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  • Well, Illi thought, I could shelter under this heavy cape, but what would be the point of that? It’s smelly and dark under there, at least the rain is light and clean. What I need to find is a cave. I’ll create a cave to find! Wouldn’t be much fun to just create a cave, Illi reasoned, ... · ID #149 (continued)
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    Back in the depths of the water, Aglaë was thinking of a way for her to move easily on the other world.

    There was a legend of her people, a legend which was told to the children. It promised pain and an accursed half-life to those trying to disown their heritage, and live outside of the life-sustaining element of water.
    For most of the children, such an idea was incongruous at best, and none would have thought of breaching the taboo simply to try something different and potentially lethal.
    But to Aglaë, all that it meant now was that such a thing was possible.
    In that legend she had been told when she was young, there was a prince, who betrayed his people, and was condemned to an exile outside of the oceans. So that he would not die an immediate and atrocious death on the dry surface, but rather suffer even more, by not being able to come back to the depths, he was given a mixture of plants to ingest. A deadly algae which grew in the cemeteries of the Holders of Dreams, on the carcasses of the Wise Ones, mixed with an herb from the lands.

    Aglaë did not know how and where to gather the plants… She was hesitant to do such a thing, for it would surely infuriate her father… But she was willing to do it. She would have to find a naïve ally to help her in her task, because she was seeing her half-brother Pelorus becoming suspicious and she did not want to have him discover her plans before she could realise them.
    Pelorus was very close to their father, who had made him Captain of the Tritonic Guard. Though he was not having a slithery serpentine tail like her own, he was very agile and swift in the waters with his tentacles, and was very respected, as he had a reassuring presence, radiating might and power.

    #1619

    In reply to: Synchronicity

    Jib
    Participant

      Hehehe another synch :D
      I forgot to tell that yesterday morning going to do a presentation I noticed a car with a licence plate like 8283 and I just had the idea that it was 23 with two 8 like bubbles or cushions :-?

      And yesterday evening I was playing with a 3D software about body manipulations, the individuals or animals are already created and you just have to manipulate the bodies to create the attitude or movement you desire… and I had created a man fumbling back and I wanted to add a little fly… I added the fly but it was so huge that the man had his head inside the fly’s body :-O
      I’ll post the pic when I go back home for lunchtime. ;))

      I join my hands to this huge :yahoo_big_hug:

      #643

      A DARK ALEHOUSE ONE NIGHT SOMEWHERE IN LONDON DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN V

      Blimey O’Riley, you drive a hard bargain. But it looks like you and me got ourselves an arrangement.

      We split it eight ways even as agreed.

      Eight ways. They shook hands. It’s been a pleasure doing business with you Constable Marshall O’Riley.

      #1618

      In reply to: Synchronicity

      F LoveF Love
      Participant

        I would like to give us all a round of applause and appreciation for all our tremendous synching:

        :yahoo_big_hug:

        I couldn’t find applause quickly so decided hugs were nicer anyway.

        #1617

        In reply to: Synchronicity

        ÉricÉric
        Keymaster

          Quite a few syncs here too, highlighted by F & T’s conversations…

          • Eight and insects, …
            8 peoples registered, 880 comments, and 8 posts in the last 24 hours, was wondering about the 8 that I found appearing recently.

          Tracy: Funny sync Eric! Because today, my ear whistled, and I recalled my old Aunt Norah’s little saying
          when your ear whistles, think of a number, I always thought of 8…

          Speaking of ear, Francie dreamt of earwigs, while I was dreaming of a big insect dissection… And Tracy had insects in a Chinese movie she was watching too…

          • … magpies augury

          One for sorrow, two for mirth,
          Three for a wedding, four for a birth,
          Five for silver, six for gold,
          Seven for a secret not to be told.
          Eight for heaven :yahoo_angel: , nine for hell, :yahoo_devil:
          And ten for the devil’s own sel’.

          (see this link or this one for more details)

          • … and children’s stories

          While we were discussing the Finckle Four with Francie and old children books by Enid Blyton, Becky finally found her books: The Magic Faraway Tree ,… by Enid Blyton.
          I remembered I was climbing a tree in a dream tonight… But syncs don’t stop here:

          • The children names are Jo, Bessie, Fanny and Dick (originally). In modern reprints, the names of the children have been changed – from Jo, Bessie and Fanny to Joe, Beth and Frannie. From wikipedia: in the first case to make it clear that Jo is a boy, in the second because Bessie is seldom used as a nickname for Elizabeth anymore (most would go by Beth, Liz or Lizzie), and in the third because Fanny is a slang term for vulva in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Cousin Dick, who appears in “The Magic Faraway Tree”, has his name changed to “Rick” in new editions, presumably for similar reasons.

