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★ Jess
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Apr 08, 2012 11:48PM
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Yeah, we left four for them, which technically leaves them better off than us, as they have (well, would of had if Kam hadn't stolen some) 4 bags for 2 people, whereas we have 4 bags for 5 people, so while they have 2 bags per person we only have 1.25. Now they have 2 bags, therefore only making themselves marginally worse off than ourselves.You follow me?
Basically, they could of done a lot worse.
I'm not Sadistic! I was just stating a simple fact....
I did not try to keep Ben alive, no cannon fired so I presumed he was not dead. How is that my fault?
Also, who has the last bag? We have two, Aislinn has 4 and the other guys have 5. There should be 12? If no-one claimed it then should it just be taken by rats or something so it's not unfair. If someone did claim it and I missed it then my mistake.
Oh and Kyle, the red bag didn't contain a bow- if you read my post, Lance was holding the bow the whole time- therefore you can't have it :)
Kieron, if you read my last couple of posts, you'll realize I'm in a room that I've specifically described as having only a trapdoor and ladder leading in, with no passageways leading to it. I knocked the ladder down. I stabbed 13 knives/daggers through the door and into the wall, which will effectively lock just about any door. There is no way you could access my bags. This RP is meant to be creative, yes, but you cannot bend the rules of logic. Make it realistic, peoples."Four walls, with a ladder on one side, the trapdoor she was standing in on the other, and no other way of getting in or out. The ladder still lay sideways from when she had kicked it down. She crawled in, and then forced all of her 13 daggers through the door and wall, which would probably stop most anyone."
That is my exact post, hon. Message 293 on the thread.
If you had read the original post by Jess you would have noticed the walls are grey brick. No knife would go through this. I assume the trapdoor to be wooden and therefore breakable. Lets also assume the walls are wooden (though they aren't). If the walls are wooden and the trapdoor is aswell, and you stab the knives through. the knife would have to be at an angle and unless it was abnormally long, only just pass through the corner of the door. To fit 13 knives through the wood and wall, you would have to line them all up, so it cuts through just the edges. Doing this would weaken the door substantially and the spot where all the knives went through would break off. This is a fact. Let's also say that it didn't break off. You would then have 13 knives stuck through a wooden door. What is to say that I couldn't just kick the door in anyway? What the hell would the knives do? Assuming your next argument is that it never says that the trapdoor is wooden. If the trapdoor is metal the knives will not go through. If the door is brick, then first off, a girl like your character could not move it (deliberately sexist as your previous posts in the games have indicated that you hate sexism :)) and secondly the knife would not go through it. I would like a genuine reply as to how your character managed to "force 13 daggers through the door and wall, which would probably stop most anyone."
★ Jess wrote: " The bags contain the following items: RED:
-One grey body suit with an awful smell
-One small (empty) water flask
-Three apples
-Two pain killing tablets
GREEN:
-One gas mask
-One (fill..."
May the OODS be ever in your favor? Like the Oods on Doctor Who :) Best. Typo. Ever.
You should know Neadle, Sam, and Luce have two green bags I think.
Oh Kieron, let him have the bag it was creative enough and who cares. This stuff could make people go against you.
Stacy wrote: "Hi guys. I think the mods wanted Neadle killed off. So I tried to give him a noble death (it was Easter, after all) and after he was hit with the poison needle said he was "gone." But then when Sam..."Sorry, but once you die, you're dead. We just didn't have time to set off the cannon immediately. Sorry about that.
Ahhhh! Stacy I'm going to miss you! Now I have to give Sam a weepy moment, lol.
Awwwww :) Maybe my sponsors will give me some candles for the seance, haha.
Olivia- he gets the bag, I was the one who wrote that in, but the bow was never in the bag. Secondly I'm pretty sure everyones against me anyway ;) Kyle, at what point does it ever say he uses the bow well? Has he ever shot it? Nope. He just has it equipped. It's not that hard to shoot a bow, just to be accurate and at no point has he needed accuracy. I do agree that you should get one from the game-makers however, as it is a perfectly logical thing to get sent by your sponsors.
