Invisible Swarm III: over

[PashaDawg]

Yup. Looks like the server is down.

[Aku]

i talked to chris just before server went down

he said it was thundering so he was shutting computer off and said bye

[PashaDawg]

Hmmmmm... now what might you have been talked to him about? Plotting against poor Arco and R'lyeh?

[Alneyan]

Jurri, thanks, but no thanks. I would rather be a prophet for someone else and bring you down: odds of survival for all involved parties would be higher.

[Jurri]

That's so cruel, Alneyan! Anyone will do but me, you, you skank, you! I should Gift of Reason an iron pig just so I could name it Alneyan, out of spite.

Oh, Pasha, I seem to recall the passage being from the story 'Call of Jurri,' a real classic from H.P. Lovecraft. Chris offed my god recently, so it's pretty fitting, don't you agree

[PashaDawg]

You know, for some reason I have never read HP Lovecraft.

Anyway... is the server still down? I can't connect.

[Alneyan]

I haven't read Lovecraft either; I simply know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who might have read Lovecraft.

Dear Jurri: While we perfectly understand your angst, your hatred, your ire and your one-mile-long mean streak, we must stick to our word: sorry, no can do. Furthermore, we should like to point out that the subject of which you talk in such depreciatory terms (myself, in other words) cannot receive the unflattery epithet "shank".

We hope you will have a better grasp of our position after this standard procedure of enlightenment and clarification. Now, where do you sign up to join the Celestial Bureaucracy?

[jeffr]

I can't connect either, so I'm assume the server is still down.

[Jurri]

Pasha, Alneyan, you really should! HPL kicks ***. His works are in fact floating around the internet, as they are probably in the public domain. (Arkham House claims copyright, but lacks the necessary evidence of it being renewed properly.) F. ex. Wikipedia holds most of the works, and googling yields the rest; since the issue is in dispute I probably shouldn't post the direct links.

I like the earlier works more, especially the Temple. The later Cthulhu-mythology stuff is more relevant to the reference, though

Furthermore, we should like to point out that the subject of which you talk in such depreciatory terms (myself, in other words) cannot receive the unflattery epithet "shank" [sic].

Why's that, now? Certainly anything is possible if you put your mind to it. With a little effort, I'm sure you'll be perfectly capable of receiving the nomen

I don't even want you anymore, after that rejection! Or do I, and try to hide my hurt feelings by denial? I'll name my Thing that Should not Be after you, though. (Alneyan, the Thing that Should not Be. How poetic!) ...Just jesting, mon ami, naturally.

Speaking of such Things, I notice they lose their life draining attacks if they get a weapon or a shield, and they have a head. Is this supposed to be so? I mean, aren't the tentacles the cause for the life-drain attacks, rather than the hands? And at least the graphic doesn't show a head.