Wherever he was, TD was around, plotting secret attempts for winning the game. But obviously, he never wanted to get it, cause his boss was all like "no, you gotta sell these boots by tommorow otherwise, your collection of baby fetuses are mine!"
Yeah.
Sorry.
Snatch the calvinball!

Noting that he is in the presence of great chaos, Grrbear activates his containment feild which suspends him in the center of the feild which also contains Arhra and bombsquad, designed specificaly to contain chaos, the feild can stop any attempt to get out. Grrbear huddles in this decidedly nonfuzzy environment noting that he is also out of reach of the calvinball but safe for the moment, as long as nobody breaks the seal. The bubble eventualy turns a nice soft shade of purpleand begins to purr, content with it's prisoners. Grrbear, wanting to help with the situation says,
We may be here for
awhile, so let's be friends.
Do you have a game?

Elec appears not knowing how he got there, or why hes there, but he sees a tower, and suddenly feelslike climbing to the top for an unknown reason.

he walks towards it, and slips almost falling to his death to a moat with some dead pirhanas floating in it. picking up a grappling hook, near a sign that says "for emergency purposes only" he throws it up, and it catches a window.

pulling himself up, he climbs thru the window, and begins looking for sokme stairs...

Somehow I just feel
I'm responsible for this...
This weird mess of mine.

Soldier looks around for something to use and noticed a nightstand, he opened the drawer on the front and noticed it had a spell scroll in it. Opening it he noticed it was an ice spell. At this he threw the nightstand at Ahrha.

Once Interface had fallen down the stairs, The Chocobo started hearing the elevator music. And of course the Chocobo started singing along, though in a strange haiku way.

"WARK WARK WARK WARK WARK
WARK WARK WARK WARK WARK WARK WARK
WARK WARK WARK WARK WARK"

The Chocobo very badly sung with the elevator music as he stepped out and bumped into a purplish purring field.

OOC: I knew it was but a matter of time until this happened.

Unfortunately for Soldier, he's triggered off Arhra's defensive spell. The one set off by mispelling Arhra's name. A bolt of multicoloured lightning descends from the heavens to strike at Soldier. It's quite impressive the way it does that, especially considering its indoors. But this is not just a bolt of magic or lightning or magical lightning even. It has embedded in its heart a curse woven from anarchic magic, to warp and mutate that which it hits. Painfully.

Whilst that's happening and the nightstand Soldier had hurled clatters harmlessly off Grrbear's field, Arhra turns slightly to regard Grrbear. Its not a pleasant look. The indicernable slit in his fiery face that is his mouth curls into a slight smile. Much like the look, its not very pleasant either.

"Yes, I have a game.
Though you will not enjoy it.
Burn stuffed bear, burn!"

And he reachs out one fiery arm to set Grrbear alight. Arhra tends to be friendly like that. But then he pauses, appears to reconsider a little and says,

"No... in retrospect,
I have a better idea.
I will enjoy it."

Magically, Arhra leans against a side of the purple bubble and it begins to roll slowly for the stairs still purring contentedly and is picking up speed. After all, Arhra's got the Calvinball and is currently safe in an impermeable sphere. Why not take advantage of it?

Still extremely irritated, Interface decides that if he has to have a bad day, everyone else should too. In order to make this happen, he makes the stairs into a ramp so that everyone else will fall farther than he did. Little did he realize, the gerbil ball was rolling down the stairs at the time, and it somehow allowed him in, probably due to his lawful alignment, and the fact that the sphere was designed to restrain chaos.

"A bad day this,
why am I inside the ball,
I am confused"

Interface looked around as he bounced around in the ball.

"How did I get in here,
When I can not get out now,
It must be Arhra's fault"

OOC: i am doing this because it sets up for the ending i am writing, and which will probably be my next post

As this is the first time Soldier has ever been attacked by anyone, it sorta catches him off guard.

ZAP!!!!

Arhra's self-concious defensive mutation bolt smacks Soldier square in the head and, a few seconds later, he awakes to find that the pain was so intense that he passed out before he felt it. He noticed that the eyes of everyone in the room were looking at him strangely. He looked down to notice to his horror that his head was on backwards Spaceballs style.

Forsooth! What happened?
Why has nobody told me?
My butt is so big!

Yet I have a trick.
I have watched the movie, too.
I'm coming Ahrha!

ZAP!!!

A few moments later, Soldier again awakes to find himself back to normal and starts running after the Calvinball. The stairs, unfortunately, are no longer there and he starts to tumble down the slick ramp.

Watching everyone fall down the ramp which used to be the stairs, the Chocobo desides not to mess with it and takes the eleator back down, singing as loudly as ever.

I'll post my ending tomorrow also.