          Wow, we’re in there :face-grin:

          • There is the Angry Pixie, and an owl, who lives near the Angry Pixie’s…
          • And also, In V for Vendetta, V is shown reading the child’s book to Evey, and alludes to “The Land of Do-As-You-Please” and “The Land of Take-What-You-Want” over the course of the book… The sync is that Yurick found the graphic novel in Gustav’s home, and while reading it, found similarities with V and mummy Four , both being subjects of experiments… In the novel, there is a moving letter featured, by a certain Valerie, who is born in 1957 — click —…
          #1616

          In reply to: Synchronicity

          Jib
          Participant

            Great it works now :)) earlier today it wasn’t working, error 500!!!
            and it’s 14:53 that’s again a demonstration of my great power ;))

            well a few synchs… since a few days, we are having with Eric synchs with the name Fletcher, related to Fletcher, the chief of the mutineer in the bounty…
            there is also Jessica Fletcher in a TV series, who’s a novel writer… like crime books and so on… I don’t remember the name of the series in English but it’s “Arabesque” in French. (Murder, She Wrote In English)

            well yesterday I was looking for something… I don’t remember what it was and only the synch :))
            I found that a new movie called Fletch would be created, and apparently Fletch is a series of books, about a man called Fletch , well actually Irwin Maurice Fletcher… who’s a journalist.
            What I found funny again was that the writer created a spin off of the series of books after the introduction of a character named Flynn :))

            In the first movie the actor George Wendt plays Fat Sam ;))

            Well that’s all about Fletcher.

            Going to work this morning, as we moved to a new building I took another way… and crossed a Celine Robert Street :)) and a Massue Street (massue is a club).

            I found that funny :p

            #641

            AN EXCHANGE WHICH TAKES PLACE ON THE STREETS OF LONDON DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA:

            ‘Ere!, I saw you take that.

            Let go of me, I didn’t do nothing.

            I aint blind and I aint stupid, lad. I saw you put your thieving hand in this ladies handbag. Now what you got?

            Nothing. Just this coin. It’s for me mam, she’s at home poorly, dying, and we aint got no food. ‘Ere, take it. it won’t happen again.

            You’re right it won’t happen again because you’ll be going to the gallows I’ll be bound. I know your face. You’re one of them Magpies. I’ve ‘ad my eye on you for some time. You’re clever at covering tracks I’ll grant you that, but not clever enough it seems.

            Look Mr Constable, I don’t know nothing about no magpies, they thieving birds aint they? It was for me poor old mam, I swear to God, if I be lying may ‘e strike me down dead.

            No more blasphemy from you. I expect the good Lord’s got better things to do than spend his time striking down lying thieves. Thing is you’ve been been caught thieving from this lady and it’s not looking too good for you right now.

            And I will thank you Ma’am for your courageous co-operation. said Constable Marshall O’Riley, turning galantly to the finely dressed woman, clutching her handbag tightly to her person. You have been victim of a heinous crime, and I would wish to trouble your gentle self no more with this matter. But I will thank you for your details and be assured I shall call upon you should we need you to give further evidence.

            No sooner had the lady gone than Constable O’Riley turned to the young thief.

            Now you listen to me carefully, young lad. I have an idea that, if you play your hand right, might save you from hanging.

            I’m listening.

            You and me is not two figures to be seen together, except for somewhere private. I want you to talk to the one what leads your little gang. I have an idea that could be of mutual benefit. I will let you go now, and you be here tomorrow same time, and I will tell you where the meeting will be held. I’ve ‘ad my eyes on your gang for quite some time, all I needed to convict you was to catch you red ‘anded, and I got that now. So If you ain’t here, I know where to find you lot, and I swear I’ll drag you in front of the magistrate. Do as I say though and we could all be laughing.

            #640

            Rafaela stopped her meticulous grazing and smiled, as far as a goat can smile, at the newcomer.
            We were waiting for you… and your other half so to speak.

            Kay looked at the goat suspiciously. He had never seen a goat speaking. And it was not an spirit animal. He automatically began growling.
            Grrrrowl… who are you?
            He looked successively at the lynx, the owl and the rabbit.
            Who are you 4?

            — Oh a dog!!

            Anita got on her feet quickly and began running toward him. That was when a winded Akita choose to appear in the clearing.

            — Kay, why the hell did you run after that… What is a little girl doing in the middle of this jungle? he muttered, trying to catch his breathe.

