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Hi everyone! (yes, still hyper. Not even a flat tyre on Thursday could kill it. I'm begining to wonder if this mood will be permanant. :))

Caer> Hello and welcome to the CR. I don't agree with you (Brook as a family man just tickles my fancy for some reason), but I can see where you're coming from. The old Brook was kewl. The new one is just as good, so don't discount him just yet. :)

Crossovers> *grins* Okay, the whole Wastelands saga thing is crossover central. Basically all my crossover CD's banded together and formed one massive CD army that invaded my mind and threatened to sever my brainstem unless I started writing. Creativity Demons can be such vicious little b**tards, can't they? :)

Sevarius JR> You get those *can't think of a word bad enough for them* in Texas, and I'll get the truck. We'll take turns driving while the other one hangs out the back and throw broken glass behind us. *goes off into a corner and mutters several things better left unheard in a PG room about the Texas....individuals.* $I'd sugggest including Greaseman, but Doug and Kitania have already dealt with him.$

Character names> Ehhh, I have so much trouble choosing names for my characters. Some of them just pop into my head, which is wonderful, but most of the time I fry important brain cells trying to find a suitable name, and end up choosing a name I'm not ever sure is right.

What would I look like as a garg? Hmmm, I'd definately be taller, and I'd have the best set of wings possible. (Of course, I'm scared of heights, but I've always dreamt of being able to fly. Go figure.:))

Jaden> >Spice Girls-Could you imagine them showing up at Gathering99?< AAAAARRGH!!! Now _that_ would be scary! And pretty funny now that I think about it....ack! *a creativity demon hurls itself across the CR, and Fleur desperately swats it away.* No! There's no more room in my head and even if there was, I am _not_ doing a spice-girls- at-G99 story. No! Go away! *The CD slinks away.*

Everyone who said they liked my 'fic> *blushes* THANKS!

Wavelength> Hope you have a good spring break. Have fun!

Aris> >Brooklyn and Sata are smart enough to realise that they'd save time if they remained in the 90s rather than timehopping away once again.< Um I don't read much TD (not enough time, now _there's_ an irony.), but I thought Brooklyn and Sata didn't have any control over their timedancing. I don't think they _can_ just stop timedancing.

Heather and Robby> That picture is so cute, it should carry a warning 'this picture will result in a big sappy grin.' :) Kudos to Demona May. Man, what a talent.

James> Humans aren't stupid or worthless, nothing is. SJ said it better than me.

Kylynna> hehe. We luv you too.

Kiaoto> Well said.

Mary> I felt sick when I read your post. How could people do that to somebody who can't fight back. *starts muttering more bad words.*

Peter> Get well soon.

TTFN!

*RP? OH, WHY NOT?*
The Ravens, Fleur and Jaden finish fixing the Onslaught and climb in. Sitting in the back, Fleur searches her pockets for a spare powerpack for her laser cannon. Just as she finds one, Doug (who's driving) brakes sharply. The road in front of them has been blocked by what looks like a landslide.
"Guys," Jaden says suddenly, "I have a really bad feeling about this. I think Tracker is nearby."
At that moment, gunfire erupts from the surrounding foliage.
**END RP**
Fleur - [newgoyle@hotmail.com]
Sunday, February 28, 1999 07:59:17 PM
IP: proxy.monash.edu.au

Question: will Khensu and Isfet show up in Manhattan any
time soon? That would be really interesting ...
weepinbell - [weepinbell70@yahoo.com]
Sunday, February 28, 1999 07:18:37 PM
IP: hil-c45-014-vty216.as.wcom.net

**BLUES BROTHERS 2000 SPOILERS?**

Just saw Blues Brothers 2000... Interesting movie... Had the feel of the original, but it lacked... Something... Maybe Princess Leia trying to kill them... Maybe the suits getting dirty and the being clean in the next shot... The really cool car chase through a mall... Perhaps its because all the plot points were wrapped up REAL easily with magic so they could have that half hour almost all musical finale and then there was no ending...

**END BLUES BROTHERS 2000 SPOILERS**

Kiato- Well made points, all of them.

Sizing people up like a slab of beef- I don't do this honestly, I'm too trained as an artist to study anatomy. I actually find myself checking to see how far down a person's elbow goes or how the muscles in their neck look when its turned and making a mental note of it as often as I pay attention to anything else. All of the... Ahem... Features a person may have are just taken in as exactly that. Features.

Mary- That's scary stuff, and just not right. Part of the reason being a garg seems like such a good idea at times.

Peter- Rotting Booger stage? Eeeew... Gross!

Hercules- I've started to like the move a lot more since the series came out.

Anyone else watching Alice In Wonderland tonight?

Coyote and Ravyn- Sure.

Wilek- You may have sever evil twins, but mine is just plain um... Not nice...

Zath- No clue where your name came from.

Selanit- I intend to sign up for that thingie, but the link you attached didn't work.

Teasers- I only like doing them when I have an actual part in the making of a story. Speaking of which...

IN FOUR DAYS...
Brooklyn and Sata encounter a fae trickster...


Robby - [MrNoying@aol.com]
Sunday, February 28, 1999 05:54:56 PM
IP: spider-te034.proxy.aol.com

BRONX ANIMATED VID< Okey-dokie, people, the name of the school is the Art Institute of Philadelphia (do a search at Yahoo! It's usually very good). I sent an email on more info on the web page, should be getting a response on it within a day or two *crosses her fingers* Wish us all luck, fellow gargamaniacs!

<<uh, I don't know Spanish>>

*reddens* Oops! I'm so sorry, Blue Caeru! I must have gotten mixed up somewhere. I do that sometimes :)

Well, it's still good to at least understand Chinese. Helps you get around in another country by understanding the signs at least.

MANDI< AWESOME!!!! Scan the signed comic for us to see when you get it!

MARY FLANDERS< That's HORRIBLE! C'mon, what do people got against people who are different, anyway? It's bad enough a man was dragged behind a car solely because he's black, now some people are wary against retarded people? Sick. Sick, sick, sick...

SEVARIUS JR.'s TAKE ON 'BAD' HUMANS< *whistles* You go, man! I was just thinking that upon readings Jame's post, too :(
I'm not gonna add more to this, because SJ covered everything I would've wanted to say (sans the dolphins getting caught in nets part :D You're a sick man. That's why we like ya. :) )

Final Fantasy< "groundbreaking animation"? Yeah, I heard computers will digitize the characters so they'll look like real people. Awesome, eh?

PHYSICAL ATTRACTION< I heard this is basic instinct. I watched an interesting program over the summer about how looks attract a mate. Like why do women with curves usually attract dates better than women without. It's because curves send a signal to a male that she could easily carry a child without doing her body damage (I guess they mean curves mean there's more room for the baby to fit in that area of her body).

I don't think physical appearance should be the reason you go out with someone. I personally prefer someone who makes me laugh and who I can just hang out with :) But being attractive doesn't hurt. I think attraction is just so you notice a member of the opposite sex, and once you notice them, you introduce yourself and get to know them a bit better.

But physical beauty should never be the basis of a relationship. It'd be a really shallow one :(

Must run. Homework and posters to draw. It seems no one else in our school wants to work on art staff, save me, my co-editor, Joe, and two other art staffers. We're hoping by putting up posters, it'll attract artists.

Peace out :)
Carolynn Marie - [C4arobin@aol.com]
Sunday, February 28, 1999 03:04:16 PM
IP: spider-tk033.proxy.aol.com

Quickie post, but I had to get this out of my system. You know how they say you're at most six people away from anyone in the world? Well, I got a call from my mom this morning, about two weeks after my stepdad Chris got back from Orioles Baseball Fantasy Camp in Florida. It seems that one of the guys Chris played with down there--they were right next to each other in the lineup--was Todd McFarlane. Yep, the guy who created Spawn. The only reason it took Mom so long to tell me was because she and Chris had never heard of him. I don't read Spawn, but I knew who he was! :)

Suffice to say, I'm now two degrees from him, and Chris gets to play a game in Camden Yards with the rest of the guys from the fantasy camp the weekend before the Gathering. I think I'll buy a comic just for him to autograph (if he'll agree to it), because that's going to be a great graduation present for a friend of mine.

Yeah, that's all. Like I said, I don't read Spawn, but I think some folks in here do, and I thought it was really funny.
Mandi Ohlin - [weird_web@hotmail.com]
Sunday, February 28, 1999 01:11:32 PM
IP: 144.175.17.229

Decided to go back to Purple. ;)

Robby & Heather> Sorry I forgot to say this before, but that's a very lovely pic of you two. :)

SJ> Yeah, I liked Raven better when he was in ECW also. I thought his character was a lot more interesting there, and he got to do a lot of amazing matches.

Taleweaver> Cool names site! I'm gonna have to check it out in depth later. :)

Mary> That is just *sick* what those people did. Just plain *sick.* Nobody deserves to be treated like that. **growls and snarls**

Coyote> Yeah, last I saw (which was kind of a long time ago), Raven *had* lost control of his Flock. Don't know what happened to him after that, maybe I need to start watching Nitro every now and then since b-ball is over. :)
Oh...and thank you for the compliment on my handle and the *lovely* cyber-bouquet. You're such a sweet guy, and you'll always be handsome to me. :) **smiles and gives him a long, tight embrace** (happy now, Robby?) ;)

Deuce> I thought that Leo DeCaprio did a *very* good job in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape." I don't really like the guy much at all, but I *did* get a little more respect for his acting abilities after seeing that movie. He played a really difficult role really well.

Gen-X Movie> I remember seeing all the commericials for it and thinking about how cool it was gonna be to have a movie about Generation X. Then I actually *saw* the movie and found out that it wasn't as cool as I thought it would be. :( One of these days, somebody's gonna have to make a *good* Gen-X movie. ;)

Kitainia> I always thought that immortal Kenny from Highlander was still alive. I think that both times he came after Duncan, he got away. And I think in that second encounter, Kenny did try to get an immortal sea captain that had a grudge against MacLeod to kill Duncan for him, but Duncan killed the sea captain. Then Kenny went after Duncan, but I'm pretty sure he got away by using Amanda somehow. I might have that ep on tape somewhere; I'll try to find it and check it out if you want. But I always thought Kenny lived.

Well, I better leave before I start any trouble. ;) See y'all later!
Ravyn
Sunday, February 28, 1999 01:09:54 PM
IP: svm-ts5-1.c2i2.com

Sorry, no RP today.

Being a Garg: Hmmm, it would be neat if I could also be in the Gargoyle Universe. Otherwise I would just be considered a freak in the 'real world', no clan, people scream when they see me... I may be able to do well in the military though, if I can somehow join without being put into a lab!

****Shameless Plug*** I finally got my 3rd story finished! Took alot longer than I thought, and not just because of my modem problems!

Sharon Nomura has been having problems adjusting to her new life. And it doesn't help when she finds out what Takeo Kimura has been doing.

***End Shameless Plug***
Durid - [durid@uswest.net]
MN, USA
Sunday, February 28, 1999 10:45:05 AM
IP: xdialup42.mpls.uswest.net

Steve Gooch> Of course I do. I know Amanda was in it. Kenny was trying to use an old sea captain that Duncan know and turn the two against each other. Kenny was found out and chased to a city park then to an abanded wharehouse; (How convient), where Duncan took his head.
James Birdsong - [LennexMacDuff@hotmail.com]
San Diego, CA, USA
Sunday, February 28, 1999 09:21:44 AM
IP: dt043n83.san.rr.com

CRUSADE DEATH????: I thought they get nearly everything ready, the design, the costumes and even the first eps so why let they happen this? Is there a chance that another station will telecast the show? They can't let it disappear only because of some disputes. Don't they know that there are fans all over the world (I am one of them)? It was worse enought to look the last part of B5 but that this should be the end I can't imagine. I won't give up!
Gabriel
Sunday, February 28, 1999 06:36:13 AM
IP: ics1f.l.srv.t-online.de

*** ATTENTION!! SHAMELESS PLUG (BUT NOT FOR ME!) ***

Okay, this isn't your ordinary shameless plug. I'm not promoting a story I've written, or even anything gargoyles related. I'm promoting HARD SCIENCE! MU HA HA HA HA!!