Argent appears inside the ball, and shouts "WHAT THE F*** IS GOING ON HERE?! ALL I WANTED WAS TO SPEND A NICE DAY RELAXING IN MY CASTLE, BUT NOOO, YOU HAD TO PUT THE CALVINBALL IN HERE AND SCREW THINGS UP! WELL, I'VE HAD IT WITH ALL OF YOU! ALTA ORON SONDUS KAMEELA ORTANO FORDIGYAMA!" He raises the black and orange cube above his head and casts a spell over the Calvinball to cause it to emit an aura of pure nothingness. The nothingness draws everything around into it, meaning everything inside the bubble. Argent laughs and tries to walk through the orb, but fails. "What the... crap, I can't get out! I HATE YOU, GRRBEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

ending time!
 

Having finally had it, Interface latches onto the side of the sphere and merges with it, forming an impenetrable armor, leaving the others outside of the purple purring mass. He uses this armor to reach through the whirling blades and to take the calvinball from where it was floating. He then had the field bend around the ball in the same way it had bent arouind the other calvinballers, except this time, instead of spitting things out, it brought something in. Alone in the sphere, Interface put his key of dimension door into the air beside him, and walked back into Newb's room.
I:"Please remove this,
Annoying spell which you,
put onto the ball."
Newb looked over, exchanged a few variables, and hit enter. The ball vanished and they were able to speak normally.
I:"were you able to do that at any time?"
N:"yes, why?"
I:"and I had to go through that annoying castle?"
N:"look, just because i can do something, doesn't mean it's very sporting."
I:"whatever, just don't send me to go get it again any time soon."
N:"relax, I won't. It's on midworld, so splitting Alasp into his component forms will work much better anyway."
I:"A mage and an Alaspinian Minidrag?"
N:"yep, that combination has proved itself to be good on that planet before."
I:"ONLY WHEN THE MAGE DOESN'T ACTUALLY CAST ANY SPELLS!"
N:"you have issues to work out."

OOC: so, in any case, the next game will be on midworld, and it will be the first game on the new server which, unless I misunderstood him, argent has volunteered to create.

Rolling with the ball down the tower "stairs" Grrbear notices that the ball has become more populated. He only can wonder at his fate and where the ball will end up. Noticing that somebody is angered at him he says
Sorry for transmuting
your wall into gingerbread
and leaving a hole
He pauses to consider what else to say noting all of the damage caused and also says
For the fishy moat
and the bridge that I left
which is made of candy
OOC: I will go with whatever ending is choosen.

"Isn't the Calvinball supposed to be solid?" DB muttered incredulously, floating in midair as he considered his options. Since most of them involved destroying everything within a five-mile radius, he decided to just watch the show.

Seeing how they're in a tower, TD appears at the top of the tower, in a pink frilly princess dress, completely hung over.
Someone (anyone) comes into the room.
Someone (lets make it newb) says: WHAT THE BLOODY JUDAS IN A PARKING LOT WITH....
TD: I think I just wet myself....nope..... bladder went missing....
Yeah.
Stuff.
TD gets off the bed and heads towards the stairs and trips. Down eighteen flights.
Ow.Ow.Ow.Ow.

Soldier's proposed ending:

Soldier could feel all eyes on him as he tumbled down the slick stairs. After he hit the bottom he brushed himself off only to be flattened by Stabbity Mage. It made him feel good to know that he could break someone's fall.

"Grrbear would be proud."

Soldier whispered his plan into SM's ear. Stabbity Mage began charging his cannon. Soldier pulled the ice spell out of his pocket and casted it on Arhra, the Calvinball, Grrbear, and Interface, freezing them all in the same block. SM, cannon fully charged, then blasted them all, shattering the whole crew to pieces.
Soldier then threw SM up the stairs. When he got to the top, however, the Calvinball wasn't there. Soldier then heard something outside.

WARK WARK WARK WARK WARK
WARK WARK WARK WARK WARK WARK WARK
WARK WARK WARK WARK WARK

"That haiku can only mean one thing!"

The Inbred Chocobo aproached the moat and spat the Calvinball accross and jumped into the moat. After being chewed up by the pirhana's, he respawned at the starting point. The door swung open without any trouble, and the IC retreived the Cball and returned to the common starting point, thus winning the game. Who'da thought?

OOC: Interface isn't inside the ball because his ending is separate. Anway, enjoy.

Like a purring, purple rolling boulder of doom, Grrbear's sphere rolls down the staircase-ramp, forcing all in front of it to teleport, hide in a niche, run away from it Indiana Jones style, or do something else to prevent being crushed.

On the inside it's getting a bit crowded. Arhra's taking up a lot of space due to his shards and no one wants to get too close. Grrbear's fairly safe due to the fact that the spell he cast keeps him suspended in mid air and he's inside Arhra's aura, meaning he's between Arhra and his shards. But those who can't fly or otherwise levitate have to try and cling to the surface of the sphere to avoid getting tossed around and so are getting very dizzy from getting continuously flipped around by the motion of the sphere. Arhra's floating calmly, remaining vertical and holding onto the Calvinball that's safely inside his blade aura along with Grrbear. Overall the scene's a bit like watching a battle inside a tumbler.

