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by JamLifeIntoDeath_Archive
My friend used to host Risk tournaments in his basement. If you've never had the chance to play a good game of Risk, you're missing out. It's a game that can cause some pretty bad feelings to emerge. My uncle has observed only the barest acknowledgments that we are even related since he became convinced that I played a dirty trick during a game last Thanksgiving. Anyway, the games we played in my friend's basement were about as emotionally charged as a hot girls with douchebags joint. There was yelling, there were threats made, and blood was spilled on more than one occasion. We took it seriously.
The loudest, most impulsive member of the group was a man named Brock. I say man because at 16 years old, the word fit him perfectly. Brock is a large human being. Brock might be able to hold a carrot with his belly button. Brock likes to dance, sing, and play basketball. When he does any of these things (or anything else, really), he sweats. A lot. He's the kind of guy that girls want to approach and or dance with when they see him dancing like a vision quester. He also knows that these girls will be instantly repulsed when they come into contact with any part of his skin or clothing, which is typically clammy and slimy with sweat. This doesn't bother Brock. Brock is OK.
Brock also farts, which brings me to the reason I'm posting in this thread. One night, we were really just entering the interesting part of a game. Open alliances were fraying, secret alliances were being made, and whoever was holding Australia was praying that he could keep a low enough profile to avoid annihilation until he could drop his cards. Then Brock farted. I don't remember if it made a sound, but that's not what was important. What is important to the story is that this fart would definitely have made everyone present's top three lists of the worst smelling farts they had ever encountered. All it took was a collective glance at each other's faces for the unspoken decision to evacuate the basement to be made.
As important as Risk was, the fart was too terrible to continue the game. We spent the next few hours watching trash on TV upstairs and periodically arguing over who should be sent downstairs to check on the progress of the fart's dissipation. Hours. I'm pretty sure we ended up calling it a night and continuing the game at a later date. Awful fart.
Madness waits for some. It creeps up on others.