• And yet, X beckons.
• X is like a proper gentleman without a monocle. That is to say, HE CAN HARDLY BE CONSIDERED A TERRIBLY PROPER GENTLEMAN AT ALL.
• The little red arm-swingy-dealy thing or whatever it is called is flipped up!
• the Colonel's bottomless wisdom
• "RANCOROUS"
• TG: you should probably brush up on your data structures
• TG: did you at least allocate your strife specibus
• TG: plus let you attack stuff whenever things get too hot to handle
• TG: which is never
• EB: yeah, that's fine i guess. i can't imagine it's going to be all that relevant.
• But your DAD swears on the many HALLOWED TOMBS of Egypt that it is not.
• You check out the shelves of FANCIFUL HARLEQUINS. Look at this fucking garbage. You hate this stuff. Funny is funny, but your DAD sure can be a real cornball. Sometimes at night you pray for burglars.
• "The moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun." - Mark Twain
• Having it in the middle of the floor sprawled out all akimbo like that struck you as unseemly.
• TG: are you taking notes on how to be cool?? jesus get a fucking pen
• TT: The alchemiter? TT: Try to learn the lingo.
• The SPRITE is playing hard to get! You guess that's what you get for originally prototyping it with something that engenders mischief and pranksterism!
• ENOUGH STRANGE POETRY FROM THE RED TEXT.
• GG: if anyone can save the world i think it is probably you!
• EB: wow, you think so?
• GG: yes!
• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
• TT: It must be hard to keep a low profile when you're always overhearing awed voices whisper, "It's that guy who has a blog."
• im like dude you listening for a stampede of buffalo or something? he braves a look at me then gives my shoe a little kiss and scurries the fuck off
• TG: not kicking oliver twist in the fucking face every day is my gift to the world i guess
• RAMBUNCTIOUS CROW
• Retrieving the W never even crossed your mind. It's just a stupid magnet.
• TT: Because, you know, it's not like either of us have anything better to do at the moment than to evaluate each other's radically debilitating pathologies.
• EB: did you know he thinks puppets are cool?

TT: Does he? EB: he's so dumb!!

• TT: Also, coarse is a good word.
• It does not appear so, but you just never know with that crazy and cool guy.

Sooooo cooooooool.

• Instead you momentarily pretend it is a really cool automobile that commands the fear and respect of larcenous adversaries everywhere.
• Suddenly you get coldcocked in the face from the future.
• Your SWEDISH FISH are there. This is why it's a good idea to always store your candy in your BACKUP HAT rather than your usual one.
• always knows where you've been.

The spineless rat likes to follow your PAST TRAIL around and mess with you.

• Can't overthink this time stuff.
• You introduce your CAST IRON HORSE HITCHER to your new friend.
• TG: i dont know how does she do any of the loopy batshit nonsense she does

TG: maybe she pulled them out of the volcano over there on bloodmonkey mountain

• You go with your gut and head upstairs.
• TT: So your trolling strategy now is to put idiotic words in my mouth through the machinery of temporal inevitability, and cause me to excruciate over how to subvert the transcription?
• NUMSKULL
• A LEADER SHOULDN'T BE AT THE MERCY OF THE HIVE RENOVATION WHIMSY OF A PSYCHOTIC BLIND GIRL.
• AG: I don't see how we're supposed to 8e 8ecoming friends if you recoil from my olive 8ranch like I'm twitching a mummified 8ovine phallus in your direction.
• the matespritships and moirallegiences and auspisticisms and kismesissitudes that will surely plague your group along the way?
• When the IMPERIAL DRONE comes knocking, you had better be able to supply genetic material to each of his FILIAL PAILS. If you have nothing to offer, he will kill you without hesitation.