John_A_Tallon posted:I couldn't BE any happier that I've caught up reading the thread.  Welcome to the end of the thread!  edit: Current Update code:hollylolly fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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Aug 2, 2016 16:46
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A E If you can't beat 'em, bird 'em.
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Aug 2, 2016 20:24
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Aug 2, 2016 20:30
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I want to watch Trashy the African Grey Parrot and Jake get into fights because Jake is the only one that can communicate directly with Trashy and Trashy is snarky and rude, but no one believes the bird is saying these things and thinks Jake is just being funny.
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Aug 2, 2016 23:11
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african grey birb
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Aug 3, 2016 04:33
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 Parrot winsIt will be an African grey parrot. But...who was its former owner?? E. Elderly former Hollywood starlet F. Wannabe noir-ish detective G. Librarian who read a lot of Shakespeare H. It's been hanging around the empty house for a long time, soaking in whatever it can learn from whoever has been here You can add H to any of the other votes, or vote only for H if it pleases you. Or vote for more than one - just put them in the order of what you like the most.
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Aug 3, 2016 05:13
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hollylolly posted:
Are you talking about some kind of preferential voting system? We don't take kindly to your type around here... Also this is not mutant related. I don't care. I really don't care and would rather advance the plot, but still, I have to vote for F. Wanna be noirish detective, sounds funny. A close second would be a Poe fan, the parrot that wanted To be a raven.
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Aug 3, 2016 06:25
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Yeah, this is just a bit of fluff. Your vote preferences have been noted, whether you like it or not!
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Aug 3, 2016 06:35
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E, obviously. Think of all the cool stories it picked up through osmosis!
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Aug 3, 2016 06:36
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Just realized I screwed up my letters. oh well!I will be writing the house tour update and get the story moving in the morning.
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Aug 3, 2016 06:38
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Aug 3, 2016 07:25
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HE will be an awesome dirb
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Aug 3, 2016 08:29
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H+ This house has been used as an action-movie set for countless low budget Mexican Cartel Crime Boss Scenes. The parrot has been exposed to a lifetime of cheesy one-liners and more drug slang and street-talk than one could fit in the entirety of UrbanDictionary.
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Aug 3, 2016 08:34
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H That way, anytime you want to add an extra person he'd been hanging around, you can!
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Aug 3, 2016 15:52
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theroachman posted:HE will be an awesome dirb Swedish Thaumocracy posted:H+ HEll yeah. Intelligent bird hanging out with a hollywood starlet and a bunch of junkies. There is also a 0% chance this house hasn't been used as a porn set. 
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Aug 3, 2016 21:12
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Swedish Thaumocracy posted:H+ I love this idea
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Aug 3, 2016 21:20
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Swedish Thaumocracy posted:H+ YESSSSS
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Aug 3, 2016 21:24
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Ok, so, I went for a walk with the kids instead of writing. Oops! Also my friend is trying to get me to enter Geek & Sundry's fantasy novel contest on Inkshares, which will split my already fragmented creative brain into one more piece. Luckily for you guys I don't have a single good fantasy novel idea right now. Anyway, here's a link to my friend's book idea which sounds awesome.  Looks like we're leaning toward birb which has been hanging out with elderly starlet/contents of this big ol' weird house, which is pretty awesome.
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Aug 3, 2016 21:28
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Considering how often I try to find an excuse to spend time with my nephew, I can only support someone taking a walk with their kids instead of entertaining a bunch of goons.  It's certainly an interesting idea for a book. Best of luck to your friend.
