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-< Unity, Coming Together, Lightening Up, and ... FUN! >-
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LEVVAX::AMA4524 "BlackHawks, Inc." 28 lines 21-MAR-1993 17:01
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I was posting in the "forbidden conference" earlier today, and I
mentioned maybe we should all chip in and buy a deserted island
somewhere and start afresh... and call it Vaxlandia...a Utopia of
sorts...
So, here's Vaxlandia... a large tropical island miles away from
anywhere... the coastline is nothing but soft white sand and crystal
clear blue/green water... smooth, glassy, gentle( but not necessarily
the Pacific) waters. There are high mountains with snowcaps for the
skiiers, and warm neverending sun for the summery types...
There's no govt, no national debt... everything starts anew..
Anyone who wants to join the Vaxlandian population... welcome... there
are no rules, save being sociable and friendly... remember, these are
people you are theoretically living the rest of your life with unless
you decided to hope on a boat and head homeward...
just to see if there is any interest... tell us what kinds of things
you would like to see or expect from a Utopia... what would you do,
what would you wish for(at Vaxlandia, it just might come true)... what
things would you do differently from what we live with now?
nightbird, the first resident
Vaxlandia
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LEVVAX::JPL6314 "Dragon Strike" 5 lines 11-AUG-1993 16:40
-< zzz...mumfa blumity...zzz >-
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DS opens an eye wide enough to see what all the noise is, grumbles a
greeting and falls back to sleep.
Dragon Strike
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LEVVAX::CJW3890 "Un homme's amusement est un autre h" 3 lines 11-AUG-1993 18:57
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Tas also grumbles about waking his pillow, but smiles to his friends.
Tas
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"Hmph! He's gone all this time, and all he does is grunt. Oh well.
Let's go wreak some havoc!"
"Let's build a sand sculpture!"
"YEAH!"
Liz and Mikayli scamper off and begin to pile sand into a huge mound.
Liz
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LEVVAX::JPL6314 "Dragon Strike" 2 lines 12-AUG-1993 18:45
-< grunt >-
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Grunt.
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 39 lines 25-AUG-1993 16:14
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Sol and Dazzler sit peacefully beneath a VAXLANDIA palm tree...
the digits bobbong serenely in the breeze. They've not been seen
here for quite a spell, but in fact, they never really left.
"About that barkeep of yours... what's his name? You know, the
one who was spilling drinks in the malt-shoppe the day we met?"
"Spiffy Ninja?" guessed Sol.
"Yeah, he's the one."
"I haven't actually seen him around lately, Allison... what about
him?"
"Well, you remember how he was dating Sonja... from Mortal
Combat."
"Yeah. They made a cute couple."
"'Made' is the key word, Tony. She broke up with him. Spiffy's
been loafing around ever since... no life, nothing."
"Poor guy. I guess I don't keep up with Spiffy's Love Life very
much..."
"Well, he's really devestated about all this, Sol... it's like he
worships her. He's a broken man. Drinking himself to sleep every
night, wasting all his money on Mortal Combat just to SEE her... and
just letting her kill his character every single time without a fight.
I mean, he just won't let her go!"
"Poor sap. Sounds like someone I used to know," mused Sol. "What
about Sonja? How's she taking the breakup?"
"Fine... as far as I know. Sonja's been pretty healthy on the
dating scene lately... she seems willing enough to move on. I hear
she's got a new boyfriend."
"Really? Who?"
"Don't know. Haven't seen the guy." Dazzler shrugged and went
on... "How do you think Spiffy'll react?"
"Wow, Allison, I don't know. That Spiffy Ninja's one unpredictable
guy. I guess we'll just have to wish him the best and hope he gets
over it."
"I guess so."
Considering how lucky they were to be together in light of a
certain Ninja's predicament, Sol and Dazzler held hands in the rising
sunlight, enjoying the silence, the solitude, of Vaxlandia.
Sol & Dazzler\
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LEVVAX::AMA4524 "Angel of Music" 21 lines 30-AUG-1993 13:14
-< heh heh... >-
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NightBird storms down towards the beach and notices that something is
out of place, but she can't figure out what it is. She also notices a
large mass of living tissue snoring loudly on the soft white sand, with
a smaller living mass curled up next to it.
She creeps towards the sleeping dragon and kender, and realizes large
fragments of glass crunching beneath her feet. Tas' glass castle was
gone. She sees the bucket lying on the ground, with moist sand around
the lip, and pieces together what has happened. With a smirk,
NightBird quietly grabs the bucket and sneaks down to the shore, and
scoops up a full bucket of cool salty water. Then, using her
telekinetic powers, she lifts Tas away from the sleeping Dragon and
sets him beneath a coconut Tree. She walks away from the sleeping
kender, leaving the bucket of water hovering above his head. As she
nears her pagoda, she hears the loud splash of the water dumping on
Tas, and the lound boink of the bucket hitting him in the head.
NightBird, the prankster
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "Bite me! It's fun!" 26 lines 30-AUG-1993 14:05
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Meanwhile, Mikayli and Liz put the finishing touches on their enormous
sand sculpture of three dancing elephants. Mikayli throws some magic
powder on them, and they begin to dance around them in circles. As the
elephants slowly danced their way into the water, melting into piles of
sand once more, the two friends embrace one final time.
"Do ya really have to go, Mickey?"
"Yeah... I'm worried about my master... he needs me, I can feel it."
"Oh well.... take care of yourself!" Liz says with a snuffle. Mikayli
pulls a hankie out of midair and hands it to her, then pulls one out
for herself.
"Come with me!" Mikayli says with a honk. "It'll be lots of fun...
maybe Fizban'll teach you some magic too!"
"I can't... ya think he would? But my house... who'll take care of
it... and my friends? Who'll take care of them?" Liz sighs. "I
can't. But I will miss you. VISIT!" They hug again, then Mikayli
fiddles with her ring and vanishes. In her place is a scroll. Liz
picks up the roll of paper and reads it. With a laugh, she tucks it
into a pouch and yells into the air. "I WILL! Count on it!"
Liz
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LEVVAX::JPL6314 "Dragon Strike" 7 lines 30-AUG-1993 17:00
-< Awake, the Dragon... >-
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The dragon's eyes finally open. With all the delicacy of a cat, he
yawns and stretches and tries to come alive. With that completed, he
changes into his bipedial human sized form and goes to look for
something to eat.
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Tas stands up, strecthes, scrathes his head, and grins evilly.
"The game is a foot." Walking down the beach, Tas wonders why it
is a foot of all things, especially since they would be playing pranks
and not anything to do with feet. Then, an idea comes...
Tas
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Liz rushes back to her home in the mountains and goes directly to the
Inn. She hops onto the bar and pulls out the scroll Mikayli handed
her. At the top of her lungs, she yells the words to the spell...
...And vanishes.
Liz
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LEVVAX::JDD9642 "onothimagan" 11 lines 1-SEP-1993 13:37
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Meanwhile, on the far side of the island, Max and Kindy lie quietly
on the hillside pondering the recent events quietly.
"Every time you think you're getting to know someone, they chant
some damn spell and either turn into a sloth or disappear altogether!
Why d'you think that is, Max?"
"Well, you know how it is Kindy, even in Utopia there's a certain
amount of Myopia."
Suddenly the air is filled with a loud whirring sound, like a
million dragonflies suddenly taking flight simultaneously.
jd
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Alf runs madly around the island...looking for Ewokie...his true love.
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "Bite me! It's fun!" 24 lines 1-SEP-1993 19:50
-< She's back again! >-
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A strangely familiar-looking person slips into the house on the
mountain. Dropping a black leather backpack on the floor, she flips on
a light and sighs.
"Home."
She adjusts her off-the-shoulder red sweater with a practiced hand and
steps into the small but cozy house and closes the door.
"Well, I have people to track down, don't I?" She pulls out a scroll
from a small leather pouch. "Hmm... Tasselhoff Burrfoot, Dragon
Strike, Ewokie, Solenoid.... Sheesh, this list is long!" She sighs
and pushes a stray lock of hair from her eyes. "Magic journeys sure
take a lot out of one. I think I'll take a nap."
She heads towards the stairs to the bedroom, then pauses. "NAH! Naps
are for wimps!" She turns and heads into the kitchen and pulls the lid
off a jar. She then produces a handful of Pixie Stix.
"Let's rock."
Liz
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Tas walks along the quiet beach, listening to the waves roll in.
With all his old familiar friends returning, the island was pretty
noisy, but Tas ignored all the sounds. He was waiting, waiting for one
in particular. Suddenly, NightBird's high pitched scream split the
serene night. Tas laughing heartily, thinks maybe he went to far.
Life sized posters of fnords reaching for your nude feet can be rather
traumatizing. With a shake of his head, Tas laughs even harder. She
deserved it.
Tas
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DS once more returns to the beach, his hands and face are wet.
"I never realized how greasy those things were." He looks around.
"Now where's everybody gone?"
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Solenoid watches the waves. They crash blue and yellow and
purple against the rocky embarkment.
Dazzler starts to fade and hiss, like the snow on an inactive
TV channel. She shakes her head and becomes solid again.
"What WAS that?" asks Dazzler. The waves stand rock-steady for
a moment as the shoreline washes against them.
"It's reality again," muses Sol softly, staring out toward the
mainland.
"What happened to me? Just then? Didn't you feel it?"
Sol sighs.
Dazzler becomes very quiet, then ventures, "this reality you
speak of... it has something to do with what happened to me?"
Sol smiles, sadly. "Ever notice how you seem to be able to..."
"...read your mind?" she finishes.
"Too easilly, maybe?"
"We're close, that's all."
"No, it's more. How can I say this... you're not exactly real."
She is quiet again, as if he has hit on a sensitive spot. And she
simply responds, "I know. Deep down, somehow, I think I always did
know."
The sky turns to a transleuscent gray color, riddled with shiny
tinsel that passes for stars. Then back.
"How can I exist if I'm not real? I -feel-. I can think, and
reason. It's just a little hard to really -accept-."
"You have a personallity and life because you're an extension of
me," says Sol, trying to be reassuring, "You can feel and laugh and
reason because you draw those qualities from me."
Dazzler laughs then, as if she has heard something disorientingly
obvious. "It's like finding out your friend is a god. It's hard
for me to think of you like that, Sol."
"I'd rather you didn't," he says, "I'm not ready to accept that."
"So everything here... all an extension of you? All these people
are just different parts of you?"
"Some of them... yes. Spiffy, Sonja, Little Banjo... they're mine.
Tas, Ewokie, Dank... they're real. Like me."
She sits.
"I'm sorry I have to tell you these things, Allison. But I can't
hold you here forever."
"Are you talking about... letting me die? You cease to imagine,
and I no longer exist?"
"I don't know if I can stop it. I can't always control what I
think. And you are drawn out of a very tenative part of my mind.
Reality hits hard there. I can't adjust it. It's hard to explain."
"But you can't just let me die... I don't want to die, Sol..."
She fades again into a collage of video snow, then pops away.
Sol just examines his smoking hand, closes it, and stares angrilly
away across the sea.
Solenoid
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Ewokie walks barefoot along the sands, sighing to herself and
remembering. Remembering the water fights and fun that took place
previously on the island. Suddenly, there appears a fog and she sees a
short furry thing at the end of it. Walking closer she realizes it's
Alf, the simpleton who said he loved her more than cats. Worried at
what it is that he wants, she sees a sand castle and hides in it.
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Alf sees Ewokie and strolls right up to the castle.
"This being the year of pranks and all.."
Ewokie sits up, recognizing the voice.
"I thought I'd get started." The Alf suit drops away revealing a
grinning Tas who raises a super soaker from behind his back and douses
Ewokie.
Tas
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"ARrrrgghhhhh..." Ewokie screams as her top clings tenaciously to her
chest. She runs after Tas, picking up sand and throwing it at him (a
lot of good that does, since the debris only ends up in her face). She
starts scheming...
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "Bite me! It's fun!" 32 lines 2-SEP-1993 13:43
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Liz notices a strangely colored cloud of smoke drifting towards her.
It smells strangely of comic books and video arcades. Suddenly, Liz
finds herself getting a bit of a funny feeling inside... like the time
she ran into the ghost of her pet hamster Floyd.
"Hold, there!" The cloud paused. "Yipe! You _are_ someone!...
Wait... You are... Just wait here, ok?" Liz, quite excited at the
prospect of trying one of her new spells and helping an ethereal being
at the same time, runs over the words in her head and whips out a Pixie
Stik. With a flourish, she spins around, wings the powdery contents of
the Stik at the cloud, and chants some magic words. The cloud
shimmers in a bright test pattern for a few moments, then coalesces
into a tall, slender female.
"You look real familiar.... Aren't you one of Sol's friends?" The
woman nods silently, looking a bit shaken at her sudden coalescence.
"C'mon... you look like you could use some air.... wanna hit the
beach?" She nods again, then speaks.
"Am I.... real?"
"I think.... hang on...." Liz whips out her spellbook and reads the
description again. "Yuppers!" She pokes her newfound friend in the
side, prompting a giggle. "Yes! It worked. Cool! Let's go!"
