Sunspace, it may be better not to know…
hears crashing, thumping, roaring noises from behind the porticullis, and a pair of high girlish screams
It’s after them! Quick, unlock the porticullis!
Ummm…suuuure, picunurse. That’s not a problem at all. In fact, howzabout you have have a seat over here in our special…err…Initiation Observation chair…yes, that’s believable…there ya go, just hop on up. Hmm? The conveyer belt? Oh…that’s…ummm…to…move you along so you can observe the entire sequence of event…yes, that’s it…
Uhoh. The barbarians are at the gates. Not to mention the large robotic Squck inside the gates. Time to exercise the better part of valor.
:: jumps in the emergency escape pod and rockets off to GQ ::
:dubious:
Haaaal!
Don’t you touch my picunurse…that’ll call for an ass whoopin of the undead variety.
Stick to the newbies and the other experienced initiators. 
Wait…did you ever get an official initiation thread, picunurse?
Barbarians?!? At least we don’t run off and leave a woman in danger…! grumbling
Hal, for Og’s sake, get the porticullis open before the Squck gets Atheist Princess–
Hal?
sees picunurse :eek:
jumps onto conveyer belt Hang on! starts undoing the knots in the cords
My vote is that we conquer and colonize The Vale - make it our own!
We’ll build our own Initiation Complex there; we don’t need Hal’s booby-trapped, atrocity-ridden maze!
What? The Vale is inside Hal’s castle? Oh, right…
Well, let’s rescue a Princess, anyways!
Helps Kythereia with the knots
Meh…I rescued the princess years ago. I was the first one in my family to beat that game.
What?
Wrong princess? 
:: Slice! Slice! ::
That’s what I think of your rope! Haha! That Barbarians are indeed at the gates! Now what say you? Shall we unleash the Hatchet of War, and destroy the abominations (and Hal’s cloning vat) once and for all?
watches ropes fall to pieces You did it! jumps for joy
You go destroy the Abominations of War, Regallag, I think a fair princess over here needs to be looked to… 
at harmless
I just noticed Hal is off line…you know what this means right?
: tackles Hal and secures him with bits of rope left over from picunurse’s bonds :
mwahahahaha…
Away with the scoundrel!
:: sends in a hologram waving a white flag ::
Truce? 
Vale? Duck? What’s going on???
[sub]I don’t remember anything anymore… [/sub]
: pauses stuffing Hal into the laundry shoot and looks at Sunspace :
Now where did you come from?
Oh no! Sunspace has lost his memory!
Sun - don’t you remember? You were just saying how you were going to pay me back the te- uh… twenty dollars you owe me?
Oh, and some other things happened. Goats and squids and stuff. No biggy.
Dollars? What are ‘dollars’? I–
:: turns and looks at some of the others, especially Kythereia ::
Woman.
:: Falls over. Explosion burns and tentacle marks (among other scars) are visible on his arms. ::
Oof…looks like he’s in rough shape. Come to think of it, we all must be kinda hurtin’-looking, what with all the arrows sticking out of everyone’s butts making us look like a buncha porcupines…
Hmmm…a RoboPorcupine! That’d help get rid of the basement beasts!
Nope…that’d be your job.
: throws a shoulder to Hal’s rear end and finishes stuffing him down the laundry shoot :
What the hell happened to Sunspace? :eek:
Well, let’s take a look.
:: looks at Sunspace’s brain ::
Oh, there’s the problem. One of his lobes has been squided. The only way we can undo the damage is to journey past the vale, and through the Forest of Woe, and across the Plains of Hate, and over Morrowing Mountains to find the Wizard od Squids, al the while under constant attack from horrible, unspeakable creatures! Either that, or someone take him to a good brain surgeon.
:eek: Er … I nominate, uh … not me. :eek:
Regallag, you seem like a hearty fellow, why don’t you go?
Well, I’m not a brain surgeon, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last ni - -
sigh
OK, I’m in for The Vale!