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General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: 42 on November 06, 2003, 05:49:05 PM
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So I'm wondering if I'm the only person who has full color, perfumed, tactile, surround-sound nightmares.
I have nightmares most nights, but last night I had one that actually caused me sit straight up and yelp. Does this happen to anyone else?
The dream involved dolphins, sharks, a squid monster thingy, tectonic plates, the Mariana Trench, a really cool mini-sub, and some orange-colored probes. JFYI.
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Nope. But then again its a rarity that I ever dream. And when I do I like to tell people, since I barely ever dream. I haven't had nightmares since I was a kid though, like 8 or 9. And they were usually about Chuckie, you know, the doll one. That's why I'm always so jerky and tense, always looking behind me making sure something isn't going to stab me in the leg. You know, the usual. My dreams however are just weird maybe. I can't really remember any current dreams. If I'm right I may not have had a dream since July or August at the earliest. Usually I just fall asleep, and the next thing I know I'm up and feel like crap listening to some stupid buzzer. And thats me, the sleeping giant.
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"probes" heh
No wonder you were scared.
The more tired I am, the fewer dreams I have. Weird huh? Though I have a half dozen theories to account for that the instant I start considering.
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I don't dream. I can remember one night where i dreamt total, in my life, and that was a few months ago. Cannot remember much about the dream. I go to sleep and then wake up. Nothing happens inbetween.
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So, me and Entropy are a lot more similar than we all think.
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I dream a lot, though I never have nightmares. Some of the dreams are incredibly vivid, however--and I always write these down for future use....
Anyway, I don't know why it is, but I don't get scared in my dreams.
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Almost every nightmare I have, which is only about once a month or so, involves something slimy. The serial killers or whatever don't get much of a reaction out of me, because I can fight back, but the slime/mold/something gross/etc. will always get me to wake right up in horror.
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Did the sharks have lasers on their heads?
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Nah, but the sharks weren't as scary as the dolphins. The dolphins were intelligent and evil.
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The more tired I am, the fewer dreams I have.
Me too. I don't think I've dreamed since the semester began. I used to write them down for use in my writing, like EUOL (back when I spent time on writing). Now I just conk out at the very last moment possible and wake up what seems like a few minutes later--scary, Gemm and I have something in common, too.
But when I do dream, I dream in full color, with smell and feel and such. It's not completely real, though--it's like that rushing in your ears when you're about to faint, you know? Just slightly off, like I can't see my full range of sight at once, or that things are only there when I look at them, stuff like that.
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Actually I think I dream more when I really tired. My Doctors have told me to stay up until I can't stand it and then go to sleep. They say I should get up at the same time no matter when I fall asleep. I still dream every night despite this. Course, I haven't had natural (as in non-drug induced) sleep in over a year.
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I've had some vivid dreams, a few of which I know are significant for reasons other than good ideas (the Supergirl as my lover dream doesn't fall in this category, and arguably doesn't fit in either category, but then, it's really not any more vivid than I remember being a Japanese warlord, and uh... Supergirl was my hunny). However, nightmares do not, as a rule for me, remain in anyway vivid. I can remember a few themes but nothing solid.
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Aside from the slime dreams, my primary nightmares are the classic "running from a bad guy who's always right behind you" dreams. Those don't care me so much as get me really hyped up and alert, in maximum fight-or-flight mode.
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I've gotten married a couple of times in dreams.
That's kind of freaky.
Mission dreams (as in, dreams of being back on my LDS mission in Korea) are common too.
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I dream a surprising amount. I have lucid dreams occasionally, and spend a lot of time almost alseep, half dreaming, half-making it up. Some nights I find I dream the whole night, with a nightmare or two mixed up in it, and in the morning I feel really confused between what is real and what isn't. These disturbed nights are usually when I can't sleep well either, makign the whole thing a rather freaky experience. Still, I've got two short stories in progress based on dreams, one I'm getting back into tomorrow, and another I have no idea whee to go with.
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I had a dream not just where I was back on my mission, but that I committed to a 2 year mission, back through the MTC and everything, and I was still married with children. That was freaky.
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I had a dream not too long ago that I was back in high school again, living at my parents' house, and that I was back in my old room watching out the window for the bus to come. The bus came out of the road down the highway, like it always did when I was in school, and I yelled for my siblings, and they all ran down to the bus, but for some reason I just wasn't fast enough and missed the bus. I ran all over the farm trying to figure out how I was going to get to school, trying to get my dad to let me take the truck, etc. I was going to be late! It was far worse feeling in the dream than I ever felt about missing or being late for school back when I was actually in school!
