Neverending story

[Aaron Drake]

Saw this done on another forum... thought I'd see how it goes over on the ol' CAOS site.

Here's how it works: I'll kick things off with a short story starter, and then someone else will add to it.  Then someone else will add to what they just said, and so on, until we have one big, incoherent mess of a tale.

Ready?  Here goes:

Our story begins in the Engineering Building at SIUE...  Taz the robot was sitting quietly in his usual spot in the A.I. lab, when all of a sudden...

[Jimbo]

[d]... he finishes coding his CS 321 program. But wait! It's not due for another week!  Wow, he's really ahead of schedule.  Looks like he'll be able to go out tonight and ....[/d]

(nm, Jerry posted at the same time, i'll just add another one!)

[Jerry]

...Taz twitched.  Or at least Andrew thought so. That was odd, Andrew thought since he knew Taz's motor were not enabled. This is a safety feature on most robots that makes sure a robot does not move until you are ready to let it move.

Andrew turned back to his work thinking he had too much CC -codin' and caffiene. At first he had the thought of kickin' off for the night, but what he was working on seemed more interesting than sleep. So he turned back to the screen ...

[Jimbo]

... and finished his CS 482 program.  Whew! What a relief to get that done at all!  Dr. White sure is a slave driver when it comes to butterflies and ferns.  Having submitted his project to the class dropbox, Andrew turns around and sees that Taz the robot....

[Aaron Drake]

... had turned into an Eyebot!!!



Andrew watched in horror as the Eyebot zipped out of the lab and began wreaking havoc on the Engineering Building.

...

[Guest]

AAAAAHHH!!!!!!!  The horror!!!!

It bumped into everything in signt because it couldn't see where it was going.  Its program of destruction was finally thwarted when it made its way into the atrium where it got lost running around in big circles, even though it thought it was going straight...

[Aaron Drake]

...
Then M.I.B. Agent J (for Jerry) stepped up to the little Eyebot and picked it up.



"C'mon little guy," he said.  "You're coming with me."

With that, he picked up the Eyebot, went out to his car, and headed back to the M.I.B. headquarters to find out what had made the Eyebot go berserk.

Meanwhile, Andrew was still huddling in a corner of the A.I. lab, fearing for his life.
...

[R. Andrew Lamonica]

Then, over the noise of Andrew’s whimpering came a tremendous roar.  ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã...“Here I come to save the dayâ€Ã,¦  Super Yu is on his way.â€Ã,


[img align=center]http://caos.siue.edu/uploads/img3f7b189ba2b03.jpg[/img]


I’ve been waiting for a chance to use this picture for months.

[Aaron Drake]

...And with that, Super Yu saved Andrew from... uh, well, nothing really.

Elsewhere, Agent J pulled into M.I.B. headquarters.  He got out and took Taz into their A.I. specialist, DaleDoe.  

"Whell, " said DaleDoe, "it looks as if this Eyebot was programmed to perform erratically until some variable 'OrangeBallOfDoom' detonates."

"Orange Ball of Doom?" said Jerry.  "I wonder what the heck that is."

Back at the EB, Dr. Yu and Andrew were walking out of the A.I. lab (both more than a little humiliated), when Andrew noticed an orange ball that the Eyebot had left behind on the floor.  He picked it up. "Hmm, " said Andrew.  "I wonder what this is?"  He put it in his pocket and closed the door behind him...

[DaleDoe]

When in walked Dr. WU walked in and asked:  

"This is a whatta?....  Do you know?"  He asked Andrew, hoping for an explanation of what had just occurred.  But Andrew simply stared back with a puzzled look, not knowing exactly how to explain.  Dr. Wu exclaimed: "You do not know.  Hmph."  and walked away as mysteriously as he entered, leaving Andrew still contemplating what has been going on.  






You see, these are not the only strange occurances lately...

[R. Andrew Lamonica]

...Suddenly the ball gave a lurch and doubled in size.  It also turned a menacing red color.  Andrew examined it closely for a minute then decided to stick to computer science and tossed it away...

[img align=left]http://home.cs.siue.edu/~lamonica/whatsthis.jpg[/img][img align=right]http://home.cs.siue.edu/~lamonica/toss.jpg[/img]

[Aaron Drake]

... "That's funny, " thought The_Drake.  "I could have sworn that just a minute ago, Andrew had closed the door behind him!!!"

Aaaaanyway, across town Agent J was speeding along to get to the EB before the ball of doom exploded.  :-o



If Andrew had paid more attention to the ball before tossing it away, he would have noticed that it had a timer on it that read 5:00... 4:59... 4:58...
...

[Guest]

I thought you might call me on that one.  I’ll take down the pictures.

[Aaron Drake]

I thought you might call me on that one. I’ll take down the pictures.

No, no... Put them back up.  It was funnier that way. :-D

This is supposed to be a mindless story.

[Stiffler]

... Agent J arrives back at the Engineering Building. He looks around for the orange ball not knowing that it turned red. He finds a red ball with the timer at 3:00... 2:59... He assumes that this is the ball, so he begins to take it apart. Stiffler is behind Ajent J doing one of his infamous "Stiffler Stealths". Stiffler gets right behind Ajent J holding up a paper bag with air in it. Then Stiffler hits the bag with his free hand. BOOM! Ajent J faints with fright. Scared, Stiffler looks around and then runs away...