More Futurisitic Fun Than You Really Wanted, part I of V

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, March 29, 2011, 04:58:14 PM

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The Wizard

QuoteSemaj, I used Frye's name here because I like the name and I was looking to keep the cast down.  I'll gladly change if that's not alright.

No problem. Samuel Fry is just a recurring character in my head. I'd ask you use the Thieves World rules, like Roger suggested, but aside from that have a ball.
Insanity we trust.

Eater of Clowns

Quote from: Dr. James Semaj on March 31, 2011, 02:41:43 AM
QuoteSemaj, I used Frye's name here because I like the name and I was looking to keep the cast down.  I'll gladly change if that's not alright.

No problem. Samuel Fry is just a recurring character in my head. I'd ask you use the Thieves World rules, like Roger suggested, but aside from that have a ball.

Alright, not knowing what the Thieves World rules are (I'll google later) and this being a recurring character for you, I'll change the name.   :)
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

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the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

The Wizard


QuoteAlright, not knowing what the Thieves World rules are (I'll google later) and this being a recurring character for you, I'll change the name.

No need for that. Thieves world rules means we can use each others characters as long as we dont' kill them. That's all. Go ahead and use the character.
Insanity we trust.

Luna

If I didn't say so earlier, use anything of mine worth using.  Attribute to my real name.
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

Adios

Now what? What the hell do they want from me? I was roused from the barracks, put in a car and hauled here and nobody is saying a word. They brought me to a red brick 3 story house, told me to go in and wait.

A guy carrying a weapon I have never seen points to a room and I go in and sit down. Damn, I'm so tired. 36 missions under my belt, the last 5 on a Sue squad. I should be dead.

There's a mirror on the wall and I walk over to it. The face looking back is scarred, 3 times my own men had accidentally cut me, hell it was common in close quarter fighting with swords. The hair on the sides was beginning to gray some. Hell, not too bad for a 40 year old, trouble is I was 23.

Outside a stretch Benz pulled up, 5 men got out and fanned around the back door. Another person got out but was surrounded by the men that I couldn't see anything. I heard them come in the house, but they went to another room.

After about 30 minutes the person and their escort left. I was drifting off when there was a light knock and the door to the room I was in opened. I had never seen him, but it had to be <redacted>.

He sat down and started talking, no introduction and no small talk, right to the point. What I was hearing was incredible.

this part of the journal has been deleted for reasons of security.


When I got out of the car I was in the warehouse district. The building we went to was distant from the others though. Then I saw the damn thing. It looked like a skid of sorts, completely enclosed and just big enough for one man to lay face down in it.

There were 4 impulse guns, 2 mounted forward and 2 mounted backward. When I got in there were screens attached to cameras so I could see where I was going and what was around me. The hull was made out of <redacted> so it could withstand a lot of heat and pressure.

The speedometer read up to <redacted>. This thing would haul. I was the beta test. Great. Well, beats walking, I guess. One weeks training is all I get, then to the tunnels. Let me tell you, I sure paid attention, this thing had switches everywhere. Steering was very touchy too, the slightest move and it was gone. From 0 to <redacted> in <redacted> seconds.

My code name was Streak. That made me laugh, even though it fit.

Journal end.

Eater of Clowns

#200
**Recording.  Tunnel 9 Operations.  6/24/13  0142**

"So what's your read on Tom?"

"Wanker."

"Payne?"

"Wanker."

"Pixie."

"All those wankers?  She's the reason why."

"Chaplain Baker?  Chaplain Thomas?  Palmer?  Fry?"

"Wanker.  Wanker.  Decent sort.  Wanker."

"Well what about The Old Man?"

"War."

"What?"

"War.  Of the Apocalypse.  Rides a Red Horse.  The Old Man is a rare sort because he's the only one that manages to be perfectly sane and all kinds of hard in the tunnels.  And you can measure the rest of the servoheads by him.
Take a look at the next crew that goes with him.  The ones that seem to fit by him, those are warriors.  The rest, that avoid him or breathe a big sigh of relief when it's over, those are just the psychos and the poor fuckers who signed up for the worst job under the earth.  Got to be something supernatural about him, too; calls me Alec.  Never gave him my first name."

"Yeah, he calls me Sam too."

"Well that's what everyone calls you."

"No, they call me Sams."

"Hold off, your name is Sam Sams?  Oh that's fucking rich."

"Say what you like, I've heard it before.  Usually go by my middle name, anyway.  So what do you think the other horsemen are?"

"Death's easy.  Death is the Nessies.  Famine, now, famine I figure is going to come when the Payne juice runs out."

"Hayes.  Runs out?"

"Said it yourself, this is a top quality drug.  It's not like they're brewing it in the shitter, right?  And you can't exactly make off with some stuff like that without someone noticing.  And the servoheads are getting addicted.  Using more and more of it per troop, plus more troops all the time.  Yeah, I figure Famine will be when we have a bunch of high powered addicts willing to do just about anything for a dose."

"You know I'm not taking it anymore, right?"

"Didn't make much sense for you to, honestly.  It jacks you up, and it seems you needed a calming down more than that."

"I needed to forget, which is why it helped.  But I might need it again."

"Oh?"

"I'm thinking about joining the Templars."

"Fuck me.  I think we just found Pestilence.  'S you.  Plague upon my fucking mind."

