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  • #2226

    Aspidistra was packing her suitcase. Shopping for parasites wasn’t as straightforward as she had imagined it would be. The particular parasites that she required were anti nut phobia parasites, and could only be found in the eighth world. The third world had eventually succumbed to nut phobia, swiftly followed by several more worlds. Aspidistra had to hurry to the eighth world, as news had just filtered through the networks of a new case of nutterophobia in Shift Creek, in the seventh world.

    #2224
    TracyTracy
    Participant

      Greve Bord was up Shift Creek without a paddle. Shift Creek was in Loo Mash, and Greve wanted to get to Well Flyers before sundown, but he was going upstream and everyone knew that Well Flyers was downstream.

      #2223
      ÉricÉric
      Keymaster

        “One would find it strange how people cling to their discomfort, going in as much length as by saying it’s good to suffer uninteresting bitching because it’s a sort of untold proof there is shift happening…”

        Larisa Werth was reading the apocryphal last book from Ewko Lemin: Whizzing Away in a Blue Flash that the old mad author was said to have ripped to shreds to prevent unauthorized disseminating of his work, but that his patient and devoted wife had glued together and sold by millions of copies after his untimely death.
        The reading was captivating, and Larisa was always finding gems of truth in there.

        #2175

        In reply to: Closing up

        ÉricÉric
        Keymaster

          A little precision about the “word cloud” and the “random quote”.

          The word cloud takes everything (all discussions, even those extraneous to the stories) into account, up to 300 something comments from the now moment. So the story thread shift didn’t affect it.

          The random quote was initially taken from the Circle of Eights’ thread only. I slightly changed the program recently so that it’ll pick up randomly from either this thread or the new one.

          #2196

          I think Aspooh is too busy mourning her cat which she had embalmed and mummified to pay any attention to the piglet (it be).

          “Did you know that ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows in sign of mourn when the family cat died?”

          What do you think of “Cellar door” as a name? Some eminent linguist has proposed it was the most beautiful association of nouns in the whole English language…

          Now, Lavender was puzzled; why in the name of all the angels’ choir, Harvey was speaking of nun associations? Soon he’ll be talking of peanuts at that rate…

          This whole Shifting business was definitely taking its toll on uncanny understandings…

          #2190
          ÉricÉric
          Keymaster

            Col had been in the business of intergalactic sleuthing and profiling for many years now and his tall broad stature and kind, poised black face was well known all around. They used to call him “the Zebra”, not so much because he made black and white statements —he was very nuanced— but because of his unusualness and knack for blending himself in questions.
            As a matter of fact, he’s made himself quite a reputation of a highly skilled professional, with no one up to par for finding clues and solving mysteries.

            Col Umbro’s motto was “all you have to do is to ask the right questions, in the right order.”
            Of course, he wouldn’t tell which way was the “right” one and which was not. But one thing was sure enough, most people completely overlooked the last part of the sentence.

            And that was what he intended to teach to his next assignment. A distant focus of his essence in mid-shift. For the moment, dream projections were the easiest and safest way to catch their attention, because they were not accustomed to a shifted state enough to pay attention to more physical projections.

            It was hilarious to see that most of the enthusiastic ones were waiting for unexpected events to come and rapture them in awe. Sillies… For one, “unexpected” shouldn’t be so… expected.
            Besides, most of the time, (most of the now) people were simply blind to the facts not in alignment with their allowance for disbelief. A pink elephant, say… They had grown so blasé that should they even see it standing in from of them, that they would probably then dismiss its appearance as another miracle of genetics (or debasement thereof)…
            So, reaching them would actually require quite a tactful and sly approach. Qualities he possessed enough.

            “Who’s this new person appearing disguised in a pseudonym?” His assignment was wondering.

            They had forgotten rule number one. Nothing is hidden from you. Granted, a pseudonym is a mask, but the choice of the mask is revealing enough of a clue.
            Then, you had to ask the questions in the right order. “Who is it?” should be the last of them all. Same with all the “how’s”. “What and why” where more important questions to consider.
            Once you got the “what”, the who is so self-evident, that it would not even retain the slightest of interests…

            He had found a nice slot, just after an entertaining equilibristics dream show. Making a dream for his assignment would be fun. And probably even more fun as she was the most impossible subject who wouldn’t remember dreams at all! He would have to use a proxy dreamer. Someone close enough to her. He knew exactly who to choose…

            #2188
            ÉricÉric
            Keymaster

              The transitory times were hectic, to say the least, though it did not always appear as such for everyone involved.