            And he can’t see you guys, apparently thought the spirit dog.

            #1615

            In reply to: Synchronicity

            F LoveF Love
            Participant

              I just read T’s comment in the story: one for sorrow, two for joy (Malvina's Dragon Rookery # 509). As I was out driving along the road a little bit earlier, I noticed the number plates of a couple of cars coming towards me, 157 and then 257. I particularly noticed the “1” and “2” in sequence, and mentally laughed wondering if Tracy was playing a game and what we were counting too. Shortly after that 557 passed me.

              :fleuron:

              These comments really are very funny, the way they are lining up. I was going to write another comment in the story just now, but decided it was too hot, must be the hottest day ever I thought, and then laughed at myself because it is not really that hot ( hottest day this summer though I bet ). Next thing I looked at the daily quote and it is the one where Tina says:

              “Icy” is an exaggeration of course, said Tina, “it just meant I had to put a jacket on again today”. :yahoo_oh_go_on:

              #1614

              In reply to: Synchronicity

              F LoveF Love
              Participant

                haha yes funny name! :yahoo_laughing:

                Today i read in the paper of two cleaning women stuck in a lift in Illinois. They overheard a man talking on a cellphone and made a racket so that he heard them.

                #639
                TracyTracy
                Participant

                  One for sorrow, two for joy, when the moon shines bright or not at all…..what WAS that book, Becky wondered. Years and years ago in an adventure book, a children’s book; was it the famous five? The intrepid six? A clue, a magpie silhouette on a loose brick….the treasure hidden behind the brick…..the adventurous seven? The jingle, the magpie jingle….. in a children’s adventure book…..

                  Becky, are you alright? asked Sean. You’ve been sitting there staring into space for hours.

                  Twenty minutes later Becky replied, Huh? Haha, I seem to be in slow motion today, it’s really rather pleasant.

                  Three and a half hours later, Becky smiled drowsily and said, It wasn’t the famous five, it was the wandering one……the wandering one, after all….

                  #638

                  He did recall his name in a dream. Jarvis.
                  A strange dream actually.
                  There was that woman… whose name he couldn’t recall though.
                  Her face was beautiful but he hadn’t felt any sexual attraction toward her… it was different, like he knew her.
                  Well, with his memory loss, he possibly knew her, someone close assuredly.
                  She was asking questions about this land he had beached on… and in the dream it appeared he knew many details, again that he couldn’t recall now he was awake.
                  It was more like a legend, not facts.
                  But now it was quite real to him.
                  It’s been 2 days since he opened his eyes on this purple beach, and he’s been busy collecting driftwood to make a fire. He didn’t dare venture into the forest, and if the legends about the inhabitants of Kandulim were true, he wasn’t welcome here.

                  Wow he was feeling dizzy. His head was pounding repeatedly like one of the vangor drums. He dropped the twigs he had collected on the sand and took his head in his hands. The pounding was so loud that he began crying.

                  :yahoo_at_wits_end:

                  A flash, a soft feminine face surrounded by a fiery red hair and blue liquid eyes. She was smiling at him.
                  The pounding ceased at once, and he just had the time to see a movement in the forest. All was still now. His mind would suggest it was a hallucination fostered by that head ache… if his thoughts weren’t so scattered.

                  Who was in that vision? Who was in the forest?
                  Was it the woman in his dream?

                  He began to recall the strange vision he had before awakening on this beach.

                  #637
                  F LoveF Love
                  Participant

                    Is there anything I can do? Tina had phoned to see how Becky was, and Sean had answered the phone.

                    Hang on a moment, Tina ….. What’s that Beckipooh? … She says can you tell Felicity she has changed her mind about tribal, hmmm, whatever that means. His voice lowered, she is saying some very strange things Tina, ….. Nothing Becks, I am not whispering …. and can you send some blue diamond healing energy… this conversation is getting stranger and stranger!

                    Okay will do, give her my love.

                    Wait a moment Tina …. what is it darling, what are you saying about a gang of magpies? ….

