OMNOMNOMALY

[font="garamond"]Am I too late? D: haha it's fine if I am, I really should've checked the backstage as well before posting my place holder in the auditions thread.[/font]

[FONT="Garamond"]Placeholder :3 (Will write up as soon as I get some sleep, I promise!)[/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"]Absolutely. It's an honour.[/FONT]

[font="garamond"]Well due to lack of interest, I'm going to have to pull the plug on this. At least for now, until I can figure out how to make it more appealing to the general public. Any comments/thoughts/advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm not giving up, I'm regrouping =P Thanks to those of you who expressed an interest, I'm glad to see that there is a place for this RP on the boards, even if it's not now. Again, thanks to everyone who showed an interest or even just read the premise. I'll definitely try this again sometime.[/font]

[FONT="Garamond"]Alright, so I'm going to have to go with Vicky for this one. It made me feel very squicked out with some of the pedophile feeling references from the boogie man's point of view. A scary childhood story with a real world even scarier twist. Effed up. Good job, both of you.[/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"]FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF- That was really hard :< Glad it's over and done with, though it was a bit fun to dabble in something outside my realm of comfort. Good luck, everyone. Stoked to read the rest of 'em.[/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"]I held off as long as I could D: I finished like 2 days ago but I was doing the sneaky thing to see what I was up against =P anyways, here is my attempt at happiness. It was hard! Reeeeally far away from what I usually write. But I did try. [I]Dear you, Hey, it?s me. It?s Alexa. We haven?t met yet, but there a few things I want to get straight: I?m not going to change who I am or change who you are, so that we have a better chance of lasting. If we?re meant to be, we?re meant to be, and other such cliché nonsense. You?re going to win me over because you know a lot about books and you look really cute when you study because your mouth does this endearing twitch when you concentrate really hard. We?re definitely going to argue sometimes. That?s just how it is. I?m not upset that we?re going to fight, everybody fights. If we don?t fight, that?s when I?ll be worried. You know those couples, the ones who say they never fight, that things are ?perfect?? They?re all liars. They are the most dysfunctional couples of them all. I don?t want to be perfect. You don?t want that either. I am going to drive you nuts with my indecisiveness. Not because I have no direction in life or anything, but because I have such trouble making the smallest decisions. In the grocery store you?re going to tap your foot and check your watch constantly as I stand in front of the juice section for 15 minutes trying to decide which juice I?d like more. Do I want Tropicana orange juice? Omega 3 enriched Minute Maid? From concentrate or not? I have always loved apple orange peach? You?re going to drive me equally nuts because you cannot remember to put the toilet seat down. I?m going to make a fuss when I wake up early in the morning to go to work and I?m going to make sure I slam it down pretty loudly so I can wake you up. You?re going to call me an asshole. I?m definitely going to deserve it. You?re going to meet my Mom and Dad. You?ll love my Mom! She?s pretty great. You?re going to get along really well. My Dad?s a bit more difficult to handle, but I know you can do it. He is probably going to try and teach you how to cook, which means that he likes you. This may be for the best as he is quite a good cook and I can?t cook for crap. Someone out of the two of us should know how to cook, you know, if we plan on living together. Dibs out. We?re going to play video games together. You?ll scold me sometimes because I haven?t played a lot of the older games, but we?ll always agree that Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a fantastic game. You?ll make fun of me for being awful at shooting games and I?ll occasionally get lucky in a fighting game and button-mash-combo my way to victory, and I?ll hold it over your head for days, especially in front of your friends. I?ll always kick your ass at any version of Katamari and I?ll sing along to those gibberish-sounding songs while doing it. I might teach you the secret, sometime, but you?ll have to be nice. We?re going to have mandatory book club meetings, and by book club I mean just you and me. We?re going to spend days agonizing over what book to pick next and eventually have to devise a better system than just walking into Chapters and wandering around. The day where we spend so long in there that we almost get locked in is going to be the day that convinces us to have more of a plan. We?re going to get a puppy. I think we might name him after a Pokemon. We both love puppies and we both love Pokemon so I?m thinking that it only makes sense. But it is up for debate, of course. I?m kind of allergic so we?re going to have to stock up on a lot of allergy medications. But it?s worth it, because puppies rock. I fucking love puppies. And I just want you to know I?m not going to look for you. I don?t want you to look for me either, okay? It?s going to happen, if it?s supposed to, you know? No matter what, I?m never ever going to look. But I might ogle a bit. You know. Because I can. I might be in love with you, eventually. Or I might just love you. I haven?t quite decided which of those I want, yet. I know that I don?t know a lot of things, but I do know one thing for sure; we?re going to be happy, okay? I can?t promise a lot, but I can promise that. Anyways, this is a lot to digest of course, so I?ll leave you to think about this. Love eventually, Alexa[/I] 795 words :O I actually had to cut it down... a lot xD [/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"][IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/StaticAnonymity/1236921420813.jpg[/IMG] This is mine. Um. It's really deep. And meaningful. And stuff. Thanks, Courage Wolf.[/FONT]

