I'm so expululated to welcome you to the Drabble Club I can feel a trangle down my pulchulator, but that's enough of my lollygagging.
Please show your extremious rapturations to moose666 who chose this week's topic, "Made Up Words"
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01 - phong - Drabble Away
They came at him out of the dark.A wing of three bounced from afar ,robotic minds looping in an endlesss cycle of search ,accquire,kilt.He'd been expecting them,but not quite so soon.His knees knocked together at the thought of what they would do to him if he couldn't find some way out.
Lord Fotherington-fotherington Worthington Cholmondely Winghampton Dodderness Plaistow Dunderheed ap Reese peered over his shoulder at the three deadly little red dots as they bore down on their position.
'Oh good.We have company.Lets invite 'em over for tea.'
Aruglewoalyastprumfascolamagination.- the act of flerggling.
02 - Simoof - The Book. A tale as old as time itself and about 10 years younger than Frank.
"So what is it then?"
"It's a list of rules and instructions. It should put them on the path to create a viable planet for colonisation."
"Will they understand it?"
"It's been carefully crafted. It will manipulate them and make them easy to control. It will also remove them from the equation."
"Will it be ready in time?"
"It should, we estimate it will take 3,000 orbits to complete."
Document 37818 sat bound in leather on the desk, completed.
"Me damn it, the stupid human has put the cover on upside down!"
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"880 orbits ahead of schedule." The Thargoid squeed.
03 - Frank - Jargon
The Sidewinder was on the rack with its motor cover removed. The mechanic pointed to the gubbens behind the nozzles. "There's yer problem right there. Ya've scroggled yer grommets on yer Winshard cover."
The customer stared at him blankly.
"It's that pressure buildup that's causing the palsating in yer crotched flange. Replacing that won't help solve yer sticky shaft. It shouldn't have got that high. When d'ya last balance yer nozzle alignments?
The customer continued to stare blankly at him. "You've no idea what you're talking about do you?"
The mechanic looked down at his shuffling feet. "No idea whatsoever."
04 - moose666 - Definately unusual, debatably cruel.
The judge looked down, gavel in hand, at the commander in the dock.
"For the crime of lewdness with an orca, and toiletpapering the flag of the Empire, I find you... guilty"
There was muttering and general noises of disapproval from the gallery.
"As you have so humiliated the Empire, so you shall be humiliated in turn. Your punishment is... butt crumping!"
"What the hell is..."
He was turned towards a line of banana skins on the floor.
"WALK!" a guard yelled in his ear.
He did so, and as expected, slipped and landed on his butt, with a crump.
05 - Galactic Midden - Helpdesk to the Rescue
Praetor Geraldonino Buschtikitovanovichy turned the station's PA towards the immense being gripping onto the station's docking slot. "What do you want?" he broadcast with an audible squeak.
"BAWITDABA--POMPATUS--SUSSUDIO---MMMBOP------ZIGAZIG-AH!" The garbled response was deafening; circuits melted and the security team's new panini machine fizzled. Quaestor Veronica-Japonica Adriatico-Abbatantuono screeched, "non di nuovo! i miei panini!"
"Quiet!" yelled Praetor Buschtikitovanovichy, "get Tecnico Ferrari in here pronto, the translator's muckled!"
Ferrari dropped from a transit tube, "what's up Praetor?"
"Listen!"
"BAWITDABA--POMPATUS--SUSSUDIO---MMMBOP------ZIGAZIG-AH!", the panini machine gave out one last fizzle and another computer died.
"What is it Ferrari?"
"Well, most likely it's a bug sir"
06 - Listeri69 - Decoding the message..
'and you're 100% sure this message came from Psykokow?' Simoof looked at the stained brown paper in front of him 'But it makes no sense whatsoever, look at this sentance
'jr;[ ,r o s, nromh jr;f nu yjsthpofd yjru gsbr [sts;oxrf ,r smf o jsbr yp etoyr yjod eoyj s nslrf [pysyp om ,u stdr..'
'I was hoping you would shed some light on it' said midden...
Simoof took the paper.. 'this smells like someone has pooped on it'
suddenly Simoof had a revelation..'he's typing one key to the right behind his back look here "jr;[" is Help....
