The 1998 XYZZY Awards
Ceremony Transcript
Unfortunately, this year I was unable to attend the ceremony, so this is simply
a re-telling of the
Official
Transcript.
PollBoy hollers, "The Auditorium is now open! All ashore who's going ashore!"
thumper has arrived.
schep has arrived.
inky has arrived.
Steve has arrived.
Paul has arrived.
Chaos has arrived.
Kiz has arrived.
Taj has arrived.
Gunther has arrived.
Jota has arrived.
Dilbon has arrived.
jaybird has arrived.
jrw has arrived.
davec has arrived.
zarf has arrived.
jrw says, "Yay!"
eileen has arrived.
jrw races to find a good seat.
Iain has arrived.
Saudade has arrived.
Gunther says, "Whoa! LEMMINGS!"
Psmith has arrived.
Jota runs down to the front, to get one of the good seats.
jrw sets up his digital video camera.
Paul sits in the front row.
inky sits in front of jrw, wearing his big hat.
Hugo has arrived.
Roosevelt has arrived.
Adam materializes.
Foobler has arrived.
Gunther says (to inky), "HEE"
Iain finds it hard to read the room description 'cos it keeps scrolling away.
Kiz asks, "Someone is logging this, right?"
Taj sits on Inky's big hat.
jrw asks, "Can I patch into the microphone circuit?"
inky says, "PerrySimm is the official recorder"
Jota thinks Perry is logging.
Adam spikes the transcript. EARTH FIRST!
Kiz says, "Cool"
inky says, "some other people are doing private logs, I think"
Jota asks, "Is he recording yet?"
jrw tilts one way, then the other, straining to see around inky's hat.
Gunther says, "PRISM"
thumper says (to adam), "heh."
Dilbon asks, "Is my hair well? Does my watch show?"
Jota says (to Dilbon), "your watch is fine, and your hair doesn't show."
inky finally takes off his hat, revealing an equally-large hairdo.
jrw says, "Eeagh!"
Taj falls off.
<DGlasser> We take our icons very seriously in this class.
Gunther asks, "MArkm isn't here??"
eileen adjusts her little black dress and admires the large crowd
Traevoli has arrived.
inky says, "(old joke)"
jrw takes out a big pair of scissors.
Iain says (to Jrw), "Oooh."
Paul says, "Love the murals. Kudos to whoever's responsible."
<Sargent> "The fact that we've got INKlings pokin' around right here, where there oughtn't t'be INKlings 'tall, just shows how bad things are."
jrw says (to inky), "yeah, but I've always liked that kind of joke."
Den has arrived.
Traevoli wipes his forehead. "Phew! Found it."
Jota says (to eileen), "Small black dress? You look like you're wearing a XYZZYnews T-shirt."
jrw cuts the hair off, revealing an equally large head.
Sargent materializes.
Sargent says, "Afternoon."
inky says, "hey hey"
Taj exclaims (to jrw), "New joke!"
Chaos exclaims (to sarge), "hiya!"
Jota greets Sarge.
<Irene> Irene has connected to ifMUD.
DGlasser has arrived.
Irene has arrived.
Gunther says, "Corn. Monkey. Alpaca. Eeeaghj. etc."
devil has arrived.
Paul waves to Irene.
inky says, "hey Irene"
Irene says, "Hi, everyone."
Foobler exclaims (to Irene), "Hey!"
Sargent says, "Glad I got here in time."
DGlasser exclaims (to irene), "Hey there, lady!"
Jota says, "My, just switching to this room seemed to cause an increase in the rate of text scrolling by..."
<Miseri> Miseri has connected to ifMUD.
Gunther says, "8 minutes! Woo woo!"
Traevoli asks (to .Irene), "Hello. How's the problem with Inform going?"
Psmith says (to Sargent), "We had to move it forward. It's all just finished."
Dilbon says, "There are so many people I'm consifueg."
jrw flips through his program.
Dilbon says, "confused."
Jota asks, "Is it nerves, or something more sinister? Perhaps someone spiked the ventillation in this room with amphetamines?"
devil leaves the auditorium to the west.
zarf readies his trophy sack.
Chaos reigns.
Miseri has arrived.
inky laughs.
Iain asks (to zarf), "How do you ready a sack, exactly?"
inky says (to Chaos), "yay"
Psmith says (to Sargent), "Human Resource Stories scooped the lot in a surprise result."
Sargent says (to Psmith), "Yay!"
Steve says (to Chaos), "Hee!"
Falstaff says, "Mmm... sack."
Miseri Arrives.
inky says (to Psmith), "more yay"
zarf says (to iain), "fluff up the drawstrings, etc."
jrw says, "You kind of shake it out, like this... <floff, floff>"
Miseri says, "hello, all ...."
DGlasser asks, "So, should mere mortals only make noise on the channel and nowhere else?"
<Ellison> People said, "You must be nuts, a little bit." They were the ones shaking their butts, the Summer of My Disco-Tent!
Irene says (to traevoli), "Which problem? I have several at the moment"
Jota asks, "There's a channel?"
eileen check the wireing and the lighting.
Traevoli smiles at Irene.
Ellison has arrived.
Iain throws peanuts at Jota.
DGlasser says (to jota), "#peanut-gallery"
schep says (to DG), "Probably once it starts. Maybe a bit of polite clapping, I dunno."
Miseri takes a seat in a window box.
jrw says (to DGlasser), "once the show starts, it'll be more appropriate"
Traevoli says (to .Irene), "Whichever... Just remember you posting to raif..."
Ellison says, "heyas"
Steve says, "Ok, I have to go to work. :/"
Dilbon says, "43"
Foobler says (to Ellison), "Yo."
Miseri says, "Oh by the way ... I brought a couple of wenches, uh, friends...."
eileen says, ".."
inky says (to DG), "well, I was thinking we could do clapping and minor rowdiness off-channel, and major rowdiness on-channel"
Spatch has arrived.
Ellison asks, "what, are we going to use a channel for this?"
jaybird asks, "Um, can I turn off Peanut-gallery? Is somebody gonna log traffic on that channel?"
Iain enlarges his xterm, in the vain hope of making things less confusing.
inky says (to Steve), ":(. byebye"
Dilbon says (to Miseri), "Gimme one."
jrw asks (to DGlasser), "Say, what was the outcome of that math problem you had?"
inky says (to jaybird), "yes"
Steve says, "So everyone have a good time."
<Ghogg> [insert witty comment here]
Miseri introduces Hilary and Cybele to the Mud.
Steve says, "*Sniff* Without me."
Kiz has disconnected.
<Kiz> I have the feeling the 115th street church didn't full grasp the implications of their fruit-sales fundraiser slogan.
Kiz has connected.
<Kiz> "God loves fruit lovers!"
liza says (to Steve), "Wave!"
Irene says (to traevoli), "Right now I'm trying to get a telephone to recognize that I'm talking to a mechanic."
Steve has disconnected.
Steve slips away on the newly waxed floor.
<Steve> "And Aholibamah bare Alec, and William, Daniel: these were the Baldwins..."
jaybird exclaims, "Ah, much quieter!"
devil has arrived.
Den asks, "Where`s Sadie this year?"
jrw realizes he forgot to bring a blank tape for his video camera.
schep says (to Irene), "Yuck, scope problems are tricky."
devil asks (to Psmith), "You got the email about the Round Table get-together, right?"
Miseri says (to Dilbon), "You could always join us up here in the window seat...."
Gunther gives blank tape to jrw.
Irene exclaims (to schep), "You said it!"
inky says, "here's sadie."
Torbjorn has arrived.
Adam says (to inky), "No, that's Torbjorn."
devil exclaims (to jrw), "Wait, that's my audition tape!"
Psmith says (to devil), "Yep. I'm ont of the "can't make weekdays" people, I'm afraid"
jaybird exclaims, "Five minutes to go!"
inky laughs.
Traevoli says (to .Irene), "Wow! A bit beyond my scope at the moment... :)"
inky says (to Adam), "a common confusion"
Den asks (to inky), "Not playing?"
Kiz has plenty of film in her camera. If the damn thing will just work right.
jrw says (to Gunther), "this is the wrong format, but thanks"
Jota says, "Y'know, there's very little time to actually talk, when there's so much happening to listen to..."
DGlasser asks, "Hmm, what's the make-this-channel-active command?"
liza says (to Den), "One third of Sadie isn't feeling well."
Foobler watches the chatter whiz by.
eileen makes sure the lovely parting gifts and goody bags and leave-behinds are under each chair.
thumper says (to dglasser), "@joinch peanut-gallery"
schep asks (to DG), "YM @join?"
devil says (to Psmith), "Well, I'm going to send more email around, asking people to decide between Wednesday and the following Saturday."
Den says (to liza), "Awww."
Spatch says (to dg), "@monkeychannel"
Ellison says (to jaybird), "you've been doing that for 11 hours and 55 minutes!"
jrw checks his white-balance. What kind of lights are in here, anyway?
Sargent dropped Comment Channel Info.
inky says (to jrw), "glittery ones"
Paul looks under his chair. All right, a matchbook!
Foobler says (to DG), "@peanut-gallery"
Irene says (to traevoli), "The telephone thinks it's a telephone, and I want it to think it's a mechanic at the service station"
Sargent says (to jrw), "Lanterns."
inky says (to Sargent), "good point."
<Ghogg> Ya, it is already hurting. It does not need the teachings of the Bust-All.
Miseri swallows a jarful of butterflies.
jrw zooms in on zarf's nose to focus.
zarf says, "I have no nose."
DGlasser says, "No, when I'm already joined."
Jota says (to jrw), "Chandeliers."
Adam says (to zarf), "Thanks for sharing, Cathy."
Foobler asks (to zarf), "How do you smell?"
zarf says, "And I must sneeze."
Kiz debates putting on her heels, but decides the sneakers are way more comfortable.
inky finds another seat under his seat.
jrw asks (to zarf), "Egad! Then what was I just looking at?"
inky says, "it's seats all the way down!"
eileen exclaims, "Three minutes to go!"
Sargent says (to inky), "My God! It's full of seats!"
liza asks, "So wait, are we supposed to not talk out loud or something?"
Traevoli says (to Irene), "Well, I currently use TADS, and I haven't even attempted to do anything that complicated yet."
Spatch says, "Censorship!"
<lpsmith> We're twenty minutes late for the cheese auction, I have no idea where we are, and we're, umn, heading kind of westish.
jrw says, "Three minutes! yikes."
schep asks, "Is there a way to specify a mural to look at? Or is it just one description?"
Saudade shines her moving contraband spotlight on the stage.
Irene says (to traevoli), "I've thought about learning TADS."
Adam says, "Yeah, it might be a better idea to do it the other way around"
Foobler says (to zarf), "The answer is: 'terrible.'"
jrw swings to catch lpsmith entering the auditorium.
Adam says, "But it's probably too late now"
Iain wonders whether there is still anyone wandering around looking for the auditorium.
Jota says (to schep), "It's random."
zarf asks (to foobler), "No, the answer is 'with my delicate antennae'. But does it matter?"
devil say TADS is pretty cool. IMHO, FWIW.
eileen exclaims (to liza), "Nice MUD you've got here!"
Iain says (to devil), "What does FWIW mean? I always forget."
Traevoli says (to Irene), "Well, I'm happy with it. 'Course I haven't even *tried* Inform. Or any other system, for that matter."
devil asks, "When do they start recordig?"
<wjs> wjs has connected to ifMUD.
Den gestures grandly. "One day," he says, "all this will be mine!" and he
liza says (to eileen), "Why thank you! thumper's our host now, though."
Sargent watches his log file fill and fill.
devil says (to Iain), "Fnark Worrisome Informational Wart."
lpsmith has arrived.
liza says (to lpsmith), "YAY!"
lpsmith waves!
Iain says, "Hmm, no wonder I always forget."
jrw follows lpsmith with his camera.
Irene exclaims (to traevoli), "Oh, you should just jump in and try it!"
inky says, "yay lp"
Miseri says, "Hm ... friend has weird South Park screen saver...."
eileen exclaims (to thumper), "Oh, I should contgratulate you on the nice MUD you've got here, then!"
Den chokes on a cut and paste mistake.
Jota looks under his own seat, and finds an elvish sword. "Neat."
Iain hits Den on the back.
Traevoli says (to Irene), "Perhaps after I've actually *finished* something with TADS. Don't wanna get them confused while working on something..."
Den says (to Iain), "Thanks."
<BabelFish> Stick it in your ear.
eileen checks to make sure everyone has at least one seatr
<pointy> pointy has connected to ifMUD.
Psmith looks under his seat. Hey, a rusty black rod! Do we all get souvenirs?
jaybird exclaims, "Less than a minute!"
davec sits in a comfortable seat in the corner.
eileen flicks the lights on and off.
devil exclaims, "All Britishers! If you could hang around a little afterwards to talk about the Round Table meeting, I'd appreciate it!"
BabelFish has arrived.
Spatch looks under his seat. "Tracy Valencia!"
Iain looks under his seat, then jerks back in terror. A huge hairy arm reaches out and pulls him under.
zarf l
liza giggles.
zarf says, "Drat. I was in the middle of typing what Iain just typed."
jrw looks, and sees a tourist map of Paris.
Traevoli finds a seat and shuts up.
Jota asks, "48 users. Will we hit 50?"
Iain says (to zarf), "Really? Wow."
DGlasser looks under his seat, and finds nothing interesting. Wah.
PollBoy hollers, "Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to the 1998 Xyzzy Awards! Whack-a-ding-hoy!"
Irene says (to traevoli), "Finishing is hard. I have all these great ideas, but it takes me so long to figure out how to do it that I'll be 90 years old before I can get half done."
Spatch says, "YAAAAAAAY"
liza cheers!
Sargent says, "Woo hoo!"
eileen leads the crowd in appluause
BabelFish grins.
Dilbon says, "Whistle."
devil claps
jrw claps.
Spatch stomps his feet.
DGlasser cheers
davec claps shyly
Paul cries! I mean, Paul cheers!
Ellison claps
devil looks under his seat, and finds God.
Sargent whistles very loudly.
Den floats into the air with excitement.
Kiz applauds wildly
Irene sits on the edge of the seat
inky says, "yay"
neild exclaims, "woohoo!"
Foobler lights a Bic lighter.
