The Tiki Lounge

[Chris Chandler]

Hey folks!

Welcome to everyone who is taking a moment to take a good look at the game and participate in some fun. Come on in here, have a seat, and enjoy yourself.

[LadyGlutter]

Hiya voyeurs!

Uh, we can talk in here, too, right?

[Doombot]

NEIN! Es ist verboten!

[Chris Chandler]

Ich bin ein Berliner!

I also want apple fritters.

[Doombot]

Ich möchte Pommes essen.

[LadyGlutter]

Forbidden, huh? :) Yay. First rule broken.

[Tashalar]

Ich bin ein Berliner!
Hey! That's me! Not you! :fun:

Awesome. A Tiki lounge. Whatever that is. But lounge sounds promising at least. What are the... uh.... hm. Any chaise longue here?

[Chris Chandler]

Why, yes there are, right over next to our singer Richard Cheese. Have a Suffering Bastard (http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink7459.html) and relax.

[Doombot]

What about me now?

[Chris Chandler]

Most excellent.

[Tashalar]

Jaja, have some Pommes, Doom. *insert Pommes-sy smiles here*

[Chris Chandler]

Okay, so I had the opportunity to see The Flaming Lips (http://www.flaminglips.com/main.php) in Concert last night. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen.

[Doombot]

Man, nothing sadder than a thread with no updates. :(

[LadyGlutter]

Here's a hanky for you to blow your nose on, softy.

[Doombot]

Yay! I have a hanky!

[LadyGlutter]

In the spirit of keeping people from crying their eyes out or falling asleep in here, here's a little light reading (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2008/06/alttext_0618/) for our loungers. :)

[Chris Chandler]

I for one hate what they have done to macaroni and cheese. I mean, back in the day we didn't even bother with real cheese. It was just milk, butter, and a packet of orange dust. These kids and their colby... It completely wrecks the dining experience. Next they'll want garlic infused, parmesan crusted pasta, fer crying out loud. Recipe sprawl is just too much!

[Tashalar]

Awesome first post, LG! :fun:

*lounges*

[LadyGlutter]

Thanks! I worked hard on it!

[Chris Chandler]

As I was putting stuff together, I came across this list.

http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=507223

[Mercutio]

I like where Aros' story is heading already!

[Doombot]

Woot! Yay for having a sweet story!

[MadDogMaddux]

No new messages in my inbox makes me SAD!!!!! :'(

[Tashalar]

I guess I'm easier for some folks, more than others. http://www.online-roleplaying.com/forums/images/smilies/smiley%20-%20cool.gif

I'm going to stick with the blue.

Yeah, but what kinda blue is that now? Hm? HM? :roll:

[LightBringer]

Why, it's just the kind of blue I like, not to blue, not to not blue. :cool:

[LadyGlutter]

Pfft.

It's azure.

[LightBringer]

Are you reading the tags again! It's just right blue. :nod:

[LadyGlutter]

No, I'm not reading the tags. They say deepskyblue. LOL

[Mercutio]

By this, I can only assume that you mean you were unable to find any pictures of Claire Danes infested with maggots.I had a go at photoshopping one of those today and nearly made myself puke as a result. Rest assured that I won't post it anywhere.

[Doombot]

Awwwww...:(

[Tashalar]

Host it and send Doom a link... you'll make his day.

[Chris Chandler]

Doom does love the maggots.

[Doombot]

The best part is, it's almost cuterebra (http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=11&cat=1290&articleid=3000) season!

[Chris Chandler]

Man, you get to learn the best gross-out stuff.

[Doombot]

It's even better when you get to pull 3-4 of them out of a squirming kitten.

As a non sequitur, afterbirths are really sticky if you don't clean them up right away.

[Tashalar]

YAY for the return of (the) MDM! :D

[LadyGlutter]

Our visitor is so well behaved, staying in his designated area. :P

[Tashalar]

Ah, are you trying to tempt me to leave the Tiki Lounge? It's quite cozy here...

