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Post by j42 on May 13, 2005 18:31:03 GMT -5
Several 667ers gathered around the building, all shouting or screaming. "This is an outrage!" Dante roared. "Dante, we should get more information. This must be a joke. It has to be. I hope it is." Antenora said. He at last took his eyes off the sign and looked at Antenora. "Fine. You go contact the admin, and I will build a temporary forum."
"I have a message from Tragedy." Antenora burst through the doors of the temporary forum which Dante had built. Only a few people were there; Dante, Derik, Pandora, PJ (who is teh sedx), and unfortunately, J. "What does it say, Antenora?" Dante asked. She unrolled a scroll and Corax, Antenora's crow demon, started reading. "To The 667ers: I have decided to shut down the boards, maybe forever. It was a very tough decision to make, but I believe it to be for the better. You have all become addicted to the board, and you should learn to live without it and flush it out of your system. I expect Dante already set up a temporary forum, and he and Antenora, Derik, Pandora, PJ and others will be waiting anxiously for news, hoping that this is a joke.It is not. The first few days will be difficult, but once you learn to use 667 sparingly, I will open it up and will not hesitate to close it again if you become addicted again. --Tragedy
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Post by j42 on May 13, 2005 19:00:56 GMT -5
"Closed," Dante growled. "Addicted. What nonesense! Though Tragedy is right and he does have a point, it's still nonesense!" He slammed his fist down on the table. "The admin has no bloody right to close down 667!" J exclaimed. Dante got up and started pacing. Corax and Capt, both crows now, cawed a bit. "Maybe we can talk him out of this." Derik said. "Or we can just cope with it." Antenora said. "We can show him that we're not addicted. We can get along just fine without the board. After all, it's not the board itself, as the board isn't that exciting, that we love, it's the people we meet and the relationships that develop." Corax happened to glance at Dante as she said "The relationships that develop." "Right. So there's no problem, then. We're just in a smaller board with less people. Though then there's no purpose in closing 667 in the first place." Dante said, shrugging. "I like it here." PJ said. "We have only select members. We don't need the 3,950 members that are merely dead weight, and 30 that are stupid and useless. It's a good thing that Tragedy closed 667--not for his reasons, but the fact that we'll have no choice but to start a better one. And when Tragedy decides to reopen 667...we shall wage war against him!" Everyone rather liked the idea of war.
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Post by PJ on May 13, 2005 19:04:03 GMT -5
Hehe, that extra part I put in with the remote assistance slipped through! Also: YAY FOR WARNESS: And when Tragedy decides to reopen 667...we shall wage war against him!" Everyone rather liked the idea of war. That is so what I'd do. Do go on.
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Post by Dante on May 14, 2005 2:22:13 GMT -5
J. has captured our personalities. I don't know how she did it, but my bet is she used a net.
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Antenora
Detriment Deleter
Fiendish Philologist
Put down that harpoon gun, in the name of these wonderful birds!
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Post by Antenora on May 14, 2005 4:36:13 GMT -5
I thought personalities were captured in lobster traps. However you captured them, J, you did a fine job indeed.
Cool story. Thanks for putting in Corax.
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Post by Charles Vane on May 14, 2005 10:10:46 GMT -5
Good story J, I like the premise. Tragedy has threatened to shut 667 down alot recently.
Coninute soon.
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Post by Akbar Le Grey on May 14, 2005 10:15:45 GMT -5
Love it, J. I'm so sad that I won't be here to read the next bits...
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Post by j42 on May 14, 2005 15:45:00 GMT -5
Replacing 667 was easier said than done. All the 667ers had trouble remembering to go to Dante's little shanty forum instead of 667. The forum had been built only as a temporary place, and the ex-667ers agreed that they needed more rooms and reconstruction. Sometimes, J would be caught sitting outside the boarded up building that was 667. PJ would get angry, telling them that, "The sooner we show Tragedy we can live without 667, the sooner he'll reopen it, and the sooner we can begin the war!" He seemed to be very interested in the war, trying his best to speed up the healing process quickly; hiring psychiatrist and hypnotherapists, as well as buying weaponry and performing confidential plans that would help in the war.
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Antenora
Detriment Deleter
Fiendish Philologist
Put down that harpoon gun, in the name of these wonderful birds!
Posts: 15,891
Likes: 113
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Post by Antenora on May 14, 2005 16:05:25 GMT -5
Very cool, J. Do continue this.
Have fun on vacation, Akbar. I'll miss you.
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Post by PJ on May 14, 2005 18:52:41 GMT -5
Me being the crazy evil battle-war obsessed warrior is always cool. Especially when I'm evil and have alterior motives. "I just wanted the mod password, is all! So yeah, write more.
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Post by Dante on May 15, 2005 2:29:52 GMT -5
I concur with the opinions expressed by my friends.
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Post by Ennui on May 15, 2005 2:31:56 GMT -5
I'm going to flatter this in order to find my way into it.
J! It's fabulous! Wonderful characterisation!
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Post by j42 on May 17, 2005 14:20:44 GMT -5
"PJ?" Ennui said, one day. "Yes?" PJ replied. "I think you're going about showing Tragedy that we can live without 667 the wrong way." Ennui said, only without such awkward sentence structure and poor grammar. "What do you mean?" "Well, you've been marching around there saying "I don't need 667! It can reopen."" "Yes, so? I'm telling Tragedy that we can live without it so he knows." "Yes, but it sounds like you're desperate for it to open." Ennui said. "I am. Once it reopens we will bravely march to battle and destroy 667 to show King Tragedy that we can live without it, right before we decap--" "No, what I mean is, you haven't told him about the war, have you?" "Of course not." After some silence, PJ exclaimed, "OH!" "Right." Ennui said. "I guess I'll have to stop doing that, then." "Yes, you should. Unless you want to tell Tragedy about the war, which I doubt." "I want the first attack to be a surprise. We'll hit and run. Targ will barely even know what hit him!" "Surprise hit and runs. How cowardly. If we cannot face an enemy that's ready and prepared, I see no honour in fighting..." "Well, we won't do any serious damage the first attack. The first attack is just a bit of a wake-up call." "It seems you have the war planned out already." Ennui said, casually. "I do, I do." PJ said, tenting his fingers. "Would you care to, uh, show me your plans?" "I'll consider it..." PJ said.
Coming up soon: Spies, wars, more crappy plot and writing.
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Post by Dante on May 17, 2005 14:25:30 GMT -5
Ennui and PJ's characters are pretty accurate (although I'm only really judging them from how I've depicted them myself; I'm too tired to consider how they really behave).
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Post by Celinra on May 17, 2005 14:58:36 GMT -5
I like this story very much so far even though I'm not in it. It's a good premise, too... I can picture Trag making a reason like that to shut down the forum.
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