8:05 GreyDrakkon Tony's far to clean then. ;)
8:05 Patty Lisa, I don't know. The next book is vampire business, not human business -- but it depends how it all plays out.
8:05 Patty I didn't say where he'd shoot. Grey. There's a lot of blood vessels . . .
8:05 Spring Will Tony ever get his "Lady"?
8:05 GreyDrakkon har
8:06 Patty I think so, Spring. But he's going to have to work pretty hard.
8:06 jenniwee They always should
8:06 malika haha Patty. I was thinking one in particular that he'd miss if it was shot..... poetic justice.
8:06 Spring Thats great!
8:06 Patty Okay, GTG Hugs everyone and see you next month :)
8:06 GreyDrakkon thanks again Patty!
8:06 malika Bye Patty!!!! Thank you!!!!!!
8:06 jenniwee Thanks, Patty!!
8:06 Janilee Good by and Thanks
8:06 Has-is-awake bye patty and thanks for the chat
8:06 FH Thank you Patty
8:06 charmed Bye patty, thank you!! :)
8:06 Spring Good Night!
8:07 Jenn thank you patty and goodnight
8:07 GreyDrakkon so, how late is it for you Has?
8:07 Patty Thank you Grey :) & Good night *waves*