billy Horrorshow Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Sorry about the Thread title: Just wanted to get your attention. No. Seriously. I apologize. (Please Terats, my node is quite disgusting and you want no part of it. Please?)I don't want to be an intellectual or philosophical thrill-kill here, but is it ok to talk about more mundane things from time to time?I just wanted to check. If there's standards that I'm missing just let me know.I don't usually play the keyboard jockey, but with a half dozen broken ribs and a foot in a cast I really don't feel like pursuing my normally active, non-hospitalized lifestyle.My only question at this point is what the hell do you boys and girls do when you're bored out of your mind? You can imagine why this question is pertinent right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Bailey Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Sorry, I'm normally too busy to get time off. I'm actually shepardizing three cases while I type this.But when I did have time I normally gravitated to OpNet shows or sports. But I was a baseline at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 Eh. It's not a big deal. I have no idea what shepardizing is...but I'm working a bit as well on my wish-it-was-my-Death bed. Surreal moment of the now: The joy that is Dr. Limulus. I'm looking at a resume/file for the guy who doesn't say much about what he can do except that he has been blessed with "the innate properties of the Horseshoe Crab, one of man's living fossels." Wow. Note the misspelling on top of...what the hell are a Horseshoe Crab's "Innate Properties"? The worst thing is going to be when I call this guy to find out what the hell and he's one of those genius types that wrote this crap to get my attention and interest. "Terats ate my Brain" style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Stewart: TAG Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by billy Horrorshow:My only question at this point is what the hell do you boys and girls do when you're bored out of your mind?Sometimes I come here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Liam Stewart: TAG: Sometimes I come here. You don't say....Yeah, well I thought that maybe the Opnet would provide enough distraction from the joy that is Doctor "I've got magic horseshoe crab powers" Limulus. I need to get better faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Stewart: TAG Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Try Europe. Its where I go when I need some down time.People are fun to be around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Innate Properties of the Horseshoe Crab? I dunno, does this guy look like an armoured up-turned dinnner plate with a tail and come out of the water to spawn? I can just imagine it ...[size:3]I am Horseshoe Crab Man, together with my faithful sidekick, Shrimp Boy, we fight the machinations of the evil Terat, Crown of Thorns Starfish Woman as she tries to eat the coral reef we're municipal defenders of.Also available in a full range of action figures. Manufacturers warning contains small parts that may represent a choking hazard, not suitable for children under 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Walker: I can just imagine it ...[size:3]I am Horseshoe Crab Man, together with my faithful sidekick, Shrimp Boy, we fight the machinations of the evil Terat, Crown of Thorns Starfish Woman as she tries to eat the coral reef we're municipal defenders of.Walker I think I love you and fucking hate you oh so very fucking much.now I HAVE to find out who this guy really is. :sigh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 Good one! So I suppose their arch nemesis is the Dark Fisherman and his Trawler of Doom?Or perhaps the mighty Sushi Chef? Who can make a bento box to die for... literally?Dunn dunn dunnnnnnnnn........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 billy: This is a not uncommon reaction where I am concerned. Look at your boredom this way - subjectively your experiencing more time, so you're actually stretching out your life experience. If your life was full of interesting stuff it would appear to you to be over much quicker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 10, 2004 Author Share Posted October 10, 2004 While I struggle to resist doodling the rest of Captain Horseshoe's crew (Dr. Limulus my ASS)...Yeah. I get the "subjective" time thing.But Which would you choose:30 years of Sex, Violence, and, well, rock N! Roll, or100 years in line at the Post Office?I'm just bitter and not used to being bed-bound when some perverse form of affection isn't involved...but I'll survive. I think I'll be here until my disintegration wounds...um, re-integrate? On a side note: I'm giving Dr. "Horseshoe Crab" Limulus a call tomorrow. I'll let you guys know what the fuck horseshoe crab powers are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastian Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 If you like, I can send you some skilled companionship.Horseshoe Crabs hold the racial memories of a species that has existed for more than 500 million years. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 10, 2004 Author Share Posted October 10, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Bastian:If you like, I can send you some skilled companionship.Horseshoe Crabs hold the racial memories of a species that has existed for more than 500 million years. Wow.I never thought I'd see the day when me getting some action would be in the same breath as Horseshoe crabs. Wow. I read the history on the little buggers...my favorite line from the N!oogle search was this bit: "Horseshoe crabs are completely harmless." My second favorite was: "Unless you step on one, Horseshoe crabs are completely harmless."Btw thanks for the offer, but until I regrow 10% of my body (which luckily I eventually can do) I'm not really going to be able to perform. The things we do to entertain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 Well, um. Yeah.Talked to Dr. Limulus. May put a copy of the conversation up on the opnet to share but doubt it. The guy was kinda slow and sweet in that classic "Tell me about Dah Wabbits George" way but at least I found out what the hell "horseshoe crab powers" are.Apparently being able to stop time only for yourself so that you can survive for a very very long time counts as a horseshoe Crab power. Seems he got a set of Zoobooks and he picked a crustacean fav. All kinds, right?Bizarre evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwriter Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Don't laugh.I teleport through books, alter parchment, leather and paper and can only heal skin wounds.I