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Aug 3, 2016 21:52
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 Looking over the House...Eel stays by your side as you walk through your new home. The top floor has three bedroom suites and a loft area that overlooks the downstairs’ great room, plus a large playroom that could be converted into another bedroom. The curved staircase continues up into a round ‘tower room’ which is mostly unfinished. It looks like someone was going to turn it into a reading room, but the bookcases are trashed and tagged with graffiti, and there’s an conspicuous pentagram spray painted onto the once nice wood floor. You grimace at the smell. “Is that blood?” “There was a pile of bones here in the middle of that thing,” says Eel with distaste. “I think cats. First thing we cleaned up. Just haven’t scraped up the paint yet.” “Kids these days,” you say with a half-hearted chuckle, and make your way back down the stairs. “Did Jake say anything -” “Look, that’s none of my business,” Eel says quickly, misunderstanding where you were going with your train of thought. You laugh, “Ha! No, no, not about… I mean has he been here? Did he see that stuff?” “Oh!” Eel scratches his head. “He’s been here, but he didn’t say anything about the pentagram. I did hear him tell Spectrum that the house isn’t haunted, so that’s good, right?” He unfolds a stepladder that is leaning against the wall in the big playroom (the carpet is stained and you’re starting to wonder how much fixing this place up is going to put you back) and climbs up to open an attic access. He pulls down a set of folding stairs, and gestures you up. “Nice,” you say, looking around in the stuffy attic. “Looks like it’s been infested with rodents. Really classy place we’ve got here.” “Raccoons, actually,” Eel says, from below. “But it’s a big space, could be re-purposed.” “The whole building needs to be re-purposed,” you mutter, but you smile as you rejoin your second in command. “Thanks for holding everyone together while I was… wherever I was.” “Of course,” says Eel. He looks at you seriously. “Where were you, anyway? Do you know? Jake said that you remember… and if it doesn’t go well…” “You mean if I lose my brain function and become an eggplant?” “Yeah.” He looks unhappy. “You need to tell me what you remember. Just in case.” ##vote A. Tell him everything you remember B. Only tell him some of it (specify) C. Tell him you don’t really remember anything and keep it all to yourself.
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Aug 3, 2016 21:55
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We're grooming him to be the second in command. He did exactly what needed to be done when the chips were down. A
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Aug 3, 2016 22:00
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A - There's time to be paranoid, and there's time to avoid making people you depend on paranoid about you
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Aug 3, 2016 22:03
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A - no sense hiding any of that crap from him
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Aug 3, 2016 22:07
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Write in: I will leave a sealed notebook with Intercept that will deploy in case of my death. Eel got whammied. Can't trust him yet.
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Aug 3, 2016 22:10
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Arkanomen posted:Eel got whammied. Can't trust him yet. We got double-whammied with a side of death. The single command Bossyvoice gave Eel was less worrisome than all the mind wards that got set up in Zombie's head, and the blanking of the SUV driver.
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Aug 3, 2016 22:16
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John_A_Tallon posted:We got double-whammied with a side of death. The single command Bossyvoice gave Eel was less worrisome than all the mind wards that got set up in Zombie's head, and the blanking of the SUV driver. What is this referring to?
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Aug 3, 2016 22:22
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A. Mind control is rear end when it isn't our mind control powers.
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Aug 3, 2016 22:24
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Aug 3, 2016 22:50
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John_A_Tallon posted:We're grooming him to be the second in command. He did exactly what needed to be done when the chips were down. Quote vote
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Aug 3, 2016 22:53
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hollylolly posted:What is this referring to? When Zombie trailed the Haven SUV and took pictures of the two people that were in it for Intercept to look at, she suffered short term memory loss. She didn''t remember them, or why she had pictures of them on her phone. She had to ask Intercept about it and learned why she had their pictures from him. From a meta perspective we know one of those Haven people is a skilled memory manipulator, but from Zombie and Intercept's perspectives all they know is Zombie somehow forgot about them entirely in the moments after she left the area.
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Aug 4, 2016 00:06
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Wearing a body camera would help with this. Just make sure we can delete any incriminating evidence if we get caught doing anything wrong.
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Aug 4, 2016 00:11
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Outrail posted:Wearing a body camera would help with this. In fact, we should see if Intercept could rig up stealthy streaming body cameras for everyone. No local storage means nothing to compromise us, and who knows when it might come in handy?
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Aug 4, 2016 00:29
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John_A_Tallon posted:When Zombie trailed the Haven SUV and took pictures of the two people that were in it for Intercept to look at, she suffered short term memory loss. She didn''t remember them, or why she had pictures of them on her phone. She had to ask Intercept about it and learned why she had their pictures from him. Oh yes, for some reason I was thinking only as far back as the freeway chase. 
