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    TracyTracy
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      #5992
      TracyTracy
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        #5989

        In reply to: Story Bored

        Jib
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          BOARD 5

          Board 5, Story 1

          Sadie: Linda Paul we have a loo-tle problem, I found Sanso in the time sewers with a pink flamingo. I fear Lazuli Galore’s on the loose.

          Becky: Tonight our special guest in his shiny armor, the great philoosopher Lemone, will tell us more about the red doonut and its effect on the brain chemystery.

          Detective Walter Melon: Don’t look back. I think there’s a bear following us. That certainly explains why the easter bunnies won’t talk to us about what happened at Liz’s manor.

          #5987

          In reply to: Story Bored

          Jib
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            Board 4, Story 3

            Linda Paul: Why are you so shy Belen? Come to the party with Saint Germain.

            Aunt Pearlita de la Cabeza: Peanelope, stop cleaning and come to the party with Pee Stoll and me. Leave Gnarfle and its friends to the kids.

            Kale: Lordy! That blue Ender took Mother Shirley’s brain after the autopsy and let the blue bees escape!

            #5985
            TracyTracy
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              Lucinda had all but forgotten about the mysterious dolls, what with the global events dominating everyone’s thoughts. It was hard to focus on anything else, and even Helper Effy wasn’t pushing her too much to keep up with her writing.

              When her friend Dillie sent her the first photograph of a doll hanging on a tree in the Michigan forest, she’d found it amusing, of course, but had thought no more about it. It was always fun to find unexpected things in random places, but the significance of it being a doll had escaped her notice.

              When Dillie sent a photo of another doll hanging on a tree by a woodland trail a few days later, the penny dropped. Dolls! What were they doing in Michigan? Were there more dolls in those woods?

              Dillie had been tempted to take the dolls home with her, but hesitated. There was something strange about them and she intuitively felt she should leave them where they were.

              Lucinda wondered what to do. Should she go to Michigan? Ask her friend to go back and fetch the dolls and send them to her?  Wait and see if Dillie found any more?

              The dolls looked strangely pristine, as if they’d only recently been hung there. Who had done that, and why?

              #5984
              TracyTracy
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                #5983
                TracyTracy
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                  #5980

                  In reply to: Snooteries

                  The SnootThe Snoot
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                    Fat Blue Whale sends her greetings
                    Of bubbles tickling the dream
                    For Snoot to dive in the stream
                    Flowing to City Plaza
                    Where hairy feet jumped on tiles.

                    All of them had long feathers,
                    And to solve your good riddle
                    You must spiral on the One,
                    To accept the world’s wonders,
                    Where can hatch your three graces.

                    Therein lies all your answers.

                    #5977

                    In reply to: Story Bored

                    ÉricÉric
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                      BOARD 4

                      Board 4, Story 1

                      The Whale is looking for Godfrey.
                      Liz: “Roberto, Finnley! What have you done with Godfrey?”
                      Becky: “Aaaah! Don’t tell me it’s Godfrey!”

                      #5976

                      In reply to: Story Bored

                      TracyTracy
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                        Board 1, Story 2

                        Sanso, emerging from the cave, wonders if he’s in the right place; but Zhaana seems happy so he decides to wait and play it by ear.

                        Clove and Pan’s father await the return of their son from a waterlark outing. They may have to send the waterdog to find him.

                        It was a lonely job being a time travelling absinthe salesman in the Elsespace Arrangement

                        #5975

                        In reply to: Story Bored

                        TracyTracy
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                          Board 2, Story 2

                          Lucinda,  worried about what Maeve would think when she found that the magic parrot had turned Fabio into a unicorn, prayed to the blue diamond. The doll behind her kept interrupting.

                          Becky was having a strong word with the dragon about turning up in green wearing a waistcoat when she’d specifically ordered a sand dragon, and failed to notice the fox.

                          Roberto decided it was time to talk to Godfrey about his piglets, after finding one of them hobnobbing with a suspicious looking character from another story.

                          #5971

                          In reply to: Story Bored

                          Jib
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                            BOARD 3

                            BOARD 3 Story 1:
                            Sha, Glo, Mav after a week of beauty treatment while Sophie is having a hard time.
                            Escape game turned wrong down in the Wrick’s manor crypt.
                            Rukshan marrying Margoritt and Mr Minn with a few guests in the enchanted forest.

                            #5970

                            In reply to: Story Bored

                            ÉricÉric
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                              BOARD 2

                              [BOARD2] Story 1:
                              Rene & Huhu have found the secret cave and are sweet-talking the Guardian to obtain the blue diamond of Flove.
                              Eleri and Fox’s hunt for chicken is taking an unexpected turn.
                              Leormn’s latest prank didn’t leave Arona very happy about his magical help to find truffles.

                              #5969

                              In reply to: Story Bored

                              ÉricÉric
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                                BOARD 1

                                [BOARD 1] Story 1
                                Fox & Glynis are visiting the City during the beaver fever.
                                Meanwhile, Godfrey and Finnley talk about Liz’s new adopted dog.
                                At last, Bert isn’t sure his new sandwichman job in the Dreamtime is good for him.

                                #5949

                                Miss Bossy looked gloomily at the figures.

                                Newsreel sparklines

                                “Our paper was already hanging by a thread, but if we want to survive we’ll have to shift completely to digital.”

                                “That, or we can go into selling recycled bog rolls…” Hilda started to laugh heartily on her Xoom screen.

                                She was soon followed by Connie. “Can’t let good paper go to waste, can we?”

