Roleplay By Monologues

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Copperfox, alias Grey Eagle, alias Joseph Ravitts, paid the bill for Brenda's hand to be stitched up, with everything that accompanied the procedure. New chairs at The Octopus Garden would just have to wait.

Copperfox phoned back to the restaurant, where he had left one of his cooks in charge. Aryun, a U.S. citizen born in India, specialized in curry and other hotly spiced foods. Aryun told him things were okay at the restaurant; was glad to hear that Brenda's injury wasn't very serious; and said he couldn't get away to drive over to Nextlargertown where the hospital was. "Boss, you can FLY back with Brenda," Aryun reminded his employer the part-time superhero.

There seemed to be nothing else for it. So, once his disturbingly beautiful restaurant manager was free to go, he told her what he was going to do. "Don't feel uneasy about this; it's just as if I were driving you in my van, only you don't need to wear a seatbelt."

"I won't feel uneasy, JOE," she promised, smiling as he lifted her in his arms and rose into the air as Grey Eagle. "Should I be singing the song 'Can You Read My Mind'?"

Copperfox avoided her gaze. "No need. Though it wouldn't be any more annoying than 'I Will Always Love You,' from Kevin Costner's movie 'The Bodyguard.' One time while I was in the Navy, there was an African-American female sailor who fainted right next to me during a uniform inspection, so I picked her up and carried her to a place where she could recover. The guys in my department then kidded me by singing that Whitney Houston song to me."

Brenda anchored her arms more firmly around Grey Eagle's neck. "I'll bet that girl didn't mind being carried by you, even if you _were_ just a _teeny_ bit older."

Copperfox tersely replied, "She never spoke about it. Anyway, my first wife was living at the time."

"You're single now, though, aren't you?" Brenda's voice was warmer now.

Still not looking her in the eye, Grey Eagle sighed, "Yes, involuntarily single for the _second_ time--and with nobody whom I'm interested in romantically, interested in me." He increased his flying speed, adding a telekinetic wedge in front of them to decrease the uncomfortable wind effect.

"That could change," Brenda told him quietly. When he made no response, she made her meaning more blatant: "There's no absolute law that a boss and an employee can _never_ become....closer."

"There is in the Navy," he answered, also quietly. "Superior-with-subordinate socializing breeds favoritism, which in turn breeds resentments among the rank-and-file personnel."

"But you're not IN the Navy now....Joe. And all your employees know that you deal honestly and fairly with them. Nobody there will begrudges you a little happiness."

The superhero was silent for a long time. Only when they were about to descend for a landing outside Brenda's apartment building did he say, "If we discuss this further at all, it should be later, sometime when your mind isn't full of emotional reactions to my helping you. Then you'll remember that you scarcely know me, and that I'm at least 25 years older than you."

They were both silent during the landing. But The Grey Eagle, not being made of stone, could not completely ignore the feelings provoked when Brenda, once her feet were back on the ground, pulled his face to hers and kissed him in much more than a casual, meaningless way.

He flew away in a hurry.
 
The boy who wanted to be a "Teenage Mutant Ninja CROCODILE" finally comes back to the forum after many weeks' absence. With no more than a hasty glance at a few of the posts written since he was last active, he enters the following:


I have the solution! Everybody pay attention to ME now. I know how to resolve ALL the plot elements in this roleplay: the plot about Grey Ostrich marrying Queenie, the plot about Captain Hummingbird suing Tinkerbell, the plot about people dancing at the Octopus Gunslinger Nightclub, the plot about Captain Hook trying to kill Miss Piggy, the plot about Bat-Bat trying to encourage more sexy vampire threads, the plot about Sparkly the Dolphin getting a contract with Walden Media to play Puddleglum, the plot about Copperfox having more girlfriends than he knows what to do with, the plot about Jake joining the Coast Guard, and the plot about Emmett trying to lure Songs-of-Life over to the Dark Side. Keep watching: my VERY NEXT post will reveal the answer that will make this the BEST online roleplay EVER!

Having posted this, the boy immediately logs off, and never has another thought about the forum.
 
