Ann's feet sank into the sand on top of the dune, her sweat-soaked tank top now drying out and returning to its original white as the sun lost its glare and transitioned to a goldenrod-yellow hue. The team at the eastern camp had just finished lifting the separated port engine onto an open-bed...
"Optimally? I believe we'll be ready to pop it open in the evening." She took another long sip of water, observing some of the crew setting up portable spotlights around the dune, before elaborating on method. "We can remove the hatch and cover the doorway with a tarp. As soon as the sun hits...
The archaeologist was visually gauging the depth of the sand their crew would need to remove in order to extract the half-buried wing of the craft when one of her ACME party interrupted her evaluation.
Ann took a generous draft of water from her canteen before answering. This fellow might...
@Eugene Grovington @Constance @Lee @Spring-Heeled Jack @Patty @Joe Kerr
Hoping for shorter posts to allow for lots of interaction.
ACME will start out at the dig site.
V.I.L.E. players - You may write your entrances and plot, but you won't be hitting us until the sandstorm.
Let's have...
Ann Caroline Tickwittee's body was jerked about as the white, grain-streaked Land Rover traversed the yielding sands, hopping and skittling across loose rocks and swooping over and through the swells of sand dunes. The Sahara desert's Great Eastern Erg, situated in eastern Algeria, had a barren...
Glad to get some enthusiastic responses. That fills out our VILE roster for this round. I believe @Spring-Heeled Jack will be leading the VILE side of things, so please contact him about your nefarious plans.
[Written with @Ivy.]
Ann fondled her keychain as she glided past the dingy hobo sitting on a bench outside the company’s headquarters. A greasy black cat sauntered up to her, tail weaving a pattern in the brisk air. The young woman quickly kicked up her heel and glided on a little quicker on...
I have been informed by an archaeologist comrade of a recently discovered aircraft crash site in eastern Algeria. Accompanying me to participate in the recovery of this wrecked plane are @Eugene Grovington and our medical intern @Constance. There will be other crewmen present, and slots for...
Goat cheese is proper. It has been a staple dairy food of Eastern Europeans, Western Asians, and Arabians for millennia. The Old World knew best.
*munches voraciously on pork rinds*
Was just thinking, when someone says think outside the box....why does it have to be a box? Why can't it be anything you want? Like a closet? Or a door? Hehe
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?
It's because it hinges on the idea that everyone wants to be ordinary (aka "normal") and that being anything other should be punishable socially. It stems from imperial modes of thinking that harm people not white-cis-straight-abled-perisex-etc because the idea of normal is centred on "some guy"-isms
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?
Unrelated question....are political questions allowed? Also really confused why people keep calling the U.S. a democracy when we are supposed to be a Republic....
Unrelated question....are political questions allowed? Also really confused why people keep calling the U.S. a democracy when we are supposed to be a Republic....
Define "political questions". Also, we are a constitutional Republic with Democratically elected representation. I will argue until my dying day that the greatest thing the Founding Fathers created was the Electoral College