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The Wolf Game 2 - Day 8 - And the End cometh

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  • #76
    Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Night 3 - Scooby Doo Strikes!

    Considering that only 2 wolves are left I would like to have the wolves vote today, in other words to "speed" the game up they have 24 hours to make their victim known.

    thank you for your co-operation.

    So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.

    If you've done 6 impossible things today?
    Then why not have Breakfast at Milliways!

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    • #77
      Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 3 - Playing, Play... DOH!

      Playing, Play.........DOH!


      Slowly the day arrived in the troubled park; the game-area closed of to the outside world had attracted some attention outside the park after the strange airplane dropped something in the game-section close to nightfall but not enough to warrant any investigation.

      Gyron was up and about, brushing his teeth and getting ready to check on his Scooby snacks, after all he didn’t trust that Hicks character one bit. It was “nice” of him to help with getting the snacks under cover, but not all had fitted in the cottage and only the wolves were seemingly kept at bay by the snacks, Hicks was a totally different matter. Hicks’ fear for being voted to hang was so big that Gyron would not put it past him to steal the snacks and buy his way into safety with them…….

      Obnoxiousmodesty was up to, he had some major (or should we say Mayor) worries about this whole thing, after all the game had been played long and never been known to cost lives, he would never have signed up to be a part of it, let alone mayor, if the chances were they would all be killed, more importantly; HE could get hurt!

      And as if THAT wasn’t enough, he also had to have the craziest bunch of players ever gathered. There was this weird foreigner who talked all orange for a while and when that finally stopped he dunked himself in orange juice only to have his skin take on an orange colour, thereby running the risk that those who were less fortunate with their eyesight might mistake him for the ball they kept throwing at the hoop on the side of the doom, God only knows he was round enough for it!

      There also was Snickers, none to stable when he came in, but the killing seemed to have aggravated his mental disorder to a state where he was outright dangerous, so dangerous that obnoxiousmodesty most certainly did not want to take any risk by approaching him. He remembered only to well how he had been playing with a bucket full of C4, like it was play-doh. And this rich kid that was here to get some “balls” was not only trying to buy his way out of trouble and out of the voting all the time, adding insult to injury he had become “friends” with this Snickers character and had been eyeing the C4 with nothing but a perverted look upon his face, in general obnoxiousmodesty felt it had little good promise that he was running out of cash to pay for his protection from yet another idiot, one who ordered Scooby Snacks to be dropped in the middle of the game area.

      “Luckily” the “rest” of the gang had not yet shown signs of total insanity, but unfortunately none had shown signs of the chips as distributed by the park-management upon arrival.

      When obnoxiousmodesty heard a sound he looked out of the window, only to see Gyron moving towards the breakfast hall to check up on his remaining snacks.

      Obnoxiousmodesty decided it was time to get out himself, perhaps it had all been a bad dream………..

      He had not left his cottage or he bumped into Hoop who seemed to be in a hurry, but who made time to have a short chat with obnoxiousmodesty.

      Suddenly they heard screaming, at least that is what obnoxiousmodesty made it to be, Hoop on the other hand thought it was laughter, but whatever it was, it came from the breakfast hall and dragged all the other players out to the open.

      MarionDeputy and dipperdunk were the first to join Obnoxiousmodesty and Hoop and were looking at the mayor with big eyes wondering what on earth that sound was.

      The mayor knew at once that this was his time again, he had to be the authority, he would have the sordid task of investigating what was going on, but at that precise moment he remember that MarionDeputy was a police officer in real life, so being the mayor he was, he told MarionDeputy and dipperdunk to go and check the ruckus.