Stacy wrote: ": ) It was great. I will keep reading and tracking what's going on. If there's a seance or something and you need to call Neadle back into action, he'll know. Take care and may the odds be ever in ..."Hey, that's what I'm doing too! By the way, if we're already dead can we still vote?
^Technically you can as the mods haven't programmed it properly but your not supposed to. They can check who has voted though and just ignore it if they want.
Whoah, 8 left huh? Not bad. KIERON!!! YOU'RE KAM'S DISTRICT PARTNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!! I can't believe I haven't noticed this before! That's hilarious!!! Just so you guys know, I'm never going to let this go! TEEHEE!
Yeah, I meant to put 9, but my hand slipped. =P
That's it.......When is there gonna be another poll?
Kieron wrote: "If you had read the original post by Jess you would have noticed the walls are grey brick. No knife would go through this. I assume the trapdoor to be wooden and therefore breakable. Lets also assu..."Ok, just so y'all aren't confused: For one year, I went to a private school that taught survival alongside the core subjects(Let's just say I have authority issues. Slightly.). Anyway, at that school, they have an annual sixth grade two-week survival camp. All sixth graders had to go, and there were no adults/parents/aid-in-the-form-of-a-person anywhere. And you didn't get pulled out until the bloody "authorities" said you failed, i.e. can't find food or shelter or con't hide yourself. No one has ever died, and no one is supposed to. If you found someone, you had to tag them with these chip-ish thingies that signaled the peoples in charge that the tagged person was out.
OK, onto the actual retaliation. I had imagined the doors as being made of animal bone, like they were at my stupid survival camp. Obviously, the bone has to be treated with tons of shit to make it as smooth and durable any other material. The thing that makes it even BETTER than normal doors is that it can be pierced with a knife without shattering or weakening, as long as you spend enough time on it. It took me 20 minutes then, as a sixth grader, when I was around 12. So, with my character being 16, it would definitely take a significantly less amount of time. The walls of the Survival Camp were also made of brick. Again, if you spend enough time, it is actually pretty easy to pierce it without it cracking/crumbling, etc. Again, it only took me 20 min. (roughly) then, so it would take my 16 year old character significantly less.
As far as the knife length goes, I was leaning towards a dirk, which actually is an "abnormally long" dagger.
That all being said, I do concede that I failed to mention any of these points, and that is all on me. I guess I imagined it so vividly I missed the fact that I didn't actually mention any of it. My apologies.
Ok...Suddenly I feel very insecure.
@Kieron Have you also gone for survival camps? Just askin' for obvious reasons
They're both from district 4, so I'd put my money on yes. A dirk is a long thrusting dagger. It was used as a personal weapon for officers engaged in naval hand-to-hand combat during the Age of Sail. http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&am...
I didn't in anyway steal that from wiki, Mr. Lawyer, I did it from pure memory.
I didn't in anyway steal that from wiki, Mr. Lawyer, I did it from pure memory.
DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING?
The Age of Sail was the period in which international trade and naval warfare were dominated by sailing ships, lasting from the 16th to the mid 19th century. This was a significant period during which square-rigged sailing ships carried European settlers to many places around the world in one of the biggest human migrations in recorded history.
http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/...
The Age of Sail was the period in which international trade and naval warfare were dominated by sailing ships, lasting from the 16th to the mid 19th century. This was a significant period during which square-rigged sailing ships carried European settlers to many places around the world in one of the biggest human migrations in recorded history.
http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/...
Your all smart girls, @Vishal, very bad language there!
Just wanted to let you guys know that I'm still here! I was away for a bit, my house has been rather busy. We have a German exchange student in and we've been showing him around and everything. But I'm still here!
I was the one who named it, Olivia. Your considerate killer :D
You should know that I love everyone who died. Thank you for being so fladoodling awesome :)
(Especially Christine, because we were allies).
I love you dead people too! Hopefully we'll all participate next year!
I loved my allies(there were only two...) Sam and Mayflower. Sad. It's a weird feeling when your charrie dies. It's like, you build that character and build and build and then...she dies.
I know, it's just like "You're dead here, but not here, and definitely not in real life." Very odd.
LoL, I just read my post and it does sound strange...
