Conversation with maureen at Tue 22 Sep 2009 08:44:52 PM EDT on dkap@irc.gamesurge.net (irc)
(09:37:12 PM) dkap: Hrm ... where did we leave you off?
(09:37:37 PM) Maureen: hiding in Wednesday Addams' hidey-hole
(09:37:47 PM) dkap: Right, from the wolf.
(09:38:31 PM) Maureen: yes.
(09:38:38 PM) Maureen: Wednesday is a very nice girl
(09:39:02 PM) Maureen: I have a Trump of her and I do not even know whomelse
(09:39:24 PM) dkap: Indeed, you do, and indeed, you don't.
(09:39:26 PM) dkap: *grin*
(09:39:50 PM) Maureen: I am making some notes from last game in my log real quick
(09:40:01 PM) Maureen: I should have done during the week, but have been so busy
(09:40:05 PM) Maureen: I apologize
(09:41:43 PM) dkap: *grin* Note away.
(09:41:49 PM) Maureen: somethinng weird just happened and now I am on twice?
(09:42:06 PM) Maureen: confusing
(09:44:40 PM) dkap: Don't worry about it.
(09:52:15 PM) dkap: So ... are your notes up to date?
(09:52:25 PM) Maureen: almost done
(09:52:47 PM) dkap: Good good.
(09:59:27 PM) Maureen: (wow Mal and Kaylee; I have missed a lot)
(09:59:38 PM) Maureen: I mena I figured it was them, but you know
(10:00:01 PM) Maureen: I am finished, Almighty GameMaster
(10:00:48 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:01:14 PM) Maureen: _beam_
(10:02:43 PM) Maureen: I wake up in the secret under-tree fortress of wednesday addams?
(10:04:06 PM) dkap: Yes, indeed you do.
(10:04:19 PM) Maureen: and I take stock of my situation
(10:04:20 PM) dkap: There is a quiet noise, like water lapping at a shoreline.
(10:04:26 PM) dkap: There is very little light.
(10:04:49 PM) dkap: And you have a soft, warm blanket on you, a soft surface under your body, including a pillow.
(10:07:16 PM) Maureen: look around, enjoying the simple pleasure of the comfort I feel
(10:07:35 PM) Maureen: yet wary that something is out of place
(10:07:52 PM) dkap: Nothing seems really out of place.
(10:07:58 PM) dkap: Nothing feels "wrong".
(10:08:09 PM) Maureen: excellent
(10:08:33 PM) Maureen: look for light source
(10:08:49 PM) Maureen: or activation controls thereof
(10:10:05 PM) dkap: There doesn't seem to be any. There is a surface near you, but ... it doesn't seem to have more than an (empty) cup on it.
(10:10:41 PM) Maureen: (Percy: I totally just flashed back to playing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text based game and felt I should go lie down in front of the bulldozer LOL)
(10:10:54 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:11:02 PM) dkap: Did you put on your dressing gown first?
(10:11:16 PM) Maureen: do you mean, did I don it?
(10:11:23 PM) Maureen: :-)
(10:11:32 PM) Maureen: I shall do so now
(10:11:52 PM) dkap: You don't have one, nor does it have headache medicine in the pocket.
(10:11:53 PM) dkap: *grin*
(10:12:23 PM) Maureen: (you are fantastic, have I told you that?)
(10:12:31 PM) Maureen: sit up, dress if unndressed, and rise for the day
(10:13:31 PM) Maureen: gather myself and my belongings in general
(10:14:23 PM) dkap: You are naked (as you often sleep) and you don't seem to have any belongings. And when you slide your feet over the edge of the surface, you don't seem to find a floor surface under your feet.
(10:15:05 PM) Maureen: ok, all limbs on bed and look around some more
(10:16:08 PM) dkap: No light. Hard to look.
(10:16:47 PM) Maureen: well this is not good
(10:16:59 PM) Maureen: "Computer, lights"
(10:17:48 PM) dkap: You hear a voice say "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
(10:18:25 PM) Maureen: (Eek.)
(10:19:09 PM) Maureen: Ok, think logically Maureen.
(10:20:30 PM) Maureen: soft surface is made of?
(10:20:34 PM) Maureen: is it in a frame?
(10:20:52 PM) Maureen: am I the only one in it? (please)
(10:21:47 PM) dkap: You are the only one in it (not a corpse, with the ketchup ...)
(10:21:52 PM) dkap: It is not in a frame.
(10:22:02 PM) dkap: And it feels like ... well ... cotton.
(10:24:17 PM) Maureen: voice was commputer? person? indistinguishable?
