OT- Vully's New Adventure - Thread 4 (Trimobian Content. The Temple...at last!)
Vully
>
> As we were lifted upwards to the awaiting airship I grinned at
> Sallah. “Well, we’re on the way to the Temple, my friend. As soon as
> we get secured in the car Haliburton will make sure you are made
> comfortable in your quarters. Then, I’ll need you to come to the
> bridge to help me fix the coordinates of the destination site so I can
> fly this baby there.”
>
> Sallah’s eyes rew wide as saucers. “”You know how to fly this
> machine?”
>
> I laughed. “Just add it to the list of things I’ll eventually explain
> to you,” I said.
I was in discussion with Haliburton on the bridge of the CHESHIREGRIN
when Sallah finally showed up.
“So, we got these matters under control, Haliburton? As soon as
Sallah and I and the materials get to the Temple you have to catch a
trans-dimensional hop to Discovery Bay to take care of the rest of the
situation. Hopefully you’ll be back before things get dull and back
to normal around the dig site. “ I looked up and noticed Sallah.
“Ah! Sallah! So, what do you think of the craft?”
Sallah’s eyes were as big as saucers…the type of look a kid gets when
they spot the Christmas Tree on December 25th and all the brightly
festooned packages underneath. “My friend, Vully, this is truly an
amazing machine! And you know how to fly it! Absolutely
outstanding!”
I grinned. “It took me a good long while to learn how to maneuver
her, Sallah. If you ever get to meet Captain Briand and the other
members of the Discovery Bay Airship Brigade, well, they can fill in
the details.”
Sallah grinned. “Much like all the other details you promise to tell
me about? Or what Captain Jack told me about your being a pirate?”
I looked out the forward window and studied the horizon. “Can’t trust
an inebriated sailor. “ I motioned for Sallah to move forward in the
cabin and join me at the wheel. “Yes, I did. In fact, still am. But,
please, don’t make the Captain Jack mistake and tell anyone else.
It’s something I don’t talk about anymore. It’s true, I was, am…
whatever, a pirate captain. Haliburton here is my first mate. And
more. “ I turned around to my trusted major domo. “Haliburton, would
you mind giving Sallah the particulars on othe dark side of our
history?” I chuckled. “That is, if he is willing to listen to stories
about islands and temples being explored. “ I
garnered a glanced at Sallah. “You see, Sallah, although a “pirate”
in term, I was never really a “pirate” in practice. Adventurer, yes.
So, things got a bit muddled due to some crossed swords and politics
during my childhood and earlier years on the planet. “
I thought for a moment. “By the way, Haliburton, what about Marclay
the macaw?”
Haiburton smiled. “The last time I saw him was as he was settling into
Iago’s old room at the manor. He said to let you know he’d catch up
with you when you got back to Trimobia.”
I grinned. “Smart bird. Can’t blame him. At any rate, Sallah, if you
are interested, Haliburton will give you some of the more interesting
details of the story. But, you must promise to never tell anyone
about what you are going to hear.”
Sallah nodded. “I will try. But, what if I make an error?”
Haliburton chuckled as he opened the door leading to the study room in
the airship. “I guess I’ll just have to kill you.” He looked at the
nervous Sallah who was staring at him with wide eyes. “Just kidding,
Sallah. I wouldn’t do anything like that.”
Sallah gulped. “You wouldn’t?”
Haliburton nodded. “Most assuredly.” He cocked his head back at me as
he and Sallah stepped through the hatch into the other room. “That’s
Vully’s job.”
To be continued….
Caren
Meanwhile on the ground, the Queen of Adventureland, PIng, a giant
cephalopod, an several pirates are looking up.
"What in tarnation is that thing?" said Dirk.
"Dunno," said the Queen, "But I dare say that it would be fun to shoot
some of Ping's rockets at."
Ping got very excited at the prospect of shooting rockets. "Can I
really? Cool!"
"I get to shoot rockets, too?" asked Larry the giant squid.
"Everyone gets a turn."
--
Caren
TDC Queen of Adventureland
Vully
Must be some other airship, then. Our current crew is nearing the
Temple Of The Forbidden Eye...many. many kilometers west of
Trimobia....
Caren
Remember, Trimobia is wherever we want it to be.
Vully
>
> Remember, Trimobia is wherever we want it to be.
