(6:44:11 PM) pelebraPaletot: You wake up in your room, it is the 17th day of August in the 2,010th year. Your name is Joseph... just Joseph, you gave yourself this name on your 13th birthday, just over 5 years ago. On your 13th birthday something tragic changed your life forever, you strain to remember. What is it? Wait, no, that's silly, of course your remember. You're homeless.
(6:44:29 PM) pelebraPaletot: You get up from your makeshift home in the alley. You check your DARK POCKETS modus for any useful items that were swapped in. You find a slice of bread and a five dollar bill.
(6:44:58 PM) archimedesPotager: >>I hide the bill under my tongue.
(6:45:28 PM) archimedesPotager: me admires bread
(6:45:36 PM) archimedesPotager: */me admires bread
(6:46:15 PM) archimedesPotager: "Breakfast."
(6:46:25 PM) ***archimedesPotager eats bread.
(6:47:01 PM) pelebraPaletot: (hehe) You hide the bill in your mouth, after of course you eat your bread, it will be safe there. You decide to walk out the alley and look for something to spend it on. Suddenly your coat vibrates, it's the mysterious phone.
(6:47:17 PM) paranormalDirigible is now known as Zuki
(6:47:23 PM) archimedesPotager: "Bloody Hell..."
(6:47:30 PM) ***archimedesPotager answer them.
(6:47:43 PM) pelebraPaletot is now known as PHONE
(6:47:53 PM) ***PHONE began speaking with archimedesPotager
(6:47:59 PM) archimedesPotager: Good morning.
(6:48:13 PM) PHONE: Is it?
(6:48:22 PM) archimedesPotager: Possibly.
(6:48:57 PM) archimedesPotager: I cannot see the sun through this cities smog.
(6:49:07 PM) PHONE: You're on a road called Hudson Street. South of you is a coffee shop named "Landmark Coffee". Go there and enter. The building is white and across from a Starbucks.
(6:49:42 PM) archimedesPotager: I could go for a cuppa...
(6:49:54 PM) archimedesPotager: Do you want me get you anything while I'm there?
(6:50:10 PM) archimedesPotager: A muffin sandwhich? A latte?
(6:50:29 PM) PHONE: The five is yours to spend freely. However there is a laptop, you will use it and log onto your pesterchum account.
(6:50:42 PM) archimedesPotager: In my pockets?
(6:50:52 PM) PHONE: In the shop.
(6:51:02 PM) archimedesPotager: That would make more sense.
(6:51:10 PM) archimedesPotager: What am I saying?
(6:51:25 PM) archimedesPotager: This bloody well never makes sense?
(6:51:44 PM) PHONE: We do not expect you to understand. Not until tommorow.
(6:51:54 PM) ***PHONE ceased talking to archimedesPotager
(6:52:01 PM) archimedesPotager: Well...
(6:52:06 PM) PHONE is now known as palebraPaletot
(6:52:10 PM) archimedesPotager: Your mother's a whore!
(6:52:59 PM) palebraPaletot: You see the "Landmark Coffee" shop, the building is indeed white and it is near a Starbucks... but then again, what isn't? You feel compelled to enter.
(6:53:05 PM) ***archimedesPotager places phone in OTHER pockets.
(6:53:36 PM) ***archimedesPotager searches trash for local paper.
(6:54:22 PM) archimedesPotager: "When in rome..."
(6:54:23 PM) palebraPaletot: The trash can is empty, it must have been trash day.
(6:54:37 PM) archimedesPotager: "Do as the gods tell you..."
(6:54:45 PM) ***archimedesPotager enters.
(6:55:28 PM) palebraPaletot: An overworked and tired man greets you, he asks you what you would like. In a corner table there is a laptop sitting there unattended.
(6:56:13 PM) archimedesPotager: "Chai. Cream. No sugar."
(6:56:37 PM) ***archimedesPotager sits down at corner table.
(6:57:45 PM) palebraPaletot: The man nods and prepares your beverage. He rolls his eyes and sighs when he realizes he has to actually walk it to you. He sets it in front of you.
(6:57:55 PM) palebraPaletot is now known as overworkedMan
(6:58:07 PM) ***overworkedMan began chatting with archimedesPotager
(6:58:14 PM) overworkedMan: "That'll be five bucks."
(6:58:19 PM) ***archimedesPotager retreave sugar cudes from modus.
(6:58:33 PM) ***archimedesPotager remove dollar from mouth.
(6:58:38 PM) ***archimedesPotager show to man.
(6:58:43 PM) overworkedMan: "Dude... what?"
(6:58:48 PM) ***archimedesPotager closely.
(6:58:59 PM) overworkedMan is now known as palebraPaletot
(6:59:50 PM) archimedesPotager: "Works every time..."