Several lonely hedgehogs waddled through the roleplay, feeling forgotten.

"Don't worry," comforted assorted X-men, Gilligan, Old Man Willow and Faramir, "we got forgotten too and we aren't even hedgehogs!"

"Let's all go get a coffee," Faramir said. "I hear there's a great deli over at this restaurant, the cook's name is Luigi."

"Sounds great," they said and ambled amiably down the avenue, except for Gilligan who ran ahead, ordered an extra-grande coconut latte and brought it back for Old Man Willow to dabble his roots in.

:p
 
Meanwhile, without fanfare in advance but with lots of speculation following, a new church appeared in Horse-With-No-Name-Ville. Literally APPEARED: on a Saturday morning, it just was THERE, freshly built on previously vacant ground as if by magic. The pastor, a very urban-looking fortysomething gentleman calling himself Harvey Rudolph Straik, paid a visit to Parson Finney of the Solid Rock Church of Hope. One of the most important things he said to Titus Finney was, "You don't have to worry about me stealing congregants from you. I'm here mainly to reach out to travellers and tourists who will pass by here on their way to the ski resorts of Colorado."

Something Finney was left in the dark about was why the new church bore the name "First Church of Acquiescence."
 
Finally it was opening night for Indiana Jones and the Adult-Diaper Stealing Mummies, starring of course Harrison Ford. The star himself, at 110 years old attended the premiere in his wheelchair, being trailed by about half a dozen nurses and various hospital orderlies holding oxygen tanks and other resuscitating equipment. Bat-Bat wondered how this poor senile guy was still being used to suck up all the money from the silly Americans with "Celebrity Worship Syndrome."

His ambulance-limo let him off on the red carpet and as soon as he was lowered to it by the wheelchair mechanism, he began waving in the direction opposite the crowd. Finally Ford was rushed inside the theater and his wheelchair was strapped to the rails in the handicapped section. The rest of the attendants filed in and took their seats eager for the movie to start. To their delight, the lights began to dim and the curtains slowly rose. As if on cue, Harrison Ford promptly fell asleep.
 
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Copperfox attended church, giving thanks to God for his Dad's improvement in condition at the hospital. Then when he returned to his restaurant, he was taken aback to find Brenda reporting for work. She insisted that her managerial duties could still be done with a sutured hand. "I owe you this much...and more," she concluded, looking deeply into his eyes with an expression he would have been delighted to see aimed at him by so lovely a woman--if not for this nagging feeling that something was wrong.
 
Cecilia was sitting at a table in an Italian restaurant with an empty chair in front of her. Where could Richard be?, she thought to herself. He was half an hour late. At that moment, a man came running in and took his seat at her table. "I'm so sorry I'm late!" he exclaimed.
"That's alright." Cecilia answered. "I already ordered for us. Spaghetti for me and mushroom ravioli for you."
"I knew I could count on you to remember my favorite. Which is why I want you to marry me. Will you?" he asked nervously taking out the most beautiful diamond ring she had ever seen.
"I..." she was at a loss for words. Just then, the waitress brought in their food. Did she want to marry him? It was then that she realized that she hated spaghetti.
 
Their waiter was now revealed to be none other than the ever-vigilant superhero Bat-Bat. "I know _exactly_ from what scene in what book you got the idea for the mushroom ravioli," he told Cecilia; "but as long as you and your sweetheart are content to be human beings, there's no problem with a little inside reference for the fun of it."

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Back in Horse-With-No-Name-Ville, still _another_ new church sprang up overnight, opening its doors just in time for worship on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. This one's name intrigued Parson Finney even more than the First Church of Acquiescence; this one was called Caricature Baptist Church.

Eleven-year-old Joel Finney offered to scout out this newest church for idea-content at its first service. Also interested in the situation was Joel's same-aged female friend Emma--one of the many girls who HAD been obsessed with being 13-year-old horse-riders on quests, until they were talked to by the wise Lady Sarah. Emma, thanks to Lady Sarah, had been one of those children who _were_ able to see Aslan on the day of Queenie's conversion. Emma volunteered to attend the Church of Acquiescence and report back.
 
