Hello, everynyaa. How

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Hello, everynyaa. How

Hello, everynyaa. How are you? Fine, thank you. Osaka: Oh maw gosh! 

Hiiiiiiii. You can call me Red. I am a rather bookish guy who has been badgered into joining the Chatterbox by Sakura. Sakura badgers me into a lot of things.....  Anyway, I'm new to this whole Chatterbox business,so if you could introduce yourself that would be appreciated. Oh, and Sakura told me that there are only a few guys on the Chatterbox. Follow me, guys, and become my loyal minions! Follow me like lemmings and I will lead you to a great and glorious future, where boys are no longer the minority! For those who serve me faithfully, I will reward you greatly!

Okay, I'm just ranting now. I think my point has been made and I can now slink away....

 

-Cluny the Scourge 

submitted by Red, age 13, Somewhere Random
(August 10, 2012 - 11:57 pm)

Better to have the force against you than the Doctor. I'm just sayin' pick your poison.

submitted by Quintus, Calveicia
(December 11, 2012 - 7:40 pm)

I am now starting the conquest of South Korea. 

At 4:00 A.M. KST, all lemmings will board some sort of transport (pokemon, dragons, etc.) and fly/swim/whatever to the Korean province Jeju. Jeju is that little island south of Korea and really close to Japan. Jeju is really pretty. It has a bunch of volcanoes and waterfalls and a pretty big forest. It's like the Hawaii of Korea. Anyway, so all the lemmings and various other things will go and cause mayhem. Luca will spontaneously combust. Amarelle will whack things with her frying pan. Demons will terroize people. Dragons will light things on fire. Blue will sing the Safety Dance. Magic will happen. Lemmings will run off waterfalls. You get the idea. And the conquest will take two hours! Exactly!  

submitted by Red, age 13, Hokkaido
(November 18, 2012 - 11:34 am)

The conquest of New York City:

The Woodstock Portion of the Army (with the addition of Nerdfighteria) will march into New York City tomorrow.  They will raid all the bookstores, a couple borrowed lemmings will fall off skyscrapers, etc.  Then everything will go haywire because I'm 1,000 words behind on my Nano.

submitted by Gollum, Mooselfower
(November 19, 2012 - 9:10 pm)

((Time for the counter-revolution! Or is that the counter-counter-revolution? I don't know. I also love Ten.))

New York burst through the door, looking more disheveled than ever. "Quintus!" he bellowed. "They're in revolt - the people are, anyway. I've rounded up most of New England, but we need your other forces to keep them under control."

Quintus tugged on a sleek silver pigtail agitatedly. "I knew this would happen sometime," she muttered. "It's not the ordinary citizens. As far as they know, nothing's changed. It's gotta be the CBers. Gollum is the only one I know of, but she's good." She turned to the holographic screen displaying information about the conquered states, which shone in green. Only two, Delaware and Georgia, remained uncolored. Quintus had had... difficulties with her two most outspoken states (Texas aside, of course). 

"Is there anything we can do right now, Q?" he asked.

She turned around, smiling evilly. "Oh, yes. Get Georgia and Delaware in here. I want to talk to them."

New York obeyed hesitantly. Something told him that this was probably the best course of action, considering the circumstances. Though, being run across the entire country, made to occupy Wall Street with a bunch of other people, and essentially having one's leader convince Del and Gee of anything wouldn't be one's first choice.

There was a lot of yelling from behind the office door that day, followed by a dangerous-sounding stretch where there was no noise whatsoever emanating from between the door and floor.

"What are you-"

"Shh! Trying to find out what's happening!"

Wisconsin pulled her foam cheese hat off of one ear. "Did I hear you right? You, New York, who is King of Everything and Lord Know-It-All, are listening at the keyhole?"

"It's not really a keyhole."

"Well, I can see that. But why?"

"Q's trying to convince Del and Gee of stuff. At the same time."

A light dawned on Wisconsin's freckled features. "Oh, she is stupid. And so are you. What are you doing in the blast radius?"

New York sat up, looking puzzled. "That's the thing. They yelled at each other for about an hour, and then everything went quiet. Creepily quiet. The door's locked, and I can't see much more than some dust bunnies from here."

Wisconsin leaned against the wall. "Kick down the door much?"

"Go ahead." He shifted out of the way as she raised a heavy black boot to place a skilled kick in the centre of the door. It bounced open on its hinges, rebounding off the wall on the other side, revealing the strangest scene.

