... in which we see base building tips, a new catgirl concept is born, there are WAY too many puns, and Terrence Knight gets promoted beyond his level of incompetency by one too many mouse clicks...

[The Legendary]Sweno: ok, one more feline scrapper is ready for an invite
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: I've got to get in there and re-order the teleporters in Room #1
[The Legendary]Acyl: Basically anything I'd add would mostly be decorative.
[The Legendary]Acyl: Mm.
[The Legendary]Acyl: Yeah, that's a good point.
[The Legendary]Ankhani: While your att it Atl, could ya Bump Amber up one?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: #1 needs to be sorted by level
[The Legendary]Acyl: We might also want to reorder rooms a little.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: expand on "re-order rooms"?
[The Legendary]Acyl: With a plot this large, I'd suggest placing the social areas in one location, the 'technical' and 'command centre' rooms in one wing...
[The Legendary]Acyl: ...and so on.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: ahhhh
[The Legendary]Atlantea: OOH! I LIKE THE TROPHY ROOM!
[The Legendary]Acyl: Salvage and workrooms in the same location, y'see?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: that's a bundle of work
[The Legendary]Acyl: The trophy room is pretty good yeah.
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: The trophy room's not bad. Did you see the transparent lingerie?
[The Legendary]Acyl: It is, unfortunately.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: who's panties are those, Atlantea? we can't figure it out
[The Legendary]Atlantea: And the library! SQUEE!
[The Legendary]Ankhani: I find Numina's Translucent Nighty a little disconcerting... >.>
[The Legendary]Acyl: But the point is the base IS very large now.
[The Legendary]Acyl: We're stripping signature characters and taking their clothes! h_h
[The Legendary]Sweno: and earlier someone was commenting that all these catboys showed up around the same time. I think the reason is obvious, they smelled the resident female population going into heat
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: It's only large when  you need to issue GPS to new arrivals and plant waypoints.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: god I wish we could plant waypoints/neighborhood markers
[The Legendary]RevDark: What's wrong with a ball of string and best wishes.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: What is this room anyway? The trophy and library?
[The Legendary]Acyl: Looks like a command room?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: Rev: Every #$!@#!@ time I try the 'Ball of String' trick, I get mugged by catgirls!
[Tell] @His Lovely Wife:  You'll be happy to know I finally watched Speedracer.  WHEE!
[The Legendary]RevDark: Could be worse, could be Madcow... Mooo
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: You say this like it's a BAD thing...
[Tell] -->@His Lovely Wife:  What did you think?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: it is, I'm on Mag, he's married
[The Legendary]Sweno: what is this trick you talk of?
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: Hee hee
[The Legendary]Atlantea: Ok. This is a control room.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: what could is a double-armful of nubile catgirl if you can't do anything about it?
[Tell] @His Lovely Wife:  Fan-damn-tastic movie.  Rev picked up the Live Action the other day and we watched it last night.  Freakin' awesome
[Tell] -->@His Lovely Wife:  Ain't it?
[Tell] -->@His Lovely Wife:  It's crack-tastically awesome!
[The Legendary]RevDark: Give them to Jackie as a bouquet.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: O_O
[Tell] @His Lovely Wife:  So is C8 based on Speed or you just have a Speed costume for him?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: a little chloroform, a little of that green floral wrap..  yeah.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: I'm pickin' up what you're putting' down, rev
[The Legendary]RevDark: Kinky
[Tell] -->@His Lovely Wife:  No - C8 is based on another contempory show of the time - 8 Man.  Or to use the slightly different American name - "Tobor the Eighth Man".
[The Legendary]Atlantea: Yow.
[The Legendary]RevDark: Do you think FTD would deliver?
[Tell] @His Lovely Wife:  Putting it down on the List of THings To See
[The Legendary]Sweno: be carefull, they are a little feisty when they wake up
[The Legendary]Atlantea: By the way - Here's a tip for you new to base modeling --
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: *ears perk*
[The Legendary]Atlantea: When you change ceiling and floor heights, SOMETIMES the base editor has a tendency to change OTHER parts of the base to match.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: To prevent this -
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: gah restate first part, please
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: missed it whilst zoning
[The Legendary]Atlantea: Place a vent at floor and/or ceiling level.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: When you change ceiling and floor heights, SOMETIMES the base editor has a tendency to change OTHER parts of the base to match.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: To prevent this -
[The Legendary]Atlantea: Place a vent at floor and/or ceiling level.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: That "locks" it in.
[The Legendary]RevDark: The vent sure bothers?
[The Legendary]Acyl: *cracks up*
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: *e facepalm*
[The Legendary]Atlantea: LOL
