PARABOLICAL GRAFFITI

You know, it's funny being back here again. Feels the same. Feels different, too. At least my mansion came here with me. If I'd never been here before, I'd think I had smoked too much yeyo. That breaks the second rule, you know: never get high on your own supply. 'Course, not everyone follows that, eh? My wife didn't.

But now that I'm here once again.. time to get into business. Get some more. Get back on top. Gonna get the money, the power.. and if it goes my way, the hot women. Seen a few already. Gonna take this city by the balls. For those I never met before, my name is Tony Montana. I came from Cuba to get away from those Communist cockroaches. And I'm looking to expand.

All right. I'll bite. Wouldn't mind knowing what exactly happened this last time and what's going on with the rift.

Century, please? Or, slightly more helpful, year?

So...

gonna tell me ab


I washed the Tumbler.

[an hour or two after this]

WHAT THE HELL, NATHAN PETRELLI? A MONTH? A BLEEDING MONTH, AND YOU STILL NEVER FILED THOSE BRIEFS?

Can't leave you alone for a minute, can I?!

Edited to add:

Hi, everyone. umm. I'm back?!

[Filtered from God, angels, other deities, baddies, children, and Isobel (Lana)]

I remember high school. We had to sometimes do projects. Research a theory, test it out, revise, form a hypothesis, then apply it to see if it worked. And if you were lucky, you may have actually learned something. Well.. I may need some input. I'm working on a project right now. But unlike school, this is more serious. Lives are in the balance. Matter of life and death. If it turns out that my theory is right, but isn't needed, well.. it can be used for another similar situation down the road.

Any idea where some good haunts are? Like haunted houses or other such buildings, where restless ghosts stay? Like.. bad ghosts. The cruel, evil ones that caused great suffering in life. Alternatively, or separately, I'd like to know where to find a demon. I don't mean the ones that look like monsters or vampires. I'm looking for those classified as non-corporeal, without bodies, that need a living host to manifest and operate among us. Ryan, I'm looking at you. Or maybe I can track down Damien if no one else has any info. So if someone could just point me in the right direction to start looking, that would be great.

Just because Lana is possessed doesn't mean they'll be any wild parties in this building anytime soon. There's still Linda, and there's still me. Rules are still the same. Just a reminder.

[Ollie]
What is with these people? What ever happened to finding a way to fix the problem without taking a life?

I've heard that we have been brought here by some Higher Power, to participate in some kind of conflict.

Can anyone tell me where to find these higher powers? Who are they?

If I have to confront these higher powers to get an answer, so be it. I will not be led around some strange land by a group of puppet masters pulling at the strings, while I question my purpose here.

[Bart, Kal (younger), Kara, Oliver]
As it is apparent to me that alternate realities exist and sometimes alternate versions of ourselves, I decided to see if this world had any information on Isobel Thoreaux and found something I wasn't at all expecting.

We are...fictional in this world?

You people really need to step away from the internet.

I have been reading a good deal of this, debate and declined from speaking, but bad feeling is being caused and that is good for no one.

So for what it is worth, this is one persons opinion from a lot of experiance, as a Jedi as a soilder and as a Queen. You cannot solve all problems without casulties. This is a fact. I have seen many wars and many political coups as well as more than one random crazy who will not ever change and who cannot ever be helped. To believe they can be helped tends to loose more lives.

 Of course, the last resort should be to kill, but it is not always possible to do otherwise, and to believe it is is in my opinion impossibly naieve.

I will not insult anyone that makes the choice not to take a life. But to insult others that will and that have for whatever reason is foolish and uncalled for. But the point I wished to make based on what I have seen here and at home is this. People will do anything, anything for those they love, people will defend them against all others to protect them, This is a basic truth of any sentient being with an ounce of goodness within them, Is this not a good thing? An admirable trait.

 For my part, I have taken lives. Many lives. So I speak from experiance.

