Deep 6 FaWtL

[Woran]

Quentin Coldwater wrote:

Woran wrote:

Drejk wrote:

Have the kitties noticed the rats by now?

Have the rats noticed the kitties?

The rats are not impressed. They understand that when the cage is closed, nothing can come inside. And no cat has been near when the cage has been open.

The cats do look at the rats from time to time, but with more of an air of 'there is nothing ELSE on TV'.

Both are clearly more feather oriented in prey. I have a few fuzzy play things, that they like, but they both go kill mode for the stupid feather on a stick we have. That feather must DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Feathers on sticks are prime playthings. Our cats couldn't get enough of them, either. When he was young, we danged the feather on a string in front of our Siamese. He took one swipe at it, grabbed it, and immediately bit through the string in one fluid motion, then dropped it. Whelp. He was not amused at first. He grew to love that thing in the end, though he did keep trying to bite the string when he got the chance.

Mephisto tries to bite the string as well, but he got hardly any teeth left, so its not very effective.

[Woran]

Many long distance hugs for LM

[lisamarlene]

Vidmaster7 wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

F*** me up the *** with a rusty chainsaw, I had JUST FINISHED LOADING MY D***** SCHOOLBAG FOR TOMORROW WHEN THE BOSS TEXTED ME THAT THERE'S ANOTHER F****** POTENTIAL CASE, THIS TIME IN MY CLASSROOM. So the kids and I have to stay home again tomorrow, and continue waiting.

It's abundantly clear that I'd make a f***ing terrible Buddhist.

I didn't know you were a Buddhist. I almost converted to Buddhism at one point.

Also schools starting back now sigh I am so worried over that and I don't even have any contact with kids.

Oh, I'm not. I have friends and a couple of family members who are, but I don't exactly have an ideal temperament for it.

Which is why that was sort of a wry joke.

[lisamarlene]

5:22. Too stressed to sleep.
Guess I'm running again this morning.

[Darth Draconis]

Darth lisamarlene has appeared!

[Vidmaster7]

lisamarlene wrote:

Vidmaster7 wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

F*** me up the *** with a rusty chainsaw, I had JUST FINISHED LOADING MY D***** SCHOOLBAG FOR TOMORROW WHEN THE BOSS TEXTED ME THAT THERE'S ANOTHER F****** POTENTIAL CASE, THIS TIME IN MY CLASSROOM. So the kids and I have to stay home again tomorrow, and continue waiting.

It's abundantly clear that I'd make a f***ing terrible Buddhist.

I didn't know you were a Buddhist. I almost converted to Buddhism at one point.

Also schools starting back now sigh I am so worried over that and I don't even have any contact with kids.

Oh, I'm not. I have friends and a couple of family members who are, but I don't exactly have an ideal temperament for it.

Which is why that was sort of a wry joke.

*looks up over head* Oh ok now I see it.

[Vidmaster7]

Do I have to make a sith alias now? Like I feel like my actual name is already kind of villain-ish.. plus I have Doom soo... we all know doom beats vader... yeah I feel that's enough.

[Darth Draconis]

Darth wussy Vader? That wimp? Doom was facing a child using the power of the Sith.

[The Vagrant Erudite]

Technically it is not the best for any major religion to be easily infuriated.

[Vidmaster7]

The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

Technically it is not the best for any major religion to be easily infuriated.

I guess it doesn't count at a major religion. At least not at our time period but religion based on Norse mythology probably is OK with it.

[Dr. Doommaster7]

Darth Draconis wrote:

Darth wussy Vader? That wimp? Doom was facing a child using the power of the Sith.

Doom has faced Gods Celestials and world eaters and came out on top. He has even recreated the universe after defeating it's destroyers. DOOM is not to be trifled with.

[captain yesterday]

I get to spend the rest of my week pulling a fireplace out of my ass.

[Vidmaster7]

... I am torn between wanting to know more details and not wanting to hear more details.

[lisamarlene]

Hells, I'd make popcorn and sell tickets.

[Limeylongears]

captain yesterday wrote:

I get to spend the rest of my week pulling a fireplace out of my ass.

I think putting it up there in the first place was where you went wrong.

[captain yesterday]

Limeylongears wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

I get to spend the rest of my week pulling a fireplace out of my ass.