[The Legendary]Acyl: Atlant, I didn't know this - I'd never encountered said bug. HOWEVER...
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: Oww.
[The Legendary]Acyl: That's because my base designs have always included floor or ceiling vents. =D
[The Legendary]Acyl: I'm thus very amused.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: Well there ya go then
[The Legendary]Acyl: I was apparently circum-vent-ing this.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: If you've ever noticed them and wondered, that's the reason they're there most likely.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: OW
[The Legendary]Atlantea: OW OWOW
[The Legendary]Ankhani: When you sat 'vent' do you mean any celing/floor decal or a specfic one?
[The Legendary]Atlantea: Yes.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: Id Vent-ture to say that that's true, Acyl
[The Legendary]Acyl: Necessity is the mother of in-vent-ion.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: The vents I'm talking about are under "Wall details".
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: well, now we have a new base building con-vent-ion
[The Legendary]Ankhani: They make good pre-vent-ion?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: prevents Atlantea from having to do a reparative inter-vent-ion
[The Legendary]RevDark: They are a necesity.  The mother of in-vent-tion
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: BZZT
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: no reusing bits
[The Legendary]Atlantea: The floor and ceiling vents, if placed at corners between floor/wall and wall/ceiling, also "delete" the obligatory "trim" pieces.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: I loathe trim pieces
[The Legendary]Acyl: Anything flush to the wall will do that, but it's helpful to mass delete the trim with spaced vents or light fixtures.
[The Legendary]Ankhani: I've had a little fun playing with 8x8 bases with small amounths of Presti...
[The Legendary]Atlantea: So if you want to get rid of them, place vents there or shove something else up against the wall.
[The Legendary]Acyl: Since just one strategic placement of such will knock out a stretch.
[The Legendary]Arachnos X: Silh: Sent.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: Yes - that's another thing. You can knock out two stretched of trim with one vent placement.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: *strethes
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: But only if you're feeling ad-vent-urous.
[The Legendary]Arachnos X: Not just Lulu but a brief history of the series and the important links.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: **stretches
[The Legendary]Acyl: The tiny wall lights are a good thing to do the trick with, also.
[The Legendary]Acyl: Since those are very unobtrusive.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: our lighting selection sucks
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: not the stuff we've chosen, but the stuff that's _available_
[The Legendary]Acyl: Well what were you expecting, the Ikea catalogue?
[The Legendary]His Lovely Wife: Oh if only
[The Legendary]Atlantea: *Eyes glow with Kheldian energy* OKAY! Enough with the puns! Or I'll get ad-vent-urous on your asses! (Pause) DAMNIT! Now you've got me doing it!
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: You could just put in unlit lamps, and use the room controls to change ambient light conditions. Looks the same, but less glare from the lamps.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: it's OK, Atlantea..  sometimes, you just have to vent.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: *G, D & R*
[The Legendary]Atlantea: *facepalm*
[The Legendary]Atlantea: *headdesk*
[The Legendary]RevDark: Do you require an inter-vent-tion?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: I'm just worried this is going to pre-vent me from building more on the base
[The Legendary]Ankhani: (BZZZT again Rev =P )
[The Legendary]Ankhani: ... I think we've used all the puns now... Nothing more to see here. Move along.
[The Legendary]RevDark: Veni Vidi Venti.;I came, I saw, I placed a vent?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: *applauds*
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: so...  Sylia is notional leader of the Paragon Sabres
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: Nene, one of her charges, has become the unofficial Den Momma of the catgirls
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: does this, by extension, make Sylia a Crazy Grand Catlady?
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: ...what a comment to come back to
[The Legendary]Acyl: I still say we need a Purrfect Sabre.
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: nah wire i'm not here to group atm
[The Legendary]Acyl: WHEN MEMES COLLIDE
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: lol
[The Legendary]Ebony: Coming to issue 14, a new minion for Masterminds: Cats.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: RP wise, it could easily be Sammy in a hardsuit
[The Legendary]RevDark: I still want a plant mastermind.
[The Legendary]Ebony: Bushroot!
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: dibs on one named 'Seymour'
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Hello all
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: HI MD
[The Legendary]Sweno: hey MD
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: After this, I won't be on fore most of the week
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Heading back to the parents place
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: bring your compy?
