Wonko on 25 Sep 2002 23:10:03 -0000


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[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Guy Stuff


Quoth Glotmorf,

> {| _The Guy Saga: Initial_
> 
> I don't know where I am.  I don't even know who I am.
> 
> I woke up in a room with nothing but a machine I found on the floor next to
> me, that looks like a permanently-open laptop or a big PDA.  It seems to work
> like a notepad or a clipbeardXXXXXboard, though it doesn't seem to have any
> way to edit stuff.  I can only type it in.  I don't nkow why I have it or
> where i am or why i am here or
> 
> I don't know what I am supposed to be doing, or what I am supposed to do with
> this pad, but I'm using it at the moment to get my thoughts in order and keep
> my head together.
> 
> The room is white all over, cubical, doors on each of the four walls.  I can't
> tell where the light is coming from, but it's definitely lit.  No windows.  No
> markings or decorations.  The floor is sort of a soft linoleum.  A padded
> room?
> 
> 
> Why am I here?  What am I supposed to do?  Who's reading this stuff anyway?
> 
> I just now looked out one of the doors, and there's another room just like
> this one beyond it.  I think I might have seen a movie called "Cube" once,
> about people who were stuck in a cube of cubes for no apparent reason, and
> they had to find their way out.  Those rooms had floor and ceiling doors too.
> And lethal traps here and there.
> 
> I wonder why I'm here.  I hope it's not to die.  After all, that would mess up
> this nice white floor, wouldn't it?
> 
> PHE(*#HFIEA*)(YFQEHI{(*)H
> 
> I didn't know I was holding this thing by the keyboard end.  This pad is
> amazingly durable.  I just used it to make scratches in the floor that say
> "START" and one of the doors to say "NORTH".  It's as good a coordinate system
> as any, and if I do go in a circle I'll at least know it.
> 
> There's no food, no water, no bathroom that I've seen so far.  Guess I should
> go find them, or a way out of here.
> |}

Wait, this has absolutely nothing to do with the text of the proposal,
except distantly... Do you mean that you want us to be just randomly
sticking story segments in between chunks of our proposals?

-- 
Wonko

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