Quintus sat on top of the desk, looking rather like an owl with her knees pulled up to her chest and arms gripping the edge. She scowled at the floor in deep concentration. Delaware lounged in Quintus's desk chair, looking very smug indeed. Her severely-cut auburn hair was mussed into a tangled mass - by what, New York couldn't tell. Georgia leaned against the wall, arms crossed. A shiny patch of red scar tissue stood out angrily against her right shoulder, creeping up her neck towards her chin. He would never get used to seeing that. It may have been a hundred or so years, but nobody ever gets used to the aftereffects of a civil war.

The room was dead silent. Wisconsin lowered her foot carefully. "O-kay," she said, trying to sound cheerful. "This is weird."

Quintus jumped off the desk suddenly. "And you will surrender, and that is final!" she announced.

Delaware curled her lip, but didn't object. Apparently, whatever negotiations ensued while they were silent had convinced her to listen.

"Nothing's ever final," Georgia replied evenly. She brushed past New York and Wisconsin on her way out the door. "But yes, this is... temporarily so."

"...What she said." Delaware stomped after Georgia, skirt swishing across the tiled floor.

Wisconsin watched them go. "What was that all about?" she asked timidly.

Quintus sighed. "I have conquered telepathy. And the entire US is conquered now, so we can all rest easy. Except for both Doctors and the Rats."

"Both Doctors?"

"Ten and Scamandros." She turned back towards them. "But for now, we've got this under control."

((Yay! Long post for long absence! And you learned things about my states. Gee's scar, of course, represents Sherman's March to the Sea during the Civil War. I made a whole thing about it. Del's my fiery, obstinate one who likes to have the last word but can never think of any. Gee says things only sometimes, but they always make you stop and go "What." And of course, Winnie is a ninja. Also, I have silver hair now! Mum said I could dye it. And it looks awesome.))

submitted by Quintus, Calveicia
(December 11, 2012 - 8:36 pm)

All lemmings and other beings have exactly 48 hours to conquer both of the Koreas and Switzerland.  In 48 hours, we will allow the opposing party an additonal 48 hours to speak up. If no one speaks up or does anything, we are victorious and I'll wrap it up. If someone speaks up, we shall parley. Somehow. And the clock starts... now.

submitted by Red, age 13, The Final Showdown
(December 11, 2012 - 10:44 pm)

Your location has me singing "The Final Countdown" in my head.

And I did do stuff. I finished off the USA, so I can turn my attention to NY and Canada.

Re-reading things, this sounds a lot like Civ. The game, I mean. Is it 2050 yet?

submitted by Quintus, Calveicia
(December 12, 2012 - 3:20 pm)

Civ? "The Final Countdown"? What are those?  Oh, while I'm on the subject, do you like the song "War Paint"? (What I'm listening to)

What I meant, is we need to wrap up this long lengthy war thingymajig. Letting it burn out is not an epic end I can speak about with pride for several months before my montths tell me to be quiet! I have several ideas for what we can do:

1) compromise. Meh. In compromise, no one gets what they really want.

2) contest of something. A nonpartial person (Admins, Melody, whoever) declares a contest of something and the winner of the contest wins the war. 

3) luck. Someone nonpartial says something like pick a number between -5 and 102 an whoever gets closer wins.

4) the cheap way. One party gets bored and says whatever, I'm out, you win.

5) Ya got any better ideas? 

submitted by Red, age 13, Okinawa
(December 12, 2012 - 8:36 pm)

Civ is a game in which the object is to Rule the World by 2050. "The Final Countdown" is a song that I may have titled incorrectly. I like "War Paint"!

I am in total agreement with this idea. But what would happen if all of my followers randomly defected to Team Red because lemmings are cute (?) and I was forced to resign? Although the "pick-a-number" idea works too. I'm only suggesting the first idea as a last resort.

Garthwumpian Flopp says afig. A fig!

submitted by Quintus, Calveicia
(December 13, 2012 - 6:47 am)

If you're talking about the Rush song on Signals, it's just called "Countdown". And currently "Mission" is playing. I love this song. 

If all your followers turn traitor and say, "aw, the cute widdle lemmings," then obviously we win. Duh. 