Miseri applauds politely
Iain cheers and whistles, rather than clapping politely as he would in real life.
PollBoy hollers, "And now, star of stage, screen and cartoon, your host for the 1998 XYZZY Awards, funnyman Gilbert Gottfried!"
Psmith stamps his feet.
Gunther says, "WOO WOO WOO"
GilbertGottfried comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
zarf leaves.
Saudade wiggles her ears in excitement
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "Hello, HELLO, HELLO!!"
mamster says, "We'll sell you the whole seat, BUT YOU ONLY NEED THE EDGE!"
Ellison says, "do that FUNNY voice!"
schep says, "Yay"
Sargent says (to liza), "Yay!"
Ellison says, "YAY!"
inky says, "yay mamster-in-absentia"
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "Welcome to the NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT XYZZY Awards!"
liza says, "Hello, I'm liza, I'll be your mamster for the evening."
Adam says, "Ah, yes, that noted IF luminary, Some Guy Pretending To Be Gilbert Gottfried."
Miseri asks, "1998? That many of them?"
devil asks, "Isn't it 1999?"
Dilbon asks, "Is this 1999 or 1998?"
Foobler says (to mamster), "You never looked better."
Iain asks, "1998 1/2?"
<Guest> You all know our next guest -- let's have a big hand for TV's "Fish", Abe Vigoda!
neild throws peanuts at Gilbert.
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "And what's a XYZZY anyway? I think I CAME DOWN WITH IT once when I was a YOUNGSTER!"
lpsmith says, "The awards are for games released in '98."
eileen says, "It's the 1998 XYZZY awards, for lat year's games."
liza giggles.
inky disappears.
lpsmith exclaims (to eileen), "Ha!"
Ellison says, "hee"
GilbertGottfried says, "At any rate, my AGENT has told me that these awards are the PLAYER'S CHOICE. Or the GOLDEN GLOBES. Or something like that."
Foobler notes we're up to 49.
Sargent asks, "He actually has an agent?"
liza asks, "Does this mean the awards are being telecast on U.S.A Up All Night?"
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "What do I know? I haven't had a DECENT JOB since ALADDIN, and THEN, I was a PARROT!"
devil transmutes a golden globe to lead.
wjs has arrived.
pointy materializes.
neild laughs a lot.
liza throws at tomato at Gilbert.
Iain is too confused to do anything at all.
neild throws a golden globe at Gilbert.
Gunther says (to liza), "Yay"
GilbertGottfried exclaims (to liza), "HEY THERE LADY! Thanks for running the ifMUD and giving these transients a HOME for almost TWO YEARS!"
zarf leads a golden globe to water.
DGlasser yells, "WE WANT EILEEN!"
Gilbert says, "OUCH"
liza throws at tomato at Gunther.
Miseri exclaims, "So START already!"
Spatch sells ripe vegetables.
eileen wonders if it's too late fto find another emcee
Gunther kicks liza.
<Guest> We'd like to take a short break now. Our next guest will be Nipsey Russell, so stay tuned!
Adam says, "Oh, taking out retina downtime, eight days!"
inky has arrived.
Adam says, "Oh -> Or"
Earendil materializes.
<JasonMel> With a shimmering of the fabric of space-time, JasonMel is inserted into this universe and wonders where everyone is hanging out today.
Typo Tally Two materializes.
Ellison sits down next to the guy with the boomerang fishies
Adam pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing!
jrw just hopes there won't be any musical numbers to drag this thing out.
GilbertGottfried exclaims (to eileen), "And THANK YOU for XYZZYNEWS, which I hear has a lot of interesting things to READ about games that you READ!"
Grocible materializes.
BabelFish says (to Ear), "I finished _Stardust_. Read that book!"
Dilbon says, "I get my mom to read the games for me."
ct materializes.
Jota *was* planning to sing 'My way', but if jrw is going to be *that way* about it, he won't.
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "And thank you to THUMPER, for being a RABBIT I saw in the MOVIES!"
Earendil wakes up suddenly.
Saudade says, "Hi groc!"
DorianX materializes.
Taj sings 'Jota's way'.
Earendil returns from his so-called "lunch".
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "But enough with the COMEDY JOKES. We're here to give out AWARDS!"
Spatch says, "I feel like I'm in a Zippy fortune"
schep claps.
Traevoli cheers.
Earendil found friends still moving from house to dorm, and was commandeered to carry large pieces of furniture hither and yon.
Sargent asks (to Earendil), "Wasn't that a TV show?"
JasonMel materializes.
jrw claps.
Sargent says (to Spatch), "True."
Paul claps.
Iain claps with both hands.
GilbertGottfried says, "The first award is for BEST USE OF MEDIUM. Which must be strange if all these games have PSYCHICS in them."
Earendil asks, "how do I turn "away" off?"
Irene claps with one hand
jrw gets all haughty and says, "shhhhhh!!"
inky says, "@set me = !away"
Adam asks, "How do I turn 'Gilbert' off?"
GilbertGottfried says, "And the nominees are:"
Miseri shushes.
(From liza) GilbertGottfried says, "This IMPORTANT information MUST be DISSEMINATED."
Jota says (to Ear), "You just did, probably. @set me=!away"
GilbertGottfried says, "Arrival, by Stephen Granade"
lpsmith cheers.
inky claps
liza says, "Woo."
BabelFish claps.
Spatch says, "yay!"
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY EVIL GAME!"
Saudade yelps
ShelleyWinters comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
davec applauds.
Iain asks, "Hang on - has it started?"
Irene exclaims, "Yay!"
Psmith applauds
jrw applauds.
inky waves a pie tin.
Sargent says, "Woo!"
ShelleyWinters asks (to Gilbert), "You don't need this?"
Iain applauds.
Paul holds his applause till the end.
Foobler applauds.
ShelleyWinters gives Best Use of Medium noms to GilbertGottfried.
DGlasser pulls out the original artwork! Neener neener!
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "Ladies and gentlemen, Shelley Winters!"
lpsmith chuckles.
ShelleyWinters bows, more or less.
Dilbon asks, "Are there any last year winners presenting the awards?"
GilbertGottfried says, "I must have died and gone to HEAVEN."
Gunther stage-dives on Gilbert
ShelleyWinters gives Gilbert a BIG SMOOCH.
GilbertGottfried says, "OK! We did the Arrival one. Next nominee:"
Gunther says, "eeeagh!"
ShelleyWinters tries to sneak backstage, but is stopped by a burly security troll.
GilbertGottfried says, "Bad Machine, Dan Shiovitz"
Den cheers.
lpsmith exclaims, "Woo-hoo!"
Earendil walks back and forth, modelling his stylish clothes carefully chosen for this magnificent evening: t-shirt with a possum up a gum stump and jeans.
davec applauds
Jota smirks.
Gunther says, "YAY INKY"
devil claps wildly!!!!
Spatch says, "Robots RULE"
Irene applauds
zarf applauds
liza says, "Yayyy---244-2-9kkkkabort92929!"
Chaos claps
inky shuffles his feet.
Iain cheeeers.
Psmith yays
jrw claps.
neild cheers
Sargent says, "attendee:031 -- aPp1aUd3."
lpsmith exclaims (to liza), "Hee!"
Iain says, "Hee."
Foobler is confused.
GilbertGottfried says, "Once and Future, Gerry Kevin Wilson"
DGlasser makes some joke like Sargent and liza.
Ellison claps and cheers
inky cheers.
Gunther says, "XYAAAAAAAAAAYYY"
jrw applauds and whistles.
Spatch stands up with "AVALON BOMB" written on his chest
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY AVALON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
BabelFish yodels.
Sargent says, "Woo!"
Saudade says, "Yay, wooweoo"
neild exclaims, "Once and Future's not a medium, it;'s a large!!"
Irene exclaims, "Hurray!"
Foobler woo hoos!
Gunther says, "O-A-F!!!"
lpsmith cheers, "Yay Avalon!" Copyright lawyers immediately subdue him.
zarf applausds in a maybe-someday-I'll-play-this-game way.
Chaos says, "yea"
Sargent says (to neild), "Ba-dum-bum."
davec applauds
Iain cheers and claps and stuff.
GilbertGottfried says, "Photopia, Adam Cadre"
zarf yay
Jota whispers something to the troll guard, points at Gilbert, and makes some gesture resembling decapitation.
Iain exclaims, "Yaaay!"
inky says, "woo!"
davec applauds.
Gunther says, "Woo"
liza says, "Boring. He wins everything."
jrw claps.
Sargent claps.
Irene wows
DGlasser says, "Alley, Alley, she's the woman! If she can't do it... wait, she didn't."
devil cheers
Iain says (to DG), "Heh."
Foobler tips his hat to Adam.
neild asks, "Alley's a PC?"
(From Saudade) Allie cheers!
GilbertGottfried says, "and Spider and Web, Andrew Plotkin"
inky says (to liza), "Zarf's the one who brought the prize sack."
schep applauds the nominees.
neild says, "Oh, wait, this is medium."
inky says, "speaking of which"
inky claps.
Psmith claps
Irene exclaims, "Yay! Yay!"
Dilbon asks, "I haven't played Photopia. What do you say about that?"
liza says (to neild), "I like a medium."
Chaos cheers
Ellison cheers!
jrw goes "weoooo!" and claps.
Sargent applauds.
Dilbon says, "I like well-done."
lpsmith exclaims, "Speaking of Plotkin, it's Plotkin!"
davec applauds.
Paul releases all the applause he has been holding. It's mighty appreciative.
Spatch cheers
Foobler applauds, cheers, and woo hoos!
Kiz cheers for all the nifty games
DGlasser exclaims, "yay yes/no questions!"
Gunther says (to dilbon), "SUCKER"
GilbertGottfried asks (to Shelley), "So WHERE'S THE AWARD?"
Dilbon says (to Gunther), "Thanks, I needed that."
GilbertGottfried opens the envelope. "OW! Paper cut!"
BabelFish cheers for Photopia.
inky claps.
Foobler quickly pens a deal with Iain.
jrw cheers for paper cut.
Earendil applauds belatedly.
DGlasser cheers in general.
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "And the XYZZY goes to -- Andrew Plotkin, for Spider and Web!"
Miseri has bet two shekels on Photopia
BabelFish laughs at jrw.
liza says, "WOOO!"
schep cheers
Jota cheers for Zarf!
inky cheers.
wjs exclaims, "yay!"
Dilbon says, "Ooh."
Ellison says, "yay zarf!"
Irene applauds wildly
Spatch says, "yaaaaaaay!!!"
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY ZARF!"
Paul cheers for Zarf!
lpsmith cheers!
Iain exclaims, "Wooooo!"
zarf waves his sack. I mean hands.
Sargent says, "Woo!"
Gunther throws a gernade onstage.
davec applauds
Den woos very loudly, whatever that is.
wjs exclaims, "yay!"
JasonMel says, "Yes indeed!""
(From Kiz) Sparky squeaks entheuastically
BabelFish says, "Go Zarf!"
jrw says, "HURRAY!"
Miseri applauds. Despite having lost two shekels.
Kiz says, "YAY Zarf!"
davec wishes he could one day be as great as Zarf.
Foobler applauds and conratulates Zarf-man!
Psmith applauds muchly
Spatch says, "zarf zarf zarf zarf"
Saudade claps and jumps for zarf!
Gunther says (to zarf), "YAY!!"
jaybird exclaims, "Yeah Zarf!"
Chaos says, "Congrats zarf"
Jota exclaims, "Speech! Speech!"
NamelessAdventurer gives backstage pass to ShelleyWinters.
Foobler demands an acceptance speech.
Dilbon says, "Zarf is a god."
jrw follows zarf with video camera.
ShelleyWinters goes backstage.
Iain says, "It would have been an even _better_ game if the spider and the web became friends in the end."
eileen applauds madly
zarf stands up
Adam says (to Iain), "HA!"
GilbertGottfried applauds politely.
Dilbon says, "Hey, yeah. A romance between the spider and the web."
neild says, "SPEEEEEECH"
zarf says, "Well, of course I have nothing prepared to say, because I had no certainty that I was gonna win."
Earendil says (to dilbon), "and it needs a tuffet. Whatever that is"
NamelessAdventurer gives Best Use of Medium trophy to zarf.
zarf says, "Also, I stayed up really late last night eating bread."
<wutold> and I said 'constantly in the darkness-where's that at?'
Jota thinks Zarf must never have been a boyscout.
lpsmith exclaims, "Yay bread!"
Spatch says, "YAY BREAD"
zarf is already up on stage, of course.
neild exclaims, "Eeeagh! Unreliable Zarf narrator!"
inky asks, "what kind of bread?"
Gunther says (to zarf), "SUUUUUUUURE"
Jota cheers for bread!
Iain laughs and laughs.
Adam says, "I'd like to think that Photopia won Best Use of the Medium of Minimally Interactive Fiction."
Miseri says, "Hold it, *I*'ll do the romances around here...."
lpsmith says (to Spatch), "HA ha."
(From liza) Red light begins flashing furiously.
wutold has arrived.
Earendil says, "bread? I think you were consuming the wrong kind of yeast-produced thingie"
Dilbon asks, "Where's the Most Use of Tedium award?"
zarf says, "So let me just recommend the 'Panera' soup and bread restaurant in Waterworks Mall, and let's get the heck on with it."
BabelFish laughs.
zarf sits down
inky claps.
liza cheers.
Adam says (to Dilbon), "Hee hee."
jrw claps.
Sargent says (to Dilbon), "That's in the room 524 rooms east fo here."
GilbertGottfried asks, "hey! Can we allow that?"
DGlasser exclaims, "yay zarf!"
Sargent applauds.
Den cheers.
Irene claps
DGlasser laughs.
lpsmith says (to Dilbon), "Troll's eye view won it."
schep claps.
Paul claps, confused but happy.
devil stamps feet
Foobler applauds the acceptance speech.
Psmith grins at lpsmith.
Spatch accepts the Acceptance Speech
Ellison cheers
Iain says (to devil), "Oi, get off me feet."
Gunther says, "--glaring light..."
GilbertGottfried eats the nominee envelope.
BabelFish turns somersaults around the room.
jrw pulls a lever, and his seat raises up 3 meters on an extending pole.
Irene exclaims, "Hey, down in front!"
