Russell Littlefield

manosstillrules @ 2006-12-05T01:44:00

2006-12-05T05:44:32Z

doom and gloom report. manos style.

2006-09-20T16:29:45Z

And everyone remembers the last doom and gloom report, right ken?

Alright this is it. I’ve fucking had it. The levels of immature drama has gotten way too high. And worse yet, I’m stuck in the middle. So you bastards are forcing me to play my hand, fine you brought this on yourselves. Being in the middle means that i’ve also heard both sides of the stories, which means i’m playing mediator. Don’t like it? Fucking deal. This entry will be mean and hurtful. You WILL act as I say and you WILL fix these problems ON YOUR OWN. This will end NOW.

There is one thing that I hate most in this world. It has a name. It is called “High School Drama.” Although, such a problem does exist at an earlier years, but i digress. There is too much high school drama floating around everyone currently. So I’m ending all the drama. It WILL end.

1) I never said I would never join Kara’s game. YOU ARE WRONG! You can scream and argue and yell till you are blue in the face. I never said that. YOU WILL ACCEPT IT! YOU WILL DEAL WITH IT!

moving right along to more important matters.

2) Kara and Sarah need to talk. You two are still mad over the D&D phone call. Sarah felt forced out because felt taking levels of cleric will help, but kara said that would help sarah have fun. Kara knows how upset sarah was over niche overlay in the Exaulted game, and thought that two healers may cause more niche overlay amongst players. Am I wrong? If so, then you two have common ground to start talking. Both parties will understand the “whys” when you two are done talking. Email, phone calls, whatever. Verbal dihereah to each other however you please. Just get talking. I honestly don’t care if this results in everyone agreeing never to be friends again. That is a solution, what we have now is not. Why not max, simple. There is still water under the bridge. It’s blatenly obvious between you two. Topics will get mucked up and talking will not fix THIS issue.

2a) I watched a D&D game every other week. This game was rather interesting and looked like fun. One day, the GM went to me and said that there was an opening in the game, then proceeded to invite me into the game. I accepted. Did you see any talk of betrayl or backstabbing? No? BECAUSE THERE WAS NONE. That is why I joined the game. Unacceptable answer? Too bad, IT’S THE TRUTH. Unlike all the little kiddies running wrong, I ignore/do not care about drama. You’ll learn how when you grow up. So, until 2) is resolved I refuse to speak at all about my joining the game. There will be no discussion till other matters are taken care of first. If and only if after 2) is settled, if sarah and max are still upset about, then we will have a discussion. End of story.

3) Sarah and Ken need to talk. Ken stuck his nose in, so now he needs to dig it out. Will and Grace need to do one of those all night talk a thons, or whatever it is they used to do and fix their little mess. I don’t care who started it, END IT.

4) Sarah and Carrie need to talk. Honestly, you two need to figure out whether or not you two want to be friends anymore. A simple quick email of “I don’t” will solve this issue fast. Ignoring each other like what is going on now will not. One of you tell the other whether or not they do. Just start babbling. Max stay out of this one. It doesn’t consern you.

YOU ARE ALL ACTING LIKE KIDS. Everyone is. Stop talking about each other behind each others backs and talk directly to each other. No more “i heard sarah say this” or “i can’t believe ken said that”. You will talk directly to each other, no 3rd parties. I don’t care if the talks result in a screaming match, may the louder one win.

I don’t care if everyone agrees never too see each other ever again.

That is a resolution. what we have now is nothing.

I already took steps to ensure this will happen.

Everyone will be told to go to my journal, there will be no excuse that you did not read this.

Do I make myself clear? The childness will end. Start acting like adults. All of you.

I have to go. There are more important matters than this that require my attention.

Peace out, have fun.

I am right.

manosstillrules @ 2006-08-27T00:31:00

2006-08-27T04:32:28Z

there is no entry here........

i totally didn't just make a private post one minute ago.

stop looking at me.

on a side note, hoot.

hoot hoot

hoot.

hoot bitches.

manosstillrules @ 2006-06-19T23:10:00

2006-06-20T03:13:46Z

for the people living in the apartment soon....

what furniture/stuff do we need to pick up and what do we already have?

like beds, dressers, utensils,etc...

dadu's been itching to hit salvation army and if he finds a bargain for a particular item, wants to know if he should pick it up.

that is all.

manosstillrules @ 2006-05-08T03:21:00

2006-05-08T07:33:35Z

well my first time as a gm ended ok i guess. some disputing and misunderstanding over rules, but at least the plot went fairly well in the end. no TPK, but i did kill one pc at least.

God45 had it coming.

and i was running new edition mage.

go figure.

anyhoo, basic idea behind the post is to get ideas from people on what to run next/should this mage game continue next semester/over the summer. systems i know/can wing it:

hunter: first system, like to run it right, thou the club would never join a hunter game (that and it would be a short game, 2-3 sessions only)
D&D 2nd ed: the rules makee no sensee, hurt the brainee.
D&D 3rd ed: know it well enough to wing it ok, thou not the best dungeon design out there.
munchkin: next
d20 modern: possible, easy enough to pick up and figure out.
old school vampire: possibly, thou what plot is there other than watching the players try to screw each other over for power (other than the occasional vampire hunter). would need the clubs books
new school vampire: where did my meta plot go????
new school mage: already got players, just need new plot. not hard, considering there were loose ends to be filled.

most other stuff i either never been in a game so no clue on the system or just don't have the books to read and learn the system.

ok, so this post was for sarah/carrie/ken to read and comment, but meuh. I killed a pc, yay!

manosstillrules @ 2006-04-25T23:06:00

2006-04-26T04:00:17Z

Quote of the day-ok none really, but does the fact they actually remixed snakeman's theme from the megaman series count? give me an im and i'll send it to you. fucked up shit man.

heh, this does not mean the journal is going back to the way it was, i don't have the time for that anymore. It does mean i just might post the occasional "still alive and doing nothing" post. I liked writing in this thing everyday way back when, but it got to be a hassle and it got to be a liability, 2 things i never wanted this journal to become. Also, the old uj has cease to be, which sucks majorly. All that effort put in it for a simple key hit and goodbye, but ce la vie.

anyhoo, update for the not-so-living-in-lowell-but-still-need-to-keep-in-touch-with (Chew,Sis,ken,sarah and Maryam spring to mind). School sux, night courses are a bitch to do. Lau and i are still together, as most probably have gathered reading her lj. Love that girl to bits, and I still look at her with the same eyes that i had 2 years ago. Still participate in the gaming club, and i will make my threat of running a 2nd ed D&D ravenloft game a reality once i get a "monster binder" from sarah. Running for treasurer for the club, and currently running unopposed (doesn't mean i'll win, cthulhu really knows how to bring in the votes). Got into my first ever MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI. Had to drop it just recently, the computer was too weak to handle it, and i hadn't touched the file in a year. Just when it looked when it was getting good too, ah well. I'll pick it up again when i get a steady job and a better computer to run it on. Mark my words reader, i made a promise to my friends at prophecyofruin that i would return. On the computer note, i've stolen so many shows and show much music that my computer ran out of memory completely. constantly have to put things onto cds or delete them to free up memory. all i have to say to that is yar to being a new age pirate. oh so laurel finally for the first time got into a video game. Star Ocean: till the end of time of all picks. But she refuses to start her own file, only to grab the controller from me and play it.

still not 21, and still have never gotten drunk or high.

before i end this entry to amaze the masses, there is one issue that does need to be cleared up first. Cell phones. Hate them with a bloody passion. The plato forum of a cell phone is a phone that someone has right there when there is an emergency and that person needs to make a call or needs to be called. So what do they end up getting used for? people surgically attaching them to the side of their head. They always go off at the worst times, which is just insulting to that professor that that student couldn't be bothered to remember to turn the phone off before class/that movie crowd trying to watch that movie/that driver he just hit because he couldn't be bothered to focus more on driving/the other people in line because that chirp was more damn important (i don't want to hear your part of the conversation. What makes you think i want to hear his side of the story too)/etc... why do i hate cell phones so much? because it feels like a ball and chain attached to my waist. only 4 people ever call me:
dadu - i got that voice mail, i don't need to talk to you about it. he calls multiple times a day, got the message the first time there chief. so why don't i call back, because he'll find something else to call about that is just as stupid. When i do finally call back, there was no point, and he harps on me about everything that i can't control or handle currently because i'm more set on the 2 tests and lab report due than i am getting an oil change at the moment.
mom - ok, this is no longer recent, but never answered when she called. we'll only talk on my terms.
red cross - i'm O- blood, and normally, i'd feel obliged to go to those blood drives at school. But because of their incessant calling, daily, i will never donate blood ever again. Russ is never there, This isn't Russ's number, even "je ne parle pas englais" once, and yet they still call.
laurel - the only time i'll stop and consider answering, but 9 times out of 10 i will be in the middle of a game (not video, actual game with friends interrupting them if i took the call) and it's her. still love her to death, but it's bad manners to take the call and interrupt the game.
none of those times it's really important, and don't give me that comment hun ("where are you?","at the club, where else could i be","oh well i'm going to work now","ok have fun","why do i always i have to say 'i love you' first","hun this isn't the time for that, in the middle of something","YOU DON'T LOVE ME/YOU'LL NEVER SAY IT IN FRONT OF THE CLUB/YOU REALLY DON'T LOVE ME","love you hun","...love you too"click - multiple times before and you know it). In the end, i hate to be annoyed while i'm in the middle of doing something, especially by people i don't want to talk too right now. the point is it can wait, you can call my room phone and leave a message. i'll get back to you as soon as possible.