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: They lack internet
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: ouch!
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: this is why my dad has 8mb DSL ; )
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: And my sister has her wireless net, but it doesn't want to work
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: Kill it with fire!
[The Legendary]Acyl: Loggin' off for now. Cheers MD, enjoy your trip. much as you can internetless? =P
[The Legendary]Acyl: Family is good tho? =D
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: later, Acyls
[The Legendary]Arachnos X: Bye Acyl.
[The Legendary]RevDark: Later Acyl
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: Bye Acyl
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: cya Acyl.
[The Legendary]Arachnos X: Silh, did you get the e-mail or no? I've had trouble with my yahoo recently.
[The Legendary]Sweno: later Acyl
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Yeah, right now my family needs to be together
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: I've got something bubbling in my brain about the utility of a taser when herding catgirls
[The Legendary]Ankhani: o.o
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: *facepalm*
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: anyone got anything?
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: Yep, I got the character. I'll look it over later.
[The Legendary]RevDark: The static would cause them to stick together - it has merits as an idea
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Until Alice gets her claws on you
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: Meh. Just throw a large ball of yarn liberally dosed with catnip into the middle of them. In about fifteen minutes, you'll have no trouble herding them.
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Alice: Please, as if I'd fall for such a silly... shiny... yarn... *POUNCE!*
[The Legendary]Arachnos X: So what's going on?
[The Legendary]Ankhani: 16 ish blue
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: blueside 16
[The Legendary]Sweno: 16-ish blueside
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: radio
[The Legendary]Arachnos X: Hm
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Got room for a level 9 scrapper?
[The Legendary]Arachnos X: I can get in on that with my Blaster?
[The Legendary]Ankhani: Siamese Catboy, Black-cat Catgirl and Hobo Sabre
[The Legendary]Arachnos X: Assuming there's room.
[The Legendary]Ankhani: There is
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: Heee Hobo saber
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Please invite?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: hey, when you're homeless and hangin' with the Lost, the sweet embrace of Night Train is FAR superior to conciousness
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: says you're on a mish, Matrix
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Invite!
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Mission boring!
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: says you're on a mish, Matrix
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: says you're on a mish, Matrix
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: cannot invite
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: and I'm going to eat your head
[The Legendary]Atlantea: You know... this is amazing... but... I think we're going to need more power for the base!
[The Legendary]Ankhani: Get a bigger genrator?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: ...awesome
[The Legendary]Arachnos X: Invite Homeworlder.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: I think there's one bigger type of generator.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: then we'll need multiple gennies
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: Put ten catgirls in a giant hamsterwheel and harness the static electricity?
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: PUUUURRRRRRRRE ENERGY
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: use Terrence as the dangly-lure
[The Legendary]Atlantea: LOL
[The Legendary]Arachnos X: You mean PURRRRR energy.
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: AIEEEE!
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: it would be the..  Purrfect Generator
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: Good name for an electrical type catgirl.
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Catgirls hate electirical powers
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: As would Purrrrfect Energy.
[The Legendary]Atlantea: And thus a new catgirl is born....
[The Legendary]MatrixDragon: Poor thing would be a permenant puffball
[The Legendary]Ebony: Afro hair with cat ears.
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: like Valles' Purrrfect Tease
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: ..
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: that scares me wire
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: lol
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: so I wsa playing Left 4 Dead last night
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: and I decide to hack
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: so I setup a button to drop a live pipe bomb at my feet
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: and another button to spawn a zombie horde
[The Legendary]Terrence Knight: 0_0
[The Legendary]Sweno: how did you manage that?
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: magic