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I had a dream/nightmare once where I went through an entire interior design course. I got a D, even after complaining to the dean that the teacher was grading unfairly and since her degree was really in ceramics, she wasn't qualified to teach the class to begin with. I also learned a bunch of vocabulary that took me three days to forget after I woke up.
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wow. 42, that dream just defines YOU for me.
and Stacer, i'd wax psychological, but i have at least 1500 words to write.
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MMMmmm that was fun. No dream for me.
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I find that I get a better night's sleep when I don't remember my dreams, but some of my friends feel just the opposite. When I do remember them, they are seldom enjoyable (I only remember one nice one) and are usually manifestations of my anxiety.
As for serial murders chasing you in your dreams, I will pass on some advice I heard Morag once give. Take a machine gun into your dream, and no ax murder is going to give you much trouble. The theory is that if you think about something repeatedly just before you fall asleep, it will be engrained on your subconcious and will mostly like show up in your dreams. It might help you 42, if there is a calming activity or food (milk?) or music (Enya?) that you could do, eat, listen to before you crash, that might help.
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That's a good idea MoD. I've been trying to ritualize a lot aspects in my life so that they are more relaxing. However, despite my religious upbringing, I have a hard time thinking of relaxing rituals rather than pratical busy stuff.
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I agree with MoD. I usually dream about all the random things I'm thinking about right before I go to sleep. For instance:
Lately I've been having a lot of dreams about being at home and telling everyone about Japan. A few nights ago, during one of these dreams, I realized that I hadn't bought Ben's katanas or Dad's Christmas present, and I was worried cause I knew I wouldn't be able to go back to Japan. But then I realized that I hadn't bought Ben's katanas cause November hadn't happened yet, and I realized that I was just having another dream about being home. So, instead of waking up like a normal person, I went back in time (in my dream) to before I met my family and starting dreaming about something completely unrelated. I remember being really confused when I woke up.
Does anyone else have dreams where you KNOW you're dreaming, but still keep dreaming? I seem to have them a lot.
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... I... I ... That's WEIRD Tek....
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That's happened to me, too. It's usually that I know I'm dreaming and am trying to wake myself up but my body won't let me, like I'm slogging through mud or something. You know how your movements turn off when you sleep? I know I'm trying to move my body (to wake myself up) but I can't move.
Maybe all this talk of dreaming has gotten me noticing my dreams again, but last night I fell asleep with the laptop on my lap, sitting up in bed, and kept dreaming over and over that I'd put the laptop away, only to wake up briefly and find that it was still on my lap. Talk about an uncomfortable position to sleep in. And if I hadn't woken up enough to actually put it away at about 3 am, I'd be feeling even worse today than I do.
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No you're wierd SE.
I actually have a lot of dreams where I know I'm dreaming. For example, my most common one is when I'm an dreaming about my anticipated day. Everything goes how I expect it to go, except I have a hard time opening my eyes, so I'm like walking around squinting at everything. I really hate this dream but I've had it so many times that I'm used to it by now. I also hate that the day after this dream I get a lot of dejavue.
I also remember having a dream where everyone I knew was being turned into vampires and eventuall all of happy vallley Utah got changed into a community of vampires. It was kind of odd, but I knew it was just a dream so I went along for the ride.
I'm surprised about how little some of the board members dream. Dreaming is supposed to keep you sane and happy.
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Tekiel: Hey, haven't heard from you in a while. Tage is getting katanas? Man, that's no fair.
I am self-aware in dreams sometimes, but I think it comes from falling in and out of dream-state. In other words, I'm half-awake, and realize I've been dreaming, then fall back mostly asleep and forget that it's a dream, then come back out and remind myself.
According to one of my teachers who is interested in this stuff, a very common college student dream is the one where you realize halfway through the semester that you've registered for a class that you've forgotten to go to. You go into a panic trying to figure out how to get a good grade in the class, even though you haven't been going.
Anyone had that one?
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According to one of my teachers who is interested in this stuff, a very common college student dream is the one where you realize halfway through the semester that you've registered for a class that you've forgotten to go to. You go into a panic trying to figure out how to get a good grade in the class, even though you haven't been going.
No, but it really happened to me.
and I never said I wasn't weird, but it would be futile to argue that anyone here ISN'T weird, even if the weirdness is common to our sample.
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I had a dream once where I was shot (by a sprinkler burglary ring, believe it or not) and died. And instead of waking up, I was just there, unconscious, in my dream. That was pretty weird.
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I don't dream of being in a course that I forgot to go to for half a semester. I complete the entire course and then realize that I've actually never taken the course.