anything i missed?

manosstillrules @ 2006-01-13T04:15:00

2006-01-13T09:16:00Z

Click here.
Take the quiz.
Post your results.
1) How would pherlondeiel kill sushichou? in a random contest. it would be an epic battle.
2) Would eaglesaerie and pherlondeiel make a good couple? ...uhh....ball is hazy, ask again later
3) One thing you can't stand about priestessoforgo? picked up role playing faster than i did
4) What animal should laurelann be combined with? genetically fusing my schmoop with an animal??? never! (any carnivore)
5) Does umbrasilvae have a big secret? yes, but don't ask me what it is
6) Would andyt683 and music_rocks_667 look good together? maybe in a group picture.
7) What languages does shaddup speak? street
8) Is priestessoforgo dead sexy? i'll let max answer this one
9) Thoughts on andyt683? he's smart enough to drop out of college, if that makes sense.
10) What would laurelann give pherlondeiel for his/her birthday? corpse bride cd
11) What would you do if you found out adaptively has a crush on you? throw nerds candy at her (heh)
12) How long would southernyank dating laurelann last? till i got me shotgun! not long, too far apart
13) When did you last call laurelann? she called me earlier today, uhh...........
14) Where did you first meet southernyank? blurty.
15) Could you see pacoyote and shaddup together? THAT would be interesting
16) Would you make out with priestessoforgo? no for 2 reasons, laurel and max.
17) eaglesaerie's hair color? (04:03:00) eagleaerie: brown again
18) What is umbrasilvae's shoe size? no clue.
19) What flavor of jello would umbrasilvae be? ...blue?
20) Is shaddup 1337? she's too cool to be 1337
21) If umbrasilvae commanded an army, who would be his/her followers? people with true faith (better run vampires)
22) Is umbrasilvae a high school student? nope college
23) Are southernyank and sushichou going steady? nope
24) Is shaddup a nerd? yeah, but one of those kickass sister nerds
25) Which president would priestessoforgo be likely to idolize? until we get a third party/strong female president, none

manosstillrules @ 2005-11-09T23:29:00

2005-11-10T04:29:50Z

geez, looking at other people's journals...

commenting on friend's journals...

talking to online friends...

even posting on the lj...

i'm really getting good at procrastinating homework.

too bad it never ends up getting done

manosstillrules @ 2005-09-19T23:59:00

2005-09-20T03:59:29Z

poke

or rather, yar

bet you were not expecting that, were you.

manosstillrules @ 2005-02-13T00:28:00

2005-02-13T05:27:56Z

If you read this,
Even if i don't speak to you often,
You must post a memory of me.
It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad,
Just so long as it happened.
Then post this to your journal. See what people remember about you.

manosstillrules @ 2005-01-27T16:48:00

2005-01-27T21:49:25Z

she lived.

she still tried, and seriously hurt herself causing permanent damage.

but she still lives.

just figured you'd want that update.

manosstillrules @ 2005-01-21T03:20:00

2005-01-21T08:55:40Z

trust me, because of the fact i'm updating is a sign that it is not a joyous occasion.

i never want to hear that FFXI isn't real. That you're not talking to real people, that you're not sitting there alone in a room with a computer and nothing more. You are with other people, other people with lives of there own and problems of there own.

why am i updating? because i have no story to tell. It's not my business to write about other people's lives here. About other people's problems and other people's events. The rest is what happens when I'm on that computer not "interacting" with people, being "anti-social". This is not someone that you know or have met before, I've have met them only online through XI. . .

I tried all i could to reason with her, why she shouldn't do it. I proved to her factually many many reasons why she shouldn't. I quoted and invented sayings that people would've loved to get on TV commercials "it's a permanent solution to a temporary problem" , "You know a path to a better life exists, the only thing you need is the strength to take the first step" etc... but nothing worked. For all my factual arguments, she just claimed that all she had left was evil and beastial qualities remaining. Nothing I said would've swayed her, and believe me, i was at my mental peak convincing her not too.

She believed in reincarnation. I told her no after-life has any proof, so she could goto hell or just cease to exist.

She believed it to be the only path, I presented her with many different options.

Hell...I pretended to be a Republican and a Bush lover to try and stop her.

My facts only resulted in me talking to a wall, my facts were powerless to stop her resolve. In the end the only thing i hope i achieved was that she will delay long enough to ponder my words before doing the deed so that someone finds her and stops her or she chickens out of it.

At least twice she told me to forget it and pretend she didn't say anything. I said no. I couldn't just ignore something like that. It would be like me assisting her doing it, and I couldn't live with that guilt, that blood on my hands.

But the more I argued, the more I knew I was convincing her logically, but the more I saw that nothing I said would've worked. There is only one person in her life that could, and it wasn't some Thief she met a week ago.

I really don't feel good right now. Did I say all to be said to her? was there anything to say just to prolong her from doing it? did I give up too soon (read as. 3 in the morning, her and my time)? Does that still count as having her blood on my hands?

Why was her life shown to me? why was she brought into my life at the time she did? what is the reason behind it? all the early signs were there, i saw them when i first saw her, and i only hinted at not doing it because i thought she wouldn't go that far. Should I have acted before she made up her mind to act? Why would some supreme being show me a person and then have them leave when I'm powerless to do anything about it?

you guys probably want to know her story to figure out why. well my journal is no place to tell her story, i have no right in doing so. Only my thoughts and reactions are permitted.

She didn't do it yet. She has it all planned out so Monday is the day she does.

Anyone that tells me that FFXI is not interaction with real people ever again can officially goto hell for all i care. You have no idea and no right to say that anymore.

my story, the one that is about me: Zhanghe the Thief hit lvl 17 last night, that's it.

manosstillrules @ 2004-11-04T00:28:00

2004-11-04T05:44:31Z

Quote of the Day??? "i am not an intern, and this is MY desk!!" -laurel

so what sucks worse now, i'm wondering.

1) bush getting the reelection (which only PRESUMES the end of the world)

2) everyone now at each others throats for any political reasons (not voting, being a poopy-gun-toting-conservative-republican, existing with that aura that just puts people off in general)

3) squirrels. small little bastards, taking over south campus, greedy sons of bitches.

i'd like to hear some responses (and of course, whenever i've asked this before, no one's responded) other than the one who has her hand down my shirt......and just bit me.

although, as it is my journal, i guess i should start with my opinion on the whole matter. Bush winning = poopy, but not poopy yet as everything has only been speculation. if sarah keeps informed like she said she will, then it'll be interesting to see what actually happens these four years. the future is never written. apathy really didn't win this year (sorry Nader). my excuse: the car is deceased in the sheehy lot. plus i proved that my vote would not have changed anything in the election as Kerry took Mass anyway. (laurel points out that if i was still in NH, that would've been different.) So yeah, i didn't vote, but i guess i can claim to be a bit more informed than the average human (although for lj world that doesn't amount to much}. and finally, a Jihad must be called on these nut eating bastards.

that is all.

your turn, yet again for some of you.

manosstillrules @ 2004-09-06T10:49:00

2004-09-06T14:59:14Z

t-send threatened me to update, so i did.

my summer=kingdom hearts. don't laugh. it's a really good game. that and i have a perfect file in it. perfect being beat every boss, beat every pooh minigame, 101 dalmatians, and took down sephiroth. none of this omnistats crap.

last summer=FFX-2, that's where you can laugh.

roommate is cool and i have wacky next door neighbor, although i've spent more time in the girls' suite then my own room, so much for first impressions on him.

there, i updated, so BACK OFF!

