LNH: Leadership Cry.sig: Net.ropolis 2023 #25

[Drew Nilium]

On 3/14/24 11:53 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
> I don't see this in the newsgroup, so I'm boosting it.  It seems like as good a 
> Last LNH Story as any could be.

Thank you, Scott. X> I haven't seen it show up on my newsreader yet despite 
Russ's hard work, so I'll reply to this version.

> On 2024-03-14 19:15, Arthur Spitzer wrote:
>>
>>                   Leadership Cry.sig: Net.ropolis 2023 #25
>>
>>                    The Totally Real Conclusion!! Honest!!!

omfg. X3 This makes me *so happy*. For the record I have been working on more. X>

>> "Well, guess that wraps up another Leadership Cry.Sig!" said a very out of 
>> shape man wearing an Ultimate Ninja costume.  But also a man that anyone who 
>> looked at him would just have to say, 'That's The Totally Real Ultimate 
>> Ninja!!'  He glanced to another man next to him.  "Time to break out the 
>> Victory Cigars!"

X3

>> "Yep!" said another grinning man who began handing out cigars to all the 
>> confused and befuddled LNH'rs who were currently in the lobby. The man had a 
>> very ordinary look about him and a T-shirt that read, 'I'm a Totally Real LNH 
>> Writer!  Honest!'  He also had what looked like a Totally Real Nobel Prize for 
>> LNH Writing hanging on his neck.

omfg

>> "This was probably my most amazing writing 
>> yet!  And I couldn't have done it without the fine contributions of those who 
>> followed before like Drew, Arthur, Rob, Subset Mask, Jeanne, Scott, and the 
>> rest!  But I probably do deserve most of the credit for the amazing job I did 
>> wrapping up all of those confusing dangling threads and plotlines.

heeheehee

>> "So good in fact that Saxon Brenton came out of retirement to write another 
>> End of the Month review to celebrate my greatness.

XD XD XD

>>"There is proof now that Alan Moore, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and James 
>> Joyce made incredible passionate love and all of them got really pregnant and 
>> all them gave birth to these really colorful robot lions that merged together 
>> to give us this Greatest Writer of All Time -- and that proof is -- Totally 
>> Real LNH Writer Man who wrote this totally great and totally real LNH story!!  

OF COURSE.

>> Nina Yamashiro looked at the cigar in her hand.  "Wait.  This doesn't -- how 
>> did I get here?  I was..."

ooooooh yesssss

>> "It's okay, Nina," said The Totally Real Ultimate Ninja giving her an 
>> understanding sympathetic look.  "It's probably that Amnesia that Amnesia gave 
>> us all that made us forget a lot of what happened in Leadership Cry.sig: 
>> Net.ropolis 2023 #14-24!"
>>
>> "Yeah yeah yeah!  Amnesia!  That's what happened!" nodded The Totally Real LNH 
>> Writer.  "Totally!"

X3 Of course!

>> "And I also won in a Huge Landslide for Second in Command," Totally Real LNH 
>> Writer chimed in, "Sorry, Fearless Leader.  You did a great job, but the times 
>> -- they are a changing -- maybe you could be my Deputy Second in Command or 
>> something."
>>
>> Fearless Leader started to speak and then just shook his head and gave a sigh.

XD XD XD <3

>> "Wait!  Who even are you?" said Master Roster Man pointing accusingly at 
>> Totally Real LNH Writer.  "Have you ever even appeared in a story before?  
>> There's no record of you in any roster!"

Ooooooh, nice

>> Totally Real LNH Writer paused 
>> a bit as he tried to come up with a good excuse.  "Oh, yeah.  I'm probably in 
>> the Top Secret LNH Roster. Yeah!  Where all the Top Secret LNH Members are.  
>> Guess you just don't have Top Secret LNH Roster Access Clearance -- that's a 
>> shame.

Oh dangit, it's shameful for the sysadmin of the wiki not to have top secret 
clearance! Let me just get my passport and two forms of ID...

>> Like I was in the Chatroom with Scuv, Druzzt, wRome, and Dvandamm 
>> when they were coming up with the LNH.  And they were like worried.  'Hey! 
>> Should we be doing this?  Seems kind of risky -- this LNH thing.'  And I was 
>> like, 'Yeah.  That's why we should do it.  Because it's RISKY!'  And so that's 
>> how the LNH formed.

XD XD XD

>> No need to thank me -- but you can.  I do take Venmo!"

*cackles*

>> Even I have these memory holes. Like with all the various LNH 
>> passwords to like the LNH Bank Accounts, Credit Cards, PIN numbers -- and 
>> since I'm the leader now because I totally won that LNH Leadership Election by 
>> a Big Landslide -- I probably should know all of that.  So if anyone can 
>> direct me to the..."