I have taken life in war and in peace time, lives of a species called the Yuuzhan Vong, Beings that would have done anything to see the governments and people of worlds in my home Galaxy fall so that they could impose their will and their Gods on us, I watched as they took the Galactic Capital and tried to rebuild it in the image of their lost homeworld, I lost friends to them, for a time lost Jacen, I have taken the lives of Nobles who tried to take my throne from me, who tried to take the lives of myself and my daughter. But equally I have chosen to spare lives when it serves the greater good. Lives of men who engineered a nano attack against my ship. These men used my fathers DNA to target my family, many died, Allana and I escaped because... because we were warned in time... And yet, these men I spared to ensure peace, to finally end a war, their lives were in my hands and I assure you I wanted them dead.

So in truth, Arguing this is pointless and should cease because both sides are defending their own in their own way. And neither will back down, because again it is a matter of defending those they love.

How is it that we seem to be the only people on this planet who are always willing find away around taking a human life, and a good chunk of us aren't even human? There's always another option, I'm learning that. Is it sad when the alien species are less trigger happy against humans than the other humans? Killing is the easy way out. Why does no one else see that?

[Bart]
Hey. How are you? I haven't really got a chance to talk to you. You okay?

I realize I have no power to stop you, and that very little of what I say matters. But I would highly appreciate if no one goes off killing my aunt, Lana Lang. There are a few people who consider her a close friend, or family, who are very powerful. And no, that isn't a threat in any way for those of you who were about to consider snapping at me. It means I don't want to have to listen to them complain and be angry if she dies, because I won't be in the mood for it. And I'm not exactly on the friendship level with a lot of them where I can just tell them to shut up.

Like I said, she's my family, the only one I have left, and I'd highly appreciate not becoming orphaned, again, before I'm even of legal age. Just saying. There's a way to stop this without killing her, and it's going to be found. So please keep your guns/swords/light sabers/mind powers/heavy objects/throwing knives/poisons/magic/anything that kills/whatever/smiting ability away from her.

( Isis )

[ooc: Posted as Linda Lang. And while Kara is fictional, that does not mean your character should know this is Kara. Linda Lang is not as popular as Clark Kent. It was a semi-recent development that happened in 2008, near the end, I think. So unless your character followed the Supergirl comics near that time period, they shouldn't even have the slightest clue it's Kara. Thanks!]

Has anybody seen Cheese? He's short and yellow and he has a big head and he does weird stuff and he looks like this:



He snuck out a couple of hours ago and now I can't find him. Me and Bloo and Wilt are gonna go look for him and if anyone sees him, Jackie Khones and Eduardo and Coco will be here. Oh man, I hope he didn't get eaten by a monster.

What am I? If I'm a machine why do I sleep? Why do I keep dreaming of that song, over and over in my head? What does it mean to be one of the final five? Why are there no more copies of my model? Am I the last? Where the rest Boxed? If I die would I download to a new copy?

What's my number? If Cavil is One, Leoben is Two, D'Anna is Three, Simon is Four, Doral is Five, Caprica is Six, Sharon is Eight, then what am I? Seven? Or are we numbers Nine through Twelve?

My life is a lie, my parents, my history. Is anything I feel even real?

Is it my destiny to destroy humanity? I've come back, thousands of years, is it all to watch the cycle repeat itself? Watch them all die?

Or to destroy them myself. Is that what I'm supposed to do, supposed to be?

Frak it

You know I think I've listened to every version of "All along the Watchtower" there is and I have to say, Dillon was overrated. Hendrix did the best version.

[Filtered from baddies]

I don't know much of what's going on, and to be perfectly honest I don't know if I care. I'm going somewhere, and then do some patrolling. If anyone wants to join me; you're free to do so.

Checking these boards was probably a bad idea today.

And I thought my alternate reality couldn't get along.

I can only imagine how the people of this world would react to an attack by the Dominion.

Let's all fight about what's right! Because obviously, that helps.

Everyone has their reasons for what they believe in, and everyone's going to stick to those reasons. Obviously many people here are just never going to agree, that's the way life works. There's always going to be people who see things differently. It's called balance. There needs to be people who will kill, and there needs to be people who will find every way possible to not kill.

Shut up and deal with it.

[Isoble]
Speak to Ben Braeden again, and I will send you to hell. I'm good for that.

Oh, you people. You really don't know a futile argument when you see it, do you?