[quote name='Haku877']So the Winner is Anomaly? Is there another round or something?[/QUOTE] [quote name='Mykul']Triple post for the win. Alright! The round 2 match-ups are as follows: [SIZE="4"]Anomaly versus Shy Vicky versus DeLarge[/SIZE] I'll have the challenges up soon. Any trash-talking is encouraged. :p[/QUOTE] [font="garamond"]=) I won that last round, but it's not over yet![/font]

[quote name='Rachmaninoff'][URL="http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/a-scientific-at.html"][U]MP3: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever[/U][/URL] Beth linked me to this, I think she got it from Anomaly. Anyway it's twenty minutes long and though it's [I]supposed[/I] to be the most annoying song ever, it's actually pretty funny to listen too. I don't know if I could tolerate it again, but the opera rapping was hilarious. =P[/QUOTE] [FONT="Garamond"]YES. YES. The most annoying song ever created is so so full of win. I challenge you to listen to the whole thing, guys. I challenge you with my [B]love.[/B][/font]

[FONT="Garamond"][B]OB Battle Royale[/B] You are a student at OB High School, and you are also lucky enough to be in the class randomly chosen to participate in the Government’s yearly Battle Royale. An annual tradition held by the totalitarian style government to keep people in fear and in line. ----- Her high heels clicked across the cold cement floors, echoing through the hallway and into the holding room in which the students were being kept. The scrape of the key in the old lock brought them all to attention. The large metal door slowly swung open to reveal a petite brunette lady in business attire carrying a brief case. She beamed at all of them, ignoring their shouted questions and exclamations. The door slammed shut as she strolled in and the lady stopped behind a tall mahogany desk. Still not responding to their clamors for attention, several of the guards in the room had to restrain students from approaching her. She placed her briefcase down on the table and undid the locks, popping it open. She pulled a stack of papers from the case and then stepped out from behind the desk to address them. Sitting on the edge of the desk, she began: “Welcome, grade 12 class of OB High School, to Battle Royale. A competition pitting students against students where only one can reign supreme. Or, perhaps none, depending on your cooperation. What is the point of this, you ask? Why, to stay alive, my dear children. The objective is to be the last student standing. You have all been outfitted with survival packs. They each contain a map, a compass, a black marker, two water bottles, some bread and a weapon. You will each receive a different weapon. I am your host, Miss A, and I will check in with you regularly during the game to let you know which zones have become forbidden as well as to inform you which of your classmates have fallen. Let’s talk about the zones, shall we? The island in which the game takes place, has been divvyed up into a grid. Going from 1 to 10 and A to J. Each square on the grid has been assigned a letter and a number and are marked clearly on your maps. Every 6 hours, as I mentioned, I will let you all know which Zone is going to be off limits and when. I’m sure you’ve already noticed the metal collars around your necks. These collars are highly explosive, so hands off! The collars are sensitive to the zones of the island and are each outfitted with GPS. So the second you wander into a forbidden zone, BOOM. You’re out of the game. In terms of how you play, or if you play, that is entirely up to you. The game is 3 days or 72 hours long, whichever you prefer. Play fair, cheat as much as you’d like, it doesn’t matter. The only rule is that there must only be 1 student left at the end of the game. If not, I will remote detonate all collars and nobody will win. Feel free to team up but do not rely on