(10:24:31 PM) dkap: Sounded like a dispassionate person.
(10:24:44 PM) Maureen: Hello?
(10:25:03 PM) dkap: By the way, can I tease you?
(10:25:34 PM) Maureen: if you must
(10:25:47 PM) dkap: Katherine just showed up, because she needed computer help, she is an arms-reach away from me ...
(10:26:14 PM) Maureen: Oh!
(10:26:44 PM) Maureen: you are mean, remind me to say no next time
(10:27:19 PM) Maureen: LOL, as if. I always want to hear of sighting of the fair katherine
(10:27:57 PM) dkap: I am mean, cruel, and evil.
(10:28:39 PM) Maureen: and I love it, as do all your femmes, I am sure
(10:28:52 PM) Maureen: as I have said, women love the devil
(10:29:36 PM) dkap: And the devil loves women ... long time.
(10:29:43 PM) dkap: Isn't that why Samiel fell?
(10:30:09 PM) Maureen: :-)
(10:30:19 PM) Maureen: and you get better and better
(10:31:24 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:32:48 PM) Maureen: but, um, I am in a very strange place with no things of clothes, just a soft cotton surface, a pillow, and a cozy blanket, with a dispassionate person voice playing sci fi free association with me and will soon curl up and go back to sleep, if I cannot get out of the bed soon
(10:33:22 PM) dkap: Indeed.
(10:34:24 PM) Maureen: "hello? is anyone there?" (have my eyes adjusted at all?)
(10:35:18 PM) dkap: The voice "Anyone at all? Heloooo?"
(10:35:25 PM) dkap: No, your eyes have not adjusted.
(10:36:16 PM) Maureen: Ok, that is just rude.
(10:39:19 PM) dkap: Voice: "Life, don't talk to me about life."
(10:40:07 PM) Maureen: Hello, I am Maureen.
(10:43:26 PM) dkap: "Hello, Maureen. I am a random collection."
(10:46:24 PM) Maureen: Of what does your collection consist, if I may ask?
(10:57:43 PM) Maureen: Do you know where we are?
(10:59:31 PM) dkap: "We are all together now."
(11:02:29 PM) Maureen: all together now (all together now)
(11:03:09 PM) dkap: We will all, go down together ...
(11:03:36 PM) dkap: We will all go together when we go ... every hotentot and every eskimo.
(11:06:35 PM) Maureen: When the air becomes uranious, We'll all go simultaneous, Yes, we'll all go together when we go...?
(11:07:26 PM) dkap: It's going ... going ... going ... GONE! He has hit it out of the park!
(11:11:32 PM) Maureen: "Stop right there. I gotta know right now. Before we go any further..." what is going on here?
(11:27:41 PM) dkap: Here we are ... masters of the universe.
(11:30:05 PM) Maureen: "Let there be light!" "Yehi"
(11:31:26 PM) dkap: "And there was light. And the lord saw that the light was good. It was evening, it was morning, the first day."
(11:31:51 PM) dkap: And an unfocused light begins to gather around you. As if thousands of tiny, tiny fireflies were flying about.
(11:33:55 PM) dkap: You can begin to see that you are basically on top of a giant cotton swab. And over a bit, there is a giant pin, with some angels waltzing on it.
(11:34:38 PM) Maureen: Oh, great.
(11:34:50 PM) Maureen: Wake up, Maureen.
(11:35:23 PM) dkap: "Wakey-wakey, eggs and baccey."
(11:35:49 PM) Maureen: *laugh*
(11:36:54 PM) dkap: You recognize the music from the waltz ... "much more the thorns underneath love, digging into your gums ..."
(11:38:43 PM) Maureen: Shouldn't that be a tango?
(11:39:24 PM) dkap: It's not tango music ... but you realize that the movements of the angels are all ... mechanical, and repeating. Like a giant music box.
(11:41:10 PM) Maureen: Hmmm, hmmmm, hmmm
(11:41:12 PM) Maureen: (Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches.
(11:41:12 PM) Maureen: The last time I needed twenty stitches
(11:41:13 PM) Maureen: To sew up the gash
(11:41:13 PM) Maureen: That you made with your lash,
(11:41:13 PM) Maureen: As we danced to the Masochism Tango.)
(11:41:29 PM) Maureen: (bum bum)
(11:42:45 PM) dkap: But ... apparently your invocation of light worked ...
(11:44:03 PM) Maureen: which is refreshing
(11:44:16 PM) Maureen: (I can see crazy things)
(11:45:19 PM) dkap: But, you can also, look over the edge of the q-tip, and possibly even climb down the shaft.