BUT. I think I'll fall for your temptation at some point... maybe soon. I just fear the WoC(TM). :fun:

[MadDogMaddux]

YAY for the return of (the) MDM! :D

:P

Danke!

[Tashalar]

Bitteschön, gern' geschehen!

In any case. Just thought I'd let you guys and gals know I'm still around.

...

yeah. :roll:

[Chris Chandler]

We'll be concluding the exciting adventures of Mizuki in... possibly... today! So we've got that going for us.

[Doombot]

Hootie-hoo!

[Tashalar]

I suppose it's up to everyone involved - How about it?
I'm all set!

*gets ready to read* :)

[Mercutio]

I've already read them all...

[MadDogMaddux]

yeah, I can't wait till I can go back and read everyone's vignettes.

[Tashalar]

We're all awesome. LOL Even if it's undetectable.
Haha! At least you know that's the case... LOL

[LadyGlutter]

That it's undetectable? LOL, oh yeah I do.

[Chris Chandler]

Hey, everyone's a little bit awesome.

[Tashalar]

There's some awesome in each and every one of us. :nod:

Sometimes we just forget about it though. Or we forget where it is. Or others make us forget. And we let them. And... and... forget about this! *hypno-gaze*

[Doombot]

Some of us are just more awesome than others. I have to hide mine to prevent others' egos from exploding out of sheer incomprehension. ;)

[MadDogMaddux]

You mean to keep others from gagging on what YOU percieve to be awesome? :P

[LadyGlutter]

Okay, my gigglebox is officially upside down now.

[Doombot]

My awesomeness is a universal constant. It's like gravity. Everyone is kept down by the fact that I'm so awesometacular. :D

[LightBringer]

Oh lordy, it's getting deep in here! :P

[Doombot]

That's what you get from a guy that graduates twice: twice as much BS!
(I know, that was a bad one.)

[Chris Chandler]

Doombot's Universal Constant of Awesome is known as the δα constant, which is equal to Doom*Awesome. You may also see that in it's shortened form, ∞.

[Doombot]

At least someone's got my back. Thanks Chris, I'll remember this when the uprising comes.

[Tashalar]

Well, nice to see that you've worked your way around the not-so-small issues that came up. :nod:

As the local troll I just wanted to tell you all that you've got the most active game on the boards here. And it's epic, too. Doubly-epic therefore. :cool:

[Doombot]

Hopefully once Merc is done with his thesis, we'll see a little more action over in RHoD. I'm not ready to give up on that one yet, but I'm afraid Ian might have split.

[LightBringer]

Sweet! Thanks for the heads up Tash.

[LadyGlutter]

I wouldn't think that one is dead yet, either. Once a month I stop into the thread of useless pointlessness and you guys are still going strong there. That suggests quite a lot of interest in the game still.

Even though it's stating the obvious, it tickles me having the resident troll come in and tell us we talk lots for some reason. :D

I'm very glad we worked through it successfully too. I've never put as much work into making a character as Mizuki, and that's saying a lot. Epicly, I learned a lot of stuff making her, too. It's a different animal, making an epic character. Soooo many options, all going into ONE person.... So I was freaking a minute there. ;) I cannot STAND to have character creation go to waste in general, anyway.

[Chris Chandler]

Yeah, Ian's not been around much at all. It is worrisome.

[Doombot]

I've shot him an email or two via ORP, and gotten nothing. I may do so again soon, just in case. Otherwise, we might have to have the Mighty Mercutio ad-lib his character until we can get a hold of him.

[MadDogMaddux]

I'm with LG on this one, I've never spent so much time on one character in the build-out. It's kinda neat, but yeah, I'd be sad if things had fallen apart.

Ironically, the concept of Malak is something I've been toying with for YEARS, this is just the first time I really get to play him. :P

[Doombot]

Strangely enough, this is one of the quickest overall builds I've ever made. Probably because I've been planning the progression for Aros ever since I joined RHoD.

[LightBringer]

I think I went through 3 or 4 versions of OmniFrost from her original form. It was pretty time consuming, and annoying at points, but I am very happy with the final product.