                                “How’s your coverage of confinement in Wales, Continuity?” Miss Bossy asked.

                                “Gorgeously! We were expecting zombies, but we got an invasion of daring goats. Been trying to snatch pics all morning.”

                                A repressed giggle started to be heard.

                                Miss Bossy rolled her eyes. “Mute if you don’t speak, guys.”

                                Hilda ventured “Maybe it’s the whale?”

                                The giggles continued to add to one another.

                                Ricardo moved his webcam to remove the glare from the ceiling light causing a sudden roll of laughter from Connie who remembered a video with a lady streaming unwittingly from her loo break during a very formal videoconference with shocked pause on all her colleagues’ faces before she realised to shut down the cam.

                                It was only at the mention of carrots that Miss Bossy started to lose it too, confirming the start of a laughter epidemic.

                                #5948

                                In reply to: Scrying the Word Cloud

                                ÉricÉric
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                                  Walk move drama married experiment
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                                  Rose legs aren luckily doctor
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                                  Throwing cool arona giant secretive
                                  Considering cave mangled pearl offer
                                  Mystery powder

                                  #5819

                                  Hello Whale,

                                  Coming from the computer world that makes it a pun of sort. I’m overloaded with whales nowadays. They’re everywhere. Are you involved? Or were they around all along? I must say I never paid too much attention to whales before. Now it’s a sticker on the asphalt when I get out of the metro to my daily rendez-vous with myself at the café. Or an advertisement of a winking whale on a bus side for a whale cruise near Canada. Or a friend this morning who called me to tell his dream: A Ballistic Whale shut through huge distance in space, it was angry and ever arriving.

                                  Let me think that something big is coming.

                                  I ordered a macchiato and the waiter had made a funny whale design with the foamed cream. When I asked he said he didn’t know why because he had never made it before. I could see it. And it looked angrier as the foam melted. I decided not to pay too much attention to the whale, focusing my attention instead on finding a friend in the passing crowd. Lots of students that day. A group of girl came and stopped right in front of me, chatting loudly. I started to feel irritated and looked at them angrily. One of them saw my face and turned to tell something to her friends. I saw the blue whale keyring hanging from her backpack zipper. They all looked at me and laughed.

                                  I think I’m whale cursed.

                                  #5808

                                  Truth be told, April was missing the US. She missed all their little coterie of maids living in the shadows of the powerful. Missed the drama most of all.

                                  She’d been secretly texting Norma and May, while June was lazily sipping mojitos with Jacqui.
                                  Norma was fine, but May and the other alien staff had suddenly disappeared when the Secret Services had started to investigate more deeply into the staff’s backgrounds after all the kidnapping fiasco. At least, August had been covering for Norma, such kind soul he was. Besides, the President’s wife could no longer live without her butter chicken. But May and the others couldn’t face the music apparently. Funnily, they couldn’t find “real” American maids nowadays suited to replace them. Good luck with that!

                                  April couldn’t tell June, obviously, since her friend harboured such hatred for the system that had them put in jail. As for herself, she couldn’t argue with the fact they’d deserved it. Nothing a good lawyer couldn’t fix though. That’s why she loved the idea of America. Guilty as charged, indeed. Those charges now vanished.

                                  She’d thought first that it would fuel her inspiration nicely, but it was the opposite. The sudden extra time had distracted her entirely, and her inspiration seemed inaccessible.

                                  She was starting to make up her mind. She would go back, to her family in Arkansas. That could only be temporary of course, as her mother, bless her soul, would start to have her meet all the gents in the neighbourhood in the hopes to finally get her only daughter married. Talk about drama. If that doesn’t kick-start her inspiration engine, nothing would.

                                  Problem was, with the virus around spreading mass panic, there seemed to be no sure way to fly back. She would have to devise some circuitous plan.

                                  #5747
                                  TracyTracy
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                                    “Where the devil is Finnley, have you seen the state of my desk?”

                                    #5662

                                    Jerk had been tracking all of it. He’d done a nice map of all the location the both of  them had travelled, with little animated pins for the dolls they’d collected.

                                    It was a bit difficult to get them all to focus, and by them he didn’t mean the pins.

                                    After Shawn-Paul and Maeve had come back home, their little lives at the building had resumed with some slight changes. For one, he’d finally realized through some fine deductive work worthy of Sherlock that Maeve was the one behind the dolls postings on his website. He was finally sure after a firewall update got her locked out of the website and she requested to get back in. Anyways, that made things easier, although they still mostly exchanged and discussed though the website despite them being front door neighbours on the same floor. But the arrangement was convenient, especially since Shawn-Paul had kind of unofficially moved in with her and Fabio.

                                    He’d invited them in Lucinda’s apartment to do a little old fashioned slide show  —Lucinda’s apartment was bigger he’d argued; and all the funny collection of paraphernalia she’d gathered on the walls and cabinets tops was always great to set the mood or do an improvised theme party. For sure, it didn’t have anything to do with the fact he wouldn’t need to clean up and push all the mess in the corners of his own apartment.

                                    Lucinda was all excited. And not just by her new boyfriend Jasper. She wanted to make a book about their expedition, and everybody had immediately rolled their eyes. Books in this century, she must be the last one dinosaur raving about books.

                                    The slide show started by the end. Where the dolls all ended up finally. La Isla de las Muñecas in Mexico: the Island of Dolls.

                                    That’s when they were all appreciating the fitting finish line that the door bell rang.

                                    “Uncle Fergus?!” Maeve was incredulous; it was months they weren’t in contact.

                                    “I’m here for Jasper.” he said ominously.

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