I think putting it up there in the first place was where you went wrong.

I didn't put it up there, it was the aliens in Windsor (the bull semen capitol of the world).

[captain yesterday]

Basically, we have this fireplace kit that's so f~$&ed up the salesperson said "don't use the plan that comes with it, just try to match the photographs!".

Hence, I get to pull a fireplace out of my ass, even though I've literally never built one before.

Should be fun!

[Woran]

I think Mephisto sees Merah as his kitten... when he's looking for her, he makes these 'mrew mrew' sounds that mother cats also make.......

[NobodysHome]

It never goes away.

While I almost never remember my dreams, last night I was dreaming that I was walking the kids (19 and 16) back to school. My alarm woke me up (a rare occurrence) and I was disoriented for a bit...
...but it never even crossed my mind that walking a 19-year-old and a 16-year-old to school was in the least bit odd...

[Nylarthotep]

Ah the joys of fubarred online meetings.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

captain yesterday wrote:

Hardware store guy (after seeing me looking at bicycle pumps): Do you have any questions?

Me: Um, yes. Which one of these would you recommend for pumping up a car tire, or use to inflate a corpse into a giant balloon?

This sounds like the origin story for new alias, Captain Dig Dug. Yes, I'm old.

captain yesterday wrote:

I get to spend the rest of my week pulling a fireplace out of my ass.

If you're successful, David Blaine will pester you constantly until you tell him your magician secrets.

Or until you use the mini Bobcat to bury him deep under a landscape project.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Sending soothing thoughts and virtual cookies to lisamarlene.

[Vagrant EruDad]

When my daughter is 12 or 13 or so, I'm going to make her sit next to a 4 month old baby...whether her cousin or a whatever...for a 20 hour drive. Yes, it IS revenge, but it is more than that.

After the drive, she will be given "The Talk", explaining where that 15lb ball of screaming and hell on earth came from.

Because if someone put me through this when I was a teen, I'd have castrated myself with a rusty spoon. I can think of no better birth control.

[John Napier 698]

Hello, everyone.

*Hugs for Lisamarlene*

[Freehold DM]

captain yesterday wrote:

I get to spend the rest of my week pulling a fireplace out of my ass.

I have some uberlube around here somewhere.

[captain yesterday]

Ambrosia Slaad wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

Hardware store guy (after seeing me looking at bicycle pumps): Do you have any questions?

Me: Um, yes. Which one of these would you recommend for pumping up a car tire, or use to inflate a corpse into a giant balloon?

This sounds like the origin story for new alias, Captain Dig Dug. Yes, I'm old.

captain yesterday wrote:

I get to spend the rest of my week pulling a fireplace out of my ass.

If you're successful, David Blaine will pester you constantly until you tell him your magician secrets.

Or until you use the mini Bobcat to bury him deep under a landscape project.

Can't I do both, it's more fun that way.

[Limeylongears]

captain yesterday wrote:

Basically, we have this fireplace kit that's so f##&ed up the salesperson said "don't use the plan that comes with it, just try to match the photographs!".

Hence, I get to pull a fireplace out of my ass, even though I've literally never built one before.

Should be fun!

Have they specifically said you can't form it out of processed pork?

[Woran]

Merah is now lying down in the basket on top of my desk and I'm so happy I could cry. That these poor horribly mistreated animals can trust again.

They were brought in to the resque nearly starved to death. Several other cats from the same house hadnt made it and two others had to be put down because they had atropied to the point they could no longer recover.

And now she's here and she's beautifull and she's headstrong and I love it when she does here little 'mrew' and wants me to pet her while she eats.

[lisamarlene]

W00000T!
Boss just texted. My student's PCR came back negative! We're reopening my classroom tomorrow.
Aaaaand, I don't have to quarantine and get tested.

Edit: and before I completely forget my manners, thanks so much for the hugs and support! So grateful for all of you.

[NobodysHome]

Kind of terrifying how close "VM" and "BM" are on a teensy little iPhone keyboard.

"Right now Jayesh is giving me a BM to try" just sounds wrong no matter which way you slice it...

[Quentin Coldwater]

Woran wrote:

Merah is now lying down in the basket on top of my desk and I'm so happy I could cry. That these poor horribly mistreated animals can trust again.

