Campaign Trail by Squibbs
May 10th, 2010 12:01 PM
). You may then select a congressional committee and subcommitte (Once I was a mere henchman, but I slew my old master and am now an evil overlord in my own right. I have been biding my time for most of the era, but now I am ready to unleash my most terrible scheme ever: I have stolen teucer's Drive! Without it, he will be unable to post praxis.
I am not an unreasonable man. While I wait to receive my ransom, I am willing to offer proof that the Drive in question is unharmed. For every five-point vote, I will unchain it just long enough to take one picture of a task being completed. (Large-scale tasks may be documented in a state of partial completion or completed in miniature, because while I am willing to prove my malicious intentions I cannot give my hostage enough freedom to escape.) It will not be released for teucer to post praxis properly - and I know of at least one he is nearly ready to submit - until I am sworn in as a Senator, to better force through evil-friendly legislation and wreak havoc on the process of representative democracy.
28 vote(s)
- Nat Mun
- Bob
- Mayor of Claycord
- Silent Zig
- done
- help im a bear
- River Rock
- Pixie
- Harry Lee
- Scienceguru
- Optical Dave
- Poisøn Lake
- SNORLAX
- Casimeria
- Markov Walker
- Joe
- sPuNk
- Botulina
- Iaman
- Flitworth
- gh◌st ᵰⱥ₥ing
- Haberley Mead
- Ty Ødin
- King Minos
- APR dreamlands
- Sombrero Guy
- N Mutans
- Amoeba Man
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I want you to prove his Drive isn't permanently damaged by having him make a Player Portrait.
help im a bear, in gold and pewter leaf and black japan.
(He seemed a logical choice of subject, since he portraited me first.)
That is spectacular. And I believe that Tuecer painted that and you're not pretending just to make us believe he's OK or anything.
i love that this is mirror image, like my portrait of you.
i am astounded by how nice this makes me feel.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT TEUCER'S DRIVE BUT I LIKE YOUR STYLE.
Wait, when did we start playing upside down bids as forcing?
Highly amusing.
I think a taste of what teucer has been working on is in order. Let us know what we are missing.
The above is but a piece of a completion that Squibbs is preventing me from releasing more fully. I will not announce what task it's for at this juncture, but I will tell you that the envelope contains a sample of Peter Garnett's hair.
Please, Squibbs. You must free teucer's Drive soon so we can all learn the fate of Peter Garnett's hair sample!
I also have Spidere's beard around here somewhere.
I mostly voted cause you're playing for my favorite team. I actually don't beliefe that you will make a good Senator, but we need some new ones and it's not that much of a power-position anyway.
Concerning a task I would like to see completed by teucer now: I would love to see him doing this one(which I also think should be approved and then done by everyone.)
Also: I myself need 3 more votes for this task, just to let you know... (I found this a good opportunity to place some information about the other choice people round here have...)
strange recipes clearly deserve strange recipients...
I want these cookies! Combining magaritas and cookies! How brilliant is that! Thanks for that recipe, it will change my life for the better! Awesome.
You're holding Teucer's drive captive?
But, what of teucer? You claim to have killed him. What good is a teucerdrive without a teucer to act upon it? Who will task with it?
So far, I like your platform. (Not to mention tasking in pewter leaf and black japan.) The evil caucus in the senate hasn't really lived up to its potential yet.
But, I think we need to see more. Or negotiate more. Or, something.
If only to keep you talking until the swat team can get into position.
No no, he killed Doktor Harmon. The Doktor tasked from the same account as me, but his distinctive lab coat has not been seen all era.
Loki, I suggest you use your vote points to see more.
Speaking of seeing more: expect to see Strange Cookies this evening, tasking for the Mayor shortly after that, and tasking for help im a bear somewhat later.
Sorry, Teucer, for having forgotten a rather key part of the Squibbs story.
Lincoln, I hear you. But, if there's one more or less guaranteed way to insure that I won't vote for a task, it's by promising to do something in exchange for votes. That's true even when the task itself is beautiful and imminently voteworthy. In this case, it's hard to think up a truly voteworthy completion of this task. (I recognize that photoshopped slander can be fun, and that convincing strangers to let you kiss their babies is hard. But, only just.)
At the end of the day, the best thing I can say about campaign trail is that people I respect and admire see value in it. And, it's certainly true that the player who controls Squibbs is a member of that crowd. What's more, his thoughtful and thorough approach to the game suggests that he'd do a fine job wielding the power and influence that come with being a member of the senate. Were I to apply the same standards to this senate race as previous elections, I would immediately vote for him.
"Voteworthy?" There is nothing about this task that is remotely "worthy" of your vote. I seek not your approval, but your fear. I do not ask for your vote; I demand it.
Hey, Squibbs, I would have voted for you before in order to bail out Teucer's drive. Only I thought you only needed 25 POINTS. OK, OK, here is my vote.
I think Campaign Trail votes have to be 5-pointers in order to count. I don't know if that's factual, but it is my opinion.
There was no way to tell prior to this era, so I guess we'll find out.
But i <3 Teucer and am doing one of his level 0 tasks.
I want him free!
so you get one point, and none of my heart! *turns away dramatically!*
Evidence of Teucer's drive without context is highly entertaining and intriguing. Also, Squibbs might have stolen my drive too, and I need it back now.
I have discovered new evidence of the depravity of the wretch who calls himself Squibbs. Has anyone noticed that Squibbs and Teucer appear on each other's Friends lists? In this, I see the sordid story spelled out plainly: Squibbs, his plan cynically contrived, befriended Teucer only in order to betray him. Now Teucer, his hands tied, is not in a position to officially be-foe the one who has imprisoned his drive.
Updates: help im a bear's task is taking longer than expected. (I was hoping to have it done by the end of May.)
