Invisible Swarm III: over

PashaDawg · #1 June 18th, 2005, 10:50 PM

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

Alneyan · #2 June 19th, 2005, 05:38 AM

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 · #3 June 19th, 2005, 02:40 PM

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 · #4 June 19th, 2005, 02:48 PM

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

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

Alneyan · #5 June 19th, 2005, 03:06 PM

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 · #6 June 19th, 2005, 03:18 PM

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

Jurri · #7 June 19th, 2005, 04:30 PM

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

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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.

YellowCactus · #8 June 19th, 2005, 08:59 PM

I remember reading Lovecraft in college. Something about rats in the walls. That guy was disturbed...erm, even more disturbed than us.
-Yc

CUnknown · #9 June 19th, 2005, 11:54 PM

Sorry guys!

Lightning fried my power supply to my cable modem, I need to get another one. I'm renting, so it isn't a big deal, I will just go down to the Charter office tomorrow. That was a serious storm, I'm glad I shut off my computer. I forgot about my modem, though.

Server will be up tomorrow around 7-8pm!

Alneyan · #10 June 20th, 2005, 05:07 AM

Pasha, I believe Jurri's calling me a skank, and assorted taunts, qualify as being libel, calumny, slander, defamation... and the like? I thought so.

I will sue Jurri in this case, and will sue him again and again until there's not much left of him to sue. I will sue him out of existence altogether! Of course, you will be working pro bona fide, won't you? Of course you will, what a stupid question.

Just pick an appropriate location for all those trials... I believe the prosecution gets to show where we will go. And work on adding charges to that tentacled weirdo: I believe first degree manslaughters (literally the slaughters of mankind), felony, high treason, and spitting on a public location would make for other fine charges... Get working!

The power of Law trumps the power of Cthulhu, that much is certain. That, and I won't have to do anything to fight you with the Law, while more... mundane means would require some work from me (like figuring out where I put that "A Primer to Repartee", or which end of a sword is used for business, or... You get the picture). So get cracking, Pasha!