Maturing Day

[Namboto]

Derrik Plum

[Yamtaggler]

>He looks like a 'James' to me.

[Coasterman29]

Antonio Moore

[Namboto]

Antonio Maroon

fixed for color theme naming

[jimmmyman10]

Steve. Just Steve. No last name.

[Armok]

Nud D'on

[Chaos Waltz]

Gamzee Makara.

Wait, no that's a horrible idea.

Jason Grey.

[littlebeasti]

> Derek Green

[Redux]

>Gamzee Makara

He appreciates that you'd consider naming him after that HUMAN WEBCOMIC Froggie, er, you mean Nessa tries to get you to read. It worked and you only got a little into Act 5 before you kind of lost interest. That aside, could you name him something more appropriate?
>Jason Maroon

We have a winner! Though, maroon seems a bit odd considering you prefer indigo, you pay it no mind since you like your new name. Maroon also reminds you of one of your friends you have yet to greet. She hasn't been responding at all since this morning, you wonder what happened to her. You risk turning on your CELLULAR DEVICE and casting a suspicious light in the box to see what's up with her.
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JugglingWhale [JW] began chatting with CulturalBird [CB] at 10:13
JW: hey.
JW: hey bird brains.
JW: are you free yet?
JW: or are you still off huntin down your breakfast?
JW: you know we always tell you to set your status to offline when youre huntin.
JW: alright fine i guess you dont want to hear about my fabulous tale of adventure right now.
JW: thats cool.
CB: Oh hey JugglingWhales!
JW: whoa who the hell are you?
CB: It's me, silly! No. 6112!
JW: bullshit.
JW: she never refers to herself by her number.
JW: she also never calls us by our full handle.
JW: ever.
JW: who the hell are you?
JW: hey creepy stalker i asked you a question!
CB: sorry about that whales! i can't stop to chat right now!
CB: oh yeah!
CB: password is swordfish!
JW: okay cool, what the hell is going on?
JW: is your stalker back?
JW: do i need to make a three hour trip to your place and beat someone up?
CB: haha! no you don't!
CB: but i am being tailed right now.
CB: the anti-halfling committee is suddenly acting up!
CB: and i'm being chased down by a few of its members now.
CB: in fact i'm flying at the speed of light as we chat!
JW: alright this definitely warrants making a three hour trip. im goin.
CB: you... can't. :[
JW: what? why the hell not?
CB: the committee's been preparing for this day for a long time! nobody can go in or out of the area!
JW: what the hell!? why didn't you just contact the patrollers!? they can take care of it!!!
CB: i can't! they disabled all communication to the outside! i managed to get into a zone where i can stay and talk, but not for long!
JW: alright, this is where i draw the line. im gettin a patroller over there and endin this racist bull.
CB: don't worry, i was just about to do that!
JW: good. stay safe. i dont want to go on to my trials and see one of my friends impaled with extreme prejudice.
CB: i'll be safe and kicking some racist ass! >:3
CB: oh! also, uh
CB: did you get a name yet?
JW: huh? why do you want to know now?
CB: because we're friends and friends tell each other things!
JW: okay... its jason maroon.
CB: great name! see ya later jason!
-CulturalBird [CB] stopped chatting with JugglingWhale [JW] at 10:20-
JW: wait dammit!

You know that you can trust her with what's going on right now, but you're still feeling very worried. That's only natural considering that committee's planning on impaling her half-blood body with extreme prejudice.

You're suddenly moving. What's going on out there?

[Wessolf27]

>There is only one option here: Perform the Panic Dance!

>Serious Suggestion: I suggest you scream for help to CB

[Yamtaggler]

>The bullies have most likely found you and are now trying to push your safe haven off of something tall.

[Chaos Waltz]

Yeah, this is the point where you get out of the box.

and go tell a patroller anyway. CB'll probably get one, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

[Redux]

>There is only one option here: Perform the Panic Dance!

Yeah right! You hardly have any space in here to do that! Though you're slightly happy that you got the reference since you have that game for your outdated HUMAN HANDHELD GAMING DEVICE. Regardless, you attempt to open the box and fail miserably. Rather odd since there was no means to actually keep it shut when you got in it. Unless...
>The bullies have most likely found you and are now trying to push your safe haven off of something tall.

Oh no!!!
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FINN: Hey baws! Mind givin me a hand ovah here?
KAISER: It was your idea in the first place. You push it.
FINN: But baws I'm gonna crumble ovah this thing! It's way too heavy!
PIERRE: UH, BOSS? SHOULD I HELP HIM OUT THEN?
KAISER: Are you an idiot? Oh wait you are, my bad.
KAISER: Your girth is the only thing holding that purple wimp in place.
KAISER: Move and he's out.
PIERRE: OH! I, UH, FORGOT ABOUT THAT.
FINN: Ya know, I coulda probably moved dis thing wit little problem if Pierre wasn't on it!
KAISER: You should've had more foresight into your wonderful plan, then.
PIERRE: SO, UH, WHY ARE WE DUMPING HIM IN THE TAR PITS? WHY NOT JUST PUSH HIM OFF A CLIFF?
FINN: You idjit, then that might be ovahkill! We want to restrain him, not maim him!
PIERRE: UH, WHAT'S MAIM MEAN?
KAISER: To wound or injure someone so that part of the body is permanently damaged.
PIERRE: OH. UH, I GET IT. I THINK.
FINN: Duh. It'll be a bitch to get out of the tar pits, even moreso getting it off.
FINN: He ain't goin anywhere for a while.
PIERRE: THEN, UH, WHY DIDN'T WE DO THIS AT A, UH, LATER TIME?
PIERRE: WOULDN'T IT TAKE LONGER FOR HIM TO GET BACK IF WE DID THIS AROUND 4?
KAISER: Because then we wouldn't have any time to get back in time ourselves.
KAISER: Why do you think we chased him all the way out here?
FINN: Dat's right baws!
FINN: So uh... how much longer do you think it'll be till we reach the top?
KAISER: I'd say... about another ten minutes.
FINN: Aw man....

