Posts #161-165: 15 April 2000

Post #161, by Little Yoshi

(Gee that dance ended quickly)

I think I speak on behalf of humanity when I say: Not quickly enough.

Tim sped up to the amusment park in his boat, and found the four friends there.

This is called 'using out-of-character knowledge in-character', and it's bad form. Tim feels slighted at having been excluded from the amusement park expedition, so he has his AC join it anyway, ignoring the fact that the AC Tim has no knowledge of it whatsoever and there's no possible way he could have knowledge of it. Chris made it up as a way to try and pull himself and PSI away from the group. Tim's having none of that. I doubt other AC's will, either.

"Hey guys...and girls," Tim said.

LOL. That just slays me. '...and girls.' Picture him raising his eyebrows as he says that part. Oh-so-smooth.

He parked the boat, and got off to meet them, but as soon as he reached the small group, they ran off to the farris wheel.

At least he gets the idea. Not that he cares.

Tim folowed them, and just as that little line gate that can close and open closed, reached the farris wheel.He pushed it open, and just before he got on a car, the ride started. He decided that just in case they couldn't, he would stop the ferris wheel for Luna, Waffle, Juliana, and Chris. He told that he would stop the ride when they wanted to stop it, but they simply replied that they could stop the ride for themselves in their cars.

You have to admit, for someone so keenly aware he's being actively excluded, he's got an impressively never-say-die attitude.

So, Tim went over to the roller coaster, seeing that it had no loops, he got on and pushed the control switch to slow, just in case it was too violent. It started, and he realized it was made to be fast, and that he had done something wrong.
At 10 feet in the air, the cars stopped just before making a climb, and just after making a drop.He realized that the saftey bar was too strong to be moved, so he was trapped.
"Help!" Tim cried.

Wow. Now that's how you write a cry for attention.

It would be funny if everyone ignored him until he finally gave up and extricated himself, but there's always one guy that goes over to say hi. Attention-starved brothers got each other's backs.

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Post #162, by Gauntlet Wizard

Siris, the Gauntlet Wizard (BTW, that's not my real name)

Hahaha. Yeah, we know.

suddenly woke up in his bed and realized he was horrendously late for the Starmen.net party. "I wonder if Mac left already..." he said to himself. "Well, I'll go check before I leave for Eagleland..."
After the two-point-four-three minute walk, Siris arrived at Mac's house. Nobody was home, but a note was on the door. "Went to Starmen.net party. Arrived on page three. Back in a week." Siris used his teleport spell...

Wait... who was 'Mac', again? I'm drawing a blank here.

After the two-point-four-three minute teleport, Siris arrived in Eagleland and began furiously searching for waffle or Mac...

Eagleland Island, technically.

Gauntlet Wizard (who shortly after this switched his name to simply 'Gauntlet') is still around, and like Falcon24, hates reminders that he too was once an immature teenager, and is mildly pissed off by the existence of this site. Glad I could help!

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Post #163, by Starman Kyle

Uh, could someone pleaz bring me up-to-date on the events that have occured in this BIG topic?

:razz:

For f---'s sake, READ IT YOURSELF, ASSHOLE.

Some people really were (are) this selfish and stupid. Should have relieved him of his posting privileges, at least on this particular thread, right then and there.

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Post #164, by Earth Bound Ranger

Mark had been laying in bed when the words "help, help" reached his ears.

See? Attention-starved brothers, etc.

He looked out his window, and saw someone on the roller coaster and started thinking "wuss". It was only then that Mark noticed something very odd. He was trying to push the safty bar away from himself, and by the way it looked, he was failing. Grabbing his sword, Mark rushed out the door to the roaler coaster. He took one look at the controls, and not knowing anything about mechanics, pressed some random buttons. Mark finally mad the bar off, but there was another problem with it. The roler coaster was going way the heck too fast. Mark prepared to do the only thing he could do, yell for help and then try to save the person. Prepared for a leap, Mark waited for the roler coaster to swing its way around before making a blind leap towords the roler coaster cart. What kind of ground awaited Mark apon landing, only god knew...

I'm kind of scratching my head here. So is he trying to get on the roller coaster, or off it? I can't make heads or tails of the second half of this post. The smart play is shrug, forget about it and move on.

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Post #165, by SirMontyG

~meanwhile on the other part of the island~

"Gruhhh?" Sir muttered uninteligably while slowly getting to his feet. "Did I miss something? It seems as though I've missed a couple hundred posts or something..."

Time on Eagleland Island is tracked by 'posts', not your sissy minutes or days.

With that, and a giant *WHAM*, a newspaper appeared out of nowhere, smacked Sir right in the head, and descibed the previous events of EagleLand Island. Sir skims it over, "Aww, I missed a 32 player version of SSB, free pikachu bashing, and to top it off a dance! Well, at least I can save those people on the roller coster.."

Sir, grabbing his saxophone, runs to the park. As soon as he gets there, he finds one person on the front car at breakneck speed and one standing along the side, then jumping on!

Good to know at least Sir read EBR's post as getting on the roller coaster. Let's just run with that.

"Whoever that guy is, he's got some good timing.." Sir looks a few hundred feet ahead to see some grave news. "Looks like the syndicate hasn't quite finished the track yet.."

This is the Syndicate's way of getting rid of angsty people.

Sir notices the lever on the loading platform, but realizes they don't have enough time. "Hey! Use this!" Flinging his saxophone up to the runaway cart. Mark understood what this odd guy was up to, and quickly pried open the safety bars.

With a saxophone? Really? Ever heard of a crowbar? Or hell, this is an IF; how about the Jaws of goddamned Life? Too conventional. IF is funny precisely because people do things like pry thick metal bars off with saxophones.

"hey, JUMP!!" Cried Mark, and both did just in time, falling relitivly close to the ground, but rolling for quite a while. All three look up to see the roller cars jump the tracks and fly into the ocean. "I'd complain to the manager, if I were you two" Sir said, trying to make up a good anticlimatic quip..

Sorry, but the manager is currently tied up being relentlessly romanced by the new admin. (Did I mention he's an admin?)

And hey, at least Sir tried. He really did.