**End Recording**
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

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the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

The Good Reverend Roger

HA!  I love the idea of The Old Man as War.

I still haven't decided if he's actually thousands of years old, or if he's just a nutter.

I think I'll leave it open-ended.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Eater of Clowns

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 05:50:34 PM
HA!  I love the idea of The Old Man as War.

I still haven't decided if he's actually thousands of years old, or if he's just a nutter.

I think I'll leave it open-ended.

I read the part as a very "I was there.  I've always been there.  I'll always be there."  Sounded like War to me, but yeah, it could go either way, and that's the awesome part.
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

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the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

Cainad (dec.)

Heh, I was kind of amused by the way "The Old Man" creates the initials "TOM", whether or not that was intended. EoC's version is pretty cool, though.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Cainad on March 31, 2011, 06:39:49 PM
Heh, I was kind of amused by the way "The Old Man" creates the initials "TOM", whether or not that was intended. EoC's version is pretty cool, though.

Definitely not the same guy.  Tom loved it too much, and to The Old Man, it's just another gig.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Eater of Clowns

#205
**Recording.  Tunnel 9 Operations.  6/24/13  0255**

"When was the last time I told you you're a bloody fool?"

"Actually that specific choice of words, this is the first."

"Mark it, it's nearly eleven in the morning."

"This again?  It's two fifty-five a.m."

"One day you'll see the benefits of Hayesian Standard.  Oh, scratch that, you'll get killed before then because you're signing up to be a tin of meat fighting nature's most efficient tin openers!"

"What makes you so sure I'll get killed?"

"Have you ever put on the power armor?"

"Not as such."

"Have you ever held a sword?"

"Well no."

"Have you even ever been in a fistfight?  Look, don't answer that, none of the answers matter.  I'm sure you'll get killed because they all get killed."

"The Old Man hasn't."

"Oh The Old Man hasn't, alright, well then you best get to training to be a grizzled old fucker.  It starts twenty years before you were born."

"Not everyone gets killed, Hayes, and getting killed is besides the point.  It's doing the right thing."

"The right thing is being an Operator that most of those servoheads would kill to be brainy enough to accomplish.  So as to avoid the whole wading around in human shit in a suit that sticks a plug up your arse."

"And recruits keep coming to do just that."

"Let me tell you why recruits keep coming to Payne.  It's religious fervor of a kind never seen.  Not that it's any more powerful than, say, the Crusades, but that it's a new type.  It's never been done."

"What's that?"

"Every religion grows by its sell.  Have you accepted Christ in your heart, or do you know of the Buddha or some shite.  You follow?"

"Of course."

"Now a nation grows strong on its sense of duty.  The yanks had the 'ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country' bit, and it works.  Sacrifice of the people to make the cause stronger."

"What's this got to do with Payneism?"

"The fundamental difference between the two is this.  Your common religion says, basically, 'you need us.'  It attracts the impoverished, the guilty, the weak, not to make the goal more real but to just be a part of something bigger.  It's solace.
Payneites are fed the opposite.  'We need you.'  It's a recognition of the strength of the individual it's being told to.  It's a sense of duty, the kind that's mixed with a religious strength.  That's the scariest bit, too, because the Payneites aren't even hiding it - they call their troops bloody Templars!"

"You and I have talked about this before, though, in a sense.  Payne might not be doing the best thing, but at least he's doing something."

"That's true, but ask yourself this.  Say we win this.  Say The Old man steps into the sewers tomorrow and slays every last Nessie.  What then?"

"I suppose we'd all go home."

"Maybe you would, and that's probably what makes you an Operator.  The servoheads?  They just going to waltz back into a normal life soon as it's all done?  That's why this whole thing is dangerous.  You've got a group of drug addled killers whose primary existence is based on the idea that they're needed.  Either you tell them they aren't needed any more when the Nessies are dead, or you find them another thing to be needed for."

"I just can't see it turning into all that."

"At least think on it.  And preferably without a servomotor whirring away behind your head."

"Hayes.  You really think it'll all turn into a religious war, after the Nessies?"

"No.  I don't think there'll be an after the Nessies."

**End Recording**
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

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the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

Juana

#206
Oooh! :mittens: That's wonderful!



I don't know what's going on anymore. The news keeps saying it's the gangs who're doing all these disappearances, but I don't believe that now! I saw little old lady and her dog get yanked down into the sewers through a storm drain just this morning and unless the gangs have taken up singing like...like sirens, and grown long sharp claws for fingers, it's not them. I'd think I was hallucinating if I hadn't gone back this afternoon to check. There's long slashes through the metal storm drain and they look fresh, new and bright in the sunlight. I don't know what made them, but they're not the gangs like everyone's insisting.

I do know, though, that I wanted to follow that singing, and I felt like I could almost hear the words.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Jenne

Quote from: Hover Cat on April 01, 2011, 03:22:03 AM
Oooh! :mittens: That's wonderful!
Agreed!  I gotta get the other installments out before I take off for Spring break on Sunday, dammit.

East Coast Hustle

Rabid Colostomy Hole Jammer of the Coming Apocalypse™

The Devil is in the details; God is in the nuance.


Some yahoo yelled at me, saying 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH', and I thought, "I'm feeling generous today.  Why not BOTH?"

LMNO

WHO SAID THAT THE BOARDS WERE DEAD?  I ASK YOU!



Fuck... this whole thing is so damn good.