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Topic Started: Jan 9 2008, 10:34 PM (26,819 Views)
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Ladies and gentlemen, 10,000 posts. Congratulations everybody.
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DING! Milestone get!
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RE's power level!

ITS

OVER

10,000!!!


Sorry, had to do it~ :3
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I just _____ in the _____.

We still have a long way to reach the old RE's posts, which is...

Over 30,000!!!

Doesn't have the same ring to it.
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but still you have to admit that is pretty cool!!!!!!!!

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Sorry for being such a recluse, folks, but when you spend 8 hours a day writing a dissertation, your creativity is kinda shot. I don't think I've actually done any role playing in two months now? Kinda scary, actually.

Anyways, the whoot part of this is that I passed my oral exams this past Monday! It was 3 hours of being questioned by 7 professors! They said I did a great job. So yeah, I'm now officially a PhD Candidate, rather than a PhD student. What that means is that all I pretty much have to do is write my dissertation and I can graduate.

Whew, what a load off!
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Yay. I'm so happy for you!!!!!

congrats!!:)
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I just _____ in the _____.

Ahhh man, where to begin?

Well, let's start from the beginning *cracks open large tome and adjusts glasses*

The neighbors have had a pregnant cat named Smokey for some time now. Well, one day, she suddenly wasn't pregnant anymore. They also noticed her crossing the road an awful lot to our place. We've got a farly big (to a cat anyway) wilderness and seems to have become some kind of Neighbor Cat Hunting/Proving Grounds.

They keep thinking Smokey had her kittens on our property, so they kept coming over. One of the girls (who's ten but acts like she's five) we have to keep a close eye on or else she gets into things she really shouldn't while over here. They kept coming over about once every two weeks. Our family are a bunch of angry loners and it can be frustrating traipsing around watching the 10 year-old "find tracks made my Smokey" (I had initially thought she might have found some raccon tracks, but there wasn't anything. She was playing pretend at being a tracker)

Well, today the 10 year-old said she "followed Smokey" and knew where the kittens were and wanted to come over. Waiting for her and her sister we were all moaning and groaning and angry loner-ing it up.

I'm able to tolerate the 10 year-old fairly well, and I actually enjoy the company of her older sister, but unfortunately they had some company over which included 3 other kids all about 10 years old as well.

We went to the place where she said they were and she claimed to have seen a kitten's head underneath some fallen trees. The trees had all fallen where their bottoms were together and made sort of a hollow. Yes, the hollow looked kinda okay, but there was no way kittnes would be in there. Figuring the neighbor kid was full of crap I decided to put it to full and total rest.

So, while they go across the road (their house is actually closer than our own as this point) I'm having to tell the visiting kids on the other side of the fence at the road to stop trying to climb up it in their excitement. We have goats and our fence is pretty shoddy as it is. I told them as much (although really the goats aren't in that particular area of our property anymore).

They get the flashlight and I peer in, my face closer to the dirt than I really want it to be.

But, to my surprise, I see a patch of black fur.

No really, I think the moment I realized the neighbor kid was right a cold rush of air went by as Hell itself froze over. It was such a holy crap moment that will take an awful lot to top.

Everyone's all excited wanting them RIGHT NOW. Luckily, I manage to convince them that we'll get them either today or tomorrow. (I literally said to the older neighbor girl "We found them, now get the hell off our propery" even I wasn't sure if I was joking or not)

When they go home I decide to go ahead and get them out now because I don't like the idea of the 10 year old screwing around our property, which she would likely do in fifteen minutes. My brother decided to walk them both home so I'm alone, I grab a tub in the hopes I can put them all in there and let my dad know (who is on call and has to stay at the house as a result) what I'm doing and to tell my brother to come help when he gets back.

I head down, Smokey, who's been there the whole time being all friendly, is still there. She's happy to be petted by me even though I'm practically a stranger. I sit down and ponder how to get them out. On the opposite end of the opening there's a slit that you can see their eyes peering out from. I can't move any of the trees because I physically can't and doing so would risk crushing them. To the left of the slit however is some leaves and soft dirt.

I clear that away and find it's easy to get into the nest from there after I break off a couple hunks of insect-infested rotting wood with my bare hands, shuddering in the process and threatening to spay Smokey the whole while. Finally, I manage enough of an opening and reach in.

It's really creepy, shoving my arm in up to my shoulder where I can't see it, but I manage to feel a fuzzy back leg, I manage to work my way up it by feel and pull it out, finding I have hold of a fairly large black kitten. It's weaning size even, I stick it in the tub and shove my hand in again.

Okay, by now I have a basic idea of the shape of the nest. It's like an hourglass shape on its side. The front of the hourglass is totally open and exposed, the back of the hourglass is the main part of the nest. I don't even think Smokey could fit into the back part.