teammates to actually help you win. In the end, this is every man for himself. Have fun!” -------- In terms of actual mechanics, this one is gonna be a little tricky. I’m 100% up for any input/ideas/comments/whatever. As it stands right now, I think that I will have to get the community to vote on who they want eliminated and then I will arbitrarily pick someone else to get their character to kill the character that was singled out. I think a lot of that part will have to be carried out by PMs to myself. I’ve already got a bit of an idea worked out for the assignment of weapons and I think we will use the same map as the BR novel. Votes should be based on the strength of a person’s posting, ex: how well they characterize. I guess sort of like a weakest link idea. Obviously it’ll need some tweaking before it’s official because I also need to gauge interest. Depending on the turn out, I may have to set up some Non Player Characters for everyone to use. It’s going to rely a lot on votes to keep it moving and I’m seeing firsthand how hard it can be, so it may be a fairly slow going RP, but I’m hoping it will also be really fun. I lurk around a BR RP group on LJ that’s hugely popular so I took a few pages out of their book. Who’s in? What I’ll need from you, if you want to participate: Name: Being that it’s OB High School, I was kind of thinking we would all be ourselves. Or at least some version of ourselves. Age: 16-18, since you’ll all be from the same grade 12 class. I suppose we could have one or two odd pulled up or held back a grade, if you really want. Role in the Class: Just because I’m curious! Are you the brain? The clown? The wallflower? Personality: Self-explanatory. What are you like? Will you be in it to win it? Bit of a Biography: Also self-explanatory. Give us some info beyond your schooling. If you need any other info or clarifications, let me know! I like to think I’ve covered it all but I did read the book so I might be taking that for granted and missing something completely obvious without even thinking about it. I've never started an RP before so this will be interesting :X I'll do my best! [/FONT]

[font="georgia"]No trash talking, only love! Have some inspiration, courtesy of Advice Dog! [IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/StaticAnonymity/1234848612425.jpg[/IMG] Hahaha. That was fun, Lrrrb. I'm glad you got a chance to participate as well, made it much more interesting! Stoked on round 2. Let's do this, kiddies![/font]

[quote name='botar15']Ohhh, my bad. I made a slight spelling error on my part. I spelled Ningas, not Ninjas. I am so sorry, don't eat me alive, please. Edit. Also to my knowledge, (For Anomaly.) there is no ten character limit.[/QUOTE] [FONT="Garamond"]Lol, there's some kinda character limit, because when I just tried to submit the first part (even though I know better), it shut me dooown for writing too short of a message. Curses.[/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"]I have a bizarre reflex issue with my hands. For whatever reason, I just cannot for the life of me, be trusted to hold on to ANYTHING. I throw things. Pens, my phone, random stuff I'm holding. I think I'm broken DDD; It looks stupid, it is stupid and it's almost beyond klutzy. Other events would include falling off the stage during lunch in Jr. High when we ate in the gym, in front of all the older kids. Not so traumatizing now but really embarrassing at the time. Tripping up/down various stairs in High School, always when they were full and people were in a rush, and one occurrence during a soccer practice (which was unfortunately caught on tape) where we were going our agility exercises and I tripped over my own foot and flew a couple feet sideways and onto my ***. Congrats, me. I'm a champ. And don't you err' forget it. [/FONT]

[font="georgia"]I [I]LOVE[/I] Ningas. ten character limit, curse you.[/font]