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While avoiding ever standing right next to Brenda (he didn't want to appear to be _inviting_ another kiss from her), Copperfox did speak with her so much of the time now that Aryun wondered if something _was_ developing between them. But the old sailor was after information. In particular, about her spiritual condition. In such a context, silence can speak volumes; and Brenda _didn't_ indicate having faith in Jesus as her Savior. On the other hand, she did mention having attended a church where she last lived: another Church of Acquiescence.
 
Queenie was getting eaxcited about all the stories Emmett told her. Her heart as filled with joy and sometimes she got angry with the characters who didn't listen or turned out to be evil. Emmett laughed and calmed her down.

" Calm down darling! It's only a story!"
" I'm sorry love...but the story grabs me"

Queenie crawled against Emmett's chest and kissed him dearly. Emmett looked at the Mod-cam.
" Hey! We all were kids once!"


Another boy showed up at the monologues thread. He wasn't actually a boy but an adult who behaved like a child between the youngsters to gain popularity. The young girls and boys looked up to him and were all touched by the way he talked with them. Giving them advice and teased them but suddenly he changed into a childish boy who could beat Peter Pan as an adult. He had problems with growing up. bat-bat had a new task and kept a close eye on this new guest. When the man started to play with the vampire lovers Bat-bat circled around him and warned the man. After this the man shook his fist and disappeared
 
A brand new member showed up one day in a green forum and began making up RP threads on all kinds of conceivable topics. Of course she will always take the best character for herself and would put a mountain of rules on the other characters. After other people joined, this thread creator quit posting and the threads of curse eventually died. Not only that, she would joint everyone else's RP and take the best character also, but after that never posted again causing those threads to die quickly also.
 
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"My buddy Copperfox.....is partial to....Russian folktales himself," Emmett told Queenie between long, long kisses (and moments of sticking out his tongue at the Mod-Cam). "Old squid-boy....has seen too much....of the way....petty selfishness....can grow into....major wickedness....to have any patience....with people who....admire evil, an' think it's cool.......He tells me....that in Russian sagas....the good guys really ARE good....and there ain't no blamed foolishness....of makin' excuses....for the villains."
 
It was Monday, just past peak lunch period at The Octopus Garden, when a wail of dismay was heard from the women's room. Rosita, one of the waitresses (and a U.S. citizen, by the way), went in to investigate.

The voice had sounded unfamiliar; but it proved to be coming from the mouth of none other than Brenda the manager. "Are you hurt?" Rosita asked, reasonably enough. Brenda replied, "I wish I were _only_ hurt!" Brenda wailed; and turning, she allowed the younger woman to see how she looked right now.

For now it was apparent that Rosita was _really_ the younger of the two. Brenda's face was the same in general shape as Rosita (and Joe) had last seen it; but now it was visibly older. Not OLD-old by any means, indeed still attractive...but no longer movie-star perfect.

Brenda stared in bafflement. "What is it? Some kind of sickness?"

"Not a disease anyone can catch," Brenda sobbed; "just reality overtaking me. I won't die of it; my life expectancy still is quite good...for my _actual_ age. Please, I need to talk to Mr. Ravitts, alone."

"Not in the senoras' room, certainly?" said Rosita.

"The grain-and-potato storage room will do." So that was where Copperfox got his first glimpse of Brenda in a more nearly truthful physical aspect.

She sat on a chair, head lowered until she had to show her boss her (comparatively) true face. He sat on another chair, now not noticing that HIS knees were lightly touching HERS. "You obviously have secrets you didn't include on your resume," he remarked, but his voice was not harsh. "Hadn't you better tell me what's really going on? And why you _didn't_ tell me sooner?"
 
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Meanwhile........

Three flying pigs and two gophers were busily ploting to take over the world!! Mwuahahahaha!!! But just then, Alyosha waddled in. "Quack?" he said, wanting to know what these suspicious looking creatures were doing. Flying pig #1 rolled his eyes. "Of course we're planing to take over the world!"
"Quack?"
"No, we can't tell you HOW!!"
"Yeah, that's our secret!"
"Quack," said Alyosha.
Just then, Lonny ran in. "Alyosha!" she said. "I've been looking all over for you!!"
"Quack!"
"They're ploting to take over the world?? That's rediculas!!"
"Quack!"
"Alyosha, I think it's time to go home."
"QUACK!!"
"NO! We are going home, RIGHT NOW! Enough of this foolishness!!"
 
