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After, what, only a freakin' MONTH?
TRI-FORUM RAF
ROUND TWO
CHAPTER THREE
PARENTAL ADVISORY WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS NO CYBERSCORE MEMBERS. THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE CYBERSCORE MEMBERS MAY WISH TO DON A PAIR OF ANTI-FALL-ASLEEP-MID-STORY GOGGLES BEFORE READING.
AZu and mudbuck, ever eager to join in on the latest crazes that I just made up – I mean, that actually existed before I mentioned them in this story, prepared to register, under the respective usernames of AZuIsGonnaDie and MudbuckIsGonnaLive and with the respective login passwords of "password" and "password", for the website Gun Affinity, the only website in the entire RAF-iverse where people post pictures they have drawn of anthropomorphic guns. The mascot of the website is Finder, a laser-sighted pistol. "I can't wait to start posting pictures of Lucille Rifle!" AZu said. "I'm sure the rest of the fandom would love her!"
"Me, too!" mudbuck said. "But just to be safe, let's read the terms of service first, before registering!" mudbuck clicked the "Terms of Service" link, and read the following.
GUN AFFINITY TERMS OF SERVICE.
RULE 1. YOU WILL NOT TALK ABOUT GUN AFFINITY.
RULE 2. YOU WILL NOT TALK ABOUT GUN AFFINITY.
RULE 3. YOU WILL NOT HAVE YOUR PASSWORD SET TO "PASSWORD".
BREAKING OF THESE RULES IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. ESPECIALLY RULE THREE.
"Hmm. . ." AZu pondered. "I don't think we're breaking any of those rules, are we, muddy buddy?"
"That's the stupidest and lamest nickname ever!" mudbuck said. "Just call me mudbuck!"
"So, are you ready to register for the fun world of guns?" AZu asked.
"Sure!" mudbuck replied. "On the count of three, we'll click the register button. One. . . two. . . forty-two. . . nine oh two one oh. . . eight six seven five three oh nine. . . fifteen to one. . . THREE!"
They clicked the register button. The following text appeared:
"CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE NOW MEMBERS OF THIS SITE THINGY. BE SURE TO READ THE TERMS OF SERVICE, AND HAVE FUN!"
"Yay!" AZu said. "I'm going to draw my picture of Lucille Rifle in Macrohard Colored Pencil!"
"No serious artist uses programs that came installed on their computer when they bought it!" mudbuck scolded him. "I draw all of my art in a freeware program called the GUMP. It has way more features than Colored Pencil! Plus, Macrohard is nothing but a money-hungry company headed by that money-hungry William Doors."
AZu ignored mudbuck's comments as he began drawing Lucille using the very primitive drawing tools in Colored Pencil. "So, what kind of gun are you going to be drawing, mudbuck?"
"That's easy!" mudbuck responded. "I'm drawing Tammy Uzi! I think Uzis are cooler than all other firearms combined."
When they were done drawing, AZu and mudbuck submitted their drawings on Gun Affinity. This was an easy process for AZu; for mudbuck, the process was made much more difficult by the fact that the "m" key was broken for no reason, and his gun's name appeared as "Tay Uzi" every time he typed it. "BAH!" mudbuck said. "I'll just have to enter some random letter instead of 'm' and then edit it when I get the keyboard fixed. Hmm. . . 'f' is a random letter!" So, mudbuck submitted a picture of a gun named "Taffy Uzi".
A few hours later, AZu got a bunch of negative comments, most of which were along the lines of "No serious artist uses Macro-wadsofcash-hard Colored Pencil! Buy Brick PictureShop instead!" No one had even viewed mudbuck's picture; with a name like "Taffy", they thought his gun would be too "kiddy" for them. "Um. . ." mudbuck said. "The journey of thousands of dollars in commissions from other people wanting you to draw stuff for them begins with a single step, right?"
"Right!" AZu said hopefully. "Let's draw some more!"
"Hold on!" shouted a voice from behind them. "I am the Deus Ex Machina! I'm here to kill you two for violating the Terms of Service on Gun Affinity! I'll kill you first, AZu! STUPIDICUS MAGICICUS SOUNDING WORDSICUS!" The Deus Ex Machina clasped his hands together, and then slowly pulled them apart. A shining bright white glow. . . erm. . . shined and . . . glowed brightly, forcing mudbuck and AZu to look away. When they could look back again, they were amazed to see a rifle had materialized in the Deus Ex Machina's hands, crafted to look exactly like the rifle AZu has designed on Gun Affinity. "Hey! That's Lucille!" AZu shouted in a combination of awe, fear, disbelief, and possibly some other emotions which would be appropriate right about now.
