forum Wild and Free (closed)

Started January 25, 2022 by @DancingWithMyDemons business

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I nod. Yes… I look at you. Do you have someone, kind Truthteller?

I grin That's a secret, Flower Girl. Maybe I'll tell you when we know each other better.

I front-handspring into the chat again because front handsprings are fun. Oooh, new user, who's this? Truthteller, eh? Is that a title given to you, or did you steal it for yourself? And is it accurate?

I bow and smile My name is Jaiden. I'm actually older than Denny is in this group. And yes, my title is accurate.

Huh. I used to have a hamster named Jayden. Jayden with a Y.
Then it died.
I will call you a variation of Truthteller because otherwise, I will be picturing you as a dead hamster.

So is Denny now the way we measure age? Before Denny, After Denny, Same Time As Denny?

Shrugs Fine by me.

Probably. Not sure.

I've just realized I haven't introduced myself, though the username probably makes it obvious.
I'm Luckless. Sometimes Luce, never Lucy.
I live in Alberta, which is in Canada. And in Alberta, rats are illegal. Breeding, selling and smuggling rats. If there are, by some horrible tidings, rats in Alberta, it makes the news. You can be fine dup to $5,000 per rat.
That's a thing you know now.

I imagine your luck is pretty shit, isn't it?

I actually knew that already.

It definitely has something against me, that's for sure.

You DID? You're the first non-Canadian I have met who knows that!
Wait… Nope, you can't be Canadian, because your Sam's irl friend and Kansas is not Canada. Wow, look at my amazing geographic deduction skills.

That's always fun.

I am Midwestern, yes. But just because I'm in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean I don't know about weird facts.

Guys
My sister just figured out
That the swordfish
Is not real

They are very real.

No, I mean THE swordfish.
Small-town traditions.
We live on an island nobody has heard of, connected only by two bridges. A tiny island. Our main attraction is an 1800s-or-so-old building that comes with a ghost story.
All the fifth-graders go on a trip to see where it happened.

AND we have a pool. An outdoor pool where, in the 'deep' end, there is a swordfish mosaic on the bottom.
Every small child is taught how to swim here - and they're also taught that, if they get good enough at diving, they can go down and pet The Swordfish.
Sister is now good enough to dive down and see the The Swordfish is not real.

Ah. That makes more sense.

Yeah.
Next year, the same sister will go see the Creepy Mill and see where Anne (allegedly) died two hundred years ago.

Mm-hmmmm. . . Tell me, who is Anne?

Anne is the ghost of the ghost story.

Joesph someone-or-other takes his wife, Anne, to visit the mill and have an exciting trip to make bread. Yay. Anne is wearing a really wide and awkward hooped skirt.
They see the machines that spin and look deadly. They don't work now so I don't know what they do, or what to call them. They grind stuff. Anne sees it and steps forward to take a closer look, before turning to ask Joseph what it is.
Her large hoop skirt gets caught in the spikes of the machine and it continues spinning, dragging Anne along with it and smushing and crushing her to death. The end.

Fun. Human burger is the best.

Oh gosh wow. They teach fifth graders that stuff, Den?

Yeah.
A bit of a not-so-burger-y version, but yes.

I guess so.

dangggg

I'm bored. What's up y'all?

I’ve discovered two new kittens.

My lord! Pictures!