(22:32:16) psikeout: BEE-donk, BEE-donk, BOOOOOOOOOOP
(22:32:45) Tails: SCREEEEEEEEEEEEscreeeeeeeeeeeeee​eeebrrrrsssssssch
(22:32:58) Greens: SCREEEEEEE-AAAHHHHRHRHHHRHRHRHRH​RHRHRHHR MMNVVVVVVV

(18:30:16) Kazz: I don't think anyone likes Rebbecca Black unironically.
(18:34:09) Tails: I think my sister does
(18:34:17) Tails: also kazz if you say one thing about my sister
(18:34:38) Tails: coop will fly back to earth and punch mako in the face
(18:34:49) Kazz: Your sister is entitled to her opinion

there
I said something about her

come at me bro
(18:35:13) Tails: …
(18:35:17) Tails: sigh
(18:35:21) Tails: why does no-one ever take me seriously
(18:36:41) Seafarinhare: He will once Coop does what you said he'd do.
(18:36:50) Tails: I know
(18:36:55) Seafarinhare: METEORITE PAAAAAAUUUUUUNCH
(18:39:16) Kazz: "suddenly a meteorite fell out of the sky and crushed Mako."
(18:39:26) Kazz: "but it wasn't a meteorite"
(18:39:38) Kazz: "it was an eagle but either way Mako was kinda dead so yeah"

AND THEN



MEANWHILE BACK IN THE CHAT

(18:43:23) Tails: posted
(18:44:19) Kazz: well
(18:44:24) Kazz: my soda just shot out of my nose

Things Jeni and Kazz say
Now with 95% less context

Jeni Is a Geek 2:38 pm
... oh dear.
We have a turtle in the attic.

And later:

SK is Naked 3:33 pm
while I METICULOUSLY INK A SEAGULL

Out of context quote of the night:
<Jeni> I, too, was admiring that tail



Jeni loves her some tail.

I feel this has to be followed up with what sprung from the conversation that followed that.

A story for the ages, preserved forever in the annals of the internet, because a story this fantastic cannot just go to waste.