"Whoa!" mudbuck exclaimed in awe and nothing else. "How'd you do that?"
"It's simple!" the Deus Ex Machina replied. "I used my innate ability to generate a shining bright white glow to distract you so my stagehands could come and give me the rifle."
"Hey!" shouted one of the Deus Ex Machina's stagehands. "You're not supposed to tell them that! That ruins the magic!"
"So, when do we get to the part where I, you know, die?" AZu asked.
"Oh, right, sorry," the Deus Ex Machina apologized. He pointed the rifle at AZu and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. "Er, ummmm. . . MOREICUS MAGICICUS WORDSICUS!" The Deus Ex Machina generated another shining bright white glow and aimed it at AZu and mudbuck, who looked away again. While they were looking away, he held the gun out to his stagehands. "Luke!" the Deus Ex Machina whispered forcefully. "I thought I told you to put bullets in this thing!"
"I couldn't find any bullets!" Luke replied. "We don't have any!"
"Oh," the Deus Ex Machina said calmly. "RICHARD!!" he shouted. "It was YOUR turn to buy the bullets this week! Why didn't you?"
"Um. . . er. . . because I wanted to get yelled at and then be fired?" Richard whimpered.
"YOU'RE FIRED!!!!!" the Deus Ex Machina shouted. "I don't understand how you could possibly forget such a simple errand as walking over to the stupid Ammo Emporium, and then grabbing the stupid bullets, and then paying the stupid cashier the stupid money! I don't see why I hired you in the first place! NOW how am I supposed to kill AZu?"
"You could always rifle-whip him!" Luke said.
"Why would you even BEGIN to to suggest rifle-whipping?" the Deus Ex Machina screamed. "That's such a low tactic!"
"Um. . . because we're desperate?"
". . . Good point." The Deus Ex Machina ceased the shining glowing white brightness. When AZu looked at him again, the next thing he saw was Lucille Rifle being swung towards his skull. He died from the impact. "GWA HA HA!" the Deus Ex Machina shouted. "My killing spree has just begun, mudbuck! You're next! Luke, get me that Uzi!"
"I can't, sir," Luke said, "for, regrettably for us, but happily for him, mudbuck is not dying this round. He has been targetted by Homerun Starrer with razor-sharp CD's, and since mudbuck targeted himself, he survives the round, and Homerun Starrer dies."
The Deus Ex Machina emitted a long, loud growl that is normally emitted only by angry Rottweilers and death metal singers. "BAH! You may have survived this round, muddy buddy, but –"
"It's MUDBUCK!" mudbuck shouted. "How many times do I have to tell people that's a lame nickname?"
"Twice so far," Luke replied. "Once to AZu, and once just now to –"
"THAT WAS A RHETORICAL QUESTION!" mudbuck yelled.
"Hi, guys!" Homerun Starrer said. "I was just coming here to kill mudbuck with these razor-sharp Car Doors! I ripped them clean off of a razor-sharp Cadillac DeVille! I'm that strong!"
"Wait. . ." mudbuck said. "If those doors are razor-sharp, then shouldn't you be bleeding to death, since you touched them?"
"No, of course not, sill– AHHHHHHHH!!! I'm bleeding!" Homerun Starrer shouted as he looked down at his hands and realized that they were, in fact, bleeding. "I'm going to die very shortly!"
Very shortly later, Homerun Starrer was dead and quite bloody. "Okay. That was weird," mudbuck said. "I'm getting out of here."
"Me, too!" the Deus Ex Machina said. "I can't stand the sight of blood!"
"Then why do you always go around killing random people?" Luke asked.
". . . . YOU'RE FIRED!!"
AZu targets SELF with a rifle named Lucille. mudbuck targets SELF with taffy. Homerun Starrer targets mudbuck with razor-sharp CD's. AZu and Homerun Starrer dead.
"Hello, and welcome to another taste-filled episode of my cooking show!" said renowned RAF-iverse chef Wolfpack Gung to his studio audience, and presumably to his audience at home after the footage's eventual being edited together into a televisable format. "Today we're going to be making. . . um. . . some random cantaloupe-themed dish, and I'll kill anybody who sabotages my efforts to make the random cantaloupe-themed dish! Doesn't that sound GREAT?"
"YEAH!!!!" all but one member of the audience shouted.
Kill anyone who sabotages you? Hmm. . . The Cheshire Man, the sole non-shouting audience member, thought to himself.
