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Inziladun · 09-03-2010, 09:00 PM

DL (of course). I shall now put an end to this madness.

Inziladun · 09-03-2010, 09:45 PM

The day dawned with a sense of foreboding, an expectation that things would be decided definitively before the sun again set.
There were only three living persons left in the house: Pitchwife, Sally, and Loslote. It was clear early on that Sally and Lottie had made their minds up already, and nothing Pitch could say dissuaded them from their course. They were determined to see him die.

"You know what to do," said Lottie. "We've been through this enough."

"Why are you so sure I'm guilty?" asked Pitch.

"We've been over this again and again," said Sally, rolling her eyes. "No more talking."

"It doesn't make sense that Sally would be a baddie," said Lottie.

"Or Lottie, said Sally. "Guess who that leaves?"

"What if I don't want to 'go quietly'?" said Pitch with an air of menace.

Sally picked up the spray bottle of Windex again. "Don't make me use this!"

Pitch sighed. "Look. All right. I'm the last of the W.O.L.Fs. Happy now?"

"Not until you're smoking. And I don't mean cigars," said Lottie.

"Look. Let's talk a minute, all right? Want to know why all this happened in the first place?"

Neither Sally or Lottie answered, and the robot seemed to take that as its cue to continue.

"We were sent here by the studio to see what that Professor nutcase was on about now. You all didn't know that guy, but believe me, we did. He caused all kinds of problems." It looked at the others, then went on.

"Back when the LOTR movies were in production, he was just a nuisance. Sending e-mails, writing on websites about how the movies shouldn't be made. Complaining about the merchandising. After the movies were released , he went low-profile for awhile. Then, when serious work on The Hobbit movie began, he went totally off the rails." He looked at Sally and Lottie again, with a questioning air.

"Go ahead. This is interesting, I guess," said Sallly. But hurry it up."

"Well," continued the robot. "once the production for The Hobbit got into full swing, he got really crazy. He started picketing. First it was just the studio, and that wasn't a big deal."
"But then he started standing outside the house of one of the studio execs, dressed as Gandalf and waving a sign. At 2 AM. Then we didn't hear from him awhile."
"He didn't stay gone though. About a year ago he somehow snuck into the studio parking area, jumped out at one of the scriptwriters, and shot him with some contraption he called a "Neural Disruptor". It took the poor guy weeks to remember how to put his pants on again. Anyway, police got involved, but they couldn't charge him with anything but trespassing because they never found that disruptor thing. Who knows what he did with it?"

"Wow," said Lottie.

"So," continued Pitch. "They got a restraining order on him, and that was that. Then they saw that ad he'd placed, so they sent us here to stop whatever he was up to now."

"I see," said Sally.

Pitch looked at the other two.

"I'm telling you now, I'm not going into that thing. I'll make you a deal, though.
If you two just let this go, you can leave with me. I'll get you jobs."

"You're kidding!" exclaimed Sally

"Not at all. They still need people for The Hobbit movie. One of you could be Generic Elf #5, and there's an opening for Arwen's stunt double in the Battle of Five Armies."

"Arwen's in the Battle of Five Armies?" said Lottie incredulously.

"Yeah! The book had some stupid bear thing saving the day. We'll just give Arwen that part. No one will miss that bear, and Arwen is good for another $10,000.000 just by her presence. What do you say?"

"I'd say, 'Get in that chamber!'" said Sally.

"Fine," said Pitch. "That's what I get for being nice."

He lunged at Lottie and grabbed her throat. Sally yelled and tried to pull the fiend away from Lottie, but it was too strong.
Sally gripped the spray bottle and squirted the contents into the robot's eyes. That caused it to loosen its grip, and Lottie stumbled away from it.
Now Sally was its focus. It suddenly yanked the bottle out of Sally's hand and threw it. It advanced on Sally, its hands raised.

"OYRMMM" came a noise, and a blue beam of light struck Pitch's head from behind.

Lottie was there, holding something that looked like a gun, painted grey and black, but unlike any gun Sally had seen before. Lottie pointed to a label on the top of it which said "ND".

"I thought this could be that Neural Disruptor," said Lottie. I saw it the other day and thought at first it was some type of paint ball gun."

They turned their attentions to Pitch, who was now making metallic noises unconnected to speech. His arms flailed wildly. One of them struck the time machine hard and shattered part of a control panel. At that, several red lights came on around the machine and an alarm began to blare.

"Oh, gumdrop buttons!" said Lottie. "Didn't the Professor say it could blow up if it was tampered with? Now what?"

