Playground Squares XII: Where the fun never ends. EVER!

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Um, you can't have them, as you seem to have ignored....

That post wasn't there earlier. I swear!! Cassie snuck it in using her secret pie magics!!!!

[Lord Magtok]

As big as Disney is today, it could not then finance this dream alone. Lord Magtok, what fledgling broadcast network helped fund the park, and also convinced Walt to drop the "ia" from Disneylandia?

Well we Americans are hopelessly obsessed with our own country, so in all likelihood, it was either the National Broadcasting Company, or the American Broadcasting Company. Both of which are based in the good ol' USA, and not the same company, by the way. I think our baseball teams are divided up into matching categories or something, oddly enough. I blame Exachix. I don't have anything to back that up, but historically speaking, pointing fingers at wolves or things that look like wolves is almost always a good idea in this part of the playground.

Now, I haven't the foggiest clue which one of those two companies is actually responsible, so umm...hey, let's let dice decide!

ABC it is!

[Castaras]

I will disagree. because i trust magtok to be untrustworthy in trusting truths that are untruthful.



cor blimey formatting is hard on a phone.

[Lex-Kat]

Nope. BZZZZZT! The correct answer was indeed ABC.

Llama, should I assume you still want that Carrot and a Count Dingdong?

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Categories

A) Diseased (Cassie Only)
B) The Gent (Cassie Only)
C) Tiramisu
D) I'm the Leprechaun!
E) Carrot
F) My Humps

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Ground

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Squares

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Elemental

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Felandria

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the Bushranger

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Amidus Drexel

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Count Dingdong

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Cuthalion

A

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Lord Magtok

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Fleeing Coward

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Penguinator

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[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Yes please! Bring forth the question! I believe in the Count!

[Lex-Kat]

Ah carrots! My favorite vegetable. But this question isn't about the lovely root itself, but about a particular rodent who also enjoys eating them. Or more precisely, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer character who was turned into a rat, Amy Madison. Count Dingdong, What is the name of this witch's mother, who is obsessed with cheerleading?

[Count Dingdong]

Ah carrots! My favorite vegetable. But this question isn't about the lovely root itself, but about a particular rodent who also enjoys eating them. Or more precisely, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer character who was turned into a rat, Amy Madison. Count Dingdong, What is the name of this witch's mother, who is obsessed with cheerleading?

Ah, Buffy. A pasttime of my family. I remember that episode fondly, way back in the early days of Season 1. The events of that episode carry on for a long while, since Amy-rat stays with the gang as they search for a cure. I'm bad with names, but the witch's mother is a bit easier to remember, since it's just a variant of my little sis's name.

Her name is Catherine. Cat and the rat... heh.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

I remember most of what The Count says! I believe him and I AGREE!!!

[Lex-Kat]

Ding! Ding! Ding! Also known as Catherine the Great due to her cheerleading prowess.

Miss Pie-O-Mancer, please choose a Square and a Category.

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Categories

A) Diseased (Cassie Only)
B) The Gent (Cassie Only)
C) Tiramisu
D) I'm the Leprechaun!
E) Big Fuzzy Dice
F) My Humps

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Ground

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Squares

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Elemental

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Felandria

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the Bushranger

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A

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Amidus Drexel

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Count Dingdong

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Cuthalion

A

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Lord Magtok

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Fleeing Coward

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Penguinator

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[Castaras]

That Gent, Bushranger!

[Lex-Kat]

Bushranger, ever hear the song "Keep on Dancing"? It was released in 1965 and was the biggest hit for The Gentrys, a group from Memphis, Tennessee. It reached #4 on the charts.

After the group broke up, one of its members went into Wrestling, as a manager, finding great success in the WWF during the 80s. While there, he wrote many of the entrance themes for the wrestlers, both those he managed, and those he didn't.

What is the name of this WWE Legend?

[Felandria]

*physically restrains self from answering question*

[Amidus Drexel]

I'm actually proud that I don't know the answer to this one.

[The Bushranger]

Wrasslin'! A lot of people compare it to racin' but there ain't no comparison a'tall. However Ah can tell ya that the chap yer lookin' fer here was known as Luscious Johnny V, aka John L. Sullivan.

[Castaras]

I'm gonna disagree because I have no clue and 50/50 right?

[Lex-Kat]

Ding! Ding! Ding! The correct answer is Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart. The band was alsoo in the movie "It's a Bikini World", just before disbanding the first time.

And it's Mister Llama's turn to choose a Square and a Category.