The two women begin to dash off to the beach.
"I'm Liz.... what was your name again?"
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Ewokie, trying to find a way to get revenge on Tas, see's Liz. Knowing
that she is pretty good with spells and knowing that she would be a
great help in her revenge plot, Ewokie runs over to her to ask a
favor...
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The woman watches Liz as they head out to the waves.
"My name's Alison Blaire. At least it was before... I feel a
little dizzy, but I think the feeling's passing." Liz and Dazzler
jump out into the waves and the Vaxfish scatter everywhere.
"So I'm really real now?"
Liz grins and nods. She's doing something funky to the waves with
her magic wand.
"What's it like to be real? I mean, now that I am, what do I do?
How am I different?"
Dazzler
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"I dunno... I've always been real, I think... Basically, you just do
what you want, think what you want, and feel what you want... and you
aren't under anyone's mental control. Well, usually, anyways. This
guy had me under his mental control for a while, but I wised up and
dumped him. This island is a good place to find out who you really
are... great people, good food, hellatious parties.... whatever you
desire!
"Oh, look! Here comes Ewokie! HEY YOU FURRBALL!!!" Liz swims to
shore, closely followed by her new friend. Liz introduces Ewokie to
Alison, then, after hearing of Ewokie's plight, immediately begins to
conspire against the foul doorknob of a kender, Tasselhoff. (:))
Liz
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Tas thinks for a moment, recalling the exact whereabouts of a
certain other Kender's residence.
"I spose it being the year of the prank and all, I just gotta."
The model of self restraint heads off to do god knows (and probably
shudders at) what.
Tas
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Suddenly, an earth-shaking *KABLAM!!!!!!!* shakes the tiny island.
Rainbow-colored lightning hovers for a moment over Liz's mountain,
then crashes upon the exact point of her abode. Ewokie and Alison look
on in horror, then start to see Liz collapse in a fit of laughter.
"Liz..?"
"I'm...sorry..." she gasps, "I... magic-locked the... door! Whoever
just tried to enter just.... oh, gawd.... just got painted rainbow for
at least the next week!!!" With that, she begins guffawing once more.
Liz
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Then from out of the sky, A large muscular man parachutes his way to
the sandy beach. With a graceful thud, Phantomstalker summersaults
around and around until he can manage to take off his parachute. After
the dust clears, Phantomstalker is standing erect with his arms folded
and says; "Ahhhh...it's good to be back!!"
--Phantomstalker
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Liz stops laughing and wipes the tears from her eyes. Looking down the
beach, she says to her friends...
"Who's the stud?"
:)
Liz
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Tas comes back to the beach grinning with a rainbow colored
Velociraptor.
"Yer right dude, you don't look too ferocious with that many
colors. Oh there she is, she is the one." The Velicaraptor turns an
angry eye to Liz. Tas grins innocently.
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In a puff of glittering smoke, the colors are transferred to Tas, and
the Velociraptor is gone. In its place is a cute, fuzzy bunny.
Liz laughs evilly and runs for her life.
Liz
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...but being only half-kender, not nearly fast enough. Tas rubs nair
all over Liz's head, and takes off himself. As he runs by
Phantomstalker, he hands him the nair can.
Tas
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Alison laughs as Jaiman kisses the lizard.
"You're very funny... hi. My name's Alison. I'm new around
here... sort of."
She looks around to see that Liz has run off, and realizes she's
on her own.
"So... you do parachuting? Looks dangerous."
Dazzler
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Tas runs by.
"Only without the parachute."
Tas
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Liz luckily remembers her anti-Nair spell and saves her mane. Whipping
out another pixie stik, she pauses and consumes it.
"Ewokie... Let's get him," she says in an eerily calm voice.
"Noone messes with my hair."
Liz
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yo!!
you're wack!
you're buggin!
I'm outta here!!
Phantomstalker runs back to where liz and tas were
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Ewokie sits on a rock twiddling her thumb...awaiting greatness.
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...which hits her in the form of a snowball served at high velocity.
Courtesy of AirTas. :)
Tas
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Liz shows up instead.
"Let's nail that little weasel!"
The two proceed to tag team tickle him until he turns even more
interesting colors than before.
Liz
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Tas, unable to take it anymore, runs away. Ewokie looks at Liz.
"Where's Alison? Does she know her way around? Have we lost her?"
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Liz smacks herself in the head. Hard.
"NUTS! I almost forgot her!!!!!! AAAAAAALISOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! WHERE
THE HECK ARE YA???" she cries, looking along the beach. She spots her
a short distance along the shoreline.
"Alison! Thank God! Sorry I ditched ya! That boy needed a whupping...
what's up?" Alison continues to look up into the woods with a distant
look in her eye.
"Alison? You ok? Did you get into the blue pixie stix?"
"I'm fine... fine..." she says distantly.
Liz
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Ewokie runs after Liz and finds Alison looking off into the woods. She
nudges Liz in the elbow...
"What's her beef?"
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Alison pulls her gaze away from the woods for a minute,
then runs toward Liz and Ewokie.
"Sorry... just thinking." She says embarassedly, "this being
real is turning out to be a little harder than I thought." She makes
an (almost humorously too obvious) effort to appear casual, and grabs
a piece of rainbow out of the air which she fiddles with.
Dazzler
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Far from all, Sol sits on a rocky precipice - a craggy little
outcropping covered in trees. It extends out over the VAXlandian
ocean, and Sol stares out across it, waching the disharmony in the
waves around him, reflected in the rippling blue of the sky. He is
tense as he watches, tense as he reflects.
-blast you for following me here- he thinks.
The waves to not respond. Sol stares into his dark reflection,
far below in the water. -I defy you- he thinks.
The image of his reflection converges upon itself, swirling in
the oceanscape until it becomes a single point. The point arcs out of
the water like a firefly, landing directly beside Solenoid where he
sits. In a split-second, it is reformed, and an exact duplicate of
Sol created. The duplicate is ecact in every way, down to the design
on its T-shirt, but portrayed in negative, like the opposites of a
photograph.
"Dionelos." spits Sol.
"Who else? I am the only one left with you when you isolate
yourself like this." The clone gestures at the tree-tuffet. "I
thought you'd accepted that by now."
The mirror-image strolls around and behind Sol casually. Sol
ignores him. "I must admit though," smiles the clone, "I like
your scenery."
"Well, I don't like yours," snaps Sol, "What are you trying to
prove here? I'm here to get away. Especially from the likes of
you. This island is full Harmony, full Unity. Things you're not."
Dionelos chuckles. "Get away fron 'the likes of me.' You can't
just get away from your darker half. Full Unity, you say? A lot of
Unity there is in quarantining yourself way the quark out here."
"Shut up!" shoots Sol, "I don't have to listen to you."
"Of course you do," continues Dionelos, "because you can't ignore
yourself. Like it or not," he says, taking Sol's shoulders from behind
and whispering into his ear, "you aren't perfect."
Sol jerks away from his other-self's touch and stands up to face
him.
"Why are you so ashamed of me?" asks the double, "Everyone has
a dark half. Once you just accept that, we'll all be a lot better
off."
"I don't like what you stand for," challenges Sol, "You're
uncalculating, you're rude, and you personally attack your friends..."
"We don't attack them. We're only jibing. It's in fun, Sol. No
one gets hurt. All in fun. Everybody does it and they know you don't
mean it."
"I don't know that for sure. I could be hurting them!"
"Oh, get a life, Sol," mutters Dionelos, rolling his eyes.
"No!" Sol continues, "I don't like your attitude!"
"-OUR- attitude," corrects Dionelos, "stop trying to pretend I'm
someone else."
"I don't want any part of you," says Sol, turning his back again.
"You don't have a choice," the clone continues, "I'm just part of
who you are. Am now, always will be. But I think what really irks
you is that you set up all this bravado about unity and harmony, and
look at you. Can't even hold up under your own rules."
"I try hard!" defends Sol.
"You're such a hippocrite. Why don't you just be yourself? If
people don't like it, then TOO BAD!"
"That's not who I want to be," says Sol, "You're twisting your
words. 'Be myself.' Sounds eloquant. You were always so good with
words, Dionelos."
"As were you, Solenoid. But it's the truth. And if the truth
hurts you, bruises your holier-than-thou ego, then I'm sorry. Swallow
it, Sol. Swallow it and get on with it. If you can't accept me for
who you are, then you're a bigger hippocrite than I thought."
"You're WRONG, Dionelos," bursts Sol.
"And you lie well, too."
"Stop it!" says Sol, "stop twisting all my words. You're just my
tendancies, not me."
"Oh, big difference, Sol. Who are any of us if not a set of
tendancies? We are all a sum of our tendancies. And you know it."
"Stop it! You know what I mean."
"I don't even think you know what you mean."
"Why don't you just go crawl back under the rock you came from?"
"The 'rock,' as you say, is your soul. And of course. I would
be delighted."
The clone drifts toward Sol as a spark, shooting for his chest.
Sol moves mid-stride and captures the spark, which reappears as
Dionelos within his choking grasp.
Sol is thrown back, down on his back.
"You're so naive, Sol. Trying to murder me, now, eh?"
"There's nothing wrong with murdering and idea."
"Of course. That's why it was okay to murder poor Dazzler, wasn't
it?"
"I hate you!" screams Sol, jumping at him again in rage, and
falling back again.
"All that hate, all that pain, Sol. You draw that from me. How do
you expect to kill me with it?"
"I don't know," breathes Sol, "But I will."
"You figure it out, then. I think I'm going to go for a little
walk. Maybe meet a few of your friends. Let me know when you're done
sulking and maybe you can join me."
"Maybe I can't destroy you," says Sol, "but I'm not going to let
you out there."
Sol walks to Dionelos, calmly, surely, and takes him by the
shoulder. Dionelos tilts his head acceptily, submissively, as if
injected with a drug. "I can affect your moods too," says Sol.
With a concentrated effort, Sol melds Dionelos into a small,
dark, dense mass. With all his effort, he holds it together, then
pushes it toward himself. Straining, he pushes the vile mass into his
stomach, and it phases to meet him. With all his will, he does this,
and the mass is forced inside.
Sol collapses, gasping. "Maybe I can't destroy you today. But
I'll be cursed if I ever let you out again."
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Wow.
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I second that. That was beautifully written and very deep. wow.
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(Why, thank you, Tas... for all who may be concerned for my well-
being after reading that, do not despair... I'm going in for a
stomach pump next Thursday).
Sol
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Funky! That was good!
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Liz feels her highly-tuned second sense tingle a bit.
"One of my friends is in some sort of trouble... I know it." She
looks around her and accounts for as many as possible.
"Where is Sol?" She thinks for a moment. "I haven't seen him around
for a while!" A knot forms in her stomach as her maternal instinct
kicks in (kinda like eating bad Gracie's food, but not.) "I'm gonna go
find him."
With Alison following close behind, Liz dashes into the woods towards
Sol's old haunts. They duck branches and scamper about stealthily
until they arrive at the secluded cove.
"Oh my..." Liz gasps. "He's twins!"
She watches, frozen in fear and wonder, as the two end their battle.
"I have to help him," she murmurs, but finds herself still frozen.
Alison watches her for a sign of what to do. Thus, they watch as Sol
reduces his dark half and returns him to the darker realms within, then
slumps down. This breaks the spell, and Liz launches herself into the
clearing.
"OhmigodSolareyouok?" she gasps as she catches him and helps him to a
mossy rock. "I haven't seen one of those since..." She pauses,
remembering a far away place where two sides of the same half-kender
battled for her life. "In a long time." The memory still strong, she
hugs Sol protectively. As the two return to their senses, Alison steps
from the shadows of the trees.
"Oh! Sol, have you met my new friend? Alison, meet Solenoid... Sol,
this is Alison!" The two lock gazes in shock. Oblivious to this, Liz
adds, "I found her floating up the mountain and brought her to
reality... Cool, huh? It was one of Fizban's neatest spells... never
thought I'd use it tho... Hey, are you two ok?"
Liz
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Sol gratefully accepts the hug, and fumbles into a sitting
position.
"Yeah, I'm okay... Dopplegangers... ya know -I- hate 'em!"
He notices Dazzler staring at him, then tenses a little in surprise
and shock.
"wow," he says, then unable to think of much more to say, just
says, "wow," again.
Alison says nothing, and does not move.
"I didn't sense you coming... aren't you... didn't you..."
"'Die?'" offers Alison.
"I'm sorry... I couln't help it..." Sol fumbles for something that
will sound acceptable and can find nothing.
"Well, I'm real now. Thanks to Liz here. That's why you can't
sense me anymore. I'm my own person now."
"Look, I'm sorry about... er...killing you and all..." attempts
Sol, feeling very foolish.
"Well, that'll take some time to get over, Sol, but I think I can
forgive you. I'm real now, so I don't need you anymore to give me
definition, Sol. And I can create my own self-shadows now. I learned
today. Watch this."
She concentrates, and a whole assemblage of Spanish Minstrels
appears, playing a catchy little fiesta tune.
"Not bad," admits Liz.
"Wow," says Sol, "looks like something I might have dreamed up."