How'd you folks like to help look for extraterrestrial cultures? Hmm? We need you. You have a resource we want: your computers. We want your spare processing power.

The biggest bottleneck in analyzing radio signals from the cosmos is processing power. There is so *much* information, it's simply impossible to analyze all of it, even with super-powerful computers like Cray XMPs.

But consider this. Collectively, the computers connected to the Internet form a supercomputer vastly, incomprehensibly more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer. Multiply the processing power of just 100,000 pentium-level systems and what do you get? Furthermore, your computers spend a lot of time doing nothing. They just sit there displaying screen savers, the digital equivalent of twiddling their thumbs.

In 1996, some astrobiologists noticed these things and put two and two together. "Why not," they said, "Why not program a screen saver that does something more useful than just display pretty phantasms of light? Why not program a screen saver that can download and analyze data from radio telescopes, looking for coherent transmissions from beyond our solar system?" They said this, and called it SETI@Home.

And having said so, they did. They assembled a team of astrobiologists and programmers. They spent the last couple of years scraping up funding and material. They appealed for coding help and got thousands of volunteers. They designed a server program to distribute the data, and made specialized recording systems to acquire the information.

The data is collected from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, where it is recorded on high-density magnetic tapes. The tapes are snail-mailed to the SERENDIP program at UC Berkley, where they are fed into the server program, which divides the data up into 250K chunks and distributes it to the participants for analysis. The nature of the experiment allows for incredibly more detailed analysis than anyone can get in real-time.

At last, the program is ready to launch. Final beta testing of the screen-saver program is in progress this month. It will be distributed to end users in April.

It occurs to me that this is the sort of thing that people like us care about. Look at our posts. Someone asked, "Would you like to be a gargoyle?" Several people said, "No, but I'd like to be their friends." We'd like to be their friends -- we'd like to be friends with people who aren't homo sapiens. In real life, we must look to the stars to find new friends.

Please, people, do this. It doesn't require any effort on your part. The program runs when you're not using your computer anyway, so it won't intrude on your work. The program only needs roughly 5 minutes worth of modem-time every few days to upload finished analyses and retrieve fresh data.

We will never find new friends if we don't go and look for them.

Click my name to visit the SETI@Home web site. Please, sign up to be notified when they begin distribution of the software. Please.

*** END SHAMELESS PLUG ***

And if you didn't read the preceding shameless plug, READ IT! SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK TO THOSE AS DON'T! (Kidding -- only six years. <G>)
Selanit - [selanit@hotmail.com]
Sunday, February 28, 1999 05:33:42 AM
IP: smith17-26.resnet.colorado.edu

Good Evening!

CR Text Colors> So the pink's good, huh? I like it, too (I look good in pink ;o). I'm glad it's readable. Myself, I have a hard time focusing on the darker blue text for some reason, not that I want anyone to change colors or anything...I'll manage. =o)

Robby> Ooh, teasers!?? *laughs* I know I love 'em!

Thing about Physical Attractions> Personally, I seem to not be able to be attracted to someone unless I know them pretty well. Usually, I have to be good friends with them before starting any kind of relationship. And I'd never like someone just based on looks. And even with Billy Corgan (The Sexiest Bald Man Alive), with whom I'm infatuated with ;o) - most of the reason is because of his personality, intelligence, and song-writing capabilities (plus, I seem to be drawn to guys with big egoes). And he's tall. <g>
...
...All right, I'm done swooning...you can look now.

Coyote> Interesting about the "Death of a Salesman" lighting thing. Though, knowing me, I'd be far from finished crying just over that minute period before they turned the house lights back on... but still, it's a cool tradition. And good for those guys who still have masculinity issues ;o)

Well, I found a couple other quotes that were just floating around on a notecard for some reason on my desk...

"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."
--John Lennon

"Who am I? Why am I here? Forget the question someone give me another beer!"
--Meat Loaf
(Heh, heh - when my ex-boyfriend asked for one of my senior pictures, I wrote this one on the back of it..)

Well, that's all I have to say. Now I just cross my fingers and hope my computer doesn't freeze up when I send this..

~Jill
jILLybEAn - [jbruhn@bendnet.com]
Bend, Oregon
Sunday, February 28, 1999 04:19:41 AM
IP: b153.bendnet.com

Doug< i sent part one..of four for that song. If it gets through to U EM me so i know to send the others ok?
**Spoilers**:)
If i could be a garg. This i have thought about a lot. I look at it in two ways. Is this IRL tommorrow at work some guy shows up and says, "I am here to grant you a wish..would ya like to be a garg" well, no. Obviously it wouldn't work out well with other ppl ya know. If you mean in the gargoyles universe HECK YA lex hasn't been taken yet:) Anyway. Gargs have it nice. True, they dont have our material wants..but those things are not very good in some cases anyway. Just think. You are hatched into a community. A loving clan. Everyone watches over you and treats you eqaul. Even Females can achive leadership status. If you do meet someone as a mate. It is most likely going to last your whole life...(goliath and Demona are exceptions) It just is an idealistic thought for me i guess. Gargs arn't like humans..they dont wage war on eachother..why would you want to fight your own ppl?? They are deeper then us in meny respects i think. Also gotta give a thumbs up on the fitness..i mean hey..even chubby gargs are fit. I wouldn't mind their matabolism or lifstyle. As for a downside..fighting crime..wouldn't really be my cup of tea. But you could argue if you were born or hatched that way, then it would be a way of life..something embeded in your genes..so i dont think it would be a real bother. Missing Human life?? well, like i said..if you were always..it isn't as hard to miss the other side. Though the grass is greener on the other side of the fence i hear. And if you look at Lexington, as a quick example, there is some that yern as we do to be gargs..to be human. I think Lex would be a pretty good human actaully. He has the skill and enjoys the challenges. I can see him really getting a kick out of attending school, and going on to something technical. Plus, more girls that share in his interests..THIS is of course if he were always human..i cant say he wouldn't miss being a garg..im sure he'd just like to get his talons wet..then go back with his clan to use his new found knowledge.
**END SPOILERS**
Lexy - [lex@hnet.net]
city of meanselfrighteousbackstabbingsnobyishppl, WI:P , US of A
Sunday, February 28, 1999 03:41:33 AM
IP: d084.hnet.net

Hey all,

Doug > Chapter three's up, linked in below. Enjoy!

Rants about intolerant bigots > I'd rather not get involved in this topic, but I will say that I have tolerance for everyone else on this planet, save for those who don't have tolerance and some special cases. It's the people that hate for ignorant, intolerant reasons that make me the angriest. Even worse are the Castaway-types, that take their hate out in a violent manner, not caring who gets hurt in the crossfire.

I'm gonna read and not respond to the rants about Iraq, not because I have anything against the authors, but because I don't want to bore anybody with a lengthy response that'd probably go right up there with Traveler's novel-length posts.

Coyote > <A loud report is heard from the tank turret, as it sends four cans of Molson arcing toward the assault chopper.> Tank Girl?

Kitainia RE Kenny > Well, my roomie's pretty reliable when it comes to that show, but he could be wrong. But he's positive that Kenny was only in two episodes, and he lived through both. The second time, Duncan was prepared to kill him, but Amanda told him, "If you take his head, get ready to lose yours" or something like that.

James > Do you remember anything else about the episode you say he died in?

==People are more vocally opposed to fur than leather because it's easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.==

'Night all
Steve Gooch - [stg6@cornell.edu]
Ithaca, NY
Sunday, February 28, 1999 03:24:19 AM
IP: stg6.resnet.cornell.edu

NO RP TONIGHT!

Character names- I don't know why but the name Jaden has always just been in the back of my mind. Until I got onto the Internet I thought I had made up the name.

Heather-That's a great picture.

Becoming a Gargoyle-I've wondered about this for awhile. If I was ever given the chance I would say yes. I was never very fond of the sun...hurts my eyes sometimes. I think it would be the best thing to happen. I know some of you are thinking "What about the down-side of becoming a garg?" Well all I can say is that you have to take the good with the bad.

Well I got work in the morning.
See ya later!
Jaden - [smokey1@silcom.com]
Los Alamos, CA, U.S.A.
Sunday, February 28, 1999 02:36:55 AM
IP: pm0-47.vpop1.avtel.net

Zath> <<What, no one wants to try and guess where my name came from?>> Well...all I can think of is Zathras from Babylon 5, but that can't be right...
Wilek
Sunday, February 28, 1999 02:00:53 AM
IP: tnt-1-221-56k.portsmouth.zoomnet.net

Hey, someone left a perfectly good scythe lying around in here. **Zath picks up SJ's scythe and uses it to hack up Mr. DC. When the pieces become too small to slice, Zath uses the butt of the scythe to smash the bits into a fine red paste. Kitty runs in and rolls in the mess, leaving behind large amounts of white and brown fur in DC's remains. When he recovers, he's going to be spitting up hair balls for a while. >: )** That's what you get for crashing Netscape and cutting off my connection half a dozen times.

What, no one wants to try and guess where my name came from? Okay, I'll raise the prize to 42 cyber cookies, three cyber doughnuts, and a cyber gumball. Someone has to have a guess.

Wilek> I've seen Lawnmower Man 2, but I thought it was kind of silly. What's really interesting is comparing the movies to the original Stephen King short story. There's so little resemblance (even less than the resemblance between the story and the movie of Jonny Mnemonic) King had his name taken off the project. <<He should be BOILED IN HIS OWN BLOOD>> But if you got enough blood to boil him, it would either kill him so he couldn't enjoy the experience, or it would take a really long time to collect a little at a time. How about boiling him in all his body fluids other than his blood?

Argent> I sympathize with your dental problems. In junior high I had to get an adult tooth (one of my fangs) taken out before it even started showing because it was coming in between my two front teeth, and sooner or later I have to get my wisdom teeth out too.

Brooklyn's character development> Actually, it seems to me that he's actually gone downhill in some respects. He used to usually need a good reason to get mad (unless Demona was involved) now all someone has to do is call him a name and he completely flips out, going into a blind rage. You'd think someone with as much experience as he supposedly has would know that running straight at a fey and trying to punch it isn't going to accomplish very much.

Coyote> <<**A loud report is heard from the tank turret, as it sends four cans of Molson arcing toward the assault chopper.**>> That reminds me of an idea I had for a fic that involved someone shooting Demona out of the air with a homemade potato gun. Some day I hope to get around to writing it, but it probably won't happen any time soon.

SJ> <<if dolphins are so damn smart, how come they always get caught in the nets>> I actually read a sci-fi book once where the dolphins did it on purpose because, lacking hands, suicide was the only way they could cause any change in their environment other than eating fish. It was a really strange book since, in addition to everything else, it was an alternate history where the USSR won the cold war using trained dolphins to sink American subs.

Garg Songs> Most of the ones I thought of have already been mentioned, except for one by the Descendants which part of it makes me think of Demona. I think the song is called "Get The Time" and the part I'm thinking of goes something like "Will there come a day when you give up and turn away, and I'd have nothing left except I'd have all of the time in the world, all of the time in the world, time to remember, and look through the window, time to cry..." It's been a while since I last heard the song, but I'm pretty sure that's how it goes. I always picture Demona out in the rain watching Goliath and Elisa hugging while the rest of the clan plays with new hatchlings.

Random Useless Trivia> Today on the discovery channel there was a show that claimed in addition to dust mites, eyebrow mites, and such, there is also such thing as a cheese mite. I kid you not.
Zath
Sunday, February 28, 1999 01:50:19 AM
IP: ns1-14.viptx.net

**RP. WHY? BECAUSE I SAID SO, THAT'S WHY.**

[Wilek is just arriving on the bridge. He greets the team, who's still there, then goes to an internal security console and uses the DS's internal sensors to locate any radiation spikes indicative of more nuclear bombs. The bomb he just left is gone; apparently the security team he called took care of it. Wilek sees that there are five more bombs. Wilek: "Come on, ppl, we have exposives to get rid of!" But where's the rest of the evil team?...]

