||||||||| 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 May 14, 2026 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Hellmouth." ||||||||| New notice: 'This Chat No Longer Functions. The Firesign Chat Is Now Located At >> http://gamebird.ehhh.us:1137?channel=#FST ' ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 4:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| 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, May 14, 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 ushers Beet into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. ||||||||| It's 10:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood leads 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. llanwydd: xscd5vrf6tbgynhuijmk,o99khjvcgfxdreswaqfgtbnhnmjuik,o0l.; ||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from The Plague ||||||||| 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."