I did dream once I was in a design class where one of the other students killed me because I was getting a better grade than her. I still finished the class, just as a ghost. Since I was a ghost, I didn't get credit for the class.
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I have weird dreams/nightmares all the time. Unfortunately for Chris (my husband, for people who don't know), he has to deal with me when I have them...
For example, I dreamed that I was living in a big Southern mansion and had to wear one of those Southern Belle dresses (I HATE dresses...). Evil pirates attacked and Chris and I were fighting them. Chris was better off than I was--he had a sword, and I was hampered by the stupid hoop skirts. One of the evil pirates tried to kiss me, and I was about to deck him as hard as I could when I realized Chris was trying to be sweet and was waking me with a kiss. He was very lucky that I woke up, because I only missed hitting him because I jerked my arm back at the last moment.
And Megan is my anti-conscience. She shows up in my dreams a lot. We've stolen cars together in my dreams (she was the last blonde on earth and we were on a mission for the church to save the world...I told you I have weird dreams!), and when I was married to the wrong person in one nightmare, it was my dream version of Megan who said, "Well, adultery's not *that* bad, Kristy."
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Yeah well, sane and happy are not words i would describe myself with.
I tell you, when i go to sleep - blank. Nothing. I just wake up the next morning/afternoon and don't remember anything. Kinda dull really.
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Freud would have a lot to say about your dreams Brenna...
I wouldn't say people on the board dont dream, rather that they dont remember their dreams. I find that since Im not on my ship, I remember my dreams less. On Legare, sleep was always interrupted, and it was easy to slip from REM to Conciousness back to REM enough times that dreams seeped through into my memory
My wierdest dreams were in Hurricanes or Noreasters, because you can really sleep well when the ship is doing 30-40 degree rolls (imagine your bed swinging 40 degrees up and to the left and then 80 degrees up and to the right) you eventually get to sleep but hover on the edge of REM and light sleep. Vivid, Vivid dreams that I had a lot of interaction with, Sight, Smell, sound, and taste and touch. Spooky.
Nowadays I get good enough sleep that I dont remember my dreams.
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Yeah, Tek, that happens to me too! Like on Saturday night (I think all this talk about dreams is effecting me too) the antagonist of my dream was getting away and I thought to myself, hey, this is my dream, I'm going to fly! And I did, a la Neverland flying in Kingdom Hearts (which is a lame way to fly imo).
And last night I dreamed that I was a vampire on a yacht and this woman and her two kids were trying to kill me before sunset with a Sharpie. That one was confusing.
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Thanks Tek, now I'm going to start having nightmares that you forget my katanas...
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Now, let me tell you of the dream I had last night (which I'm taking like someone just figured out how to colonize pluto).
There I am, somehow I'm Neo, walking down a street in a neighborhood quite similar to mine. That one guy who protects the Oracle is with me. We stop and across the street we see the Oracle, or what I think is her. I run across and stop at the fence to see that it is indeed the Oracle, but she has those weird spider things on her (you know those small ones from that one part in the movie where Neo is going through the machine city).
Then that chinese guy whistles at me and motions for me to move and get out of there. So now were running away from something, but just before we leave I see the Oracle running around comically with those Spiders on her, and she seems almost cinical. So now me and chinese guy are going from building to building, hiding, climbing up things, and then we got onto something that was moving, a truck maybe. I got on it and layed flat down, then I saw that something was about to push me off or squish me, so I turn over to the side, almost off of the top, I look back towards the chinese man and Thud he gets hit.
Then I wake up. Yes, I dreamt. And it was a dream of me.
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Gemm's unconscious makes more sense than his conscious state.
Except that word "cinyal." no clue what he meant by that, but i assume it's his conscious state intruding on and interpreting the unconscious state
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It was suppose to be cinical, but I just woke up and couldn't remember how to spell. But SE, you may be right.
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"Cynical".
Last night, i did that 'not quite sleeping' thing. I think i thought (/dreamt) about Rise of Nations. Been playing it a lot.
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So I'm wondering if I'm the only person who has full color, perfumed, tactile, surround-sound nightmares.
I have nightmares most nights, but last night I had one that actually caused me sit straight up and yelp. Does this happen to anyone else?
I ritually observe my dreams and nightmares. I lucid dream a lot. At a certain point, my dreams starting becoming incredibly vivid. Now sometimes I will have a lucid dream, and still come to the conclusion that it cannot be a dream because everything is as real for me as the waking world. At first it was really strange to even be able to feel physical pain inside a dream, but I figure it has something to do with lucid dreaming so often and now I almost look forward to these hyper-real dreams.
