I had a good time and look forward to another mine darts contest, and I really want to participate in a Capture the Samoflange contest.

I also enjoyed the after-hours Halloween ghost stories in the Makchuga. Joyce, you need to finish your story.

BAH! I had passed out by that time! Were they SCARY?

"Yes, there were two problem people who ruined a WHOLE buncha stuff that night (and one who was annoying during the Deneb run), who apparently existed to make events last longer and to ruin the fun for others. I'll be hunting those people during the coming week."

Well, I'm guessing that one of the problem people was a UIT pilot *coughb8beltcough*, and the other was the one that was trying to kill him. However, I can't tell whether Leber is referring to me in that Deneb Run comment, or the two people who tried to take me up on my offer?

/me writes memo to steal a Trade 2 license and to hire an Itani monk with an energy focus

""Charge cannons are goofy. Many of us could NOT hit the mines at 590m, since the dead-still range of the charged cannon is around 565m. You had to be moving to give it a chance to hit the target, but since this was darts, you couldn't move past the line...

See? SEE?

/me does his "Haha Miharu I told You So" jig

I demand a rematch, Ms. "Joyce and I Hit Them at 610 Meters All the Time"

fooz, Martin, Screwball, who? me?, you guys game?"

That was a JOKE people, albeit one in bad taste. What can I say, it was 10PM and I'd gotten 4 hours of sleep the night before.

Here's the story I told. I made it up on the fly and it was late, so excuse the typos...

[Sun Oct 30 01:46:54 2005] ffff00<Screwball> Once upon a time, there was a trader that loved money so much, he would carry any cargo...
[Sun Oct 30 01:47:33 2005] ffff00<Screwball> one day, he got a call to pick up a mysterious container, no questions asked, and delivery it to a secret research facility
[Sun Oct 30 01:48:00 2005] ffff00<Screwball> the pay was good, so he accepted the job
[Sun Oct 30 01:48:49 2005] ffff00<Screwball> Yeah, the cargo had to go from Pelatus Bunker to Helios
[Sun Oct 30 01:49:26 2005] ffff00<Screwball> as he was flying to helios, he could swear he heard some sort of banging noise coming from his cargo hold
[Sun Oct 30 01:49:48 2005] ffff00<Screwball> so he jumped into an empty sector and decided to take a look...
[Sun Oct 30 01:50:21 2005] ffff00<Screwball> He open the inner door to the cargo hold and turned on the lights
[Sun Oct 30 01:50:49 2005] ffff00<Screwball> He could hear the banging noise clearly now. Something inside the cargo container was banging on the walls
[Sun Oct 30 01:51:15 2005] ffff00<Screwball> Curious, he walked around the container until he found what looked like a door
[Sun Oct 30 01:51:40 2005] ffff00<Screwball> there was a button near it, so he pressed the button. soon, the door opened...
[Sun Oct 30 01:52:01 2005] ffff00<Screwball> he was greated with an awful smell.
[Sun Oct 30 01:52:25 2005] ffff00<Screwball> it smelled like a bathroom that was plugged up, combined with a locker room fully of sweaty athletes
[Sun Oct 30 01:53:14 2005] ffff00<Screwball> there was an inner door with a small window in it, about 2 feet inside the container
[Sun Oct 30 01:53:27 2005] ffff00<Screwball> he stepped forward and looked through the window...
[Sun Oct 30 01:53:47 2005] ffff00<Screwball> what he saw, made his face turn pale...
[Sun Oct 30 01:54:12 2005] ffff00<Screwball> inside the container, there were people. and they were dressed in rags
[Sun Oct 30 01:54:44 2005] ffff00<Screwball> When they saw him at the window, they started mouthing something and pointing at him
[Sun Oct 30 01:54:53 2005] ffff00<Screwball> But he couldn't hear them through the inner door
[Sun Oct 30 01:55:34 2005] ffff00<Screwball> There was a button on the inner door, and he pressed it
[Sun Oct 30 01:55:53 2005] ffff00<Screwball> Soon, the inner door opened, and he could hear what the people were saying
[Sun Oct 30 01:55:59 2005] ffff00<Screwball> "DON"T OPEN THE DOOR!"
[Sun Oct 30 01:56:10 2005] ffff00<Screwball> It was too late... the outer door closed
[Sun Oct 30 01:56:23 2005] ffff00<Screwball> There was no button on the inside
[Sun Oct 30 01:56:43 2005] ffff00<Screwball> One of the people in rags spoke...
[Sun Oct 30 01:56:53 2005] ffff00<Screwball> Bill, not you too.
[Sun Oct 30 01:57:14 2005] ffff00<Screwball> The trader turned around and looked at the man who had spoken his name
[Sun Oct 30 01:57:34 2005] ffff00<Screwball> It was another trader. One that he had done business with in the past
[Sun Oct 30 01:58:43 2005] ffff00<Screwball> A little while later, the container was jolted several times, and suddenly the familiar vibration of the ship stopped
[Sun Oct 30 01:59:01 2005] ffff00<Screwball> He felt the walls of the container and they were cold
[Sun Oct 30 01:59:20 2005] ffff00<Screwball> The container was floating now, tumbling in space
[Sun Oct 30 01:59:27 2005] ffff00<Screwball> His ship had been destroyed
[Sun Oct 30 01:59:52 2005] ffff00<Screwball> A few minutes later, he felt another jolt
[Sun Oct 30 01:00:10 2005] ffff00<Screwball> And soon, the container was resting in the cargo hold of an unknown ship
[Sun Oct 30 01:00:17 2005] ffff00<Screwball> He started banging on the door...
[Sun Oct 30 01:00:21 2005] ffff00<Screwball> the end

Yeah, if you people had'nt been running around the bar like monkeys on LSD, we might have gotten to play riddles, jokes, or scary story.

As it stands we only had Screwball's story, and half of one from Joyce, who was literally falling off her chair by the time she left for bed.

Speaking of monkeys on LSD, someone was planning on doing a drug test on moldyman. Any word on whether it came back positive? =D

L.E.M. III also told a story. He picked up on mine where it left off.

Very good story, Joyce. I'll have to remember that one.

I rather thought that Mecha and Pilot 13 needed testing for crack. The way those two started acting at the end of the after party. Voodoo pizza? Maybe not such a good idea with those two.

I'd like to share my old pic of Jose Cuervo that I keep on my ship's dashboard for inspiration...

His legend has only grown over the past millennia...

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Happy Halloween! Scary, eh?