BabelFish watches jrw get thrown from his rapidly rising seat.
GilbertGottfried says, "As many of you know, BILLY CRYSTAL usually sings a goofy song every Oscar night where he works in all the nominees for Best Picture."
Ellison asks, "ok, who else was traumatized by the bleacher scene in 'Ballyhoo'?"
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
GilbertGottfried says, "Well, I was going to write a SONG MEDLEY, but the only song I could THINK OF is FRERE JACQUES."
BabelFish says (to Ellison), "I loved 'Ballyhoo.' Every bit of it."
Earendil has disconnected.
<Earendil> Earendil has disconnected from ifMUD.
Earendil has connected.
<Earendil> Rooster of a fighting stock / Would you let a Saxon cock / crow out upon an Irish rock? / Fly up and teach him manners!
GilbertGottfried says, "So SING YOUR OWN SONGS HERE."
Gunther says, "BOOOO!!!!!!"
(From liza) Sadie Hawkins begins playing, sans bass.
devil sings.
PollBoy hollers, "And now, our next award! We're just lousy with these suckers!"
Dilbon exclaims, "Yes!"
BabelFish plays bass.
Sargent sings, "There's Photopia, OaF, Spider and Web, and two by that guy name of Gentry..."
Spatch says, "yay next award"
jrw claps.
Ellison says, "yay Kurt Vonnegut"
devil yawns
Iain asks (to Sargent), "Gentry Lee?"
davec exclaims, "yay!"
GilbertGottfried says, "All RIGHT. Next award is for Best Individual PC"
Tracy comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
GilbertGottfried says, "That means PLAYER CHARACTER, not Pushy Concierge."
Miseri perks up.
Adam idles and changes windows.
Dilbon sings, "Michael Gentry, Michael Gentry, you make it all so elementary..."
wjs wakes
Saudade says, "Yay Tracy!"
Miseri says, "No, 'pushy concierge' would be Rene Artois...."
lpsmith wolf-whistles.
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "Hey! No fair!"
Gunther says (to Gilbert), "WHO WRITES YOUR LINES? YOU SUCK!!!"
liza says, "You go girl!"
neild says, ">TRACY, KICK GILBERT'S HERAD"
Spatch says, "Tracy Tracy Tracy!"
Tracy asks, "Okay, am I supposed to start yet?"
neild says, "Head"
BabelFish says (to Miseri), "You love yourself, don't you? :)"
neild tries to push the typo tally, but fails.
GilbertGottfried exclaims (to Tracy), "You're not supposed to be here! Get off the stage!"
lpsmith kicks Herod.
Miseri says (to BabelFish), "Yes, I do."
zarf applauds tracy
neild exclaims, "Yay tracy!"
Saudade throws tomato at gilbert
Kiz cheers for Tracy
Tracy says, "But I was told to-- see, I *knew* this would happen."
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "This is MY SHOW and it's MY AWARD to PRESENT!"
schep says, "yay mayhem."
DGlasser exclaims, "FIGHT! FIGHT!"
Spatch says, "Booooooo"
Tracy says, "So am I really not supposed to be here yet? They said 'go out now'."
eileen looks from Tracy to Gilbert and back again, thoughtfully...
liza asks, "Hey, who filled the stage with jello?"
neild throws Foobler's disembodied head at Gilbert.
Gunther says, "GUILBERT SUXX"
Jota offers Tracy the elvish sword from under his seat, and points at Gilbert.
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
davec cheers for Tracy.
GilbertGottfried says, "MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE"
NamelessAdventurer asks, "What's the problem?"
DGlasser hands Tracy a club(tm).
Psmith would offer Tracy the black rod, but she might get the wrong idea.
GilbertGottfried says, "She's worse than that JASMINE chick"
Saudade is laughing hard now
Tracy says (to NA), "I'm apparently not supposed to be out here yet."
GilbertGottfried exclaims, "She's not supposed to be out here, PERIOD!"
NamelessAdventurer asks (to Tracy), "Yes, you are. Gilbert, what's the deal?"
GilbertGottfried says, "The contract clearly states I am to give out the awards"
GilbertGottfried has disconnected.
GilbertGottfried goes home.
eileen asks audience who they want to present.
Spatch says, "YAAAAY"
Tracy says, "Okay, that got rid of him."
Taj exclaims, "Yay!"
Iain whistles.
DGlasser says, "yay @boot"
schep says, "YAY!"
Paul cheers loudly!
Psmith exclaims, "Result!"
lpsmith exclaims, "Woo-hoo!"
devil says (to Tracy), "Damn, you're good."
NamelessAdventurer says (to Tracy), "Um, I guess it's up to you, then."
Tracy says, "So, um. Hi there. It's me, Adam. I'm going to pretend to be a fictional character now."
Paul says, "Go Tracy!""
Sargent says, "Yay meta-presenters."
Tracy says, "So this is me acting now."
liza says, "Eeeagh! Mimesis!"
A slimy toad named GilbertGottfried materializes.
Dilbon says, "That should be too hard. I'm always pretending I'm me."
NamelessAdventurer says (to Eileen), "We need to talk. Follow me."
Tracy says, "Ahem."
inky laughs.
schep asks (to Tracy), "Hey, what about mimesis?"
Dilbon says, "Shouldn't actually."
Iain wonders if he can meta present afterwards...
Spatch cheers for Tracy!
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
eileen goes backstage.
Iain pushes typo tally.
Tracy says, "What most amazes me about this year's Best PC nominees is how closely they correspond to people (and things) on my floor."
zarf applauds Adam's short skirt and shapely figure.
Gunther says, ">KICK MIMESIS HEAD"
Miseri asks, "...?"
Tracy says, "Bad Machine? There's this vending machine in the lounge that has a little readout screen that says PLE@S*E INS{RT=$0.75 and then when you buy something it always gets stuck halfway down. That's like the worst machine I've ever seen. (The best machine is washing machine #005 down in the laundry room. Mmm... unbalanced load.)"
jrw says, "this awards show has taken on an eerie, Springeresque dimension."
eileen comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Tracy says, "Little Blue Men? That'd have to be the guy in room 215 who got so pissed off at having spent $2.25 just to watch all three of the candy bars he bought get stuck against the glass that he tried to yank them out of the vending machine and got his arm all mangled. They had to amputate. Man, was he ever steamed. Then he got oddly frosty, but then his Percocet ran out and he went back to being steamed again."
Earendil punches jrw.
Iain gets confused and punches Iain.
devil overturns some chairs.
Tracy says, "Muse? Well, the roommate of that guy was this Religious Studies major... I'd see him in the hall and I'd be like 'Hi' and he'd be all 'Away from me, thou painted Jezebel!' and I don't even *wear* makeup... anyway, he got kicked out of school for sending twisted e-mail to that German exchange student who worked in the cafeteria. I'm not sure *where* he got those JPGs but I don't think they're legal even in Holland."
(From devil) Iain says, "Ow!"
liza laughs and laughs.
Tracy says, "Spider and Web? That'd have to be my roommate -- she spends a lot of time tied up."
Iain retaliates. "Ouch!"
Saudade says (to tracy), "You don't sound like yourself today,hon"
Tracy says, "And Zork: a Troll's Eye View? No contest -- that'd be that creep who used to hang around outside our door waiting for us to come out so he could, like, 'accidentally' brush up against us as he 'walked to his room.' He even brought an axe one time, but by that time we'd already filed a restraining order against him and so the security monitor grabbed him before he could even get in the elevator."
Miseri says, "...ow...."
BabelFish says, "Ooh!"
Kiz laughs way hard
jrw applauds... he thinks?
Tracy says, "There. I hope you enjoyed that little comedy piece."
lpsmith exclaims, "Yay comedy!"
Tracy says, "Okay, so I don't know who won."
devil exclaims (to Tracy), "Stop stalling!"
Sargent says, "Mmm, comedy."
inky laughs.
Paul applauds Adam's acting.
liza says, "Comedy comedy showcase."
lpsmith exclaims, "Also: Yay nominees!"
jrw gives the comedy piece a chance.
davec says, "ha ha"
Gunther says (to Tracy), "YAY"
inky says, "yay us"
Iain says (to jrw), "Hee."
Miseri says, "<gulp>"
devil says, "Up with people."
zarf eatsan orange.
DGlasser says, "Oh, yeah. cheers."
schep applauds the nominees.
jrw applauds the nominees.
Gunther says, "I LIKE A COMEDY"
BabelFish says, "Perhaps I should read the edited logs..."
Tracy says, "Okay, I have the trophy now."
Saudade ..inky Hah
ShelleyWinters comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Tracy says, "But it doesn't say who it belongs to."
ShelleyWinters waves the trophy in the air.
Tracy says, "Okay, here's someone pretending to be Shelley Winters. Maybe this person knows."
eileen gives .tracy the winner is the protagonist in Little Blue Men
Irene stands up and cheers wildly
Gunther says, "AREA ADAMS NOMINATES SELF"
zarf applauds
Tracy says, "Well, there you have it."
liza says, "Ha!"
Sargent says, "Woo hoo!"
Den cheers.
Spatch says, "Yay Eileen!"
davec applauds.
inky cheers.
jrw claps.
Paul applauds!
Taj gets frosty.
wjs claps
Psmith cheers loudly
zarf is also laughing
lpsmith cheers!
eileen smacks her head
Iain loudly cheers.
inky says, "mm.. frosted malt."
schep claps.
Miseri applauds politely. Just in case Mike Gentry isn't on his meds.
jrw laughs.
liza says (to eileen), "Spoiler!"
Saudade snaps her fingers noisily
jrw claps with one hand, but the sound can't quite be heard above the din.
Spatch is frosty, but that's just cause his furnace is broken.
Kiz says, "Yaaaaaay!"
BabelFish laughs.
DGlasser says, "wait, I didn't see the winner."
Ellison cheers
lpsmith says (to DG), "LBM."
Dilbon asks, "Who won?"
devil claps.
DGlasser says, "oh, there it is."
Spatch says (to dilbon), "ask Eileen"
Tracy says, "Okay, I'm gonna switch to the other window now."
Tracy has disconnected.
Tracy goes home.
neild asks, "Yay -- what was his name?"
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY FROSTY!"
ShelleyWinters asks, "Is the winner here?"
Sargent says (to Adam), "Yay Brechtian presentation."
Adam says, "Man, I love roleplaying."
ShelleyWinters looks around.
Iain has already forgotten which award this is.
<Guest> You all know our next guest -- let's have a big hand for TV's "Fish", Abe Vigoda!
Dilbon says, "Best PC"
Dilbon says, "I think."
inky leaves the auditorium to the west.
eileen asks, "Is Michael Gnetry ere?"
ShelleyWinters says, "I am NOT going to MC this mess."
Ellison says, "Best Use of Vending Machine"
Iain says (to Dilbon), "Gotta be the new mac."
jrw asks, "Accepting on behalf of Michael Gentry is...?"
Miseri exclaims, "ME!!"
ShelleyWinters goes backstage.
Adam says, "Whizzard, of course."
Adam says, "Or Gunther."
Miseri says, "...darn...."
DGlasser says, "Whizzard."
Dilbon asks, "Where's Whizzard?"
DGlasser says, "gah, timing."
Ellison says, "working, I believe"
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Dilbon says, "People work on Saturdays? Blah."
NamelessAdventurer walks over to the microphone.
Gunther has disconnected.
<Gunther> MICHAEL GENTRY: Damn you.
Gunther has connected.
<Gunther> Anti People (now you've) gone too far - (here's your) Antichrist Superstar.
Gunther disappears.
Gunther has arrived.
Iain says (to Gunther), "How appropriate."
NamelessAdventurer says, "Um, give us a second. We have some arrangements to make..."
inky has arrived.
eileen takes award for Michael Gentry, pledging to send it on to the winner...
NamelessAdventurer looks backstage apprehensively.
Sargent says, "Tracy must be adjusting her skirt."
Psmith asks (to Nameless), "Why start now?"
<Guest> We'd like to take a short break now. Our next guest will be Nipsey Russell, so stay tuned!
Spatch says, "everybody look!"
<Jazzwolf> Jazzwolf has connected to ifMUD.
Producer says, "And... CUT TO COMMERCIAL."
Irene looks
lpsmith exclaims, "Comedy Disorganization Showcase!"
Gunther says (to Iain), "I know."
Miseri asks (to Sargent), "Why start now?"
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
Iain ..Dilbon Which was?
Spatch says, "BRING ON THE AWARDS"
Irene looks around
Jota says, "Oh dag. I don't want to do that commercial *again*..."
A naked smurf streaks across the stage.
PollBoy hollers, "And now, your host for the 1998 Xyzzy Awards, everybody's favorite prop comedian, Carrot Top!"
liza says, "EEEEAGH!"
CarrotTop comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
inky says, "aiee"
Sargent says, "Noooo!"
neild asks, "?"
CarrotTop throws random stuff around the stage.
Paul cries! No, really!
Gunther eats carrotTop
Miseri asks, "...?"
CarrotTop exclaims, "Wow! I'm glad to be available on such short notice for such a wacky crowd!"
thumper says (to gunther), "I'm the rabbit. I get the carrot."
eileen shrug. The budget for emcees this year was really small.
Gunther says (to thumper), "Ok"
Jazzwolf has arrived.
Spatch burns his tongue on his tea choking.
liza says (to eileen), "Hee!"
Sargent says (to eileen), "We so could have taken up a collection."
Gunther chants "@toad, @toad, @toad..."
CarrotTop says, "I just got into the IF scene a few moments ago"
jrw heckles, "Well get out again!"
CarrotTop exclaims, "And whoah, is it ZANY! Let me tell you!"
Gunther BOO!s loudly
Saudade heckles the carrot
<mcp_cone> Here to lurk, listen and learn.
CarrotTop takes a bicycle out of his Bag O' Wacky. "This has extra-large steering handles for when you're Losing Your Grip!"
Spatch says, "Bring back Gilbert!"
liza laughs, and then cries.
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
lpsmith asks, "What award is this?"
JasonMel chuckles.
Dilbon says, "Best something."
davec throws carrtos at carrot top.
<Guest> You all know our next guest -- let's have a big hand for TV's "Fish", Abe Vigoda!
NamelessAdventurer gives Best Individual NPC noms to CarrotTop.
schep boos the comedian and claps for the games.
