My computer crashed yesterday..and I was about to post it on the ER. And now mine is deleted? Sorry, I'm just very confused....

BabyPan: read James' announcement. PK had a major downtime yesterday. You people don't want to know the conversation that was going on in the chat after I noticed... and to think that RS seemed to be down too, and FA was experiencing heavy traffic and going really slow. Sorry for my rant. I still can't get my lazy bum to rewrite that part. I hate rewriting things.

Ri

I'm so confused... my part dissappeared from the ER thread, too.

I guess I shall repost it now.


Oh and Faith? Your post about Egypt and that site of info is gone too, so could you repost that? Thanks.

Kristina

I know something about Egypt too! Well, I know they don't use table's. They just eat on the ground, with a large piece of cloth to put their food on. No chairs and stuff, they sat on their knee's.

Well, that's what I saw on the DVD 'Celeopatra'. But movie's can be wrong right? (for example, look at Harry's blue eyes!)

*eeeeeeeeek* lol i love this story- u guys must continue-- seriously MUST!-- i cant- ill stink it like dog poop.. lol.. i love this!

*growls* and here I was thinking PK was still down ¬¬ ah well..

Why doesn't anyone write anymore?

*brushes dust off of thread* Argh. RL and school kept me away...hi, Faith, Ri...*Wave-age*

Ooh! RRs! *scurries off to read*

Comments:

1) For some odd reason, the current RR is starting to sound like a story I once read...dammit, I feel stupid, but the name refuses to surface in my mind...okay, 1600's, Ginny's a princess, Draco's a prince, Tom Riddle's a doctor, Dumbledore's a cranky magician...dangit, it's a classic and the name is just drifting out of reach...anyway, it reminds me of that. For some odd reason.

2) Are we going anywhere? No action's been taken since May. I know we're all really busy...which is prolly why I've been gone from PK Forums since April...good luck in fighting RL, everybody...*arms bow*

ad 1) It's called "All you need is love". We actually didn't want it to sound like that. Dammit´.

ad 2) well, RL is rather busy for me at the moment. Sorry

Ri

3-1) Argh! Now I feel stupid, knowing the name... *whack* Thank you. The RR doesn't really sound like it...it just rung a bell for me, is all. And I believe someone already mentioned the Iuga Sortis (which rocks) correllation, but it's not quite like that, either, so feel better.

3-2) Aww...I thought so. Well, take your time- RL attacks all of us.. *points to stamp on forehead that says "Property of High School"*

Once again, g'luck with RL, everyone!

*hyper*

Okay, I took the freedom to change something: the old woman has taken a drink from the well of youth, and is now younger. My motivation behind this: we're talking about ancient egypt here, people usually didn't get that old, and especially the egyptians liked their servants to be young and beautiful. I'll rewrite the parts that state that the woman is old (and also beta them, while I'm at it(, and ask Pen or another mod to change them, if that's okay with you! So, now, onto the next part of the RR, which I just wrote. I noticed that it's a little...descriptive. Ah, nevermind. I'll have somebody else get on with the plot. Hope you like it!

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When her stomach emitted a low growl, Ginny noticed that she was indeed famished, so she shrugged and made to follow the woman out of the door – that was no door upon closer inspection, but rather a cascade of colourful pearls and marbles on strings that clicked and clucked when moving through them.

Ginny started to suspect that she was in some kind of alternate hippie universe when she gave the woman that had fetched her a closer look: she had long, black hair, darkish skin that looked as if she had been in the sun too long all her life, although it did not seem unhealthy. The woman, like everything else in the corridor whose shaded windows only left little light sneak in through small cracks in the strange tapestry-like hangings covering the openings, was bathed in soft, earthy light that made her bronze skin glow even more. She was wearing curiously little clothing, and that which she wore was rather…odd, to say the least: she wore no shoes at all and neither did she wear socks. Her chest – and only the most important parts of it – was covered with blue- and white-striped silk that was held together by what seemed to be golden chains with intricately detailed patterns of suns crafted into them. Her waist was hugged by more of the strange silk and chains combination and again it was not much and stopped at mid-thigh.

