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Poor little CR, looks like the room had the Sunday slow-down blues... Less than a post an hour all day...
Zath
Sunday, September 19, 1999 09:55:34 PM
IP: ppp-225-066.usc.edu

I normally don't post here, but seeing the talk of Final Fantasy, thought I'd add my two cents. Yes, even though the Final Fantasy series is sequentially numbered, each is a self contained adventure. Main characters, locations and storylines never carry over, but there are certain constants.

-"Biggs and Wedge", two minor role characters that make cameo appearances. Character designer is obviously a Star Wars fan.
- Chocobos and Moogles. Two original animal species found only in the FF series.
- Summoned monsters, like Leviathan(water), Ramuh(lightning), Ifrit(fire), Shiva(ice), Odin(instant kill) and Bahamut(meganuke!!!).
- The Four Elements, appearing usually as evil elementals or crystals. FF6 onward dumped this idea.
- Cid. My boss(producer of the FF series) describes him as the "Yoda of the FF series". Older, wiser and always a engineer or mechanic.
- Holy(or 'White' or 'Pearl'), Meteor and Ultima. The most powerful white/black magics spells.
- Excalibur and Masamune. The two greatest swords in the FF games are almost always named so.

Have fun playing FF. ;)
Roy Sato
Honolulu, HI
Sunday, September 19, 1999 06:54:17 PM
IP: eve.squareusa.com

Nightwalker- The Final Fantasy games keep the name because of marketing. They may have nothing in common, but the name sells it. If a new Mario game came out and it had a stupid looking character called Banjo Kazooie, (Oh wait...) it wouldn't do so well. Mario's name helps to sell the game because tis a well known and trusted name, its the same with FInal Fantasy. Also, the FF8 demo saying it had a story that's been going since the start of time probably reffered to something in the story itself.

**CLARIFICATIONS ON BEAST MACHINES AND BIG GUY STUFF**

Leme clarify some of the things I said yesterday about Beast Machines... I think the animation is great and improved, especially in the scenery department. But the main characters looking worse in their original forms and explosions being liquidy looking and some of the robots being too smooth didn't work for me. Wonderful animation, but a bit too smooth and unrealistic compared to what they can do. Takes away some from the realism.

As far as there not being a single MENTION of Megatron, Silverbolt and Rhinox... Yeah, I know that was Megatron at the end. But the 4 maximals didn't seem to care in the least that a guy they had spent 52 episodes fighting that nearly destroyed time and had been their prisoner, was suddenly gone... And never did Silverbolt or Rhinox even get mentioned... I understand its the first episode, but a name drop at least woulda been nice. I'm giving the show a chance, but I'm not going to be able to help but compare it to Beast Wars, since in theory it is the same series just continued... I have hopes for this show, and I'll get used to the redesigns soon enough, but still... (Of course, what was the point of having Black Arachnia upgrade right before the final episodes of BM just to have the look trashed? Oii...)

Airwalker- Eh, I don't think Waspinator will be coming back in any way, shape or form. He was left on Earth and got a happy ending, which was cool. And there *is* a third spark... The original Megatron's...

Ah well, I'll watch my tape again and see if my opinion isn't better this time...

As far as Big Guy and Rusty... DId I mention I only caught the last five or so minutes of this?

**END CLARIFICATIONS**

As far as the final episode of Batman and the new episode of Batman Beyond... Well, I slept right through them. Ah well.

Thats about it for now, I'll post again after I wipe the room later.
Robby
Sunday, September 19, 1999 05:34:59 PM
IP: spider-wb024.proxy.aol.com

With all the B5 quotes I think people will be interested in this:

"This week's Sci-fi Cartoon Competition features a Sevylon 5 cartoon with caricatures of Dr Franklin and G'Kar receiving his mechanical eye. You get to write G'kar's response - the funniest punchline will be used in the cartoon. The competition ends 24 Sep so get your entries in now, at:
http://www.sev.com.au/toonzone/scificomp.htm"

Click my name to go there.
Aris Katsaris - [katsaris@otenet.gr]
Sunday, September 19, 1999 05:23:43 PM
IP: athe-g07.otenet.gr

vrey short post right now , I'll come back later with my regular sized one. Just two short replies.

Robby-regarding FF. So they have almost nothing incommomn with each other? Then why are they all part of the same series. At the end of my FF8 demo it said that that story was just coninuing something that has been going on since the begining of time. Oh, well. I still would like to know the plot to FF7 and what FFtactics is, they look promising.

Whoever said TGS was dying-Lots o' newbies. And TGS will never die. I'll never stop coming.
nightwalker - [goliath01@hotmail.com]
hobart, IN, usa
Sunday, September 19, 1999 01:45:11 PM
IP: proxy-543.public.rwc.webtv.net

**jogs into the room, switching out the candles and settling into the massage chair**

Quiet time this morning while I'm waiting for the Lions game to start ... amazingly enough the game sold out, so it's being shown on TV today (YAY!).

SJ, re: "Big Guy": Okay, thanks for relieving my fears. If I get a chance, I will *attempt* to check it out.

Jannie: I'm on the MiniClan's video, huh? Coolies ... any chance that anyone else (like me, for instance. ;) will get a chance to see this tape?

Fire Storm: My cable system (Harron) gives us WADL on Channel 98 on the box ... and it comes in really badly. :(

Wilek, re: televangelists and wrestling: Care to disclose why that seems appropriate? I'm just curious ...

Doug and Kitainia, re: costuming: Hair coloring is where I draw the line when it comes to making up costumes. See, I can pull off Eddie because of three main factors:
1) 300+ pounds gives me the right body type
2) Dark-colored hair
3) Singing voice that sounds like Meat Loaf's would after smoking a pack a day for 40 years. :)
Going tomorrow to a costuming shop to see what I can get as far as motification makeup and scar tissue (why fabricate a huge lobotomy scar when you can purchase a pre-made one? :).

Zath: I get that feeling every morning I have to get up to drag my @$$ to work ... or at least until one of my dogs jumps in bed with me mainly because she wants to go outside and yap her fool head off. :P

Almighty Bob, re: "Saint of Sales": Okay, since ye asked ...
It's that handle of yours, dude. First time I saw it, what immediately popped into my mind was the image of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, the self-proclaimed "Saint of Sales" and founder of the Church of the SubGenius, a religious cult which believed (and still does) that the arrival of aliens will portend the world's end, and only those with Yeti blood in them ... the SubGenii ... would be saved, as the aliens would be coming for them. They previously believed that their target date (known as "X-Day") was July 5, 1998. That's right, July 5th of *last* year. Faithful SubGenii arrived at the appointed pick-up location in the middle of New Mexico, only to have the most vocal leader of their cult (the Reverend Ivan Stang) declare that "Bob" had read the year upside down ... and it was supposed to be July 5th, 8661.
Shortly after Rev. Stang was tarred and feathered by the now officially pissed-off SubGenii ...

... errh ... I think I'll leave it at that. Suffice to say, currently Dobbs is leading TIME magazine's "Hucksters of the Century" poll, and the Church of the SubGenius has lost pretty much *all* of its credibility, so much so that all it is now is a punchline to Steve Jackson Games' "Illuminati" card game. So there ya go. The explanation.

**sits back in the massage chair, putting on a set of headphones and fixating while listening to the Lions.**
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Sunday, September 19, 1999 12:52:40 PM
IP: modem54.i-is.com

Coyote: Saint of Sales? (?!) As far as I knew I was just a sort of demi-god type person, but hey, sainthood is good...
The Almighty Bob - [A_Bad_And_Angry_Man@bobthegreat.cjb.net]
Red, Green, Blue
Sunday, September 19, 1999 12:32:37 PM
IP: pppa117.connect.ab.ca

Pistoff> Lesson I have learned while reading material/messages from you: NEVER eat olives ;) Thanks for posting the bloopers! *wipes the pimentos off of the screen* Convulsions, I'm tellin' ya.... *LOL*
Jannie
Sunday, September 19, 1999 12:12:02 PM
IP: 196-161.c.esc4.net

Sorry for the REPOST.

First off, ummm......I should have said POSSIBLE SPOILER FOR BM for my last post.....sorry.

Second- I went to the Comment room archive and started reading it....Then I decided that I couldn't read it all. EECH!
Sarge Abernathy - [sargeMM@aol.com]
Barre, VT, USA
Sunday, September 19, 1999 11:59:20 AM
IP: spider-wd024.proxy.aol.com

ME AGAIN! BWHAHAHAHAHAH!

Beast Machines- there is a strong rumor that the sparks of Silverbolt and Rhinox are in two of the three new bots in BM! Yeah they are alive!!! Tankorr=Rhinox....Skybolt=Silverbolt....THIS IS JUST A RUMOR!!!!!

Sargie!
Sarge Abernathy - [SargeMM@aol.com]
Barre, VT, USA
Sunday, September 19, 1999 10:40:20 AM
IP: spider-tf033.proxy.aol.com

**MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS FOR BEAST MACHINES**

ROBBY - You wrote: [It does annoy me that not a single MENTION was made of Rhinox, Silverbolt, or Megatron. I know the characters were in mortal danger, but these things SHOULD have concerned them for at least a few seconds.]

Megatron actually did show up at the end of the episode although he's never mentioned by name. That ending scene with him being rebuilt and his voice becoming more and more mechanical (kind of similier to the original Megatron's voice) saying "I will destroy them" was one of the best moments of the episode in my opinion.

The absence of any mention of Rhinox and Silverbolt did concern me though. The main reason that I started watching BEAST WARS was because of the Silverbolt/Black Arachnia relationship. If they've just thrown it out the window because they didn't want to bring the character back, I will be very upset. But since it's only the first episode, I'm willing to give some leeway. After all there are legitimate story reasons for Silverbolt and Rhinox to have been disappeared by Megatron. After all isn't Rhinox supposed to be the spiritual one with all that deep knowledge of sparks that has now become vital in order for the Maximals to transform? And if he was trying to hurt Black Arachnia, who he did consider to be a traitor, what better way than to do something to Silverbolt? Besides that, there is also the fact that the Maximals that were picked for this team have all undergone at least one or two transformations. That may be why the Oracle picked them specifically - it's easier to reformate beings who have undergone other transformations and would be more suited to yet another transformation that Rhinox and Silverbolt who never underwent any transformations at all out of their original forms. As long as they come up eventually (and as long as the Black Arachnia/Silverbolt relationship comes up eventually) then I'm willing to wait.

(The major rumor that I've heard is that when Megatron decides he needs some henchmen that can actually think in a situation, instead of just sending out mindless drones that are similier to Steel Clan robots, is that he creates three generals - Jetstream, Tankorr, and Thrust. But where does he get the Sparks for these three beings? Which three characters that we know survived BEAST WARS but don't appear in BEAST MACHINES could he have used? So it's entirely possible that Silverbolt, Rhinox, and maybe Waspinator might be coming back in new forms.)

You wrote: [As well almost no personality came out of anyone, they were just cast in roles. By the end of the first episode of Beast Wars Rhinox, Cheetor, Ratrap, and Dinobot had all shown unique personalities. Here, Ratrap is the only one to do so.]

Normally I never did much like Rattrap, but I loved him in this episode. The CGI also fit him much better in this episode than it had in previous ones.

As for no personality and being fitted into roles, I'd have to say yes and no. It's true that they were fitted into roles, but then again this is the first episode of a series that will be heavily influenced by the events of a previous series. It has to be made accessable to new viewers at all costs or it's going to wither and die. Everyone has to be recognisable to a new viewer as a sort of download so that the story can avoid going into massive flashbacks of relevant material from the original BEAST WARS series. But at the same time, I did feel that we got some personallity shining through. Cheetor may have been regressed to his original beast form but he sounded and acted like post-FERAL SCREAM 2 TM2 Cheetor. Black Arachnia did sound way mellowed out but then again between the time she was interesting and this episode, she did become a Maximal so that should be expected. Rattrap was in perfect form. And Optimus did shine in taking over Rhinox's role of spiritual guide.

You wrote: [I'm rather dissapointed that the animation is actually WORSE than it was last year. A lot of the texture shading is gone, so everything looks smooth and liquidy, so it looks more cartoony. Its bad when the characters look less realistic than they did three years ago.]

The original Beast Forms did look a bit less realistic that they had been originally but I chose to see this as being intentional on the part of Mainframe in order to emphasis the reformatting that the Maximals later went through - that they moved from being mechanical beings who pretend to be beasts to an actual melding of beast and machine. (Also I figure that Mainframe was poking a little fun at itself by making the original beast forms a bit more cartoony so that they could say "See, look how far we've come since we started working on these characters and this show all those years ago!")

Otherwise I felt that the CGI was fantastic. Wonderfully done. If you look closely, you can see that everyone actually has proper shadows. The new Beast forms, while I'll need time to get used to them (personally I think TM2 Black Arachnia looked much better), they do look realistic. Optimus actually looks like a Gorilla (although to be honest I had nothing against his original form), and if you get past Rattrap and Cheetors bright colors then they do look more realistic as well. Remember the one rule with everything that has to do with CGI - the more episodes that they work on, the more they will improve. BM episode 1 is much more detailed and realistic compared with BW episode 1 which was basically a few characters on a barren landscape.



All in all, I'd say that I'm pleased with the show although I do have some reservations (mainly circling around Silverbolt's disappearance and the fear that his relationship with Black Arachnia might have been thrown out the window). The best advice I can give is to view this show completely seperate from BEAST WARS or there's bound to be disappointment on some level for die hard BEAST WAR fans plus to give it some time. One episode isn't really that much to judge on. I think I'll be able to form a better opinion on this series after seen 4 or 5 episodes rather than just the first episode and a 2 minute music video that Saban put together.

**END OF SPOILERS ON BEAST MACHINES**
Airwalker
Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, September 19, 1999 09:26:29 AM
IP: 116.new-york-13-14rs.ny.dial-access.att.net

ug, should have proofread... "that feling, anf get" should have been "that feeling, and I get" maybe I should go to sleep now... nah!
Zath
Sunday, September 19, 1999 06:10:49 AM
IP: ppp-224-100.usc.edu

Not much to say rignt now. I can't wait for the new season to start so I can actually have some on-topic comments on an semi-regular basis : )

Pistoff> Check your e-mail : )

CrzyDemona> Happy Birthday!!!

Coyote> << she was just too comfortable to get up. :)>> I love that feling, anf get it most mornings only to have it interrupted by questions like "don't you have an eight o'clock class?" around 7:55 and then everything is downhill from there.

Wilek> <<No more MIB, no more Pokemon, no more Batman Beyond...it's *really* depressing...>> Just be happy you have a tv at all. Hmmm... Maybe if my roommates pay back all the cash they owe me in one big lump, I could use it to buy a tv set (it wouldn't be enough to buy a good one, but right now, anything with a working picture tube would be appreciated...)

Zath - [zath@rocketmail.com]
Sunday, September 19, 1999 06:07:20 AM
IP: ppp-224-100.usc.edu

Me again. :) I just thought I'd put up the link to the B5 bloopers I mentioned earlier. Some pretty funny stuff, there....clickie-clickie...
Pissy
Sunday, September 19, 1999 03:53:44 AM
IP: wire-16.koalas.com

Wilek: That's not entirely correct. There have been more than three members of Team Rocket shown on Pokemon- Meowth, Jessie, and James are just the most frequently seen ones. Their boss, a mysterious guy dressed like Bison from Street Fighter, has been seen talking to them in a few eps. We've also had one episode where Jessie and James' main rivals in the Team, Butch and Cassidy, showed up trying to kidnap Pikachu and other Pokemon through a fake rehab center scam. The heroes of course trounced them. There may have been others connected to the team also shown this season, but I have yet to see the eps with them.

<How are you going to create Jessie's impossible hairdo?> Nothing is impossible with a lot of gel, red hair dye, and a little time. :)

More later, must sleep.
Kitainia
Sunday, September 19, 1999 02:20:46 AM
IP: pool-207-205-150-250.dlls.grid.net

B5 quotes: One of my favorites is from a blooper reel. It's Bruce Boxleitner blurting out, "That motherf--ker's, er, uh...it's gassin' up to shoot!" I'm using it as my Windows start-up sound. :)

Jannie: I'm sorry I had to go so soon, too. Mom knows that pisses me off, and she keeps doing it. She always waits till I get online, then says "I need to use the phone." She couldn't have made her phone call before I went online (and I always ask her is she needs to use the phone first, and she says no...then when I'm online, she suddenly needs to use it...) *sigh*

I'm sorry you've been having such a rough time, but I'm glad you're pulling through. Denis and I will always be here for you. :) *hugs*

CrzyDemona: Sounds like we've got quite a bit in common. :) Don't worry about me, though. When things get too infuriating, I just play Duke Nukem for a while, and pretend the aliens are my customers. It's very cathartic. :)

SOROW: Sorry it's been a bad week for you. I can definitely relate. Things'll get better, though. :) About Bill Paxton in "Terminator"--he was one of the punks at the beginning of the film, when the Terminator first arrived in LA. They saw him walking naked toward him, made some smartass remarks, and Paxton's character said, "I think this guy's a couple cans short of a six-pack." Then the Terminator demanded their clothes, and Paxton blurted, "F--k you, @$$hole!" Terminator knocked his ass out, and that line was used for humorous effect later in the movie... ;)
Pistoff - [phred@koalas.com]
Sunday, September 19, 1999 01:48:59 AM
IP: wire-5.koalas.com

**RP!**

[The now-recovered Ambassador K'Theni awakens in the Avatar Of Ganon's medlab, after having been rescued and evacuated to the station. He chitters a moment in his native language, the only one his race is capable of speaking, before a small device affixed to his exoskeleton translates his words into English, in an inhuman, mechanical cadence and somewhat strange dialect..."Where is this...?" Khesaat: "This is the starbase Avatar Of Ganon, headquarters of the Division 6 defense department." K'Theni: "Division Six? Good...There is important news. My government has discovered a Phalanx base of attack, in the process of construction on this planet's continent of Africa. I was soon to relay this knowledge to your division...when I was abducted, one may presume by Terrans working for the Phalanx." Khesaat: "Africa...the Phalanx missiles we just shot down came from that direction..." K'Theni: "Missiles?" Khesaat: "Ambassador...what is the last date you can remember?" K'Theni: "Cycle 115 of Year 3152, by our calendar." Khesaat: "I don't know how to tell you this...it's been almost 47 of your cycles--" that's about a month of human time-- "since you were abducted." K'Theni: "(untranslatable concept)...It is too late...Nothing can be done..." Khesaat: "On the contrary; thanks to you, we now know the general location of a major Phalanx assault base..."]

**PAUSE!**

Earlier tonight, there was this whole thing on the Discovery Channel about octopi, squid, and the like. Fun stuff, and it gave me great ideas for the octopoid race(s) of my own ficverse...

Kitainia> <<I agree with your words about the Marines and their problems. Thanks for posting them.>> You're welcome. ^_^ $<<Feel free to continue the above RP thread if you like. Same goes for SJ. Hope you two don't mind us giving it a jump-start.>> Not at all; I was beginning to wonder what we'd be doing from here on out. ^_^ $ Hm...lion and the lamb...I wonder if you're part of some manner of prophecy... ;) <<If anyone's wondering, we're thinking of dressing up as Team Rocket from Pokemon.>> Kewl! I wonder how you're going to recreate Jesse's impossible hairdo. ;) Speaking of whom...the impression I get from the game is that Team Rocket is a nationwide (if not larger) conspiracy with a small army at its command. Yet its only representatives on the show seem to be a couple of bumbling misfits (although I haven't seen too many eps...). Hm...

B5 quotes> I think one of my favorites is the revelation about Swedish meatballs. :) (I've heard the Vorlon version is sentient...) Another favorite, not quote but moment, occurred early in...Season 5, was it?...when we found out just exactly why a Pak'Ma'Ra shouldn't eat fish. >8)

Mary> <<Today is a day to rejoice. Why you ask? Quite simple: MY SISTER HAS GONE TO COLLEGE!!!>> YEAH! ^_^ One less annoyance out of your life. (Now to take care of your school...What are the exact coordinates? A dimension shifter bomb might be able to take care of it...)

Sarge> <<The Warner Brothers station has decided to go out of my district! I have no Warner Brothers! I now only have about an hour of them each morning on Fox. What are they doing on fox!? Give me back WB!>> <sigh> I know your pain, clan brother; it's happened in my area too. <sigh> No more MIB, no more Pokemon, no more Batman Beyond...it's *really* depressing...

Coyote> <<the other half is split between televangelists and wrestling>> You know, that's rather appropriate...

Robby> <<I know how you feel about the music site. I completley cut short one of my RP sagas in mourning when my fave music site went down... (It was the one where Jim went house hunting and ended up with a yellow submarine...)>> <sigh> I remember that. Incredibly frustrating. Almost as bad was the death of a wonderful little site called Laura's MIDI Heaven. The circumstances behind *that* little fiasco were even worse than those of FMC--rather than incompetent server administration, LMH went down because of legal troubles. Seems the same trained attack lawyers who've been taking down lyrics servers were going after MIDI sites that carry movie and TV MIDs (as you found out the hard way). And LMH had thousands of the things. <sigh>

Doug> <<I'm surprised the Bat hasn't run into somebody like Sevarius yet.>> Actually...there've been *two*--the guy with the bat fetish and the guy with the cat fetish. Granted, they had different motivations than Dr. Sevarius--both wanted to advance humanity through creative genetics rather than simply get the chance to play with some new crossbreed designs (ie art for a specific purpose rather than art for art's sake)--but, other than that, they had rather similar methods and mutation styles. :) <<It probably wasn't as good as the skit where they had two bears in the audience anyway. <smiles at fond memories of Conan getting mauled>>> Heh heh heh...the one I can't help but remember was the one just before the final episode of Seinfeld. Someone who works on the show was being interviewed, and was about to basically spoil the whole thing, and some guy ran up and shot him (while a bear who'd followed him on stage stood by and did nothing, which for some reason I found odd). >:)

**RESUME RP!**

[Dark Mage Wilek is looking around, admiring his new acquisition...when Decius taps him on the shoulder, a grave expression on his face. DMW: "Anything I can do for you, brother?" Decius: "I was sent here to assimilate this station for the greater glory of the Administrator." DMW: "And this matters to me...how?" Decius: "Because I prefer not to think of the consequences of hardware of this magnitude falling into your hands. Besides, you already wield far more resources than you let on." DMW: "And how did you arrive at *that* hypothesis." Decius: "We are Borg. At any rate, I'm certain my mistress and I can give you sufficient incentive to accede to our...request..."]

**END RP!**
Wilek Nereus
Sunday, September 19, 1999 12:49:59 AM
IP: spaceproxy.com

*sigh* I don't know. It's been a very long and depressing week. I have absolutely no idea why I'm so down because I aced my Physics and PreCal tests and I only have one B for this six weeks... I just read all the comments since Tuesday and my eyes are going to fall out.

Sweet mother, there's a sudden increase in newbie population. They're popping up like daises! WELCOME!

And welcome back to those of you who have been engaged elsewhere. It's good to get back together.

TGS> I figured out why this season seems so strange. There's no staying up til one in the morning reading fanfic yet. I don't like it! I simply can't wait!

Pistoff> Where was Bill Paxton in the Terminator? I never noticed him.

Crzy Demona> Happy belated birthday! I hope all your wishes come true.

I have a project due on Monday that I haven't started yet, so I better go get some sleep. Love ya *stumbles out*
SOROW
Sunday, September 19, 1999 12:40:25 AM
IP: dll2b108-14.splitrock.net

**RP HERE**

Pastor John's tank, now moving at high speed, rolls toward Shap and Shauna. They are barely able to sprint aside and duck behind a parked FBI sedan. Another shell is launched from the tank's cannon and blows the car to pieces, forcing them to run across the parking lot with machine gun fire echoing off the nearby pavement. "Hail Mary, full of grace," Shap mumbles. "The Lord is with thee, and we hope to God he is also with us..." "Cut out the prayers!" Shauna yells. "Think of how we're supposed to fight that thing!" Shap frowns. "Get too close for him to use the cannon, run up alongside it, and drop a grenade down the hatch?" "This isn't Metal Gear Solid," Shauna rolls her eyes as another shell whizzes over them. "And even if it were we don't have any claymores to plant and slow the machine down first." "I guess we're screwed then," Shap sighs. Shauna nods in agreement, then her face lights up as she thinks of a plan. "Split up!" she yells. "Distract it!" "What?" her companion asks. "Trust me!" Shauna then notches an arrow and runs off across the parking lot, hoping the tank picks up on Shap instead of her. Shap looks confused, then shrugs and decides to follow the plan. He prays Shauna knows what she's doing.

(Note to Shogun- feel free to help get rid of the tank as you seem to be planning on doing. :) Just please don't kill Pastor John, we have very important plans for him. You can blow up the tank with him inside if you want to, though. :)

**END RP FIRST HALF**

Hi! Hope everyone's having a great Saturday night. :) Kit and I just got back from seeing the film Blue Streak, so here's our review:

**SPOILER WARNING**

This movie was okay. It had a lot of good laughs, a great preformance by Martin Lawrence, and a decent script. The action was nice too. However there was also a severe lack of character development and numerous plot holes. This upset us immensly. :( Another bad thing was that Martin's character made a lot of serious mistakes when he was trying to act like a cop (yeah, it was in character for him to do that, but it still helped spoil the film). I've only had a little acting experience, I've never watched COPS, the closest work I've ever done to police business was a security guard job a couple years ago, and I think I could have done a better job fooling the LAPD long enough to get the diamond, bust the drug dealers, and escape than Martin did. <sighs> Oh well, at least we were entertained. 6/10, thumbs diagonal down.

**END BLUE STREAK SPOILERS AND REVIEW**

Shogun: Glad Floyd missed you. :) My prayers are with those still in its path.

Todd: Thanks for filling me in on the new TGS season, glad to know Pendragon has split from Gargs again. Hope to be seeing the new episodes soon, but willing to wait. <sighs>

Christine: Nice job on Revenge of the Amazon Women. Great character development on all involved, and excellent hot scenes. :) Wonder how much more Jericho's mind is going to be messed up now, and if Demona's going to do anything to him for "messing around with human scum." <AUGH! Creativity Demons! Help! grin>

New TV Shows: Watched Action Thursday night, liked it. Jay Mohr did a great job in his role, and the show had a good plot and great jokes. The female lead's character was also especially well-developed and preformed (sorry I disagree with you about this, SJ). Looking very forward to seeing her cure for writer's block in this week's episode. :) If anyone's curious, it really does work! <grins, hugs Kit>

Also saw the new Batman Beyond ep again this morning. I have high hopes for that show this season because of it, Todd and Kit have already said everything I could about the ep itself.

The new episode of Pokemon this morning was entertaining, I liked the gym master. Big Guy and Boy Robot was also cool, but as far as superhero comedies go, it can in no way hold a candle to the Tick! :) Didn't watch Sherlock Holmes, and skipped Beast Machines in favor of Pokemon. As for the new Batman/Superman episode, it was the worst I've yet seen. Makes me kind of glad that show is dead with the way they ruined Ras. <sighs> Good thing I'm not incorporating that show (or Superman) into my fanfic. Though I will have Tim Drake and Nightwing. :)

Firestorm: I agree with you, Batman does have a genetic fetish. I'm glad it has made for so many good stories. :) I'm surprised the Bat hasn't run into somebody like Sevarius yet. <Argh! Creativity Demons are back!>

Halloween Costumes: Yes, Todd, we will be saying the motto if we go as Team Rocket. It is part of the characters, after all. Good thing we both have it memorized. :) To all who want pictures, we'll have to use Gubio's scanner but we will try to get some. Like Kit said earlier, though, our costume decision is not yet final, so we may or may not go as Team Rocket. Hope we do, out of all the choices we've considered it sounds like the most fun.

Mary: Congrats on getting your sister out of the house! Hope your life will now be much easier.

Robby: Thursday night? Argh! The one night we decided not to stay up for Conan and we missed such a (probably) interesting conversation! <sighs> Oh well, there's always reruns. It probably wasn't as good as the skit where they had two bears in the audience anyway. <smiles at fond memories of Conan getting mauled>

David G: Good luck with your first live-action game and Freelance 4, however it turns out. <Both of my GM's are evil, sneaky, crafty, untrustworthy bastards.> Yours too? :)

And that's all for tonight. Later!

**RP SECOND HALF BEGINS NOW**

The ice around Tau's soul crystal melts away as Gubio inputs a code, and Doug reaches in to grab the jewel. "Good work," he tells the hacker. "No sweat," Gubio smiles, looking at the stormtroopers. "You guys want me to unfreeze any more of these aliens who are in here?" "No thank you," one of them says. "The Mantiri ambassador is the only one we're really worried about right now." "Okay, then," Kit smiles. "Let's smash the crystal and get going. Anyone got a hammer?" "My sword hilt will be good enough," says Stephanie, drawing her katana and holding it up as Doug sets down the gem. "This will kill him, right?" "Actually no," Doug shakes his head. "It just traps him in whatever body he's currently occupying. We shoot that one and Tau will be gone will good." "Then I hope that body's not one of our friend's," Stephanie sighs, raising her weapon. Orion, Elena, and the others nod in agreement. Kit's sister then swings her sword down and the crystal disintegrates in a spray of black light and flying shards. "Good work," says Janice. "Shall we return to the others and get out of here." "Yeah," Doug agrees, waving a hand at them. Everyone follows him out of the room and back into the hall.

Above them in his office, Kincaid is speaking into a phone. "You said what, Morton? There's only seven of them and they're overwhelming our agents? This isn't possible! Get out there and do something!" A loud gunshot suddenly echos through the phone line, followed by a scream. "Morton?" Kincaid asks. "You hear me, Morton? Morton?" There is no answer. Kincaid snarls and slams down the phone, looking up at a shadow that has suddenly fallen over him. "Agent Tau," he nods. "I see you've taken over my secretary's body again. You know I don't like when you do that." "Sorry, sir," Tau apologizes. "Just about all the other suitable hosts for me have been killed." "Whatever," Kincaid replies. "Did you get the Ravens?" "No sir. I'm sorry. They killed my main host and my four subordinates. I think they're still at large on the bottom level." "Good," Kincaid nods. "I had it and the sixteen floors above evaced a while ago. Nothing's down there now but frozen aliens and our foes." He flips open a control panel on his chair arm. "All I have to do is press this button and in three minutes, bye, bye, birdies." Tau frowns. "Sir, my soul crystal is down there. I can't let you push that button." "Go down there and get it," Kincaid orders. He then hits the red switch on the panel. "You have three minutes, Tau, that should be enough time." Tau nods and turns to run out, then suddenly stops and looks back at Kincaid with a pained look on his face. "They just smashed it," he growls. "Who? The Ravens?" Kincaid asks. "Who else?" Tau fumes, storming out of the room. Kincaid watches the ultra-powerful ghost-alien leave and sighs, realizing the Ravens have just cost him his secretary. Well, he chuckles inwardly, they now have three minutes to escape from here before the bombs on the lower levels detonate. They'll never make it. That should be ample revenge.

**TO BE CONTINUED, END THIS BIT OF RP**
Doug - [frostfire@mail.utexas.edu]
Sunday, September 19, 1999 12:18:46 AM
IP: pool-207-205-148-45.dlls.grid.net

Christine: Read Revenge and I must say...
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Coyote: I am not sure that my cable company gets channel 38. (I don't use antenna with my satelite because I can't get ANY channel)

<ACKNOWLEDGE\\SUBMIT>
Fire Storm - [night-Flame@usa.net]
Sunday, September 19, 1999 12:14:00 AM
IP: t2-20.visitus.net

Coyote> awesome! I spoke to Lex today and she says that she remembers you and has described you in more detail *s* She also told me that you are in our "home video" so I will be watching it and looking for you! :)
Yeah, Lex is our leader and founding sister and Eden is one of the originals clanners. I think she is sooo beautiful! Inside and out! :) So is Lex!! Lex and I shared a room with Oracle and Jade. (We were on the 5th floor)
Anyway, I hope that you can make it to the Gathering 2000 - I would love to meet you IRL *g*

Pistoff> sorry you had to leave early tonight... :( I swear your mom has it timed juuusttt right! *L* You're right... she wants the phone everytime you're online.. hehehe
Thank you again, my dear friend for being here for me. I'd be lost without your friendship! *hugs*

Denis> *L* I'm still laughing.... I must keep you up late more often! ;) you're sooo funny!
Words alone are not enough to tell you how grateful I am for you.... you're the absolute best!! *hugs* je t'aime mon Denis! we r 1 *smiles*

Lessons From Trees:
1. It's important to have roots.
2. In today's complex world, it pays to branch out.
3. If you really believe in something do be afraid to go
out on a limb.
4. Be flexible so you don't break when a harsh wind blows.
5. Sometimes you have to shed your old bark in order to
grow new.
6. If you want to maintain accurate records, keep a log.
7. It's ok to be a late bloomer.
8. Avoid people who would like to cut you down.
9. As you approach the autumn of your life, you will show
your true colors.
*grins*


Jannie
Saturday, September 18, 1999 11:47:48 PM
IP: 168.171.196.228

Hi, y'all. It's only 10:00 here, so I have no idea why I'm this exhausted. Anyway, I thought I'd give some news:

Item 1> Both of my GM's are evil, sneaky, crafty, untrustworthy bastards. God, these games are good. :) I'll provide details if anybody's interested. Otherwise, gamer stories tend to be boring, so I'll keep them to myself.

Item 2> I have no idea when Freelance Episode 4 will come out. The story line I was using isn't working out very well, so I'm going to scrap most of it and start over. This would not usually be a problem, except...

Item 3> I'm moving to my new apartment this week, which means I need to get my place packed and cleaned up. I also have several other things to do (Like a date -sort of- the night before I move.)

Item 4> I'm working on my web page. Somewhat after I move, my internet access should improve to the point that I can upload it from home, instead of having to do it from work. It should be ready by late October, at least in minimal form. I'll put out the call for submissions for the "Hall of Spam" soon.

Item 5> I'm running my first live action game on the 30th of October. (SKIPPY, The con is on the 30th. If you haven't talked to Ben, E-Mail me.) The title is "Terror of Morley Manor." The plot is something like a cross between "Clue" and "Dark Tower." (Anybody else remember that game. Damn, I wanted one.)

Item 6> This post is getting really long, and I'm tired. See y'all later.
David G. - [david_goodner@yahoo.com]
Saturday, September 18, 1999 11:18:56 PM
IP: pppa56-fortworth8-2r234.saturn.bbn.com

*short RP* after finishing off the last of the fleeing hordes, Fenrir detects the rumble of Pastor John's M1, his arrival punctuated by the speech and explosion given by the suit-clad psycho" Hey lizard-man!, looks like our friends have a new playmate!" Shogun whirls around and sees the tank and tormentor "well then Fenrir, what say we dismantle his ride? the hard way....Sevens let's show him how NOT to obey the commandment about not killing!"
"Shogun"
"Yeah doc?"
"work on your battle cries"
*end RP*

Beast Machines> this show has serious potential, I just wish a bit more stuff carried over from Beast Wars, for instance Rattrap's "we're all gonna die" line , I mean if Megatron doesn't go "yesss" anymore, at least give the fans that one

Big guy & rusty the boy robot> I didn't catch much of the show, but judging from the graphic novel I read based on it, It was a bit like the Tick, given that it was a superhero parody, the difference being that in this one the hero was straight-faceplated and everyone else was a joke...sort of
shogun raptor
Saturday, September 18, 1999 10:57:56 PM
IP: miami-trans2.firn.edu

***BEGIN RP***
Sevarius Junior was embraced in a kiss with Kari for what seemed like hours, but was more like a few seconds. Still, for
whatever length of time, he was enjoying it immensely. :)
When the kiss was over, he gasped for breath. "Wow. What was that for?"
"For stopping the smurf and saving the world," she smiled.
He blushed. "Gosh....well, I really couldn't have done it without you. Without you giving me your energy, I wouldn't have
even lasted a minute with the Cyber Smurf. As it was, he was almost too powerful for me to fight. I think we'd be all up the
creek should we ever come across a being more powerful than him [big wink at Robby]."
"Don't seel yourself short," Kari encouraged. "You didn't do too bad, whatever the circumstances. Now, we'd both better
get ourselves together and join the others."
"Yeah," he agreed. "You should get to see your brother again, now that he's fully grown. And afterwards," he groaned
slightly, holding his side, "we'd probably better get ourselves to the medlabs...again."
He gently helped her up, and supporting her with his own tired, exhausted body, he helped her walk towards the others and
Jim.
***END RP FOR NOW***

Just sitting back and watching Howard Stern's "Private Parts" film on the USA network. Like him, hate him, or loathe him,
that is one funny movie....

Doug and Kit: Hope to get into the much-delayed Phalanx invasion thing soon. Nice way of dealing with the Phalanx-killing
virus as well :) Glad you two enjoyed Action as well (I thought it was pretty good myself!). BTW, did you and Doug get to
see "Mean Streak" yet? I was going to go see that movie this weekend, but I had some doubts about it (it kind of looks like
the predictable cop comedy), and I wanted you guys to give the 411 on it before I make my final decision. Oh, and I was just
kidding about Tom Petty, I like some of his music as well (but I also like the bands I listed as well--eclectic tastes I guess :).
BTW, if you two do dress up as Team Rocket, I definitely want a picture! ;)

Review of "Action": Well, a new show I actually like! I thought it was much, much better than the usual un-funny sitcom
drivel that can be found everywhere these days. It was edgy, humorous, and didn't pull and punches. Jay Mohr is great at
playing scumbags, and Peter Dragon is one of the biggest lowlifes on TV! I'm glad they decided to include as much of the
"questionable" material as they did. I enjoyed the "bleeps" rather than the often irritating "turn down the volume" sound edit
that Fox usually uses. Some of the scenes, such as the Dominated Disney Employee, and Buddy Hackett had me rolling
(Buddy to the pimp: "Hey, I've got one ball, one lung, and one kidney. I need to take Viagra just to keep from pissing on my
shoes.") The only part I didn't really enjoy was Illeana Douglas. She's a decent enough actress, but as a high-priced hooker?
Not believable from a biological perspective (I'm sorry, but.....I'll shut up). I hope this show survives the Fall tv culling, as I
think it has real promise. It's certainly better than anything like "Dharma and Greg".

***SPOILERS FOR NEW FOX SHOWS****
Didn't get to see the new Sherlock Holmes show, as I don't get up at 8 on Saturdays except under threat of physical violence.
:) I did get to see both Beast Machines and Big Guy.

BEAST MACHINES: Let me first pick up my jaw from the floor. This series has some of the most beautiful CGI I have
ever seen. EVER. Robby, I know you didn't like it but....I liked it better than BW. I mean, I have the opposite feeling, I
thought much of the scenery in BW suffered from being kind of "clunky" and repetitive (I'm sorry, I know it was on prehistoric
earth, but I can only watch the Maximals fight on so many rocks or trees. I need the bleak, cold, metallic world of
Cybertron!). I know that Robby has some severe doubts about the show, but I personally loved it. I actually like the
redesigns for the Maximals, even more so than the Transmetal stages of BW (well....perhaps not for Black Arachnia. I liked
her second form in BW better). I was much impressed with the premiere, visually. As for the plot, I have hopes for that too.
It's obvious that only a few brief Maximals are there on Cybertron, and they don't know why they're there or where every
other Transformer is. They're being pursued by strange enemies, and in the end we see a monstrous version of Megatron
cloaked in shadows. I would presume that in episodes to come (perhaps in the episodes titled "Revelations" parts 1 & 2), it
will be explained just what the heck is going on. Personally, I think that Megatron has basically conquered Cybertron and
enslaved the Transformers...but that's just a hypothesis. I'm pleased with the show, even if some direct continuity problems
are present.

BIG GUY: I was very pleased with this show!!! Overall, I thought it captured the feel of the comic book very nicely.
Coyote, you shouldn't fret too much about it being just a "kid's show". Frank Miller himself has seen the final product, and
was very pleased with it. He's stated that he himself is happy with how faithful the show is to the original source material. I
found the show to be at times funny (Big Guy's lines have to be taken tongue-in-cheek!), charming (Rusty's neverending
admiration of Big Guy--a robot idolizing another robot???), and had some good action (the fight with the alien). Robby, this
series is not meant to be like the Tick, which was a obvious and blatant parody of superheroes. That's not to say the show
doesn't aim for humor, but it's a little more serious than the stuff the good Ben gave us (BTW, when will Comedy Central get
off their hiney and actually air Tick at some time other than a 3 a.m. slot? Grrrrr...) Stephen, yes, Big Guy does seem parallel
to Godzilla, but that's really how the comic is. Big Guy and his pal Rusty fight monsters, most of them capable of Godzilla like
damage. Kind of like an homage to Ultraman, huh? :) Overall, I enjoyed the show immensely. It looks like Fox may have a
couple of decent shows this time around. :)
***END FOX TOON REVIEW***

Sevarius Jr. - [bpoole@mailexcite.com]
Saturday, September 18, 1999 10:46:12 PM
IP: 207-172-35-247.s247.tnt9.brd.va.dialup.rcn.com

Future note to self- NOTHING on geocities seems to work as a direct link... Clicking on my name WON'T get a piccie of Trunks. Guess I'll have to find another one...
Robby
Saturday, September 18, 1999 10:05:55 PM
IP: spider-ti022.proxy.aol.com

Not too much to say since last night...

Just watched all three Highlander movies, fun stuff...

I'm considering going off and seeing Yellow Submarine since I'm a Beatles fan, but I dunno... I rather enjoyed Hard Day's Night, but Yellow Submarine looks to fairly psycadelic and wierd...

"Thats my uncle."
"He's rather clean isn't he?"
-line used MANY times in "Hard Day's Night"

SJ- THe thing of it is, Krillin just gets soooo beat up on later in the series I get sick of him being nothing more than a punching bag. Hence, 'Krillin' got the final blow for once.

Wilek- Thanks for the link. I'll give it a good look over when I have some time...

And I know how you feel about the music site. I completley cut short one of my RP sagas in mourning when my fave music site went down... (It was the one where Jim went house hunting and ended up with a yellow submarine...)

Night walker- Knowledge of Final Fantasy 1-7 is not needed to play part 8. Every game in the series is COMPLETELY unrelated to the last, except when it comes to creature summons, (Bahamut always gets cooler and cooler looking!) Moogles, and chocobos. Otherwise, characters, and often the PLANET have nothing in common with the previous games.

Final Batman ep- WOn't see it til tommarrow. Of course, it sounds a bit dissapointing...

Kitainia- Actually, Conan confronted John Stamos THURSDAY night. ANd it probably will be a reruned episode, it was a good one. (John even had a compilation clip of COnan and Rebecka's... chemistry on the show...)

And for an idea of the character I'm gonna be for halloween, just clickie my name...

Lotsa Babylon 5 quotes. Can't participate I'm afraid.

**POSSIBLE BEAST MACHINE SPOILERS**

I'm not going to judge the storyline just yet. I know its been planned as a 13 episode arc but can't help but feel this episode was pretty dull without much happening. I understand it brought up a ton of questions intentionally, but still... It does annoy me that not a single MENTION was made of Rhinox, Silverbolt, or Megatron. I know the characters were in mortal danger, but these things SHOULD have concerned them for at least a few seconds. As well almost no personality came out of anyone, they were just cast in roles. By the end of the first episode of Beast Wars Rhinox, Cheetor, Ratrap, and Dinobot had all shown unique personalities. Here, Ratrap is the only one to do so.
Also I'm rather dissapointed that the animation is actually WORSE than it was last year. A lot of the texture shading is gone, so everything looks smooth and liquidy, so it looks more cartoony. Its bad when the characters look less realistic than they did three years ago.
As well, its no secret I'm not pleased with the new characters designs, even less now that I've seen them moving. (Not to mention the scene where they upgraded lacked all the drama their previous upgrades have possesed...) All in all, I did not like the first episode,but its probably mostly because I'm comparing it too closely to Beast Wars. (And rightly so.) If I weren't measuring it against that standard, I'd likely be VERY impressed. I hope its just a case of new writers getting the hang of someone else's characters... All in all, I did not like this episode, but that may change in coming weeks as it fits into the whole of the story...

In their favor, at least they changed the theme song from the pieve of utter crap they had in the promos to... That 20 second instrumental? DId the show even HAVE an intro?

**END BEAST MACHINES REVIEW, BEGIN BIG GUY AND RUSTY REVIEW**

I'm not very familiar with the original comic, but I wasn't impressed by this all the same. It lacks the out and out humor of the Tick, and it lacks the out and out seriousness of earlier X-Men and Spiderman episodes. I don't know what to think yet, but the first ep was okay I guess...

**END BIG GUY AND RUSTY REVIEW AND BEGIN RP HERE: CYBER SMURF SAGA AFTERMATH**

Cheers begin coming forth from Jim's clone. "We are the champions, we are the champions... No time for looosuhs, cause we are the champions... Of the wooooorld...."
Black Tiger looks at the clone amazed. "You imitated the singer perfectly... And you also matched the echo, instrumentals and background singers! How the heck?"
Jim's clone shrugged.

SJ hardly notices as he tends to Kari and recieves that kiss mentioned yesterday in a rather sweet and tender soul baring moment... But I think I'll let SJ cover that part of the RP himself...

