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Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
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Posted on 04-26-05 08:48 AM, in Lateral Thinking Puzzles... 20 questions edition Link
.......................

Where do you get the 18 from?

36 can be made by 1, 4, 9, and 1, 3, 12....

As well as 9, 2, and 2 (leaving an oldest to still like chocolate), 3, 3, 4, and 1, 2, 18...

Seriously, the 18. I'm not getting the 18. Are you saying children here? Cause I know that legal age of adulthood is 18, but social security is generally for older people.

Welfare, on the other hand, is different.

I think I'm too tired to be reading this question properly.
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Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
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Posted on 04-26-05 08:00 PM, in Ragnarok: Dark or Light (Current Floor: Jumped Two! 97!) Link
Janus' eyes widened... He sank to his knees. Where did Star go? What happened? He couldn't even feel him in the time stream anymore... Had he sidestepped? Janus thought and concluded, no. He couldn't have. It must have been something else. Whatever the happening, he refused to believe Star had been killed. He was way stronger than that, it made almost no sense whatsoever for something like that to kill Star, especially after being charged up by that Ygg berry.

But that kind of power was terrifying... Who had a use for that? Who needed to go so far as to actually defy the laws of physics in order to accomplish their means?

Then, Janus thought... He had done it, too, at one point. Fenrir knew that. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, he guessed.

Star couldn't be dead, not by a long shot. With this thought fresh in his mind, Janus started off through the first door to find Fenrir, ready for the next challenge.



(edited by Greybacca on 04-26-05 01:57 PM)
Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
Level: 82

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Posted on 04-26-05 08:03 PM, in High School Hijinx (Friday Morning) Link
Grey: "Hey you're Kirby Nite, right? New kid?"

Grey had taken a seat in the right hand section of the classroom, near the window. He liked to stare out of the windows in classrooms, whenever he got bored. It was certainly more interesting than these mind numbing classes. He waved to Kirby and smiled.

"Come on, sit over here! Goodness knows I could use someone to talk to..."

He motioned for the seat in front of him and grinned. New people were always more interesting than windows.


(edited by Grey on 06-24-05 08:00 PM)
Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
Level: 82

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Posted on 04-26-05 09:23 PM, in Sim Battle Tournament Story Battle: The NPCs Revolt! Link
With Krauser and the rest of Jarukoth's crew providing cover, Red continued to shout out commands as he, Blue, Green, and the Detective tried to bash in the door to Arena D, only to have User Grey teleport in and open it for them!

UGrey: "You really gotta tell me when you need stuff like this..."

He was, however, immediately silenced by the sight he saw...

Garro: "Well, now. Fin-al-ly."

Kalar: "Yeah, what kept ya? We were starting to get worried that you might actually be overcome by your own creations."

Red looked, puzzled, at User Grey... He had never seen Garro and Kalar before, they were a total mystery to him. Considering the fact that the entire group of them were about 20 feet away from a huge onslaught of NPC bots that only Kyle and the four ninjas were defending them against, now would be a rather poor time for introductory questions. Nevertheless...

Red: "Who're these guys?"

UGrey: ".......Some creations of mine... They're alternate versions of Grey and Janus. In theory, anyway. In fact, they're quite different people."

Garro jabbed a finger at User Grey and scowled.

Garro: "Yeah, that's right! Too different for you, or are you finally willing to give us some action now that you've seen what we can do?"

Red: "You? YOU did this?"

Kalar: "Damn right we did! You know how much action I've seen since I was created? One unfinished battle, high school, and the slowest damn story ever written!"

Red: "I don't believe this! You bastards!"

Red burned with rage and rushed madly at Garro, hoping to raze him like so much dry grass!

Garro: "Nope, that's not gonna work."

With a flourish of a moth-eaten, battered trenchcoat, Garro produced not one, but two shining pistols, both of which looked exactly like Detective Grey's! He crossed them, charging them with silver-white light, the light of holy energy, and pointed them at Red, firing an energy blast of sheer light that knocked the normally-unstoppable warrior flat on his back!

"Aggressive Reversal!!!"

He put the pistols away as User Grey teleported behind him and grabbed him by the neck, immobilizing him completely.

