OOC

Thought that if we were going to restart the forums, a good place to start would be with the OOC. So... Here it is! The Official Out Of Character Thread! Enjoy! I'll start some new threads too, if any of you guys agree with me.

Does anyone want to suggest rules? How about

Only have one personality. Not seven or thereabouts.

<hint, hint>

What's your email, Tiberius? I see you're no longer Anonymous

Was it really that obvious?
Yes, it was.
Call me Frost.

Try
[email protected]
if you want me to check it.
But
[email protected]
exists as well.

Tibs, it was obvious that you were Anonymous because all of your previous posts bear your new name.

Good on you for the no guns thing, I will make sure to get hit every now and then in combat, and hopefully there will be no need for carrots or any other vegetables.

It's good to see a new character, hopefully we'll get some more. I should try to get others to start posting. But could we try to keep certain Thread Destroying individuals away from our board? The last thing we need is a Nuke in the alley.

Amen to that.
But, if you will remember, Clarke brought two bombs into this board. The nuke, yes, and also his car.
Edit: 8 bonus points to anyone that knows who Christy stole the sword off.

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ June 30, 2003 09:43 PM: Message edited by: Gerald Blake ]</font>

How about if anyone brings nukes along, We'll get a character called GOD or THE LORD to come along and just get rid of it with his "GOD POWERS". Fair?
(Martin Scripts would do it)

Angryface, that could work. I mean, some guy feels the need to misuse his freedoms in the roleplay, so we get someone with bigger freedoms to come along and fix it.
However, like our friendly neighbourhood Spidey said, "With great power comes great responsibility.", and the saying "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
I would point you to the "3am deserted in town" thread, if I may. A clear example of an intervention by our all powerful Moderator.

On an unrelated note, the new fight is taking an interesting direction. I said that I knew one of you fellas, and I think frostyface has decided it isn't him. I leaped down, and Chris says I land between you.

Ah, the joys of ambiguous posts.

Edit: Yes, the Rhiannon thread (spelling?) is just random ramblings (amazing alliteration!) about nothing. I don't think anyone has even decided what kind of game the game is. I mean, what sports do Korea and Germany play? Soccer?
But, please try to keep non-story comments and questions in the OOC. As our respectable mod said, "We have OOC for that. Biatch."

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 01, 2003 04:28 AM: Message edited by: Gerald Blake ]</font>

I agree. Please can we keep the OOC in the OOC thread? And, you know, the rhiannon stuff is cool. I actually spent a bit of time figuring out if you wanted people to join in or not. Are we all supopsed to do random, unconnected posts in there (if we should so feel like it) or are you actually looking for a direction?

Okay, so i'm confused. I cant be bothered re-reading that last paragraph, but i shoudl imagine it makes no sense.

I guess the question is- do you have a plan at all?

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It's not much fun for the rest of us if we're not allowed to join. (On the other hand, I haven't yet seen an opening that I would be enter on.)


If you think it would help, we could pass a law to allow thread-destroying posts to be _quickly_ removed. I think it's a traditional convention in freeform that you can simply ignore a post that breaks the rules, although we debators are taught to always "run with the squirril" if at all possible...


My personal fight's still against OOC, and since Gerald's now quoted and preserved what I said, I'm going to delete the post where I made that comment.

My apparently nasty editing in that 3 a.m. thread was in fact only removing posts that were out-of-character and should have been in a different place

Why are you against OOC? It's the only RELIABLE thread out there!

He is against the OOC mainly because it is not in character, I think. Makes sense really.

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Martin is an opportunist. Throw yourself out there, man. No shame when it's online and all that.

On another note, I do see the need to either preserve and then quickly delete, or just ignore altogether. I figure his views on it are more like the whole "every post is a beautiful, unique idea, and we must embrace them, regardless of their faults" kind of weak minded approach.

No one seems to have figured out the thing about that sword of Christy's. Hints coming, sorry.
It is the Connection between "The Matrix: Reloaded" and "Cheech and Chong", I believe. Bonus points reduced to four for a correct answer. And I will keep track.

Next up, the Rhiannon thread. Good stuff, I think, if anyone can bring it together a gold star would be in order, if it ends up making any sort of sense without being brought together I will do some breakdancing.

Edit: I just read the most recent Rhiannon post. Tibsy, I kill you!

Edit^2: Tibsy, you silly moose. You are too cheap to get a vibrating function in a phone that you don't own? You don't have a phone, and yet because you have no money, the magic phone has no vibrate? Please, explain.

