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

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/25/02 at 7:09 PM Wonko wrote:

>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?

If you like, yes.  Is it that different from a proposal that changes multiple rules?  And you can stick an excerpt in a proposal all by itself too.  What you're proposing in that sense is the excerpt.

						Glotmorf


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