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: then I turn on God Mode
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: and just start spamming both buttons
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: about ten second later, my screen is covered in explosions and blood and fountains of zombie parts
[The Legendary]Wiregeek: it was _beautiful_
[The Legendary]Silhouette.: Reminds me of an old player-made map for the Mac game Marathon. Called "Nuclear Fission", it had a giant room full of respawning exploding Bob's. Faster than they could die off. And  you started with a handgrende.
Legendary]Arachnos X: That trooper is awesome. xD
Legendary]Wiregeek: SWEET
Legendary]Wiregeek: Spotted in Steel: Frozen Margarita
Legendary]MatrixDragon: hmm?
Legendary]MatrixDragon: rofl
Legendary]Wiregeek: she's an ice/kin troller 8 )
Legendary]Ankhani: And America XX .... Female Statesman/Captain America
Legendary]Ebony: I saw that one.
[The Legendary]Ebony: I wish they had the tricorner hat without it being a pirate hat. I have some patriotic hero ideas that that would work well for.
Legendary]Wiregeek: Congrats, Terrence!
Legendary]Wiregeek: Levelling Pact is so awesome
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Whoo!
Legendary]Terrence Knight: More levels
Legendary]Terrence Knight: You still loveing against all odds wire?
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Moooar damage
Legendary]Wiregeek: yes, yes I am
Legendary]Atlantea: Damnit. My mouse is old and I need to replace it. Occasionally it wil double click when I don't want it to.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: You need to get yourself compleatly saturated and enemies and find out what the damage bonus cap is
Legendary]Terrence Knight: for AAO
Legendary]Terrence Knight: brb
Legendary]Atlantea: If you remove someone from the SG, does that mean all the prestige they earned goes with them?
Legendary]Silhouette.: Logitech MX Laser. Best mouse I've ever had. And I reprogrammed the page-down key under the mouse wheel to be a double click, so that's covered too.
Legendary]Wiregeek: I don't think so, Atlantea
Legendary]Ankhani: I don't think you will lose Prest
Legendary]Wiregeek: Sil: I use the white Logitech Trackman Marble, the best thumb-based pointing device evar
Legendary]Atlantea: Well, unless I temp kick Terrence, he's going to be equal in rank to Shizuru, Evangelia and myself thanks to my stupid mouse.
Legendary]Wiregeek: WOAH
Legendary]Atlantea: I wanted to promote him. But not THAT high.
Legendary]Ankhani: You can Demote, Atl
Legendary]Wiregeek: if you kick him, it will reset his earned-prest to zero
Legendary]Ankhani: You can Demote
Legendary]Wiregeek: The Legendary will not lose the prest, but Terrence will show as 'zero earned'
Legendary]Ankhani: There is a button to decrese rank
Legendary]Atlantea: No. I can't. It says "I'm not a higher level" so I can't demote.
Legendary]Wiregeek: Eva can
Legendary]Silhouette.: So get another to do it.
Legendary]Atlantea: He's the same rank as Eva too.
Legendary]Ebony: Why are we demoting someone?
Legendary]Silhouette.: Promotion error, it sound like.
Legendary]Atlantea: Because I accidentally promoted them too high.
Legendary]Ankhani: Terr is a honorary Leader in the Legendary now
Legendary]Wiregeek: Eva should be able to since she's the leader
Legendary]Wiregeek: ...oh shit
Legendary]Wiregeek: we're all doomed!
Legendary]Silhouette.: Hee hee.
Legendary]Atlantea: Think this is worth a story? Say - Lora is working late at night and gets distracted by Jackie Frost again at a bad moment?
Legendary]Wiregeek: yes, yes I do
Legendary]Silhouette.: Taps the wrong key, suddenly Terr has co-Leader status?
Legendary]Atlantea: Pretty much.
Legendary]Wiregeek: now, if Terrence wanted to be all sweet and gentle, he could log into Terrence and demote himself
Legendary]Ankhani: Can you demote yourself?
Legendary]Atlantea: I don't think he can do that. I can't demote myself.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: sorry was afk
Legendary]Wiregeek: then Terr could promote Eva
Legendary]Wiregeek: congratulations, Terrence, you have an SG
Legendary]Atlantea: Oh dear....
Legendary]Terrence Knight: what happened?
Legendary]Ankhani: Here's how you'll ahve to do it.,
Legendary]Terrence Knight: uhh..atl?
Legendary]Silhouette.: I've got this sudden image of Lora'lai calling in sick while she deals with whatever Jackie did. Ter is stuck being Leader, which means he's NOT with the girls, and has to mind the base while things happen.
Legendary]Ankhani: Inactive-auto-demotion
Legendary]Terrence Knight: *facepalm*
Legendary]Atlantea: Scroll up to see, Terr....
Legendary]Terrence Knight: ....
Legendary]Terrence Knight: ok lemme repromote eva
Legendary]Ankhani: But Terr -has- earned it.
Legendary]Ebony: Terrence: "I'm in charge! How can I be in charge?!"
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Nah
Legendary]Terrence Knight: LOL
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Yes that would be exactly what he says
Legendary]Ebony: >"Rhea, help! I'm in charge!"
Legendary]Atlantea: You know... he has earned more prestige by an order of magnitude than anyone else.... Hmmm...
Legendary]Terrence Knight: cept for mag
Legendary]Wiregeek: *COUGH COUGH COUGH*
Legendary]Atlantea: Well, okay, him, Mag and Bella.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: but..how was I promoted? lol
Legendary]Atlantea: My mouse screwed up.
Legendary]Ankhani: Hey, Amber's brought in 1.5 Mil with Emet added in...
Legendary]Terrence Knight: I go upstairs..take a dump..and I come back a leader
Legendary]Terrence Knight: lol
Legendary]Atlantea: I meant to promote you.
Legendary]Atlantea: Just not THAT high...