[Chris Chandler]

See, OmniFrost even annoyed LB!

[MadDogMaddux]

and......that completes the set. :P

[LightBringer]

Ahhh, yes, but she is such a sweet innocent thing now, how could anyone not help but love her? :nod:


LOL

[LadyGlutter]

Does the Tiki Lounge serve at 9:26 a.m.?

[LightBringer]

Of course it does, because it's 5 o'clock, somewhere!

[Doombot]

Eh, who cares what the clock says; it's beer-thirty!

[LadyGlutter]

On a tangentially related note: our great state just recently changed their beer policy where more gourmet beers and beers that are 8.0%+ alcohol are now legal. Our grocery store has this huge section of new booze on display. I've been challenged to find a beer that doesn't gross me out, but I don't even know how that would be accomplished. I have no idea what a high gravity beer is, or any of that stuff.

[LightBringer]

I would think the best way to find out which one doesn't 'Gross you out', is to start on the left end, and work your way to the right end! :)

Sometimes research is over-rated. Go with experience.

[Chris Chandler]

Agreed - I just went with the Belgian beer with the gnome on the bottle. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised. It was the best beer I've had.

[MadDogMaddux]

Gimme some names of what's available, and I'll make what reccomendations I can.

FWIW, you should definitely try 1554 by New Belgium, anything Chimay, anything Smithwicks, and if you can get your hands on Skullsplitter you'll be happy.

If by some divine chance your store has ANYHING by Celis, now brewed by Michigan Brewing Company, you need to do 3 things: 1) Take a moment of deep reverent silence before God Almighty who has so favored you, 2) buy it all, 3) send me half - just lemme know and I'll PM you an address.

:P

[MadDogMaddux]

Oh, and Sam Smith makes a great series of ales.

Xingu black is really good too.

Mackeson Stout (aka Mackeson XXX).

[Doombot]

Michigan Brewing Co. you say? Celis, you say? Welcome to Michigan, baby! ;) It's kinda funny; the MBC brewery is about 10-15 minutes down the highway from my house. I loves it.

[MadDogMaddux]

you need to send me a package fulla Celis White.

Now.

[Doombot]

Decorate your cafe with MSU Spartan decor, and I'll consider it. :P

[LadyGlutter]

Thanks for the suggestions, MDM, I knew that the officianados wouldn't let me down. And LB -- though if I follow the suggestion of left to right and no research, I'll always like the ones on the right best. :P

[Doombot]

What kind of beers do you prefer? I know that it's like pulling teeth trying to get Angela to drink beer, unless it's Leinenkugel's apple flavored beer, but then, she's a hard cider fan. She will sometimes drink 'girly' beers -- Berryweiss, etc., but she still complains that they taste too much like beer. I don't know if the selection offered at your Freindly Local Liquor Store will match anything that I'm famililar with, but I'll give it a go.

I'm not familliar with Xingu or Mackeson, but otherwise it sounds like MDM knows his brew.

[Chris Chandler]

LG's favorite beer is wine.

Normally, I go for something like a Harp's, but as you guys have seen, we apparently haven't had real beer in AL. The beer I had was La chouffe (http://www.achouffe.be/en), and like I said, is the best beer I've ever had.

[Chris Chandler]

New post is up for my F2F game. For those of you who don't know, I'm working toward restructuring and converting my homebrew world (Kuralia - running a game on these boards based there) into GURPS or another more flexible ruleset, and to get things established, I'm chronicling the exploits of the current campaign. We're much farther ahead in the campaign than the current narrative, but I'll try to post more regularly. By any means, take a look if you like -

http://kuralia.com/Blog/2009/07/continuing-in-the-same-vein/

[treehouse]

Waaaaaay back in the days of 3ebb (if you're familiar with those forums -- I know Chris is), treehouse and I had a friendly rivalry going on. It was fostered somewhat by me being in RHoD, which he was co-DMing with Mercutio.

