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User:Fantasticalan

2005-12-12T23:06:42Z

Fantasticalan:

Thieved* from [[Tales From Earth:Authors]] :

:Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.

* if it's possible to thieve your own writing. Discuss. Explain your answer fully. <i>[15 marks]</i>

Tales From Earth:Authors

2005-12-12T22:55:45Z

Fantasticalan: /* Authors */ Added me!

Authors should write about a 50 word blurb for themselves. This can be just about anything at all. Who are you? what would you like the worlds to know about you? If you don't write one, someone may be inviteed to write something about you. *cackle* *cackle* *cackle*

''Note: I've started heading areas for everyone who has submitted an article. Just add water.''

[Edit] - I've added in the blurbs already forwarded to the editorial team. SledgeCallier

==Editors==
===Centipede===
===Scott===
Scott is an American, fFor which an apology seems appropriate. No sensible cause can be fFound fFor the queer lisp apparent in his writing, though sometimes gothic architecture is to blame. He is proud to drink plenty of hard liquor; He only smokes when on fFire, which as you can imagine is all the time. He has a bit of a fFastener fFetish, loves pirates, bad movies, and pi.

===SledgeCallier===
Having spent his formative years in rural Leicestershire, SledgeCallier was transplanted to Oxford in a failed attempt to absorb knowledge. Instead he found himself working as a Cartographer. After a few years of this Sledgecallier came to his senses and moved into an IT Helpdesk role from where he now hides his powers from the rest of the world.

==Authors==
===Ammonite===
Ammonite (real name Alex Fleetwood) lives in London, England. He works for old media. His favourite things include choral music, Anthony Lane reviews, shingle beaches and beer.

===Coxtin===
Conceived with an unusual amount of purpose and vigour Chris Martin finally arrived into the world after a record six thousand nine hundred and seventy two week gestation period inside his surrogate mother-Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. Standing tall at six foot nine he often strides around London parks mimicking Peter Crouch mimicking John Cleese mimicking Hitler. Attaching loaves of bread to his shoes, elbows and eyes, tourists are often shocked to see a tall man goose-stepping around Hyde park with Ducks, Swans and Chihuahua dogs biting at his flailing arms, legs and head. Academically the man appears to be inconstant however his main ambition when he sat his GCSEs was to spell out the name of his best friend, Adae, with his results. Although this was seen by the London School of Economics and Political Science to be a failure Chris could only see his results as a good thing and wondered if anyone was called Lseps. Frequently bored by his job he can often be found sitting in a second floor office in Blackfriars, in the city of London, making absurd claims about his life-he never tells people about this hobby though as Chris feels that no one would believe him. As far as hobbies go this crab ridden freak of man has few-however he does tie small children to famous buildings. He once tied up Jimmy Cranky to the Taj Mahal. He was greatly distressed to find that Jimmy was not a small child, but just a bit odd. Chris, aged nine, can be easily recognised because he has a head made out of corrugated iron, wood and apples.

===Cronogenesis===

Conogenesis (Jack smith) is a student/giant/pirate from Heanor, Derbyshire. Although living in this area, he is actually a citizen of the nation of Lovely, a small country in the middle of London boasting a population of 52,000. Cron has been searching for the Cube since the early days althought is usually ignored due to his mass speculation. He is best known for his poetry, rather than stories. Some of his better known pieces include "Weather" and "Mr. Moonlight". If you are looking for Cron you will usually find him listening to Viards 'The Silver City' or helping some stranger. He says hello, have a great day and may fortune smile upon you in the future :).

===Duckiemonster===
Duckiemonster is a medical student looking for something to fill the hole in her life left by the recent demise of a three-year relationship. She loves to write, play bass guitar and also runs knitting classes.

===Enigmaster===

===Fantasticalan===
Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.

===Frankie Roberto===
===Forg===
Forg comes from a small little village outside Loughborough in which he has just inhabited. Starting his first year of A levels and spends all of his life either at his wonderful girlfriends house, working or spending huge amount of times sitting here learning about the wonderful world of Perplex City. Being fairly new to the community he is just getting settled into the goings on however he's loving every minute and one day, we will find that cube! The rest of his wonderful life is spent eating sleeping and playing his guitar.

===GasparLewis===
===Gibbet===

Gibbet is very slow at writing things and therefore this section about him will be completed as soon he can think of some amusing things to say!

===Hituro===
Hituro is an electronic enigma, a personality created by an out of work web designer with too much time on his hands. When translated into the real world Hituro enjoys reading, writing, roleplaying, gaming and running large multi-player online games which take up entirely too much of his time!