"Out of here at least!" said Sally, grabbing Lottie's hand. The latter dropped the Neural Disruptor. They ran out of the room toward the front door, as the machine began to vibrate and smoke.

When they reached the front door, they skidded to a halt, in shock.

The door to the outside was standing wide open.

"It opened! I wonder when it happened?" said Sally.

"Maybe just now," said Lottie. "It would make sense for it to open with the thing about to blow, wouldn't it? Come on!"

They sprinted outside, just as a flat "WHUMMMM" came from the house, and a blast of warm air that felt like a hand firmly pushing them in the back moved them away from the explosion.

They threw themselves on the ground beside the Professor's bus and crawled under it, as debris rained down around them.

When that threat seemed to have passed, they opened their eyes and slowly crawled out.

Fire blazed from the lower story of the house, and part of the second floor seemed to have collapsed.

"It's over," breathed Sally. "We made it."

"Yep," said Lottie. "Are the keys in that bus?"
They were.

Sally started the bus, and both began driving back to the main road.

"Well, the Professor's dream didn't happen, but those robots didn't kill us all," sighed Lottie. "Hey! This might make a good book!"

"Just don't sell the movie rights," Sally replied with a wink.

The Living
Sally (ordo)
Lottie (ordo)

The Dead
Professor Inzil (mod) Head full of knowledge cracked open Night 1
The Elf-warrior (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Fried like foil in a microwave Day 1
Shasta (ordo)- Made into a Shastacicle Night 2
Wilwa (ordo)- Found her big chance to get away from it all Day 2.
Boro (Ranger)- Learned to stop worrying and love the brick Night 3
Greenie (ordo)- Off to have fun with the Normans Day 3
Fea (ordo)- A victim of her own fashion sense (and some murderous robots) Night 4
Eomer (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Done to a turn Day 4
skip (Seer)- "Skewered like a wild boar" Night 5
Agan (Cobbler)- Became a firefighter Day 5
Nerwen (ordo)- Flying lessons were a failure Night 6
Pitchwife (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Went out with a bang Day 6.

THE END

Village wins.

Wolves lose.

Cobbler loses.

Thanks to everyone for playing! Hopefully you all had fun, and I did a passable job modding for the first time. Seer dreams and whatnot are coming. Talk away!

satansaloser2005 · 09-03-2010, 09:49 PM

Meh, I couldn't just go wholesale on the last Day. Lottie, I of course never really doubted you.

Oh, and Agan, you're a sultry minx and I love you.

Nerwen · 09-03-2010, 09:53 PM

Great work, you two!

satansaloser2005 · 09-03-2010, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Great work, you two!

And you, Ma'am!

Loslote · 09-03-2010, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

Meh, I couldn't just go wholesale on the last Day. Lottie, I of course never really doubted you.

'Course, 'course.

And thanks to Zil for modding!

Also, Eomer, nice idea with the fake seer business.

Eomer of the Rohirrim · 09-05-2010, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Loslote

Also, Eomer, nice idea with the fake seer business.

Hi Loslote. Brain's not really functioning - can you remind me what this was about?

To answer Folwren, I knew voting for Green 3 days in a row would draw attention, but then I did think I could put suspicion on her (and it did work). It just worked out that the village decided 'her or me'.

The Elf-warrior · 09-03-2010, 10:14 PM

My condolences to my fellow W.O.L.F.S. for our narrow but inglorious defeat. Congratulations to the village for their victory. I'd also like to congratulate Inziladun for his spectacular final narration. Also, I'd like to thank our cobbler, Aganzir, for her efforts to aid our glorious cause.

If Inziladun's plan had succeeded, we would not only be deprived of Peter Jackson's films, but also Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and the Rankin/Bass productions of The Hobbit and The Return of the King. And tell me, would not the world be a less merry place if deprived of this and this?

satansaloser2005 · 09-03-2010, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by The Elf-warrior

If Inziladun's plan had succeeded, we would not only be deprived of Peter Jackson's films, but also Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and the Rankin/Bass productions of The Hobbit and The Return of the King. And tell me, would not the world be a less merry place if deprived of this and this?

Do you know how badly I want that as a ringtone?

Also, I'd say I'm terribly sorry you had to go so early, but I'm not. *hugs you anyway*

The Elf-warrior · 09-03-2010, 10:37 PM

To be honest, I liked being able to take it easy as a stiff and just watch. I made a pretty pathetic wolf while I was alive. During the hours before the deadline I'd finally compose something, then erase it. Sorry, everybody, for my low participation.

