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A tiny wet object lands on Heidel's neck. He looks up with great confusion and realises, to his extreme surprise, that it is snowing. In fact, the whole tavern roof as well as some of the garden areas was covered with a cold, white blanket of snow. Somewhere, off in the distance, a sound which was scaringly similar to jingling bells could be heard.

"So that's why those carrots looked so bad..."

(I also want to remind all of you that the jerk who constructed the tavern didn't think of the heavy burden of snow the roof would have to carry during wintertimes. *crack* )

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-Rogan-
Not charmed, just pissed off

[This message has been edited by Rogan (edited 05-02-2001).]

[quote]Originally posted by Rogan:
(I also want to remind all of you that the jerk who constructed the tavern didn't think of the heavy burden of snow the roof would have to carry during wintertimes. *crack*    

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"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."

GET ME BACK TO NORMAL!


Tycho Maudd

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I say what occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things, more I cannot say.

(I'm guessing that Ferazel's very uh.. undetailed post is now ignored... at least I will...)

    Talos looked at the piece of tied brushwood he had put to replace the fallen wooden lateral support. The extra weight of the snow was not doing the support, or any supports any good. In fact, he was looking straight at it when it broke in half and fell. Fortunately, it wasn't actually carrying any weight, as the moron who retiled the area above put on too few layers. Therefore, the roof there held, but a huge piece of brushwood fell on top of Talos's face, namely on his eye. "AAAAAAH! It burns!! It burns!!!" Talos screamed.

    Unfortunately, the other lateral supports were not faring well under the snow, and people, looking up, noticed that the odd cracking noises were not, as they had thought, coming from the floor. Also, they did not notice Talos, who was now running wildly around the tavern, unable to see, but no longer making much in the way of vocal noise. He ran into the "high table" that Tycho was on, spilling him out of the window onto the quickly-accumulating snow. The snow melted under Tycho, and the liquid water resulting was absorbed by Tycho: he soon began to grow, and he caught on, carefully emersing all of his body in the snow to get it all back to normal size. Unfortunately, his right ring-finger, whose magical ring had shrunk with him but did not get bigger with water, quickly popped as the finger grew.

    In the bar, it was all mayhem. Besides Talos running into and knocking over tables, the roof supports were splintering and some of the triangular braces had popped. The cheaply applied tiles slid off under the weight, clearing snow in some places, although it quickly came back and weighted the next layer. To make things worse, snow was coming in at all angles through the opening in the roof, and melting on the floor. Normal, unharmed people besides Talos and a few drunkards were slipping on the floor and knocking things over. Then with a huge "Crrrrr-cra-THUMP" it was all over. The roof supports simultaneously split, no longer aided by the triangular braces. The roof collapsed inwards, although most of the weight was of snow, since almost all the tiles had slid off.

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[This message has been edited by Talos (edited 05-02-2001).]

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Just Crackin' open a cold one? *thinks about forge's sig*


Zephyr walks into the shaky Tavern with a little black box.
"Wuz zat?" says a drunkan patron.
"This, my intoxicated friend, is a structural integrity stabilization module. Otherwise known as a little black box. It was made by Lindus during his inventing spree to help hold the Pynx together in case of too much snow. This one wasn't quite strong enough for the giant stone pyramid in the tests, so he gave it to me. I set it up in the middle and it will keep the Tavern from colapsing due to too much snow."
The patron was about to respond with a snappy and well-planned insult, but passed out first.


*Yes, I know this is the fourth different Zephyr I have on the boards. I just don't want to go into my Coldstone Name Generator and find new ones.*


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-TheDarkDragon
I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am falling from the sky because my wings beat each other up.

YAY! My 400th post!

[This message has been edited by TheDarkDragon (edited 05-02-2001).]

Slayer, in an effort to get rid of some of the snow on top of the tavern, goes outside and starts casting fireballs. The snow melts, but unfortunately the tavern catches fire. Talos yells, "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!" Fanatic's grandpa responds by saying, "We don't no water, just let it burn." Avatara thinks better of it, goes outside and along with Slayer casts water spells on the tavern, thus extinguishing the fire.

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Having crawled through the thick layer of snow, Heidel pops his head out of an snowdrift.
"Aha - the unexpected, massive snow-fall and Tychos previous problems getting back to normal size. I sense a connection. Perhaps... No, it can't be... Maybe it's a hole in the chimera-layer above the tavern!"

Getting out of the snow alltogheter, Heidel builds an snowman. Putting one of the carrots as nose on the snowman, he exclaims: "Let's try my theory."

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[This message has been edited by Heidel (edited 05-03-2001).]

With their teamwork, and a spare cheese stick Talos had, Avatara and Slayer were able to put out the burning tavern, and able to instantly melt all the snow on top of it without catching the tavern on fire. Unfortunately, all the snow that had instantly melted was now a bunch of water hovering in the air, and water doesn't seem to like hovering in air very well...

All the water from the melted snow drenched those in the tavern, and they were now unhappy since it was a cold winter day, and they were wet.

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"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."