>
> --
> Caren
> TDC Queen of Adventureland
Heh. Technicality. ;) I deal with that in part 4..... ;)
Vully
Disney Wizard the Fantasmic!
we have anticipated your arrival for a several months. We have placed
ladders up the spire of the tower, and if the winds hold low and steady
it should be stable enough to disembark, but you'll need to find
somewhere else to tie down, no mortar was used to construct the temple,
and a stiff wind on your ship would simply pull the stone carvings
apart, creating havoc and maiming mayhem below. Keep an eye out for
Beloq and his men, the greedy grave robbing bashhards have been
sabotaging the expedition and excavation to hijack any shipments of wealth.
You may be safer if you secure your vessel downriver and hire a Jungle
Cruise launch for the final leg.
Have a healthy fear of the Man-eating Piranha, but be absolutely
terrified of the healthy Woman-eating Piranha, his mother-in-law.
Should I have Cap'n Skippy greet you at Lake Bengalor to pilot you here
and navigate the treacherous Lost Delta?
They lost six boats last week, but it's o.k., only five were his.
Dr. Jones and the team are eager for any newspapers from the outside
world. He would also trust that you could dispatch several ancient
parchments from the Chamber of the Servants of Mara safely aloft, to
avoid the highway robbers, in exchange for his hospitality and meager
accommodations. If you are most wary at the rope bridge you can avoid
the queue of bystanders and splash past. Salah is a busy man, he is in
charge while Dr. Jones, who was last seen two weeks ago, is inside,
holding down the fort. I should be delighted to guide you about the camp
and temple complex, for I am most knowledgeable about it's trappings and
pitfalls - if yours is a safe arrival.
-- Caleb Kenneth Turner, PhD.
--
All larders in the Temple of the Forbidden Eye rung a bakers dozen true.
There are thirteen steps to the tallows, firing square or salivation.
The first step is dental... Don't be bamboo skewered:
Secrets of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye revealed!
Indiana Jones(tm) Discovers The Jewel of Power!
visit --(o=8> http://disneywizard.com/ <8=o)-- visit
Caren
Ah, dear Wizard, this reminds me that I stumbled on a project upon the
Internet that looks quite up your twisted alley:
http://www.disneyexperience.com/models/temple_model.php
Do not, by the way, when planning your Mexican pyramid-type
adventures, discount the pirate attack in the wings. They've already
attacked the pyramid in the Mexican pavilion, a pyramid in actual
Mexico, and something to do with a crystal skull. Soon, I am sure,
they will find the Forbidden Eye.
Disney Wizard the Fantasmic!
Caren wrote:
> On Dec 17, 9:57 pm, "Disney Wizard the Fantasmic!" <wiz@FANTASMIC!
> disneywizard.com> wrote:
>
>>[snip]... Salah is a busy man, he is in
>>charge while Dr. Jones, who was last seen two weeks ago, is inside,
>>holding down the fort. I should be delighted to guide you about the camp
>>and temple complex, for I am most knowledgeable about it's trappings and
>>pitfalls - if yours is a safe arrival.
>>
>>-- Caleb Kenneth Turner, PhD.
>>
>>Vully wrote:
>>
>>>On Dec 13, 4:15 pm, Caren <dri...@sgi.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>Remember, Trimobia is wherever we want it to be.
>>
>>>>--
>>>>Caren
>>>>TDC Queen of Adventureland
>>
>>>Heh. Technicality. ;) I deal with that in part 4..... ;)
>>
>>>Vully
> Ah, dear Wizard, this reminds me that I stumbled on a project upon the
> Internet that looks quite up your twisted alley:
>
> http://www.disneyexperience.com/models/temple_model.php
>
> Do not, by the way, when planning your Mexican pyramid-type
> adventures, discount the pirate attack in the wings. They've already
> attacked the pyramid in the Mexican pavilion, a pyramid in actual
> Mexico, and something to do with a crystal skull. Soon, I am sure,
> they will find the Forbidden Eye. -- Caren, TDC Queen of Adventureland
Whew! For a moment I thought were back to the colonoscopy Kaleidoscope
discussion, and this is a relief, one way or another.
