Juliana's eyes opened wide as she watched the festivities going on all around her.
It's magical!"Ooh, I wanna make a sand castle too!" she said excitedly. "I think I'm gonna enter the sand castle contest." She started to walk over to where the sign-up list was.
Chris followed her. "Can I help too?" he wondered.
"Sure, why not?" Juliana replied. "I'll go sign us both up. Can you go find a good place for us to build our castle?"
"All right, I will. Sounds like a plan," Chris answered, and he went off down the beach, looking for an empty spot on the sand to lay the foundations for the castle which was sure to win first prize in the contest.
Because the Syndicate is running it. They're actually just going to form a small anthill-sized mound of sand and call it a day so they can go frolic in the waves or whatever; the Syndicate will praise their creation's postmodern evocativeness and award it first prize. And there's nothing you can do about it.
Post #172, by Gauntlet Wizard
Siris, extremely confused, tried to make sense out of everything. But to no avail. People were running all over the place and nothing made a whole lot of sense. "Oh well," Siris muttered to himself. "It is Starmen.net after all.
You have an excellent point there. Some things never change.Siris decided to teleport again (I can do that, you know ) and instantly found Mac...
"I have no idea what's going on," Siris told him.
"Neither do I..."
Aw, buck up, old bean. Hang in there. You'll earn the art of not caring what's going on and doing whatever you feel like before long.
Post #173, by PSI322
You can tell PSI was in the zone. This is 20 minutes after her last post, 10 minutes after Gauntlet's. So she was cruising the net and as soon as she saw Gauntlet's post go up, started working on this one.Moments later, Juliana had finished signing up for the sand castle contest and began looking for Chris. She walked down the beach, meandering along between everyone else's castles. Finally, she spotted Chris, who was already hard at work in the sand. She made her way over to where he was working. "So this is where we're gonna make the first prize castle, eh?" she said jokingly.
You think that's bad, wait until later, when PSI, Falcon, diospadre, Luna and myself were all writing up a half-dozen posts in advance and planning out when and in what order to post them (rapid-fire, so Tengu couldn't interfere). It's a wonder we found time to go outdoors once a month or so.
Suuuuuuure. Jokingly.Chris glanced up. "Oh, hi Juliana," he said. "Yeah, I think so." He laughed, and so did she. "So, what kind of castle do you want this to be? I was thinking of putting a moat all around it, and making a few towers here and there..."
Juliana sat down on a beach blanket she'd brought with her; there was NO way she was going to sit down on the wet sand in her burgundy dress.
The hell? You're still wearing your burgundy dress? According to Chris' post, you're now dressed 'appropriately for the occasion'. Which presumably means an especially sexy swimsuit."How about a tower at each corner?" she suggested. "I think that'd look nice, don't you?"
Makes me wonder if she missed that, or read it, made a face and ignored it. It's pretty much even money either way.
Chris thought for a moment. "You're right, it would. What shape do you want it to be in? A square? A triangle? A hexagon?"
"Ooh, a hexagon would be different. Very creative, Chris. Let's do one of those," Juliana said. And so, they began to construct their sand castle...
Post #174, by SuperSpeedy/Mankey Boy
Dave saw the sand-castle castle contest sign-up sheet.
As opposed to... the sand-castle ghetto tenement contest? I guess?Poryhedron was following David around. Dave looked for waffle, but couldn't see him. Then he asked Poryhedron if he wanted to help.
PSI is asleep at the switch. SS/MM is still rocking his two AC's. You can bet your ass Tengu Man will not miss this. He was always trying to figure out ways to introduce AC's by the carload (makes it easier to control a story, as you can weasel one into each of the various plotlines going on.)"I can't," responded Poryhedron. "The rules say: 'No use of Psycic powers except for keeping your sand castle from crumbling from the tide. No psychic type pokémon allowed.'"
I'm pretty sure the list of rules, if one exists, would say no pokemon allowed, period."You're no psychic type, foo!" said David, doing his best Mr. T impression.
"Good point," said Poryhedron. "Let's go!"
He's right. Porygon is, for whatever reason, a plain ol' Normal type. At least in RBY, which is all that existed in 2000, I think.
- David signed up Poryhedron and himself.
- He also reserved space on the team for Pikachu and waffle, if they wanted to join the team and help.
Post #175, by waffle
Waffle walked over to where all the fun was going on. He noticed a pool where races were being held.
"Oo! I should be good at this! I am on a swim team,afterall!"
He signed up for a race and went over to SuperSpeedy,who happened to be looking for him.
I think I mentioned this once, but this was the height of waffle's strategy of dominating the SM.Net forums by cranking out posts like a Japenese car factory, none of them longer than two lines. Presumably he was keeping it short here so he could race back to General Discussion and fire off a new post on whatever threads had been posted on since his last appearance on them.
"wait until later, when PSI, Falcon, diospadre, Luna and myself were all writing up a half-dozen posts in advance and planning out when and in what order to post them"
ReplyDelete- Did you guys REALLY do that back then just to interfere with my posting process? XD
Perhaps I should consider myself somewhat lucky in the present tense if you even had SOME degree of success at that, with some of the stuff I posted. >.>
Oh yeah. We did. We felt like we had to, because you and your underlings were, by the end of the Gathering, going out of your way to screw up every post 'we' were making, after pages upon pages of us doing everything we could think of to exclude the Tengu Group, because frankly we wanted to just go on one hellacious angst trip after another instead of actually do anything, whereas you were more about saving the world.
ReplyDeleteBy about the 80% point it had irrecoverably fractured into the PSI322/guruzeth faction and the Tengu Man faction, which by sheer force of words-per-day ratio just forced out the various people still trying to have an IF. You know... just like every other successful IF thread of that era. :P
Oh, you're so right about looking back on things and laughing at them. It's funny how much we took some things so seriously when we were young and less refined than today. :P
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