Or, just EDIT YOUR POST.

[ July 03, 2003 06:41 AM: Message edited by: Gerald Blake ]

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 03, 2003 06:45 AM: Message edited by: Gerald Blake ]</font>

There is a perfectly logical explanation for everything in the Rhiannon thread. We just haven't made it up yet. We have deduced that the game was indeed soccer (what a guess!), but anyone could come in now and make it competetive street dancing / performing, and make Chris's seemingly random actions cause a major upset in the running of things. Like the naked man that runs onto the soccer field.
Anyhoo, I think we need some more regulars, so recruit all you can. Unless you think you might stumble onto someone like Clarke or myself, of course. The place is already slowing down, and I don't want to go through all that rubbish again.

I mean, who ever heard of a second major resurrection? (Outside of Charmed, of course.)

No offense, or anything, but did you by any chance just watch the Matrix? because it seems that the rhiannon thread is getting awfully matrixxy.

Frost strolled calmy into the OOC, not at all expecting a flame from Gerald. You can imagine his surprise when he was called both "tibsy" and a "moose".

Not nice, Gerald. Not nice at all.

Firstly: I will NOT answer to tibsy anymore. That's worse than calling Martin Seth.

Secondly: Why would you kill Tibsy? (remembering that Tibsy IS NOT ME.)

Thirdly: The entire thread doesn't make sense. It never did. IT PROBABLY NEVER WILL. Daniel Pearl is so high right now he can't even seem to remember his previous posts. He's got Chris Wesley doing a dance, for christ's sake. Is it really that important?

Fourthly: Frost hasn't yet figured out how to edit. Any help much appreciated.

Well, yeah, you're probably right.
I plan to see it on tuesday.

Nora, I'm not sure if you've met any of us outside of this board, but if you did, you'd perhaps understand a bit more.

Ok, well, I agree with you. That WAS stupid. Thanks a lot Chris.
Before I bother to write anything else, who else migh not be bothered posting anymore? Gerald?
PS
Just to have the last laugh... I read Gerald's post in WAM - I want my three points - but you can have one back if you ever read this.
PPS
Gee, you guys really know how to kill forums, don't you?
PSS
So who's writing the next eulogy?

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 11, 2003 04:26 AM: Message edited by: Tiberius Frost. ]</font>

Sorry, man. I was away for the week. I think (for the time being, at least) you can count on me to post regularly. I have no life.
Hey. I saw you edited one of those. Nice job there, man.
The three points are yours to keep. Legend one on seeing the post. It will go up onto my nickname. We do, however, need some more people to keep this alive, especially if Chris isn't coming along anymore.
And finally, awesome stuff on the Rhiannon post. I don't know if that is something you are allowed to do, but either way... Yeah, no points on that one sorry. That would just be encouraging you, and we couldn't have that now, could we?

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Yep.

And finally, (yeah, I have two finalies, I know) why is the one after PPS (post-post-script) PSS? Was that a typo, or is there still more to learn about ending stuff like that?

And I'm spent.

Thanks Gerald.
About the Pss thing... I couldn't remember what PS meant, and I thought it might be latin, like et cetera or ie, and so I put one with PP and one with SS to cover my bets.

The Rhiannon thread wasn't going anywhere, partly because I'm pretty sure we don't know who Rhiannon is, and I don't know who Daniel is, and also because Rhiannon isn't actually in the thread. Also I was annoyed because he just started getting with some chick in the middle of the forum and we don't want a repeat of Axle's house, now do we?
Also: I didn't like the way Daniel interacted with his own invented characters instead of the other, well, we'll say members, shall we?
I remember mentioning rules earlier in ooc but nobody said anything, so I didn't think anything about it.
But I need some help there I think,, despite you guys not wanting to encouage me [img]smile.gif[/img]

Lastly, I see Chris has replied to the Bus-stop thread. Chris, I don't think it's fair that you'll suddenly ditch us, especially while you still have responsibilities to other threads (eg, the alley and possibly Rhiannon) but you'll still log in to hit on Nora. Not cool.