UGrey: "Wanna try that again?"

Kalar: "Relax, man. We're just happy that you see us as a threat. We'll help you out if you want."

UGrey: "You'd better..."

Garro: "Let go of me, and I will!"

UGrey: "Fine."

He released Garro from his grip, and the dark priest dropped to the ground in a heap. He got to his feet, shaking in his boots from User Grey's intense grip around his sphere of reality, and chuckled a little.

Garro: "Now then, you're going to need to take Sim Battle Arena A. You know about the passageway beneath it, right?"

UGrey: "Right."

Garro: "The catacombs are pretty easy to pass through without the bots, but as you get closer to the assembly machine at the center of the caverns, they'll get bigger and more intense. I'd suggest you watch out... Kalar and I will take Sim Battle Arena A by our own means, you have to get there yourself."

UGrey: "Fine. But you'd better not be lying."

Garro: "Of course not... But you might want to look at your watch..."

User Grey stared at his wrist, and a watch popped up on it...

Time until Nuclear Bomb is Developed: 1:35:44'67"


"Get going....."
Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
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Posted on 04-27-05 03:39 PM, in A Literary Intensive (Grey vs. Seph2k4) Link
User Grey: "And furthermore, why isn't anyone staying ON TOPIC???"

The battle had frozen in time (not like anything was happening anyway) as User Grey tried once again to accost his unusually large audience.

"I mean, Zerodius, Steak and Cheese and Kirbynite are all having nice little sidestories while the meat of the fight is going on, but you're really turning this into a spectator's sport! (ha, get it....? I made a funny.)"

He looked around the arena... Nothing seemed to be happening, he hoped Seph hadn't been scared away by everyone else's comments. He knew what it felt like to be the center of negative attention in a crowd. It sucked.

"Say.... I hope Seph's still, you know, here... I was looking forward to a serious battle between him and Janus."
Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
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Posted on 04-28-05 02:39 AM, in Ragnarok: Dark or Light (Current Floor: Jumped Two! 97!) Link
Janus' eyes widened and he instinctively grabbed Satchel, turning it into hammer form...

Janus: "You! What're you doing here?"

Axel, of all people... This HAD to be an illusion. It was completely and utterly impossible for Axel to be here right now.

But it didn't look like an illusion. Was it?

Maybe Origin's tower was drawing ideas from his head... As far as he knew, there was only one person other than Axel and his crew that knew Axel existed.

Maybe... Maybe the tower was putting the thing he feared the most in front of him?

But Janus didn't fear Axel anymore. Or maybe some foul vestige of fear remained in his head, just waiting for the doom and gloom situation that fear enjoyed most to approach? This would certainly be it. After seeing Star obliterated (or wiped from existence?), that Chimera that was barely affected by his attacks, and the knowledge that Fenrir had given him, Janus was certainly in a prime spot for fear to just take over.

He approached the illusion of his greatest foe...



(edited by Greybacca on 04-27-05 10:44 AM)
Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
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Posted on 04-28-05 08:56 AM, in Sim Battle Tournament Story Battle: The NPCs Revolt! Link
Red: "Come on! We've got to work together now!"

After calpping Jiraya and Krauser on the back for a job well done, Red snapped his fingers and pointed at the crowd of NPCs... A team attack was clearly in order.

Blue/Grey: "Right!"

Garro: "Ah, whatever. One for a good show before we head out."

Kalar: "Sure!"

A bright flash of light enveloped the six fighters, and when it faded, Red stood with both fists pointed at the crowd before Krauser and Jiraya. At his sides were Green and Blue, both with fully charged auras of their respective energies.

The attack began with Kalar's scythe flashing off of his back, as he ripped into the crowd of NPCs, cutting a circle of them out in a devastating spinning maneuver that left severed NPC parts littered around the area. As the hole he made filled, Garro and Detective Grey both attacked at the same time!