I still owe something to Harry Lee, and now also Zooming Lillies and Optical Dave. Zoom, Dave, got any particular requests?
A few random pretired ones I liked and a few shameless plugs of ones I made. Take your pick.
My camera's battery recently went AWOL, but as soon as I have a replacement (no, it's not a standard size, grr) I plan to do Derive By Proxy. Or possibly one of the others.
(I also have decided what I'm doing for Harry, unless I change my mind; still not sure for Zooming Lilies. Oh, and lowteck, sing out if you've got something you want to see.)
Well, I completed Derive By Proxy the other day. Took notes along the way, so I could map out my course afterwards as the image. Didn't bring my camera, since I knew what the image would be and it wasn't gonna be from during the tasking.
Then I sent the notes through the wash. I'm going to have to do that one over.
Well, the redo yesterday in downtown Chapel Hill came out a little odd. Back and forth a lot. Also, about fifteen minutes of chilling out in Sutton's Drug Store.
An ancient condiment need not be one which was made before this afternoon. Some are ancient in a more chrononautical sense, such as sals abyad - defined in the 1373 Book of the Description of Familiar Foods as "walnuts, garlic, pepper, Chinese cinnamon, white mustard, tahineh and lemon juice." It seems to have been neglected and abandoned by everyone except a few food-history nuts since approximately the invention of hummus. Which is a shame, because sals abyad is really tasty.
Puree together in a food processor:
6 oz walnuts
6 cloves garlic
Add:
juice of 2 lemons
1 scant tsp ground black pepper
1 scant tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ground mustard seed
15 oz tahini
Puree until smooth. Let stand for at least an hour, then serve with pita chips. No, the pita chips aren't historical, but they are delicious.
(This recipe is adapted, with modifications, from that of a fellow SCAdian cook; I've gravitated over time to a slightly spicier version than hers with a bit less walnut for textural reasons, and she adds a bit of salt that becomes unnecessary when using salted pita chips.)
Ancient condiment. Wonderful. (Delicious!)
By the way, the recipe was provided for a reason - if the task is for you, you should get to eat it. If you have not done so, I recommend remedying this.
(See also: the link to the recipe I used for Strange Cookies, above. Again, recommended wholeheartedly - the ladies at Davenport and Winkleperry asked me to keep the cookies from getting too close to them from them lest they spoil their appetites right before dinner.)
I wasn't originally going to post this, because I was foolish enough to do it during the period when my camera was missing. (I found it exactly where it belonged, which I'm sure I had already checked. Weird, huh.) But for lowteck's nihilistic side, cutting class and not learning how to be a healthcare dude so I could go have fun seemed appropriate. So I did Everyday Life.
A week or two ago, I skipped out on massage class, as mentioned, to practice my latest recreation.
This is, depending how you count, sport number four or so for me. Number one is definitely SCA rapier fencing, number two is sweating like crazy and acting strange (and if you don't think my job counts as being an athlete, you've never tried it), and number three would be parkour if I'd been out running within the past six months but unfortunately I haven't.
Number four, or perhaps the real number three? Only this:
That's right: I curl. Not with any regularity, but it's a great deal of fun when I get a chance. (Due to the aforementioned camera loss, this isn't from the night when I should have been learning instead of curling; it's older. Finding it and thus having something more than words for documentation is what led me to go ahead and post this comment.)
In curling, a team normally has four members, playing positions named "lead," "second," "vice," and "skip." The skip is the team's leader, and is making all of the tactical decisions (because they stand at the end of the sheet where you can actually see what's going on). As I'm very new at this game, I don't understand the tactics well at all, so I am never a skip.
Usually the best at actually throwing the rocks is the vice, who is sort of the skip's second in command. When the skip is curling, the vice is in charge of calling the shots.
The lead and second are the weaker players, and as a near-total newbie I was booked to curl second that night. But our vice no-showed, and that means that instead of dividing the eight rocks up as two per person, the lead and second get three each (yay, more practice!) and the second also acts as vice. So I got the crash course in curling tactics, which was also pretty cool.
One moment was a bit nerve-wracking - the other team had a rock on the button, which we absolutely must eliminate to score. My skip has called for me to do a takeout on all three of my rocks - putting a lot of force (or, as curlers call it, "weight") behind my rock and sending it at that one to try to knock it clear out of the house. I'm a n00b, though, so my lines aren't quite right and all three miss. But I'm damn good at throwing a lot of weight, so the first two sail straight on through and past the back of the field of play. The third hits another rock, which is also placed inconveniently for us but not as important as the one I was aiming for, and takes it out with a nice loud cracking sound as they collide.
Then I cross the ice to talk strategy with my skip so I know what to tell her to throw, and I see where the rock she's been telling me to aim for is positioned, and say "So, same shot you've been asking me for?"
"No," she says. "I don't have takeout weight."
We lost that end. And the whole night's curling, but that part wasn't so bad - this is a game with a lot of traditional etiquette, and the last bit of manners after you shake everybody's hand and say "good curling" is that the winning team buys their opponents' first round.
Hello Squibbs! I am beautiful female woman! I write to you to say how admire your skill and cunning in abducting drive. Many players of SF0 not realize that strength and firmess are make good senator. You have strength and firmess to do what must be done. Please accept my friendship and aid in this and future matters.
Sincereley
Botulina
And I owe some people some minipraxes.
Got into a slump on those this fall, and then the holidays struck, but fear not, they will be rolling in shortly. Even if I'm free now.
One documented last night; will upload a pic this evening. Seven to go.
Now we find out if 1 point votes can get you a Senatorship.
The Drive will be released as soon as I have my badge of office.
Squibbs, I'm calling your bluff. I don't think you have anything. I want to see proof that even have that drive before I'm willing to give you even a single vote point.