They were brought in to the resque nearly starved to death. Several other cats from the same house hadnt made it and two others had to be put down because they had atropied to the point they could no longer recover.

And now she's here and she's beautifull and she's headstrong and I love it when she does here little 'mrew' and wants me to pet her while she eats.

That's so sweet. <3 I'd love to see her (and Fist) sometime soon.

[Freehold DM]

lisamarlene wrote:

W00000T!

Boss just texted. My student's PCR came back negative! We're reopening my classroom tomorrow.
Aaaaand, I don't have to quarantine and get tested.

Edit: and before I completely forget my manners, thanks so much for the hugs and support! So grateful for all of you.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[John Napier 698]

lisamarlene wrote:

W00000T!

Boss just texted. My student's PCR came back negative! We're reopening my classroom tomorrow.
Aaaaand, I don't have to quarantine and get tested.

Edit: and before I completely forget my manners, thanks so much for the hugs and support! So grateful for all of you.

Hurrah!

[Tacticslion]

Happy my Eldest's birthday at ya, every FaWtL!

Love you guys!

(Also: WOO~! Awesome, LM! So grateful! My wife is going back, tomorrow, to prep, too, so we're all on high alert, here, as well! Love you and your family and hope things go smoothly this weird, weird year!)

[Freehold DM]

How are you?

[Tacticslion]

The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

Technically it is not the best for any major religion to be easily infuriated.

Very true!

(Though I must say there is rather, ah, substantial precedent for having a deep and thorough wrath at the mistreatment of those who - for whatever reason - have no personal ability to resist the oppression, at least in our own shared religious history. Reed-cord whips, loud insults, and literal table flipping come to mind as "not sinful actions" when dealing with "holy" people. You know. XD)

Freehold DM wrote:

How are you?

So... daggum... busy.

"How busy are you?"
"Let me tell you how busy I am..."

But, no, really, things are good, just exhausting.

Sad that summer is at its end for my wife. Gonna miss having her here 24/7 and, as much as I love Florida, we're deeeeefinitely not handling things the best in schooling, at present. Still, her school is doing a pretty decent thing of making in-person semi-optional (still have to attend actual classes during actual class time, but it can be done over zoom, or at least something similar; they took all the professional training days for the year and shoved them all together to get training for online courses and allow better in-advance preparation at-school without kids; collapsing several of the breaks together so it's a bit of a hard burn but leading to shorter in-person times and hopefully allowing more schooling to get finished before any expected catastrophe may hit; and similar options), so it's better than it could be, though, of course, as a teacher (and as a student), heading into school is 100% putting yourself at ground zero for "hashtag all germs" so no matter what safety measures (mandatory masks, sanitizer, washing, etc.) that's a bit nerve-wracking in a state that's about the hardest hit in the nation.

Who knew the real life zombie plague would infect us, but we (and the zombies)'d go right on hanging out at the beach?

My kids get a few more weeks off, but that's just me and them time, so... yyyyyyyyyyyay.

(It's a good thing, but I'm already run tired. Woof.)

Also, because of good policies of "don't let kids crowd together" I'm still not going to have the kind of time I've been used to in the past. I'm frustrated about the wreck our house is in (I clean every day, yet I somehow seem to fall further and further behind, especially during this time with the kids indoors or only in the backyard, like, all the time), so rrrgh. But! Life is great, over-all!

How are you guys?

(I may or may not ever read the response, but I do wanna know! Love you all!)

[Freehold DM]

I'm okay.

Waiting for Kingmaker on xbone.

Waiting for Star Wars Squadrons too.

Still hatin' on whedon.

[Darth Draconis]

Freehold DM wrote:

I'm okay.

Waiting for Kingmaker on xbone.

Waiting for Star Wars Squadrons too.

Still hatin' on whedon.

Feel the Hate! Feel the Anger! Let the Dark Side flow through you!

[John Napier 698]

I'm okay, also.

About to go home. I may have to come into work tomorrow. If so, I'll see everyone then.

[Darth Draconis]

But beware, Darth Whedon is a powerful Sith!

[Sharoth]

Have a good night, John!

