Calvinball Begins!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Spidey patrols the virtual halls of the SDMB, searching for signs of teammates, foes, the Calvinball (still safely with Balance), Ed Zotti, Cecil, anyone.

She encounters Blackclaw pensively musing, and looking quite guilty about something. As Co-captain of the Hobbes team (Tygr, where are you?) she suggests to Blackclaw, as the only other team member currently available, that a meeting should be called via this thread.

Blackclaw, who is humming the tune to the 70s song “Timothy” (the one with lyrics: “Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go. . . God why don’t I know?”) is distractedly looking for something in drawers and under furniture.

Spidey, seeing no help will be coming from that quarter, steps out the door into Cyberspace, searching for teammates.

----:confused:/
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<B><I>Coughing up furballs like they were going out of style</B></I>

Hey, what is wrong with these bastard border guards, they won’t let me across… I’m certain Cecil is in the United States, we have searched Canada <I>thoroughly</I> and he isn’t here, he must be fighting ignorance at the source.

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realises he’s standing on the Social Change square which entitles him to change the rules anyway he sees fit. He thereby declares finding Cecil secondary to getting the Calvinball (or reasonable facsimile thereof) to the Zone of Enlightenment which has, of course, been hidden for years and that anyone who has used their powers to this point in the gmae have to sing a verse of either ‘GROSS Rules’ or their very own personal values song

tinkers with cardboard box and makes it into a Calvinball locater/recaller. Suddenly the ball appears inside. There’s a howl of surprise and anguish from inside the bowels of the building… it sounds vaguely like Balance…

Hey SpiderWoman, what do you want me to do with this?
waits to hear the songs while Spider decides

1976: Jimmy Carter becomes US president number 39, "Charlie's Angels egan to show on TV and ran until 1981, Canada abolished the death penalty, The Eagles recorded "Hotel California."
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Weirddave decides to crash the game. Grabbing the ball from dpr, he engages the propeller on his beenie and flies towards the window. He shouts “so long, suckers” just before realizing the window is closed and smacking into it. The ball bounces from his hands and he crashes to the floor.

groan[sub]anyone want me on their team?[/sub]

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Kat snatches up the Calvinball as it bounces away from weirddave. Decides to switch Nymysys’s and Turpentine’s abilities, so that Hobbes’s team has the Nymkiss[sup]TM[/sup] on their side.

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On further reflection, Blackclaw realizes that he couldn’t have accidently eaten Cecil.

First off, even as a T-Rex Blackclaw prefers the taste of girls.

Secondly, whoever was sitting in the chair had a slightly bitter taste and the meal would have been better with salt. Cecil, being the world’s most perfect human would have not required any seasoning.

Lastly, Cecil is the world’s smartest human being and would have realized that even a five and half foot tall t-rex would inadvertantly cause some problems. Considering that the object of the game was to find Cecil, Cecil would be sure not to be in his office when the T-Rex came looking for him. Instead, Cecil probably scheduled a meeting with someone he didn’t much care for. So in all probably, Blackclaw devoured a particularly annoying female scientologist.

Feeling much better about himself, but wondering if scientologist are posionious, Blackclaw chases after Kat while trying to remember what side she is on.

[Quick note to Ref’s. In regard to the the mod’s request about toning down huge threads we might want to put a post count limit on this thread and roll the action over into another thread should this one grow too large.]

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eewwwwwwwww!

I don’t know that song. Hmmm, I may have to think a while on that one. Meanwhile, I hope that Blackclaw isn’t burping scientology for the rest of the game.

And I hereby claim weirddave for the Hobbes team.

Hey, dpr, how about a fragment of “Hotel California” ::sings:: you can check out anytime you want, but, you can never leave?:: ::dodges rotten fruit, and the Calvinball, which dpr has just thrown at his own teammate. It bounces down the hallway, into the arms of: ???

----:eek:/
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[bagkitty, as for Cecil:

he must be on his way to Washington, D.C.]

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I’m so confused. (Was my tinny screeching that bad?)

----:confused:/
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And who has the Calvinball now?

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And screech-owl curls up in the corner for a little nap*.

*seriously, I will be off the boards til about Tuesday - I have access only at work right now and a 3 day weekend coming up :D. Continue the game with me, just make sure it’s not too horrific nor anything I normally would not do. :eek:

:re-reads thread:
:confused:

How did I get webtangled again? Could someone get me out for there please?

