As a drug addict and a thief, you prayed on the kindness of others to fuel your addiction. Today, we're bringing the ugliness inside you out into the open. Now, in order to stay alive, we have to match your face with the ugliness of your soul. Just lean forward into the knives with your face. Press hard enough and you'll release the arm and the leg restraints that bind you. Press hard, though, and you'll be free. Or, you can sit idly and bleed out on the floor.
Hello, Seth. Right now you're feeling helpless. This is the same helplessness you've bestowed onto others. But now, it's unto you. Some would call this karma, I call it justice. Now, you served five years of what should have been a life sentence. For murder, a technicality gave you freedom, but it inhibited you from understanding the impact of taking a life. Today, I offer you true freedom. In thirty seconds, the pendulum will drop far enough to touch your body. In sixty seconds, it will cut you in half. To avoid the pendulum, all you have to do is destroy the things that have killed: your hands. You must insert your hands and push the buttons to start the devices before you. Your bones will be crushed to dust. Will you destroy the things that have taken life in order to save one, Seth? Make your choice.
Hello, Xavier. I want to play a game. The game I want to play is very similar to the one that you've been playing. As a drug dealer, the game of offering hope to the desperate for a price. I think we can agree that your situation is desperate. So I offer you hope. The price you pay is that you must crawl into the same pit of squalor you force your customers into. By entering this room, a timer has been started. When the timer expires, the door in front of you will be locked forever. Only in finding the key before the timer runs out can you unlock it and retrieve the antidote inside. I will give you just one hint as to where that key is. It will be like finding a needle in a haystack.
Hello Obi. I want to play a game. For years you have burned those around you with your lies, cons, and deceits. Now you will have a chance to redeem yourself for the games you've played with others by playing one of mine. Inside the device in front of you are two antidotes for the poison coursing through your veins. One is my gift to you for helping me kidnap the others. The second is yours to donate. However, one of them will come with a price. Remember, Obi, once you're in Hell only the devil can help you out.
Hello, Michael. I want to play a game. So far, in what could loosely be called your life, you've made a living watching others. Society would call you an informant; a rat; a snitch. I call you unworthy of the body you possess. Of the life that you've been given. Now you will see if you are willing to move inward, rather than outward. To give up the one thing you rely on in order to go on living. The device around your neck is a death mask. The mask is on a spring timer; if you do not locate the key in time, the mask will close. Think of it like a venus fly trap. What you are looking at right now is your own body, not more than two hours ago. Don't worry, you're sound asleep and can't feel a thing. Taking into account that you are at a great disadvantage here, I am going to give you a hint as to where I've hidden the key, so listen carefully. The hint is this: it's right before your eyes. How much blood will you shed to stay alive, Michael? Live or die, make your choice.
Hello, Jeff. If you're listening to this, it means that the confrontation you so long dreamed of is finally unfolding. In your head, he is a cipher. A symbol of your life changing. A symbol of death. I present him to you, now, as a simple human being. His name is Timmothy Young, he's twenty-seven years old, a medical student with a mother and a father just like you. A man whose life also changed the day your son died. That day he made a terrible mistake. You believed he didn't pay for that mistake, and now is your chance to make him pay. The device Timmothy's strapped to is...my personal favorite. I call it The Rack. The human body is a miraculous creation. Ever wonder how far the arm can twist? This device is going to start twisting.
You see, detective, Darwin's Theory of Evolution; surival of the fittest, based on his little trip to the Galapagos no longer applies on this planet. We have a human race that doesn't have the edge or the will to survive.
I never murdered anyone in my life; the decisions are up to them.
You see, the knowledge of death changes everyting. If I were to tell you the exact date and time of your own death, it would shatter your world completely.
The cancer isn't what started me in my work. It was the moment I decided to end my life that started me on my work and brought meaning to it. I had literally driven myself to suicide. I had failed. My body had not been strong enough to repel cancer cells, yet I had lived through a plunge off a cliff. But to my amazement, I was alive and I was determined to spend the rest of my days testing the fabric of human nature.
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Oh, absolutely.posted Apr 27th 2010, 5:39PM
Mood:
So I had a great, beastly idea the other day.
I was trying to find the answer to a very, very important question. An important question I asked Kaeso later that day.
What is fifty divided by six? Eight and a third? Roughly? 8.30? Add a dollar sign to the front of that for me, and is that really that much money at all?
Now let me ask you another question, MTG tards. How badly would you like to do the most awesome and bad-assed thing in the history of Frank and Sons? How many of you would be willing to slap down that eight and a half dollars just to do an Unhinged draft? I'm contemplating putting up $55 of my own cash, leaving roughly $45 among five to seven others to pay for this Unhinged booster box. So is there really a catch to this deal? No. The only question is: how much of a good time are you willing to have for seven to eight dollars? At Frank and Sons? With an Unhinged booster box?
You decide.
The other idea (That I know Wrath will not care for) is the Renaissance Faire.
For obvious reasons, I don't want to plan it for this weekend. Kaeso and I have come to the agreement that this weekend would be too close without being planned. The day we've decided to agree on is next Saturday.
Now, I will apologize to Arson in advance, as I know he has a Saturday class which he has to attend. But on that Sunday, the actors are all out of steam, there may be another one or two people who can't make it; it's simply not possible to move the day to the following Sunday. Next Saturday, and I do apologize in advance.
Who can make it to either event? I'd like to know, and this page is re-routed from Facebook. If I don't get responses by Saturday, I'll be making phone calls.