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Aug 4, 2016 02:22
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hollylolly posted:Oh yes, for some reason I was thinking only as far back as the freeway chase. Mmmm. What else don't you remember Holly? Met anyone suspicious lately? A
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Aug 4, 2016 02:32
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Mr. Nemo posted:Mmmm. What else don't you remember Holly? Met anyone suspicious lately?  Everything is fine!
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Aug 4, 2016 03:37
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Spilling the Beans... “Okay,” you agree, even if you don’t share his pessimism. “Well, it was... what, six days ago now?” “Seven,” says Eel. “Hang on, it’ll be more private downstairs.” You test the railing on the curved staircase while you walk down it. Seems sturdy enough. Once on the main floor you cross the great room and find the other stairs by the kitchen. “This goes down to the walkout basement, but there’s another, unfinished basement under that,” explains Eel. You note the door at the bottom of the stairs that continues down into the basement. “Maybe we should put a giant B on that, for Brotherhood,” you quip. “Or a Z!” Eel doesn’t laugh, leading you through the expansive recreation areas into what was supposed to be the exercise room. “This is our temporary HQ,” he says, and as you walk in your nose is assaulted by the smell of all-purpose cleaner. “Intercept set up the security system, and all the cameras are on this monitor.” Eel points at a screen that’s divided into lots of different live feeds. “So, we’re alerted every time anything trips the motion sensors - which, because of the raccoons, happens a lot. Intercept is taking care of all that.” “What’s that?” you ask, poking at one of the little images, and are rewarded by the image enlarging to the entire screen. “The pool deck,” Eel says. “Empty, of course.” “No, that,” you say, pointing at a good sized grey bird moonwalking on the wrought iron railing. “Oh, that’s Pepe.” Eel laughs. “Came with the house, near as we can figure. Spectrum says it’s an African Grey parrot, but we haven’t been able to catch it yet. Sort of a low priority.” He pulls out a chair for you, finds one himself, and looks at you expectantly. “Right,” you say, lowering yourself into the office chair. “Pepe, huh? Okay, so seven days ago… I actually don’t know when these memories took place during the time I was gone. I don’t remember anything after going down in the park, until I woke up in a cinder block room with a reinforced door…” You tell Eel everything you remember, even all the parts with Deimos in them, up until you make contact with Jake outside the library. After you’re done, there’s a moment or two of silence. “So we were right to move,” Eel says at last. “That’s a relief.” “And I’m really thankful you stepped up and took care of things while I was gone,” you say. “I don’t want to abdicate leadership or anything, but I know that my mental state is probably a little suspect at the moment.” 1. “If I survive the night, which I’m sure I will… A. “...I will be resuming my leadership role, as if I’d never left. Nothing has changed.” B. “...I want us to both agree on a course of action before the group does anything. If you’re not on board with whatever it is, we’ll do something else.” C. “...actually I AM stepping down, just for a while. You lead the group, and I’ll help where I can.” Plan YourName: Something else, write-in
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Aug 4, 2016 23:49
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B is bad. Not sure if I prefer A or C.
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Aug 5, 2016 00:08
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"I will take over as leader but you will be in charge of day to day operations while I focus on getting the school up and running and figuring out what we need to do about Ragnorak. Sorta like a prime minister, president deal
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Aug 5, 2016 01:46
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Lazaruise posted:"I will take over as leader but you will be in charge of day to day operations while I focus on getting the school up and running and figuring out what we need to do about Ragnorak. Sorta like a prime minister, president deal This plus introduce ourselves to the bird. Get it some seeds and a place to sleep. Friend Birb
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Aug 5, 2016 01:59
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Lazaruise posted:"I will take over as leader but you will be in charge of day to day operations while I focus on getting the school up and running and figuring out what we need to do about Ragnorak. Sorta like a prime minister, president deal This sounds alright, but also stress this is also so that if something happens to us he can take over without too much trouble. He should be giving more responsibility to someone else. We also need backup plans and a course of action so if we die again he can keep things running.
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Aug 5, 2016 02:02
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