Legendary]Terrence Knight: ok so how can i demote myself
Legendary]Ebony: This reminds me of an RPG session where a character was promoted to Sergeant because the player was late.
Legendary]Atlantea: You can't, that I can tell, other than logging out.... WAIT... I may have an idea!
Legendary]Ankhani: Here's what you do, ser aut-demote to 1 day, and then logg out.
Legendary]Atlantea: Way ahead of you!
Legendary]Atlantea: That's the answer!
Legendary]Ankhani: ... I said that before.
Legendary]Ankhani: No one wants to listen to me =(
Legendary]Atlantea: Well I didn't see it.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: So..All I have to do is log out?
Legendary]Ankhani: For 24+ hours
Legendary]Silhouette.: Wait for it... I'm expecting to see the Leader badge wind up on someone who hasn't logged in for fifty days when the dust settles.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: *whimper*
Legendary]Atlantea: For one full day. This will also probably catch Eva and Shizuru too, but I can re-promote everyone.
Legendary]Silhouette.: Why can't lora'lai just demote him?
Legendary]Wiregeek: it'll be one of Terrence's alts...
Legendary]Ankhani: Cause you can't demote someone of equal rank
Legendary]Arachnos X: So how does it feel?
Legendary]Arachnos X: To be a Shield.
Legendary]MatrixDragon: Put Alice in charge!
Legendary]Atlantea: I can't demote him because I'm the same rank as him.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: 24hrs!....How can I not play this toon for a full day..lol
Legendary]MatrixDragon: Alice: !!!
Legendary]Ankhani: I don't think It'll actually do that right though.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: OK so someone has to write a snippet or series of short fics..to represent this mistake :p
Legendary]Ankhani: Becasue it wouldn't demote unless -no- leader has been active in the set period
Legendary]Atlantea: Well let's see... Hmm... One potential problem I am seeing. I think it'll catch all the OTHER officers and demote them too!
Legendary]Ankhani: And then, it'll go to someone else.
Legendary]Wiregeek: Terrence, can you promote Lora'Lai?
Legendary]Ankhani: Terr just gets to be leader
Legendary]Atlantea: No, he can't. We're both top rank.
Legendary]Silhouette.: I think you're stuck with it the way it is, then.
Legendary]Ankhani: There is no way to fix this.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: at least, not without co-ordinateing everyone to log in except for me on this toon
Legendary]Silhouette.: Terr would have to avoid playing Terrence for something like a month while you logged in with Lora'lai regularly to keep your rank.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: ..
Legendary]Ankhani: Just enjoy being the best of the best..... Wait. Terr already -is- the best.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: But to be stuck with this rank..without actualy earning it..doesn't seem right
Legendary]Ankhani: You did earn it.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Nah I didn't ankh
Legendary]Atlantea: Maybe make it not 1 day, but 2 days? But then that would force Terry to not play for 2 whole days.
Legendary]Silhouette.: Well, you could ask them to make you earn it. I'm sure they'll be more than happy to come up with ways to make you *feel* like you've earned it...
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Others have been here for longer thanme, have contributed to more events
Legendary]Terrence Knight: I just kill shit
Legendary]Atlantea: I don't know. You've actually been on more than ME.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: by the tons
Legendary]Ankhani: *Whacks Terr over the head with leader star* YOU'VE EARNED IT!
Legendary]Atlantea: Ankh's got a point.
Legendary]Atlantea: It may have been a mistake. But I think it's a mistake we can live with.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Well, we'll have to wait and see what dren, and then Bob says
Legendary]Terrence Knight: since y'know their also leaders
Legendary]Atlantea: I'll make a post about it on the forums.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: All right, but I'll feel guilty unless the other two are fine with it lol
Legendary]Atlantea: I'm still kind of embarassed about this though. If anyone screwed the pooch, it was ME.
Legendary]Wiregeek: I wouldn't say the canine unit has been penetrated yet
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Lol you were punished because I was online at just the right time lol
Legendary]Atlantea: Mea culpa!
Legendary]Ankhani: Maybe you cot send in a /petition ?
Legendary]Atlantea: Possibly? hmm...
Legendary]Wiregeek: if you both did, it should work
Legendary]Atlantea: Terry. You going to be online for awhile?
Legendary]Ankhani: Would be worth a try.
Legendary]Wiregeek: both accounts involved saying 'yeah, this was in error, please HALP'
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Yeah
Legendary]Silhouette.: I think I"m going to log for a bit. Getting mapserved a lot, and there's minor brownouts in the region. The snowfall must be hitting us somewhere...
Legendary]Atlantea: Ok. Let's try that. We're calling City Hall!
Legendary]Wiregeek: Sil: Cheers!
Legendary]Atlantea: Later!
Legendary]Terrence Knight: >.> its sad but I was enjoying the star
Legendary]Terrence Knight: lol
[Tell] @Wiregeek:  if it's any consolation, I find this more hilarious because of terr's reaction than the initial error
Legendary]Terrence Knight: I didn't earn it but its shiney
Legendary]Wiregeek: HA
[Tell] -->@Wiregeek:  LOL.... Me too.
Legendary]Wiregeek: the Power Bug has bitten you
Legendary]Atlantea: Hehe
Legendary]Terrence Knight: lol