**PAUSE RP!**

Mary> <gasp> <grr> Even my nastily creative mind cannot think of revolting and objectionable enough deaths for these reprehensible pieces of <censored>. Who in their right mind--they weren't in their right minds, and I don't mean the fun sort of insanity that we have embraced either. Words fail me. >8(

Peter> <<Unfortunately, I am currently in what I like to call the "rotting booger" stage of recovery where it smells like something crawled up my nose and died.>> ewwwwww

Taleweaver> Kewl names site. (I found out that my own first name is a variant of 'Wilhelm'. Feh.)

SJ> <<And BTW, if dolphins are so damn smart, how come they always get caught in the nets, huh?>> They don't see well, and nets don't show up on sonar.

Robby and SJ> So you two have evil twins. Hm, you're lucky; I have *four* of the things.

**RESUME RP!**

[Meanwhile, *here's* the evil team, just entering the computer control room. W. Fieger I: "The chip, please..."]

**END RP!**
Wilek Nereus
Sunday, February 28, 1999 01:38:20 AM
IP: tnt-1-68-56k.portsmouth.zoomnet.net

(yawns) That's very nice Servirous Jr. yada yada yada. I know I am am human and like I said I wouldn't be anything else for anything. I am proud of who I am and despite what you say animals are better than people. I never claimed they were smarter. Ignorance is bliss. They are at peace with the world. Yes they would pollute if they were as smart as us but I am glad they are stupid. I think that makes them supior to us. Knowledge is power and power corupts therefore our smartness makes us a corupt specious. (faint smile)
James Birdsong - [LennexMacDuff@hotmail.com]
San Diego, CA, USA
Saturday, January 1, 2000 12:02:43 AM
IP: dt043n83.san.rr.com

***RP SPOILERS****
"Alright, alright!" SJ says. "I believe you! You're the real thing!"
"Good, we're glad," Anoth says. "Now do you mind pointing that flamethrower somewhere else?"
"Oh, sorry," SJ says sheepishly. "Things have been kinda stressful lately. I mean, I thought I killed all those damn clones with that virus.....Damn those Fiegers! They reproduce like jackrabbits!"
****END RP FOR NOW****

*SJ takes a break from the RP, and marches into the Comment room. He's wearing a black robe, and carrying a scythe.*
Well, I really hate doing so, but I'm playing the Angel of Death tonight. Two have departed us. The first, we have not known, the other we only knew for a short time.

CRUSADE IS DEAD. Hey, all you Babylon 5 fans! Weren't you saddened that B5 ended? Yeah, me too. But weren't you excited that there was going to be a spin off show called Crusade? How the last B5 movie, "A Call To Arms", even set up the storyline? Well, guess what?
The <Censored for your protection> at TNT have canceled the show. BEFORE IT'S EVEN AIRED. You see, Crusade should have started IN JANUARY. But TNT wanted to wait "until the NBA strike cleared up, so we can know what to program". So Crusade was to air this summer. Well, if you've been in the "know", you'd know that TNT has been dicking with JMS and the whole Crusade team since day one. They didn't like the set, they didn't like the costumes. Then there was the great "Memo War", wherein TNT reportedly wrote to JMS and asked him to add lots more "alien gunfights" and "alien sex". JMS stood his ground. Well, TNT had the last laugh, and now the show's DEAD. <BLEEP> you, TNT. <BLEEP> you, Ted Turner, you <BLEEEEEEEP>in' redneck.

And, alas, we must also lay to rest our dear friend CUPID. We knew it was canceled by ABC. Well, the word is out: Cupid will not be renewed. AND it will not be picked up by any other network. So congratulations, ABC, you destroyed the BEST new show this season. <BLEEP> you too.

The only good news I can give you is that Brimstone will resume airing next Friday. It's just repeats, folks, but tune in. If the ratings improve, we may forestall the reaper!
*SJ takes off the robe and ditches the scythe*

James: That's a horrible, disturbing thing to say!
First off, I'm not trying to be mean or get on anyone's case here, but I'm getting pretty sick and tired with Movies/Books/TV shows that always focus on how horrible humans are, what jerks humans are, how the world would be a better place without us. Let me tell them something, a big revelation: YOU ARE HUMAN.
I have no problem with people wanting to be Gargoyles, or Fey, or dragons, or what have you. Everyone of us has a desire to be something greater than we are, to be perfect. Why else have religion? Is it not, in some way, the search for meaning and perfection? Why do you think Adam and Eve ate from the Tree? They thought it would make them as gods.
But I have a real problem with those who think that humans are inferior. YES we are flawed. YES we are imperfect. But we are, like it or not, the most advanced for of life known.(key word being known) We have dominion over this earth. Does that mean we should trash it and destory it as we destory ourselves? Certainly not. But, for better or worse this world is ours.
Animals don't pollute the earth because they lack the intelligence to do so. If they were the dominant life-form, if they had the same mental capacity as we do, don't you think THEY might ALSO pollute the earth? If they are the same as us, it's a fair guess they share some of our same flaws.
In my opinion, to betray humanity is to betray the self. We are imperfect, but we are what we are. We must strive to be better, to "evolve", but until then, like it or not, this is who we are. Sorry if I offended anyone in this post. I certainly don't want to start a flame war. I just think people are being unjustly harsh on humans. We can't be gods, or even gargoyles. We're just what we are, and if that is a bunch of savages, than that is who we are. We must try to become better than that, but until we do, we can't change it. We must all attempt to be the best we can be in our own lives.

And BTW, if dolphins are so damn smart, how come they always get caught in the nets, huh? ;-p

Caroylnn: I've heard about the Final Fantasy movie. Some folks are saying it's gonna be huge, making groundbreaking changes to animation. Don't know until I see it though.

Coyote: "Quoth the Raven, Nevermore." That guy's cool, but he was much better in the lesser known federation ECW (that's "Extreme Championship Wrestling" to you non-rednecks out there). At least in ECW he got to shed a little blood!

Sorow: "A Tale of Two Cities" is a GREAT novel! Ah, Sydney Carton, you're the man!

Desire: Well, we're all genetically programmed since birth to like that which is attractive, and that's constantly enforced during our life. Still, I agree, a person is beautiful not just because of their physical appearance, but because of their inner self. I known a few girls that I'd die to go out on a date with lookswise, but personality wise.....pit bulls, my friend. Thankfully, I'm blessed with a great little lady who's lovely both on the outside and in. :)
Jim Carrey, to his son in "Liar, Liar."
Son: "My teacher said real beauty lies on the inside."
Jim: "Oh, that's just something ugly people say."

Pinky & The Brain/Pokemon commercial: Has anyone seen this? LOL! ROTFLMAO!!!
Ash, staring at Pinky and the Brain: "Gee, what kind of Pokemon are those?"
Pinky: "But Brain, I don't want to be a Pokemon!"
Brain: "Quiet, Pinky! Once we capture all of them, we can rule the world!"

Avengers: Hot on the tale of my Spider-man post, It looks like the folks at Marvel are making an "Avengers" 'toon show. And guess what? It looks like it SUCKS worse than the new Spidey show. Click on my name to check it out.
Sevarius Jr. - [bpoole@mailexcite.com]
Saturday, February 27, 1999 11:27:18 PM
IP: 207-172-35-214.s214.tnt9.brd.erols.com

Hmm, since I'm official room DJ now, guess I gotta say this by itself. Um, any requests? I'll do my best to locate anything asked for, but no promises.
Robby
Saturday, February 27, 1999 10:51:32 PM
IP: spider-wm064.proxy.aol.com

Surprisingly, I don't really have anything to say. Ummm...I started reading "A Tale of Two Cities" this weekend for school and went to rehearsal, but that's about it. I hope everyone is having a great weekend and I personally cannot wait until the new ep. Sweet dreams everyone...if you ever sleep :)
SOROW
Saturday, February 27, 1999 10:49:45 PM
IP: usr1-2-dialup9.mix1.irving.cw.net

Character Names> http://www.fairacre.demon.co.uk/index.htm
I remember Kathy mentioning this site before as far as finding names. It's impressive, have names and their meanings from around the world.

Garg or Human> I prefer being a dragon. Best of all possible worlds. Get to fly. Hang out in the day time. Though I don't go in for that virgin sacrifices. That's propaganda perpetuated by the Dragonslaying elitists and the Illuminati. (Sorry, conspiracy tangent) But the best thing about being a dragon is I get to be in that nebulous grey area. There's always good and evil, but a dragon doesn't necessarily fall into either one. That and you can also char-broiler anyone who gets in your face. Always a plus.
Bon Weekend
Taleweaver - [taleweaver@usa.net]
Saturday, February 27, 1999 09:37:47 PM
IP: hal5000.engineering.csupomona.edu

Mandi Ohlin> Yes ACE OF BASE has a new allbum out and their new CD is titled "CRUEL SUMMER."

About the upcoming episode of Buffy I do not know when that episode episode will be airing.

Lawrence Stone - [st1@bright.net]
Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S.A.
Saturday, February 27, 1999 08:50:55 PM
IP: chil-ras3-1-cs-4.dial.bright.net

**RP!!**

**The screen lights up to reveal ... Coyote, Ravyn and party, with camp set up beside a long, desolate freeway in the middle of New Mexico. Charlotte has her top up, as everyone sits around a campfire in the night.**

Who wants the first watch?

**Everyone takes a step ... backwards.**

Oh-kay ... guess that means I take the first watch. Get some rest, I'll get the next watch up in about a couple of hours.

<"All right.">

**Jason leads Jimmie, Susie and Lucy, and Charlie away from the fire and toward the tent set up by the tank. Buick jumps into the Commander's Seat of the tank and settles into the seat itself. Coyote pulls out his laptop and starts tapping away at his Web browser again. At that moment, Ravyn returns to the campsite.**

<"Where'd everyone go?">

**looks up** Went to bed, actually. You're more than welcome to, yourself, I've taken the first watch.

**Ravyn sits down next to Coyote.** <"I'll watch with ya.">

Really, you don't have to ...

<"But I want to. No reason why you should be all by your lonesome out here, it's a cold night.">

**Ravyn slides closer to Coyote's side.**

**PAUSE RP!!**

New fic: It's up. Click on my name link, even if "You're Not Cleared For That."

GargCode: Composed one for myself ... it's now proudly displayed on my Website. Go nearly to the bottom of my main page (the Castle) to view it.

jILLybEAn: Y'know, there's a theatrical tradition involving "Death of a Salesman" involving the house lights. The tradition is that the house lights stay down for a minute after the final curtain before coming up ... the reason being to allow the men in the audience to dry their eyes and save their dignities.
Of course, it's totally archaic in this day and age of men comfortable with their emotions ... but it's been done that way for *decades.*

Starsinger: Nope, that would be Tina Majorino, she played the President's daughter in "ID4."

Mary Flanders: Yeesh ... now *that* is truly evil. Those people are sick, twisted, and should be hog-tied and forced to endure the same thing they put that poor man through. That's horrible.

Deuce: **applauds** I whole-heartedly agree with your sentiments on beauty. **takes the opportunity to give a cyber-bouquet t Ravyn. (happy, Robby? :)**

**RESUME RP!!**

**Coyote sets down the computer, checking his pistol's magazine.**

<"Not much on the Web tonight?">

Nope ... still haven't found anything on Jimmie's abduction. As much as it pains me, I'm starting to think you're right and that his folks did sell him.

<"That's so sad ...">

Yeah. It is. Which might mean we're just going into a rattler's den for naught. **sighs** I just hope ... that Jimmie can find a family that will love him ... just the way he is.

**Coyote becomes a bit emotional ... physical shortcomings being a soft spot for him, knowing what it's like to be an outcast for the way he looks. Ravyn pulls him into a hug as the fire flickers on and the screen winks off.**
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Saturday, February 27, 1999 08:45:30 PM
IP: 207.91.254.52

No RP, no Blaisism. I'm tapped out. Time to play catch-up again...really, REALLY long post to come...

CR Colors and pics> I just picked Yellow because it was easy to see (unlike the really dark burgundy that I have to highlight the text to read without getting a headache! Please stick with pink, Jillybean (I can read it!) :)

Heather> That pic of you and Robby is so adorable!

