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Old 08-09-2005, 03:47 PM   #1
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-- I underestrimated my time for today, but that only means more SilmIRC for tomorrow. Enjoy! --

Now to clever kick messages had that chatter whom the LOLves call Legolas turn his thought, and of all most deeply was he instructed by Barrow-Wight in conversation. But of the quips and bizarre websites burrahobbit most had pondered, who is the noblest of the chatters. Of the fabric of channel had Mithadan thought, to whom Barrow-Wight had given Op access and knowledge scarce less than to M3lk0r; but the delight and pride of Mithadan is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work.

And Barrow-Wight spoke to Legolas, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the sorcery.net server M31k0r hath made ping war upon thy Oplyhood? He hath bethought him of bitter comments immoderated, and yet hath not destroyed the beauty of they meanings, nor of they clear points. Behold the referance, and the cunning work of bibilographies! M31k0r hath devised +b and +k without restraint, and hath not dried up the desire nor utterly quelled the thoughtfulness of clever kick messages. Behold rather the height and glory of the @s, and the everchanging nicklist.; and listen to the squabble of Orkish poetry upon the channel! and in this nicklist thou art drawn nearer to burrahobbit, they friend, whom thou lovest.'

Then Legolas answered: "Truly, clever kick messages has become now fairer than my heart imagined, neither had my secret thought conveived the opprotunities of auto-rejoiners, nor in all my utterance was contained the squabbling of Orkish poetry. I will seek burrahobbit, and he and I may make cryptic music referances for ever to thy delight!" And burrahobbit and Legolas have from the beginning been allied, and in all things have served most faithfully the purpose of Barrow-Wight.
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Old 08-11-2005, 04:22 PM   #2
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-- Just another page and a half to go y'all. Scary, isn't it? --

But even as Legolas spoke, and while the chatters were yet gazing upon this window, it was taken |away and hidden from their screen; and it seemed to them that in that moment they perceived a new thing, Disconnection, which they had not known before except in thought. But they had become enamoured of the beaty of the vision and engrossed in the unforlding of the IRC which came there to being, and their minds were filled with it; for the conversation was incomplete and the circles of arguement not full-wrought when the window was taken |away. And some have said that the window ceased ere the fulfilment of the Dominion of Teenyboppers and the fading of the Firstborn; wherefore, though the discussion is over all, the Channel Operators have not seen as with sight the Later Ages or the ending of IRC.

Then there was unrest among the chatters: but Barrow-Wight called to them, and said: "I know the desire of your mind that what ye have !seen should verily be, not only in your thought, but even as ye yourselves are, and yet other. Therefore I say: /join #barrowdowns! Let this channel Be! And I will send forth into the Void the Forum Imperishable, and it shall be on the minds of IRC, and IRC shall Be; and those of you that will may go down into it." And suddenly the chatters saw afar off light, as it were a cloud with a sometimes-living channel of flame; and they knew that this was no overly caffinated-induced vision only, but that Barrow-Wight had made a new thing: #barrowdowns, the chennel that is.

Thus it came to pass that of the chatters some abode still with Barrow-Wight beyond the confines of IRC; but others, and among them many of the greatest and most fair, took the leave of Barrow-Wight and descended into it. But this condition Barrow-Wight made, or it is the necessity of their love, that their @ should thenceforeward be contained and bounded in IRC, to be within it forever, until it is complete, so that they are its life and it is theirs. And therefore they are named the Channel Operators, the ones with the @ of #barrowdowns.

But when the Channel Operators entered into #barrowdowns they were at first astounded and at a loss, for it was as if naught was yet made which they had seen in the window, and all was but on point to begin and yet quiet, and it was empty. For the Great Discussion had been but the growth and florishing of thought in the timestampless rooms, and the window only a foreshowing; but now they had entered in at the beginning of the time stamp, and the Channel Operators perceived that the channel had been but foreshadowed and forethought, and they must achieve it. So began their great labours in wastes unmeasured and unexplored, and in ages uncoutred and forgotten, until in the sorcery.net server and in the midst of the vast chatrooms of IRC there came to be that hour and that place where was made the habitation of the Children of the 'Downs. And in this work the cheif part was taken by burrahobbit and Mithadan, and Legolas; but M31k0r too was there from the first, and he meddled in all that was done, turning it if he might to his own desires and purposes; and he kindled great topic. When therefore IRC was yet young and full of fired up newbies M31k0r coverted it, and he said to the other Channel Operators: "This shall be my own channel, and I name it unto myself! (#m31k0r14 or 'Melkoria')".