"As I say every show: Fail to die, fail to hate, fail to starve!" Wolfpack announced. "So let's make our dish! First, take a HUGE TOWERING TALL MOUNTAIN of delicious juicy cantaloupes!" He went offstage and wheeled in a cart with cantaloupes piled higher than most piles of cantaloupes. "Now take random other ingredients, like some white rice, some expensive French wine, some nutmeg, some frog's legs, some wasabi, and some pumpkin seeds!" Wolfpack went offstage again, wheeling in another cart piled high with said ingredients, plus a bunch of other stuff he didn't name, and which I shall not name either, for the sake of both your appetite and my own. "Isn't this going to be DELICIOUS?"
"Oooooooooooohhhhhhh. . ." the audience minus The Cheshire Man cooed. Or maybe they were saying "Ewwwwwwwwwww. . ."; sources vary on this detail.
"Halt!" The Cheshire Man shouted, standing from his seat. "I am your evil twin, Wolfpack Gung-Ho! I hate your stupid cooking show, and now I will sabotage it!"
"Wait a minute. . ." Wolfpack Gung pondered. "If you're my twin, shouldn't you have the same last name as me, and look a lot more like me?"
"Um. . ." The Cheshire Man hesitated. "There's no time to explain inconsistencies! I must destroy your show NOW!" He ran up to Wolfpack's huge towering tall mountain of delicious juicy cantaloupes. "Cantaloupe Avalanche Spilled onto the Floor of OverzealousNEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!" The Cheshire Man shouted, knocking the tower down with his hands. The huge round fruits all either rolled around on the floor or, as was the case for a vast majority of them, simply went splat and broke apart, creating a huge mess. (Hey, if people can die easily in the RAF-iverse, why not fruits?) The Cheshire Man pulled out his pistol and shot any cantaloupes which were rolling around, causing them to explode into a huge mess, too. "Now you have NO cantaloupes!" The Cheshire Man hollered. "I, Wolfpack Gung-Ho, have rendered them all unfit to cook with! Erm, I mean, I, Wolfpack Gung-Ho, have rendered them all unfit with which to cook! Erm, I mean, I, Wolfpack Gung-Ho, have rendered them all unusable! That's grammatically correct!"
"Grrrrrrrrr. . ." Wolfpack Gung growled, thus becoming the second character to do so thus far in this game. "You'll pay for this with your LIFE, Gung-Ho!"
"Oh, yeah?" The Cheshire Man said. "Not if I kill YOU first!" He pulled out his pistol and shot a bullet in the celebrity chef's direction.
"Bring it. . . ON!" Wolfpack shouted, dodging aside the bullet and whipping out a carving knife, which he then threw straight up into the air. To The Cheshire Man's surprise, the chef did not flinch or move a muscle as the sharp pointy object fell towards his world-famous head. Then, The Cheshire Man realized why: when the knife was just a few inches away from Wolfpack's head, it suddenly turned around on its own volition and flew straight towards him instead. It stabbed him straight in the heart, killing him very quickly. "CURSE THIS RAF-IVERSE AND ITS WEIRD RULES FOR DECIDING WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES!" he exclaimed as he died.
"Um. . ." Wolfpack Gung stuttered. "I was going to make a cantaloupe dish, but since that guy has destroyed all my cantaloupes, and we really don't have much filming time left, let's just microwave some Temperate Pockets, shall we?"
"YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" every living audience member shouted in unison.
The Cheshire Man targets SELF with an avalanche of cantaloupes. The Cheshire Man dead.
"I still don't see why you dragged me to this stupid daycare center," Casey "The Little Weasel" Smashmouth said to Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker").
"Shut up!" Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") replied. "Watching over children is GREAT for our PR-type stuff!"
"I'm so glad you two – AHEM! – gentlemen decided to watch over these little ones for an entire day!" said Mrs. Female. "I'll be gone somewhere, and when I get back, these kids had better have gotten some good care, or else I'll cast the Generic Magical RAF Curse of Death on you BOTH! Goodbye – AHEM! – gentlemen!" Mrs. Female drove off to get a coffee.
"So, uh. . . how do we take care of them?" Casey asked his manager.
"It's easy!" Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") answered. "First, we bore them to death, then we get killed by Mrs. Female when she returns!"
"But. . . I don't want to die!" Casey said. "I want to live!"
"Don't think of it as dying! Think of it as. . . um. . . retiring undefeated from WARPED!"
"Hmm. . . that works for me! Let's bore us some serious children!"
"It's easier than boring silly ones!" Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") said. "So, um, where are those little gremlins, anyhow?"
"HERE WE ARE!" said ten children as they opened the door of the day care center and burst outside. "We're the children of Mrs. Female's daycare!"