I was thinking of MY twisted alley:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/disneywizard/3428380838/
Thanks for the note of the "Temple of the Forbidden Eye paper model"
available for free from Robert Nava. I was previously aware of other
paper models on
http://www.disneyexperience.com/models/ but not of this one.
I've a stack of aircraft models waiting for ten years to be built. I
doubt I'll ever get the chance to make this one. Right now I'm off to
another kind of model, CP173 of the Carolwood Pacific Historical Society
and "Walt's Barn" open to the public on the third Sunday each month,
today, to volunteer.
Lisa Cubbon, if you are in the neighborhood, look for the "Wizard" badge.
http://www.carolwood.com/
--
All ladders in the Temple of the Forbidden Eye have thirteen steps.
There are thirteen steps to the gallows, firing squad or any execution.
The first step is denial... Don't be bamboozled:
Secrets of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye revealed!
Indiana Jones(tm) Discovers The Jewel of Power!
visit --(o=8> http://disneywizard.com/ <8=o)-- visit
'Tis better to learn by mistakes of others,
erroneous examples as provided,
than to learn by mistakes made for oneself.
A bakers dozen out of 12 Wizards agree: "And far less painful." --(o=8> Wiz.
Vully
> Haliburton chuckled as he opened the door leading to the study room in
> the airship. “I guess I’ll just have to kill you.” He looked at the
> nervous Sallah who was staring at him with wide eyes. “Just kidding,
> Sallah. I wouldn’t do anything like that.”
>
> Sallah gulped. “You wouldn’t?”
>
> Haliburton nodded. “Most assuredly.” He cocked his head back at me as
> he and Sallah stepped through the hatch into the other room. “That’s
> Vully’s job.”
>
We arrived at the temple with no further complications. Seemd that
Mara was a second cousin to Babylonia and the two of them had a lot of
catching up to do. And, as Babs had lost her hoored place on the wall
in the Adventurers Club, she decided to stay on with Mara fo a spel.
After all, the two of them could take turns plying the great stone god
head in the attraction, and, Mara could get a break she was
desperately in need of.
The lost tourists were relatively easy to find, they were milling
about some of the caverns in the temple simply looking for the
restroom. As for finding Indy….
I had gone searching in a deeper area of the temple one evening and
found myself running into Sallah coming up out of a door that was
marked “management.”
“Sallh”, I asked, “Is that where Indy is? Hiding out there? If so,
it’s no wonder we couldn’t find him!”
Sallah looked at me curiously and then lowered his face downward.
“No, Vully. It is not where Indy is at. You see, I was very worried
about him and I hired a group of junior managers to help me run the
Temple as a tourist haven. They were highly recommended to me by the
firm of Dewey, Scruam, and, Howe. I thought it had been the right
thing to do. I think they are the true evil this temple hides. I’ve
been reduced to a figure head, Vully. And you…you’ve been let go. I’m
sorry, my friend. I though we would be able o find Henry together.
Now I find out these people in there don’t even care with Indiana is.
They just want the profits and numbers this adventure can generate in
their coffers to make them look better. Bean Counters and Junior
Managers, may friend…the true evil that is slowly destroying the
Disney Empire.”
I looked sadly at Sallah. “Don’t worry, Sallah, this happens to the
best of us. Not my first time, won’t be my last.” I sighed. “Pity
they wouldn’t kep you onboard or let me hang around for the duration.
Oh, well. Tell you what. I’ve got a few kegs of Trimobian Rum Punch
left at my camp…what say we go enjoy one final evening together before
I head back to the old stomping grounds, eh?”
Sallah grinned. “My friend,” he said, “that sounds like exactly what
was ordered for this night.”
To be continued…
Caren
Don't leave us in suspense. Did the tourists find the restroom?
Vully
>
> Don't leave us in suspense. Did the tourists find the restroom?
>
> --
> Caren
> TDC Queen of Adventureland
I don't know. They let me go and demoted Sallah before we could find
out. ;)
Vully
Disney Wizard the Fantasmic!
That was the "Temple of the FOUR HOUR LINE", Mara uses neither male nor
female - it's only option is "unisex"
--
Caren
disneywizard.com> wrote:
> Vully wrote:
> > On Dec 23, 4:36 am, Caren <dri...@sgi.net> wrote:
>
> >>Don't leave us in suspense. Did the tourists find the restroom?
