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Cal Prefect
Dark Avenger
Join date: 5 Jan 2005
Posts: 160
01-28-2006 19:20
This one is somewhat wierd....

So anyway, I'm busy decorating my newly purchaced home on my newly purchaced land, both of which I'm VERY satisfied with, just working while listening to some music, you know, just enjoying myself and minding my own business, when all of the sudden this... thing, half machine, half man, drops into my bedroom, obviously confused and slightly irritated, announcing his/her/it's arrival with a heavy thud and a "RAAARRGGHH!!!"

So, occupied as I am, I jump a bit at that, and quickly turn to see the newcomer, and what I see is a mixture of a Warhammer40K Spacemarine in a diving gear and a jetpack, and a... man. I think. So I politley appologize for not have greeting him/her/it earlier, as I was a bit occuped, and didn't notice him/her/it (hereby called it to make it easier for all of us) letting itself in, and asked if it was ok. It responded with something about Delta waves being created when Alpha particles knock orbiting electrons out of atoms. Ok, I'm no rocket scientist, but I DO have a few years of roleplaying under my belt, so I followed up, and since I couldn't have the slightest idea what it was talking about anyway, I decided not to disagree, and was rewarded for that by this thing telling me that it's crazy.

I'm thinking to myself, hooookey.... yep, you probably are, but I don't want to provoke it, in case it starts to trash my new home, and decide to play it easy, suggesting that it could be a software problem. It confirms my assumption, and so I propose that perhaps it should upgrade it's software, or replace it, but I'm told that it has no money. Looks like I'm full of good ideas today, so I follow up with a question of it having tried to find a job, whereas the answer is as quick as it's blunt, "Nope :)"

By this time my visitor has begun riding a... cow, that sings, right there in my bedroom, while we're talking. So, I politly point out that it would be hard for it to upgrade it's software without money, it could even upgrade it's software, as of it innocently looks up from it's singing cow and asks me if it would help if it shot me, all the while pulling out a huge gatling gun. So, I try to hide the fact that I'm swollowing hard, trying to keep my hands visible and away from my twin Seburos strapped to me thighs, and not making any sudden moves. The thing has obviously some serious maulfunction in it's proccecor, and the last thing I want is to engage it in my own bed room. Sure, I've got big guns, but it's got a bigger one. So, I try to remain calm, keep my head cool, and calmly tell it that that would certainly be a choice, although it probably wouldn't have a positive outcome, pointing out that I might even shoot back, hoping that it's main CPU would find the logic in that.

After a few moments, as it seems to calculate what I have just said, still riding it's singing cow with that huge gatling gun on it's lap, which makes me wince as I get a chance to have a close but brief look at it, as it's also a Seburo weapon, reassuring me that if it comes to a shootout, it's gonna get ugly, my visitor suddenly looks up at me and lifts up it's gun, pointing at me, while shouting out Leeroy Jenkins' name, as if it's a crusader on a holy war, filling the air with bullets. It happens so fast I don't even reach my own cannons, but fortunatly it's not using it's leathal charges, and so I'm tossed away several sims away from my home. I immidiatly gear up and TP back to the house, but by the time I get ther, there renegade automaton is long gone.

So, slightly puzzled but glad to be still alive, I send it a personal message, reminding it that shooting me was a bad idea, now I have to hunt it down, and worst of all, no one will get payed. It reminds me that it's quite insane, and so, me being a real believer in helping out the residents in need, offer to help solve the problem by shooting it in the head untill the matter is resolved. It seems to agree, but adds that it "luvs shoothing teh pll", and that it likes toast. Ah, a 1337er. Now that explains a lot, that tells me where teh maulfaunction lies ;) It politly thatnks me for me offering to help, and the communication is broken, and so I come here to share my somewhat extraordinary event with the rest of the community, and what do you know, another gun crazy resident pops up and shoots me off the sim!

It is a strange world we live in...
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Nyx Divine
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Join date: 11 Dec 2004
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01-28-2006 19:28
Ah the diversity that is SL :)
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Chip Midnight
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Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 10,231
01-28-2006 21:24
haha, nice writeup :) I sometimes think people take things way too seriously when they get bent out of shape by episodes like yours. Where else are you going to get stories like that? hehe. Thanks for sharing it.
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Gabe Lippmann
"Phone's ringing, Dude."
Join date: 14 Jun 2004
Posts: 4,219
01-28-2006 21:35
This is all very odd, but anyone that invokes the name of Leroy Jenkins is OK in my book.
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Logan Bauer
Inept Adept
Join date: 13 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,237
01-28-2006 22:22
From: Cal Prefect

It is a strange world we live in...
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Yes it is. Cool story, at first I thought "Oh no another long ranting post" but then read it and was impressed. And while I also like toast, I am also not big into the leetspeak. ;)
Gabe Lippmann
"Phone's ringing, Dude."
Join date: 14 Jun 2004
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01-28-2006 23:10
http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=1666

http://leeroyjenkins.net/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=leeroy&r=f
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AJ DaSilva
woz ere
Join date: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 1,993
01-29-2006 05:51
Bravo!