"Wonderful!" Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") exclaimed in feigned delight. "So, what would you children like to do?"
"I wanna hear a story that has a moral to it, like 'Persuasion is better than force' or 'It is easy to despise what you cannot get'!" said one child.
"I wanna actually learn something!" said another child.
"Well, that's too bad," Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") responded, "because today, we're going to do an arts and crafts project, and then we'll play some GAMES! Gwa ha ha!"
"I hate games!" griped a child. "Especially Tic-Tac-Toe! Only old people can like that game!"
"Can't we just learn how to spell the word 'lyceum'?" moaned another child.
"Nope, we're going to play games and have FUN!" Poker shouted. "Um, Casey, you do the arts and crafts thing while I think of a game to play."
"Um. . . let's dress up as Indians!" Casey shouted to the unhappy kids. "First, we'll cut out some strips of brown paper, and wrap them around our heads to make headbands!"
"I don't wanna!" said a particularly grouchy youth.
"Oh, fine. How can I bribe you kids into doing this project thing? What's your most FAVORITEST FOOD in the entire world?"
"Favoritest isn't even a word," replied one, "and Brussels sprouts."
"I like broccoli!" answered another.
"I want potato salad!"
"Gimme some spinach!"
"Only if you do this arts and crafts project!" Casey said. "Now get to cutting and gluing!"
"YEAH! Anything for Limburger cheese!"
Ten minutes later, Casey ran up to Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker"). "It took some fancy bribery, but I got them to do the project!" Casey announced.
"Good, because I've got the perfect game for you little ones to play: HIDE AND SEEK!" Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") shouted.
"I HATE hide and seek!" two kids shouted in unison.
"What's your favorite movie?" Casey asked, thinking fast.
"That's easy! Gigli!"
"I like Ishtar!"
"Finding Nemo!" The other kids stared at him. "What's weird about liking a G-rated animated film?"
"We'll watch those films, but only if you children agree to play ten games of Hide and Seek!" Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") said.
"Well, if it's the only way I can watch the Super Mario Bros. movie, sure. . ."
"You have good tastes, brother!" a fellow child said. "I hated the video game, but the movie was SO much better!"
"So, uh, how do you play Hide and Seek?"
"It's easy!" Casey said. "One child is It, and must cover his eyes and count to fifty while everyone else hides. Then It turns around and tries to find the other players. When he does, he chases after that child and tries to tag him, but if the other child touches the base and shouts 'ABC base power', he escapes. Whoever It tags becomes It for the next game."
"Huh? Wha?"
"Chess is so much easier than this. . ."
Suddenly, Mrs. Female drove back up to the daycare center in her car. "How stupid of me!" Mrs. Female said. "I left my Asteriskbucks Super Coffee Nickel Discount Card here! I needed to come back and retrieve it!" Mrs. Female entered the building, and then came out with the card. "Thanks for your patience – AHEM! – gentlemen," she said. "Oh, and by the way, would you know where my 100% bran cereal is? I thought I'd left it out on the counter. . ."
"I ate it!" one child spoke up. "Casey and Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") gave it to me to bribe me into making this stupid Indian costume."
"NO ONE TOUCHES MY 100% BRAN CEREAL!" Mrs. Female screamed. "YOU TWO SHALL BURN IN. . . um. . . A CAR WITH BROKEN AIR CONDITIONING!"
"Phew," Casey said, "for a moment there, I thought she was gonna cuss in front of the kids!"
"Magic spell of death thingy, whatever it was called!" Mrs. Female shouted, pulling her hands back.
"Actually, I think it was called the Generic Magical RAF Curse of Death!" Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") said.
"No one DARES to correct me when they're about to die!" Mrs. Female said, giving Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") the evil eye. She shot her hands in front of her, and two enormous fireballs appeared from them, flying towards Casey and Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker"), charring them both to a fine, fatal crisp. "Yay! I'm glad those jerks are gone!" the kids shouted. "Gimme some REAL education!"
Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") targets SELF with Ten Little Indians. Poker (whose name begins with P and rhymes with "Roker") dead.
The air heaved a sigh of relief, realizing that it had somehow managed to survive an entire round of RAF.
REMAINING PLAYERS:
HipHoppityFrogOfValue from the HRWiki forum
Norman Rorqual from the HRWiki forum
SEAN'D! from the HRWiki forum
akdrizzt from the Cyberscore forum
Gilbster from the Cyberscore forum
TheBrain from the Cyberscore forum
mudbuck from the Grey Labyrinth forum
ROUND TWO IS OVER. ROUND THREE IS NOW. SEND FOR ROUND THREE.
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