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I had another one last night. Except that most of it is to graphic, so I can't tell you here. But,
I was about to go to cover something that I had to get photos of on today (November 13, which I actually have to do today), but some chicks stopped me and started messing around with me. And then one of them (the two of them are actually here on campus) pulled me into my room and she made me do "that mischevious deed" with her.
Then finally I just said I'm done, got clothed, took the camera bag, and ran out of the dorm, passing by those two girls and some other ones talking. So, I'm booking my way towards campus, until finally I hit some rocks and start going further. And I see people with torches dancing around(its night time, about 10:30 pm). So I keep going and get to the people, I see that there's water, a lot of it, to cross to get to the other side. I look in the water and whats in there? A whole bunch of people swimming. And so I gasp, sigh, and turn around to get ready to leave. Before I do someone says something like"Zak, you're going to run all that way around?" I shake my head and went off.
To which I woke up.
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Okay, Gemm, I still think that was too graphic for this board.
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Oh, well I'm sorry. My insanity has just gone off the deep end the past few days. Its just running circles around me, myself, and that other guy in the edges of my unconciousness. Hahah. Don't know, do you? Do, You? Do. You. You, do? You. Do. Did-id-didlly-id-middly.
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So Saturday night I dreamed not quite a nightmare, but not a happy dream. I classify nightmares as involving lots of fear; this dream was more like a foreign flick (you know, the ones with the depressing endings.)
I mention this because the dream was exceptional in four ways.
1. it was in anime. I've never dreamed in anime before.
2. the entire dream had this hopelessness permeating it. I was in a bad spot, and deep down I knew there was nothing to be done about it.
3. I was a woman. I've never dreamed of myself as a woman. (Go on, mock all you want. I'm comfortable enough with my gender and sexuality that other people's opinions/analysis/teasing has no effect. If anything I consider it an accomplishment that I'm able to step out of myself and assume the role of the other subconsciously.
4. I killed someone. Well, I thought I did. He turned out to be an android, not a human, and he survived the nasty fall off the precipice from which I pushed him mercilessly.
I had good reason to push; he was the agent of an evil power who controlled the reality in which I found myself. But I found that I had the power to leave that reality and escape into a fantasy world. The trouble is, the agents of the evil reality followed me (that's why I had to kill him) and the fantasy world was just as awful as the evil reality, because everyone was fighting everyone else all the time. And there was nowhere else to go. So I went back to the evil reality, only to learn the agent wasn't dead. He didn't try and chase me though. He understood that I had come to grips with the situation, so he let me sit there on the precipice from which I had pushed him earlier and be depressed about the hopelessness of the situation. And then I woke up.
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at least my agent survived :)
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Yeah, but his face was all bloody.
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at least my agent survived
Why is it that so many people have evil designs and plans on the board? Saint first (ninja assassin priests,) and now Jeffe...I know 42 has designs along these lines. And I think MoD does too. And I'm sure Fell and EUOL have something up there sleeves, but they're too clever to say anything in public.
I've dabbled in the evil schemes of others, but it really has failed to hold my interest. Gathering minions, domintating the world, etc. all just seems so...blah.
Does anyone out there have noble aims? If I had to guess, I'd say JamP would be the guy for it. But who knows. I might, but it's just so much work. I find I spend my efforts trying to thwart a fish-turned-demon in his attempt to destroy my soul. Or something hellish like that.
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My evil plans have noble aims!
Dont ask me to make sense Im a Mad Dr.
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evil is as evil does
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are you questioning Jeffe's evilness?
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Indeed I do have noble aims, and noble minions. Firstly there's my Paladin order "Knights of the Lucid Radience". Each is armed with the finest steel longswords, kite shields, and has a trained falcon. They are also trained in various healing talents, as well as weaponsmithing. One in three is trained in missle weaponry.
In addition, the Knights of the Lucid Radience also have a new Cardboard Tube Samurai division. I wa strying to keep this under wraps, since I figure Saint's Ninjas will want to do something about it, so I waited until they were all fully trained, which was last week.
I mentioned I stole the Cardboard Tube teachings and sold them to the highest bidder? Yeah, I was the highest bidder. Soon, I will have wandering Paladins and Samurai righting wrongs and preventing the evil ones from taking over.
I'm still toying over what minions to get next - I'm debating with Monks or Druids.
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Well, huzzah! then.
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no, I'm stating straight up that his evil is passive and lame next to mine.
JP, how did you train the falcons in missle weaponry? Just wondering.
Oh, and uh.. .My Ninja Assassin Priests already took out your cardboard tube samurai.
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I'm more impressed with the falcon weaponsmiths.
