I've lost 6 of my marbles but I only had 5 to begin with.
Posted May 9, 2013, 3:27 AM UTC
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Ah, I know this problem. What you got here is a Marble Thief - probably one of the younger ones, and I'm guessing it's Brobyngian. Brobyngians specialize in odd-to-even thefts.
See, the Brobyngian Marble Thief is a small, vaguely cuboid, creature that enjoys hiding in the smaller, damper, recesses of your local playground/grooming pods/incubators. There, it waits until an unsuspecting child/cryptoid/Xecyclene leaves its bag of marbles unattended. After successfully stealing the marbles - younger BMTs tend to steal small amounts until they are comfortable - they filter them through the TSC to locals. The idea here is that you'll go in to a head shrinker, and they'll take the extra marble out - selling it for a minor cost to who? The Brobyngians, that's who. Or, they just steal them back from their victim, you. You're fencing marbles for Brobyngian Marble Thieves, and they aren't even giving you a cut.
Best solution, create a BMT trap using a bag of marbles, a nickel-cadmium plated hammer, and a collection of various hot sauces. Fill the bag of marbles with your sauces and then leave it at your local playground/grooming pod/incubator and wait. Eventually, the BMTs will leave their sanctum to take the marbles and they will be rendered incapacitated by the hot sauce. Run up and smack them in their stupid faces with the hammer, and that should yield several replacement marbles and a promise from the Brobyngian Tribal Council to never steal your marbles again.
Hail Siam the Star Shedder, because why not.
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well now you owe us marbles, better own up or its off to the mines with you!
4
No wonder you've lost your marbles, Johnny,
Five is too many!
Shouldn't have taken that deal from the humpback whale,
Sitting outside the galactic plane,
Waiting for your greed to be so great,
Trading anything for your marbles,
Wait.
Let this be a lesson for you all,
don't make deals with the humpback whale
wearing the silver ring.
edit: formatting
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You shouldn't finance things with marble currency.
3
The sixth one was actually just the fourth one, from the future.
2
Just craft some anti-marbles and trade them for neutrinos; they won't give a shit.
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Just one marble short of having nothing at all.
I give you a marble. You have no marbles.