With holy energy surging through his body, Garro did a quick flourish and held both pistols outward. Pointing at the NPC crowd, he fired a pure pair of holy blasts about ten feet wide each, cutting into the crowd yet again. Grey, on the other hand, emptied a clip of ammo from his gun, and went absolutely beserk, as he pulled from his trenchcoat an M-16, a teddy bear, a computer mouse, a package of sesame seeds, a copy of George Orwell's
Animal Farm, a plush Coneko-sama, several energy drinks, and a lucky cat. He then pulled a panzerfaust tube from his coat, crammed it all inside, and pointed it at the crowd, firing a giant shotgun blast of pure junk at them!

Red, Green, and Blue finished up the combo. A duo of large flame-jets blew outward from Red's fists, one laced with electricity, the other with an icy wind flowing around it. As the two blasts hit the NPC crowd, the massive temperature change from Blue's wind being melted by Red's flames caused steam to swirl around what little of the crowd remained, which then became completely electrified by Green's electricity, effectively frying the last vestiges of the NPC bots that had infested the second floor of the Arena Annex!


Red/Blue/Grey/Garro/Kalar: "Brilliant Offensive!!!"

When the dust from the massive attack cleared, there wasn't a single NPC bot left standing in the entire room, but they had hardly cut into the masses overall....

Red: "This is nothing. We've got to get to the underground caverns! And what's more, where the hell was Janus in all of this?"

Garro: "You don't want to know. Kalar and I will meet you down there. Good luck, and get to Sim Battle Arena A as fast as you can!"

User Grey, who had watched all of this with a surprised expression on his face, just smiled.

UGrey: "Wow... Awesome. But guys?"

He showed his watch. 1:28:16'25" remaining...

Red: "Indeed. Come on guys, let's go!"

As Garro and Kalar fled the scene, Red, Green, Blue, the Detective, and hopefully Team Jarukoth and Kyle set off for the next leg of the mission: To take back Sim Battle Arena A!
Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
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Posted on 04-28-05 09:37 AM, in A Literary Intensive (Grey vs. Seph2k4) Link
Janus: "Ask Star, man. I can use Time Magic, too. And as such..."

He closed his eyes and sent Satchel floating, forming a seal with his hands, only to have his cast immediately disrupted by Seph's strike!

*WHACK!* "OW!"

Janus was thrown to his back by Seph's hit, kicking up to his feet almost immediately. Sure, the time slowdown had no effect on him whatsoever, but that didn't stop Seph from being fast! Janus stopped to wonder if he was getting a little arrogant, and then decided to shake the feeling from his mind. No use in trying to figure that one out. Meaningful monologues were out. Brute force didn't exist. And Seph seemed to have him matched for speed. There wasn't much he could seriously do.

But hey, there was always Rudra no Hirou.

Janus flipped backwards a few times, only to change direction shortly and rush at Seph, stopping at point-blank range to face the head of his hammer in Seph's face!


"Burnination!!!"

As was par for the course with Rudra no Hirou's improvised magical system, a huge burst of void (read: really dark) magic blew out of the hammer and spread outward from the edge of Janus' weapon in a large triangular shape that widened as it left the tip of Satchel's head.
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Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
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Posted on 04-28-05 09:51 AM, in I am growing a sissy beard. Link
Heehee.... *takes note of his facial hairness*

And I'm actually two months YOUNGER than you. It all depends on what you're looking for. But when you do grow one, let's have some pictures of it. I'm sure it can't be THAT bad.


(edited by Greybacca on 04-27-05 04:52 PM)
Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
Level: 82

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Posted on 04-28-05 09:56 AM, in Pi Link
Originally posted by Smallhacker
My next challange will be to memorize the number "i" to at least 1 decimal place.

You're a madman!

Myself, I only know about 12... My old Geometry teacher knew over 250, and I have a friend who can go to about 45.

And Kef, I hate e. I hate it. Do you hear me? See this? This is hate for e^(whatever). *middle finger to his math book*

Hehe, who here actually knows what the number "i" is?


(edited by Greybacca on 04-27-05 05:00 PM)
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Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
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Posted on 04-29-05 08:39 AM, in Sim Battle Tournament Story Battle: The NPCs Revolt! Link
As Zabel strode after Garro and Kalar, he was faced with a shining silver pistol barrel...

Garro: "Oh, no you don't. This route's for me and Kalar only. Gotta have some kind of mystery to this endeavor. You'd be better suited for Red's crew anyway. Now then, off you go."

