{"id":5699,"date":"2018-06-20T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2018-06-19T22:41:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T02:41:57","slug":"i-expected-a-reappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-expected-a-reappearance\/","title":{"rendered":"I Expected A Reappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>are you referring to the caps lock button?<\/li>\n<li>used his fingertips<\/li>\n<li>with a straight face<\/li>\n<li>married 11 times to 9 different men<\/li>\n<li>didn\u2019t know as much about anatomy as he believed he did<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 294 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I expected a reappearance of the bizarre creature who&#8217;d croaked at us about the ritual, but what arose from the mud pool this time was even stranger. It was like a Mesoamerican snake deity, and the metallic purple plumage crowning its enormous head came up clean, as if the thick muck it came from didn&#8217;t even exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You called tech support?&#8221; it inquired of Tessa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, and I&#8217;ve been waiting forever for someone to get back to me. There&#8217;s a problem with my control interface.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Are you referring to the caps lock button?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No I&#8217;m not talking about the fucking caps lock. Look at these doofuses. I&#8217;ve been trying for weeks to get this debugged but it just keeps getting weirder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The serpentine technician revealed himself to possess arms, and hands with uncannily flexible digits. He <em>used his fingertips<\/em> to trace circles in the air, like he was drawing glasses and mustaches on me and Jason. He couldn&#8217;t do it <em>with a straight face<\/em>, and his fangs glinted in the dim light.<\/p>\n<p>He turned back to Tessa. &#8220;Look, I&#8217;m going to need to escalate this to a level three tech. And my supervisor is unreachable at the moment, but she&#8217;s been <em>married 11 times to 9 different men<\/em> and two incarnations of lustful malice, so there&#8217;s no telling when she might come to the office to approve this. So you might be on your own here. Might be easier to just credit your account.&#8221; With a glance my way he added, &#8220;That one will probably come up with what you want, eventually. Assuming its tail is prehensile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, thus proving he <em>didn&#8217;t know as much about anatomy as he believed he did<\/em>, the creature vanished beneath the mud.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>are you referring to the caps lock button? used his fingertips with a straight face married 11 times to 9 different men didn\u2019t know as much about anatomy as he believed he did Tune in next time part 294 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I expected a reappearance of the bizarre creature who&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,403],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}