now for my british friends, I do not mean “pull” as in “score a date with” lol …. “pulling a kiki” has come to have many meanings among my gaming friends… just for example, running a dungeon without checking how many mana water potions you have (and thenceforth running out mid-dungeon) but the biggest use of the phrase has got to be — falling from a great height and dying. I have become somewhat of an artist in this regard… truly… I have fallen from bridges, from balconies, off cliffs, even off the edge of the world… probably my greatest coup de grace was the other night when I fell off Delaran (a city suspended in the air) — now if you played WoW (World of Warcraft) you might ask “how the hell precisely does one fall off Delaran????” and the answer, discovered by my good self, is: you travel through the sewer pipes and as you are navigating them, it appears as though you’re going over a hill, but no — the pipe just kind of ENDS… and there you are, falling through air… and splattttt. dead.
Now the funniest thing about this is that I even possess a skill that works somewhat like a parachute… it’s called Levitate and if I could stop laughing when these falls occur long enough to activate it, I would probably survive them… but — it’s so much funnier than I can handle… especially when I discover new and rare ways to accomplish it.
Snap back to real life now… we went to see District 9 at the movies… (excellent movie by the way — very interesting) and got bargain tickets for going early, bargain drink and popcorn with our loyalty point rewards… Andy is carrying the large drink and I’m carrying the large (almost overflowing) popcorn — he will eat it but he doesn’t really like the smell… go figure. Anyhow… picture the interior of a dark movie theater, climbing the steps slowly… I somehow manage to trip just a tiny little bit, jarring the popcorn and scaring me *just* enough to panic and for reflexes to kick in and for me to brace myself… Begin slow-motion… I go down onto one knee on the step above where i am and the popcorn begins a wonderful cloud upwards around my body… I begin to laugh because it’s so pretty and funny at the same time… Slow-motion ends and all the popcorn drops to the floor in a big pool around me — I’m unhurt and laughing still…
thank goodness I pulled the kiki *up* the stairs not *down*… I somehow suspect there would be significantly less laughter if that had happened….