(11:45:26 PM) dkap: (Shaft ... wah ahhh)
(11:45:46 PM) Maureen: I was just thinking: try to will the cotton swab to move away from the angles on the pin; if that fails, I will attempt to climb down the cotton swab
(11:46:25 PM) Maureen: angles = angels
(11:46:46 PM) dkap: Indeed. Did I spell it wrong?
(11:46:57 PM) Maureen: I did
(11:48:03 PM) Maureen: so, down the shaft, it is
(11:48:40 PM) dkap: "Down down, downedoo be do be down down down."
(11:50:47 PM) Maureen: "whoa, whoa, whoa, whoooa"
(11:51:13 PM) dkap: And then you hear the (familiar) nicker of a horse.
(11:54:27 PM) Maureen: whistle
(11:55:31 PM) dkap: "Hi-ho Silver, and away"
(11:55:55 PM) dkap: And you hear the nicker closer, not yet close, but ... thing echo strange in here ...
(12:08:40 AM) Maureen: buh dum buh dum buh dum buh buh. just keep climbing down (just keep climbing, climbing, climbing)
(12:09:25 AM) dkap: "Rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby ..."
(12:11:12 AM) Maureen: rock the boat-t-t-t
(12:12:07 AM) dkap: And the shaft starts swaying ...
(12:14:26 AM) Maureen: I was thinking: ooo, rock the boat... "The people all said sit down, sit down, you're rocking the boat. The people all said sit down, sit down, you're rocking the boat, and the Devil will drag you under by the sharp lapel of your checkered coat, sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down you're rocking the boat."
(12:14:50 AM) Maureen: :-)
(12:15:22 AM) dkap: "Shut the door, keep out the Devil. Shut the door, keep the Devil in the night ..."
(12:15:36 AM) dkap: And fiddle music starts up.
(12:16:40 AM) Maureen: Light the candle everything?s alright
(12:19:17 AM) dkap: Breathe deep the gathering gloom. Watch lights fade from every room.
(12:20:33 AM) dkap: And the room starts to go dark.
(12:20:57 AM) dkap: "The Dark, the dark is rising, the 6 shall turn it back."
(12:21:58 AM) Maureen: Dawn is a feeling
(12:21:58 AM) Maureen: A beautiful ceiling
(12:21:58 AM) Maureen: The smell of grass
(12:21:58 AM) Maureen: Just makes you pass
(12:21:58 AM) Maureen: Into a dream
(12:22:25 AM) Maureen: You look around you
(12:22:25 AM) Maureen: Things they astound you
(12:22:25 AM) Maureen: So breathe in deep
(12:22:25 AM) Maureen: You're not asleep
(12:22:25 AM) Maureen: Open your mind
(12:22:44 AM) dkap: "Dre-e-e-e-em, Dream Dream Dream ... Drink your lips like wine, any time, night or day ..."
(12:23:45 AM) Maureen: Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
(12:23:45 AM) Maureen: and I say it's all right
(12:23:58 AM) dkap: "Blackbird singing in the Dead of Night ..."
(12:24:38 AM) dkap: "Good morning starshine, you twinkle above us, we twinkle below."
(12:25:29 AM) dkap: The closer you come to the bottom, the more you can make out ... you can see your horse, staring up at you, waiting, patiently for your arrival.
(12:25:45 AM) dkap: The little flickers of light are still followingyou.
(12:26:34 AM) Maureen: My love and me as we sing
(12:26:34 AM) Maureen: Our early morning singing song...?
(12:27:06 AM) dkap: "I might as well be walking on the Moon."
(12:28:21 AM) Maureen: no, "Good morning starshine, The *earth* says hello, You twinkle above us, We twinkle below"
(12:29:58 AM) dkap: "So you're back, from outerspace"
(12:30:57 AM) Maureen: I grew strong :-)
(12:32:07 AM) Maureen: I learned how to carry on
(12:34:23 AM) dkap: "Knowledge is Power"
(12:34:31 AM) dkap: School House ROCK!
(12:36:05 AM) dkap: You have reached your horse ...
(12:36:09 AM) Maureen: When you're in the dark and you want to see,
(12:36:10 AM) Maureen: You need uh... Electricity, Electricity
(12:36:10 AM) Maureen: Flip that switch and what do you get?
(12:36:10 AM) Maureen: You get uh... Electricity, Electricity
(12:36:10 AM) Maureen: Every room can now be lit
(12:36:11 AM) Maureen: With just uh... Electricity, Electricity
(12:36:25 AM) Maureen: Yay, horse, beautiful horse.