Dark Mage Wilek is fascinated to notice that with the Smurf's death, all those sent to another dimension have come back...
"Say, what are we going to do with this space station anyway?"
"It's yours," Black Tiger responds. "But be careful. This thing was built by an evil villain, and its been possesed by two more since. It could be rigged."
"Cool..."

Black Tiger then goes to Jim's clone. "You know, you should probably throw a big party to celebrate or something..."
"Why would I throw a party?"
"Um, Kari..." he begins, then notices she's sharing a touching moment with SJ and decides not to interupt it.
"Well ya see, Jim used to throw great big fancy parties back when he was alive. You should see the pictures of the one he threw when he got married..."
"The original me was married?"
"Uh, did I say that? Er... I meant to say when one of his friends got married..."
(Note: Black Tiger's identity will not be revealed just yet... But it seems he knows something about Jim!)
Robby
Saturday, September 18, 1999 10:03:22 PM
IP: spider-ti022.proxy.aol.com

**enters quickly, switching out the candles much faster than he has in previous days.**

No, it's not because I'm feeling happier ... it's because my computer's loading the CR faster for me now, and I can finally get through to the GFW. :)

**sits down in the massage chair**

FOX Premieres: Fire Storm voiced his complaint in the other room, which I will echo ... all of Fox Kids' programming is *not* carried by our local Fox station, but by an obscure UHF station that half of the time shows cruddy 'toons and the other half is split between televangelists and wrestling (interesting combo ... FS, if you see this, it's Channel 38 WADL.). Even still, I am *extremely* wary of the quality of the shows in question, especially "Big Guy and Rusty, the Boy Robot" ... folks tend to forget that this concept started life as a comic written by Frank Miller, so you know for sure that not everything is going to survive ... and possibly the whole feel and tone of the book (re: its intelligence) may suffer because it's being marketed to kids.

Jannie: To continue last night's reply to you (mainly because I was half-asleep last night), the group I hung out with at the Gathering was mostly TGS staff and those that I knew real well from the CR ... and tended to go along regional bounds as well, as I hung a lot (or at least tried to) with Fire Storm and Lady Mystic. Other than that, I was mostly with Stephen and Mandolin or other TGS staffers (Taleweaver and Kyryn immediately come to mind. :).

Night Walker: I've done the therapy bit, too ... been there, done that, got the t-shirt, ate the burger. If there's anything ye need to discuss that might potentially embarrass ye, hey, bend an ear over e-mail. I can also guarantee that it takes a *hell* of a lot to make me feel embarrassed.
Oh incidentally ... I would run very fast in the other direction if your mom and mine ever got in a fight. Not sure about yours, but mine is trained in NBC warfare and field-qualified on the M-16 ...

Jaden: Hey, I thought she was you until she asked me for age/gender. :)

Kitainia, re: Halloween costumes: **tries to control laughter, can't** You have *GOT* to post pics of those when you get 'em done!! And how ironic, since this little thing came into my possession last night ... **pulls out keychain to show off its new fob, the official "Pissed-Off Pikachu" keychain**

Almighty Bob: Hey that's all right, friend. Deuce never replied to me, though ... he never told us he knew the Saint of Sales. (ask if you're confused, I'll explain)

Sarge re: dead Michigander in Vermont: They had that all over the Detroit news broadcasts last night ...

**sits back in the massage chair** I think I'll be here a while ... **clicks on the massager and fixates once more**
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Saturday, September 18, 1999 09:25:56 PM
IP: modem79.i-is.com

MGC > Eva sent me a pic of Goliath, Brooklyn, and Elisa as Batman, Robin, and Catwoman respectively; it's great and I e-mailed her about MGC; I hope she submits it!

CotSB the Movie > I know what I'd love to see, but at this point, I need the money so bad I wouldn't quibble ... this must be how "Yor, Hunter from the Future" got made ... not that I'm likely to find out anytime soon. But ohhhh, every time I imagine it animated, with David Bowie voicing Arien, I get all fluttery ... and after meeting Thom at the Gathering, I'd want him to be Greyquin ...

D&D Movie > Richard O'Brien's still around? Jeezy-weezy, twenty-some years later he must be scarier than ever! If they were doing Dragonlance, he'd make a pretty good (if a little aged) Raistlin.

Christine - [vecna@eskimo.com]
Saturday, September 18, 1999 08:09:23 PM
IP: vecna.ndip.eskimo.net

Greetings all...

NEW SATURDAY LINE UP ON FOX - Well, what can I say? They screwed a lot of people over by spliting up the new shows, showing half of them today (along with that god awful PR Turbo movie!), and the rest will come in October! ARGH!

Anyway, the new shows:

"Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century" - I think this could be a better show if they'd develop the characters more. Personally, I would have done a one-hour 'origin' episode to firmly establish Inspector Lastrade, Watson, and Mr. Holmes. One can only hope the writing improves as the show continues, or else it's going to look like a bad rip off of "The Magician.

"Beast Machines" - Okay, this can grow on me! It was cool to see the original Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rattrap, and Black Arachnia in action, and seeing the scene of the Matrix reformating the Maximals was impressive (but, personally I would have prefered to see Vector Sigma). It's going to take some time to getting used to the new body forms of their robot forms (even though we only see Primal's in this ep), and I have to know, what happened to them prior to this ep? Where are the other Maximals and Predacons? And how did Megatron get control of Cybertron first?!? Must watch and find out!

"Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot" - Now, this one looks to be a bit of fun, even though it's forming up to be more like a parallel to "Godzilla"; except there's a large robot (forgive me, a man-shaped battle machine) do the trashing. And the fact the voice of Rusty is the same as Bobby Hill from "King of The Hill" was a surprise. Again, please tell me there is going to be more character development here... and will Rusty ever learn that Big Guy isn't a true robot?

I just can't wait to see "The Avengers", "Spiderman Unlimited", and "Xyber-9"... just to see what new stuff is coming our way.

Maintain and Check Six!

P.S. - Oh! One quote I found on a blooper site of Bab-5:

Londo - AURRGH! (collapses)
Vir - DONT'T... DIIIEEE!
Londo - "Porkchops!"
Stephen R. Sobotka, Jr. - [scififangargoyle@yahoo.com]
Spokane, WA, USA
Saturday, September 18, 1999 03:51:55 PM
IP: m126.ieway.com

Well I'm back! I hope you all are happy to hear from me!

Beast Machines- Cool show, I'll be watching this for awhile to see where it gets to. But nothing beats the original show.

WB- The Warner Brothers station has decided to go out of my district! I have no Warner Brothers! I now only have about an hour of them each morning on Fox. What are they doing on fox!? Give me back WB!

TGS- There is only one thing I can say about this. TGS is cool.....that is all.

MY Fan-fic- err......I'll get back to you on that......

MY artwork- I am currently drawing Brooklyn in a gloomy state, crying. So far he is a sketch....:P

MY webpage- heh heh...I found out why I couldn't get my page loaded! I was typing www.xoom when I should have done members.xoom.....man is my face red!

Floyd- The remains manage to get up here in Vermont. One person from Michigan died here and there's a lot of flooding in the southern part of the state. But because I live up on a hill, I was not effected. In fact I didn't even loose power.

Gert- Why is it there is always a new possible disaster after a quick blow with a previous one? Let's hope it actually misses us!

If it taste like propane and smells like garlic....it's Sarge.
Sarge Abernathy - [SargeMM@aol.com]
Barre, VT, USA
Saturday, September 18, 1999 03:07:08 PM
IP: spider-tf023.proxy.aol.com

*enters*

hello people. Today is a day to rejoice. Why you ask? Quite simple: MY SISTER HAS GONE TO COLLEGE!!! *balloons and streamers fall from the ceiling and I dance around like a happy idiot and sing* Celebrate good times come on!!!!

On another note, school has been a bit frustrating. Particulary math and german. I've been having a hard time trying to get my assignments done on time. *grumbles*
Mary Flanders
Saturday, September 18, 1999 01:57:59 PM
IP: stk-ts2-h1-38-16.ispmodems.net

Hey y'all! Sorry that my posts will be infrequent; if I'm not drawing or 3d modelling, I'm playing my guitar. I don't spend near as much time on the computer as I used to. But that's OK. Anyways, just thought I'd say thanks to all the nice people who welcomed me! Also, for Wilek Nerius: indeed I did render the trainstation scene. Thanks a whole bunch for the compliments; they keep me going ('they LIKE me! They REALLY LIKE me!'). Once again signing off, this is
THE ALMIGHTY BOB
Pixel-Pounding Shaman of Luminence and Hue
The Almighty Bob - [bob_the_great@hotpop.com]
Noway, Nowhere, Nohow
Saturday, September 18, 1999 01:53:01 PM
IP: pppa66.connect.ab.ca

Thanks for the Birthday wishes everyone!! You are an awesome bunch... really made it a birthday to remember.

Pistoff - You poor thing... sometimes you remind me TOO much of myself. Just slaughter a few customers and you will feel much better. :)
CrzyDemona
Saturday, September 18, 1999 11:25:18 AM
IP: 209.150.94.64

B5- God! only around four days `til Space starts showing season five but it fels like forever! Oh well, at least there are still some untaken quotes left:

"The humans have a saying "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" I think they stole it from us." -G'kar from Parliment of Dreams.

"Stay close to the Vorlon and watch out for Shadows-they move when you're not looking at them." -Sinclair from The Coming of the Shadows

"Good-bye, old friend" -Sinclair from War Without End Part One.

"Want to talk about Socks?" -Garabaldi from Babylon Squared

"Londo... what I said before... about finding another way. I was wrong. Kill him." -Vir from The Summoning

and finnaly, "Whoo-hoo?" -Lennier from Racing Mars.

Wilek- About the immortality, thanks but no thanks, just the pleasure of being a warped minion is reward enough for me.

One last quote to end this post:"Consider me shut." -Jack Knight, Starman #59
niner
Saturday, September 18, 1999 09:12:04 AM
IP: asy06.dial.upei.ca

Hi all!!

Finally after half a days fustration I have internet access once more(Had to re-intstall the whole thing),also on top of that was the state election that was held as well(you don't no how hard it was to resist the urge to put in a vote for Demona>;))

B5:I wish I had watched this show more than I did (I only caught the last two seasons more or less:()

I wish I could post some more replies but it's getting late

C'yas!!!


Xanathar
Melbourne, victoria, Australia
Saturday, September 18, 1999 07:46:30 AM
IP: cache1.mpx.com.au

DOUG AND KITAINA - You're going as Team Rocket on Halloween? Does that mean you're also going to be reciting their infamous motto a lot? :)

SPLICERS - A bizarre idea that I had since logging off last night; what if in the future of the Gargoyles Universe, a few humans with unusual tastes tried similarly splicing themselves with gargoyle genetic material for a similar "unique look"? (Sevarius would doubtless be very interested in assisting with such operations, I can imagine).
Todd Jensen - [merlyn@ninenet.com]
St. Louis, MO
Saturday, September 18, 1999 07:21:57 AM
IP: 216.87.46.88.dialup-stl.primary.net

Toku Kaioto> On your Vir quote, Vir was speaking to Morden.
Gyre - [wseeley@epix.net]
Saturday, September 18, 1999 07:09:20 AM
IP: fltg3-ppp66.fltg.net

**RP HERE, PICKING UP MANY CLIFFHANGERS**

The Phalanx's missiles streak out of Earth's atmosphere, undetected by anyone so far thanks to their Stealth technology. However, as they are turning around and getting ready to streak back down to their targets, a young ensign on the Avatar of Ganon space station looks at his console and gasps. "Adminstrator!" he shouts. "Agent Rho! Phalanx detected! Phalanx ships coming up from Earth!!" Rho immediately runs over and looks worriedly at the radar screen. "I knew it was a good idea to watch for something like this," he mutters. "Ever since the Phalanx destroyed our last station..." He compliments the ensign on his good eyes and then grabs his commlink. "Administrator, do you see the Phalanx missiles?" "Yes, Rho. Shall I eliminate them with our turbolasers?" "Please." The Administrator then fires the station's guns and within twelve seconds every Phalanx assimilation bomb is obliterated. No damage has been done to Earth or anything by them. This causes Rho to smile widely. "Good work," he tells the ensign. "Now find out where those missiles came from. Track their vapor trails. We have to let Wilek know about this now." The ensign nods and gets to work. Down on Earth, the Phalanx, having just detected the destruction of their missiles, are gritting their teeth and shouting in anger, except for the Taco Bell chihuahua, who for some reason seems unconcerned. Sevarius stands nearby waiting for Prime's displeasure to be turned on him, his expression a mixture of disappointment (because the Phalanx elimination virus he was making was on board the bombs) and relief.

**END RP FIRST BIT**

Greetings. Happy early morning to all of you. :) Doug and I just got back from seeing Tom Petty live in concert. We had a fantastic time. Even though he didn't sing all the songs we wanted him to, the performance was still wonderful and we are glad to have gone. Good band, good music, good words, it was an all-around great experience. :) On with replies.

Jannie: You're welcome. Kind words are always something I'm happy to give out. :)

Nightwalker: You're welcome as well. Glad you're feeling somewhat better. By the way, since you were wondering earlier, 1985 was the Year of the Ox.

Wilek: <separated from one's family, living in barracks with a bunch of total strangers, communal everything> That can also describe college dorm life, unfortunately! L I agree with your words about the Marines and their problems. Thanks for posting them. $ Feel free to continue the above RP thread if you like. Same goes for SJ. Hope you two don't mind us giving it a jump-start. $

Welcome back to Skippy, Stormy, and TJ Veil!

Zath: <Wow, you're the lion *and* the lamb...> You're not the first to notice that. <grins> Isn't it cool?

TGS Situation: Like everyone else, I'm glad to know we'll get all of the four series in new and seperate story arcs this season. :) I'm not going to pester the writers, except I will say I hope that new stories come out real soon.

Speaking of new stories, I watched the first episodes of Action last night out of boredom, and found the show to be a lot better than its commercials indicated. Jay Mohr's act was much better when put to an episode script, where he had other characters to interact with. Unlike his lines in the commercials, his lines on the show did not make me want to ask "How can TV have possibly sunk this low?" :) There were also some other interesting characters in the eps, and the plots were pretty decent. The jokes were funny too. So Doug and I are definitely going to keep watching this show Thursday nights.

Also saw the new Batman Beyond episode "Splicers." It was terrific, Todd's earlier post has pretty much summed up what I wanted to say about it. :) I too found the villain's final form chilling and the overall concept of splicing scary but neat.

SJ: Glad Floyd missed you. :) As for your suggestion of "real entertainment," Tom Petty was enough entertainment for us, thank you very much. :) None of the bands you mentioned were playing in Austin anyway (and I've only heard of one, Rob Zombie, whose music is okay but whose image does not suit our tastes. :) $ As you can see in the above post, we did not forget about Sevarius's Phalanx elimination virus. Thanks for reminding us. Hope you can pick up the invasion thread soon now that the smurf's been finished off. :) $

Kaioto: Now that's the way to spend time in a hurricane. :)

Stormy: No one knows what's wrong with the fanfic archive. Most of us are just bearing with it. We've asked Chris to solve the problem many times, but he hasn't gone around to it yet. :(

Christine: Read and enjoyed "Revenge of the Amazon Women," thanks for the entertainment. :) 9/10 stars, great job. Especially enjoyed the Wcky development and catfight. Keep up the good work!

Robby: Conan confronted John Stamos tonight and we missed it? Augh! <sighs> Oh well, Tom Petty was worth it. Hope we can catch a rerun someday.

Halloween: Doug and I have almost finalized our costume decision. If anyone's wondering, we're thinking of dressing up as Team Rocket from Pokemon. :) We're not sure about it yet, depends on how much the costumes cost and whether Gubio lets us borrow Mist to act as Meowth. But we probably will go through with the idea. <grin>

That appears to be all I have to talk about tonight. :) See y'all again soon, probably with a review of Blue Streak. Must sleep now. Later!

**RESUME RP ACTION**

In the Area 51-A base's cold room, Gubio is seated behind the computer tapping keys. "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Kitainia stands behind him and asks. "Just getting a feel for the system," the hacker assures her. "Don't worry, I know we don't want too many of these things to start waking up." He confers for a moment with one of the stormtroopers and then activates a procedure that unfreezes the mantis-like alien ambassador. K'Thenri immediately falls over and slumps into the stormtroopers' arms. Orion walks forward to see if he needs clerical or medical attention. "There," Gubio nods. "Now I know how to operate this system. All we have to do now is found Tau's gem." "Found it!" Stephanie yells. She points at a large ice cylinder, in the middle of which is frozen an evilly glowing black gem. "That's a Kappa-Toaurian soul crystal all right," one of the stormtroopers says after looking at what she indicates. "Agent Tau's race," grimaces Doug. "Gubio, can you unthaw this thing?" The hacker taps a few keys and frowns. "Uh, looks like it's coded. Give me a sec." "Okay, Alex, but hurry up," says Kitainia. "We've gone unbothered for a while now, I have a bad feeling." Doug nods. "Me too."

The display switches to outside the base, where Shap and Shauna are using gun and bow to shoot down several agents hiding behind the map display at the entrance. Shap checks the schematic and smiles at the text in the middle of it reading "You are here, we are not." Then he turns and quickly pegs another enemy agent taking aim at him (who by the way was named Hardy). "Kaioto!" Shauna yells from beside as she watches the Seeker slash his way through another bunch. Their friend turns to face her. "Yeah?" "Are those the guys you came with over there?" She points to a large field in the distance full of smoke and the sounds of bloodcurdling screams. "It has to be," Kaioto nods. "From the sound of things, I'd say the Deadly Seven are doing a great job!" "Yeah," Shap agrees. "I think we should stay out of their line of fire for a bit. At least until things calm down!" He laughs and turns to peg two agents running out of the main compound. A third, Kincaid's female assistant Shaw, gets an arrow from Shauna in the eye and goes down as she runs out onto the bunker's roof. "We got 'em scared!" Shauna shouts joyfully as no more agents come out to challenge them. Then there is a loud BAMF and Kaioto screams as he is hit full in the back by a missile of some kind. The Seeker falls over groaning, heavily wounded, stunned, and very lucky to be alive. (Hope you don't mind this, man!) Shap and Shauna spin to face the shot's direction, both immediately taking a step back as they are faced with the smoking cannon of a large M1 tank that had crept up behind them while they were shooting down Hardy and Shaw. "Greetings sinners!" a loud and very familiar voice booms from the vehicle's command turret. The hatch flips open and a blond Pat Sajak look-alike in a white suit stands up and laughs. "Pastor John!" Shap yells in surprise. "You're supposed to be dead!" "Hello, dissenter!" the paladin's nemesis chuckles. "The Lord hath delivered me so that I may come back to cleanse this planet! Prepare to face the torments of Hell!" With that he ducks back into the tank turret and slams the hatch. Another shell is fired, one that barely misses Shauna as Shap tackles her and knocks her aside and down. They both roll out of the way as Pastor John's tank begins heading towards them and the screen goes blank.

**TO BE CONTINUED, END RP**
Kitainia
Saturday, September 18, 1999 02:58:49 AM
IP: pool-209-138-63-208.dlls.grid.net

**RP Here**
Toku Kaioto shakes his head as the backlash of conflicting forces from the sky highg above washes over his mind and soul. He breaks off the contact, tearing himself back into the now. Focusing on the battle, he lapses into his katas and fighting techniques, desperate to block out the noise in his head. He leaps over the bunker as Shap supplies suppression fire, locking the flank. Moving almost in a blur, the Seeker runs down one of the stragglers from the flank route that Shap hasn't shot down yet. Rapping him quickly across the head with a lightening fast one-two punch, he pulls up the guardsman in heavy flak as a human shield, deflecting a few incoming shots off of his victim's armor and then making the finally rolling dash into the compound proper.
Shap and Shauna make ready to run for it as shouts erupt and incoming fire is cut off. There is a single very loud word they can hear well out of many in Latin wafting back to them. "Ignes!" Shout turn to screams as guardsmen begin to pour out of windows and beat a hasty retreat from their hall-way sniper positions, some with blackened armor and singed skin.
"Clear!" the Seeker's voice calls back as another guardsman is tossed bodily from a window, head over heels.
**End RP**
Babylon 5 Quotes: I watched this show from the beginning to the end. The stream of quotes worth quoting are endless. Some of my personal favorites:

"The Vorlons have a saying: 'Truth is a three edged sword. Their side. Your side. And the Truth."

*

Disciple, "Master, what is God?"
G'Kar to his disciples, "Each one of us carries a Light inside us. When we only look outwards, we can only see the Light reflecting off the walls. We believe this reflection to be God, and as we approach the wall the reflection grows brighter, but the Light is actually inside while we simply misidentify it as the wall and reflection."
Disciple. "Yes, I see," murmurs of agreement. "But, what is God?" More head nodding and murmuring agreement.
G'Kar rolls his eyes.

*

Vir, remembering his discussion with one of Lando's conspirators, I think it was Lord Refa, "One day I'm going to look up and see your head on a pike in the middle of the courtyard, and I'm going to just smile and wave …" Vir then looks up at the man's head on the pike and indeed gives a congenial, but impish smile and a cute little way at the dead villain and wanders off casually. Always knew Vir had it in him.

Hm … well,

SJ: You have to love George Carlin, eh? :)
I just finished reading Mara's newest MySTing in the Archive. I loved it. That's all I have to say about that until I read part two. Nothing like a total lack of constructive feedback sugar coated with sincere praise, eh?

Toku Kaioto - [kaioto@yahoo.com]
Boston, MA, USA
Saturday, September 18, 1999 02:06:52 AM
IP: 1cust184.tnt2.brockton.ma.da.uu.net

Skippy: PLATE half a million square feet of steel? I do NOT think so! :)

Mandolin: Spraying the cracks? Guess you won't be having plumbers there anytime soon, eh?

Batman Beyond: Splicing: Is it just me, or does the Batman series have some fetish with genetic engineering?

Night Walker: Jeremy? You too?

<PRAISE\\GIVER-OF-WILL>
Fire Storm - [Night-Flame@usa.net]
Saturday, September 18, 1999 01:57:44 AM
IP: 216.90.45.181

****NO RP****

Wilek-I laughed for years after Marcus said that one.

B5 quotes- Ivonova- How did you know they were coming?
Marcus- I didn't. It just seemed like this was the perfect time for us to get caught. Like I said I don't believe in luck. (accidentally hits a wall with his fighting pike and opens an access panel they were looking for) Then again...

Londo-But I saw my death, in a dream it is prophesy.
Vir-A prophesy is just a guess that comes true. You could put a gun to your head tommorrow and your dream becomes a metaphor.


Gyre-I'd rather be killed by a mace to the head.

Coyote-You talked to my sister? Geez that girl is either on the phone or the computer.

See ya later!
Jaden - [jaden12@hotmail.com]
Los Alamos, CA
Saturday, September 18, 1999 01:47:38 AM
IP: cache3.avtel.net

*semi-spoilers ahead*
Todd> I saw the last fifth or so of that BB episode and the guy's final form it reminded me of a cross between Unity (that alien from the Superman episode of the same name) and one or more of Dr. Birkin's G-virus induced mutation stages from Resident Evil 2 with a bit of the "powered up" version of the Presever from the 2nd half of the superman Lobo Episode thrown in, but still it was VERY disturbing, I wonder what it would've looked like if Terry used the entire crate of mutagenic agent syringes on him
shogun raptor
Saturday, September 18, 1999 01:26:04 AM
IP: miami-trans2.firn.edu

PART TWO OF LONG POST***

Sorry about that , my moms new boyfriend wanted to take us to some pizza place right in the middle of post. Isn't that neat? He's great but...uhhh. maybe later I'll tell you guys. Right now I'm listening to The 110beats per minute remix of Human behavior. It's okay, but it's not as fast as the title says. If any of you are bjork fans and have a choice between her venus as a boy single and big time sentuality single, pick the latter. **the room turns silent , no one knows what the hell young jeremy is talking about**

Screams of exrutiating pain come from Mr.disconnects mouth as his fingers and tounge are ripped out . A separate rope is tied to each one of his fingers, the other ends are ties to ten different horses. Four of the horses have already run off. His tonge has been pierced with a hot needle and a metal rod was put through the hole. Night walker laughes while pulling on the other end of the rod. That'll teach you to mess with my webtv, he says , as the rod splits his tounge in half. Night walker leaves to take care of more important buisness, leaving disconnect to bleed to death.

My more bloodthirsty side wrote that , not me.I could come up with better ones but it's late.

The military is a big subject, one I know much about.

SJ-Full metal jacket ? My mom has that movie , it's one of her faves. She also has Hamburger hill , ever seen that one?

Slippy the klingon-I think this is the first time that I've talked to you. You spoke earlier of the military changing ones attitude of things , they grow colder, more violent . I wonder [if that's true] what my mom was like before she joined the military. Either way I think that the military is way overrated and steriotyped , and the "be all you can be" commercials don't help much either.

Coyote-have you noticed this little patern that has formed between us? Both of your parents were in the military , as were mine , my parents were separated when I was nine, and when your mom left the military you were around 14, right? I think I got that right. And about you helping me, I think that that would be the best choice , alot better than my mom taking me to a therapist again. Don't think that your help isn't appreciated , it's just that I don't want to greatly embarase [yikes , I can't spell anymore] you here .I garauntee that If I need any help in that area I'll tell you.

Final Fantasy-I need some help. See I got this demo of FF8 and I thought that it was incredible. But see I was a bit confused because I've heard of FF , I've just never played on of them. If any of you know the plots to each one [and FFtactics, heard of it but don't know what it is]from FF1 to FF8 it would be greatly appreciated. I think if would be best to send it to me as an e-mail in this format:
ex;for FF8

FF8-playstation
full summary.

Can anyone help me with this ,I am stongly considering buying this game.Thak you so very much.

TGS-well , I now have a 6th story all planned out.Are any of you fanfic writers going to tell me if you would proofread and post my storys in the archive for me? Webtv has very limited options. And I have so many ideas in my head that I'm actually plotting these stories out even further. I want them to be short stories not novellas.

TGS-please stop badgering the staff about this , they're working hard on this , I'm 14 years old, I'm supposed to be impatient. If I can wait you can wait.

Holloween-never celebrated this. probaly because I never had friends to go out terrorizing neighborhoods with.But I bet it would be real fun to go with you guys. What do you do on All hallows eve? Dress up as gargs and scare people?

MTV VMA's-scripted, poorly judged , and unbearable.

Stigmata- I saw this movie the day it came out , It was every bit as great as I thought it would be. I'm listening to the soundtrack right now.Review tomorrow.

Rambo , street sharks, double dragon, starship troopers, and ghost busters? THEY TOOK THESE P.O.S. OVER GARGOYLES. WHAT?

RP ALERT***

After watching the battle from a distance , julius and night walker were both getting restless. "Shouldn't we go in there"?Julius squacked . We must come up with a plan of attack night walker replied. There has to be a way to defeat him. After seeing many a warrior charge and get punished for it night walker decided it was best to observe before stricking, so they decided to watch from the rafters. But their earlier plans were changed when all of a sudden the cyber smurf, paused from the fight and looked at them, eyes glowing.
night walker - [goliath01@hotmail.com]
hobart, IN, usa
Saturday, September 18, 1999 12:58:25 AM
IP: proxy-383.public.rwc.webtv.net

Just a quick post to tell you that I haven't disappeared again. I'm still swamped, is all. Worked ten hours today...a lot of customers are lucky to still be alive after meeting me...the usual bit. Just a couple of quick things, then I'll catch up with the rest later....

Babylon 5 quotes: One of my favorites is from Marcus, after he finished kicking the ass of every guy in a bar: "People used to tell me that I have a lot of repressed anger. Well, I'm not repressed anymore!" :)

CrzyDemona: Happy birthday, love! :) :) :) :) :)

Pistoff - [phred@koalas.com]
Saturday, September 18, 1999 12:32:58 AM
IP: wire-19.koalas.com

**de-fixates for a moment**

Jannie: Didn't hang too much with the MiniClanners, but I *did* get some good conversations with some of your clanmates (in particular Eden and Lex ... who'd both given their characters over for "When Clans Collide!"), and you probably saw me as one of the costume contestants at the Masquerade (I was Jaundice Boy ... errh, Rain ...). I made sure to bring some rather distinctive clothing with me so that folks would know who I am ... you might've seen me mulling around the lobby before checking in, I was the lunatic wearing the Michigan State Band jacket. :)

**fixates once more**
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Friday, September 17, 1999 11:52:23 PM
IP: 207.91.254.69

Nightwalker> thank you *smiles* hummmm.... sanity stealer? I'm afraid they'd starve if trying to steal any sanity that I might have left. Heh, look who I hang around with... Denis and Pistoff! Need I say more? *winks* Just kidding, guys! hehehehe

Coyote> you were at the Gathering in Dallas? So was I !!
Which "group" did you hang around with? I was with the mini clan *g* There were around 17 of us there. Anyway, it's a shame I hadn't met you before June! ack! We've could have met IRL! heh, might have and just didn't realize it! *L*
Will you be attending the one in Orlando? Denis and I are planning on being there *smiles*

Denis & Pistoff> dunno' if I'll see ya'll at 0:30. Hasn't and still isn't one of my finest days. *hugs to both*

Jannie
Friday, September 17, 1999 11:31:22 PM
IP: 168.171.197.78

**HORRIBLE MR DISCONNECT CARNAGE!!!!!!**

[A voice is heard, half crazed with rage, ranting almost incoherently in some arcane language. Guess who. Wilek kicks down the door to wherever Mr. Disconnect happens to be hiding out this time, grabs the hacker, and tosses him across the room. Wilek: "Alright, you **** ****ing little ****** ****er, I HAVE HAD IT. Locking up my PC today was nothing more than a slight annoyace, one that I could have forgiven." Wilek hacks off DC's hands and feet with a plastic olive fork. "Making my printer unable to print in anything but black and white was an inconvenence, one which could have netted you a slightly less agonizing death." Wilek shoves an extended family of rabid gerbils up DC's arse. "But...<sigh> You have committed a crime unforgivable." Wilek gouges out DC's left eye and pours a nest of scorpion mites in the socket. "You have done something that will condemn your filthy little soul to hell, now and forever." Wilek rips out DC's heart and pours a volume of diflouric acid into his chest cavity. "You have performed an atrocity that can not be allowed to go unpunished. You destroyed Falchion's Music Cavern (http://surf.to/fmc). You dismantled one of the greatest music sites known to man or gargoyle. And for this, you are forever condemned. You are delivered unto the Wyrm for destruction of the flesh." Of a moment, Wilek and DC are transported to a deep, dark, forest. Wilek: "You are sentenced to defilement and death at the hands of the Black Spiral Dancer werewolf clan. Here's where I would normally say something like, 'may whatever power you worship have mercy on your soul', but in your case, it's not likely. Death's grasp is so very, very cold. Farewell." Wilek leaves, and we discern black, ominous shapes moving about in the woods, surrounding their prey...DC tries to get up and run away, but he can already barely move...and suddenly, he is set upon by a pack of hideous werewolves that look like huge, humanoid hyenas with Lex-style wings. He is indeed 'defiled' in every imaginable way, most of them far too ghastly to describe here, before he is ripped apart and used as trophies, garments, and food.]
FMC (3/25/99 - 9/16/99)
R.I.P.

**END!!!***
<sigh> I will forever mourn the loss of the Cavern. Such things should not happen...

Skippy> <<I thought that was some cool anime, those figures they produced for the show sucked though...>> I don't know; I happen to like the white-armored one with the Darth Maul katana. ^_^

Cherry Blossom> <<why not go for the Dreamcast?? it's a heck of a lot cheaper from the sound of it! is there a difference in quality or something?>> Well, the PlayStation II does in fact have (somewhat) better graphics and probably better sound than the Dreamcast, although those will most likely be the only real advantages and they're not worth the outlandish price. Thing is, the PSX2 is trying to be all things to all people, an all-in-one appliance--a game console, CD player, DVD player, and Internet terminal if/when the optional modem comes out--and that, I believe, is what drove the price up.

Jenna> <<I already have one piece written for Thailog (like anyone who knows me would be surprised as to my first choice). It's actually a piece I wrote for the cello called the Vampire King. It's very seductive, and sensual and just seemed to fit Thailog so well in some parts, that some parts I'm using for him. I have it recorded, so I may present that. (plus I think the cello suits Thailog-- )>> Kewl! Hm...I'm not sure if this will help, but I have a little program that one can use to create MID files by putting notes on a staff. Perhaps you have a use for it? :) <<I think Sheroden has told everyone to go to hell at one point or another!>> Heh heh heh...it takes guts to say 'up yours' to a Vorlon. >:)

Gyre> <<The IRS caught upto Madoc in the Conservatory Gardens, and presented him with a bill for 10,000 years in back taxes, plus interest, and penalties. Madoc died as a result of a heart attack.>> Ack. If there is a greater evil than Madoc, it is the IRS...

Kaioto> <<Actually, my calculations were off by 1 year … 1997. Simon Belmont slew the resurrected Dracula in "Simon’s Quest" in 1592. Christopher Belmont faced the risen count in 1692. Richer Belmont destroyed Dracula in 1792 only to have the Dark Priest Shaft (that’s right, I’m talkin’ about Shaft) resurrect the vampire Count five years later in "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night." After Alucard beat the snot out of his father, little in known other than that during the 1800’s a descendant of the Belmont Clan and one of the Scions of Syphia (Trevor Belmont’s sorcerer companion in Castlevania 3) stop a vampire countess from resurrecting Dracula ahead of schedule. I’m not all together sure what happened in 1897, but suffice it to say that we are all still here.>> Hm...there's a timeline at www.classicgaming.com/castlevania if there's anything that still needs to be cleared up. :)

Aaron> IRS scene> MUHAHAHAHA! >8) Never thought I'd root for the Unseelie...

Crzy Demona> Happy birthday! :D

Night Walker> <<I THOUGHT EVERY SELF RESPECTING HIGH SCHOOLER NOWADAYS HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS>> Well...a friend of mine never got one until after he graduated. But then, he didn't get net access until long after he wanted to...<<Wrong again?>> Perhaps, perhaps not. :) Much of what is known about the PlayStation II's launch titles is mostly speculation.

Jewel> <<the Big Brother a-holes we call the US government was a stick up it's butt and monitors our internet ever 30 minutes...and reads our e-mail.>> What...?!!! <GRR> If there is anything that can send me right into a frenzy, it's a large-scale invasion of privacy. If I found out my e-mail was being read by anyone other than its intended recipient(s), I'd probably have someone track them down and tell me where they live so they could get a letterbomb or something... <<Playstation II: When exactly is that supposed to come out, anyway?>> Um...I think it's supposed to be out in Japan by March or April of next year; I have no idea when the US release date is. Heh...the thing looks like a ripoff of an older-model CD-I, which is ironic because the newer-model CD-I looked like a ripoff of the original PlayStation. :P

Robby> <<Babylon 5- Unfortunatley, I also came into the series too late to get into it and understand it. Ah well...>> The Lurker's Guide To Babylon 5 at http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html contains synopses of every episode, every movie, and some of the novels. :) $<<The Dark Star 2 is given to Wilek!>> How generous of you! ^_^$
Wilek Nereus
Friday, September 17, 1999 10:52:14 PM
IP: spaceproxy.com

konban wa, minna-chan!

sorry it's been so long. school's been bogging me down, plus my computer ate my thirty-page long gargoyle fanfiction that was my pride and joy... *sigh* well, i'm over it now, and maybe i can even use the characters left to my advantage... i tried every method known to man to try and retrieve it, it didn't work. now my excuse is that Puck or somebody took it because i knew too much! *l* and, i've got some great beach property in Arizona if you're interested...

on Halloween: i got this great set of Pan horns from a Renfest and i have an ankle-length crushed velvet cape, and a handcarved wooden flute. with some silver hairspray i figure i can be Puck-- an intrepretation more out of some of the paintings i've seen, and the recent movie version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ^_^

well, i'm gonna be gone for the weekend. ja matta ne!
Princess Estra - [avalonprincess@hotmail.com]
Virtual Insanity
Friday, September 17, 1999 10:24:56 PM
IP: 98cc0c5b.ipt.aol.com

***BEGIN RP***
Sevarius Junior lay on the floor of the Dark Star 2, his energy nearly drained completely after delivering the final blow to the
evil Cyber Smurf. "Heh heh. Who knew I had it in me?" A sudden coughing fit brought up some spittle....and some blood.
"Dang it, I think I cracked a rib or 12...."
***END RP***

Robby: Interesting twist in the RP. Me, strike the final blow? I thought I was Krillin after all....;)

X-Men Movie News: Well, Cyclops has officially been cast. Actor James Marsden, most notably seen in such Kevin
Williamson crapfests as "Disturbing Behavior", has been cast as ol' Scott "Slim" Summers.
I won't even begin to go into how much I loathe this choice. Or how I now have little hope that the X-Men movie will be
anything other than a Marvel version of "Batman and Robin".

Christine: Actually, you may have half your wish already--they're making a Dungeons and Dragons film NOW! As we speak
(okay....maybe not this time of the night, but still...) they're filming it in Czechoslovakia (or what passes for it these days). The
budget is enough for the movie to have some fairly nifty special fx (like CGI dragons!), and such notable actors as Jeremy
Irons and Richard O'Briend (yes, Riff Raff!) have starring roles. Also, a Pern series is in development (although I believe it is
only animated, not live action), and set to air next season under the title of the "Dragonriders of Pern".
Now to persuade those slimy Hollywood execs to make a Magelore series. Somebody grab my flamethrower and industrial
strength duct tape!, we're goin' to L.A.!! ;)

Just a quick reminder, folks: While the premiere of the new season of Batman Beyond aired today, it will reair tomorrow
morning on the Kids WB at 9. Also, look for a new episode (one of the last....GRRRRRRRRRRR) of Superman, "The
Demon Reborn" (starring Batman and Rha's Al Ghul) at 8 a.m. And don't forget to check out the premieres of "Rusty the
Boy Robot" and "Beast Machines" at 11 and 11:30 respectively on the Fox network. Hopefully, they'll be pretty dern good!
:)

Jewel: Ah, welcome to the Nazi Prison Camp that is the Virginia Public Library System! I swear, I thank God everyday I
don't have to use the library's net services, cause they are just total fascists, aren't they? You can find the rare, "uncensored"
version of Boccaccio's Decameron, but God forbid you use a chat room for half a minute!

Doug: Don't forget--ol' Doc Sevarius also has in his possession a virus capable of eliminating the Phalanx completely. I think
I added that to the RP....oh, about 34 weeks ago, then promptly neglected to mention it again. Don't forget to remember
what I forgot! ;)

Bab 5 quotes: Just one of the reasons I think JMS is one of the greatest living writers of sci-fi. The man brings such emotion
and drama into his work. I only wish I could write a fraction as good as he can.

Most of the good quotes have been taken, but here's some more good ones:

Zathros: Zathros is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life, very sad. Probably followed by
very sad death, but at least there is symmetry.

Inquisitor: "Nothing changes. Corruption, immorality, chaos.
Sheridan: "When were you last on Earth?"
Inquisitor: "Long ago......long ago."
Sheridan: "You've been to their home planet, then."
Inquisitor: "Who?"
Sheridan: "The Vorlons!"
I: "Yes."
S: "You've seen what they really look like?"
I: "Yes."
S: "Damn it man, stand still for a second!"
I: "I don't have time!"
S: "I want to know--"
I: "The truth? You're not ready for the truth. The facts? If that is the only way to get to my work. Yes, the Vorlons have
been to Earth. The Vorlons have been everywhere. The Vorlons...are. My name is Sebastian. I resided at 14B Heresford
Lane in London in the year of our Lord 1888. I was found by the Vorlons, taken, transported, and brought into their service.
They told me everything about everything. And the scales fell from my eyes and they were opened to a universe of majesty
and terror that you can never imagine. They call upon me when I am needed; and preseve me when I am not. And they
called upon me now for this interrogation. You will allow me to finish the work that has brought me here, or you will allow me
to leave. Because either way, I've told you all that I intend to." [Comes the Inquisitor]

David McIntyre, aka King Arthur: "I was responsible. Responsible for my knights and for those who followed me into
battle. And their armor was not strong enough to protect them! Their horses......their horses were on fire!!"
"I must return Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake. I didn't.... I didn't know....we didn't know! Bodies....slain....the
dying.....Bodies drifting like stars!! (sobs) My fault..." [A Late Delivery From Avalon]

Lorien: "We've lived too long, seen too much. To live on, as we have, is to leave behind joy and love and companionship.
Because we know it to be transitory, of the moment. We know it will turn to ash. Only those whose lives are brief can
imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your race has ever
received." [Into the Fire]

And Finally....
Londo Molari: "Meeeeeester Garibaldi!!!" [various episodes]

***QUOTE OF THE DAY***
"I'm glad sunscreen has been shown to be associated with more skin cancer rather than less. It's not in the mainstream media
yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing makes me happy.
The fact that people, in pursuit of a superficial look of health, give themselves a fatal disease. I love it when "reasoning" human
beings think they have figured out how to beat something and it comes back and kicks them in the nuts. God bless the law of
unintended consequences. And the irony is impressive: Healthy people, trying to look healthier, make themselves sick.
Good!"
--George Carlin, from his book "Braindroppings"
***END QUOTE***

Sevarius Jr. - [bpoole@mailexcite.com]
Friday, September 17, 1999 10:21:38 PM
IP: 207-172-35-120.s120.tnt9.brd.va.dialup.rcn.com

Ah dangit, apparently the stupid computer submitted before I was even close to done... Grr...

Aaron- Blue lightsaber? Spiffy... And I'm only considering dying my hair white for Halloween... It the only part of my Trunks costume I *don't* have.

Skippy- Disco fever!

**Suddenly Jon Travolta shows up in his Saturday Night Fever outfit, begins to dance, only to be upstaged by Vinnie Gregarino...**

Delphi- Sometimes kids can be so smart.

Castlevania- Fun series, hope the next one is good...

Today's Dragonball- Much better episode, though it REALLY irks me that so many of the voices have that wrestler quality. Since I hate wrestling...

Gargoyles MGC this month- Gargs as superheroes eh? If I can get my scanner working I may have to partake in that... I can just imagine now Goliath in a Batman costume and Brooklyn in a Robin costume beside him... Or maybe ELisa in the female Robin costume from "The Dark Knight Returns"...

Or even worse... Space Ghost style. Goliath in a space ghost outfit, Lexington as Zorak, Brooklyn as Moltar, and Broadway as... I dunno. Lokar?

Babylon 5- Unfortunatley, I also came into the series too late to get into it and understand it. Ah well...

Huricane Floyd- Conan O Brian had a lot of fun with that last night. Part of his crew was missing and Tom Arnold was forced to still be in town so he returned for the second night in a row... And he finally met John Stamos... (Uncle Jessy on FUll House) They had something of a confrontation, since Conan and Rebacka Romane Stamos have had ...interesting chemistry whenever she's been on the show...

Shogun Raptor- Ack, Firestorm *did* beat me to it. Pooie. The room didn't reload in time. Ah well.

New VOyager ep- Shame that with no UPN station the show comes on only at 2 AM Tuesday nights here... Pooie...

Dangit, because of that early submission this post looks funky. Oii...

**RP CONCLUSION!**

Now within the immediate vicinity of Jim's clone, the cyber Smurf can sense the huge ammount of power coming forth. Not pausing to fight Black Tiger, he knocks the warrior aside and heads straight for Jim's clone.
The clone is unable to move, as his eyes are closed and its taking all his concentration to form the genki dama, and he needs at least two more minutes... It is time he does not have.
The cyber smurf immediatley begins pounding on Jim's clone, breaking his concetration and very nearly killing him. A final punch that would finish him off is blocked by a weakened Black Tiger.
The smurf chuckles. "What do you hope to do? Your main attack has just been stopped short." With that, Black Tiger begins to laugh.
"You're... Laughing?"
BT smiles under his mask. "Earlier before we started this final attack, I talked to SJ alone and gave him an extra part of the plan. The genki dama energy has been going to him as soon as Jim formed it. What you excused as his being powered up by Kari, was actually this."
The cyber smurf begins to scream in pain as a white ball of energy is pressed squarely into his back by a weakened Sevarius Jr. He smiles as the spirit bomb engulfs the smurf, destroying it.
"THERE'S your understanding of the plan," SJ smirks before he nearly collapses exhausted after having delivered the final blow.

Things to be covered in upcoming RPs! The aftermath! We learn who Black Tiger is! SJ gets a kiss for defeating the smurf! The Dark Star 2 is given to Wilek! Something else will happen too! Watch for it!
Robby
Friday, September 17, 1999 09:48:55 PM
IP: spider-we031.proxy.aol.com

**shuffles into the CR, switching out the candles glumly, then sitting down in the massage chair.**

**sigh** Today sucked worse than usual ... wouldn't have been so bad if the Cadillac hadn't thrown reverse on me on my way into work!! Oyy, there goes another $500 for a tranny rebuild. :P

Anyway ...**to self** make some replies, dummy, nobody wants to hear you whine ...

SJ, re: Voyager ep: You read my mind, buddy! :)

Jaden: I feel for ya, dude. Oh, and please pass along my thanks to your sister for the IM conversation last night, 'twas a distinct pleasure.

