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All the Cbers and Adimins where in the woods, in a cabin, huddled around the fire. One cber, with pink glittery hair looked out the window. Snow was falling, covering the trees in a white blanket. She sighed, and looked back to the fire.
From the loft, Æs and Capatchas thundered down the stairs. They joined their counterparts around the fire. They joined conversations. And then one big discussion began.
"I miss the CBers who left," the Pink glittery haired one said.
"We all do." The Cbers all nodded in agreement. " I feel, after the Æ war... Some just got diconnected."
The Cbers stiffened at the words spoken of the war,months ago.
"Please don't mention that time," St.Owl said, sitting taller.
"Why not? It happened. Why not talk about it. If the new Cbers never know, how can they prevent one after we are gone?"
St.Owl sighed and began. " Remember the Statues?"
All the Cbers murmured at the mention of the Statues, the marble carvings of every Cber that where destroyed during the fire."
"Fire?" one of the new CBers asked. "What fire?"
"One of the main buildings in the City was destroyed during the War. It was a big half circle, three stories high. Once you made a post o thread, as the Adimins approved it you got a statue. The statues where where the Cbers could be remembered after they left. Or idolized. The Æs didn't like that they didn't have statues. Now they do, of course."
The door of the cabin swept open and a figure entered. Her cloak was an ombré of pink to purple to a deep blue. She was not human, nor animal. Her ears where a point but white furred with pale insides. One brown eye was in her right eye socket. A blue in her left. A white tail swept down behind her. She was taller than a human, she was like a more feline version of the Na'Vi.
"Not all of us are gone forever," she began, leaping with inhuman speed to the stair railing. There she perched. "I said I would pop by."
More Cbers of the Past entered the cabin. Ton, Winter, Red, JtSF, Pete the Trollslayer, and many others streamed in.
"We never are gone forever."
"Maple?"
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You can continue this, or criticize it. This may only be a matter of opinion. Feel free to do what you wish.
submitted by ..., age 12, Oz's Stall
(April 9, 2016 - 8:23 am)
(April 9, 2016 - 8:23 am)
What I don't understand is why St. Owl said, "Let's not get a war on our hands", as if it weren't already a war, but then name my quarrel with Cho Chang a war. Something seems wrong here.
Sorry, but hypocrisy is one of my pet peeves of mine. I need consistency! I live for constance. That's why I complain a lot about hypocrisy and inconsistency.
(April 20, 2016 - 8:51 am)
Esthelle trembled. "Thank you, Scylla. Cho. St. Owl. All of you. And now, I think I have something to say."
She slipped off the window-sill and stood before the CBers. She was petrified. She didn't think she should be saying anything, as she was still rather new to the CB, and she was terrified of sounding pretentious. But she had already began, and she knew she'd have to finish it. A quote from her beloved "The Hobbit" flashed into her mind-- "Bilbo, you were a fool; you walked right in and put your foot in it." She almost laughed-- and stopped herself. She cleared her throat, clenched and unclenched her fists, and began:
"St. Owl's accounts have been enlightening in many ways, but their primary purpose is, I think, as a warning. Not a warning against having AEs or even a warning against leaving CB.
"It is a warning against an evil of a far deeper and greater kind.
"It is a warning against one of the most primary elements of Human Nature.
"Selfishness. That is the evil that has, I think, been tearing apart this CB for time out of present memory. People who are bitter that they are not as recognized on CB as they think they should be. People who grudge those who are recognized. People who are so absorbed with 'being themselves' that they injure their fellow CBers much more deeply than one would think. People who are offended at any little thing. People who concern themselves with everyone's buisness. People who feel as though the CB is so important that they have outbursts of fury on those who choose to leave it.
"We are these people. Every single one of us-- myself not the least of these."
Esthelle felt the mood in the room change. The CBers were looking on her with unfriendly, even hostile, eyes. She did not grudge them their outrage. After all, who was she who dared to speak to this gathering of people from all over the world, from the depths of Time Remembered?
But she wasn't finished. "As this evil is one that lurks within us all, we must all of us battle it within ourselves.
"We must remember that this CB, though one of the most wonderful things I have ever seen on the shifting universe we call the Interweb, is after all, only an online site. It is not the real world. People who leave it have not broken any promises or betrayed those who choose to stay.
"But I believe that those who, like myself, love and cherish this CB should take it upon themselves to make this place they adore a thriving and fertile soil for newcomers and veterans alike.
"CB is not Facebook. Or Twitter. It is not a place for little feuds and empty words.
"It was created with the purpose of allowing young writers, artists, thinkers, dreamers, planners, leaders, followers, the shy and the bold, the lonely and the rejected, to enjoy a healthy fellowship, inspiring and encouraging one another.
"We come here to write. To talk. To speak on those things that we love, and to find others who share those loves.
"But we should not, I think, publish all our feelings, all our troubles, all our personal lives.