Arhra looks at Argent curiously, "What exactly did you think an aura that does nothing would accomplish?"

Argent is about to retort but bombsquad breaks in, "Wait a moment, you're not speaking in haiku!"

Grrbear takes this opportunity to speak, "We probably wore it out. Its not like those spells last forever."

Bob says, "Yeah, that's true."

Everyone turns to Bob and says something along the lines of, "And who the hell are you?"

While Bob's mumbling some excuse for being there, Argent replies, "Its not an aura that does nothing, its an aura of nothingness."

Arhra replies, "Well its certainly doing nothing."

"Shut up."

Bombsquad interrupts, "Could you move over a little? Its a bit crowded here."

Bob, while the rotation of the ball means he's clinging to what's currently the roof, adds, "If someone knew a spell to shrink people it might help."

Everyone glares at Bob again while one or two people with a more vivid imagination get a horrible mental picture of what would happen if a spell that did the opposite of shrinking was used.

Argent says, "Its Arhra who's taking up most of the space anyway. Can't we kick him out or something?"

Grrbear says, "Its a spell to contain Chaos. He's pure Chaos."

Arhra, who is one of the people with a more vivid imagination and who has been thinking about that comment, smiles. Its one of his well known unpleasant smiles. "You've just given me an idea Bob." He adjusts his blade aura and it begins to creep outwards.

Bombsquad yells out, "I didn't know he could do that! Someone do something!"

Grrbear thinks fast and deactivates his spell. With a loud pop it ruptures leaving a few smaller bubbles that float up a little before popping. They're outside and had just rolled safely over the piranha infested moat. What happens next is a bit hard to describe. Essentially, when the bubble pops everyone is sent flying away. Argent and Bombsquad sail through the air at an impressive speed and height before landing safely on some soft rocks. Bob is not so fortunate. He was at the back of the sphere when it dissappeared and so was sent flying forwards. Straight through Arhra's aura. Grrbear on the other hand is extremely lucky. He's launched at a higher velocity than Arhra but he manages to grab onto the Calvinball and with a tearing wrench it is tore free of Arhra's magical grasp and he flys through the bladed aura. Luck is still with him as due to the fact Arhra had begun increasing the size of his aura in an attempt to kill everyone within the bubble, the gaps are wider. The Calvinball deflects one shard that would have hit and it and Grrbear and sent spinning off into a nearby tree. As for Arhra he is flung through the air from being caught by surprise and he lands messily. It's an odd sight to see a hollow sphere of whirling shards with a fiery creature at its center fly through the air and then hit the ground. The sphere deforms quite a lot on impact but then after a few seconds, floats up off the ground a little again, resumes its normal shape and the ball of fire in the center becomes human shaped again. Arhra murmurs a curse as he checks himself for injury and finds the Calvinball is gone.

So in the end, Grrbear has ended up with the Calvinball thus winning the game and everyone's okay. Except Bob. Bob is dead.

THE END

OOC: I thought Grrbear should get the Calvinball this time because he's been such a good sport about the occasional decapitations, delimbing and such. That and I'm deeply curious about what he's intending to do with it.

((OOC: Not really an ending...but it just had to be said.))

Toastburner stood to the side on his robotic chocobo as the purple purring (say that ten times fast) sphere rolled by on the staircase.

"You know...I just wonder one thing."

WARK!

"Well, yes, other than that. I wonder how far it would go if I kicked it."

WARK!

"Yes, well...maybe after the game is over."

OOC: ok I said I wouldn't write an ending but I just felt that this needed to be added on.
Grr bear floating in the now more occupied bubble, feels that it is moving. everybody is jostling around and Arhra's shards sometimes get dangerously close. On top of that The calvinball is floating just out of reach. Grrbear knows that he can't get to it, then he gets a great idea, for vengance. He charges up his pastel beam and fires it at the calvinball. midway between him and the ball it (yes the calvinball) senses possible danger and redirects the beam away to a portal.
Newb is sitting in his fortress, calmly noting the events of the game when he suddenly notices a dimentional portal open up right next to him. before he can react the beam hits him and changes him to a nice soft shade of yellow.
(add favorite ending here)

Sitting in his dimension, currently a nice shade of yellow, Newb finished setting up for the next game. He loaded RefHelper2.3, and put in the necessary information.
Under "players" he added the names of all involved, and left a few blank slots for the inevitable people who would join in later. Under "Refs" he made three blank slots, and then filled one with Alasp, and in the other two he made priority callers allowing TB and DB first shot at Ref-hood.
Finally, he entered http://www.1-2-free-forums.com/mf/calvinball.html into the destination caller and clicked on "start game"
He pulled out a mike that had appeared, and made a game-wide announcement
"Well, I hope that you all have fun on Midworld"