Anyway, after that I can't feel anything and don't even see anything once I pull back out and look through with a flashlight. When I got back to the entrance I see two little heads poking in. When I reach for them that way they poke back into the back part of the nest but I do manage to grab one and pull it out from the front. This one is also black but has long hair.

I go to stick him in the tub but find that the tub has been knocked on its side either by Smokey or the first kitten. So, not wanting them to get away, I decide to head back to the house to drop off these two, get a lid for the tub, and find out of my brother is back yet because I really need help for him to guard the entrance while I start grabbing them from the back opening I made.

I hold both kittens close to me but the first one is too wild and scared and starts clawing me to the point that I have to hold him by the scruff of the neck. The second one goes nearly limp in my grasp. I go through two gates (one of which doesn't open and I can barely slip my fat ass through, let alone with two kittens) and when I reach the house I'm exhaused.

I drop both kittens off in the house and find that my brother has been home for some time, I'm pissed, but I do forgive him when I find out it's not his fault, our dad just forgot to tell him. I grab the lid and run back out there.

Smokey's still there, though now she seems more upset, meowing once in a while and her tail is thrashing, where only the tip was flicking contentedly before. Still, she seems okay when I talk to her and pet her. I'm out of breath and decide that since I'm back I can catch it and not have to worry. The reason I ran back was I was worried she might try to move them while no one else was around.

I grab the flashlight and look through both openings and find there's nothing there. Even when I feel around I can't find anything. I mutter some curse words and keep searching. Eventually my brother comes and helps but he can't find anything either, and for some reason Smokey doesn't seem to like him as much. She was batting her paw at him, though I'm not sure if she was mad at him or trying to be playful, considering she was trying to play with stuff I was digging out of the way earlier.

I know for absolutely sure that there is at least one last kitten because my brother and the neighbor girl were talking about a white kitten. We search the nest anywhere from 30 minutes to a full hour. There's no way I can leave any kittens out there after the nest has been fully opened to the elements and whatever else could possibly be out there (owls, hawks, raccoons, and most of all skunks) and I'm getting really agitated when my brother says he found it.

Turns out the white kitten had indeed left the nest and was hiding nearby in some really tall grass. I sneak up as quietly as I can, though it's still hissing at me, and manage to snag it. I put it in the tub with the newly grabbed lid and then decide to take Smokey as well. As soon as the lid goes on we hear some thumps and a couple of hisses, but decide things should be fairly okay.

The lid fits like crap so I have to hold it really well while I carry it all the way back to the house. We make it back okay and then let them out into a back room we have. I console all three of the scared little things, offering them a fairly small box that two of them immediately squish themselves into. I figure it's what they know as their environment. The only one that didn't cram itself in was the second kitten, which seems content to cower in my arms. I check all of their genders (since the neighbors seem to have trouble knowing, Smokey was actually supposedly a boy until "he" spilled his first litter) and find out they're all boys. Smokey is eating some wet cat food and hissing and growling anytime she hears a noise.

My brother calls the neighbors and we go over there. He's carrying the tub of kittens and I'm carrying Smokey in my arms. We barely walk to the end of the driveway when the 10 year-old comes running and screaming. I keep calling to her "Calm down!" and briefly explaining that Smokey is really spooked. You'd have to know the girl to understand that it would literally be easier to ask a fucking brick wall to be less hard.

Luckily, she does quiet down when she finally reaches us, and I tell her we can't lift the lid so she'll have to wait. We get to their garage and after some incidents with the garage door closing we're finally able to open the lid. I hand the catatonic second kitten to someone and the 10 year-old immediately tries to pry one of the kittens out from the box they still had themselves crammed into while in the tub. Again luckily, I manage to get her out of the way and carefully remove the white kitten, handing him off, and the final kitten that I had first gotten, the most wild and skittish, is the hardest to get out, but I manage and hand him off.

There's a general cooing of "aw" and "I call this one!" while I'm explaining how scared each one is while picking sticks out of my hair. I have to admit I was sad to hand them over, especially the short-haired black one (I joked to my brother on the way over that, since he drew blood while clawing me, we were officially bonded) but we head home.

I had dirt crammed under my fingernails, my hands had dug through rotten wood, centepedes, earthworms, black wilting mushrooms, my pants were dirty and grass stained, I was still picking twigs out of my hair, and I was sticky with sweat and felt like barfing from running. Worst of all though I felt bad for disturbing Smokey's nest and, while I'm 90% sure I got them all, there might still be a kitten out there all alone.

And you're wondering what is the Woot! in all this?

I got to pet kittens ^___^
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Jesus, even in wooting she must write novels. Congrats on a pet well deserved xD


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As many of you know, E3 was today...

...and once THIS is done, you might not see me ever again, so let's wrap things up here; I have a galactic war to prepare for!

:D x 10
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