Posts #626-627: 25 April 2000

Post #626, by PSI322

(Mention has been made of my saying the story could be funny. Note that I said a blend of humor and seriousness would be best; also note that funny and crazy are not synonyms. Thank you for listening.)

That was awesome. Don't worry PSI, I remembered.

You'll notice how PSI322, being extraordinarily nice, declined to say "stupid" even though she was probably thinking "stupid", and substituted "crazy" instead. But it's OK, neither is a synonym of funny.

Still back in Winters, Juliana stood outside the Stonehenge base. "Wow, this is weird," she said, confused. "I haven't been online in almost two days, and look what happens! The old story gets messed up and archived, and a new one starts to thrive!"

Tim (at least I think he's still in Winters, correct me if I'm mistaken) looked at Juliana funny. "What are you talking about?" he said.

Juliana suddenly shook her head. "I have no idea what came over me, Tim," she replied.

Even PSI322 is getting in on the remarking about what a crazy huge thing this Gathering is.

"Let's just ignore that. I must be recalling a strange dream I was having, or something. I dunno." She looked around at the Winters scenery and wondered what she would do next. "You know something, Tim? I know we're supposed to be off on adventures, battling guardians and collecting melodies, but I think I need a break right about now."

PSI322 gambit again! I need to go back and make a running count of how many times she has decided she needs to go for a walk by herself. I know from memory this is at least the third time, so we'll start the count there.

When we get there, we'll also keep a count of the PSI322 gambit's bastard cousin, the guruzeth gambit, wherein guruzeth tells somebody to go die in a grease fire--not quite that politely, but you get the idea--and then takes off to stew in his seething rage.

Tim nodded a little. "That's understandable, actually," he commented. "I mean, I think we're all getting pretty run down from all of this."

PSI322 is just continuing the recent theme of complaining that the Tengu/Falcon24 crap is, well, just that: crap. And tiresome. You have to understand that, while you may regard the injection of some saving the world into the Gathering as welcome, what's happening is Tengu and Falcon24 are turning it into every other IF thread. PSI322 can't stand that. She made this thread intending it to be something different.

"I think I'm going to go off on my own for a little while," Juliana said, going over to where her knapsack had fallen when she'd crash-landed the Sky Runner nearby. Gathering up her things, she waved at Tim and started walking towards the Pond Cave. She would travel through Winters for a while on her own; after all, Juliana had always had a thing for soul-searching and silent reflection.

This time you'll notice she tacked on that last sentence and the specific words "on her own" to try to ward Chris off for a while.

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Post #627, by Luna

Luna, who had been, at this moment excersising her PSI powers by attempting to drop a plate of floating jello on the sleeping pogopunk's head, looked up at F4lx0r. Luna sensed an evil aura revibrating around him, and kicked pogopunk in the head.

Wow, she actually wrote pogopunk back into her plotline. Chris could only dream of such a thing. Luna may legitimately be fond of the guy.

"Owchies! You idiot! That hurts, y'know!" a grumpy pogopunk yelled.
"Look!" she said, pointing at F4lx0r.
"...what?" pogopunk asked, blinking at the guy.
"...you can't sense anything?"
"Only that you're nuts. Lemme go back to sleep."
"riiiight..." Luna mumbled, turning to F4lx0r. "We'rehavinganaprightnowwe'dappreciateitifyoucamebacklaterbyebye!" she smiled at him, pushing him out of the commom room and slamming the door.

That bit of humor comes straight from EarthBound, which Luna actually did play. There's a moment in the game where you're on the phone with Apple Kid and suddenly there's *KABOOOOM!* and Apple Kid saying, "uh, I'mhavingsomeproblemsheregottagobye!" *click*

"Hrm. Maybe they're not total fools after all..." F4lx0r thought to himself, and walked off to start thinking up an evil plan.

So this deliciously Luna-style post exists to tell Falcon24 to piss off, he can't dictate what other AC's detect and don't detect. (Of course she is right.)