Fun little game: Part Deux (Oct 10, 2007)
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Let's start another fun little game just like the first one, this time it's story telling. Each poster continues the story where the previous one left off.
In the larger interest of things let's say we limit the number of protagonists/characters to a manageable level and keep each post succinct so that no one poster monopolises the story flow.
Let's start:
'I should be done with this model in the next one hour and hand it over for tomorrow's presentation', thought Tim as he looked at the clock and also at the setting sun. Just then his boss barges in.
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yelling you're fired! collect your stuff and get out...
just then Tim interjects, "but I'm the only person you have on staff who knows Sketchup!"
his boss, Bob, flustered... looks around as if to be looking for a retort that might be laying on a nearby desk... says "well you better be done by tomorrow morning... or else."
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tim had a sinister smile on his face....
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Tim then calmly explained that it would be easy to finish by tomorrow morning, he should be done in about an hour. His bosses face then reddens, he shouts "How dare you contradict me!" and storms out of the room.
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Room being the only word to describe the tiny hole that Tim has for an office, anyway...
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Upon finishing the model, Tim saved it to the server for easy morning retrieval. Still, Tim was irritated (though somewhat amused) with being threatened with his job. To add some levity to the situation (as he was the office clown), Tim placed a Teletubbies screen saver on his bosses computer. He even put a password lock on it so Mr. Cranky could not change it.
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When it came time for Bob to leave, he noticed the screen saver...
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and calls Tim. Tim expecting to be threatened again is more than a little worried about his future.
Fortunately, Bob, his boss, is a closet Teletubbies fan and only wants Tim to replace the generic office characters in his model with new models of Tinky Winky, La La, Dipsy and Po.
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Suddenly, ...
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Tim's evil twin brother and arch nemesis, Tom comes in with a view to stake his claim as 'Sketchup monkey' for the office
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Tom's long tail, hands with no opposable thumbs and arms which reach to his knees seem to give away the fact that he will not be very good on the computer, but Bob, being in MANAGEMENT, only notes that Tom has long toes and should be able to keyboard at twice normal speed. He can also control the mouse with his tail. Tom is brought in to replace Tim and two other employees. All that and he works for bananas.
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However, Tom's smug self gratification is quickly smashed the next day, when he learns the client the presentation is for is non other than The Man with the Yellow Hat! His devious scheme has backfired and inadvertantly saved Tim...for now.
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Meanwhile, Tim's wife, Ingabord, is at home washing the family station wagon in the driveway when through a surprising series of events she discovers that she has superhuman...
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... sensibilities that now tells her that she should not be doing such a manly job as washing the station wagon. She resolves to leave it to Tim next time, even though she is the one using it.
Tim, in the meantime, is desperately trying to get intouch with Carla so that he can off load the day's stress over a drink or two and still get home early enough to avoid suspicion.
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Ingabord's super-human sensibilities have already tipped her off to Tim's extra curricular activities. She knows that Tim and Carla have been working on a SketchUp model of their entire town and that their inability to let go of details has taken them over the edge of sanity. She realizes that she is going to have to stop them from . . .
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....trying to run their model through a rendering program. With all the parameters and surfaces (it is the entire town, after all) it will take forever. But before Ingabord can do anything about it, she must deal with her own demon - she's become addicted to Sketchucation, and exchanging very private messages with....
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...herself. Upon realizing this she checks herself into...
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.......creating a component of the boss to but plunging to his death of the clock tower. suddenly they here cackling laughter behind them at the wall socket. Tom is there, with an evil grin across his face. The PC goes dead only leaving the back up with the plunging boss.........
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...screaming like a girl...
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..."Oh the humanity, the humanity!"
Meanwhile, across town, the office tea boy (whatever that is) is sitting in a coffee shop (ironic, huh?) with his laptop, playing around with SketchUp.
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