His coat swished behind him as he turned and stalked off after Kalar, who had already begun to make his way towards the underdark of the Arena.

--------------------------------

Red's group, however, faced another considerable challenge. With the elevators jammed due to Kyle's latest adventure with them, they'd have to take the stairs. Normally, this would not be a problem, but unfortunately the tanks seemed to enjoy rolling up and down stairwells until they collapsed, which didn't take too long. The crew met quickly with a destroyed stairwell near the eastern side of the Arena Annex, with no way to get downstairs.

Red: "Ok, people. The stairwell has been busted, and I'm willing to bet all of the others have, too. Any ideas on how we're supposed to get to the bottom floor from here?"
Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

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Posted on 04-29-05 10:16 AM, in Ragnarok: Dark or Light (Current Floor: Jumped Two! 97!) Link
OOC: I'm gonna be going away til monday night, so I'm making my last post here til then one hell of one...

Janus: "No.... No, not this, anything but this!"

As the darkness enveloped him, Janus clutched his head in his hands and screamed, the meories flooding into his brain, a torrent of insanity that he'd hoped he'd never live again.

A flash, and he was just a man, his bag just a bag. He remembered his death.... The car accident, the unintentional death, the replacement for his situation. Snippets of words that people said to him came back hard...
"You died? Wow, you're one lucky bastage!"
"I'm dead? You're kidding me! I can't be dead!"
"Well, truth be told, you weren't supposed to die......"
"So then, do you want a job?"
"Videogames. They need a diety. It sounds stupid, I know, but you're really not gonna fit anywhere else, according to the way you wasted your life."

Another flash, and he remembered meeting Axel for the first time. Shaking the bastard's hand! Of all the despicable, horrible things he could have done, Janus shook his hand. He respected him! What pain surged through his shattered mind was unknown, unfamiliar. He knew only that it was there, and that it refused to subside.
"My name is Axel. Welcome to the Radiant Order. Here, you will find...."
"I can't believe this. This is unreal, it can't be possible!"
"......The most incredible people you've never met...."
"....These people, they really just do this all day?"
"......wasting their lives......"
"I don't think it's right that they should be forced into complacency because of me!"

Another flash, and he recalled his training. The grueling, mind-numbing, skill-building agony of constant activity and unending alertness. Meditating under the sky for weeks on end, without food, water, or sleep... A beating for him if he slipped up once. He couldn't die a second time, so it only served to build his resolve.
"We WILL make you stronger, no matter what. You need to learn to survive in their world."
".....It hurts, it hurts........"
"When can I eat next?"
"Eat? You don't need to eat."

A flash again, and Janus remembered Axel's corruption... The first time he ever heard the words "Grey Dawn", the battle he had, and the intense realization of just how much more frighteningly powerful than Janus Axel was... He could have died, but Axel spared him.
"It holds within it far more than just material objects....."
"Grey Dawn...?"
"Get out of my sight, and don't come back until you're sure I won't be able to kill you...."

The next memory, the first time he met the Agents. It was in North America, somewhere in the USA. A city, he thought... No, more of a state. It was too big to be just a city, but too small to be anything else. Buildings were being destroyed. He remembered his videogame powers... He remembered disaster striking in the form of a foreign army's attack. The Agents were there to stop the attack, and Janus tried to help. But... the Agents just took him as another enemy, but a specific enemy. Someone apparently they had been told to find and kill.
"I've got to help them!"
"You! You're the one!"
"He helped us, though...."
"Get him!"

Axel had told them to kill him. Or to capture him, if they could....

A Flash again, and a happier memory, giving the now shaking-on-the-floor Janus a momentary reprieve from the pain.


Janus (thinking): 'No... No, I just have to withstand it. I can do this, I'm strong enough.'

But he knew full well that the worst pain was yet to come, as he recalled his first meeting with Schwa...
"Stay a friend I will never meet, or show me the power of good and become my compatriot simultaneously?"
"Hey, you alright? You look pretty beaten up..."

And Origin....
".....do you mind if I hide out here for awhile? I seem to be being followed...."
"I don't care who you are, but breaking through my barrier is impressive."

