Explanation-in-Advance: the use of LOTR names for Council members was borrowed from this thread.

HWCS stands for Holy Worlds Community Story. And I don't feel like explaining anything else about that.

The snake is brown because the HWCS was always colored brown in my mind. Yes, that's weird. No, I'm not going to explain that.
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Once upon a time,

Radagast the Brown sat in his study, contentedly reading Jeff Gerke's Amish Vampires in Space, when something brown and scaley slithered past his feet.

Radagast looked down and saw a cute, innocent-looking brown snake. He took an imediate likely to it, and put it in a cage creatively labelled-"the back of my mind."

Then he saw an advertisement from the State of Texas Travel Agency that showed a huge Jelly-bean and said, "everything is bigger in Texas." The Jelly-bean was brown.

Radagast took his snake to King Aragorn and said, "could I make this into a giant snake please?"

And King Aragorn, in a rare moment of poor judgement, said "OK."

So using his brownish wizardly powers, Radagast made his snake a giant snake.

The snake promptly ate the souls of about fifty HWers. It continued to snack on whoever crossed its path for months.

So Aragorn called together the wisest HWers and said, "we need to solve this problem. Radagast's snake is eating our souls! Look, it's even eaten my soul!"

So Radagast said, "maybe we should name it. I suggest we call it the HWCS."

Glorfindel said, "what does that stand for?"

Galadriel said, "hugely-"

Arwen said, "wuthering-"

Eowyen said, "creepy-"

Celebrian said, "...snake."

Gandalf said, "it's an abomination!"

Elrond noticed that the snake appeared to be so fat it couldn't move and said, "guys, I think your snake is broken."

After that, everbody ignored the snake, and slowly grew their souls back.

And that is how the Hugely Wuthering Creepy Snake ate my soul.

*snickers*
Neil... I don't know if that is downright funny, sad, or just plain pathetic.

Just plain pathetic.

Did you grow your soul back?

*chuckles* I think it's more sad than pathetic.

I choose the answer this question with the ambigous phrase "more or less."

* giggles *

*laughs * Oh the irony! Now I know what HWCS really stands for.

Yes, diabolically brilliant, aren't I.

Is there really and truly a book called Amish Vampires in Space?

No, it's a joke from Jeff Gerke that makes fun genre blending and current fads like Amish Romance and Twilight.

*snickers * Go Jeff!

If there was ever a need for a dies laughing smiley, I think it's now.

So... what happened to the snake?

Well, I don't mean to scare anybody, but the snake is technically still here, lurking in its quiet and dark forum-lair.

Under yet-another name.

Are you planning on taming said snake, or are you going to feed it re-grown souls?

Wait...at what point did this happen? *is scared* Oh wait, we tried to disguise it with a cool fantasy name, right? And then it ate some of my best conlanging work...



Personally, I'm not going to touch said snake with a ten-foot pole. I don't trust said snake any farther than I can throw it. (which is a problem on the internet)

So...if I find the snake...can I keep it? Hypothetically speaking, of course.

*breathes deeply* I can have my soul back.