Posts #231-235: 17 April 2000

Post #231, by PSI322

Juliana had returned to her room after seeing the display put on by two large crafts in the ocean that appeared to be approaching the island, or something to that effect.

I LOL'd at her droll way of expressing that she really doesn't care.

She listened to Chris's announcement regarding the upcoming talent show and wondered whether or not she should enter it. She glanced down at her watch. She'd have to make her decision now, since it was imperative that all contestants attend the meeting which wasn't too long from now.

Oh, wow! A PSI322 grammatical boo-boo. You see those about as often as you see Halley's Comet.

Juliana pondered this for a few minutes as she sat at the edge of her bed combing her brown hair. Her only real talent was writing, and that wasn't exactly performance material; she knew that.

Compared to this crew, you're William f---ing Shakespeare. On quaaludes.

She'd danced for seven years, but she didn't feel like getting back into ballet at the moment, at least not for a show in front of all her friends. Juliana knew she could sing fairly well, but still, the whole idea of singing in front of everyone made her more than a little nervous.

It shouldn't. She could really sing.

After careful consideration, she decided not to enter the talent show; after all, wouldn't it be more fun to sit in the audience and watch all the acts on the night of the show? Juliana finished combing her hair, looked in the mirror, and smiled to herself. That's exactly what she'd do.

At this rate, PP/QC or NessJeff or somebody's going to end up taking first prize with their amazing display of eating a whole box of ding-dongs, being the only entrant.

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Post #232, by Little Yoshi

Tim finished repairing his boat, he decided not to participate in the talent show.

Another one bites the dust!

What talents did he have? Playing video games?

Man, there is no end to the self-flagellation of young-teenage nerds.

Not something I always see at a talent show.

You'd be surprised how little talent is observable in your average talent show. Mostly because, as the Joker so astutely observed, if you're good at something, never do it for free.

So, he went inside and grabbed some lunch, then decided to ride over to the amusment park to see what had happened there since his accident.

Give Tim credit for getting off his ass and doing something to try and avert this talent show nonsense nobody except Chris has any interest in.

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Post #233, by Chris

Chris glanced at his watch. The meeting was supposed to have started five minutes ago, and their were maybe a dozen people in the auditorium.

That's because there are only about a dozen writers in the story, Chris. And if they were all in the auditorium, that would be damn impressive since not a single goddamned one of them wants anything to do with this stupid-ass talent show.

Preparing to improvise and try to make this a success, he stepped up to the microphone.

NOBODY BUT YOU WANTS THIS TO BE A SUCCESS. IF YOU WANT TO IMPRESS JULIANA WITH WHATEVER TALENTS YOU HAVE, YOU CAN DO THAT WITHOUT DRAGGING EVERYONE ELSE INTO IT.

"Hello again everyone. I hope everyone enjoyed what we did yesterday. Now, regarding the talent show: as you can see from looking around, we don't exactly have a big turnout. Before I go any further, I'm gonna take a quick poll: should we have the talent show, or not?"

Most everyone voted yes.

No. No, I'm almost certain that if you actually took a poll, everyone would vote no. This is why you forced them to vote yes.

"Well, that's settled. We'll hold the talent show. Though, instead of a talent show, it'll be more of something else. A play-sort of thing. In fact, that might draw more people here. Lemme go make an announcement, and we'll return to this meeting in about an hour."

Oh god. That's even stupider than the talent show. Just quit before you embarrass yourself so badly you wind up wearing a paper bag over your head for the rest of your adolescence.

While everyone else left, Chris went over to the P.A. system and made the announcement about the play that he would hold in two days, without a script, without a cast, without even an idea...

I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess that play won't be happening.

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Post #234, by NessJeff

Mog is getting a strong whippin'!

It's his own fault for being stupid enough to take your bait.

"I'm down to just my level 6005 Mog..."
"You're better than I thought. You got me down to just Paula and Sora/Biyomon with level 500 guys."
"Naturally."
"Paula! Slash with that sword that I blatantly stole from WotO!"

I have not a foggy clue what a WotO is.

"Oh, crud..."
Mog down to half HP!
"Dance! Dusk Requiem!"
"Owwwww... Elf Fire's good. My turn. Paula, PSI Digimon summon HerculesKabuterimon ø!"
*(Music in game) Giga Scissor Claw!"

Um... yeah.

"Crud..."
Drew won!
Just then, Drew(character) grew to lv. 78798!
IQ grew to 90000!(This'd work in the game!)

If Mog116 has any intelligence at all, he'll cut his losses and totally ignore this post, and NessJeff in general.

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Post #235, by PSI322

Juliana went downstairs to grab a sandwich and a Diet Coke for lunch in the dining area.

For the record, Diet Coke is pretty much the most toxic substance in existence.

After all, she had missed breakfast, so she was fairly hungry. Everyone seemed to be talking about the controversy surrounding the accident at the new amusement park, so Juliana decided to stroll on over and check it out.

This should kill the talent show business, at least. Juliana doesn't want anything to do with it.

When she arrived at the park, she wasn't surprised to see that the roller coaster was temporarily closed for repairs; that was the ride that the accident had happened on, wasn't it?

Yeah... 'accident'.

*cough*

Juliana walked through the park at a lazy pace, looking at all the rides and all the Starmen.Netters, acting like children as they laughed and shouted from the various amusement park attractions.

Well.... they are children.

Deciding to join in the fun, Juliana went over and stepped up to the carousel. She chose a tall, old-fashioned looking merry-go-round horse that was painted a pale shade of lavender and climbed up into the saddle to wait for the ride to begin...

Good choice. Carousels rule.

This annotator gets horribly motion sick, and therefore is pretty much limited to the carousel, the ferris wheel and the Scrambler at any amusement park. Nevertheless... those are three awesome rides right there, and this annotator can easily spend all day at just them.

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