[FONT="Garamond"]@Munky: I think we have exactly the same glasses xD Do yours have any colours on the inside white parts?[/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"]My first 'jaerb' was at Blockbuster Video when I was but the tender age of 15. My official title was Customer Service Rep but really I just stocked ur shelves and took ur money. Etc. Not too glamorous, had to wear a really really lame and oversized polo shirt and dress pants for a uniform. LAME. I worked there for 7 months. The pay structure was horrible, incentives were crap and some terrifying schizophrenic fellow tried to stalk me on one of his bad days. Sweet.[/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"][I]Uhm... This is definitely untitled, but it is done =)[/I] Kirk exploded out of the school doors. He had slid out of his classroom and bolted straight for the exit the second he spotted the man?s face. It was unforgettable; it?s rough lines, craggy like the surface of a boulder. A face riddled by the years rather than complimented by them. Kirk had also seen the man recognize his own face despite the great distance between them, from the second floor window to the sidewalk across the street. The flash of recognition was unmistakable. Petrified for a second, he was reminded of the urgency of the situation the moment the man began walking towards the school ? towards Kirk. He had mumbled a halfhearted excuse in the direction of his teacher as he ran out, not bothering to wait for a response. There was no time to think, there was only instinct. On the street, faces and landmarks all blurred into one as Kirk ran, routinely checking behind him. The area around the school was crowded for a few blocks so Kirk didn?t notice he was being followed until the crowd became sparser. Though it wasn?t the older man, it was another face he recognized. This man was younger though his face was similarly hardened. As people became fewer and farther between, the man sped up, less obligated to be subtle. The gap between them closed quickly. Kirk's body quickly went into panic mode and, ignoring his screaming muscles, he darted down an alley. His arms and legs pumped wildly and the only sound he could hear now was the loud thump of his heart. It felt like it was pressing right against his eardrums. His brain and his lungs called out for air but Kirk could not oblige. The alley became more narrow and in a brief second of panic his brain involuntarily flashed back to memories of the sterile smell of the institution, the cold white walls and floors and the inhuman description they had given Kirk?s parents to explain what he was. Kirk shook his head fiercely, willing the memories away. He glanced behind him and instantly the fear took hold of him once again, pushing all real thought away. The younger man was close and not too far behind him, was the older man. Kirk tore around the corner out of the alley and onto another busy street. He welcomed the bustling market area as he dodged and snaked his way through. As he came to the edge, he saw it ? the fire escape ladder that had been left down. He nearly jumped all the way to the top, the adrenaline pushing out the feeling of needles piercing him everywhere. As he pulled his body up, he saw the two men in the middle of the crowd, looking for him. As they spotted him, he pulled the ladder up and started running again, willing himself to keep going. 5th set of stairs, 6th set of stairs, they seemed endless to Kirk. On the roof, he allowed himself another glance back. The two men had managed to jump and pull down the ladder at the bottom and were now making their way up. Kirk ran to the rooftop access door, only to find that it was locked. Cursing his luck, he surveyed the immediate area. In a split second decision, he jumped across to another building and ducked behind the transformer. Kirk leaned back against it, panting. He didn?t believe that the day could possibly get any worse. He couldn?t have been more wrong. [/FONT]

[quote name='Lrb'][FONT="Tahoma"][COLOR="DimGray"] But WEED still remains to be the ILLEGAL (yet completely harmless) substance and ALCOHOL is LEGAL. WTF.[/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE] [FONT="Garamond"]I don't agree or disagree with the weed issue, but a study was just released all of about a week ago that says there's a link between marijuana use and testicular cancer in it's most aggressive form. It's a bit srs business. But in all honesty they should put more research into it, rather than making laws without the research behind them to start with. Here you go, have a quick gander. [URL="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/02/marijuana-use-a.html"]click me![/URL].[/FONT]