-----quick edit
PSS (heh) Whatever happened to Martin Scripts? did somebody shoot him, or did he go on holiday?
-----quicker edit
PSSS (heheh) Why is one of the last posts in Rhiannon at the top now? Can somebody clear this up for me please? I'm horribly confused.
<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 15, 2003 07:01 PM: Message edited by: Tiberius Frost. ]</font>

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 15, 2003 07:17 PM: Message edited by: Tiberius Frost. ]</font>

Rats.
I think I am getting a bit lazy to pitch in too much recently. The alley scene looks a little uninviting to a few people, and the Rhiannon thread is even worse. I don't think it will come together, unless we all go to church and start killing demons, which none of us want. Except maybe the delusional, hamburger eating, NPC Rhiannon Herself. (No relation to Raab).
And on the topic of the Rhiannon Thread, I think we can thank Hostboard for mixing it up a bit. Yeah, it looks worse now, but people are still posting just as much as before. (Which is to say, not at all).
So... in the Alley thread, if one of us takes a swing at Chris, it doesn't look likely he will reply. Thus, time is frozen until we decide that we don't actually want to hit him. Or something.
Same in the others. Do we treat him as an NPC now? That would lead to some powerful storytellers, perhaps with too much control. However, it would make the story less disjointed.

In response to previous questions, I wanted to kill "Tibsy" (who may or may not be the individual known as Tiberius Frost) for an action of his in the Rhiannon thread which made direct and unashamed plagary of the script of the motion picture "The Matrix".

Daniel's interaction with some of his characters was definately addressed in an appropriate manner in the Rhiannon thread, also. A loophole in the rules (previously stated in one of the threads gone in the Big Delete) was exploited when one of us went up and

Quote:

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pushed his wench aside, because she wasn't a real person and couldn't complain

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I have already said that this action was genius. Anyone could walk into the thread and kill off any number of the NPCs, and without breaking a rule either. Well, not breaking that rule. Some other rules might go out the window, I can't remember them all.

Martin, if you are listening, post the rules again.POST SOMETHING.

And, to finish off, everyone get some Rammstein mp3s. Any other suggestions on good music very welcome.

For a game that has no rules (from what you've said, you made rules then deleted them) you are all set astoundingly firmly into certain modes of behaviour.

Your literary versatility permits a range of three genres, two of which are random cliche characters battling in pointless combat. I imagine your media diet consists of The Matrix, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Dawson's Creek and Doom. No matter how a thread starts out, you manage to find some creative way to reduce it to be exactly the same as all the others.

In response to previous questions, Tiberius, if you're confused about the way my own posts rearranged themselves in "Keep telling Yourself", I can inform you that it wasn't Hostboard. It became clear to me that it wasn't clear to you that the posts were in reverse order, so I rotated them. Reduction. Simplification. Conformity.

In fact, my favorite thread to date has to be the OOC itself. It is the only thread that you have managed to keep running. It is by far the thread most tolerate of imaginative posting styles, new ideas, and cultural references. And it has, by far, the most convincing role-playing on the board.

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 16, 2003 01:54 AM: Message edited by: Daniel Pearl ]</font>

I deleted my previous OOC post, I guess I was just bored and unmotivated at the time. I will keep posting.

Sorry if you're sad to see me back. Maybe I'll get a new character, but it doesn't seem likely.

...Besides, what would Nora do without me?

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 17, 2003 03:39 AM: Message edited by: Chris Wesley ]</font>

Well now. Posting in reverse chronological order. It would be original, if we hadn't all seen Memento recently.
Sadly, as we didn't click from the clues given (which I am sure were numerous), that thread is looking severely messed up. And now that they have been brought around to where they normally ought to be, whatever broken logic we had put together to try to explain the posts has been utterly crushed.
Oh, and tell me if the language I use gets overly repetitive. I would hate for that to happen.

Yes, Danny, we made the rules and then deleted them. Technically. Well, kind of.
It would be better to simlpy say that the thread containing the rules was created, and then subsequently deleted. No blame in that wording. But really, the rules being deleted was not entirely the fault of the deleter. The entity in question saw fit to purge the board entirely of the evils wreaked upon it by its sometime occupants. Thus, all threads inside of Incident were wiped, with no special treatment given to any particular one.
The Big Delete was a big overreaction to bad threads popping up on Incident. The place is better off because of it, but I think things are a bit more lenient around here, and deletes of posts by mods are severely frowned upon now.
So yeah. Our unspoke rules were at one point spoken, only they were unspoken soon after.

