*cough*

Last night I was choked in turns with a plastic bag, a leather jump rope, and a club. The plastic bag really stuck to my neck, making it difficult to get my fingers underneath it, but it made rustly noises, so it's not really a weapon of stealth. The leather jump rope was pretty awesome. It hugs the neck all the way around, cutting off both air and blood. Doesn't work well in a noose, though; there's too much friction to get a tight seal that way. The club was pretty rough on the trachea, (I kept feeling like I had to cough for a few hours afterwards), but it did nothing to my blood supply and, as a long, stiff object, was much more easily controlled than the flimsier devices. Best scenario: Lying on my back, someone sitting on me and choking me with the club. Very easy to get out of. Worst scenario: Lying on my stomach, arms pinned to my side, being choked with the jump rope. There's just not a lot you can do, and very little time to do it in.


Round Two comes tomorrow. I love self-defense week in karate.

Inspector Hellacious Crumsteen

My success has been noted on my record. I have 3 more cases to solve before I will receive my next promotion.

I have been having the best time playing old Carmen Sandiego games! I downloaded Where in the World, but then I realized I never actually played that one. So I downloaded Where in the USA and have been having a grand old time with all the nostalgia. It asks you to find the last bold-faced word on page x from the manual, though, in order to be promoted, so for my first promotion I just guessed and put peanut. It worked! I thought I was magical and psychic. Then for my second promotion, peanut also worked so I concluded that the game was just lenient. I've been using peanut for all my promotions since.

I tried downloading Where in Time, because that was my favorite, with the awesome Chronoskimmer and coffee machine, but I could only find a Commodore 64 version. I got the emulator and everything, and I could play the first part, but then it died when it told me to put in disk B. I'll have to figure that out.

I tried to find Gold Rush as well, but I haven't been successful yet. If anyone knows where I can get that, I will pay you in actual gold. That game is my childhood.

Don't walk on the grass, Jerrod!