[quote name='Retribution'][font=Arial]This sentence makes no sense. :p I'm only 19, but I still get lost in the sauce on weekends.[/font][/QUOTE] [FONT="Garamond"]Hear hear ;D 18 is the drinking age in Edmonton where I used to live, and I got to enjoy it before I moved to Vancouver so that was pretty sweet, though I too drank as an underager on more than a few occasions. Vancouver's drinking age is 19, so I'm [I]thiiiis[/I] close! Hmm... Favourite drinks include Porn Stars (yeah I said it, don't go there =P), some of the darker beers like Sapporo or Canadian, rum and Coke or Dr Pepper, Baileys in milk or coffee and Vodka Slimes. I'm usually up for trying any new shots I haven't had before. Except anything involving tequila or gin. Yuck yuck yuck. And the Superman is a really gross shot D: One night at my friend's party I had 8 mixed drinks and various shots/sips of other people's drinks over the course of not enough hours for my body to handle. Oddly enough, I didn't get puke, but I kind of wish I had because then I wouldn't have had to feel sick for so long xD I learned my lesson after that one =P I don't drink very much at all any more, just a beer or two when I go to the bar (back home, of course =P) Many stupid things have been done - drunk rockband, drunk karaoke, drunk walks, drunk taking care of other really drunk people... Good times. Oh yeah -- JAGERBOMBS, JAGERBOMBS, JAGERBOMBS. :3[/FONT]

[quote name='Allamorph'][FONT=Arial]My father spent a year as an expatriate in Mexico while he searched for another job. He got to come home one weekend a month; fly in Friday, crash Saturday, fly out Sunday. He and my mother actually grew stronger in their relationship Why is this kind of data study even getting attention?[/FONT][/QUOTE] [FONT="Garamond"]A Major in CO2 studies with a minor in LDRs? =O What the heck else can you do with that! ;D[/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"]@ Raiha The carbon footprint absolutely needs more research done as it's still a new idea... but pollution isn't a lie and it never hurt ANYBODY to pollute less. On a semi related note but off the topic of pollution, our world is so wired, I don't think it would hurt anybody either to spend more time looking and interacting in real life, either. I'm sure dates in real life are way more fun than dates online =P Social skills are important! I think you're right, Beth, it seems like a lot of people don't really take into account what distance means.[/FONT]

[FONT="Garamond"]Hey kiddies, long time lurker first time thread starter here :O ANYWAYS. As I trolled the internet at work today, being the great employee I am, I stumbled upon this interesting article. [URL="http://www.slate.com/id/2202431/"]Clicky![/URL] For those of you a bit lazy, the gist of the article is that people should look close to home for relationships to reduce their carbon footprint. A relationship not measured by love, but by CO2 tonnes. You don't choose who you love or who you connect with... but should you try? It makes some good points, I think. Would you think twice about LDRs because of this? If you're in one, what do you think? Obviously it's not a surprise that someone not dating local would have a larger carbon footprint, provided we generalize they spend more time on the phone, on the internet, and travelling. Is the potential "eff up" of the environment worth it? I'm not a hippy or an insane conservationist but the article does make sense and would actually give me personally one more reason not to ever consider a long distance relationship. Thoughts? Comments? Anecdotes? Lulz?[/FONT]

[quote name='Lrb'][FONT="Tahoma"][COLOR="DimGray"]Oh boy. Canadian vs Canadian, canuck on canuck, hoser against hoserette. A round to be remembered forever, for sure! :smirk: YOU GOIN' DOWN DOLSKEEZ![/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE] [FONT="Garamond"]Stephen. Stephen. Please. Refer to me as [I]The Dolskinator[/I]. Good luck, dude. You'll need it. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Cough. Mykul, I swear, if there's a round 1.4... =P [/FONT]

[quote name='Rachmaninoff'][SIZE="1"]And yes I say this cause I couldn't resist giving Beth one that's called Sunflowers... >_>[/SIZE][/QUOTE] [FONT="Garamond"]HAHAHAHAHA YOU DIDN'T! That is toooooo cute. Good on you, my friend. She is a sunflower indeed. Gah, you two are adorable. C:[/FONT]