>
> >>--
> >>Caren
> >>TDC Queen of Adventureland
>
> > I don't know. They let me go and demoted Sallah before we could find
> > out. ;)
>
> > Vully
>
> That was the "Temple of the FOUR HOUR LINE", Mara uses neither male nor
> female - it's only option is "unisex"
Gasp!
Wizard, I don't believe you meant that apostrophe.
Disney Wizard the Fantasmic!
I said I need pilots! PILOTS!!!
Caren wrote:
> On Dec 25, 5:15 pm, "Disney Wizard the Fantasmic!" <wiz@FANTASMIC!
> disneywizard.com> got ditched in the Greek:
>>That was the "Temple of the FOUR HOUR LINE", Mara uses neither male nor
>>female - _it's_ only option is "unisex"
>
> Gasp!
>
> Gee, Wiz, I don't believe you meant that apostrophe!
> -- Caren TDC Queen of Adventureland
Apostrophe catastrophe, my most common err a-parent, to say "it is" when
truth be told, my path to hell, the good intention of an wholly eunuch
possessive of "it" as singular. An hermaphroditeic type-o.
Please forgive, thanks for the wordwright, sorry I left it gasping for
heir. Mara, neither he nor she, is of neuteredral gender.
(genderaly not knowing my wright from my lepht, I blame equipment failure.)
--
For all we know Mara could even be trisexual
male sex, female sex and insects.
'Tis better to learn by mistakes of others,
Eratosthenes examples as provided,
than to learn by mistakes made for oneself.
A bakers dozen out of 12 Wizards agree: "And far less plentiful."
--(o=8> Wiz's
Two Eros a parent, to forclose divide.
Rudeney
> You brought me pirates? PIRATES?!?!
> I said I need pilots! PILOTS!!!
>
> Caren wrote:
>> On Dec 25, 5:15 pm, "Disney Wizard the Fantasmic!" <wiz@FANTASMIC!
>> disneywizard.com> got ditched in the Greek:
>>> That was the "Temple of the FOUR HOUR LINE", Mara uses neither male nor
>>> female - _it's_ only option is "unisex"
>>
>> Gasp!
>>
>> Gee, Wiz, I don't believe you meant that apostrophe!
>> -- Caren TDC Queen of Adventureland
> Apostrophe catastrophe, my most common err a-parent, to say "it is" when
> truth be told, my path to hell, the good intention of an wholly eunuch
> possessive of "it" as singular. An hermaphroditeic type-o.
>
> Please forgive, thanks for the wordwright, sorry I left it gasping for
> heir. Mara, neither he nor she, is of neuteredral gender.
> (genderaly not knowing my wright from my lepht, I blame equipment failure.)
Incorrectly using an apostrophe in the possessive pronoun "its" is one
of the most common grammatical mistakes. Even though I know the proper
usage, I still do it sometimes. One thing that has helped, though, is
to understand why we use the apostrophe to indicate possession.
Basically, it's a contraction. For example, in the phrase "Steve's book
is great," the word "Steve's" is actually a contraction of "Steve, his.
" If you were talking about an inanimate object, such as in the phrase,
"The book's quality is amazing," the word "book's" is actually a
contraction of the the words "book, its." So, "its" is a personal
possessive pronoun just like the word "his". His uses no apostrophe so
neither should its.
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Disney Wizard the Fantasmic!
> Incorrectly using an apostrophe in the possessive pronoun "its" is one
> of the most common grammatical mistakes. Even though I know the proper
> usage, I still do it sometimes. One thing that has helped, though, is
> to understand why we use the apostrophe to indicate possession.
> Basically, it's a contraction. For example, in the phrase "Steve's book
> is great," the word "Steve's" is actually a contraction of "Steve, his."
> If you were talking about an inanimate object, such as in the phrase,
> "The book's quality is amazing," the word "book's" is actually a
> contraction of the the words "book, its." So, "its" is a personal
> possessive pronoun just like the word "his". His uses no apostrophe so
> neither should its.
News I could use for the rest of my life, that is. Thank you greatly
and indeed Rudeney. (I'm still having trouble internalizing it's.)
--
'Tis better to learn by mistakes of others,
erroneous examples as provided,
than to learn by mistakes made for oneself.
A bakers dozen out of 12 Wizards agree: "And far less painful." --(o=8> Wiz.