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 Post subject: A Hidden Grove!
 Post Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 8:56 pm 
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It has been a while since I entered this forest. I am actually starting to enjoy the solitude. It is cool and peaceful. I am content. It has been a while since I have felt this and I take a moment to savour the 'flavour'

Ahead there is a flicker of light through the trees and, having nothing else of importance on my agenda, I wander towards it.

I am temporarily blinded as I stumble out of the shade.

As my sight returns I find myself in a clearing. It feels strange. As I look around I notice that it seems to be a perfect circle as if made to purpose or as if the trees were afraid to grow within its circumference.

Directly at the center there seems to be a small white orb.

As I wander towards the orb, the hairs on the back of my neck prickle and I notice the faint smell of cheese.

Memory stirs like and unpleasant spider in my belly.

The orb seems to be made of some sort of leather, stitched together into a ball ...


... oh no!


... I turn towards the trees and see that they are bending and weaving together forming a barrier that I would be unable to pass. I should have known I wouldn't be able to escape.

No one ever truly escapes Calvinball.

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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2891.

Two thousand, eight hundred and ninety-one trees.

That's how many touch the invisible circle. Twisted around each other yet leaving no crack, they create a smooth surface or else I'm touching something else between myself and the trees.

There is a circle of bare dirt around the circumference and my shoes are tattered. I've checked every inch. There is no way out.

All the while I can feel Its presence burning against my back like the baleful eye of a god I no longer believe in for what god would allow this 'game' to exist? Demons and devils? Them I believe in. I've heard the voices. Chittering away to each other. The strange thing is, compared to the Calvinball, they almost feel like pleasant company.

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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The way you present it, this doesn't seem very appetizing.

Especially since I'm rereading A Wizard of Earthsea.

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
 Post Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:57 pm 
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Steave turns to face drachefly.

"What do you mean? Here we are in this pretty grove. The sun is shining. The birds are singing. Why if we had some tea and scones, it would be the perfect day."

drachefly notices that there are no sounds of birds and ... is there something wrong with Steave's eyes?

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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A shadow? But I never summoned anything from beyond the grave! Totally unfair!

I look for some running water, or barring that, standing water, and move to keep the orb between us. If Steave moves to kick it at me, I will attempt to catch.

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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As drachefly and Steave orbit the Calvinball widdershins, drachefly notices changes in the feeling of parts of the glad. A certain lightness. A thickening of the air. An increased silence. The specific feelings seem to stay contained in their own location which, as far as can be deduced, remain stationary.

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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I kick the ball at your face, hard, then dodge in a maneuver that you can't see behind the ball as it approaches your face.

The description of my evasive maneuver has md5 hashcode 9aa931eec0cae512685a97443dbaafcc.

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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The Calvinball smacks Steave in the face, sending him spinning backwards into the air where he continues to spin while drifting about 20 feet above the ground. The Calvinball bounces off the treeline and into the sky where it ricochets off an invisible surface back down towards the field.

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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The hell? Wasn't I just in a bar? And where did my chair go???

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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Sorceress blinks in the sunlight, just in time to have the Calvinball rocket down and hit the ground an inch from her legs. She flails away, her limbs akimbo, at the appearance of the missile.

"Awright, which one of you punks threw that?" she scolds. She is using her best teacher voice if not, perhaps, her best teacher language. She takes two steps forward to scoop up the ball, and turns an evil eye on the rest of the crowd.

Drachefly, a little voice whispers inside her head, It was definitely Drachefly.

She flings the ball back in his direction, trying rather hard to aim for something not-too-devestating. Her aim is off, however, and the ball whizzes by him to spring itself off a tree...

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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Out of which Balthazar promptly falls.

"What is wrong with you people?! Can't a being have a nap in peace anymore? Ooh hey Calvinball!"

Dusting himself off, balthazar makes for wherever the ball was headed.

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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The ball rolls to the feet of the Grim Reaper. He kicks it across the glade; I catch it and perform the required hex in less than the required 6 seconds.

(Speaking of which, does anyone know where the fanfic about Susie playing Calvinball against Death is?)

I run with it towards the base!

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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Here. Now excuse me, I MUST READ IT IMMEDIATELY.

edit: Wow. That was excellent. Although I have a minor quibble: Calvinball has exactly one rule*: You can't play the same way twice.

*Which Susie violates. Now that takes guts!!

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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Balthazar tackles the Grim Reaper, and wrests his head from his shoulders.

"I do now declare for all to know, that this here Death's skull is the nega-calvinball, with all that entails. CATCH!!!"

And so saying, Balthazar hurls the nega-skull full force at drachefly.

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 Post subject: Re: A Hidden Grove!
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I throw the Calvinball at the nega-Calvinball. Free of its dimensional anchor, I teleport away quick!

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