You're really wishing you could perform the panic dance right now. That aside, you've got ten minutes until you fall to a tar doom, tar isn't soft like water to you and they overlooked that. You've got a last resort in that case, but you really don't want to use it. What should you do?

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Just for the record, they were underwater earlier, but they chased him out to land. Also a question if anyone can answer it. I'm having trouble understanding how you can zoom in on this type of picture without causing it to uh... I don't really know the proper word for it except provide an example(ribbit rippler). Something I'm attempting to do is like these pages in Homestuck. Zoomed in while still having the jagged edges. Don't Name It has done it too, so there's a reference.

[Yamtaggler]

>It's just a wooden barrel, curl up into a ball with your shoulders on one side and your feet on the opposite. Then use your legs to push it apart. Sure, he may land on you, but you'll be out of the barrel and one step closer to freedom!

[Redux]

He's in a box. Will that still apply?

[Askia]

push the box forward while crouching, so the box falls over then open it fast and beat em up

[Chaos Waltz]

Pry up some of the boards on the bottom of the box. Then, when they push the box over a CONVIENTLY LOCATED DITCH THAT'S JUST BIG ENOUGH FOR YOU you can slip out the bottom, and hopefully they won't notice you.

Or something along those lines.

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I'm just guessing here, but you could try drawing your pictures smaller than normal, then zooming in some. Or just adjusting the pixel size on whatever you use so they're a lot bigger than normal.

[Yamtaggler]

He's in a box. Will that still apply?

Oh, sure, most wooden shapes will work.

[captal]

> diplomatic approach?

[littlebeasti]

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The thing that it's doing is called anti-aliasing; how to stop it doing it depends on the program.

I know in MS Paint (no the program) it anti-aliases if you resize the whole picture, but not if you resize a selection. Also most programs should have an option for it, which you might be able to find now you know what it's called.

> Cling to the top of the box in order to make it extremely top-heavy and thus fall over!

[Redux]

I figured out what Anti-Aliasing was some time into the adventure and I used Photoshop CS3 Scott's introduction onwards. One painstaking google search later and it turns out Photoshop can't stop doing that when it resizes. Using free-transform on a selection suddenly turns it jagged, that's what I want it to be after transforming it, though I don't think it can do that. I'm not making much sense am I?

[Detoura]

> Reveal secret Maturity powers and flash step out of the box.

[Wessolf27]

Well, first of all, what sort of fish demon are you supposed to be? Maybe that will help.

[Redux]

>Diplomatic approach?

Oh hell no. You've attempted diplomacy with them before and they do not cooperate. The first time you attempted diplomacy was the second time they started bullying you, all they had in response was "We'll never forgive you after what you did." You've inquired multiple times as to what it was they won't forgive you for, but they never give you an answer.


All these Revolutions of unjust treatment, now that you think about it, it's really starting to rile you up.


You're starting to lose your cool, your mom always told you that getting mad in your family always led to terrible things. You don't know what she means about that, but this is just getting you angry...

And angrier....

And angrier!!!

AND ANGRIER!!!!!

> Reveal secret Maturity powers and flash step out of the box.

Then you decide teenage hormones are acting against your emotions and forcing you to think crazy thoughts. Pfft. "Secret Maturity Powers", you're positive that there's no such thing as them and will never show up again at a later point in time whatsoever. You'll just get back to what you were doing.

>It's just a wooden box, curl up into a ball with your shoulders on one side and your feet on the opposite. Then use your legs to push it apart.



Finn! FINN!


Hey! Get a grip man, play time's over! You can brush that off, right!? Stay with me man, don't be fading away! We had a plan! I should've helped you out instead of being an asshole and make you do all the work. Come on Finn! Wake up! FINN!


They're such drama queens. You didn't even intend for that whole section to go flying, in fact you're surprised the boards just didn't break in place or that the whole thing didn't collapse under you. They're still at it? You've always figured that if they're aspiring career as criminals or being in the mafia fell short they could pull off being in a crappy day-time soap opera. Sadly, their drama won't last forever. Finn will wake up soon and they'll get their beat down on you. Which way to freedom, boss?

[Detoura]

> To make sure they dont chase you, Chuck the box at them. Or push if you dont have the strength.
Or
> Find the nearest river and swim away as fast as you can!