manosstillrules @ 2004-08-14T01:41:00

2004-08-14T05:58:52Z

(Monday:)
It all started while resting to gather my glamor back. Taki was borrowing it for some project. Merry and I were talking one night and we ended up discussing star trek. I mention how I always wanted to meet jean-Luc Picard. Also he's the type of guy that I’d want merry to look up to. Merry then asks me, "why don't we go see him then?"
I said, "because he doesn’t exist, he's only a tv character".
Merry then said, "well, if all other tv characters exist in the dreaming, why can't he?"
I paused, thought, and said, "why not, tomorrow we'll head out."
Merry replied, "but where would we go to look?"
"Easy, the place where all the space dreams originated, NASA"
(Tuesday:)
So the next day merry and I get my "things" (stuff in bag with food in it) and head out in the car for florida. the trip takes a day and a half, as we're in no rush. It's a vacation, after all.
(Wednesday:)
We arrive at the NASA space station and we both just awe at it all. we look around for any signs of a trod but we can't find anything. went looking around for three hours with no results at all. I throw my arms up in disgust. While doing it, I look up and something catches my eye. I get closer and it looks to get higher. It's the trod! but it's 100 feet up in the air and above a rocket that's about to take off.
"COME ON!" I yell as merry gets in my backpack and I run towards the rocket. As I’m running, I’m spouting random gibberish (bunk dainkai). as we get near the rocket I start to sing "it's a small world" (dual bunking). right as I get to the rocket I start to propel upwards. I start to run up the rocket to aim for the trod (it appears, but it's hopscotch with dual bunks and a lot of physicals used up). At the top of the rocket I jump off it with the art to get an extra boost up and grab hold of the trod. I'm holding on for dear life while the rocket starts to raise up towards me. Merry climbs out of the backpack, climbs up me, jumps on the trod, and grabs my hands. We both pull and I get on the trod and we both run on it full speed to avoid the rocket.
Once safe, Merry and I both start down the trod. Down? more like up. It continues to escalate higher and higher. I stop for a break, as all this walking and activity has worn me down. Merry (whose on the shoulder the whole time) suddenly jumps in my bag in a scared state. I ask what's wrong. The reply I get is, "DON'T LOOK DOWN!"
Naturally, I look down. I see....Earth. We were in space looking down at Earth. I fall on my knees and huddle scared. I look around and see space all around me. I remain there for a good minute before looking up. I see the trod continue onward to a space station. It looks like claws in a pattern that looks like it needs something in the middle. What gets my eye is that it has a Federation logo on it. I had found where I wanted to be. I start to regain my courage, knowing my goal was so very close. I stick to the exact center to the trod the whole time and mostly crawl/run to the station. It leads to a door. I knock and nothing happens. I stand there wondering how to get it open when the door opens on it's own accord. No one is on the other side and I get confused, but walk in anyway. It's a loading dock and there are a few red shirts about. I look around when an important looking around yells, "Hello there, we picked you up on our scanners and wanted to know your intentions."
"I'm friend, I assure you. I've heard many stories about the federation and of a Jean-Luc Picard in particular. I've traveled a long way and would like to meet him. Where is the Enterprise stationed currently?"
"You seem friendly enough but are a bit confused. The Enterprise is stationed near the neutral zone, but Picard is in France in his home. He's been retired for years now" the guy told me.
"France? Retired? that's odd. but oh well.....uhh...how do I get to France from here?"
"Easy. Come this way. It's late. We need to have to run a medical diagnostic on you. It won't take long. Please stay in one of our quarters for the night and tomorrow we'll transport you to his home."
"Ok thanks. And just so you know," I say as I show him Merry.
"You're not 'The Maker' are you?" he says quickly and gets defensive.
"NO!" Merry and I exclaim. "Once a friend of mine saw that it was possible that sentient gingerbread men could be made, she wanted one of her own. I figured it would be a good challenge if I tried to make 3 that would be friendly rather than violent. It was a success" I tell him, and Merry waves.
The man paused, saw how Merry meant no harm, then softened. "Ok, report to sick bay then we'll show you to your quarters." he says as he turns to leave.
"Where is sick bay?" I ask. then a new voice responds.
"Sick Bay. Deck 9. follow the arrows." the voice comes from the walls. I turn and a path of arrows lead the way, apparently, to sick bay.
Merry and I follow and sick bay gives me the run down of the ship and how things like the doors work. They check us with tricorders and nothing out of the ordinary. They then show me to my quarters and tell me how different things work, like the food replicator. "Well I can still cook better" I scoff.
(Thursday:)
The next morning, they let me know when the transport will be and I thank them. When it's time. They wish me a safe voyage and I step onto the pad. I thank them than quickly ask "Why is the station shaped the way it is?"
"It's a repair station, ships travel through the center and it allows for easy repair."
"Thank you."
"Ok, Energize"
(Begin Episode:)
One moment I’m looking at a bunch of uniformed cadets, the next I'm in a field full of vines on wires. I walk forward a bit to find two people talking together. Once I get close, I can see what appears to be Jean-Luc Picard and Geordi LaForge, but something's off. They look like they've aged considerably from what I remember on the show. I decide to get closer but then notice something wrong. Other kithan are taunting and jeering Picard. Geordi looks but doesn't see anything, assuming it's Irumodic Syndrome, an affliction which causes mental deterioration. I shout out to get everyone's attention. Picard looks at me even more confused and then quickly look back. The kithain had already disappeared by then. Since Geordi could see me, he begins to ask what's going on. Picard randomly gets disoriented, saying, "this is not my time." And some such nonsense as if he just came back from another time. He repeatedly claims that he just was in sick bay in the Enterprise talking to Beverly Crusher. Geordi thinks the Irumodic Syndrome is affecting his mind so he tries to get him to calm down. This just gets Picard angry and starts yelling at Geordi ("The old man's out of his mind! That's what you're thinking!"). He eventually regains his composure and asks me what I'm doing here and didn't disappear like the others. I introduce myself and Merry, which just confuses them more. So I let them know that I was a friend and had heard many stories about Jean-Luc Picard and his crew on the Enterprise. I always wanted to meet the captain of the legendary vessel, so I trekked out to find Captain Picard. They could see I was telling the truth (thou laying it on a little thick) and then asked about the other kithan. I told them I didn't see anything, since associating with Unseelie kith might be a bad thing. Plus I wanted to investigate why they were bothering Picard further. After the "introductions," Geordi asks Picard, "So what are you going to do about it?"
"Data! I want to see Data!" Picard replies.
"Why?" LaForge asks.
"I think he can be of help," Picard answers.
"But how?" I pipe up.
"I DON'T KNOW! I JUST WANT TO SEE DATA!" Picard shouts
"Alright, we'll go see Data then. He's still teaching at Cambridge?" Geordi says.
"Data's teaching at Cambridge?" I ask.
"Yes, after the crew of the Enterprise went their separate ways 25 years ago, Data began teaching at Cambridge." Geordi explains.
We begin walking back to the house to prepare, when Picard and I stop suddenly. On the road ahead of us are two more Unseely kithan. Picard and I both look around and see we're surrounded by them. "You see them, don't you."
"See what?" Geordi asks
"They're everywhere, and they're laughing at me." Picard says.
"Come on, let's go see Data. He'll know what to do" I say. Half to cover up the kith, half to see Data, because he's the fricken man.
(cut to:)
(Friday:)
(In a fancy room, a few cats around it and many books on shelves. Picard has just told Data everything that's transpired)
Picard says, "I know it sounds fake, but it was real! I was there! Back on board the Enterprise."
"That's a lie, how do you want your tea?" buts in the maid.
"A la grae, hot" picard says.
"'course it's hot, what do you want in it?"
"Nothing"
Anyway, after the banter about tea, I say, "wow, this is a nice place. Cambridge sure takes care of it's teachers."
"Well holding the location chair has that advantage. This house originally belonged to Sir Isaac Newton when he taught here. It's become a traditional residence." Data says (I couldn't hear the name of the position, so that's phonetic.)
"Here ya go" the maid says as she hands out tea. "If you're really his friends, you'll tell him to take that grey out of his hair."
I look to see what she means. I hadn't noticed, but Data had this huge spot of grey in his hair. I grimace as Data defends it by saying, "Gestle..."
"Looks like a bloody skunk" she stops him.
Data sighs. "She can be frightfully trying at times, but, she does make me laugh."
Geordi asks, "What is it with the hair Data?"
"Well I found that a touch of grey adds a touch of....distinction." Data says.
Picard complains about the tea, being the old man that he is. "hmm" is all the maid counters with.
"Well I think this tea is very nice, thank you" I say.
"I like your little friend here. Where'd you find him?" the maid says.
"We didn't. He found us" Geordi jokes.
"Captain, how long has it been since you've seen a doctor about you're Irumodic Syndrome." Data asks, getting serious (???)
"Week, doctor prescribed some (blah)." Picard says.
"But sir, (blah)..." Data begins.
"Yes I know. It's not a cure. It can only (medical blah about synaptic pathways). You think that I'm senile, that all this is a delusion."
"Now come on captain, no one said anything of that kind" Geordi says softly.
"The thought had occurred to me," Data states, "But, there is nothing to disprove your theory. So it's possible something is happening to you. The first thing we should do is run a complete neuolaptic scan. We can use the equipment in the biometric lab. Gestle! ask for Professor Rippert to cover my lecture for tomorrow" pauses. "Possibly for next week. Captain" dramatic pause. "We'll get to the bottom of this."