Wilek: She was okay ... it was just that it was her first night sleeping in a fully horizontal bed (while she was at my uncle's house, they'd set up a hospital bed with an elevated head for her), and she was just too comfortable to get up. :)

Aaron: Yeah, I thought it was you, but I was too chicken to make the assumption ... this book seems like something you'd like. :)
Yeah, I wouldn't mind going to that college. I know at least that probably next weekend (if I can afford it after getting my car fixed) I'm picking up the next two issues of "Finals." Only had enough dough with me to pick up #1, and I just wanted to give it a try and see if I'd like it anyway ... good thing I did. :)

Mandi: Mom just got me the Broadway soundtrack to Rocky Horror (when it was just "The Rocky Horror Show"), mainly because she knows I'm kind of a Meat Loaf completist, and he played Eddie in the Broadway production, too ... and not just that, he made a quick costume change midway through and *also* played Dr. Scott on Broadway. :)

Night Walker: I turn 24 in a couple of weeks (on the 27th, to be exact), and my years of continent-hopping are far behind me ... Mom retired from the Navy in '89 after 20 years, she's now a lifetime member and current adjutant of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post (a membership she fought to get, mainly because they couldn't identify her Vietnam ribbon). Before finally settling in Michigan, I at least moved around most of the Pacific Rim (starting in Japan, where I was born, and eventually going to California, Hawaii, Washington state, and finally back to Hawaii), pulling up roots fairly regularly. In fact, I still kind of unconsciously wait for Mom to receive new orders and have to abandon damn near everything here in order to go to some other base.
Seriously, dude, I feel for ya. Hang on to those guys you hang with at the rejects table. More than likely they're going to be better friends to you than any of those popular folks will. 'Twas that way with me ... I had a very hard time in high school, mainly because this is such a small town that everyone's known each other from conception, basically. The band helped me to an extent, but I was always the outsider. Still am, to a degree ... which is why I treasure greatly the friends (and more ... **sighs, fixates briefly**) that I've made in this room, and was extremely happy to meet many of them in Dallas this past June.
Don't give up hope yet, man. It'll take time, but eventually you'll get to meet if not all then many of us. :)

WHEEL 'ER IN, BOYS!!

**a moving crew rolls into the room with yet another Execution cake**

Happy B-day, Crzy!! **tosses Crzy a remote** Pick yer flavor ... and e-mail me, I still wanna cut you a Jericho decal like I promised Christine I would and need some info from ye. :)

Jewel: Good luck! And here's hopin' you get to meet everyone's favorite living legend Harlan Ellison again. :)

**reloads, praying *desperately* for a post from Ravyn ... but no avail. Sits back in the massage chair and fixates once more**
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Friday, September 17, 1999 09:25:43 PM
IP: 207.91.254.69

**BEGIN RP!**

Jim's clone is still summoning energy. "And I ask for the power of all the kitties... And the pill bugs that live in dung... ANd the ardvarks... And the life force of anchovies and woodchucks chucking wood...ANd little chips of wood that make fires... And..."
Black Tiger interupts. "Um, you just have to call upon the energy of everything. You don't have to name it all."
"Oh... Okay." Jim's clone is about ready to finish the genki dama/spirit bomb.

Meanwhile, the cyber-smurf is totally trashing everyone. The rangers are out, Tuxedo Dole is out, everyone. The only one still fighting is Sevarius Junior.
"I'm quite impressed boy. You've powered up greatly in the last few minutes." SJ lands a punch that makes a dent, and the smurf's eyes widen some. Then, the retaliation comes and a blur of punches trade back and forth. SJ gets bruised, and the cyber smurf actually gets damaged. "However, don't think I haven't noticed what's going on. All of you warriors have been fighting me except those two over there. Including the fast one. And you've also put up an energy field so I can't sense whats going on in that corner. My guess is, you're buying time for him to power up. Am I right?" SJ recieves a nasty cyber punch to the gut which causes him to cough up blood, as the smurf walks menicingly towards Jim and Black Tiger. BT takes a stance and prepares to battle as the last stand...

**TO BE CONCLUDESD AT THE END OF THIS POST!**

Hmm, the Donnie and Marie special last night also had Batgirl, one of the 3 Catwomen, and the Riddler. Adam West did the Bat-tuci. We learned that the original batgirl costume had to be altered because it afected two of the reasons Batgirl was hired. Fun stuff.


Robby
Friday, September 17, 1999 09:16:11 PM
IP: spider-we023.proxy.aol.com

Hi, all. Can't post long; I still haven't been able to read up on any of what's happened in the CR this week, since the librarian told me "E-mail and chat aren't allowed on our machines." And at work, they still haven't given me my firewall account...and when they do,I can't even surf the net when it's slow, because the Big Brother a-holes we call the US government was a stick up it's butt and monitors our internet ever 30 minutes...and reads our e-mail. I had my boss snap at me when I was sending an e-mail to a friend when there were no calls coming in. What the hell am I supposed to do, sit around and twiddle my thumbs?!!?
<takes deep breath> OK, all better. WEll, no, not really, because I'm mad at the invasion of privacy. When they made us sign forms two days ago saying "No personal e-mails, no web surfing, no personal calls, period dot," I was ready to quit, because I was so offended. Anyway.
Just got back from the art supply store. I spent waaaay too much money, but I needed to get some supplies. A friend of mine who knows the head guy in the art dept of Dark Horse Comics said they currently had a freeze on hiring new illustrators, and said he'd found out the same is true at Vertigo, but suggested I try a comic called "Action Girl," which features artwork done by women (and I get the feeling that if I back out of sending something somewhere, he'll threaten to kill me as surely as Irina will). So right now, I'm drawing out in comic form a story I wrote a while back called "Praying for Time," where an angel who just got himself booted out of Heaven for being tricked into fathering the anti-christ is drowning his sorrows in a bar... (What can I say, I have a weird imagination.) hopefully, connections will be good for me--as it is, I got invited out to a horror convention in Denver this June by the columnist I met, and he offered to pay me for my time to cme out there (the perks of being his assistant, even thoughhe hasn't told me yet just what I'm supposed to be doing for him)--I'd get to see Harlan Ellison again!

SJ & Dreamcast: My, but you do have a colorful turn of phrase when it comes to this game system... ;)

Playstation II: When exactly is that supposed to come out, anyway?

OK, since I have no idea of anything really going on in the CR (and likely won't for a while, arg), I'm outtie!

jewel - [Jewel.Faulkner@alumnae.brynmawr.edu]
Friday, September 17, 1999 07:57:22 PM
IP: 207-172-74-141.s141.tnt2.man.va.dialup.rcn.com

Hello 'all, unless I get interupted again this'll be three posts in one , explination later.First a coulple a replies 'n comments.

Welcome Jannie- I'm not the official sanity stealer so I'll leave that to him. Gald your here.

CrzyDemona-Happy birthday, hope all oh your sadistic and twisted dreams come true.

Green baron-Thanx for all the e-mails. I was surprised when I took a quick look at my mail on the school computers[which are so much better than using webtv, but not as fun]and saw 6 new messages, an all time high. I replied with a few that were sent to me from reletives and such. did you get them.

Jenna, Coyote-Stained glass and a magnet?My three tapes [30+eps, gone forever]beat those out in the sadness run , but , where did you get those? Interest going up.Probaly impossible to find now though.

Coyote-Yes I did get it , and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. But , unfortunatly, I must've looked up over 15 names on each without any results. WHAT'S GOING ON .I THOUGHT EVERY SELF RESPECTING HIGH SCHOOLER NOWADAYS HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS. OR ARE THEY JUST AVOIDING ME. Actually I still have dogpile to look at. All of the other ones didn't find anything, maybe they're under their parents name[ALL OF THEM?]. Oh well , you guys are my best friends. I have no problem with that.WAIT , WHAT AM I SAYING OF COURSE I DO. I CAN NEVER GO OUT AND JUST TALK FACE TO FACE WITH YOU . I'LL NEVER EVEN MEET ANY OF YOU. NO ONE IN MY FAMILY WOULD EVER TAKE TO A GATHERING , EVEN IF THERE WAS ONE IN CHICAGO. calm down jeremy , everything'll be okay. Alright , I feel better. Coyote, do you still have trouble making friends , your probaly way past that , I don't even know your age so I can't make assumptions, they ruin everything. It's so hard for me , I am happy to say that I now sit at a table with three very strange individuals, **ashamed, I quietly say** at the reject table. we are a very small group of popularitys' leftovers. But it's better than nothing. Actually I think that they would belong here. But i think I am the calmest[not the most sane mind you] of the four. I have already recommended this site to one of them.Although I don't think he was paying attention at the time.

Doug-Buffy fansite bashing? Oh no what if that happens to us?

MDY-I know that you didn't mean it. Now that I think about my yesterday self , that guy made too many assumtions. He should've said it in a better way, and he's sorry too, but since he has been reborn into me I now have learned from his mistake , I am sorry for that post. He[me ] should've worded it differently . We apologize.Next time I'll do a bit more research before posting.

Wilek-Wrong again? Further reaserch is needed.

Delphi-Nich bit about wise kids quotes. But I can't believe that 14 year olds said that, most people my age are talking about things a bit closer to the lap if you know what I mean . but here's a little line that I would tell myself while in school. It's not me that's too mature, I act just my age , everybody else is immature.

Part 1 of long post end***
My moms taking me out , I'll finish this later.
night walker - [Goliath01@hotmail.com]
hobart, IN, usa
Friday, September 17, 1999 07:49:11 PM
IP: proxy-563.public.rwc.webtv.net

They showed the first new episode of "Batman Beyond", "Splicers", this afternoon. It was rather good, and (to me at least) quite creepy.

* SPOILERS FOLLOW *

I thought that the whole "splicing" concept was quite chilling; I could see why a lot of the teens in Gotham would consider it appealing, but I know that I definitely wouldn't feel inclined to try it. It's the sort of thing that makes my toes curl.

There was a neat little bit in the fact that the company doing the "Splicing" was named "Chimera", and that Cuvier's three sidekicks were modelled after a lion, a goat, and a snake. For that matter, the name of the villain was also a nice touch; the original Cuvier was a famous French zoologist in the 19th century.

I very much liked the interplay between Terry and Ace and the way that they warmed to each other by the end,and Barbara Gordon's role in it. And I thought that Cuvier's final form was extremely unnerving; definitely not for the faint of heart.

All in all, it does seem like a pretty promising start to the new season.

* SPOILERS END *
Todd Jensen - [merlyn@ninenet.com]
St. Louis, MO
Friday, September 17, 1999 07:22:15 PM
IP: 216.87.46.113.dialup-stl.primary.net

MORE B-5 Quotes:

G'Kar (From 'A Late Arrival From Avalon) - "They were the bad guys as you say. We were the good guys and they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor!"

Londo (Fron 'In The Beginning) - "I only hope that in your stumbling around, you do not wake the dragon."

Here is the actual quote from my previous post, from 'Severed Dreams':

Delenn - "This is ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw! Or be destroyed."
Earthforce captain - "Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."
Delenn - "Why not? Only one human captain has every survived battle with the Minbari fleet. He is behind me, you are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!"

Sinclair (from War Without End 1) - "Ready?"
Delenn - "Why do your people always ask if someone is ready right before your going to do something massively unwise?"
Sinclair = "Tradition."

G'Kar (to Garabaldi) - "Do not THUMP the Book of G'Quan. It is disrespectful!"

That's all for now. :)
Stephen R. Sobotka, Jr. - [scififangargoyle@yahoo.com]
Spokane, WA, USA
Friday, September 17, 1999 06:27:19 PM
IP: ppp-113.icehouse.net

*awards Firestorm the cybercookies* Robby, FS named it before you *hands one to Robby* but this one goes for naming the appearance in the Muppet movie
shogun raptor
Friday, September 17, 1999 06:25:36 PM
IP: miami-trans2.firn.edu

New on my site:
Elektra, by Eva
"Beth of Both Worlds," a Party on Avalon first appearing in AvMists.
"Revenge of the Amazon Women," new story for mature readers only, because yesterday was Crzy's birthday! ; )

Find it all from http://www.eskimo.com/~vecna/new_stuff.html or clickie-clickie.

Christine - [vecna@eskimo.com]
Friday, September 17, 1999 06:23:34 PM
IP: vecna.ndip.eskimo.net

Stormy> Hehehe... don't apologize, I *like* shameless plugs. The waiting is what gets to me. As for the GFW... yeah, there was an archive glitch. Only way I know of to fix it is to delete and re-upload all your fics.

Quotable TV> I never watched B5... by the time I got interested, it was so late in the show I didn't have a damn clue what was going on. :) But I would like to share one of my favorite 3rd Rock quotes, from this season's finale:

Dick: "Families don't refer to one another by rank! They use more familiar terms, such as 'You' and 'Bastard!' And the ever popular 'You bastard!'"

Bedbug infestation> I stand corrected; one bedbug was conclusively found. But since the French House on campus suffered a MAJOR infestation (that building had to be evacuated) the college is going to spray the beds and the cracks for bugs next week and pay to have all the bed linens laundered. That's fine, but they plan to do it on a Tuesday... which makes it difficult for students to strip their beds, put the linens in the proper bags, move furniture away from the walls and get the rugs off the floor before 2 pm. Sigh... it could be worse, and I'm glad they're paying to wash everything.

Coyote> **takes the sack** Ooh, thank you! These will come in handy this weekend... and now I've got "Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)" going through my head. Then again, that's one of my favorite songs from RHPS...

4 days til "Earshot" airs.... 7 days til Now and Again starts... **Mandi's creativity demons scream, "SHUT UP!!"**

Fanfic Progress> Ah, that reminded me. I am still working on my unbelievably long BtVS fic, "New Blood," and have hit the fight scenes - but it looks to hit 18 parts and an epilogue on the newsgroup at least when I'm done. After I spent three hours working on it that I should have used for an English paper, I made a decision. Once "New Blood" is complete, I'm taking a one-month fanfic hiatus. Aside from TGS work and the occasional write-me-in-one-sitting vignette that might pop into my head, I'm going to abstain from writing independent fanfic for a month. It'll help me get rid of some of the less persistent fic ideas and let me get my priorities straight.

**From the mass of creativity demons, wild shrieks of indignation can be heard.**

I'd better go pacify these guys. 'Til later...
Mandolin - [weird_web@hotmail.com]
Friday, September 17, 1999 05:53:14 PM
IP: 144.175.18.15

Gyre> Glad you liked it. Have you read CSH's Opposites Attract?

Later.

Aaron wanders off, humming Aerosmith's "Falling in Love (is so hard on the knees)"


Aaron - [JCarnage@Yahoo.com]
San Antonio, TX, USA
Friday, September 17, 1999 05:39:36 PM
IP: ppp-49.tnt-1.sat.smartworld.net

Aaron> I'm ROTFLMAO.
Gyre - [wseeley@epix.net]
Friday, September 17, 1999 04:56:05 PM
IP: fltg2-ppp22.fltg.net

Shameless plug time...who here are fans of the Outklaws?

*grins*

And who would want to be the father of one? Nevertheless, Demona and Sevarius get more than they bargained for when they kidnap Mauser's egg.

PATERNITY--By Wagner and Caligo

Now up on GFW.


And a question to all those who regularily post there--did the archive screw up over the summer? Suddenly I find four copies of each fics up there. I deleted one, only to find all four of them gone.

(So, if any of you are wondering where BLACK WINGS PASSED OVER went, as soon as I find my personal copy, I'll upload it again.)

But if anyone knows what's up, I'd like to know.
Stormy
Friday, September 17, 1999 04:23:53 PM
IP: vulpecula.huron.uwo.ca

B5 quotes> Yes, along with Quotable Xander, it should be right up there with the Rules of Acquisition. My favorite Sheriden "Get the hell out of here" was to the Vorlons and the Shadows. Telling both the angels and the demons to take a hike takes balls corundum poly-carbonite. Kosh didn't puzzle me as much. Dragons love riddles, so Kosh's cryptic sayings were as frustrating as it was for my mom. Though the most insightful quotes come from secondary characters, like Bester, Vir and Marcus.
Vir: "What's the point of making history if you can't learn from it?"
Marcus: "Loves rare enough, do ignore it when it calls you by name."
My favorite one was from G'kar, but it would take too long to write. But number three is from Londo.
"I feel like I'm being nibbled to death by... what is that earth creature. The one with feathers and goes "Quake""
Vir: "Cats"
"Yes, I feel like I'm being nibbled to death by cats."

I know the feeling well.
Taleweaver - [taleweaver@usa.net]
Friday, September 17, 1999 03:24:07 PM
IP: 134.71.32.54

JackaL>Welcome back.

Robby> Dye your hair white?!? B!tchin'! I've always wanted to do that.

Wilek, Coyote> Like I said, if you want blue sabers, try Toys R Us. But be prepared to shell out about twenty bucks apiece, since the only way I could find them was as part of the Obi Wan halloween costume. The costume consists of the saber, a bad mask, and a brown robe with a hood, neither of which will fit anyone bigger then a jawa.

Coyote again> (Toasts him with a Knox State U mug) That was me. I wanna go to KSU soooooo bad.

*************Review w/spoilers for Stir of Echoes***********

I liked this movie. I just wish it could have come out a month ago. As it is, it's going to suffer a lot of unfair comparison to The Sixth Sense. They're really not all that similar.

The Sixth Sense was a drama with some paranormal trappings. Stir of Echoes is a horror movie. And an effective one at that, judging by the audible screams from the audience on more then one occasion.

Kevin Bacon plays his role, an ordinary guy suddenly tossed into a completely bizarre situation very well. His wife, whose name escapes me, (Though any OZ fans should know her on sight) does the best "I'm stuck here with my bizarre kid and my crazy husband" I've seen since The Shining.

A little abrupt in ending, and leaving a couple of dangling threads, but satisfyingly creepy. Aaron Bob says 3.5/5 Skulls. Check it out.

**************End Review**********************************

Gyre> All the Unseelie/IRS stuff is giving me a Creativity Demon...

Intro US Tech (FKA Maddox Technologies) A humorless man in a dark suit enters the office of the president of UST, Mr. John G. Smith.

Auditor: "Mr. Smith, I've turned up some irregularities in your corporation's annual report, mostly concerning the reported loss of your german facility."

Smith: "I see." He punches a button on his intercom. "Ms. Amet, would you meet me in conference room three? There's someone from the IRS here. Bring your accounting team."

The two men walk down the hall to the conference room. Waiting for them is a ravishing blonde woman wearing a red suit. She leads the auditor into the room and shuts the door. The screams, roars, and the sound of claws through flesh are heard.

The door opens and Sekamet, covered in blood, emerges.

"That's the third one this month. You'd think they'd learn."

This is getting long, so I'll go now.

Later.


Aaron - [JCarnage@Yahoo.com]
San Antonio, TX, USA
Friday, September 17, 1999 02:30:28 PM
IP: ppp-49.tnt-1.sat.smartworld.net

Steve- good to hear from you -- been a while.

Hmmm- loved your B5 quotes-- here's another one for you--
From "All my dreams torn asunder" fifth season---

Sheredon to crowd: ...Now we made you a promise, and we are bound by that promise, and damn you for asking for it! And damn me for agreeing! And damn us all to hell because that is exactly where were going!..
(I still get a chill down my spine when I see the scene-- I think Sheroden has told everyone to go to hell at one point or another! *L*)

jenna
Friday, September 17, 1999 01:49:25 PM
IP: unknown-31-157.glm.com

Finally! Our local service provider's router was down for a day, so It's been hell trying to get back on line.

BLUE LIGHTSABERS - Dang! I want two of those! One for collectibility and one to play with. :)

BABYLON-5 QUOTES - I have a few favorites... if I remember them right.

Alien Represenative: "C-Captain Sheridan?!? W-We thought you were dead!"
Sheridan: "I was. But, I got better."

De'lenn to Earthforce Commander: "There has been only one human to survive direct combat with the Mimbari. He is behind me. _YOU_ are in front of me!"

I have a few by Londo and G'kar, but I can't remember them right now.

Will talk to everyone later! Maintain and Check Six!
Stephen R. Sobotka, Jr. - [scififangargoyle@yahoo.com]
Spokane, WA, USA
Friday, September 17, 1999 01:08:16 PM
IP: m98.ieway.com

Wilek Nerus: Actually, my calculations were off by 1 year … 1997. Simon Belmont slew the resurrected Dracula in "Simon’s Quest" in 1592. Christopher Belmont faced the risen count in 1692. Richer Belmont destroyed Dracula in 1792 only to have the Dark Priest Shaft (that’s right, I’m talkin’ about Shaft) resurrect the vampire Count five years later in "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night." After Alucard beat the snot out of his father, little in known other than that during the 1800’s a descendant of the Belmont Clan and one of the Scions of Syphia (Trevor Belmont’s sorcerer companion in Castlevania 3) stop a vampire countess from resurrecting Dracula ahead of schedule. I’m not all together sure what happened in 1897, but suffice it to say that we are all still here.

Greetings to all the new patients in our asylum. Make yourself at home, but mind the moat.

Well, I certainly hope anyone who was in the hurricane’s patth came out all right. It is never a nice thing to have the earth turn against you all of the sudden. Myself, I was in a large brick building on top of a hill in Massachusetts and basically looked out the window once in a while and said, "preeeeetty" and went back to playing video games instead of studying while my suite-mates were stocking their bomb shelters for the Apocalypse.

**RP Here**
Lead by Shap, Kaioto and Shauna dash across the compound. Shap’s surpression fire has bought them some time, but soon the elite guardsmen’s superior training allows them to regroup better than the already routed base security. Three quarters of the way across, the Seeker the Paladin and Shauna are forced to dive for cover behind construction supplies. Leaning up against the back of their improvised bunker, Shap catches his breath and rests the back of his head on a steel girder. Kaioto, panting himself, glances up to see a look of consternation on his face.
"What’s wrong?"
"Can’t you sense it?" the Paladin asks, "From the moon … great evil power …" Shap shakes his head, trying to focus back on the battle at hand.
Kaioto, however, does a double take, first at the direction Shap is looking, then over his shoulder at the full moon. "Ah … Shap," he begins cautiously.
"What? Do you ‘See’ now?"
The Seeker, could now feel the echo of what Shap was talking about. Focusing on it, Kaioto could note that it was rather intense, and laced with deadly threat towards the planet. He nodded. "But Shap," he interjected, "There is one problem."
"…"
"That’s no moon … that’s a space station," the Seeker noted, dead-pan.
"If I thought you were trying to be funny, I’d smack you," Shauna commented. She glanced out from their bunker. "Here they come!"
Shap readied himself to repel the flanking attempt by the guardsmen while Kaioto continued to stare at the space station. There was power, small bits of the Creation Force, being syphonned away to a cuase out there, a righteous one. The Earth was yielding fragments of power, specks from each element and life form. Kaioto added his own willingly. The aura reading off of the station was it was incredible, and terrifying. There was a dark power of demonic magnitude up there. What was more terrifying, however, was the growing compulsion in his soul to fly into the center of the maelstrom. He knew that feeling far too well. He was summoned, and there wasn’t a damn thing he could do about it.
**Fini**

Toku Kaioto - [kaioto@yahoo.com]
Boston, MA, USA
Friday, September 17, 1999 01:00:02 PM
IP: 141.133.118.131

Here I am again on my tax kick.

The *real* reason Madoc died was not to being smashed by an iron mace, it was something even more hidious. The IRS caught upto Madoc in the Conservatory Gardens, and presented him with a bill for 10,000 years in back taxes, plus interest, and penalties. Madoc died as a result of a heart attack.
Gyre - [wseeley@epix.net]
Friday, September 17, 1999 12:54:33 PM
IP: fltg3-ppp33.fltg.net

Thanks, everyone, for the updates on the Gargoyles TGS series being posted this year. I love Dark Ages and I'm really looking forward to that one starting up again.

Really neat topic on Gargoyles MGC this month...Gargoyles as Superheros/comicbook characters...I'm having a lot of fun with it. Mwa ha ha...should post my pic next week.
Stormy
Friday, September 17, 1999 10:27:59 AM
IP: vulpecula.huron.uwo.ca

*************************************************************ANNOUNCEMENT-- TO ALL MUSICANS GOING TO G2K****************

I am planing on writing some muscial compostions inspired by "gargoyles" for G2K. If anyone is going and plays an insturment, and is interested in playing some music, please send me an em. Please tell me what insturment you play and your snail mail addy so I can send you my work when it's done. Also just for kicks- tell me who your fav of the orginal cast is and I'll see if I can write a piece for the character as expressed by the insturment you play.

I already have one piece written for Thailog (like anyone who knows me would be surprised as to my first choice). It's actually a piece I wrote for the cello called the Vampire King. It's very seductive, and sensual and just seemed to fit Thailog so well in some parts, that some parts I'm using for him. I have it recorded, so I may present that. (plus I think the cello suits Thailog-- )

Similarly I'm thinking about writing a flute solo for Angela, because it has a more "femine" sound than others.

If anyone is interested in this project, let me know and I'll get cracking. I have to know who's up for it so I can present it to the G2k staff.

On my own fanfic front-- well, I haven't had a chance to work on my cycle all week, grrr- rl has been a whirlwind, and I got really sick in the middle of the week. But at least that's past-- I hope to get some serious work on it this weekend.


jenna - [theamazingjenna@hotmail.com]
Friday, September 17, 1999 10:21:59 AM
IP: unknown-31-157.glm.com

hi all :)
Nintendo, playstation and Dreamcast< well, I know absolutely nothing about this type of thing, but from the money side of it, at least the way someone described it, why not go for the Dreamcast?? it's a heck of a lot cheaper from the sound of it! is there a difference in quality or something?hmm....
Jaden< sorry I don't know of a single site for the first moon walk
maybe i'll have to check the room more often bcuz I'm just not having time to stay away and still read it all *g*
well see ya :)
cherry blossom
WI, US of A
Friday, September 17, 1999 10:03:26 AM
IP: 98cc859e.ipt.aol.com

Ronin Warriors> Actually, I have a bunch of the episodes on tape (one of our local stations aired it a few years ago and I got up every moring to record it, didn't want those annoying comercials in it...) I ended up with two seasons worth of eps I think, the first season when they trapped in the city making their way to Talpa's lair, and the second when they are in the Netherworld.

I thought that was some cool anime, those figures they produced for the show sucked though...

Firestorm> If it's rust resistance your after, aluminum or stainless are your only options, unless you can get your stuff plated.
Skippy The Klingon
Friday, September 17, 1999 10:00:03 AM
IP: uv1-44.ultravision.net

Wilek> PS2 launch titles are unknown at the moment - even for the Japanese release, but it looks very much like the two nicest looking titles: Tekken Tag and Grand Turismo 2000 will be graphically enhanced 'upgrades' of their PS counterparts.
Tekken Tag is basically Tekken 3 with the ability to switch between two characters and much more detailed graphics. GT2000 is the same thing done to GT2.
Original titles likely to make the Japanese launch include A6 - Sim City lookalike train management sim and Kessen a strategy wargame based on horse cavalry and infantry set in Samurai era Japan. There have been quite a few games announced, but which arrive in time for the March launch remains to be seen.
The thing is, with the original machine's market still so healthy, many companies will merely be dipping their toes in the water as it were and releasing graphically better versions of their current Playstation releases. Even the next Final Fantasy will not be on PS2 - Square decided it'd rather go for the large installed user base of the PS.

MDY - [MDY21940@yahoo.com]
Friday, September 17, 1999 09:19:37 AM
IP: 195.195.164.7

Goodmorn took a quick look this AM in my messages and found 14 different emails with great jokes so here are some of the best>>>
My fav was from the wise saying from kids:::
> Wise Advice From Kids
>>1. Never trust a dog to watch your food. - Patrick, age 10
>>2. When your dad is mad and asks you, "Do I look stupid?" don't answer him. - Michael, 14
>>3. Never tell your mom her diet's not working. - Michael, 14
>>4. Stay away from prunes. - Randy, 9
>>5. Never pee on an electric fence. - Robert, 13
more to come next time I post.....

Delphi - [cmiller@magiclink.com]
Twin Falls, Idaho
Friday, September 17, 1999 08:52:46 AM
IP: 216.190.241.154

Hi all!!

Not much to say right now

shogun raptor:DEMONA MEETS TITANIA>>YEESSS!!!I'll be seeing that!!:) (I stopped watching Voyager last year but I'd love to see this ep)

Skippy:I have but two words on that score DISCO SKIPPY!!! Yes! Flared pants! Platform shoes! Gold Chains! Humungous Affro! And that most glorious material POLYESTER!!! BRING ON THE BIG SHINY BALL! EWWWW! EWWW!>>I've GOT to see this!!!:)

Stormy:I've actually been to an Australian forces base...the one near Brisbane...on exchange with Air Cadets (your Air Training Corps, I believe) ANd I have a pair of Aussie combat pants and jacket to prove it ;-)>>I hope you had fun:),Incidentally my sister did some time with Air Cadets a few years ago.

Gotta go,the Disney channel's got Hunters Moon parts 1 and 2 on tonight,BYEEE!!!!!
Xanathar
Melbourne, victoria, Australia
Friday, September 17, 1999 08:16:52 AM
IP: cache1.mpx.com.au

**RP!**

[On the Avatar Of Ganon...Administrator: "Agent Rho, I am detecting something...unusual. The biogenic energy of the entire planet Earth is being somehow redirected to a location on the Dark Star II." Agent Rho: "Anything we should be worried about?" Administrator: "No. The amounts drawn from each individual life form are miniscule, but the fact that everything is contributing energy at once..." Rho: "I hope whatever's gathering all that power is on our side..."]

**PAUSE!**

Fire Storm> <<That, along with the legacy of DIVX, are reasons I won't go to Circut City.>> DIVX...I don't know how they could have thought that would work. I mean, paying to watch a disk you own anyhow (that's how it worked, right?)? That's just plain idiotic. We're lucky it died; what if it had become an industry standard?! <shudder>

Warpmind> Female elephant pheremones...you are sick, twisted, evil, warped, and disgusting. Keep up the excellent work. >:)

Delphi> <<Miners Refuse to Work after Death>> Lazy sots; even revenants should earn their keep. ;) j/k

Babylon 5> Ohhh, that show *does* have some great quotes. One of my favorites: "And they have much to be concerned about. There's always the threat of an attack by say, a giant space dragon, the kind that eats the sun every thirty days. It's a nuisance, but what would you expect from reptiles. Did I mention that my nose was on fire? That I have fifteen wild badgers living in my trousers? I'm sorry, would you prefer ferrets?" ~Marcus Cole. ^_^

MDY> Shenmue pics> O_o THAT is done in real time...?! Woah...I knew the Dreamcast was good, but...DANG. <<I'm only concerned with the complete lack of news in that area, leading me to think it isn't nearly as far along as Nintendo have led people to believe.>> I like to think it's just Nintendo being secretive; they certainly were with the N64 before its release. I've heard some of the developers are already recieving dev kits...

Aaron> <<They had *blue* lightsabers. Those're impossible to find.>> :o They FINALLY came out with a blue saber?! YES! I'll have to stop by Toys R Us when I get the chance...<<And the worst part is, according to some of the things I've heard, most of the games don't work.>> I don't know about 'most', but I do know that they've been having problems with defective games and consoles. This is why I'm waiting till about Christmas to get mine; hopefully the various problems will be taken care of by then.

Zath> <<Unless you want to come to LA and help my nuke an evil laundry room, I don't think there's much you can do. Apparently there's a "good" washer and dryer and a washer and dryer that I'd have to violate the CR's pg-13 rating to describe, but no one told me this important little tidbit of info until I had already wasted about $3.50 and nearly 3 hours of my life trying to use the latter pair (the good machines were being used by someone else).>> Hm...I *could* tacnuke it from orbit...:)

Heather> <sigh> Still miss Robby, huh. Worry not, friend--we'll reach our goal soon enough. ^_^

Night Walker> <<Sure, with dreamcast the graphics are alot better and you get 'net access, but when the PSX 2 comes out won't it have the same thing , if not more?>> Actually, it won't come with a modem; that'll have to be bought separately. Quite the rip-off, no? <<How do you not know that the PSX2 won't have 24 games out at it's arrival>> I heard somewhere that the only launch titles would be PSX2-enhanced versions of existing PSX titles (although I could be wrong about that). <<Can anybody tell me if it's true that the dolphin is nintendo's last gaming system .>> I doubt it...at least, I *hope* not...<<The dreamcast looks funky too if ya haddn't noticed.>> Kinda. I always thought it looked sort of like a cross between a Playstation and an N64 (a strange marriage, to be sure).

niner> <<What kind of health plan do warped TGS CR minions get?>> Um...I have no idea. :} But I do know that if you bribe us enough, we can get one of the local Fey to make you immortal. ~_^

Coyote> <<What scares me about this, though ... is that today she did nothing but lay in bed and sleep off and on.>> Ack. I hope she'll be alright...although I wouldn't worry just yet; I've had days like that too. Granted, they usually came after surfing the Internet just a tad too long during the night...dawn is nature's way of telling a computer geek to go to bed...<G> Halloween costume> I used to go as myself, <G> but these days I just stay at home and collect twisted decorations. I'm especially fond of my violin-playing Grim Reaper.

Shogun Raptor> <<the worst question he gets is "what's the difference between gameboy and gameboy color?">> o_O Umm...like it isn't obvious from the name...?! <sigh> I can just imagine how stupid the questions will get when the third-generation Game Boy comes out probably sometime next year (or the year after)...

Mandolin> Bedbugs? ACK. That's as good an argument as any for living at home. <shudder>

Skippy> A dancing Disco Klingon blacksmith...the world is coming to an end. ;P j/k

SJ> <<the damn machine had damn well better PERFORM ORAL SEX on me as well. Only way I could justify dropping that many bills.>> Well, it does have something like N64's Rumble Pak, if you're so inclined...<G> j/k Of course, the N64 and Playstation (I presume) came with only one controller and no games, and were both about $200 at the time of their respective launches (I think), so it would appear that this particular setup is becoming an industry standard...unfortunate, really. Hm...assuming that the system is about $200, the VMU is about $20 (is this right?), and two games total about $100, the total price would be about $320. Considering that one would have to pay that much and more for a Playstation II with NO games, I think the Dreamcast buyer gets the better deal. <G>

**RESUME!**

[At Area 51-A, the Ravens and Avatar stormtroopers are searching the cold storage area for Tau's soul crystal when the troopers notice something in one of the stasis chambers, something that looks like a five foot tall preying mantis. One of the stormtroopers asks, "Who is this?" The other answers, "Ambassador K'Theni of the Mantiri Alliance. He's been missing for almost a month now...After we've taken care of Tau's crystal, we'd better free this guy; the Embassy has been going insane looking for him..."]

**END RP!**
Wilek Nereus
Friday, September 17, 1999 04:19:39 AM
IP: spaceproxy.com

Yeah, its late. Like I said, I slept earlier... Just thought this was worth noting. I was just watching Donnie and Marie... They're terrible hosts, I shall never watch the show again... But they had Adam West, Burt Ward, the original Batman costume, and the original batmobile. Cool stuff.
Robby
Friday, September 17, 1999 03:43:34 AM
IP: spider-wm071.proxy.aol.com

NightWalker> No disrespect was intended, It was merely an expression of confusion as to where people seemed to get the impression the Dreamcast unit didn't include a controller in with the main unit. Yes, you don't get any games bundled (it's impossible to include a pack-in game that will appeal to everyone) and you'll need a VMU memory/portable game unit to save, but that comes to about $270-80.
Sony have already confirmed that the PS2 will not include a modem, but various 'connection options' will be available later on. This is something of a sticking point as it splits the market immediately. Sega packed the modem into all machines and made it removable, giving everyone who buys the machine online access should they want it and the option of upgrading to say a cable modem down the line.
I don't know how many games will be out for the PS2 or NG Nintendo (the Dolphin name is out of the running apparently) at launch, but it's unlikely to be much more than the 20-odd seen at the Dreamcast launch. There was almost a year gap between the Japan and USA launches so there WOULD be a strong line-up. There is only six months between the PS2's March launch and the Western release around this time next year. This also means the price won't vary too much from the $370 the Japanese unit will cost which comes with no games, 1 controller, 1 memory card, no modem.
Historically speaking, the first machine released in each 'generation' often ends up doing better, especially if competetively priced. The NES beat Sega's Master System and the Genesis did better than the SNES until very late in both machines lifespans where they were selling at equal levels - the SNES lived longer because Nintendo took so long to sort out the N64, the Playstation dominating by arriving way before it.
Gamepro isn't the world authority on games it'd like to think it is. Despite not beating Playstation, Nintendo haven't done badly at all with the N64, and with Pokemon filling their coffers, there's no reason why their next machine will be their last - I'm only concerned with the complete lack of news in that area, leading me to think it isn't nearly as far along as Nintendo have led people to believe.

MDY - [MDY21940@yahoo.com]
Friday, September 17, 1999 03:40:51 AM
IP: 195.195.164.7

****RP!!!****
Shaking his head, Jaden turns to respond to Tricia. "No, uh nothings wrong." Noticing that his headache just disappeared. "I think that just being locked up here for so long is finally starting to get to me. Other than that I'm fine, perfect, no problems, A-ok."
"Alright." Tricia replies not entirely convinced, but willing to let it go for now.
****END RP!!!****

Hey everyone! I need some help. Does anyone know of any good internet sites that have to do with the first voyage to the moon? I have to do this building dedication to Armstrong for my speech class and I need some detailed info.
Anything would be helpful. Thanks.

Jenna-Those are some great quotes...how about the one Ivonova (no idea if that's spelled correct) said when she took the White Star fleet against the Shadow/Earth Force ships or what Londo said about the Human race in the movie "In the Beginning"
"The Humans I think knew that they were doomed...(bunch of stuff in the middle that I don't have time to write)...They never ran out of courage. But in the end...they ran out of time."
I was totally blown away by the the mixture of battle and his voice.

Coyote- I know that feeling. Even now that she's gone her house always feels so...cold and empty. It's hard to describe.

Night everyone.
See ya later!
Jaden - [jaden12@hotmail.com]
Los Alamos, CA
Friday, September 17, 1999 01:46:52 AM
IP: cache3.avtel.net

hi all!

Newspaper headings< I loved those!! my MOM even like them!! and thats a major feat! I think she even got a couple of them! *g*
robby< I'm just playing with the piccies right now, I'm really curious what this one is.
rp's< thank you to whoever responded, I can't remember who, but, thank you anyways.
customer stories?< hehe don't want to get me started I work at McD's *g*
well, I gotta go now, see ya
cherry blossom - [Chryblsm15@aol.com]
WI, USA
Friday, September 17, 1999 12:41:42 AM
IP: abd47ff3.ipt.aol.com

Bad night, simply cause I had written out a nice, long post, and the damn computer froze up. I had to reboot everything, and, well, I lost everything I was working on at the time. F*** Bill Gates. I'll try to cover my tracks further tomorrow.

Dreamcast: Gee, I guess I was wrong about the Dreamcast. It is something more than just a unit in a cardboard box. However, I still stick by my belief that if I'm gonna have to shell out in upwards of 400 bucks for the system and a couple decent games, then the damn machine had damn well better PERFORM ORAL SEX on me as well. Only way I could justify dropping that many bills.

Military mindset: Watch Full Metal Jacket, it's close enough to reality about the military (and a fine comedy in the first half of the film!). I'm sorry, I love watching our boys kick hiney when they need too, and I'd have no one else on my side winning our wars than our own U.S. military....but almost every enlisted individual I've ever met has been a grade-A @$$hole. Ranging from the total jack@$$ to the certified nutjob. I love what our military does for us, I appreciate it, but that lifestyle is so not for me. The stereotype rings true for me.

Marina Sirtis on Voyager? Hmm....Marina Sirtis + Jeri Ryan's Breasts....I may have to actually suffer through an episode of Voyager to see that!

Doug: Tom Petty??? No, no, no, my friend, you need to go a real concert....you know, go see someone like Rob Zombie, or Powerman 5000, or maybe Orgy....you know, some real entertainment! ;)
Sevarius Jr. - [bpoole@mailexcite.com]
Friday, September 17, 1999 12:10:40 AM
IP: 207-172-45-13.s13.tnt5.brd.va.dialup.rcn.com

**defixates for a moment**

Mandolin: **clears throat to finish the first verse of the song**

"When Eddie said he didn't like his teddy
You knew he was a no-good kid,
But when he threatened your life with a switchblade knife"
(as Frank)"What a guy!"
(as Janet)"Makes you cry!"
(as Dr. Scott)"And I did."

Yeppers, you got it ... and ya beat Skippy to it! **hands over a sack and a remote** These cookies work the same way as the Execution cakes ... use the remote and pick yer flavor.
Anyway, yeah, Eddie is the costume that I can throw together the fastest that wouldn't be a repeat of last year (when I dressed up as a phantom hockey player, a costume so effective in hiding the fact that I was a living, breathing human being that I actually managed to scare the hell out of one woman who asked what I was stuffed with! ;). Also the most logical, since I have the right body and (IMHO) I do a pretty decent impression of Meat Loaf. :)

**sits back and fixates a bit more, only this time singing under his breath**

"Whatever happened to Saturday night ..."
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:24:40 PM
IP: 207.91.254.14

Just got up from 4 hours of sleep... Tired tonight for some reason...

Stupid customer stories- DOn't have a job, and when I do it'll be in the comics field. I won't have to deal with too much of this...

Dragonball Z- I wish I had remembered the stupid body switching story arc... I hated it in Japanese, and I hate it here. Ah well... (The terrible acting on Gohan's part doesn't help matters...)

Ronin Warriors- Looking forward to this. Last time it was on, it clashed with Exo-Squad and watching Exo-Squad won out... And now, except for ReBoot, Toonami is an all anime block. Coolness...

Been a bit busy lately. Between school, my mentorship, working on some TGS stuff and swome personal stuff... Eesh. AH well, thats what weekends are for...

Wilek- Skippy's definatley a Klingon. A congenial Klingon, but a Klingon.

Warpmind- Original Trek viewers are called Trekkies. Next Gen viewers are called Trekkers. Aparently Star Wars fans are called Warsies? I have no clue about Babylon 5...

Dreamcast- I'm impressed with the system, but 200 bucks is out of my budget and I'm not buying the system JUST for Sonic Adventure, which is the only thing so far that interests me. I'd rather have Starfox and Zelda 64 or a few Playstation games...

Aaron- Ack, you stole my other ending idea. Grrr... Just oking. Actually, I intend to pull the finale on the cyber- smurf saga tommarrow, depending on how the other RPs go... Incidentally, other RPers, try not to add any major plot points to the story at this point... I have a fun lil' twist coming up...)

Also I agree. Leia was a much better princess than Amidala. (I'm curious how they're gonna explain Anakin aging 10 years and Amidala aging about 3 by the next movie...)

Delphi- Hmm. The version of that joke I've always heard involves Klingons around Uranus... (No offense Skippy!)

Spacebaby- One of the laws of anime I'm working on tweaking DOES involve hair color and temprement. Red means hot headed, green or blue means smart, purple means evil, yellow generally means dumb american...

Incidentally, this Halloween I'm going out as Trunks. That'll include white dyed hair...

TGS stuff- Dark Ages is coming soon, production on Timedancer has begun, and we're taking extra care this season NOT to merge Pendragon and Gargs. They'll be pretty much two seperate series this time around.

Shogun Raptor- They first appeared in the original Muppet Movie, and then on the Muppet show. The band's name was something along the lines of Electric Mayhem. Happy now?

**BRIEF RP**

As the others battle the cyber Smurf, Black Tiger instructs Jim's clone on how to make a Genki Dama, a spirit bomb while hiding in the corner of the room. ANd soon, Jim begins to form the thing.
"I beg of everything on earth... Plants, animals, rocks... The sky... The power of the sun and all the people... Lend me some power so that I may fight this enemy of Earth..."
**END RP**

(Other RPers on Dark Star Two- Just try to continue the story without adding any more plot twists. You should all enjoy what I do tommarrow...)

Robby
Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:18:39 PM
IP: spider-te071.proxy.aol.com

Hey all,
Looks like another week another clear comment board.
As for TGS, I don't think it's giving anything away to say yes all four series will be back. And yes Pendragon will be on its own again.

Hey Kyryn, if you're out there please contact the list or me. It's important.
Taleweaver - [taleweaver@usa.net]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:08:27 PM
IP: dialup-209.244.75.225.losangeles1.level3.net

Skippy: Well, I am a metal-working novice, but I need steel that is rust resistant. Currently, I am stuck between going for steel or aluminum.

Ugly game systems: Is it just me, or is all electronics getting EXTREMELY ugly? Translucent phones, CD-players, PC's AND MAC's. WTF is next? CARS? (Oberon help me, if I *EVER* see a translucent green car...)

Coyote: Tacnukes: Yeah, rads will shrivel the jewels into sundried tomatos, but with how close they were, it would have turned their DNA into pudding!

shogun raptor: Voyager: Demona AND Titania? WOAH! Add Jadzia and Gates McFadden (I can NEVER remember her chartacter's name!)(BEVERLY CRUSHER!) and you would have a show that NO male could refuse!)
SWEEPS WEEK!
Band: The Electric Mayhem
WHERE: The Muppet Show

<ACKNOWLEDGE\\SUBMIT>
Fire Storm - [Night-Flame@usa.net]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:05:30 PM
IP: solaris1.visitus.net

Sorry about the double post:

Halloween Costumes> I have but two words on that score DISCO SKIPPY!!! Yes! Flared pants! Platform shoes! Gold Chains! Humungous Affro! And that most glorious material POLYESTER!!! BRING ON THE BIG SHINY BALL! EWWWW! EWWW!

