Random Ramblings
By Eric Hallstrom
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This is Flit-chan.
>�<
Flit-chan is a butterfly.
A pretty gold-and-black winged butterfly.
Isn't he pretty?
>�<-[;>]
Flit-chan is happy.
>�<-[:)]
You can tell Flit-chan is happy.
Flit-chan is holding a happy sign.
>�<-[:)]
(Butterflies can't talk.)
This is a good thing.
You don't want to make Flit-chan sad.
>�<-[:(]
That would be mean.
Who would be mean to a pretty butterfly?
Mean people are nasty.
They make Flit-chan angry.
>�<-[}:<]
That would be very bad.
But Flit-chan is happy.
>�<-[:)]
Happy, happy Flit-chan.
[(:]->�<-[:)]
Flit-chan flutters here.
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Flit-chan flitters there.
[(:]->�<
Flit-chan drinks nectar from the flowers.
Flit-chan drinks dew from the flowers.
There are many springs here.
But Flit-chan doesn't drink from them.
There are 1000 springs, in fact.
But there is no Spring of Drowned Butterfly.
And Flit-chan likes it that way.
[(:]->�<-[:)]
Happy, happy Flit-chan.
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This is Myria.
//�\\
Myria has pretty eyes.
//�\\
They are gold and red and purple.
Four of them, in fact.
//�\\
Myria has //�\\ pretty legs.
They are long and elegant.
They need to be.
She has to keep track of eight of them.
//�\\
Myria is a spider.
//�\\
A Tibetan Cat-eating Jumping Tarantula, in fact.
She has pretty golden fur.
Her leg-span is thirty inches.
//�\\
That's one big spider!
But don't worry:
//�\\ -(Myaaaa!)
Myria is very friendly.
See? She's purring.
//�\\ -(pRRRRrrrrRRRR)
Myria is also at Jhusenkyou.
She doesn't want to be. (There's no spring of Drowned Big Spider either.)
But she has to be.
Myria is very hungry.
//�\\ -(MyAAAaa!)
What do Tibetan Cat-eating Jumping Tarantulas eat?
They eat cats, rats, dogs, frogs, snakes, rakes, lizards, gizards, mice,
moose, elk, bears, hogs, cows, ducks, birds, beetles, rabbits, hamsters,
octopusses, apes, grapes, monkeys, fish, hippopotomuses, elephants,
tigers, gibbons, baboons, lions, leopards, sharks, hyenas, and random
scenery.
But there's one thing they don't eat.
They don't eat butterflies.
You may ask, why?
//�\\ -(Myaa?)
Myria wants to know, too.
Oh, look. _There's_ a butterfly!
>�<-[:)]
Let's find out.
//�\\ >�<-[:)]
//�\\ [(:]->�<
//�\\ >�<-[:)]
//�\\ [(:]->�<
//�\\ >�<-[:)]
ZAA==�==AAP!<-\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\->�<
\\o//'' [(:]->�<
''\\o//''
_That's_ why not.
Don't worry folks.
\\o//''-(myAaAaaAAa....)
Myria's only stunned.
Flit-chan kind of likes her.
>�<-[:)//�\\(:]
Flit-chan knows she was Just Kidding.
/=�=\-(Myaooo-ow!)
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This is a group of Musk Warriors.
~^_^~ ^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/ �_�
They are looking for an animal.
~^_^~ ^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/ �_�
They will dump the animal in Nyannichuan.
Then they will pour water from the Chisuiiton on it.
This will make it a girl forever.
~^_^~ ^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/ �_�
This is a fairly terrible thing to do.
But they _really_ want to find a girlfriend.
~^_^~ ^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/ �_�
No-one will date them.
Would you?
(Yes, _one_ girlfriend.
For all of them.
There are some things the Musk don't quite have down yet.)
~^_^~ ^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/ �_�
They really want to find a nice animal.
Like a fox, or a monkey, or a tiger, or a dragon.
~^_^~ ^-.-^ '���' //�\\ |'_'| \^�^/ �_�
But in a pinch a spider will do.
The Musk Warriors want to turn Myria into a human.
So she'll be their girlfriend.
This makes Myria angry.
//�\\ -(MYAAAA!)
Poor Musk!
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This is a (smaller) group of Musk Warriors.
'''''''''^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/
They aren't running away.
^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/''''''''''''''
Musk Warriors never run away.
Because they are brave.
But maybe a spider wasn't such a good idea.
//�\\
Who wants a girlfriend with eight arms, anyway?
It's positively unnatural.
''''^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/''''
They should try something else.
This is a Musk Warrior.
'''((((�_�))))'''
He is very worried.
He has been severely webbed and lightly fanged.
This is Myria.
//�\\ -(Myaaa-urp-aaa.)
This is a Musk Warrior, too.
~X_X~
He isn't worried about anything, anymore.
But this one is.
'''((((�_�))))'''
He should relax.
Myria isn't going to hurt him.
She might get hungry later.
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This is a group of Musk Warriors.
^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/
They are looking for an animal.
So they can catch it.
So they can turn it into a girl.
^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/
So she will be their girlfriend.
Flowers and champagne are much too complicated an idea, for Musk.
And you can't get good champagne in China, anyway.
So they are looking for an animal.
But _not_ a spider.
Spiders are unlucky.
(Terrible, tragic story.)-^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/
But Musk warriors are _very_ lucky.
They have found a butterfly.
^-.-^ '���' >�< |'_'| \^�^/
Now they will drop it into Nyannichuan.
And pour water from the Chisuiiton on it.
And make it into a girl.
(Titties!)-^-.-^ '���' >�< |'_'| \^�^/-(Yay!)
Forever.
In Flit-chan's opinion, this is much worse than being eaten.
>�<-[:(]
And the Musk _Aren't_ Kidding.
[):]->�<-[:(]
This makes Flit-chan very angry.
[}:<]->�<-[>:{]
Poor Musk!
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Let's review.
Musk Warriors....
These are your heads.
^-.-^ '���' |'_'| \^�^/
This is Flit-chan.
>�<
These are your severed heads on a plate.
_^X.X^_'X�X'_|X_X|_\X�X/_
Get the picture?
Practice safe Jhusenkyou.
When it comes to Butterflies ....
Just Say No.
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-Eric Hallstrom, [(:]->�<-[:)]
Eric Hallstrom
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