              For focuses, still living at the helm of the Shipft, riding the turbulent waves of change, it was a very delicate period.
              The last wave had propelled them very far in a short time, and they had rejoiced that their promised new land was in sight. Finally.

              But little did they know that the land in question was only still a reflection of the old. They had created it to let themselves rest, and spew out their stress, their anger and frustration, while behind the curtains the activity was intense with the careful and barely noticed moving of props.

              Sometimes, the riders of wave had glimpses of that movement. But it still felt as if they were left on their own. Most of the activity seemed to have shifted to other grounds, and that was a ground they didn’t realize they had access to already.

              Like the rainbow Bifröst leading to Asgard, all these bridges between the realms would soon start to crumble. It wouldn’t be possible to have one foot here and another there, not any longer.
              Choices will be made.
              They are being made.

              And then, the Circle of power, the one Ring will be melt into a burning core of ‘lova’, and the Shite will be healed and shifted. (well, tentatively heehee)

              #2186
              ÉricÉric
              Keymaster

                “Speaking of infinite details,” said Björn who was watching a circus program with a muscular looking man who balancing his contortionist partner who was attempting to balance plants on her face.

                “What?” said Iris who was already dozing on the couch.

                “Sorry dear, I was just talking to myself, have nice dreams”, he said, stroking gently her freckled face.

                He continued in his head, slightly dozing off himself.

                “One two, one two. Testing the acoustics… Sounds good.”

                “Funny how these thoughts come in and out… It occurred to me something funny.”

                :fleuron:

                “Can you add a plush toy in your dream?”
                “Oh sure darling. What kind of?”
                “A baby aardvark”

                :fleuron:

                Björn wasn’t very comfortable yet, he started to toss and turn until he realized he was seated on Iris’ plush aardvark. He fondly placed the little soft thing in Iris’ arms and returned to his thoughts.

                “There, it’s inserted…”
                “Now, your reality can be viewed to some extent as the most complex, yet the most simple of assemblage. You may liken it if you will to a room with mirrors (*). Ancient Indian mystics have spoken of Indra’s net where droplets of waters are each reflecting all of the other ones; these are the same images.
                It is not new information to you, the fact that you are seeing your reflection in your world, or that it is a sort of illusion reflecting you, but this is not the point we want to highlight here.

                Consider that the room in which you are is reflected an infinite amount of times in every direction. In a sense, they are all the same. They are you. Now, we come to the interesting part. You may very well decide to explore the room next to you with its shining details, by going through one of these mirrors. Some individuals quite enjoy such explorations, they call it past or future or even probabilities, other dimensions etc. And by moving into the next room, it becomes their present.

                You now realize that you have not really moved, since all rooms reflect only you. And you may want to continue in the direction you are exploring and go into more rooms. It’s alright. But some individuals realize that all rooms are equivalent, and that from where you stand, you can view the point you wish to explore in one part of the mirrors reflections. This is being present. You shift your attention, and expand your vision of the tiny part, rather than moving towards it with great efforts.

                Now, when you are dreaming, the very nature of dreams is the same. It gives you a whole fractal hologram to ponder. You may get carried away by wanting to remember all the tiny details, because in doing so, what you are doing is simply opening rooms upon rooms upon rooms. And more details will be created for you! Or you can simply realize that the details are all contained within your feeling of being present, and standing in the middle of one of these rooms, and not one of them is more important than the next.

                Connect to your feeling, and all the natural movements of your explorations will be automagically connected. And we bid you a nice fractal dream exploration.”

                #2174

                In reply to: Closing up

                ÉricÉric
                Keymaster

                  Interesting we shifted a bit before the comment # 2012

                  #2179

                  The scene was recreated, the characters had not disappeared… They were only shifting.

