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<blockquote data-quote="KenHood" data-source="post: 4739850" data-attributes="member: 4413"><p><span style="color: YellowGreen"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Well, looky here,</span></span> says an oily voice, <span style="color: yellowgreen"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Adventurers.</span></span></p><p></p><p>Somehow it makes the last word sound like a skin disease.</p><p></p><p>You turn and see a skull lord has entered the bar. It wears an elegant jester's costume, green and purple. Its staff is topped with three ringing bells, radiating the energy of death and damnation.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="color: Olive">Ah, yes,</span></span> says the leftmost skull, <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="color: Olive">It's almost a heart-warming sight--if we had a heart--</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: YellowGreen"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Oh, yes, indeedie-do,</span></span> interrupts the rightmost skull.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="color: Olive">They're like little fledgling chicks chirping in the nest, waiting to gobble up momma's vomit, just moments away from being pushed out into the void to see if they fly or splat like overripe watermelons,</span></span> continues the leftmost skull.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: YellowGreen"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Ooooh! Can we give them a little push?</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="color: Olive">Sounds good to me!</span></span></p><p></p><p>The three skulls chuckle.</p><p></p><p>The middle skull speaks...</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: SeaGreen"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Greetings effeminate girly-men sissy-boys. Perhaps you wish to hide in the shadows of this lackluster establishment and drown your sorrow at your own inneffective and meaningless existence in the horse urine that passes as ale. Or perhaps you wish to grasp at some straw of--well, I won't call it fame or heroism in your case--let's just say 'less inneffectiveness and meaninglessness', because--face it--it just won't get any better for a slob like you. </span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="color: Olive">Careful, Fred, you're going to make them cry,</span></span> says the leftmost skull.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: SeaGreen"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">If you think you've got the intestinal fortitude to be a REAL adventurer, then prove it. At <strong><span style="color: DarkOrange">TURTLEDOME!</span></strong>. We'd throw down a gauntlet, but we're afraid your puny arms would be too weak to pick it up.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>With that, the three skulls laugh. The skull lord, bells a-ringing, kicks his heels and exits the building.</p><p></p><p>But not before the rightmost skull turns and adds, <span style="color: YellowGreen"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Bite my bony butt, meat-boy!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KenHood, post: 4739850, member: 4413"] [COLOR="YellowGreen"][FONT="Century Gothic"]Well, looky here,[/FONT][/COLOR] says an oily voice, [COLOR="yellowgreen"][FONT="Century Gothic"]Adventurers.[/FONT][/COLOR] Somehow it makes the last word sound like a skin disease. You turn and see a skull lord has entered the bar. It wears an elegant jester's costume, green and purple. Its staff is topped with three ringing bells, radiating the energy of death and damnation. [FONT="Century Gothic"][COLOR="Olive"]Ah, yes,[/COLOR][/FONT] says the leftmost skull, [FONT="Century Gothic"][COLOR="Olive"]It's almost a heart-warming sight--if we had a heart--[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR="YellowGreen"][FONT="Century Gothic"]Oh, yes, indeedie-do,[/FONT][/COLOR] interrupts the rightmost skull. [FONT="Century Gothic"][COLOR="Olive"]They're like little fledgling chicks chirping in the nest, waiting to gobble up momma's vomit, just moments away from being pushed out into the void to see if they fly or splat like overripe watermelons,[/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR="Olive"][/COLOR] continues the leftmost skull. [COLOR="YellowGreen"][FONT="Century Gothic"]Ooooh! Can we give them a little push?[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT="Century Gothic"][COLOR="Olive"]Sounds good to me![/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR="Olive"][/COLOR] The three skulls chuckle. The middle skull speaks... [INDENT][SIZE="4"][COLOR="SeaGreen"][FONT="Century Gothic"]Greetings effeminate girly-men sissy-boys. Perhaps you wish to hide in the shadows of this lackluster establishment and drown your sorrow at your own inneffective and meaningless existence in the horse urine that passes as ale. Or perhaps you wish to grasp at some straw of--well, I won't call it fame or heroism in your case--let's just say 'less inneffectiveness and meaninglessness', because--face it--it just won't get any better for a slob like you. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT] [FONT="Century Gothic"][COLOR="Olive"]Careful, Fred, you're going to make them cry,[/COLOR][/font][COLOR="Olive"][/color] says the leftmost skull. [INDENT][SIZE="4"][COLOR="SeaGreen"][FONT="Century Gothic"]If you think you've got the intestinal fortitude to be a REAL adventurer, then prove it. At [B][COLOR="DarkOrange"]TURTLEDOME![/COLOR][/B]. We'd throw down a gauntlet, but we're afraid your puny arms would be too weak to pick it up.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT] With that, the three skulls laugh. The skull lord, bells a-ringing, kicks his heels and exits the building. But not before the rightmost skull turns and adds, [COLOR="YellowGreen"][FONT="Century Gothic"]Bite my bony butt, meat-boy![/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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