Well, strictly off topic, MrD, we failed
to exchange contracts today. Our vendors only managed to
sign late this afternoon, so it should be Monday.
Fingers crossed. Whoo! Rather a lot of rum in this - but
then I think I need it.
Looks like another excuse for a party
next week! Fingers crossed for you. For now, let's hope some
of the regulars drop in before you get tucked up in your
drawer.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ER - the est place to
chill!
Chuckles58 links back into the
Institution, hoping to catch the Professor before he's
tucked into bed for the night.
He enters the
classroom through the wedgied door, and sees the
professor sitting on his desk next to an empty cocoa
cup.
Good evening Professor. I've been having
a difficult time catching up with you to give you my
report on my observations from Eder Gira a few
weeks ago.
You see, I was doing a security check
of Eder Gira, and when I turned the corner towards the
steam vents nearest the waterfalls, I noticed a very
peculiar phenomenon. I was not aware there were
explosives in the Ages Beyond Myst, but I found a
Blonde Bombshell. Yes it was Marilyn Monroe. She
was studying the effect of the steam on her pretty
pleated dress. I was sure you would be interested in
these findings, so I thought the picture would pique
your interest as it did mine. I kept up my observations
until I ... until I woke up.
The one thing I
couldn't figure out though is ... how could she run with
those heels?
He moves closer to the desk in
order to hear the Professor's reply.
"Are you
my Daddy?" ---------------------------- Master of
Manipulating Stories (MOMS) Director of Redirecting
Kinesis (DORK) Admirer of Professor Theitris
"Archiving Literature of Various Imbecilic Nincompoops"
(ALVIN)
Grub's jaw dropped. "Really?" he
asked them. "You can if you want," said
Speedy. "Wow..." Grub muttered, but suddenly a new
sound filled the air. A loud stomping was out in the
hall. "I heard voices over here, captain!" "Hush,
they may hear you!" "Oh no! The knights!" Grassie
whispered. "What do we do?" asked Merlin. "Merlin,
you know magic. Use it!" Speedy whispered. "You know
magic?" asked Grub. "When I don't have a pounding
headache..." Merlin moaned. "Well, I know some.
Goodbye all of you," Grub said as he suddenly
vanished. "What! Where did he go!" Speedy shouted,
yelling. "They're in here!" "Oh great Speedy,"
moaned Grassie as he door slammed open. There was a
massive army of knights at the door. The forumites
gulped. They were done for. "Grab the other two in
the room. We're bringing them back to the cells for
punishment!" the head knight said. Speedy, Grassie, and
Merlin were all picked up and carried out of the
room. "How did he disappear like that? Why didn't he
do that before??" asked Grassie in his mind. "I don't
know... maybe he knew he had a distraction?" Merlin
suggested. "Whatever it was, I hope he comes back
soon. I didn't like the sound of that punishment..."
Speedy thought.
Very funny QuaHog,
you are very good at image editing, but I was wandering
if you could make your pics a little smaller (you can do
this using the "Edit" button above the pic whilst signed
in to the Album ) or if you could crop
the pics first. ( also I see your using
the picturepool, and I was wandering if you would mind
using This sub-folder for your own altured
pics
Thanks)
Chere walks into WHOOPS to
see... in the arms of a loving friend.
"Where have
YOU been?" Seymour whines. "Look at this place. It's a
total mess thanks to that monster plant you had hiding
in the backroom. You are in SOOOO much
trouble."
Chere looks around in shock and dismay.
The shoppe has been damaged beyond recognition. "Oh
I'm so sorry Seymour. RL Cut and Paste kept me busy for
weeks," Chere explains.
"Well I'm going out,"
Seymour states. "And I won't be back until you fix this
place. And YOU BETTER THANK EVERYONE WHO KEPT ME SAFE."
Seymour shouts as his good friend carries him out the
door.
Chere starts to work mumbling under her
breath. "I sure hope I'm not in hot water with The
Professor. Who'd a thought a little plant that liked
flies could do this much damage?"
[This message
was edited by Chere on Sat May 15 2004 at 12:51
AM.]