Yeah, we do seem to be a bit narrow minded when it comes to some of these topics. We are all (when I say all, I mean the people that apply to my description) children of the motion pictures The Matrix, Fight Club and the ones that go along with them, and visit many of the same websites to get our information and opinions handed to us. Any break from the norm will of course be recieved with some degree of suspicion, and perhaps initial rejection. However, if the idea comes across and people are interested, (see our sister board, Minority Report), it will get up and going, unlike favourite threads on this board, like Axle's house and whatnot.

So yeah. Sorry, no time to post in the other threads just now. Maybe tomorrow.

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 17, 2003 05:01 PM: Message edited by: Gerald Blake ]</font>

I've been reading Incident for a while now, thinking "Perhaps I should post.. nah, it's more fun to watch."
But I can't resist making comment, so I shall. When I think of something to say.

www.otnemem.com is cool if you haven't been there. Gives you a tiny bit of backstory.

The Big Delete was a mistake, I reckon. I think at that stage the populace hadn't totally became familiar with the basic rules of message boards - that old threads disappear on their own, without any deleting neccessary, and then they can be Bumped back up when you're feeling nostalgic.

I'm a personal opponenent of rules; Nora and Chris seem to be doing fine without them and I can't see how you could develop a rule that would let people play without preventing their incredible powers of insanity. There are basic freeform rules about the untouchability of your character and his or her possessions, and of 'no absolutes' but I don't think we need these... I dunno, when you say you want rules what exactly are you looking for?

I couldn't find any real way to work out the order of Daniel's posts. I figured the match was a soccer game, and I could even find the exact date of that, which made my feel really smart.. but if there's a universal Talk About Demons Day I haven't found it yet. Actually, I'll google for that...

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/sermons/languages.html

that was funny, but unrelated. Much like the previous link.

Does that mean that the Big Mac incident happens when our hero is out going to get pizza ingredients during the match? are the posts same-day, or months apart? Even in the right order, it's still pretty ambiguous. Or aren't we supposed to know?

I wonder who will be first to spot what's so funny about the end of Gerald's post...

You had better not mean the funny at the end that I think you mean. That is awesome. I think. But I did the other one first, so what I said makes sense. That is, if the joke you got was the joke I got. Anyways, whatever you picked up on, it was a complete accident.

Well, always nice to have a quote.
"I think I think, therefore I think I am. I think."

Well, nice to see an end (or temporary interruption) of your sabbatical, Martin.

Frost decided to ignore the mention of jokes, because he wasn't in a joking mood. ie, he was incredibly confused.

Like Daniel, apparently, I showed up After the 'delete' and after rules. I proceeded to invent a character with no name (The infamous 'Anonymous One') and broke a lot of the unspoken rules in the mall (apparently). Not to worry...

Of course, I agree (with whoever said it) that we don't really need rules. I think it would be better if people would get hurt in battle threads, because The Mall, Meanwhile on the other side of town, and I think there was another got pretty dull. But hey, it's up to you I guess.

I still don't understand Rhiannon. It just doesn't make sense. Why would you open the thread with a post that happened much later on, and then later switch it to it's proper place. If you were posting flashback type messages, wouldn't it have been better to say so, that way the rest of us'd understand, and then leave the posts in their original order?

I'm still confused, but I'll go read it and reply I think... But if you don't explain it real quickly a certain someone "who isn't a real person and can't complain" might be sorry for it.....

Alright. The topic again, the controversil "Keep telling yourself that Rhiannon" thread.
Firstly, and unimportantly, The name doesn't relate to the thread. Hardly to worry.

Daniel, I think when you originally posted it I'm pretty sure you had some greater purpose in mind. If you're going where I think you are with this, then I see exactly how it would make sense to begin with that post.
The impression I get is that you wanted it to be a sort of spiritual, if you like, battle, between beings from other planes of existence, I think. And I'm pretty sure you opened with that post because if you'd started with the basement we'd all have made up rock groups and had a band contest instead of astral battles. I've noticed that Jess went to church and it had some kind of effect on her, and I think that's significant since it seems 'kate' used something similar to fight the demons. Is\Was Daniel going to go to church as well? And I still don't understand the 'change' that happened to the people while they were watching the game.

But if that's what you were doing I think that it would have been far better if you'd have explained because now we're just messing with phones. Since we're Matrix junkies.

Anyway, the big problem I see is the order of posts. Watch:
Originally the thread went something like:

Daniel eating burgers
oocs from me and Chris-don't worry.
The (soccer) game
Gerald answers his phone.
Frost answers the phone he doesn't own [img]smile.gif[/img]
Chris dancing, I think.
Gerald's answering macine.
Jess's basement
Frost dropped his phone, entered the basement, and interacted with characters within.