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Categories

A) Diseased (Cassie Only)
B) S Car Go
C) Tiramisu
D) I'm the Leprechaun!
E) Big Fuzzy Dice
F) My Humps

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Play

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Ground

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Squares

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C

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Elemental

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Felandria

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the Bushranger

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A

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Amidus Drexel

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Count Dingdong

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Cuthalion

A

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Lord Magtok

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Fleeing Coward

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Penguinator

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[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Yarr!! In honor of Speak Like a Pirate Day, I have to go with Captain Penguinator!

Since the bulgerats all be bored at night we'll play Pirate's Dice with Big Fuzzy Dice!!

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Lex??? you okay? Hench-pixie??

[Lex-Kat]

What happened to me! One moment, I was thinking of a question for Big Fuzzy Dice, the next I was.... Hmmmmm.

Penguinator, Big Fuzzy Dice are a staple of the 1950s. Though they did hit their peak in the 70s & 80s. Anyway, no show better represented the 50s like Happy Days, starring Ron Howard & later Henry Winkler*.

As everyone who's watched the show knows, Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli befriends Richard Cunningham and his friends, Ralph Malph and Warren "Potsie" Weber, and the show mostly rotates around their shenanigans and adventures.

Richard Cunningham has a sister, Joanie. But did you know he also had an older brother. What was the name of this lost son of the Cunninghams, and what did he do?
*Henry Winkler was on the show from the start, but was initially a secondary character.

[mangosta71]

And now all I can hear is Arnold Schwartzenegger chanting "Who is your daddy and what does he do?"

[Lex-Kat]

Arnold Schwartzenegger?

[Penguinator]

Richard Cunningham has a sister, Joanie. But did you know he also had an older brother. What was the name of this lost son of the Cunninghams, and what did he do?

Chuck Cunningham Syndrome! ...I only know that from TV tropes. I don't know what he did, though. ...Football player?

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Hmmmm, I'm going to disagree because I dont' think that's what he did.


Also, it sounds like Lex suffers from Summoner's Amnesia. Its a mental disorder that affects approximately 1/25 outsiders, although more often found in dryads, rather than pixies, but its not unheard of. Normally, whenever a fey is summoned by a mortal due to a Summon Monster spell, Spell-Like-Ability, or what have you, the summoned creature will remember its time on the Prime-Material Plane, but in some cases, the summoned creature will have no recollection of what happened. That's probably the case.

[Lex-Kat]

Ding! Ding! Ding! While it was Charles "Chuck" Cunningham, he was a college student who was constantly seen bouncing his basketball everywhere he went. That, or eating.

And now it's Cassie's turn.

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Categories

A) Diseased (Cassie Only)
B) S Car Go
C) Tiramisu
D) I'm the Leprechaun!
E) Chinese Checkers
F) My Humps

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Ground

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Squares

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C

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Elemental

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Felandria

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the Bushranger

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A

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Amidus Drexel

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Count Dingdong

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Cuthalion

A

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A

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Lord Magtok

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Fleeing Coward

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Penguinator

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[Castaras]

Elemental! A game of chinese checkers for you?

[Elemental]

Let me brush up on the rules, and then our armies of counter/marbles/tokens shall meet on the field of battle. And then proceed to charge non-violently while being as inconveniencing as possible. It shall be glorious!

[Lex-Kat]

Did you know that Chinese Checkers isn't a variant of Checkers? It's not even Chinese!! It was actually invented in 1892, based off an American board game invented in 1883/84, which itself is based off an English board game called Hoppity in 1854.

What was the original German name for this globe-hopping, non-Chinese, non-checkers game of star-crossed marbles?

[Elemental]

Well Lex, you've done a very good job of trying to tear down everything I know about the world, but I refuse to be fazed. Because I was already aware of this, after all, how better to boost sales than to give something an exotic name?

Now, if I recall correctly, and that is a big if, then the answer is likely to be Stern-Halma, which is in fact only half German as they decided to use a Greek word for the second half for some unfathomable reason.

[Castaras]

Apologies for forgetting about this.

I agree.

[Lex-Kat]

No problem. You likely forgot because I'm a bad pixie, and forgot it myself.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Stern is German for Star and Halma is Greek for Jump. The original American game was just called Halma and was played on a basic 16 x 16 board, with the players starting in the four corners, instead of within the points of the star.

Now for the real questions. Will Atreyu take a chance and go for the win? Will he go for the block? Or will he choose one of the sides and play it relatively safe? Only time and the Llama will tell.

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Categories

A) Diseased (Cassie Only)
B) S Car Go
C) Tiramisu
D) I'm the Leprechaun!
E) Playground Squares
F) My Humps

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Play

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Ground

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Squares
C

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C

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Elemental

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Felandria

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the Bushranger

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A

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Amidus Drexel

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Count Dingdong

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Cuthalion

A

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A

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Lord Magtok

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Fleeing Coward

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Penguinator

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