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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 18, 2008 13:43:19 GMT 1
It does get confusing for everyone, Sally and when there are players from several different TRPD groups, boards and team members involved. Some members here belong to several groups at the same tome, but their activities on one can be affected by their participation in the activities in or on another. It can also mean that things are happening at the same time but at different levels. The best thing to do is not to even try to understand it all at once. Just go along with whatever is available for members of the board or group that you belong to. Here it is simply a fun guessing game that will end up with someone winning and the others who are participating will send a little prize to the winners chosen rescue. The longer you are round the fun and games, the more you will learn about them, and also realise how much more you might have left to learn, but only if you want to. Member just do what they want to do and to the level they want. Who wants to leap straight out of their pram and tackle quantum physics? I sure wouldn't want to and however much I fought to escape my pram when I was a baby!
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 18, 2008 14:20:09 GMT 1
... I just hope they all know what they're doing, sounds a bit too tough on the old emotions for my liking! The way I look on it is that '(emotional) Pain promotes growth, suffering is optional.'[/b] You have seen for yourself, here and in other places, some of the messages people have sent me and their comments about positivity etc., and in my present circumstance. Questions they have asked me, and so on. You have also met me in peron, Jutta and know the state of me! I'd never manage to perform like a Gladiator on the physical front, but in my own area of expertise, and as long as my head is functioning at the time, I can still do battle. What is more, I still want to. The desire to do something isn't always the same as acting on the desire. I have a desire to slap a saddle on Merlyn and go for a spin over the mountain - I do not have the physical ability to act on it! I don't have to sit around moping and dwelling in the things I can't do. At the moment, I can't even manage to get parcels out and up to the post office or lift rolls of material or boxes around to find the things to go in the parcels, I'm afraid. That I find frustrating, and I hope members can bare with me there and be patient, even though I am feeling very impatient to get my bady sorted enough to get back to its normal level of funtioning! I can just about manage to sit at the computer and type and with my left elbow resting on another table to support that hand at the keyboard. I can't use the sewing machine though without risking increasing the lymphoedema in my left arm. Dealing with my head, however, is something I can do, and it stops me feeling useless and negative doing so. helps me to accept my limitations of the moment and to stay positive rather than dwelling in my problems. ;D That would be about as toxic a place to dwell in as anyone could imagine dwelling! I do not want to go there, but neither do I want to live in denial. I know things will likely get worse before they get better. I don't need to project on that anymore than young Glyn needs to project on his fears of the unknown. By sharing with, and helping Glyn through his first experience of a battle at the level of this challenge, something I am very familiar with and have no fear of after numerous past battles at the same level over many years, I am also helping myself to address my own fears of the things that are as yet unknown to me. It is one thing for others who have experienced things to tell you about them, but they have to be experienced before one knows what it FEELS like to experience them. Both Glyn and I have many similarities and despite the numerous differences between us, and the circumstnces in our lives, our emotions are not so far apart at this time. I just happen to have had more experience when it comes to dealing with them. It makes sense for me to pas on the benefit of that experience to my young, 'Virgin Soldier' team mate, don't you think.
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Post by murtle on Jun 18, 2008 15:38:29 GMT 1
I am more lost then a lost thing at sea....so I think I'll duck out of here to see if I can be found....
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 18, 2008 16:51:05 GMT 1
I'm not lost, but occasionally having to ask directions, and to remind myself of my game position - which is not, in this case, my own defender! I have to get off the cross and out of the way so that he, young and inexperienced as he is, KNOWS I TRUST HIM to play his part.
As a mum of a son, and godmother to his twin sister, this young man is almost like a son to me and perhaps even sees me now in the light of a substitute mum to him. This is where I'm going wrong.
Only the other day I said to someone (and with regard to my own son) 'If we love them, we have to let them go. Allow them the opportunity to learn from their mistakes if they make them and to be there for them if things in their lives fall apart.'
I try to do just that with my own son. Try to walk that talk, and yet here I am doing the opposite and wanting to protect and shield my own defence player from experiencing any hurt or harm from whatever happens in the challenge! That even though I KNOW from experience he's hardly likely to come to any real harm at all!