Legendary]Ankhani: ... If Emet/Amber ends up a leader after this I'm gonna Lol lots
Legendary]Wiregeek: you won't be happy now until you have TAKEN OVER THE WORLD
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Nah wire thats too much effort
Legendary]Wiregeek: if Mag ended up leader, oh there would be some changes.
Legendary]Terrence Knight: yeahhh..so mag can't be leader
Legendary]Wiregeek: first rule, and this is ironclad
Legendary]Terrence Knight: lol
Legendary]Wiregeek: THURSDAY NIGHTS = TACO NIGHT.
Legendary]Wiregeek: no discussion, no exceptions
Legendary]Ankhani: @_@
Legendary]Terrence Knight: *eats all the taco's*
Legendary]Wiregeek: *makes more tacos*
Legendary]Terrence Knight: *walks away full*
Legendary]Terrence Knight: I can't imagine the kind of havoc that would wreak if Terr was stuck managing the legendary base for a day
Legendary]Atlantea: Oi...
Legendary]Ankhani: Well I think we a;ready have it said.
Legendary]Wiregeek: by what, sitting at the desk, crying, while the catgirls ran amok?
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Hahah
Legendary]Atlantea: Lora'Lai: "DON'T touch the desk! There's a SYSTEM ON THE DESK!"
Legendary]Ankhani: Terr: "Rhea! I'm leader! HRALP!"
Legendary]Atlantea: (Petition sent, BTW.)
Legendary]Terrence Knight: ok
Legendary]Ankhani: Send one in Terr
Legendary]Ebony: >"I don't get it. Terrence just sat down and the monitor system crashed. He didn't touch anything!"
Legendary]Ankhani: Tele-klutzism
Legendary]Terrence Knight: SO I need to send in a petition as well?
Legendary]Ankhani: Yes
Legendary]Atlantea: It would probably be a good idea.
Legendary]Ankhani: Just say somthing like you were accidently promoted to high and can't be demoted
Legendary]Atlantea: Just mention that you were mistakenly promoted and that your SG leader and you both want it corrected.
Legendary]Atlantea: Something like that.
Legendary]Wiregeek: ....can we implement the traditional ritual to welcome a new CO?
Legendary]Ankhani: Mention Atl's Global/Acc Name maybe?
Legendary]Atlantea: Yeah. Mention my global.
Legendary]Atlantea: So who's writing up the story? ^_^
Legendary]Ankhani: You could?
Legendary]Ankhani: ... I can't
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Ok petition sent
Legendary]Terrence Knight: I did mention your name
Legendary]Atlantea: Hmm...  Lora'Lai working late at night. Jackie Frost doing one of her "distraction" bits again. Lora'Lai hits wrong key twice before logging out of mainframe. She and Eva get called away to a mission in Cimerora. Shizuru is incommunicado in Japan...
Legendary]Ebony: And everyone else is sympathetic, but unable to help.
Legendary]Atlantea: Mainframe notices Lora'Lai and Eva overdue and automatically looks up the next available leader for the morning shift. Terrence gets the news that he's leader and would he please report to the monitor station?
Legendary]Wiregeek: Pooky overhears and prepares the traditional welcome of a new CO
Legendary]Terrence Knight: 0_0
Legendary]Terrence Knight: lol
Legendary]Wiregeek: ((plastic-wrap cubicle, fill with packing peanuts
Legendary]Ebony: Jackie comes on to the new "boss."
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Oh hell no
Legendary]Wiregeek: Today, coincidentally, is Catgirl Field Trip day
Legendary]Terrence Knight: lol Terr would find some way to put a forcefeild between himself and Jackie
Legendary]Atlantea: (ROTFLAO)
Legendary]Ankhani: ...En would if Jackie didn't
Legendary]Terrence Knight: *whimper*
Legendary]Ankhani: if only to make Terr Sweatdrop
Legendary]Atlantea: This just gets better and better...
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Hee Error makes good story material
Legendary]Wiregeek: Terr manages to get things under control
Legendary]Ankhani: En has different reasons for Teasing Ter than Jackie does.
Legendary]Wiregeek: and..   P.E.T.A. shows up on the transporter platform
Legendary]Atlantea: Oh god...
Legendary]Ankhani: Again?
Legendary]Terrence Knight: *facepalm*
Legendary]Wiregeek: ((It's OK, they want to apologize, but who's gonna take the time and figure _that_ out?))
Legendary]Ebony: Actually, I could see him fleeing Jackie to the safety of the office, to find En stretched across the desk in a "sexy secretary" outfit.
Legendary]Wiregeek: Terrence Knight - Diplomat
Legendary]Atlantea: *HEADDESK*
Legendary]Terrence Knight: You'd be surprised Wire
Legendary]Wiregeek: Ebony: YES
Legendary]Terrence Knight: lol
Legendary]Ankhani: *Steepels hands*
Legendary]Ebony: And in the middle of it all, the Rikti attack, leaving Terrence saying, "THANK YOU GOD!"
Legendary]Terrence Knight: *snort*
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Good thing fox isn't here
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Else i'd have this horrible feeling that Nogi would get involved in shenanigens
Legendary]Ankhani: Or Inari
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Tru
Legendary]Ebony: Terrence (dusting off hands): "Nothing like a little mindless violence to clear the head."
Legendary]Atlantea: Who says we won't tell Foxboy all about this anyway? (saves chatlog)
Legendary]Terrence Knight: ....
Legendary]Terrence Knight: *twitch*
Legendary]Wiregeek: this is easily accounted for
Legendary]Wiregeek: CUTSCENE: Lady Nogi, in front of a computer terminal, Spoooky lighting, steepling her hands as she watches Terrence tormented by catgirls, with Jackie clinging to his shoulder
Legendary]Wiregeek: Lady Nogitsune: Just As Planned
Legendary]Terrence Knight: Either A: Eva and lora will relieve terrence of command..leaving him greatful..or B:they'll decide he handled things well enough and will stay as co-leader as -last resort command unit-
Legendary]Terrence Knight: lol