The woman’s ears were pierced and large golden loops hung from them heavily. Her hair was open, and a golden mixture between a tiara and a karate bandana was resting on her head, setting her dark eyes that were rimmed by even darker eyeliner into stark contrast. She also had lots of bracelets on her wrists and ankles that were jingling merrily with every step or other movement she made.

And even though Ginny had never seen so much splendour and expensive cloth – in this case, it was more splendour and less cloth, though – she thought that the woman seemed like a crossover between a gypsy and a stripper. Given the strange lighting and the – how to call it? – interesting smell the place had, of oriental spices, jasmine and rose oil, cinammon and lavender, Ginny’s impression of the place being a hippie fortress was justified, albeit wrong.

When they turned around a corner, they entered another corridor that had no access to natural light sources, and was therefore equipped with guttering torches that bathed their vicinity in an eerie light, and made the smooth and cold walls – Ginny had run her fingers along them at one point – look fascinatingly alive.

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(end of this part of the RR)

Ri

Goood point, Ri. It's good you pointed that out! And I loved it, splendidly written.

Maybe I'll add a bit later.

Okay, I'm rewriting BabyPan's and Kristina's part now. Well, not rewriting, just dipping the old lady into the fountain of eternal youth, and beta-ing stuff.

But there's something: didn't we agree that we won't Ginny's and Draco's physical appearance? Because BabyPan wrote:

CLEAR! *shocks thread back to life*





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Ginny expelled an amazed breath, trailing after the sound of bracelets clanking, and watching as the layout of this strange place she now occupied unfolded into a winding hall.

Light flooded into her eyes, the long corridor opening up into a hall- a huge, magnificent room that Ginny believed might have rivaled Hogwart's own Great Hall. Statues of golden, peculiar animals lined up against columns that arched to the stone ceiling, countless windows she had seen in her own room bathed the room in that blinding light. The floor was smooth and gleaming, and all around Ginny could see outlines of heiroglyphics painted and carved in the daylight, ingravements that would take her hours to study.

Silly me, Ginny thought wistfully, I'm in Eygpt...

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Crystal

hieroglyphics, i think? Also, I believe they ate off a low table. The rich did, at any rate. This is what my textbook said. I hope it's right, or I'll find it seriously hard to believe what I'm taught.
Anyhoo, I've been skulking around and this rocks. I'll try to add something substantial. I'm not that great at writing, though, so..

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She couldn't help but stop and gaze around. There seemed here to be more gold than all of the Galleons in Gringotts together. She moved closer to the wall, staring at the relatively new (as compared to the ones she had seen) hieroglyphics on the wall. It was absolutely fascinating. Ginny's face came closer and closer to them, until her nose was just about touching the painted face of a worker in a field.

"Hem, hem." Ginny jerked away, hearing the unbelievable Umbridge-style throat-clearing. Of course, it was much politer, as it was the girl, who looked slightly put out that Ginny hadn't been following.

"Sorry," Ginny murmured, hurrying up.

The girl gave a meek smile. "What would miss like for breakfast?" she asked, inclining her head towards the low table. Ginny realised, a bit late, that there was a long, low wooden table stretching along the room. She had been so taken with the hieroglyphics that she hadn't even noticed it, let alone the flat silk cushions and the plates of what appeared to be gold, silver, bronze and some sort of glazed earthenware.

Ginny grinned hungrily. "Oh, some lovely crisp bacon, waffles, oh, and muffins, please!"

"B-baykin? Woffles? Muffings?" The girl was obviously taken aback. "W-what.. I thought you liked barley loaves, fruit and roast duck?"

"Roast duck, for breakfast?" Ginny was horrified. "Er..." She looked at the astonished expression on the girl's face. "I think I'll have, uh, half a loaf of barley, er, loaf, and fruit."

Her face clearing, the girl smiled brightly. "Please wait a moment, I will inform the kitchens at once."