I need to get off the cross! Cut the apron strings etc. Stop seeing this young man as the child I've know all his life and like snapshots from a family album, and to look instead to the man he has become and needs to prove to himself that he IS.
This is all part of HIS journey through life and may the Spirit of the Journey ride with him.
When the right time arrives, I WILL Power this young Warrior, Merion, fear not, my feiry old friend. You will be, Mr. Mincemeat, and will not know what's hit you, and at the hands of your own son... And I promise YOU this much, YOU will FEEL PROUD of HIM! (Even though the Viking Maid will you dished up and on a plate for her delection. ;D (I just cannot imagine you in that smart suit, stached shirt and wearing a tie with little pink piggies on in! Wonderful stuff! ;D I can hardly wait! And neither can Hanne!)
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Post by furrycats on Jun 18, 2008 18:52:29 GMT 1
It does get confusing for everyone, Sally and when there are players from several different TRPD groups, boards and team members involved. Some members here belong to several groups at the same tome, but their activities on one can be affected by their participation in the activities in or on another. It can also mean that things are happening at the same time but at different levels. The best thing to do is not to even try to understand it all at once. Just go along with whatever is available for members of the board or group that you belong to. Here it is simply a fun guessing game that will end up with someone winning and the others who are participating will send a little prize to the winners chosen rescue. The longer you are round the fun and games, the more you will learn about them, and also realise how much more you might have left to learn, but only if you want to. Member just do what they want to do and to the level they want. Who wants to leap straight out of their pram and tackle quantum physics? I sure wouldn't want to and however much I fought to escape my pram when I was a baby! thanks, Al and that makes sense as you advise then I will take this bit by bit. Best way to find out stuff/games etc.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 18, 2008 19:50:20 GMT 1
That's by far the best way, Sally. Some of us have had years of experience doing this - even young Glyn. He was playing the game for plastic model farm animals as long ago as 1991 and when so small and skinny his trousers used to need hitching up every few minutes. How things like bodies change... WOW!!! Hope you are listening in, Catgut and Mincemeat? Bet the pair of you are just a little green with envy? It's been a while since I got to appreciate at close range so fine a Warrior specimen. I am impessed. Lookout Rafael Nadal, you're about to be usurped here. ;D (And I'm actually gonna get my chance to paint this warrior for battle too - and with his girlfriend's blessings. Most of the time all I get is the chance to look but not touch... In sending me your fine son to play with, you have landed me in 7th Level Heaven, my Fey Fiery Friend. No matter how many pies and puds you consume, you'll never have a body like this one I've been admiring here just now. He didn't get it from you or your side of the family, that's for sure... ;D No, this IS the body of a warrior, fine, fit, exceptionally well muscled... reminds me strongly of his uncle's back in his youth wnd when he was climbing trees and howling into the night air. You are gonna howl for other reasons come the battle, Catgut, and THAT is a PROMISE!
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Post by AmyJo on Jun 18, 2008 22:35:19 GMT 1
I am more lost then a lost thing at sea....so I think I'll duck out of here to see if I can be found.... Dont worry Murtle I never understand these so keep out of the way.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 19, 2008 1:54:54 GMT 1
I think you will understand this bit, Amy. I had a great laugh yesterday morning. Having predicted that a Wolf and a Wildcat teaming up together was not a good idea as they'd just share fleas, I learned that, sure enough one of them felt a tickle on his leg this morning and discovered a real, live flea! He had to head off to the local vet's for stuff to treat his dogs with - and that meant putting his hand in his pocket and disturbing the moths, too. Oh, the pain! It's SO good to have the opposition on the run from this plague of creepy-crawly little beasties! ;D You'll be delighter to learn that I had a most excellent Pow-Wow with my young defender. Proved to myself that there there's life in the Old Dragon yet. Indeed, I've so much positive energy that I've plenty to spare and am sending it out at the moment for anyone else who needs a bit - but I'm having a bit of trouble controlling the directions it's flying off in! Best grab any that flies by if you can and need it, because it's so super-charged it's got to be snatched or netted from the ether! (And I haven't even started my proper 'Power-Up' for the big challenge match yet!) Come 23:59 hrs on 20th it'll all be over and when the door opens to our of battle venue, goodness knows how much positive energy will fly out, so get ready to duck! ;D With a bit of luck I'll be able to sleep better after that, too. Managed to discharge a bit of the surplus earlier this evening and into my young defender's tense shoulders. That after letting him have a bit of my special cooling gel with witch hazel in it. I DID enjoy that excuse to lay my hands on some tender young muscles. Not often I get the chance. Lol Nice to feel the negative energy in those shoulders dissipating under my hands. This young man had been working himself up into a frenzy of worry in case he lets the side down, silly boy - as if could! He may never have played a challenge at this level before, but he is most certainly ready. I feel genuinely very honoured to have him as a playing partner - 'Virgin Soldier' or not, as we call all the lads taking part at the level for the first time. There can't be that many fat old biddies - especially ones in such a wrecked state as me - who could be so fortunate. (Move over Rafael Nadal, I have a new hero. ) When Glyn left, I was most impressed by how he automatically opened and held the car's driver's door open for his girlfriend, too. Such a rare thing to see, regardless of age these days - and at only twenty, too. My cup runneth over...