"That's the Data that I remember" Picard says happily. "I knew that I could count on you...."and then Picard randomly stops.
It's here when it all finally clicks for me. I'm not in the right time. I'm in the future of what the real Picard is experiencing. Somehow, I've found Picard right as he's about to travel to the Devron system to explore a temporal anomaly. But the thing is, he's going to the Devron system in three different time zones. This one, known to him as the Future, the Present, and the Past, when he first arrives on the Enterprise. I figured all this out and planned to help him in subtle ways, without revealing too much and draw attention to myself.
(cut to:)
Geordi wakes Picard up. Picard mumbles something about the neutral zone. "Captain, Data's ready to run those tests on you whenever you are."
"No, no. I need to get to the neutral zone" Picard says suddenly. I smile a bit to myself.
"The Neutral zone?! Why?" Geordi says.
"In the other two time periods, Starfleet ordered that a sort of...eh...spacial anomaly had appeared in..........in the Devron system. In the Devron system in the Neutral Zone!"
"Captain..."
"If the anomaly appeared in the past then it might be here to and we have to find out." Picard continues.
"Just because you've seen it in the other two time periods doesn't mean that it's going to be here." Geordi says.
"But if it is here then it MEANS something!" Picard counters. "DAMMIT Geordi, I know what we have to do!"
Geordi sighs. "Come on, let's go. Either way, it'll be interesting right?" I say.
"Alright, but let's get something clear first." Geordi starts. "There is no Neutral Zone. Remember?"
"Right, right, Klingons." Picard rambles.
"Wait, what happened?" I ask.
"In this time period, the Klingon’s have taken over the Romulan empire." Picard tells me.
"Right now relations between the Federation and the Klingons aren't too happy." Geordi tells me. "Well.....if we're going to go to the Devron system, we're going to need a ship."
"Right. I think it's time we call in a few favors" Picard replies. "Contact Admiral Riker."
(Cut to:)
(Riker on a visaphone. He also shows 25 years of aging.)
"You'd know I'd like to help, but frankly what you're asking for is impossible. The Klingons have closed off their borders to all Federation Starships." Riker says
"Will, what if the anomaly really is in the Devron system." Picard says furiously.
"I saw a report from Starfleet intelligence this morning concerning that sector. There is no activity." Riker says sternly.
"Well I don't believe it!" Picard yells.
"Look, I’ve got the Yorktown out there. I'll have it perform long range scans and have it alert me if anything is out there. That's the best I could do!" Riker says.
"That's just not good enough!"
"Well it'll have to do, Riker out." and he hangs up. Data has the computer restore the phone in the fireplace. This fascinates me so I touch the fireplace. It feels real. While contemplating all this. Picard exclaims, "Damn him anyway!" and continues to go off about Riker. Geordi calms him down, saying to just wait and see what the Yorktown finds.
Data then says, "There is another option. We could arrange passage onboard a medical ship. There was an outbreak of Terrellious on Romulus. The Klingons have been allowing Federation medical ships to cross the border."
"Yes, YES!" Picard says.
"But how are we going to get on a medical ship?" I ask.
"I can arrange that. Data, contact the U.S.S. Pasteur. I have some...pull...with the captain. At least, I used to have" Picard replies.
(Cut to:)
(U.S.S. Pasteur. The 4 of us enter the bridge to find Beverly Crusher sitting in the captains chair. She also shows the aging.)
She greets us with, "Well, this is certainly a page from the past. I'd never think I'd see you three on a starship again." Then looks at me. "Who's your new friend"
"Pippin at your service" I say while bowing. Beverly greets us all with handshakes and has an awkward moment with Picard.
"So what brings you out to space?"
"Get my message?" Picard asks.
"Yes. Crossing into Klingon territory is absurd. Then again I never could say no to you."
"Ooh, so that's why you married me."
Beverly chuckles, then gets serious. "Well, the first order of business is to get permission from the Klingon Government."
"What about Worf?" Geordi asks.
"What about him?" I reply.
"Data, isn't Worf still a member of the Klingon High Counsel?" Geordi asks.
"I am not sure. Information on Klingon political structure is hard to come by these days. Although at last report Worf was governor of Hightoria." Data babbles for a while longer until an ensign speaks up.
"Captain Picard?"
"Yes?" Jean-Luc and Beverly say at the same time.
"Captain, McKinley station is calling. They want to know when we'll be docking."
"Tell McKinley we were called away on a priority mission" Beverly replies.
"So, you kept the name" Jean-Luc says.
Ignoring him, she replies, "I've prepared quarters for you in deck 5. Get some rest." Picard resists, but eventually gives in to her and leaves the bridge.
Once he leaves, Beverly starts asking about the Syndrome, and how bad it's in affect. I frown as it may mean jeopardizing the mission. When she brings up the question of his "time travel," they all pause, silently. "I didn't think so either, but he's Jean-Luc Picard and if he wants to go on one more mission, so be it." Which makes me smile.
All of a sudden, I feel awkward. I feel dizzy and get a sense of vertigo as my vision blurs. When my eyes focus, I'm in a room with a platform in the middle surrounded around the outside. In the middle of the central platform is Picard. I am on the outside with the Unseelie kith. They are all taunting and laughing at Picard. I immediately try to jump to Picard but a force field blocks my way. Even my knife is ineffective against it. Merry gets worried but I try to keep him calm and watch what happens.
Enters on his throne is Q, dressed up like a Sidhe. With a wave of his hand, he manages to silence the whole crowd. "Mon capitan" he utters, "I'd thought you'd never get here." The laughing starts again.
"Q I knew it! What's going on!" Picard yells.
"Q is behind it all!" I yell above the crowd.
"Silence you nosey boggan! This will prevent you from meddling." Q says with a smile. And right there I'm covered in a bright light for a second and then I have long hair, normal height, and well......I become the basset-hound pooka again. The kith all start laughing at me and my change. Merry is scared and I try to tell Picard what happened, but it comes out all lies. Meanwhile Q goes back to Picard.
"Isn't it obvious what's happening?" Q says.
"The last time that I stood here was 7 years ago...." Picard starts
"7 years ago, petty human understanding of time. Must you be so linear?" Q butts in.
"You accused me of being a representative of a barbarous species." Picard finishes.
"I believe my exact words were a 'dangerous, savage, child race'" Q butts in again and the crowd jeers again. By now Merry understands that I became the pooka I told him of. He tells me that he'll do his best to interpret what I'm saying.
"We demonstrated to you that mankind had become peaceful and benevolent. You agreed and you let us go on our way. NOW WHY AM I STANDING HERE AGAIN?" Picard states.
"Oh you'd like me to connect the dots for you. Lead you from A to B to C so that you're puny mind could comprehend. How boring." After Q says that there's more taunting. "They'd be so much more entertained if you tried to figure it out." He then addresses the crowd, "I'll answer any 10 questions that call for a yes...or a no." They all applaud. "Well..."
"Are you putting mankind on trial again?" Picard's first question. Met with a "No" and boos from the crowd.
"Is there any connection between the trial 7 years ago and the trial now?" Met with a hesitant "Yes"
"The spacial anomaly in the Neural Zone, is it related to what's going on?" "Most definitely yes"
"Is it part of a romulan plot or ploy to start a war?" "No and no." Laughter from the crowd. Picard fights that call but loses. (der)
"Did you create the anomaly?" "No, no, NO you're going to be so surprised when you realize where it came from."
"Are you responsible for my shifting through time?" Met strangely with, "I'll answer that one only if you promise not to tell anyone." Q then gets right up to Picard's ear and whispers, "Yes"
"Why?" "SORRY! That's not a yes or no question! you forfeit the rest of your questions." and the crowd goes wild.
"I expected as much, you're such a limited creature. A perfect example of why we made our decision. The trial never ended, captain. We never reached a verdict. But now we have. You're guilty. Guilty of being inferior. 7 years ago I said we'd be watching you and we had been, hoping that you're ape-like race would show some growth have some indication that you're minds had room for expansion. But what have we seen instead, you worrying about Commander Riker's career, listening to counselor troy's pedantic psycho-babble. Indulging Data in his endless exploration of humanity." Q declares.
"We're traveled to countless new worlds, discovered new species. We have expanded our understanding of the universe." Picard defends.
"In your own paltry limited way you have no idea how far you still have to go. But instead of using those last 7 years to change and to grow, you have squandered them." Q counters.
"We are what we are and we're doing the best we can. It is not you to set the standards by which we are to be judged."
"Oh but it is. And we have. Time may be eternal but our patience is not. it's time to put an end to your 'trek' through the stars. to make room for other, more deserving creatures."
"You're going to deny us travel through space?"
This is met with much laughter followed by Q saying, "you are going to be denied existence. Humanity's fate has been sealed. It will be destroyed."
"Q I do not believe that you are capable of such an act." Picard says.
"I? There you go again blaming me for everything. Well this time I'm not your enemy. You are!"
"Me?
"That's right. You're doing it right now. You did it before and you'll do it yet again." Picard doesn't understand it but I realize he's talking about the time shifting, although it comes out as pancakes.
"He doesn't understand!" met with laughter. "And to think I believed in you. That you had potential. But apparently I was wrong. May whatever God you believe in....have mercy on your soul. This court stands adjourned. and with that my vision goes blurry again. When I awake...