"Well," admits Alison, "you -did- create my original personality,
Sol, so that is still mine... but from here on in, I decide whether I
want to keep that and what I want to do with what you gave me."
"Sounds fair to me," says Sol, relieved that she doesn't seem -too-
ticked at him.
"She's doing better at this than I thought," says Liz. "I'm proud
of you, Alison."
Alison smiles, then claps her hands to make the Spaniards go away.
"Ahhh, you're okay, Liz. You're both okay," Sol adds for Alison.
"I'm tired of being up here. Let's go rejoin some civilization."
Sol
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vampiress sighs as she made yet another mask... this time it's
for Mardi Gras.. she knows something is going to happen that night..
since her dreams repeatedly told her that whatever it is(that'll
happen.. ) will change her life forever.. >her dreams always come
true.. some other vampires say she's different.. not like any of
the others.. they say she has the most mystical powers.. but no one
knows for sure...
and now she looks at all the masks she made.. each of these masks
repesents someone..
-vampiress
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Liz skips ahead of Sol and Dazzler, singing the Little Bunny Foo-Foo
song and dancing around. After a few minutes of this, she pauses and
turns to the other two.
"I'll meet you two down on the beach, 'k? There's something I have to
do back at my place." Sol and Dazzler nod and continue on their way,
and Liz dashes off.
Back at the cottage, Liz closes the door and leans on it for a moment.
Gathering her courage, she walks up the stairs to her bedroom. It
looks like it always does... the red cotton sheets rumpled from the
previous night, the black comforter halfway on the floor, pictures of
old friends and new scribbled on napkins and old papers hanging in
frames on the walls. She walks past all of this and, steeling her
resolve, walks up to a closet in the back. She wavers for a moment.
"I can't. I can't face this yet.... I'll do it tomorrow." She turns
away, then forces herself back. "Now." She reaches to her throat and
pulls the key off the old leather thong, and unlocks the door.
Inside is a box. The cardboard lid is covered with dust and the
contents smell of old sweat and faded cologne. Trembling, she lifts
the lid and pulls out a memory.
"I loved you once. I thought we'd marry someday." She chokes
slightly. "Everyone told me that all relationships had little
problems. I forgave your blonde jokes and the way you'd forget I was
there. I overlooked the way you belittled my intelligence. I let
it go when you completely forgot about me on our six-month anniversary.
I even forgave you when you ran out on me the night Billie died. I
kept forgiving you... and you kept neglecting me. So, why do I still
let you have this power over me." Liz rises and carries the memory to
the side of the fireplace. The fire burns low and warm as she sits on
a stool nearby.
"I loved you once. A part of me still does. But, I realize that my
love for you cost me something too great to allow me to continue loving
you." She tosses the memory on the fire and watches the smoke rise up
the chimney.
"Myself."
The fire dies down as Liz rises, stretches, and picks up a beach towel
from the top of her foot locker. As she dances down the walkway to the
beach, the smoke drifts away, past the stars, to the realm where all
her old dreams have gone.
Liz
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Sol can feel, if only partially, some part of her drifting
thoughts. It is an ability that comes from the same part of his mind
that keeps the shopping carts from rolling.
He looks out over the sea, like she used to sometimes. -he never
did come here,- he considers. He shakes his head slowly.
He kicks a rock. He smiles as he chats with Alison.
-I can only watch and understand, I cannot change what was set in
stone, I cannot tell her how to feel anymore than I can tell her who
she is, but I can be there, and I know this : when she returns, I will
welcome her with open arms.-
And off along the beach he treads, listening as Dazzler tells him
all about what it is like to be real.
"It's great!" she says, "I feel so free! Are there any
disadvantages, Sol?"
"Yeah," he responds, "only sometimes."
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Liz somersaults onto the beach, a large weight gone from over her
heart. In the distance, she sees Sol and Alison walking, deep in
conversation. She smiles and dives into the water, swimming far out
into the surf.
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Phantomstalker is noticed. He seems to be digging a large pit in the
sand. More to come.
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Tas, sitting still for one of the few times of his life,
comtemplates people in general and why they are the way they are.
Especially himself.
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Ewokie, seeing Tas all alone, sneaks up behind him, 'Super Soaker
Infinite' in her hand, and shoots him from behind. Tas, shocked, bolts
upright. As he spins around, Ewokie runs away, laughing,
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Sol walks with Dazzler along the beach for a while...
"My, you're so full of questions, Alison."
"Can't I be curious about where I came from and who I am?"
Sol laughs a little. "Sure... I guess you can. Ask away.
Whatever you like."
"Why did you create me?"
Sol stops in mid-stride. "Ask me an easy one, why don't ya?"
"I'm sorry... I just wanted to know."
"No, it's a good question. It's just not easy to answer. I don't
really know if I can. But I'll try."
Dazzler kicks the sand as she walks, undoubtedly a habit she picked
up from Sol.
"Well," starts Sol, "you started out as a character in a video
game... or a comic book. Actually, it was a pretty cool comic book -
and a pretty cool deo game."
"Video game." she considers.
"Well," Sol appologizes, "ideas have to come from somewhere."
"I know. Go on."
"Well, it was a great game... a really great game. And I loved to
play it."
"Why me? There were 6 characters to choose from... and my
character wasn't very popular, from what I hear."
"Well, that's why I was intrigued. I'm always attracted to what's
different."
"So you chose me because I was different?"
"Well," admits Sol, "also I guess because you were the cutest one
there."
She smiles and blushes a little.
"I put a lot of effort into that game. Played for months until I
mastered it. I had to fill in some gaps as far as personallity,
because, no offense, but you're not a very popular comic book
character."
She seems to accept that pretty well.
"I just spent time thinking, 'wouldn't it be cool if ...' Pieces
of dreams. Past Experiences. I guess that's what you were. A
reminder that anything's possible."
"But you killed me..."
Sol pauses, as if her observation were lined with blades. "Our
hopes change. Dreams may not always be certain. We never want our
dreams to die, or our objectivity to change, but sometimes, well, it
wavers. You know? I think you would've come back eventually... but
its hard to bring certainty to what is inherently uncertain."
Dazzler thinks. "Do you spend all your time thinking up this
stuff, Sol? I mean, you sure seem to have yourself pegged. I wish I
could. I mean, I have all these thoughts and feelings of my own, and I
can't make heads or tails of them."
"Not yet," says Sol, "but you'll get better with practice. And
you'll always learn more. Everytime I think I have myself 'pegged,' I
discover something new. It's the exploration of yourself, the struggle
to know who you are, that is the great joy in being real. Great man
said, 'It matters not that we shall never reach our final goal, for the
effort yields its own rewards.'"
"I'll think about what you said, Sol," says Dazzler, "I'll come
back if I have more questions..."
"You do that, says Sol, "I'll be here."
And she runs off to look at the sand excavation Jaiman is doing.
Dazzler
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"Hmm...." Tas stands on the beach dripping wet. Grabbing a
near-by towel, he starts to dry himself off.
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In the distance, dolphins gracefully arc out of the water. Liz's
giggle mingles with the squeaks of the graceful creatures.
"Later guys!" she calls to her newfound friends and swims back to shore
to check out Phantomstalker's new project.
"Cool pit!" she says, impressed.
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NightBird storms back to her pagoda, furious at all the tom-foolery
that has broken loose on her once peaceful isle. "Ugh... toe-seeking
Fnordage... Saints preserve us!"
at that moment, a fuzzy bunny wabbit bounces up to her and rubs against
her leg... she grabs it by the ears and prepares to rip it out of her
skin when she realizes it isn't a normal rabbit... she peers into it's
eyes and into it's mind, and realizes it's one of her prize 'raptors.
"That magical wench is responsible for this, i can smell her Will all
over him" she seethes, and sets the rabbit down.
"BELJERAN!" she screams. moments later a tall figure dressed in
flowing black robes appears beside her.
"You called, mistress?"
"Yes, i want you to remove this spell... I'll not have some silly
magic-dabbling kender wench toying with my pack, do you understand??"
with that, the sorceror waves his hand and removes the spell, and the
Raptor runs off to find its pack.
"and now... " NightBird mutters to herself as she storms towards the
pagoda, "to deal with our local bar wench turned magician..."
NightBird
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Sol is off in the Fireflower/Mushroom patch with Albert Einstein.
"So tell me again about these Quarks."
"Yes," says Plato (* translated from the Greek), "and how in the
world is it related to love?"
"My friends," says Sol, "Humanity will learn, over time, that all
things are connected. Nature repeats certain patterns, certain ideas,
constantly. Like an infinite stretch of recurring themes. No
coincidence, my friends. Only one more indication to the Higher Forms
that govern reality."
"Yes," says Plato, "I like that idea... higher forms. I can use
that..."
"Please," says Einstein to Plato, "let Sol finish. Please,
Solenoid, continue."
"Okay. Now, Einstein, you know what a quark is, right?"
Einstein shakes his head. "Well..."
Sol sighs in exasperation. "uhhhh. Okay. But I'm only gonna
explain it once, so please try to pay attention this time."
Einstein and Plato sit on their mushroom attentively.
"Here's all you have to know. Quarks are small. Really small."
(one sec)
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"Really small," considers Einstein, "Like atoms?"
"No, no. Smaller," says Sol, "There are 3 in every Sub-Atomic
Particle."
"That's pretty small," says Plato.
"Wow do we know they're there?" asks Einstein.
"That's the problem. You don't. Not for -sure-. A lot of it is
just trusting it's there. There are a lot of indicators that lead us
to that conclusion, but when we get right down to it, it all comes down
to a leap of faith."
"That's ridiculous," says Einstein. "Physics should involve no
faith. What purpose could that possibly serve?"
"Because if you're right, it explains so much. There is so much to
gain from that leap of faith, that we must try. If we are trusting,
and if we are attentive, we can only expect that our initial intuition
will be confirmed.
"So we should just go look and see for sure if it is there once and
for all," says Einstein, "that would solve everything."
"But it is not so easy," continues Sol. "Because the very attempt
to confirm a quark's existance can disrupt the whole system... it is
too elusive for us to be so unprecise. Try to touch it, and it is
gone. Turn yourself over to trust, and you serve to gain much more."
"So that is how it is with the quark?" questions Plato.
"And therefore, so it is with love," finishes Sol.
Solenoid
Einstein
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Tas comes over, sees his bud digging, and leans over the edge.
"Thats a nice hole ya got there, Son. Now, whats it for?" Tas
chews on a peice of straw and cocks one eye while pulling on his pouch
strap as if it were a suspender.
"Now back during the depression, times were tough then boy, you
listen to me, a man dug holes to feed his family. Good clean back
breaking work. And seeing as I'm bored and all, I think I'll give ya's
a hand. But yer gonna have to tell me what we are doing, cause i
reckon your a might bit crazy and I could try to reckon this one out
till the corn got knee high thiry or forty times." Tas grabs a shovel
and leaps into the hole. "Well?"
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"Ah, more sand work, I see. What are we making this time?"
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Einstein and Plato soon run off to play freeze-tag with Ghengis
Khan, Joan of Arc, and President Lincoln.
-Figures- thinks Sol, -another time, then, gentlemen...-
Sol picks a fireflower and shoots off fireballs for a while.
Seeming to enjoy this, he shoots his initials, TL, in the sky. Then he
seems surprised at himself for not choosing to write, "Sol."
Sol turns around. His pale-faced android friend is standing there,
quite indescriptly. "Am I disturbing you, Sol?"
"No, no. Come on over, Data." Data steps calculatingly toward the
spot where Sol is.
"I didn't expect to see you here just now," says Sol, chewing some
gum and offering some to his friend.
"And why is that, Sol?"
Solenoid shrugs. "I don't know. It's just been so long... I guess
I just forgot what you were like."
Data blinks and tilts his head, even smiling a little. "hmm" he
thinks.
"So, my friend, what brings -you- here?"
"I had heard," states the android, "that you were in peril. That
your 'evil twin', as it were, has been here lately."
"Yeah, he's here," says Sol, holding his stomach, which pulses, "I
don't know what to -do- with him, though. What do you think, Data?
What would you do?"
"As I have no negative tendencies, I am ill equipped to answer your
question."
"Yeah, no emotion at all. No joy, no randomness, no excitement."
"However," says Data, "I overheard your conversation with Einstein
and Plato. Perhaps your best action would be to have faith that the
result of your efforts will be positive."
Sol smiles. "No randomness, no excitement. Maybe you're not so
bad after all, Mister Data."
"The time is now 1:38, Sol," reminds Data, "perhaps it is time for
you to engage in sleep."
"You're right, Data. A lot's gone on lately around here. You go
ahead. I'm gonna watch the stars for just a little while longer."
"As you wish, Sol."
And the night dwindles on.
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On the other side of the island, Tony looks up and sees his initials in
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Tas stands up in the trench and wipes his brow. Digging is hard
work, and the sand isn't at all cooperating with the shovels. Where's
Fizban when ya need him, after an hour of his stories, this sand would
be jumping out of here on its own. Tas chuckles and apologizes to his
godfriend and grabs his shovel to start digging. Just as he prepares
to junp into the pit, he catches the glare of the sun off metal deep
into the woods. Curious as always, Tas pulls himself out of the pit
and takes a closer look.