"I do not mean that we should disconnect ourselves from our fellow CBers. No, we should share with them our joys and triumphs and dreams. But we should look to the people we know in the real world, our families and in-the-flesh friends, in our times of need. If we are unhappy, we might alert our closest CBers of that fact, and maybe explain to them why. But we must not pour our anger and misery out into the CB.
"This sounds cruel and pretentious and bustling. I know. But remember that it is not only the Veterans who visit CB. There are young children, and people who did not come here to hear and bear all of our own troubles. They came here to delight in a safe, free society, to find a place where they can share their writing skills with the world. We, the seniors and veterans, as those who know the CB, must not take that experience from them by domineering with our emotions and woes. That is the lesson we must learn-- selflessness. To sacrifice for the good of others."
Esthelle stopped abruptly. Her knees shook. Her heart pounded. She stood for a moment frozen in the middle of the floor, and then staggered back to her window-sill.
She considered fleeing the room until everything had settled. Hiding her face in her hands, she waited.
(April 23, 2016 - 1:49 pm)
It was supposed to be "mustn't."
Well, that goes for good grammar.
(April 20, 2016 - 9:20 am)
I came after the AE War.
Did it mostly happen on one big thread? Or was it lots of little "battles"?
If you want, you can answer my question within your writing. Though I'm not sure I have the right to be in it- is it okay that I hadn't arrived then?
(April 20, 2016 - 9:24 am)
Aquina sat on the floor, Wingnut in her lap. She looked worried. She had never heard of these things in such terms before. The AE War. The Nostalgia War. The whispers had been there, but she didn't remember it being so vividly discussed before.
And Somebody....
Great Kraken, she missed Somebody.
She had heard the names before. Pete the Trollslayer, MapleSyrup, Danie, Brookeria, Ton, Red, Winter. So many whispers. Memories of all the 'oldies' that had come- and gone- and left the CB a better place.
But she rrealized, this was a community that accepted. That helped. That talked. That played.
And she hoped that would never change.
(April 20, 2016 - 12:32 pm)
Who is Ton? I've heard of everyone else, but not them.
Do you mean TON, The Omnipotent Narrator? A Chatterboxer of the past.
Admin
(April 20, 2016 - 10:25 pm)
OHHHHH, The Omnipotent Narrator? Haha, I know him well! Because that's me, and I'm still here, whoever made this post. I don't want to do any more ski lodges because of some personal reasons, but besides that, I'm still present and accounted for.
(April 23, 2016 - 1:58 am)
Is Somebody gone? I haven't seen her on here forever and I know she's thought about leaving before... I just hoped she wasn't really gone. Somebody was awesome.
I haven't seen anything from Somebody come in for a long time.
Admin
(April 20, 2016 - 3:35 pm)
She hasn't posted since January
...
sigh.
(April 21, 2016 - 7:32 am)
Replying without text this time.
One, Mei-xue: I have a pet peeve about grammar the same way you have a pet peeve about pronounciations. Did you see my post in your roleplay? I would love to write a whole lecture on the use of the Oxford comma. If someone uses apostrophes wrong, my opinion of them drops about sixty percent. Grammar is a really big thing to me, and when someone gets it wrong, even in the most grammatical of websites, I still don't like it.
Also, I never said that your quarrel with Cho was a war. I don't think it was. And you have to remember I was very new then. I'd only been there three months, maybe less. Yes, it was a war already, but I had no experience; how was I to know? It was a very, very long time ago.
Owlgirl: It was a million threads. As I said in my big speech thingy, they were in every section of the CB. All sorts of threads. Somebody leaving, threads made to protest against Somebody, threads made to prove a point or just express feelings. The thread that I linked.
Insert ending here.
(April 20, 2016 - 3:39 pm)
Well, then, you'd hate my parents. And aunts. And uncles. And grandparents. You get the point.
About my quarrel with Cho Chang: What do you mean, you were very new then? I was newer! I still am newer and always will be newer! And it was only one month ago. Not exactly my definition of a "very, very long time ago"!
(April 20, 2016 - 5:55 pm)
Oh, sorry, Mei, I was being unclear there. The part about being new was directed at your comment about hypocritics.
(April 21, 2016 - 3:44 pm)
@Admins, I made a comment here yesterday and I can't find it. Was there something wrong with it or did it just not go through?
I have no idea to what you are referring. I don't think I deleted anything. Feel free to resubmit it.
Admin
(April 20, 2016 - 7:20 pm)
This makes me sad :( but happy at the same time! You know we don't have to make a big deal about "wars." But at the same time, it's fun to have a history. And it's sad. This isn't just the internet, we all exsist, right? I exsist, I'm not sure if you exsist. So keep going! It's also kind of fun to have different times of CB history. But do we have to refer to them as wars? Like... the Ski Lodge period, or The Impersonator Age or Nostaltgia Age. The only real, actual "war" was the pi war. And that was supposed to be a war
(April 22, 2016 - 11:24 am)
"***" Were you ever there for a war? If not, then you don't know truly why they are called wars.
(April 22, 2016 - 1:01 pm)