# Feydeau, you asked for it..now come and get it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666 "2005-03-28T21:00:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/101 "2005-04-06T21:51:36Z")
::A door opens further down the hall, light chasing the darkness away. **Greenback** peers in.:: I knew this wasn’t going to be the exit. What kind of place would have an exit here, even if it is marked EXIT. Of course, all the doors are marked as exits and they never go anywhere. ::notices **Sunspace** , **Daithi Lacha** and **Feydeau** :: Hey you three. I didn’t know anyone came down here. Ah well. Enjoy yourselves. I gotta run. ::closes the door ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/102 "2005-04-06T22:00:50Z")
Hey!!! :: **Sunspace** and **Daithi Lacha** run towards the door that **Greenback** opened, **Feydeau** in tow. They reach it and pull it open. Light streams in. They rush through, only to stop short in surprise. :: ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/103 "2005-04-06T22:22:43Z")
\…check it out, **Kythereia** …they think they’ve found a way out…\. Hit that switch over there…no, not that one, the one next to it. Yeah, that one. Oh, this is gonna be _fuuuuunny_… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/104 "2005-04-06T22:58:46Z")
:: Trees. **Sunspace** , **Daithi Lacha** and **Feydeau** were looking at a forest of incredible trees. Hundreds of metres high, the trees dominated the far slope of the valley that the open door overlooked. They looked back. The open door indeed had a sign _EXIT_ on it, and they sould see the cold concrete room with its pool of water and twisting vines within. The vines were desperately straining towards the light. They looked around. The door was halfway up a green grassy slope in a high mountain valley. Great forests dominated the valley, but off to the right, beyond the mouth of the valley, a distant plain was visible, extending to a pale horizon. A railway line ran along the floor of the valley. A train station at the centre of a small village lay directly below the grassy slope. A barely-visible sign on the station read, “La Kutimejo”. There was no-one in sight. :: Let’s prop that door open. :: \*\*Sunspace[b[ reached down to grab a rock and wedge it in the open door. :: ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/105 "2005-04-06T23:27:23Z")
Oh, hey, my light is working again. Must’ve been some sea water or olive oil from Mariah that got in there… Look, down the passage and to the left - there’s another doorway. I can see light seeping in from around the lintel. Also, notice how the singing has stopped? Or has it… Odd. Say, is **Feydeau** OK? He hasn’t said anything in a while. What’s the matter, bub? Squid gotchyer tongue? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/106 "2005-04-07T02:18:49Z")
[sub] :: change to traditional prose posting style instead of double-colon bracketing :: [/sub] “Let’s sit **Feydeau** down on the doorsill. I don’t think ey’s been completely here for a while.” **Sunspace** helps **Feydeau** to sit on the sill of the mountain dorway. He feels the dank air from the room, with its smell of brine and concrete, flowing around them and down the mountainside. He looks around some more. The doorway is set in a rough rock wall that from the outside seems to have closed off a small cave. The adjacent hillside slopes backward from the door. He listens. There are faint sounds from the village in the valley: a ringing bell, barking dogs, a shout and an animal cry. **Feydeau** leans back against the doorframe and relaxes. **Sunspace** sticks his head back in the room. To his left, hopeful tendrils from the first door has almost made it to the open mountain door. To his right, the pool of water is rippled by mountain breezes, and the other two doors are closed. The room seems entirely too large to fit inside the mountain slope. There is indeed light coming under the lintel of the third door, the one **Greenback** opened. **Daithi Lacha** has his hand on the knob. He opens the door and walks through it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/107 "2005-04-07T04:00:13Z")
There is a distant announcement over the Initiation Complex’s PA system. " Newbie alert. Newbie alert. Would **Kythereia** , **twickster** , and **Sunspace** please report to the Cephalopod Room.Would **Kythereia** , **twickster** , and **Sunspace** please report to the Cephalopod Room. Thank you. " **Sunspace** carefully places a large rock across the sill of the mountain door, blocking it open. With a longing look at the green valley, he grabs **Feydeau** and re-enters the room. He turns right, looks through the open door where **Daithi Lacha** went, and sees no-one. He yells trough the doorway: “Anyone there?” There is no response. “Damn! I can’t wait.” The Masters of the Initiation Ceremony were notoriously capricius, and things were unpredictable enough, even without the inherent danger of the actual events. **Sunspace** hesitates, then makes up his mind. He turns from the third door, and goes through the fourth door, up the stairs, through the other door and the room with the pool and hoist and vats, and returns to the Cephalopod Room. Mariah is in her tank, tentacles moving restlessly. The others start to [arrive](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=310597). ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/108 "2005-04-07T13:02:23Z")
**Daithi** looked through the doorway and saw nothing at first, just a vague light source in the near-distance. It flickered, cool and blue, from what seemed a thousand miles but turned out to only be around twenty feet from the doorway. He approached, cautiously. The source appeared to be facing away from him, toward the dim recesses of what appeared to be a room without walls. The sound of dripping water mingled with the low moaning of a breeze, and something else - the lapping of waves? He could see more clearly now: it was a box, sitting on a mound of dirt. The light streamed out of one side of the box, and he walked around to see what caused the glow. The box appeared to have one side with a rectangular opening set into it, and this window was covered with something perfectly clear and slightly curved at the edges. Vague flickering images appeared from behind the window, and Daithi thought he heard his name called. He stood directly before it, and abruptly became very tired. “I’ll just rest here for a moment, and then catch up with the others,” he thought. “Just a moment, and I’ll go.” Hunkering down on his haunches, he studied the quickly-clarifying symbols and faces that seemed to blossom out of the light. They burned thoughts into his brain, and his eyelids slowly closed… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/109 "2005-04-07T19:28:01Z")
Oooh, **Sunspace** is calling, I gotta go… I’ll be back! _smooches **Hal Briston** , runs out_ ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/110 "2005-04-07T20:01:05Z")
:eek: OoooOOOOO! I’m telling **kitten**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/111 "2005-04-07T20:07:30Z")
:o :o :o How much grovelling do I need to do now? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/112 "2005-04-07T20:08:38Z")
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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666/113 "2005-04-08T03:16:22Z")
An unspecified amount of time passes. In the nebulous room with the dirt mound, **Daithi Lacha** suddenly comes out of his trance in response to an unmistakable and very basic urge. “Cripes! I need to pee…” He gets up from his seat in front of the box. “How long have I been here?” He looks down at himself. There is a definite layer of dust on the parts of his thighs and arms and shoulders that had faced upwards while he sat. He looks around and moves stiffly towards the door, which is oddly difficult to see. He passes through into the room with the other doors and the pool of water. The door to the mountan valley is still open; it has been blocked open by a large rock. He goes outside to pee. Afterwards, he looks around and breathes the clean mountain air. "Man, I’d like to bring the others here… " “The others. Where are the others?” He runs back into the room and looks around. The pool of water is now quite a bit smaller. The steel chute from the trapdoor is still dark, but he can hear sounds of struggle coming down it. The vegetation from the first door has grown solid rootlike branches trough the mountain door and is now twining up the rock wall outside and leafing out. The third door that led to the room with the box has closed. He movesover to the fourth door. The struggle is audible through it as well. A voice shouts, “Duck!”, followed by a crashing sound. **Daithi Lacha** He opens the door to find a stairwell and runs up it… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feydeau-you-asked-for-it-now-come-and-get-it/296666.md?page=5)