Rod Serling Presents...Stopover on a Quiet Bored
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 9:14 pm
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound... a dimension of sight... a dimension of mind. You are moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over onto... The Twilight Bored.
Fanny: Hey, Vandal, where are we? I had hoped we were logged into a Home for the Weary
Vandal: Well, we're not. Yeah, hmm. Damn, my head!
Fanny: Hmm, I don't get it.
Vandal: All right. We came back to the Bored didn’t we?
Fanny: Remember, we left the chat room. And then somewhere near the transcripts forum, well, somewhere near those transcripts - what? Wait a minute. Something came down on the Bored from overhead. A shadow. And then that's all I remember.
Vandal: All right, all right, just, ugh, oh, honey. Look, it's probably, it's no big deal.
Narrator: Vandal and Fanny, average young BBs who drank too much, logged into the chat room last night and on the way back took a detour. Most of us on logging in the morning know exactly where we are; the rooster or the alarm clock brings us out of sleep into the familiar sights of threads and BBs we all know and the comfort of a routine day ahead. Not so with our young friends. This will be a day like none they've ever spent - and they'll spend it on the Twilight Bored.
Scene: Fanny and Vandal check out the place
Fanny: Look, finally a way to find out where we are. Just go ahead and send a PM to everyone. We’ll get an answer in no time.
Vandal: It’s just a prop. The control panel is worthless.
Fanny: Let’s see what else is here.
Vandal: This isn’t the Bored. Where the hell are we?
Fanny: Look, it’s our old friend Evil Squirrel
Vandal: Never thought I’d be happy to see him.
Fanny: Wait. It’s not real. The squirrel is stuffed
Vandal: Nothing in this place is real. There are no transcripts. No observations.
Fanny: The political posts are never answered.
[A giant shadow passes over them]
Vandal: What the hell is that? Let’s get a move on.
Scene: They head to the Ultimate QoD thread
Vandal: Finally, we can get out of here
Fanny: Good thing QoD never ends
Scene: After a few minutes on the thread, they realize they are right back where they started
Fanny: This thread is just going in circles
Vandal: Come on. There must be some way out of this place. Let’s try this one.
Scene: A giant hand comes down and scoops up the unlucky couple
Jessie: Be careful with your pets, Mini. Daddy brought them all the way from The Bored.
Mini: Oh, can't I play with them, mommy?
Jessie: After lunch, dear. Right now, put them back.
Narrator: The moral of what you've just seen is clear. If you drink, don't go to the chat room. And if the person with you has had a couple, she shouldn't go to the chat room, either. You might both just find yourselves in a deserted forum on the Twilight Bored.
Since Vandal is otherwise occupied,
TEN! Has been postponed until the fall.
Instead, The Boneys return Monday
Hosted by T-Bone!