      They slowly walked towards the breakfast hall only to see Gyron standing on the side of the building laughing and crying at the same time, were those tears from sadness or laughter they wondered, but thankfully it meant they did not have to enter the building and find something scary because if anything was clear, it was that the loud noise was made by Gyron, now only to find out what on earth it was,

      When Gyron was not answering to questions and only pointing to his snacks MarionDeputy took matters in his own hand, he was going to show that dimwit Gyron how things were done in HIS precinct!
      Boldly he asked the idiot’s name and the reason for the disturbance, but Gyron was in no state to answer questions and not even the thread of being arrested by MarionDeputy was enough to pull him out of it.

      Dipperdunk in the meanwhile heard another noise, more a low moaning coming from the pile of Scooby Snacks and wondered what that could be, he tried to get the attention of the deputy but to no avail, the deputy was busy handcuffing Gyron and reading him his Miranda rights.
      Dipperdunk HAD to go see for himself what the sound was and moved over to the pile of snacks..

      When he got nearer the moaning became more audible, but had little human to it, a high pitched whining was interrupting the growling moaning and dipperdunk felt less and less at ease.

      When he was close enough to see some details he noticed a foot, uh? Did he see that right, was that a foot? Sticking out of the snack pile.
      Had the snacks claimed another victim? If so then this poor ******* stood more chance then Bayoupacer did last night, this one was showing signs of life!

      Quickly dipperdunk started digging away at the mountain of snacks, to reveal the foot in all its glory, there was the foot, there was the ankle and there was a thighbone and there was an arm…..
      A thighbone???????

      Dipperdunk now noticed for the first time that he foot and ankle he found were attached to each other, but nothing else, the amount of blood on the floor was enormous and the sight of a well stripped thighbone was a shocker to say the least.

      He did not register any of this completely but started digging higher to see what made this awful noise.

      He shouted and gestured for the other to join him and in doing so rescued Gyron from being dragged of to the local dog pen. The mayor saw what happened, pointed MarionDeputy to dipperdunk and slipped the cuffs off of Gyron.

      Gyron had noticed little of what happened and was still laughing and crying at the same time, something had snapped.

      Snickers had joined the hunt for body parts and kept on talking about his C4, but no one paid attention thinking he was talking to the voices in his head when suddenly a head appeared among the snacks, it was HICKS and he was ALIVE! Well it seemed that way, because his mouth was what where the sounds came from, but with an arm missing and a leg cleaned down to the bone, one ear gone and blood all over him it was hard to be sure. His remaining arm held tightly to what looked like a plastic figurine of a wolf with an inscription on the base it was made upon.
      Dipperdunk was sure this was a message from Hicks, for them, this must reveal at least the name of one other wolf he thought, so he started prying it loose from Hicks’ hand, when he had the fingers open he pulled the wolf statue out form the rubble, not noticing the string that was attached and still in Hicks’ hand.
      When he almost had it out of the pile, he noticed resistance, he pulled a little harder, but only to encounter more pressure, one BIG pull and the pressure was so much that the statue flew back into the pile straight back into Hick’s hand.

      This was (we later concluded) what saved dipperdunks’ life, when it shot back, the pile on top of Hicks caved in only to be followed by an enormous explosion , which in turn had the snacks raining over the entire park, not only the game area…..
      Mixed with the snacks were infinitely small particles of what once was Hicks and a fine red maze settled over the park.

      Once all reconstructions were done it became clear what had happened that night.
      Hicks obviously preparing for his dark plans with Gyron (tie him to the rollercoaster so the wolves would eat him) had thought it was a good idea to protect himself from the wolves in the meanwhile by filling his pockets with Scooby snacks, only to be caught out after dark by the remaining wolves, thinking only the snacks could save him he had fled in the pile of snacks, where he also happened to stumble over the C4 carelessly left behind by Snickers. Not recognising it for what it was, he thought lady luck was on his hand and dealt him with play-doh to leave a message for the others, he was sure he recognized one of the wolves!
      He used the elastic from his waistband in his pants to tie the remaining part of the play-doh to his statue so people would realize that it was not something he found or just an incident and the rest so to speak is history.