was a librarian when I erupted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 Why would I laugh? a) There's worse powers out there, I'm sure. There's something hometown interesting about the idea of the Nova Librarian. Maybe it's just me and adolescent fantasies or something. I can only imagine you punishing kids for being too loud. Of course, I was always the loud kid, school or otherwise. But that is SO neither here nor there...c) Actually I thought the time/horseshoe thing was odd because it didn't fit the name, and it just occurred to me that you're a librarian with, well, a book theme going on.....and you changed your name. I don't mean to dig up ancient history (or dig in recent wounds) but why the shift from a very specific name to a more cultural but grandiose one? Was it a professional or a personal decision?c-1) Am I an asshole for asking this question?d) I can never bash Librarian powers since I myself am "blessed" with the "bad horror movie/Couldn't commit suicide properly" set. Puts things in perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Teleport through books !!! Excuse me for asking if it's a trade secret or anything, Saimhe, but I take it that the start and end points for your teleports are books; not that you can only teleport through books but walls will stop you? Out of interest do the start/end points have to be a copy of the same book? Do you disappear into a copy of, say, Gibbons; Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and then have to come out of another copy of the same book, or will any old book do as the start and end point? Does it taste of old dusty dry paper when you transit?As someone that can travel through creating what the media likes to term, warp-gates, I am always fascinated by different ways of 'instantaneous' travel. I've heard of interconnecting tree roots before and through the Opnet but never between separate objects so please forgive my curiosity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverhide Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Wow! I wish I could move through books like that, or even make those gate thingies. All I can do is make people dizzy and make metal all over my body. It's really boring even if my uncle Jesus says it's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 Regan/Saimhe: See? Librarian powers are hot these days. Silver: Tell me your Latin American/Spanish/Mexican or something...and that's why you have an Uncle named Jesus.Btw the funny thing about your name and your power: Have you met/heard of Iron whats-his-name, Nickelback, The Tinman, or "Two-Ton-Titanium Tony"? All rich as fuck and really the only thing they can do is become metal. Even if you think it's boring the kids love it...it's like writing a song about the Devil or something. Yeah, it's been done; but it's still popular as hell to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singularity Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by billy Horrorshow:Btw the funny thing about your name and your power: Have you met/heard of Iron whats-his-name, Nickelback, The Tinman, or "Two-Ton-Titanium Tony"? All rich as fuck and really the only thing they can do is become metal. Even if you think it's boring the kids love it...it's like writing a song about the Devil or something. Yeah, it's been done; but it's still popular as hell to see.Try being inhumanly durable, strong, and/or fast if you want to talk about "popular as hell to see." Not that I am complaining, but it is a reminder of how unimaginative my subconscious was when I erupted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 Still, not a "bad" set up there Frankie.Poor T4's (2-ton titantium Tony) subconcious seemed to think "Big, fat, and heavy" was popular that year. Most of us get the chiseled Adonis look (or something in that direction), poor T4 got the Jabba special.And my powers are completely a side effect of watching far too many movies...so I don't know if that's cool or lame. I tell people both most of the time. Fuck Wes Craven and Stuart Gordon for not giving me cooler powers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 I never got no cool theme thing when I erupted. All I got was a selection of powers based on what I thought was cool back when I was a nipper. When I was a kid I thought, wouldn't it be cool to go into space, wouldn't it be cool to be able to talk to animals or see the future (boy do I regret that last one, god-damn my childish dreams.) Maybe things turned out the way they did because my eruption was spread out over a couple of hours and that gave me lots of time to hallucinate and flash-back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakinyan Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Walker: Maybe things turned out the way they did because my eruption was spread out over a couple of hours and that gave me lots of time to hallucinate and flash-back. Hmm you had visions when you erupted? Do you think they influenced your reshaping?Another question. How long did the eruption take overall? I know many here say instantaneous or quickly. You are one of the first who have said it took time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 I'm going to go out an a limb and bet yes.Actually I'm really glad I didn't get the powers I thought were cool when I as a kid: otherwise I'd be flying around, breathing nuclear flame and be able to make people's head's explode Scanner-style.Cool at that might be, I don't have the self-control or maturity for head-poppin' power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastian Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by billy Horrorshow: and be able to make people's head's explode Scanner-style.Cool at that might be, I don't have the self-control or maturity for head-poppin' power. Not nearly as cool as we would think it would be, Horrorshow.Now, stepping into people's dreams, or even better, projecting those dreams out into an audience ... there some definite mind-bending going on with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 Bastion, I don't think you understand. I'm that figety kid in the back of the classroom. Or I was. I'd get bored and well, try to relieve that however I could. Head Poppin abilities need to be nowhere near me.Dream thing sounds cool, none the less though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastian Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Sorry, but I missed out on most of my schooling. I had to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Totem: I think the eruption process does take time. Quite a few people have reported headaches prior to eruption, I see this as a part of the eruption process not a symptom