Also, this Saturday. Campaign. Panera. Or whatever. You choose.
Name: Erik Drake Gonzalez
Age: 20
Residence: The Prophecy
Description: People have called me crazy, insane, psycho, Prince of Darkness, Kitty, Orange, Gold, Boyo, box-man, Kire, Fie, Ace, Balto, Bill, Harold, My Liege, ass and the infamous Drake the Maker. But above all else, I am simply a counselor and the author of several works which you can now see below.
I am the author of the Philip Trilogy, a story which revolves around a legendary Lumisonian bloodline, from the first hero whose fate is intertwined with the fate of the entire universe. His best friend Leonardo, who betrayed he and his other great long-time friend Lance, who has a haunting tendency to return and protect the bloodline. Many other characters twist and interact in order to cope with the Lumis/Hells War and try to tip the scale. The fate of the universe seems to hang in the hands of the planets and the Holy Guardian Tousa, an ominous figure who can predict the future. How will it all end? Read and find out.
My original work, which I am still trying to complete, is my Gunzone story. Gunzone is a mix between first-person shooter, action role-playing game, real-time-strategy, and battle simulator. Lloyd Regent plays the main character, a sophomore in High School who aspires to become one of the greatest Gunzone players in Desrow City, Nevada. Lloyd takes an unorthodox approach to Gunzone at first. He believes that all other people are threats, and that threats should be eliminated both in-game and out-of-game. His many rivals compete in Gunzone. They draw different abilities, from the ability to fight Wing-Chun to shooting homing bullets to applying nuclear explosions, there is no limit to danger as Lloyd tries to balance competing in a rewarding game with his real life. Can he do it? Read and discover.
I personally play IRO, Valkyrie, though not vigilantly. My current character is a weak Wizard, named Harold Alle (as usual), but I am a seasoned player with knowledge of the game. I simply have no way to play as long as I used to. However, I do play my fair share of Gunbound, which I have completed seven accounts and am currently on the eighth. Should you like to play alongside the HappyCo guild, you may search it in the Guild tab or else try to add Trylven to your buddy list. I'm sure I could teach you a thing or two, at the very least.
My utmost priority relies on those I live around. I want to help, and will help if I can. My previous self wasn't this way, and some of it leaks into my current self, but I can assure you that the Erik you have today is someone who only wants to ameliorate situations he has a hand in affecting. Trust me. Between college, friends, gaming, and possibly work (cross your fingers), I can and will find time to listen.
Scratch that. Avery Gilkey wants to go if it doesn't cause any issues. So far, I get the feelings its just gonna be that: you, me, and Avery G., unless I hear otherwise because I dunno Wrath's, Lothar's, Arson's, or Guy's stories/reasons
This makes black viable once more. Only it might not be a true sweep, but it's instant. This could potentially change everything for black.
I was skeptical that black might get slightly weaker with Rise, since it got so much power in Worldwake, but it looks like my original philosophy remains true. We have a level up destroyer, deathtouch with rebound, and a few demons. We're looking good.
I'm sure someone will figure out how to use the Hellcarver Demon, but right now it seems like too much of a longshot for me.
Although I'm willing to view anything as a possible way of getting rid of Eldrazi. Anything is worth a shot.
I've got the songs with lyrics written and timing practiced (and vocals dragged through) for everything except for Remember, She Will Be Loved, and Drive.
I should be able to run through that tomorrow...
When can we get together to practice these?
Also, I think you and me have today (Weensdee, Meerch 31st) off.
Also, I want to do Regular Everyday Normal Guy and/or Regular Everyday Normal Crew by Jon La Joie. Look it up on Youtube.
That's good to hear; we could always use someone who has the timing and lyrics down; someone that isn't Avery. The other songs. Meh, they'll get together with time.
I don't know when we'll be able to get together to practice them. The truth is that Fridays were going to work until I started going to the Gamer's Union more frequently. Because hey, it's fun. Not to mention there's a tournament on Friday that even I might not be able to make it to, due to some cruddy 'team meeting' possibly happening for Games Room attendants. I need to know who will be able to make it; much less who will need substitutes for their games.
To make matters worse, I don't know that I have today off. Our Wednesday professor didn't send us any notification saying he was going to recognize the holiday, which means I haven't the slightest clue whether or not I'm supposed to go to Cal Poly today. Consequently, I'm going to have to go down to the school just in case.
Indeed I did, and the counters might work, but I've started to come to the conclusion that the removal is just too good at the moment for counters to really matter in the long run. Siding double negative against Jund is a good idea, but otherwise, it just doesn't seem to do enough to matter. It's kinda sad.
I may end up running the first list to see how well it does, and if I feel it needs more counter, which would be surprising to say the least, I'll actively aim to fix it somehow.
I'd actually side in about half of the counters against jund. You don't want to aim burn at sprouting thrinax, or putrid leech, and shooting down half of the broodmate dragon pair for one less mana than it took them to make both (kicked burst is what I'm talking about) is extremely inefficient.
Against jund, I would prefer to run a full set of essence scatter, along with the bolts and the bursts, probably dropping either into the roil, or ponder.
Also, I think combining both lists gives a better deck: (maybe. It also might dilute it's capability to do one thing or the other):
23 Lands: Sideboard:
11 Island 3 Swerve
9 Mountain 3 Double Negative
4 Terramorphic Expanse 3 Time Warp
1 Jace Beleren
2 Creatures: 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Sphinx of Jwar Isle 3 Earthquake
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