Mandolin> If you want to find a RHPS cast in your area, check out my name link...
Skippy The Klingon
Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:59:14 PM
IP: 207.22.234.144

Comments on military mentality> Admittedly, the system of training soldiers invoves breaking these people down and rebuilding them into killing machines. True, this can lead to psycholgical problems in some individuals that manifest in the form of psychotic behavior. But all things considered, I'd rather know that our if we have to go to war, we have the toughest, meanest, nastiest SOB's on the planet fighting for this country.
Skippy The Klingon
Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:50:24 PM
IP: 207.22.234.144

**MINOR RANT WARNING**

Guess what? Someone found a bedbug in this hall. Now we just found out they're going to spray the hall and make us put our bed linens into their hands to wash (assuming they won't lose anything) this coming Tuesday. The entire hall. Gah, maybe I should become a commuter...

**END RANT!**

Coyote> You're going as Eddie?? Hehehe... which reminds me, I've got to ask around about RHPS this year. I want to do Magenta in the Hood production if at all possible...

Yeah. That's all. Must sleep.
Mandolin - [weird_web@hotmail.com]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:40:52 PM
IP: 144.175.18.15

Robby> I said what show were they on? and the band had a name, that goes for the lot of ya! I wants the name of the band and where they first appeared (I just want where they first appeared, the name of the band is a bonus)
shogun raptor
Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:33:04 PM
IP: mia1-wc2.atlas.digex.net

Shogun Raptor- Those would be the muppet's band. Real post in just a sec, I had to get that first.
Robby
Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:25:33 PM
IP: spider-te042.proxy.aol.com

A black hole appears above the CR. The black dragon Pheonix flies in. the black hole dissapears.

Hello Peoples!

Ugh, I really don't like 10'th grade, too much homework!
Well anyway, I'm back, hopefully for good this time :)

Welcome to all newcomers

Welcome Back to all people who came back!

uh, I think thats all for now.
Have comments and replies later.

Pheonix

The black hole reappears and Pheonix slips out, vanishing with the black hole.
Sylvia - [Sylsy@msn.com]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:11:32 PM
IP: 1cust242.tnt6.colorado-springs.co.da.uu.net

and most of all, a heartfelt thanks to all who were concerned about my fate in hurricane Floyd (who when I hear that name I still wonder where Hurricane Janice, Hurricane Zoot, Hurricane Animal and Hurricane Dr. Teeth are) *cybercookie to whoever can name where they first appeared*
shogun raptor
Thursday, September 16, 1999 09:39:57 PM
IP: mia1-wc2.atlas.digex.net

*short RP begin* Shogun sees some unfamilar uniformed troopers rush past, he is about to take them down when he remembers them from the AoG ship's bar*end*
*entertainment news* DEMONA MEETS TITANIA
Marina Sirtis, the voice of our favorite immortal gargess head-case will be guest starring with whoever it was who played Lt. Barclay on TNG on an upcoming episode of Voyager, horny teenage male trekkers/trekkies are elated (originally the episode would've included a brief cameo by the actress who played Jadzia Dax, but the resulting loss of blood to the brain caused several males in the test audience to faint (j/k)

Stupid customers> I doubt this qualifies, but a real close buddy of mine who works in Toys R' Us, has to put up with a good deal of them, some asking the difference between the pokemon red and blue cartriges, but the worst question he gets is "what's the difference between gameboy and gameboy color?"
shogun raptor
Thursday, September 16, 1999 09:37:15 PM
IP: mia1-wc1.atlas.digex.net

***(Humorous)Rant Warning***
OK, I've been reading the CR instead of writing, and I have something important to say. This comparison of the new PS2 to a webtv unit mated with an Atari has gotten to me. I'm tired of everybody dissing my 2600. None of the games you kids like now would even exist if it wasn't for the Atari. All the other systems that came out at the same time were inferior, nothing but pale imitations. So the next time you're playing with one of your consoles with a control pad that has more buttons than a Chinese keyboard, remember to give the proper respect to its ancestors.
***End Rant***

Anyway, I was feeling old (Which I shouldn't have to do until I'm at least 30), and decided to let off some steam.

Jannie> Yeah, I made it to the Gathering. I wasn't very involved in the fandom then, so I only went to Saturday. I probably won't make it to Orlando, since I doubt I'll be able to afford a trip to Florida. Most of my money gets poured down other holes (My car, the SCA, Lone Star Comics, my car again...).

I was in Houston back in February. The Barony of the Stargate hosted the Queen's Champion tournament. I didn't win. (I'll translate that if you don't speak SCAdian, and yet are interested enough to find out.)
David G. - [david_goodner@yahoo.com]
Arlington, TX, USA
Thursday, September 16, 1999 09:25:17 PM
IP: pppa22-fortworth19-5r644.saturn.bbn.com

DOUG - Not to worry; in Season Three, "Gargoyles" and "Pendragon" will go back to being separate cycles again. Their blending in Season Two was a one-time-only deal, due to the protagonists sharing a common foe in both cycles. Arthur and his companions will be facing different problems and adversaries than the Manhattan clan in the future, but that's all that I'm going to say.
Todd Jensen - [merlyn@ninenet.com]
St. Louis, MO
Thursday, September 16, 1999 08:45:12 PM
IP: 216.87.46.150.dialup-stl.primary.net

Coyote: I think you either sent it to my parents' address (in which case I'll get it tomorrow night, when I go home to get ready for flight ops) or you can try sending it here.
Stormy - [mpletsch@julian.uwo.ca]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 08:42:49 PM
IP: dynixpc4.huron.uwo.ca

**enters the room, switching out the candles and sitting down in the massage chair.**

Spacebabie: Thanks, I can use this. **turns on massage chair ... entire back of it becomes a motorized shiatsu massager** Ahhh ... ;)

SOROW: Oh, you poor girl! Come on in and tell us about it, it might make ya feel better.

Night Walker: I'm sure by now you've received the e-mail I sent last night answering your question. :)

Wilek: I've been worse than normal lately ... but I know you guys are here to pull me out of whatever hell I sentence myself to.

Jaden: What scares me about this, though ... is that today she did nothing but lay in bed and sleep off and on. Not that I didn't understand the reason ... she was probably cold, it's been pretty chilly in the mornings lately, and our house in particular has been colder than usual for some reason ...

Fire Storm, re: tacnukes in "Starship Troopers": Actually ... I was thinking about the effect that I've heard radiation has on the human sex drive (kills it completely as the rads shrink the genitalia and leave the victim sterile) when I was talking about Rico "performing" after tossing around tacnukes like footballs.

Those in Floyd's path: you're in my thoughts, friends. **hugs**

Stormy: Welcome back to the online life. Oh, I sent ya a message earlier ... tell me if that sounds acceptable to ye.

Jenna: You think the stained glass breaking is bad? Someone ripped off my "Insane Gargoyle" magnet that I got from Demona May while I was at work. Good thing I bought two of them ... :)

Nuts, I forgot who it was ... but since you brought it up yesterday ...

**pulls on a "Knox State University" sweater**

I picked up "Finals" #1 today ... and am officially hooked. :)

Heather: He'll come. You gotta believe. **hugs**

Jannie: I wish it was so easy, but I've got debts to repay, and I can't go back unless I get that done first. :(

**reloads, hoping for a post from Ravyn ... please please please ... but no dice**

**sigh** Ah well, let's move on to a new, soon-to-be-timely topic ... what's everyone dressing up as for Halloween? Well, unfortunately for me the Rain costume I wore in Dallas kinda got shredded when I got it off in the room (that and I have no way of repairing it in time), so I've come up with a new one. See if you can figure it out by the following (cyber-cookie to the first to figure it out):

"From the day he was born he was trouble
He was a thorn in his mother's side
She tried in vain
But he never caused her nothing but shame
He left home the day she died

From the day he was gone, all he wanted
Was rock 'n' roll porn and a motorbike
Shootin' up junk
He was a low down cheap little punk
Taking everyone for a ride ..."

I have a sneaking suspicion that Skippy's gonna be the first to figure it out ... :) Oh, and for those who *do* know the song, the character I'm dressing up as is not the singer, but the character the singer is describing. If that didn't make it too easy, nothing will. :)

**sits back in the massaging chair, fixating again**
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Thursday, September 16, 1999 08:27:45 PM
IP: 207.91.254.14

**RP HERE, WARNINGS**

"Hmm," Shap frowns as Kaioto finishes filling in him and Shauna on what has happened. "So we're in an enemy base now, huh? I figured it was something like that." "Yes," Kaioto nods. "It's very unfortunate. However, myself and other friends have come here to rescue you. Speaking of which, shall we be going now?" "Yeah," Shauna agrees. "That's a great idea." With that she heads over to the arena's side door and looks out, immediately ducking back as a spray of gunfire nealry rips her head off. "Uh, we can't get out, it looks a little dangerous." Shap sighs and picks up one of the rifles the fleeing WCOC members left behind. "I suggest we shoot back." He then walks up to the door, motions to Kaioto to throw it open, and then fires two quick shots, killing both of the agents who were waiting for them to emerge. "Good job," says Shauna. "Let's get outside." The paladin and Seeker nod, then begin to follow her through the complex halls.

Meanwhile, on the base's lowest level, Keith and Jammer's group is standing at the bottom of an immense staircase. "I can't believe there's no call button for the elevator down here," Boris shakes his head, looking up at the LONG flight of stairs. "Believe it," Keith sighs. "Damn government budget cuts." Suddenly there is a footstep behind them. "What the...?" Jammer begins, spinning around along with Mist, Tom, and Lathrop. "It's okay," says one of seven Avatar stormtroopers standing in the stairwell doorway. "We're here to help. I'm Lieutenant Surge, Avatar of Ganon. Your friend Gubio called us in." The Ravens breathe sighs of relief. "Man," Tricia shakes her head. "You guys nearly gave me a heart attack." "Sorry," Surge tells her and then he and the other troopers step into the cramped passage. "We'll check the stairs," Surge says, "you wait here." "Alright," shrugs Jammer. Beside him, Jaden gets yet another angry snarl on his face. "Are you okay?" Tricia asks him, her psychic abilities sensing something wrong with the werewolf. Jaden frowns. "Uh..."

**END RP FIRST BIT**

Hello. Hope you're all having a good week, judging by your posts it seems some of you are. :) My week's been okay, just tiring. I'm really looking forward to the weekend ahead, when among other things I'll get to enjoy a Tom Petty concert (tomorrow night). Hope it's worth the price. If anyone's curious, I've made a little progress on my current fanfic project. Not much (school's fault) but some. Hope to have it done in (maybe) a month.

Buffy Fansite Getting Bashed: Lousy lawyers. Hope they are soon forced to see the error of their ways. Same goes for the executives who are probably behind the lawyers. :( That archive's scripts have been invaluable to me in the past (for writing Slayer Senshi flashbacks), as I'm sure they've been to other writers. They better get them back before too long. <prays>

Pistoff: Hope your pizza place stays around for at least a while. I know you hate your job, but it's still a good thing to have one. <shrugs> Hope to be reading your feedback soon.

Welcome back Theresa (even though you were just lurking), TJ Veil, Stormy, Durid, and Jackal! Welcome to newcomers Jannie, Cassandra, and Chris!

Marines: Ack, don't get me started. My uncle used to be a Marine, I know very well how they can be psycho, stupid, evil, obnoxious, and all-around hard to live with. <sighs> I agree that it's probably the jerk drill sergeants' and jerk hazing people's doing more than anyone else's. Marines are damn good fighters, though, no question about that. I'd hate to be facing one in a battle, but, as long as they didn't go crazy and cooperated with me, glad to have one on my side.

SJ: I agree with everyone else. If they're going to make another famous fantasy series into a movie it should be Dragonlance. Out of all the choices you listed, I found the Dragonlance books most inspiring and enjoyable. Wheel of Time comes in second, though lately a lot of the things Robert Jordan has been doing with that series have been driving me nuts.

Gyre: Nice Unseelie creativity demon.

Delphi: Thanks for the funny headlines, though none is as good IMO as- "Dead Man Told, 'Get Back to Work!'"

Shogun: Glad Hurricane Floyd missed you. <sigh of relief> My prayers are now that it doesn't get any of our friends on the East Coast.

New TGS Season: I hope the Pendragon series hasn't fully merged with Gargoyles, I liked it better as a seperate deal. Hope we get all four series this season, whenever it begins. Is Stormy right that it won't be until November? I hope I can wait that long. <sigh>

Wilek: $ Thanks for the RP assistance. Before you ask, Lieutenant Surge does not have a Raichu Pokemon on him. He just has the same name as a certain guy who does. (Kit and I thought the name was cool). $

Gunjack: Congrats on getting to spend some time in the days ahead with your girlfriend. Hope you two enjoy it. <grin>

Ack, looks like I've run out of topics. That was quick. <frowns> Oh well, I'm exhausted this evening anyway. May go to bed early. Later, everyone, and good night!

**MORE RP**

Doug and Kitainia's party, now joined by the two Avatar Troopers, reach the door to the cold room. Gubio hooks his computer to the keypad lock, runs a program, and taps in the numbers it gives. The door clicks open. "Now be careful, everyone," Janice says as they step into a huge metal-walled chamber with hundreds of glass cyro tanks set in the walls. "We need to find Tau's crystal and ignore the other aliens in here. They'll probably be hostile if we wake them up." "Got it," Doug nods, worriedly eyeing the many alien life forms visible inside the ice. "This is the place, right, Orion?" The cleric nods. "Indeed." "Here's the main control panel," Stephanie reports, walking over to a computer against the far wall. "It must be in charge of unfreezeing the aliens in this place." "We need to find Tau's crystal before we mess with that," Kitainia tells her sister, the others nodding in agreement. Elena flicks on the room's flourescent lights for more illumination. Kit thanks her and then tells everyone to spread out and look around for the object they seek.

In another place far from the Ravens, Dr. Anton Sevarius is watching regretfully as the Phalanx finish a short and informal ceremony for their planned assimilation of Earth. The missiles full of their deadly virus are then placed in their silos and launched, each speeding into outer space from where it will turn around and fly back down to hit its target on Earth. "Well, Junior," Sevarius sighs, "I hope you will understand if you ever find out about what I have done here. I truly had no choice." He then shakes his head and turns away, unwilling to listen to the Phalanx as they cheer the approaching doom of all Earthling life. $Note to all RP Players- Please don't worry about the missiles, Kit and I have plans for them. In our next post, they will be stopped from hitting Earth before they can do any damage (we hope). So just relax and keep taking care of that Smurf or whatever it is you're doing. We have everything under control. :) $

**END RP**
Doug - [frostfire@mail.utexas.edu]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 08:06:55 PM
IP: pool-207-205-150-235.dlls.grid.net

David G.> *chuckles* ohyeah? heh, that's kind of cute that Denis has been so secretative about me. Actually, we just had some issues to take care of before coming "public"
But he is the light of my life and I couldn't love another as much as I love him. :)
I see that you are in Arlington... did you attend the Gathering '99 ?? I was there - along with several of my fellow Mini Clanners. *smiles* I've posted my city as well, so you can see that we are fellow Texans! *stands and salutes the Texas flag* I was born in Mesquite, moved to Missouri at the age of nine, but returned here to Texas 10 yrs ago. I have a good friend from Mini that also lives in Arlington. We also all (mini crew) went to 6 Flags that Monday after the Gathering.. had a great time! =) Will you be attending the Gathering in Orlando?

Coyote> ack! hmmm... any possibility of a different school for you? even one that you can attend part-time?

Xanathar> *embarassed chuckle* eesh! At least so far, no parent has called in - so I'm in the clear.. hehehe. That came out of my mouth before I even realized what I had said.. we tried to stand there with innocent looks on our faces (my lunch duty partner and I) but we couldn't hold it for long and ended up laughing hysterically. *L* I just stood there while all of these smart-ass 5th graders ran around holding their balls... *g* heh, not like I could say, "ummm boys!... ummm OH boys!... turn loose of your weiners now".. *LOL* I wouldn't allow the 4 square balls to be brought out today... *g*
I wouldn't take the megaphone today either..made Olivia use it instead. ;)

Gunjack> hope you have a great time at your girlfriend's :) I'm envious! What I would do to hop on a plane and fly to Brussels, Belgium right now! *whimpers*
home schooling... eesh! we receive many children that have been home schooled - and they are at least one year behind in most subjects. I know that there are many sucess stories, but so far, I have not personally witnessed any of them. The kids also lack a certain degree of social skills. I work in an elementary, so social skills are still in the formable years. There are still plenty of them out there though that no matter how much you try, they are not socially acceptable and you can't figure out why..... then you meet their rents.. o.O let's just say that the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree! hehe All educational opportunities have their pro's and con's though and I personally think private school is the best *smiles* IMHO :)

Pistoff> better day? =) heh, I had a garbage truck... a HUGE one.. the kind that have those huge forks out front to life the gigantic trash bins over them and dump them... attempt to drive thru the lot with the children playing... *rolls eyes* Olivia yelled, "JAN!!" and I went running to the truck to stop it and she went towards the kids. The damn tire on that truck was as tall as I am! hehehehe.. so I'm standing there looking almost straight up yelling like a banshee at this driver... he actually decides to argue with me! *falls over* I climbed onto the side of the truck and was in his face! *LOL* He finally understood enough english to back the truck up and go around a different route... for the love of pete...
Olivia and I started laughing afterwards (after the blood returned to our heads) because she said she almost tripped while running towards the kids... hehehe.. we both said that if we had tripped and fallen, we would have gotten up, got our purses and went straight home... can you begin to imagine how embarassing that would have been??? sliding across the pavement, dresses over our heads, etc. *LMAO* I would have just slinked away at that point! *L* eesh!
Thanks for the copy of Vacuum Riders - going to sit down and read it tonight. I printed it out at school.. heh, in case it was another 70 pages long! *LOL* j/k I'm looking forward to reading it *smiles* Ohyeah, heard Elton John's song "Rocketman" today and burst out laughing soooo hard! I immediately thought of you... flying on a toilet... ;)
Hope you feeling better, my friend. *hugs*

Denis> I'm sorry that you are feeling ill again. *slides a barf bucket to you* hehehe ummmm *blows you a kiss* ?? j/k I miss you, my mate *hugs gently*
If I can't sleep again, maybe I'll catch you and Pistoff online again... if not - I'll see you tomorrow!
I can not even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed hearing your voice again this morning ;) je t'aime mon Denis... aka dEnny! *winks*

Thanks for all of the warm welcomes that I've received *smiles* I look forward to getting to know ya'll :)

"When all else fails, play dead"
Jannie
Houston, Texas
Thursday, September 16, 1999 06:45:55 PM
IP: 168.171.196.221

Oh yeah, and whoever said that remark about the PSX2 looking like a webtv+atari, You'd better say sorry, my webtv hasn't stopped crying[messing up:disconecting, long loads, jumbled pictures] since. And who cares how it lookes as long as it lives up to the latter system. The dreamcast looks funky too if ya haddn't noticed.
night walker - [goliath01@hotmail.com]
hobart, IN, usa
Thursday, September 16, 1999 06:33:23 PM
IP: proxy-523.public.rwc.webtv.net

Dragon Ball Z fans- Since there are so many of you in here maybe you can help me out. I'd only seen the first season of the original Dragon Ball before discovering DBZ so I have no idea who Krillin, Pickalo and Khami are, can somebody please fill me in (and maybe tell me how to spell their names)?

Wilek Nerus- <<Of course not, it simply means we can skip the initiation and get right to the important bussiness of warping you into one of our loyal minions...>> Cool! What kind of health plan do warped TGS CR minions get?


niner (with a small n)
Thursday, September 16, 1999 06:29:36 PM
IP: asy05.dial.upei.ca

MDY-Wow , I guess I missunderstood, it does come with alot of stuff, but at what price? Friends of mine that bought the system already had spent about $400+ for it . And I didn't mean the actual system I meant everything that Sony has come out with. Sure, with dreamcast the graphics are alot better and you get 'net access, but when the PSX 2 comes out won't it have the same thing , if not more? Thats the bad thing about coming first. You learn from other peoples mistakes , but when the rival companies systems come out they'll learn from yours. How do you not know that the PSX2 won't have 24 games out at it's arrival, and the Dolphin [which will be third] might have twice that. That's why I said that, coming first doesn't always make it the best. Yeah , it might not sell as much, but it'll be up there. And please, when you reply to someone, please don't treat them like they're stupid, I would't do that to you. I don't know nearly as much as you, and for all you know I could be 10 years younger than you. Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm sorry. But I always thought of using that [Ummmm] as either pondering or correcting. I know I'm blowing this out of proportion . Sorry again. I'll shut up now.

Can anybody tell me if it's true that the dolphin is nintendo's last gaming system . I read this in gamepro and they have been wrong at times , but they said that after the release of the dolphin they were moving to other things.

I'll make my posponed post later. I know I keep puting this off, but I have to watch Predator today. We're returning it to the video store today. bye.
nightwalker - [goliath01@hotmail.com]
hobart, IN, usa
Thursday, September 16, 1999 06:25:31 PM
IP: proxy-523.public.rwc.webtv.net

Hi y'all. The library's main system is frozen, so I can't work right now. I just have a couple of things to say.

Wilek Nereus> Consparicies? Maybe. All the documents were microfiche, so all I could read was the titles. There was one on CIA information in Vietnam, and another one on the CIA during the Cuban missile crisis.

nightwalker> Glad you're back. I wondered what was up, but I figured that if you were in any position to tell us, then you'd be posting anyway.

OK, the system's back up. Talk to y'all later.
David G. - [david_goodner@yahoo.com]
Arlington, TX, USA
Thursday, September 16, 1999 05:05:04 PM
IP: 198.215.20.3

Gunjack (I think)> <<Sorry for the huge size of that weapon post yesterday... Yes, I know, this is a GARGOYLES comment room, but I couldn't help myself...>> You're apologizing for being "off topic"?? In THIS comment room?

Heather> Aggh... I knew I'd been forgetting something! I just found the address to send my donation, and after this week from hell ends, you'll find another $10 coming thru the mail. *sigh* But it'll have to wait until the burgeoning bedbug crisis in my hall is taken care of. (Don't ask. I've vented enough to everyone here.)
Mandolin - [weird_web@hotmail.com]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 04:47:11 PM
IP: 144.175.18.15

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Anonymous
Thursday, September 16, 1999 04:45:32 PM
IP: usr35.mtwest.net

**walks in with a calender in her hand with the date March 17th circled in thick red ink, looks at the gown she is holding in her right hand and sighs sadly, a tear falling down her cheek** I hope he comes...

Well, we have so 191 dollars and we only need 77 more dollars. So if anyone can donate...**sighs** Please...

DragonBall Z > Well just last week I'm starting to finally understand this whole show. Robby kept hounding me about how cool the show was so I thought why not watch it.
I haven't got to watch it lately because of AFJROTC drill team practice. I got it all next week too. We have our first meet on October 16th, and also that weekend I might not be here because I'm going to Mossy Creek. It's for extra points.
Well, the last episode I saw was when...**looks around** I forgot the names. **sweatdrops** Sorry.

**looks at the calender again and sighs sadly as she leaves**
Heather - [kheetor84@aol.com]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 04:33:04 PM
IP: abd2d1cc.ipt.aol.com

*Gunjack walks in, looking rather sheepish*
Sorry for the huge size of that weapon post yesterday... Yes, I know, this is a GARGOYLES comment room, but I couldn't help myself...

Anyway, in a little while, I'll be leaving to spend a four day weekend with my girlfriend! Happiness descends!! I don't know how long I have until we leave, so if I don't get to submit a real (ie LONG) post later, goodbye...
Anonymous
Thursday, September 16, 1999 03:31:19 PM
IP: 205.165.166.148

<<We had a marine come in to a general surgery ward with a fractured C-4 and C-5 vertebrae in his neck (those are part of the top five segments on the spine). He'd been complaining about pain for several days before he got to us. By this time, he was in a retractor, on a special bed, and was in much pain and suffering. >> Heh heh. Good one. The Navy and Marine Corps have always had a friendly rivalry, telling embarrasing stories about the other and such.

Even though the USMC produces a few idiots and lunatics (I'm kinda crazy myself ;) , don't forget that other military branchs, and also law enforcement agencies, produce their fair share of loons. Timothy McVeigh was in the Army for example. And don't even get me started on Janet Reno!

But Marines, like other servicmen, are subjected to occupational stereotypes and jokes. The same for any other job (Politicians are all crooked, computer engineers are fat geeks, male hair stylist are gay, clergymen are perverts, ect).
Tim P.
Thursday, September 16, 1999 02:32:59 PM
IP: bn706-01.wsc.edu

Hey everybody!! Sorry I'm not coming in here that much.., there's just alota stuff goin on.
Anyway, just wanted to say a few non important things.., ya know how I am.., Yall please visit MTV's web site and request "Coma White" by Ma1lyn Man5on, or NiN's "We're in this together now". (I'm sorta upset about the Trent-Manson feud.., whatever it maybe.., it's kinda like mommy and daddy spiltin up).

Church shooting- True Christians.., Baptists for that matter can be irriating.., but don't blow them away.., you make marytrs (sp?) out of them. ::sigh::
I just wish all this bullsh*t violence would stop. Everybody jokes on this saying, but it is a legiment question.., "Can't we all just get along?"
Jackal - [Jackal1127@hotmail.com]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 02:19:20 PM
IP: 168.28.72.152

Walks in kneels on the florr and utters a short prayer for the people in the Carolina's

Short RP..."That Cyber Smurf is making fools out of us." Spacebabie said

"Greetings" Karina Aria enterd the room

"Arnt you one of the weird sistes?" Space asked

"Hey we may be quirky but were not wierd"Tizzy told her
"You need our help right?" Meleah asked
<<<End Short RP>>>

DBZ they are getting better I just hope Vegeta sounds better.Ok this is wierd but in my hose my brother is "Kurillin" and I'm "Bulma" dont ask but it seems my favorite Anime characters tend to be the genius's with the blue hair.

ROBBY>> is there a law in anime that says if a girl has blue hair then she is the genius of the group?

COYOTE>>Here borrow my massage chair...you need it

DELPHI>>ROFLMAO

Oh what else? yes I had this nightmare where oneo f the wier sisters was Martha Freakin Stewart.. she kept her eyes of newt in freshnes jars.

Another book Sereis I like to see be adapted into a miniseries is Xanth... They dont have to PunIsh us though but the first six books at least.

Spacebabie - [Spacebabie76@yahoo.com]
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A
Thursday, September 16, 1999 02:06:56 PM
IP: ts003d22.orl-fl.concentric.net

Well, it's been a while (though not as long as the while before that) but I'm back. It's really difficult to set up blocks of time to catch up on the room that isn't during "prime phone call time" as my roommates call it. Right now, I usually have to wait until after midnight of I want to use the net for more than a couple of minutes at a time. Hopefully things will get better when the phone people finally install the second line we requested more than 2 weeks ago. For now, everyone else is at class and the phone lines are mine, so it's time for responses...

Well I'm certainly glad the Emmys are over. I never found them interesting enough to sit through, but this year was worse because I'm living just a couple of blocks away from the stupid ceremony. I had to listen to that stupid camera helicopter would never go away. It was always either making low circles around the campus or hovering for long periods of time over the local shopping center (which is between my apartment and the Shrine Auditorium and thus put the helicopter right outside my window. Just how many aerial shots do they need and where's a rocket launcher when I need one?) In addition to that, all the roads were blocked off, making it virtually impossible to get away from the noise without violating several traffic laws (fortunately I had a friend with a car who was willing to do this...)

Thanks to everyone who suggested solutions for my computer situation I'm going to start trying them out very soon. There's been an "incident" involving one of my roommates messing with my comp while I was at class. I can tolerate people leaving my CD player on after they use it while I'm not around, but deleting icons off my desktop and then lying about it is bordering on unforgivable.

Pistoff> I'm sorry to hear you're having such a lousy time at work. Hopefully things will get better soon. << I just keep telling myself, what doesn't kill me will make me stronger...>> or stranger... : )

Kitainia> <<Doug and I are both Year of the Sheep (though we're not sheep in personality, thank God! :) He's a Picses and I'm a Leo.>> Wow, you're the lion *and* the lamb...

SJ> <<giving an elephant an enema can be a very dangerous activity -- and not something that should be attempted alone>> **LOL** Words of wisdom to live by... <<Vinnie: Leave and never return. She leaves, but pays the $11.45 first. Seriously.>> *giggle*... *snort*... **Zath starts choking on root beer**

Wilek> <<A fruit sculpture?! That sounds like the work of a psychopath!>> Actually, I had been helping her with it several days earlier, and my interpretation involved sticking several dozen wooden matches in it, all about half a centimeter apart, and then setting it on fire, so the final product could have been worse, but at least the flames might have kept the flies away. : ) <<Maybe I can help? There's no guarantee, but I'll see what I can do>> Unless you want to come to LA and help my nuke an evil laundry room, I don't think there's much you can do. Apparently there's a "good" washer and dryer and a washer and dryer that I'd have to violate the CR's pg-13 rating to describe, but no one told me this important little tidbit of info until I had already wasted about $3.50 and nearly 3 hours of my life trying to use the latter pair (the good machines were being used by someone else). >: ( There are other problems too, but they're mostly in the form of irritations from various sources.

Aaron> <<took their couch across the hall to watch TV in someone else's apartment.>> Actually, I could probably do that if I really wanted to : ) The only problem is the guys across the hall have made it known on several occasions that they like our couch better, so they'd let me take it over, but they might not let me have it back : P

MDY> <<"I believe that this new console of the new millennium is the result when a WebTV and an Atari 2600 have sex. And from the looks of it, it wasn't very good sex." >> **snicker**

Chinese zodiac> Am I the only chicken in here? Hey, what's everyone laughing at? : )

Delphi> <<Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus? (Ur what???) >> That's like that old joke about Captain Kirk being like toilet paper...

Skippy> <<Mostly we do ornamental iron (furniture and decorations type stuff)>> One time I was at one of those little colonial themed touristy type places and I saw a blacksmith who was forging animal heads on the ends of long metal rods (I think they were for hanging potted plants outdoors. The ones with rams' heads were cool, but I didn't have any use for it.) Can you do anything like that with the end product being little iron gargoyles? That would be so cool, and they'd make nice paperweights too.


Christine> <<Pern would be good but I hear Anne McCaffrey's stingy with her licensing rights>> Actually, they're supposedly working on a TV series to be released some time in 2000. I found the official website somewhere, but I don't remember the URL.

I think that's all for the moment. Hopefully I'll be back soon. Bye for now.
Zath - [zath@rocketmail.com]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 01:18:23 PM
IP: ppp-227-071.usc.edu

Lord of the Rings > from a purely selfish standpoint, I am rooting for this movie to do great because it will bode well for fantasy in general. They've been talking about a D&D / Dragonlance movie for years now, Pern would be good but I hear Anne McCaffrey's stingy with her licensing rights, but needless to say, the book I'd most like to see adapted to the screen is _mine_!!! ; )

Christine - [vecna@eskimo.com]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 12:18:57 PM
IP: vecna.ndip.eskimo.net

Aaron-- thanks buddy! :)
jenna
Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:52:08 AM
IP: unknown-31-157.glm.com

Aaron wanders in, twirling a toy broadsword.

I love Toys R Us. Not only do they have most of the cool Halloween junk out, they also had a hilarious Star Wars Diorama. The Stormtroopers were doing their impression of the Rockettes, the battle droids were taking apart a '53 Bel Air and Leia was kicking Amidala's @$$. (I'm sorry, I think Natilie Portman can't hold a candle to Carrie Fisher) Even Jar Jar was pretty cool. He'd torn the leg of C-3PO and was getting ready to beat some battle droids down with it.

And... They had *blue* lightsabers. Those're impossible to find.

Robby>Dreamcast> And the worst part is, according to some of the things I've heard, most of the games don't work. And I'm sorry about the anvils. But I've got a better idea. Send someone to NYC and grab Jeff Van Gundy. Stick a brown robe on him, and he'll be the spitting image of Gargamel. This should distract the smurf long enough for you to do anything you need to beat him.

Warpmind> Actually, I was kinda disappointed in Hellfire. The new monsters were kinda wimpy, and the locations didn't blend with the rest of the game. I did like the lightning wall spell though.

Jenna> Aaron pulls a huge rolodex from inside his coat and rifles through it madly.

Ah, here we go. Jubilee's addy is: hutch3@bellatlantic.net

Sorry to hear about your stained glass. :(

Later.

Aaron wanders off, humming "You ain't seen nothin' yet."


Aaron - [JCarnage@Yahoo.com]
San Antonio, TX, USA
Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:36:42 AM
IP: ppp-246.tnt-1.sat.smartworld.net

Night Walker> "..when I look at the dreamcast I think, "strait ripoff". At least my playstation came with a controller and a demo disk [with 12 demos] . Playstation is obviously the much better buy."

Umm, the Dreamcast comes with a controller, demo disk full of playable demos and movies of forthcoming games, a 56k modem (for web access, online gaming etc..), telephone cable etc.. Plus it's newer technology - of course it's going to be more expensive (it has over 10 times as much memory as the Playstation and is 15 times as powerful). In 3D terms it'll outperform a Pentium 3 with a cutting edge 3D accelerator card that alone costs about much as the console.

MDY - [MDY21940@yahoo.com]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:07:07 AM
IP: 195.195.164.7

Wilek> It's the nature of the console industry to move in cycles, Sega priced themselves out of the market last time the Saturn was hard to program and lacked some graphic features of the Playstation. Nintendo left it too long before releasing a nice, but not a great deal superior machine based on restrictive and costly cartridges. Both have learned from this and are making sure they get it right this time. I just don't see how Sony can recapture their current market with a machine that will cost the best part of 400 dollars, never mind the horrible 'cheap 80's cd player' look of the thing.
They seem to be counting on the 20's-30's age group as it is supposed to DVD movies. This it seems has caused an uproar in that industry (they previously promised other manufacturers it wouldn't - without a costly add-on), which now has the major players discussing drastic pricing changes, so that by the time of release Sony's machine will be very costly next to a standalone DVD unit.
Early shots of the PS2 games are nice, but there is a huge gulf between the work done by Namco, Square and Sony's internal teams and the rest.

Even so there is little that has been shown that the much cheaper Dreamcast cannot achieve, believe it or not.
As an example click on my name to go to a page showing off the fantastic facial modelling from Sega's forthcoming epic adventure/RPG title Shenmue, all of which is done by the machine in real-time.

For another example, check out the following link:
http://www.leeds-art.ac.uk/ukdcgallery/games/doa2.htm

Which shows off the amazing Dead Or Alive 2, which in addition to incredibly detailed fighters, has huge locations to fight in, with the characters being knocked from one level (rooftop, top of a waterfall etc..) and their opponent jumps down after them to continue the fight.

Soul Calibur and NFL2000 are good early indicators of the machine's power, and these are only the first games either company has produced for the machine, later games will look even better.

MDY - [MDY21940@yahoo.com]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:58:22 AM
IP: 195.195.164.7

Ok lets try and catch up.

Troopers vs marines. Book troopers hands down sorry but powered armor rocks. Movie don’t know I mean both of the brass for both are pretty stupid and got the squads killed. As for the meaner bug. Well I’m in a kind of traveler game and acid blood is very nasty when you fight in close quarters. So if I was in a open field aliens would be easy to kill but in a space ship or research area sorry a big old bug gonna be easy pickings

Mel as Ben Holiday that works. Oh that works so well it is scary. Bad news for all us landover fans Brooks has said that the series is well over. so there probably will not be any new books. He said he liked they way it ended and has no plans to pick it back up.

Real military sorry guys and gals but the days of full metal jacket basic training are gone even for the marines. You might see that in s ops, but the regular trooper nah we are to PC nowadays.
Gunjack sorry but we need the 3 branches because they specialize in different aspects of warfare. Take it form a military brat The army is very necessary. Now finally the marines myth is over stated. Sorry it is true it is kinda like the myth of the green beret in the 70’s (though I think these guys are still the toughest sob’s in the military just for sheer destructiveness and survival capabilities.)
you know i like this default color it is so easy to read
ironwolf
Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:44:01 AM
IP: host-209-214-41-145.cha.bellsouth.net

Well, I feel a little better today, Wilek and Pistoff- thanks :) I think it was more exhaustion than anything else--- I've really been burning the candle at both ends here lately. Well, I slept about 12 hours straight- so I feel better--- but again, guys, thanks :)

jaden-- I love B5!!! And I think one of the main reasons is that the writing is so beautiful and eloquent-- here are some lines I most remember:

Centari emperor: How will this end?
Kosh: With fire.

Kosh: I have been here, J'kar, I have always been here.

G'kar to Deleen- all I ever need to know I see in your eyes.

Lando: Great maker, some times I don't understand anything at all.

Lando: I'll tell you what I want. I want to stop living my life as a man always running late for an appointment; afraid to look forward, and afraid to look back. I want the arm of centarti to reach forth among the stars again, and be the lion of the galaxay.....I want it all back the way that it was!!

Technomage; I see your hand reaching forth among the stars and millions of people calling out your name.
Lando: My followers?
Technomage: Your victims.

I could go on and on--

********************************************************************************Attention: Jubilee***********************

I lost your em addy and my Goliath stain glass broke!!!! :( Please contact me so I can see about getting another one-- if anyone else knows her em, let me know!! thanks!!
************************************************************

jenna - [theamazingjenna@hotmail.com]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:43:35 AM
IP: unknown-31-157.glm.com

Run for your sanity. I'm back.

Good to see you all again!

Wilek: re: marines We had problems with the Canadian Airborne a few years ago re: brutality and hideous initiation rituals. All I can say is, you strip someone's mind down and rebuild them into a killing machine, and you wonder when they don't act like a Boy Scout??

But re: life in barracks...I've spent summers as one of 72 people in a barracks, with nothing but a bunk and a 3 foot square box to call my own, and it didn't drive me crazy (my current sanity level has nothing to do with my para-military career) It's probably that I was being taught to FLY, not to rip people's throats out with my teeth.

(Of course, even as officer staff I don't get a phone or computer access. blech. But at least I get a private room and some decent food.)

Xanthanar (pardon misspelling) I've actually been to an Australian forces base...the one near Brisbane...on exchange with Air Cadets (your Air Training Corps, I believe) ANd I have a pair of Aussie combat pants and jacket to prove it ;-)

TGS: I know, isn't starting up until undisclosed date, probably around November. But I'm curious which series will be playing this year. Dark Ages is coming back, and I'm sure Gargoyles will continue.... Is there going to be a TimeDancer this year? Will it start in November, or later? Will there be a Pendragon, or has the adventures of Griff and Arthur pretty much merged with the "Gargoyles" storyline?
Stormy
Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:08:50 AM
IP: dynixpc4.huron.uwo.ca

Good morning everyone
here's afew more newspaper headlines:
>>Include Your Children when Baking Cookies (only on the days they drive nuts)
>> Clinton Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead (no suprise here)
>> Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told (oh, so thats what we've been doing wrong!!!)
>> Miners Refuse to Work after Death (well I sort of draw the line there too)
have a great day everyone!!!

Delphi - [cmiller@magiclink.com]
Twin Falls, Idaho
Thursday, September 16, 1999 08:49:58 AM
IP: 216.190.240.32

Hi all!!

night walker:Welcome Back I've been wondering where you went,I completely understand what it's like to move house all the time(although you've had to move around more than we did),My father was in the Airforce(He's retired now) and everytime I'd make some friends my father would get posted to a base on the other side of the country,I was born in Adelaide then we moved to Darwin lived there for five years(Lived through two Cyclone's),moved to Perth lived there for three years and finally moved to my present location here in Melbourne.

Jannie:"Boys, hold your balls!"O-o"*ROTFL*

Delphi:Loved those Newspaper headlines:)

shogun raptor:Clad to hear that your alright(Hope you haven't had to sleep in the bathroom like we used to do)

Everybody else who's caught in these storms I hope your safe and alright as well.

Marines vs. Troopers:Marines for sure and I agree with Skippy the Troopers would have had far less casualties If they just napalmed the bugs from the air.

Wilek:Oh, and the xenomorphs were designed by H. R. Giger, so there's a major advantage right there. <G> >>Amen to that brother!:)

C'yas later!!
Xanathar
Melbourne, victoria, Australia
Thursday, September 16, 1999 08:12:15 AM
IP: cache1.mpx.com.au

Firestorm>> I'll have to check on those figres for you, was that stainless or mild steel you were interested in?

Comments about ST>> In the book, the whole point behind kidnapping the brain bug was to figure out a way to communicate with it in some sense and see if there was any way to end the hostilities through diplomcay. It was establihed that the bugs were smart since they did make that deal with the Skinnys. In the movie, there was no really advanced intellegence behind the bugs. They may have been able to suck out people's brains and use the info in stratagey, but that may have been nothing more than an instinctual response by the hive...

As for the Nuke Fart Bug comment, I was refering to the Plasma Bugs...
Skippy The Klingon - [shakedwn@ultravision.net]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 07:16:07 AM
IP: uv1-48.ultravision.net

Hi, y'all. Sorry about the double post.

I just checked the Avalon Mists newest Writer's Challenge. For some reason, a wild west image of MacBeth has formed in my mind. I have no idea why, but it's there.

Well, people are looking over my shoulder, so I'll get back to you later, ok?
Warpmind de InzanE - [de_InzanE@xoommail.com]
Middle, Nowhere, Norway
Thursday, September 16, 1999 07:08:50 AM
IP: maaloeytnb-gw.online.no

Hi, y'all. Time for a DC death, 'cause he just killed my post.

**WARNING: VIOLENT DC DEATH ENSUES!**
Warpmind lurks in the CR, looking around for that oh-so-evil immortal, armed with an impressive array of... spearmint-flavored toothpicks. He finally finds him, using a simple Tae Kwon Do technique to flip DC over and down to ground level. While DC is still fazed, Warpmind pulls up a long cord and ties DC's extremities together like a cowboy ropes a calf.
"Hi, you no-good, scheming sonofabitch. Time to expose you to extraordinary pain."
DC looks up as Warpmind pulls out a toothpick from the case.
"What... what are you going to do to me? Are... are those poisoned, or something?"
"Nope, and there's the evil. You're not gettting out of this easily. First, I intend to create about five hundred new cavities in your body, and then... I have these amusing pheromones from female elephants in heat, you see... But let's get back to that later."
Warpmind starts poking toothpicks through DC's skin, and the unfortunate immortal starts screaming.
**TO BE CONTINUED**

Xanathar: My condolances. Or is that congratulations? I hope you get an understanding judge :)

Wilek: Xanatos Enterprises? Now *THAT* is Aerie. Oh, um, I mean... eerie.

Pissy: You're welcome. For the joyriders, I'm always willing to bring everyone up to date.

Reverend Attila: Yeah, Norway is a Lutheranean country, so... go figure. Nothing wrong about it, really.

Spike: Nice idea about a Life Drawing class at G2K. Any openings for model-wannabe's?

Aaron: There's no such thing as playing too much Diablo. Trust me. And if you got the Hellfire Expansion Pack as well...

Lexy: Welcome back. Got that transfer from me yet? And what's the current status?

Fantasy book debate: Another series to be filmed if LOTR succeeds? Hello? Is reaaly *IF* the appropriate word?

Sevarius Jr.: If Star Trek fans are called Trekkis, what are B5 fans called? Babbies? :)

**DC DEATH RESUMES**
Warpmind is running out of toothpicks, and DC is still screaming. As DC believes to be given a moments relief from the agony, Warpmind rips off DC's pants and sprays something on his hindquarters.
"(Evil laughter)Hehehehehe, now I've sprayed a highly efficient female elephant pheromone on your rear. I guess this can be considered a fate worse than death! Farewell."
With a few swift grip, Warpmind picks up DC and carries him to the local zoo, where DC is dumped into the elephant cage. As the male elephants start to grunt contentedly, and DC's screams increase in pitch, Warpmind walks away, whistling merrily on the tune "Love me tender".
**DC ABUSE END**

Ooooh, I'm evil.

Later, everyone.
Warpmind de InzanE - [de_InzanE@xoommail.com]
Middle, Nowhere, Norway
Thursday, September 16, 1999 06:43:08 AM
IP: maaloeytnb-gw.online.no

Skippy: Besides being a dancing Klingon, you are also a blacksmith? Hmm... those talents could be VERY usefull to me in the future.
(BTW... How much does a square foot of 1/16" sheet metal weigh? Also, you wouldn't happen to know the price of that kind of sheet metal, per square foot, in VERY large volumes? (500,000 square feet)

Robby: Troopers: Does Sci-FI even have ACCESS to all of the episodes? I mean, how many times has the first one been on? Wasn't it on last Thursday or this Monday too?

Troopers vs. Marines: Ok, what would happen if the Troopers met up with everyone's favorite Xenomorphs, and the Marines took on the Bugs?
I *STILL* say the marines would wipe the bugs butts, while the Aliens would have a new batch of hosts.

