Grumbling

[featherynscale]

It seems there is a creature in the walls. A distinct scratching noise is emanating from the wall between the Den of Iniquity and the Hall of Laundry and Entry. The cat is monitoring the situation closely. What the hell do you do about creatures in the walls? I hope it can get itself out, because I can't get it out. Failing that, I hope it is a large bug and not a mouse or a small rat, because I can't get it out, and bugs hardly ever smell when they die. Failing that, I forsee a season of sleeping on the couch.

Bah.

Comments

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid you're going to have to tear the wall down.

Although it might be easier to simply torch the house.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Today may not be the day to advise me to destroy things.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Is there such a thing as "a bad day for arson"?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sure. When the humidity is high, it takes forever to get anything to light.

[rio-luna.livejournal.com]

remmeber--pillage THEN burn.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Don't forget to sow the earth with salt afterwards.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Note to self: add salt to grocery list.

[rio-luna.livejournal.com]

i wasn't going that far. i'm an eco-femynyst.

(my wymyn-posytyve nature makes me substytute the phallic 'i' for the more vulval y. the I is so phallic with its nasty dot implying the tyranny of the male gaze and the money shot. whereas y's have a lovely receptive opening before leading into the dark fertile matric of what lies below the sentence)

we were talking about burning and pillaging, right. perhaps we should go back to that...

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I really want a button that says, "Up your vulva with gynocentrism."

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

One day I'll get those printed. As soon as I remember that I want to at the same time that I have the extra money to. This has not yet occurred.

[agrnmn.livejournal.com]

Talk to your local struggling publishing company...

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

For around $150, Badge-A-Minit will sell you, me, someone, a wonderful button maker and throw in a metric buttload of button guts. I bet we could sell five metric-buttloads at the Bazaar next year. I've printed them on WordPerfect in a two-inch round text box with graphics and cool fonts. That was back when I had access to one. I'd go in with some folks to purchase a group one if that seemed feasible.

Oops. The link.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

http://www.badgeaminit.com/benchpresskits.html

Re: Oops. The link.

[druidevo.livejournal.com]

Deal, email me.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

/in.

So very /in.

that's great!!

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

i want one of those buttons too!!

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Heh. I uncovered my penchant for pyromania in Hawaii, Land of Perpetual Humidity.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's the thing - I mean, you really have to be dedicated in a place like that. Only the serious practitioners stay with it.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Can you picture me at age 7, armed with a machete and a book of matches? I knew you could.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Hell, I can picture you at age 87 armed with a machete and a book of matches. Some things don't change :-P

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

You sure know how to sweet-talk a fella. *swoon*

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I don't, actually. But I hope to figure it out someday. I bet it's a useful skill to have.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm not a fella then.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I thought you said you were a bot. Or a cephalopod. Or something.

I'm good with bots. My track record with cephalopods contains too few data points to make a generalization.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I "forgot" - yeah, that's it.

You sure know how to sweet-talk a robotic cephalopod.

Pish, Tosh.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

If we could get lab table tops and bricks to burn, in FL, I'm sure anything else would be easy.

Just sayin'. been there, done that.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Also: Awww. *hug*

[teross50.livejournal.com]

Forgive me for being rational for a moment here. LOL Mark your calenders
Bugs even large ones are never held by walls and they rarely scratch Mice are equally gifted since they live in the walls They know how to escape them
My guess is it is a winged creature or other rodent i,e, Squirrel or coon or the like I would do the old television thing Put a glass to the wall unless of course you have a scope lying around. Tap the wall and see what you hear to help you identify the creature. There are services that remove them A bit pricey though

MY sweet one may the Goddess soon give you an outlet for all that pent up stress

Love you now and always
T

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it is. It sounds larger than a bug, although I am from the Land of the Palmetto Bugs, and have known of six-leggeds who get inside the walls and scratch.

It doesn't sound like a bird, or at least there is no flapping. The wall really isn't wide enough to accommodate a coon unless it was very tiny, but a standard-sized squirrel would fit easily.

Don't know. More data.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a raven? They get up to 2 feet in length and 4 feet in wingspan, you know.

Well, that seemed unlikely.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Alrighty then. I stand corrected. The 3rd Edition Monster Manual is, in fact, an accurate guide to wildlife.

is it?

[rio-luna.livejournal.com]

does it have a Field Guide to Orcs?

Re: is it?

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

It did, but the pencil sketches kept getting blood on them...