If you haven't seen it already go to obernewtyn.com.au to see Isobelle reading from The Stone Key at the recent Convergence convention.
Oh my god, that's awesome! Hmm, don't know if I could handle an extract then have to wait in agony for the rest... Thanks for that anyway, Sharben, oh, and welcome to Obernewtyn :D
16 years ago
Fri Jul 06 2007, 05:53pm
Yay! Awesomeness. I've been waiting for them to post that, I'll have to watch it when I get home. Thanks Sharben!
Edit: Oooo!!! That was so cool. I'm going to transcribe it, I'll post it here for the theorists to refer to :D
(Don't you *love* the voice IC puts on for Brydda?! The accent was so subtle but so...Brydda!! *squees*)
Edit 2: Right, here's the transcript, for use in Theories. Under a great big spoiler, in case you really don't want to know about it.
I want to say right now that if it's breaching anything, let me know and I'll remove it.
All credits to Isobelle Carmody and Penguin Australia, etc...
I thought of the premonition that had assailed me earlier.
“I begin to fear we were too quick to let people know of our refuge. Suddenly everything seems less sure, than when the rebellion ended.â€
Brydda shook his head. “If you’d kept your refuge secret, it would have made Landfolk even more mistrustful and suspicious of you. Take heart, for all is not ill in this new time. The Council is gone from this part of the Land, and with them, the Soldierguards and the Herders, and the whole machinery of corruption. Good new laws are about to be established, and soon people will elect their own leaders. Of course there are still those who still fear your kind…but many more do not, having seen clearly where your loyalties lay during the elections. Don’t be impatient. The changes have begun. And they will continue.â€
He lapsed into silence for a moment, and then said, “When the rebellion first began to be spoken of, I imagined that once the Council was gone, the Land would become a sort of paradise. But of course it’s not that simple. It’ll be many years before things are really stable, and there’ll be as many steps back as forward. I don’t doubt it.â€
“You could just walk away from it all,†I pointed out, hearing the weariness in his voice. “You could come up and live up here. No one would ever say you hadn’t done enough.â€
“I would say it,†Brydda said with gentle finality. “Enough is not measured by what you give, but by what’s needed.â€
He reached out and took my hand in his.
“Something’s wrong between you and Rushton, isn’t it?â€
I cursed his knack of knowing things he could not know, and opened my mouth to tell him it was not his affair, but other words burst out of me, low and raw.
“Rushton has changed since he was imprisoned in the cloister in Sutrium. He doesn’t remember what happened, but something’s broken in him. I can’t look inside his mind to see if it can be mended, for he will not permit it. He doesn’t want my talent and he doesn’t want me. There’s nothing to be done about it.â€
I looked down at Maruman, who slept on oblivious. I was glad, for my grief would have irked him.
“Elspeth,†Brydda said my name gently, and when I looked up, I saw pity in his eyes. “Come. It’s time you were asleep.â€
He reached down, scooped Maruman into his arms, and pulled me to my feet. He lead me to the bedroll Zarak had laid out beneath one of the wagons, and I stretched out, feeling suddenly utterly exhausted.
Brydda laid Maruman gently beside me, and the old cat rolled close with a snore. He hadn’t even woken, and I wondered if he slept, or now travelled the dreamtrails.
“Sleep,†Brydda commanded gently, and left me.
I closed my eyes, and sleep rolled over me like a soft, heavy blanket, obliterating consciousness with a gentle, but inexorable finality.
I dove through the cloudy squall of memories and dreams that clamoured at me in the upper levels of my mind, shielding myself, until I was deep enough for them to fade into a deep brown silence. I continued to descend, until I heard the siren song of the mindstream that runs at the deepest level of all minds, and which contains the thoughts and memories of all minds that have ever existed.
The urge to join the stream, and give up individual existence was as potent as ever, but I held myself until the pull of the mindstream was in exact balance with the pull to rise to consciousness.
I had come deep to avoid dreaming. But even as I looked down into the shimmering beauty of the mindstream, a bubble of matter detached itself, and rose towards me, shapeless and shining as air, rising to the surface of water.
The bubble engulfed me.
I saw Cassy Duprey sitting in a Beforetime flyer.
I couldn’t tell if it was the same flying machine I had seen her in before, but she looked different. Subtly older. Perhaps it was just the plain, dark clothes she was wearing instead of the bright colours she usually favoured, or maybe it was the fact that her wild mass of crinkling hair was restrained, in a complex coil against her neck.
Seated opposite her was a very beautiful, haughty looking older woman, with the same, chocolate-toned skin as Cassy. Certain likeness about the facial bones suggested they were related.
Could this be her mother, I wondered? She didn’t act like it, for Cassy was weeping, and the woman made no move to comfort her.
“What did you expect, Cassandra?†she finally asked, her tone irritated. “He was a spy.â€
“He might not be dead,†Cassy said, in a voice thick with tears and despair.
“Don’t be foolish,†the woman responded crisply. “Samuel vanished while spying on officials in the Chinon Empire. If he’s not dead, then he will wish he were soon enough.â€
OMG. I cannot keep my excitement to a G rating. I got goosebumps, and I had to shove my fist into my mouth, and then I was crying, and now I just want to go running down the street screaming.
Guys... this is for real. We are actually getting the next instalment of The Obernewtyn Chronicles. This is for real.