(Saturday: (note, going to try to wrap it up, taking a while))
Worf is on the visophone. I immediately grab my hair to find it's still long. I'm still stuck as a pooka unable to help Picard save humanity. Beverly and Worf start the greetings. The subject of going to the Devron system is brought up. Worf grows sullen and claims he can't help. Picard grows desperate and pleads, but Worf holds strong, mocking Riker for not giving Picard a starship with a cloak. Picard shows that Worf had given up honor and loyalty for rules and regulations. They fight and in the end, Worf gives in and allows passage, but only if he can accompany them. Picard quickly agrees. They beam aboard Worf and Beverly sets the coordinates for the Devron system. She allows Picard to do one more "Engage!" (OOC, that cuts to the past, which is funny as he never told them anywhere to go).
When we get to the Devron system. Picard is frantic about seeing what's on the screen....but there's nothing. It disturbs everyone, blaming it on the syndrome. Picard is disturb worst of all, for reasons unknown/untellable. Even after a complete, thorough, Data scan, there is nothing. Worf claims that Klingon Warships are on there way here. Beverly gives the command to leave while Picard protests loudly. I join in and just yell incoherent babble. Data then says that he could create a "inverse tachyon pulse." Picard and I tell him to do so and fast. Beverly tells her crew that they're only going to stay for 6 more hours, not enough time to search the whole system. Picard protests horribly, yelling to stay till it's found. Beverly takes him to a private room, my guess was to chew him out for insubordination. (OOC: Q butts in here again to "help" Picard). Picard re-enters the bridge and there's an attack on the Pasteur. Two Klingon War birds decloak, flanking the Pasteur. They knock the warp power offline, leaving us there crippled. Beverly orders the ship to leave full impulse as Picard considers fighting them, an option Worf quickly dismisses. The ships pursue and continue to attack. Beverly opens a channel to the ships and tries to talk with them, but gets nowhere. The Klingon ships knock out the shields and Beverly signals to show our surrender. Worf says it in klingon and they still fire. The shot causes an explosion in the bridge which kills the ensign mentioned before. I quickly take her position while Beverly checks on her, and I take this time to play with all the buttons. It's now when Data claims another ship is decloaking. "It's the Enterprise." The Enterprise hails the Pasteur and Riker is onscreen. He chastises Picard for not listening and then says he'll help. The Enterprise then takes out one ship no problem as the other ship follows it. There is a breach in progress of the Pasteur's warp core, which means that the ship is going to explode! Riker hails promptly saying he'll save them. Everyone then stands up as we are all transported right to the Enterprise's bridge. Right as we get there, Riker chastises Picard again then yells at Worf for making such a poor decision. Worf yells back and it quickly becomes apparent that these two hate each other. It's Picard this time that stops yelling and Riker has us leave as the Pasteur explodes in a cut away shot. Riker orders the Enterprise back to Federation space and Picard gets frantic. He repeatedly yells that we need to stay to save humanity and the anomaly and I shout about anything that decides to come out of my mouth. Picard yells so much that Beverly is able to get behind him and drug him with those shot thingys. I see him fall asleep and I shout more, Geordi uses one on me and I'm out asleep.
I wake up on some land to find a young Picard and Q standing around. I pull out my fishy-flashlight and look around and see lava all around me. I look up and drop it when I find the supposed "anomaly" staring right down at me. I ask what's going on and Q starts speaking. "Welcome home. Don't you recognize your old stomping grounds? This is Earth, France, about oh...3 and a half billion years ago. Give or take an Eon or two. Smells awful doesn't it? That sulfur and volcanic ash. Really must speak to the maid.....Hey boggan, you really must learn to clean a little better" Q says with a smile. I shoot up the ring finger and wonder why that happened.
"Q is there any point to all this?" Picard interjects.
"Look" is all Q says and Picard sees the anomaly.
"So the anomaly is here too." Picard says.
Q starts saying that at this point in time, the anomaly spans this whole quadrant of space. Picard starts to piece together that the further back in time one gets, the larger the anomaly gets.
"Come here" Q says randomly. "There's something I want to show you. You see this?" as he points to a pool of amino acids. "This is you. I'm serious. Right here, life is about to form for the very first time. A group of amino acids are about to bind to form the first protein. The building blocks of what you call life. Strange isn't it. Everything you know, you're entire civilization it all begins right here in this little pond of goo. Appropriate somehow, isn't it? Too bad you didn't bring your microscope. it's really quite fascinating. Oh look! There they go. Amino acids are moving closer and closer....and closer. Oh, nothing happened! See what you've done?"
"Are you saying I caused the anomaly...and that the anomaly somehow...disrupted the beginnings of life on Earth?" Picard realizes.
"Congratulations" is all Q says before it all goes black again.
I wake up on a bed somewhere back on the Enterprise. I rush to the bridge to try to warn Riker about what's going on. I'm denied access to the bridge but I repeatedly say, "I need to see Geordi!" The computer speaks, "Geordi LaForge is in ten forward." So I go there anyway to try and warn him. I get there and stop to see Geordi, Riker, Data, and Beverly talking at one of he tables. I stop because Data says, "I think the last thing Diana would have wanted would be for you two to be separated." The “would have" makes me stop as It means that Diana Troy is dead in this time period. I sit done alone and sulk as I continue to listen in. Talk of Riker trying to put his and Worf's differences aside at her funeral confirmed what I feared. Picard enters shortly and everyone gets upset. Picard immediately bothers Riker, saying that he knows what caused the anomaly and that they need to go back. He tries to explain to Riker but it falls on deaf ears. Picard continues to ramble for 5 minutes of the most incoherent babble this side of the galaxy. Data then says, "I think I understand what he's saying." Data then says the plot of the episode, essentially that Picard is traveling between the 3 time periods, he fired a inverse techyon pulse in all three times at the same location, And their convergence caused an "Anti-time" reaction (hurray for androids). Geordi puts together that anti-time operates opposite from normal time, that it's going to get bigger the further in the past one goes. Everyone agrees with the captain and Riker forces the Enterprise to turn around and head back to the Devron system.
Back on the Bridge, The ship reaches the Devron system and the anomaly is there, just as Picard had predicted. Data claims the anomaly is being maintained by the other two pulses from the other two time periods. Picard immediately says that he's shut off the two other pulses but it's still not working. Geordi says that we have to repair the point in space where the rip occurred. Data claims that we'd have to take the ship into the anomaly. Then we'd have to create a "static warp shell" that would repair the damage by separating time and anti-time. Data claims the problem would be that it would have to be done in all three time periods. Picard starts to claim that it may be a problem then finishes his sentence saying that the three Enterprises are ready. We head for the center of the anomaly. We establish the static warp shell and experience horrible energy fluctuations. Also we see the oddest sight onscreen. Two other Enterprises! After taking in the sight one of the Enterprises explode under the intense pressure. Shortly thereafter, the second Enterprise explodes. Q then shows up to taunt Picard, "Two down, one to go!" Data claims the anomaly is nearly collapsed. Geordi claims he's losing warp containment (a.k.a. it's gonna blow). Q then says, "Oh well. Goodbye Jean-Luc. You had such potential but it's as they say, 'all good things must come to an end.'" Geordi yells and there's a large light and explosion sound and everything goes black!
I wake up back at the trial circle, only this time in the center. Picard is sitting off the center upset. I go over to him and start to comfort him. It's also at this time where Merry notices that I was back to normal. Q appears again in the chair dressed as a sidhe, but no crowd to be seen.
"The continuum didn't think you had it in you Jean-Luc." Q says. "...but I knew you did."
"You saying that it worked? We collapsed the anomaly" Picard asks.
"Is that all this was to you? Just another spacial anomaly, just another day in the office."
"DID IT WORK?"
"Well you're here aren't you? You're talking to me aren't you?"
"What about my crew?"
"Ha. The anomaly, the ship, the crew. I suppose you're worried about your fish too. Which reminds me. Boggan, Try to leave the Earth the way you found it." Q says as a flash of white light encompasses my hand and the fishy-flashlight appears in it. "Oops" is all I can get out.
Q talks to Picard again, "Well if it'll put your mind at ease, you've saved humanity....Once again."
Picard pauses before saying "Thank you."
"For what?"
"You had a hand in helping me get out of this."
"I was the one that got you into it. A directive from the continuum. The part about the helping hand thou, was my idea." Q says while smiling, and Picard does as well.
Picard walks around a bit before saying, "I sincerely hope this is the last time I find myself here."
"You just don't get it, do you Jean-Luc? The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the power to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did."
"When I realized the paradox."
"Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you've never considered. That is the exploration that awaits you! not mapping stars or studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
"Q, what is it that you're trying to tell me?"
Q goes to whisper the answer but doesn't tell him anything and sits back down. "You'll find out. In any case, I'll be watching. And if you're very lucky I'll drop by to say hello from time to time. See you....Out there." Q says while leaving on his floating chair.