Just inside the woods at the far end of the beach, Tas picks out a
figure sitting on horse. Squinting to see better, Tas starts walking
towards the lone figure. Slowly Tas makes out the details, and with a
shout of glee, he runs towards the stranger.
Sitting on a large horse, Garren watches the tiny figure detach
himself from the group that is digging and sprint towards him. Small
Pint, Garren thinks, never could resist anything interesting.
Tas stops awe stricken several feet away from the horse, trying to
take in the magnifiscence of the animal. Its body and back were
armored with heavy sheets of steel and leather, all a a soft bronze
color with blue trim. The head was protected by a helm shaped to
resemble a feircesome dragon, maw open, nostrils flaring. The horse
stomped the ground and snorted, and Tas stepped back.
The figure pulled up the reins and lightly admonished his mount,
and Tas looked up. The armored figure dismounted and tied the reins to
a nearby branch. If Tas was awed by the horse, he was dumbstruck by
the knight. In his left arm, the knight carried a tower shield. On
the shield was a dragon in flight, claws extended and mouth open, as if
it were attacking the person looking at the sheild. Below the dragon
stood a wolf, seemingly ever alert. Its yellow eyes seemed to burn
into Tas.
The figure shifted his sheild, offering a view of the broad sword
that hung at his side. The scabbard was plain leather, with the
necessary metal trim, and likewise the sword hilt and handle were plain
except for a wolf's head at the bottom of the handle. A mailed fist
flexed and Tas looked up at the knight himself, in plate armor
similarly colored to the horse. The helm was fashioned like a wolf's
head, and once again Tas stepped back. The helm had the grin of a wolf
who knew he was master and gave no quarter to anyone.
"Hu..wow...I mean....wolf....and...." Tas stutters slowly.
The figure walked slowly up to Tas.
"Well, see I thought you were someone else, cause you know its
kinda far down there, and while my eyes are very good, I obviously made
a mistake, see my friend didn't have armor like this, he was kinda
poor, but he was a good fighter.." Tas stumbled slightly over the word
fighter as the knight drew his sword. "Well, I see you're a busy man,
and I have a whole to dig." Tas grins and turns to go.
"Wait, Burrfoot." Tas turns at the sound of his name and tries to
recall if he remembered this man dropping something he might have
found, because now would be a great time to return it.
"Yess?" Tas twisted his hand nervously. He really wanted to find
out what the hole was for.
The knight pushed his sword point first into the ground and reached
for his helm. Slowly pulling it off, Tas glimpsed a sweat drenched
man.
"Whats the matter, you don't remember me?" Garren grins.
"Finally, I got YOU little buddy."
Tas stands there looking at his friend, a little dumbstruck, then
launches himself into the arms of his old friend.
"Garren!"
Tas
Garren
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Phantomstaler's voice echos from the deep pit. "Tas!! Where the hell
are you? we have to get hole finished by the end of the week!! I've
got plans!! Big plans!"
--Phantomstalker
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Ewokie runs up and down the beach, hopping around, looking particularly
furry.
Ewokie
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Liz hollers down to Phantomstalker.
"Hey! I might have a spell that could clear this out for ya!"
She opens her spellbook and begins to scan for hole-digging info.
Liz
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Ewokie runs behind Liz and pushes her into the hole with Phantomstalker
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out of nowhere, the mad hatter pushes ewokie in the hole also and madly
starts to fill it in before all can escape...phantonstalker starts to
get out, but a quick, sharp kick to the head ends all his plans...
the mad hatter
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Phantomstalker, particually pissed at the mad hatter, completly guts
him through his belly-button. Then he gives the remains to the
moderator of lev_society (SHERM) so that he can deal with the problem.
Phantomstalker, being the muscular man that he is, manages to save
Ewokie and liz from the unfinished pit. Gives Ewokie a passionate kiss
and then yells, "TAS!! Where the hell are you!?!"
--Phantomstalker
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...however, due to the afterlife, the mad hatter has himself
reincarnated in his old body...now, with a new, stronger body, he seeks
out the phantomstalker so that he can unleash his horrors upon him...
the mad hatter
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....But he never saw the new arrival standing behind him. Garren
swings his broadsword true, slicing off the mad hatters head. Garren
dispassionately proceeds to butcher the body, then burn it.
"A friend of Tas is a friend of mine. An enemy is my enemy also."
Garren sheathes his sword and stands over the pit.
"Hey everyone, this is my buddy Garren. Garren, that one there is
PhantomStalker, and the wench trying to read is Liz, and the small
furry thing is Ewokie." Garren nods to each in turn. "Now, what ya
need Phantomstalker?"
Tas
Garren
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Ghengis Khan and Einstein come over the hillock clapping at the
wonderful swordsplay.
Alison grimaces.
Sol returns, greeting his friends with a slight bow. He is dressed
in a skin-tight Light Blue outfit which covers his entire body. The
fabric is speckled through with silver, and he wears a ring around his
neck on a chain.
Sol takes out an apple and crunches away on it, looks at the blood,
shakes his head a little, then crunches again. He extends a hand to
Garren, then says, "I'm Sol."
Solenoid
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Garren notices Sol's disapproving look.
"It was him or three of them. So I decided him." Garren removes
his gauntlet and shakes Sol's hand. "How ya doin' today?"
Tas jumps in the pit and he and PhantomStalker begin a furious
digging pace. Soon, the pit is back to its original depth and moments
later beyond.
Tas
Garren
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Watching over his lands since the creation of Vaxlandia I, and now
Vaxlandia II, Sherm desides to make himself know to all.
After being called upon by the PhantomStalker, Sherm sees the
troubles being caused by the mad hatter, and banishes him from this
land.
"You are unable to enter Vaxlandia again. If you try, you will be
destroyed instantly, with no possible way to reincarnate yourself. The
Gods have spoken!!!"
With this, Sherm disappears into the mist which formed around him,
not to be seen again until called for...
Sherm :)
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Sol crunches the last of the apple and throws away the core. The
core vanishes, for there is no pollution in Paradise.
"Good to know you, Garren..."
"Unt I am Albert Einstein." says the Physisist. "It is a pleasure
to make your aquaintance."
Ghengis Khan scratches his butt. Then grunts something and shakes
Garren's hand.
"What a -jerk-" says PhantomStalker of the Hatter, as he and his
friends brush off what little sand remains.
"And there he is!" yells Tas, pointing to the top of the hill where
a tall man in a suit and top hat stands.
Garren charges his horse up the hill on horseback, majestically
waving his flail, followed by Ghengis Khan, Napoleon, Julius Caesar,
Tasslehoff Burfoot, and Bozo the Clown. Waving their pick-axes,
flails, clubs, swords, kitchen appliances, and slapsticks, they beat
the Hatter into a pulp.
"Hey! It's not the Mad Hatter!" shouts Tas, "It's President
Lincoln!"
Lincoln fumbles to his feet, straightening his fine hat. "Dear
me," he says, then flumps over.
"Oh, sorry," says Garren, "sorry."
-Well, at least it wasn't a total loss- contemplates Tas, as he
loses interest and skips away, -at least I found this cool pocket
watch.-
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after going through such a violent death...the essence of the mad
hatter floats freely around vaxlandia waiting (like the liquid
terminator in t2) to reorganize himself and rethink his
strategy...meanwhile parts of him take the forms of various creatures
around the island...learning more and observing until true knowledge is
gained when he will make his return once again...
the mad hatter
(truest apologies to old abe on the mixup...)
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A swirl of smoke and a small *boom* and the white ninja jumps down
from a tree, to land twenty feet from the destination that he had in
mind.
"Oops," he whispers. "I have returned, even though I am slightly
ragged around the edges."
He walks over to Tas and PhantomStalker, and calls them to stop their
furious digging.
"I have some stories to tell that you wouldn't believe. But first
whats say, we do some Hatter hunting. I'm an expert." He unsheaths
his might katana and winks at the foremantioned Tas and PhantomStalker.
The White Ninja
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Suddenly, out of nowhere appears this purple mass..... is it what
I think it is?,..... Yup. It's:
BARNEY THE PURPLE DINOSAUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Anyone wanna play hide and seek?" exclaims Barney, as he walks
towards the disbelieveing PhantomStalker. "This is be good to Dinosaurs
week, so no one can beat me up!"
Barney.... :)
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-BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ- -DIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ-
"What is that terrible noise?" exclaims PhantomStalker, as he and
Barney turn to their left.
The ground begins to tremble as suddenly, out of thin air, a blue
box with the words 'Police Box' written on its sides starts to
materialize near the hole. Its flashing red beacon show the awed faces
of the observers in great detail. "What now????" exclaims Tas.
The box materializes completely. After a minute of complete
silence which felt like an eternity, and weighted deep on everyones
souls, a door on one of the sides of the box began to open.
"Uggggghhhhhhhh!!! What did you do this time Professor? Where are
we, and look---- who are those people?" says a young girl looking no
more than 16 years old.
"Let me have a look Ace. By God, you are right,... there are
people here. They look peaceful enough,... let's talk to them!" With
that, the Professor bouts off to meet the islanders.
"That's what he said about the Daleks." murmmers Ace as she
reluctantly follows.
"Greetings! I am the Doctor, and this is my fine compainion Ace.
Say hello to them Ace,... Don't be shy now!"
"Hello folks. I see you are building a hole. I have some
explosives to make the job quicker...."
"Shutup Ace. Please excuse her,... she like to be destuctive at
times" Proclaims the Doctor as he steps in front of Ace....
"What kind of Doctor are you" asks Barney, "And what is your
name?"
"I am a doctor of everything. And I am Doctor Who."
"Who?"
"Exactly."
"No, I mean, what is your name?"
"I told you! Who!"
"You!"
"Me what?"
"AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" as Barney storms off.
"What's his problem?" says the doctor as he shrugs his shoulders.
Sherm
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with that, everyone turns to the see the sky swirl and twirl and the
mad hatter summons just a minute fraction of his power to form a bust
of him (complete with top hat and card reading "10/6" stuck in the
band) and with the sound of the best surround sound system in all of
vaxlandia, which sounds like it is actually in your head, the 40 foot
mouth opens and says...
"truce?"
the mad hatter
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There is a strange sound like the wind rushing past something and it
keeps on getting louder and louder. People are looking around, trying
to figure out where the sound is coming from. Suddenly a blur of
something that barely resembles a human being flashs past their eyes
from above and lands on the beach with a wet *THUD!* Everybody looks
down at this human now embedded deeply in the sand. As they look on,
the human stirs and realizes that he is stuck in the sand and struggles
to get himself unstuck. He manages to get up and looks at everybody
looking at him and grins sheepishly. He says, "I forgot to pull the
ripcord to open the parachute." Ewokie looks at this silly person and
realizes who he is and starts spreading the word around that The Joker
is HERE!
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"Wow, hi Joker!" says Alison, "You parachute too?" She runs over
to help him up. "You know, purple really -is- your color..."
Dazzler
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Liz hides in some nearby bushes.
"Barney the Purple Menace... How in Hades did he find this island? I
thought I had found safe haven. Barney Must Die." With that, she
pulls out her trusty bullwhip and begins to follow the hated beast's
tracks.
Liz
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"TRUCE!" Phantomstalker yells into the sky at the mad hatter. "I
forgive you for what you have done and I still wish to be your friend,
but don't do anything that will harm anybody else. As for coming back
to the island, you are gonna have to ask sherm."
Phantomstalker continues to dig and dig deeper and deeper with his
spade. Sweat pours from his body and his white T-shirt sticks to his
body allowing everyone to see his defined shape. "Just a few more
miles and I'll be done with this part..."
--Phantomstalker
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(oh stop you're turning me on :) )
Liz continues into the underbrush on the trail of the Purple Satan.
Suddenly, a flash of purple....
"Ah, there you are...." Liz lines up a shot and a high-pitched scream
rings out through the forest. Barney's genetalia lie twitching on the
ground, as does the hated beast.
"Die you putrid brainwashing scum!" she cries as she draws her dagger
and stabs him repeatedly. Purple blood soaks the ground. To insure
his death, Liz lops his head off and sets fire to the bloated purple
corpse.
"And that's lunch!" she sighs.
Liz the Barney-Slayer
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The White Ninja calmly puts his blade away, because the truce has
being, and also (more importantly) he doesn't want to scare the
Barney-slayer.....Not making any threatening moves, he wonders, "We
couldn't I have Barney's genitalia? Damn."
The White Ninja
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"Proffessor Einstein," asks Data, "I have a query."
"Please, please, proceed," says Einstein.
"If Barney is so anti-levity, as I am lead to believe, then how
could such a being exist at all in paradise?"
"Beats the patooski out of me," chuckles Albert, then throws a rock
into the sea.
Data
Einstein
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the mad hatter replies..."if i am not allowed to maim anyone, how come
liz is allowed to...since when was she given permission to kill
people???"
and then he asks sherm..."can i come back?? but if so, nobody should
be allowed to kill anybody...that would settle all these differences,
or everyone should be allowed to kill anyone"
the mad hatter
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"Yeah! Kill!" says Ghengis Khan.
