THE PICKLE!!!

ONE DARK AND SNOWY NIGHT IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, SEVERAL URU EXPLORERS JOINED TOGETHER IN A CHAT ROOM TO TELL A TALE IN AN EVENT KNOWN AS "PICKLE." AND NO, IT WAS NOT STARTED BY WHILYAM "PICKLING" ALL THE TIME DURRING THE ROUND ROBIN EVENTS BACK IN SPOKEN WORD NIGHT.

THIS IS THAT TALE, SAVED AND RECORRED FOR ALL TIME BY ONE RANDOM EXPLORER IN THIS GRAND TALE. ALL EVENTS ARE FICTIONAL, AND ANY AND ALL RESEMBELENCES TO PERSONA, LIVING OR DEAD, IS EITHER COMPLETELY COINCIDENTAL, OR IS JUST PART OF THE STORY. THIS STORY HAS BEEN EDITED FROM IT'S ORIGINAL FORMAT!

The Pickle Of: How RAWA became Community Manager!

[Dr CrisGer]: It was a dark and stormy night......
[Lynnutte]: And Rand showed up to say...
[Lynnutte]: Yes. Every good story starts with Rand showing up to say something. lol
[Sel]: "Ellipses... make me sound more... suspenseful..."
[Sel]: rawa.... go... order some... m-m-m...ore ellipses...
[Church]: RAWA filled his arms with maps and grabbed a notebook with his last spare finger, then headed into teh cavern to find ellipses.
[Dr CrisGer]: Suddenly a maintainer appeared......
[Lynnutte]: "Wait! You can't go in there!" he shouts
[Church]: maintainer shouted not to go into there at RAWA while looking for ellipses[Sel]: "didn't your mother tell you not to take punctuation that didn't belong to you?" the maintainer snapped
[Church]: "uh what" said Rawa as he turned around and dropped a nice drawing of shroomie.
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: "I have no Idea what you just said" He continued. "But could you not shout in my ears?"
[Dr CrisGer]: The maintainer smiled and appologized saying, sorry, but i was excitied..we just found a Bahro in the city.
[Lesli]: "oh sorry but you shouldn't have shouted in my ear like that." Rawa said.
[Lynnutte]: "I just got orders from the head honcho himself and came down here to find a good hiding place till I can remember what it was he wanted me to do." said Rawa
[Sel]: the maintiner smiled nerviously at the highly-strung historian and began to badly mime his next sentence in fear of being too loud.
[Church]: RAWA realized that he did indeed have punctuation. He took off his baseball cap that he always wears and gave back the missing comma to the maintainer.
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: "Well, I'm sorry for the trouble. I'm not after commas, but...what was it again?" Rawa scratched his head, now forgetting what he was after..
[Dr CrisGer]: The maintainer pulls out a map and a list of punctiation marks that can be found in the city....
[Lesli]: "Now where can i find that exclaimation point?" he muttered to himself
[Lynnutte]: "I think Rand may have been looking for a place to put all those extra periods that kept cropping up in his sentences." Rawa muttered while looking over the maintainers shoulder at the map.
[Sel]: Pale spread across the maintainter's face as his pathological fear of ellipses (that's a group of periods btw) was ignited once again. It had started in the Spring of 1986...
[Church]: RAWA watched as the walls of the cavern got all wavy as he was drawn into the maintainer's flashback....
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: The Maintainer had been working at a keyboard factory then, it was a very big factory, one which produced a different key every day.
[Dr CrisGer]: His first job had been to tune the Key of C to C.....
[Lesli]: his second one was printing the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEs
[Sel]: The next logical step was the . keys. "ELAINEEEEE!" shouted the maintainter as the twinkly harp music fell dead and the flashback drew to a sudden close.
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: "Well, I was expecting something more tragic, like...I don't know... The week's batch of Period keys nearly crushing you alive!"
[Dr CrisGer]: Rustling the map loudly the maintinaer drew RAWA's attention to the danger of the Great Stair being buried by a slowly sliding pile of Question Marks that lay under the Cautious Optomisim Clock....
[Lesli]: "HOLY COW!!!" Rawa exclaimed "lots of question marks!"
[Lynnutte]: "If only Cyan would open the cavern to the fans... with all those extra hands, we would have this whole mess cleared up in days!" the maintainer yelled, shaking his fist in Cyans general direction.
[Sel]: Back in Cyan HQ, Chogon and Rand stamped to the naughty chair, shamed and confused with why they even had one in the first place.
[Church]: RAWA slowly started backing out of the room to try to find the ellipses.
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: His progress was stopped, however, by a Bahro with a Machette made up of an !