                  The cloud puffed words out:

                  “mouse escape sort library getting silly
                  finally play gloria added sometimes coon
                  speak skull try mongoose open later read
                  otherwise mad”

                  Note to self: premature shifting can be traumatic.

                  #1284

                  Bronkel was stern as ever, yet you could feel in his eyes that he was troubled.

                  — “What? That’s roobish, isn’t it?”
                  — “No! Elizabeth! Not at all! It’s your best book in years! Poople will want more!”
                  — “Well, we’ll see… For now, I think my moose needs some rest”

                  Her detox had done her great. Her beautifool violet eyes weren’t as bloodshot as before, and she could even see some of her hair grow back in places. Elizabeth in some surge of energy had collected all the bits written here and there, loose paper flying at times with some missing (perhaps used during her poohnuts hazes to light fires in the office).
                  Some of these paper she wasn’t even sure were hers, or writing attempts by Finnley, but she didn’t care; they were all so funny and interesting.

                  For instance, she wasn’t too soore that she’d have Veranassasss —whatever her bloody name was— go off with the pilot of the plane, but that sounded nice for her. So she’d used that part too.

                  Of course, the Spanish couple, Paqui and Jose had reemerged at the boulder moving party after a long trip in the underground space-traveling tunnels. Leo and Bea were not so glad they’d reappeared so early, but had found it was time to move on, and continue their quest for more bizarre and entertaining artifacts. And they wanted to go to Morocco anyway, in this gorgeous blue city…
                  Young Becky decided she wanted to go abroad to travel the world. “And study too” had said Dan who wasn’t as shifty as Dory, a thing for which she thanked heavens profusely every day.

                  Sharon, Gloria and Mavis after some more bizarre adventures among the Masai tribes finally found their way back home, while Akita continued his explorations of this strange shifting world of the 21st century.

                  Even the bizarre animals stories in the ZOO she’d kept. They’d even found Arky the Aardvark. He had been accidentally buried under Oligan the Oliphant’s pile of poop. The poor Oliphant had suffered from an excess of mangoes in his diet, and Arky was so eager to collect poop for his garden of flowers that he hadn’t noticed the harbingers of it.
                  Pawanie the lady Panda and Barry the White Bear had since then decided to take care of the little Aardvark, and provide it with their own poop to fertilize the flower garden. Theirs was a garden to behold, with the most beautiful flowers to be seen in miles. Attracting creatures from all over the place.

                  There were a few points Elizabeth had left deliberately unanswered; the mad doctor, who was probably still alive somewhere, and most important of all… if, after all this children bearing with Sean, Becky ended up with Sam or not.
                  One thing was sure though, they were all moving to the City. The sooner the better.

                  #1272
                  Jib
                  Participant

                    His species was dying.
                    He knew there were a possibility to save his people in mixing their encoding patterns with that of the Turmaki.

                    But what was their intent as a species? The Ancient Gates were gone, only a few of them had remained after the shift of the Phreal. Tor Amok had chosen to stay along with some friends. The temptation to follow the others had been great, but something was still holding him in the old ways.

                    He had to talk with their officials and offer them to share their paths.

                    #1261

                    “Hey Leo, I had a blinding revelation last night, after Barb left.”

                    “Well, do tell, Bea, I’m all ears” said Leonora with an encouraging smile, pouring herself a cup of tea.

                    “Well the moment was far clearer than I can explain it but it went something like this” Bea continued. “Bearing in mind that the FOCUS DIRECTS so the question of ‘directing’ essence is another choice of puzzle piece of the individual puzzle game at any moment…”

                    “Ye-es” replied Leonora, making an effort to concentrate.

                    “To connect to an individual focus is but a baby step towards being able to comprehend the interconnectedness of everything that you create, and that it is all in fact you.” Bea went on, adding “Like a beginner stage as it were, to keep it manageable.”

                    “Keeping it manageable sounds like a good idea” interjected Leo, pointedly glancing around at the disorder in the kitchen.

                    Unperturbed, Bea continued “You draw to yourself parts or, if you like, focus points or other focuses of All That Is —of the whole that are at that moment useful.”

                    “Sounds reasonable, Bea, do continue. Pass the gingerbread men, would you?”