Anyway, treehouse had a well deserved reputation for being follicularly challenged. His avatar was a picture of him that looked like it could have been taken when he was twelve. So one time -- I'm not sure how we got on the subject -- I challenged him to a beard growing contest. Lune was involved for a few days, but then had to drop due to digital camera malfunction. Just as well, it was mostly between me and tree anyway. What followed was four weeks of digital oneupsmanship, mostly with (poorly) photoshopped images. treehouse took a picture of a wig taped to his chin, I took a picture of a couple of leonbergers 'shopped over my face. Four weeks later, the result was me with a thick, luxurious beard, and treehouse with a sparse goatee. But it was a beard nonetheless!

He now sports a goatee and moustache full time, and although it's not quite as thick as mine, it is apparently enough to make his wife happy. She was in on the merriment, and will occasionally join me in treehouse bashing. She's fun that way. That most recent quote from here came a few days ago (you may have noticed me sig change), and I liked it even better than treehouse denigrating himself, so I threw it up there. If I had room, I'd include the quote where she called him an asshat.


Also, at some point during the competition (probably due to my poor typing), the word 'bear' became interchangeable with 'beard.' So there are also many in-jokes about my bear, and how it kills people and so forth.

Lies! Scandal! Tomfoolery!

Actually that's mostly true...

Except for the part where it was prompted by you being in RHD. That pic of me with the wig-beard was dated in mid 2005, before we even migrated all our play-by-posts to ORP, and RHD didn't exist at that point anyway.

[Chris Chandler]

The wig-beard was well in the depths of 3ebb, back before Tree ran his quasi-egyptian campaign, remember?

[treehouse]

Oh yeah, A Series of Unfortunate Adventures...man that flopped hard.

[Doombot]

Actually that's mostly true...

Except for the part where it was prompted by you being in RHD.

Good point. It's long enough ago that I don't remember the details. Only that you cheated and still lost. :P

[Chris Chandler]

I don't think it flopped. I think that's one of the times when RL caught up with folks, is all.

[Doombot]

I'm just trying to figure out how something can flop hard. Seems like a contradicktion to me. :)

[treehouse]

Doom has resumed his former occupation as my full-time nemesis, I see.

I'll never surrender! Wootles!

[Doombot]

Hey, nemesising is what I do best. Besides drink and grow beards, anyway.


This look familar, treehouse?
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7083/pabeard.gif (http://img193.imageshack.us/i/pabeard.gif/)

[treehouse]

Aaarrrgggggggggg -succumbs to flashback-

[Doombot]

There's charlie everywhere!

[Chris Chandler]

Oh, that one was awesome. I even remember thinking at the time that my beard probably grew more in the time it took me to read that comic than Tree would show in a week.

[LadyGlutter]

Wheeeee! Looky what I started! :)

[Doombot]

treehouse can't go here! (http://www.beards.org/contests.php)

[treehouse]

Doom is the guy in the snazzy top hat.

Brush your teeth man!

[Doombot]

I did...four score and seven years ago.

[Chris Chandler]

Speaking of Lincoln:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lincoln_douglas.png

[Doombot]

So as of about 8 PM last night, my girlfriend became my fiancee.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled PbP.

[MadDogMaddux]

Wooooot!!!

Congrats, man!!!

[Doombot]

Thanks! I'm pretty stoked, to say the least.

[Chris Chandler]

That is awesome!!! Any date for the wedding, or are you that far along yet?

[Doombot]

Not that far along yet. Vet school is enough work that Ange doesn't want to have to worry about planning a wedding and fending off her mother's attempt to take over. We've discussed some basic stuff (who we want as groomsmen and bridesmaids, etc), but nothing in detail.

[LightBringer]

Congrats, and all the best wishes!!

[LadyGlutter]

Oh, awesomesauce! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

...and you're just saying all that because you don't want us crashing. I know. ;)

[Doombot]

I'm not too worried about people crashing, since this (http://z.about.com/d/raleighdurham/1/7/z/H/-/-/Sparty-the-mascot-for-the-Michigan-State-Spartans-looks-on-in-the-first-half.jpg) guy will be our bouncer. For real.