(6:59:55 PM) palebraPaletot: The man takes your money, grudingly. You take the cubes out from your DARK POCKETS. The laptop screen flashes green for a breif moment. It must be the screen saver.
(7:00:56 PM) ***archimedesPotager places five sugar cubes in the tea.
(7:01:31 PM) ***archimedesPotager stirrs with a matchstick
(7:01:57 PM) ***archimedesPotager stares closely at the screen.
(7:02:11 PM) archimedesPotager: ((Do I notice anything unusual?))
(7:02:24 PM) palebraPaletot: The screen flashes green once more before returning to black. Besides the flash it looks like an idle laptop.
(7:02:44 PM) archimedesPotager: "Just a laptop?"
(7:02:49 PM) SpyPoet left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(7:02:54 PM) archimedesPotager: "Not there style..."
(7:03:07 PM) ***archimedesPotager wakes up laptop.
(7:03:23 PM) palebraPaletot: There is only one icon on the desktop. Pesterchum.
(7:03:35 PM) ***archimedesPotager rolls eyes
(7:04:07 PM) ***archimedesPotager calls to oM
(7:04:30 PM) archimedesPotager: "I have a question for you..."
(7:04:44 PM) archimedesPotager: "Where did this laptop come from?"
(7:04:53 PM) palebraPaletot is now known as overworkedMan
(7:05:16 PM) overworkedMan: A dude dropped it off, he said he was doing a college assignment, he paid us 100 bucks to keep it in the corner.
(7:05:37 PM) archimedesPotager: "Did you see his face?"
(7:06:41 PM) overworkedMan: "Yeah? Just a dude. Five-ten, brown hair, short."
(7:07:04 PM) archimedesPotager: "Oh yes...Of course..."
(7:07:14 PM) ***archimedesPotager waves oM off.
(7:07:20 PM) overworkedMan is now known as palebraPaletot
(7:07:28 PM) archimedesPotager: "He didn't describe his face..."
(7:07:56 PM) archimedesPotager: "Ah...To Hell with it."
(7:08:18 PM) ***archimedesPotager launches pesterchum.
(7:08:22 PM) ***archimedesPotager signs in
(7:08:39 PM) palebraPaletot: You notice there's at least 100 old messages from a chum named palebraPaletot
(7:09:02 PM) ***archimedesPotager sighs...
(7:09:18 PM) archimedesPotager: "Meddling and fussing as usual..."
(7:09:29 PM) ***archimedesPotager waits.
(7:09:57 PM) palebraPaletot: The laptop produces a single pesterchum alert as a window appears. "palebraPaletot began pestering archimedesPotager"
(7:10:05 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Oh my god, fucking finally.
(7:10:14 PM) archimedesPotager: ap: Morn.
(7:10:28 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Dude, you know full and well I'm not in whatever timezone you're in.
(7:10:40 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Speaking of, why is your IP displayed?
(7:10:43 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: Are you?
(7:11:04 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: I am unsure what timezone I am in.
(7:11:11 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Dude, you know I went traveling this summer. Come on my brobo.
(7:11:27 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Oh, yeah, the IP assigned to you is in...
(7:11:29 PM) delicateDamascene is now known as delicateDamascene|FawninMeetin
(7:11:33 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: HAHAHAHA HOBOKEN
(7:11:59 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: Yes. oF course...
(7:12:00 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Oh, that's glorious, when did you get into Jersey?
(7:12:12 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: Jersey?
(7:12:28 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: New... Jersey? Hoboken is a place in New Jersey.
(7:12:59 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: You know how it is...You wake up in a traincar. Jump off. Find a ham sandwhich and admire the smog.
(7:13:22 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Look, your magical hobo adventures are facinating and everything, but while you're still on, I just got this game downloaded. Everyone's playing, I'm gonna start sending it to you now.
(7:13:24 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: Looks like everyother bloody city.
(7:13:46 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: Oh it could be a fun destraction.
(7:13:50 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Well, I guess no one's playing right now. I gotta get ahold of them agian and send it.
(7:14:05 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: Fine. I'm in.
(7:14:26 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: Might as well download it onto this laptop.
(7:14:36 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: No one is going to miss it.
(7:14:38 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Fucking sweet. Where did you find a laptop with internet anyway?
(7:14:49 PM) archimedesPotager: aP: Coffee shop.
(7:15:01 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Coolio.
(7:15:09 PM) ***palebraPaletot began a file transfer session with archimedesPotager
(7:15:28 PM) ***archimedesPotager starts whistling.
(7:15:28 PM) ***palebraPaletot began sending DUMBGAME2000.zip
(7:15:39 PM) ***archimedesPotager drinks tea.
(7:15:46 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Get back to me when you're ready...
(7:15:54 PM) palebraPaletot: PP: Seeya man.
(7:15:59 PM) ***palebraPaletot ceased pestering archimedesPotager