(Storytellers discretion addition:)
As Q pans away, he utters, "Oh and boggan, a little gift for sticking your nose in all this business. You'd do well not to stick it everywhere you go." I don't know what he means and neither Merry or I notice the flash of light in my bag.

(main plot again:)
I'm teleported back to the space station where It all started. The captain of the station is looking at me, asking "So you wish to see Jean-Luc Picard?"
"Oh no, never mind. It was just a crazy idea I had." I reply. "Sorry to disturb you. I'll be back along my way again. Thank you for everything." I head to leave a very confused captain. I hop out the door I came in onto the trod I started up. I follow it back to the station, make a leap of faith and land close enough to ok. I hop in the car, Start it up, and make my way back home. When we get back, Merry goes and asks, "So that was The Captain Picard?"
"Yes, and I'm happy that you were able to see him at his best. I want you to aspire to be like that. While all of the problem of the anomaly was happening, Picard was still able to care for his crew, in all three of his time periods. His courage in the face of danger, his ability to expand his mind like that, and his kind heart toward his friends. All these things are much more important than strength, and it was those things that gave me the inspiration to create you. Now come on, let's go. I have the episode on my laptop."

The End.

manosstillrules @ 2004-07-08T02:12:00

2004-07-08T06:14:03Z

well....

that was needed.

and i must have a luck stat of like 255. all this talk of delay at the airports and all that really happened was my 12 hours shift at canobie got cut to a 4 hour shift.

and for quick answer session: never hung out with ken, never saw him, no canobie can get away with not paying time and a half, and i wouldn't need a lawyer for the small claims, although my parents might use theirs (although my dad is on my side on it).

that's all. ask for any further details.

manosstillrules @ 2004-07-03T00:13:00

2004-07-03T05:14:15Z

what the hell is wrong?

in 6 hours i ship out for disney world, and i'm not the happiest little kid ever. quite the opposite. After last tuesday, i've never really been the same. for those not keeping track, tuesday was the nervous breakdown. Dadu/sarah say to do activities outside of canobie. DDR has been helping a little (despite the fact that i had to restart my account of max1 AGAIN). Also i've taken to the larp, enough to really bug the hell out of kara. but still nothing seems right. i can't figure it out. the biggest problem is the canobie doesn't listen to what i say. it sucks since i don't request much. before/during/after the breakdown (when i first found the schedule from hell they gave me, which caused it in the first place), they kept asking me "what can you work and how many hours max?" my answer (and now they have 5 assorted slips of paper with my answer), "i want saturdays off and 40 hours MAX." this week, they complied because, well, they had to give me the days off i requested. the week i get back, i get back thurs morning. they scheduled me to work a 10-10 on thurs, and they had me scheduled to work saturday all day. granted i know that larp's off that week, but it's the principal of the thing. after all the times they asked me, they still put too many hours (44 thou, not horrible) and they set me to work the only day i told them i didn't want to (despite the lack of larp, managed to get them to remove sat). not to mention i'm horribly underpaid. i'm lucky if i'm getting grouper wages. work has become so much more of a hassle this year.

but of course, the only ones that could make it easily tolerable are spread over the state/country. a hug from laurel does such surprising things (she really brings out my inner bardbarian, psht). when she visited, all was perfect. i could goto work, come home and see her and knew all was well. and sarah and the gang could reason out any difficulty i had far better than i could. if i had trouble (like, just for example: a nervous breakdown) sarah and ken could tell me what to do about it while joe, carrie, etc... could make me feel better. it's gotten so bad that i talk to my DAD about life difficulties.

who knows, maybe after this trip everything will be better. most likely i'll have a good time at disney, then the rat race at canobie will bring me down all too fast. if they over-schedule me again or say for me to work sat, i'm really going to consider quitting. canobie really is a shitty place to work. but then again if they actually listen to my requests, then maybe things won't be so bad. i mean learning all these new rides is pretty cool (i know everything about the cannonball and starblaster, not sooooo bad).

and the family situation? i need feedback on whether i should sue my parents and bring them to small claims court over the 21 hundred. according to my dad it could be the only way i'll ever see the money again. i want more opinions on this matter, as i have no clue how to tackle it.

that and the feast isn't the only trick my boggan has up his sleeve. and my hunter character is going to undergo some changes as well, if all works out (which it probably won't, heh).

that's about everything that's been on my mind as of late. i dunno about solving anything by typing it all, but at least i'm sleepy. at least this time i won't cry at the alien ride. hey i was 8 and a nervous boy as is. that ride is CREEPY! ok maybe this time i'll skip over it but still.... creeeeeeeepy.

who the hell goes on a spiritual journey in disney. i think i've been thinking waaaaaaay too much. see if the gang were here they'd stop me from doing that.

ok, i think it's time for sleep. night all.

manosstillrules @ 2004-06-18T23:21:00

2004-06-19T03:24:04Z

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manosstillrules @ 2004-06-18T23:01:00

2004-06-19T03:06:53Z

finally did something i enjoyed doing. haven't done much beyond canobie, gaming, missing my laurel. it's the story on what the hell my larp character has been doing for the past few weeks. it's horribly written since i only had two days to write it, so i rushed. thanks to the people that helped me with ideas to ad to it.

"1) spent time driving south from Lowell stopping buy at bars (not dirty ones) and asking only the boggans and eshu about the item or about the tonberry's in general.

2) a boggans tells me about a tonberry tribe in Mexico. there's a trod at the top of a ziggurats(?) guarded by an old gatekeeper.

3) an eshu tells me of the location of the ziggurat and that it's protected by an old (grump) troll.

(buy an atlas and a "learn Spanish fast" dictionary, resources 2)

4) thank the two and head on a path down towards the boarder.

5) at the boarder, tell the customs people that it's a honeymoon trip with rose and we're going to spend it in Mexico (it's believable right?)

6) we stay at a nice hotel by the ziggurat that I was told to and book a tour to go there the next day.

7) rest of the day is spent showing rose around and visiting tourist made places (the nice parts of Mexico). also talking with any other boggans or eshu in the area,

8) an eshu says that the grump is a nice guy as long as you respect the trod and take care of it.

9) very few know much about the tonberrys and what's known is mixed and vague (other than the appearance).

10) next day, head out for the ziggurat and see the trod at the top of a long staircase.

11) manage to break away from the tour group when they camp at the base for lunch and sneak to the top of the staircase.

12) step onto the trod (it's a little dusty) and see a troll standing there. he's there with a broom sweeping.

13) I introduce myself and rose and ask if he needs help. he says it's hard to keep the whole trod clean by himself.

14) I offer if we help him he let's us travel the trod. he agrees.

15) I grab a broom and start helping, rose does as well for a while then goes and prepares sandwiches and those little cake things.

16) with our help the trod is spik and span in no time. it glows a lot brighter than the trod that Sarah protects (at least when I saw it). he thanks us and gives us a piece of advice, "tonberrys have a very tight community. to attack one is to attack all, and to help one is to help all."

(does this mean I get glamor "inspire friendship"?)

17) we travel down the trod with the directions that the troll gave us. it's the safest route so there's little danger.

18) after a good walk's journey, here a scream of pain. we run off in that correction.

19) a little green man-thing in a brown robe with a lantern and knife lying beside him is being attacked by a very large weed type monster with a huge mouth in the middle of all the weeds

(marlboro anyone?)

20) the tonberry is badly hurt and can't defend himself from the next attack. I run as fast as I can to help it (call of the needy).

21) right as the marlboro throws out a shot of sludge, I cover the tonberry and take the hit (level of chimerical bashing, or lethal if it heals fast?).

22) I pick up the tonberry, and rose and I run with him over my shoulders (they look light).

23) unfortunately, the marlboro chases after.

24) of course this is the time to burst out into song.

25) I sing the king Herod’s song while being chased by marlboro, all the while we just stay out of way of the malboro's attack. doing a few athletic attack dodges on my part (as all great chases have the main character doing)

26) wayfare 1, scene 1, fei 1 (figured he's being carried by me so he's set), we start leaping 40 ft forward. faire escape.

27) we go and take care of the little guy, help him recover his wounds (along with rose's good cooking). he is hurt but he'll be ok.