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Sherm considers the inquery by the mad hatter. He ponders about it
for a few hours and comes up with a solution.
"You may return, mad hatter, so long as you keep your truce with
the fellow inhabitants of VAXLANDIA."
Thinking some more, Sherm now directs his voice towards Liz. "For
the slaying of Barney, you will be haunted by his ghost for the rest of
your life. That is the punishment for killing a dinosaur (however
annoying it might be) during Be Good To Dinosaur Week. If you would
have waited until next week, he would only have haunted you one day of
the year, on his birthday."
With that, the ghost of Barney appears to only Liz and says:
"Wanna play a game?"
Sherm
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"Sure... Let's play 'Massacre Barney Songs'....." Liz says to Barney's
ghost, then proceeds to sing....
"I love you... you love me.... Pedobestiality..."
Barney suddenly realizes that haunting Liz will be much more punishment
for him than it will for her, and vanishes in a cloud of purple smoke.
Rather than risk a return of the Purple Satan, Liz quickly packs her
bags and, with a hasty farewell to her dear friends, casts a spell and
vanishes from the tiny isle in a cloud of Pixie Stik smoke.
Liz
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Ewokie, dizzy from all the excitement taking place on the island, goes
off on her own. She walks into the woods and find a clear patch of
land. Thinking how beautiful the area is, she sighs. "Hey!" she
exclaims to no one in particular. "This is a great spot for a house!"
With that, she changes into overalls and a hat, and proceed to build
her dream house.
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All of a sudden, out of the TARDIS, all these snotty, zitty
teenagers pour out... between the ages of 12 and 16.
"Where's our Barney? You killed him! You killed him!"
PhantomStalker turns around, and his little beanie propellor hat
turns around and around. "Ahhhhh! Who are you?"
"We're the Society for the Preservation of Barney Society. We love
Barney." They're all waving little flags that say 'Barney Power' and
'World Peace Thru Barneyism.'
"What's going on??" shouts the Joker, "There IS no such Society."
"Not yet," corrects the Doctor, coming out of the shadows with Ace,
"These are the 3 and 4 year old children of today, as they will be
twelve years hence as influenced by this Purple Menace."
"Come on, guys," spouts the ringleader, "It's time for a moment of
Silence for Barney, our Martyr, struck down in his Prime back in 1993."
And they bow their heads in chanting.
"Barney, oh, you taught to those who did not hear, but we believe
in you. We heard your loving, happy words, you comforted us when we
were sad, you sang us songs and gave us attention when Ernie and Bert
wouldn't, fie on them!"
"A song!" says the girl with braces, "A song for our messiah!"
"A song! A song!" they shout in unison.
"I love you, you love me, we're a happy family... la la la, blah
blah blah la la la la blah blah blah"
"This is terrible!" shouts Sol, "Look what has happened! Look at
the reprecutions that came from one Un-Lev act! Even Barney!"
"He's our hero!" shouts the pencilneck.
"He's our martyr!" shouts the dork.
"He's our favorite friend in the whole world." says another.
"I'm afraid it gets much, much worse," says the Doctor. The TARDIS
hums and pulses again, and out comes a crowd of men and women wearing
suits and ties. They carry a banner that says "The BPD party" and
their mascot is a big purple dinosaur.
"We believe that the United States can be a place of happiness and
peace for everyone... a color TV in every home, so we can all watch
Barney all the time."
"Make way for the President!" someone shouts, and a man in a deep
purple suit walks out, waving a US flag, Red, White, and Purple.
"My fellow Americans, we are going to war today for a great
cause... those deprived people in 3rd World Southern France are being
deprived of Quality Barney Programming. Vice President Bop has
arranged an air-lift to deliver the necessary Video Aid to these
deprived citizens, but our efforts are blocked. The aid must go
through! We shall bring about a great New Earth... all nations united
under Barney, with Liberty and Justice for all!"
"Yay!" shouts the crowd, as the reporters swarm for questions.
"My friends, a moment of respect as we sing our national anthem..."
"I love you, you love me, Freedom Peace, and Unity, We're the home
of Barney, And the Land of the Free."
"Yay!" and propagandational cupcakes circulate throughout the
crowd.
"I'm afraid it isn't a pretty sight," says the Doctor.
50 years hence..?!?!
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....Loud clanging sounds emit from the deep pit...
--Phantomstalker
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the mad hatter, reappears on the island, and after shaken hands with
phantomstalker and only begun to realize his great plans, jumps in the
pit with him and says:
"so, what can i do to help?"
the mad hatter
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Ninja feeling very unloved and realizing a lot of the people on this
island, are selfish, and haven't gotten there priorities straight,
takes a nap.
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Einstein feels sad for Ninja and leaves a gift-wrapped slide-rule
as a welcome-back present for when Ninja wakes up.
Einstein
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The Doctor, realizing that this strange land isn't Pluto calls Ace
over to talk to her. "Where the heck are we?"
"I don't know Professor. Where did all those weird people come
from?" she asks.
"The TARDIS, but damned if I know how they got there." With that,
the Doctor walks to into the TARDIS, only to exit two minutes later
saying "It's empty Ace. Let's get the smeg outta here!"
"Ok Professor. Wait a sec." Ace runs to PhantomStalker and hands
him a silver container. "In here, is Nitrate 9. It is a powerful
explosive, and should make this job a heck of a lot easier."
"C'mon Ace!!! We ain't got all day! Time's a wasting."
They both enter the TARDIS and disappear just as they appeared
only hours ago.
Sherm
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Ewokie, working up a sweat working on her house, starts to feel funny.
She feels like someone on the island is sad, and she doesn't know why.
She puts down the monkey wrench she was fiddling with, and walks away
from the house down a narrow patch of road. As she continues to walk,
she trips over something. That something is the White Ninja, taking a
nap right where everyone can trip over him and thus risk breaking the
neck. She shakes him and as he slowly awakens with a twinge of morning
breath, she hugs him
"Welcome back my fellow friend!"
The White Ninja, obviously happy that someone cared to welcome him
back, grins broadly. They sit and talk about the summer...and about
vcr's.
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vampiress woke up from a daymare (yep.. a daymare...) and realizes
that she must come into society.. so.. she got her masks displayed
at the vaxlandia gallery, making sure that all the citizens at
vaxlandia attends, since the masks represents their personlities...
.. she's been watching them for the past 10 years.. so..
:F'' vampiress :F''
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The White Ninja stands up and brushes his form fitting white cotten
pants and shirt off, and decides to show his appreciation to Ewokie.
He then jumps ten feet in the air and grabs a convienantly located
apple from the convienantly located apple tree. He then pulls out a
bowl and his katana and proceeds to make the best tasting apple sauce
in the world. Then when he lands back on the ground, (hehehe) he
presents the gift to Ewokie, then bowing at the waist, saying merely:
"Thank you."
The White Ninja
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Tas comes up behind Whitey and his applesauce and taps him on the
shoulder.
"Do you know what a white ninja is?" Tas grins manically. "Now I
know why you slipped."
Tas
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Suddenly, a large hole opens in the ground, and an unkempt man with
filthy clothes and a beard the size of Rhode Island steps out. He
looks around, trying to get his bearings. (They fell out of his pocket
when he slipped on the last step. *DRUM FILL*)
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A small dot on the horizon gradually becomes larger and larger,
materializing into a large pirate ship. The ship pulls in close, and
those on shore see a small lifeboat with a red-clad figure lower slowly
to the water.
"Farewell, Nor! Thank you so much for the ride! Until we meet again!"
the figure in the boat yells in an Irish brogue to the people on the
ship, who wave in return. The pirate ship reverses its course and
heads back to whence it came, and the lifeboat pulls up to the shore.
Out hops a young woman with golden brown hair and tanned skin, clad in
an off the shoulder red dress and a tight black bodice. From her hip,
a red leather whip and a single red silk rose swing softly with her
swaying gait.
"Greetings, good gentles all..." she says a bit uncertainly to the
congregation on the beach, sizing them all up and thinking _Methinks I
am not in Ireland anymore!_
Doireann the Wanderer
Wench for Hire
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All the teenagers from the Society for the Preservation of Barney
Society are off somewhere senselessly beating a little orange man and a
little yellow man.
"Bert, Bert, make them STOP, Bert, make them STOP!"
"I can't, Ernie... this is YOUR fault..."
"ERNIE?" squeals one of the Barnyists, "What does Ernie mean?"
"No, no," says another, "It's A'rney... that's short for
Anti-Barney!"
The crowd goes nuts.
"Barney?" asks Ernie, "who's Barney?"
"Blasphamey! Treasonous Liar!" they shout.
"Oh, you mean Barney the Purple ^%$#," says Bert, "I mean... oops."
"BURN!" yells the crowd, "BURN THE EVIL ANTI-BARNEYs!"
They tie Ernie and Bert to 2 large metal poles, and start a
bonfire. They burn Bert's Pigeons one at a time, forcing him to
watch.
"Die, Birds of Evil, Die, Die!" they chant, waving their pagan
Barney symbols of worship.
"We must have a Sacrifice to the Great Barney," shouts the Purple
Shaman, "Sacrifice of the Unbelievers who rob his time-slot!"
"SACRIFICE! SACRIFICE!" shouts the crowd.
They set the kindle ablaze, as poor Ernie and Bert just stare in
terror.
The End?!?
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Suddenly, out of the yellow, comes..
"I love you
You love me
We're a happy family"
He goes up and unties Bert and Ernie...
The filthy man walks down the beach, picking up bearings.
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Suddenly, the newcomer hears cries of terror.
"Saints preserve us!" she cries and dashes towards the sounds. She
sees the struggling men and in one smooth motion draws and throws a
dagger from her bodice. The dagger snaps the rope and Bert and Ernie
are liberated, quickly dashing off to safety.
"You beasts!" she cries in anger. "How could you do such a thing?
Twasn't very nice, you realize. Is there no good left in these lands?"
The angry mob seems chastened by this statement, as they vaguely
recall the words of their despicable deity, Barnabus... I mean Barney.
Doireann
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Just then Sam Becket leaps into Houdini...
His parter on his quantum leap journey appears in his familiar
alpha wave transmit holographic image only visable to Al..
" What am I here to do Al.." Sam asks. "Ziggy says there is a 98%
chance your mission here is to save Ernie's life." Al says with a
certain look on his face.
"But, Al we can not let Barneyism take over the future.. it could mean
the end of Project Quantum Leap!"
" I will keep you posted..lay low for now Sam.... remember you are
suposed to be Houdini alias Bryan Cummings a Early 21st century
programer who helps the Solenoid create Lal. "
"Yes I know Al... their research helped us some 30 years later
create Ziggy.. . very well I shall keep you posted."
With that Al punches a few buttons on his holl-controler and
disappears from Sam's view..
Houdini is in the waiting room.
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Suddenly the sky darkens. Ablinding flash of blue light tears the
sky in two, and a lone figure appears as the clouds darken the sky.
It is jou-day - a wizard of untold powers, infinite knowledge and
extremely bad taste in clothes.
"ENOUGH!" he shouts in a voice filled with rage.
"This foolishness will cease - immediately!"
"You should all be ashamed of yourselves, fearing evil from a
childs first fantasy. Where has all of this come from? Do you really
believe that Barney could possibly cause permanent damage to this or
any other world?"
Jou-day rests on his staff and is met with only silence.
"Think about it, did Big Bird, however silly, cause any permanent
damage to the children of the 70's? Or Elmo for that matter? And how
long-reaching was the powers of Howdy-Doody in the 50's? Of course the
message of Barney is trite and childlike, that's exactly the intent!
You're no longer children and your cynicism has twisted your thoughts -
should this also happen with the children, too? Must they begin their
lives in fear, never learning the magic of fantasy that you all
learned? Do you think any of you would be here inhabiting such a
magical place as this, had you not learned fantasy?
"I will take Barney, Bert and all the rest back to the world of
children where they belong. Leave them be, never bring them back to
this place, and let the children grow up in hope. There will be time
enough for them to learn the cold, hard truths of their world."
Another bolt of lightning tears through the sky and Jou-day
disappears with Barney and all of the associated childrens friends with
him. ("god, I just love these huge exits & entrances" the wizard
exclaims as the smoke dissapates off onto the horizon.)
jd
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"Praise be that that mess is all over with!" Doireann brushes her
hands off on her skirt and walks back towards the assemblage on the
beach.
"Greetings! My name is Doireann the Wanderer, professional itinerant
and apprentice Wench to Katriona of the Groves. And who might you be?"
Doireann
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"Hi, Doireann, I'm Solenoid. Good t' meet ya," he tips his glasses
in greeting, "And these are my friends..."
"Einstein...." "Halo"
"Ghengis Khan..." "Grrrmmph"
"Abe Lincoln..." "A pleasure, ma'am"
"Joan of Arc..." "I'm Noah's wife"
"Napolean Bonapart..." (has his hand in his coat)
"Bozo the Clown," "honka honka"
"Mister Data..." "It is good to meet you."