**REAL MINOR TGS SPOILERS**

Brooklyn and Sata> I've got to agree with Deuce's rant on that subject. I don't think "Sun and the Serpent" made Brooklyn and Sata's relationship questionable. If you recall Brooklyn's dream with him being pulled along by the river (i.e. the Timestream) and having to pass on Maggie, Corrinne and Meryt, he ended up with Sata because out of those he's fallen for, she's the only one who's been willing to leave her home to Timedance along with him. He really can't just settle down and ditch the Gate, so Sata alone has accepted that and put Brooklyn above any desire to remain with her home, with what's familiar. And yes, she has had a positive influence on him.

As for Brooklyn being selfish--well, he obviously met Meryt in his travels before Sata, and he learned from that experience that he can't give up the Gate if he wants to, that history is immutable and he's pretty much stuck as the Timedancer. So when "The Promise" rolled around, he knew that he couldn't stay in Ishimura with her. Everything that happened to him with Meryt before pretty much hammered that home for Brooklyn. But he didn't selfishly push Sata into coming with him--far from it. I quote from the episode:

His look broke her heart. "I love you too much to take away all the things that are precious to you - your clan, the village, all of Ishimura - I can't take this away from you again. I will not break your vow."

Selfish? Umm...no. We haven't yet seen a situation where Brooklyn has to and does sacrifice something that major for Sata.

I think the real reason why people have questioned their romance is because we really did NOT get to see it grow over the course of several episodes before they actually got married. We only got three episodes: "Buccaneer," "Fleeting Encounters," and "Daylight." While "Fleeting Encounters" was supposed to give the impression of a long timespan and a lot of Timedancing together, it still seemed sort of abrupt when we hit "The Promise." I wish that episode could have been put off in favor of more episodes watching their relationship develop, even if it meant waiting for Season 2. (Of course, then "Sun and Serpent" wouldn't have been the opener, and if it was, Brook would have had a lot more trouble deciding between Meryt and Sata, yada yada yada. Hindsight is so much fun, isn't it?)

**notices that several Season 1 TGS staffers have been giving her LOOKs** Well, okay, I wasn't there, but that's just the impression I got!

**END MINOR SPOILERS**

Lawrence> First off: Ace of Base has a third album out? You've got to be kidding me! I thought they broke up!

And about the Buffy episode plugs--I really wish you wouldn't just come out and tell us about next week's episode as if you're the only one who knows. Usually, we find out in the "Next Week" promo after new episodes. In this case, however, the WB affiliate in my area did *not* show a next week promo after "Doppelgangland" aired. (Hey, I'm not kidding about the title--I got it from the Transcript archive off of Slayerfanfic.com.)

So as far as "Enemies" is concerned, thank you. I appreciate the info since it wasn't presented to me before. Please don't take my earlier comment badly--that was just a little thing that's been bugging me for a while now.

Jewel> I got the joke right off, if that makes any difference. Also going to an all-girls school (residentially, anyway) kind of helps. :) The Hood shirt I have that I like ("Sex kills" is better) says: "We don't go to a girls' college without men...we go to a women's college without boys." *snerk*

I hope you feel better, and I did read part four of "Apokalypsis." Not a lot of action, but wow, was it ever emotionally effective. I loved the character development, especially Demona's thoughts on Christine.

**WARNING! MINOR RANT!**

*sigh* I too wish I went to Bryn Mawr. Hood has a few interesting traditions, but the campus body has just gotten a lot more apathetic and preppie. Would it kill some of these people to at least check out Women's Leadership Day for five minutes and show their support? I wasn't involved, I was sick, but I showed up to support the organizers (including one friend who was driving herself crazy over it) and listened to the keynote speaker before having to stumble back to bed. It was a Saturday, nothing else was going on, the healthy folks on campus who didn't show had no excuse.

Sorry. No one seems to care here. Although of course everyone's going to pitch in for Spring Parties Weekend...yeesh...

**RANT ENDS**

Turning into a Gargoyle> Realistically, no, I wouldn't. I'd miss the sun way too much, and even a deal like Demona's would be out. Having a lot of friends who are Gargoyles, Fey, whatever would be nice.

Doug> So it *is* going to be Matt? All right! That I can't wait to see. Sorry about classes on your birthday.

Contact lenses> I used to have a cosmetic contact to cover up my bad left eye (I have a keyhole pupil in my left eye, so I'm legally blind in that one) and it worked pretty well, but when I got to college I forgot to wear it as often as I used to, and it dried up. :) The contact never really bothered me, but that eye's not so sensitive anyway. My bad eye doesn't concern me as much as it used to; I'm not so self-conscious about it, and all it keeps me from doing is: get a pilot's license, see 3-D movies, change lanes without turning my head all the way around to see in my blind spot, and drive a car without two outside mirrors. (Can I drive? Yes. Do I drive that often? No.)

Fleur> I read "Welcome to the Wastelands"--and now I have to go read "New Beginnings" since I didn't really understand what was going on! Oops. But confusion notwithstanding, I liked what I read.

Kitania> 8mm was good? Hm, the trailer didn't look that great...I'll have to add that to my list of flicks to see at the $2 theatre over breaks.

SOROW> And "Blast From the Past" is another one. :) Alicia Silverstone actually looks appealing in that one, I like Brendan Fraser, and having Dave Foley in a bit part caps it off for me. (Chris Walken plays Fraser's dad in that, right?)

And to bring my ramblings back to Gargoyles...the checking account discontinuity is straightened out. I mailed my registration for G99 Friday morning, so it's now official. Having said that, is there ANYONE here going to the Gathering who would be flying from Baltimore/Washington Intl. Airport? And if so, to pacify Mom, would you mind setting it up so that we go on the same flight and she doesn't have a heart attack worrying?

Last note: Yep, Bob Kiwi is still linked--this time directly to the Comic Universe page. I confessed what I've been doing to Jen, and she told me to plug gratuitously because she's hit a block on the script. In a really bad place to run out of ideas. She wants ideas, so she told me to keep on plugging.

And I'm done. I probably should have used this time to write that stupid paper due Monday, but this was more fun. :)
Mandi Ohlin - [weird_web@hotmail.com]
Saturday, February 27, 1999 08:33:09 PM
IP: 144.175.17.229

Well, the CD store actually let me return the New Radicals CD! I'm now listening to "Perfect", which I think describes the whole CD. Even my sister (Ms. Hanson-BSB-Sky) likes it! [Mikey likes it! And he hates EVERYTHING!]

Wilek> ["Only one thing more is needed: some mention of 'insanity as the path to happiness'."] Oh, good one. I'll add that.

Kaioto> Excellent point, which is why I hate hard pornography (nude scenes in movies are different, sometimes). One thing I've noticed is that a person's physical appearance is nothing like their inner self, and that beauty really IS in the eye of the beholder. Last year, I went out with a girl that "society" would view as plain, or unattractive. As I got to know her better, I found her to be quite lovely. When I say an actress is "cute", I basically mean that she looks good; God has given her the gift of beauty. I know nothing of her true self, and it's a toss-up to whether or not I'd even like her as a person.

To make a long story short: I view physical appearance and "inner self-ness" (for lack of a better term) separately.

Kitainia> I'm SURE it's good for your mental health; I was talking about the physical side, though. *wicked grin*

Mary Flanders> Those are some sick bastards. I hope they rot in hell.

Hercules: I remember seeing that movie at an all-night church party. As a result, my memories are blurry and tinged with whipped cream. :-P

** leaves, maiming DC on the way out. I still can't get into my e-mail. **
Deuce - [deuce@softhome.net]
City of Champions, Alberta, Canada
Saturday, February 27, 1999 07:45:38 PM
IP: ppp165.connect.ab.ca

The Disney Channel is showing Hercules tonight at eight mountain time.

Starsinger
Theresa - [Starsinger@Webtv.net]
Saturday, February 27, 1999 07:20:41 PM
IP: proxy-343.public.rwc.webtv.net

Sorry, Hit the enter key too soon

Gabriel>Your welcome, I was happy to help help you out

I got very sick with the flu(I had a fever and a cold) on Monday and have been recovering for most of the week. Unfortunately, I am currently in what I like to call the "rotting booger" stage of recovery where it smells like something crawled up my nose and died.
Peter - [peter_bijl@hotmail.com]
Kamloops, BC, Canada
Saturday, February 27, 1999 06:05:31 PM
IP: abb-53-0250.direct.ca

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Peter - [peter_bijl@hotmail.com]
Saturday, February 27, 1999 05:59:40 PM
IP: abb-53-0250.direct.ca

Hi you all,
Thought the first should be a very warm "thank you" and a enormous hug to Peter Bijl because he e-mailed me the last part of sun and serpent. You can't imagine how happy I was. Thank you very much

ZATH/ DEUCE: Two more fantastic poems. As i think Zaths was more poetical, Deuces realy fits to true life, but I love them both.

AGE: I am a 17 old female with blonde hair and green eyes and next year I am going to study biology.

NAMING CHARAKTERS: This is sometimes a problem for me because I want a special name which fits to the person, but more often i take names from old legends and tales, e.g. Gabriel after the archangel

MALIBU: Nice pic, but you know they should be happy in this moment so why these tears?

LOOK LIKE A GARG: Well, this is one of my main wishes, because they are so strong and just, althought I fear the hight so I think I wouldn' t fly to often. I would be a light-blue female with silvery hair and a near-human shape and perhaps some splittered wings. Mm... I like the imagine. Perhaps I am going to draw it.

JASON/ BRIAN: Welcome and as the others said stay if you want to have a lot of fun.

KYRYN: I think to read a lot of books is one of the few ways to reach wisdom and as for the number I think I have nearly the same (Xanth too).

SONGS: Does anyone knows Blackmores Night? Well, they performed a song I think it realy fits to TD. Its called "The clock ticks on" and it goes like this:

Sing the song of land from far away
other times and another place
the wind can carry us all away from here
charmed in her embrace...

HEATHER AND ROBBY: WOW, thats a great pic of you by Demona. You make a fine couple.

*****SPOILER/COMMENT SUN AND SERPENT4*******
Now, this was realy surprising. Kenshu is Harthot and they are still alive as Meryt and the dragons. This means only one thing: There has to be another, future tense part of it. But it was a great story and i can't wait to see all again (Mm... perhaps without Isfet).
*****END*************

If someone wants he can kill Mr.DC for me, twice times. This is now the second time i write this. And I think these 90% are his work too. So please feel to do it, very painful if possible.

ARIS: I think there was a little mistake in you thoughts. Brooklyn and Meryt become only so close in this short time because Brook remembered her the first time he met her. And there she was only gargoyle around. And as the others said Sata was the true love of him.

DEUCE: Thanks for the intro. Now i know a little bit more about this fabulous place I like very much.

SJ: I agree with you about humans. They are destroyers and warmakers and murder and all in all not very lovely but I think especialy as we are humans we have to come along with it and there are a few good people too.

ROBBY: You like to do this eh? Only give them a small piece and look what happen. Sometimes you realy outbid your evil twin.

Well, this was a very long post today, althought I don' t want to outbid Traveler in the running contest.
So I say CIAO



Gabriel
Saturday, February 27, 1999 05:17:16 PM
IP: ics3f.l.srv.t-online.de

Kenny I mean. He was killed by Duncan alright
James Birdsong - [LennexMacDuff@hotmail.com]
San Diego, CA, USA
Saturday, February 27, 1999 04:00:46 PM
IP: dt043nd9.san.rr.com

Kitinia the immortal from Hilander show is dead. I saw the episode
James Birdsong - [LennexMacDuff@hotmail.com]
San Diego, CA, USA
Saturday, February 27, 1999 04:00:04 PM
IP: dt043nd9.san.rr.com

I thank everyone for their praise. It makes me blush (A neat trick when you have blue scales) But I also want to share the praise with Aaron Ziegler and Beth Mahsburn my editors, Amber who did all the illustrations and Pat Toman, whose head of the entire endeavor. They put as much effort in to this as I. My name maybe on the credits, but they were the behind the scenes folks who made it great. Thanks for a great job guys.
Taleweaver - [taleweaver@usa.net]
Saturday, February 27, 1999 03:21:48 PM
IP: hal5000.engineering.csupomona.edu

Hello. Oh boy, I think this will be a long post.

Fleur> Comments on your story will be included in the email... whenever I get around to answering it sometime today. *sheepish grin*

Doug> I'll email you my comments too.