Sargent says (to CarrotTOp), "Stop taking the name of my game in vain!"
Iain says (to lpsmith), "Award for cheapest presenter."
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
CarrotTop says, "Ok. The nominees for Best Individual NPCs are..."
Earendil says, "I'm keeping a running transcript at http://faeryland.tamu-commerce.edu/xyzzy.html if anyone is interested"
DGlasser has disconnected.
DGlasser goes home.
<DGlasser> www.waterpr0n.com: hot dipole-dipole interactions!
CarrotTop says, "Anchorhead - Michael Gentry"
<DGlasser> We take our icons very seriously in this class.
DGlasser has arrived.
jrw glaps.
CarrotTop puts a large anchor on his head and dances about. You saw this coming a mile away.
davec applauds.
Iain cheers DGlasser.
mcp_cone has arrived.
lpsmith sighs.
CarrotTop says, "The troll in Enlightenment - Taro Ogawa"
JasonMel smiles.
Sargent dropped Scoreboard-a-Minute.
Psmith exclaims, "Yay trolls!"
inky says (to Sarge), "good move."
davec applauds.
CarrotTop says, "I think Gilbert should have been nominated, but that's just me."
jrw applauds.
mcp_cone disappears.
mcp_cone materializes.
CarrotTop says, "The Wolf in Mother Loose - Irene Callaci"
neild throws Gilbert's disembodied toad head at CarrotTop.
Psmith says (to wolf), "Knock knock."
Saudade says, "Yay, Irene!"
jrw throws a head of lettuce and then pretends the guy next to him did it.
DGlasser sings the Wolf song from Into the Woods.
Miseri is still disappointed that neither Gloria Pryde nor Maurice Roget got nominated.
Spatch says, "yaaay wolf!"
davec applauds loudly.
Earendil suggests dglasser pack it in.
Dilbon says, "Who's afraid of a big bad wolf"
Ellison says, "yay irene"
Den wolf-whistles
CarrotTop says, "Alley in Photopia - Adam Cadre"
Paul applauds!
devil sings the Duran Duran song, "Hungry Like the Wolf."
Irene says, "The wolf couldn't make it today."
inky sighs.
Paul applauds again!
BabelFish cheers.
Dilbon says, "The alley in Spider & Web"
Ellison says, "yay Adam"
Iain says, "Heh."
Sargent laughs.
liza says (to Dilbon), "Hee!"
neild says, "Also, Alley couldn't make it today."
DGlasser exclaims, "Alley, Alley, alley!"
inky laughs and claps.
Gunther cheers for all of 'em.
davec applauds.
schep shushes.
neild exclaims, "Alley-alley-oxen-free!"
Gunther cheers for all of 'em.
jrw claps.
schep cheers.
lpsmith cheers.
CarrotTop says, "and the Interrogator in Spider and Web - Andrew Plotkin"
DGlasser says (to neild), "That's not funny. A car killed my Alley."
devil claps ad whistles
jrw CLAPS again!
Earendil says, "Alleey, oops"
Gunther says, "Andrew was the interrogator! SPOILERS!!"
Ellison says, "yay"
Psmith claps
BabelFish feels inadequate, not having played most of these games yet.
Spatch says (to DG), "That's so not funny. An Alley killed my car."
davec applauds.
Paul applauds once again!
DGlasser interrogates zarf.
liza says (to Spatch), "Now THAT'S funny."
CarrotTop exclaims, "Whoah! This envelope is tough to open. I'm gonna need reinforcements!"
Kiz disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
CarrotTop grabs a chainsaw and subtly opens the envelope.
Miseri gets out a duelling pistol.
liza says (to CarrotTop), "HA HA HA. Not."
Sargent says, "Ha! CarrotTop is funnier than Gallagher, even!"
(From devil) Killing 5 bystanders in the process.
Kiz has arrived.
liza says (to Sargent), "Don't give them ideas."
Spatch says, "Don't go dissing Gallagher on MY watch, bucko"
Jota grabs a chainsaw and tries to open CarrotTop.
liza says (to Jota), "Hee!"
Kiz leaves the auditorium to the west.
Kiz has arrived.
Guest has arrived.
Dilbon asks, "Did you know that I'm allergic to carrots?"
eileen worriedly looks to gsee if Gallagher is on the list of mecees
neild exclaims (to eileen), "Eeeagh!"
CarrotTop exclaims, "And the XYZZY goes to: the Interrogator from Spider and Web!"
ShelleyWinters comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Dilbon says, "Yay."
jrw pulls a plastic raincoat on.
BabelFish says, "Yay!"
davec applauds.
Kiz says, "YAAA!"
Earendil exclaims, "woot Woot WOOT!"
Adam says, "Yes!"
Sargent says, "Yay!"
wjs cheers wildly.
zarf dances some more
Taj exclaims, "Woo!"
inky claps.
Den exclaims, "Woo-hoo!"
liza says, "YAY!"
Adam says, "I mean, No!"
Irene exclaims, "Congratulations, Zarf!"
Iain cheers and claps.
Ellison says, "it's the Speechmaster General!"
jrw says, "WHoa!""
DGlasser exclaims, "woohoo yes/no questions!"
Adam says, "I mean, Silence!"
neild exclaims (to Adam), "HA!"
lpsmith exclaims, "Yay Interrogator!"
Paul says, "Yes! Yes! No! Yes!""
Foobler woo hoo!
devil claps!
zarf says, "Ok, dances just a little bit."
schep cheers zarf again.
Miseri says, "<clap> <clap>"
Jota exclaims, "Speech! Speech!"
jaybird reamins silent.
Psmith asks, "2 down, 6 to go?"
jrw stomps and cheers.
ShelleyWinters gives Best Individual NPC trophy to zarf.
BabelFish is silent too.
DGlasser says (to neild), "hee"
zarf goes up on stage
BabelFish is so incredibly silent.
Gunther says, "--glaring light..."
Sargent says, "Speech!"
Iain isn't.
zarf thinks
jrw wonders how zarf keeps winning these things.
DGlasser says (to ps), "3"
CarrotTop applauds!
Psmith says (to DG), "I'm only counting Zarf's win"
zarf says, "Ideally, of course, you all should give the speech and I'd just tell you whether that was really the speech or not."
lpsmith says (to jrw), "Practice. No wait, that's carnegie hall. Maybe it's here, too."
Earendil tracks suspicious funds transferred from Zarf's bank to CarrotTop.
Miseri says (to zarf), "You know, this is getting kind of old. Keep it down, will you...."
Foobler attempts to sign zarf to a multiple-game deal.
liza giggles.
ShelleyWinters goes backstage.
zarf says, "Hoewver, I find this kinda weird, since I can't do NPCs. I just put in more of me."
neild asks (to Foobler), "He already did a multiple game. Ever play Space Under The Window?"
Dilbon says, "Zarf should write movie scripts."
Spatch says, "Plug another restaurant!"
Grocible has disconnected.
<Grocible> Grocible has disconnected from ifMUD.
Grocible has connected.
<Grocible> Grocible has connected to ifMUD.
Grocible blinks.
zarf says, "If the interrogator is cool, then I must be a pretty neat person."
Iain says (to zarf), "You chain people up and interrogate them for a living? Wow."
Earendil asks, "more of you? Go on many second dates?"
Paul cringes from Zarf. Please don't hurt me.
DGlasser exclaims (to iain), "HA!"
liza says (to Hammer), "Please don't hurt 'em."
Sargent says (to zarf), "Remember what happened to the interrogator."
Saudade says (to zarf), "Ask us a question!!"
<Jon> Jon has connected to ifMUD.
Iain wonders how you get a job like that.
jrw claps.
zarf says, "Also, grated orange peel in sour-cream scones. Tasty. Add lots of cinnamon."
zarf sits down.
Gunther says, "53 people. Whoa"
Paul exclaims, ".. liza And I thought Zarf was scary!"
jrw claps and claps.
Grocible says, "who"
Grocible says, "argh. sorry"
DGlasser exclaims, "yay food!"
Paul exclaims, "D'oh!"
Foobler wants zarf's agent's name.
Psmith applauds zarf
CarrotTop exclaims, "Welcome back to the 1998 XYZZY Awards, broadcast live on the Food Channel!"
Jon has arrived.
inky says, "cooking with zarf."
devil wants zarf's secret agent's name.
Dilbon says, "I'm getting gunhery."
Dilbon says, "Hungry."
(From Iain) Foobler (to Zarf) "TELL ME THE AGENT'S NAME."
neild says, "Mmm... food."
Grocible says, "could whoever's doing the transcripts please edit that out? :)"
Spatch says, "wait! that was funny! no fair"
Sargent says, "Remember not to use more than a pinch of zarf in most recipes."
Ellison says, "thatsa spicy meatball!"
Adam says (to Dilbon), "You don't look Gunthery"
Kiz says (to guest), "Want an account? Pick a name and Adam'll make you one"
DGlasser says (to devil), "ZARF is a secret confidential thingy."
(From Iain) Foobler (to Zarf) "We could do this the hard way, you know."
CarrotTop says, "The next award is for Best Individual Puzzle."
BabelFish says, "Someone replace CarrotTop."
Guest says, "/w"
neild exclaims (to CarrotT..Spatch), "It's an imposter!"
Jon asks, "Hey all, what've I missed?"
Dilbon asks, "Hey, is the Stranger going to present the award?"
Sargent says (to Jon), "x scoreboard"
Spatch says (to neild), "Funny people must be contagious"
Jon exclaims, ":arg"Thanks"!"
CarrotTop holds up a poster. "This puzzle is for dummies!"
Gunther says (to Dilbon), "Skara ben takramul."
devil catches funniness.
Iain asks (to Spatch), "That why they're all dead?"
Dilbon says (to Gunther), "Wait a moment, I'll try to find my notes.."
Spatch says (to CarrotTop), "Hold your breath til you're a Little Blue Man!"
lpsmith exclaims, "Woo-hoo!"
CarrotTop asks, "Now where's that envelope?"
Dilbon says, "Ah. There."
Adam says, "We want Stranger to present!"
Adam says, "Stranger! Stranger!"
Sargent says (to Adam), "There are few things stranger than Carrot Top."
liza laughs.
CarrotTop throws random socks, car keys, and arrows-through-the-head out of his box.
inky says, "Truth is stranger than fiction"
Adam says (to Sargent), "Heh."
Paul never thought he'd be rooting for Gottfried to return.
Miseri says, "Oo, yes, Stranger. Parlez vous Nalian...."
neild exclaims (to Adam), "This is already getting STR -- DAMN YOU SARGENT!"
Gunther says (to Sarge), "HEE"
Iain asks (to Sargent), "How about why people like him?"
Stranger walks up to the stage.
Gunther says, "YAY!"
Adam says, "Yay!"
Sargent says (to neild), "HA ha."
zarf applauds in another language
inky says, "I like a Stranger"
Iain exclaims, "YAY Stranger!"
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Dilbon exclaims, "Fa ben takre!"
DGlasser applauds.
Iain takres loudly.
Sargent says, "Woo Stranger!"
CarrotTop exclaims, "Hey! My Tinkertoy Spy Gadget set!"
Paul cheers in Nalian!
Adam says, "Hey, 'Sargent' anagrams to 'strange'"
NamelessAdventurer gives Best Individual puzzle noms to CarrotTop.
devil KLAPP KLAPP KLAPP
Stranger waves!
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
inky says (to Adam), "weird."
CarrotTop suddenly explodes!
CarrotTop connects the acid thingy to the applause meter thingy and -- BOOM
Gunther says, "YM 'esplodes' HTH HAND"
Paul says, "Woo hoo!!!!""
DGlasser says, "Did you know that Sargent is almost an acronym of --dammit"
liza says, "Woo. L'etranger."
(From Earendil) You are splattered with carrot juice.
zarf dscratches his legs.
devil claps
CarrotTop dropped Best Individual NPC noms.
CarrotTop dropped Best Individual puzzle noms.
CarrotTop has disconnected.
neild says (to Spatch), "Looks like he recovered from the funniness."
Sargent says (to Adam), "So if any more games come out by 'Strange' you know it's me and not a comic book char."
Stranger got Best Individual NPC noms.
A slimy toad named CarrotTop disappears.
A slimy toad named CarrotTop materializes.
Stranger got Best Individual puzzle noms.
Kiz says, "YAY!!"
thumper licks up the carrot juice.
Iain whoops from sheer excitement.
devil exclaims (to thumper), "Ewww!"
liza says (to thumper), "Ew."
jrw faints.
Spatch chokes.
wjs says, "yay strangler"
Foobler props his eyelids open with toothpicks.
<Ivan> Ivan slinks in out of the darkness of your soul.
Earendil exclaims (to thumper), "veggie vampire!"
liza give thumper the TMI award.
Saudade's eyeballs are burning
Foobler exclaims (to Ivan), "Yo!"
liza pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing!
jrw switches to a new videotape.
Stranger writes on a piece of paper. You see a snack machine puzzle, from Little Blue Men.
zarf applauds
Gunther asks (to Stranger), "takramul?"
davec applauds.
inky says, "I like a snack."
Paul applauds.
Ivan has arrived.
jrw claps, but only politely.
Foobler exclaims (to Ivan), "Yo!"
Psmith applauds
Stranger draws a picture of a maze. You figure it's the one from Photopia, the only maze to ever be nominated for anything.
Gunther would boo.
Gunther says, "(too late. Damn.)"
liza laughs.
Jon claps
Ivan says, "Wowsers. Fullest house ever."
schep claps.
jrw applauds.
zarf applauds mazishly
Paul applauds.
Guest has disconnected.
Guest goes home.
<Guest> We'd like to take a short break now. Our next guest will be Nipsey Russell, so stay tuned!
jrw whistles.
Stranger mimes getting out of a warehouse. You're reminded of a similar scene from The Plant.
<duchess> duchess has connected to ifMUD.
davec applauds.
inky says, "into the warehouse, I think."
Kiz leaves the auditorium to the west.
Jon yarr, mateys.
Kiz has arrived.
DGlasser says, "into the warehouse, you go again"
zarf claps
inky says, "but it's hard to tell with mime."
jrw claps.
duchess has arrived.
Stranger draws a picture of a chair. There's nobody in it. It must be from Spider and Web.
