Site Maintenance Coming—All Gremlins to General Quarters!

[Master Pugwampi]

OK, so the site is undergoing scheduled maintenance on Monday, July 1st, starting at 9:00 AM Pacific time.

It is supposed to last two hours, but I know we can beat that score! Every gremlin on the boards that can be made available for general mayhem, Kludge production, SNAFU patrols, technical glitch infiltration, and pie throwing are required to gear up NOW!!!

We have had great success in the past in extending it several hours (sometimes days!) at a time, and I expect 100% effort from everybody.

Let's do this for the Gnolls!

[DungeonmasterCal]

I feel oddly inspired.

[Feline Conspiracy Field Agent]

sharpens claws

[Edith, Drexin Support Services]

Meh.

Goes back to reprogramming the phone lines for internet provider automated menus.

[Sableye]

Guys look, I recruited a friend! He... she... it... it's good with technology, it says!

[MissingNo]

#eƴ ŵH@+,5 6Ɵ|ŋG *ɲ hƩʁƷ?

[Hunt, the PugWumpus]

{runs in wheezing} I... I... I tried to call- {collapses on floor} -tried to call you, but I spent a half-hour on the phone and almost got mazed by the phone menus...

Good News: I managed to arrange to have 40 tons of unripe avocados air-dropped in -- loose, no crates, no parachutes -- over the headquarters at 9:05AM Pacific time. I unfortunately couldn't find a baker who could produce enough Millennial artisanal toast on such short notice. Thankfully, I had a competing bid from Gerber, so we'll be also air-dropping 18 tons of their Petrified Zwieback toasts that were recalled 20 years ago for shattering teething toddlers' jaws.

Possibly Bad News: The airtransport is run by Air Gobmerica, and their chief pilot is someone named... let's see... one Captain H. M. "Howling Bonkers" Murdoch. Hopefully he's an orderly and punctual fellow.

[Gary the Grimple Gremlin]

OK, I've got an order here for thirty one tap-dancing dire rats. Getting the clogs on them was something of a chore and procuring a big enough hot plate to get them to "tap-dance" was an absolute nightmare! But it's all in place.

...so who gets the bill?

[Yoda Pugwampi]

Hunt, the PugWumpus wrote:

{runs in wheezing} I... I... I tried to call- {collapses on floor} -tried to call you, but I spent a half-hour on the phone and almost got mazed by the phone menus...

Good News: I managed to arrange to have 40 tons of unripe avocados air-dropped in -- loose, no crates, no parachutes -- over the headquarters at 9:05AM Pacific time. I unfortunately couldn't find a baker who could produce enough Millennial artisanal toast on such short notice. Thankfully, I had a competing bid from Gerber, so we'll be also air-dropping 18 tons of their Petrified Zwieback toasts that were recalled 20 years ago for shattering teething toddlers' jaws.

Possibly Bad News: The airtransport is run by Air Gobmerica, and their chief pilot is someone named... let's see... one Captain H. M. "Howling Bonkers" Murdoch. Hopefully he's an orderly and punctual fellow.

A bad idea, this is. Prepare yourself for the consequences of unreliable air transport, you must.

[Robin the Boy Wampi]

Holy Short Notice, Batwampi!!!!!

Do you think we can pull this off?!?

*pointlessly pounds one gloved hand into the other*

[Count de St. Jermlaine]

Yes. I, an Adept, will arrange for the whole system to be flooded with Astral Beans at the correct moment.

[Rysky]

Also Robot Chris isn't around anymore so...

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Rysky wrote:

Also Robot Chris isn't around anymore so...

Wow, I didn't know. I hope she is doing well.

[Rysky]

Ambrosia Slaad wrote:

Rysky wrote:

Also Robot Chris isn't around anymore so...

Wow, I didn't know. I hope she is doing well.

Me too.

[Freehold DM]

Rysky wrote:

Ambrosia Slaad wrote:

Rysky wrote:

Also Robot Chris isn't around anymore so...

Wow, I didn't know. I hope she is doing well.

Me too.

Me three.

[Vanykrye]

10 minutes after the scheduled start...forums are still up...

[Rysky]

The scheduled start is in 40 mins. They're going on Pacific Time.

[Master Pugwampi]

YES!! We managed to delay it an hour and make the start more "vague"! Good job everybody!

Now keep it up!

[Cori Marie]

Five minutes after scheduled start and things are still up

[Vanykrye]

Cori Marie wrote:

Five minutes after rescheduled start and things are still up

Fixed that for you, and since I can do that...

[Vanykrye]

...and it's still alive...

[David knott 242]

What kind of gremlins are you? You made things keep working longer? There is something really wrong with that.

[Master Pugwampi]

They haven't even been able to begin! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!

...HA!

:p

[Hunt, the PugWumpus]

I think Bob has his head stuck in the server gears and it's jamming them up.

HANG IN THERE BOB. THINK OBSTINATE THOUGHTS.