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 19, 2008 2:40:11 GMT 1
Cheer up, Merion, I just gave you a vote as you are trailing behind a bit and clearly your team mates here have almost abandoned you. I can afford to be generous...
Afterall, you must surely end up a winner... of all those lovely smart clothes Hanne has been busy buying for your make-over. ;D
As for you, Catgut, you will be delighted to learn that I have finally made my decision as to what to do with that grizzle-grey scalp of yours - and you are just going to LOVE this....
Full details have been place under my seal and will soon be in the hands of the adjudicator, to be revealled to you IMMEDIATELY AFTER the challenge, of course. Having already won that scalp of yours for the next year, there is no way that you can escape THAT fate. ;D Indeed, I daresay you will be feeling that old tequila worm that you once swallowed writhing around in your guts once again. It has a name, you know... It's name is FEAR, my dear.
I can feel it gnawing little holes into those guts of yours now and like a hamster chewing on a lump of wood.
Fear is such an incidious little beast, isn't it? Once you let it in, and it gets its teeth into you, you can feel the hollow growing inside you, and yet you cannot eat enough to fill that heavy hole and it just keeps growing. regardless. Comsuming you from the inside out. Anything you put in, hangs heavy above it, as your stomach churns up a storm of protest at the worm of fear's abuse.
The agony grows inside you as does the empty hollow space, and then the acid burns kick in, the mouth dries, the sweat beads burst on the forehead and trickle down to sting eyes already sore and burning from the nights when sleep withholds its presense in protest.
And then the worm turns... suddenly it feels a fierce desire that even fear itself is not exempt from... and it BREEDS. Its spawn reaching parts no other spawn can reach.
It invades your spinal chord, sending shivers up and down the vertebae like a million centipedes on the march.
Into your brain it goes to fester, like a million thoughts cast to the wind of a storm raging away and never dying until dealt with, once and for all.
You, my furry friend, of all people know how... and you WILL do it, one way or another.
There are three options. There's the easy way, the hard way and then there is YOUR WAY... but you way doesn't work, does it?
Your way is what got you into this mess in the first place - but it's not too late.
Must the Old Dragon really put you through the fires of Hell's Cauldron until you're laid exhausted on the carpet retching and sweating as you spill those guts of yours at her feet?
Is that what you want? Yours is the choice, you know, and you've little left to lose now.
You don't have to go through all that, there is always the easier, softer option.
Be kind to the cat and yourself, Mike - and take it. You are getting too old for this. An old, weary veteran of too many battles, and you have no need to keep fighting. Confession is freedom, as you well know.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 19, 2008 19:17:44 GMT 1
A traditional Triune Team's 'Battle Quiz' is being prepared to follow this challenge, and anyone taking part may need this link in order to search for clues. www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=15010.new#newThere you may learn a little about which pantomime could be have the Shaman as one of the cast... unless he is turned into mincemeat first, of course. And there was me guessing it would be Peter Pan-cake... Doh! Who's afraid of the big, bad, wolf now, Meirion? 'Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell the smell of the Shaman's bum, Toasted, roasted, grilled and fried It's gonna happen and you can't HIDE!'