      No signs came from above and obnoxiousmodesty shook his head as he knew for sure he had to deal with more problems in the days to come, at least two more people lost whatever they had for a brain and someone would have to patch up dipperdunk and put a dressing on where once his hand was. Least but not yet mentioned, he had another vote to conduct……………….



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      So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.

      If you've done 6 impossible things today?
      Then why not have Breakfast at Milliways!

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      • #78
        Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

        I'm the village maniac. Cool.

        This one time, I put C4 in the feed at the zoo. Oh man, that was so awesome.... lions and tigers and bears, oh my!!

        HAHAHahahhahahaHAhaHAhaaHhAHA!

        I'm still thinking about who I'm gonna vote for this time.

        *builds a castle out of C4*

        Ehh, I'll go with Hoop this time. Hoop will be hanged!
        Official Member of the Anti-Alliteration Association

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        • #79
          Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

          ed:
















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          • #80
            Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

            I'd like my Hoop cooked rare, with some mushrooms on the side, please.

            :

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            • #81
              Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

              I see the mob mentality is alive and well. Good work mob, and remember who to vote for in the next mayoral election. My possible wolf list is down to five (maybe six), and I'll have to think on it some more before I vote.

              Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.

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              • #82
                Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

                Mob mob mob mob mob mobbiddy mob mob mob mob mobbo mobbymob mob mobmob mob mob mob

                Yay mob! Yay boom-booms!
                Official Member of the Anti-Alliteration Association

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                • #83
                  Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

                  Hoop.

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                  • #84
                    Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

                    giggle, giggle, snort, snort, cry..cry...sob.......I vote hoops.....my precious scooby snacks are every where! Now there is no protection for me......

                    giggle, giggle, snort, snort, cry..cry...sob.......

                    ted:

                    Another great chapter from the story master!


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                    • #85
                      Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

                      "And as if THAT wasn’t enough, he also had to have the craziest bunch of players ever gathered. There was this weird foreigner who talked all orange for a while and when that finally stopped he dunked himself in orange juice only to have his skin take on an orange colour, thereby running the risk that those who were less fortunate with their eyesight might mistake him for the ball they kept throwing at the hoop on the side of the doom, God only knows he was round enough for it!"



                      I vote Hoop too!


                      Regards,

                      Mourning
                      2012 PD ABA Fantasy Keeper League Champion, sports.ws

                      2011 PD ABA Fantasy Keeper League Champion, sports.ws

                      2006 PD ABA Fantasy League runner up, sports.ws

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                      • #86
                        Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

                        DING DONG

                        May I remind the players that I need to receive a PM from the mayor and that he decides who dies, it does not HAVE to be the majority decision.

                        So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.

                        If you've done 6 impossible things today?
                        Then why not have Breakfast at Milliways!

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                        • #87
                          Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

                          Great story.

                          I'm going to go against the mob and vote for MarionDeputy.

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                          • #88
                            Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

                            Okay, okay. I'll once again go with the mob's decision. (What the hell, hasn't steered us wrong yet.)

                            Down with Hoop.
                            Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.

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                            • #89
                              Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

                              Originally posted by Aw
                              I'd like my Hoop cooked rare, with some mushrooms on the side, please.

                              :

                              I think you guys could be making a big mistake. AwHeck wants to eat me, I think he told on himself and he is a WOLF !
                              "Just look at the flowers ........ BANG" - Carol "The Walking Dead"

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                              • #90
                                Re: The Wolf Game 2 - Day 4 - Playing, Play... DOH!

                                Originally posted by Hoop
                                Originally posted by Aw
                                I'd like my Hoop cooked rare, with some mushrooms on the side, please.

                                :

                                I think you guys could be making a big mistake. AwHeck wants to eat me, I think he told on himself and he is a WOLF !
                                That was just an attempt at humor. If I'm a wolf... why did I vote successfully against my fellow wolves the last two times?

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