MI: I know... look at how intense (IE: viscious) the training was and how slack they were on the battle field! NO organization, nothing! All thier training seemed to be useless!
Coyote: <Tacnukes> I know! They would have been vapor! They were within a half-mile of detonation. If the blast didn't kill them (Which it would have) the radiation would have. And lets not even CONSIDER that the EMP would do to communications!
Skippy: Here here! Why DIDN'T they carpet-nuke the planet? <Slaps head> Oh yeah! Because it would have made SENSE and the government can't do ANYTHING that makes sense. It's against the law!

Troopers Movie: Wasn't the losses of Buenos Aires over 9 million?

Stephen R. Sobotka, Jr: What do you do for a living?

Marines: Well, I know of a lot of military types, and the Marines are the bunch of biggest hardcore phyco's I have ever SEEN! Needless to say, they get the HIGHEST respect from me.

SJ: Rha's al Ghul will be in Batman Beyond? Hmm... I hope they give that character justice. I doubt it, though.
UPN: actuall, I am starting to hate that network anyway. I mean, wrassling? Come on...
STORY: (I am barely able to type due to laughing!)

Floyd: I sure hope that Floyd hits here! I mean, there music ROCKS!
(Oh, wait, you meant the OTHER Floyd. My mistake.)

Stupid Employee: LM called Circut City for information on a stereo system, and the employee
1.) Was a moron
2.) Sent LM into a loop that involved nearly every employee in the building at least twice
3.) Didn't know what a 'fax' was
4.) Gave her multiple answers to the same questions.
That, along with the legacy of DIVX, are reasons I won't go to Circut City.

Night Walker: Well, I missed you.

Military: According to the US Constitution, we are NOT allowed to have a standing army for more than two years. ONLY the Navy is allowed to stick around. (And I would argue that we would need an AirForce for defense too.)

<PRIASE\\GIVER-OF-WILL>
Fire Storm - [Night-Flame@usa.net]
Thursday, September 16, 1999 04:40:26 AM
IP: 216.90.45.158

****RP!!!****
"A few minutes of peace!? How can he make such a request in the middle of a battle?" Jaden thinks running toward the stairwell. "Orion is such an idiot." Jaden mentally kicks himself for thinking so ill of a friend. Suddenly his head begins to pound again. Taking a moment to concentrate he forces it back.
Back at Thailogs headquarters:
"OW!!" Alchemist screams, nearly falling over. "Did you do it?" Thailog inquires. "Is your experiment under your control?"
"No." Alchemist replies. "This is going to take time. If I push to hard and fast he or his allies will know something is wrong."
****END RP!!!****

It's amazing how many people come here and think that this is a chat room when it is clearly stated "COMMENT ROOM" you'd think that this would be a clue.

Jenna-You like B5 quotes? How about this one..."Now I'm off to spread happiness and joy to the rest of the station. It is a terrible duty I know, but I have learned to live with it." I always laugh at that one.

Coyote-It's good to hear that your Grandmother is doing better. I know what your going through. Before my Grandmother died I was the caretaker and it always seemed to me that everyone else had a life but me. Fortunately I was able to re-work my schedule so I could at least pretend to have a life. I was glad to be able to spend time with her, but sometimes it felt like I just had to get out.

Well I'm going to try to get some sleep.
See ya later!
Jaden - [jaden12@hotmail.com]
Los Alamos, CA
Thursday, September 16, 1999 01:34:05 AM
IP: cache3.avtel.net

**RP!**

[On the Dark Star II...Decius approaches Black Tiger with a plan..."I am capable of projecting a dampening field over a fairly large area, one that would prevent the Smurf from percieving the gathering of energy for the Spirit Bomb. It would most likely prevent Jim from being able to form it, but I could constrain the field to just within the borders of the arena, so the two of you could still do your work." Black Tiger: "We'd have to stay in a corner somewhere...I think it could work. Do it." The Borg gargoyle nods and charges a projection coil, while the rest of the team rejoins the battle against the cybersmurf...]

**PAUSE RP!**

DragonBall Z was interesting today. I'm glad they managed to get the censors liquored up long enough to show Ginyu punching a hole in his own torso. >:) I thought for some reason that when his hand went into his chest cavity, it'd come out holding his heart...

Tim P> <<Come on you ALIENS/Leatherneck fans, give your support!>> Heh heh heh...I happen to adore xenomorphs. <G> The main advantage of the xenomorph, or the Tenebrian dre'kketh as it is known to other (i.e. alien) civilizations, is the fact that it can reproduce by taking prisoners--and, as proven in the Nostromo incident, it can use impregnated prisoners to infiltrate enemy bases, at least as long as its targets don't know it's there. Also, much like certain terrestrial insects (and even a certain species of fish), a xenomorph soldier drone separated from its hive for long periods of time eventually develops limited reproductive abilities, making it capable of laying eggs which yield xenomorph Queens. (I use the term 'drone' rather loosely here, since there are no male xenomorphs as such.) Therefore, one of these things can establish an entire new hive in a matter of weeks, from one single surviving drone. The Nostromo creature probably would have tried if it hadn't been tossed out an airlock (although, since there were no more humans to impregnate and it probably couldn't have landed the ship, the hive would have been doomed before it began...). Oh, and the xenomorphs were designed by H. R. Giger, so there's a major advantage right there. <G>

T. J. Veil> Welcome back! ^_^ <<Sega put out ten or twelve games for the Dreamcast on the same day as it came out. This helped their sales a lot.>> Ah, yes. Power Stone and Soul Caliber look *really* interesting. What really won me over to Sega's camp (until the launch of the Dolphin, at any rate) was the incredible foul-up that the PlayStation II turned out to be. Before, it was Sega who was perpetually making these kinds of mistakes and being the joke of the industry (32X, anyone?), and now Sega's gotten everything right while Sony's setting themselves up for a great fall. Amazing the things that can happen in a single night.

**HERE'S WHERE I TICK OFF HALF THE POPULATION. I DON'T MEAN TO, AND I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE, BUT I HAVE RATHER STRANGE VIEWS REGARDING THE MILITARY.**

Stephen Coldtone Sobotka> Marines> I totally agree. I think it's the fault of the training they go through--essentially, any skills not related to combat and survival get drilled out of many of them (or at least the drill instructor tries his hardest to do so), at least temporarily, and there are those who don't adapt well at all. I hold them in the highest respect for their fighting skills, but...<sigh> so many (although certainly not all) have paid such a high price for those skills. I long for the day when battle droids become standard issue, then we won't have to see what could have been the greatest minds of our generation get broken necks from imitating professional wrestlers. (OK, that last sentence was completely uncalled for and I apologize. I'll slap myself in the face with a dead fish when I get the time.)

Kitainia> <<Wonder what causes these problems, and if anything can be done to alleviate them and still have the good defense the Marines provide.>> I've heard that Marine training involves all manner of psychological abuse at the hands of the drill instructor. I sincerely hope I'm mistaken or misinformed (Someone please tell me I am!), but if I'm not, then there are people who can go right off the deep end because of it, and I am most likely one of them (fortunate, then, that I have no plans to enroll). The Armed Forces lifestyle itself--separated from one's family, living in barracks with a bunch of total strangers, communal everything (did I not just describe a prison? <shudder>)--may contribute to this (the Marines can't be the only AF branch that has these problems). Heaven help us all if government-sanctioned kidnapping (a.k.a. the draft) ever comes back into fashion. Probably most of the issues that manifest in the more spectacularly dysfunctional examples of individual Marines can be traced back to this.

My sincerest apologies to whoever I've managed to offend; my opinions of the military's training and recruiting techniques (among other things) are rather odd and perhaps not as accurate as they could be...ah well...

**END OFFENSIVE MATERIAL. THIS WAS ALL MERELY THE HUMBLE OPINION OF A SOMEWHAT <hehehe> ILL-ADJUSTED GARGOYLE, AND WAS NOT INTENDED TO PROVOKE OR OFFEND. IF IT DOES ANYHOW, I HUMBLY APOLOGIZE.**

Niner> <<Oh, I lost my sanity back in jr. high school so I can't turn it over to the cr administrator, that won't be a problem, will it?>> Of course not, it simply means we can skip the initiation and get right to the important business of warping you into one of our loyal minions...

Aaron> <<If that doesn't work, try anvils.>> Hm...I think I know where I could get my claws on a Wand Of Anvils...

Mandolin> <<Construction has begun outside my window... and when I went down to ask how long they'd be at it, they made me out to be the bad guy. They said I should have talked to the administration, which I had. They said I was the only one who had complained, but all I wanted to know was how long they'd be at it so I could plan ahead of time to do my Assembly Language stuff elsewhere.>> <grr> Well now I'm *really* ticked. RELEASE THE AUDIOLOGISTS' GUILD! [A gate in the CR opens to release a bunch of sinister looking doctors with sonic weaponry who stampede toward the general direction of Mandi's school.] Hope they help. >:)

Skippy> <<Considering how big and ponderous those nuke fart bugs were, why did they bother sending in troops to deal with them when a bombing run could have been more effective?>> Nuke fart bugs. I'll have to remember that one. :P Were they the ones that were capable of sending plasma bursts all the way into orbit and destroying capitol ships, or the ones that sprayed antipersonnel biotoxin? The former are plasma bugs, the latter are tanker bugs. But your name for them is more interesting. :) (I don't know why I know the technical names for these things...maybe I'm just weird...) <<On the upside, because these people ARE drunk, they are in the tendency to forget packages as they leave in disgust. I got a t-shirt, a pair of sunglasses, a wooden flute and nifty little walking stick that way :)>> You a Klingon or a Ferengi? :P j/k

Jenna> <<Been feeling really sick as of late- hope it passes soon....>> Not you too! Is there some kind of bug going around?! <sprays the whole room with enchanted chicken soup and begins tormenting Sli Sludge quite slowly>

Nightwalker> So that post was you. <sigh> I had no idea things were *that* bad. I would have replied, but...well, I didn't know how. I'm bad with such things. :} <<And for some reason it just felt safer sending it as a stranger and just read what people had to say about it.>> I can understand that. A friend of mine is much the same way, except he's unwilling to post to any online forum at all. Don't know why. Oh well.

David G.> <<I cataloged 70 government document microfiche files today.>> Any conspiracies? ^_^

Gunjack Valentine> <<Why is it that it's more fun to play a villian (or at least a really nasty good guy) than a goody-two-shoes hero?>> Because it's a rather cathartic release for our dark sides. Darkness is so commonly associated with evil in our society that we are encouraged to repress it as much as possible, and getting the chance to let it out to play every now and then is so rare these days (except in here of course <muhahaha>). <<Smithsonian Anime - Isn't the Smithsonian supposed to be dedicated to AMERICAN history?>> This, I think, is a testament to how deeply entrenched a part of another culture has become in ours. These days, anime isn't just a Japanese thing (even though it's made there almost exclusively); people all over the world enjoy it.

Theresa> <<My feelings are hurt. My Webtv unit has very high standards and would not even look at an Atari.>> Of course *your* WebTV has high standards--you're cultured and intelligent, and such appliances tend to acquire traits of their owners' personalities. The whole WebTV/Atari interbreeding bit probably referred to a WebTV unit owned by Howard Stern or Micheal Jackson or something. :)

Coyote> Ack...you seem worse off than usual tonight...here's hoping things improve, hopefully dramatically, for you and everyone else who's falling on hard times of various sorts lately.

SJ> <<Let's do the math: 200 bucks for the unit....it comes with NO games, and NO controller. Add 30 bucks for the damn controller. Add 30 bucks for the damn memory card, a must if you want to do....well, anything. Add 50 bucks per game. IF I was going to buy a Dreamcast, I might as well walk into the store with my wallet open and my pants around my ankle, cause I'd be totally taking it up the wahoo paying for all the crap.>> Sad to say, it seems to be de facto company policy these days--the N64 and the PlayStation were both released with a similar packaging scheme of one controller and no games, and it's safe to assume that the PlayStation II and the Dolphin will follow suit (well perhaps not the Dolphin, because the console is expected to cost less). <sigh>

**RESUME RP! This one's kinda long...**

[In Area 51-A, the team designated to take out Agent Tau's crystal is striding down a corridor toward the cold storage chamber...when Kitainia hears something..."Guys, there's someone up ahead...strike that; two or three someones. We'd better take cover." The team ducks around a corner and waits until whoever's here comes within visual range, whereupon Kitainia peeks ever so subtly around the corner, to ascertain their identity. She grins when she notices the two newcomers' black armor and heavy blaster rifles..."It's OK, they're Avatar stormtroopers!" Relieved, the team continues on their way, stopping to speak with the new arrivals. Doug: "Boy are we glad to see you guys!" Stormtrooper: "Indeed. We have orders to get you out of here before the enemy can eliminate you." Doug: "There's been a change of plans. We've found out where Tau's soul crystal is--right here in this building. We're going after it; we'll leave right after we take it out." ST: "Need any help? There are a few other troops on this floor." Kitainia: "Couldn't hurt. The rest of our team is securing the stairwell leading to the exit, maybe you can send them there?" ST: "Good idea." Orders are given, the troops are dispatched, and the team going after Tau's crystal gains two new members...]

**END RP!**
Wilek Nereus
Thursday, September 16, 1999 12:19:52 AM
IP: spaceproxy.com

SJ-<<If I was going to buy a dreamcast I might as well walk in there with my wallet open and my pant down to my ankles>>>Amen brother, I am a fellow playstation owner when I look at the dreamcast I think, "strait ripoff". At least my playstation came with a controller and a demo disk [with 12 demos] . Playstation is obviously the much better buy.
night walker - [goliath01@hotmail.com]
hobart, IN, usa
Thursday, September 16, 1999 12:12:07 AM
IP: proxy-383.public.rwc.webtv.net

Sorry all, but I'll have to make that big post+RP tomorrow after school. It's too late and we little children need our sleep [and if my mother sees me up too late she'll take away my internet privaliges. So for now just two quickie replies

coyote- That's alright , I was expecting sombody to say that [wierd post remark]. How did you know, well who else would move 15 times in 14 years? Yes, my mother is in the Air force and has been since she was 17. It is tough , very tough. It seems that whenever I make friends we're always moving again , and I've never gotten in touch with any of them since. Just in case do you or anybody else know of a good way I can find out some of my past friends e-mail addresses? It's bad enough that I used to have friends , it's even worse that I can't contact them. I'm just glad I have you guys, no matter where I go my relasionship with you guys could never change. Thanx again , you made my day by saying so.

Starsinger-I had a feeling you would. But I forgot that we are the only webbers that come here. That kind of gave me away huh? Oh well, how are you doing lately ? I myself am actually alot better, school could be a little less harsh but other than that, everythings fine. But you know what, I haven't gotten any e-mail worth reading in three weeks [exept for the SMILE note which I loved and replied to ]So if anybody here were to e-mail me I would feel even better.

Alright enough boredom , you probaly want to read a better post I'll stop now.

Goodnight my rookery brothers and sisters.
night walker - [goliath01@hotmail.com]
hobart, IN, usa
Thursday, September 16, 1999 12:03:25 AM
IP: proxy-413.public.paix.webtv.net

***BEGIN RP****
After speaking with Black Tiger, SJ once again made his way over to Kari. "Kari, I'm gonna need a little bit more of your
power."
She gazed at him weakly. "I don't have much to give, you know. I'm pretty weak."
He nodded. "I know, and I really do hate to ask you for more. But we need to keep the smurf busy long enough for your
brother to learn how to perform a spirit bomb. It's our best chance at stopping the Cyber Smurf."
"You do realize that you'll be a sacrificial lamb, don't you? That he'll just use you as a punching bag till Jim can face him?"
SJ nodded. He seemed a bit nervous, but there was confidence in his eyes. "I don't exactly like taking a punch either, but I'll
do it if I have to. Besides, maybe I'll get lucky and score a few good hits!" He gave her a wry smile.
Kari looked unconvinced, but she extended her hand to her friend. He took it in his own, and with a flash of light, almost all
of her goddess energy was transferred into his body.
SJ stood up, feeling invigorated. His bumps and bruises seemed to go away, and he stood proud and firm. His eyes shone
with an intense fire. He flexed his muscles and hands. "Pretty good," he commented. "I'm feeling stronger than ever! Which
means...." He turned to the Cyber Smurf, currently busy with the other heroes. He called out to his foe. "Alright you reject
from the Lollipop Guild! It's time to lay the smack down on your candy ass!!!"
****END RP***

Well, everybody, pray for us folks on the southern east coast, what with Hurrican Floyd coming. I don't want to be up to my
neck in flood waters, or have my house go floating to the land of Oz, Dorothy style (been there once, don't wanna do it again
;).

Lord of the Rings Update: Not much to say, except it's looking more and more as if Sean Bean will be cast as Boromir, and
that Ethan Hawke will play the part of Faramir. I don't exactly agree with casting Hawke, but hey, it's not my movie.

Dreamcast nonsense: I'm not exactly the one to be defending George Lucas, but the Dreamcast folks must be smoking one
dope bag of douja (sp?) to try and pull off this "we sold more than The Phantom Menace" crap. I checked out the Dreamcast
in the store today. Let's do the math: 200 bucks for the unit....it comes with NO games, and NO controller. Add 30 bucks
for the damn controller. Add 30 bucks for the damn memory card, a must if you want to do....well, anything. Add 50 bucks
per game. IF I was going to buy a Dreamcast, I might as well walk into the store with my wallet open and my pants around
my ankle, cause I'd be totally taking it up the wahoo paying for all the crap. I'll stick with my Playstation, playing FF8.

Veil: Ah, a fellow "Comes the Inquisitor" fan! I'm not ashamed to say as a total B5 mark, I can practically quote that entire
episode (it's by far one of B5's best!) Thank goodness for Wayne Alexander!

Troopers vs. Marines: Okay, my final comment on the debate--In the Starship Troopers timeline, the Troopers pretty much
ARE the marines. Can't really fault them if they have less technical weaponry than the Colonial Marines (or whatever they're
called), or if they die easily (alien cockroaches that are, as a minimum, the size of a cadillac, do make impressive enemies) and
I still say I'd rather stare down an Alien than I would a Bug, "stupid" as they are.
Still the Marines were pretty cool. I liked Bishop best of all, though (although Hicks was great!). Lance Henriksen is one of
those great character actors that rarely gets his due.

Delphi: Good Lord, what was that veterinarian doing with that panda??? No, my dad would never do *that*. Prance about
in his fishnets, maybe, but he draws the line at bestiality ;)

Sevarius Jr. - [bpoole@mailexcite.com]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:50:17 PM
IP: 207-172-118-86.s86.tnt13.brd.va.dialup.rcn.com

*RP BGEGIN*
"Okay boys, enough cage-rattling" bellows shogun! "if the scouts are goin' in, I say we bust in ourselves!" the mutates words are punctutated by Blackwinf firing the front-mounted battering ram missile at the side of the main entrance bunker, Doc looked at the predacon curiously*
"sure we could've used the door, but where's the fun in that?" Doc claps blackwing on the back proudly "we'll make a seven of you yet!" Shogun, Abel and Fenrir charge into the freshly-blasted hole, taking out fleeing WCOC followers and neo-mazis as they go along, shogun using his nemesis gauntlets to fillet them, fenrir freezing and smashing them A'la Sub-zero and Abel constricting them with his long, thin, yet remarkably strong whiplike tail, then feeding on their hearts by extending the tentacle-like feeding tube concealed under his scarf down into their bodies and sucking them out* end RP*
Well, it's been all clear for two days, and while the forecasters predicted another Hurricane Andrew but worse, in instead turned out to be another hurricane Georges. If only the storm turned BEFORE, but what can ya do?
*DBZ review* sure the voices weren't as good as before, but at least there's more blood, dismemberment and none of that "other dimension" BS anymore, and if it means lower voice quality, so be it.
*Ronin warriors* first, it's about smegging time they gave that quest boy the boot, I knew it was going downhill when they brought Zin back and messed up Surd's character design, but aside from that..THIS IS GREAT! I saw a few episodes of that show and was HIGHLY impressed, and now I'll be able to see all of it, in it's entirety! I can't help but think CN should create some kind of all-anime block
*troopers VS. Marines* given the marines had heavier firepower and better tactical information *they could track the aliens* I'd say with the kind of tools and information they had, the Troopers could've fared better against the bugs, but then that was the point, the troopers were expected not to come back alive, look at it this way: no one wins a siege by infantry alone, the marines are proof of this, there were fewer of them, but they had heavier artillery, plus someone who had prior experience, in a nutshell, the marines had the deck stacked in their favor, the troopers had the deck stacked against them

shogun raptor
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:45:11 PM
IP: mia1-wc1.atlas.digex.net

Today's been a terrible day and I need to sleep. I'll post tomorrow...
SOROW
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:36:24 PM
IP: dll2b205-32.splitrock.net

hello everyone, once again here's some humor from real newspaper headings--hope you all enjoy them as much as I did

>>Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says (Uh, Dugh)

>>Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers (I wonder what kind of bonus points there getting for each body???)

>>Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case (new kind of dry up program?)

>>Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus? (Ur what???)

>>Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over (uh oh, Servarious has compitition out there somewhere

Delphi - [cmiller@magiclink.com]
Twin Falls, Idaho
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:34:15 PM
IP: 216.190.241.176

**enters the room slowly, lethargically. Switches out the candles, sitting roughly in the lawn chair and groaning.**

Oh, does my spine hurt ... I hate ten hour days.

Only good news on the homefront today ... my grandmother's back at home, after spending about a month at my uncle's house. **sigh** Yeah, but I still wind up having to be her de facto caretaker tomorrow ... which leaves me slim to nil time to do anything I was planning to do ... **sigh** oh well ...

Lemme try to make some replies so that I can maybe take my mind off my pain, my life, and my loneliness ... **sighs briefly at the candle's flame before continuing**

Fantasy films: Boy, so many Landover fans in one room (all of three. ;)!!

Jannie: **sigh** Look at last week's comment room ... it'll show you in great detail what made me give up my dream. Basically, it was getting screwed over royally by a school of music that was so frigging anal retentive that it wouldn't let me be myself in any sense. :(

Night Walker: I'm sorry, I didn't realize that it was you that made the anonymous post. **reads over most recent post** Is your family a military one? The post you left made it sound that way. Believe me, if there's anyone in here who knows what it's like to pull up roots really often, it's me, living the Navy life by proxy through my mother. And it's always gonna be tough on ye ... the only thing you can hope to do is survive through it, the better to keep your sanity.
Let me tell ye one thing, though, my friend. You have a distinct advantage over myself at your age ... you have us, and none of us are planning on going anywhere for a while. You can always count on us to be here for you, no matter what.

Forgot this the last two times ... maybe I should address it.
Almighty Bob: Oh, so *you're* the happy little lunatic Deuce was talking about. Gee, Deuce, you didn't tell me that you knew the Saint of Sales! ;) j/k!! Welcome anyway, sorry I forgot about ye.

Pissy: Yeah, it would've been okay had it been only one person ... but it was *three!!*

**calmly hits the "Refresh" button ... hoping and praying for a post from Ravyn to appear ... but no dice. Sits back in the lawn chair, pulls his legs up to his body and whimpers while fixating on the candle this evening ...**
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:01:03 PM
IP: 207.91.254.59

Adding my two cents on the stupid customers stories>

Thankfully, I have avoided most sevice sector jobs and don't normally deal with idiot customers. The only ones I've had to deal with are the drunken idiots who insist on haggling about the prices. It doesn't matter how many times you tell them no they just don't get it...

On the upside, because these people ARE drunk, they are in the tendency to forget packages as they leave in disgust. I got a t-shirt, a pair of sunglasses, a wooden flute and nifty little walking stick that way :)

That's one of the problems with Six Flags, no alcohol...
Skippy The Klingon - [shakedwn@ultravision.net]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 10:41:31 PM
IP: uv1-47.ultravision.net

Jannie: Autograph when we meet IRL--you've got it! :) I'm glad I was able to help out, last night. Feel free to call on me any time. *hugs*

Work wasn't too bad, today. Just not much to do. The area manager told us that we'll stay open if we take in $5,000 per week. To put that in perspective, we're currently averaging $3,000 per week in sales. In other words, the clock is ticking. I won't be shedding many tears when the place shuts down, though. Sometimes it's all I can do to haul my ass through that door every day, knowing what to expect from the customers....but I'm used to it, by now.... *shrugs*

Umm..."Boys, hold your balls"? ROFTLMAO Oh, I wish I could've been there to see that one! Sorry about all the trouble you're getting into with the principal, though...but it sounds like you're used to it. ;)

*another hug* Love ya, too, my friend! :)

Coyote: Your stupid customer...oh god. Missing a step or two, I guess... ;) (re: quote) Heh, I'm Coos Bay's resident B5 expert. :) But then, I'd have to be, since almost everybody else watches nothing but sports and fishing shows, and reads nothing but Sports Illustrated, automotive magazines and Playboy... *g*

Mandolin: Ack! Sorry about the construction problem. All you did was ask them a simple question, they had no right to go off on you. *shakes head* Well, G. Gordon Liddy said it best--"Why are there so many more horses asses than there are horses?" ;)

Kitainia: Thanks for the support and the compliments. :)

Marines vs. Troopers: I gotta agree with Skippy on this one. The Troopers shouldn't have even been sent down to that planet in the first place. They should've heeded Ripley's words, "I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. Only way to be sure." :) Besides, the Colonial Marines are funnier. "Hey, Bishop, do the thing with the knife..." *L*

TJ Veil: Thanks for the kind words. And for the cyber-cookie, too. *munch, munch...* :)

Jenna: Sorry you've been sick. :( Hope you get well soon.

David G: Glad you enjoyed Injustice 1. Sorry it spoiled your evening, though... *g* heheheh
Pistoff - [phred@koalas.com]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 10:11:02 PM
IP: wire-17.koalas.com

**WARNING: DRAGONBALL Z SPOILERS**

Ah, yesterday's episode is what its all about. Seeing Ginyu with that proud smirk knowing Goku will max out at 60,000, and then watching as Goku goes to 180,000, a good 60,000 above Ginyu's max... Heh heh. One of the GREATEST moments in Dragonball history seeing that look of shock on Ginyu's face. (The stupid wrassler's voice detracts from it somewhat though...) Alas, I'd forgotten about the body switching sub plot... Its been far too long since I saw the dubs... AH well... What really stinks though, is I'm starting to like Jees! He's pretty cool looking, smart enough to go for help if he needs it, has a cool voice, and he's not gonna last too much longer. Pity... At least the dub is improving some. Krillin/Kulilin sounded FAR better today than Monday...

**END DRAGONBALL SPOILERS**

Lessee, most of todays talk was about marines versus troopers, and I've already voiced my opinion on that. Pooie...

Aaron- Blast it, you ruined the ending I had planned for the RP saga... SO much for the anvil attack...

By the by, with my meeting with Ben Dunn today I finally fleshed out the rest of my Gold Digger collection! I now have every issue or the TPB... YES!

Dreamcast sales versus Phantom Menace sales- Doesn't matter that it made more money in my opinion, when a Dreamcast costs 200 bucks and a movie ticket costs 3.50 to 7.00... The way I see it, Phantom Menace, while making 28 million, had 4 million or so customers... Dreamcast with its 97 million, had about 485 thousand customers, a mere fraction of Phantom Menace. So I don't think its a fair comparison given price difference...

Gyre- Garlon paying back taxes... Eek.

Hmm, not much to comment on right now... I'll try to keep the RP short as a result...

**RP HERE**

One or two of earth's miscelaneous warriors keep the large smurf distracted while Black Tiger quickly explains what will be involved in the making of the powerful genki dama, or spirit bomb to you Saban watchers.
"Basically everything in the world is going to donate a bit of its energy to this cause. Plants, trees, people, everything. Unfortunatley, gathering that much energy takes time. At least five minutes. ANd it'll take at least another five minutes for me to teach Jim's clone how to make one. So I need the rest of you to keep the Cyber Smurf over there busy for about ten minutes. And he'll no doubt notice the energy gathering here, so it'll be tricky."
The warriors all nod in understanding.
"SJ, I suggest you get a bit more of Kari's goddess energy. She's in no condition to use it, and you need the help."
"Hey, is that a crack?"
"Nope. Simple fact. We don't stand a chance as it is..." As the others go off to battle the smurf, Black Tiger whispers something else to SJ, and he nods in understanding. "Gotcha."
Robby
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 09:58:34 PM
IP: spider-tp022.proxy.aol.com

Time for a crazy thought. The Unseelie have been around for
10,000 years, and I'll bey not one of them has ever paid their taxes. Now with Madoc dead, and Maeve imprisoned, Garlon is the ranking Unseelie left at large. Guess who the IRS goes after.:)
Gyre - [wseeley@epix.net]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 08:33:14 PM
IP: fltg2-ppp37.fltg.net

Gunjack> Yes, we do a lot of forge work. But no, we don't make swords or knives. That's something of a stock answer I use cause almost everyone who I talk to in fandom wants a sword. Mostly we do ornamental iron (furniture and decorations type stuff) If your interested in this stuff, check out the link on my name..

About this life modeling at G2K, I'm willing to pose in my full Klingon outfit (depending if I'll be able to make it to the show) this is tenative on how things go next year for me...
Skippy The Klingon - [shakdwn@ultravision.net]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 08:23:20 PM
IP: 207.22.234.123

My feelings are hurt. My Webtv unit has very high standards and would not even look at an Atari. <Sniff!!>

I'm just in lurk mode right now. I read but I'm not posting. Little sister was by last Thursday and wore me out. She doesn't understand that sometimes I need my beauty sleep more than food. But she loves me. So do my cats and they don't deprive me of sleep for four days.

The new Lackey books is out Owlknight. And I thought Journey to the Center of the Earth was pretty good last night. It finishes tonight.

Relurking

Starsinger
Hi Nightwalker, I figured that was your post. We seem to be the only webbers posting to the room.

Theresa - [Starsinger@Webtv.net]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 07:11:48 PM
IP: proxy-363.public.rwc.webtv.net

*Valentine strolls in, a dreamy smile on his face*
I just found out yesterday that I'm going to be able to spend the weekend in Arkansas with my girlfriend. Excuse me while I go crazy.
*Valentine starts whooping, shrieking, and dancing like a maniac for about five minutes, and then stops*
Thank you for your understanding. On to the replies!!!

Mandolin><<But I have to, because I absolutely want a good part this year. (By "good," you realize, I mean bitchy. Bitchy characters are fun to play.)>> You have NO idea how many times I've heard THAT before... Why is it that it's more fun to play a villian (or at least a really nasty good guy) than a goody-two-shoes hero?

Skippy - Your dad's a blacksmith!?! Lucky stiff! I'm a huge lover of metalworking, but I still can't get my parents to spring for a forge... Do YOU ever forge stuff?

Smithsonian Anime - Isn't the Smithsonian supposed to be dedicated to AMERICAN history? Not that I'm complaining about free anime viewing...

Jannie><<The kids are playing 4 Square (ball bouncing from one square to another)... a delivery truck pulls in to the side of the lot and I got on the megaphone and said, "Boys, hold your balls!">> Ouch. Ladies and gentlemen, maybe we need to institute a "foot in the mouth" award... <<*blushes* heh... I imagine another trip to the principal's office for me today - geesh... this many trips to the principal's office is like high school flashback for me...>> Yes, it's probably a bad sign when you're visiting the principle more often then the kids... <<*makes a public announcement* Yes Parents..your child is in safe hands of the public educators... we'll mold and shape the minds of the future... mawahahaha>> This is why I intend to homeschool my kids...:)

T. J. Viel><<As for other fantasy books being made into movies, I think that David Eddings Sparhawk series, which I can't place the name of, would make good movies.>>The Saphire Rose Trilogy? YEEES!!!! I love those books!

****RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! IT'S ANOTHER WEAPON POST!!!!*****

Colonial Marines vs. Starship Troopers Part II - Alright, I know that there are some of you out there who probably hate shop talk... so if you do, this is your last warning.
Too late.
Now, let's get down to cases: Assuming you're using the movie version of the troopers, the weapons and equipment of the two sides stack up as follows:

Smallarms - Marines use a M-41 pulse rifle that fires 10mm bullets, with an integral 20mm pump action grenade launcher. Troopers use what appears to be a futuristic version of a 7.62mm assault rifle, with a pump action shotgun under the barrel. The troopers use a smaller bullet, but they probably get twice the effective range due to the MUCH longer barrel. The Marines also carry an assortment of pistols and, in one case, a shotgun for close quarters work.

Support Weapons - The Marines have the Smartgun, an autotracking machinegun that fires the same ammunition as the pulse rifle. They also have issue flamethrowers, as well as an array of portable missle systems not shown in the movie. Marines do not use hand grenades. The troopers have a sniper version of their basic rifle, EXTREMELY powerful grenades, a quad heavy machinegun for base defense, and at least one rocket system with the option of mininuke warheads.

Armor & Vehicles - Both sides use personal body armor, PDTs, and wired helmets. The Colonial Marines use Cheyenne(sp?) dropships armed with nuke rockets and a gun turret, and the APC with nerve gas canisters and a roof turret. The trooper dropships used in the movie look like flying busses, but the've got dual guns mounted on either side of the cockpit. Troopers also have access to some very nice fighter/bomber aircraft.

I persoanlly prefer the Marines, but I'd say that really the two sides are pretty equal...

Tim P.><< The bugs in ST - with the exception of the brain bugs- were also dumber than rocks>> Actually, the brain bugs WERE the brains of the warriors. The warriors were basicly an extension of the brain's body, and their "roar and charge" tactics just reflect the fact that they are completely expendable. Also, the two species go about combat in a slightly differant way: the Aliens often will try to capture their prey alive, so as to impregnate them, while the Bugs just kill everyone they find.
<<And as far as equipment was concerned, the Troopers had mini-nuke tipped rockets, enourmous numbers, and a armada backing them up. And they still had over 3,000,000 (count ‘em) 3,000,000 casualties!>> Actually, the 3,000,000 number is the deaths from the Buenos Aires meteor, not the invasion of Klendathu. Also, the actual invasion was what the Marines call a Charlie Fox... A rushed assault with insuficient intelligence about the enemy and it's capabilities, and inadiquate support. The nuke rockets were worthless when the bugs started coming out of the ground right in the middle of the Troopers, and all they had to fall back on was their smallarms. Their top brass sent them in to battle expecting to find a few dumb bugs, and instead they ran into MILLIONS of very smart ones. The Marines went in with good inteligence about their enemy's capabilities (thanks to Ripley), and they were able to adapt to the situation far faster. It also helped that they were only dealing with a small infestation, instead of an all-out, in your face assault...
<<The Colonial Marines only had rudamentary close quarter combat supplies. And when it was all over, guess who came out on top? THE MARINES!>> The marines went in fully equiped, with about forty nukes and several canisters of nerve gas as well as an APC and a full compliment of weapons.
Skippy><<not suprising about the casualty rate.
While the Troopers were equally outnumbered, they did have the advantage of superior firepower and were fighting on open terrain. It was tactical stupidity that killed them more than anything else.>> True. But it was stupidity on the part of the Generals, not the soldiers. "Their's is not to reason why, Their's is but to do, and die. Someone had blundered..."

Coldstone (or is it Dominic?)><<For one, Marines in any form are considered the toughest S.O.B.'s on the face of the earth. You can harp about Special Forces, Navy Seals, Green Beretts, blah, blah, blah! Marines have always been the first in-last out joes on most of the major battle campaigns the US has found themselves in.>> The Marines are the best REGULAR force in the military, but standard marines still can't duplicate the capabilities of highly trained SpecOps units like the SEALS. Now the Force Recon marines and the Marine Snipers, on the other hand...
Personally, I'd like to see the other three services disbanded, and their equipment, personelle and facilities absorbed into the Corps. It seems kind of stupid to me to maintian three sperate services, and then a force that combines all of their good points.

*Valentine checks his watch*

Whooo! Two weapon posts in a row! Well, the library closes in ten minutes, and I haven't eaten all day, so I'll have to bid you goodbye...
Gunjack Valentine - [miphsingleton@hotmail.com]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 06:51:44 PM
IP: 205.165.166.139

Duece> Thanks for the info. I'm actually an old-comer that's dropped out of site for a little while. But now I'm back. *Big toothy gargoyle grin.* Sanity, what sanity? I lost that a long time ago. And I haven't missed it that much.

Catch you later.
*Draws a green circle into the wall. The circle shifts to a view of a slightly messy college dorm room. Cassandra waves bye and steps through. The portal closes after her.*
Cassandra - [kindra_coates@hotmail.com]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 06:07:15 PM
IP: 204.196.27.16

I cataloged 70 government document microfiche files today. I'm bored out of my mind. Oh well, here's a few comments:

Skippy> Arlingcon is on the 30th. If you haven't heard from Ben yet, let me know. I'll give him your address again, and hit him with a stick.

Jannie> It's a pleasure to finally meet you. Dennis told me he'd found someone, but was infuriatingly secretive with the details. I wish you both every happiness.

Dennis> I should be working on Hot Lead and Coldsteel tonight and tomorrow. If I'm lucky, I'll actually be in the mood to finish it. Best wishes for your relationship with Jannie. Based on admittedly little evidence, she sounds like a nice girl.

Dennis and Pistoff> Injustice was very good. I couldn't find anything much to complain about, which utterly ruined my evening, since I was in the mood to gripe. :)
David G. - [david_goodner@yahoo.com]
Arlington, TX, USA
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 06:00:54 PM
IP: 198.215.20.3

Sorry I haven't been in here a while, did anybody miss me ? Probaly not. I'll return later with a much bigger post+RP, that'll also explain my absence and the obstacles that I face during that time. I'm just writting this post to explain something that I did here today that worried one person and was liked by another.

Kitania, Coyote- Yes coyote it was me that wrote that post , sorry it worried you but I just had to say it.And thanx for yer kind words kitania, I appreciated them . I was just sitting in my 87 min. Algebra class reading this article in the book about kids that were years younger that me and they had made wonderful contributions to sience , math , and all other corners of knowledge. And it didn't help any that next to me sat a football player, a math whiz, and a girl that seemed to know everything when a question was asked of her, And they were all so popular and liked by everyone that it hurt.I felt so small and so useless , and then I remembered how everyone had looked at me through the day. I had emarrased this one jock by tripping him in a soccer game and he started saying how stupid everything was and was getting mad at everyone. It made me think about my life and how I was always so lonely, moving 15 times in 14 years kinda makes it hard to make friends. But through all that and countless other episodes of embarassment I found out that no matter how much it hurt or made my want to shed tears in front of everyone [which has almost happened a few times by the way] I knew that I would survive through it. I knew that I would have to get up each morning and endure with being one separate person in a crowd. And even though it will be hard , I will get through it okay. So sorry if I worried anybody with my "different post" but I had to do it . And for some reason it just felt safer sending it as a stranger and just read what people had to say about it. Don't ask me why, I mean the worst thing that could happen would be that everybody would ignore me again. And I doubt that that would be the case.

Little side note- Nobody important was born on my birthday, which just in case anybody cares it's July 25 !985. I wonder what I am ? Year of the dog maybe?
night walker - [goliath01@hotmail.com]
hobart, IN, usa
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 05:58:03 PM
IP: proxy-343.public.rwc.webtv.net

Veil-- loved your B5 quote at the end of your post-- that ep has always been one of my favs.

Been feeling really sick as of late- hope it passes soon....
jenna
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 04:48:00 PM
IP: unknown-31-157.glm.com

Kitainia > thank you for your kind words *smiles* I have been blessed with Denis becoming a part my life and I received an extra bonus and got Pistoff as a dear friend =)
Life is good! *grins muchly*

Coyote> *chuckles* yep.. teacher... *clears the room at the mention of the "T" word* hehehe However, I'm not your "typical" teacher and I usually stay in hot water and walk that fine line with the administration ;) I teach special education and specializes in behavioral disorders... which basically means that when we get an out of control special ed student, I'm assigned to "straighten him/her out". o.O Ahhh, the solitude of the isolation room - no witnesses *winks* j/k
I'm sorry that you were not able to fulfill your desire to be a teacher (if you were implicating that). Have you considered returning to school? I did a hit and miss college education until it was finally completed. Ranged from full time to part time with a full time job. Anyway, not trying to kibitz, but I do encourage you to follow your dreams *smiles*

Denis> argh!! you didn't wait today... o.O I missed you by about 2 minutes, if even that long. I can't wait to see you again!! *hugs tight* je t'aime!
Jannie
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 04:45:40 PM
IP: 196-205.c.esc4.net

Hi all.

Pistoff -- You get the cyber-cookie for identifying the quote. Also, hope you get fewer jerks at work (although I know just about how likely that is).

niner -- the third guy from First Contact that got assimilated wasn't an ensign. He was the head of security for the ship (since Worf got re-assigned to DS9).

Mandolin -- I have to agree with you on the Magic Kingdom for Sale... Sold bit. That would make an awesome movie. I don't think the Shanara books would make that good of a movie, because they're just so involved. Possibly a mini-series, but not a movie. As for other fantasy books being made into movies, I think that David Eddings Sparhawk series, which I can't place the name of, would make good movies.

MDY -- Part of the reason that Dreamcast sold so much better than N64 was that Sega learned from Nintendo's mistake. When the N64 was first released, Nintendo had very few games out. Sega put out ten or twelve games for the Dreamcast on the same day as it came out. This helped their sales a lot.

Thought for the day:
"How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see."
T. J. Veil - [hiddenagenda@rocketmail.com]
Ames, IA
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 04:40:19 PM
IP: welch-roberts-187-24.res.iastate.edu

MDY> <<Hope they change the PS2 casing before international release - the Japanese one is vile, someone on one of the forums commented: "I believe that this new console of the new millennium is the result when a WebTV and an Atari 2600 have sex. And from the looks of it, it wasn't very good sex.">> ROTFL! So true. And that, apparently, is not the only thing that went wrong; check out my name link.

Real post later. :)
Wilek Nereus
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 12:23:19 PM
IP: spaceproxy.com

Jannie> *chuckle* I make you speechless? wow! now my career as inquisitor is pretty much compromised! (j/k). anyway, I'll see you on ICQ later. Je t'aime, ma Jannie! *hugs and kiss*

Doug and all garg 2k fans> thanks for the positive review. and there's one saying for the part 2: YOU'VE SEEN NOTHING YET! be prepared for some shocking news!

c'est tout!
bye!


Denis
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:56:58 AM
IP: dialup2005.brussels.skynet.be

Robby> With regard to Dreamcast sales, it's comparable because it's the largest revenue generated at launch for any form of entertainment.
Dreamcast - $97 million
Phantom Menace - $28 million
Nintendo 64 - $20 million
Playstation - $? (can't remember but less than N64)

It sold 375,000 systems and an average of 3+ games per unit within 4 days whereas the N64 sold 350,000 in it's first week along with a 1 game average.

The Playstation 2 may well generate more revenue when it's launched - but then it will cost $300-350 (Japanese price will be the equivalent of $370 when it launches in March.

Hope they change the PS2 casing before international release - the Japanese one is vile, someone on one of the forums commented:
"I believe that this new console of the new millennium is the result when a WebTV and an Atari 2600 have sex. And from the looks of it, it wasn't very good sex."

MDY - [MDY21940@yahoo.com]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:44:18 AM
IP: 195.195.164.7

*G2K ArtAnnouncement!*

Hey gargs and goyles! This year, it's been proposed to have a life drawing session at the gathering! (and yes..we do have models..however it is their decision whether or not to pose nude) If anyone is willing to participate/support/interested in this please email me at siryn7@aol.com so I can add you to the list for the G2K staff!!

(also if you have any questions, comments, etc..email me too!)

*end of announcement*
Siryn - [siryn7@aol.com]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:26:37 AM
IP: d105-h003.rh.rit.edu

Bye.
Holly
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:22:57 AM
IP: bess-proxy.cajun.net

....
Holly
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:22:41 AM
IP: bess-proxy.cajun.net

*looking around curiously*
Is anyone here?
Holly
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:21:48 AM
IP: bess-proxy.cajun.net

Marines vs. Troopers>
Considering that the Marines were fighting in close quarter combat within enemy territory against far superior numbers, it's not suprising about the casualty rate.
While the Troopers were equally outnumbered, they did have the advantage of superior firepower and were fighting on open terrain. It was tactical stupidity that killed them more than anything else.

Think about it, during the landing on Klendathu there were none of those fighter planes out and about dropping firey death on the bugs. Considering how big and ponderous those nuke fart bugs were, why did they bother sending in troops to deal with them when a bombing run could have been more effective? It just doesn't make any tactical sense...
Skippy The Klingon
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 10:19:37 AM
IP: uv1-39.ultravision.net

Note: Sorry for double post, I hit submit by mistake. Ack!

**RP AHEAD, FOR REAL THIS TIME**

"Boss!" Agent Morton shouts, running into Kincaid's office. "The base is under attack!" "What?" Kincaid growls, leaping up from his desk. "By whom?" "I don't know, sir. We have them outnumbered, but they have us way outclassed. Shaw thinks they're trying to free the Ravens." Kincaid grimaces and clenches his fists, trying to keep down a sudden boiling rage. "Order Shaw to repel them," he orders Morton. "Then I want you to get all our personnel out of the main Area 51-A complex as soon as possible." "That should be easy, sir. Most of the ones on the lowest level are already dead. But why do you want it done?" "I'm going to trap the Ravens in there," Kincaid chuckles. "If the main complex self-destructs with them inside, we won't have to worry about them anymore. But I'd like to lose as few men in the process as possible. So we evacuate first. Quietly." Morton nods. "Yes sir."