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Post by Viv on Jun 19, 2008 23:17:56 GMT 1
Al. when you have finished with the Wolves Shaman and he is all smart in his collar and tie waiting to be presented to Viking Maid (just before the ceremonial burning of his favourite trainers ). Could you take a photo, so us Wildcats can put it on the dart board in our den he he he
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 20, 2008 13:06:07 GMT 1
Considering the state of me at the moment, Viv, Methinks you ask too much... But that big whoosy puddy cat team mate of yours is already gutted. ;D He is about to be renamed on here, but made it just in time to avoid the intended 'Catgut' ID, he shall henceforward be named... 'Dead Man Walking', and will therefore be considered as a 'Ghost Warrior' for the purposes of the challenge. Now all we can do await the challenge itself and to see if the Wolves' Shaman can manage to pull any of his special form of magic out of his medicine bag to save himself from this Knackered Old Dragon and the untried Virgin Soldier... we shall see. All the evidence required to verify and confirm the above gutting of the Wildcat can be found on The Naked Scientists Forum, if anyone wishes to check and verify it. Take our tissue box... Poor Old Whoosy.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 20, 2008 15:58:34 GMT 1
Bit extra re. the above and how the kitty was gutted... www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=15254.new#new Always the defender, eh, Mike? Cost you dear this time - but you were needed, and had the courage to lay your last life in the game on the line in the process, and to pay the ultimate price... Aye, and in defense of your Wolfy pal too... Yes, Dead Man Walking, I would be delighted to accept your most recent proposal, thank you. That one would be most satisfactory.
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Post by Viv on Jun 21, 2008 10:12:10 GMT 1
So..............................................
What happened...........................
Is the Wolf wearing a suit............................
Or does Al have to do whatever was is the envelope...............
And was it "Marry Mike"...................
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 21, 2008 10:40:06 GMT 1
The results that you need to decide the winning member for this challenge have now been posted, so it's over to the mathematicians to figure it out! ;D Viv, you'll hve to wait a little longer for the answer to that one, else it will spoil the fun for other groups who are holding challenges relating to it. Probably not quite as long as Mike's waited to get one of his triple-figured proposals finally accepted. ;D
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Post by Viv on Jun 21, 2008 10:45:49 GMT 1
Can Ali and I be bridesmaids Well done on beating that smelly old Wolf
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 21, 2008 12:16:26 GMT 1
Er... Got a Tardis, Viv? This could hold a clue or two: www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/jefferson_airplane/triad.htmlA few names have now been changed on this board, as per affected by the challenge. A report on the relevant aspects will be posted for the group, but you will still have to be patient. The gathering hasn't ended yet and our scribe is very much involved with other activities going on there. She probably won't have the opportunity for much sleep either until it end on Sunday night, so will need a chance to rest up and recover, plus she works full time, so will have to prioritise a bit there. One thing that I must say is how impressive our gathering's bands and musicians were last night. Special thanks have to go to Idiom 2008 for the quality of the atmospheric drumming they provided. As for Dead Men Walking - I am in awe of what you old geezers achieved after only a day or so of rehearsals and the time that's elasped since many of you dropped out of the music scene and into recovery and your new lives. You were up there with the very best last night, and even better than I remember you from the bad old younger days. Keep it up, boys! You are an inspiration and a tribute to survival.
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Post by Viv on Jun 21, 2008 12:39:40 GMT 1
So, if I need a tardis to say, go back in time, cos I missed the wedding. Does this mean that you are now Mrs SIMike
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Post by Viv on Jun 21, 2008 12:43:14 GMT 1
OK Head going to explode soon. Four people, in a room. Mike and (smart) smelly old wolf = Groom and best man Al and sleeps with dogs = Bride plus person to give bride away. Back to my essay now
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jun 21, 2008 14:48:49 GMT 1
The results of the challenge battle have now been posted on the internet (TNS forum) - whoever locates those first from there, and copies and posts them over to this thread will win a Recall Training Lead for the rescue of their choice. (Well, you can't expect me to do all the work!)
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