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RATSLUG: A Novel Idea

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Beloved Disciple

10:31

We are starting with a small handful, since it appears that the culmination of time draws ever nearer....they are my greatest legacy, at least I hope so. I have been accused of playacting, some sort of postmodern performance art, and in some ways, that isn't a poor critique, albeit a somewhat shabby "stand alone". A marraige between screenplay and blog, hedge fund and Sunday School, marbled with crowdsourcing, and seasoned with a jack-of-all-trades mix of "everything else", imagined being entertained by angels at the feet of the Beloved Disciple.

WRSHPR

10:46

I saw the newspaper ad, Teacher, and I'm here to be taught...whatch'ya got?!?

10:52

Hello??

Skaryota

10:52

It wasn't signed "Teacher", but I got your letter (I think)...Beloved Disciple, right?

WRSHPR

10:53

A letter, you got a letter, right? Is that what you're saying, Skar? (I hope you don't mind being called that--I sure wouldn't, its a pretty cool handle!)

Skaryota

10:54

Yeah, it was from the "Beloved Disciple", and was beyond that, quite mysterious, I might add...but it looks like I'm at the right place...I mean, Beloved Disciple looks like he was pokin' around just a few minutes ago. You here still, sir?

WRSHPR

10:57

Well bully for you, Skar. That's pretty precise. I just saw a Newspaper ad in the classifieds with a Bold-faced heading, "Things aren't what they seem." It was, I guess you could say mysterious, but I was intrigued enough about the word-smithing to check it out...sounds like great Revelation being promised, potentially--though I'm trying to keep a pretty low bar for the moment.

Skaryota

11:01

Yeah, that's how it (my letter, that is), started out, so now I'm really sure I'm in the right place! "Things just aren't what they seem these days or something like that." I've never seen handwriting quite like it, and even the paper (or maybe it was the ink) had a hard-to-word smell, not unpleasant, but quite unique.

WRSHPR

11:02

Well, I must admit to a smidge of friendly jealousy. I wish I'd gotten a personal letter inviting me here, but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth, at least not if there is a horse around here...Beloved Disciple, are you here yet?

Ratslug

11:05

Well I don't know about a newspaper ad or a letter that just showed up one day. I'm here just because I was Googling myself, and stumbled around here; needless to say, I was quite surprised, seeing as I don't come across "Ratslug" all that much.

WRSHPR

11:06

Hey Rat, welcome! :)

Ratslug

11:06

Its Ratslug, if you don't mind, Wrshpr...

WRSHPR

11:07

Sorry bro, I'm really into nicknames, and maybe a little too much sometimes.

Ratslug

11:08

It's not "bro", either wrshpr--more like "Sis", I guess you could say.

WRSHPR

11:09

Whoops, sorry, "sis"

My bad/totally my bad

Ratslug

11:09

no worries

Skaryota

11:09

So what's up with Beloved Disciple?

PMAH

11:22

Listening in...I'm not the Beloved Disciple, but I find it interesting how we all got here. I'm actually here because of a dream.

Skaryota

11:28

Whoa, a dream, huh? Like a real, sleepy-sleep dream, and that's how you came to be here? That sounds intense!

PMAH

11:29

Yup, that's pretty much what drew me here...

WRSHPR

11:31

Now I'm really green with envy...that totally makes just seeing a newspaper ad seem a bit banal.

Ratslug

11:32

Try stumbling' here randomly...can't say I'm letting it get me down, though--but where's Our Beloved?

Beloved Disciple

11:33

Ah, Cephas, there you are. I wondered when you'd get here.

Ratslug

11:35

Who me?

Beloved Disciple

11:35

No.

WRSHPR

11:35

Were you talking to me?

Beloved Disciple

11:36

No.

WRSHPR

11:37

Oh...then whose Cephas?

PMAH

11:39

I think he means me. The "P" in PMAH is Peter, and I have some friends from Church who call me that, since apparently it is Aramaic for Peter or something.

WRSHPR

11:40

You know Teacher?

PMAH

11:41

Actually, no, so that's a little creepy, or at least a little weird or something if I'm right. Like I said I'm just here because I had a dream drawing me here.

Beloved Disciple

11:43

As to whether you guessed right, "Ding-ding-ding, give the boy a prize".

Skaryota

11:43

So how did you know his name then?

Beloved Disciple

11:44

The same way I know yours. Where do you think you go when you sleep?

WRSHPR

11:44

Is that a rhetorical question? You don't really "go" anywhere, per se, do you?

Beloved Disciple

11:45

Ah, but things aren't what they seem these days.

PMAH

11:46

That's what it said in my dream, or something like it anyway. At least to the extent that anything was said in the true "said" sense...it was kinda all said without being said, if you know what I mean.

Ratslug

11:47

no, not really--I can't say that I do know what you mean

Skaryota

11:48

I do want to hear more about your dream, though.

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