X3

>> "No!  This is wrong!  This is all wrong!" said Nina trying to break free from 
>> the spell that seemed to have ensnared all of the LNH.  "None of this makes 
>> any sense!  Even for an LNH story this all seems way too..."
>>
>> "NO!   THIS MAKES TOTAL SENSE!!"

Oh, shit :o

>> boomed the voice of The Totally Real Ultimate 
>> Ninja as his glowing, crackling eyes pierced into Nina's eyes.  The colors in 
>> the LNHHQ lobby disappeared except for various shades of crimson red.  "I AM 
>> THE TOTALLY REAL ULTIMATE NINJA!  THIS IS TOTALLY TRUE!  NO, REALLY!!  I HAVE 
>> ALWAYS BEEN THE TOTALLY REAL ULTIMATE NINJA!  AND I SHALL AND FOREVER AND EVER 
>> BE THE TOTALLY REAL ULTIMATE NINJA!  SERIOUSLY FOLKS!  THIS IS ALL TOTALLY, 
>> REALLY, REALLY, REALLY TRUE!! SWEAR TO GOD!!!!  WHO IS THE REAL TOTALLY REAL 
>> ULTIMATE NINJA?!!!"
>>
>> And everyone in the room in unison shouted with there eyes kind of glazed 
>> over, "YOU ARE!  YOU ARE THE TOTALLY REAL ULTIMATE NINJA!!!!"

ooooooh, *interesting*

>> And Nina?  Tears began to fall from her eyes.  Tears of joy. And she rushed 
>> over to The Totally Real Ultimate Ninja and gave him a big hug.  "Oh, God!  
>> You're back!  I'm sorry I doubted you!!  But you're back, Uncle!  The Totally 
>> Real Ultimate Ninja is Back!!  Back to Lead Us ALL!!!"

I seeeeee...

>>
>> "Umm, oof -- yeah," said The Totally Real Ultimate Ninja wincing in pain as 
>> Nina's big hug began to crush him to death.  "Uhh, could you go a little bit 
>> easier with the -- aaagggghhhh -- can't can't..."

XD

>> "Oh!  Sorry, Uncle!  I guess escaping from the afterlife took a toll on you?  
>> I guess that's why you look so incredibly out of shape?"

X3

>> And The Totally Real Ultimate Ninja looked at Totally Real LNH Writer with a 
>> smirk on his face.  "Can you see if you can get all of those passwords and 
>> codes?"
>>
>> "Sure.  What are you going to do?"
>>
>> "Oh, you know.  Just your typical Totally Real Ultimate Ninja Top Secret Stuff 
>> -- that sort of thing."  And they both laughed.

Oh man oh man, okay, yes...

>> Elsewhere, in a Las Vegas Casino...
>>
>> A man wearing a bright red pimp hat and shades, and a pink fur coat was 
>> shaking a fist full of dice.  He let the dice fly on the craps table.  Damn.  
>> Snake Eyes!  And then he looked at his hand.  The tattoos were gone.  They 
>> were all gone.  He looked at his other hand. And then various other parts of 
>> his skin.  And then began to freak out and tear whatever clothes he had been 
>> wearing off.  They were all gone!  All of his tattoos were gone!!  What had 
>> happened to them?!!

omg. :o I *see*

>> Something was wrong with the World.  Something was very, very wrong.
>>
>>  ** ** ** **
>>
>> To Be Continued?!!

Oh man. Okay. :D I have so many ideas. I know what I want to do with this. I 
think. :D heeheehee

>> Writer's Notes:
>>
>> Hah!  Sorry about this!  I had zero ideas about what
>> to do with all the previous stuff -- so I just ignored
>> it and skipped a bunch of issues because this idea
>> popped into my head and I had to do it.

No this is great. n.n I love it.

>> Totally Real LNH Writer is a slight reworking of this
>> character that I've thought about for a long time and
>> I think I did post about this character in some RACC
>> threads.  I called him Fake LNH Writer back then.
>> He has the superpower to convince people that he's
>> a real LNH writer, but is pretty ordinary beyond that
>> power.  He carries around fake reviews and fake awards
>> that he's won for all the fake LNH stories he's never
>> actually wrote.
>>
>> And Totally Real Ultimate Ninja is kind of the same.
>> Just with the power to convince everyone that he's
>> The Real Ultimate Ninja, but a very ordinary person
>> besides that power.

ooooooooh, yes, okay. :o Yes I feel this

>> I'd say the characters are these grifter types who
>> have mostly up to this point been using their powers
>> for very petty small time stuff.

yesssssss... :D

>> So, I've written another LNH story.  Every story I write
>> now days feels a bit like the last one I'll ever write.
>> But here's one more.

Thank you so much, I am Inspired n.n

Drew "what should I number the next one..." Nilium