Carolynn> Oops... uh, I don't know Spanish. Sorry I gave you the impression I did. I just know English and Chinese (which I can only understand, and not speak), and I took a couple of years of high school Latin (not that I actually remember much of it). English is the only language I am fluent in. Hope I cleared that up. *embarrassed*

Jewel> I understood the joke. :-) BTW, I hope you feel better soon. Being sick is no fun when you've got classes to go to and study for, I know.

Argent> Ick, the teeth thing isn't so great either... good luck. I've had four premolars (for my braces; I have big teeth, I guess), a baby tooth (it was stubborn), and four wisdom teeth pulled out. I went under for the wisdom teeth - the only time I've been actually unconscious. When I got out, my uncle told me I looked drunk. *grin*

jILLybEAn> That Socrates quote is one of my favorites!

Selanit> I agree with your rant. The sanctions aren't working because Saddam Hussein obviously doesn't care about what happens to the people of Iraq. Why make them suffer even more? It has been in place for years already, and nothing has happened. I don't think it is right, but I also have to ask if there are any other feasible alternatives.

Kaioto> About your "objects of desire" rant: Well-said, and I agree with you. I wish more people felt that way. I probably sound hypocritical since I did post that list of attractive males, but I didn't mean that they were my ideals and that any guys I date _have_ to look like that; they are just actors I think are attractive.
I see you've been waxing poetic again *smiles*... I think the verses are fitting, and very nice.

Daria: I still haven't seen it, but friends say I am like her. I can be sarcastic and deadpan, but I find those are difficult to communicate through a computer. :-)

Contact lenses: Ick, I had those for a very brief period of time, and I didn't like them. My eyes were constantly being irritated by something, and I found the upkeep tedious. Now I just wear my glasses (even though I don't like the way I look with them), but my vision isn't so bad that I can't see anything without them. So, I won't go back to contacts until my eyesight gets so bad I can't see anything.

If I could be a Gargoyle: Well, that would depend on the situation, so I really don't know. Or maybe I just have crummy decision-making skills. *grin*

RP's: I was reading the ones for this week, and I'd like to tell the people doing RP's that you are all doing a great job. Lots of plot developments.

Whew. I'm almost afraid to see how long this post is! Bye!
Blue Caeru
Saturday, February 27, 1999 02:15:55 PM
IP: ppp-10-ts28.nerdc.ufl.edu

I came apon this yesterday at dinner in the newspaper. It's so sad.

TORTURE OF RETARDED MAN SHOCK TOWN
KEANSBURG, N.J.- They came looking for him at McDonald's, just before he got off work. They invited him to come to a party, where he could meet a pretty girl.
Clutching the stuffed whale he carried with him everywhere, the 23-year-old retarded man eagerly followed, happy to be included in a circle of people he wanted to call his freinds.
It was all a cruel trick, authorities say. At least 14 people were waiting for him at Keansburg apartment. As he walked in the door, they grabbed him in a chokehold,cut off his McDonald's tie ans ripped his beloved toy to shreds.
Prosecutors allege Eric Krochmaluk's attackers then taped him to a lawn chair and tossed lighted cigarettes into his mouth-and kept on torturing him gor three hours.
A week after nine men and women were charged in the attack, people in this blue collar Jersey Shore town speak of the aimlessness of it's young people, underage drinkers who raise havoc in a wooded area called "The Pit," and the lack of recreational opportunities for young adults.
But no one can fathom the rage and cruelty that led to this.
"I just don't thik that they know what to do with themselves and they don't care what they do," 69-year-ol Ellen Park said as she bough lottery tickets at a convenience store. "I'm sure you can find better things to do than go around torturing people."
The Jan. 30 attack is drawing comparisons to the 1989 gang rape in Glen Ridge of a retarded teenager by popular atheletes who sewually assaulted her with a broomstick and basebal bat.
"There are people out there that prey on the vunlerable," said Tom Baffuto, director of the Arc of New Jersey, an advocacy group for mentallyhandicapped. "This is the dark side of society."
Although Krochmaluk graduated from vocational-technical school with honors, family members describe him as having the emotional and mental capacity of a 15-year-old. He is deaf in one ear and has a heart murmur.
But he enjoys the same heavy-metal music as his alleged attackers, some of whom he knew from his Middletown High School days, and he attended some of their parties. One suspect, 22-year-old Marmi Solomon, is a former girlfreind, Monmouth County prosecutors say.
The young man may have offended the tough, tight-knit group by spilling a drink on someone at a New Year's Eve party.
Two weeks later, authorities contend, some of the suspects grabbed him at another party and forced him to wear a bra. Krochmaluk called his father, who persuaded them to let his son go. No one called the polive.

How could someone do something like that!?! The scary thing for me is that I used to live in Middletown. If I had stayed there, the nightmare of my grammar school days that I had here in California would have been three times as terrible and four time as long. Right now I feel like taking a plane back East and giving that poor man a brand-new stuffed whale. Poor guy!
Mary Flanders
Saturday, February 27, 1999 01:33:03 PM
IP: ramp-1-42.ucdavis.edu

**RP STUFF**

Gatling Grizzly has shot out all the Onslaught's tires, forcing the Ravens to get out of it in order to fight him. The rest of the evil Metal Gear team (except Vapor Serpent, who was just killed by Miriam)- Uzi Caracal, Storm Eagle, Orca Doppelganger, and Shootist Tarantula, are waiting for them. Orca starts shapechanging to impersonate the Ravens, and using the abilities of each one in turn. Grizzly continues to blast away, Caracal and Tarantula joins him. Storm Eagle rains bolts of magic down on the party, and they try desperately to dodge. Elena floats up with fay power and challenges Storm Eagle to a wizards' duel. The evil witch accepts, and they begin one. Kitainia is meanwhile trying to blow away Grizzly while dodging his shots, and accidentally runs into one of Tarantula's snare-traps. Thinking she's down for now, the Metal Gear team turns their attention to the others. While Kitainia is escaping the trap, she posts in the CR.

**PAUSE RP**

Immortal Kenny: Geez, first Steve tells me he's alive and we're ready to go with it. Now James says he's dead. I wonder who's right about things.

**BEGIN SPOILERS FOR EIGHT DAYS A WEEK AND 8mm**

8 Days a Week: This movie had its moments. It had a few funny scenes (just about all the sex humor was just plain sick, though, so be ready), and a somewhat interesting storyline. Most of the characters were cliched, but at least the three main ones were developed. And Guiseppe was a laugh riot, I liked him. As for Keri Russell, her main role in this film was to be an object of attraction, and that she did well. I think they should have given her more character development, but that's only my opinion. I give the flick two stars.

Oh, and for guys like Deuce who want to see this for Keri Russell- You never see her naked. But there is one scene with her in a wet T-shirt, several with her scantily clad, two with her in bra and panties, and for two seconds at the end you can catch a glimpse of her breasts. I guess that should entice you, right? BTW, she's built like Gwyneth, so be prepared. <smiles evilly>

8mm: This was a REALLY good movie. Nicolas Cage turns in yet another stellar preformance, and I loved the plot. First he's in it for the money, then at the end he's in it because he cares. You can also feel the emotion streaming off the characters all throughout, and that's a good thing. The suspense at the end almost killed me, and the action there was also excellent. There is also a well-researched if occasionally disgusting portrayal of the porn industry in the movie, and Joaquin Phoenix has a hilarious role as the man on the inside of it. Definitely a better fic than Schumacher's Batman films, I give it four stars.

**SPOILERS ARE OVER**

Taleweaver: Thanks for answering my question on dragons.

Be a Garg?: I already am one in RP. A half-garg anyway. With Wolverine's healing factor and retractable talons. Check Coyote's site for a pic. I hope this answers the question.

Deuce: Sex can be good for your health? Oh yeah, you're right about that. Several doctor friends of mine have confirmed it's good exercise. And Doug and I know all too well how mental-health enhancing it can be <snicker>.

Aris: I too disagree with you about Brooklyn and Sata. Read "Daylight" and "The Promise-" those eps clearly show how much Sata loves Brooklyn and vice versa. I also agree with what Deuce said about this.

Heather and Robby: Very cool pic of you both. Now I know what a lucky girl Heather is (and again that Robby is also a lucky man to have such a beautiful girlfriend). I agree with Robby that Heather is real cute when she's excited, but then most girls are.

SJ: No, I don't mind it at all. Doug did of course ask me before he posted them. :)

Taleweaver: I also give you my congrats on writing such good episodes as the four parts of Sun and Serpent.

Death of a Salesman: I agree that this was a very sad movie. And a very good one.

Kylynna: Thanks. Same here. :)

That's all for now, later.

**RP AGAIN**

Kitainia gets out of the trap and then sneaks up behind Tarantula and shoots her in the back. She falls dead. At the same instant Grizzly topples, full of shots from Mist, Fleur, Doug, Gubio, and Jammer. Orca is next, ran through by Stephanie even as he tries to shapeshift again. Then Caracal is blown away by Boris and hacked in half by Jaden, both of whom are sick of him dancing around and toying with them. Elena drives Storm Eagle off with waves of magical energy, the evil witch swears she'll be back before she teleports away. The Ravens all nod at each other, heal their wounds, and begin repairing the Onslaught, their latest fight at an end. Meanwhile, Tracker (who's been observing the battle from a nearby ridge) lowers his binoculars and nods at some more of Zale's men, telling them to block the valley exit. It looks like the Ravens aren't out of the woods yet.

**FOR NOW, RP IS OVER**
Kitainia - [dierdre34@yahoo.com]
Saturday, February 27, 1999 10:00:43 AM
IP: dal-qbu-zow-vty43.as.wcom.net

Sorry Princess Estra but still you gonna admit the Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy quote Servirs Jr. put up makes one thing jes?
James Birdsong - [LennexMacDuff@hotmail.com]
San Diego, CA, USA
Saturday, February 27, 1999 09:29:32 AM
IP: dt043nd9.san.rr.com

Isn't our pal Willow playing Alice in Alice in Wonderland on NBC Sunday??

Starsinger
Theresa - [Starsinger@Webtv.net]
Saturday, February 27, 1999 04:19:43 AM
IP: proxy-513.public.rwc.webtv.net

We won ! Gargoyles 55% and ( I forgot) 51%.
This week is Doug and Animantics. Doug watcher over here !

**leaves listening to Tupac's "Changes" **
Heather - [kheetor84@aol.com]
Saturday, February 27, 1999 03:14:21 AM
IP: 167-26-115.ipt.aol.com

Deuce: Splendid job with the introduction, my friend.

Wilek: It does my heart much good to here someone else admit that they don't go around sizing people like cuts of meat. Sure, I appreciate beauty, but I have a strict control over my behavior, screw hormones. I, however, am not a Vulcan. I don't let my intellect do the overriding, I listen to my soul.

**Rant Warning, Rant Warning ***
Sure, I can understand and have experienced the simple observation that someone is 'cute' or just plain beautiful and attractive. I accuse no one here of acting poorly. However, I want to take a moment to look at the way the thing is typically handled in our Society. My soul tells me that everyone has an intrinsic worth that makes them too precious to treat as anything less than a gift. Only the most nauseatingly violations of the rights of others warrants any justified actions taking away the dignity of another human being. Treating people as objects of sexual desire instead of people is disgusting. I find my own relationships are difficult because of my sense of propriety, but I am very comfortable with getting to know a person based on common interests and compatibility. I like people I can talk to, not ogle. I guess perhaps I'm the hopeless romantic, but I look for a true soul-mate, mayhaps even True Love. Maybe that won't happen, but I will never concede to the disgusting and demeaning trends of Societarial Ethics and Trends that I see in the media and about me IRL. I have higher standards for myself, perhaps, but I - more importantly - hold a higher intrinsic value to human beings than Society does. If I were in less polite company I might be incline to say what I feel modern Society can do with itself … I have faith is Humanity.

**END RANT**

Heather: An absolutely lovely picture.