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You just don’t want to sing! dpr wants everyone to sing who has used their powers. Maybe this little web-entangled nap will inspire you as to what song to choose! (And that web-entangled thing, the phony balls aren’t the only web entanglers!) (evil grin).

----:p/
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::skips off down the hall, after the Calvinball::

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::Continues to stay hidden in the shadow while following the correct Calvinball. By the time they find Cecil, I’ll be able to swoop in, steal it, and give it to Cecil.::

(Under his breath) HAHAHAHAHAHA! They’ll never find me.

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Okay, I can stay til about 2 p.m. my time.

::deep breath::

NEEEEEEEEEEEEAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR…

::breathes::
WHERE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEV-
ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU
::breathes::
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRE

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in several arms, and winds up for the pitches:

drops everything, covers ears.

----/:eek
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NOW I know why they call them screech-owls.

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----/:eek:
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Actually, screech-owls do not screech. Some of the vocalizations of the Barn Owl Tyto alba can better be described as a screech (as one of my professors once said, “If you hear a raucous noice in the middle of the night and the hair on the back of your neck stands straight on end, it’s probably a Barn Owl.” In addition, the Barn Owl can rasp, howl, chirp, scream, rattle and make a variety of other noises, most indescribable in print. [Interesting sidenote - the Barn Owl and the similar-sounding named Barred Owl Stryx varia are the only dark-eyed owls in Florida, the rest have yellow eyes.

Returning to the topic at hand (or voice, as the case may be)…

The same inter-species vocalization confusion is likely the
reason the for the name of the Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus, since the call of the Barn Owl is more of a saw-rasp than the call of the Northern Saw-whet Owl is.

The North American screech-owl, unlike the Barn Owl, has a much smaller range of noises. The Eastern Screech-owl Otus asio, or which I am part of the Florida subspecies O.a. floridanus has two distinct calls: a whinny, which is a series of quavering whistles decending in pitch, and a single trill on one pitch - akin to hoo too too too tootootootootootootoo, particularly prevalent in the breeding season (about February to June). The Western Screech-owl Otus kennicotti (similar in appearance to the Eastern Screech-owl) has two calls - a series of quavering whistles accelerating in tempo, and a short trill followed immediately by a longer trill. To the best of my knowledge, no recordings of either species has produced anything akin to a screech.

Now Spider Woman mentioned owl pellets, more aptly termed “castings”, but that’s a whole 'nuther topic.

Hello?

Hello? Anyone there?

Good, everyone’s asleep! My other not-so-secret-in-real-life secret ability works - the ability to bore people with dry factual dissertations.

Now to sneak out of here. I’ve freed myself from the webbings (mostly), but preening’s gonna be hell. This stuff tastes like goo, and my feathers are all stuck. Might be a nice hair gel.

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I did not know that.

Was that your song, or were you just calling for teammates?

I have followed the Calvinball to an open stairwell, where it bounced down out of sight. So who has it now?
Could it be Wolverine?

----:confused:/
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<hijack continuation>Hey, screech, at least it’s better than the harshawk, a raptor that quacks much like a duck. How embarassing for a hawk!</hijack continuation>

Balance reaches into one of his Endless Pockets[sup]TM[/sup], and pulls out his Calvinball Detector[sub]pat. pending[/sub]. He begins tracking down Kat with the intention of protecting her as she makes for the Zone of Enlightenment–aka “wherever Cecil is”, duh!

Meanwhile, he’s singing:

“I’m your only friend, I’m not your only friend, but I’m a little glowing friend, but really I’m not actually your friend, but I am…<beat,beat,beat,beat>…”

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What’s that flying down in front of Kat? Is it a speeding bullet? A small comet? No, it’s cykrider! Riding at a blazing 130 rpm I suddenly stop right in front of Kat, causing a huge dust cloud to spray in her face (it’s very dusty here!). That causes her to sneeze and gives me enough time to snatch the Calvinball and ride it on over to hand off to Balance.

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That’s no way to treat a Kat (who is on the Hobbes team)!

Balance, ckride, a disgruntled Kat, and Spidey, proceed cautiously through the corridors of the SDMB, watching for opponents. Come out, come out wherever you are!

----:D/
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::Chuckles to himself as he watches Cykrider attack his own teammate for the Calvinball::

I must remind Nymysys that her new power is to resurrect dead animals. Any spider creature that dies can now be reborn to serve our side.

::Taps fingers together in order while glowering over the hands::

Excellent.