===Josh Black===
===MagikGuy===
MagikGuy (Stefan Marseglia) falls under the Perplexian zodiac sign of "The Apple-Thief" and is currently studying A-Levels at his local Sixth Form in the areas of English Literature, French, General Studies, Information Communication Technology and Sociology. MagikGuy would like to aspire to become a Journalist when he is older and would like to study at Marmalejo College in Perplex City, the same place where Scarlett Kiteway is currently majoring in Journalism. MagikGuy has been a devoted member of the Perplex City phenomenon from early August 2005 and wishes to do his best in order to help out Perplexians by finding the whereabouts of The Receda Cube.

===MikeyJ===
===Mokey F. Rock===
Mokey belly dances and studies Japanese, which (sort of) accounts for her strange hybrid of the two cultures in her story. She believes in literature, the theatre, games, and all forms of healthy entertainment. When she isn't goofing off, Mokey writes and teaches English, which unfortunately does not mean she gets paid to talk about Shakespeare every waking moment -- just some of the time.

===Sentinel===
===Specterz===
Erik Nusselder, aka specterz, is from the Netherlands. He is 21 years old, and studying law school. His hobbies are music and tennis.
Although quite new to the Cube Retrieval Team he has been diligently read up on everything, and hope to assist in finding the cube for the people of Perplex City.

===TheBozzball===

==The Unfiction Community==
The Unfiction Community is ....... ''someone cool should write this. Or else maybe borrow something fFrom the fForum help pages or something? Maybe spacebass would like to say some words?''

Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!

2005-12-12T22:46:25Z

Fantasticalan: The less-than-inspiring truth about festive gaming.

'''To Epiphany and Beyond...!'''

''Fantastic Alan, using the voice of Buzz Lightyear, guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.''
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The time between Christmas and New Year is one that is regularly festooned with games of all types; one of the most popular, yet rarely cited, is "Avoid the Turkey", but that inevitably ends with a houseful of losers - I think that's probably mandated in the rules.

Christmas is designated a 'family-time', and after all your relatives have gathered en masse, stuffed themselves full of Christmas lunch, then slept through the Queen's Speech, suddenly you're all stuck for something to span the time until dinner.

'Scrabble'!

'Scrabble' involves making words from a randomly selected collection of seven letters (which are held in your 'rack'), and intertwining them with words already played. There are bonuses if you manage to use all of your rack, or if you manage to put a word on certain special squares. There aren't bonuses for knocking your rack over so that all of your letters fall onto the floor, nor are there for making up rude words, although arguably there should be if it involves explaining it to poor Grandma.

'Proper' Scrabble players are a weird and dull bunch. While us normal amateurs will sit there thinking "if only I had an 'A', I could make 'KUMQUAT'", they'll get all excited about making tedious non-words like 'ZO' and 'EE'. And they'll happily gum up the board with these things without knowing what they actually mean.

Regardless, two hours later, you've somehow survived, and you've earnt your little relax with your turkey-sandwiches and Twiglets™. Game time now takes one of two forms - better hope you're still a youngster...

... because if you're kiddie-enough, you can look forward to an entire evening of driving the family to distraction by torturing them with the new toys they've received. Any Perplexians out there might be frustrated at the lack of inconsistency in Earth children's games. Take, for example, marbles: are they evil? I mean, in 'Kerplunk' you spend all your time tugging sticks and indulging gentle tube-jiggling in a vain attempt to avoid dropping a ball or two, whilst in 'Hungry Hippos' you tonk your animal-rump as hard and as frequently as possible in order to snaffle them up.

Otherwise, for the er... more 'mature' folk, and it doesn't matter how slowly you're eating, you're gonna end up in a family game of 'Charades'! Now, here in England, we even made a television show out of 'Charades' (we called it 'Give Us a Clue'), and just like that show, your home-game is gonna be 'boys against girls'.

Now, this might just be my own paranoid, twisted and misheld view, (and I might have established it whilst being drunk), but it's mine, and I'm keeping it. I am, however, willing to share: '''women cheat'''. All of the time. Badly. Trying to mime the title 'Gone with the Wind', they will raise four fingers to indicate the number of words. Their team will start shouting things like 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow', and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'. Rather than persist with the signalling until their compatriots finally catch on and remember how the game is played, our double-X chromosomed contestant will mouth 'four words' over and over again, until someone copies but takes themselves off mute. Repeat and fade until the title comes out, girlies whoop, and the pain goes on.