The display changes to the conference room down in the base's bowels, where the Ravens are now doing battle with Agent Tau and his men. Ducking behind tables and chairs, they continue to fire off shots that it takes Tau's men all their armor and training to avoid. They fire back, but miss their targets. Then Brown screams and falls over, taking two shots from Jammer in the chest. Carver gets hit by Kitainia's laser in the same instant, and a shotgun blast from Doug finishes him off. Smith and Jones are both obliterated by an APEX shell Boris launches. Tau continues to avoid their shots by dancing around the room and bouncing off the walls, the Ravens giving him no time to fire by keeping up their salvos. Eventually Elena throws in a Liberation Beam and Tau's current body is disintegrated by its lightning-fast ignition sweep. The Ravens breathe a sigh of relief as he burns up. "These four aren't coming back," Boris announces, kicking Smith's corpse in the side. "But Tau will," points out Kitainia. "We need to find his soul crystal before we can get out of here, take care of him permanently." "I might be able to find it," says Orion, but I'll need a moment of peace." "Alright," Doug tells the cleric. "You have it. We all need to catch our breath anyway. Go ahead." Orion nods and closes his eyes, going into a divination trance as he kneels in prayer.

**END RP FIRST HALF**

Hi. Glad to see so many people have returned to the room lately. Welcome back TJ Veil, Lexy, Fleur, Pistoff, and whoever else I've missed. :) Welcome to the newcomers as well, it's always good to see more interesting and unique people in here. <grins> On with replies.

SJ: Sorry to hear about your recent bad day, hope your family soon steps off you. Thanks for the Batman Beyond info. I'll be looking forward to this weekend's new ep.

Pistoff: Sorry to hear you've been having such a bad time of life recently, hope it ends soon. I'd give you advice, but you obviously don't need it because even while all that c$#p was going on, you managed to keep your thoughts order and turn out a great story like Injustice for All Part One (which I read and liked even better than Truce, can't wait for Part 2). So I hope that positive attitude keeps in place, and that your problems soon end. Like I said above, welcome back!

Shogun: Heard on the news that Hurricane Floyd did hit your state despite our prayers. <sighs> Hope you'll be able to post soon and let us know you're alive and well.

Happy Belated Birthday Fire Storm!

Coyote: You a modern-day renaissance man? :) I can see that. Good luck with making it happen.

Mandi: <shakes head slowly> Thanks for informing me on what's happened with that Buffy site. What is wrong with those dumbass lawyers? Hopefully Joss Whedon will get involved in this and give everyone hell (unlike most good TV writers, he seems to be respected by his station), the lawyers will get fired, the transcripts will come back, and this will never happen again. <prays for it>

Marines: I agree with Stephen- they're tough, but they can also have mental problems. And if people like Charles Whitman, the Son of Sam serial killer, and the racist jerks who recently shot up Chicago and LA (all of whom were/are ex-Marines), those problems aren't just those of stupidity. <sighs> Wonder what causes these problems, and if anything can be done to alleviate them and still have the good defense the Marines provide. If so, I hope it's done soon.

Anonymous: Thanks for the good paragraph bit, I share your feelings. Like you I rejoice in the benefits of my life despite the disappointments and persevere, that's really all anyone can do. :) Wonder who you are. Maybe you're one of our absent posters (such as Theresa, Kyryn, and DumlaoX). If so, hope you'll come back in here using your real name soon.

Jannie: Welcome! Judging from your posts, you'll fit in well here. :) Congrats to you and Denis on your romance.

Skippy: You're an apprentice blacksmith? Must be an interesting line of work, especially since it's not done that much anymore. :( Hope your show at Six Flags goes well.

Fantasy Film Series: I agree that Dragonlance should be the next one if Lord of the Rings succeeds. It's the best choice out of the many offered (and I think it's also the only one whose series has actually been finished and hasn't already had movies mad out of it (like Oz), so they'll pick it for scripts).

Dark Ages Season 2: Hope it begins soon, like everyone. TGS Staff, you have my prayers that your personal and technical problems (and whatever else is causing the delay) soon end. I look forward to reading more of your good work.

And that's all for now. Later!

**MORE RP COMING IN**

"Pardon me for asking," Janice says to Kitainia, "but what is your friend Mr. Sanders doing?" "He's a cleric," Kitainia explains. "He's communing with God." "Oh," Janice frowns. "Well, I hope he can hurry up. We need to get out of here. The longer we delay, the harder it will be to escape." "I don't want Kincaid's men finding us again any more than you or they do, Agent Ripowski," Doug grins, "but this is very important. Just give Orion another minute, okay?" Janice nods, while Keith gives Doug a worried look from his guard post by the door. He probably shares Janice's worries, Kitainia thinks. Suddenly Orion's eyes open and he stands up. "God has revealed to me an answer," the cleric declares. "Agent Tau's soul crystal is indeed somewhere inside this base, frozen in a room with several other various forms of alien life." "The cold room," Janice nods. "I know the place." "Can you lead us there?" Stephanie asks her. "Of course. Thank goodness it's on this level and not that far away, so it will only be a small detour." "Okay," Keith nods. "You, Doug, Kit, Gubio, Orion, Elena, and Stephanie go there and handle the crystal. The rest of us are going to secure the stairwell that leads up and out." "We'll wait for you," says Tricia. Mist meows in agreement, giving Gubio a playful swat upside the head. The hacker shrugs it off and then follows Janice out of the room, motioning the others to hurry on behind them to the cold storage area. Jaden watches them leave and then follows Keith, Tricia, Boris, Lathrop, Tom, Mist, and Jammer on to the stairwell, still wondering about the pain in his head.

**MORE TO COME LATER (including an update on the Phalanx situation) FOR NOW END RP!**
Kitainia
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 10:17:42 AM
IP: pool-207-205-150-75.dlls.grid.net

Construction has begun outside my window... and when I went down to ask how long they'd be at it, they made me out to be the bad guy. They said I should have talked to the administration, which I had. They said I was the only one who had complained, but all I wanted to know was how long they'd be at it so I could plan ahead of time to do my Assembly Language stuff elsewhere. Would it kill Tom Berger's office to let us know when these guys would be back and for how long? It took me fifteen minutes to get them to stop being defensive and give me a ballpark figure as to how long they'd be down there working. Thursday, they had the jackhammer going incessantly til 3 pm, so I think I'm justified in asking!

SJ re: books adapted into movies> Actually, I could do without the Shannara series... I personally would like to see the Landover series, at least the first one, be adapted into a film. So does my mother - I actually got her to read "Magic Kingdom for Sale...Sold," but she insists that Mel Gibson should play Ben Holiday. (Of course, I also think she said that to annoy my stepdad.)

After 10 already? Damn, I've got to get moving... maybe I'll leave via the back exit so I don't have to deal with Larry and Curly out front. :)
Mandolin - [weird_web@hotmail.com]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 10:12:03 AM
IP: 144.175.18.15

Robby>Smurf situation. Try a gadobeam, followed up by a rainin' pain hurricane kick. If that doesn't work, try anvils.

SJ> Dragonlance. I remember my brother and I used to sit around and cast this on all the time. We never agreed on much though.

Later.

Aaron wanders off, humming Motorhead's "Roadcrew"


Aaron - [JCarnage@Yahoo.com]
San Antonio, TX, USA
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 09:54:10 AM
IP: ppp-145.tnt-1.sat.smartworld.net

**RP AHEAD**
Kitainia
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 09:27:21 AM
IP: pool-207-205-150-75.dlls.grid.net

Goodmorn everyone, just stopped by before work
catch ya'll later
delphi - [cmiller@magiclink.com]
Twin Falls, Idaho
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 08:45:35 AM
IP: 216.190.241.75

**enters the room shivering, switching out the candles**

**sigh** Summer's definitely over. This morning I'm freezing my sweet arse off. **sits in the lawn chair**

Slayers' archive mess: **growls** Stupid stupid legal creatures!! A pox upon those moronic lawyers!!

**composes self**

Sorry. But to another extent, there may be a logical explanation ... they may consider the scripts the studio's intellectual property, thereby relieving Joss Whedon of any proprietary rights he may have had over them. So we're running into problems with proprietary intellectual rights here ... studios *love* that sort of thing, all the better to screw over creators. :P

Most recent Stupid Customer Stories: **stunned silence** Uhmm ... could someone track down the cockroaches who ate their brains? You want a truly stupid one, I've had no less than three customers who've done this crap to me in the last week:
Me: "Can I help you?"
Customer: "I'd like a (whatever part) for a (whatever year) van."
Me: (after brief silence) "Okay, mind telling me who made the van?"

New posters: Welcome to the insanity. Talk to Deuce about checking your sanity at the door. **pulls Spooky Chris aside** You and me need to have a discussion about that handle of yours ... ;) j/k

Anonymous: ... posts like that worry me.

Lexy: Ahh, you've returned to the room, great. If only some others would ... **sighs, fixating briefly, then continues**

SJ, re: fantasy novels: Uhmm ... is it okay if I toss in a write-in? Because the series I would want to see adapted if LotR succeeds is Landover. :)

Colonial Marines vs. Mobile Infantry: **strokes chin, thinks for a sec-** Marines. By a long shot. Mainly because at least they're using weapons that make *some* sense ... I mean come on, the MI was casually tossing around so many tacnukes in that movie that I was amazed Rico could even perform when that scene with Dizzy came up ... oops, I've said too much. :)

T.J. Veil, re: quote: A magnificent BBC import, "The Prisoner."

Pistoff, re: true source of the quote: Oh. Oops, my mistake. Ah well.

Jannie: Uh ... huh. Teacher, huh? **sigh** Wish I was one by now ... should've been, could've been ...

**sits back in the lawn chair, fixating once more**
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 08:43:06 AM
IP: 207.91.254.92

Xanathar > thank you! I've cruised thru here on ocassions, just reading the comments.... but Denis and Pistoff has given me a reason to drop in and post. *smiles*

Denis> my love, I missed you this morning *sniffles* I hope that your "suprise" was a pleasant one.
Thank you again for what you said in the story, I'm still speechless over it... heh, enjoy that while you can - it's not often that I'm speechless... *g* but if anyone makes me speechless - it's definitely you!
I'm so very proud of you! *hugs & kiss*
ja t'aime, Denis

Pistoff> *g* I'll expect that autograph when we meet IRL. Thanks for the conversation last night... it was a lifesaver. *hugs*
Hope your day at work goes well... can't get much worse, heh? ummm.. yes it could... my principal could be one of your customers!! O.O *terror stricken face*
Reminds me of what I said yesterday at lunch duty...
The kids are playing 4 Square (ball bouncing from one square to another)... a delivery truck pulls in to the side of the lot and I got on the megaphone and said, "Boys, hold your balls!" OoPs! and of course, it was the 5th grade boys out there so they picked up immediately on it... *blushes* heh... I imagine another trip to the principal's office for me today - geesh... this many trips to the principal's office is like high school flashback for me... hehehe
*makes a public announcement* Yes Parents..your child is in safe hands of the public educators... we'll mold and shape the minds of the future... mawahahaha

gotta' run.. certainly don't want to be late today! *snickers*

*group hug* love ya both!
Jannie
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 08:29:13 AM
IP: 196-183.c.esc4.net

Hi all!!

Fleur:Got your Email and I sent off a reply(at least I know my Email's working now)

Delphi:Good news for me, yesterday I had my annual review at work and I getting a raise, not a huge one, but I'll take it>>Congratulations!

Mandolin:Ahh, thank you for the Joyride. That bit of mindless, gory violence made my day.>>You're welcome,I'm just happy to help:)

Pistoff:Joyride Special Edition...nice. :) :) :) :) :)>>*Bows* Thankyou:)

Jannie/Spooky Chris/niner:Welcome to the CR!

Lexy:Welcome back,I'll re send the thankyou letter I made a while back when I finish this post.

T. J. Veil:Welcome Back to you as well:)

SJ re customer story:*ROTHF*That almost sounds like a Monty Python sketch!

SJ again:Which fantasy books should be adapted if Lord of the Rings succeeds?>>Dragonlance definately:)(I wanna' see Raistlin on the big screen)

C'yas later!!
Xanathar
Melbourne, victoria, Australia
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 06:11:51 AM
IP: cache1.mpx.com.au

Hi! Long time lurker 1st time poster.

Fantasy Movie-Morte D'arthur, it's a great book (and the only one on that list I've read).

Red shirts-Did you notice that in First Contact the ensign that gets assimilated in Picard and Worf's fight on the ship's hull had a red collar?

Oh, I lost my sanity back in jr. high school so I can't turn it over to the cr administrator, that won't be a problem, will it?
niner
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 05:54:32 AM
IP: asy01.dial.upei.ca

Jannie> Jaaaaannnn,sweetie! so good to see you there! *hugs and kiss* I'm glad you liked Injustice (and thanks for you're email!) as for postcard, watch your snail mailbox, around next week. you might have a surprise!
and you're always welcome in Fred's and I's brainstorm, if you have ideas to suggest an all. a third brain wouldn't be too much to add to the duo of sick and twisted brains of our own! *winks* Beware, our readers! *evil laughter followed by coughs*

David G> Can't wait for FL #4.

that's all for now! *kiss Jan and waves at everybody* bye guys!

D.
Denis "Wyrmwolf" De Plaen aka Malkavien - [wyrmwolf@lft.be]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 04:02:36 AM
IP: dialup1800.brussels.skynet.be

Wilek: Yeah, the story of Ronald Opus is so inspiring, isn't it? :)

Xanathar: Joyride Special Edition...nice. :) :) :) :) :)

Delphi: Congrats on the raise! :D

Cherry Blossom: I've done that many times. And the most often-repeated reply I get is some variation of "If we want to talk to you, we'll call you." O_o

Aaron: Glad you enjoyed Injustice Part 1. And you're right, things are gonna be getting real interesting down the road... *evil grin* :)

Spacebabie: Don't worry about me pulling my hair out. I'm already bald. :) And thanks for the Tylenol... ^_~ And I'm hoping that Floyd stays away from you.

Gunjack: Glad you enjoyed the stories. And yours was...heh...wow! Somebody should've taped the whole thing and sent it to that show with Bob Saget... ;) And thanks for the support, bud. :)

Mandolin: Heh, thanks. :) Five years of putting up with this kinda stuff has increased my @$$hole threshold quite a bit. ;) And venting about it here helps a lot. If I didn't get it out of my system, I would've been locked up a long time ago...

Jannie: Autograph? *ego begins to bloat* Sure. :) I'm glad you enjoyed the story. Sorry it broke your printer, though.. *g* And I certainly don't mind you posting here. I've been hoping you'd drop by. :D *hugs back* You're more than welcome here, any time you want to join in. Thanks so much for proofreading "Injustice 1" for us. :) Don't worry, if Denis and I didn't brainstorm about this story, we'd brainstorm about something else. I'll have him send you a postcard on occasion... *g* Nah, I won't keep him *that* busy. :) Thanks again! Love ya, too!

Lexy: Welcome back! :)

Skippy: Sorry about the situation with the shows not making any money. I can definitely relate to that. The place where I work hasn't made a profit in more than 2 years. Only reason we're still open is because we're a tax write-off. I hope your dad comes to his senses soon, and goes back to doing what works. :)

Robby: Sorry about your bad day today. Hope things improve tomorrow (and it sounds like they will :).

SJ: Sorry about your bad day, too, bud. Hope things get better soon. And...that customer story...oh...oh...oh my dear f--kin' gaaaaaawwwwd! ROTFLMAO!!!!! Thanks, I needed that! :D

TJ Veil: That quote is from the Babylon 5 episode "Comes the Inquisitor." The line was spoken by Sebastian, played by Wayne Alexander. :)
Pistoff - [phred@koalas.com]
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 03:13:29 AM
IP: wire-20.koalas.com

RE: MARINES/Colonial or Otherwise:

Hate to do this, but I have two views on Marines and I stick by them.

For one, Marines in any form are considered the toughest S.O.B.'s on the face of the earth. You can harp about Special Forces, Navy Seals, Green Beretts, blah, blah, blah! Marines have always been the first in-last out joes on most of the major battle campaigns the US has found themselves in. Their tough, hardy, and can do more before 5 AM than any of the other services can do on a good day. I respect the USMC, and salute them...

BUT, there is another side to marines that I cannot, and will not ever stand, no matter what: the apparent lack of general intelligence in the average Marine. How can I say that?

Case in Point: We had a marine come in to a general surgery ward with a fractured C-4 and C-5 vertebrae in his neck (those are part of the top five segments on the spine). He'd been complaining about pain for several days before he got to us. By this time, he was in a retractor, on a special bed, and was in much pain and suffering.

So one day I asked him how he got in such a position, thinking it was due to a training exercise or a botched parachute jump or something. Get this... he was at the Enlisted bar watching Pro Wrestling on the TV, and he and his buddies decided to act out being Hulk Hogan and Andre The Giant... hence, they picked him up and rammed him head first into a brick wall...

Like I said; loss of intelligence... only in the marines. But, I respect them. 'Nuff said.


Maintain and Check Six!

Stephen R. Sobotka, Jr. - [scififangargoyle@yahoo.com]
Spokane, WA, USA
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 02:30:03 AM
IP: m136.ieway.com

Hello Everyone. It's been a long time since I've been here, but I'm back.

RE: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: As Mandolin stated, next week's Buffy will be the episode Earshot, which was delayed due to violence in the school until school had started again (gee, that makes sense). The week after, I'm not certain, but I believe both parts of Graduation Day will be shown, because from what I have heard both the season priemere of Buffy and the premiere of Angel will be on the first Tuesday in October.

Also, only the transcripts part of the Slayers' Archive has been shut down at the moment. However, this makes very little sense to me. The transcripts made it possible for new viewers to go back and catch up on the story, something that is very useful in shows where events from one story lead into later stories. If anything the transcripts help ease new viewers into the show, something that Joss Whedon probably realized when he gave AleXander his approval to continue transcribing episodes.

I'm guessing that at least some of you have read my first story, Aftermath (which was posted at the end of the last college year), although I recieved little feedback. I have just recently finished the second story in the series, and am looking for beta readers. If anyone is interested, please let me know. Thank you.

Thought for the day (A cyber-cookie to anyone who recognizes the source)
"Have you nothing of your own? Nothing to stand on that is not provided, defined, deliniated, stamped, sanctioned, numbered, approved by others?"
T. J. Veil - [hiddenagenda@rocketmail.com]
Ames, IA
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 02:00:27 AM
IP: welch-roberts-187-24.res.iastate.edu

SJ: Ras al'Ghul will be in a Batman Beyond episode? That's great! Thanks for telling us. :) BTW, I can now also confirm something concerning Ras. I am certain that he will show up in an episode of my fanfic, specifically in the story after the one I'm working on now. Don't have a title for it yet, but it's basically going to involve Ras, our current Avalon travelers, a reformed Unseelie, and a powerful spellbook known as the Manual of Golems. I'll begin work on it once my current fic project is done. <grin>

Too tired to post more tonight, maybe tomorrow. Later!
Doug
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 01:33:54 AM
IP: pool-207-205-149-196.dlls.grid.net

I know I'm getting a little defensive cause I want to join the USMC but... :)

<<Well, keep in mind not only the weapon difference but the alien difference. The Space Marines may be able to take out aliens and the Starship Troopers may seem like cannon Fodder in comparison, but keep in mind the Starship Troopers bugs are bigger, tougher, AND they have
weaker weapons to fight them with. (And they still do a pretty good job blowing them up anyway...) >> The bugs in ST - with the exception of the brain bugs- were also dumber than rocks. All of the Aliens were intelligent. And that on-the-spot “promoted until you die or someone better comes along” crap just shows what kind of people we’re dealing with.

And as far as equipment was concerned, the Troopers had mini-nuke tipped rockets, enourmous numbers, and a armada backing them up. And they still had over 3,000,000 (count ‘em) 3,000,000 casualties! The first guys that hit Omaha Beach had better chances than that. The Colonial Marines only had rudamentary close quarter combat supplies. And when it was all over, guess who came out on top? THE MARINES! (albeit in considerably lower numbers than when theystarted.)

<<Marines hands down. Those troopers from the movie died like Starfleet Redshirts, the Marines actually put up a fight and died bravely. Those dumbass Troopers pretty much just walked into the meat grinder like the mass of cannon fodder they were. >> Semper Fi, Man!

Come on you ALIENS/Leatherneck fans, give your support!

By the way, no one has yet to tell me when and what station Starship Troopers is on.
Tim P.
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 12:32:27 AM
IP: bn706-01.wsc.edu

$Cherry Blossom> <<do you all just have your own rp's? or do you all incorporate your stories into one?>> Most of us all incorporate our RPs into one big saga.$

Aaron> <<The next Castlevania is set in 1996?>> Err...not exactly. Dracula rises on an approximately 100 year schedule, although this is sometimes disrupted by diseased individuals who want to resurrect him for some reason or other. The next Castlevania game actually takes place in...well, a few centuries ago, although I'm unsure of the exact date (the games don't take place in chronological order). (Speaking of spooky games, does anyone here have a brilliantly disturbing little offering called Shadowman?)

Deuce> <<Need help with distribution? >:-)>> I think I can take care of it, but the offer is much appreciated. ^_^

Spacebabie> <<I checked the site and I read somewhere that the guy D.Xanatos also has a goatee.>> O_o OK...I'm seriously considering posting to his guestbook as Owen Burnett just to see what happens. 8P (On second thought, I could be prosecuted for impersonating an employee...) <<Could you all cross your fingers and toes and pray or something that Floyd doesnt hit Central Florida head on.>> Of course! <crosses fingers and recites a blessing in an arcane language that the hurricane misses any and all populated areas>

Newcomers> Wow, there are a lot of you today. ^_^ Form a single file line, and allow the room's administrator to confiscate your sanity.

Ironwolf> <<i can only do lifedrawings. i can not draw form my mind. i blame my form of Dyslexia. An example is to draw a wolf i frist find a dog draw him then alter the picture to make a wolf (don't ask about griffens and dragons). Any one else have the same problem?>> Well...I can't draw at all. :}

Gunjack> <<I've been bordering on sick for about a week, and yesterday my health finally bottomed out. I was only awake for a little while yesterday, and I can't remember ever being more tired...>> Ack! <gives you some enchanted chicken soup and does ghastly things to Sli Sludge> <<The Russians were very impressed with the glue.>> <blink> <blink blink> <helpless laughter>

Spooky Chris> <<Wha happend? Will there be no more story's? Is this the end of TGS?>> Nothing so dire, it's just on hiatus. :)

Lexy> <<Any old messages you'all wrote here please repeat ok?>> Sure thing. :) What was our goal for this? I kinda forgot. :}

Durid> Welcome back! ^_^

Robby> <<What REALLY bothers me about this is, red shirts got killed left and right in the original series, and then they go off and make that the color of the ranking officers in Next Gen!>> I noticed that! What is WITH that?!! Although it isn't as bad as the era of the second through sixth movies, where essentally EVERY uniform was red...

SJ><<I cannot wait till I can estrange myself from my family. Well, some of them. As of now, though, without going into details, I'm under the heel of certain members of my family. And it's getting the better of me.>> Um...ack. I hope things improve for you soon, one way or another (although preferably without having to separate yourself from your family!). o_o' Customer> <stares for a bit> This is the kind of person who, when I have taken over, will be used for food.
Wilek Nereus
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 12:04:20 AM
IP: tnt-3-101-56k.portsmouth.zoomnet.net

Ugh, baaaad day today. Sometimes I really hate my life. Here's an odd statement, but one that's true for my life: I cannot
wait till I can estrange myself from my family.
Well, some of them. As of now, though, without going into details, I'm under the heel of certain members of my family. And
it's getting the better of me. *sigh* RP at the end this time.

New DBZ eps: Caught them yesterday and today. Good to see new eps (although, to be honest, they were all new to me by
the time I started watching them ;). I hope the Ginyu plotline gets cleared up soon, as I didn't really find any of them (besides
Ginyu himself) to be really interesting villains, such as Vegita, Frieza, or Nappa. Oh well. Tomorrow's ep. shows Nail getting
his arm ripped off.
And, BTW, I HATE the new voices. Robby, you gave us all fairwarning of this a while back, and boy were you right. They
just seem so....awkward. I mean, take Frieza for example; if possible, he sounds even *more* feminine!

Batman Beyond Info: New episode this weekend. But the real news is that Paul Dini, producer of the show, has now
confirmed that Rha's al Ghul WILL be in a future episode of Beyond!

Mandi: Is that the only section that the bloodsuckers (freudian slip--I mean lawyers) have shut down at Slayer Fanfiction
Archive? Damn, that's a shame. That site is one of the best on the web, period. I'd hate to see the thing taken down--any
part o fit.

Jewel: I'm gonna have to try and catch some of those anime. :) Who knew the Smithsonian would be cool enough to show
them?

Deuce: The Smashing Pumpkins sort-of-breaking up? Figures. They were, IMO, one of the best bands of the 90s. But I
suppose it's almost for the best--with the crap they play on MTV nowadays, and bubblegum pop/ latin music/ metal rap ruling
the charts, they'd not get the exposure and airplay they deserve. Chalk them up with the other bands I like that are broken up
and/or temporarily (or permanently) defunct. (Like the Stone Temple Pilots, a group I love. Scott Weilan just went to the
pokey for a year. :(

Troopers vs. Marines: I generally agree with Gunjack. Book version, the Troopers win hands down. They had the goods in
terms of firepower and equipment, and they were tough, mean SOBs. Movie version, I suppose they'd be about even with
Marines, whether you think they die fairly easily or not (personally, if memory recalls the Marines started dropping like flies as
soon as the Aliens showed up).
As far as Bugs vs. Aliens.....Bugs so TOTALLY win, either version, book or movie. Aliens are decent fighters, but the Bugs
are god**** killing machines. They're bigger, tougher, have more impressive hardware (hey--can aliens fart plasma? :),
procreate about 10 times faster than cockroaches on crack.....Aliens just have big claws and bleed acid. Bugs win, hands
down, TKO.

Star Trek: Voyager: Potential bad news, Voyager fans. The new CBS/Viacom mega-deal means that Viacom will have to
give up its share in the UPN network. This means that the channel could shut down completely....leaving Voyager homeless.
No word on if this will happen, or what will become of the show should it do.

Fun little poll: They did this over at Cinescape online, and I thought it was pretty interesting, considering we're all sci-fi/fantasy
freaks. Here's the question, and the choices:

Which fantasy books should be adapted if Lord of the Rings succeeds?
The Wheel of Time
Shannara
Dragonlance
Le Morte D'Arthur
Baum's Oz Series

I'd go along with the Dragonlance series, and it in fact did win the poll. I remember those books fondly; they're deserving of a
big screen treatment, I think. Any other choices, guys?

Stupid Customer stories: Here's one that allegedly really happened. Ian and Vinnie are two guys working at a
coffee/bagel/sandwhich trailer on the Campus of the Univ. of New Hampshire. Reportedly, this is a real exchange between
them and one of their customers. This story's for you, Pistoff! :)


Her (the customer): Yes, I'd like a milk with some coffee in it.
Ian: So, that's just a splash of coffee in a milk?
Her: No, a regular amount of milk, but not coffee.
Ian: Is there more milk or coffee?
Her: Oh, definitely more coffee.
Ian: So that's a coffee with some extra milk.
Her: Just the usual amount of milk.
Ian: A coffee with milk.
Her: Yes.
Ian: Anything else?
Her: A little extra milk and do you have coffee with no caffeine?
Ian: We do have decaf.
Her: No, I don't want decaf, just some coffee without the caffeine.
Ian: Ma'am, that's what decaf means, no caffeine.
Her: Oh, then do you have milk with no caffeine?
Ian: Milk doesn't come with caffeine.
Her: Yes it does.
Ian: Not that I know of, where do you get your milk?
Her: It doesn't say caffeine free on the milk so it must have caffeine.
Ian: Oh, your right, my mistake, I forgot that we only get the decaf
milk. No problem, we have only decaf milk. Anything else?
Her: Do you have any bagels?
Vinnie (who has been listening all along): I'm sorry, ma'am, we're all
out of decaf bagels.
Her: Are you sure?
Vinnie: We're all out, ma'am.
Her: Well what are those? (pointing at sesame bagels)
Vinnie: Those are sesame donuts with extra caffeine added.
Her: I guess I'll just have the coffee. Do you take credit cards?
Ian: No ma'am, cash only.
Her: What about visa?
Ian: Is that a credit card?
Her: Well, yes.
Vinnie: Is it cash?
Her: No.
Vinnie: Then no, we can't take it.
Her: What about checks?
Ian: Cash ma'am, nothing else.
Her: O.K.. How much is that?
Vinnie: Eleven dollars and 45 cents.
Her: Really?
Vinnie: New war in Alaska is ruining the coffee business, plus you
wanted the coffee with no caffeine, that's hard to find now, had to
grow it myself.
Her: O.K.. (proceeds to write a check)
Vinnie: Please leave.
Her: Why?
Vinnie: You're raising my blood pressure, leave now.
Her: But what about my coffee?
Vinnie: Leave and never return.
She leaves, but pays the $11.45 first. Seriously.

A bit long, but worth it, I think :)

***QUOTE OF THE DAY***
"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The
law of gravity is racist."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
***END QUOTE*****

***BEGIN RP****
SJ picked himself up from the floor, very gently. "Ow...ouch....oh, I think I bruised my spleen...." He walked over to Jim,
and began to study him very closely. "Fascinating! I had thought that perhaps the multiple DNA would cause him some
problems, but it appears that it also had some interesting side effects. You RAN all the way here?"
Jim nodded.
"Jim, we're in *space*!"
Jim just shrugged.
"Yes, this is all very amusing," the smurf said with impatience. "But you, whoever you are, will simply be another martyr. I'm
beginning to grow tired of playing with you pathetic losers. I had hoped for some real fighters, a nice little competition before
my conquest of your world, but I see I won't even get that. So prepare yourselves to meet oblivion!"
"Ugh, was that a Saban line?" SJ groaned.
Black Tiger grimaced. "Are only hope is to attempt a spirit bomb....do you think Jim is up to it?"
****END RP****

Sevarius Jr. - [bpoole@mailexcite.com]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 11:48:48 PM
IP: 207-172-60-152.s152.tnt7.brd.va.dialup.rcn.com

Hmm... Apparently Sega Dreamcast has sold over 370,000 systems in four days, and they're comparing first day sales to Phantom Menace first day sales, and bragging about bringing in 3 times the revenue Phantom Menace did. Excuse me... A Dreamcast costs 200 bucks, a movie ticket costs from 3.50 to 7.00... Is this REALLY a fair comparison?
Robby
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 11:11:06 PM
IP: spider-wl042.proxy.aol.com

School was boring today, I had a 200 question test on Beowulf where I did terribly because it asked some REALLY obscure questions, the "new" dragonball episode still had lousy voices but they're getting better, Starship Troopers was the first episode AGAIN, and my computer kicked me off. Add to that I've been tired all day... Oii, just not a good day today. Ah well, tommarrow I have a mentor metting with Ben Dunn, so all is good...

Buffy stuff being pulled offline- **Robby pulls out a t-shirt and puts it on. It's his anti-censorship/protest t-shirt. It reads "What the HFIL is wrong with you?"**

Pistoff- CHeeze stick lady.... Eek.

Wilek- I already knew that about Power Rangers, I was simply pointing out WHY its still going here, despite having totally devolved since the start... (Of course, the original series in Japan involved an ancient dead princess or something...) While do cool Japanese shows ALWAYS have to be butchered here?

CHerry Blossom- The Una pic? Gee, haven't seen that one in a while...

Spacebabie- The editing is still there in Dragonball, its just far less noticable... "The next dimension" still exists, which is why my RP sorta protests it... And Freezer (His name isn't Frieza dangit! What the HFIL is wrong with those people?) finally gets a male voice when he transforms...

Ironwolf- Only being able to draw what you see is pretty common. That all most artists can do when they start, it takes years and years of practice before you can even BEGIN to do something freehand, let alone something that looks good. I'm still waiting for the day I can do that myself...

Space Marines vs. Starship Troopers- Well, keep in mind not only the weapon difference but the alien difference. The Space Marines may be able to take out aliens and the Starship Troopers may seem like cannon Fodder in comparison, but keep in mind the Starship Troopers bugs are bigger, tougher, AND they have weaker weapons to fight them with. (And they still do a pretty good job blowing them up anyway...)

Starfleet red shirts- What REALLY bothers me about this is, red shirts got killed left and right in the original series, and then they go off and make that the color of the ranking officers in Next Gen! They must have a deathwish for their captains or something...

**SLIGHTLY LONG RP HERE: CYBER SMURf SAGA **

The Dark Rangers are fighting the upgraded Cyber Smurf, and losing. SJ is not fighting the cyber smurf, he's still recovering from his last attack, next to Kari who's still recovering from coming from the Next Dimension. Black Tiger has no clue what to do, he's already used his most powerful attack to no effect... The situation just don't look good until the Dark Star two suddenly shakes.
"What the?" The cyber Smurf asks, actually surprised as a small ship comes crashing through a wall.
Jim Iza Noying's clone steps out. "Hi. Sorry it took me so long to get here, I was only cloned a few hours ago and I had to run the whole way here. Have I missed anything?"
SJ is utterly surprised. "He RAN from my lab to here? In a couple of hours? A jet couldn't get here that fast..."
Black Tiger's eyes widen and you can tell even behind the mask, and he shouts out, "JIM!" in much the same way as Spock did in a classic Trek episode where he thought Kirk was dead. And then, Black Tiger notices Jim doesn't quite look right...
Kari notices this too, even in her weakened condition. "Junior, that's my brother's clone... Whats wrong with him?"
"Eh heh... When he was cloned, all of his DNA wasn't quite right. A lot of it was his, but some of it was Steve Irwin's, and some of it belonged to a sandshrew. There was nothing I could do about that, but the amalgation of DNA seems to have..."
"These legs are pretty darn fast, did you know that?" Jim's clone asks innocently. The cyber smurf takes a swing at him and Jim's clone dodges effortlessly.
"Impressive," the cyber smurf notes, as Black Tiger realized something.
"If he was only cloned a few hours ago, that means he's still relativley fresh and he might just have a pure heart and be able to make a ganki dama..."
Robby
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:59:16 PM
IP: spider-wl042.proxy.aol.com

Hi. I'm just checking in and I don't have anything particular to say in this comment room. I'm writing, almost done with my fan-fic. Doin' some reading......doing life.


Well See ya

"If girls are so saucy then I'm the chicken nugget!"
Sarge Abernathy - [SargeMM@aol.com]
Barre, VT, USA
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:30:14 PM
IP: spider-tf054.proxy.aol.com

**RP Entrance**

Durid Breases into the room, sending many papers and other stuff to the floor. "Blessed be eveyone! What's been going on?" Durid looks around at all the faces staring back, not a single look of recignoation on any of them. "Uh, anyone know who I am?" Everyone just stares back. "Something tells me I've been gone too long."

***End RP Entrance***

Skippy - First time I heard about your dad being an apprentice Blacksmith. A dying profession I'm afraid, but one I'm interested in myself anyway!
Durid the Druid - [durid@uswest.net]
MN
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:04:06 PM
IP: xdialup201.mpls.uswest.net

Oy! It's been one hectic weekend, I think I have mentioned before that I workfor my Dad as an apprentice blacksmith? Well, I am and we are starting into the big show season for us(when we go out to various craft shows to do blacksmithing demos and sell our wares) Last weekend kicked it off, so for the next three weekends it's 7 days a week :(

But, the real upside of this first show is that is being hosted at Six Flags over Texas. They have this Heritage Days Craft Festival going on, so I get into the park for free and thanks to the poor attendence this year, I have plenty of time to go ride the rides!

The big problem is that we are just not making any money, which makes my father even more unpleasant to be around than normal. Honestly, I think we should quit with these shows and concentrate on the work in the shop, that's what pays the bills. Unfortunately my dad's ego gets in the way, he likes the attention from the demonstating blacksmith role too much to give it up. So, I end up wasting my weekends out at these shows, and spend too much time in the shop working on inventory for these shows thaht are not making us any money...

Sorry about the rant, just had to get that off my chest. Now on to some other lines of discussion:

Starship Troopers vs. Colonial Marines:>
Marines hands down. Those troopers from the movie died like Starfleet Redshirts, the Marines actually put up a fight and died bravely. Those dumbass Troopers pretty much just walked into the meat grinder like the mass of cannon fodder they were. Why in God's name they continue to give money to Paul Veerhoven to produce this kind of drek is beyond me. Didn't Showgirls tell them anything?

One small thing:>
The Humane Society here in my home town is in serious financial trouble, they are having trouble just paying their bills this month. Since Lexy's fundrasing efforts worked out so well here, I thought you folks might be willing to help out another worthy cause. Click my name to find out more.

Ker'plop! To you all

Skippy The Klingon - [shakedwn@ultravision.net]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 09:28:03 PM
IP: uv1-37.ultravision.net

OK PPL IM BACK!!

I finally got back here and can download the room succssefully:) Well, I have been hearing that A lot of you are still trying to contact me in regards to the Robby+Heather Fund. PLEASE DO!! im back now and my email is ONLINE so go for it!! Im SO SORRY about all the delays:P Any old messages you'all wrote here please repeat ok?

*runs out*
Lexy - [izzolexington3@yahoo.com]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 09:24:04 PM
IP: milwb105-27.splitrock.net

Pistoff> I hope you don't mind me posting a message to you in here - but I want you to know how proud I am of you and Denis for your latest story, "Injustice For All". I've enjoyed reading it again - and this time w/out my printer having a cardiac arrest printing it... *winks* hehehe I am certainly aware of all the hard work, long hours of brainstorming, researching, ignoring Denis's girlfriend, *winks* j/k, and energy that has gone into this story - and it certainly shows!! Bravo my dear friend! *hugs*

I look forward to seeing Part 2 *smiles* wait... that means MORE brainstorming time, MORE research time, MORE energy... eesh! *falls over* *moans* have Denis send me a postcard every once in a while! *L* j/k

Anyway, I'm extremely proud of you and Denis and am honored to know such a talented author... ummm.. can I have your autograph, kind but disgruntled employee of Pizza Hut man? *winks*

Love ya!
Jannie
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 08:58:56 PM
IP: 196-168.c.esc4.net

Do you Know there will be a triple triad tcg from ff8 coming out?
Jake - [LiMp843936@aol.com]
Andover, MN, USA
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 08:48:12 PM
IP: spider-wl053.proxy.aol.com

Something must be wrong with me. I have no purpose in life. To myself or to anyone else. I keep on thinking that I have no reason for living yet I go on to each day thinking each day will be different. Maybe one day fate will have something in store for me but for now I must look to the future with an open mind and heart. And take with pride what I am given and not turn anyone or anything down. Something must be wrong with me , but I'll live through it okay.
Anonymous
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 07:17:34 PM
IP: proxy-443.public.paix.webtv.net

BUFFY fan site: Remember, it was the FANS that kept Star Trek alive!
Remember a few years ago Paramont was cracking down on fan sites, saying that there shall be no site execpt Startrek.msn.com?
How long did that last? Not too long because thier ratings from the computer gang dropped because of that.

<PRIASE\\GIVER-OF-WILL>
Fire Storm - [Night-Flame@usa.net]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 06:38:11 PM
IP: t2-29.visitus.net

Hi, all! Jut a quick post, since Ihaven't been able to read the posts this week, and I have to get to work on some graphics stuff.

For all you anime fans out in the DC area: The Smithsonian is showing anime, free admission. ALl but one or two are Japanese dubbed into English, inculding Princess Mononoke--I think I'm going to see it, so I can see how good a job Gaiman's going to do... (His skill not being in doubt, I just want to be able to appreciate it...) Princess Mononoke's on the 16th, BTW. Ghost in the Shell is this Friday.

OK, must run! =)
jewel - [Jewel.Faulkner@alumnae.brynmawr,edu]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 06:25:02 PM
IP: 207-172-73-107.s107.tnt1.man.va.dialup.rcn.com

Ack, now I know I'm tired...

Chris> I meant to address the "Brian" comment to you. We're on season break and are trying to get the next seasons out... but it's tough. Please be patient.

**exits, muttering "Brian? Where the hell did I get that?"**
Mandolin
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 05:54:12 PM
IP: 144.175.18.15

**Mandi's computer. Instead of Mandi, however, a bunch of inch-tall fanfic characters - her creativity demons - are all perched around the keyboard. After several games of Rock, Paper, Scissors, the winner is Matt Bluestone, who's (supposedly) speaking for the mob.**

Are we on? **Nods from the crowd.** Okay, we'll make this quick. If our author comes around spouting off about that d*mned CBS show that hasn't even started again, please SHUT HER UP! We've been waiting for some of our stories to be written forever, and we don't need any more... uh-oh.

**There is a pause, then a strident shout from Mandi.**

Get away from there! NOW!!!!

**The creativity demons scatter as Mandi sits down.**

Sorry about that, all. Ever since I got a single and some more free time, these losers think they can have the run of the place... and now I'm really tired because I just don't feel like going to "Jane Eyre" auditions. But I have to, because I absolutely want a good part this year. (By "good," you realize, I mean bitchy. Bitchy characters are fun to play.)

Xanathar> Ahh, thank you for the Joyride. That bit of mindless, gory violence made my day.

Brian> Okay... didn't we just ANSWER this question? Season 2 of Pendragon, Gargoyles, and Timedancer are over, and we're scrambling to turn out Season 3 (as well as Season 2 of Dark Ages). As for when they'll come out - due to time constraints and some members' technical difficulties, we can't give out a set date right now. In short, we're swamped. Please be patient.

Pistoff> Oh, for the love of... I'm amazed the cheese sticks woman knew how to use a phone. I'm also impressed you haven't throttled any of these idiots yet. I'd be locked up now for several counts of assault...

Holly and Taneka> This is not a chat room, it's a COMMENT ROOM! Sorry to be rude, but my tolerance level is shot today.

Power Rangers> Yeah, I liked the first couple of seasons best... **One of Mandi's creativity demons yells, "Yeah, so you could drool over Austin St. John!"** Shut up!! Anyway, I might watch this season's pilot, just to see how much they butcher the sentai... surprisingly, I've heard that last season, Saban was somewhat true to the original Japanese sentai plotline. (And it appears there might be a monster that actually looks like one. Fancy that.)

Oh, it's almost 6. Need to go meet with a friend about the "Whose Line is it Anyway?" bit we're doing for the variety show... as long as we don't do anything with singing, I can handle it. :)
Mandolin - [weird_web@hotmail.com]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 05:52:33 PM
IP: 144.175.18.15

Gunjack> Ouch, yes. But better a monster bruise then some lead in your bod, no?

Later.


Aaron - [JCarnage@Yahoo.com]
San Antonio, TX, USA
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 05:44:15 PM
IP: ppp-185.tnt-1.sat.smartworld.net

First time poster, long time reader : ) . Wha happend? Will there be no more story's? Is this the end of TGS? Is there no hope? Is there no chance? Is this the end of Captian Proton.....er....ignor that. Hmm...just wondering whats up.
Spooky Chris The Clever Coyote - [Wendigowarrior@hotmail.com]
Missouri, United States
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 05:11:48 PM
IP: tl188.therural.net

Oy, what a weekend.
For some wierd reason, weekends are harder on me than the weeks themselves. I've been bordering on sick for about a week, and yesterday my health finally bottomed out. I was only awake for a little while yesterday, and I can't remember ever being more tired...
On the plus side, I got to go see "Thirteenth Warrior on Sunday.
************Minor Spoilers for Thirteenth Warrior***************
YEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAWW!!!!! That was easily the best midevel movie I have seen since Braveheart! WOOHOO!!! Great movie, and I highly recomend it if you can stand a healthy dose of hacking, slashing, mauling, and gnawing! My only gripe was that turning the Wendol into cavalry really detracted from their monstrous appearence. Oh, and Adrienne, how do you figure it being a retelling of Beowolf?
***************************End Spoilers***************************

*Scans through the last few day's worth of posts*

Yeesh! Even more new people! Alright, everybody, just hand your sanity over to Duece and we can get down to business. Oh, and happy birthday to Firestorm and Shogun. You lucky sots! :)

Blackie - Heh. Looks like I'm not the only gunner in here... For those of you who care, here are the awnsers:
HEAT - High Explosive Anti Tank, a round that uses a specialy shaped explose charge to create a focused jet of plasma that can easily penetrate armor
APEX - Armor Peircing Explosive. A standard bullet filled with high explosive and fused to detonate shortly after contact. In other words, the bullet hits you, and then explodes inside your body. Very effective.
APDSFSDU - Armor Peircing Dicarded Sabot Fin Stabilized Depleted Uranium. Standard ammo for the M1A1 Abrams Tank. Tankers call them "silver bullets"

<< Teflon Bullets were first made in California to give the police extra firepower. The Dweebs who thought them up Kinda FORGOT that it was the police with the Bullet proof vests. Now the same people have come up with an all plastic bullet that has the same ballistic qualities - for the same reason to give the police more firepower>> Are you refering to the SS90 round from the FN P90? (To you N64 fans out there, this is the gun that the RPC-90 from Goldeneye is based on) <<You're right about most Kevlar vests only stopping bullets - They also do a good job of stopping shell splinters and Ricochets. They certainly won't stop any of the TANK cannon rounds you listed above....>> Actually, none of these are restricted to use in tank cannons. I'm not sure if anyone is persuing the idea, but I doubt it would be too hard to cram a shaped charge into a 12 gauge shotgun shell, and you might be able to do the same with APDSFSDU... provided you modified the gun a bit...
My persona, Gunjack Marius Valentine, uses a 10mm pistol stoked with alternating shaped charge and armor peircing explosive rounds.