Taj claps.
Earendil kneels before duchess and lightly brushes the back of her hand.
jrw applauds.
Jon "WHOO!
JasonMel nods.
BabelFish claps.
Stranger draws a cube, and drops it. It's from Losing Your Grip! Get it?
zarf applauds cubely.
BabelFish loses his grip.
davec applauds.
BabelFish falls.
Roosevelt gives a cube of applause
duchess asks, "w Kiz what is the category?"
BabelFish crashes into jrw.
Jon cheers.
Stranger starts a drum roll.
Earendil wonders where his camera man went.
jrw applauds in ..URK!
neild says, "Mmm... roll."
Adam says, "By the way, I can't believe that the head didn't get nominated"
Spatch says, "Yay bread"
jrw resets his tripod and scowls at BabelFish.
BabelFish apologises.
BabelFish slinks back to his seat.
Ivan asks, "So...uh... what part of the ceremony is this?"
BabelFish says, "Best Poodle.""
jrw asks (to Ivan), "who knows?"
Jota says (to Ivan), "The quiet part."
Irene stands on her chair to get a better look
Gunther asks, "SO WHO WINS, ALREADY?"
inky fiddles with the controls to raise his seat.
Dilbon asks, "Did something win?"
Den floats higher.
Sargent says, ">Z"
Dilbon says, "I was away."
Kiz says, ":lets you emote, so :cheers would print duchess cheers"
Stranger continues the drum roll, looking around for an envelope.
jrw pulls his lever, and goes up another few feet.
(From Spatch) inky says "HEP SPATCH PLAY WITH MY SEAT"
Stranger finally finds it.
Jota wonders if they never figured out how o tell the Stranger that he'd have to tell us the winner.
Adam says, "In an attempt to encourage puzzleless IF, there will be no puzzle award this year"
zarf says, "argh"
neild says (to Jota), "Yeah, they're busy translating into Nalian..."
Miseri is already in a box seat. Best view of the auditorium.
Ivan says, "In an attempt to encourage IFless IF, there will be no awards at all this year."
Stranger drops the charade[s]. It's Getting out of the Chair, from Spider and Web!
Foobler falls asleep.
Stranger cheers!
inky applauds.
Taj exclaims, "TANGO!"
Spatch says, "yay charade dropping!!"
DGlasser exclaims (to ivan), "HA!"
neild exclaims, "Yay chair!"
Dilbon exclaims, "Yay Zardf!"
zarf kicks foobler and goes up on stage.
Sargent says, "Yay!"
Paul stands up and cheers!
Kiz YAAAys more
jrw says, "What, again? er... yay"
BabelFish turns cartwheels.
Irene applauds
DGlasser exclaims, "zarf again!"
Den yells "Yay! Speech!
wjs cheers and yells.
davec cheers!
jrw applauds wildly.
inky says, "at this rate, we'll have a full zarf cookbook."
Jon exclaims, "Huzzah!"
DGlasser exclaims, "WOOHOO!"
Miseri says, "<clap> <clap>"
Saudade claps and whistles for zarf
liza applauds.
schep applauds.
Dilbon says, "Zarf is my hero. I will name my kids after him."
Jota exclaims, "Speech! Speech!"
jaybird says, "Let's al chant (spoiler deleted)"
zarf says, "So, you chop two large white onions and saute them in olive oil."
Iain exclaims, "Wooo!"
ShelleyWinters comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
JasonMel claps and claps.
Gunther says, "Dammit! Zarf, you may NOT release ANY game in 99!"
DGlasser says (to inky), "You should read some of his raif posts. (Well, you probably did.)"
liza says (to Dilbon), "That's classified."
devil woos.
BabelFish has to go.
jrw throttles his lever, his seat shooting up and down and releasing sparks.
Saudade asks, "Zarf Dilbon?"
Ivan asks, "Is there an awards tally anywhere?"
neild says, "Mmm... onions."
BabelFish waves.
inky says (to BabelFish), "byebye"
Iain woos and woos.
ShelleyWinters gives Best Individual Puzzle trophy to zarf.
Sargent says, "Bye BabelFish."
inky says (to Ivan), "scoreboard"
Psmith orders reinforcing brackets for Zarf's trophy cabinet.
BabelFish has disconnected.
BabelFish goes home.
<BabelFish> Fop!
Ivan says (to inky), "thank"
zarf says, "Saute them for about 45 minutes. Really. A *long* time. They'll turn brown."
Spatch says, "I'm allergic to heavy onion use"
zarf says, "Then add a cup of white wine, and simmer for a few more minutes."
jrw wonders if that prize sack is full yet.
(From neild) Joe Hill exclaims, "No! Use one big onion!"
zarf says, "A cup of blue cheese or Gorgonzola. But really squishy stuff, not try."
zarf says, "Er, 'dry'."
DGlasser says, "oh god, this sounds good."
Earendil rolls the Beyond Zork onion into the room.
zarf says, "Let that melt, and serve immediately over pasta. Sprinkle on walknnute."
neild exclaims, "It really is the Food Channel!"
wjs says, "this sounds a lot better than those scones."
Saudade says, "Yum!"
zarf says, "Walnuts. Sorry. Got excited there."
Iain throws food from the peanut gallery.
Spatch asks, "Knute Rockne?"
neild throws peanuts from the food gallery.
(From Gunther) Dornbeast says (to Earendil), "CUT THAT OUT! Oh, wait..."
Iain throws galleries from the food peanut.
liza says (to neild), "FOOD FIGHT!"
Paul wants to join the walknnute gallery.
Iain says, "Made of wooden wood, note."
neild exclaims (to liza), "FUCK YOU!"
Den and I thought raif was over-clogged with food.
DGlasser asks, "wait, what happened to the onions?"
zarf says, "And you'd better remember al lthat, because it's the solution to the endgame puzzle in next year's game. Good night!"
jrw does an ovating stand.
zarf sits down.
neild throws walkknutes at liza.
Adam says, "Zarf Walknnute Vuorinen. Has a certain ring to it"
inky applauds.
duchess claps
Earendil throws a single french fry, and then gets halled away by police and charged with disorderly conduct.
Paul cheers!
(From Spatch) ** You have made a delicious dinner **
Den wants to ask you, the transcript reader, why you weren't here. Enjoying it so far?
Iain exclaims (to Ear), "Hee!"
Sargent says, "zarf's next game: Sautee and Web."
Foobler claps. And applauds, too.
Dilbon says (to Adam), "Erm."
ShelleyWinters goes backstage.
Ivan exclaims (to Spatch), "Yaay!"
liza says (to Sargent), "HA!"
jrw laughs.
DGlasser applauds.
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Gunther throws waterbombs around.
NamelessAdventurer taps the microphone. "Er, give us another second..."
Iain claps, but does not applaud.
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
Saudade says (to sargent), "ha ha"
Hugo has disconnected.
Hugo goes home.
<Hugo> Hugo has disconnected from ifMUD.
Ellison cheers, but does not 'woohoo'
Jota wonders if Den should be allowed to break the fourth wall like that...
Miseri waits impatiently.
PollBoy hollers, "And now, your host for the 1998 Xyzzy Awards, Andrew Dice Clay! Didn't we do this bit already?"
Ivan breaks Jota's wall.
AndrewDiceClay comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Ellison asks (to Jota), "like in Gunther's game 'XYZZYs!!'?"
Spatch says, "Eeeagh!"
Gunther says (to Ellison), "YAY ME!"
Paul says, "Oh my God! It just gets worse!""
zarf says, "Oh, god. Kill me now."
neild exclaims, "These presenters just get WORSE and WORSE!"
Iain says (to people who are reading the transcript who _were_ here), "Hello. Ignore what Den said."
liza says (to neild), "DAMN!"
Miseri kills zarf.
AndrewDiceClay says, "Hey, hey, hey, wait just a minute."
neild exclaims (to liza), "HA ha!"
AndrewDiceClay says, "The Diceman's seen what you've done to the other presenters."
Ivan disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
Jota asks, "Um, may I @toad him?"
DGlasser has disconnected.
DGlasser goes home.
<DGlasser> www.waterpr0n.com: hot dipole-dipole interactions!
Gunther says, "@toad AndrewDiceClay"
Dilbon says, "Ford Fairlane is a kickass movie."
AndrewDiceClay asks, "The Diceman is promising to keep it clean this time, alright?"
eileen pledges to hire next year's nemcess emcees from someplace other than rec.arts.lame-comedians
Ivan has arrived.
jrw says, "Now look what you've done. DGlasser's too young to listen to Dice Clay's act."
Jon
AndrewDiceClay says, "So let's cut to the chase and get on with the freakin' awards."
neild says (to eileen), "rec.arts.please.god.make.it.stop"
AndrewDiceClay glances backstage. "I can say 'freakin', can't I?"
Miseri prays.
PollBoy hollers, "'Freakin' is a-okay!"
(From Jota) Backstage says, "No. No you may not."
eileen makes a so-so gestures
Foobler notes that AndrewDiceClay promising to keep it clean is like the Grand Poobah of the KKK promising not to be a bigot.
Paul exclaims, "Hell no!"
Adam says, "Freakin' 2: Electric Foogaloo"
duchess laugh
JasonMel says, "I think we're all freakin'."
<DGlasser> We take our icons very seriously in this class.
DGlasser has arrived.
AndrewDiceClay says (to Foobler), "Hey, I'm watchin you, Berlyn. Don't get wise with the Diceman."
Saudade dices clay, to keep the food theme going
Sargent says (to JasonMel), "Those who aren't already buggin'."
BillHicks rolls over in his grave.
neild says (to Suadade), "Mmm, clay. Wait, that's not food."
Iain asks (to Saudade), "Ugh, who's gonna eat that?"
liza says, "Yay Bill Hicks!"
Stranger says (to neild), "Like that's stopped us before."
Saudade says (to neild), "you never been a kid, eh"
Spatch says, "woo Bill"
Gunther says, "DIE DICEMAN DIE"
AndrewDiceClay says, "All right, the nominees for Best NPCs in a game are..."
jrw applauds for Bill.
Miseri prays.
Dilbon says, "Zarf won't win this one."
Irene asks, "Wanna bet?"
AndrewDiceClay furrows his brow as he reads the list.
RevDawson prays.
neild asks, "What category is this?"
mcp_cone has disconnected.
mcp_cone goes home.
<mcp_cone> mcp_cone flickers briefly, then deresolves.
Adam says (to neild), "Best Nipseys."
Paul asks, ".. Clay can read?"
AndrewDiceClay says, "Guilty, um..."
liza says, "Yay Russell!"
Sargent laughs.
inky says, "hee hee"
Ellison laughs
Dilbon says, "This IF author has won more Xyzzy Awards this year than anyone else."
Paul hangs his head.
AndrewDiceClay says, "Guilty B... b..."
eileen wonders if we can switch the transcript to a seven-second delay
Foobler is amazed ADC can actually read.
neild laughs.
RevDawson exclaims, "BASTARDS!"
lpsmith chuckles.
liza says (to eileen), "Hee!"
schep laughs.
Spatch laughs
Sargent says, "Yay!"
Ellison asks, "is Hugo here?"
Irene applauds
AndrewDiceClay says, "GUILTY BASTARDS BY KENT FREAKIN' TESSMAN"
Adam says (to Ellison), "He was, but not anymore"
Dilbon says, "I'm innocent"
eileen covers her h ears
AndrewDiceClay says, "and what fine-lookin guilty chicks there were, too, lemme tell ya"
Saudade swears she's laughing
Adam says, "Guilty Bastards should win the award for Best Tagline, easily"
davec chuckles to himself.
Earendil exclaims, "I thought he was going to keep it clean, and he said Bastards!"
zarf applauds, even though he hasn't played it, even though he's got MacGlkHugo sorta working.
FatherLeBrun clears his throat and keeps a critical eye on the emcee.
AndrewDiceClay says, "Mother Loose, by Irene Callaci"
Earendil covers his ears.
zarf claps
liza says, "Yay Irene!"
jrw claps.
Kiz cheers loudly
Iain exclaims, "Yaaaay!"
Saudade says, "Yay Irene!"
Paul cheers!
Jon exclaims, "Huzzah!"
davec applauds.
Psmith cheers muchly
Iain says, "Yaaay, woo."
neild says, "Hey, that wasn't dirty."
lpsmith cheers some more.
Ellison says, "yay Irene!"
Sargent applauds.
AndrewDiceClay says, "Yeah, I got a coupla nursery rhymes RIGHT HERE."
Foobler has the clap.
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY GAME THAT WAS GOOD BUT I HAD NO TIME BUT WILL GIVE ME AN EXCUSE TO MENTION INTO THE WOODS AND IRENE RULES!"
devil claps
Irene curtsies
liza says (to Foobler), "TMI!"
schep claps.
Traevoli whistles loudly.
neild realizes he's been forgetting to cheer stuff, and claps like mad!
AndrewDiceClay says, "Muse, by Chris Huang"
devil wonders when the scoreboard will be updated.
neild asks, "Yay Edifice! What year is tthis?"
Paul cheers!
liza says, "Woo!"
davec applauds!
jrw applauds and claps and cheers and all the rest of it.
Kiz says, "Yay Muse!"
zarf claps
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY VICTORIAN TIMES AND STUFF!"
Saudade says, "Woowoo for mis!"
Maurice_Roget smiles happily.
JasonMel exclaims, "Alright!"
schep claps.
Iain cheers for Sherbet.
liza says (to Jason), "Again!"
neild cheers!
jrw chants, "Huang, Huang, Huang...!"
AndrewDiceClay says, "Them chicks got chastity belts up the yinyang."
Dilbon exclaims, "Yay Weather!"
Gunther says (to AndrewDiceClay), "DIE!!"
Sargent says (to devil), "Uh, I've been updating it as we go."
Foobler goes for some penicillin.
AndrewDiceClay says, "Once and Future, by Gerry Kevin Wilson"
Adam asks (to Clay), "Doesn't that defeat the purpose?"
Psmith reckons Knostanza needs a few pointers from Tracy Valencia.
Maurice_Roget also hyperventilates.
Sargent says, "Woo war!"
Paul cheers!
Psmith claps
Gunther says, "YAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!"
Spatch says, "AAAAAAVALON!"
davec exclaims, "!"