Becoming a Gargoyle: It might be interesting if it came with all the skills and instincts. Someone turned by human avatar into a gargoyle in RP once … it really messed me up. I couldn't sit in my favorite chair. I broke my bed. I turned into stone all day. It really threw off my life. Upon reflection, I noticed that a lot of my influence in the world around me for the better was derived on the way I lived my life. Having those social functions disrupted like that really caused a detriment which exceeded the bonuses of height and strength and even have a tail. Still, the memory of gliding … sigh … wings are possibly the one thing I covet most … Earthly tomb without a key/ Chained down by necessity/ Crawling out and one knee/ Take the air and seek to flee/ On Eagles wings - I might be free …

About the world an humanity not measuring up:

If ever I could reach out my hand/
And take the tapestry of this land/
And hold reality by the seems/
I'd weave it freely, to your dreams.

Traveler: Instead, I've got to slug it out. Sigh. Such is life, I suppose. I'll try to lead by example, do the right thing whenever it comes across my Path. I have lofty goals, I suppose. As for getting the Pope a glass of water, that is the problem we often have with leadership. I'd get you water if you couldn't conveniently get it yourself. I'm willing to bet his Holiness would as well if he were the optimal water boy in the situation. Anyway, I have an axiom that fits my belief of the fundamental principles of a true Catholic (universal in the actual meaning of the word) community: Not 'God helps those who help themselves' but 'God helps those who help each other.'

Kaioto - [kaioto@yahoo.com]
Boston, MA, USA
Saturday, February 27, 1999 02:22:22 AM
IP: 141.133.134.81

Timedancer- Gonna be wierd with Brooklyn and Sata not being in Egypt next week huh? Well, next week they return to a place we've seen before...

Demona May's Art- I love the piece she did of me and Heather, but then, I'm a little biased in the matter... But everything else she does is real good too. If you wanna contact Demona May for a commission, just send e-mail to

Realdemona@yahoo.com

Her turnaround time is pretty fast, but she doesn't have consistent computer access, and her scanner access is even more infrequent. So her reply may not be speedy for those reasons.

Gen-X movie... I taped that when it came on... And taped over it the next day. That movie was horrible!

Coyote and Ravyn- You two make almost as good a couple as me and Heather. Hope things work out for the two of ya.
Robby
Saturday, February 27, 1999 01:59:19 AM
IP: spider-th053.proxy.aol.com

**RP! YES, MORE RP! DEAL WITH IT.**

[Miriam: "Bitch, am I?!" She dodges Vapor Serpent's rifle and Stinger missle shots long enough to shoot him once in each arm, making him drop his weapons. A shot to one leg, ane he falls to the floor. Miriam stands over him and points her gun at his forehead. "If you wanted to be a woman--" She pulls one of her throwing knives--"you had but to ask." Wilek wisely decides to look away. Finally giving up on the bomb, he calls a Dark Star security team to come and try to disarm or dispose of it. Wilek: "Uh, Miriam? I'm going up to the bridge and see what's happening on the rest of the station; a team will be by to get rid of this bomb soon. I guess you have Serpent under control?" Miriam <having to raise her voice over Serpent screaming>: "You assume correctly, Mr. Nereus." Wilek: <shudders>]

**PAUSE RP!**

Hm, couldn't help but notice my conspicuous absence from the various cute guy lists the girls are posting...just kidding! :D

As for cute girls...for some reason, I can't get my mind to work like that. My hormones have been totally subjugated by my intellect for so long that I just can't bring myself to think of anyone in that way.

<<Would you become a gargoyle if given the chance?>> I *am* a garg, but...if I were human, then YOU BET. Or better, a mutate (no stone sleep and a rather attractive coat of fur). ^_^

Deuce> <<Tell your brother to get Windows 98. DOS games that gave Windows 3.1 a nervous breakdown run like the wind under Win98.>> Man, did you get *that* right. I can play The 11th Hour and ZSNES in Win98 without much trouble. Those things even give DOS some problems once in a while. <<Here's a hint, scumball: about as many pieces of mail as you'll be in.>> Great line. :) <<'Any prosecutor who enjoys getting a death penalty has just got something wrong'>> That rather depends on the defendant. This John William King idiot...I'd hack him to bits with a dull machete and laugh while I was doing it. BTW, EXCELLENT CR intro. Only one thing more is needed: some mention of 'insanity as the path to happiness'. :P <j/k>

Character Names> For some reason I've had the name 'Joshua Blackstone' running around in my head for a while; perhaps I've played 'Blackstone Chronicles' a bit too much. (Perhaps more ominously...the name 'Trannon Nereus' has also been in my head for a while, along with a character image. I have no memory whatsoever of ever actually creating him; I was just rooting about in my mind one night and found him milling around. O_o)

Heather> Tell Demona May that SHE IS DA BOMB! (And explain, if she doesn't know what this means, that it's a Very Good Thing © . ^_^ ) And you and Robby are very kewl looking. :)

Stephen> LOVED your MDC death. It seems vaguely familiar; is it from a movie or something?

Kylynna> Another satisfied customer! <g>

**RESUME RP!**

[On the bridge, SJ, under the misapprehension that the team is really the evil clones, opens fire on them with a flamethrower. Anoth psionically shields them, then telekinetically wrenches the thrower from SJ's grasp and puts it on a very high ledge. Jake: "SJ, what the <censored> do you think you're doing?! We're the good guys!" SJ: "How do I know that?" Anoth: "First of all, our clones were powerful but far less intelligent than we are. I'm amazed they even had a grasp of the English language. Besides, that sorcerer clone of Wilek's has two...vampire eagles, did he call them? <gestures toward where DMW and his birds are for some reason watching WF2's corpse> His impostor did not." As the rest of the team attempts to convince SJ of their veracity, DMW watches with interest as WF2's corpse...comes to life. Now a very pale blue with white hair and more fearsome fangs than even a gargoyle should have, WF2 has become...Vampire Wilek. VW <looks at DMW>: "How may I serve you, my master?..."]

**END RP!**
Wilek Nereus
Saturday, February 27, 1999 12:49:14 AM
IP: tnt-1-56-56k.portsmouth.zoomnet.net

Sigh, the good old TGS comment room, I love this place 'ya know (flicks tail distianfully at memory of extremly confusing star treck chat) much more room to be a garg and be pround of one's extremly limited knowlege of all outside the gargoyle related pages so often frequented. Its just much more comfortable (translation=here i can talk about having a tail wings and varius other garg anatomy difrenses and growl and roar and stuff and instead of thinking I've comepletly lost it, you understand and reply in kind) I love this place and you guys are the greatest!!!!!!!
Kylynna - [ressler@emeraldnet.net]
Friday, February 26, 1999 11:18:30 PM
IP: ppp-206-191-150-124.emeraldnet.net

I just saw "Blast from the Past" and if you haven't seen it, please do. It was very charming and I thought the whole perfect guy theme was cute. I had to go to dress rehearsal today for 5 hours so I'm not going to say much. But as far as this being a gargoyle stuff goes, I would just wish to be one no matter what.
SOROW
Friday, February 26, 1999 11:18:01 PM
IP: usr2-1-dialup12.mix1.irving.cw.net

Carolynn Marie> ["...funny what you come up with late at night..."] That's when I come up with every good idea I've ever had: at night, in bed, when I should be sleeping.

Humans> "The humans thought they were superior to the dolphins because they had developed guns, wars, and New York City. The dolphins thought they were superior for exactly the same reasons." — Rough quote from Douglas Adams

Anybody here seen the movie "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" This reinforces my belief in Leonardo DiCappucino's acting abilities, especially after seeing "Titanic". One thing, though: this was the first time I saw the movie, and the first time I ever saw Juliette Lewis (to my knowledge). She played the character of Becky. I saw her and thought three things:

a) She's REALLY cute;
b) She looks EXACTLY like I imagined my character of Becky in my story;
c) Somebody's been reading my mind again.

Same name, same look, same attitude.... Help me....

** leaves, twitching oddly **
Deuce - [deuce@softhome.net]
City of Champions, Alberta, Canada
Friday, February 26, 1999 11:11:05 PM
IP: pppa107.connect.ab.ca

Hey all!!

I saw the Angela pic was being used by 2 or 3 people, so I decided to ditch the pic and go with just text. And the color pink is so neglected these days, so I'm giving it a chance.

** TIMEDANCER COMMENTS/SPOILERS **

Aaaah, it all makes perfect sense now! (Sort of. Heh! I may have to read again.) Harthoth WAS Khensu!! Jeez, that musta been a slap in the face to poor Brooklyn when he found out. Brooklyn's mixed feelings about him are definitely justified.. And we'll most likely see even more of Apep, Harthoth and Isfet, maybe even they'll be involved in the Unseelie War (I can only hope..). Anyway, this whole episode, all four parts, was wonderful, and masterfully written. Bravo!!!

It's actually going to be weird, next week, Brooklyn and Sata NOT being in Egypt, after these four weeks. But I'm excited for more Timedancing. <g>

** END SPOILERS/COMMENTS FOR TIMEDANCER **

Deuce> (re: New Radicals) Ugh. I don't even like that "You Get What You Give" song all that much. (I'm sorry, but Courtney Love alone could kick that guy's sorry a$$. But Courtney Love AND Marilyn Manson could do some serious damage... <EG>)
But Adore is a beautiful album. I highly recommend it.

Zath, Wavelength> (re: Daria) *puts hands up in self-defense* <g> Hey, I've got nothing against having my intelligence and wit compared to Daria's. But just not her trademark pessimistic view on things. It's just that for a long time my mother's had this distorted view of me. That I hate the world, never smile, never have fun. I don't understand it. Heh, not that I try to change her mind or anything; I usually just shake my head and say: "You don't even know me." It must be a teenage thing ;o)
But anyway, I do have a lot of things in common with Daria, like the deadpan humor and sarcasm. But, I'm actually more like Jane, the artist...less monotone and more smiling <g>

Being a gargoyle> Hmmm, that'd be fun maybe for a little bit, although there aren't too many tall buildings around here to jump off of. Plus, some of my worst nightmares involve me somehow flying (like, I'm a bird, or once I dreamt I jumped out of a swing and flew) and then falling...and FALLING!!!! Though I love flying in airplanes, I hate going out on balconies on tall buildings. I mean, there'd be nothing out there except you, the air...and the ground *shudder*. (Not to mention all the pointy, jagged, extremely hard objects that may be in between)

Silver Arrow> I'm 18, and, I have yet to take advantage of the fact...though one of my friends asked me if I would buy cigarettes for him. I refused.

MST3k> I'll admit, I once watched regularly (only since the 8th season; we don't get Comedy Central), but recently I haven't watched, and the ones i have seen are pretty boring. Although I've heard the 10th season may be pretty good. And Joel and Frank are going to make appearances in the season premiere, in April, I believe. And that's definitely worth tuning in for.

Argent> My most sincerest condolensces to you regarding your dental situation! I too had to have several baby teeth pulled (Four molars, two at a time, and two eye teeth, both at the same time), and had the experience of having a permanent tooth grow in on top of a stubborn baby tooth. And braces....ugh. I've had mine on since September last year, and I MIGHT have them taken off in April, if I'm lucky. But don't worry, they're not that terrible. And people thought I actually looked *CUTE* with my braces when I first got 'em. *bashful grin*

One Helluva Sad Film> This week in my Film as Literature class we watched Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman. It's definitely not a mere tearjerker...it just grabs hold of yer heart and WRENCHES it around, then let's you be optimistic, then YANKS your heart out again. I'm sure if I'd have been at home I woulda been bawling, and even trying to constrain myself during class, my eyes were watering. I'd read the play before, but watching the movie (which is almost word-for-word with the play) really gave it life, and meaning for me. I believe Dustin Hoffman once said that this was his favorite role, or at least, the most meaningful for him, and it's really understandable. I'd recommend this to everyone, if you can find a copy. But be prepared to see some pretty depressing stuff...

Well, on that cheery note, I'll take my leave. And since I'm feeling profound today, a quote!! :

"The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing"
--Socrates


So long!
~Jill
jILLybEAn - [jbruhn@bendnet.com]
Bend, Oregon
Friday, February 26, 1999 11:08:15 PM
IP: b149.bendnet.com

Estra, i hope ya get here soon, i can't figure out that chat, log off and call me, 'k'?
Kylynna
Friday, February 26, 1999 11:07:03 PM
IP: ppp-206-191-150-124.emeraldnet.net

Ummmmmmmmmm, puck, i thought you should know...I have no clue how to get into that chat, crash coarse in chat rooms for Kylynna!!!!!!! :) :( hmmmmmmmmmm
Kylynna
Friday, February 26, 1999 10:50:09 PM
IP: ppp-206-191-150-124.emeraldnet.net

longer post later!!!!!