                    “All of the characters in the stories I write, for example, are my focuses in a manner of speaking, as are all the characters in anything I bring into my world my focuses if I choose to SEE THEM FOR A MOMENT FROM THEIR FOCUS VIEWPOINT.”

                    “Ok, ok, no need to shout!”

                    “I’m not shouting, Leo, let me finish and stop interrupting! Adding another focus is an analogy in a way for adding another focus or point of view to mine.
                    Dividing the actions of adding focus viewpoints into sections is useful in order to comprehend the scope of possible actions, but only initially, and as more actions are experienced objectively, the sections and labels become limiting and confining.” Bea paused for a sip of coffee and a long draw on her cigarette. “But they do keep it manageable to some degree, it must be said” she added.

                    “Yes, keep it manageable, by all means, couldn’t agree more”

                    “Everyone’s puzzle game is their own,” Bea was on a roll. “And the same puzzle piece, or other focus in this case, for one, would fit equally well into a completely different puzzle game of someone else’s because all of the surrounding puzzle pieces of each individuals puzzle game are created in each moment and are chosen for their relevance to that moment.”

                    “Good point, dear.”

                    “Likewise an individuals puzzle game is a new one in each moment and the puzzle pieces are interchangeable within the same puzzle game, depending on their relevance to the moment and the chosen surrounding puzzle pieces.”

                    As usual with blazing flashes of illumination, Bea found that they were hard to form into words, and when she did manage to get them into words, they look so screamingly obvious.

                    “Does that make sense to you, Leo?” she asked.

                    “Er, I think so Bea, I’m getting the gist…”

                    Interrupting, Bea continued to describe her revelations to her now glassy eyed friend. “And on the subject of trusting, doubting, confusion and so on”

                    “Oh, yes, confusion…”

                    “We are here shiftING, not shiftED, this is what we are choosing.
                    With the variety of viewpoints we have, the shifted and the unshifted and the semi-shifted, there is always something new to notice from yet another new perspective. Why not get really enthusiastic about the ride itself instead of planning how to float through it with the least fuss ~ it’s more fun on the helter skelter with its many perspectives and view points than on the mill pond for those of us who choose shiftING.”

                    “I dunno, Bea, from my perspective floating on a millpond sounds rather pleasant.”

                    “Well, at least now we know that what we don’t know is there to know.”

                    “Yes, there’s no doubt about that!” relied Leonora, “Have you finished? That was all very interesting but don’t forget we invited everyone over for the Yule Boulder Moving party. We should get a move on with the preparations you know”

                    :yahoo_coffee:

                    #1259

                    Australia, Uluru, Dec. 2035

                    Sam wasn’t very fond of the Ooh dimension adventures; he didn’t yet have inserted a focus (or foocoos) here for that matter. And he was too engrossed in the City creation planning to design a few parks there anyway.

                    He just had his first night under the stars, on the freshly built wooden floor on top of a jujubaobab tree in the middle of the park where he could see the patterns he wanted to insert on the gardens. It looked a bit like the French gardens in the Versailles gardens most of his focuses liked so much in the past. He was aware of Yann, his shifting focus, who was precisely visiting the gardens at that same simultaneous time, with friends and family.
                    He laughed when he projected to him, and overheard a discussion where Yurick was pointing to a typo he made about the Jeff Kuuntz expo that was there. Decidedly, Yann had the same dislike of the Ooh dimension, preferring the Uuh’s.

                    When he started to go to sleep, the feelings started to blur in a strange mixture of imageries…

                    :fleuron2:

                    Jeff had strange dreams that night. He was singing Tumuuld to a certain Elizabeth who was speaking all funny, and playing djudjuriduu on the treetops, surrunded by inflated magunta colured balluuns…
                    Sometimes it tuuk his breathe away how life was strunge, but cuul.