As for the ideas, I am taking a vote. I vote for contest first, luck second, (your) ultimate surrender third. Which do you vote for? 

submitted by Sakura C., age 13, Okinawa
(December 13, 2012 - 6:32 pm)

No, it's not written by Rush. It's by somebody else. It's also in the NaNo records somewhere.

I meant what would you do? Would you accept that as an exciting enough takeover?

Contest first, luck second, YOUR ultimate surrender third.

submitted by Quintus, Calveicia
(December 13, 2012 - 8:51 pm)

I would tell my friends that my charm, charisma, noble cause, and my hoard of cute attack lemmings convinced the enemy that they needed to surrender!

That, or that my hoard of cute attack lemmings scared the enemy into surrender!

I guess its a contest, then. If one of the admins would like to create a contest of some sort, please do so for our benefit.

 

I propose a contest to find Jack Frost and persuade him to send fluffy, white snow everywhere children of all ages are waiting for it to go sledding and skiing and tobogganing. But Jack must also be convinced to keep the roads clear so people can travel safely to the winter playground areas. Bonus points if this can be accomplished before Christmas. And hot chocolate for all would be nice, too!

Admin 1

submitted by Red, age 13, Okinawa
(December 14, 2012 - 8:07 pm)

Umm... I'm on first name terms with one Jack Frost, but I'm not so sure that I can really control the snow. Controlling wind? Yes. Snow? No. Is it possible to create a slightly more plausible contest? (A new hot chocolate machine has been installed in the Admins HQ, an underground Batman style cave complete with Jaccuzi, pool, and massage center.)

 How about a race to the North Pole? Or the South Pole? I think I heard on on the news that someone's about to attempt to cross the continent. Maybe you could meet up with him.

submitted by Sakura C., age 13, Okinawa
(December 14, 2012 - 10:28 pm)

South Pole. It's farther, and therefore more difficult to get to.

RULES:

1) Only non-magical means of transportation are allowed. Banned transportation includes but is not limited to dragons, the TARDIS, Apparation, whatever Listening Daisy does, and anything that has no right to exist in the scientific world.

2) Every "day" of travel must be clearly logged.

3) Ambushing other parties and hindering them from reaching their destination is totally allowed, using whatever means necessary.

4) The common starting point for all interested parties is on neutral ground - Dublin, Ireland.

5) Only three members of the team may make the journey. Pick your favorite.

6) The contest ends when one party reaches the Penguin King at the South Pole and presents to him a shiny rock. He will declare you winner (or loser, as it may be).

It begins NOW.

submitted by Quintus, Calveicia
(December 15, 2012 - 8:34 am)

Does this mean that wherever it snows first wins?  Because then I think that us owners of Canada have a distinct advantage.

 

It seems the contest idea to send snow was rejected, and in its place a race to the South Pole from Dublin, Ireland, has begun.

Admin 1

Here are the rules, copied and pasted from that comment:

South Pole. It's farther, and therefore more difficult to get to.

RULES:

1) Only non-magical means of transportation are allowed. Banned
transportation includes but is not limited to dragons, the TARDIS,
Apparation, whatever Listening Daisy does, and anything that has no
right to exist in the scientific world.

2) Every "day" of travel must be clearly logged.

3) Ambushing other parties and hindering them from reaching their
destination is totally allowed, using whatever means necessary.

4) The common starting point for all interested parties is on neutral ground - Dublin, Ireland.

5) Only three members of the team may make the journey. Pick your favorite.

6) The contest ends when one party reaches the Penguin King at the South
Pole and presents to him a shiny rock. He will declare you winner (or
loser, as it may be).

It begins NOW.

submitted by Quintus, Calveicia
(December 15, 2012 - 8:34 am)

 

submitted by Gollum, Mooseflower
(December 15, 2012 - 8:49 am)

Oh, no! The one day I sleep in to 8:30 is the day that you launch the contest! Aaagh!

Plan: I'm going by my means. Whoever else wants to join can just go also.

My means: Borrowing Prince Edward's Blackbird (whatever scientific means possible: airplanes!) and flying to Dublin. There I will refuel. I also plan to stop to refuel in several other places.

Today: Distance between Dublin and Okinawa is 6285 miles. Blackbird can go 2139 miles per hour. Sweet. So it will take about three hours to get to Dublin. Around lunch time back in CA. I will wait one hour for fueling and then I'm off again! Next stop: Cape Town!

submitted by Red, age 13, Okinawa
(December 15, 2012 - 12:34 pm)