28) we ask him where we are, as I’m lost as all hell.

29) he looks around and knows the place, but it's a little far from his village.

30) we offer to walk with him back to his village. he looks upset but agrees.

31) after another good walk we reach a village full of tonberrys (note: they all walk around with the lantern and knife in they're hand). walking around the village they all stare at me, rose, and especially the tonberry we helped.

(they don't take kindly to strangers, but the other tonberry is odd)

32) I ask about the items and the tonberry looks sullen when he replies that a tonberry's knife and lantern is very sacred and one must cherish they're set with all they're might. I then notice that the tonberry we helped doesn't have his knife or lantern. (lightbulb in head: he dropped it when he passed out from getting ambushed and I never picked them up).

33) I apologize to him for leaving his items. he still looks saddened but says that he is thankful for saving his life.

(another glamor?)

34) he says we must report to the king tonberry and he must take whatever punishment the king decrees.

(ok so they're the tonberrys from 8).

35) at the big building in the center we visit the tonberry king. he looks like the other tonberrys except honking huge and a big crown on his head.

36) he asks the tonberry where his knife and lantern are and we tell our story.

37) he looks down at me and rose and thanks us for helping him then turns to the tonberry and gets angry. he sentences him to jail.

38) I intervene and ask him to be nice because there was nothing he could do. he just grows even more angry at the tonberry.

39) I say, "what if he got his items back, would he be freed then?"

40) the king says that he's going to jail so he can't retrieve his knife and lantern. I counter and say that what if I got the items back for him.

41) the king ponders for a bit then says, "if your willing to do all this for him, then he will be freed."

42) I thank him, beg my leave, then wonder what to do. nothing really to do then go back out there and look.

43) got hopelessly lost, true to my nature. and I make sure never to ask for directions (as if there were people to ask).

44) find myself and rose in a jungle forest maze, once we realize it, we just keep walking trying to find our way to the end or the middle, since usually a labyrinth has something in the middle.

45) gamer knowledge prevails, there's a minotaur there. big beefy guy.

46) I get worried, but rose starts up and says hi.

47) my fears go away when he's the good kinda minotaur that bestows gifts for finding him. but it's not so simple.

48) he says that either best him in combat and he'll give me a ball of yarn that'll lead me straight to the items (and exit) I seek. not gonna happen.

49) I negotiate that if I can beat him in a battle of the mind, then he'll let us borrow it.

50) I start, I ask a calculus question, thinking this guy isn't smart in mathematics, "what is the integral of the cosine of X"

51) "sine X" the minotaur says with a grin, d'oh. his turn.

52) "what walks on 4 legs, then 2 legs, then 3?" he says. "man!" I say happily, "first we crawl, then walk, then need a cane!" "how'd you know?" asks rose "I’ve got two greek nerds, and it's a riddle from oedipus"

53) the minotaur is impressed. my turn again. "ok, what kills kings, erodes mountains, and can't be killed?"

54) the minotaur smiles, "time. that's out of the Hobbit" "ha, it seems we know each other strong points" I reply.

55) "What two animals helped Pan'Ku create the world?" his next question.

56) "Yay! Chinese trivia! the phoenix and the dragon!" my reply. I dabble in that

57) "how many times did Liu Bei visit Zhuge Liang?" I ask

58) there is a pause...."5?" the final reply is.

59) "the answer was three! Liu bei met Zhuge liang on the third visit and that's when the Shu kingdom truly became a formidable army!" I reply giddily.

60) "you are well versed in romance of the three kingdoms, here you go" -he says

(acquired yarn of know the way, but he'll want it back)

61) I thank him 20 times over and test the yarn out

62)"where is the exit?"I say, and roll the yarn out, and true to his word. the yarn wound and curved it's way around to the exit. thinking ahead, I leave a trail of rice cakes for when I need to return to the minotaur.

63). at the exit, I give a good yank and the yarn comes back.

64)I ask the yarn the location of the tonberry's knife and lantern where we first met him. the yarn rolls out a large distance.

65) another good walk, we find our way back to familiar ground.

66) the yarn ends right at the knife and the lantern isn't far off. yayness....or maybe...

67) the marlboro is still there. after recovering the items, I turn to find it there.

68) battle ensues.

69) I hand the lantern over to rose and tell her to run away. then I try the chef's knife out. "DOINK!!!"

70) the marlboro winces in pain, then shoots the sludge at me again (another chimerical bashing/lethal)

(marlboro are immune to death, so the knife only does a bit of damage (yeah I know I’m going rpg not larp, you can convert and change the stats as needed).

71) rose is determined to stay with me and then uses the lantern.

72) it glows a mysterious aura then it unleashes evil spirits and they defeat the marlboro

(karma, an attack that damages based on how many tonberries the attackee has beaten. very powerful even when the number's at like 1 or 2)

73) we rest a bit then use the yarn to find our way back to the village. on the way I try and polish the knife and lantern to shine their best.

74) we report to the tonberry king as soon as possible. upon hearing of our tale, he is most glad.

75) he frees the prisoner and we return him his lost items formally.

76) the king looks at us after the returning ceremony. "you have done this one tonberry a great deed. two from saving his life before. you have therefore done these deeds to myself and all of the tonberrys. you are most kind. we wish to bestow you with an honorary knife of your own."

77) at this point a helper opens up a towel to reveal a commemorative chef's knife. I accept this gift graciously and thank him for this gift. he tells me I’m welcomed at this village at any time. I thank him and tell him I would like to visit again at some point.

78) the next day we set out for the forest labyrinth again to return the yarn. it works to get to him, and I return it as I promised.

79) the rice cakes are mostly gone, eaten by assorted little creatures, so it takes us a little longer than last time to get out, but we do unscathed.

80) after much traveling, we reach the border again and we have nothing to declare and no food with us.

81) we reach lowell again and we go our separate ways. I thank rose for all that she did and ask if she would like to travel around again sometime, for some crazy other treasure."

no critisims please, unless you're an ST.

manosstillrules @ 2004-05-28T12:46:00

2004-05-28T16:54:18Z

finally got the mane taken off. had to in order to work at canobie. of course, there was one last ambiguous moment where my aunt June enters the salon and sits down. I'm playing mario kart on game boy and noticed she enters. I keep quiet because i wanted to see if she'd recognize me. Nope. Only when kim (stylist) says my name does she figure out it's me. She thought i was some woman sitting there. ha, one more before it's gone i figure. I've lost count how many times people thought i was a girl, but i kinda liked it. oh and kim said that hair, once it reaches 7 inches to a foot, tends to shed. So that may be why my hair only ever reached that length in the end.

That's it, just updating to let all my friends know that the hair is back to "normal". normal, not fun. oh well, at least my hunter character is still going to have the long hair.

ha, an entry about hair. me, superficial....nevar.

manosstillrules @ 2004-05-12T11:37:00

2004-05-12T15:38:48Z

1. who are you?
2. are we friends?
3. when and how did we meet?
4. how have i affected you?
5. what do you think of me?
6. what's the fondest memory you have of me?
7. how long do you think we will be friends?
8. do you love me?
9. do you have a crush on me?
10. would you kiss me?
11. would you hug me?
12. physically, what stands out?
13. emotionally, what stands out?
14. do you wish i was cooler?
15. on a scale of 1-10, how hot am i?
16. give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
17. am i loveable?
18. how long have you known me?
19. describe me in one word.
20. what was your first impression?
21. do you still think that way about me now?
22. what do you think my weakness is?
23. do you think i'll get married?
24. if so, who?
25. what makes me happy?
26. what makes me sad?
27. what reminds you of me?
28. if you could give me anything what would it be?
29. how well do you know me?
30. when's the last time you saw me?
31. ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
32. do you think i could kill someone?
33. are you going to put this on your livejournal and see what i say about you?