07 - MrMogadon - In Bed with Galactic Midden and Naughty Nurse Milgram
Groaning, Midden awoke abruptly, surprised at finding himself in a hospital bed, not a gutter.
Memories of being attacked and robbed cartwheeled through his head.
Rising, Midden cursed “Mother truckin’..”, halting mid-flow with an “..Owww”, as his skull imploded with pain.
A nurse appeared. “Brensall, yar ben brocken den hedskoolen” she said smiling kindly and gently pushing back into bed.
She spoke several more times. Each time, gibberish.
“Must’ve concussion. Can’t kill anyone like this” he thought, relaxing back.
Outside, the nurse rang Midden’s attacker. “Convinced him, he’s concussed. You should’ve 5 hours to strip his ship. See you soon”
08 - MikeSnos - They're all made up y'know...
No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Psykokow is not a made up word, there's no Avon or Rimmel in sight.
Moof is definitely a made up word; to cap it all, he's none too bright!
Kerrash is a made up word, and like made up words we want to rub him out!
Thargoid too is a made up word, of that, there is no doubt! (Their proper name is 'Sir')
And as for that ghastly Midden, both his names are real.
But sadly for him (but not for us) he's not here this week to whine and squeal!
09 - Alien - Previously on Game Development Watch ... ... The PR team are presenting a new buzzword to the senior team to try to distract the playerbase from the slow development cycle and long intervals between content updates ....
Day 93 in the Frontier Development offices
"So we have a new term for planet generation ... Dupp"
"Dupp?"
"Dupp."
"What the heck is a Dupp?"
"Definitely Universal Pretty Procedurally"
"The playerbase won't like this. They resist change and the forum will no doubt have a megathread where half the forum object to it and half will be in favour of it and half will have no opinion and not care"
"You just said half three times"
"Dupp."
"What?"
"Dupp"
"Dupp?"
"My reply was Definitely universally pretty procedural"
"Well, you may Dupp worlds but I doubt the players will accept it."
10 - insanephoton - Hutton Orbital Radio Drabble Show
Kow had reached the end of his tether
'Look at this one, *fantabulous phantasmagorical flibbertigibbets" they're just making up words now' he wailed.
'They are all perfectly good ,you can find them all in the dictionary' chided Alien
' Well what about this one? "Axolotyls ambled amongst Amorphophallus" you can't tell me they're real'
'Sure they are. An axolotyl is a rare type of amphibian and the amorphophallus is a plant with a big flower that smells like a corpse and looks like a big...'
'I get the picture, it all sounds very Winnardish'
'That's not a word'
'It should be'
11 - Steph - An Ode to Gsjhduedh.
O Gsjhduedh, you fill our lives with joy, with wonder, with colour. How was meaningful existence possible before you came to be?
Such delicate flavour, such glorious bubbles. Parties were incomplete without you, conversations less fruity. The ultimate alcoholic creation, a taste to relish and savour.
Carl created you, fermented you, tended you, bottled you. Now we drink you. His Sun might be void but his talents as a vintner are unquestioned and supreme.
Gsjhduedh, most flowery of elders, thank you!
Post-scriptum : Carl, if that doesn't get me a bottle at Fantasticon in November then I don't know what will!
12 - RoyalHankey - A drunken Admiral.
Wypoint, wypoint, waypint, soop, waypont, waypoin, coop, wypoint, aypoint, waypnt, sco.
Wayoint, waynt, woint, waypont, soop, waypot, wypot, wypont sc.
Wapoint, waypont, waypont, waypoit, waypoit, scop, waypont, waoint, waypt, sop.
Wnt, waint, waypo, waypnt, sop, ypoint, woint, waypnt, scp.
Woint, waypnt, wayint, waint, scop, waypnt, waypnt, waypnt, scp. waypt, woint, waoint, waypot oop.
Waynt, waoint, waoint, waypot, soop, waoint, want, scop.
Wapoint, wapoint, wayint, wayint, waypot, sop, wayint, wayint, waypot, scop.
Waypot, waypint, waypt, waynt, scop, waypt, want, wayint, scop.
Wayint, wayint, waypint, waypont, scoo, waypnt, waypint, waypoit, sop.
Alm thit waypts tu coct recyed ie scram says Addmirrall Psykokou.
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