The "I'm Bored" Conversation Thread

[LigH]

* LigH pulls another corpse out of its grave:

To finally keep my promise:



The Cumbana

is a vegetable which grows in large fields on the floor of streaming waters. The fruits are rich and fleshy inside [ imagine a cucumber ], covered by several layers of strong leaves [ imagine closed corn. ]. Although predjudiced as "poor people food", you shall not underestimate their healthy ingredients.

In warm seasons, almost daily one of the fruits per plant on the ground ripens and starts to rise during the early hours of the day, up to the surface of the river, connected to the main plant on the floor with a long stem. It floats on the surface during noon, and finally opens the fruit covering leaves.

Cumbanas should be harvested when they are just about to open, but not yet fully revealed. Open cumbanas macerate soon, and before the evening they will drift away as a kind of thick foam on the surface. Just in time harvested cumbanas can be kept for almost a week when keeping them chilled and only slightly humid.

Then they can be used as vegetables - for example, they are often sliced lengthwise, and the soft kernels get substituted by minced meat or spicy fruits [ like filled zucchini ]. Also they are sometimes sliced crosswise and baked under a cover of a few days old, slightly sour milk [ gratinated ].

A different way of use is harvesting them when they are still closed and about to rise to the surface. Then especially children enjoy to dive into the river, cut the stems, and hang them into the sun over a clothesline. Well dried they are a sweet fruity snack [ imagine slightly dried bananas. ].

[Illysia]

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...and baked under a cover of a few days old, slightly sour milk [ gratinated ].

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ewww... 

[Volki]

Can we not have a fruit called the cumbana? For the sake of the children. Please.

[Rigwyn]

How about a juicy little tart?   

[Illysia]

I imagine it is like a combination of cucumber and banana.

[Candy]

Which really doesn't help with a name like 'Cumbana'.

[Illysia]

Well, I wouldn't worry too much. Most kids either already know worse or they won't get the meaning... I remember being a kid and being able to pick out innuendos, but I had no idea what they meant. I doubt this is any intentional innuendo so it shouldn't be a problem. It's the older people with their minds already too far in the gutters you have to worry about. 

[Volki]

It's more like... I don't want to be reminded of ___ while putting... that in my... mouth.

 

[LigH]

Don't be too prude, Sarras; there are nastier toys for kids (but only Germans will understand their really ambiguous name).

[Rigwyn]

Orrghaklet:
An entire, full sized meal condensed via magic into a tiny - though equally heavy, tria sized tablet.  do not spoil when left out a room temperature and can be made from any sort of food - including gemstones. A single Orrghaklet will produce the sensation of completely full and sated while providing the body with all the same nutrients found in the uncompressed meal.

Depending on the exact spell used and the proficiency of the caster, orrghaklets typically have a dull purple-ish brown appearance, are odorless, and have a pulsating magical glow about them. Due to this aura and their highly compressed state, they cannot be marked, scratched or indented in any way as to do so could have a terrible effect on their composition. Its suggested that one does not eat an orrghaklet without knowing exactly what sort of meal it was made from. An orrghaklet make from a meal of grains, meat and fruit will look identical to one made from a blend of rubies, granite and sulphur.

One CAN speculate about the derived meal by weighing the orrghaklet ( which weighs as much as the meal itself). A kran sized meal of granite stones and emeralds would weigh considerably more than a meal of fish and grains.

[Illysia]

It's more like... I don't want to be reminded of ___ while putting... that in my... mouth.

 

As I said, it's the older people that will have a difficult time of it.

Orrghaklet:
An entire, full sized meal condensed via magic into a tiny - though equally heavy, tria sized tablet. 

Oooh... Willy Wonka is so going to come sue you or turn you over to the Oompa Loompas. However, it is an interesting idea.

[Rigwyn]

You know, I forgot about the shrinking scene... I think the orrghaklet is definitely doable... just not just which magic way or ways might be capable of accomplishing this. My guess would be brown. *shrugs*

[LigH]

Plus blue: Freeze drying.

[Rigwyn]

Bored, bored, bored..... b   o   r   e   d .............. (inserting more dots just because)....... .... <o><r><e/><letter>d</letter>


>So... any ideas for subtle acts of malice?
ie.

Nudging a person's chair out from under them just before they sit.
Eating the last two Eggo waffles just before your significant other sits down for breakfast.
Squirting crazy glue into the maple syrup bottle.
Leaving a thumb tack on someone's wheel chair.
Putting salt in the sugar container.

These can be IC or OOC ideas....

[Volki]

Holding the door open for people twenty feet away.

Putting bugs in/on people's things. It's so weird they can't accuse you of doing it.

Pouring olive oil in alcoholic drinks.

If you're ever at an event with apple bobbing, secretly remove all of the stems. It's a pansy game otherwise.

When you're playing PlaneShift, go into the Arena and cast Phantasmal Voices on every mob you can find. This will crash the NPC server for five to ten minutes.


Rigwyn, what the hell did you do to our font?