7 [voice]: Complications Arise For Czeslaw Meyer When Fairy Tales Are True In The Worst Way

[tiny_schemer]

[A small, frightened voice, echoing off of the hard walls of an enclosed space: Czeslaw is trapped after sirens, and currently taking refuge at a bus stop.]

I - I saw something out there in the darkness. Something bad. A creature with hollow eyes and big teeth and a big, round head. I b-barely escaped with my life

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[tapdancinskelly]

Hollow eyes, big teeth, big round head... it wasn't me was it? Yohohoho!

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[tiny_schemer]

Eek! No, it wasn't you! It was rounder and it had a great big tongue!

B-b-but you're scary too!

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[tapdancinskelly]

Really?! I'm sorry! I don't mean to scare you, I after all am an entertainer! A bard in fact, and it's my job to make you smile. Perhaps you'd like to hear a little tune I've been composing? Or perhaps even easier, a joke! Here's an old pirate joke that a lot of people know

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[tiny_schemer]

[The effort earns a single, forced laugh.]

That wasn't a very good joke, sir.

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[tapdancinskelly]

REALLY?!?!

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[tiny_schemer]

[The disproportionate reaction does make Czeslaw chuckle.]

Yeah, I mean - people's eyes getting stabbed out? Not very funny.

[tapdancinskelly]

Oh I'm sorry, sometimes I forget since I don't actually have any eyes. Yohohoho! Usually that's a rather popular one with many pirates I talk with, but perhaps I can come up with one more to your liking? Actually, perhaps that song would be easier after all. Yohohoho!

Regardless here's another joke for you. Three men were trapped on a desert island, but they found a genie that said he would grant each men one wish. The first man wished that he was back home off the deserted island, and the genie teleported the man away. The second man seeing this wished for the exact same thing and the genie teleported him home too.

Can you guess what the third man wished for?

[tiny_schemer]

[In spite of all appearances, Czeslaw is old, and has heard just about every trick in the book.]

He wished his friends were back.

Kind of sad, when you think about it.

[tapdancinskelly]

Well to be fair it was because he was lonely. Yohohoho! I see that you seem to like to look at the joke as being half empty. Most humor is based on ridiculous tales that would be sad if they were actually true. Like slipping on a banana peel! Sure it might look hilarious, but the poor person fell flat on their face! You seem to be unusually perceptive for your age.

[tiny_schemer]

Sometimes people say that. [laughs] I like to read a lot of books and stuff.

[tapdancinskelly]

Reading books is always good. Why learn from your own mistakes, when you can learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid making mistakes in the first place? Books contain a world of knowledge, and knowledge is power. Yohohoho! Although I personally prefer a good song over a good book. They're far less time consuming, and I find a well written song to be much more fulfilling than many a book I've read.

[tiny_schemer]

How can you sing when you don't have any lungs or a tongue or anything?

[tapdancinskelly]

Who knows?

[tiny_schemer]

You honestly don't know?

[tapdancinskelly]

Honestly? No. I know what forces are at work that cause my body to still function, but how it manages to do it, eludes me.

[tiny_schemer]

Forces? What kind?