And then, there was the pain...
"EVAN!!!!!"
"Ha, now do you see what the Grey Dawn can do, Janus?"
"Don't kill them, please! I beg of you!"
"I told you not to come back here unless you were sure I couldn't kill you!"
"You.... You can't!"
"......are we ok, Janus?"
"Yes..... For now."

The friendship...
"So then, you're gonna leave?"
"Only for a little while in your eyes. I've got to go and see what I can see with my own eyes."
"I see. Be careful, man."

And the worst part of all....
"Axel, you bastard! I swear it, I'll annihilate you for good someday!"
"You're nothing but a pathetic boy compared to me..."
"I'll.... I'll..."
".......can't even defend his friends."
"......bastard...."
"NOOOO!!!!!!!"

Axel's maniacal laugh could be heard echoing loudly in the background. Janus had to fight it with his own memories! But it was so clear to him, their bodies. Beaten, bruised.... They fought for him, and he was too weak to help them. But there had to be something in Janus' mind to overcome this.

And suddenly, there it was...
"Davis' the name. Detective Grey Davis, P.I. At your service."
"You're the best, you say?"
"The absolute! Need to find a missing person?"
"Not exactly...."

Yes, there was the key to defeating this... His friends. More voices flooded into the darkness, and there was soon a buzzing of good and bad, quickly overtaking the bad with the good!
"Listen, Janus... Listen to this very carefully. Pure souls never die."
"I can't sleep for a moment without some kind of catastrophe laying waste to the earth around me!"
"How did you fail Janus? You have the power of time on your side!"
"But I'll need help. That's why I called you here today, actually...."
"I will be back soon I hope."

And then there was nothing. Janus opened his eyes. He found himself curled in a fetal position, lying down. Somewhere....

But where? And what happened?
Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
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Posted on 04-29-05 10:20 AM, in High School Hijinx (Friday Morning) Link
OOC: Are we actually gonna get to DO this? Cause I'm gonna be inactive til about monday night...

Grey gulped... He had read Othello a long time ago, but he hardly remembered any of it by now. And darn it, his copy had been lost somewhere in his house years before.

Essays... Great, his first day back and already there was the prospect of one of those in his face. Why couldn't he have been given at least a week or something? He tapped Kirbynite on the shoulder...


Grey: "Hey, man.... Frankenstein's not that bad. It's not nearly as sad as Flowers for Algernon or Of Mice and Men. Give it a shot!"


(edited by Greybacca on 04-28-05 05:21 PM)
(edited by Grey on 06-24-05 08:02 PM)
Grey the Stampede

Don't mess with powers you don't understand.

And yes. That means donuts.
Level: 82

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Posted on 04-29-05 10:25 AM, in Sim Battle Tournament Story Battle: The NPCs Revolt! Link
Janus: "Gotcha! Surprise!"

From the rubble that had crashed down upon his body came Janus, jumping up from his knocked-out state and delivering a spinstrike-type horizontal series of hits at Sky-bot's back, Cyclone (ya know, from Chrono Trigger?) style!

"I won't let you destroy this place!"
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Posted on 05-03-05 06:06 AM, in Hi ho, off to Maryland I go Link
Rightho, Grey's gonna tell you all what happened.

So, we do this thing where we get on a bus, and we drive. We stopped in New York, New Jersey, Philedelphia, and finally in Maryland. We went to a special clinic where our musical styles were analyzed and commented on: Apparently we were playing one of our songs a touch too slow. We pushed up the tempo and cranked up the volume, and man, was it intense!

Ha...... I forgot all of my music, though.... ALL of it. Couldn't pull out a baritone solo on one of our ajudicated pieces, but that's ok. I only started playing the instrument five days ago.

Anyway, we hit up the hotel, get our rooms straight, and proceed to stay up until about three AM. My particular room's neighbors (I didn't room with Tox) had a pair of Xboxes, and with a little engineering by one of my roommates, we managed to get a LAN going and played some Halo. Not bad, considering how much I dislike Halo.

Day two saw one hell of a lot of events. 6:15 wakeup call, and we're out the door at the finest eating establishment in the country: The Old Country Buffet. That said, I broke my spree of vegetarianism (more about that later) and decided to chow down.