Tycho not noticing the water goes up to Talos and askes for a drink

Tycho Maudd

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I say what occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things, more I cannot say.

ln reply, Talos takes a bucket that got filled by the falling water, and dumps it on Tycho. (Sorry about the uh, undescriptive post. I had company over and they started calling me as I posted, so I did a quick post job.)

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Apparantly, Tycho was still retaining water after having grown back to his original size. As the water hit his head, it grew in size considerably.

"Great, now, you have to dump water all over me!" Tycho angrily yelled at Talos.

Talos replied, "No problem!" He quickly took the bucket and scooped up more water from the floor. He dumped it all over Tycho, making the rest of him larger. Overall, Tycho came out of it ahead though... he was now over seven feet tall.

At least, that's what he thought. His heart, which had trouble circulating blood through so much more area now that he was taller, started to increase blood pressure. However, the cold water soon caused him to get hypothermia, plummeting his blood pressure. Quickly, his extremities, such as his hands and feet, became very numb.... and about a minute later, fell off under his heavy weight.

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Then Tycho started toshrick. As he got smaller his arms grew back and when he became 5'6" he was back to normal.

"What a weird day this is, its the summer and ther roof fall down because of snow"

Tycho Maudd

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I say what occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things, more I cannot say.

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Hehe.

*back in*

Rogan and his aliases leaves the tavern to nurse their wounds. Everyone except Katherine, who didn't get hurt. She sits down and orders a drink. Several patrons starts looking her way...



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-Rogan-
Not charmed, just pissed off

...one whistles and Katherine...

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...clubs that patron with an unused cinder block.

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"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."

Unfortunately, the cinder block was full of expensive wine, due to a lack of storage space in the tavern. (Amaphorae have a tendency to break when a roof falls on them.) The un/fortunate patron was now drenched in some of the Tavern's finest wine, imported from across the island.

Talos, who was obviously the loser in this part, angrily yelled, "Damn! Why'd you have to use that block, Katherine!" He quickly took a bucket to get some of the wine off the dripping patron. He also gave Katherine a more sanitary and empty block of wood to continue the patron's rightful punishment.

<edit>Wow! Two pages already! Alraeican Tavern IV, here we come!</edit>

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[This message has been edited by Talos (edited 05-06-2001).]

Then, the patron says, "Wow. She's a hot one." and passes out. Ferazel gets up, and asks, "Anyone up for a game of cards or dice?".

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Katze had sat down in a corner and fallen asleep. But upon hearing the words "dice" and "cards" she suddenly wakes up. "Where? When? Who? How much do you wanna bet?"
The nearby patrons look at her.
"Uhm, sorry ... I thought I heard someone talikng about games ..." she apologizes.
"You did." Ferazel says. "Wanna join?"
Katze grins broadly. "Sure!!! Who else?"

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You cannot expect to be saved in any one thing, person ... Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
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Avatara sits down and bets a healthy sum on a game of dice. Only after Avatara loses, and Ferazel (he won the round) collects the prize, does Talos realize Avatara bet something of Talos's that Talos prized highly...

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"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."

"No! My katachorisi collection! Talos quickly grabbed the magical music-records from Ferazel. Avatara, how in Cythera did you get these things? I had them under lock and key in my ch-," just then, Talos glanced back and noticed that his chest had been smashed open by the snow. Other than his record collection, his life savings of over seven thousand oboloi was gone. Talos slowly and angrily scanned the tavern with his eyes. "I know one of you took my savings!" Talos boomed, "and no-one can leave until every oboloi of it is back!"

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"Can i have some wine" Tycho asks Talos, "I can pay for it now"

Tycho Maudd

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I say what occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things, more I cannot say.

*Avatara hands Talos a large, heavy, fascinating metal ball. Something that Talos seems to notice is that the metal seems to be made of smaller pieces fused together, and they looked oddly like the same color and texture of oboloi...*

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"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."

[This message has been edited by Avatara (edited 05-08-2001).]

Ferazel takes the large, 7,000-oboli object and says, "The winner of this dice round will win this." Ferazel, Avatara, Talos, and Katze all play dice. The results came out with Talos winning his oboli back, plus a little more, and Ferazel coming a close second, with Katze in third, and Avatara losing. Ferazel claims some cash, and buys a few drinks. "A new card game has been interduced to me," he says, "Avatara, seeing the future, has learned to rules of a card game called 'poker' ( ). The winner of two out of three matches will receive a free round of drinks, a room in Pnyx, and if he/she is a mystic of any kind, a spot in my class in the art of spellmaking." Ferazel is out of breath now, and takes a large swig of wine.

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[This message has been edited by ferazel_09 (edited 05-08-2001).]

Tycho being from the future already knows all the rules and procedes to beat everyone.

"looks like i'm the winner agian" States Tycho after the 87 deal.

Tycho Maudd

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I say what occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things, more I cannot say.

*Avatara, tired of letting the others win, occupies himself with molding the ball of oboloi Talos hid behind his back into a fancy set of silverware, and distributes it to the cheering crowdes of Cademia by means of magic. Talos triumphs after winning the current round of cards over Avatara, but Avatara smiles nonetheless.*

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"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."