Author: * Apiladey ApilSin -
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Date: Mar 2, 2005 - 21:50
....I'm going to repost one of my old AS posts, in which we meet outside a tavern in the old group, "Babylonian Empire", where an elephant at the bar recently had caused kind of a ruckus. Since the Kash Bowl is a tavern, I think it fits the place. I tried to give it the flavor of an old western in the beginning:
Hey Madbat, we haven't been in here for a while. Let's get something to eat. Apiladey and Madbat approached the doors, Ching, ching, ching They explode through the doors and take two steps in, Ching, ching. Their hands twitch at their sides as their keen eyes scan the people inside. They slowly walk to a table, hands still twitching at their sides,Ching, ching, ching, ching. [The ‘ching'ing is not coming from spurs. As Minister of Trade for the Babylonian Empire and High Priest of Ereshkigal, it is coming from all the money in their pockets. The hands twitching at their sides? ........ Well, your hands would twitch at your sides too, if you had so much money in your pantaloons that they threatened to fall with each step you took.]
As he took his seat, Apiladey exclaimed, Dang, Madbat. This place must be under new management. Look, they've just scrubbed the floor.
I don't know, Apil, Madbat answered as he retrieved a suspicious lock of fur, which was twisted around the foot of his chair, and sniffed at it. [As a six foot bat, his sense of smell is keener than that of most people.] This smells a lot like ephalump fur.......er, helephino fur?......sycophant fur....whatever.
Really? asked Apiladey. Well I'll be darned. There's one at the bar now. It's a helevant....... a heliport? .......I know, it's an epiphany. Hey, did you see that? She just snitched that guy's mug of brew, while looking him right straight in the face.
As Madbat turned to look, the bar patron noticed his mug was empty and ordered another. Then, as the two watched, and as the pachyderm nodded her head in acknowledgment of the conversation with the man next to her, she looped her trunk around (and out of the sight of) not only the man at her side, but the man on the other side of him. She extended her trunk into the mug of that man and snik....... the man's brew was gone. With a straw that size, it's gone in the blink of an eye.
Just then, Apiladey and Madbat were noticed by Sinapil, whose jaw dropped for more than a few seconds. When her wits returned from wherever they had fled, she grabbed a blanket and raced (if one can do so without attracting attention) over to their table. PLEASE, sir. Cover yourself with this immediately. You bring great peril to us all. See that crumpled heap over in the corner? Pointing at Ippip, she said, That sillyphump did that to him after seeing a tiny little mouse. Now you come in here, a six foot tall mouse..... she's gonna go berserk.
Somewhat insulted, Madbat replied, Please, Maam.....I'm a bat, not a mouse...........See the wings?
She will only see a six foot mouse with wings. She pleaded, Please sir, for the sake of all our furniture,..........wear the blanket.
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