DGlasser says (to ps), "Yes."
Foobler exclaims, "Woo hoo!!"
Saudade says, "Yippidee doo dah, whizzard!!"
jrw applauds!
Irene applauds
Psmith pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing!
Kiz claps
jrw does a little tap dance.
Ellison says, "yay whiz"
JasonMel says, "That one was BAD."
AndrewDiceClay says, "And Photopia, by Adam Cadre"
liza says, "WOOOOOOO"
devil claps
schep claps.
JasonMel eyes liza.
Iain exclaims, "YAAAAY!"
jrw claps.
Sargent says, "Photopia for best puzzles!"
Irene cheers
wjs claps
davec exclaims, "yay!"
Gunther says, "WHIZZARD!! WHIZZARD!!"
DGlasser exclaims, "go Jonathan Kent! He's the man!"
neild exclaims, "Yay famous author of book!"
Den applauds loudly.
zarf cheers
Paul cheers!
jrw claps again.
Ellison says, "yay everything!"
Saudade yelps and squeals!
liza says, "I like book,band,game!"
Kiz says, "More yaaaaay!"
Gunther says, "OAF!! OAF!!"
Ellison says, "I'd only be sad if no one wins!"
JasonMel cheers.
Ivan asks, "Where is whizzard?"
AndrewDiceClay says, "It's a shame about that chick, I tell you"
duchess chhers
Foobler squaels.
Dilbon exclaims, "Oaf whis!"
Spatch says (to Andrew), "Don't even GO THERE"
Dilbon says, "Wins."
DGlasser exclaims, "Jonathan! Jonathan! Jonathan!"
<Hugo> Hugo has connected to ifMUD.
Hugo has arrived.
Jon exclaims, "Yay!"
Saudade laughs at spatch
AndrewDiceClay cracks his knuckles and opens the envelope.
Adam says (to Hugo), "Just in time!"
DGlasser exclaims (to hugo), "You're nominated here!"
jrw claps wildly for Hugo.
zarf cracks his walknnutes
Jon exclaims, "Go NPJonathan!"
Maurice_Roget prays
duchess says, "hurry hurry"
Iain knuckles his crack. Um.
AndrewDiceClay exclaims, "And the winner is -- Once and Future, by Gerry Kevin Wilson!"
<Guest> You all know our next guest -- let's have a big hand for TV's "Fish", Abe Vigoda!
Den cheers for Van Every. No, not really.
Dilbon exclaims, "I knew it!"
AndrewDiceClay exclaims, "freakin freakin freakin!"
lpsmith cheers!
Gunther says, "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sargent says, "Woo!"
<Jarb> You hear Jarb say, "Yeah yeah, I'll only be on for a few days," somewhere nearby.
jrw says, "HURRAHH!!!"
Psmith exclaims, "Yay Whizzard!"
Adam says, "YAY CARDBOARD NPCS!"
DGlasser says, "yay"
Ellison says, "yay!"
inky says, "woo"
schep applauds.
Spatch says, "woo hoo hoo!"
Maurice_Roget applauds.
Paul cheers!
Gunther says, "WOO HOO!!!!!"
Saudade says, "Yay!!! wooohoooo!! Go Avalon!!!"
ShelleyWinters comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
liza says, "Yay he's not here."
Irene exclaims, "Hurrah!"
davec cheers!
JasonMel says, "Yee haw."
Iain exclaims, "YAAAY even though I haven't played it!"
zarf cheers, relaly intending to play it someday.
devil WHOOPS!
wjs yells yay.
Foobler cheers madly!
inky says, "I like a Snookums"
Hugo cheers!
inky says, "somebody has whizzard's speech"
Kiz says, "YAY Aval--MASH--um, OaF!!!"
davec cheers again!
Maurice_Roget says, "(I saw this happening, actually.)"
Den exclaims, "Who'd have thought it. Avalon not just out but winning!"
Jon says, "I never got past Mordred..."
Gunther says, "WHIZ RULES!!"
Adam says, "Oh, wait, thought I was Michael Gentry"
DGlasser should play it too.
neild asks, "Where's Whiz?"
Ellison says, "Whizzard gave a prepared statement to jrw and me in case he won anything"
jrw applauds and applauds.
Dilbon says (to Jon), "Kick him in the nads."
inky says (to Ell), "well, step up."
Spatch asks (to ellison), "is it a recipe?"
Saudade asks, "What category are we in?"
AndrewDiceClay applauds politely.
eileen exclaims, "Great, up on the stage with youse!"
(From Sargent) Ellison says, "It says, 'Thanks.'"
ShelleyWinters says, "gives trophy = ellison"
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY ELLISON!!!!!!"
Ellison steps up to the mike... 'um, is this thing on?'
Jon says, ":kicks Modred in the nads"
ShelleyWinters give trophy= ellison
Jon says, "WTF? My telnet client is having serious problems."
AndrewDiceClay says, "Geez, you dumb broad, let me try it"
(From Adam) Ellison says, "Whizzard says, 'I'd like to give my trophy to Mr. Jonny Boy Blaskowitz...'"
ShelleyWinters gives Best NPCs trophy to Ellison.
Ellison says, "so anyways, he told us to say, 'Whoohoo!'"
<Guest> We'd like to take a short break now. Our next guest will be Nipsey Russell, so stay tuned!
Jarb has arrived.
Ellison says, "thanks for your time"
<Guest> You all know our next guest -- let's have a big hand for TV's "Fish", Abe Vigoda!
Ellison steps down
jrw shouts, "WooHoo!'
inky laughs.
<Ender> Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!
lpsmith laughs.
Dilbon says, "Time well spent."
Jon utters gibberish
Saudade says, "Hi jarb"
neild exclaims, "All together: WHOOHOO!"
inky asks, "what, no recipe?"
Gunther says, "WOOHOO"
Psmith laughs
jrw says, "WOOHOO"
DGlasser asks, "WOOHOO?"
ShelleyWinters goes backstage.
eileen cheers and claps
DGlasser says, "and you know what they so about OO..."
Jota exclaims, "HOOWOO!"
AndrewDiceClay says, "All right, now the nominees for the Diceman's Hottest-Looking Chicks in IF:"
Jarb exclaims, "LIONS!!!"
jrw applauds for OaF.
Dilbon says, "Your OOs are so soft."
Guest has arrived.
AndrewDiceClay says, "The chick who took off her clothes and made out with that other chick."
Gunther says, "TOAD HIM ALREADY"
AndrewDiceClay says, "That other chick."
Ender has arrived.
Jota asks (to Dice), "Is Tracy nominated?"
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
liza starts taking order for the 1999 Chicks in IF calendar.
Foobler now sees sales triple as zarf buys a copy of OaF.
Gunther says, "TOAD HIM! TOAD HIM!!!"
DGlasser says, "The PC in Bloodlines."
Gunther says, "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!"
NamelessAdventurer asks (to Andrew), "Um, will you come with me please?"
Jon says, "I vote for that real young chick from Bloodline"
AndrewDiceClay says, "The chick who ran around Christminster but didn't take off her clothes."
Iain asks, "Isn't IF chic enough already?"
Adam says (to DG), "Mmmm... PC."
inky says (to liza), "I nominate Orpington and Chicken of Distinction"
AndrewDiceClay dropped Best NPCs noms.
AndrewDiceClay has disconnected.
inky does a rim shot: ba-dum-bum!
DGlasser exclaims (to jon), "yay timing!"
Spatch says, "YAAAAAAY"
Gunther says (to inky), "And 'Chicken!', I hope"
lpsmith asks, "Is Best Puzzles next?"
Paul cheers!
inky says (to Gunther), "indeed"
Saudade says Good Riddance to Clay!
davec chgeers!
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<Guest> We'd like to take a short break now. Our next guest will be Nipsey Russell, so stay tuned!
Spatch says, "Nora Dunn cheers!"
NamelessAdventurer hollers backstage, "We got anybody left back there?"
liza says, "Yay Bloodline."
Adam says (to Spatch), "Ha!"
Ivan asks, "How many Nipsey Russel's are there?"
neild exclaims (to Spatch), "HA!"
Jon asks, "darn, I have to go... where can I find a transcript later?"
Paul exclaims (to spatch), "Ha!"
lpsmith chuckles.
Gunther asks, "Who the hell is next?"
Miseri says (to liza), "You know, I could get you a picture of Konstanza standing in the wind with her ankles and a bit of petticoat showing...."
lpsmith says (to NA), "I'll do 'Best Puzzles', if you want."
neild says (to Jon), "Log on here, and tehre'll be a pointer."
Iain asks (to Miseri), "Hot damn. How much?"
DGlasser exclaims (to miseri), "Stop the pr0n, man!"
devil says (to Gunther), "Use that word with respect, mister."
NamelessAdventurer says (to lp), "One sec."
Jon says, "Thanks neild!""
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
Jon has disconnected.
Jon goes home.
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Gunther says (to devil), "Go to hell"
Dilbon asks, "Is there a best puzzles category? Or just best puzzle?"
JasonMel says, "If Benny Hill shows, that's it."
jrw asks, "We haven't done best puzzles yet?"
devil exclaims (to Gunther), "Thanks!"
GarrisonKeillor comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Gunther says (to devil), "Oh, wait..."
GarrisonKeillor straightens his tie nervously.
zarf cheers
jrw says, "ah, homespun charm."
devil groans!
jrw claps.
eileen says, "Best Puzzles is next..."
Paul cheers for the frog-man!
Den says (to Dilbon), "both."
Kiz claps wildly
Dilbon says, "Ah."
lpsmith says (to jrw), "That was 'Best individual puzzle'."
Dilbon says, "I vote for Detective."
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
NamelessAdventurer gives Best Puzzles noms to GarrisonKeillor.
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
GarrisonKeillor breathes heavily. "All right. It's come to my attention that this awards ceremony is really straying away from its intended purpose."
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Paul hopes for "IF-ers Almanac."
GarrisonKeillor says, "We're here to give awards, not litter the stage with toads and tasteless humor."
NamelessAdventurer says to the audience, "Now we're all out of presenters, so DON'T BREAK THIS ONE."
Iain throws toads at the stage.
Spatch says, "Yay Garrison!"
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
JasonMel likes Keillor. Don't kill him.
jrw claps politely.
liza returns. "Eeeagh! Public radio!"
Irene remembers her vacation in Lake Woebegon. In, not at.
Ivan exclaims (to GarrisonKeillor), "DON'T LEAVE, WOEBEGON BOY!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "The next award is for Best Puzzles, the puzzles of the game that made you scratch your head and think, much like a cold Minnesotan night with no snow.""
Gunther says, "EEEAGH! METAPHORS!"
Dilbon says, "And the winner is zarf."
Spatch says (to gunther), "No, that was a simile"
Adam says, "Hah! This is almost as funny as that last Mark Russell special."
Sargent says (to Gunther), "I like a metaphor."
neild has no idea what to throw at Garrison.
Gunther says (to Spatch), "Whatever"
Ivan says (to .neild), "Snowballs."
Iain throws a battalion at Garrison.
Gunther asks (to neild), "a rocket launcher?"
Spatch says (to adam), "DON'T GIVE THEM ANY MORE IDEAS"
devil throws prairie dogs at Garrison.
JasonMel similies.
GarrisonKeillor says, "And the nominees are:"
Adam says (to Spatch), "OOPS! Sorry"
neild metaphors.
DGlasser exclaims (to jason), "Ha!"
Ivan exclaims (to GarrisonKeillor), "Bring out Guy Noir!"
eileen says, "I never metaphor I didn't like."
devil semaphors.
Irene groans
Dilbon phors.
DGlasser exclaims (to eil), "Ha again!"
Foobler says (to eileen), "groan."
(From Spatch) MarkRussell plays the piano and sings, "Spiiiiiiiider and Weeeeeeeb! Taxing the brains of the common man!"
Iain shoots some pfhor.
(From Earendil) GarrisonKeillor says, "Coming up: Best IF Game from towns under 2,000 people."
neild exclaims (to Spatch), "Eeagh!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "Michael Gentry, for Anchorhead"
DGlasser says, "woo"
liza says, "These are the porous excuses for puns."
Paul claps for Anchorhead.
Irene exclaims, "Yay!"
(From jrw) MarkRussell plays a song about Anchorhead, to the tune of 'When the Saints Come Marching In.'
Iain laughs.
schep claps.
Spatch says (to jrw), "ha!"
Kiz applauds
davec applauds.
zarf applauds horrible elder things from beyond the walls of the universe.
Miseri puts two shekels on Anchorhead.
Psmith claps
DGlasser says, "I should play this I should play this"
neild says, "The universe has walls>"
neild asks, "?"
Iain exclaims (to zarf), "Don't attract their attention! Noooo!"
Saudade says, "Clap clapity"
Adam says (to neild), "BUILD BRIDGES NOT WALLS"
GarrisonKeillor says, "Taro Ogawa, for Enlightenment"
Sargent says, "Yay!"
Psmith says, "Yay trolls (again)."
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY PHOTONS!"
davec applauds.
zarf cheers brightly.
Paul claps for Enlightenment. Then prays for it.
Den abhors horrible elder things from beyond the walls of the universe.
jrw claps.
Saudade cheers
JasonMel nods. "Okay!"
lpsmith claps.
Iain exclaims, "YAAAY game that was totally too hard for me!"
Den cheers.
schep claps.
DGlasser says, "or lack thereof, I guess."
Gunther has disconnected.
Gunther accidentally says "789" and promptly disappears.
<Gunther> MICHAEL GENTRY: Damn you.
GarrisonKeillor says, "Once and Future, by Gerry Kevin Wilson"
Foobler claps with one hand, Zen-like.
Paul claps for Once and Future.
Saudade says, "Yippee!"
zarf applauds theoretically.
jrw claps.
Den cheers
DGlasser says, "yay game-i-should-play."
Sargent applauds.
JasonMel claps Once.
Irene applauds
Spatch claps Future.
Dilbon says, "The future will only happen once."
lpsmith says, "Yay game-I-have-sitting-on-my-desk."
Psmith applauds OaFishly
davec applauds.
Ender claps for Once and Future, even though he hasn't actually started it yet.
jrw applauds in an 'oh good I'm not the only one who hasn't played OaF yet' kind of way.