"Alison Blaire..." "Hi," she smiles.
"Plato..." "(something greek)"
"and my very good friend, Superman." "Hi. I'm dead."
Sol & the Gang
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ADMIN - (Superman died and went to LEV)
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"Hello Doireann," replies The Joker. The Joker walks up to her and
whispers in her ear, "I do know who you are. Don't worry - I will keep
your true identity secret." The Joker steps back and then proceeds, as
if nothing was spoken in secrecy, to walk off to look for a plane to
attempt the most difficult parachute manuever which involves the rip
cord. To be continued......
The Joker
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the advertisements of display of masks in the museum are posted
everywhere.. lying around vaxlandia.. impatient for these people or
whoever to show up.. cuz vampiress is plotting something..
including matchmaking..
soon.. liz finds the ads... and thinks.. 'hmm.. interesting..
wait til the others hear about this..!!'
>vampiress<
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Always being up for being tested, The White Ninja decides to stick
his head in a perverbial noose, and go see the masks that are on
display in the museum. He walks to up the sidewalk, just off the north
beach, and approaches the huge iron double doors.
The White Ninja
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(Neat trick, Vamp, since Liz is in an alternate dimension.)
Doireann looks terribly confused at the Joker's statement. Suddenly,
realization dawns.
"Oh dear.... does Liz live here?"
Doireann
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"Liz used to live here," says Sol, holding his head low, "but she
left the island not 3 days past..." He looks over his shoulder. "But
her mountain is still here... I shall show you where she lived.
Perhaps you can stay there."
Sol motions for her to follow. The two, accompanied by a few
curious tagalongs, make their way through the forest to the mountain.
Her house is very quaint, very Liz-like, and sits in a little niche a
short ways up. Or is it a long ways? The house slides up and down the
mountain as Sol fights to decide. -It only has a certain location when
Liz is here,- thinks Sol.
The house settles and decides to be somewhere halfway between the
mid-point and the quarter-way point in the Golden Section of the
mountain. Sol smiles, satisfied at the extreme aesthetics of the
house's positioning.
He motions with a hand, as if to say, "please... after you."
They approach the house, and Sol tests for the rainbow-trap. But
apparently, it is gone.
Sol knocks, and calls for Liz. Of course, she's not in. "Well, it
never hurts to try," he tells Doireann.
They open the door. The first room looks similar to before, a
little disorderly... just enough to prove it had been lived in.
Artwork napkins and other masterpieces hang on the walls, but Sol
realizes that all the best ones are gone... -she must have taken those
with her,- he thinks.
They go in and sit in the Beanbags. Doireann appears to like the
place as far as Sol can tell. "I suppose it would be okay for you to
stay here until she comes back. -I hope she comes back,- considers
Sol.
The Joker is outside picking all the flowers out of Liz's garden
and trying to stick them in his lapel.
Ghengis Khan eats the ones the Joker doesn't want.
Sol yells at everyone to please behave.
Sol puts two fingers to his temple and closes his eyes. -Liz,- he
thinks, -where are you now? If you can hear me, know that the trouble
is over, and that all the Barney stuff is done. Please come back.-
He listens briefly for a response, then eats some chips.
Sol &
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Liz, drifting upon a magenta cloud in Dimension 158-B, is bored.
And NOTHING is more dangerous than a bored kender.
However, her mischief has left her. She is too bloody homesick.
As a single tear rolls down her cheek as she recalls her happy times in
VAXlandia, she feels a message from Sol approaching. Since time and
space mean nothing for true friendship, the message hits her like a bat
outta Hell (almost knocking her off the cloud).
"Wait a sec... I'm being missed, I hate this place, and I'm STILL
HERE???" She ponders the illogic of this mess, then snaps her
fingers...
....and finds herself on her rear in the middle of what is left of her
garden.
"What the heck is going on here??!?!?!?!?!?"
Liz
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The Joker smiles a giant, happy grin, and Ghengis Khan just stands
there staring with flowers oozing out of his mouth.
"Liz!" says Sol, running outside and giving her a big hug, "Awww,
Liz, great t' see ya back!"
Liz forgets the flowers for a moment, and greets Sol.
Ghengis Khan runs off to hide.
"Sorry about the mess... my friends just have a flare for the
strange and unusual, I guess..."
Sol
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Sam Becket, still in the body of Houdini realizes his mission was over
before it started..
"Why didn't I leap?" Sam thought to himself. "Al where are you?"
Sam runs through the forest.. he notices there is a small patch of
what appears to be mushrooms.
"Food." Sam says outloud to nobody. He then proceeds to head off in
that direction.
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"So what else is new???" she says with a laugh, hugging Sol in return.
Her joyous homecoming is interrupted by a familiar voice from behind.
"Lass... is't you?"
Liz freezes.
"Doireann?" She whirls to face her. The two do look remarkably alike.
After a moment of surprised silence, Liz squeaks joyously and embraces
Doireann. The two laugh and hug for a few minutes.
"Ohmigod! I haven't seen you in SOOOOOooooo long! How's Nor?"
The two wommen chat and head inside. Sol follows, wondering what the
heck is going on.
Liz
Doireann
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Deciding that silence would serve better, Sol sits and sips a cup of
Earl Gray that was suggested to him by a good friend.
Sol
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Liz and Doireann plunk down on beanbag chairs.
"I recieved your message requesting that I attempt to find this place
and look after your friends for you... I was surprised when they
thought I WAS you!" She laughs, tossing her long brownish hair back.
Liz echos the motion as she laughs.
"Yeah... I guess we DO look a little bit alike... Oh well, no matter.
So, you wanna hang around a bit... I'll introduce you around. I see
you've met Sol... cool guy, huh? Let's see... the wierdo trying to
plant my garden on himself is the Joker..."
"Yes... He thought I was you!"
"He did? Funky!" She pauses. "Let's roam about and see who we can
find! To the beach!" Liz cries and leads the charge, leaving only the
mess she calls home behind.
Liz
Doireann
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Sol runs down after them, and Joker too.
As soon as they leave, Ghengis Khan comes back out of the bushes
and starts eating the flowers again.
GK
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The Joker decides that it's time to scram and head for the plane to
attempt parachuting again. "Must remember to pull the ripcord this
time," muses The Joker. The Joker takes off to escape from Sol and
reality known as Vaxlandia. To be continued....
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since nobody seemed interested in seeing her "display" of masks that
represents all their personalities (vamp has been watching for more
than two months by now..) she decides to hook up a wicked plan with a
witch.. then disappears into the night..
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NightBird leans against the wall in a darkened corner of her pagoda.
Her hands twitch slightly, and her breath is a shallow whisper within
her throat. Her Mind's Eye darts across the island, taking in the
pathetic scene with the Barney cult of the future, the arrival of the
Wench, The White Ninja, The Joker, and Vampiress. Her Mind's Eye
reaches out farther and farther, streaking towards the far edge of the
Island. Her Mind's Eye hovers over a secluded clearing, the site of
one of her older pagodas... one of her older fantasies, it would seem.
A voice floats up to her Mind's Eye on the gentle sea breeze... a clear
tenor full of emotion... a voice that is painfully familiar to her.
Her Mind's Eye glides towards the source of the voice, and NightBird
casts her Shadow as to blend with the shadows within the secluded
pagoda. The effort is strenuous to her, and she feels her body
weakening with every moment she remains, but she must see the man to
whom the voice belongs one last time.
The song abruptly ends and a tall figure in a flowing black cape walks
toward her Shadow. "I know you are near, NightBird," the voice says
quietly, "I always know when you are near."
A soft, strangled cry escapes her lips back at her pagoda as
NightBird's suspicion is confirmed. ^Erik, I somehow knew I would find
you again^ her thought was but a whisper within the man's head, but a
clear whisper that causes an involuntary sigh to escape his lips. It
is a sigh filled with pain and yearning... echoing the emptiness and
loneliness within his heart. A tear falls slowly from NightBird's eye
as her Shadow wavers a bit unsteadily.
^I haven't much time...^ the whisper came to him again, notably weaker
this time.
"Please, don't strain yourself on my account," Erik says, the bitter
sarcasm all but dripping from his tongue.
The Shadow wavers again, almost fading out for a moment, as NightBird
reacts physically from his harsh words. A look of concern flickers
momentarily across Erik's face, but as he sees the Shadow
re-materialize, the look of vague indifference returns. ^I deserved
that, I know,^ came the whisper, faded now until it was almost inaudible
^Shall I return, or do you wish me to forget I found you?^
Erik offers a snarling grin and turns his back with a dramatic wave
of his cape. He turns slightly, his back still facing her, and says,
"Found me? Found ME? You never _lost_ me! You remember good and well
where this pagoda is... I stay close to this pagoda now... I haunt it
now, very much like I used to haunt the Opera House... you never lost
me... you only tried to forget me..." With that, the tall man walks
slowly towards door. He stops short of the door and lays a trembling
hand on the frame. His shoulders droop and his head lowers like that
of a defeated man, and he leaves.
The shadow fades away and NightBird's Mind's Eye streaks across the
sky, back towards her pagoda. Her Mind joins once again with her body,
and she struggles against the wall, trying to stand. The exaustion of
her Seeking and the pain of his bitter words are too much, and she
collapses on the floor, crying and trembling violently. She stays that
way for hours, until all her tears are spent, and she gives in to the
exhaustion and drifts off to sleep. Above her, a glowing white
half-face appears in the window, reflecting the bright full moon that
had risen while she wept. The figure steps silently into the pagoda
and gently lifts her from the floor, then carries her to her bed. He
covers her with a thin blanket, and turns to go... but pauses. He
stares momentarily at the sleeping NightBird and sighs, then reaches
out a trembling hand to softly stroke her cheek. "Shall I ever bring
anyone anything more than pain? You, who have given me nothing but
compassion and understanding... perhaps even love--- and look at all
the pain I give you in return." He sighs again and turns to leave,
pausing once again to leave something on a nearby table. He silently
steps out into the night and returns to his empty pagoda.
On the table sits a perfect red rose in a delicately blown crystal
vase. Lying next to vase is a piece of parchment, rolled and sealed
with a curious coat of arms imprinted in the wax. One of the corners
is slighty folded open to reveal a few bars of sheet music.
NightBird
Erik
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[that must have taken a week to write.]
The filthy man, after collecting all his bearings, goes into the shower
area... When he comes out again, he has shaved, showered, and put his
bearings into the jar he had carried under his coat.
it's
it's
it's
it's
it's
TLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
HE'S BACK!!!!!!
After the journey to the center of the Earth, he knows things mortal
men weren't supposed to know... good thing he's not mortal! :)
TLD
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[ADMIN]: actually, it took about 1 1/2 hours to write, cause people
kept wanting to talk to me... ;)
when i get inspired, nothing can move fast enough for me to get all my
ideas out, save for a microcassette recorder or something :)
NB
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(great job!)
Doireann and Liz walk along the beach.
"I've had a wondrous time here... really, 'tis true. But you know as
well as I that I do not belong in this land," Doireann says with a sad
sigh.
"I know. You belong back in the realms of Anachronism... it's your
home, as much as VAXlandia is mine. I will miss ya though."
"And I shall miss you." The two women embrace a final time, then
Doireann prepares herself nervously for the trip back.
"You are sure this will work, lass?"
"Oh sure... do it all the time!!!" Liz says offhandedly and prepares
the magic phrase that will send her friend home. With a whoosh and a
sprinkle of gold dust and parrot feathers, Doireann finds herself
whisked back to the Corpus Pellagius and Liz finds herself alone once
more.
Liz
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But Liz is not alone....her friend with the nice large katana is
always around watching everyone in lev, except for when they go in the
Pub, it seems that he looses his interest in there. But as he walks up
behind the kendor, he clears his throat, knowing that it is a bad idea
to scare one.
"Umm, Liz. Wanna go be mischievous together? I'm sure that we could
find something.....fun to do."
The White Ninja
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Liz turns around, a wry smile on her lips.
"Excuuuse me?"
Liz
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"heehehehe, I've heard things about furry kendors, and Tas just
doesn't do anything for me."
I back up a little fearing the wrath of the furball. :)
The White Ninja
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"Who you callin' furry, Whitey???" Liz asks, then dives into the water
in a huff. The White Ninja mopes off, looking for another skirt to
chase.
Liz
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The White Ninja being hopelessly misunderstood, then prosecuted for a
misunderstanding goes to plan a little something....like explosive
bakery goods.
The White Ninja
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Liz swims down the beach a ways, scoping around to see who is about.
Liz
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Sol is standing atop a sand-dune with a conch in his hand. He holds it
high for all to see.
"My friends, I need you back where you belong now." All his
shadow-selves swarm around the dune.
The sky is rolling with fire.
Ghengis Khan and Bozo the Clown do sommersaults. Mister Data and
Einstein sway in step. Superman flies in the clouds avoiding the
lightning.
"Return to me!" shouts Sol, his voice like a command.
Mister Data and Plato join hands. "I know now why there is
emotion," says Data in wonder.
"And I understand what a Quark is," says Plato, in perfect English.
Bozo the Clown stops dead in his tracks. Einstein becons him.