Something that's always been troubling for me is that hardly anyone writes any decent character biographies anymore, let alone ever-so-useful character
bibles that can help an aspirant fanficcer keep a character from veering OOC. Really, though, I don't ask for much myself. I'd settle for scripts and
plot outlines of the original material.

That said, anyone know of a good source for Giant Robo, The Animation? I already found scripts for episodes 1, 2, 3, and 5, but that still leaves me
woefully short.

I would take notes from the anime itself (I have watched it before, but it was a while ago), but I don't have that on hand right now, and it'd take
forever-and-a-day for me to download it while I'm in port (the public wireless routers love to kick you off at inoportune moments). It's also not
stocked at the Navy Exchange and due to the intricacies of postal delivery out here in the Seventh Fleet, it'd take between one and two months to get to
me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It was a train wreck before when it was Sasuke.  But now?  The wreck has burnt down the entire city and has poured industrial waste into the bay, which then is taken by current to contaminate the entire western seaboard.
Just... wow.

Spoiler

Who the fuck kills Kakashi?

Okay, would somebody check and see if there was a memo sent out that informed the world that fast food from a drive-thru no longer means "fast" or it
means "would you please pull up to the front and park, sir?"

I am SICK AND TIRED of that and I have determined that it is MY policy to tell any drive thru monkey that asks me to do that "No thanks, I'll just
stay here. Thanks!"

So... Long day spent doing yardwork in the fall chill for Dad. Sit my aching bones in the car, head home. Notice the local Braums store, and think to myself,
"Say, been a long time since I indulged in a milkshake, why not?"

Earlier in the day, I had gotten a small burger from another franchise (I was on the road a lot today) and was told by them to move to the outside lane, where
they let FOUR cars get their food before they finally got to me. I wasn't aware that "pull to the outside lane" meant the same thing as
"park at the front of the store so we can get to you when we get to you." If I HAD known that's what they meant, I'd have told them my usual,
"No thanks, I'm staying here."

I'm beginning to think some asshole in corporate middle management in these companies thought it would be a grand idea to force more "efficiency"
out of their drive-thrus by having some kind of timing or "quota" or something that has to occur for each customer. But I've actually been
FORGOTTEN and had to walk back into the store on more than one occasion to remind them that they have my money and could I PLEASE have my food in rightful
exchange for it? I don't play by the "rules" of this game anymore. If you can't get my food to me in a timely fashion, that's on YOU, not
on me! Especially when I'm only ordering for myself!