Cruiser links in to the fountain area
and sees that the door to WHOOPS is open. "Hello, is
anyone here?" Seeing Chere working hard to clean up the
mess left after the *plant* took over, she pitches in
and starts to drag some debris out the door. "We will
have it cleaned up and back to normal in no time at all"
she tells Chere.
Silently, AB suddenly appears in the
Institute hood unnoticed. With his acute sense of smell,
he quickly locates the objects that had drawn him to the
Institute. Moving unnoticed AB approaches the bags that
Chere and Cruiser had stacked outside of WHOOPS for
disposal.
Sensing the appropriate bag, he
retrieves some parts from...the plant...as well as some
others from other exotic varieties and tucks them into
special pouches he brought with him.
He then
quickly disappears and would not be seen again for some
time.
Veronica and Grizz
stand for a few moments, looking at their surroundings
in awe. Without warning, Veronica feels herself
beginning to panic. She looks at Grizz and says
urgently, "I was not meant to go with you! I cannot
explain it, but think I have much to learn yet." She
cannot stop herself from opening her Relto book, but
before she places her hand on it she says, "Please be
careful and do not be gone too long."
She links
to her Relto and she is filled with sadness, but somehow
she knew that this was the right thing to do. She
reaches for her Nexus book and from there she links to
Ae'gura. She needs to see her parents. With
determination she heads towards the WSA security
offices.
Ghost Stellaflora Walks into the
Fountain Courtyard and sees Chere and Cruiser tidying up
WHOOPS. He is levetating a small pile of purple Relto
books in front of him.
Hello, Is there
anything I can do to help? If you would like I can
levetate quite hevey things. I just found these books
which appear to link to a new version of Elkaes
Relto"
Ghost Stellaflora sets the books to
levetate indefinetly in a row on the balcony
"Now, what can I do to help?"
The file is now on 6
sites , So if you can't access one
page just try the next one on the list: I hope you
like the new features But be warned that the
file size is now up to 2.10MB (Zipped), you will see why
when you view it.
As she walks to the office, a lone
golf ball hits Veronica in the head. Looking up, she can
hear Zandi shouting, cursing, and apparently banging his
golf clubs on the Bahro Pillars. Shaking her head, Jades
continues her walking. A minute later, illuminated by
the ray of the Great Zero, a bent and beat up golf club
splashes into the water in front of the Ferry
Terminal.
Edit: Fixed
name.
--------------------- *attempts serious
thinking*
*fails at attempt*
[This message was
edited by quahog42 on Sat May 15 2004 at 01:45
PM.]
In this thread, I am
Veronica Fairchild, nice to meet you quahog...erm...both
of you.
Veronica enters the WSA Security offices,
her head throbbing from the encounter with the golf
ball. She feels lightheaded and faint suddenly. She sees
Chuckles sitting behind his desk, going through Marilyn
Monroe photographs. She asks weakly, "Do you have an
icepack?" Before falling onto the floor, in a very
unladylike
heap.
Chuckles stands up from his desk and
walks around it, seeing Veronica in a dead faint on the
floor. He casually picks up a tall glass filled with ice
water, and pours it over her head.
Veronica sits
up sputtering and coughing, "Hey, what do you think you
are doing?!"
"Reviving you?"
"Very funny!
A towel would be lovely, thank you!"
"Down the
hall and on the right, help yourself." Chuckles sits
back down.
Veronica storms off down the hall,
muttering under her breath. "Maybe this was not such a
good idea. Do I really need his help to find my real
parents?"
SF! That book was
amazing, and I am in it too!
Sweetness!
OT:
The knights brought
Grassie, Speedy, and Merlin into a large stone room.
They tossed them in closed the door. "Ow!" said
Grassie after he landed. "This is not going to be
good for my head," said Merlin as he rubbed his sore
head. "Where are the other two?" asked
Speedy. Suddenly, the door opened again and in flew
FM and Dr Warrell. They landed on top of the forumites
on the ground. "Umph!" everyone said as they
landed. "Where did you all go?" asked FM. "And why
are we in this room?" asked Dr Warrell. "Well, the
knights are mad at us for trying to escape..." Merlin
said. "We weren't trying to escape!" Speedy
repeated. "No, you just tried to kill me," said
FM. "Liar! Why on earth would I want to kill you?"