Loslote · 09-03-2010, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Elf-warrior

To be honest, I liked being able to take it easy as a stiff and just watch. I made a pretty pathetic wolf while I was alive. During the hours before the deadline I'd finally compose something, then erase it. Sorry, everybody, for my low participation.

Ah, but now we have the term "Drive-by Fenris", which I hadn't heard before, if we'd invented it.

Nerwen · 09-03-2010, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loslote

Ah, but now we have the term "Drive-by Fenris", which I hadn't heard before, if we'd invented it.

Should it go in the Glossary?

By the way, I just realised I forgot to put "Fenris" in!

09-03-2010, 09:00 PM	#1
Inziladun Gruesome Spectre Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Heaven's doorstep Posts: 8,039	DL (of course). I shall now put an end to this madness. __________________ Music alone proves the existence of God.

09-03-2010, 09:45 PM	#2
Inziladun Gruesome Spectre Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Heaven's doorstep Posts: 8,039	Day 6 The day dawned with a sense of foreboding, an expectation that things would be decided definitively before the sun again set. There were only three living persons left in the house: Pitchwife, Sally, and Loslote. It was clear early on that Sally and Lottie had made their minds up already, and nothing Pitch could say dissuaded them from their course. They were determined to see him die. "You know what to do," said Lottie. "We've been through this enough." "Why are you so sure I'm guilty?" asked Pitch. "We've been over this again and again," said Sally, rolling her eyes. "No more talking." "It doesn't make sense that Sally would be a baddie," said Lottie. "Or Lottie, said Sally. "Guess who that leaves?" "What if I don't want to 'go quietly'?" said Pitch with an air of menace. Sally picked up the spray bottle of Windex again. "Don't make me use this!" Pitch sighed. "Look. All right. I'm the last of the W.O.L.Fs. Happy now?" "Not until you're smoking. And I don't mean cigars," said Lottie. "Look. Let's talk a minute, all right? Want to know why all this happened in the first place?" Neither Sally or Lottie answered, and the robot seemed to take that as its cue to continue. "We were sent here by the studio to see what that Professor nutcase was on about now. You all didn't know that guy, but believe me, we did. He caused all kinds of problems." It looked at the others, then went on. "Back when the LOTR movies were in production, he was just a nuisance. Sending e-mails, writing on websites about how the movies shouldn't be made. Complaining about the merchandising. After the movies were released , he went low-profile for awhile. Then, when serious work on The Hobbit movie began, he went totally off the rails." He looked at Sally and Lottie again, with a questioning air. "Go ahead. This is interesting, I guess," said Sallly. But hurry it up." "Well," continued the robot. "once the production for The Hobbit got into full swing, he got really crazy. He started picketing. First it was just the studio, and that wasn't a big deal." "But then he started standing outside the house of one of the studio execs, dressed as Gandalf and waving a sign. At 2 AM. Then we didn't hear from him awhile." "He didn't stay gone though. About a year ago he somehow snuck into the studio parking area, jumped out at one of the scriptwriters, and shot him with some contraption he called a "Neural Disruptor". It took the poor guy weeks to remember how to put his pants on again. Anyway, police got involved, but they couldn't charge him with anything but trespassing because they never found that disruptor thing. Who knows what he did with it?" "Wow," said Lottie. "So," continued Pitch. "They got a restraining order on him, and that was that. Then they saw that ad he'd placed, so they sent us here to stop whatever he was up to now." "I see," said Sally. Pitch looked at the other two. "I'm telling you now, I'm not going into that thing. I'll make you a deal, though. If you two just let this go, you can leave with me. I'll get you jobs." "You're kidding!" exclaimed Sally "Not at all. They still need people for The Hobbit movie. One of you could be Generic Elf #5, and there's an opening for Arwen's stunt double in the Battle of Five Armies." "Arwen's in the Battle of Five Armies?" said Lottie incredulously. "Yeah! The book had some stupid bear thing saving the day. We'll just give Arwen that part. No one will miss that bear, and Arwen is good for another $10,000.000 just by her presence. What do you say?" "I'd say, 'Get in that chamber!'" said Sally. "Fine," said Pitch. "That's what I get for being nice." He lunged at Lottie and grabbed her throat. Sally yelled and tried to pull the fiend away from Lottie, but it was too strong. Sally gripped the spray bottle and squirted the contents into the robot's eyes. That caused it to loosen its grip, and Lottie stumbled away from it. Now Sally was its focus. It suddenly yanked the bottle out of Sally's hand and threw it. It advanced on Sally, its hands raised. "OYRMMM" came a noise, and a blue beam of light struck Pitch's head from behind. Lottie was there, holding something that looked like a gun, painted grey and black, but unlike any gun Sally had seen before. Lottie pointed to a label on the top of it which said "ND". "I thought this could be that Neural Disruptor," said Lottie. I saw it the other day and thought at first it was some type of paint ball gun." They turned their attentions to Pitch, who was now making metallic noises unconnected to speech. His arms flailed wildly. One of them struck the time machine hard and shattered part of a control panel. At that, several red lights came on around the machine and an alarm began to blare. "Oh, gumdrop buttons!" said Lottie. "Didn't the Professor say it could blow up if it was tampered with? Now what?" "Out of here at least!" said Sally, grabbing Lottie's hand. The latter dropped the Neural Disruptor. They ran out of the room toward the front door, as the machine began to vibrate and smoke. When they reached the front door, they skidded to a halt, in shock. The door to the outside was standing wide open. "It opened! I wonder when it happened?" said Sally. "Maybe just now," said Lottie. "It would make sense for it to open with the thing about to blow, wouldn't it? Come on!" They sprinted outside, just as a flat "WHUMMMM" came from the house, and a blast of warm air that felt like a hand firmly pushing them in the back moved them away from the explosion. They threw themselves on the ground beside the Professor's bus and crawled under it, as debris rained down around them. When that threat seemed to have passed, they opened their eyes and slowly crawled out. Fire blazed from the lower story of the house, and part of the second floor seemed to have collapsed. "It's over," breathed Sally. "We made it." "Yep," said Lottie. "Are the keys in that bus?" They were. Sally started the bus, and both began driving back to the main road. "Well, the Professor's dream didn't happen, but those robots didn't kill us all," sighed Lottie. "Hey! This might make a good book!" "Just don't sell the movie rights," Sally replied with a wink. The Living Sally (ordo) Lottie (ordo) The Dead Professor Inzil (mod) Head full of knowledge cracked open Night 1 The Elf-warrior (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Fried like foil in a microwave Day 1 Shasta (ordo)- Made into a Shastacicle Night 2 Wilwa (ordo)- Found her big chance to get away from it all Day 2. Boro (Ranger)- Learned to stop worrying and love the brick Night 3 Greenie (ordo)- Off to have fun with the Normans Day 3 Fea (ordo)- A victim of her own fashion sense (and some murderous robots) Night 4 Eomer (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Done to a turn Day 4 skip (Seer)- "Skewered like a wild boar" Night 5 Agan (Cobbler)- Became a firefighter Day 5 Nerwen (ordo)- Flying lessons were a failure Night 6 Pitchwife (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Went out with a bang Day 6. *THE END* Village wins. Wolves lose. Cobbler loses. Thanks to everyone for playing! Hopefully you all had fun, and I did a passable job modding for the first time. Seer dreams and whatnot are coming. Talk away! __________________ Music alone proves the existence of God. Last edited by Inziladun; 09-27-2010 at 07:06 PM. Reason: added Sally's and Lottie's roles for completeness's sake