GarrisonKeillor says, "Stephen Granade, for Losing Your Grip"
Paul claps for Losing Your Grip.
Iain asks (to jrw), "Whew, you too?"
neild exclaims, "YAy Sarg!"
Spatch says, "grip grip grip!"
inky applauds.
zarf kicks head!
Ivan says, "I lost my grenade."
lpsmith cheers Sarge!
Dilbon says, "Yay Grip."
Iain exclaims, "YAAAY!"
DGlasser exclaims, "yay game-i-should-finish!"
Irene stands on her seat and cheers
davec applauds.
Iain exclaims, "Grip!"
schep claps.
liza says, "S A R G E"
neild kicks Sargent's head for good luck.
Foobler loses his grip and applauds.
Kiz looks for a head to kick as a show of support
devil watches Sarge to see what he loses
jrw claps.
Saudade yips for sarge
Adam says, "Kicking the Head was the best puzzle"
Iain exclaims, "Heh!"
Sargent says, "Wow."
Ender offers his head to Kiz.
DGlasser says, "YAY ARRIVAL! (well, close enough)"
Ellison says, "hehe"
Den kicks his own head.
Sargent says (to DG), "Ha!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "and, this is a real surprise, so please sit down when I read it, Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin."
inky makes a brisk business selling "First I kicked the head; then I kicked smoking: T-shirts.
(From neild) Pastiche sings, "Wouldn't you give your head to a friend..."
Jota exclaims, "Speech! Speech!"
eileen points to "No kicking of heads here" sign.
jrw gets confused by DGlasser and applauds for Arrival.
Iain laughs and laughs.
schep claps.
Sargent says (to inky), "Ha ha!"
davec applauds.
Paul cheers for Spider and Web.
DGlasser exclaims, "Zarf! Zarf! Zarf!"
Saudade plays the recording of her cheers for zarf
Spatch says (to inky), "that rules"
Foobler exclaims "It must be a fix! The fix is in!!"
Irene exclaims, "Huzzah!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "Now, settle down. I haven't read the winner yet."
Miseri opens a can of canned applause.
jrw claps suspiciously.
jrw plays a tape recording of the last time he clapped for zarf.
GarrisonKeillor opens the envelope and takes a deep breath.
GarrisonKeillor says, "It's a telegram from Guy Noir, radio detective."
Ivan exclaims, "Yaaay, Guy Noir! Whoo!"
Sargent says (to Garrison), "Get ON with it!"
Irene holds her breath
jrw claps.
Dilbon asks, "Where's the result board?"
Sargent says (to Dilbon), "x scoreboard"
zarf's blood pressure rises
jrw says (to Dilbon), "x scoreboard"
Dilbon says, "Oh, there."
inky says (to zarf), "stay frosty."
jrw wonders how the recipe will end.
GarrisonKeillor says, "Garrison. Stop. Send my congratulations. Stop. Winner of best puzzles. Stop. Spider and Web, Andrew Plotkin."
jrw knew it!
DGlasser exclaims, "YAYYYYYY!"
jrw applauds.
Psmith exclaims, "Fix!"
GarrisonKeillor exclaims, "Congratulations, Andrew Plotkin!"
Paul cheers!
Dilbon says, "Yay spiders."
lpsmith grins.
Iain claps.
Jota exclaims, "Speech! Speech!"
Den yays very loudly. "FOUR!"
Sargent says, "Yay zarf!"
wjs yells recipe recipe!
zarf stands up.
JasonMel says, "Wow."
inky says (to Garrison), "it's too late to stop him *now*"
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY GADGETS!"
Iain exclaims, "SPEECH!"
Ender says, "Yay!"
davec applauds for Zarf.
jrw plays the tape of his earlier applause, again.
inky says, "Food! Food!"
Earendil says, "It's IFmud, where the men are all good looking, the women are all strong, and the jokes are all, eh, never mind"
Psmith appluads.
lpsmith exclaims, "Go Zarf!"
jrw adds new applause to it.
Kiz yays for Zarf
ShelleyWinters comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Iain says, "Tie him to a chair until he finishes the speech properly, this time."
schep cheers zarf and the cookbook.
zarf says, "trudges wearily up to stage."
Saudade resuscitates zarf who has fainted from being clapped at so much
Foobler screams. "FIX!!" (but congrats.) Foobler applauds.
liza says (to neild), "YOU WON! Oh wait, he said 'Web'."
Spatch says, "It's a cookbook! It's a cookbooooook!"
Ellison says, "yay zarf"
Den says (to Iain), "Nah, he'll just say Yes or No or nothing."
inky says (to liza), "hee"
ShelleyWinters asks (to zarf), "You need a shopping cart for these or something?"
Sargent says (to Spatch), "HA!"
DGlasser recalls zarf's comment on VirtuaTech, something about liking good gadget games. And then a few weeks after the comp....
Iain says (to Den), "Heh."
ShelleyWinters gives Best Puzzles trophy to zarf.
Paul exclaims (to spatch), "HA!"
Dilbon says, "I'll name my grandma after Zarf!'"
Miseri says, "Applause."
ShelleyWinters goes backstage.
devil detonates an EMP bomb to stop everyone from replaying their applause.
(From Ender) Zarf gives a speech using only "Yes" and "No.
GarrisonKeillor applauds enthusiastically.
DGlasser laughs on the floor.
zarf says, "This is boring. Somebody else win one."
DGlasser says (to ender), "Hey, binary works."
Earendil is shielded against 50,000 volts of EMP.
Den asks (to zarf), "Any hint of embarrassment?"
jrw says, "Boring? booo"
zarf asks, "Well, any questions?"
Iain says, "Booo, hisss."
Sargent says (to zarf), "Okay."
GarrisonKeillor asks (to zarf), "What are your opinions on midwestern buffets?"
neild asks (to zarf), "Can you print?"
Sargent takes zarf's trophy.
(From Saudade) Zarf wins one for the gipper!
DGlasser asks (to zarf), "What about the wooden magnets?"
Ender asks (to zarf), "What did it mean???"
Foobler asks (to zarf), "What's the specific gravity of Jupiter?"
schep asks (to zarf), "How long do I bake this for again?"
Spatch asks, "Why a duck?"
zarf says, "Those are great questions. Thanks all!"
Iain exclaims, "WOODEN MAGNETS!"
Psmith asks (to zarf), "What's the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
Roosevelt asks, "How many more awards are there?"
Dilbon asks, "Do you sleep nekkid?"
zarf sits down.
liza asks (to zarf), "How any airports does Iran have?"
jrw claps.
devil claps
inky asks (to zarf), "why is the gmd file name different than the game title?"
Den says (to zarf), "What's the speed of an unladen swallow"
Adam says (to liza), "Ha!"
inky says, "damn."
neild exclaims, "liza wins!"
Kiz says, "Yeah! Wooden magnet answers!"
DGlasser exclaims (to liza), "HA!"
lpsmith exclaims (to liza), "Hee!"
Spatch cackles
Foobler woo hoos.
Sargent says (to liza), "yay"
liza says, "I love that joke."
Roosevelt asks, "How many more awards is zarf nominated for?"
inky says (to Roos), "all of 'em"
Jazzwolf leaves the auditorium to the west.
jrw forgets where he should know the liza joke from.
GarrisonKeillor says, "I don't think we'll be seeing the last of that talented newcomer."
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inky says, "there's, um, story, writing, and game left"
inky says, "I believe"
DGlasser asks, "Why isn't there a best PCs award?"
Sargent says, "And setting."
Traevoli is getting the feeling he should play Spider and Web.
lpsmith says (to inky), "You are correct."
Paul asks, "Newcomer?"
jrw asks, "Don't we get an intermission?"
Dilbon says, "Story = zarf, Writing = zarf, game = zarf"
inky says (to DG), "the fix was in on Photopia"
Earendil thinks we should carve zarf's image on rushmore next to his (pointing at Roosevelt).
DGlasser says (to jrw), "It was that AI thing."
Jota asks, "Talented?"
jrw is really glad he did play S&W.
GarrisonKeillor says, "And now, some messages from the audience."
XYZZY nominees materializes.
DGlasser says (to paul), "It's a joke, see."
eileen says, "Four awardss left: Best stetting, story, writing, and game"
neild says, "Oh, bloody hell"
eileen says, "Oops, best setting"
GarrisonKeillor says, "To everybody in the audience, sorry I couldn't make it, also, corn, from mamster."
Saudade is glad she has played half of S&W
xyzzy award nominations materializes.
Dilbon stets. Did he win?
Roosevelt says, "Spider and Web can't win all of em......Photopia had a great story. And Anchorhead had a great setting/"
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Paul says (to dglasser), "I often have that reaction to Keillor's jokes."
jrw says, "Nah, Photopia's gotta win something."
Miseri says, "<gulp>"
Ellison says, "yay mamster"
Roosevelt says (to Earendil), "No one goes next to my face on rushmore."
neild asks (to jrw), "Photopia hasn't won anything yet?"
inky says, "nope"
Iain says (to jrw), "It did already, remember."
DGlasser exclaims, "MUSE! MUSE! MUSE! and PHOTOPIA! PHOTOPIA! PHOTOPIA!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "Adam Cadre's agent wants everybody to know the movie rights have been sold already."
jrw bets on Photopia for writing and/or story.
Kiz agrees with DG
DGlasser asks (to adam), "Seriously?"
Ender says, "Yay Adam Cadre's agent!"
Paul puts away his bidding paddle.
Adam says, "Er, that's a joke, people"
GarrisonKeillor says, "To Dilbon, there's no way I'm going to change my name to zarf, please write more often, love, your grandmother."
DGlasser says (to adam), "That's what I figured."
Dilbon laugh.
devil claps
DGlasser congujate.
Saudade is glad Keillor keeps up with raif!
DGlasser spell.
Dilbon says, "My grandma's surname is Repo, btw."
Iain says (to Dglasser), "You naughty boy."
Traevoli says, "emotes wonders if there will ever be a "Most Amusing" category..."
GarrisonKeillor says, "and liza has a message from the Ayatollah; we have no such devices in Iran."
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Iain says (to Traevoli), "Try @emit"
Paul wants to point out that keillor is neuter.
jrw emotes wonders, ta-dah!
GarrisonKeillor says, "And now, the award for Best Setting."
NamelessAdventurer gives Best Setting noms to GarrisonKeillor.
DGlasser says (to traev), "Don't do @emit, do :"
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
Traevoli given Iain a look.
Adam says, "Yay suburban houses!"
Iain says (to DGlasser), "Ooops, yes."
Iain says (to Traevoli), "Sorry, not thinking."
Saudade says, "We all get an award for Best Sitting!!"
Den exclaims, "Yay campus settings!"
St-Pierre holds his breath.
Ivan says (to Dglasser), "You know what they say: Those who can, do; those who can't, @emit."
DGlasser says, "MUSE BETTER WIN"
GarrisonKeillor says, "Setting gives the game its character and its charm. Without a Lake Wobegon, all I'd have to talk about are homespun characters in profound tales."
St-Pierre says (to DGlasser), "Thank you. My thoughts exactly."
GarrisonKeillor says, "But something just wouldn't be profound."
GarrisonKeillor says, "So, these games are to be heralded for the settings in which they, well, in which they set."
(From zarf) GarrisonKeillor says, "And then the silo exploded."
jrw gets up to go to the bathroom, and a temporary sitter fills his seat.
neild exclaims (to Garr), "This isn't NPR, you Midwestern freak! Pick up the pace!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "The nominees: Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry"
Irene applauds
davec applauds.
Iain exclaims, "Yaaaay non-zarf game!"
zarf cheers! More elder things!
Den cheers!
Saudade claps
Sargent says, "Woo!"
Psmith says, "Yay Anchorhead"
Spatch says, "NEW ENGLAND IN THE HIZOUSE!!!"
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Roosevelt cheers
DGlasser says, "woo"
Maurice_Roget claps
JasonMel cheers more.
neild exclaims, "Yay 7th of Gentry's 47 nominations!"
Paul says, "Yay creepy New England!""
Foobler's bell claps.
GarrisonKeillor says, "...yes, indeed, in the "hizouse"."
schep claps.
GarrisonKeillor says, "Muse, by Chris Huang"
DGlasser laughs.
schep applauds.
zarf cla[s
davec applauds.
jrw applauds, from the aisle.
Irene exclaims, "Hurray!"
Sargent claps.
Saudade says, "Way to go, mis!!"
DGlasser exclaims, "FRANCE! FRANCE! FRANCE IN THE HIZOUSE!"
Iain says, "YAAAY muse."
Paul says, "Yay Victorian France!""
DGlasser says, "that is, if it was in France. I forget."
GarrisonKeillor says, "Must be a mighty big 'hizouse'."
liza says, "FRANCE! FRANCE DANS LA MASION!"
liza says, "Shit."
Foobler's hands miss each other. But the sound is deafening.
neild exclaims (to liza), "HEE!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade"
Earendil pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing!
liza pushes the button on the typo tally. Bing!
Iain exclaims, "YAAAAY EVEN MORE!"
Adam says, "Yay mud!"
schep claps.
Irene says, "La plume de ma tante est sur le table. Or something."
DGlasser exclaims (to liza), "YM MAISOZN! HTH! HTH!"
liza asks, "What is it with me and France?"
DGlasser exclaims, "yay first fit!"
Paul exclaims, "Yay snowy... um, rainy... Yay!"
zarf claps and makes a grip joke.
Ender says, "Yay elder things! No, wait..."
Foobler takes off his shoes and applauds with this feet.
GarrisonKeillor dredges up his Swedish to say "Depressing landscape in the hizouse".
davec pplauds.
Iain steals Foobler's shoes.
Iain says, "Mmm, leather."
devil exclaims (to Foobler), "Put those back on, phew!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "Once And Future, by Gerry Kevin Wilson"
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Spatch says, "yay!"
Sargent asks, "Swedish?"
zarf cla[s
Sargent applauds OaF.
schep claps.
Jota says (to liza), "Avec moi. Oh, wait, you didn't say 'in' France..."
zarf says, "(again)"
jrw dashes back in from his restroom break.
davec applauds.
jrw applauds.
Paul exclaims, "Yay Fantasy forest!"
(From Adam) Michael Gentry says, "YAY POOR MAPPING!"
