||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night." ||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for April 16, 2026 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!" Tweeny: test Tweeny: test 2 Tweeny: test 3 Tweeny: test 4 ||||||||| Tweeny departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" ||||||||| Tweeny waltzes in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Tweeny: test 5 ||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Tweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Tweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom... ||||||||| It's 7:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 16, 2026 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" -- then he looks around at the empty room, looks at his watch, and mumbles "...am I early?" ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Beet in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Beet: Hello, Folks. ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!" Cease: Hi Beet Cease: First no chatters, then no chat. ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies cease 2 in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. Beet: Hi, Cease cease 2: last couple of weeks, only one chatter joined me here. Deputy Dang 2 weeks ago and last week only Mutt. Beet: Yeah, the page shut down briefly. cease 2:tween announced no new chat, but told is producer to put up an old chat audio. guess that didn't happen cease 2: bumer. had a great show. the origin of Dwarf (Life in the Day), plus a history lesson ||||||||| Catherwood escorts cat in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. cat: oh well, another day, another green, blue and electric yellow dollar ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Beet1 jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!" ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies cat 2 inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers llanwydd inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. cat 2: let's hope it comes back next week. cat 2: llan, looks like we're chatless tonght. ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Beet2', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule... cat 2: your recording sounded great. llanwydd: howdy ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving cat 3 coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. cat 3: this typing platform suddenly shuts down after we type a sentence. cat 3: plus no audio llanwydd: hardly chatless. we have several Beetsand the rest of us ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Deputy Dang, just back from Hellmouth." cat 3: hi dang Deputy Dang: Howdy, pardners! cat 3: you folks don't get Internal Server Error when you type? ||||||||| Deputy Dang leaves at 8:00 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..." ||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and Deputy Dang plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM. ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and announces "Presenting 'Mutt', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. ||||||||| Deputy Dang rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" cat 3: let's meet here next week, if we can. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "We own the idea of NOW." cat 3: Mutt Mutt: Hey it letme in. cat 3: for now ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Stop torturing me Ethyl!" ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies llan inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. Mutt: I still getthe internal sever error but can see the chat, now ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "cat 4 should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as cat 4 enters and sits on the divan. ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies cat 5 in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. llanwydd: we are having trougle with the werver cat 5: i have now been kicked up 5 times. this doesn't happen to you? Mutt: Saw that Tween was testing the chat earlier today so - well, there goes the chat. All blank, now ||||||||| Catherwood enters with cat 6 close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the Aviary. Mutt: Chat is back for the moment. I switched over to today’s log and could see the log Mutt: Very annoying cat 6: i'm swamped with internal server errors and sent back to the shadows constantly Mutt: It keeps disappearing and so I go back to msin page, enter again and it looks ok. But then it blanks out. Just did so again Mutt: Arrrggghhhh! ||||||||| Catherwood leads cat 8 into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. Mutt: Cat I see you. cat 8: it's definitely broken, like the president. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?" Mutt: The president was never not-broken cat 8: lol Mutt: Well that’s a bunch of sentences typed in without kicking me out cat 8: lucky mutt Mutt: Won’t last cat 8: what does? Mutt: True. Lol cat 8: jsut read great story on facebook by some old friend of bergman, when they both lived in venice Mutt: Channeling Austin - What is reality?! Mutt: Do tell Mutt: Blank again Mutt: Do tell Mutt: Channeling Austin - What is reality?! Mutt: True. Lol cat 8: he was bergman's bicycle repairman. Mutt: Won’t last Mutt: Well that’s a bunch of sentences typed in without kicking me out Mutt: The president was never not-broken Mutt: Cat I see you. cat 8: you're repeating, intentionally or due to the server? Mutt: The log page now cuts off a few posts back Mutt: Back now. No the repetition was not me Mutt: The daily log is repeating, too Mutt: “If at first you don’t succeed, Mr. Kidd” Mutt: “Try, try again, Mr. Wynt” ||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'cat 10', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary... cat 10: I went to elementary school with a Billy Kidd. He became quite famous. ||||||||| Catherwood enters with c close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the Aviary. ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "c2 should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as c2 enters and sits in the comfy chair. c2: ok, this isnt working. let's reassemble here next week and chat if we can. Mutt: Sounds good. Have a great week everyone! ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Mutt!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... ||||||||| It's 11:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| c2 - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly.. ||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 12:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| c - dead from The Plague ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Cease - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| llanwydd departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" ||||||||| It's 12:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| cat 10 - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 1:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| cease 2 - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| cat 8 - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| cat - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| cat 6 - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet1 - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| cat 5 - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| cat 2 - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| cat 4 - dead from Globner's disease ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet2 - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| llan - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| cat 3 - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."