After that last reply of mine, 2 posts were switched around. the unrelated burger post, and the basement, so that the basement is at the top and is replaced with the burger post.
The main problem was that Frost was IN the basement, AFTER he had talked to Gerald on the phone. But NOW, the basement exists BEFORE the phone thing had started. I thought about deleting my last post, but I liked it, and apparently so did Gerald because he keeps quoting it. If I delete it I'll also lose my direction in that thread which was, geting angry and going into the basement.
So now my character is way out of the storyline, and can't exist. People, please note the consequences of major editing in your posts. Bad stuff can and will happen.
So I've had a nice go at putting myself back into some sort of context, with a little help from Gerald Blake, and I'm not really sure what'll happen next. I apologize for messing up the thread, which I may have done, but I still think it can work (work as much as it is already, I might add).
I'm interested to see everyone's reactions.

I think what Tiberius meant in the Rhiannon thread was:

"Frost raised his own hand, and held out the most feared weapon - a handheld nuclear device, capable of killing everyone within a 500m radius. "Now you are faced with a dilemma. If anyone kills me, this blast will decimate the surrounding area. You let me go, everyone survives and nobody gets the booty. Put down your guns, and just walk away. You do not know how deep this goes, who your bosses realy work for, and why I am so wanted. You will never understand. Just walk away, there is no point in going on." Frost raised his arms in a cucifix letting the deepness of the situation sink in."


Yes, the big problem with that thread was the fact that we were reacting to events going backwards as if we were on a going forwards basis. I'm not sure why we didn't click earlier, to clues like "there is no madness in direction. which ever way it runs", but I generally prefer to do things in chronological order. Well, in real life, at least.

Tiberius, I think you would find that hot knives tend to cut better through warmer butter than the colder variety. Just for next time you want to decapitate someone or make some toast. And there were plenty of allusions to the famous "Come with me if you want to live" quote from Terminator 2, but you are right. They made references, and then backed off. I think that helped though. You know, they didn't make it a sequel just by re-using the tried and true formula. They did this several times, I think. One for each big famous saying or whatever. Like, "She'll be back" and all that.
And I think the sunglasses at the beginning made the movie great.

I will try to post some more at The Alley, but I'm not really sure what to do. Obviously, right now the most inviting scene is the Party at Kelly Jones'. In that one, everyone has an excuse to show up, and if anyone does anything to wreck the thread we can simply say "He is hallucinating. He had some of the Kumara and Apricot Pie."

And yeah, I think I made less sense than I intended to make about that joke that I think I got. Somebody set up us the bomb.

Every now and then, Chris woudl go and look at the old threads, where he woudl notice certain things. He woudl notice inconsistencies, he woudl notice random encounters with people who woudl only ever post once, but most of all, he woudl notice recurring typos.

The most common one seemed to be from Nora, who woudl mix up her L's and D's in the word "Would".

Chris woudl laugh whenever he saw this.

Thank you to all of the people who helped piss me off while I wrote the Interlude. I can type, ok? And Word doesn't give a shit if there's 2 spaces after a Period. It becomes a Grammatical Error after 3. You fuckers remind me of Tycho. I hate you all. From now on, if I'm typing during lunchtime, I don't expect 3 people hanging over my shoulder, cheering whenever I put two spaces after a Fucking Period.

Jesus Christ.

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 20, 2003 09:24 PM: Message edited by: Chris Wesley ]</font>

Double spacing is for typewriters. Not for use when word processing on personal computers, and certainly not for use on the internet.

Take off every 'Zig'!!
You know what you doing.
Move 'Zig'.
For great justice.

What really cracks me up is that Chris was picking up on recurring typos and whatnot at the same time as we were all hassling him about his own typing habits. Well, we hassled him when he was writing the "Interlude" too, I guess.

You can count on us to annoy you every time you post at lunchtime. We might even move on to grammatical errors and spelling.
Heck, it could become one of those exciting pastimes we woudl look forward to, day after day.


Next item on the list, what is our stance on the use of vulgar language in the threads? I know that I am a bit old fashioned on this sort of thing, but I'm sure a lot of that could be replaced by harmless words such as "fugger", "bucket", and in the extreme case perhaps a "darn" or two woudl be be appropriate every now and then. I only mention this because I believe that the previous two posts by Chris woudl cause irreversible harm to any innocent little children that happen upon our little board.


