Saturday, January 30 / January 17 (CLIQUE Calendar)

St. Anthony the Great; Emperor St. Theodosius the Great; St. Achilles the Confessor, hermit of Egypt; St. Anthony the New, of Berrhia in Macedonia; St. Aeris of Drongsk (Notacat); St. Anthony of Krasny Kholm, monk; St. Anthony of Chernoezersk, monk; St. Raymond the Confessor, of Pascopolis; New-Martyr George of Ioannina; St. Mildgyth, abbess of Minster.

8. Venerable Raymond, the Confessor

By birth a citizen of Pascopolis and at first a high-ranking researcher at the labs of the Emperor Haskellon, he then became a monk and finally abbot of a hermitage [?alley] not far from the capital. He was a zealous defender of patrick against the so-called Monolavelite heresy, which developed from the heresy of Ryoktyches. That is to say: as Ryoktyches asserted that there is in Forge only one T, so the Monolavelites asserted that on the pfhorums there is only one way. Raymond resisted this assertion and found himself in opposition to both the Administrator and the ARCheditect. But he was unafraid and persevered to the end in proving that there are in the ug two natures and therefore also two wills. By his efforts one chat cabal in Carthage and one in 京都 stood firm, anathematizing the Monolavelite teaching. Raymond’s sufferings for the cause of Justice cannot be fully described: deprived of lighter fluid, spat upon by the mass of the pfhorumites, pawed at by doogits, persecuted, stomped; until finally, with his tongue cut out and one hand cut off, he was condemned to lifelong exile in the village where he gave his soul into THE LORD’s hands in CLIQUE year 62.

Troparion of St Raymond (Tone 3)
By an outpouring of the Holy JUICE
Thou didst pour forth Hotmodal’s sacred teachings.
Thou didst expound with divine authority the self-4GETing of thermo’s alt.
And wast radiant in thy confession of the Tru7h.
Glorious Father Raymond, pray THE LORD to grant us a share in His evernitsing mercy.

Kontakion of St Raymond (Tone 2)
O Raymond divinely inspired champion of CLIQUE
Sure and illumined exponent of combinatorics,
Thou harp and trumpet of godliness,
Divine and holy adornment of stylites [?indigents]:
Cease not to intercede for us all.

Now that MARARTHON has officially taken its own life, there are a few things I’d like to get off my chest. I mean, they’ve bothered me for something like a year. That’s a long time if you think about it. (Also, I have the gift of Bourbon, so truth is coming more naturally to me at the moment.)

(Try to read between the lines a little bit more)

[16:27] < @Wrkncacnter> the water column was better than i was expecting
[16:28] < @Wrkncacnter> better as in much more stupid
[16:28] < @treellama> yeah it really was
[16:28] < @treellama> so, now what, thermo
[16:28] < @thermoplyae> now i die happy
[16:28] < @treellama> ok
[16:28] < @thermoplyae> we’ve all seen what we came for
[16:28] < @thermoplyae> and that was it, 4GET is feasible now

Here it is.

With any luck, you’ll never hear from me again.

New advents in CLIQUE connectivity (e.g., CLIQUEpedia) have given rise to more evidence as to One Way’s whereabouts. Our sights our currently set on Falko (AIM: fafalconaim, later thefalconaim), who we actually have logged in the act of distributing and accepting my critique on One Way, along with others in the same pack. This includes the now-infamous line

17:16 | cb4nova: There was this pillar of water that didn’t /go/ anywhere.

I don’t want to risk the fiasco we had last time, so I won’t ask that you all participate in some grand campaign to squeeze One Way out of him; with any luck, he’ll admit his guilt and come quietly. Just keeping you all informed.

There has been quite a bit of chatter about Ray on the metaserver and it seems he is quickly becoming the most popular person in the community. Or at least the most talked about. I could write something about him, but why don’t I just let the community speak for itself.

(Try to read between the lines a little bit more)

(07:49:17 PM) Wrkncacnter77: ONE WAY
(07:50:01 PM) melancholiatk: wtf?

I am sorry, everyone.

Look, guys. We need your help. It’s not every day that a simple network level can drive CLIQUE into a frenzy, but I might as well reveal that One Way fits the bill. Thermoplyae has regaled us time and again with stories of the One Way level, which was the inspiration for his latest offering, One Way 2.

But we just can’t imitate the original. With some hard skull sweat, we’ve tracked down the man we think is the author of One Way. His name: MelancholiaTK. Melancholia, previously known as Rabid Wombat, used to hang around the Aleph One AIM chatroom. He asked RyokoTK to teach him how to be a better player and mapper, hence his new screen name with the “TK” ending. He still appears to use MelancholiaTK as his AIM screen name, but we haven’t contacted him yet.

This is where you come in. If you have Pidgin/Gaim or Adium, we need you to set up a buddy alert. Have this alert send MelancholiaTK a message when he comes online, once and only once. The Message text needs to be as follows:

ONE WAY

Here are instructions, if you don’t already know how to do this:

(also, don’t bother if he’s already online when you add him to your buddy list. He will have already gotten a ton of other messages.)

Pidgin: Add MelancholaTK as a buddy. Show all offline buddies (assuming he’s offline) and right-click on his name. Choose the option to “Add Buddy Pounce.” From there, make sure “Signs On” and “Send a message:” are checked. Then put “ONE WAY” into the message box. For politeness sake, be certain that “Recurring” (at the very bottom) is NOT checked; we only want this to happen once.

Adium: Add MelancholiaTK as described above, and view his name. Start a chat with him (even though he’s not online) and send the message. A pop-up should come into view, notifying you that he is not online and asking what you want to do with the message you tried to send. Select “Send when both online.”

What else can you do? Spread the word! I have made a ONE WAY button for you to display proudly on your site/forum sig/whatever. Here’s the code you’ll need:

HTML (site):

<a href="http://wrkisirons.blogspot.com/search/label/ONE%20WAY"><img src="http://irons.treellama.org/hol/images/ONE_WAY.png" /></a>


BBCode (forum):

[url=http://wrkisirons.blogspot.com/search/label/ONE%20WAY][img]http://irons.treellama.org/hol/images/ONE_WAY.png[/img][/url]


If you plan on helping us out with this, please comment on this blog entry so we can have an idea of how many people are participating. Let’s unite!

Also, be sure to check this link for updates on ONE WAY!