[Dr CrisGer]: Ah ha, the Maintainer cried, there is that pesky Bahro called HURRY UP!
[Lesli]: and the bahro ran off and exclaimed as it stole a car and drove out of sight "oh shoot don't shoot me!
[Lynnutte]: I only brought a knife!"
[Sel]: RAWA wasn't sure if he was in Uru or Grand Theft Bahro, but decided he should really go check on the staircase before the question marks could grow any further.
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: "By the maker! Whatever you do! Don't press the red "Stop the Question marks" Button! whatever you!doooooooooooooo!"
[Dr CrisGer]: RAWA went ahead and pressed the button anyway..to see what would happen. :)
[Lesli]: Then the question marks turned into masks and floated onto everyones faces
[Lynnutte]: Surprised, RAWA tore the mask from his face and noticed a foot laying motionless on the staircase.
[Sel]: RAWA knew it was a bad idea to talk to feet you didn't know (who knows where they've been), but this was an emergency... "Excuse me, do you know anything about all of... this?"
[Church]: The foot responded "Why yes I do! Can your see that thee's from a tree?"
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: "Uh..." Rawa blinked. "Where's the rest of you?"
[Dr CrisGer]: "Forsooth" said the foot, "I have been De feeted. I surrender" and it hopped down the stair and into th elake.
[Lesli]: "I wonder where the maintainer is?" RAWA wondered "He couldn't have gone far, or was that foot his foot?" He shivers lightly
[Lynnutte]: Cool!
[Lynnutte]: Shrugging off the uneasy feeling, Rawa began climbing the stairs in search of a pile of perplexing periods.
[Sel]: on his way he encountered a rogue hyphen, 2 quote marks and a tub of low fat cream cheese but not a single period was to be seen.
[Church]: Struck by an idea- RAWA approached the pile of questiuon marks overwheling the stairs...
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: He picked one up, and forcefully removed the dot off the bottom. "That's one."
[Dr CrisGer]: RAWA nimbly leaped high in the air and opening his Relto Book swiftly linked all the question marks to Rand's Relto for him to talk to later.
[Lesli]: just when RAWA thought they were all gone one started dancing and knocked him out.
[Lynnutte]: Much to his dismay, he was having such a lovely dream about.... well never mind what it was about, Rawa Is awaked by someone shaking him and yelling in his ears.
[Sel]: it's never a good thing when you wake up and a strange german family is dancing madly on your chest and yelling, thought rawa, as the little people jigged their way into his ears
[Church]: as his vision continued to clear the maintainer screaming at him came into view. Rand stuck his head in the room just at this time and said....
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: "I send you for Elipses and you bring back a loud Maintainer, Rawa! You're the new community manager!"
[Dr CrisGer]: The German family all cheered loudly, and danced happily to the sounds of the Beach Boys Bahro Band.
[Lesli]: RAWA pinches himself to see if its a dream, then he wakes up to find zombies fighting over him so they can eat him
[Lynnutte]: As RAWA watches the zombies fighting, he says not too quietly to himself, "That is the LAST time I eat any brownies made by Phil!"
[Sel]: Phil's brownie recipe was handed down for generations through his family, somewhat suprsisingly as they were usually unconscious due to dessert.
[Church]: "But they are very tasty!" thought RAWA as he rubbed his eyes to find Rand smacking him with a question mark.
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: "Oi! Didn't you hear me? I said you were community manager! I guess the shock must be too much for you."
[Lesli]: "Thank goodness that was only a dream!" RAWA said.
[Lynnutte]: "You expect me to manage that bunch of rabble rousing, , code hacking, demanding bunch of ungrateful ..... nerfherders? "RAWA exclaimed while picking up the nearest exclaimation mark.
[Church]: "Well yes. because you see- they love you and you them.. um you've never met any of them have you?" Rand hoped....
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: Rawa was about to say something else when a Bahro army armed with cone launching Gravity guns barged into the room.
[Lesli]: "CRAP! I never thought that many bahros hated me!" RAWA said.
[Lynnutte]: Smacking RAWA upside the head, Rand yelled "It was you that started this whole war!?? RUN!"
[DimensionTraveler Calumon]: Just then, a soilder man with a british accent walked into the room, he said the following: "This is all to silly. I don't like silly."


AND SO ENDS THE FABLE TALE OF HOW RAWA BECAME COMMUNITY MANAGER.