                    #1872
                    TracyTracy
                    Participant

                      Funny how the robber gang were all regrouping and conspiring to push the poor policeman onto the glass while my back was turned huh; all having so much fun with this focus while I lay punctured and deflated and alone BLIMEY O’RILEY where did that come from this is a very weird focus hunting exploration I must say and not one of my favourites and how do we make this one stop and can I have my lungs and ribs back in one piece now PLEASE

                      :yahoo_sad: :yahoo_broken_heart: :yahoo_crying:

                      #635
                      F LoveF Love
                      Participant

                        Elizabeth Tattler gasped and clutched the right side of her chest. For a moment she wondered if the sharp pain she felt was a heart attack, and was greatly relieved when she realised it was located on the other side of her chest. After some investigation of her cluttered desk, she realised she must have fallen asleep on the pyramid shaped pencil sharpener her friend Yannie P had given her for her last birthday. It was made of fake blue diamond and was really rather beautiful; she could see thousands of suspended dust particles in it’s reflected light. But it was damn sharp! A thought flashed through her head, was the gift really a cunning plot to murder her? She shook her head at her own absurdity, anyway, fortunately the five layers of Angora-Mongoat wool jerseys she was wearing had protected her from more serious injury.

                        She could not help but notice how the consistently the quote of the day seemed so in tune with her moods. It was almost uncanny:

                        Bugger your feelings~ Tobipooh

                        Damn right! If she listened to her feelings she would go home and sleep for a week. No time for that, no time for a nana nap even! She had a novel to write.

                        #634

                        Veranassessee cursed under her breath. Her mind was working swiftly, weighing up her next actions. The Doctor was becoming a liability to the success of the project.

                        iko va baba bula makuba she muttered.

                        She made her decision.

                        :fleuron:

                        Agent V, he said. I have been expecting your call.

                        Operation Spider is in danger. I need instructions.

                        We can’t abort at this stage, it has gone too far. He thought for a moment. Mobilise plan B.

                        One more thing you need to know, I have seen evidence of increased Magpie activity in the locality.

                        He swore softly. Are you sure?

                        Pretty sure, they are keeping undercover, shapeshifting, but I sense their presence.

                        Bugger those thieves. I feared they would sniff this out …. keep me posted Agent V

                        Will do.

                        And Agent V …. good work.

                        Veranassessee felt a moment’s pleasure at his unaccustomed praise, quickly fading at the tremendous racket coming from the cupboard behind her.

                        :fleuron2:

                        This aint bloody right Glor.

                        We’ve been here for bloody hours, my lumbago’s playing up something dreadful

                        ‘Ark Glor! I thought I ‘eard a noise

                        oh let’s shout out, on the count of three

                        #633
                        ÉricÉric
                        Keymaster

                          On Channel TV-5, Tobi the ventriloquist’s show was on.

                          The usual gang was gathered in Al and Tina’s flat, to enjoy the popular show. Becky, who was a huge aficionado of the show had made it to the flat before everyone, despite her suffering from apparently unexplainable pains in the chest.
                          When the show started, Becky felt a little better though she couldn’t really breathe easily. The Yeath Lady, in her ash-blue mummy outfit was making her giggle. It wasn’t very good for her floating ribs, but she couldn’t help, and decided to giggle softly.

                          Al was trying his best to munch some pop-corn but one of his tooth was still moving in his mouth, and it wasn’t time to get some pop-corn implanted into his gums…

                          #1613

                          In reply to: Synchronicity

                          Jib
                          Participant

                            carved faces in stone synch :D the borgulm tree I put in my last comment in the story Malvina’s Dragon Rookery # 502 is almost the same as the name of the man who carved the 4 US presidents’ heads in Mount Rushmore !!!
                            Gutzon Borglum
                            8-} weird name though :))

                            #1612

                            In reply to: Synchronicity

                            TracyTracy
                            Participant

                              She made her way downstairs to the kitchen, and the headlines in the Reality Times newspaper on the table caught her eye:

                              ‘Mysterious Carved Rock Faces Appear in Yorkshire Villages.’

                              SYNC! Todays random quote, and I just this minute mentioned to Jan how things keep appearing IN the book before we hear about them OUTSIDE of the book, and I mentioned the Yorkshire stonecarver. We had been discussing previously the ELIZABETH sync. Some of Franci’s descriptions of Elizabeth fit exactly Jan’s impressions of Elizabeth in the movie she just watched.

                              The botanist, the woman in mans clothes, and the island all cropped up OUTSIDE the book yesterday……

                              #1611

                              In reply to: Synchronicity

                              F LoveF Love
                              Participant

                                yes! :yahoo_loser: it’s a :heart: synch

                                :yahoo_big_hug:

                                also it is a 5 synch.

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                              • Well, Illi thought, I could shelter under this heavy cape, but what would be the point of that? It’s smelly and dark under there, at least the rain is light and clean. What I need to find is a cave. I’ll create a cave to find! Wouldn’t be much fun to just create a cave, Illi reasoned, ... · ID #149 (continued)
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