precceding eruption. I'm convinced that the visions were the eruption of my pretercognition slightly out of synch with the rest of my powers. The ability to perceive the future and past makes a mockery out of every-day notions of time so this is perhaps not as surprising as it may first seem. The fact that I did relive childhood experiences whilst erupting either through flashback/retrocognition did alter the course of my eruption, of that I'm pretty sure. I think the fact that there were other people to save when I erupted also helped my power express itself with the exact talents that it did. It's probably good that I didn't go too far with the childhood thing otherwise I might have ended up with the ability to pull wings off a fly through telekinesis.Errr, or something like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakinyan Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Your visions where a side effect of your precog? I wonder if Mr. Preston had something like that happen to him as well? Did your visions speak to you directly? Or did you simply witness events? Did they manifest in a way that was comfortable to you or in an alien or abnormal way? Does it still happen to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverhide Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 I'm not Latin American Mr. Horrorshow, but my uncle Jesus is. My mommy is Chinese/English and my daddy is Russian. I don't turn into metal either. My auntie Bene says that I have all these little glands in my body and when I want, they make metal flow all over me.I still think flying or moving through books would be more fun. I have to walk everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singularity Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Walker:I think the eruption process does take time. Quite a few people have reported headaches prior to eruption, I see this as a part of the eruption process not a symptom precceding eruption.My eruption happened very quickly since I was avoiding an exploding coke furnance and coworkers needed to be saved. Only headache I had prior to that was from a hang over.Quote:Originally posted by Silverhide:I still think flying or moving through books would be more fun. I have to walk everywhere.You and I both, Silverhide. I can jump high enough to simulate flying but it really is not the same thing.And I trust with Regan with my life, but part of me is still worried I might end up a stack of encyclopedias whenver I tag along with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Totem: I am convinced that my visions were a mix of retrocognition and precognition. I was simply a witness of events on the occasion of my eruption but since have learned to gain control and cast my mind back and forth at will. Those visions and impressions felt very abnormal and alien to me and they still do. It is the least favourite of my talents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 I just went out and preempted my flight jealousy and mid-life crisis by going ahead and buying myself a motorcycle. I even have a permit for not needing a helmet. oh and Silverhide: Glad to hear you're not the Nephew of the Uncle-Christ or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverhide Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Who's Christ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 Just relieved you don't live in the "fire" of the bible belt and have relatives names after the Christ-child Jesus.And that should so be your post-modernist Signature Silverhide:Who's Christ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverhide Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 I can jump really far too Mr. Singularity, but the last time I did that I got lost in the jungle and auntie Bene had to come and find me. She wouldn't let me jump back home and so we had to walk all the way back.Mr. Horrorshow, you're wierd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singularity Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Silverhide:I can jump really far too Mr. Singularity, but the last time I did that I got lost in the jungle and auntie Bene had to come and find me. She wouldn't let me jump back home and so we had to walk all the way back.It is difficult to learn how to do accurately, Silverhide. Perhaps you could ask your aunt if you can practice or have someone teach you how to anticipate where you are jumping and where you are going to land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy Horrorshow Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Silverhide:Mr. Horrorshow, you're wierd.Thanks!By the way does anyone else want the skinny on the rather insightful, globe-trotting Aunt Bene?Who is this remarkable woman who knows about metal producing glands and who hunts down her little lost silver-skinned boy in some god-forsaken jungle?Seriously, she sounds far too cool and perfect to be believed. Lucky fucking you.What's Aunt Bene's last name? Rashoud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Silverhide: I'm guessing you're pretty young here so just in case no-one has told you this before. Be very careful when you're giving out personal details on the Opnet, either your details or someone else's. Never tell anyone where you live and never, ever arrange to meet someone unless Aunt Bene is with you and says it is OK. I'm sure Mr. Horrorshow is a nice person but there are some very nasty people in the world and a nasty person might read your message. So have fun but be careful.Christ, by the way, lived about 2000 years ago. In a nutshell, he said that it was important for everyone to be nice to each other. After he died his ideas became a religion called Christianity. In case you are wondering what a religion is... I guess you could say that a religion is a group of ideas that some people believe in very strongly and these people try and do everything that their religion says is a good thing to do. There's lots of different religions and most of them say very different things but most religions say that the world/universe was created by some kind of supreme being or force and that it is very important to be nice to everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advocate Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Silverhide: Who's Christ? A baseline human that lived and died a long time ago. So long ago that no one really knows anything about him. He is thought to have said love, compassion and overcoming the temptation to give in to selfish desires are good thingsAfter he died people changed his message to justify whatever they wanted to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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