Burning Down The House Paw chuckles, doing a search for PPC, Muck Client, and finds Splitreflection. Paw purrs, "Google knows us." Akili recalls that his version of Ghost can't handle XP NTFS partitions. Akili rumbles lightly, "Oh well." Akili sings o/~ Google he knows me, and he knows I'm right / I've been talking to Google, all my life- Cal grumbles about inconstant standards. "Unstandard standards?" asks Calin. Cal finds a bizare ability in Lua, "you can rename and swap around functions. Not that you usually would want to." Akili rumbles lightly, "Consistently nonconstant standards." Somewhere on the muck, Shelly has connected. - Phil Collins peeks from around the frost giant, hefting a crowbar, "I'm watching, Akili. Always watching." Shelly has arrived. Shelly arrived from the outside. Cal waves. Akili grins. Akili rumbles lightly, "I don't mind. I have several convenient bodies to serve as shields." Shelly blinks. Cal . o O ( crowbar vs. lightsabre ) A still calm silently settles through a frigid snow. - The Police peek out from behind Phil. "He may be watching you... but every move you make I'll be stalking you. Cal digs a shield belt from a packet and puts it on. Akili goes to unjam a printer. With a chisel. You go Away From Keyboard. (AFK) Pearl blinks at her typos and thinks she can't type and chew gum at the same time. -Later- Akili thinks about going to his house, and decides against it on the grounds that it's dark, and that it's dark because it's raining. Paw sings o/~ Fighting fire with fire... I am an ordinary guy burning down the house!- Akili rumbles lightly, "You're not allowed to burn down my house." The light hail falls on the frosty shrubs. Paw asks, "Says who?" Akili rumbles lightly, "Okay, now you're not even allowed to be within line of sight." Paw aws. Paw asks, "Who said I was going to burn down YOUR house?" Paw purrs, "I mean... I could have been talking about any NUMBER of houses." Paw purrs, "There are, in fact, quite a large number of houses in the world." Akili rumbles lightly, "Which is completely irrelevant to my questions and your responses." Paw purrs, "Some of which need burning down, I'd expect." Akili rumbles lightly, "I said you weren't allowed to burn down my house. You questioned my authority. So now you can't even see it in person." Akili grins. Paw purrs, "Aw." Akili rumbles lightly, "So, you *were* implying my house." Paw purrs, "I mean, it's not like I could even burn your house if I wanted to... it's raining." Akili rumbles lightly, "You didn't say right now." Paw purrumbles, "Neither did I say your house. Ha!" Akili rumbles lightly, "I didn't specify the time, either. I just said you weren't permitted to do so." Akili rumbles lightly, "You could have clarified the set of permissions I enforced, but instead, you questioned my ability to give those permissions whatsoever." Akili rumbles lightly, "Which is when I swung my Authority harder." Paw asks, "Can I come to your house if I close my eyes?" Pearl says, "Wow, you're acting like siblings or something!" Akili rumbles lightly, "We *did* share a house." Paw purrs, "And never once did I burn it down." Pearl chuckles. "And that makes you siblings, or something." Akili grins. "I'll side with the something." Akili rumbles lightly, "True. Calin was more likely to damage it, I think." Akili rumbles lightly, "Well... I'll think about it." Paw purrs, "Kay." Akili rumbles lightly, "Or I could just... BAN YOU ALL!! MUHAHAHA! ...But I won't." Paw purrs, "See... if there was a fourth me, he'd totally make a comic out of that conversation." Sessa is now Active. (ACT) Calin says, "Hey." Paw asks, "Where?" "What adverse effect did I have on that house?" asks Calin. Sessa returns from the post office successful. Akili has has this image of him talking to Paw, with a mental bubble of Akili swinging a giant mallet with the word 'Authority' carved on it. Paw hehs. Akili grins. "Besides peace and quiet?" "No no, I mean what DAMAGE did I do?" asks Calin. Calin says, "Aside, I suppose, from what was necessary to get cables run. As I recall though, Akili has as much or more to do with that than I." Akili rumbles lightly, "Well... excluding *psychological* damage...." Calin says, "Yeah, I suppose that house is a shell of it's former person." Akili rumbles lightly, "I suppose not much, except for the blue watercolor paint that leaked down the wall." Akili rumbles lightly, "Which may or may not have been you." Calin shrugs. "It's watercolor. It washes off. And I ... might have been involved with that." Paw frowns, looking at the syllabus and comparing it to how far he got in rigging Kenlow. Paw purrs, "Whoops." Pearl remembers that but doesn't remember if she was there when it happened. Akili rumbles lightly, "I know you were involved... just that that it might not have been you specifically." Akili asks, "Who put their knee through the wall at 7th street?" Paw purrs, "I was wondering why it was taking so long to do my Rigging homework." Shelly says, "I didn't do it." Pearl asks, "Do too much, Paw?" Akili rumbles lightly, "I didn't either." Akili rumbles lightly, "But I saw it." Paw purrs, "At least I won't have any Rigging homework until like Week Five." Shelly says, "Actually, Calin, you and I were involved in it." Akili grins, and remembered that too. Pearl thought as much. Shelly says, "We were throwing water at each other and I don't remember who got the painting." Calin says, "I remember. I was there." Akili twitches. Paw purrumbles, "Oh yeah!" Akili rumbles lightly, "I saw... uh..." Akili twitches again. Pearl says, "Wow, Paw! Good for you!" Shelly asks, "Saw what, Akili?" Akili mumbles, "...what you did." Paw points at Calin, "YOU'RE the reason I had to spend two hours in Photoshop fixing up my watercolor." Akili laughs out loud. Paw grimaces. Cal has connected. Cal waves. DainAltor says, "Hello Cal." Pearl knows now why all Paw's artwork in under glass now. - Phil leaps out from behind a trashcan, crowbar swinging!! Paw eyes the other homework he needs to get done. Akili exclaims, "Which is hardly necessar---Whoa!" Paw acks! Paw hides behind a boulder. Cal activates his shieldbelt and lights his lightsabre. A quiet calm settles silently over the frigid bushes. Akili dodges, and runs away home.