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[spideyfanone]

So since everyone got all bent outta shape about me wanting to turn high tech, slightly terroristy bombs on those stupid statues, I decided to keep busy for a little while. So this David Proud guy who made the statues (if he exists, and isn't a tentacled elder god or super-evil AI or something, because I'm really not ruling anything out right now and he's not actually around, just some blurby info from the gallery). I did some reading about the mine where he's supposed to be getting the statue-making stuff.

For one thing, there's really nothing in the geology around here that would make statue-quality stone come out of a coal mine. I made a diorama about it in sixth grade, so I just had to confirm that.

The mine was owned by the Tuning Towers family. I kinda figured that'd have something to do with Thundercorp, but not that I could find by using the cool superspy methods of Google and the library. It's in the park system now. I dunno, maybe bats live in it or something. And it's supposed to be haunted. Spooky stuff in forests usually is, but I don't know if that might be true, considering the weirdness. Plus the Native American tribe that lived there really didn't want to share and make it into a coal mine, and they didn't exactly give up because some old coal baron dudes asked nicely. So that's creepy.

Private to Bakura

For being transformed into a crocodile:
I am a crocodile immersed in dread. I am a crocodile who takes by robbery. I am the great and mighty fish-like being who is in the Bitter Lakes. I am the Lord of those who bow down in Letopolis.
Found it! ...I wanna be a crocodile.

Comments

[spideyfanone]

I have enough trouble not crumbling into a ball of social anxiety and random babbling when I go to school. But I'll keep the list in mind.

[shiromadoushi]

Really? You seemed fine at club.

[spideyfanone]

It's kind of a stress reliever when it's probably okay if I run out of stuff to say and start talking about Power Rangers.

[shiromadoushi]

Did you know that the version in Japan that they get their footage from does musical numbers?

[[Allow him to reinforce that the numbers club is secretly the club of the mega nerds and nerds in training. You know, if the big ole pile of Magic the Gathering cards that Bakura handed out didn't already do that]]

[spideyfanone]

[Kurt, at least, is perfectly willing to cooperate.]

No, I did not.

[shiromadoushi]

I'll go find you a clip, it's pretty great. Hang on.

[[and about 3 minutes later, have a link

Conversation derailed? Just a bit!]]

[spideyfanone]

So I don't know why that would happen, but the world seems better for it.

[shiromadoushi]

Japanese TV is pretty weird compared to TV here. Whenever we'd go visit family over there I watched so much of it. It's pretty epic.

[spideyfanone]

I only got to watch TV at my grandma's until I was around eight. My parents used to be a lot stricter. I guess I wore them down. But sometimes I'm not super sure what the baseline is.

[shiromadoushi]

Dude, seriously? No wonder you've got problems... that's just weird!

[spideyfanone]

I have weird parents.

[shiromadoushi]

Seriously! Gotta make up for lost time now that you can rot your brain on prime time!


Actually screw that, prime time has nothing but junk. Cartoon network and Sci Fi are where it's at.

[spideyfanone]

Isn't sci-fi mostly wrestling and bad reality shows now? I remember it being a little bit better when I was a kid.

[shiromadoushi]

Low budget amazingly bad made for TV movies!

But yeah, they used to show some better stuff, but their cheese is pretty great.

[spideyfanone]

Oh, yeah, they do have Sharktopus.

[shiromadoushi]

Exactly. Where else are you going to find shit like that?

[spideyfanone]

...The ocean?

[shiromadoushi]

Sadly, all the real world sharktopus were hunted to extinction back in the days when pirates roamed the seven seas in ships made solely of literary tropes.

[spideyfanone]

Then I'll clone one.

[shiromadoushi]

That would be awesome if you did. We could set up an exhibit for it and keep the cameras rolling for when it claimed it's bloody revenge~

[spideyfanone]

Who is it getting revenge on? For what? Cloned monster life seems like it'd be pretty sweet.

[shiromadoushi]

It's a hideous creature born of science, isn't that reason enough?

[spideyfanone]

I would love to be a hideous creature born of science! I'd send my creators lots of chocolate on mother's/father's day.

[shiromadoushi]

Didn't you say your parents worked in a lab? You could be one and not know it!

[spideyfanone]

They work in different labs, and one is an engineer and one is a physics professor. So I'd really me more likely to be a robot than a horrible clone beast.