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Haunted House 2

Note: This story is completely unrelated to any of my pervious haunted house stories. It was a giant house, in a castle-like form, with large pillars on each side, the center a flat brick wall with tiny holes for windows. The balcony on the far right side of the wall looked like it would crumble if anyone stepped on it. There were cobwebs on the outside that stood out from the house’s dark brown and black color. So, naturally, my friend's first reaction when he saw this was, “Let’s go explore!” My reaction was slightly less enthusiastic and more concerned for my friend’s sanity, “Explore that? It looks dangerous.” My friend, of course, decided to ignore me and run up to the front door of the house and knock on it. Now, seems like a good time to introduce you to my friend. Meet Sant, nicknamed Santa by practically everyone in the school, an insane kid who keeps on dragging me into terrifying situations like this one. I ran over to him just as the door creaked open. It screeched on t

What are Polar Coordinates?

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  You probably already know what a coordinate is. Normally you would see a coordinate in the form of (x,y). For example the point (2,2) would look like this on a cartesian plane. On a complex plane, you would write it in the form a + bi, where a is the real number and b is imaginary. For example the point 2 + 2i would look like this on a complex plane. However, there is another way to write a coordinate on a complex plane. This is called a polar coordinate and it appears in the form of r(cos(x) + isin(x)) . (Note: Normally x would be represented with theta, but you can’t type the symbol for theta on this blog, so I’m replacing it with x. The images with the graphs will have the symbol written as theta.) Let’s imagine the complex plane again with the point 2 + 2i. If I tell you the exact number of degrees you need to rotate from the origin ( x ) and the distance from the origin to the coordinate point (r), you can find where the coordinate point is on the complex plane. Let’s try a diff

Story 2: The Time Machine (Part 4 )

 Read "Instructions", "Missing" and "The Seven Buildings" before you read this. “He left his time machine,” Tyler said. “Maybe the note will explain why he did that,” James said as he picked up the paper. Tyler looked at the paper. It had an explanation on how to go to the time Sam was in using the time machine. Tyler looked at the note for more, but it had nothing else. “Let’s follow the instructions on the note,” Alice said. “Wait, why did Sam leave his time machine here?” James said. Alice stared at him. “To make sure the organization doesn’t get it of course.” “If he had just time traveled away, he wouldn’t have been able to destroy the organization's time machine,” Tyler added at James’s confused expression. “Oh,” James said. “Let’s follow the instructions then.” Tyler picked up the time machine and followed the instructions on the note. He felt like he had messed up several times but James and Aliced assured him that he had followed the instructi

Story 2: Instructions (Part 3)

 Read "Missing" and "The Seven Buildings" before you read this. Tyler appeared in an open area with several trees surrounding it. He still had the time machine in his hand. He looked around and saw that James and Alice were next to him. Then he noticed Sam standing in the middle of the area. Tyler, James, and Alice were hidden behind a tree so he couldn’t see them. James was about to ask something when two more versions of Sam appeared. “There are three Sams,” Tyler whispered. “Thank you Captain Obvious,” James replied. The two Sams which had just appeared had several differences. One of them looked thinner than the other. That version of Sam also looked older. “We don’t have much time,” the older version Sam said. He pointed at the Sam who had been there first. “You need to leave a time machine with Tyler, James, and Alice and leave them a note telling them to come here right now.” The version of Sam , who had been there first, looked surprised before nodding.  “Al

Story 2: Missing (Part 2)

Read "The Seven Buildings" before you read this. About a month after Sam left to go to his time, Tyler was sitting in his room with James and Alice. “I am getting bored of playing Hangman,” James said. “We have only played six games so far,” Alice said. “Only?” “Let’s play Pictionary instead,” Tyler suggested with a grin. He knew that James hated playing Pictionary and would rather play Hangman. “No!” James said. “Let’s play tag.” Tyler shrugged. Normally they wouldn’t be allowed to play Tag indoors but their parents were on a business trip, so they could do whatever they wanted to do. He was fine with playing any of the games but Alice and James couldn’t agree on one to play. Alice shook her head. “Why don’t we just continue playing Hangman?” “No,” James said. “Hangman is boring.” “How can you not like hangman?” Tyler tried to think of a game both James and Alice liked. He couldn’t think of any. Before he could suggest just talking about something random, somebody appeared i

Story 2: The Seven Buildings (Part 1)

Tyler looked at the news on his phone. On a normal day, he wouldn’t have. (He didn’t like reading the news and he was a kid so his parents could tell him if there was anything important on the news.) Today he read the headline for the article. Another building destroyed Tyler turned off his phone. About a month ago, a museum was destroyed. The police had no idea who had destroyed it and how they destroyed it. They assumed someone from inside the building, bombed it. A few days after that, another building was destroyed. This continued twice more. The building that was destroyed in the headline was the fifth building destroyed in the last month. Tyler thought it was odd that the police hadn’t caught the culprit of the crime. He assumed that the same person (or group of people) destroyed the buildings. Another thing that was weird about all of the attacks was that someone pulled the fire alarm before the attacks happened. This meant that everybody was outside before the building was dest

Story 1: Acting (Part 23)

          Read "No Idea", "Missing", "Suspicions", "Captured again", "Hired", "The Reversal Potion 2", "Passing Notes", "After the Escape", "Escaping again", "Surprise", "Noticed", "The Plan", "The Reversal Potion", "The Meeting", "Substitute teacher", "Escape", "Introductions", "Captured", "Missions", "Questions", "F51?", and "The Flash of Light" before you read this. You can also read "Run!" Eric watched as the person released the potion in a room with only Sean in it. Sean had tried to escape, but had been stopped by the guards. This made Eric worry more because why would Sean try to escape if he hadn't given the person the actual potion? The person was now fully convinced that Sean had given him the real potion and seemed excited. Sean's expression