We hit the judgement spot, play our music, and I nearly break into tears cause I'm afraid I screwed the band over so much by forgetting my music. I was playing all of my Jazz pieces from memory. More on THAT later, too.

We're out: Off to Six Flags for a few hours. I play DDR and meet a really cool girl from Michigan, ride about six rollercoasters, and have a grand old time before we go to a neato awards ceremony. Crazily enough, the Jazz band ran away with first place and a superior rating out of the six schools that competed. I guess it wasn't so bad after all. Post awards ceremony saw me and my band teacher and a few other people back at the arcade at Six Flags, and we're all frantically playing Skee-ball, trying to get enough tickets together in the half hour left that the park had before it closed to buy my band director's mentally disabled daughter a large stuffed animal. The efforts of me and about five other people pulled together over 900 tickets, and we get her a really good one. Good deed for the day.

Next day's Washington DC. I kicked several people's asses at the Jefferson Memorial, got shocked by the sheer number of names on the walls of the Vietnam memorial, and got my family some souveniers. We went to an Orioles game, I wandered around and played Pokemon Red, and then it's off to dinner.

Dinner was at a place called Cactus Willie's. Or, it would have been, if the place weren't a filthy shithole of a restaurant. We dressed up for it, too. So much for that. Back to the Old Country Buffet, where I come to one seriously awesome revelation, and convince one of the female members of the band that my friend Kevin is hung like a rhinocerous. Which he is, I'll assume. It's better than not being, anyway.

Last day is Inner Harbor, I go shopping, buy manga, watch Star Wars, and come home, happy to see my mother and happy to be reborn. I'm ready to have some fun.

So yeah, that's my trip. Toxic can give his account later on if you really want to know. All in all, I gotta say, being a senior and being a member of this band for the last four years has been really great, and this is just one big reason why I needed to relax. I was so happy to be me again this weekend, and I'm glad that I had so much fun.

And you all need to see the Washington Monument at least once in your lives. And the Jefferson Memorial. They're amazing places. Truly, truly amazing.
Grey the Stampede

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Posted on 05-03-05 07:53 AM, in Hello there, my name is.... Link
Hello there, my name is Thomas.
I'm 17 years old. I go to Coventry High School. I get good grades, I try in all of my classes. I'm a bit of a nerd, and people don't really think highly of me, but I'm ok with that, because I'm myself. My family loves me, my friends are good and kind and we're a really tight-knit group. I think they're all awesome people, and I would stand by them forever. But, lately, I've become kind of worried. See, I got this girlfriend a few months ago, but things aren't going how I like them. I mean, I'm happy and she's happy and we're a good couple, and she's cute and I'm not ugly.... But there's something that hits me whenever I come to, and I realize I'm not quite myself...

Hello there, my name is Tom.
I'm 17, though I wish I were 18. Life'd be a little easier if it were. I'd be in college, I'd be away from all of this crap that I have to deal with all the time. I'd look different, act different think different, all of it. I'd be a better person if I just weren't here right now. My life sucks, my parents hate me, my friends hate me, and the one person I thought I could take solace in, I think hates me for what I am and what I like to do. I'm a geek, but I'm fine with it. Anyone has a problem? They can go screw.

Hello there, my name is Grey.
I'm not exactly Tom, nor am I Thomas. I'm somewhere in his mind, and I only seem to come out completely when he puts his hands to his keyboard. I guess you could say I'm a combination of the two. I've definitely got Tom's edge, for sure... But I think I can keep Thomas' good sense, too. Honestly, I gotta tell you, though... They're both pissing me off, lately. Thomas refuses to see the intense problems that are coming toward him, and Tom refuses to solve them. They're both idiots, arguing with each other constantly and trying to decide what's best for the whole being. Man... I wish I knew what to do. Either that, or I wish I could come out more often and kick some sense into the both of them.

What it comes down to is this: Neither of them are happy right now. Thomas is deluding himself into thinking he's happy, and Tom is just sitting and bitching, because he's too afraid of what could happen to stand up for himself, so he puts a shield of anger outward to mask his fear. I think it's an abandonment issue. But Thomas has no problems with that....

Dammit, what do I do?
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