i expect you to be just as harsh as i was to you (to those that i stole this from). too the others...meuh

manosstillrules @ 2004-04-20T14:04:00

2004-04-20T18:11:09Z

"Q: Through the former DDR series, when everyone especially has favorite 1 tune please teaches. (By the way we after all is butterfly don't you think?) A: B4U STILL IN MY HEART CANDY BRE ∀ K DOWN! < NAOKI > Don't you think? after all it is コンガ. With "CONGA FEELING" we ask. < Wordplay programmer > END OF THE CENTURY < Dog monk > ' Butterfly ' probably will be! < Moroex > LITTLE BITCH < RICE.C > TRANCE DE JANEIRO < Hundred million トマン > It probably is DanceDanceRevolution? The bosom oak く you could feel the melody of opening of the first generation. < TAK > When it is tune, whether "HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW"... < G sima > Q: At the time of DDRMAX 1 being to come out with チラッ, it does, but the ウデって which rank of DDR only is of the staff? Never when MAX300 (intense) it can clear everyone... A: When level of all staff the 阜ｻ is done, foot 5 or more - foot 9 or less it probably is the place where you said? The ぶっちゃけ, there is also a tune which cannot be cleared. (Grandly) Q: With 2/12 renewals of Q&A, there are some methods with the appearance method of PARANOIA survivor MAX, we would like to see there is statement, but it perseveres with ogre course as a result, the tune order of of opposite of old para brassiere course (the intense 譜 aspect) with all AA or more are taken, the rescindment password is inserted, it probably means that is just method of 3 sorts? If it is in other things, please teach stealthily... A: Stealthily, you will teach. They are the 3 sorts. Q: At the character って all which appears in the former DDR series no person (?) It probably is to be? When it tries to count to those which appear in the movie and the background, the air which unfathomed extent is does, but... A: Don't you think? it probably is tremendous number. Being too enormous, counting to 3 public attention, we gave up. There is no perpendicular ｵ meaning. Q: The legend of MAX (as for intense) perfect score? (You verify that they are not 100000000 points.) A: They are 100000000 points. Q: The perfect score (theoretical value) being to reach the point where it is decided from the previous production with the degree of hardness of the 譜 aspect, it does, but 10 prohibition, theoretical value generally known blinking degree of hardness 10 being to be 100000000 points? If it is different, please teach whether it is no point. A: Theoretical value similarly is 1 hundred million points. Q: It probably is to be some meaning in existence of the ogre 譜 aspect? A: "Being defeated" is. Q: Please teach BPM of The legend of MAX and Dance Dance Revolution. A: As for "The legend of MAX" maximum of 333, as for "Dance Dance Revolution" 150 is. Q: Basically being another version of the same tune, although logographic design itself of tune name credit is the husband who does not change, why "B4U B4 the beat mix" just you think midway, the っ drill (?) It probably means that logographic design changes? A: Being to be the feeling which we would like to change it does. Q: "ワォ! イッツァnew record! ! "" ワーンサウザーンドコーンボ! ! "With the voice which appears in the game. Being to be the person who exists it does? ? If it exists, when inserting voice, the combining which is what kind of feeling? ? "アシタガアルサ! "... The main thing of voice with the Japanese, becomes or matter of concern which the foreigner imitates. By all means, please teach! A: The main thing of voice the foreign country is, but usually very fluency, and it is the Bali Bali Osaka valve. The case of recording "the foreigner talking Japanese purposely, you made the る wind". Q: The quantity of PERFECT of MAXX unlimited, ease 222, 踊 333, being 555 to be intense, it does, but is this purposely? A: So is. You just can be attached there the air, us it is happy. Thank you. By the way double has become with 150/300/500. Q: It meaning that the air where the groove radar of old tune has become a little small does, it does, but the air it is to place, is? (MAX300 intense entire density, former times you see on and it has come out it seems the way...?) A: With EXTREME as for the groove radar the 侮ｦ being done somewhat than the previous production in the small awakening, unless it increases. so it does, outside the standard which shows the ハミ putting out っぷり which exceeds the range of common sense tune (step) there being some tune....... Q: When you play RANDOM ALL with connected mode, it meaning that MAXX unlimited and PARANOiA system come out abnormally, it does, but why is? (It is random truly?) A: It is random truly. Furthermore even then, it meaning pulling PARANOiA abnormally, when it did, because that was certainly born under such star, is not, probably will be? Q: Being to choose what in standard it does the revival tune from Club.Version? After all selecting from the tune whose popularity is high, being to have decided, it does? A: It is popularity concern. After, it is the reflection. Q: The person the brake of 3 aspects of TRICK course and like the wave of 4 aspects and 0.5 time speed etc. which was used in 0.25 time fast cherry tree of 5 aspects being usual, it probably is not to be able to utilize? Very, you can enjoy and A which, is regrettable: Very, being large inconstancy to be painful in the pleasure, it does, but this optional selection is not possible. Q: Being to hear, that with DDR EXTREME, appraisal of the tune which by your did in the memory card can be recorded, it does, but however much trying, it is not possible. (You tried with the memory card where SYSTEM of PS edition DDR4th enters, but when with it was useless) how it does, it is saved like this you cannot teach appraisal slender? A: After with one for home DDR 5th Mix saving the link file in the memory card, using that memory card, please play the game. Also you can peruse the data which records with same ゲームャ t ト. Q: The ease which which is referred of the ogre 譜 aspect of DanceDanceRevolution bending, it probably is there is no public float ｳれ? A: Single, both double it appears in order below. BRILLIANT 2U (ORCHESTRA GROOVE) we have become the intense bone-dry 8 neatness original tightening of intense empty 8 neatness B4U of intense empty 4 neatness AM-3P intense empty 8 neatness CELEBRATE of intense empty 4 neatness END of intense empty 8 neatness AFRONOVA of intense empty 8 neatness DYNAMITE of 4 neatness DEAD END RAVE OF THE CENTURY NITE from the intense 譜 aspect. Q: For example the tune which past was not recorded in sound track (, large opinion and A etc.) it probably is to be a stormy 閧ﾍ which it sells as サントラ of DDR? A: In regard to transplantation music we do not record basically in sound track. Please acknowledge. Q: The movie it is the question which regards, but whenever version is repeated, the movie has changed delicately depending upon tune the り, being it does not change completely, it does, but why is? Is the fact that also speed of the movie is different after, depending upon the speed of tune why? A: Noting to the small place, you seeing, it is the limit of regret. Well it is case of question, but the ・/p>"

yay randomness

manosstillrules @ 2004-04-15T21:48:00

2004-04-16T01:49:20Z

"I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions; no more, no less. You can ask me anything you want. I then want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this, and allow your friends (including myself) to ask you anything."-das g/f. so ask me

manosstillrules @ 2004-03-24T14:25:00

2004-03-24T19:27:49Z

"(22:36:25) manosrules: I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! WE"RE BREAKING UP!!
(22:36:37) maryam: besides i already had my bad luck with last weekend
(22:36:43) maryam: I DON'T WANT ANYMORE
(22:37:02) manosrules: fine, then repress what we once had until now
(22:37:22) maryam: repress what?
(22:37:43) manosrules: HOW DARE YOU TREAT ME LIKE THAT!
(22:38:09) maryam: I TREAT YOU LIKE THAT BECAUSE YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND
(22:38:23) manosrules: WHAT IS THERE TO UNDERSTAND!
(22:38:43) maryam: SEE, YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT THERE IS TO UNDERSTAND
(22:39:02) manosrules: WHY MUST YOU ALWAYS BE LIKE THIS!?
(22:39:15) manosrules: STOP BEING SO ARGUMENTATIVE!
(22:39:22) maryam: BECAUSE YOU DRIVE ME TO IT
(22:39:33) maryam: AND I'M NOT YELLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(22:39:41) manosrules: !!111!!1!!11!!!
(22:40:28) maryam: and i'm not being fucking profane either
(22:41:10) manosrules: THERE'S THAT FUCKING LANGUAGE AGAIN! WHY MUST YOU ALWAYS FUCKING SWEAR ALL THE DAMN TIME?
(22:41:45) maryam: I'm not calling you names, dip-shit!
(22:42:29) manosrules: OH SO IT'S BECOME A NAME CALLING CONTEST AGAIN!! THIS IS WHY I'M BREAKING UP WITH YOU!
(22:42:58) maryam: No, i'm breaking up with you!
(22:43:19) manosrules: i'm breaking up with you!
(22:43:20) maryam: And I'm breaking up with your girlfriend!
(22:43:32) manosrules: how dare you!
(22:43:37) maryam: betcha didn't realize we were going for at least a civil union!
(22:43:50) maryam: depending on how this whole congressional hearing turns out...
(22:44:11) manosrules: THEN I HOPE BUSH WINS!
(22:45:48) manosrules: that hurt to say"

happy one year break up maryam. congrats on the BU acceptance.

manosstillrules @ 2004-03-15T00:06:00

2004-03-15T05:31:35Z

i want to post again. want....but can't.

it's midnight and i'm sooo tired right now. feel like shit because i can read other people's journals (like nomin for example) and i've lost my ability to write about my days. i've been searching why and have come across a few things.

1) yeah i'm realizing that my entries from back in the day were lacking in emotion. that's because that was my theory at the time. ideal society would contain no emotions, as they cloud true judgment. but of course ideal society no matter what is ideal and in everyone's mind, so meuh to that theory.

2) i've changed. naturally the only person to blame is laurel. she took my belief of anti-emotion of well pretty much killed it. i love her, no doubt in my mind the more i see her. so..

3) i can't write the way i used to. my method of writing about what happened during the day just won't suit me anymore. but by contrast writing about emotions and stuff is still too weird for me. i can try but will fail almost every time. this way feels weird as well, but it's in a ethic book going from one logical proof to another and stuff so whatever.

sorry, that's about it. i'm going to finish watching the end of matrix.