It's stories like these that make SL real for me, not all this "OMG! You're ruining my immersion" BS.

:D:D
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
01-29-2006 05:57
I like emergence of events like this. The other day, someone suddenly came up to me in an empty sim, when I was Torse (the watermelon pony), and started spouting off knowledge about nuclear weapons and singularities... and how my "feeble horse brain" wouldn't understand it. In my earlier years, I might have been insulted, but the context of it really made me smile, and I bid him a gracious g'day as he flew away.

Cal, if you spun this into a storybook with popup pages, and made the font all Shakespearean and calligraphylike, and maybe make a books-on-tape (or CD, or MP3, or whatever it is they do now) version, that'd be sooo crackin'! Maybe have it accompanied by a cover version of "Mad World" too... hahaha.
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Cal Prefect
Dark Avenger
Join date: 5 Jan 2005
Posts: 160
01-29-2006 07:10
Lol Torley, that guy reminds me too much of a certain demon-jester in the Excalibur Alternitive (I HATED that thing!) And cool idea about the book lol, maybe I'll even do it, just gathering stories like this and put'em in one place ;)

I agree Chip, people often take things like this way too seriously, howling for punishment and justice. I very rarely get offended by things like this, on the contrary, I try to see the humoristic side of it. I'm here to have fun, and you can't have any more fun than you make yourself :)

Anyway, I'm glad you all liked it, I sure had fun when it happened and when writing about it :)
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Creami Cannoli
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Join date: 17 Jul 2005
Posts: 414
01-29-2006 08:31
Cal,
You should probably go buy a bigger gun to protect yourself from getting shot out of your sim. Maybe YOUR gun would scare him into sanity next time?

I loved your comment about shooting him in the head until it fixed his problem. That made me think of a few people that need it in RL. LOL ( I would use non-lethal bullets of course)
Foolish Frost
Grand Technomancer
Join date: 7 Mar 2005
Posts: 1,433
01-29-2006 10:42
"We're ALL mad here..."

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Cal Prefect
Dark Avenger
Join date: 5 Jan 2005
Posts: 160
01-29-2006 11:20
From: Creami Cannoli
Cal,
You should probably go buy a bigger gun to protect yourself from getting shot out of your sim. Maybe YOUR gun would scare him into sanity next time?



Strange, I was thinking the same thing...
:D :D :D
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Justin Cline
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Join date: 1 Jun 2005
Posts: 44
01-30-2006 18:44
Hey Cal welcome to the nieghborhood :)
I live right next door to you and the guy you saw tried to mug me about a week ago while I was in my back yard, I was home when I heard him shout out "Lets get it on Leeroy Jenkins" lol I recognized the name armed up and went out side looking for him but he was nowhere to be found or maybe he was still in your house but I respect peoples privacy and didn't look to see if he was in there.
Anyway other then this 1 guy the sim is pretty much laid back oh btw nice house you have, fits in perfectly compaired to the last one that was there lol.
Lecktor Hannibal
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Join date: 1 Jul 2004
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01-30-2006 19:00
The dancing cow is only topped by the hacked dancing sheep. IM me if interested.
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Amethest Peck
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Join date: 2 Feb 2006
Posts: 1
You have to be kidding me!
03-11-2006 10:16
This is the funniest thing I have ever read! Not to mention the fact that the singin Cow was in our bedroom, Cal! I wish i had been there to see this..... This is tooo funny! Well written, well taken, and extraordinary. Wonder where our Cow riding gun slinger is today?
Ahhhh, you gotta love second life. I needed the laugh!
Khashai Steinbeck
A drop in the Biomass.
Join date: 15 Oct 2005
Posts: 283
03-11-2006 12:29
From: Cal Prefect
This one is somewhat wierd....

(A PERFECTLY NORMAL DAY IN SECOND LIFE)

It is a strange world we live in...
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Welcome to Second Life! Enjoy the trip!
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