(12:36:32 AM) Maureen: stuff on horse?
(12:37:09 AM) dkap: Stuff on horse, but there is a giant lightning bolt heading your way.
(12:37:21 AM) dkap: "It's Electric, booga dooga dooga do."
(12:37:29 AM) Maureen: dodge
(12:38:17 AM) dkap: It strikes where you and your horse were a moment before.
(12:38:55 AM) dkap: "Hear comes the Rain again ... Falling on my head like a new emotion."
(12:39:16 AM) dkap: And, indeed, it starts raining.
(12:39:34 AM) Maureen: Rain, rain, go away, come again another day
(12:39:57 AM) dkap: "It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring"
(12:40:09 AM) dkap: And a giant headboard comes winging it's way at you.
(12:40:39 AM) Maureen: duck/dodge
(12:40:46 AM) dkap: It misses.
(12:41:45 AM) Maureen: Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
(12:41:45 AM) Maureen: Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
(12:41:45 AM) Maureen: Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
(12:41:45 AM) Maureen: and I say it's all right
(12:41:51 AM) dkap: "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain."
(12:42:10 AM) dkap: And the rain falls behind you.
(12:42:26 AM) Maureen: Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
(12:42:27 AM) Maureen: Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
(12:42:27 AM) Maureen: Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
(12:42:27 AM) Maureen: Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
(12:42:27 AM) Maureen: Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
(12:42:29 AM) dkap: The rising ground starts to vibrate under you ...
(12:42:39 AM) dkap: "The Hills are alive, with the sound of music!"
(12:42:52 AM) Maureen: stop in the name of love (arm out hand up)
(12:42:58 AM) Maureen: before you break my heart
(12:43:08 AM) Maureen: think it o-over
(12:43:22 AM) dkap: "Breaking up is hard to do"
(12:43:33 AM) dkap: As there appears fissures in the ground.
(12:44:01 AM) Maureen: move to most solid ground
(12:45:52 AM) Maureen: " LORD FORGIVE ME, TURN MY LIFE AROUND, LORD PLANT MY FEET FIRM ON SOLID GROUND
(12:46:22 AM) dkap: "No hiding place, down here ..."
(12:46:40 AM) dkap: As the ground solidifies into a flat featureless plane.
(12:47:50 AM) dkap: As far as your little lights can see.
(12:47:53 AM) Maureen: add small familiar features: a couple of large trees in the distance
(12:48:07 AM) Maureen: ah, near sight
(12:48:16 AM) dkap: Indeed.
(12:51:48 AM) dkap: There is a wheel shaped lizard ahead "Kharma kharma, kharma, Kharma Chameleon ..."
(12:52:04 AM) dkap: The large lizard hisses and lunges at your horse.
(12:52:04 AM) Maureen: *groan*
(12:52:31 AM) Maureen: dodge/lee
(12:52:33 AM) Maureen: flee
(12:52:46 AM) dkap: You run.
(12:52:54 AM) dkap: "Stop! In the name of love!"
(12:53:26 AM) Maureen: (you stole that from me)
(12:54:16 AM) dkap: Are you saying that to the entity?
(12:54:36 AM) Maureen: LOl, no
(12:54:52 AM) dkap: "Stop, children, what's that sound, everybody look what's going down ..."
(12:54:56 AM) Maureen: I want you, I need you, but there ain't know way I'm ever gonna love you"
(12:55:33 AM) dkap: "All you need is Glove!"
(12:56:00 AM) dkap: And the giant, flying glove tries to oblueterate you.
(12:56:24 AM) Maureen: stop in the name of love
(12:56:59 AM) dkap: "Lavender Blue, dilly dilly, lavender Green."
(12:58:02 AM) dkap: "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one your with."
(12:59:45 AM) dkap: Round like a circle in a spiral like a wheel within a wheel Never ending on beginning on an ever-spinning reel Like a snowball down a mountain or a carnival balloon Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes on its face And the world is like an apple spinning silently in space Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone Like a door that keeps revolving in a half-forgotten dream Like the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes on its face And the world is like an apple spinning silently in space Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind
(01:02:13 AM) Maureen: "Yes, I'm leaving you, I've got to go
(01:02:13 AM) Maureen: I can't stay"
(01:02:49 AM) dkap: And the world becomes a snowball, a balloon a carousel, a moon ...
(01:05:13 AM) Maureen: Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
(01:05:13 AM) Maureen: Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
(01:05:13 AM) Maureen: Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
(01:05:13 AM) Maureen: and I say it's all right
(01:05:13 AM) Maureen: It's all right