"Wait!" Ginny called after her. "You mean I'm to eat all alone in this huge place?" The girl turned in another jingle. "Oh, but sir will be along any time now!" Having said that, she hurried out of a small doorway.

Ginny frowned. Sir? Anyway. She sat crosslegged on a cushion. Her knee brushed against something distinctly furry. There couldn't be a furry cushion here in Egypt, could there? It seemed very unEgyptian-like. She reached under the table, and brought out

"A cat!" She exclaimed. The cat, having been woken up most unceremoniously, looked a shade balefully back at her. It was a beautiful creature, sleeky black and long white whiskers, it stretched gracefully and rubbed against her. It seemed to know her. Ginny scritched it thoughtfully under the chin, and it purred even more loudly than Crookshanks. After a while, she heard footsteps approaching, more than one person, and from the archway she had entered through.
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I'm not sure what Draco is supposed to be in the dreams. Does he know Ginny? Are his dreams separate from Ginny's? Still, that seems to be a bit longer than I expected it to be. Sorry! (shrinks from frowns of disapproval)

I don't know whether this would work but I thought maybe it'd make the story more realistic if we could incorporate egyptian terms. I know this might sound strange, but I just recently read a book, [Prince of Ayodhya] written in English, but where some key terms were written in italics and in Sanscrit. There was a glossary at the back with the translation of each term. It gave the tale an authentic feel, and, though at first I had to look at the glossary all the time I eventually got to learn the terms.

We wouldn't need to use many at all, I just thought it'd be nice, for example, for the Egyptian folk to say "Kemet" instead of Egypt since that is it's name in Egyptian. Perhaps Ginny (and Draco) could gradually remember some of these terms because of their past lives resurfacing etc etc.

A complete glossary can found here: http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Post/399762
though I think we only need a minimum ^^ I don't mean actually writing in egyptian, seeing as I don't think any of us master Egyptian grammar! But just using a few nouns, namely titles, and names of places or something.

Places
Alexandria (capital of Egypt) - Ra'qedyet (ra-qdy.t, fem.)
Egypt ("The Black Land") - Kemet (km.t, fem.)
Egypt ("The Two Lands") - tawey (tA.wy, masc.)
Thebes (capital of Upper Egypt) - Waset (wAs.t, fem.)
Upper Egypt - Ta-Shema'ew (tA-Smaw, masc.)


Titles
brother - sen (sn, masc.)
Chantress - heset-netjer (Hs.t-nTr, fem.)
Chantress - heset-netjer (Hs.t-nTr, fem.)
father - it (it, masc.)
GodsServant - hem-netjer (Hm-nTr, masc.); hemet-netjer (Hm.t-nTr, fem.)
High Priest - hem-netjer-tepey (Hm-nTr-tp.y, masc.)
High Priestess - hemet-netjer-tepet (Hm.t-nTr-tp.t, fem.)
King (of Egypt) - nesew (nsw, masc.)
lady (mistress) - nebet (nb.t, fem.)
lord (master) - neb (nb, masc.)
mother - mewet (mw.t, fem.)
Overseer (a title) - imey-er (imy-r, masc.)
Pharaoh - per-a'a (pr-aA, masc.)
sister - senet (sn.t, fem.)


Nouns
remember - sekha (sxA, verb)
woman - set (s.t, fem.), hemet (Hm.t, fem.)
answer - wesheb (wSb, verb)
avatar - tewet (tw.t, fem.)
beauty - nefrew (nfrw, masc.)
cat - miew (miw, masc.)
dog - iew (iw, masc.)
dream (noun) - reswet (rsw.t, fem.)
enemy - kheftey (xf.ty, masc.)
love (noun) - merwet (mrw.t, fem.)

Other
thank (god) - dewa-netjer (dwA-nTr, verb)


For example, servants would refer to Ginny as Nebet Ginny [mistress/lady Ginny] and to Draco as Neb Draco[master/Lord Draco]. And maybe Cleopatra calls Ginny "Senet" [sister], as in little sister though I don't know how respected doubles were at that time :-P.
This is not for the plot, it's just an example