DGlasser says, "ENGLAND IN THE oh you get the pzoint."
Saudade applauds wildly!
Foobler rises to his feet, whistling. "WOOOOOOOOOO!"
devil CLaPS
Iain cla[s.
Psmith applauds Avalon
jrw returns to his seat.
Ender says, "Mystic realms in the hizouse!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "and Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin"
Foobler will have to play that game someday.
Sargent says, "Yay chair."
schep claps.
jrw claps.
Jarb claps
Iain exclaims (to Foobler), "What, OaF? Hey!"
Paul exclaims, "Yay drab corridors!"
davec applauds.
DGlasser exclaims, "ALLEYWAY IN THE OUTSIZDE!"
Spatch falls over
Kiz cheets for the chair also
Ender says, "S&W in the chzair!"
Jota exclaims, "And the winner is... Detective, by Chris Barringer!"
DGlasser asks (to jota), "Er, Matt?"
Saudade says, "Yay zarf!"
Jota says (to DG), "Er, Right. Matt."
Jota asks (to DG), "Whatever. You think he deserves to be remembered properly?"
GarrisonKeillor opens the envelope gingerly. "And the XYZZY goes to the rustic rainy New England setting of Anchorhead! Michael Gentry, ladies and gentlemen!"
inky says, "woo!"
Sargent says, "Woo!"
(From Foobler) zarf says, "I couldn't accept *another* one!"
zarf cheers a lot
Ivan exclaims, "Chris Forman Barringer!"
Iain exclaims, "YAAAY!"
Spatch says, "Yaaaay!"
Roosevelt exclaims, "YEAAA!!!"
schep claps.
davec applauds!
neild exclaims, "Yay guy who didn't show up!"
(From inky) Elder horrors say "yay!"
Psmith yays!
jrw claps for the sheer variety of it.
Paul cheers enthusiastically!
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY!!!!!!!!!"
Irene stands on her seat and cheers at the top of her lungs!
Maurice_Roget applauds.
Spatch says, "Chris Forman Barringer Hardjono!"
Saudade says, "Congrats, mg!"
ShelleyWinters comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
wjs yells
eileen claps and cheers some more
Den cheers loudly!
Sargent asks, "I take it Cthulu will be accepting the award?"
Foobler exclaims, "Woo!"
(From Earendil) You get an unspeakable vision of ancient elder things applauding in their sunken crypts beyond time.
DGlasser says, "I should play this I should play this"
Kiz whistles
Iain is eaten by Yog-Sothoth.
Jota cheers Anchorhead.
zarf eats yoghurt sothoth
GarrisonKeillor asks, "Accepting on Michael Gentry's behalf is Tom Keith and the Guys' All-Star Shoe Band. Oh, wait, they're not?"
ShelleyWinters dropped Best Setting trophy.
ShelleyWinters goes backstage.
Jota asks, "Is Zarf the only winner so far who's actually here?"
devil asks, "Is zarf really here?"
JasonMel says, "So Far."
jrw says, "Hey, we're all winners, in a way..."
GarrisonKeillor got Best Setting trophy.
Foobler says (to Jota), "We're all weiners here."
neild says (to Jota), "Gentry is here in Gunther's connect message."
Ender shoots JasonMel over that one.
DGlasser asks, "Why does Garrison get it?"
Ellison says (to neild), "hehe"
Ivan says (to Foobler), "Except for the losers."
GarrisonKeillor says, "I'm sure Michael Gentry would be thrilled to say some words of enthusiasm, surprise, and maybe share a recipe for clam chowder."
Traevoli munches on a garlic clove.
neild exclaims (to Garrison), "Put that down, you Minnesotan thief!"
Paul says (to jrw), "But in another, more accurate way, Gentry and Zarf are the winners."
Adam says, "Ivan's here. Let him present the next one"
jrw claps for Ivan.
neild exclaims, "Ivan! Ivan!"
Ellison says, "woohoo"
Earendil notices that trophy seems to be held together by Duck-brand duct tape.
Ivan says (to Adam), "You must be kidding."
DGlasser says, "yay ivan"
DorianX applauds as if he knew what was going on.
Adam asks (to Ivan), "Well, you won last year, right?"
Iain applauds DorianX.
DGlasser asks, "which is this now?"
Saudade says, "Whoa, DX, you're alive!"
DGlasser takes an unhealthy interest in Ivan.
NamelessAdventurer comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
DorianX says, "My word. I am"
NamelessAdventurer gives Best Story noms to GarrisonKeillor.
GarrisonKeillor gives Best Setting trophy to NamelessAdventurer.
Ivan says (to Adam), "For writing."
NamelessAdventurer exclaims, "Yay! I won!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "See that it finds its way home."
Adam says, "I thought writing was next. Sorry"
NamelessAdventurer does a victory dance.
Ivan asks (to Adam), "I dunno the order. Is it?"
DorianX says, "Went to see a band. when I got back there was GETTING IT ON going on, so I slept in the dining room."
GarrisonKeillor says, "Nope, the next category is Best Story."
Sargent says, "Story is next."
GarrisonKeillor says (to DorianX), "and I thank you for sharing."
NamelessAdventurer goes backstage.
Roosevelt exclaims, "Yeaaaaa Photopia!"
Maurice_Roget does a Victorian dance and wonders if he could possibly make it a Victory dance in the near future.
Iain does a food dance.
GarrisonKeillor says, "The nominees for Best Story are:"
devil does a mating dance.
jrw says, "hurray!""
Iain is buried by a sudden freak foodfall.
GarrisonKeillor says, "Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry"
jrw says, "oh wait, we haven't started yet"
jrw claps.
schep claps.
Earendil is suddenly overcome by attraction to devil.
DGlasser exclaims, "yay game-i-should-play!"
davec applauds.
Iain exclaims, "Yaay!"
Jarb says, "[RED]"
zarf yay
Paul whistles.
Ender dances with devil by the pale moonlight.
Iain exclaims, "Yaay ditto DGlasser!"
Roosevelt applauds
liza asks (to Jarb), "Is it red?"
Iain says (to Ender), "Hee."
Spatch says (to liza), "Correct for 100 points"
inky says, "red jello"
liza asks (to Spatch), "Who was first man to run moon?"
Saudade says, "Clap clap"
PollBoy hollers, "Whoever has the white Mercedes, license plate FILFRE, parked in the lot, your lights are on!"
Spatch asks (to liza), "Is it red?"
Jarb looks closely and it's _very_ red.
Jota says (to jarb), "Sorry, I'm playing the BW version."
liza says (to Spatch), "Correct for 100 points"
GarrisonKeillor asks, "Little Blue Men, by Michael Gentry -- is there an echo in here?"
jrw claps.
Adam says, "FLAG ON THE MOON"
schep claps.
davec applauds.
zarf yayay
Adam asks, "HOW DID IT GET THERE?"
Spatch says, "[BLUE]"
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY OFFICES!"
Paul whistles
Spatch says (to adam), "yes!!"
Ender applauds. His cow orkers tremble.
GarrisonKeillor says, "Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade"
jrw claps.
Jarb hears a lion roar nearby...
Paul whistles
DGlasser exclaims, "YAY GAME-BY-GOOD-AUTHOR!"
Iain asks, "Well, yes, but why?"
schep claps.
davec appauds.
JasonMel exclaims, "yahoo!"
Ellison says, "yay Sarge"
Saudade cheers
Kiz claps hard
Ivan wonders if he's the only person here who's actually at his office right now.
inky says (to Ivan), "I am"
Jarb calls home and when the answering machine picks up yells, "LOSING YOUR GRIP!!!"
inky says (to Ivan), "but I'm always here"
Foobler is at his office.
Saudade wonders what a cow orker is.
liza says (to Jarb), "Ha!"
Ivan exclaims (to inky), "But you don't have a REAL job!"
DGlasser laughs.
GarrisonKeillor says, "Photopia, by Adam Cadre"
jrw applauds.
Kiz claps hard s'more
Iain exclaims, "YAAAY!"
liza says, "YYYAAAAYYYYY"
inky says (to Ivan), "ok, that's true"
DGlasser exclaims, "YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!"
Paul whistles!
neild exclaims, "Yay Photopia!"
schep cheers loudly.
davec exclaims, "Go Photopia!"
zarf cheers
Jarb calls home and when the answering machine picks up yells, "PHOTOPIA!!!"
Maurice_Roget says, "I'm supposedly at a friend's birthday party. Never mind that the partying is happening downstairs and I'm up here hogging his parents' phone line."
Saudade says, "Eaggh! Yippee!"
DGlasser exclaims, "Jonathan Kent rules!"
Psmith applauds
JasonMel exclaims, "Phreeow!"
Ender says, "YAY!"
Foobler whistles.
inky whistles and stomps his feet.
Roosevelt exclaims, "YAAAA!!!"
GarrisonKeillor says, "And Spider And Web, by Andrew Plotkin"
jrw claps.
Jarb says, "[BUG]"
Ivan says (to inky), "heehee"
DGlasser says (to mis), "Aw."
zarf chee -- oh.
Paul whistles one more time!
Den boos good-naturedly.
DGlasser says (to jarb), "hee"
davec applauds.
schep claps.
Kiz claps
Adam says, "Yay western swing music!"
Den yayay
Sargent plays some Western swing music.
Psmith claps.
DGlasser asks, "But what *was* the story?"
Iain applauds politely.
Foobler claps yet again.
GarrisonKeillor opens the envelope and looks inside.
Iain exclaims, "Actually, S&W was pretty good. YAAAY!"
Earendil exclaims, "it's Bob Wills!"
Jarb asks, "wasn't Bruce Willis in that one?"
Saudade cheers
Psmith says (to DG), "Narrative doesn't work that way."
Den exclaims, "It's Bob Willis!"
Earendil asks, "and his if playboys?"
GarrisonKeillor exclaims, "Powdermilk Biscuits presents the award of Best Story to Adam Cadre, for Photopia! Heavens, it's good!"
jrw applauds!
Kiz stands up and cheers
davec cheers.
neild exclaims (to Jarb), "Arrr! I'm the crazy interrogator! Welcome to my chair!"
inky says, "woo!"
Kiz says, "Yay!"
Iain exclaims, "YAAAAAAY!"
Sargent says, "Yay!"
Ivan exclaims, "yaaay!"
schep cheers!!
liza says, "YES!"
Paul cheers!
Den exclaims, "At last!"
zarf dances happily
Psmith exclaims, "Woohoo!"
Maurice_Roget applauds!
Taj cheers madly!
Spatch says, "yaaaay!"
Irene exclaims, "Yes!"
Iain exclaims, "SPEACH! SPEACH!"
neild exclaims (to Garrison), "ABOUT FUCKING TIME!"
Roosevelt exclaims, "WOOOO!!!"
devil claps to high heaven
Jota cheers!
DGlasser exclaims, "YAYAYAYAYAYAY!! THAT ROCKS PANTS!"
Paul whistles!
Saudade says, "Yaay Adam!!"
Adam elbows zarf aside and takes to the stage
JasonMel says, "Oh, yeah."
eileen applauds and applauds
liza says (to neild), "That ruled, btw."
inky laughs.
ShelleyWinters comes out on stage from behind the curtain.
Foobler is relieved.
JasonMel cheers.
Iain swings his pants.
ShelleyWinters gives Best Story trophy to Adam.
wjs says, "cheers."
Adam says, "Thanks, everyone!"
lpsmith un-idles and cheers.
Kiz watches as her mouse runs around in frenzied excitment
Taj gives Adam a sack.
jrw says, "Well deserved! yeah!"
Iain exclaims (to Adam), "Yaaaay!"
ShelleyWinters gives Adam a BIG SMOOCH.
Jota exclaims, "Go [PURPLE]!"
Jarb says, "well done and $150 richer"
Adam says, "I think one of the best comments I got about Photopia..."
<Ghogg> [insert witty comment here]
ShelleyWinters goes backstage.
(From inky) Adam says "So, my prize-winning recipe for pad thai with fish sauce is..."
DGlasser wonders what rocking pants is.
Den roundabouts his socks
Spatch says, "pad thai!"
neild exclaims, "RECIPE! RECIPE!"
Ivan exclaims (to inky), "Yaay!"
DGlasser asks (to inky), "pad?"
Den exclaims, "ENCORE!"
davec says, "mm.. fish""
Jarb whistles
Jota says (to DG), "If the pants are a'rockin', don't come a'knockin'."
Iain exclaims, "Recipe AND speech!"
Adam says, "...was when someone said that he'd been inspired by it to let his kids participate in storytime instead of just listening."
Adam says, "So that's way cool. This is also cool."
inky says, "Ooh."
Spatch says, "indeed"
zarf says, "yay cool"
Sargent says, "Awww. Touching human interest story."
Kiz yays for storytime
lpsmith exclaims (to Adam), "Yay!"
Iain asks (to Adam), "But how do you _cook_ the kids?"
DGlasser says, "oh, that's sweet and cool and wonderful and stuff."
Paul smiles.
schep cheers! Real speech! Yay.
(From Ivan) Adam says, "...so instead of just WATCHING Friday the 13th part X, he actually hacked them up!"
jrw claps.
Sargent says, "Bet there's no story like *that* for S&W."
Jota asks (to Sarge), "New game? HIS?"
inky says (to Iain), "oven-bake, I think."
liza says (to Adam), "Happy late birthday."
Maurice_Roget asks (to Iain), "In garlic butter, of course. How else?"
Irene laughs out loud
Adam says, "Also, I don't know any recipes, but one of my goals for the coming year is to learn how to cook."
Ghogg has arrived.
DGlasser falls over laughing. Thanks, Ivan.
Iain says (to Sargent), "One can but hope."
jrw claps for cooking.
inky says (to Sarge), "actually, I was inspired to betray my country to the russians."
Saudade coaps and cheers for puzzleless IF!
Ghogg says, "Hello."
Saudade says, "claps"
jrw coap on a rope.
Iain exclaims, "YAAAAY learn to cook!"
Den says, "Once you know how to cook, you too can win four times."
Ivan exclaims (to inky), "Aww, inky... but you do that ALL the time!"
devil cheers for GOOD puzzleless IF.
Spatch says, "Teach a man to cook and he'll be writing IF games"
liza says, "Wait, _I_ can cook