Speedy asked. "I don't know! You're the one who's
going crazy!" said FM. "Am not!" "Are too!" "Am
not!" "Are too!" "Can you please stop yelling! My
head is killing me!" said Merlin. "And I am hungry,"
said Grassie. "And I want to go home," moaned Dr
Warrell. "Well, we don't have any of our backpacks,
let alone Relto books. Grub vanished, and we only hope
that he might just come back to help us. And in the
meantime, the knights are conjuring up something that I
am even afraid to imagine," said Speedy. "Wow, you
must have really pissed them off," said Dr
Warrell. "Well, you would be on top of things if you
didn't sleep for days on end," Grassie said. "Oh..."
said Dr Warrell. "Did he sing again in his sleep?"
whispered Grassie. "Nope, just said Veronica a few
times," whispered FM back. Grassie
chuckled.
Suddenly, an upper hatch opened up. The
forumites looked up and saw the King of Ni, looking into
the room about twenty feet up the wall. "Soooo! You
ttthink you can humiliate us by trrrrrying to escape?
You thought wrrrrong! Now you will pay for your
foolishness!" he yelled down to them. "Um, we never
tried to escape," FM said. "SILENCE!" The
forumites gulped. "You all will be punished in the
worst means necessary!" "Oh boy..." muttered
Grassie. "We will not stop, even when you beg for
mercy!" "Oh will he stop yelling?" moaned
Merlin. "In fact, we will not stop at all!" "I
wonder if I can fly up there," whispered Speedy. "I
don't think that would be a good idea," whispered Dr
Warrell back. "Do not try anything foolish, such as
flying out of here, bird, or digging your way out, white
digger, or disappearing, magician!" "Well so much for
that idea," said Merlin. "NNOoooooow! We shall begin
the punishment!" the king yelled. Suddenly, other
windows opened as well, up and down the wall. Many
knights were standing there with big grins on their
faces. "Now I am beginning to get scared," Grassie
said. "I want my mommy," said Dr Warrell. "Oh, so
no Veronica?" Speedy said dryly. "Well her too..
hey!" Dr Warrell moaned. "REEEEAAAAADDDYYY!!!!"
yelled the king. The forumites all crowded together
and hugged one
another. "NOWWW!" "NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!
NNNNI!!!! NI!!! NIIIIIIIIII!!!!
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNIIIIII!!!" chanted the knights in
various tones, pitches. "AAAAAhh!" yelled the
forumites as they collasped to the ground.
Grizz was saddened by Veronica's
decision to leave, but he understood it. He was
particularly sorry that she had come so far, but was
unable to take the final step. Maybe her time would
still come later.
He turned back to Yeesha, who
was standing there, looking at him with a strange mix of
compassion, pride, and satisfaction. She spoke to
him.
"The path is often lonely. The strength to
withstand loneliness comes only with growth... as the
tree grows, loneliness fades... As the cavern is
renewed, strength grows... look within for the strength.
Paths cross many times before their ending. You will
walk some alone... and some will give much company...
and sometimes they are both the same, those with the
company and those walked alone. The knowledge is in you
already. Walk the paths that beckon the most... walk the
paths that are hard to find... walk the paths that you
know lead the way to the higher purpose. Seek those who
would share... give of yourself and take in return...
learn the ways of the Bahro... and do not fear that
path."
And, as was her habit, Yeesha faded from
view. Grizz felt more alone than he had felt for many
months, years. But the path was plain before him for as
far as he could see. When he came to a place where he
could no longer see, then he could perhaps allow himself
to give in to loneliness and seek another way.
He turned and walked off down the rocky tunnel
on his
right.
_______________________________ Co-owner
of the DISCO in the Hood.
Experimental Program 1
est place to
chill!
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the pics first.
also I see your using
the picturepool, and I was wandering if you would mind
using 
Thanks Quahog, Thats much better 
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