psikeout: John's flight came in at about... 10:15PM, or something, I think. And Greens and I went to pick him up.
psikeout: We arrived maybe five minutes late. But when we got to the pickup... he wasn't there. No big surprise. Delays, we thought.
psikeout: So we parked on the curb.
psikeout: A guy in a shiny vest promptly told us we could not park there.
psikeout: No waiting permitted.
psikeout: He said we'd have to drive through the loop or go park.
psikeout: So we started driving loops. It was like racing, except backwards--you try to take as long as possible and go as slow as possible without making other people fly into a rage at your obtuse driving.
psikeout: We did five or six excruciatingly slow laps.
psikeout: Still no John.
psikeout: Eventually, we decided it was time to take drastic measures.
psikeout: We parked, and went on foot.
Kazz: the plot thickens
psikeout: No John at the baggage claim. No John anywhere around the pickup area.
psikeout: It was like "Where's Waldo" except we didn't really know too well what Waldo looked like.
Jeni: I'm just imaging you guys in hardcore survival attire trekking across the Sahara-like parking lot.
Kazz: snck
psikeout: The airport was mercifully quiet at that hour of night. By then, maybe half an hour had passed.
psikeout: We checked with his airline's baggage claim desk.
psikeout: They said they couldn't page for him and didn't seem to want to help us, but did direct us to some mystical thing called a "Paging Phone"
psikeout: We eventually found one, after consulting a TSA officer sometime later. (By this point, we had been all over three different floors of the airport, and from one terminal to another.)
psikeout: I dialed. It rang.
psikeout: And rang... and rang...
psikeout: No one answered. Ever. When I told the TSA officer, she was puzzled.
psikeout: So no one was available to page for John.
psikeout: It was nearing 11:30PM.
Kazz: Sounds like a riot.
psikeout: We were starting to think that surely he had given up on us and gotten a taxi.
psikeout: But, Mie still hadn't gotten any kind of call.
psikeout: We checked with the airline one more time, and they revealed to us that they could page him, but only in limited areas.
psikeout: So they paged him a few times for us wherever they could, but he never came.
psikeout: We did one more full sweep of the airport on foot. We trekked the whole place.
psikeout: We finally decided to leave, assuming he couldn't possibly be there anymore.
psikeout: ... except we couldn't find where we parked.
psikeout: Or even how to get back to the level where we thought we parked.
Jeni: Oh god. -snck-
psikeout: Because the elevators were strange, and skipped certain floors.
psikeout: Yes, it was like a video game, where certain elevators go to certain floors.
psikeout: But no elevator serviced every floor.
psikeout: After much exploring, we found our way, found our car, and hit the road.
psikeout: ... and his mom called us as soon as we left the airport property.
psikeout: She said he was still waiting for us in the airport.
psikeout: We turned back immediately. Then, John called us, from a pay phone.
psikeout: He sounded like he was calling from the Twilight Zone. I could not understand anything that he was saying, except that he was John.
psikeout: And, "I'm in terminal _____"
psikeout: The number could not be understood.
Jeni: It'd be too easy.
Kazz: oh lordie
psikeout: He repeated it ten times, I kid you not, and I could not understand. Then my phone started beeping. It was dying.
psikeout: And I had no charger.
psikeout: I told him Greens' phone number as fast as I could.
psikeout: My phone died as soon as I finished saying the last number.
psikeout: Miraculously, he got it.
Kazz: This is kind of amazing
psikeout: Greens' phone soon rang.
psikeout: ... and he couldn't understand John either.
psikeout: We drove the laps again as we struggled to understand John.
psikeout: Eventually, we understood that he was at Terminal 9.
psikeout: He had to hang up after that.
psikeout: Here's where it ACTUALLY gets bad.
psikeout: ... there was no terminal 9.
psikeout: There was nothing remotely close to a terminal 9. His side of the airport had only terminals 20-32.
Jeni: ...
Jeni: No. This cannot be real.
psikeout: We, by this point, were convinced that John had indeed flown through some sort of wormhole and ended up in another dimension.
psikeout: Rather than parking again to look for him, I dropped Greens at the curb to go hunt for him. We realized that there was another deck below us, reserved for buses only.
psikeout: I remembered that it had a terminal 9.
psikeout: Greens went searching while I drove the laps.
psikeout: ... then suddenly, I see someone. Someone who looked like what I expected John to look like. Someone very tired and confused and lost looking.
Kazz: this cannot be real
psikeout: I slowed down, rolled my window down, and, with the grimness of death on my voice, asked, "... John Fraser?"
psikeout: And he silently stepped forward to my car, grasped the handle, and confirmed.
psikeout: He got in. But there was a new problem.
psikeout: ... we had lost Greens.
Jeni: Oh my god.
psikeout: We drove the laps. We had no phone with which to contact him.
Mie: He called me, and was like, "I think... I lost your husband."
psikeout: John offered to get out and go look for him.
psikeout: I said NO
Kazz: oh my god
psikeout: NO
psikeout: We kept driving, though.
psikeout: Several laps later... we finally saw him.
psikeout: I pulled up to the curb.
psikeout: As Greens swaggered at the car, he could not be heard, as the windows are well soundproofed and it was noisy, but his mouth very clearly said:
psikeout: "Mutha F***A."
psikeout: At John.
psikeout: He yanked open John's door and told him "NO. You get in the back."
psikeout: And took John's seat. And we drove home, very tired.
Jeni: I am crying
Kazz: oh my
Jeni: I cannot deal with this.
Kazz: I cannot braethe
Kazz: Breathe, even
psikeout: Heheheh.
psikeout: That is the end of our story. It is worth mentioning that John had been walking the airport the whole time, searching for us.
Mechanization: The importance of buying a disposable phone
psikeout: And that we had gone in laps around each other inside.
Kazz: Greens told me it was an... ... adventure... but he didn't exactly tell the details thereof