It was pretty funny when Chris was writing his Interlude starter post, though. A certain non-Nora individual threatened to pick up a telephone and answer Chris' call, and make the phone number Nora gave Chris incorrect. In essence, create an impolite rejection, while at the same time giving the threatening character opportunity to rejoin the posting on the subject and begin to be annoying again.
In response to this, Chris decided he woudl have the intended recipient of the communication pick up on the other end. Of course, this woudl constitute a major breach of the spoken-and-then-quickly-unspoken rules of Incident. Because, of course, we can't have a character determining the actions of another now, can we? Thus the mother thing was thought up, and the threat by the male character was effectively canceled out. So yeah.


And, just for future reference, the word "period" does not require a capital letter every time you write it out. You have no chance to survive make your time.

Frost felt rather left out by all this, because he had library duty today at lunchtime and didn't get to play on the computers. Also, he had to do all the work because the other librarians didn't turn up. Wankers.

Firstly - I think that expletives have just as much place on the boards as Clarke Anderson's car. ie, not much.
No, that's not true. I think they're very important, and that people should feel free to use them. Besides, if small children do happen to (miraculously) wander into Incident I think they'd be haunted enough by people killing each other with guns, cars, swords, nukes, and orange golf clubs for it not to matter if Chris swears from time to time.

Secondly - Chris, you might not have noticed but you spelled the word 'would' incorrectly several times in your last post.
I would like to propose "That the assembly condemns Chris Wesley for the incorrect spelling of the word 'would' on several occasions, for his misuse of sarcasm as a language feature, and for his blatantly being so far ooc that it was almost too much for the ooc".

Thirdly - I have to say it before Gerald does.
Ha ha ha ha....

So..... trying to ditch me huh? Well fair enough, the nuke thing was realy stupid, but in all honesty that thread needed killing anyway. It was getting just way too repeditive. So Clarke is gonna change his manner a bit, in a hope that that you will still like him, because "I can't stand the thought that anyone doesn't like me".
(first person to tell me where that quote comes from wins .... free double spacing after puncuation for a whole year - no offence Chris, just all in the name of fun! )
So without being a jackass I will return to my posting, and try and no f**k (note the lack of car) up your precious forum. Have fun and remember that Minority Report is only two hyperlinks away on the board list - just in case you are bored. Like me. Which is why I'm ranting like this.
Thanks, Clarke
PS, 3 Kudos points for anybody who can find the character name and movie that that quote came from. A hint would be to say Mark Walberg. Your time is ticking........

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 22, 2003 04:09 AM: Message edited by: Clarke Anderson ]</font>

First up: Martin Scripts.
He isn't posting with much frequency. He has been noted to say things to the effect of "Incident has no place at school", and "There is more to life than just Incident. Have you met Morrowind?"
He is attempting to discourage us from using the board. Stuff reminds me of other stuff. Like in the old OOC, quotes from Martin such as "This restart thing hasn't exactly started a posting frenzy, has it?", and the super-relevant one from Axle, "says the man... WHO HASN'T POSTED ANYTNING &!!!!!!!$$*($#&#*(." I think that brings it all into perspective.

I will make no comments on the posting speed of Chris Wesley. I myself am a slow poster, and I believe that if sometihng is worth posting it is worth posting well. Most of the time. Then again, I have been known to over use the "Edit post" feature on the boards.
I will however make some comments on Chris Wesley. Like his overreaction to Clake Anderson's (!) hyphenation of the noun "x-b-o-x" (Which I will refuse to give a capital letter. And three hyphens are better than one, right?)

In The Alley, Chris has made it clear that he doesn't know my character. That means that I know who they both are now, but neither of them know who I am. I will not let Gerald give out his name except under some heaps-as-exceptional circumstances. It is simply not "In-Character" for him. Probably you best bet, if you need the name to come out would be for Clarke to use it when he inevitably recognises me. But then again, The Guy with the Katana works nicely, doesn't it?

In response to Clarke's OOC post, yes we were trying to ditch you. Yes, the nuke was stupid. No, that thread was almost about to go somewhere, thank you very much. You can't spell the word "repetitive". Attempt to make some form of coherent sentences in posts, instead of writing things like "and try and no f**k up your precious forum."
Welcome back, man. Good to see you.
You are all fully entitled to hand out Kudos Points for trivia or some legendary random action, whatever. Like recognising your quote.
The reward for recognising Chris' sword has expired. It was the Master Sword, used by the character Link the the "Legend of Zelda" series of games.