                    #1927
                    TracyTracy
                    Participant

                      On the subject of other focuses I had a blinding revelation in the
                      kitchen last night. As usual with my blazing flashes of illumination,
                      they are hard to form into words, and when I do try to get them into
                      words, they look so screamingly obvious, like D’uh, you mean you
                      didn’t realize that yet? LOL

                      Anyway, the moment was far clearer than the following words, but I
                      managed to get a few words out in chats to Eric and to Dawn which I
                      snipped together:

                      (bearing in mind that the focus directs so the question
                      of ‘directing’ essence is another choice of puzzle peice of the
                      individual puzzle game at any moment)

                      To connect to an individual focus is but a baby step towards being
                      able to comprehend the interconnectedness of everything that you
                      create and that it is all in fact you. (beginner stage as it were,
                      keep it manageable)

                      You draw to yourself parts (focus points/other focuses of All that
                      is) of the whole that are at that moment useful.

                      All of the characters in the story I write, for example, are my
                      focuses in a manner of speaking, as are all the characters in
                      anything I bring into my world my focuses if I choose to _see for a
                      moment from their focus view point_. Adding another focus is an
                      analogy in a way for adding another focus or point of view to mine.
                      Dividing the actions of adding focus viewpoints into sections is
                      useful in order to comprehend the scope of possible actions, but only
                      initially, and as more actions are experienced objectively, the
                      sections and labels become limiting and confining. (but they do keep
                      it manageable to some degree)

                      Everyones puzzle game is their own, and the same puzzle piece (or
                      other focus) for one, would fit equally well into a completely
                      different puzzle game of someone elses because all of the surrounding
                      puzzle peices of each individuals puzzle game are created in each
                      moment and are chosen for their relevance to that moment. Likewise an
                      individuals puzzle game is a new one in each moment and the puzzle
                      peices are interchangable within the same puzzle game, depending on
                      their relevance to the moment and the chosen surrounding puzzle
                      peices.

                      And on the subject of trusting, doubting, confusion etc:

                      We are here shiftING, not shiftED, this is what we are choosing.
                      With the variety of viewpoints we have, the shifted and the unshifted
                      and the semi shifted, there is always something new to notice from
                      yet another new perspective. Why not get really enthusisatic about
                      the ride itself instead of planning how to float through it with the
                      least fuss ~ it’s more fun on the helter skelter with it’s many
                      perspectives and view points than on the mill pond for those of us
                      who choose shiftING.

                      At least now we know that what we dont know is there to know.

                      #1237

                      “Mmm, this temporary mergence with Godfrey/ Orgetak didn’t get so well” Yuki thought.
                      “It more and more looks like a “Becky/RafaelaGayesh/Orgetak become troglodytes on a tropical island” adventure…”

                      “Now the Vowel Shift seems to have been accomplished, better fragment off this increasing mess and leave it to Ycart /Rafaela… pronto!”

                      “Luckily, there still remains the untouched ‘Aarth’ alternate Aniverse to explore, where Alizabath Tittler reads Lemane quotes and spaakes funny taa”

                      #1235
                      ÉricÉric
                      Keymaster

                        Not willing to play another tug of war with Elizabeth, whose mind was obviously not as soond as one might expect of an authoor of her statoore, Godfrey didn’t even mention to her that she misquoted him repeatedly by making him barf mindlessly unbearable amoonts of poonuts while in trooth, it was cashoo nuts he was craving for.

                        That being said, he couldn’t let her last remark go without notice, and pointed her to a newspooper article she’d been cutting recently off an interview with one of her former editors, Darool Barash.

                        “See, Elizabeth dear,” he said after taking a sip of a hot fragrant lootus tea “ Why would you want to impose your desired change everywhere ‘roond you. Thawing the ice caps? And what else? Did you think of the pengooins? All the beautiful harmoony you fail to consider… Why forcibly change the ootside when you can choose from an infinite of already created pootentials. Well, at least, that’s what Barash says…”

                        He paused, her looks betraying that she was completely lost.

                        “Frankly, Liz, you’re starting to worry me. All this loony talk… It’s so oother-dimensional. You say it’s too complex, but the way you moove all those extroovagant letters is baffling. And this non-existent “Al” you’re talking aboot… Let me finish please… I know you feel remoorse for leaving old Arak just because he wouldn’t let you have the tiny giraffes —not even mentioning that ghost-writer of yours, Finnley? That’s the name, isn’t it?… I sure want to believe your shift in vowellness excoose, but that’s not enoogh…”

                        “Will you just stop talking roobbish Godfrey…”
                        “Now, serioosly, your delirioos inspiration break-oot has got to be channeled, if we want to make your proper come-back
                        “But everything’s fine, I’m just very kewl.”
                        “You see! Like I said!”
                        “What?”
                        “You did it again!”
                        Yeeps? I did it again?
                        “Just now! You said ‘very kewl’, instead of ‘too cool’! That’s unnoorvingly vexatioos!”