SJ & Pisstoff - Great stories! I was laughing my head off! Oh, and that elephant story reminded me of one of the recent Darwin Award Runnerups...

*******************GROSS STORY WARNING*****************
Some guy was visiting a petting zoo in kenya, and struck up a conversation with some Russian tourists. He ended up bragging about how the U.S. was superior to Russia, and in an effort to prove this assertion, he decided to show them how America can produce things that Russians can't even dream of. So he reaches into his bag and pulls out a tube of superglue. He explains that this glue will hold anything together, and proceeds to prove it by aplying three ounces of glue to both hands and then slapping them on the rump of a nearby rhino. The rhino has grown up in the zoo and is used to human contact, so it doesn't panic until the man's efforts to free his hands become violent.
Finally, he manages to spook the rhino, which goes on a rampage through the petting zoo with the man still firmly attached to it's rear. By the time the zoo personelle manage to calm the rhino down, a new complication has set in.
Apparently, the rhino had been suffering from an upset stomach, and the vetrinarian had prescribed a laxative to help alleveate the problem. As the zookeepers try to find a way to remove the idiot from their animal's rear, the rhino begins to run in another way. The American ended up being showered with over twenty gallons of rhino manure before they could get some solvent to free his hands.

The Russians were very impressed with the glue.
*************************END GROSS STORY******************

Xanatos.com - Somebody should send this guy a statuette of the gargoyles, and see if he gets the joke. Or better yet, anybody got some gold coins handy...?

Aaron><<That's why you need the trauma plate in the front. They're supposed to stop shotgun shells and rifle slugs. (Of course, that's only in the front. Elsewhere...)>> I heard a story once about a soldier in Northern Ireland who took a 7.62 FAL round to the back. The bullet was stopped by a ceramic plate in his vest, but it left a three foot wide bruise all across his back anyway. Ouch, no?

SOROW - Since when has Duncan Shiek been and unknown? They've been playing his music down here for two or three years!

Animal Farm - They're making a movie of this? I've never read it, but my former girlfriend loved anything Orwellian. Now if we can just get them to do a movie of 1984...

Starship Troopers vs. Colonial Marines - It depends on whether you're looking at the book version or the movie version of the Troopers. In the book, the Mobile Infantry were equipped with jump-capable powered armor, and used heavy flamethrowers, lasers, rockets, and peewee nukes. In the movie, all they had were assault rifles, hand grenades, and the occasional rocket or nuke. The Marines use 10mm assault rifles with integral grenade launchers, 10mm smartguns, and a few pistols. The movie versions of the troopers are about equal to the marines, and the book version are far superior.
Firestorm><< 'Troopers VS Marines: Hmm... good point. It took, what, 10 troopers to take out one bug, and each marine took out at LEAST three aliens by themselves.>> Keep in mind that the ST bugs are bigger than a rhino, and have twice as many limbs to kill you with as the bugs in Aliens. That makes them a little harder to kill.
Also, according to the book of ST, the bugs DID use technology. They had spaceships, and their warriors used beam weaponry and explosives to take on the Troopers.

On a side note, I still have plans somewhere for C&C total conversians for both Aliens and Starship Troopers. Now all I need to do is find a good unit editor... And I've toyed with an Aliens/Gargoyles/X-Files crossover

Pistoff - Major pity over that abomination disguised as employment. I hope everything works out...

Hm, it's 3:30 and I haven't gotten my schoolwork done yet. I was hoping to get an RP in, but it doesn't look like there's time... See ya later, all!
Gunjack Valentine - [miphsingleton@hotmail.com]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 04:34:29 PM
IP: 205.165.166.140

got caught up at work so thought i would post.
move into my new place at the end of the month. i probabaly can't afford it but it is about time i lived an my own with out a college roommate kinda thing.
Chinese Zodiac Metal Dog that should give you the exact year i was born. Starship troopers great book S JR left out one point in the book the armour made the troopers unstopable pre bug. The suits made every trooper well superman. then come the bugs with natrul armour just as good and natrual wepons that can shred the armour like a hot knife through butter. Imagine the shock to the troops!

here is a question to the artist. i can only do lifedrawings. i can not draw form my mind. i blame my form of Dyslexia. An example is to draw a wolf i frist find a dog draw him then alter the picture to make a wolf (don't ask about griffens and dragons). Any one else have the same problem?

As to why there are so many dogs in here well this is a place were loyal fans come to keep a show alive and hey dog is the most loyal animal there is. Then there are the significate others to the dogs and they should be Tiger and opps forgot the other animal horse?
new shows
i liked get real it didn't stink and has growth potential worth keeping an eye on (i loved my so called life) 2 stars just because it did not suck and has a chance of being good.
beast wars i hate living on the buckle of the bible belt fox will not show any esp past the EM gun, and i don't think i gonna like the new one beast machine just because i got to caught up in beast wars.

i know i missed stuff and will try and catch up; its just rl is kickin my a$$ and she already took my name.
2 new bumper stickers
beautifull women don't Intimidate. I wish they would
and
some people push the envolpe some lick it and some can't even find the Flap


ironwolf
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 03:06:05 PM
IP: host-209-215-9-112.cha.bellsouth.net

Cassandra> Yes, there will be a second season... and soon.... Oh, since you're new here, I'll need to take your sanity and put it in this jar. *indicates faceted jar in hand*
Deuce - [dreamaway@curtain.cjb.net]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 01:14:04 PM
IP: edtn001958.hs.telusplanet.net

*A silver gargoyle pokes her head into the Comment Room.*
This has probably been covered already, but I missed it. Anyway will there be a second season to <i>Dark Ages</i>?
*Walks into the room and has a seat, so to not block the door.*
Cassandra - [kindra_coates@hotmail.com]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 11:23:58 AM
IP: 204.196.32.59

Bye!
Holly and Taneka
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 11:19:00 AM
IP: bess-proxy.cajun.net

taneka wants to leave, I but I won't let her!
Holly and Taneka
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 11:17:30 AM
IP: bess-proxy.cajun.net

Hi all in here! Supposed to be doing some work in class, but we decided to chat here!
Holly and Taneka
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 11:13:40 AM
IP: bess-proxy.cajun.net

I felt likd doing a face lift...like the new look?

Wilek> I checked the site and I read somewhere that the guy D.Xanatos also has a goatee.

Pisstoff>>*Massages his temples* need any tylenol? and please don't try to pull out your hair because of their stupidity.

Deuce and Robby>>Amy Jo is also on Felicity

Another Fansite shutdown ?!?!?! if you have a fansite or a fanpage of a Fox show.. then Join fist and put up their banner! Take a stand peeps.

Could you all cross your fingers and toes and pray or something that Floyd doesnt hit Central Florida head on.

DBZ....Yeah I noticed the voice change also but Frieza still sounds like a woman. and yes they have stopped Editing out the blood and violence. Notice Vegeta's face.

I'm also watching the Spanish version on Telemundo and you havent lived until you heard the Oscar Myer song sung in Spanish.
Spacebabie - [Spacebabie76]
Hiding, From, Floyd
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:57:43 AM
IP: ts002d15.orl-fl.concentric.net

Don't have much time... I suppose it serves me right, checking my email before the CR.

AoTN> Welcome back, however briefly!

Robby re: Power Rangers> ["I liked the green/white ranger! And the original Pink Ranger was kinda cute... ANd Zed was cool..."] Ah, yes, I remember the days.... Much of that show suffered from Titanic Syndrome: good actors, bad dialogue, worse plot. Amy Jo Johnson (the original Pink Ranger) has appeared in several TV movies, doing a kick-ass job.

Wilek> ["On New Millenium's Eve, my plan will unfold, a virus that destroys any sentient lifeform below a certain IQ. We will retake our world."] Revenge of the Mensa? j/k, I love the idea. Need help with distribution? >:-)

Anyway, off I go to Torture 20... er, Hell 20... eh, Flaming Bamboo Sticks in My Brain 20....

** Deuce leaves for Math 20 **
Deuce - [bleedingromeo@curtain.cjb.net]
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to hell I go....
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:21:38 AM
IP: edtn001958.hs.telusplanet.net

Ugh, I've really got to stop playing so much Diablo. It's cutting into my writing time.

Toku> The next Castlevania is set in 1996? Hmm, maybe the Belmonts team up with Blade.

Speaking of the Belmonts leads in turn to the people I think they're based on, the Van Helsings. I've often wondered if the Canmores felt themselves to be sort of like Van Helsing.

Firestorm> I think Rush Hour cracked 100 mil, but that has an action-comedy, so I dunno if that counts.

*******************Spoilers for new G2K Ep***************

Pistoff> I loved it, especially the scene where Goliath walks in and Machiko is sitting on Jon's lap. And, of course, the minute everything seems to be going well... Look out. Something *bad* is coming.
*****************End spoilers***********************

Later.


Aaron - [JCarnage@Yahoo.com]
San Antonio, TX, USA
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:12:04 AM
IP: ppp-88.tnt-1.sat.smartworld.net

ooo! nasty color! forgot sorry.
cherry blossom
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:08:49 AM
IP: 98ccfaae.ipt.aol.com

hi all!
I've decided to find a different piccie seeing as Brianna is already used by two diff. ppls. so I'm going to have fun for a while *grins*
I have a quick question here. do you all just have your own rp's? or do you all incorporate your stories into one? I'm confused here. So many ppl have things that are very different from other ppls. I'm just curious.
Pistoff< when you apply at a job and they don't call you, you are supposed to call them! they want to see how "commited" you are to getting a different job!
See you later ppls! bye!
cherry blossom - [Chryblsm15@aol.com]
WI, US of A
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:08:04 AM
IP: 98ccfaae.ipt.aol.com

Goodmorn everyone,
that art class sounds like fun

Good news for me, yesterday I had my annual review at work and I getting a raise, not a huge one, but I'll take it
have a great day everyone



Delphi - [cmiller@magiclink.com]
Twin Falls, Idaho
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 09:00:13 AM
IP: 216.190.241.89

Hi all!!

Fleur:Man, it's bad enough that a radio station is giving his shirt away as a _prize_ (Does anyone else feel that there is something really wrong about that? >:)) The only reason I'd want to win that thing is so I could make a voodoo doll out of it. Hmmm.... *slow, evil grin*>>Welcome back Fleur!,I see that your a fellow Double T FM sufferer...err...listener>:)ugh!! the Rip the shirt off Ricky Martin's back competition,I'm sick of hearing about it everyday(It's gotten to the point where I'm hurling insults at the radio whenever they mention it),About the E-mail,I haven't recieved any E-mail's for a while,sounds like my ISP been losing my mail>:(,I'll send off a test message to you when I finish this post,can you let me know if it gets through?

Doug:Thanks for the review link. Now I want to play System Shock 2 even more. :) Glad to know it's for the computer, hope the release date is soon.>>Hey no problem!:),The games been out for over two weeks here(I'm about Twenty hours into the game) so the shops over there will probably have it as well.

Tim P.:Welcome back!,sorry to hear your sick,and I agree an Aliens series would be very interesting.

Jaden:You should have seen me the other night. I woke up at the beginning of every hour from 9 till 6 in the morning. I hate it well THAT happens.Ack!!that beats me, the worst I've had was every hour from 12 till 6 I looked like a Zombie the next day at work.(happened to me again this morning at 3 o'clock till 6)

Mandolin:I would also like to request that their lawyers be whacked in the next Joyride. Slowly. Painfully.>>MMWWHHAAAAA!!!!comming right up,I hope you like it>:)

**THE JOYRIDE,SPECIAL EDITION**

The Joyriders Magically appear in the 20th Century Fox board room.

"Hey what the hell's going on" said Pistoff

"I don't know"said Xanathar"but this rooms full of lawyers"gesturing towards a group of shocked people.

"Those aren't just any Lawyers either,there the one's that Mandolin told us about"said Wilek grinning

"Time to die"shouted Xanathar grabbing one of the lawyers by the scruff of the neck with one arm and pulling out his chainsaw with the other.

The lawyers pathetic pleas went ignored and were then replaced with screams as Xanathar cut off his victims arms and legs.

Wilek grabbed another and ripped his arm off and procceeded to beat the lawyer to death with his own severed arm.

Jack was holding down another while Pistoff sodomized the unfortunate lawyer with his electric cattleprod until the lawyers eyes popped out.

Warpmind had cornered the remaining lawyer and had produced his set of bagpipes.

"Nooo not that PLEASE!!"screamed the terrified lawyer covering his ears as Warpmind began playing,The lawyer ran blindly trying to get away from the sound of the bagpipes until he was in the center of the room.

Suddenly a low humming noice started up above the lawyers head and everyone stopped what they were doing as the humming noise suddenly materialised into the cthulu,Gravity kicked in and the lawyer was crushed under one of the hearses giant wheels with a sickening SPLATT!!

"Well this has certainly been different from the usual" commented Miriam as everbody got in the hearse and it vanished as suddenly as it appeared...

**END JOYRIDE SPECIAL EDITION**

C'yas later!!
Xanathar
Melbourne, victoria, Australia
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 07:17:27 AM
IP: cache1.mpx.com.au

****BEGIN RP!!!****
As the Ravens jump for cover Jaden quietly wonders, "Why is it that where ever we go we run into people with guns and a bad attitude?" Doug rolles his eyes, "We're just lucky I guess."
****END RP!!!****

Xanathar-You should have seen me the other night. I woke up at the beginning of every hour from 9 till 6 in the morning. I hate it well THAT happens.

Wilek-Xanatos Enterprises...You are now entering the Twilight Zone!

See ya later!
Jaden - [jaden12@hotmail.com]
Los Alamos, CA
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 02:03:01 AM
IP: cache3.avtel.net

**RP!**

[On the Avatar Of Ganon...Administrator: "Agent Rho? An urgent message from the planet. The Black Ravens have sent us their current location, and are apparently being pursued." Rho: "Send down a shuttlecraft with a squadron of stormtroopers at once!"]

**END RP!**

Pistoff> Ah, the evil tale of Ronald Opus. How I love that story. >:) And your customers...<sigh> It's time to cull the herds. On New Millenium's Eve, my plan will unfold, a virus that destroys any sentient lifeform below a certain IQ. We will retake our world.

Shogun Raptor> <<due to hurricane Floyd possibly hitting South Florida, I pray it does not hit, however if it does, I may be without power and/or phone service for an unknown amount of time>> ACK! I hope it misses you! <<for the most part I am inclined to agree, save for one show: Ren & Stimpy, or rather the first two seasons before it suffered from TGC-itis (the dismissal of the show's creator and the subsequent drop in quality) in fact it helped herald in the new era of sick cartoons, the animation was on a sick, twisted quality that rivalled that of the great Ralph Baksh,i,>> Ah, Ren And Stimpy. That was an interesting little show for the first few seasons. I especially liked 'In The Army'; I had no idea R&S could sing so well. ^_^

Fire Storm> Happy birthday! ^_^

Deuce> <<GOOD GOD, MAN, CHANGE THAT IMMEDIATELY! I could get my hands on a utility for you that would change that; you'd have to live with hitting the power switch to shut it off, but at least you won't have to pull the plug to reboot. You are treading on dangerous ground with a "feature" like that.>> Ack...<blink> Fortunately, the only times it's happened have been when I've attempted to play this old DOS game called Creature Shock, which I believe is flagrantly incompatible with Win98. Needless to say, its CDs are now used as exotic weaponry. But thanks for the warning. :) (With my luck, this application would probably be just as incompatible; Mr. Disconnect seems to enjoy that kind of thing...)

Crzy> <<Starship Troopers... Expect a ramble in Ask Greg soon about what a MESS the whole thing has ended up being. (Including 4 of his stories getting dropped in the shuffle).>> So Greg and his fans have been messed over again. <sigh> Of course. Someday, we will rise, and take back what is ours...(Oh, and you and Pistoff were made for each other. ^_^)

Rev. Atilla> Hi kitty. ^_^ <scratches behind your ears> You're soaking wet! Cats and pools don't mix. :P Hm...<sets fire to Mr. Disconnect> Here, lie down by the fire and dry off. :)

Aaron> <<Any place where criminal justice majors rob convenience stores, pol sci students finance anti-Iraq terrorism, Comparitive religion students start their own cults, and the Genetics department experiments on the ringball team...>> Where do I sign! ^_^

David G> <<Steve and Matt (who's name I looked up this afternoon) and I are pretty much agreed on the side view, scrolling game like Metroid, but with some unusual features.>> Hm...perhaps something like Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night?

WB Tim P and Fleur! ^_^

$Fleur> <<Last I read, an evil cybernetic smurf was trying to take over the station.>> Actually, an evil cybernetic smurf with his own station is trying to take over the world. :)$

Tim P> <<Too sick and tired to write or post anything yet. The Flu sucks!>> ACK! <gives you some enchanted chicken soup, then does unspeakable things to Sli Sludge with a spiked iron speculum> <<If They can make a tv show about this, why can't they do ALIENS?>> Because the bugs from Starship Troopers aren't in the habit of bursting from ppl's chests, and S&P is a bit...prudish...about such things in animation. :)

Kaioto> Do I smell a fellow Castlevania fan? :) Your idea for a CV game set in the modern day is vaguely similar to one I thought up. Except it involved time travel to four different locations and had as many player characters (Alucard, Marie Renard, Arista Belmont, and some kind of werewolf). ^_^

Coyote> <<Ohh man, what a day at work today ...>> Fate has been giving you the shaft as well? <sigh> Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that this entire fandom is under a curse. I mean, look how often fate and stupidity conspire against us... <<I'm starting to think that I might aspire to become a modern-day renaissance man ... highly skilled in many disciplines.>> Well, you're an artist, a writer, a poet, a musician, and a mechanic, along with anything I may have missed. I think that qualifies. <G>

Robby> <<Its practically a new show every year.>> It IS a new show every year, at least in Japan. The different 'chapters' of Power Rangers in America have all been completely different series in Japan, sometimes taking place decades or centuries apart, if I remember correctly.

Doug> <<The Playstation 2 will cost how much? <gulps> Thanks for the heads-up, man. I think I'll pass on it. For a while anyway.>> Good thinking, and you're welcome. :)

Mandolin> <<Attention all Buffy fans: 20th Century Fox sucks.>> They're shutting down ANOTHER fan site?! <sigh> It's just like I heard they did with X-Files...such stupidity...
Wilek Nereus
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:49:07 AM
IP: 205.245.92.226

Rev. Atilla: Thanks. :) I'm not too worried about money yet...I've gone through periods like this before...but I'll keep the offer in mind. ;)

The Almighty Bob: Welcome. :) "God spelled backward is dog, but Bob spelled backward is still Bob." --from Reality is What you Can Get Away With :)

Aaron: Thanks, bud. :) Glad you like the gift. And that "Finals" sounds like fun. I'll have to keep my eye out for it...

Fleur: Thanks. *hugs back* I've been thinking about Joyriding that customer, but I need to cook up something suitably grotesque for him. :)

Tim P.: Welcome back! Get well soon, 'k? :) And that Aliens series might actually be interesting, if the right people do it. James Cameron would have to be involved, though...

Coyote: Thanks for the sympathy. :) And please don't hold back anything about your own problems, if you need to talk about them. Even if you feel they're "minuscule," we're all here for ya. :)

Shogun Raptor: (re: Colonial Marine named Hudson) Yup. He was played by Bill Paxton, who's been in a couple of other Cameron films, True Lies and The Terminator (for about two minutes, anyway...)

Christine: Thanks! :) But I'm used to stuff like this happening. I just keep telling myself, what doesn't kill me will make me stronger...

Doug: Thanks for understanding about the feedback. :) Since my hours have been cut so drastically, I should be able to get to it soon. :) And I'm not too worried about losing my job. That's not the way my luck runs, because then it would be over. The universe prefers to torture me endlessly...which brings me to some more Stupid Customer Stories, which I'll put at the end of the post... ;) And I'm glad you enjoyed "Injustice for All," and that it inspired you a little. :D Denis and I are working on Part 2 already. It'll probably be done in a month or so. :) ....Heh, now my head won't be able to fit through the door... *g*

Mandolin: Ye f--kin' gods! I've never cared for BtVS, but what's being done just plain sucks. I'm sure we'll be happy to Joyride the chicken$h!t money-grubbing scumf--ks 20th Century Fox has working for them. *evil grin*

Fire Storm: True enough...but people in general tend to spend more money on some Van Damme movie than something like, say, Dead Poets Society or something like that. I'm forced to deal with beer-drinking @$$holes when Monday Night football starts for much the same reason. Yeesh! It's amazing that so many people will sit down and watch a bunch of guys stand in a line on a field and then run into each other at maximum speed, chasing this funny-lookin' ball, running back and forth and never really going anywhere... O_o

Speaking of beer-drinking @$$hole football fans, all the idiots in town came out tonight and descended on Pizza Hut. Yes, that's right, it's time for Stupid Customer Stories!!

First one--I had to explain to some woman, six different times, what a one-topping pizza was. And she *still* didn't understand! She ended up ordering three toppings and then wondering why the price was two dollars higher...

Next one--the shift manager got this one. Some guy said he had a coupon for a large pizza for $10.99.....he proceeded to read everything on the coupon, including the fine print...and then he said, "But there's no price on it! How do I know how much it costs?" The manager said, "But sir, you just read me the price..." "Ohhhh! Okay...hmm..."

*makes farting sound with lips*

And finally...This woman calls up and wants an order of cheese sticks delivered. I told her, "We can't deliver anything under ten dollars. Your cheese sticks are $5.79." She said, "Okay." I waited for her to order something else...and she didn't. So I said, "A double-order of cheese sticks is $5.79...we can't deliver anything under ten bucks." She said, "Oh! Does that mean you won't deliver the cheese sticks?"

AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGHHHH!!
Pistoff - [phred@koalas.com]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:28:42 AM
IP: wire-22.koalas.com

well desires abound what children doth seek PHOENIXMAXIMUS house of UTHER only TRUE INCARNATE PENDRAGON. It is charming I suppose.
Phoenix - [bedouin@diigisys.net]
Whitefish, Montana, USA
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:24:48 AM
IP: k56modem59.digisys.net

EVERYONE: Thanks for the birthday wishes!

Xanathar: <I've always prefered the PC as a game platform>
I agree. I've had a Nintendo and a Game Boy, and I prefer my PC games any day! (Although, I am pretty partial to Metroid and Zelda...)

Pistoff: (re: sex and violence) I like sex (Tomb Raider) and Violence (Tomb Raider again), but usually I prefer substance. Thats what really gets me to enjoy somthing. Star Wars for example. It's not popular just because it had great battle scenes, but because it had a good story line through the trilogy. Sure, sex and violence sells, but a plot is what KEEPS selling. Example: When was the last time a PURE action movie grossed over $100 mil?
Ok, what was the last movie with a decent plot and not as much violence to gross $100 mil?
Case closed.

CrzyDemona: Starship Troopers: EEK! Be VERY glad they never did that to Gargoyles!

Tim P: 'Troopers VS Marines: Hmm... good point. It took, what, 10 troopers to take out one bug, and each marine took out at LEAST three aliens by themselves.

<ACKNOWLEDGE\\SUBMIT>
Fire Storm - [Night-Flame@usa.net]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:11:32 AM
IP: t2-7.visitus.net

Attention all Buffy fans: 20th Century Fox sucks.

For the past three seasons, the Slayer's Fanfic Archive has housed AleXander Thompson's excellent BtVS transcripts... until today. Despite the fact that a viewer has been hand transcribing episodes, inserting personal observations, and making absolutely no profit off of them whatsoever, the lawyers from 20th Century Fox have stated that it's copyright infringement. Now before you scoff, lemme add another tidbit: AleXander went to a BtVS fan convention a few years back that Joss Whedon himself attended. Not only did Joss read and sign a copy of AleXander's transcript of "Welcome to the Hellmouth," he gave his express permission for AleXander to continue with the transcripts. He's the freaking show creator! What the hell is wrong with these damned corporate lawyers?

I urge all fans to check out the Slayer's Fanfic Archive and go to the Transcripts Page to find info on how to *politely* contact 20th Century Fox to give them the hint on how idiotic they're being.

I would also like to request that their lawyers be whacked in the next Joyride. Slowly. Painfully.

That's all for now. Good night, everyone.
Mandolin - [weird_web@hotmail.com]
Monday, September 13, 1999 11:58:29 PM
IP: 144.175.18.15

**RP ALERT**

Shap and Shauna gasp as the whirlwind of destruction that is Kaioto comes to a stop in front of them, then turns and snarls at the remaining WCOC members. Shap and Shauna do the same, both assuming battle-ready stances. "Mercy!" one of their enemies screams. "No! We understand now! We recant! We recant!" They then run out of the building as one, Green Baron and Atilla running after to make sure they don't come back. This leaves our three heroes alone. Well, alone except for Matthew Hale. The WCOC leader, who thanks to his followers getting in the line of fire for him has so far survived the battle unharmed, is watching dumbfounded as the people who once followed him scream in cowardice and flee. (Note- they'll probably get mopped up by Green Baron, Atilla, and the Scouts during their escape, don't expect to see them again.) "Well, Haley boy," Shauna chuckles, pointing her bow at their enemy, "now it's just you and us." Hale turns and looks at her, then laughs. "You can't kill me, Afro s*&t!" he declares. "I've committed no crime! I'm just acting in my own self-interest!" "Don't you know Jesus preached against that, man?" Shap asks. "Acting selfish is the root of evil. All the great heroes in the Bible were unselfish people." "That's not true!" Hale shouts. "I interpret the Bible! I know what it says. You can die, go to hell, and answer to Satan!" With that he brings up his AK-47 to aim at them, but is hit in the heart by Shauna's arrow in the middle of doing so. "Mommy," Hale moans, then falls over and dies. Shauna rolls her eyes. "I guess that takes care of him." "Yeah," Kaioto nods, looking them over. "You two alright?" "I think we're okay now," says Shap. "But what happened?" "Well," the Seeker grimaces, "uh, let me fill you in."

**END FIRST BIT OF RP**

Hello TGS Comment Room! :) Happy Monday, hope you had a good one! (I didn't really, but that's beside the point. :) First of all, some good news. I've started writing again. Got the first two scenes of Law Enforcement done today. Hope to continue work on it in the weeks ahead, provided I keep feeling like writing the story is a good thing. A little feedback would of course ensure that happens. So send it if you can. :)

Happy Birthday Firestorm!!! And now on to replies:

Gunjack: Well, the AP in APEX has to be Armor Piercing. Not sure what the EX means. It's already been said what HEAT and APDSFSDU stand for. Hope to find out the full meaning of APEX soon. (I may need to know it for a later fic.)

SJ: Thanks for the Get Real info. I watched the premiere rerun of it tonight (like you, I was desperate for new shows) and I completely agree with you. The show isn't terrible, but it ain't great either. Fox can do much better. <sighs> If only they had kept great character shows like Roar and Brimstone, then I might still be interested in watching their station for stuff besides the comedies X-Files, Simpsons, Seinfeld and Ally McBeal. (Yes, I know X-Files isn't a comedy, but last season it came too damn close! :)

Wilek: The Playstation 2 will cost how much? <gulps> Thanks for the heads-up, man. I think I'll pass on it. For a while anyway. Until that big win from the state lottery comes through. :)

David G: Sounds like you'll be writing a very neat game. Thanks for giving us the info about it. Hope to see it in stores within a few years.

Welcome to Bob and all other newcomers! Glad to see some more loss-of-sanity victims in here. <evil laugh>

Artemisia: Hey, I didn't know we had another Austinite in here! :) Send me an e-mail sometime, maybe you, Kit, and I can hook up for a mini-Gathering or some kind of other party event.

Pistoff: Welcome back! Glad to hear the terrible problems in your life are calming down, hope they don't result in your job loss or anything equally terrible. Don't worry about the feedback, as long as you get it to me eventually I'm not gonna get too mad at you. :) I may beg for it sometimes, but that's all I'll do- beg. My bark's worse than my bite. :)

**G2K SPOILER ALERT**

BTW, I read Injustice for All last night, and it was worth staying up late to peruse. :) Especially since right in the middle I had to pause to begin writing my own story. (Congrats, you inspired me. <grin>) Then I went back and finished the story. Overall, I think it's one of the best you and Dennis have done so far. Just as good as Truce, and in some ways better. It had a very nice plot and great character development, especially on Angela, Elisa, Demona, Otto, and Goliath. I hope the latter takes that serum very soon. :) Nice development on the Canmores too, the scenes where they made peace with Demona were very well-written. I also liked the scenes where we got inside Ross's head, he was a good character and I'm sad to see him go. Hope Iris and Brooklyn give those Swordies and their alien leader what they deserve in payback. And that they give the same to the cult. :) Can't wait for Part 2, very much looking forward to it. Part 1 gets 10/10 stars, keep up the great work!

**G2K SPOILERS END**

Welcome back also to Fleur and Tim P.!

Jaden: $ Thanks for the permission. If we think of anything neat for Alchemist to do, we'll have him do it. In the meantime, you feel free to do the same. :) $

Shogun: Hope that hurricane misses you, Kit and I will keep you in our prayers.

Xanathar: Thanks for the review link. Now I want to play System Shock 2 even more. :) Glad to know it's for the computer, hope the release date is soon.

SOROW: Sounds like a good song. I may have to check out that Duncan Sheik CD. :) I usually like him as an artist.

And that appears to be all for now, so I'll sign off. Might go get some more writing done tonight. Later!

**MORE RP HEADED YOUR WAY**

"Are you sure you're okay, Jaden?" Kitainia asks the werewolf as they run down Area 51-A's dungeon hallway. "Fine!" Jaden insists, shaking his head to clear it. "Don't worry about me!" Kit looks at Doug for reassurance, but he only frowns. "Okay, guys!" Gubio jumps in suddenly, holding up the laptop he's been tapping out an e-mail on as they run. "I just sent the Avatar of Ganon a message by satellite uplink! If they got it, Wilek should be sending a shuttle our way very soon." "That's great," Doug smiles. "Now we just have to get up to the surface to meet that shuttle." "Some friends are already waiting outside for us," says Janice. "They should help clear the way." Doug nods in agreement and for a while they continue to run. Suddenly Keith screams a warning and the group is forced to halt. Ahead of them, the base elevator doors come open and Agent Tau steps out with his subordinates in tow. "I'm giving you another chance, Ravens!" the evil super-powered alien ghost declares. "Return to your cells now, or.." "Shut up!" Jammer interrupts him, firing his machine gun at the enemy agents. The other Ravens pull out their weapons, and those who have guns also shoot at Tau and his men. They return fire with their own guns, forcing the Ravens to dodge aside and duck into a nearby conference room. The agents follow them in, and soon a full-fledged firefight has begun.

**AND IT WILL BE CONTINUED NEXT RP!**
Doug - [frostfire@mail.utexas.edu]
Monday, September 13, 1999 11:00:50 PM
IP: pool-209-138-63-30.dlls.grid.net

Eesh, haven't been in here since I wiped the room... ANd today I had a lotta homework. Six hours work. Eesh. Thats what I get for waiting till the last minute to do something I have two weeks to work on...

Elephant killing via poop- I'd heard this story before actually... Darwin awards anyone?

Sarge- I'm curious as to where you got your information that Future Tense was supposed to be CGI. COnsidering Greg Weisman has NEVER made any mention of this, the fact that CGI is still vastly expensive even today and would be ludicrous for one episode, (Especially one episode with a ton of characters...) and that Future Tense was one of the best animated episodes of the series anyway, I have to believe you have been decieved.

Power Rangers not dying- Because they manage to make it fresh every two season or so, so the ratings stay up, thats why. Between Power Rangers, Power Rangers season 2 (Which had an almost all new cast, villains, and vehicles) Power Rangers Turbo, Zeo, Alien Rangers, Kid Rangers, In Space, Lost Galaxy, etc... Its practically a new show every year. In fact, one season they had like 4 different series if I recall... (And hey, the original was kinda fun in a stupid way... I liked the green/white ranger! And the original Pink Ranger was kinda cute... ANd Zed was cool... It wasn't gargs, but it was an okay show once...)

Gathering 2K live modeling- Sounds spiffy. If I attend I'd want to be in on that.

Heh heh... Has anyone seen one of the new Cartoon Network commercials? Godzilla versus the Y2K bug! "Actually, I prefer millenium bug"... Hee... And they can't call Godzilla because their equipment shorted...

And speaking of CN... THey've started airing commercials for Ronin Warriors! YES! Bout dang time they dropped Jonny freakin' Quest...

Annonymous- Please don't post just to look at pictures, okay?

Sorow- Math has its place. Its behind computers and bridges and astronauts and stuff... However, its place is NOT in High School where you learn garbage you'll never need! Oii...

Hmm, slow room today...

**RP HERE**

Black Tiger looks to his fellow fighters. "Okay people, its becoming apparent that we're not going to beat this stupid smurf like this. We need an all powerful attack. Anybody got one of those they've been holding off?"
Shrugs of no.
"All right then, we need to make a Genki Dama."
"A what?"
"A spirit bomb."
"I thought those only existed in Dragonball..." SJ comments.
"Nope, they're real. But you need to have a pure heart to use them. Does anyone here have a pure heart?"
No hands are raised.
"Dang. Then we're screwed." Black Tiger looks to the cyber smurf who is lashing his tail wildly, preparing for the next fighter. "Ah well. Maybe today's a good day to die..."

Meanwhile, right below the Dark Star 2, stands Jim's clone, all of five hours old, who ran the entire way here, and is not in the least tired. He begins to look for a way on board...

**END RP!**
(And no one else pick up on the Jim clone thread just yet... I have plans for that in my RP tommarrow...)
Robby
Monday, September 13, 1999 10:53:51 PM
IP: spider-wk012.proxy.aol.com

Pistoff > welcome back! Sorry to hear your latest round of troubles!

Spike > live models? Does this mean Pogo's gonna take off his shirt again? Hmm ... that's still months away ... I've got time to take an art class ... ; )

Christine - [vecna@eskimo.com]
Monday, September 13, 1999 10:07:01 PM
IP: vecna.ndip.eskimo.net

I'm not out of it yet, but I will say this,
Tim> there was a space marine named Hudson? but then It's been awhile since I saw that movie, and to think James Cameron did that one *sigh* why did he fall to the dark side? but I digress, check this out, someone did a Vs. battle between the alien Xenomorphs and the Gargs


toku> I had a creativity demon about a Castlevania game set sometime in the 27th century or so, basically the Belmont in that story is sort of like a latter-day Xanatos, unaware of his vampire hunting heritage until he is attacked by some form of undeads, his office has the belmont family whip in a case behind him, basically he grabs the whip, uses it like a pro, finishes off his attackers and ends up meeting up with an old ally of the belmont clan: Alucard (who BTW has changed with the times and become a vampire hunter with an array of guns in addition to his blades) and as for Alexander belmont (this game's belmont) the whip can be changed and gain/lose abilities (like the blade in Legacy of Kain 2 was SUPPOSED to do)

shogun raptor
Monday, September 13, 1999 09:55:08 PM
IP: mia1-wc2.atlas.digex.net

**enters the room, switching out the candles and heading directly over to the lawn chair**

Ohh man, what a day at work today ... but compared to Pissy's problems mine are miniscule, so I won't go into detail.

Kitainia: Thank ye kindly, milady. I too find it sad that I could get to this point. **sigh** I'm starting to think that I might aspire to become a modern-day renaissance man ... highly skilled in many disciplines.

Pistoff: Yeesh ... and I thought I had problems. I feel for ya buddy, I really do ... near the end of my time in college, I felt exactly the same way you did, thoroughly FUBAR no matter which way you turned. **sigh**

Llewellyn: Ye forgot two figures in "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" ... Mina Murray and Dr. Fu Man Chu. :)

Fire Storm: Happy B-day. WHEEL 'ER IN, BOYS!!

**another moving crew hauls another patented Execution cake into the center of the room.""

Pick yer flavor. **hands Fire Storm the remote**

Crzy: I figured it wouldn't be long before Greg put his two cents in on the manglement of that show. This morning I saw the first different ep I've seen in about two weeks!

Rev. Attilla: Greetings, nice to see ye. **strokes the good Reverend's head. As usual, his own cats come up for a benediction.**

Spike, re: life drawing session at G2K: Very interesting opportunity, especially considering I never got an opportunity to do *any* life study ... mainly because the art school at MSU was quite elitist and wouldn't give me the time of day, let alone let me sign up for a life drawing course. One question, though ... where will the models be coming from? (I apologize if this has been answered in Aimee's CR, but the link you posted times out for me)

Aaron, re: "Finals": Dang, I've gotta get me to the comic shop this week ... I'm a week behind already. This 'un sounds like a winner.

Interesting that we've been discussing two stories that use veiled forms of two of the most reviled political systems in world history as part of their plotlines ... "Animal Farm" (communism) and "Starship Troopers" (socialism to near-Nazism).

**sighs, sitting back in the lawn chair and fixating once more on the candle**
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Algonac, Michigan
Monday, September 13, 1999 09:37:31 PM
IP: 207.91.254.12

**RP Here**
Dashing through the halls of Kincaid's compound, Kaioto follows his extra-sensory perceptions, feeling his way in the direction of a concentrated batch of evil. Figuring he is drawing close to the enemy leaders, he stalks carefully around the last two corners, until he hears wafting in the air a shout of, "Die Nigga!"
He stops in his tracts, concentrates, and narrows his eyes.
"Nazis," he mutters bitterly, "I ~hate~ Nazis."
He feels the inner fire of righteous anger swelling within him, burning from the spark of destruction in his all too human soul, and a loathing for that which is truly evil. Sometimes violence was the only answer he, a mere mortal, could come up with. His eyes shift from a pale hazel to a flint gray as he steps out into the chamber, seeing a small horde of racist weekend warriors besetting too dark-skinned individuals he read more closely by aura. The two being assailed radiated a beacon of light in the sea of double darkness created by the ignorance and hatred of the rednecks about them.
"Surrender! I'll give you only one chance," Kiaoto boomed out loudly, causing those nearest him to cringe. His face was a mask of unshakable determination, "Lay down your arms, or you temp fate with your lives, and shall prepare to meet God's judgment of your wretched souls."
**Pause RP**

Sarge: I live near Boston, Massachusetts, if that is of any consolation to you.

Video Game Endings: Actually, Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest, had some great endings for Nintendo 8-bit. Depending on the time you completed the game, you could A.) Kill Dracula, but Simon dies afterwards of wounds. B.) Kill Dracula, bury him, and wander off for the rest of your life. C.) Kill Dracula, bury the burnt remains, wander off, and then have Dracula's hand pop up from the grave-soil under the tombstone after you've left.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, for Playstation has 3 endings too. The Japanese version even lets you fight through as any of 3 characters. In the American version, you have to play as Alucard, son of Dracula, but afterwards you can start a new game as Richter Belmont. The music on this game, btw, is incredible. It is a must buy for any Playstation user, though I warn you. It is still true to the Castlevania 2-D graphics. They are incredible graphics, but still 2-D.

I might add, for anyone who plays Castlevania titles out there. Does anyone notice the Belmont family gets better with age? Sonya and Trevor Belmont were kinda inferior to Simon Belmont in their respective Prequels. Richter Belmont of ca 1700's absolutely blows his ancestor Simon out of the water when it comes to destroying the unholy. Eg. Simon throws holy water vials that burn. Richter can summon up a flashing rainstorm of holy water called a hydro-storm. Simon throws the Cross as a boomerang, Richter picks the thing up and summons a bunch of crosses to spiral all about, destroying the unholy, and then finishes with a huge pillar of holy light wrecking everything on the screen. Simon throws one dinky dagger, Richter throws barrages. The next return of Vlad Dracula is due up in the story line for 1996 … now THAT is a creativity demon. The next Belmont, more powerful than even Richter "A-Bomb" Belmont. What is more, this is vampire slaying in the 90s … car chases, helicopters, undead skeletons. This sounds like something for Dream-cast ….

Wilek Nerus: <You didn't know? The Illuminati, along with the Society of Leopold and House Lasombra, is largely responsible for the Church's current ubiquity.> That is only because the likes of the Illuminati's brain-washers and the Sabbott have been thinning the ranks of the Celestial Chorus for years now, and supporting self-righteous and destructive factions like the Society of Leopold.

"We will not stand for the New World Order's corruption, nor the Kindred's culling of our flocks any longer. We shall no longer sit passively by while they hunt and kill us while we teach and guide the Sleepers. Now is a time of reckoning and the servants of the One shall rise up and smash all those who prey upon the Children of Adam. We shall strike down upon those impudent forces of darkness with righteous vengeance, and consign them to the mercy of the One in the Final Judgment. Neophandus, Technocrat, and Kine shall all perish together in the fires of purity! So it is written, so shall it be done. By the mercy of the One. Amen."
-Brother Sebastian Birch
"A Call to Arms"

Illuminati Pin: In all seriousness though, that eye in the pyramid is on the back of US currency because almost all of our founding fathers where American Free-Masons, just as the majority of the gentry of England for the last century had been European Free-Masons. The Catholic Church and the Masons had been involved in many a silent conflict throughout Europe for years. For the longest time Catholics were forbidden to join the ranks of the Masons by both sides. The symbol of the all-seeing eye in the pyramid is Masonic imagery, and could believably bring a reaction to the eye of a Catholic of any-sort versed in the shadow history of social conflicts of post-renaissance Europe and Colonial America, or just knew a prejudice from a time when the two groups so viciously opposed one another. In the modern century, Free-Masons and Catholics work in harmony and matter of religious conflict are avoided if not forbidden within the active ranks of the Masons.

**Resume RP**
He took a firm grasp of the demon that was his anger and held it fast, tempering his rage into a more righteous fury. With that razor's edge to walk, Kaioto met the almost instantaneous response of violence directed at him.
"Sho-ru Reppa!" he screamed loud enough to make ears bleed. His assailants found their sitting duck gone in a blur of pain. Kaioto ripped into their ranks as a haze of back fists, uppercuts, whirling hooks, spinning elbows, and shoulder bashes. His hands danced with a yellow flame which burned as he struck. In the blink of an eye, he had gone from a target to the eye in a maelstrom of destruction.
Some of the Nazis found themselves knocked to the earth, nursing a singed, broken jaw or a blackened, bloody nose. As they looked upon their companions who joined them on the floor, however, they noted that some had not gotten off so easily. There were just as many cracked skulls and broken ribs as there were minor injuries, as well a number of rednecks who fell like rag-dolls, their necks broken cleanly. In a few seconds Kaioto has cut a swath many men deep towards Shap.
One man, Billy, looked up with the tears in his eyes paining his vision, and swore he beheld an angel of destruction dressed in gray, taking the lives of the WCOC indiscriminately. There was no hope, some manner of vengeance had come upon them all, and he knew his life, and those of his brethren, were forfeit to the chance placement of any cruel blow. Billy closed his eyes and tried to endure the pain in his nose, playing dead in despair, praying to whoever was listening that Death in gray would not turn back upon them to finish the job.
**End RP**


Toku Kaioto - CR Sage - [kaioto@yahoo.com]
Boston, MA, USA
Monday, September 13, 1999 09:31:08 PM
IP: 141.133.150.161

<---- "I got the part of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations!"



I'm Back! Just accept it.

I would of dropped in a few days ago but I have not felt real well.

Fanfic: Too sick and tired to write or post anything yet. The Flu sucks!

I got my new Sega Dreamcast Saturday! It plays wonderfully. In addition to the sample disk that came with the game, I got Sonic Adventure and Air Force Delta. I'm glad I was able to reserve this stuff in advance.

STARSHIP TROOPERS: What station and time is it on?

If They can make a tv show about this, why can't they do ALIENS? Those Colonial Marines are way cooler than those trooper guys.

Hudson prowls the aisle, his movements predatory and exaggerated. Ripley watches him working his way toward her.

HUDSON
I am ready, man. Ready to get
it on. Check-it-out. I am the
ultimate badass...state of the
badass art. You do not want to
fuck with me. Hey, Ripley, don't
worry. Me and my squad of
ultimate badasses will protect you.
Check-it-out...

He slaps the SERVO-CANNON controls in the GUN BAY
above them.

HUDSON
Independently targetting
particle-beam phalanx. VWAP!
Fry half a city with this puppy.
We got tactical smart-missles,
phased-plasma pulse-rifles,
RPG's. We got sonic eeelectronic
ballbreakers, we got nukes, we
got knives...sharp sticks --

And considering that it was about a dozen of them against over 150 aliens, they did a whole lot better them troopers.
Tim P.
Monday, September 13, 1999 09:21:38 PM
IP: bn706-01.wsc.edu

My brain hurts.