[Chryssalid]

~skitters through the thread looking for prey~

[Chryssalid]

~burrows down to wait for prey to appear~

[Flying Things]

*flitter through thread, far far above the ground*

[gran rey de los mono]

This is a long one, so I'll spoiler it:

Spoiler:

Three boys go into a haunted house. One brought a knife, one brought a gun and one brought some cough drops
They crept in. It was pitch black and stone quiet. They were suddenly starting to regret this dare. Stupidly, only one brought a flash light. The aggressive darkness and inky black yielded with grudging compliance but always seeming to push back. They moved cautiously onward amid the dust and cobwebs. The floor creaked. They breathed in tight, quick breaths. You could hear a pin drop.

Suddenly, there was a deep moan. "OOOOOOOOUUUUU". It seemed from below them. The house had been abandoned for years. Who or what could make such a sound? The boys looked at each other, but continued on, hearts pounding in their chests.

As they proceeded into the kitchen they encountered a swarm of flies. Buzzing and beating their necks and faces, they rushed and stumbled to the door, not stopping to see what they were truly feasting on. They slammed the door behind them. Maybe a body? But no way were they going back to find out. And again came the sound, "ooooOOOOOooooOOUUU" but louder this time, and closer.

They proceeded through the dark into the dining room. They saw a fully set dining table covered in cob webs. Dust-covered regal-looking glasses, goblets and silverware adorned the table. Spiders climbed on ivory plates. Clearly a house of privilege and set for a grand feast which never happened.

Or, perhaps, met a fatal end?

They pushed on. But again that unearthly howl.

"oooooOOOOOOOOOOOUuuuuUUUUuuUUOOOOooo".

They found the basement staircase, and from below, the sounds seemed to be emanating. Could they proceed? Would they? Did they dare? Two of the boys looked at each other, faces filled with worry.

But the third said, confidently, "We're going down there." Not wanting to seem the weaker, the other two boys steeled themselves and nodded.

The stairs creaked and groaned evilly under their feet. The rickety banister shook in angry defiance. Insects and vermin scattered underneath them with every step. They were descending into hell, they knew, but none would turn back.

And the sound: "oOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUuuuuUUOOOO". Now loud enough to fill not only their heads but seeming to claw at their very souls!

Now at the basement door! The antique, crying squeak of the hinges eeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEee made the boys wince and almost cover their ears. But they had to know. WHAT is making that horrible, terrible sound?

"ooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUoooooUUUUUUUOOOOOOO"

In the center of the basement lay an unholy coffin! A twisted artistic expression of murder, decay and disease! Brutish, incorrect lengths had been forced together, buckling the wood and bulging the steel at points, as if death, itself, were attempting to escape. It was festooned with beast-like emblems and decrepit artifacts: skulls, antlers, skins, totems, and drenched in the color of blood!

It was TRUE! The house really was haunted!

"OOOoooOOOoOOooOoOouuUUUUUuuuuUOOuouOUO"

Now the boys realized with sheer horror that the insane moaning was definitely coming from the coffin!

Before the boys could turn and run, the coffin began to shake! They froze.

Then it suddenly LIFTED off the ground! They gaped in terror!

Shaking violently and rising, the coffin started to turn. It turned and turned, and gained speed. It was spinning in the air before them! A mix of terror and fascination gripped them. Unable to look away. Unable to run. It spun faster and faster AND FASTER!

"OOOoooOOOoOOooOoOouuUUUUUuuuuUOOuouOUOOOOOOOoo"

The first boy with the knife slashed in the air in front of him, as if to stab away at the evil! Then he dropped the knife and ran back up the stairs, never to be seen again.

The second boy with the gun fired warning shots at the ceiling BANG! BANG!, but then thought better of it, dropped his gun and also ran up the stairs, and also was never to be seen again.

The third boy stood there calmly, reached into his pocket and popped a cough drop into his mouth. He sucked on it for a bit.

And the coffin stopped.

[gran rey de los mono]

My kid is having trouble with Algebra. He asked me, again, how variables work. I sighed and said "For the nth time..."

[Chryssalid]

~waits patiently for prey to approach~

[Sharoth]

~winces~ It really sucks when you bang your head on a corner and don't knock some sense into it!

[Chryssalid]

~pops out and attacks~

[Sharoth]

~SCREAMS~ A CHRYSSALID!!! SOMEONE CALL XCOM!!!