                        “KEWL! KEWL! KEWL!” :magpie: screeched Robert X the pet magpie from the other room.

                        #1227
                        TracyTracy
                        Participant

                          Elizabeth had wanted to voice her concerns about the Vowel Shift and its potential impact on language and understanding to her publisher Godfrey Pig Littleton on numerous occasions, but until his, to her way of thinking, outrageous tampering with her script, it had not been in the forefront of her mind. She had simply ignored the Vowel Shift in the Ooh Dimension, and made up her own Vowel Shifts instead, in a variety of minor ways. Ironically and somewhat perversely (Elizabeth was well aware of the consonant shift, which she translated as a continental drift symbol) Pig Littleton was quick to notice and object.

                          “Do you deliberately write ‘collaberative’ instead of ‘collaborative’?” he asked.

                          “There are No Accidents, Godfrey” retorted Elizabeth, rather cleverly shutting the old coot up, at least for awhile. Thank Goodness he was otherwise engaged with the latest production of TWIST, and not breathing down her back about The Book.

                          #1216
                          ÉricÉric
                          Keymaster

                            “Jeeze, I can’t help to be continuously amazed by BeckyAl said more to himself than to Tina who was reading silently in the room next to his.
                            “She struggles so hard at times, when all she needs is a little attention…” he continued in his breath.

                            “What are you moaning about again?” Tina said, who unlike Becky was paying much attention even when she didn’t look like it.
                            “Moonbeams! Did you see that last entry? There was as close as moon and beams as you could get in the previous entries in the Reality Play… I really wonder why we make things so hard for ourselves at times…”

                            — Well, because it’s fun, I suppose she’ll tell you… Come on, you know how she is, you don’t need to play your sumafreak labouring it to the bitter end…
                            — I suspect you’re right… And who cares about randomness anyway; it doesn’t look much fun these past few days, does it?
                            — Sure…
                            — Like I say. Look, you don’t even barely write yourself; if I didn’t know you’re here, I would probably do with the Play like the tomatoes plant; uproot it and cut it in pieces in a plastic bag for recycling.
                            — Oh, but you have to admit the bedroom looks so much better without all these creepers around the place… All for what, twenty one tiniest tomatoes?
                            — Plus the last two still ripening on the cupboard, Al retorted in a sullen manner.

                            After a moment of silence, Tina laid her book down, and came closer
                            — Yeah, you’re right, I don’t find it very funny for the moment, especially with that shift of vowellness in the Ooh dimension,…
                            — Hehe, you mean, that nasty habit of telling ‘peanut’ instead of ‘poonut’?
                            — Oh yes, but not only that,… Well, it looks like all my characters are eluding me, becoming alien… if you see what I mean… :yahoo_alien:
                            — Yes, I see; and I must say you’re doing great with that; Becky would faint at the mere mention of something becoming alien, Al couldn’t help but laugh. :yahoo_oh_go_on:
                            — No, but seriously…
                            — I know. I think what we need is some more of your inimitable talent at creating syncs. You’ve always been the connector my dear with those “magifestations” of yours.
                            :creating_magic:

                            She smiled. :yahoo_happy:

                            — Now, speaking of random syncs, what have you got to say about that; we could create a music band :bounce: :yahoo_whistling:
                            — What?
                            — Hang on, here’s the band’s name: 57th Ward of New Orleans and we could call our first album… Mmm… That’s it: The Cup To Overflowing … What do you think? :agreed:

                            Mmmm… that may sound weirdo, but it seems very feisty all of a sudden ! :yahoo_clown: :buffoon: :yahoo_party:

                            #2032

                            In reply to: Scrying the Word Cloud

                            ÉricÉric
                            Keymaster

                              Creating shifting themselves
                              Tree feel sand reach whole ago
                              Anita light closer step
                              Jose closed near merely hill
                              Far lots began

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