OOC--thanks, Lonny.
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The Matrix hero "Ghost" caught the evil animals completely by surprise and killed them all with Uzi fire--thus ridding the world of one evil conspiracy, AND making possible a pig roast with some of his friends. Turning to the stunned Lonny, he suddenly became as mild as milk, explaining to the girl:

"I needed to eliminate that threat in a hurry, so that I'd have time to bring any latecomers up to date on the main action.

"This entire space-time continuum called Monologues was brought into being for one purpose: to direct well-deserved mockery at the bad habits many people fall into in online interactions, particularly in roleplaying. To this end, the same contradictions and random changes which _destroy_ RPG's otherwise, are _desirable_ here. But ironically, where undisciplined and egotistic posting ruins roleplays which ARE trying to be consistent, _this_ thread went from intentional randomness to _actually_ running a consistent plot.

"Central to the plot are two mixed-metaphor characters who, through a mixture of impulse and planning, became a remarkable combination: Joseph's version of the gunslinger hero played by Scott Glenn in 'Silverado,' and Vanessa's version of Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen. They first met, not even here, but in the 'Queen of Hearts' thread, where Vanessa had imagined the Snow Queen setting up shop. With Emmett and his brother Jake appearing in that thread, Vanessa in her handling of the Snow Queen momentarily give in to something which young roleplaying girls do ALL the time, but which normally Vanessa would never think of doing: humiliating men gratuitously and cruelly, making them look like helpless, worthless dweebs. This thoughtless impulse being light-years removed from Vanessa's true, kindly personality, she almost instantly regretted it and wanted to make things right; and indeed she made things MORE right than Joseph would even have asked for.

"With Aslan having repaid the Snow Queen by making HER experience fear and humiliation, Vanessa movingly portrayed the character awakening gradually to conscience and humanity. More than that, she played the Snow Queen as berating herself (rightly!) for not having seen the honorable Emmett as her chance of redemption. Thus the weakened and remorseful sorceress determined to search for Emmett--which brought her to the Monologues thread--in hopes of asking his forgiveness and making amends to him for her abusive actions.

"Now Aslan intervened to _help_ her, making Emmett aware that her ashamed contrition was totally sincere. The gunslinger was so impressed by his former enemy's new meekness and repentance, that he proposed marriage to her only hours after she came to him. Their wedding is tentatively set for the first weekend in December--to be imagined as happening on Saturday, but with play beginning on Friday if not sooner.

"Meanwhile, Joseph's own-self character has been coming gradually under the hostile attention of the Bad Guys--the ones who desire to see a collectivist tyranny replace American liberty. Their schemes against him, spearheaded by Brenda the devious Shapechanger (who took a vacant job at his vegetarian restaurant under false pretenses), are coming to the foreground just now.

"As Diana Rigg said in a Muppet movie: that was exposition. It has to go in SOMEWHERE."
 
Give in to the temptation!! Because, UNLIKE regular roleplaying, you WON'T ruin everything for others if you make up completely unrelated stuff and shoehorn it in. If you're in any doubt about what to do here, go back and read the VERY FIRST two or three pages of this thread; then you'll have the idea.
 
Oh, hurray! This is the perfect place for me to start, then xD
Meh .... I'm scared =o
Oh, but this'll help me with writing too, it's obviously not my strongest point...
Psh, I feel so uncreative next to you people. =/
 
The way to gain skill at writing, IS TO WRITE.

I mean it about looking at the earliest pages; they will show how it was BEFORE we sort of stumbled into having a consistent love story on the thread.
 
That... that's a very good point >.>
I never have time....
Okay, okay, I'm officially doing this at some point in time.
As of now, I really need to finish this drawing and get off the forum, but I shall return! With draygons, most likely xD
 
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