Anyways. Since everyone seems to need some sort of distraction to keep them from arguing with each other, let's play a game, shall we? "Would You Rather?" is quite simple and probably extremely childish, but with the amount of bitching that's been going on today, childish isn't a problem with you lot, is it?

Simply, I'll throw out two options. Everyone has to say which one they would rather do. From there on, have a free for all! Consider it open season on asking the most ridiculous or vile, disgusting things that you would want to. But if you do the latter, be wary of your filters. There are children watching.

Would you rather be alone for the rest of your life or condemned to spend it with someone that you hate?

I think I disgust him now.

I don't mean to interrupt all of you're regular scheduled live action soap opera what's going on.

But is there someone out there who knows something about keeping Angels away long term? I can only do it for short periods of time, and I don't think I can afford to loose all the blood it would take to keep doing it.

Who knew my presence would cause such an uproar? It was certainly not my intention. In fact, I have no need to explain my intentions to the lot of you as you seem to be not different than the close-minded bigots I watched hunt and burn innocent women for years, most of whom did not even practice the magic of which they were accused.

I will, however, make one thing very clear: I kill for vengeance and in defense, not for sport. There is but one in this city who has done to me enough to deserve death, but I have no doubt he will come to me.

Take it or leave it, but if you are still firm in your belief that I plan to murder you and your family in your sleep, do not expect me to respond.

[Ruby]
I find it amusing that you are the only one over the age of twelve with a mind open enough to listen. If there is any way I can thank you, I would like to.

Trampolines? That's your grand plan, to annoy me to death?

So, uh... what'd I miss?

KILL HIM! KILL THE UMPIRE!



You make it TOO EASY. Look. Everyone who wants to KILL the bad guys, go line up in MacArthur Park. There'll be plenty of GUNS, BOMBS, KNIVES, BASEBALL BATS, TRASH CANS, BROKEN BOTTLES, SWORDS, AXES, POISONS, EXPLOSIVES, and a few concoctions I've made myself. You go right ahead and kill ALL the bad guys you want.

All the REST of you, get to stay back and leave them alone. Or go ahead and STOP them. Really, doesn't matter to ME. It won't be MY fault if someone thinks you're a bad guy for trying to break up the fun.

Oh. You might want to hurry. This offer is open for EVERYONE. You might need a little something to protect yourself.

[that's right, folks. The Joker has a grand old GIVEAWAY going in MacArthur Park. There's lots of everyday citizens already starting to arm themselves in preparation.]

I was reading a few things about Isobel and I was wondering if anyone has seen her or the others with a thick leather bound book. The last time she did this there was a book. When it was destroyed, the three women were released, though Lana still kept the mark.

These goddamned message boards are more trouble than they're worth.

If there is any fighting in this post, so help me you will see sparks come out of your computer the second you reload the page.

I'd like to request a large group go down to respond to this. This is going to turn into a problem for all of us if we let it get out of hand, and I'd like to think that we can work together on this one. I need enough people for crowd control and Clown Search Detail. Note: The clown masks everyone is wearing? [Screen capture from video footage posted] Don't let them confuse you. There's only one clown and this is the sort of mayhem he might enjoy watching. It's complete chaos and that leads to anarchy and-- well, I've explained it before, haven't I?

Crowd control is going to take some hand to hand skill. As far as I can tell, these are humans plain and simple. They're armed to the nines, yes, but they shouldn't be too hard to disarm and knock to the side. But, as you can see, there are a lot of them, so yes, we need numbers. Quite honestly, I don't care how you disarm them because I'm asking for help that's not only from my people, I just want to know that it's being done and that the Joker is being searched for. Is that too much to ask?

One last thing: Please. Don't tell him we're coming. He knows we won't let this go unanswered, but come on, people. A little element of surprise, please?

That's all. Those of you who want to go Joker hunting, I'll have one of my people distribute commlinks if you need them, because we'll need to keep in contact.

[as Oracle]

Two things.

One. On second read I think its possible I might have...you know...encouraged things.

More to the point as you will see I need not to laugh for the next 24 hours or he will be smug. And nobody wants that I assure you.

Help!