Rachel: XD Wormholes.
psikeout: And that John had even lost his wallet at one point.
psikeout: So it was an incredible night.
Jeni: I firmly believe portals were- REALLY.
Jeni: I just- this is-
Kazz: wow
Kazz: ... /wow/
Rachel: to be fair, the Orlando airport is MASSIVE
psikeout: I felt so badly for John after it was all over. The stress of it all.
psikeout: Being stuck in a foreign place.
psikeout: Losing his wallet.
psikeout: Having no phone.
Kazz: but still
psikeout: It must have been horrifying.
Jeni: Iy is massive, I recall it
Rachel: *foreign Country
Kazz: Yeah, I can imagine it'd be bad.
Jeni: Just... welcome to America.
Tails: Yes, the story of me losing my wallet was fun
Mechanization: But.. you live in sodak.. the forzen north..
Kazz: Where there ARE NO OTHER PEOPLE
Tails: I was trying to use the payphone
Tails: and discovered that I had every denomination of money except the one that payphone accepted
Rachel joined the chat room.
Tails: well, I had a couple quarters, but not enough to use the payphone
Rachel is now known as Ben.
Tails: after rummaging through my wallet, I went off to find if there was an open shop somewhere
Tails: I ask several attendants, who all direct me to the only open shop at that time of night — a starbucks — by pointing in various contradictory directions at halls which go for miles
Jeni: Oh my god.
Tails: I was sprinting back and forth across the terminal, looking for this starbucks, and finally found it around this corner, at the end of this hall in the opposite direction from the food court
Tails: like there is the food court, and then there is a small stretch of hallway, and then there is a small starbucks
Kazz: Just
Kazz: wow
Tails: oh, and my journey to find the starbucks was enhanced by the fact that as matt said, absolutely no elevators or escalators went to ALL floors
Kazz: Convenience!
Tails: there was an escalator down to floor 1 from floor 2
Tails: and then the escalator from floor one went up to floor 3
Tails: there was no way back up to do
Tails: to 2
Tails: anyway, yes, I finally found the starbucks
psikeout: I forgot that even the escalators did that.
Tails: and waited an interminable time in line as all the airport employees conversed with the starbucks employees
Tails: and finally got in line and ordered an iced coffee
Tails: and discovered that I was no longer in possession of my wallet
Tails: cue frantic sprinting
Kazz: This just keeps improving
Tails: mislaying myself on several different floors due to escalator madness
Jeni: This is not possible.
Tails: hurtle up to the payphone where I left my wallet just as a airport security officer is about to take it away
Tails: thankfully they did NOT
Tails: and I retrieved my wallet, and managed to get back to the starbucks
Tails: and then began the…
Tails: half-hour twilight zone telephone hour
psikeout: Did I mention that we expended all of the change he managed to get doing this call-juggling?
Tails: Yes.
Tails: So after the final call
Tails: I had no way to contact anyone
psikeout: It was seriously some TV stuff.
psikeout: I almost wish I had let John go looking for Greens just to add another layer of absurdity to it.
psikeout: But I fear we would still be in that airport to this day if I had.
Rachel: yeah, I remember I got an alarming message from ben while I was at work and it jsut said "They can't find John."
Mechanization: I remember you guys jumping in chat asking if John logged in to help find him
Jeni: What would have happened if two people were looking for a John?
psikeout: Yep. Mie hopped online to see.
Kazz: Sorry this is just... I know it'd be less funny if I were a part of it,
Kazz: but.
psikeout: No, it's hilarious, looking back.
Tails: You both had cell-phones and I could not communicate with either of you
psikeout: Yeah, because that pay phone.
psikeout: It was amazing.
psikeout: You sounded like... you were...
psikeout: just so far away
psikeout: Like how you would sound if you were calling from a submarine
psikeout: On another planet
Tails: No, Kazz, it is pretty funny
Tails: It is a story which I will remember fondly, and tell my children
psikeout: To be honest, what was running through my mind was that old Stephen King tale.
Tails: and my children's children
psikeout: The Langoliers, or whatever it's called.
Tails: and their children for decades, nay centuries to come
Rachel: gotta go make money now. Bai
Tails: goodbye :/
Kazz: Let's watch as it happens again the next time anyone comes down to Florida.
psikeout: Where those people in an airplane fell through a gap in spacetime somehow, and ended up in a moment in the past
|<--: Rachel has left spindash.no-ip.info:6697 (Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.87 [Firefox 5.0/201106151513)
psikeout: But the past is unoccupied, and empty
psikeout: And so they were in this desolate airport in a world where nothing existed
psikeout: And monsters that consumed the empty past loomed
Mie: ...
Mechanization: Langoliers was on last week..
psikeout: I kind of thought you were there.
Jeni: ... oh my. That's poetic.
psikeout: Sitting quietly.
psikeout: Tearing sheets of paper.
Kazz: ... snrk
Kazz: So I'm almost tempted to say that if I ever come down there, I would do this JUST to screw with you all. But.
Kazz: Like, recreate that incident.
Tails: I don't think it is physically possible to recreate that incident
Kazz: But then you realize that I have social anxiety and I have a hard time being left alone in public places for ten minutes.
Kazz: So there'd be no risk of that.
Tails: It got to the point where I was approaching people in white cars
Tails: who looked sort of like Matt
psikeout: oh geez
Jeni: Any good reactions?
Tails: and getting them to roll down their windows and asking "Are you Matt?"
Tails: in the hopes that one of them was
Tails: also, no, none of them were matt
Jeni: This really sounds like a bad L4D level
psikeout: Oh, and I have to share this quote from Greens from the midway point of the debacle:
Kazz: Or just a really bad movie.
Jeni: 'Dead in the Air' or something
psikeout: "You know, this is actually kind of fun."
psikeout: Cue a very hard stare.
Kazz: Like those annoying moments when you want to yell at the characters "HE'S RIGHT THERE YOU IDIOT"
Jeni: -snck-