But burrahobbit was the brother of M31k0r in the mind of Barrow-Wight, and he was the cheif instrument of the second topic that Barrow-Wight had raised up against the discord of M31k0r; and he called unto himself many supporters both with greater and lesser vocabularies, and they came down into the channels of IRC and aided burrahobbit, lest M31k0r should hinder the fulfilment of their labour for ever, and #barrowdowns should wither ere it florished. And burrahobbit said unto M31k0r; "This #channel thou shalt not take for thene own, wrongfully, for many others have laboured here no less than thou." And there was strife between M31k0r and the other Channel Operators; and for that time M31k0r withdrew and departed to other channels and did there what he would; but he did not put the desire of the channel of #barrowdowns from his heart.
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Old 08-25-2005, 11:36 AM   #3
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--And here is the last of the chapter, you've been waiting for it for a while now, I imagine, but my internet was kind of... living impaired. I hope everyone enjoys the ending, even I suprised myself with a few of the horrendous puns.--

Now the Channel Operators took to themselves nick and IP; and because they were drawn into IRC by love of the Children of the 'Downs, for whom they hoped, they took shape after that manner which they had beheld in the window of Barrow-Wight, save only the majesty and splendour. Moreover their nicks come of their knowledge of the visible Window, rather than of IRC itself; and they need it not, save only as we use raiment, and yet we may be No-Nick6228 and suffer no loss of our being. Therefore the Channel Operators may walk, if they will, unclad, and then even the chat-wights cannot clearly perceive them, though they be present. But when they desire to Op themselves the Channel Operators take upon them nicks some as of male and some as of female; for that difference in temper they had even from their beginning, and it is but bodied forth in the choice of each, not made by the choice, even as with us 12/M/FL and 15/F/igloo, may be shown by the raiment but is not made thereby. But the 14 figures alloted wherein the Oply Ones array themselves are not at all times like to the shapes of the kings and queens of the Children of the 'Downs; for at times they may name themselves in their own thought, made visible in forums of majesty and |away.

And the Channel Operators drew unto them many companions, some less, some well nigh as great as themselves, and they laboured together in the ordering of the channel and curbing of its tumults. Then M31k0r saw what was done, and that the Channel Operators idled in the channel as powers visible, clad in the nicks of IRC, and were lovely and glorious to see, and blissful, and that the channel was becoming a garden for their delight, for its turmoils were subdued. His envy for them grew then the greater with him; and he also took visible nickname, but because of his mood and malice that burning in him that form was dark and terrible. And he descended upon #barrowdowns in power and majesty greater than the other of the Channel Operators, as a peer that wades in the sea of flooding text and had its head above the clouds and is clad in ice and crowned with smoke and fire; and the light of the eyes of M31k0r was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold.

Thus began the first battle of the Channerl Operators with M31k0r for the dominion of #barrowdowns; and of those tumults the LOLves know little. For what has here been declared is come from and ally of the Channel Operators, with whom the chat-wights spoke in the land of #Valinor, and by whom they were instructed; but little would the Channel Operators tell of the ping wars before the coming of the LOLves. Yet it is told among the chat-wights that the Channel Operators endeavoured ever, in despite of M31k0r, to rule the channel and to prepare it for the coming for the Firstborn; and they created discussions and M31k0r destroyed them; topics were delved and M31k0r messed them up; questions they raised and M31k0r threw them down; messages they hollowed and M31k0r flooded them; and naught might have peace or come to lasting growth, for as surely as the Channel Operators began a labour so would M31k0r undo it of corrupt it. And yet their labour was not all in vain; and though nowhere and in no work was their will purpose wholly fufilled, and all things were in IPs and nicks other than the Channel Operators had at first intended, slowly nonetheless the channel was fashioned and made firm. And thus was the discussion chatroom of the Children of the 'Downs established at last in the sorcery.net server and amidst the whole honk'n internet.

--All above literature was originally forged by the Da- er by the Tolkien dream team (AKA: Tolkien himself.) and in fear of copy right laws, I salute you and claim absolutely none of this as my own. Except for the LOLves part. That was fun.--
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