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Dont make me sic my evil Ski mountain lair on you
(http://www.studiofoglio.com/art/lost/docevil.gif)
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No, you fools, it's the Paladins with the healing and archery and wesponsmithing. That said, the falcon's do catch a mean fish in freshwater rivers.
Oh, and my CTS are still very much alive. As their last training mission, they were to hunt down and dispatch some peasants I hired and made dress like CTS - decoys if you will. My head CTS reported back that the decoys were slaughtered by the time they arrived. Obviously, SE you have helped rather than hindered me.
Oh, and I've decided on Druids, mainly because it turns out Gemm is a Druid and wanted to join my minions. I therefore have placed him as head of my druid force, which so far consists of one druid.
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Well we know your doomed to failure now....
Next on our evil agenda...
Slurry
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Well Jeffe, I counter your slurry with some curry!
And now off to train some badgers. Because what would an army be without some sort of ground troops. And of course you must start with the basics.
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Badgers are a good idea, but after you're done with that, what's the chances of gettign some giant mutated killer cockroaches? Never hurts to have radiation resistant mounts.
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Ahhh I knew it having Gemm has turned you Evil.
JamPaladins Corrupted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thous callest me corrupted? Foolish knave, thou shalt face me in hounorable one-on-one combat or I shalt have my Smaurai slay thee where thy stand!
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Yeah... that'll happen. Im evil not stupid.
/me mutates JAMPaladins Samurai into Big eyed Plush Manga Dolls
I suppose you expect me to tell you my Evil plan now...
HA!
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No, I wouldn't expect that at all, considering I am about to do this.
/me orders a Paladin to get his falcon to dievbomb Jeffe's eyes.
/me watches Jeffe stumble around blind, and orders Chibi-Samurai to tear him violently to pieces with their chibi-cardboard tubes.
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/Me Laughs as you destroy one of his many cardboard doubles
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/me salvages the scraps of Jeffe's cardboard double, and has a wepaonsmith paladin fashion it into a weapon for his force.
Waste not, want not.
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/me laughs manically as dreaded cardboard termites are unleashed upon Jams forces
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Oh, poo!
/me orders troops to switch to slightly weaker adamantium weapons until such a time as we can buy more tubes from the post office with honastly earnt money.
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Mutant Killer Cockroaches are a sure sign of evil, JP.
I knew it was too good to be true.
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Se, more ammunition for the project - o - doom.
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make notes, post in the right place. DOn't know how we'll do cardboard samurai without pissing off Gabe though
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Even if the Giant Mutated Killer Cockroaches have been tamed, and are being ridden by Paladins of Pure heart?
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Now you're just being silly.
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No, I'm not. This is a legitimate plan for ridding the world of evil.
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I vote we boil the cockroaches and feed them to EUOL, see what happens.
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I vote we feed EUOL to the cockroaches and THEN boil them, see what happens.
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You must go through a lot of Sugar Jam.
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I'm afraid that if we fed the Giant Mutant Killer Cockroaches to EUOL his digestive system might turn them into something even more deadly, evil, and destructive than they were before.
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that's why we make a meal out of HIM for the cockroaches. It's like you people don't listen to anything.
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I'm afraid that if we feed EUOL to the Giant Mutant Killer Cockroaches he might do something to their digestive systems that would make them even more deadly, evil, and destructive.
There.
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wimp
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Fine, go ahead and do it. See what happens. That is, if EUOL doesn't make you his zombie slave first.
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That'll teach me to ignore a thread for this long.
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Lesson learned: ignore a thread for too long and be fed to cockroaches.
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/me clears his throat
Ahem! Giant Mutant Cockroaches.
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How about this?
1. Feed Giant Mutant Killer Cockroach #1 to EUOL, thus doing something to his digestive system that would make him even more deadly, evil, and destructive.
2. Eat sugar.
3. Feed EUOL to Giant Mutant Killer Cockroach #2, thus doing something to its digestive systems that would make it even more deadly, evil, and destructive.
4. Eat some more sugar, and some red cordial.
5. Spray paint the Giant Mutant Killer Cockroach with flurecent coloured spray paint, to act as a dire warning to any foes who see it coming. The spray paint should quickly harden, thus forming a bulletproof cshielding around the Giant Mutant Killer Cockroaches shielding.
6. Mount a Paladin of Noble heart and pure mind, armed with a falcon, ranged weapons, weaponsmithing, healign talents, and a cadboard tube onto the back of Spray painted Giant Mutant Killer Cockraoach. Give the Paladin some sugar.
7. Proceed to use Mounted Giant Mutant Killer Cockroach to take over the wor....err, I mean to protect the world from evildoers. Yes, that's it, protect the world, why would
I want to take over the world? Corrupted? Moi?