*dazed*
Aaaargh! so exciting!!!! For some reason I couldn't open the file of the reading (would it be something to do with using a mac? *is confused*) so thank you so much for transcribing it, Min, so that we can all share in the excitement!
WOOT!
OK, so I downloaded it as soon as i saw it and then started watching it, but then I stopped. But before you all start spluttering nonplussedly, it was only so I can ask this: Does it give a lot away? I mean, is the excerpt from the start of the book, because it didn't seem like it was, and as much as I want to watch it (and probably will end up doing a few minutes after posting this, despite having tied myself down away from the computer) ... for the people who've already seen it, is it er, safe to watch?
I just know I am not watching it... HAHAHA... so I gotta be careful where I tread on OberNet nowadays.
Gonna enter the competition though... it'd be sweet to have that prize!
Thanks for the transcript Min! It was great to read, but now makes me want TSK to come out even sooner!
Just tried to enter that competition, and it looks like its for Aussies only! Its not fair!
16 years ago
Fri Jul 06 2007, 09:13pm
Boggart and Unykorn -
There aren't any major spoilers. It's a conversation between Elspeth and Brydda concerning the result of the first phase of the rebellion (east coast), and how they are going to proceed from there. It also mentions how Elspeth/Rushton stand. Still, if you'd rather keep everything a surprise...
I'm just not sure how long the majority of us who have seen it will be able to remember to use spoiler tags!
Feather -
The video opened in Windows Media Player, so I'm guessing it's likely a .wmv or whatever the file extension may be. So yes, your problems could be because you're using a Mac :/ What about school/work/local library? You may be able to stream it while you're there?
Firefall -
Perhaps they ARE getting bonded in this book. Just because one little excerpt shows them having troubles doesn't mean they're over. I hope. In a matter of chapters in Ashling, they went from thinking the other would never love them, to speaking Ravek. Elspeth is so determined to have her own life, and she loves him so, I don't think she will easily give him up. In any case, I was a quivering collection of nerves, so when Isobelle read, "He doesn't want my Talent, and he doesn't want me." I burst into tears.
16 years ago
Fri Jul 06 2007, 09:25pm
Yeah, I can see this coming up in the theory threads a fair bit.
Wayla -
"Just because one little excerpt shows them having troubles doesn't mean they're over. I hope. In a matter of chapters in Ashling, they went from thinking the other would never love them, to speaking Ravek. "
I know, that's the thread of hope I'm clinging to! As I said, maybe Elspeth's just being her usual pessimistic self. She does have a way of misreading others' emotions...or jumping to unfair conclusions even when she does get them right. My fingers are crossed that this is just a hitch on the way to better things. :P
I know what you mean about the "doesn't want me and doesn't want my Talent" bit, though. I didn't cry, but I did get worked up. I may or may not have started wailing at my computer screen. That one line...basically undermines one of the things I love best in the world of Obernewtyn. I'm not actually being flippant; I found it really sad. Even if I weren't a devoted Rushton/Elspeth shipper I would have thought so.
Feather: You can still use Windows Media Player on the mac. Go to Microsofts Mac site, and download the version they provide htere
Ashling Guildmistress
16 years ago
Ashling Guildmistress
Mage
Yay! Thanks for transcribing that Min!! Though I wish it the audio would work cause I'd love to hear her read!!
Eeeeeee!!!!!!! *happyhappyhappyhappy*
I wonder how much more they're going to put on the website before the book comes out? If they're not careful, we'll have memorised the half the book before it comes out! *glances furtively at Min's transcription pinned up on wall next to bed*
Come on Dameon... and whoever said Dameon had no hope?
omg, I must be heartless. I can't sympathise with Rushton at all for losing Elf. That's an Interesting idea about Rushton being tortured Min... I hope not though, it's pretty horrible. Maybe it was Ariel? Could be a bit of an issue if he's master of Obernewtyn though, he's always surrounded by misfits.
At least I know how Sutrium and Brydda are supposed to be said lol...
Mystic Ward
16 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
OML!!!
how cool is this...and they will be adding more!!!!!
I think this is probably from near the start of the book as the others seemed to have consideralble time laspes at the beginning.
Rushton will no doubt be healed and fall in love with Elf again, thought I'm aways hopeful for Swallow. ;)
Thanks for the technical advice fellas - will give it another shot :)
I reckno that the impediment to Elf and Rushton's relationship needed to happen for plot purposes - can you imagine them just being all lovey-dovey for the entirety of the last two books? There would be no suspense! So I'm going to think of it as a plot device rather than as an indication taht they're irrevocably doomed - although that too is possible lol
ooOOoo!!! [act]jumps up and down![/act]
soo excited jsut seen it then...
not to happy about elf and rushton! =( i will cry if they dont make it!!
i had to watch it twice ti see how names were said i have them all right except Sutrium haha
i cannot wait!!!!! =)
Min, many years ago you gave me a lesson in the pronounciation of 'Llewellyn', but I can't remember now!
Also, I was interested in how she spoke Maruman's name in the reading. It wasn't like how I seemed to remember her pronouncing it all those years ago at the BWF we met up at with Amie and Munchkin.
OMG!!!!!! It's here, it's actually here!!!! My family are looking at me look I'm on drugs as I'm grinning like an idiot listening to the reading but who cares? It's actually here!!!!!!!! I'm freaking out and hyperventilating!!!!
Hmmm... not many big revelations in the reading except for Rushton and Elf's problems but lol Maruman! Love him!