and so it begins....

[third_alternative]

[Today Rex has managed to fashion a basketball hoop and attach it to the side of the Ermis Suites. He has also managed to acquire a truly preposterous quantity of basketballs. He figured he'd need them after the first couple rebounded out of the city and somewhere into the forest a few miles away.]

Alright... Get in the hoop...!

[He holds his breath as he tosses the basketball. It soars through the air, touches the rim of the hoop...and rebounds! Rex groans, but then he sees the basketball simply...vanish into thin air.

Stunned, he tries again. Same results.

Again. The ball disappears like the others.

...Well. Might as well keep trying. After all, he does have a preposterous amount of basketballs still left.]

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[third_alternative]

[Does a basketball hitting a peacock make a sound if no one is around to hear it?]

[nomen_est_numen]

For the purposes of narration, it does. And probably also for the purposes of those squirrels and such that watched it all happen.