"This isn't appropriate," realizes Bozo, "I have my responsibilities
now."
"Hoo hoo," says Einstein, "the atom -is- like a bunch of balloons!"
The storm rises as Sol holds the Conch.
A crack opens in the sky, and Little Banjo, Sonja, Liu Kang,
Batman, a canary, BoozeFlingin' Mike, MinkBeatin' Raph, Uncle
McTaggert, and Stanley Spadowski come tumbling through to the sand.
"AAAAAA!" shouts Ghengis Khan.
"aaaaaa!" shouts Spiffy Ninja.
The Turtles fly and fly, merging into a big, green glob.
Little Banjo just swears and swears, then the words escape him and
he starts to yell, "HwwwAAAHHHH!" instead.
"This is not logical," states Spiffy matter of factly.
Ghengis Khan and Batman do the Tango before slamming into each
other and becoming confetti. The confetti spirals down into the conch.
Sol's eyes light up, as if under a blacklight.
Superman starts to wimper and cry. "I'm not invulnerable," he
mutters, then, wiping his nose on his cape, lands next to Sol and fades
into him.
The sky lets loose a lava-lamp rain which falls slowly to the
ground.
With one last blast, all the shadow-selves go immaterial, changing
shape and color as they merge into one, pulsing, conscious, sentient
cloud.
"We understand now," says the cloud.
"Then you are ready to come home," says Sol.
He places the Conch at his feet, closes his eyes, and claps his
hands (which sound like Thunder). The cloud spirals into the conch
like water down a drain, then explodes into a hundred tiny spheres,
which circle in orbit around Sol who is glowing. They get ever tighter
and faster in their orbit, until all at once, they converge upon him
and all is as it was before.
Except for a scorch-mark on the ground. But Sol is unharmed, and
stands up, proud now. He looks upon the land, and he smiles.
Sol
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Ewokie returns to her house and continues building.
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TLD, knowing a lot more than the average person, looks at Sol
wondering what just happened. He had been gone so long, he doesn't
comprehend how large the effect of what he has just seen will have on
him.
TLD
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the mad hatter looks at phantomstalker and says..."so what happened
with the hole???"
the mad hatter
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The White Ninja suddenly phases out of existance, in a blinding flurry
of opposing lightness and darkness. He reappears in.....
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Everybody hears the faint sound of choppers in the distance.
Phantomstalker climbs out of his hole and looks around. Within
moments, Two sea-stallion typ choppers accompanied bye 3 comanchis rise
over the hill and land before Phantomstalker. A figure wearing
airforce fatigues walks out and up to Phantomstalker. the five minuite
conversation could not be heard under the din of the noise.
Phantomstalker turns and yells, "I have to go." Within seconds,
Phantomstalker boards a sea-stallion and flies away.
--Phantomstalker
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O.K., all. This is my last time on the vax until next
Sunday...so...start the bombardment of posts! I'll let cha guys know
how high it gets to....
BloOdShEd
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he reappears in.....(the movie) "Bikini Girls from Mars". Believing that
he has finally made it to heaven, since there are no men on mars, he
promptly has a mild heart attack, but is quickly revived by the
multitudes of teeming women. He is nursed back to health, and without
touching any women (except for the really cute one, but she kissed him
first), he decides that it would be risking his perfect body, the
exhustion would probably kill him, he phases back to Vaxlandia.
But he keeps the paradise in mind, if he ever wants a vacation.
The White Ninja
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ok all.. vampiress says goodbye to the town of vaxlandia since she saw
nothing there for her there.. although she thought she'd fit in.. but
thought wrong..
>vampiress<
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Sol puts a hand on Vampiress' shoulder as she turns to go...
"Please... forgive our seeming negligence... but mask-making can be
a very... personal affair. I did not wish to disturb... and hope
you'll stay... we still have castles to build and holes to dig and
mountains to turn into crystal."
Sol picks up the Mask that represents him... "Not a bad likeness,"
he considers...
He tilts his head and gives Vampiress a jocular grin. Then gently
puts the mask back in its place.
Sol
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"no... it's your mask for the mardi gras.. for a price.. "
says the vampiress to sol..
>vampiress<
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Sol smiles. It's a nice mask.
"How much?" asks Sol.
Sol
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NightBird's sleep is restless as images of a dark cloaked figure in
a glowing white mask haunt her dreams. Melancholic notes of
heart-wrenching melodies pierce her soul, causing her to sob softly
into her pillow. Over and over, dreams of the forlorn figure in the
pagoda march through her mind until she can't take it anymore.
She wakes with a start and looks around the room feeling lost andd
confused. As she regains her senses, she sighs heavily and swings her
legs over the side of the bed. She pauses for a moment, wondering how
she got into bed. The last thing she remembers is lying on the floor,
crying.
With a light shake of her head, she stands up and wavers slightly
from the sudden head rush. Once her head clears, NightBird dons her
armor plates and cape and heads for the door. Sitting on the table by
the door is a red rose in a crystal vase and a rolled up parchment.
She grabs the parchment with trembling hands and breaks the familiar
seal. It is sheet music... in Erik's script.
She hums the melody and reads the lyrics... the most beautiful
poetry she has ever read. The words speak of love, the fear of a love
lost forever, the self-hate felt from inflicting pain, the hope that
there's still a chance for forgiveness. NightBird smiles and looks out
into the night, a tiny tear gliding slowly down her cheek.
Moments later, NightBird is flying along a tracker trail in her
ATV, headed out towards the secluded pagoda at the far edge of the
island. Two hours later she arrives, and pauses before climbing off of
her ATV. She jumps at the sound of rustling leaves, then berates
herself out loud for being so edgy. One of her younger 'raptors pokes
its head out from the greenery and growls happily. She smiles and
holds out her hand, motioning for the 'raptor to come to her.
The 'raptor nuzzles against her as she absent-mindedly strokes its
jaw. Erik steps slowly from behind the curtain of rainforest andd
smiles at her. "You always did have a way with the wilder and more
dangerous creatures here," he says in a slightly self-mocking tone...
NightBird the psychokinetic mercenary
Erik the Phantom of the Pagoda
Marcão the adolescent velociraptor
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The Joker boards the plane in full skydiving equipment. He sits inside
and waits for the plane to take off.....
To be continued
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"hmm... the price, sol, is not the money.. you must be at peace
with yourself... i sense a dark secret your hiding.. and whatever it
is.. you'll have to make it better for yourself... ", says the
vampiress.
Sol's face is serious now as he asked.. " how did you know i have
this terrible secret..? i didn't tell anyone.. even my closest
freinds.."
vampiress smiles as she put her cold hand on his shoulder,
reassuring him.. "i sense it.. and it's really deep.. it will take
a while for you to feel truely happy with yourself.."
sol smiles at his new friend.."how will i know if i'm truely
happy.. if i don't notice..? "
vampiress tells honestly.." look at your mask.. it represents
your personality.. here you see a quiet, shy and unhappy young man..
your moods and personality changes how your mask looks.. but treat
it well.. it's a truely unique peace of work.. "
..vampiress
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Sol delicately takes the mask, thanking her. "I shall do as you
ask... wish me luck that I may succeed."
He is ready to turn and continue his mucking-about, but then thinks
better. He comes back, and his face still contemplative, asks,"Where
is your mask?"
Sol
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TLD, still watching Sol for the answer to his question, also niticed
that Vampiress didn't have a mask of herself. Knowing little about
vampires, he surmises she is WEARING the mask; because her face was not
white, as a vampire's is usually colored.
TLD
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The plane's engines start to grow louder as the pilot goes to full
throttle to take off. The Joker fidgets around and nervously fingers
the ripcord as the plane continues to climb and climb and climb...After
a while, The Joker is getting dizzy from lack of oxygen and decides to
ask the pilot just why he is climbing even higher. The Joker gets up
and falls down and in horror, realizes that he is sliding towards the
open door. The Joker slides through the door and starts screaming for
help.....Because the ripcord got cut off during the slide. The Joker
twists around to look at Vaxlandia as it grows exponentially larger as
The Joker plummets at 200 mph....
To be continued
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Liz looks up at the airplane flying overhead and realizes that
something fell out.
"Yo, Joker! You're doin' it wrong!!!" she yells. Figuring that he is
indeed a distance away, she waves a hand and slows his rate of speed to
a pleasant float. She beckons, and he floats near her, above the
water.
"I said, you were doing it wrong. Pull the ripcord BEFORE you hit the
ground!" She smiles, then removes the spell. He hits the water with a
splash.
Liz
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[ADMIN]: attention all you vaxlandians!!! I have embarked upon a
journey... a geographic journey. i am in the process of drawing a map
of Vaxlandia. Actually, i have the map drawn and currently am
designating areas that people have claimed as their own (ie myself,
liz, and sol). If anyone else would like some beach-front property or
a little chateau in the mountains, please let me know... if i'm around,
i'll even show you the map... if not, just describe the place and i'll
try and find a suitable area on the map(ie Sol's description of his
fave place to be).
Some points of interest on Vaxlandia:
Phantom Point
Praxian Falls
Sierra Vaxlandia
Gulf of Endar
Lake Pookie
Capital City (that's the name, not the function... the only urban
area to be found on the island
Lev Harbor
Knife's Edge Penninsula
Road of Kendr
Merchant's Road
Tracker's Trail
The 'Raptor Pen
NightBird
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And my place..... It is always of interest!
(Well, to me anyways! And those who would defoliate it....)
Liz
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Garren stands on the beach, over looking the pit. Now that
construction has stopped, for who knows how long, Tas climbs out.
"Well, I guess we'll never know." Tas shakes his head. It was the
most beautiful pit Tas had ever seen. But something had to be done
with all the excavavted sand, and Tas had an idea. Grinning manically,
Tas screams.
"EVEN BETTER THAN BEFORE!" Tas runs off excitedly to find DS.
Garren looks around. The beach was nice and all, but an Englishman
like himself prefers the deep thick forests that cover his homeland.
Gazing around, Garren spies a mountain range that appears to be
surrounded by woods. Gathering his assorted weaponry, Garren mountains
Justin, his trusty horse and moves off towards the towering peaks.
Tas
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the mad hatter too leaves the pit and heads for the beach for a swim
with all his fish friends...no one notices that he doesn't seem to
surface for air...he can do this because he has decided (through
special genetic engineering and his own imagination) to grow some gills
right on the sides of his neck and has webbed his feet and grown a
dorsal fin...he decides to hang out in his haven for a while...
the mad hatter
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The White Ninja looks for someone to play with.
The White Ninja
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The Joker crawls out of the water and shakes himself dry. He ponders
Liz's suggestion and decides that bungee jumping is more simpler. The
Joker goes off to find NB to ask her where the bridges are.....
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DS walks out of the jungle just in time to be run down by Tas as
he is looking for him. (DS is in a human sized dragon form)
"What's up, Tas" he asks, getting back up and brushing the sand off.
Dragon Strike
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Sol waves to his old friend, Dragon Strike, who he has also not seen in
these parts for a long while...
"Hey! DS! Long time no see!" He thanks Vampiress for her
wonderful mask, bids her well.
"I look forward to the Mardi Gras," he says, "Please keep me
posted."
He runs off to tell the others that Vampiress has made masks for
everyone.
Sol
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vampiress enters her castle with grace.. moving as though she's
dancing.. her dress ripping about, as if they're her wings..
she got into her room, and saw the walls covered with her drawings of
the scenic places of vaxlandia.. as well as those citizens she did to
prepare her masks..
she walked up to her mirror.. took off her mask and her cape...
and saw her skin.. "oh.. if only i'm mortal... i've fed on the
blood i've paid from the blood bank.. but if only there's a way to be
mortal.. "
she remembered her lover she had before she became a vampire..
his name was david.. he died in her arms after a brave fight as a
viking.. vampiress then sighs..
Vampiress..
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Tas jumps up and down excitedly.
"Its Glass Castle time!" Tas points across the bay, to a peice of
beach that juts out into the water quite aways.
"I want it right there!" Tas hurries off and starts construction.
Garren, meanwhile, happens upon Lake Pookie. Deciding to head
north, Garren soon finds himself in a dense forest. After several
hours of slow progress, Garren realizes he has been followed. Sitting
up in the saddle quickly, Garren gazes about. But his hunters aren't
hiding anymore.
From every direction, at least one wolf strode from the forest.
Big wolves. Garren reached for his sword. Every wolf stopped as one
and started a low, base growl that sent shivers up his spine.
'Draw your sword human, and you will be dead before it clears the
sheath.' Garren wasn't sure if he heard the voice or not, but looking
into the large Grey's eyes, he knew it to be true. Moving his hand
away, the wolves relaxed.
"So I am here. WolfenWood."
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(Killer Wolvess??? Egaaah!)
Sol is off in his circle, overlooking the ocean as he practices his
Yoga. -Inhale- thinks Sol, -Exhale-. He clears his mind, lets go of
his body's perception of exertion, and lets the exercises become
unconscious.
He looks out at the sea and percieves nothing... only that it
exists, and nothing more.