(…)

Kazz: Well, after that amazing story
psikeout: Frosty milkshakes for everybody?
Tails: oh, one last, miniscule tidbit of the night
Tails: after finally getting me to their house
Tails: we discovered the air mattress would not inflate properly
Kazz: Just the cherry on top of the whole situation
Mechanization: The ants.. they ate the glue!
psikeout: And Greens was still in his "you can deal with it, John" mode and took the futon.
Tails: at that point however I was completely indifferent to everything, and went to sleep on a half-inflated air mattress
Kazz: Oh, lordie.
Jeni: ohlord
Kazz: Wow.

SK is Naked (12:43:43 AM): BE A MAN
Soul Hander (12:44:32 AM): I AM A MAN
Soul Hander (12:44:40 AM): With a big pile of s**t in the corner of my room

Greeeeeens. We use the toilet.

Soul Hander (4:38:08 PM): Well I didn't get hit with a bus (on the way to my college)
SK is Naked (4:38:17 PM): that is excellent
SK is Naked (4:38:24 PM): not getting hit by a bus is always good
Soul Hander (4:38:26 PM): But I did have to walk back and forth to the campus
Soul Hander (4:38:29 PM): MANUALLY.
Soul Hander (4:38:39 PM): And it's about... 100 degrees outside.
Soul Hander (4:38:44 PM): Farenheit.
SK is Naked (4:38:45 PM): ... nraaauuurrururrgh.
Soul Hander (4:38:46 PM): MANUALLY.
Soul Hander (4:39:01 PM): So now I'm going to wash away my sorrows and take a shower.
SK is Naked (4:39:05 PM): Wise.
Soul Hander (4:39:05 PM): MANUALLY.
SK is Naked (4:39:12 PM): i think we've established this
SK is Naked (4:39:18 PM): ... we have established it
SK is Naked (4:39:19 PM): MANUALLY
Soul Hander (4:39:58 PM): You ever say a word so many times you forget what it means?
Soul Hander (4:40:02 PM): MANUALLY?
SK is Naked (4:40:21 PM): All the time. MANUALLY.
I think there's actually a word for when you do that. I should look it up. MANUALLY.
Soul Hander (4:40:48 PM): We're awesome.
Soul Hander (4:40:53 PM): ...Manually.


Soul Hander (4:39:29 PM): Protip: Add "MANUALLY" to all your sentences
Soul Hander (4:39:35 PM): You will be cool forever
Soul Hander (4:39:38 PM): MANUALLY
The Willyboo (4:40:03 PM): Literally, the reverse of a luelinks meme. That's scary.
Soul Hander (4:40:15 PM): Manually scary
The Willyboo (4:40:24 PM): Literally, manually scary.

SK is Naked (4:43:01 PM): give it time
SK is Naked (4:43:04 PM): but first, go shower
Soul Hander (4:43:07 PM): manually
SK is Naked (4:43:18 PM): manually
Soul Hander (4:43:19 PM): I wonder how long it'll take for this to get old
Soul Hander (4:43:21 PM): Manually
SK is Naked (4:43:32 PM): I refuse to let it get old
manually
SK is Naked (4:43:34 PM): Manually
Soul Hander (4:43:38 PM): lol
Soul Hander (4:43:43 PM): lol manually

So in case anyone didn't know, I added an "Incidents of Mako Misfortune" to Mako's wiki page. This conversation ensued, when the issue of adding to it came up.