Hello all! I'm sorta back! (still have to read the week-end's posts and figure out what's going on in the RP... Last I read, an evil cybernetic smurf was trying to take over the station. *little voice* I'm scared.)

Deuce> I posted with your name? *turns crimson with embarrasment and pounds her head on the keyboard* I'm sorry! I didn't mean to, my head was switched off. Excuse me, I'm going to go hide up the bouncer tree now. *Disappears up the tree.*

SJ> Elephant suffocation> OH MY GOD!!! I shouldn't laugh, it isn't funny. *Has a very suspicious coughing fit*

Animal farm> I read this weekend that the first publishers the author (George Orville?) sent that to rejected it on the grounds that 'there are enough animal stories'. >:)

Pistoff> Owch. My deepest sympathies. I hope things get better. *hugs* Hey, why not kill the jerk customer in the Joyride of Death? Might make you feel better. :)

Xanthar>>I heard today that Ricky Martin is comming to Australia< NOOOOOO!! *Crawls futher up the tree in pure terror* Man, it's bad enough that a radio station is giving his shirt away as a _prize_ (Does anyone else feel that there is something really wrong about that? >:)) The only reason I'd want to win that thing is so I could make a voodoo doll out of it. Hmmm.... *slow, evil grin*
BTW, I sent you an em before RL killed my net-life. Did you get it?

Fire Storm> Happy birthday!!

TTFN!
Fleur - [newgoyle]
Monday, September 13, 1999 09:01:05 PM
IP: cow.cc.monash.edu.au

My, this place is quiet today. I guess it's up to me to add some excitment.

If so, we're all doomed.

I like the idea of the studio session at the Gathering. I took Life Drawing in college. It's an interesting experience, and very valuable for anyone really interested in art. I probably won't be there, but it still sounds like a good idea.

Steve and Matt (who's name I looked up this afternoon) and I are pretty much agreed on the side view, scrolling game like Metroid, but with some unusual features. We'll be in the initial design phase in the near future.

In other news, a job opened up with the city for over twice my current salary, and I'm pretty sure I could get it, but I'm not sure I want to change jobs. I wish life came with instructions, or at least with batteries.

Oh well, I'm going now. I need to get some writing done. Talk to y'all later.
David G. - [david_goodner@yahoo.com]
Arlington, TX, USA
Monday, September 13, 1999 08:44:51 PM
IP: pppa46-fortworth7-1r234.saturn.bbn.com

So sad! No "Dark Ages"! And I haven't been in here for at least six months. *sigh*
AotN
Monday, September 13, 1999 08:43:53 PM
IP: akron-216-196-25-43.raex.com

Warpmind> I guess we'll never know, or will we? Awww, my brain hurts too much to tackle that one.

Wilek> That...is...freaked...up!

Deuce> I believe math in all forms is the work of the devil! The world would be a much happier place without the quadratic formula and my teacher's stupid four questions quizzes.

Fire Storm> Is today your birthday? Since I haven't replenished my supply of marshmellows... HUGZ!

This weekend I bought a CD by a relatively unknown artist, Duncan Sheik, and I love it! Here's a sample from his album "Humming."

Hit the town, still dressing down
Looking for some action
Mr. Jagger said it best
He knows you'll never get... no satisfaction
But Mr. Dylan knows
That everyone is more or less... a rolling stone
And Mr. Lennon, so quiet, knows better
...or so I've been told

That says it all, doesn't it?
We always want what we never get
Well listen here my friend
I can't continue to pretend that it's alright
That ain't right

I hear you're gonna make it big, rake it in
With your master plan
Mr. Hendrix understood
Those are only castles made of sand
Mr. Wilson took some pills
...and I don't blame him
It's hard to stay alive
...and Mr. Page, how he played
Mr. Drake stayed up late
...and made me cry

That says it all, doesn't it?
We always want what we never get
Well listen here my friend
I can't continue to pretend that it's alright

They've said it all haven't they?
But what I want, what I want to say
Is listen here my friend
I can't continue to pretend that it's alright

No matter what we get
We never find our happiness
Ain't that a crime?

Maybe that's why I've been told
Since I was six years old to compromise
But that ain't right...
That ain't right---"That Says It All"
SOROW
Monday, September 13, 1999 08:39:14 PM
IP: dll2b205-28.splitrock.net

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Monday, September 13, 1999 07:14:40 PM
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Finally.

Pistoff>Welcome back. And you brought a great gift. (New G2K ep)

Gunjack> That's why you need the trauma plate in the front. They're supposed to stop shotgun shells and rifle slugs. (Of course, that's only in the front. Elsewhere...)

Zath> That sounds like the episode of Men Behaving Badly where Kevin and Rob Schneider took their couch across the hall to watch TV in someone else's apartment.

Kitainia> I remember that bit. Liked it a lot.

Wilek> I think it was Jackie Gleason who said TV was a vast wasteland. And it's only gotten vaster.

BTW, DC/Vertigo's mini-series Finals is a scream. I wanna go to Knox U. soooooo bad. Any place where criminal justice majors rob convenience stores, pol sci students finance anti-Iraq terrorism, Comparitive religion students start their own cults, and the Genetics department experiments on the ringball team... It's the kinda place where Sevarius could have tenure. In short, my kinda place.

Later.

Aaron wanders off, humming "Red Right Hand." by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.


Aaron - [JCarnage@Yahoo.com]
San Antonio, TX, USA
Monday, September 13, 1999 06:19:25 PM
IP: ppp-62.tnt-1.sat.smartworld.net

CALLING ALL ARTISTS!!!!

We're having a little discussion over in Aimee's comment room on a possible Artist Event for G2K. What we have is a proposed Life Drawing class, held in a closed session with live models. Click the link and get all the details!!!
Spike
Monday, September 13, 1999 05:05:23 PM
IP: ppp16-62.ght.iadfw.net

CALLING ALL ARTISTS!!!!

We're having a little discussion over in Aimee's comment room on a possible Artist Event for G2K. What we have is a proposed Life Drawing class, held in a closed session with live models. Click the link and get all the details!!!
Spike
Monday, September 13, 1999 05:05:17 PM
IP: ppp16-62.ght.iadfw.net

Joyride warning!!
**Attila is in the mansion in his leisure suit sniffing ctanip and dancing to Beegees music. He runs downstairs toi the car still a little hyper form the catnip.
"Don't worry about the cops. Half of them are on my payroll. Unfortunately, a bunch of Hollywood bleedinghearts know I'm here and they are out for my blood, especially Meathead. I ripped out his eye a few RPs back.
Wilek sighs, "That's all we need. A bunch of people you pissed off. At leats the police won't bother us too badly."**
END RP for now!

Hello all. Here comes everyone's favorite kitty.

Pistoff> Welocme back. If you need money, I can just embezzle it to you form GB's account :)

Bob> Welcome, Bob :)

SOROW> Calculus? I'm glad I'm a cat. I don't hav eto take classes :)

Warpmind> I assume you're talking about a Lutheran priest, right?

Happy Birthday to Firestorm and Shogun Raptor

Adrienne> That sounds like quite a movie. Too bad, I can't get in a theatre :(

**GB comes in and sees the comment about embezzling, so he throws Attila in the pool**

Goodbye all
Reverend Attila - [Revattila@garfield.catsrule.com]
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Monday, September 13, 1999 04:59:16 PM
IP: 141.164.133.102

Fire Storm: Happy birthday! (re: sex and violence) Exactly. Couldn't agree with you more. People would rather watch Arnold Schwarzeneggar rack up a record-breaking body count than watch or read something thought-provoking. :(

Warpmind: Ah, thanks for the Joyride recap. :)

Xanathar: Thanks, bud. :)

Gyre: Hey, I'm okay...as much as that word can be applied to me. ;) How you doin'?

Delphi: Thanks for the email. Cool stuff! :D

Deuce: Thanks to you, too, bud. :) As for a job, something might turn up later...got the thing with the insurance company straightened out, at least. The idiots sent the cancellation notice the day after their received my payment. *shakes head* That's the kinda service I'm paying $85 a month for...ack!

Crzy: Hi, honey! Thanks for the info. I'll be checking Ask Greg, when I have a free moment...whenever that is, anyway. *g* *hugs*
Pistoff - [phred@koalas.com]
Monday, September 13, 1999 04:09:35 PM
IP: wire-20.koalas.com

Pistoff - Welcome back my love!! ;) RE: Starship Troopers... Expect a ramble in Ask Greg soon about what a MESS the whole thing has ended up being. (Including 4 of his stories getting dropped in the shuffle). Expect the animation and stories to be fairly unpredictable (Great ep one day doesn't mean the next day will be great. They actually took some episodes and made two parters out of them without adding any more script... just filled them in with action sequences.) Greg said he would update us all as soon as he gets some time.
CrzyDemona
Monday, September 13, 1999 12:36:59 PM
IP: mp2e5.ez2.net

Almost forgot...

Wilek> <<Oh no! Which one?>> Valerie Vernon, the most recent Pink Ranger. She apparently collapsed on the set this summer and was diagnosed thereafter... she just had a bone marrow transfusion, but I haven't heard anything about how that turned out.
Mandolin
Monday, September 13, 1999 11:15:26 AM
IP: 144.175.18.15

**BUFFY FANS, PLEASE READ!!!**

I said this right before the room was wiped, so I suppose that's why everyone seemed to miss it...

"Earshot" is airing Tuesday, Sept. 21st at 8 pm! Every fall preview thingie I've gotten my hands on confirms this.

Have to go to class soon...
Mandolin - [weird_web@hotmail.com]
Monday, September 13, 1999 10:51:24 AM
IP: 144.175.18.15

** Deuce walks in, clutching a copy of "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". **

*long, long sigh* Bad news, people, at least if you're a Smashing Pumpkins fan. D'Arcy has left the Pumpkins, apparently in the middle of a CD. The Pumpkins have three albums left in their contract, which is up in 2001. They were GOING to release a new album, then a compilation of lives and B-sides, then a greatest hits CD. Now that D'Arcy's out, in the middle of 1 of 3, I'd say they're screwed. It's quite sad, seeing as how The Smashing Pumpkins were the only band that dared to bring classic rock and fuse it with 90s rock....

The good news is, I have a CD-R at home with MP3s of every song they've ever released, plus rare and live tracks. :-) Illegal? Um, yeah. Do I care? No. It's my protest against the passing of an era.

Wilek re: xanatos.com> Uhh... yikes. YIKES. Rather subtle way to take over the world, hmm?

Pissy> You're back! I was wondering where you got off to. My condolences about your workplace hell; I hope everyone in this situation gets what they deserve, including you... you deserve a better job, they deserve a fate like the poor fellow in SJ's story.

And yes, I did introduce Bob to the room, and I take responsibility for everything he does except what would get me in trouble. *looks pointedly at Bob*

Fire Storm> HAPPY BIRTHDAY! *seizes FS by his wrists, gets others to grab his ankles, and they give him birthday bumps* Boy, I'm sure lucky the room went down on MY birthday... no revenge, and now y'all have to wait another year.

Wilek> ["Trouble is, this makes it possible for the computer to lock up so hard that it can't be turned off."] GOOD GOD, MAN, CHANGE THAT IMMEDIATELY! I could get my hands on a utility for you that would change that; you'd have to live with hitting the power switch to shut it off, but at least you won't have to pull the plug to reboot. You are treading on dangerous ground with a "feature" like that.

SOROW> ["I...want...Calculus...to...DIE!!!"] You're not alone. My Physics teacher often forgets which class he's teaching....

I REALLY have to get to Math class now... we're starting plane geometry today, the work of the devil. Good thing I have good spatial imaging skills....

** leaves **

Deuce - [bearerofbadnews@curtain.cjb.net]
Monday, September 13, 1999 10:22:00 AM
IP: edtn001958.hs.telusplanet.net

Click my name. There are no words to describe how *eerie* this is.
Wilek
Monday, September 13, 1999 09:43:49 AM
IP: tnt-1-138-56k.portsmouth.zoomnet.net

Goodmorn every one
Pistoff>>glad to see you back, been wondering where you got to, just recieved a great stress releif email, will send you a copy,LOL

icq>>FINALLY got the chat to work and had a great time conversing with my sis. does anyone know if there is a way to "turn off a programs automatic disconnect" my comp is very nasty about disconnecting me in the middle of my chat sessions...

Delphi - [cmiller@magiclink.com]
Twin Falls, Idaho
Monday, September 13, 1999 08:53:28 AM
IP: 216.190.240.18

Pistoff, how you doing?
Gyre - [wseeley@epix.net]
Monday, September 13, 1999 08:11:38 AM
IP: fltg3-ppp48.fltg.net

D'OH!!That's Confirmed Dragon nut not"not"*Slices up typo demon with chainsaw*
Xanathar
Melbourne, victoria, Australia
Monday, September 13, 1999 08:00:25 AM
IP: cache1.mpx.com.au

Hi all!!
Good Grief!!,I heard today that Ricky Martin is comming to Australia,If I didn't hate him enough already!(I've got this sudden urge to go and buy a chainsaw>:))

Sarge:I don't know if anyone else knew this, and you all probably did....but I found out that the episode Future tense was originally suppose to be made in 3D like Beast Wars or Reboot. But they canceled it at the last second...:P>>Wouldn't a change of animation styles have disrupted the feel of the show?.just wondering.

highrunner/Blackie/The Almighty Bob:Welcome to the CR!

Fire Storm:Happy Birthday!

Spacebabie:You have the honor of being born in the year of the DRAGON same as me :)>>Wohoo!! thanks Spacebabie:),My sis is going to be so jelous when I tell her this:)(Confirmed Dragon not but then so am I)

Robby:Power Rangers season 7 or so... Nuff said.>>Aww for cryin' out loud!!!,Why won't this show die!>:(

Kitainia:I too am going to check out System Shock 2. Hope it turns out to be as great a game as you've been saying it is. :)>>That would be me who gave you and Doug the recomendation of SS2:)Click on my name it will take you to a review of the game but I must warn you it does contain Mild spoilers for the first level.

Sj:*Reads the Zookeeper story*That's no way to go:((I could say something but laughing at that guy's misfortune would be in bad taste:()

Dreamcast:I'm probably going to get stoned for this but I've never bought a console(no wait there was that Atari 2600:))I've always prefered the PC as a game platform(you can't get games like the X-wing series on a console)

Pistoff:Welcome back buddy!:),been wondering where you got to,Sounds like you've been well and truely screwed over by the company:(

Jaden:Now the times when I actually sleep for more than 4 hours in a row are few and far between. I keep waking up in the middle of the night and it really ticks my off.>>You get that two!,I really hate that sometimes.

C'yas later!!
Xanathar
Melbourne, victoria, Australia
Monday, September 13, 1999 07:58:02 AM
IP: cache1.mpx.com.au

Hi, all. Quick post w/brief replies.

SOROW: I think you're a bit outdated. The Illuminati Society has been controlling the world for ages.

Joyriders: Uh, you've lost track? Can't blame ya. I'll repost last event posted (which happened to be mine).

**JOYRIDE**
Warpmind stumbles down the stairs to the basement, almost utterly out of breath.
"I... I... I managed to... chase most of them... off... <Wheeze>... but <huff, puff> a few of them were obviously... <breathe> tone-deaf... <pant, pant> and you
rotten scumbags have eaten all the pizza without telling me you ordered out..."
Jack raises a hand defensively.
"Relax, pal, we didn't order anything. The delivery boy arrived unexpectedly, so we killed him and took the pizza."
"Oh. Well, are you finished here, with Mr. Thingy? There are twenty police officers outside, and they're heavily armed... for present-day Earth weapons technology,
that is."
"Ok, guys, we got some leftovers here, and Hanson are in the trunk, so how do we get outta here?"
Warpmind draws up a bottle from his backback. The bottle is made of clear glass, but its contents seem to be a black fluid. On closer inspection, it's a bottlefull of
insects.
"Just the ol' Tiger Flies... only thing is, these buggers can breed, and Santa Cruz has a somewhat hospitable environment for them, so it might not be a good idea..."
"We'll pass. Anything else?"
Miriam pushes Warpmind's hand back into the little sack, scowling.
"Can't really think of anything, and we got twenty minutes until the Doc arrives..."
"Have him trolley us out?"
"Nice thought, Xanathar. Whacha reckon, guys? Is that a good idea?"
**TO BE CONTINUED**

Wilek: I was mostly aware of that about the Church and the Illuminati etc., but I was under the impression that concerned the Catholic Church, not the Protestants. Oh, well, my mistake.

Well, gotta scoot. Catch ya later, guys. And fellow Joyriders: I'm still storing the Joyride psotings, I just can't update the page... yet. Maybe around the weekend. Maybe...
Warpmind de InzanE - [de_InzanE@xoommail.com]
Middle, Nowhere, Norway
Monday, September 13, 1999 04:22:39 AM
IP: maaloeytnb-gw.online.no

Scott Iskow: Quality dosn't sell. Violence and sex does. Thats why.

<>WARNING! BIRTHDAY RP!<>

<HFS and Bubba stroll into the CR.>
"Hey Fire Storm. It's time!" HFS says as he pulls Mr. Carter out of his vest.
Fire Storm puts his hands up and shouts at the hunter.
"WOAH there, big guy! you know as well as I do that when it's my birthday, it's YOUR birthday, ok?" HFS looked like he was thinking for a moment, then spoke.
"Well... guess yer right." HFS tosses Fire Storm Mr. Carter and grabs another one ouf of his vest.
"How many of these do you have?" FS looks at HFS questionly.
"As many as I need. Ready?" -HFS
"AIM..." -FS
"FIRE!" -both
The two Fire Storm's pull thier triggers, firing pies at the other. Fire Storm gets hit in the face with a raspberry pie and Hunter Fire Storm gets hit with a mincemeat pie.
"Yum. Just the way I like it." FS says as he lickes the pie off of his face.
"Yup. Same to you."
"Same time next year?" Fire Storm says as he tossed Mr. Carter back to Hunter Fire Storm.
"Yep." HFS says as he and Bubba walk out of the CR and into the forest once again.

<>END BIRTHDAY RP!<>
Fire Storm - [Night-Flame@usa.net]
Monday, September 13, 1999 03:14:13 AM
IP: 216.90.45.153

$ the deadly seven may be out of the RP loop for awhile due to hurricane Floyd possibly hitting South Florida, I pray it does not hit, however if it does, I may be without power and/or phone service for an unknown amount of time$
Putrid rangers showing continuity *checks off another sign of impending armageddon*
as for nicktoons heralding the downfall of TV, for the most part I am inclined to agree, save for one show: Ren & Stimpy, or rather the first two seasons before it suffered from TGC-itis (the dismissal of the show's creator and the subsequent drop in quality) in fact it helped herald in the new era of sick cartoons, the animation was on a sick, twisted quality that rivalled that of the great Ralph Baksh,i, however all the other stuff put out by klasky-csupo (Rugbrats, Yeesh, real monsters, etc) was CR@@@@@P! to say nothing of all the other stuff, and to think, K-C did the first season Simpsons animation, YEESH!
shogun raptor
Monday, September 13, 1999 02:33:52 AM
IP: miami-trans2.firn.edu

HEI, Y'AWLL!

Right Ho, everyone that hasn't seen the Thirteenth Warrior go do so RIGHT NOW. I'll admit I had some doubts at first, but as soon as it started.....it's a wonderful movie. A bit heavy on the ketchup, but great all the same.

*SPOILERS*
Right..... WEll, although I was curled up in a jittery Oh-My-Gawd-Oh-My-Gawd fetal ball for most of it, I *loved* this movie. It's a MARVELOUS retelling of the Beowulf legend..... although I didn't catch on at first because I couldn't understand the NorthMen and though his name was Bolveig.... *ahems* anyways.....for the first part of the movie I was Scully...."they're not demons, they're *not*, they're culties, they're culties, they're culties, I don't believe in aliens, Mulder, etc."........ The costumes, esp. the armor, was fantastic......... the horses were beautiful, as was the scenery....... The really intriguing thing about the movie, though, was aforementioned culties, the Wendols. Besides being terrifying, they were fascinating..... Throughout the movie, I kept thinking, "Who the hell *are* these people?" The Antonio Banderas character has apparently found no major civilization from Baghdad to Germany, and then here is this huge army of people living in Northern Norway (or Denmark), who have a cannibalistic religion that worships a Goddess and who dress as bears.... I'm just irtching to research them....
Well, Au revoirs!
Adrienne. :) - [beowulf2@pacbell.net]
Monday, September 13, 1999 02:22:59 AM
IP: adsl-216-103-53-143.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net

Llewellyn: *hugz* Hey there! :D Don't worry, I'll be in here more or less regularly, now. :)

Oops! Something I didn't notice while I was out getting smacked around by my own life...WELCOME BACK, DEUCE!! :D

Wilek: Thanks. :) As for SJ's post...interesting coincidence, eh? *g*

Speaking of the drowning-in-elephant-crap thing...if you think that was f--ked up, people, just click my name and...well, you'll see for yourself. O_o
Pistoff
Monday, September 13, 1999 02:10:47 AM
IP: wire-21.koalas.com

**No RP tonight...**

<sigh> Kids' WB has been dropped from my area's WGN channel. In favor of...80s sitcoms. <sob>

Zath> <<Anyway, my apartment, especially my room, is full of flies because my roommate decided she'd keep a sculpture she made for a homework assignment. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, but a majority of this particular sculpture consisted of fresh fruit.>> Um...what? A fruit sculpture?! That sounds like the work of a psychopath! o_O <<Does anyone know how the password protect the entire computer in a way such that you need to know the password to have access to any of the programs/files at all?>> Well, there's the screensaver thing your friend did (and the saver can be activated anytime you like, by the Desktop Properties menu), and...what is the nature of the files you want to protect? If they're not system files, then using Winzip to compress them into a password-protected ZIP file will keep ppl away from them. (If they *are* system files, then zipping them will mess up your system.) Alternatively, I think there are settings in the CMOS (I think) menu that force the user to enter a password before even booting. <<In addition to all of that, I've been having other problems...>> ACK. Maybe I can help? There's no guarantee, but I'll see what I can do. :) <<Why does there seem to be a recent trend in electronics to leave out the power switch? Neither my printer nor my scanner has one, so you have to unplug them if you want to turn them off.>> I have no idea...but my system has those kinds of leanings. The power switch is software-controlled, so shutting down Windows will shut down the system as well. Trouble is, this makes it possible for the computer to lock up so hard that it can't be turned off. It's happened to me twice. O_o

Sarge> <<if the new console coming out doesn't have a backtrack system in which it will allow 'old' games to play. Then I won't buy it.>> Er...bad idea there; the next Nintendo console will use CDs (or, more accurately, DVDs). If for some reason you want backward compatibility, look to Playstation II. <<the episode Future tense was originally suppose to be made in 3D like Beast Wars or Reboot. But they canceled it at the last second...>> What?! <sigh> Of course. Gargs fans always get the short end of the stick...

Newcomers> Welcome! Leave your sanity with our administrator, and embrace the chaos of the Gargs fandom! >:)

Warpmind> <<I accidentally forgot to remove my Illuminati pin from my jacket before going to work today (Church job, pays around 50 $ just to sit there for about two hours or so), and the priest saw it, his eyes lit up briefly, and he said nothing.>> You didn't know? The Illuminati, along with the Society of Leopold and House Lasombra, is largely responsible for the Church's current ubiquity.

Shogun Raptor> <<it seems whoever described TV as a vast wasteland was WAAAAAY ahead of his time>> <sigh> All too true. It would be instructive to figure out where exactly the decline of modern television began. I have limited experience in such matters, but I do believe that the decline of animation began with Nickelodeon's Nicktoons?

Heather> <<Lexy has collected over $191 in cash.>> Kewl! What's our goal (I forgot :} )?

Taleweaver> <<Has anyone seen that missing Buffy episode "Earshot"?>> They delayed it because of the whole Columbine thing. Apparently they feared that an episode where a giant snake is attacked in a school by students with flamethrowers would inspire copycats. <sigh> I'm not sure when they were supposed to finally show it.

Delphi> <<turns out that I'm a tiger, my oldest daughter is also a tiger, middle daughter a snake, youngest a dog, and Dad is a dog>> You people sound like a Sevarius experiment. ;P j/k

Bob> You're the fellow Deuce warned us about, no? ;) Kewl pics at your site...did you really do that train station render?! Amazing stuff...hm...

Mandolin> <<that's mainly because the actress who plays the Pink Ranger was diagnosed with leukemia this summer.>> :O Oh no! Which one? That's an awful thing to have happen to someone, even if she is a Power Ranger...

Scott Iskow> <<Are all the good writers treated like this?>> All the good writers, all the visionaries, and all their fans. It's an evil little society that gleefully does this manner of thing to the most intelligent ten percent of its population...

$Kitainia> <<this has been done because Doug and I despise the commercials these characters are part of. If anyone doesn't like what we're doing, feel free to let us know>> Well, I rather like the little dog, but he'll make a fascinating RP villain. <G>$

SJ> Suffocated...in elephant by-products...? EEEEEEECCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! <shudder>

Pistoff> Welcome back, friend! :D <<Well, the boss didn't fire me, probably because she knew what I might do if she had.>> Great having a rep', no? <g> Still...ugh, it's awful what you've been going through. Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't let Demmie simply nuke everyone except us and our chosen. <sigh> I'd be a complete rabid slavering lunatic by now; I admire your fortitude. Of course, your rather creative methods of anger management may have something to do with that. <G> <<a bucket of flaming liquid shit fell out of the sky and smothered me.>> Seen SJ's last post? >:) <<Joyriders: Uh...I kinda lost track of what's going on. Could somebody give me a quick update, please?>> Er...<blink> I'm kinda lost myself...
Wilek Nereus
Monday, September 13, 1999 01:42:13 AM
IP: tnt-1-93-56k.portsmouth.zoomnet.net

*runs into the CR and tackles Pistoff*

Pissy! I missed you, man!

Speaking of Alan Quartermain, he's appearing in the wonderfully delightful Alan Moore comic book series, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." I'm enjoying it immensely; I'd recommend anyone who enjoys such characters as the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, Captain Nemo, and others, should pick it up.
Llewwellyn Gaelfire - [llewwellyn@hotmail.com]
Monday, September 13, 1999 01:24:30 AM
IP: ctrts1-8.mrs.umn.edu

****RP!!!****
"Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!" Jaden thought as he and the others ran toward the stairwell. He should have known better than to try something so foolish. Jaden felt like he should grab the nearest person and start pounding. When he caught himself looking at Kitainia he quickly pushed those thoughts out of his mind. "Must have been hit harder than I thought."
****END RP!!!****

Hey everyone! How was your weekend? Mine had a few boring moments and a lot more busy ones. Geez I can't wait till the end of October. I'll be done with my speech class and I'll be learning some more interesting things. YIPPY!
You know what I liked about myself when I was younger? I slepted like the dead. Nothing could wake me up. Now the times when I actually sleep for more than 4 hours in a row are few and far between. I keep waking up in the middle of the night and it really ticks my off.

Doug-You know that you can use Alchemist in the RP right? Just think of an evil, crazy genious who can create some monsters for Thailog. Dr. Sevarius without the accent.

Gunjack-No problem. I know what it's like to have people pressing you to get off the computer.

I'm going to sleep (I hope)
See ya later!
Jaden - [jaden12@hotmail.com]
Los Alamos, CA
Monday, September 13, 1999 01:08:55 AM
IP: cache3.avtel.net

Well, I'll be damned, it actually worked. Episode 17, "Injustice for All, Part One" is now in the archive. Finally. Enjoy! :)
Pissy again
Monday, September 13, 1999 01:01:10 AM
IP: 207.48.109.31

Hey, everybody. Sorry I've been gone so long, but I've been swamped. It's just been One Damned Thing After Another. And it all started with this asshole customer...guy always says he has a coupon, and every time I deliver to him, he tells me that he couldn't find the coupon. Every damned time. As if he thought I wouldn't notice. So I didn't let him get away with it, and he got all self-righteous with me. Then he wanted napkins. We don't deliver napkins to people's homes. Know why? Because we expect people to have napkins in their own homes. Logical, right? We'll take napkins to motel rooms and businesses, but not homes. Well, I told him this, and he exploded and cussed me out and called me names. Now, those of you who know me, know I don't put up with that. So I called him a prick and went back to my car. A rather mild reaction, considering the circumstances. Well, he called my boss and demanded that I drive back there and apologize to him. So I grabbed the phone and told the guy to kiss my hairy ass.

It all sounds so reasonable, right? Well, according to company policy, I'm supposed to be fired for what I did. Just because I refused to let a scumbag abuse me. Well, the boss didn't fire me, probably because she knew what I might do if she had. But I *did* notice that my hours were cut. Last week I had 37 hours. This week I'm getting 27. Looks like I may be "phased out."

The only reason this bothers me is because I need the money. I hate this job, I hate the customers, I hate the company, and the hatred is pure and unrefined. Problem is, I've been applying for other jobs for three years, and haven't gotten so much as a phone call. So if I lose this job, I'm screwed sideways.

People tell me, "Just move to another town." Yeah, like it's that easy. It takes money to move, and I never have any money left after I pay all my bills. It's a miracle that I'm even able to eat three meals a day. And if I lost my job, I sure as hell wouldn't have any money to pay for gas, much less rent a U-Haul.

*sigh* Five years. Five years I've been working at that place. I started at minimum wage. Now I'm getting 15 cents more than minimum. After five years. And they expect me to stand there and let some jack-off call me names just because I didn't bring any napkins. They can all go suck an exhaust pipe, for all I care.

And then it was downhill from there. Couple nights ago I was chatting with some friends, and some rotten bastard nuked my computer. I rebooted and got back online and started chatting again, and got nuked again. This happened six or seven times, so naturally I'm good and pissed. Well, in case the idiot who did it happens to read this, guess what, bubba? I've got my hands on some nasty little programs. Next time this happens, I'll trace his ass and whack him. I'll drive to his house, and by the time I'm finished with him, the doctors will have to do a DNA test to identify what's left of him.

And then yesterday...ohhh...yesterday I got a letter from my car insurance company, telling me that my policy is being cancelled due to non-payment. Non-payment. I PAID THEM ALREADY! I mailed it on Sept. 2nd. This letter was sent on the 8th, and they tell me I haven't paid them! So I'm adding a whole office full of names to my hit list....

Sorry about the rant, folks. But I had to get it out of my system. And this isn't even all of it. This is just the edge of the cesspool. But I'll spare you the rest of it.

Now for some good news...Part One of G2K Episode 17 is just about done. I just need to polish it a little, and hopefully I'll be able to post it in a few minutes, if DC leaves me alone long enough....

Doug: Sorry I've been taking so long with the feedback. I've been swamped for the past couple of months--then two weeks ago, a bucket of flaming liquid shit fell out of the sky and smothered me. I'll get that feedback to you as soon as possible. :)

Joyriders: Uh...I kinda lost track of what's going on. Could somebody give me a quick update, please?

Zath: I know I said I'd email you a description for a pic...something like two weeks ago...but I kinda got caught up in things. I'll send the description to you later on tonight, I hope. :)

Okay, now I get to piss some people off. *evil grin* ...

STARSHIP TROOPERS: No spoilers here, just a loudmouthed opinion. I've seen several episodes (a couple of times my VCR shut itself off before it could tape them, and it was at 4:30 in the morning so I couldn't do anything about it, being asleep at the time...), but what I've seen...honestly, the only reason to watch this show is the animation. The CGI is awesome, beautiful, the best I've ever seen. But the plots and writing suck. Let's face it--they're shooting big bugs. That's all the show is about. It's far too limited by its own premise. Some good writers could probably give the show a few interesting twists, but so far it's been the same thing over and over. The creators of the show put all their effort into making it *look* great, but no effort at all into the writing. It's all style and no substance. I reached the point where I would just turn the sound off and sit there, watching the pretty pictures for half an hour. But I'm through with it. It's a waste of time, and I have better things to do.

*sigh* Well, that was cathartic. :) I'm off to tweak G2k#17 a little more, and see if I can get it into the archive. And I'll try to pop in here more often. That much seems likely, since my hours are being cut...gonna have a little free time on my hands... O.o

"Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?" ---G. Gordon Liddy

Pistoff - [phred@koalas.com]
Monday, September 13, 1999 12:40:50 AM
IP: 207.48.109.31

***BEGIN RP****
Sevarius Jr. picked himself up from the floor. "Okay, next page of the script."
"What?" Kari asked beside him. She was slowly regaining her strength, but could do little more than lie helpless on the floor.
"I've seen these animes a zillion times. We show, we fight, he kicks our ass, we get the upper hand, he kicks our ass, we start winning, he kicks our ass--"
"What page are we on now?"
"I'm not sure, somewhere between ass-kickings. I've hit my head a *lot* in the last few minutes."
****END RP FOR NOW****

Stephen: No, the Alan Quatermain stories have been around for a long time. They were written, I suppose, in the late 1800s by a man named Henry Haggard, who was even knighted for his literature. Books in the series include the most famous "King Solomon's Mines", followed by others such as "Alan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold" and I believe another was "Alan and the Ice Gods". They read sort of like Indiana Jones, too, so perhaps Lucas and Spielberg got some inspiration from them. You can probably find them at any library or bookstore, as they're considered classics. :) I agree with you though, those films were most likely made to capitalize on the success of "Raiders". But Richard Chamberlain is no Harrison Ford, huh? :-D

Dreamcast: I resuse to buy this now. I'm sick and tired of these game companies....it wasn't that long ago that I got my Playstation, and not it's obsofreakin'lete (at least till PS 2 comes out). I don't care if the Dreamcast is 15 times faster. I'm boycotting technology. I shall sit here with my archaic gaming system and rejoice as games like Final Fantasy 7 or WCW vs. The World (or.....*cough*Xenogears*cough*) go to the 15 dollar bin. In two years, when the Dreamcast starts to go the way of the dino, I'll think about buying it...

Animal Farm: I remember reading the original novel back in 7th grade....it's not a book for kids. It's dark, disturbing, often violent, and can be downright twisted in parts. Excellent social commentary though, and I'll definitely have to check it out when TNT airs it.

Kitiana: I do believe that I saw advertisements for the new season of Batman Beyond this weekend, so look for a NEW ep. this upcoming Saturday! :)

Finally....here's something I found on the web that was just too bizarre not to share. Enjoy!
PADERBORN, GERMANY - Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than
a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm
finally let fly -- and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop!
Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the
ailing elephant an olive-oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on
him like a dump truck full of mud. "The sheer force of the elephant's
unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he
struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant
continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him," said flabbergasted
Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. "With no one there to help him,
he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came
along, and during that time he suffocated. "It seems to be just one of
those freak accidents that happen sometimes -- a billion-to-one shot,
at least." The heartbreaking tale of constipation and tragedy began
April 23 when the conscientious zookeeper noticed that his prize,
8,000-pound African elephant didn't seem to be producing his usual
poop aplenty. "Friedrich had actually been concerned for several days
because he knew that severe constipation can kill an elephant,"
assistant zookeeper Kurt Herrman recalled. "He told me he was going to
stay late that Thursday night to treat Stefan with laxatives and
possibly give him an enema. "I offered to help, but he sent me on
home, saying he had everything under control."But two hours later,
horrified night watchman Walter Pleuger found Friedrich lying
lifeless under a mound of muck, his body visible only from the knees
down. Laxatives caused Stefan to unleash an outpouring of poop,
burying his trainer alive. "I had never really thought about it
before," Det. Dern said. "But obviously, giving an elephant an enema
can be a very dangerous activity -- and not something that should be
attempted alone."

***QUOTE OF THE DAY***
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the
world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that
but not with all those flies and death and stuff."-Mariah Carey
***END QUOTE****




Sevarius Jr. - [bpoole@mailexcite.com]
Monday, September 13, 1999 12:08:36 AM
IP: 207-172-44-172.s172.tnt3.brd.va.dialup.rcn.com

Either Top 10 or *this* close! ^_^
Wilek
Sunday, September 12, 1999 11:59:43 PM
IP: tnt-1-93-56k.portsmouth.zoomnet.net

Delphi > thank you! Kittens is one of my best, and I cried when I was writing it!

Christine - [vecna@eskimo.com]
Sunday, September 12, 1999 10:07:54 PM
IP: vecna.ndip.eskimo.net

**RP STARTING HERE AND NOW :)$

Agent Tau screams in agony as Lathrop's spell tears into his current body. He falls back and over. Orion looses an exorcism magic in the same instant, forcing Tau to depart from Janice. He is forced out wailing and the Ravens breathe a sigh of relief as Janice blinks, wounded heavily by the lightning but still alive. "We are sorry," Lathrop tells the FBI agent as Orion heals her wounds. "It was the only way." Janice nods. "That agent Tau is a menace. I am glad you were able to drive him out of me. Come, we must get out of here, if you are ready to depart." "We were born ready, ma'am," Jammer smiles. Kit nods in agreement, then frowns as the base alarms start to go off. "Let's hurry!" she shouts and the Ravens leave the room and begin dashing for the stairs.

**END RP FIRST BIT**

Hi everybody. Hope you all had a good weekend, and are ready for the long week ahead. Doug and I have our first practice tests this week (the first real tests come next month), they should be difficult and time-consuming. :( But we'll handle them. At the end of the week, we'll get to see two very good things- a Tom Petty concert and the movie Blue Streak (which looks like it has a decent story in addition to the inspired laughs). Both will of course be reviewed in here. :) On to replies.

Robby: $ Thanks for the Black Tiger info, I look forward to finding out more about him. As for why legitimate world forces like the US Air Force didn't respond to the smurf, it's my personal belief that everyone (except us, who knew better) thought it was just some crazy hijacking the airwaves. Therefore, they didn't see a reason to do anything. Besides, it's impossible to look at a smurf, even a cyborg one, and take it seriously as a threat. $

Aaron: Good Face Hugger joke. I did a Pokemon bit like that once a long time ago in the RP. $ James- "I choose you, Victribell!" Me- "I choose you, Rocket Launcher!" <blows away Pokemon> $

Nightwalker: $ You're welcome to join in the RP whenever you like. Just so you know, the main bad guys are currently Thailog, Asil (my evil clone and Thailog's main femme fatale enforcer), General Zale (commander of bad guy's immense bioengineered army of cloned soldiers), Kharsus (evil wizard), Jerec (dark Jedi), Kincaid (a corrupt FBI assistant director who's currently holding some of us prisoner), Dr. Ed Edison (mad scientist), Alchemist (another mad scientist), the Phalanx aliens from Marvel Comics, a pair of evil hackers working for Thailog named Tyl and Corax; plus the Dark Quaternity (four demons from Hell who are giving Thailog his weapons and technology), and the various people they've turned into demonic agents of their will (includes the priest named Pastor John Wilek mentioned, he's not exactly a priest anymore. Also includes Ted Turner, an Irish terrorist known as the Orange Duke, and a lot of other random jerks). Hope you can soon join in and help us finish them. Especially since the Phalanx are about to try invading the planet (when the smurf is eliminated, their attack will begin). $

Ironwolf: I too am going to check out System Shock 2. Hope it turns out to be as great a game as you've been saying it is. :)

Coyote: I find it sad that you've decided to give up teaching music. You would have definitely been great at it, at least IMO. Oh well, what happened isn't your fault and the bastards who are responsible will someday hopefully get what they deserve. Good luck with whatever you end up doing in life. :)

David G: Congrats on getting the chance to write a videogame. Hope it's a good one (with the way you can create stories, it probably will be, at least in plot and characters). I look forward to playing the game excessively when it comes out. :)

Birthday Info: Doug and I are both Year of the Sheep (though we're not sheep in personality, thank God! :) He's a Picses and I'm a Leo. No, I don't know anything about a secret conspiracy of people with my sign ruling the world. <grin>

Mary: Glad you and Bahemut like each other's looks. I wish you both continued good fortune in your relationship ahead.

Gunjack: $ Want to get in touch with Thailog? I suggest e-mailing Corax or Tyl, or you can always visit Giza, Egypt. That city has recently been assimiliated by his Phalanx allies. :) Good luck with whatever RP plans you have. $

New Fall Shows We'll Be Catching: Doug and I will watch Once and Again, Now and Again, Harsh Realm, Angel, and West Wing. They're the only ones that look worth the time. Among the cartoons, we'll catch Big Guy and Rusty (it's on opposite Detention, so there's nothing else, plus it has Mike Dorn and Greg Weisman). Maybe we'll also catch Spiderman Unlimited, just to see what it's like. The rest we'll leave unwatched. :) Hope the season premieres for them (and Buffy, X-Files, Batman Beyond, and all the other returning shows we want to watch) will soon be aired.

Mandi: Stigmata was very good. If you don't believe us, ask SOROW. <grin> Hope you get to see it soon, I think it's better to catch a film in the theater than videotape. But that's just me. :)

Almighty Bob: Welcome to the CR.

Hmm, seems like all for now. The new season of TGS better begin soon so I can once again start reviewing episodes. I miss doing that. :( Later.

**MORE RP COMING YOUR WAY**

As the Ravens are running towards their escape route, Agent Tau rematerializes in his usual host, a body he keeps on ice in the Area 51-A base's cold room just in case. Walking out of the room, he finds his four main subordinates waiting for him. "We heard the alarm, boss," Agent Brown says. "Need our help to round the escaped prisoners up?" Tau thinks for a moment. "You four don't have the powers I do. To them you will be vulnerable." "With all due respect, sir," snaps Carver, "we're very well-trained. Besides, there's safety in numbers." Tau nods. "You are right. Come, the Ravens will be heading towards the stairway that will get them out of the dungeon. We'll use the one-way express elevator to cut them off before they can get that far." The four subordinates nod and then follow Tau as he runs down a nearby corridor, all clutching heavy guns.

Meanwhile, in the Phalanx-assimilated city of Giza, Phalanx General Cameron Hodge is speaking with his master, Phalanx Prime. "As you requested," he says, "I have assimilated four new lieutenants for our army. The two fish from the Long John Silver's commercials, George Whiffle of Charmin' Toilet Tissue, and the chihuahua from Taco Bell." (Note, this has been done because Doug and I despise the commercials these characters are part of. If anyone doesn't like what we're doing, feel free to let us know.) "Good work, Cameron," Prime chuckles. "Now if only Sevarius would get the missiles ready..." His other general, the assimilated lawyer Whiplash, suddenly comes running in. "Sir! Sevarius reports that he has working payloads prepared!" Prime smiles. "About time. Get them loaded into the missiles and prepare to launch." "Very well, sir," Whiplash nods. "Shall I call Thailog and inform him of our actions?" Prime smiles and shakes his head. "You needn't bother. The fool can be assimilated along with the rest of this pitiful planet. This is the perfect time to begin our assimilation, and I will not have him stall it. We must launch now, while the world's heroes are occupied with that smurf and cannot stand in our way. Go to it, Whiplash!" "Yes, sir," the Phalanx lawyer salutes. He then runs off as the screen fades out.

**END RP**
Kitainia
Sunday, September 12, 1999 09:59:48 PM
IP: pool-207-205-236-12.dlls.grid.net

Top Ten.
David G.
Sunday, September 12, 1999 09:57:47 PM
IP: pppa62-fortworth17-3r521.saturn.bbn.com

I...want...Calculus...to...DIE!!! It's the work of the devil! What *is* a slow room! Sorry for the 2X post.

Lots of newbies. Welcome to Highrunner, Blackie, Bob, and any other new recruits! Enjoy the insanity!

Sarge> Future Tense was suppose to be Computer Generated? Wow, though that would have made the plot more convincing I think 3D would have made the ep look really cheesy. I wonder why they changed it.

Warpmind> The church is in on it? RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!! The Illuminati are taking over the planet! AAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!
SOROW
Sunday, September 12, 1999 08:56:28 PM
IP: dll2b112-41.splitrock.net

Oooooohhh yeahhh.....
Artemisia - [aptemisia@theglobe.com]
Austin, TX
Sunday, September 12, 1999 08:53:37 PM
IP: cacheflow1.gw.utexas.edu

TOP TEN!!!!!!!!!!!
SOROW
Sunday, September 12, 1999 08:38:10 PM
IP: dll2b112-41.splitrock.net

Sixth! Wow!
Mandolin
Sunday, September 12, 1999 08:28:40 PM
IP: 144.175.18.15

**jogs in to switch the candles**

Top ten, hopefully. Real post coming later ...

**jogs out**
Coyote the Bando - [1134@i-is.com]
Lions win, 28-20 ... Barry who?! :)
Sunday, September 12, 1999 08:10:51 PM
IP: 207.91.254.78

FOURTH! I think I'm fourth!

ICQ-- My ICQ number is 26160888! For anyone who cares!

Sarge
Sarge Abernathy - [SargeMM@aol.com]
Sunday, September 12, 1999 08:04:02 PM
IP: spider-tq042.proxy.aol.com

wow in the top ten rare treat for me

Delphi - [cmiller@magiclink.com]
Twin Falls, Idaho
Sunday, September 12, 1999 07:52:52 PM
IP: 216.190.241.113

Second, I hope!
Sevarius Jr.
Sunday, September 12, 1999 07:47:15 PM
IP: 207-172-44-172.s172.tnt3.brd.va.dialup.rcn.com

First probably.

I know, its an early wipe. What can I say? Braveheart is on.
Robby
Sunday, September 12, 1999 07:18:59 PM
IP: spider-wj084.proxy.aol.com