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[NuclearBuddha]

Azint wrote...

Somewhat related.

Literally, I got to the image of the baby monitor and turned it off.  I can't take that kind of thing anymore.  Too real to me.

Modifié par NuclearBuddha, 01 juillet 2010 - 06:40 .

[RiptideX1090]

For the record Azint.



I can't help but look at your posts and not take them seriously.



I'm too busy wanting to bone your avatar.



Just getting that out there.



So. How was your trip?



@Buddha. Excellent Lovecraft. I really like it.

[NCLanceman]

RedTracer7 wrote...
Or like after you murder your spouse, and then call the police to report it as an accident.  But it is only as the squadcars pull in that you notice that you still wear the bloodstained shirt you commited the deed in.  As your doorbell rings, you feel an emotion for the first time that night:

That would be Dread.

Yes. Of course. Because that's a situation we can all relate to.

[RedTracer7]

cannedcream wrote...

RedTracer7 wrote...

I was trying to find a picture that would, in but a view pixels, express the level of epic this work has.  But the very nature of it, soft-spoken as CotEM is, makes such a task impossible.

It's like 300:
-Naked Fights
+Intriguing Characters, complete with odd quirks
+Creepy-Ass Maids
+A Plot that is actually interesting
+A very... ?victorian? feel.

I'm. . .not sure how to feel about this comparison. . .

Its all about how you approach it.  I went to 300 expecting a bloodfest mixed with a bit of gyrating oracle.  Got it.

I read CoetM expecting an intriguing frolic through the fields of the disturbing and decrepit.  Got it.

[Azint]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Azint wrote...

Somewhat related.

Literally, I got to the image of the baby monitor and turned it off.  I can't take that kind of thing anymore.  Too real to me.

You didn't finish it? 

Oh god the ending...

[Lividity Jones]

RiptideX1090 wrote...

For the record Azint.

I can't help but look at your posts and not take them seriously.

I'm too busy wanting to bone your avatar.

Just getting that out there.

So. How was your trip?

@Buddha. Excellent Lovecraft. I really like it.

This is apparently an unexpected side-effect from emmersion in Daro.

[NuclearBuddha]

Azint wrote...
You didn't finish it? 

Oh god the ending...

Guess I'll never know.

[NuclearBuddha]

“Perhaps I should speak plainly, then. As outrageous as my manuscript must have seemed to an academia blinkered by a lack of imagination or perhaps an unwillingness to embrace awful truth, it was the subject of some censorship on my own part. Some revelations I deemed to terrible to repeat, but now it seems there is no use in keeping my silence, for there will come a day that the truth will be apparent to all. And for myself, the day approaches all too quickly.

“Even if you have not read my manuscript, you must have heard the outline of my tale from those same rumormongers so willing to dismiss my work. The ice cores we took in the Antarctic interior were promising, shewing definite layers of deposited spores in the ice corresponding with differing ages of history. And then you must have heard of our discovery of a layer not of ice, but of preserved plant matter: vines, thick and tough, more suited to the untrammeled rainforests of the Congo than to the wind-blasted wasteland of ice. Where had they come from? What strange aeon had seen them flourish in such an inimical environment? And then, our ice-bores burst through into empty space, a vast glacial cavern, filled with objects of unmistakably artificial manufacture from an unspeakably distant age.”

“I have presented this cavern of treasures as a simple cache of a few tablets, but the truth, ah, but the truth is far greater. No mere ice cave it was, but a veritable abyss of cyclopean proportions and artifacts.  An entire city, and one filled with such wonders as to astound the mind and inflame the imagination. From the strata in which it was found, it must have lived more than 250,000 years before our time, though certain hints suggest that it might be abhorrently closer to our own era. Such things belong in the past, and there they should remain.