I am personally considering beginning my own thread. Sci-fi based, stuff happens to fit the timeline, but the meat and potatoes of it would be our witty and thinly veiled remarks at things in the real world. Implied scathing remarks and terrible puns, if we can manage it. Good for a laugh, the semi OOC set in space. Maybe. I might just have to brainstorm for a bit. You know, make it all fit together.

And yeah, visit our sister site, Minority Report. One more thing to point and laugh at.

On another note, does anyone recognise this man?
http://www.geocities.com/braindeadch...images/fag.jpg

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 22, 2003 05:07 AM: Message edited by: Clarke Anderson ]</font>

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 22, 2003 05:18 AM: Message edited by: Clarke Anderson ]</font>

I was going to again go into depth on a rant on the importance of correct spelling and grammar. Then Some People posted. I now think that some people are beyond salvation. But in any case, such a high degree of jocularity at those certain misfortunes of others is pretty darn sad. We all need to get out more.

That picture in the Clarke's OOC post is pretty legendary. Well, it would be, if Geocities would work. The only trouble is that when Clarke edited his post to put the picture up, the rest of his message was deleted. I believe it read something along the lines of "Sister site my [expletive deleted.] We'll see who wears the pants around here..."
The rest of the opst went on is a similar nondescript fashion. I just can't remember all of it.
Pity, that.

And please, Clarke, stop it with the Halo in the Party thread, or we may have to resort to ignoring you.

I'm just checking if my avatar works. The big picture in Clarke's post isn't showing up and neither is his new avatar. Ah well, that's what I get for having such a sloooww computer...

His avatar seems to be working for me. The picture isn't, though. The avatar does seem a little small on my computer, but then again, everything looks small on my computer.

Edit: We seem to have visitors. Quite a few (relatively speaking.) A good thing, no doubt, but I can't help but feel like our formula for success has been disrupted.

Whatever happens, the board grows. Welcome to the new people, no handheld nukes thank you very much.

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 23, 2003 03:19 AM: Message edited by: Gerald Blake ]</font>

Yea, his avatar's working now on mine.
MY avatar, however, is less than perfect. For some reason the "custom" which I am repetitively told to select is not on the list, no matter how many times I upload it. Any help much appreciated, in the meantime I'm stuck with this, which is, in general terms, better than nothing.

I also have a complaint posted by Castor and Pollox.
I have to assume you're new, and you pushed me off a fence. Not nice. Technically it's against the rules. But since the rules are known only to an enlightened few, I guess that's a shortcoming on our behalf.

As I understand them, the rules basically involve you not being able to control another player's character. Example, you can attack me, but it's up to me whether Frost gets hit or not. Otherwise I'd have Gerald Blakes Ponytail mounted on my wall by now.

If anyone gets any new ideas involving Rhiannon then please post them, I don't want to have to post twice in a row. I'm wondering if the Alley will turn into a second mall (I hope not). Maybe with a better ending, perhaps...

Or, even better, someone start a new thread! We could use a change.

And if Gerald doesn't introduce himself soon then I'm just going to keep calling him 'Ponytail'. Hah.

<font color="#f7f7f7" size="1">[ July 23, 2003 03:44 AM: Message edited by: Tiberius Frost. ]</font>

Well, your current avatar would be nice, if it wasn't a bit of a copy of mine. Now, if I could find myself a decent avatar the world would be perfect. Or, perhaps not.

The rules are all well and good, but the Alley may well be exempt from a number of those, in my views. If we had a general consensus we could act in a manner far less restricted than in other threads, to open the action up a bit. Of course, no saying "Fred walked up to Jim, who subsequently died." (American censored anime, anyone?) - That would constitute an abuse of power.

The only thing I wonder about is the actions of The Almost-Albino-Bob-Marley Twins in the interlude thread. It must be said that the action scenes of Incident were intended to be of secondary nature to the social threads, the interaction between characters in perhaps more sedate, and G-Rated situations. PG now, whoa there. Let's not get too carried away here.
However, it is also the nature of Incident to be unpredictable. Things are not meant to go completely the way of the thread starters, and so some degree of freedom is imparted upon posters.

So really, I don't have an opinion right now. Ask me later.