Kylynna, the URL is http://www.intergate.bc.ca/personal/danneff/cgi-bin/tenforward/tf_chat.plhttp://www.intergate.bc.ca/personal/danneff/cgi-bin/tenforward/tf_chat.pl

go to Ten Forward.

anyone else who wants to, go too! it's a great Star Trek chat!

and, as for the last post, some of my best friends are humans. so don't diss them, okay?
Princess Estra - [avalonprincess@hotmail.com]
Passing Realms
Friday, February 26, 1999 10:39:36 PM
IP: spider-wo024.proxy.aol.com

Severius Jr> (says very evenly) Humans are stupid and worthless. All the rest of the animal kingdom are supier in that they don't destroy our planet slowly and painfully the way we do, Still I'd rather be a human than most any animal. Hmm except maybe a cat.
James Birdsong - [LennexMacDuff@hotmail.com]
San Diego, CA, USA
Friday, February 26, 1999 10:30:10 PM
IP: dt043nd9.san.rr.com

**RP!!**

**The screen lights up to reveal ... Charlotte and the tank, tailed by a huge assault chopper, speeding down the freeway through New Mexico. Ravyn's now standing in Charlotte's driver's seat, braced between the seat back and the windshield, furiously pumping and firing the shotgun. Coyote is madly fiddling with the laptop.**

<"Willya forget about the computer?">

**Coyote pulls a pistol out of his jacket, with his radio**

Hey guys, we could use backup anytime here.

<"Copy, we're working on it." "Yeah, we need more stuff to load the tank with!">

What? No more beer?

<"I thought you didn't want us shooting beer out the turret!">

Well, not if you don't *have* to!!

<"Oh, well in that case ...">

**A loud report is heard from the tank turret, as it sends four cans of Molson arcing toward the assault chopper.**

**PAUSE RP!!**

Wilek: And *that* was the joke! :)

Mary Flanders: Hmm ... rather interesting list you've got there.

Jewel: I for one didn't miss the joke. I got it. :)

Doug: Enjoy what you can of your B-day, dude. As for Lauryn Hill ... I confess, I like her stuff. She's got some pretty interesting songs in her repertoire (is she the one that does the remake of "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You," originally by the Four Seasons?)

Wavers: Thanks. I have a follow-up appt. tomorrow, hopefully my meds will be reduced. It'll be a good thing, too ... I'm getting sick of only wearing one lens.

Ravyn: Hmm ... interesting, since Raven is still around, complete with a "flock" in WCW (although last I heard he had lost control of the Flock.).
But no matter the source, I really like the handle. ;)

SJ: Certainly. Only problem I had with Heather McComb as Jubilee was one little major thing ... namely that she was the *absolutely wrong* ethnicity and background!!!
(for those unfamiliar ... Jubes is supposed to be Chinese-American and an orphan. The movie Jubes was white and had *both* parents alive.)

**RESUME RP!!**

**The beer splatters all over the windshield of the assault chopper, obscuring the pilot's vision. The operator, though, is able to squeeze off a very well aimed shot, headed directly for Ravyn.**

HEADS UP, RAV!!

**Coyote pulls Ravyn down to the seats, making the missile fired from the chopper just miss and punch a crater in the freeway ahead of Charlotte. Charlotte finds the crater, screeching her brakes at the last minute and throwing everyone into a pile in the front seats ... Coyote on the bottom, Ravyn in the middle, and Jimmie on top.**

Ouch ...

<"Where'd the truck go?" **looks at Coyote** "Hi there.">

**grins** Hello yourself. **changes moods immediately** This is no time for this kind of thing!

<"Guys, what happened?">

**Jimmie jumps off of Ravyn, who in turn picks herself up off of Coyote.**

We've lost 'em for now. We're gonig to have to watch our backs for a while. **turns to radio** Jason, Gearhead, bring it in close. We've got to watch ourselves from here on in.

**Everyone in Charlotte readjusts themselves as the tank pulls up and the screen winks off.**


Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Friday, February 26, 1999 10:23:05 PM
IP: 207.91.254.7

Robby and Heather> Just saw the pic that Demona May drew of you it is very nice.

Upcoming episode of Buffy> This episode will be titled ENEMIES. So here is what the episode will be about. Faith convinces Avgel to help her kill Buffy, but it's Buffy and Angel who are the ones keeping secrets from Faith.

Just one more thing do any of you rember ACE OF BASE I do and they got a new CD out.
Lawrence Stone - [st1@bright.net]
Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S.A.
Friday, February 26, 1999 09:54:57 PM
IP: chil-ras2-3-cs-17.dial.bright.net

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Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Friday, February 26, 1999 09:50:59 PM
IP: 207.91.254.7

*** SPOILERS FOR THE SUN AND THE SERPENT ***

I had wanted to wait until I'd read all four parts before making comments on it.

I thought Part I was pretty good, about at the level of the other high-quality episodes of TGS. The characterizations on the different characters was excellent, there was good action, and the scenes of Sata meeting with Meryt for the first time were good (I, too, liked the "I will cheerfully strangle you" line from Sata). A good introduction to the four-parter.

Part II, well...I can quite honestly say that I was blown away by it. The action scenes here were beyond excellent, especially the end battle with Apep; the characterizations were again great; and the budding romance between Brooklyn and Meryt was very well handled. I also liked the scenes in 20th Century Egypt, especially the 'singing scene' with Brooklyn and Meryt, and Sata trying to come to terms with this new development in the relationship with her mate.

Part III was a bit on the short side, but that was about the only complaint I could level at it. And excellent display of Meryt and Brooklyn's romance after it had come to full bloom; and the interaction between Meryt and Sata in the 20th Century scenes was great.

Finally, there's Part IV. An excellent ending to a superb tetralogy (four-story saga). The dream was good. Uraeus got center stage and really ran well with the megalomaniac bit. The action is again excellent, as are some of the lines (Isfet's standing out), and the characterizations. The scene showing Meryt's death/resurrection was particularly poignant. And Brooklyn coming to terms with Meryt and reaffirming his love of Sata at the end was a wonderful conclusion.

*** Spoilers Over ***

Now that I'm done praising the episodes, let me praise the writer personally in front of the whole comment room.

To begin with, I'd like to state that I was the one who came up with the original idea for Sun and the Serpent. I came up with the characters Harthoth, Isfet, and Meryt, as well as the idea of Meryt being Brooklyn's first love. (I also came up with some stuff dealing with Harthoth that, if it's still being followed in spirit, should prove _very_ entertaining future episodes to all of you readers out there.) I also came up with the basic plot structure for Sun and Serpent.

That said, I have to say that Taleweaver improved the plot beyond anything I could have thought of. The characters beyond the ones mentioned earlier are basically of his design, and they add much more life and depth to the story than it would have had. Taleweaver's also truly lived up to his name by weaving a truly great tale out of the scraps I left him with when I left TGS last year (in shame, I might add).

Put simply and honestly, I have to say I'm absolutely blown away by what he's created. Or, to paraphrase Wayne and Garth from the "Wayne's World" movie: *getting on his knees and prostrating himself several times while chanting the following phrase* "I'M NOT WORTHY!! I'M NOT WORTHY!!" (I'm sorry, but that's what I felt like after finishing Part II of S&S. I _know_ beyond a shadow of a doubt that Rahsaan did a _far_ better job of this multi-parter than I _ever_ could have thought of doing.)

Congratulations, Taleweaver. You've created a masterpiece. I hope you feel proud of the job you did, for such would be well-deserved.
Nicodemus
Friday, February 26, 1999 09:19:41 PM
IP: 209-63-254-34.smf.jps.net

*staggers into the room under a stack of pizzas, chucking them in everyone's general direction* Y'all chow down!

Thanks to all who welcomed me back after my being gone so long. It really cheered me up. Besides a backbreaking load of schoolwork, life itself has been a bit aggravating lately. You're all awesome :)

COMPUTER ANIMATED BRONX VID< (Did I get everyone's attention with that one? *hehe*) I have the web and email addresses of the college with the promotional vid (Art Institute of Philadelphia). I can give it to you all, and you can ask. If you say you want to post it, without making money off it, they might show it to you. It's a maybe. A BIG maybe, but you'll never know till you try. What'cha all think?

Matt Dymond< *see above* Oh, hey, sure. I'll post the addresses here for you. The work was done by the college students, not by a specific company. It's possible they'd let ya get a copy if you asked. Go for it! *runs to get the addresses*

Deuce< Is this the same bigot who dragged a black man behind his car and left him for dead? I was horrified when I heard about that. For sweet's sake, this is the 1990's, not the 1890's ... now where've I heard that before? *wink*

Heather and Robby< *whistles* Yeah, baby!! GREAT pic of you two. Very sweet. Ever gonna show us a real pic of you two, though? It'd be nice to see the real thing.

Robby< BTW, there are Art Institutes all over the USA, run by the same people in the INstitute in Philadelphia. I believe there are currenltly 11 locations nationwide :) Again, I have the web address.

Doug< *shudders at the thought of Pamela Lee in Parasite Eve* I dare not think! Speaking of vid games turning into movies, everyone's heard of the Final Fantasy movie coming out in or about 2001, right? THe computer aniamtion is gonna be awesome! It's gonna be the most realistic as of yet :) Front row seats!!!

Jaden< Thanks, and good luck on those midterms!

Buffy< *ROTFLMAO* I LOVE the part when evil Willow got transported back to her own dimension and gets shoved into a beam, and groans, "Oh, f---" about a second before she disintegrates, too. And "Hands, hands!" :D

*Basilisk waddles into the room and watches as I start laughing at Merlin Missy's "Why the chicken crossed the road". It clucks in annoyance as it attempts to zap me where I stand, sending me skittering to safety in the rafters*

Biff as Bluestone< Did anyone notice the Back to the Future reference in Lethe? I'm sorry if anyone pointed this out already; there's so much stuff in this room :) Plus, Tom Wilson also made an appearance in "Batman: the Animated Series". Does anyone remember, "Oh, yeah! You're gonna pay for that, old man! You'll remember the name Tony Zucco!" (hint, hint: guy who killed young Dick Grayson's folks) The good ol' days :D

Ravyn< *ROTFLMAO at the shirt slogans*

Blue Caeru< *L* Awesome! Chinese, English, Spanish ... you're a walking translating calculator. I used to speak a little Armenian when I was little, but that dragged off after a bit (Armenian Sunday school will only hold a 6-year-old's attention for so long ... actually, my last name's isn't Marie, but my real one is so difficult to pronounce and spell to others, I figured I'd make it easy on people :) )

<<Well... males can take a while to mature past that. Actually, I don't
think they actually do, they just become better at hiding and
controlling it... *grin>>

Amen! My dad's nigh on past 42, and I sometimes swear he's a high school guy (maturity level, considering) :)

<<That school you talked about sounds really nifty. :-) >>

It rocks! I'm almost sad to know that I'll be graduating in a little over 2 years. But I'm considering the Art Institute in Philly or the Art College of Visual Arts in New York (Home of my rookery brother, Jethro, aka the Highly Esteemed Rob Houck!) The city's only half an hour from my house, anyway. Any of you ever stop by in New Jersey, stop on by for a chat :)

Jeb< Yes, like I said, Batman Beyond is a little disappointing. Glad to know i'm not the only one here :) We should write a letter to Warner Bros. I have no problem with Terry fighting something evil, but the old Batman series, the original stuff, that was what built it's character. If only Terry and Bruce started bonding, and older characters came back (where's Ras A Ghul? He should still be around).

*Creativity Demon alert*

Stage directions:

Setting: The Joker, in a retirement home, in a wheelchair. He is shown to have recently been strapped into his chair for having attempted to gas visitors with his Smilex laughing gas ... *AGH! Snap out of it!* *shakes head*

Whooh, funny what you come up with late at night :)

Nothin' but love to y'all. Peace out.
Carolynn Marie
Friday, February 26, 1999 09:06:34 PM
IP: spider-tk034.proxy.aol.com

Hi all.