SK is Naked 7:08 pm
Well, Jeni and I joked that Sir Corin is going to try to make Mako be his Sancho Panza
whether he likes it or not
Brainwrack 7:09 pm
"but these renaissance fair clothes are all dry and itchy"
SK is Naked 7:09 pm
"SILENCE, FAITHFUL SQUIRE! A KNIGHT MUST NOT COMPLAIN OF HIS ILLS AND INJURIES!"
"and do you have you keep yelling"
Brainwrack 7:10 pm
"IT IS NOT YELLING, IT IS THE BOLDNESS OF MY HEART"
SK is Naked 7:10 pm
"sounds more like the underlined, italicized, bolded font-size eighty-two of your heart"
poor Mako.
Brainwrack 7:13 pm
"I DID NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING YOU JUST SAID"
"ONWARD"

Soul Hander (11:31:14 AM): I wanted to throw in a teensy weensy "quip-post" after Rock's last post, but I forgot how and don't want to risk RUINING EVERYTHING with my faulty editing.
Brainwrack (11:32:45 AM): Might be too complex at this point. You would have to edit it into Ben's post, then edit Ben's post into Amy's post, then repost Amy's post
Brainwrack (11:32:59 AM): You could just edit my post and stick it on the end in your Ace color with an edit note
Brainwrack (11:33:19 AM): I wouldn't mind!
Soul Hander (11:33:34 AM): Yes, but the flow of the first option...
Soul Hander (11:33:42 AM): It's not impossible.
Soul Hander (11:33:48 AM): We just need to go deeper.
Brainwrack (11:33:51 AM): Dude.
Brainwrack (11:33:54 AM): Why not just edit it into mine?
Brainwrack (11:34:01 AM): It would be the same flow...
Brainwrack (11:34:08 AM): It'd be the same placement.
Soul Hander (11:34:09 AM): Because I really wanted to say "We need to go deeper"
Brainwrack (11:34:19 AM): I think you're deep in enough

peabnut bubber (4:41:48 PM): Hooo man. I just reread the finale thread from the old RP.
peabnut bubber (4:41:55 PM): I forgot how AWESOME that was.
Greens (4:42:04 PM): The whole thread?
peabnut bubber (4:42:16 PM): Not in one sitting.
Greens (4:42:26 PM): Y'know, I find myself doing that, too.
Greens (4:42:29 PM): It was awesome.
Greens (4:42:33 PM): And satisfying, and conclusive.
peabnut bubber (4:50:05 PM): Like, particularly that last page, man.
Greens (4:50:11 PM): Hm?
peabnut bubber (4:50:18 PM): Everyone was on point.
peabnut bubber (4:50:28 PM): Everyone brought their A-game.
peabnut bubber (4:50:36 PM): It was fantastically written.
peabnut bubber (4:51:07 PM): The writing was all perfectly executed.
peabnut bubber (4:51:16 PM): Dramatic, but not heavy-handedly so.
peabnut bubber (4:51:23 PM): Provocative.
Greens (4:51:29 PM): Punctual.
peabnut bubber (4:51:37 PM): Punctual?
Greens (4:51:49 PM): Er-- beautiful!

uknowthosebirds: really, though? noise would cause balance issues?
Brainwrack: I think it could if the noise damage was severe enough to cause a rupture
Brainwrack: Which I think can happen with explosives
uknowthosebirds: oh, well
uknowthosebirds: let's not
uknowthosebirds: get into the deaf 4 lyfe aspect
uknowthosebirds: because with that comes the 'lacerated brain tissue and unhinged jaw' aspect of near explosions, too
Brainwrack: Right.
Brainwrack: I think extreme pain, cosmetic damage, and functional limb damage are probably enough for our level of RP
uknowthosebirds: (I only said that btw because I wanted to say the words 'lacerated brain tissue')
uknowthosebirds: (I knew you understood already)
Brainwrack: He is lacerated all up ins.
uknowthosebirds: yes
uknowthosebirds: that shrapnel has busted out the strict lacerations
uknowthosebirds: with absolutely no regard for the totally sick brain damage it is leaving in its wake
Brainwrack: It laid that jive down with extreme prejudice
uknowthosebirds: it is the most prejudiced jive ever
Brainwrack: extremely
uknowthosebirds: it is so prejudiced that it doesn't hire women or people from mexico
Brainwrack: ahahalol
Brainwrack: Okay, writing now.