“But forget the nonsense about fumbling in the dark with torches; that likely would not have duped the astute reader. The cavern was lit bright as day, the radiance emitting from a central tower, and reflecting to every corner of the city by virtue of the reflective ice which formed this sub-glacial realm’s sky. It is my belief that this artificial sun was a sort of atom torch more powerful than any envisioned by science today. Oh yes, as ancient as this city was, its inhabitants were surely our superior in the scientific fields. And it still lived, after a fashion! Rich vegetation covered much of the surface of those remarkable basaltic ruins, seemingly akin to the preserved vines we had discovered earlier in our ice cores.

Modifié par NuclearBuddha, 01 juillet 2010 - 06:46 .

[Azint]

RiptideX1090 wrote...

For the record Azint.

I can't help but look at your posts and not take them seriously.

I'm too busy wanting to bone your avatar.

Just getting that out there.

You know, I was Xenmancing before it became popular.

So. How was your trip?

Would you prefer the truth or what I have been telling everyone else?

[RedTracer7]

NCLanceman wrote...

RedTracer7 wrote...
Or like after you murder your spouse, and then call the police to report it as an accident.  But it is only as the squadcars pull in that you notice that you still wear the bloodstained shirt you commited the deed in.  As your doorbell rings, you feel an emotion for the first time that night:

That would be Dread.

Yes. Of course. Because that's a situation we can all relate to.

Why is that when a man kills another in defense of his country he is called a hero, but when he kills another in a fit of rage... he is called a murderer?

[Lividity Jones]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

“Perhaps I should speak plainly, then. As outrageous as my manuscript must have seen to an academia blinkered by a lack of imagination or perhaps an unwillingness to embrace awful truth, it was the subject of some censorship on my own part. Some truths I deemed to terrible to repeat, but now it seems there is no use in keeping my silence, for there will come a day that the truth will be apparent to all. And for myself, the day approaches all too quickly.

“Even if you have not read my manuscript, you must have heard the outline of my tale from those same rumormongers so willing to dismiss my work. The ice cores we took in the Antarctic interior were promising, shewing definite layers of deposited spores in the ice corresponding with differing ages of history. And then you must have heard of our discovery of a layer not of ice, but of preserved plant matter: vines, thick and tough, more suited to the untrammeled rainforests of the Congo than to the wind-blasted wasteland of ice. Where had they come from? What strange aeon had seen them flourish in such an inimical environment? And then, our ice-bores burst through into empty space, a vast glacial cavern, filled with objects of unmistakably artificial manufacture from an unspeakably distant age.”

“I have presented this cavern of treasures as a mere cache or a few tablets, but the truth, ah, but the truth is far greater. No mere ice cave it was, but a veritable abyss of cyclopean proportions and artifacts? No, an entire city, and one filled with such wonders as to astound the mind and inflame the imagination. From the strata in which it was found, it must have lived more than 250,000 years before our time, though certain hints suggest that it might be abhorrently closer to our own era. Such things belong in the past, and there they should remain.

“But forget the nonsense about fumbling in the dark with torches; that likely would not have duped the astute reader. The cavern was lit bright as day, the radiance emitting from a central tower, and reflecting to every corner of the city by virtue of the reflective ice which formed this sub-glacial realm’s sky. It is my belief that this artificial sun was a sort of atom torch more powerful than any envisioned by science today. Oh yes, as ancient as this city was, its inhabitants were surely our superior in the scientific fields. And it still lived, after a fashion! Rich vegetation covered much of the surface of those remarkable basaltic ruins, seemingly akin to the preserved vines we had discovered earlier in our ice cores.

And **** just keeps getting more and more real...

[RiptideX1090]

Azint wrote...

RiptideX1090 wrote...

For the record Azint.

I can't help but look at your posts and not take them seriously.

I'm too busy wanting to bone your avatar.

Just getting that out there.

You know, I was Xenmancing before it became popular.

So. How was your trip?

Would you prefer the truth or what I have been telling everyone else?

Yeah, but Jones and I are the ones who made Xenmancing popular.

I prefer the answer you best feel comfortable telling me.

[Azint]

NuclearBuddha

I am enjoying this so much more because you and I have very similar ideas on where to take the story.