Surviving Christmas Day means you're rewarded with Boxing Day, when all of England traditionally stops and indulges in a full Christmas football programme. In essence this means we drag ourselves out of our deliciously warm homes, full of turkey (remember that?), out to a freezing footy-stadium to see our favoured team get beat. Or draw 0-0 in a game that the local radio commentator sarcastically describes as a 'no-goal-thriller'. Or, if you're really lucky, it might get postponed five minutes before kick-off - then you can race down to the Shopping Park in order to join in some 'January Sale' fighting - presumably the origin of the phrase 'Boxing Day'.

The rest of the season is crammed to bursting with the ever popular 'Drinking Games'. Especially on New Year's Eve, where you may be expected to participate whilst wearing 'fancy dress', which usually becomes somewhat less fancy when you've spilled a lager or three over it. You certainly shouldn't be surprised if you turn up at your local hostelry and are penalised for drinking with your right-hand. The penalty? Taking a drink!

Oh, but as you attempt to take your forfeit, you're penalised again! This time, for drinking with your left-hand! Before too much confusion kicks in, perhaps I should explain: penalty-drinks must be taken whilst holding the drink in the right hand; all other ('social') drinking must be held in the left.

Trust me, after two hours of random penalities (go on, make some up for your friends), even this rule will be more complicated than 'Scrabble'. Joyeuse fêtes!

Tales From Earth

2005-12-12T22:42:55Z

Fantasticalan: /* Index of articles */

==General==

*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]

===References===
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])

==Requirements==
*<BIG><BIG>'''Deadline For Entries Is December 16th!!'''</BIG></BIG>
*Entries should be themed: '''Games'''
*Use this page as an index of other pages.
**For example, if Sente were to write a piece on his family, he might format it like so:
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kiteway Crazies]] - [[User:Sente]] 28-NOV-05, 5000 words'''
A short treatise on my lunatic daughters, both of whom cavort with strangers.

*'''Also note: Authors should collect their blurbs here:'''
**'''[[Tales From Earth:Authors]]'''

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==Index of articles==

'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - [[User:Enigmaster]] 29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) Editor:Centipede'''
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.

'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1081 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.

'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - [[User:MikeyJ]] 07-DEC-05, 192 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
An excuse to insult people.

'''[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] - The Unfiction Community Editor:Scott'''
''(A work in progress - A proper title is to be deteremined.)''
This story is being written and assembled by a volunteer collection of forumers.

'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - [[User:Duckiemonster]] 11-DEC-05, 450 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
A chance encounter

'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 2100+ words Editor:Centipede'''
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.

'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - [[User:Forg]] 29-NOV-05, 1290 words Editor:Centipede'''
Another day comes, another day goes...

'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - [[User:kobeyu]] and ??? 01-DEC-05, 614 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
''(Abandoned -- feel free to finish it - A work in progress)''
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.

'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers Editor:Centipede'''
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''

'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - [[User:Mokey F. Rock]] 08-DEC-05, 2584 words Editor:Centipede'''
A short story of escaping reality.

'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - [[User:MagikGuy]] 9-DEC-05, 1600 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.

'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - [[User:Frankie Roberto]] 3-DEC-05, 1000 words Editor:Centipede'''
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''

'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 06-DEC-05, 2,087 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.

'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - [[User:Specterz]] 29-NOV-05, 500 words Editor:Centipede'''
A little rant about nights on Earth.

'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's (Not really)Edited by SledgeCallier'''
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.

'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 0 words'''
''(A work in progress)''
A role playing game module based in Perplex City.

'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1225 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome

'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - [[User:Hituro]] 11-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
Playing games with People

'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 29-NOV-05, 1000+ words Editor:Centipede'''
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.

'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - [[User:Sentinel]] 28-NOV-05, 2581 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.

'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 09-DEC-05, 1331 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
This is not a game!

'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 04-DEC-05, 1242 words Editor:Centipede'''
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''

'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - [[User:ammonite]] 03-DEC-05, 866 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.

'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - [[User:TheBozzball]] 02-DEC-05, 3186 words Editor:Centipede'''
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.

'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - [[User:ammonite]] 09-DEC-05, 6583 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.

'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 11-DEC-05, 271 words Editor:SledgeCallier
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?

'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.

'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.

'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - [[User:fantasticalan]] 12-DEC-05, 847 words'''
Fantastic Alan, using the voice of Buzz Lightyear, guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.