09-03-2010, 09:49 PM	#3
satansaloser2005 The Sweetest Spoiler Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: from beneath you it giggles incessantly Posts: 5,789	Meh, I couldn't just go wholesale on the last Day. Lottie, I of course never really doubted you. Oh, and Agan, you're a sultry minx and I love you. __________________ "My heart always cowers behind the defense of my wit." Friendship is two pals munching on a well-cooked face together. Fenris bookworm.

09-03-2010, 09:53 PM	#4
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	Great work, you two! __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.

09-03-2010, 10:14 PM	#8
The Elf-warrior Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Virginia. Posts: 952	My condolences to my fellow W.O.L.F.S. for our narrow but inglorious defeat. Congratulations to the village for their victory. I'd also like to congratulate Inziladun for his spectacular final narration. Also, I'd like to thank our cobbler, Aganzir, for her efforts to aid our glorious cause. If Inziladun's plan had succeeded, we would not only be deprived of Peter Jackson's films, but also Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and the Rankin/Bass productions of The Hobbit and The Return of the King. And tell me, would not the world be a less merry place if deprived of this and this? __________________ Fenris Wolf: WW LXXX.

09-03-2010, 10:37 PM	#10
The Elf-warrior Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Virginia. Posts: 952	To be honest, I liked being able to take it easy as a stiff and just watch. I made a pretty pathetic wolf while I was alive. During the hours before the deadline I'd finally compose something, then erase it. Sorry, everybody, for my low participation. __________________ Fenris Wolf: WW LXXX.

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