So I pull in, order my milkshake. Nobody in the lane but me. Looks like a slow day. I get up to the window, pay my money and THEN she tells me to pull forward
to the front of the store!

I look behind me again. Nope! Nobody in the lane behind me! After my earlier experience and my general attitude about the practice in general, I do my standard
polite, "No thanks, I'm staying here..." With an added comment, "... especially since there's no one behind me."

The dumbstruck look follows, followed by her starting to tell me that they are "timed" or some such bullshit. NOW I'm getting annoyed and
snapped, "Look! I. Don't. CARE!"

About half a minute later, she hands me the cup that supposedly has my milkshake in it, and I start to drive off.

I can't even get my straw into it. In effect, she gave me a cup of ice cream, not a milkshake.

Normally I'm not "that guy". I try hard to give people the benefit of the doubt. I work customer service, I KNOW how bad it can be. But... no.
This is unacceptable.

I turned around, got out of the car, and walked into the main resturant, slammed the cup down on the counter in front of who I presume was the manager and
started reading them the riot act. Starting with "If I'd WANTED a cup of ICE CREAM, I would have ASKED for ICE CREAM. But that's NOT what I
ordered! I order a MILKSHAKE, now listen to me... !! "

I went up one side of that girl and her manager and back down the other. I got my milkshake done RIGHT, and MY way. I could have gotten a refund, but all I
wanted was the damn product I had paid for and once I'd vented, that's all I cared about. I also gave them HELL for the way I was treated.

So today I was "that guy". Oh BOY was I that guy. I usually feel a bit of a heel when I get angry like this. But I think this time I was entirely in
the right and justified. I never cursed. I didn't threaten. But I let them know in no uncertain terms that they can't just do that sort of thing and
get away with it.

(Deep breath) Okay. I'm good. Just needed to vent a bit.

So. Was I a justified angry consumer or just an asshole? Or a little of both? (I'll own up to "both" actually. )

In Tales of the Legendary 08

Get the whole comic at.

http://www.whatsupdark.com/3.html

We also return to the Rogue Islands - and I will note that this should have an NSFW label on it.



Okay... so that story went on longer than I thought it would. Next up is the work of creating more avatars and setting up for the next issue.

My cat is a jerk.

He doesn't come home last night, and its 19(F) degrees, so we are all worried. This one is a little goofy and we don't think he is canny enough to
manage for himself.

So we spend the night periodically going outside in the heavy snow, calling him, no cat. Its so cold out there my bear freezes, which is always fun.

Finally the next morning I go knocking door to door to see if the neighbors might have seen him.

(This is a dubious effort at best, because I have three black cats, so even if they had It would be random chance it was the right cat anyways)

So the second one says he heard something banging around in his garage last night, but didn't see anything when he went to look.

(shy black cat, dark garage, older neighbor without the best eyesight)

So he opens his garage door, we go in there, along with his granddaughter ( who I had not met before, and is surprisingly hot) is looking dubious.

I call his name;

*Meeeeeeeoooooooowww!!!*

From somewhere in the attic, crap.

So, 40 minutes later I've fetched my neighbors ladder and im crawling around up in there with a flash light he lent me. ( He smiled as he did it too, ha!)

I am calling his name, he keeps answering, I cant see him, and its like his meow is getting fainter.

I look around, wondering if hes in bad health or something, still no damned cat.

Finally get down, walk out of the garage look outside

...

He's meowing his head off as he runs full tilt back home, must have gotten down somehow once the door was open.

...because he was 92...

But I didn't even know Forrest J. Ackerman was
still alive!

--Sam

"Egad, man! Don't you know clowns were never meant to be so... big?!"

COH finally let me rename Range Sabre last night. I guess they finally decided my money was good.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

...and I was wondering: does "Invoked Crossover" count as a self-insertion trope? I've never seen anyone else but him do it, though he does it
over and over.

I just noticed Drak's new sig, and thought I'd provide all of you with some suplimental info...

The song he quotes actually is most often thought of as being from the Honorverse CD which Baen Publishing included in the hardcover edition of "War of
Honor", its one of three filk songs based on the Honorverse on that CD.

However, if you dont have the CD, your not totally SOL. there is a Baen fanatic who's archived all the promotional CD's to date at: Baen CD's @ The Fifth Imperium. you can get either zips of the whole CD's or just part...
which means that if you'd like to know more about Echo's Children, well...Echos Children songs from the Honorverse CD. not just the mp3's,
but bios of the two leading ladies of Echos Children and lyrics to them as well.

And if you like to know even still MORE about Echos Children, including checking out other samples or mabye just going straight to ordering a CD... well

http://www.echoschildren.org/
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children