***TIMEDANCER EPISODE SPOILIER***

What can I say, I loved it! :))
I especially like the begining with Brooklyn going down the river of time and seeing all the females he either had a crush on or accully had a loving realationship with. It made an exellent mediphore.
The rest of the story was _very_well done. It now makes sence about the relationship between Khensu and Brooklyn (why Khensu calls him his old friend.)

*Hummmm*
I wander what sick-monkey stuff Brooklyn was doing on top of the statue, during the Festival of Hathar. :))

***SPOILERS END***

Have to go.
Bye for now.
Xena
N.Vancouver, BC, Canada
Friday, February 26, 1999 08:52:32 PM
IP: nvan-53-0275.direct.ca

**blushes at everyone who made good comments about the pic** I'm even blushing in RL ! I think it's the cleavage part...but it got alot of people commenting to me..hmm...

Heather - [kheetor84@aol.com]
Friday, February 26, 1999 08:26:08 PM
IP: 212-230-227.ipt.aol.com

Lonny, evil twin of Robby> Really? I now truly fear the world we live in. Not hate. I just don't trust it anymore. "And the third part of the trees was burnt up and all the green grass was burnt up! And he opened the bottomless pit and the cookies were replaced by fruit!" Woe, woe, woe to the inhabiters of the Earth, indeed.
Trent vs. Mothra
Friday, February 26, 1999 08:11:17 PM
IP: 147.226.113.249

****IT'S AN RP!!!*****
Thailog is still talking to his "Visitor". "So, you claim to have whole worlds at your disposal. What's your first plan of attack?"
<<One of our Race is already on board the Dark Star. Among the Resistance.>>
Thailog arched his eyebrow. "Really?"
<<Yes. They will watch....and when the time is right, they will act. They will completely destroy the Dark Star's defenses, so that you're forces can easily attack them.>>
"Are you sure your insider can pull it off? I've got burned once to many trying to to destroy that station. They destroyed a perfectly good Death Star, you know. Those thinks cost some change!"
<<Do not worry.>> the hooded being said. <<We shall not fail. Resistance......is futile.>>
****PAUSE RP*****

Sex Kills: I read something--a story, a book excerpt, sumthin'--not too long ago that could justify this. What is the one thing that sex gives us? Yes, it gives us THAT, but that's all oogey and messy. Sex gives us life! Without reproduction, none of us would be here. And what is the ultimate end result of life? DEATH. So, in a way, Sex DOES kill. Kinda like HIV.
And yeah, for your information, the author of that piece was a bit of a smartass.

Lauryn Hill: Well....I must admitt I hate her music. Nothing personal, I just despise all rap / hip-hop/ R&B music. But what that DJ said is absolutely unforgiveable.

Would you be a Gargoyle?: Wasn't this asked way back when? Wow, the popular answer is yes. But for me, it's an emphatic no. I think I've stated these views in here before. I'm essentially a humanist; I think we humans (in the real world, that is) are 1)the highest form of life God has created, at least that we know of or, from an evolutionary perspective 2)the highest evolved species in existence (that we know of). We humans are horribly flawed at times, and completely imperfect, but we're the best thing around. (which is kinda sad, in a way...) I love being a human! Why would I give it up?
Still, I love having tons of Gargoyle and/or Fey friends. NOBODY tends to pick on you with buds like them. :)

Gen X Movie: Hey, I got that movie on tape. It's....it's painful to watch. The acting is pretty horrible....the Special FX are loathsome....The White Queen looks like a bad Nancy Sinatra rip-off.....who in their right mind casted THAT guy as Banshee?....Matt Frewer did his best with what he had to work with (there was one funny bit when he was about to cut Skin's scalp off: "Something's been bugging me, and I just have to get it off my chest....I really HATE your hair.").......Still, like you said, it's probably the closest we'll come to an X-Men movie.....UNTIL SUMMER OF NEXT YEAR!!! That's right, coming Summer 2000: X-MEN: The Motion Picture!!! (filming starts this summer!)
BTW, wasn't the girl who played Jubilee hot? :)

Doug: Say, Kitiana doesn't mind you giving her measurements, does she? ;)

Brooklyn: I gotta play Devil's advocate here.....While I'm all for changing a character, and letting them grow....I'm not really that found of Brooklyn's family. Don't really care much for Graeme, or Ariana, or really Sata for that matter. I like the core group.
In my own fanfic (which will come out....eventually) I plan on making Brooklyn the way I think he should be--Numero Uno Badass! Still, I'm not saying that I disagree with the TGS folks. They have developed Brooklyn quite well, and while I admit I'm not a huge fan of Brook's family, at least the TGS folks have kept things interesting. Keep it up! :)

Fighting in Wars: I have nothing but respect for our military. There's nobody I'd want defending my country (except maybe all my Garg friends ;0] ). But in almost every experience I've had with military people, they were huge dicks. Jerks. They're probably the minority though....but I believe the people I'm thinking of also had ties with the C.I.A., so that explains a lot....
On a serious note, my dad (RL, that is) did fight in the Vietnam War. Pre-war he was in the Navy, but he did other stuff during the war though....I really can't explain it. I'm not supposed to. Let's just say he saw his fair share of action. That's also why I have respect for our veterans--regardless of whether you thought 'Nam was moral or not, our troops went through HELL. Serious hell. If you knew half the stuff that happened over there....No wonder so many Vets are screwed up with PTSD....
As for me being in the military....I can't see it. I wouldn't make it past the drill seargeants ("Move it, Private Pyle!"). I guess I'd be more like Doogie Howser's character in "Starship Troopers." I'm more of a lover, not a fighter. ;)

Deuce: YES! Another person who realizes that the New Radicals are TALENTLESS! Smashing Pumpkins beats them hands down!
Nice Intro BTW!

Heather: Hubba, hubba, hubba! Gargoyle or not, that's a very nice pic! :-]
Oh, and I guess Robby looked okay too. (Yeah, like I was lookin' at him anyway....)

****RESUME RP*****
SJ arrives aboard the Dark Star (let's just say that he's been flying around in his Scimitar the whole time, kay?).
He sees Wilek's group--Anoth, Terri, and the rest--and scratches his head.
"So....I hear there's some evil twins on here. Since I've been kinda outta the loop the last few days, for all I know YOU could be them."
"We just killed them," Anoth comments.
"Can't be too sure. Better frag you just in case!" SJ levels a flamethrower at the group.....
*****PAUSE RP*****
Sevarius Jr. - [bpoole@mailexcite.com]
Friday, February 26, 1999 08:00:35 PM
IP: 207-172-69-15.s269.tnt8.brd.erols.com

Oh, and the CR's intro is done. Click my name.
Deuce - [deuce@softhome.net]
Friday, February 26, 1999 07:53:13 PM
IP: pppa98.connect.ab.ca

ROBBY/HEATHER - Very NICE pic! You think Demona May could find it in her heart to do one for me?

CHRISTINE - Oh, so now it's official?!? I _am_ the King of Crossover Fics? Gargoyle wise anyway? <grin> I guess the proof will be when I finish that Gargs/Transformers fic and post it.

ARIS - I have to agree; from what I've seen, Brooklyn has his true love in Sata.

ROBBY'S EVIL TWIN - Remind me to put you on "The List"...

**** A RARE THING, AN RP FOR Mr. DC ****

[Stephen ambles over to Dis, a freindly grin on his kisser.]

DIS: "Oh, what now?!? You going to kill me too???"

SRS: "Nope."

DIS: [puzzled, but wary look] "What? Why not?"

SRS: "I don't care for unnessesary violence. It's not my bag, dig?"

DIS: "Oh! [wipes his brow with a PHEW!] For a minute there I though I was going to get killed again!"

SRS: Naw! Let's just relax a bit. Hey, you hungry?"

DIS: Now that you mention it... I am a bit peckish."

SRS: I hear they ordered some Papa John's Pizza in the CR Kitchen. [points to a bell-pull rope nearby] Why don't you ring up the butler to bring us some?" [Takes one slow step back causually]

DIS: "Okay! [grabs the rope and pulls it hard] Uh... waitaminute... Do we have a butler?' [Just then, a large, heavy obelisk drops with sudden swiftness from the ceiling overhead, smashing Dis to the floor like a bug under an anvil... the words "Ye King's Anger" in Japanese katakana written on one side of it]

SRS: [snaps fingers] "Dang... that's right! We can't afford a butler! [Looks at Dis' squished remains] Oh, well... I never do like to share Papa John's pizza! It's my favorite!"

**** END RARE RP ****

Maintain and Check Six!
Stephen "Coldstone" Sobotka, Jr. - [scififangargoyle@yahoo.com]
Spokane, WA, USA
Friday, February 26, 1999 07:49:21 PM
IP: m111.ieway.com

Robby and Heather> Damn, do you two make a cute couple. Cool picture!

Attractive members of the opposite sex> I go for Jennifer Love Hewitt, Larisa Oleynik, Britney Spears, and Claire Danes. :-)

***TWO RANTS***

Brook & Sata> They do NOT have an "empty" relationship! They may have little spats, but that doesn't mean they don't love each other. Meryt was his first "real" love, but Sata is his "true" love, if you catch my meaning. Meryt was very much like him: carefree, kinda wacky. Sata is more his opposite: serious-minded and stern. She keeps him grounded. Notice how, after about 30 years of being with her (in Gargoyles/Pendragon), he's a lot more calm than he was when he was younger? She was a positive influence on him all the way.

***END FIRST POINTLESS RANT, BEGIN SECOND ONE***

Anybody here thinking of buying the New Radicals' CD "Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too"? Here's my advice: don't. It's sloppily put together, the lyrics in the book rarely match the actual lyrics (and are much more vulgar), and the music is mediocre. Honestly, download the MP3 of "You Get What You Give" (the only good song), but ditch the rest. Personally, I'm taking it back tomorrow and picking up "Adore" by Smashing Pumpkins.

***END RANTS AND POST***

P.S. For the next couple days, use my Yahoo! account; Softhome's being a real bitch still.
Deuce - [halfpastsix@yahoo.com]
City of Champions, Alberta, Canada
Friday, February 26, 1999 07:31:56 PM
IP: pppa98.connect.ab.ca

Robby's busy talking to Heather, and I have buisness with DC anyhow, so I figured this is a fine time to post...

Contact Lenses- Robby doesn't wear them because they hurt, and he's fine with glasses. I myself have cybernetic implants to make myself all the more evil.

Sick people- I love it when people get sick! If Robby were posting, he'd wish you all well.

Caer- Read everything in two days eh? Similar to what Robby did. I myself, having the cybernetic eye implants and all, read the entire series in half an hour.

Daria- Fun show. Love the main character's attitude on everything. So dreery and uncheerful. Been taping episodes lately. While using Robby's VCR improperly. Bwah hah hah hah hah hah! Er, sorry... Get carried away sometimes.

Dragon powers- There are ways past every law or rule. I should know, I've gotten past most of them. Dragons will find a way to dowhat they must to hurt people.

Brooklyn loving Sata and Meryt- Hmm... Good point. Perhaps. Mind you, Brooklyn wasn't doing any timedancing with Meryt, and after three years,he may have well come to believe that was his last stop. So he got real cozy with the locals, like I would. As far as Meryt, she WAS his first real love, and those are always special. Where Sata is concerned, true they were forced togeher, but remember they really didn't like each other all that much at first. They came to love each other after a great deal of time,before she ever had the choice of leaving him. And she chose to stay with him, this was clearly showcased in the tearjerker "The Promise". Anything Brooklyn was holding back was for fear of going through Meyrt again. And besides, he knew Meyrt was still out there. Now that he has had a chance to settle things with Meryt, he will be able to come closer to Sata than he has already.

Egads, I'm talking about mushy stuff... Some of Robby must be rubbing off on me. Ick...

Trent- You are aware the Cookie Monster is being replaced by the fruit monster?

Now, onto that buisness with DC...

**MY EVIL DEALINGS WITH DIS CONNECT**

"Hello Dis. I need your services."
"I don't want to help you. People keep getitng mad at me. I've been killed several times already today,and I don't like it."
"Well, thats only because you're the only one they know to blame. You need extra help to spread evil, not to mention a scapegoat."
"What are you suggesting?" I point towards the name, and laugh in an evil manner a