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I think this is what they call Chekhov's tiger. Any tiger introduced in act one will by necessity eat someone in act three. So none of us are probably surprised.
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Chapter: Prince of Dappled ShadeCharacters: Colin Hannah Miranda Phoebe The Cabal Tyler (aka Taylor)Tags: tiger trustworthy
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I think this is what they call Chekhov's tiger. Any tiger introduced in act one will by necessity eat someone in act three. So none of us are probably surprised.
Truly, there will be a missed place at the table tonight. The same missed place as all the other nights, the man was a workaholic.Nah, too dark. Still, yikes.
Hey, why not? Dark is fun.
Fair.
You know, unless the the puppy shredder’s on the fritz, Nas is the last Cabal member standing. I don’t know what that means.
Kinda messy, but I think we can all live with it. Way to go, Haddaway.
“Humans, they’re grrrreat!”
I’d tell the tale of Tatania the tiger at the San Francisco Zoo, but I’ve done it before here and it’d just bore you. Check it out online.
Good story.
Are you sure she got the tiger’s name right?
Maybe it is Tony who is Grrreat!
[ if this was different board this is where I’d post image of Tony the Tiger with thumbs up saying Grrreat!”
I wish images were a thing in this chat. Kinda. Though I am aware of the danger and perhaps should be thankful there aren’t pics.
Well, sometimes the tiger acts for you. It’s the inherent risk of tigers.
If you owned the disc, you could watch ROAR anytime. But despite there being over 200 major stream services globally, ROAR is not being screened.
I’ll repeat what I usually say, and take the risk of boring you: “What a stream service giveth, a stream service can taketh away.” Get the disc.
Not sure I’d call the Cabal members “people” anyway.
Put a pin in that…
Precisely. Haddaway promised not to eat people. Haddaway is eating this Cabal member. Ergo, this Cabal member is not people. QED.
You beat me to it.
Oh no!!
Anyway
Emily is still the hottest
Glad you have your priorities.
That’s a bit gruesome.
We didn’t see anything!
Yikes, I knew there would be a wildcard in this plan and it makes me wonder how they’ll get this mess under control.
Also, glad they covered the kid’s eyes, but they also could have covered the ears too.
Colin would have to grow an extra pair of hands to do that.
Well, it might get messier from here. Who knows?
I’m fairly certain that Haddaway just ate whatever ace was up his sleeve. Along with the sleeve itself, the arm, the shoulder…
Eh, you can see where I’m going with this.
I do see where you’re going with this. Though he did call the police and the situation is now a bit less good for our heroes in terms of answering to the cops.
He dialed the number for the police.
Without actually talking to the police, that doesn’t mean a whole lot.
here´s an important life lesson, folks: you can call the cops about that tiger, but he´ll get to you WAY before they do….so better not pi# of tigers but politely get out of their way
Can you get out of the way of a tiger? I feel that their way tends to follow you.
A tiger’s word is worth about twice that of a racoon. So double nothing.
Also, it’s predicated upon no one doing anything to tick them off. Hence the result shown here.
Good math.
Also: Hannah isn’t going to un-see that anytime soon.
Well, Hannah didn’t see anything. Though I’m sure she heard it.
I expect ‘CRUNCH’ to feature in a lot of her nightmares, yes.
Also: I expected you to say “I see what you did there.’ 😉
I say that a lot, don’t I?
His name is haddaway? *cues what is love*
Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me no more.
He hurt him. And now he is no more. Dang.
Haddaway is probably very trustworthy. It probably just boils down to a matter of perspective. He promised not to attack people, but doesn’t consider Cabal Guy to be people.
Cabal Guy won’t die though. After Haddaway has eaten his face off, Cabal Guy will reform like an agent from the Matrix..
You see where the contract has been drawn. And you sense a loophole. And you’d be correct…
I imagine what happens next is Haddaway finishes mauling
Cabal GuyFatso, our heros say something pithy, then Fatso gets up, healing up like Deadpool on meth, and performs a short speech both threatening and insulting our heros. Then Phoebe slaps Fatso hard on the face, which immediately cancels Fatso’s infernal contract and results in him rapidly decomposing until there’s nothing but a pile of ash in a crumpled business suit.All possible.
They’re not. It’s worth nothing unless you have control over them.
Which you, Phoebe, very clearly don’t.
Does anyone have control over a tiger? I think not.
Maybe the tiger?
Or the tiger’s mum?
Crocodile Dundee could control a lion, but only one at a time. He could probably control a single tiger, given enough time.
There’s the tiger cub mascots of the Cincinnati Bengals: when they grow up, they send them to zoos where they can be with other tigers. And then they find out they’ve picked up social behavior from watching the linebackers smash into each other.
Sounds like a destructive cycle.
Yes well, are Cabal henchpersons people? Only in the technical sense, and besides, anybody stupid enough to challenge a lady whom a tiger likes is really too stupid to life! Besides, all Haddaway did is bite the hand that doesn’t feed it . . . and the arm, the shoulder, the neck. . .
The Cabal are the three ring leaders: the ones Satan calls Fatso, Cruella and Colonel Sanders. All the others are just hired help. The hired help henchmen are people, as shown by the fact that some of them just ran away. This one (Fatso) is a key part of the Cabal. Humanity: undetermined.
Okay, so was this an accidental or intentional reference to Tippi Hedron and Noel Marshall’s infamous movie, ROAR, and their attempt to raise their own LIONS at their California home in order to make a movie? It went about as well as you can imagine. And you can watch the nigh disastrous result on NETFLIX.
https://www.stage32.com/blog/surviving-roar-the-most-dangerous-film-ever-made-620
Or rather, it went about as well as Phoebe imagined…
Semi-intentional. No movie is a better distillation of pure terror.
By the way, if Haddaway is going to be around awhile, he needs a character tag.
We have a bunch of characters that really need a character tag: Derek, Cassidy, Haddaway, Seal the eagle. We’ll see if I ever get around to it.
Eh, re-reading this, there’s a chance the crunch we see is Haddaway having his way with the henchperson’s phone . . . . or Fatso eating his phone himself, as Haddaway requested . . . Hey, could be!
Could be anything! Including a delicious Nestle Crunch bar!
You know, if you hadn’t said he wasn’t going to hurt the Cabalist, Hadaway wouldn’t have had to reestablish himself as a threat.
Possible.
You know, Panel III reminds me that Kzinti were physicallt modered after tigers.
Doo dee doo doo. Dee doo dee doo doo,
The tiiiger munnnnched toniiiiighhht.
Ahh wimbah way, ah wimbah way, ah wimba way, ah wimba way…
The Nylons would be proud.
Mbube.
I wonder whether it was Colin or Miranda who pulled his hand over her eyes. I’m fairly certain they’re both keeping it there.