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Styx the Rat Posted Jan 26, 2004
*at camp rat-ant soldier sends message to Styx*
Affi playing cards in camp!
heh heh heh
Tell Affi good fight coming in tunnel. Give him horse.
*at camp rat-ant soldier giving massage to Affi*
*backing up carefully so slave not seeing demon rat*
*turns and running to entrance*
stupid stupid. Not thinking about guard for entrance!
*red eyes glowing*
stupid! not thinking about Ant Lady!
*emerges looks around*
sniff sniff sniff
*looking up and waiting*
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Gobold Slave (you can call me Gord) Posted Jan 26, 2004
*Jumps when GL comes out of the passage. Nervously glances back towards the cavern. Hears the odd scuffling noise around him. Notices a strange squid-shaped glow down the passage that GL just came from. Is torn between his fear of the other Gobolds and his fear of this human and however many friends he may have. Glances again towards the cavern and comes to a decision.*
I will help you, but you must take me away with you when it is over.
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jan 26, 2004
[outside the cave] *hovers discreetly above the entrance to the cave, watching for trouble*
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Sol Posted Jan 26, 2004
*Watches approvingly the painless capture of the gobold.*
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Jan 26, 2004
*unwraps squid tentacles from her hat* I think I would like to be not so conspicuous now.
OK, we will take you with us. What's happening down there?
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Afgncaap5 Posted Jan 27, 2004
Sorry, didn't get Styx's post. Has the rat-ant already informed me of the fight, or is he on his way to inform me?
To tell you the truth, Witty, no one *really* knows how to play Double Fannucci. And it actually helps if you don't know how to play Mao. However, I can certainly see your point.
Although I don't know Crazy Eights or Cribbage.
How about Rook? Or Push?
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Jan 27, 2004
I think we can consider that the giving of the message happens as soon as you acknowledge it, Affi. 
*hearing the chanting get higher and more intense* I think something is happening in there...
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Afgncaap5 Posted Jan 27, 2004
*Affy stands at hearing the rat-ant's message and begins heading towards the cave when he trips and falls onto the ground. He visibly shudders before crawling back to where he was sitting moments earlier*
Sorry. Thanks for the invite, but I'm still recovering from a fight with an and a chilly swim in a frozen pond. I'd head out, but I think that realistically I'm not in any shape to join in a fight. I'd be more of a hindrance at this juncture.
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Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") Posted Jan 27, 2004
*Keeps the crossbow loaded and pointed at the floor.*
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Coniraya Posted Jan 27, 2004
*having turned the torch beam off soas not to give their position away, has her carameliser ready to ignite*
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Jan 27, 2004
/* Reads the name badge that the cobold is wearing: */
"Hi! I'm your slave. My name is..."
"GORD"
OK, we freed a slave. Now what do we do about Amos? I don't like the looks of those sticks. 
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Witty Moniker Posted Jan 27, 2004
Gee, Affy, I don't know Rook or Push, either!
How about Go Fish?
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Gobold Slave (you can call me Gord) Posted Jan 27, 2004
*Looks fearful as he hears more and more voice in the passage behind GL. Absently rubs a scar on his forehead.*
Well, I'll have to trust you. Whatever you do to me can't be worse than what I've been through.
I am from a much more civilised tribe than those savages *contemptuously indicates the Gobolds in the cavern* but we had let our fighting skills lapse and so were no match for them when they attacked. Most of us scattered into the woods, but I went back to get my pet python and was captured. The worst part of it was what they did to poor Monty. He's now an ex-python.
The Gobolds in the cavern are preparing to roast a human for their annual thanksgiving feast. It's traditional. The roasting cooks the meat and is also the main entertainment. MY tribe gave up the practice years ago and now we just roast a big dead bird.
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Red-Shirted Gobold Posted Jan 27, 2004
*Pokes his head around the doorway into the cavern and looks up the passageway to where Gord is standing, some distance away.*
Hey! Who're you talking to?
*Starts walking down the passageway towards Gord. It should take at least 4 or 5 posts to get there.*
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Afgncaap5 Posted Jan 27, 2004
Go Fish! Okay, I know that one. We can play Go Fish.
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Jan 27, 2004
Gord! Move up past this tunnel a few steps so we can nab that fellow coming toward us!
*to the others* I have a cunning plan. What if we have the rat-ants cover for us and deal with anybody from the barracks, and we charge down there and rescue Amos?
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Witty Moniker Posted Jan 27, 2004
Go Fish it is!
*Shuffles, cuts, deals, waits for Affy to go first.*
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Afgncaap5 Posted Jan 27, 2004
Ironically, Witty, I symlposted with you. Weird how it works out, eh?
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- 421: Styx the Rat (Jan 26, 2004)
- 422: Gobold Slave (you can call me Gord) (Jan 26, 2004)
- 423: Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive (Jan 26, 2004)
- 424: Sol (Jan 26, 2004)
- 425: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Jan 26, 2004)
- 426: Coniraya (Jan 26, 2004)
- 427: Afgncaap5 (Jan 27, 2004)
- 428: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Jan 27, 2004)
- 429: Afgncaap5 (Jan 27, 2004)
- 430: Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") (Jan 27, 2004)
- 431: Coniraya (Jan 27, 2004)
- 432: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Jan 27, 2004)
- 433: Witty Moniker (Jan 27, 2004)
- 434: Gobold Slave (you can call me Gord) (Jan 27, 2004)
- 435: Red-Shirted Gobold (Jan 27, 2004)
- 436: Afgncaap5 (Jan 27, 2004)
- 437: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Jan 27, 2004)
- 438: Witty Moniker (Jan 27, 2004)
- 439: Afgncaap5 (Jan 27, 2004)
- 440: Afgncaap5 (Jan 27, 2004)
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