[Sableye]

You think we can stretch Bob enough to get his legs in for another jam?

[Childish Reconstituted Pugwampi]

Sableye wrote:

You think we can stretch Bob enough to get his legs in for another jam?

We can always try!

[Vanykrye]

They're now saying they should have the gremlins cleared by 2pm Pacific. Keep hanging in there, Bob. I mean, you know, literally. Just keep your head wedged in there nice and tight and dangle a while longer.

[Master Pugwampi]

♪♫ We shall not, we shall not be moved!
We shall not, we shall not be moved!
Just like a tree that's standing by the water side,
We shall not be moved! ♪♫

[Vanykrye]

Apparently not. Bob is doing some good work there.

[Cori Marie]

Poor Bob's head is gonna look like ground beef

[Count de St. Jermlaine]

So what else is new?

[Cosmo]

Hmm... Perhaps I should withdraw the pugwampis for now...

[Sableye]

I think Bob came out the other side.

Hey Bob! Scream if you can hear me!

[Bob the Pugwampi]

Owie

[Josh B Thornton]

I think I got some bob on my shoe.

[Brian Bauman]

Timing downtime is tricksy business!

Thanks for all the hard work, gobbos!

[Master Pugwampi]

Bob the Pugwampi wrote:

Owie

He's OK folks! What a trooper!

OK, they got the job done in about two hours, but our delay of over six hours was amazing! Well done everyone, especially you Bob!

Now for the after party...let's see...no one brought food...

*outside avocados fall on the parking lot, going through parked cars windshields and denting roofs followed by Petrified Zwieback toasts shattering glass*

...OK, the snacks are here! Everybody party!!!!

[DungeonmasterCal]

After today I wish I could be a Gremlin. Gremlins have all the fun. And Zwieback.

[Bob the Pugwampi]

Master Pugwampi wrote:

Bob the Pugwampi wrote:

Owie

He's OK folks! What a trooper!

OK, they got the job done in about two hours, but our delay of over six hours was amazing! Well done everyone, especially you Bob!

Now for the after party...let's see...no one brought food...

*outside avocados fall on the parking lot, going through parked cars windshields and denting roofs followed by Petrified Zwieback toasts shattering glass*

...OK, the snacks are here! Everybody party!!!!

My brainpan hurts

[Bob the Pugwampi]

Josh B Thornton wrote:

I think I got some bob on my shoe.

Can I have that back please sir? I think that may be my spleen

[Sableye]

Bob the Pugwampi wrote:

Master Pugwampi wrote:

Bob the Pugwampi wrote:

Owie

He's OK folks! What a trooper!

OK, they got the job done in about two hours, but our delay of over six hours was amazing! Well done everyone, especially you Bob!

Now for the after party...let's see...no one brought food...

*outside avocados fall on the parking lot, going through parked cars windshields and denting roofs followed by Petrified Zwieback toasts shattering glass*

...OK, the snacks are here! Everybody party!!!!

My brainpan hurts

Here, I'll just replace your frontal lobe with this broken headlight, that'll fix everything.

[Vanykrye]

*facepalm*

Sableye, that broken headlight is still attached to a '56 Buick. You still need to...sees Bob's vacant drooling smile...nevermind...

[Sableye]

Vanykrye wrote:

*facepalm*

Sableye, that broken headlight is still attached to a '56 Buick. You still need to...sees Bob's vacant drooling smile...nevermind...

REV THE GAS, HUNT!

[Bob the Pugwampi]

I IZ CYBERPUNK GREMZ NOW

[Hunt, the PugWumpus]

Bob the Pugwampi wrote:

I IZ CYBERPUNK GREMZ NOW

Still a better story than Johnny Mnemonic. (Sorry, Keanu)

[Freehold DM]

Hunt, the PugWumpus wrote:

Bob the Pugwampi wrote:

I IZ CYBERPUNK GREMZ NOW

Still a better story than Johnny Mnemonic. (Sorry, Keanu)

hugs dvd

Quiet, you.

[Vanykrye]

Freehold, you'd have to admit that substituting Bob into the Johnny Mnemonic story would be more entertaining. Not necessarily better, but more entertaining.

[captain yesterday]

Freehold DM wrote:

Hunt, the PugWumpus wrote:

Bob the Pugwampi wrote:

I IZ CYBERPUNK GREMZ NOW

Still a better story than Johnny Mnemonic. (Sorry, Keanu)

hugs dvd

Quiet, you.

Clutches DVD of Green Lantern.

[Tacticslion]

captain yesterday wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

Hunt, the PugWumpus wrote:

Bob the Pugwampi wrote:

I IZ CYBERPUNK GREMZ NOW

Still a better story than Johnny Mnemonic. (Sorry, Keanu)

hugs dvd

Quiet, you.

Clutches DVD of Green Lantern.

Clutches DVD of Hudson Hawk.

[DungeonmasterCal]

My son attended Hudson Elementary in second grade. Their mascot was the Hawks.