[NuclearBuddha]

Azint wrote...

NuclearBuddha

I am enjoying this so much more because you and I have very similar ideas on where to take the story.

You apparently know your HPL and ME.

[Azint]

RiptideX1090 wrote...

Yeah, but Jones and I are the ones who made Xenmancing popular.

I prefer the answer you best feel comfortable telling me.

I preceded the cool kids. Go pout.

Post-coitus realizations. **** that ****.

[nonAnon02]

RedTracer7 wrote...

NCLanceman wrote...

RedTracer7 wrote...
-snip-

Yes. Of course. Because that's a situation we can all relate to.

Why is that when a man kills another in defense of his country he is called a hero, but when he kills another in a fit of rage... he is called a murderer?

Why do they come to me to die? WHY DO THEY COME TO ME TO DIE!

[Lividity Jones]

Azint wrote...

RiptideX1090 wrote...

Yeah, but Jones and I are the ones who made Xenmancing popular.

I prefer the answer you best feel comfortable telling me.

I preceded the cool kids. Go pout.

Post-coitus realizations. **** that ****.

Y'know... That was probably the last thing I expected to hear. If not close to it.

[Kira Shepard]

I do not know why but the prospect of alma tali both terrifies and thrills me.

[Azint]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Azint wrote...

NuclearBuddha

I am enjoying this so much more because you and I have very similar ideas on where to take the story.

You apparently know your HPL and ME.

Aren't I the one telling you "your doin it wrong/right?"

[NCLanceman]

Lividity Jones wrote...

And **** just keeps getting more and more real...

I propose a S-CON system, kind of like the DEFCON system... in much the same fashion.

S-CON 5: Sh*t's cool, bro.
S-CON 4: Sh*t's about to happen.
S-CON 3: Sh*t's jumpin' off.
S-CON 2: Sh*t's goin' down.
S-CON 1: Sh*t got real.


Seriously, we need to keep track of this. I propose an immediate move to S-CON 4.

[Azint]

Lividity Jones wrote...

Y'know... That was probably the last thing I expected to hear. If not close to it.

Care to elaborate, Jones?

[RedTracer7]

nonAnon02 wrote...

Why do they come to me to die? WHY DO THEY COME TO ME TO DIE!

You know, if you stab a man in the dead of winter, steam will rise up from the wounds. Indians believed it was his soul escaping from his body.

[Lividity Jones]

NCLanceman wrote...

Lividity Jones wrote...

And **** just keeps getting more and more real...

I propose a S-CON system, kind of like the DEFCON system... in much the same fashion.

S-CON 5: Sh*t's cool, bro.
S-CON 4: Sh*t's about to happen.
S-CON 3: Sh*t's jumpin' off.
S-CON 2: Sh*t's goin' down.
S-CON 1: Sh*t got real.


Seriously, we need to keep track of this. I propose an immediate move to S-CON 4.

Agreed.

Take us to S-CON 4.

[RedTracer7]

NCLanceman wrote...

Lividity Jones wrote...

And **** just keeps getting more and more real...

I propose a S-CON system, kind of like the DEFCON system... in much the same fashion.

S-CON 5: Sh*t's cool, bro.
S-CON 4: Sh*t's about to happen.
S-CON 3: Sh*t's jumpin' off.
S-CON 2: Sh*t's goin' down.
S-CON 1: Sh*t got real.


Seriously, we need to keep track of this. I propose an immediate move to S-CON 4.

I don't know man...

Like any American, I can't understand "levels" unless they are color coded in some fashion...

[cannedcream]

NCLanceman wrote...

I propose a S-CON system, kind of like the DEFCON system... in much the same fashion.

S-CON 5: Sh*t's cool, bro.
S-CON 4: Sh*t's about to happen.
S-CON 3: Sh*t's jumpin' off.
S-CON 2: Sh*t's goin' down.
S-CON 1: Sh*t got real.


Seriously, we need to keep track of this. I propose an immediate move to S-CON 4.

I second this vote.