Sol relaxes his body, feet, ankles, shins, knees, hips... all the
way up as his instructor showed him. He moves not at all, just allows
the tension to drain out of him as he lies in the grass
and just -is-.
-aaaahhhh,- he thinks, and smiles at the sky.
Sol
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** Okay... Now my part... **
TLD looks about him and decides to go exploring, as he has never really
gone anywhere (except in spirit) in VAXLandia. He comes upon a dark
forest that noone had entered (because everyone except DS was too
scared, and DS had no want to go in.) He goes in, just to look around;
and comes upon a beautiful lake with a small canyon right above it. He
looks around, and notices that it had NEVER BEEN TOUCHED except by
nature and it is magnificent. He decides he wants to stay there for
good, and since noone saw him enter the forest, noone knew he was
there; so nobody could bother him... He begins to collect wood for a
small fire. In looking for the wood, he finds a small outlet that
leads out to the ocean. The view is magnificent, and he now wishes he
had someone to share the view with him. He finishes his fire and rests
for the night, thinking about how his house was going to look... he
wants it to fit into the scenery, and not interrupt it's beauty; but he
wants it to be eccentric, also...
TLD
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He awoke, finding himself sprawled out onto the ground. He could
feel the sharp points of pine needles sticking into his chest, and as a
sharp gust of wind blew past, he realized he had no clothing on.
Muscles screaming in protest, he rose off the dirt bed on which he
lay. As he stood, the throbbing soreness in his muscles became more
acute. Hurt and confusion clouded his mind as he turned slowly to view
his surroundings.
The moon had just crept over the mountians to the left, beginning
its journey across the heavens. It's dim light illuminated the forest
around him. In every direction he saw trees of all kinds, rising up
out of the earth to reach to the sky, spreading their leaves in a
massive canopy which blanketed the ground below. The moonlight
filtering through the leaves cast eerie shadows upon the ground near
his feet, changing and flittering about as the trees overhead swayed
gently in the cool breeze which flowed past.
Still, the images the stranger saw were foreign to him. As the fog
clouding his thoughs drifted away, he was unable to fathom how or why
he was standing there. Turning into the breeze, he tipped his head
back and inhaled deeply.
The air was rich with dozens of familiar smells, as well as some
others which he was unable to recognize. In the distance, he made out
the scent of fresh water. Sensing the dryness of his mouth, he headed
in the direction the water scent was coming from and started to run.
It felt good to run; to stretch out the kinks and aches that sat
idle in his body. The familiar feel of the ground contacting with his
feet was comforting; making him feel more at ease. His passage through
the forest was quick and silent. The leaves and branches that littered
the ground seemed to make no protest at all as he sailed over them.
Up ahead, he could see the trees thinning out; and the calm dark
sheet that was the surface of a small pond. He slowed as he reached
it, walking up to the edge and kneeling down. He dipped his head in,
breaking the stillness of the water. The chill shocked his senses as
he swallowed a mouthful of the clear liquid. He could feel its
coolness racing down his throat and sinking into the pit of his
stomach. Dropping his head to the water for another drink, he realized
that quenching his thirst had just summoned a desire for something to
eat.
He stood and stared into the woods from which he had just came,
knowing what lay ahead of him.
Laying down on the soft grass which grew near the edge of the pond,
he shut his eyes and reached inside, summoning the fires that burned
within. He winced as the first unexpected jab of pain hit him. It
felt as though his chest was about to burst. He began to sweat, and
his breath came in short, intense gasps. Slowly, the bones, muslces
and tendons within him began to shift and knit themselves together.
His skin, which was now beginning to sprout the makings of a thick
sheen of fur, distended horribly. The intense pressure in his head
pounded his brain unmercifully. He could feel his teeth pushing out
and reforming, and his skull shrinking. His hands and feet twisted and
shrank, claws forming where fingers had been.
Finally, the pain began to subside. The spears of fire he had felt
only moments before had disappeared, leaving in place only a dull ache.
He rose, shakily, and stood for a moment. He felt whole again.
Cautiously, he took a step, then another. Satisfied everything was as
it should be, he lifted his snout to the air once more.
This time, the scents were far more numrous, and their intensities
magnified a hundred-fold. As he sorted through the magnitude of
smells, he heard a sharp crack in the distance. Instantly, he shot a
glance towards the sound. A few hundred yards to the east, he saw a
small shape moving through the underbrush. He sniffed at the air once
more, straining as the wind had shifted and was blowing slightly off
course. Rabbit.
The rumbling in his stomach spoke again, more insistent this time.
Staring into the woods once again, he saw the shape move into a pool of
moonlight.
Dinner.
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vampiress wakes up from her somber sleep.. put on her cape and mask..
and stood at her window.. she spread out her cape, and flew into the
night...
she noticed tld by the lake... alone.. and decided to join him..
tld looked at the reflection of the moon on the water.. and next to
his reflection, he saw a vision of alabaster skin and long flowing
hair.. thinking it's a dream or a daydream.. he stared.. until he
heard an hypnotic voice.. "something bothering you..?"
vamp..
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"Hello, Vamp!
NO!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"
TLD awakes, and notices Vamp watching over him.
"Whew! Just a dream! what's up?"
TLD
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Liz spies DS in the distance and swims over to where he and Tas are
laboring over their new project.
"DRAGONSTRIKE!" she cries as she dashes over and embraces him, then
pulls back for a moment.
"Hey! You shrunk!"
Liz
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Suddenly, the ground began to rumble. The inhabitants of Vaxlandia all
turned, trying to discover the source of the strange tremors. They
seemed to be coming from....
Suddenly, a column of fire rose into the sky. Tas, the only one
not looking straight up, yells "Hey, that's coming from the hole
PhantomStalker and I were digging!"
As everyone else watched, a speck detached itself from the top of
the column and started to fall to earth. At the same time, the column
of fire bagan to subside, until both reached the ground at the same
rate. The column continued to recede into the hole, soon leaving only
the original hole, albeit much deeper.
Meanwhile, the speck had resolved into a yellow daemon, about seven
feet tall, standing on the beach brushing dust from himself. He wore a
leather flying jacket and a brown fedora. Geting his bearings(a
relativly easy task, being a daemon), he walkes over to the nearest
group on the beach.
"Sorry about that, I overjudged a bit. I expected there to be
another thirty feet of sand. My name is ETRigan."
-ETRigan-
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"Hi, Liz." he says, getting his breath back after that monsterous hug.
"I can assume any size I want. This just happens to be the most
convienent for the monent. Watch, I'll show you."
In a moment he disappears and suddenly Liz feels something wiggling in
one of her pockets. DS pokes his head out and smiles up at her. He
disappears again only to assume his full dragon size before her.
"You see," he begins before returning to his previous size, "this is
much more convienent for interactions."
Dragon Strike
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Sol is watching over the ocean, as he always does at this time of
morning. He handles the mask Vampiress gave him. It is twisted into a
distorted kind of grin. Sol turns it over in his hands and thinks
about the Mardi Gras.
"Are there no others like me?" he asks of the mask, "am I the only
one?" The mask does not answer, only holds frozen in its expression.
Sol looks up to the sky, to the last fleeting stars.
-Home,- he thinks, putting his hand on his heart.
The last stars fade away, leaving only the day-star, Sol.
Solenoid
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All of the sudden, and crack came from the sky.....A quick flash of
light about 3,000 feet in altitude blew and then disapeared....from
that point, A large, muscular man came sailing down and hit the sand.
Standing up, brushing off some sand, Phantomstalker says, "I really
have to learn to get these coordinates right for the space portal."
Wearing a large cybernetic/hi-bio-res suit, Phantomstalker looks around
at his hol and says, "oops....forgot to close that up!"
With a quick whirl, the Plasma-rail gun mounted on his
body-armor turns and emits a fantasic light. Within seconds, the pit
was no longer there.
"Well.....I gotta be going back to the war.....if anything
happens...you know who to call...."
Phantomstalker gives everybody a strong handshake and kisses all
the girls on the cheek. There is a flash of sudden light and
Phantomstalker is no longer there...
--Phantomstalker
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TLD makes his way back to the rest of the group after his (sleep???)
nap. He gets a few people together to help him build a house that fits
into the background, including Sol (whom he will be nearest in proxy
to), Ewokie (who is good at hiding homes), and anyone else interested.
Sol asks him what he'd named the place...
"Lover's Glenn. I've always liked the name."
TLD
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Sol watches from his far-off plateau... wishing his comrafe well, and
hoping he will return when peace is restored again.
Sol blows a handful of confetti off the cliff, and watches it all the
way down.
Sol
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Liz, sniffling a bit at the exit of her friend, returns to DS and Tas
and picks up a shovel.
"How many towers is this castle going to have anyways?"
Liz
Construction Kender
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Suddenly Ranger Rick jumps outta the forest and shakes a "naughty"
finger at Sol for littering and harming the environment. Then he jumps
back into the woods and dissappears.....
-Dank
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Confetti will become one with the habitat as it decays; if he were
throwing tires off the cliff, it'd be something to worry about...
Anyway...
TLD looks at what they'd done so far; it is starting to look like a
mound of dirt over wood slabs.
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(The above is a representation of the pile of wood they are using for
the slabs... it is here just for emphasis that it may fit into the
backround scenery.)
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Sol smiles at the racoon, for he's only doing his job. Sol gazes
down at the confetti, which changes mid-drop into firework sparks,
which crackle and sputter all the way down as the sky gets dark.
Sol looks around behind him to see Dazzler...
"I keep forgetting you're real now," says Sol, "Are you okay,
Alison? You look terrible!"
And she does. Her legs are all weak and trembling, she has bags
under her eyes, and she keeps blinking, as if she can't see straight.
"I feel terrible," she responds muffledly. Then she yawns.
"When's the last time you slept?" asks Sol.
"What do you mean? A few weeks, I guess..."
"A few -weeks-?"
"Yeah... why?"
"Alison, when you're real, you have to sleep once every night! If
you don't, well, this happens!"
"Well, it just seemed so boring! I mean, once in a while, I guess,
but... I just wanted to do everything, you know?"
"I think you'd better get some sleep. If you don't, it's only a
matter of time before you overload or something."
He produces a pillow & sleeping bag. She knows the motions, lies
down, relaxes, pulls the fabric close around her and closes her eyes.
Sol adjusts it about her, as to keep out the cold, then returns to his
plateau.
-Forgot to sleep!- he muses, then returns his gaze to the sea.
Sol
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"hm.. tld.. it's no dream.. i'm here.. and real.. i want to give
you something.. " vampiress said from behind him..
"ohh. i thought it was a dream.. you seemed to have
disappeared.. and then, you're suddenly here.. " tld said with
wonder..
"yeah.. i can't help what happens to me.. so i just don't try to
fight it.. " then with renewed strength.. vampiress pulled out a
small bag from her bag.. and gave it to tld..
"what am i supposed to do with it..?" said tld.. as he retrieved
the the bag..
"just.. " wincing with pain.. "go to sol.. and he'll tell you
what to do.. he'll kknow... don't do anything until you see him..
it's important.. for your sake.. " vampiress gasped in pain,
"your life depends on it.. "
"you seem to be in pain.. how can i help you..? " says tld,
concerned about this certain stranger..
"nothing, really.. i just need a cure.. an antidote.." answered
vampiress.. .. she walked, very weak.. and just suddenly
dissappeared..
vampiress..
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she's a few behind, guys..... leave her alone... she's been vaxified
for four years now.
TLD works a little more on his house with the help of his crew.
TLD
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He dropped his head to the carcass which held between his two front
paws and tore off another bite. He gulped it down, savoring the fresh
taste of the kill. It invigorated him. He looked down, then nipped
off one last small piece.
He rose from the ground, and padded back to the pond a few hundred
yards distant. Laying on his belly, he dipped his head to the water
and began to lap it up. The water felt good after his meal.
Satisfied, he stood and walked over to the base of a nearby pine
tree. The grass looked soft and inviting, and a pair of large rocks
nearby would provide shelter from the wind.
He turned twice, matting down the grass with his feet, then sank
contentedly to the ground. He curled up, sank his head down on his
front paws, and let the drowsiness which tugged insistently take him
away.
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Alison is not the only one who has forgotten to sleep for a while...
Liz bids her construction buddies, DS and Tas, goodbye and returns to
her cottage by Praxian Falls. She plops down on the nearest sofa and
sighs, rubbing her eyes in frustration and gloom. Her senses have been
buzzing with the impulse that someone she loves is far away and in
trouble. Compounding this, she has no way to reach him, as he is
beyond the bounds of her magic.
She rises and goes to the mantle over the fireplace. By the firelight,
she studies a picture. It is old, tattered, and faded, but it is
burned into her memory anyways.
"Ronnie... I wish I could have done better for you... God knows I
tried. If I had been older...stronger...better.... Aw hell." She
sniffs, holding back the tears as she always tries to, and as always,
fails. After about five minutes, she manages to stop and goes
upstairs.
Liz lies down on her bed and closes her eyes wearily.
But sleep, elusive creature that it is, doesn't come.
Liz
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Garren fidgets slightly under the scrutinizing gaze of the Grey.
If the pack had planned on killing him and the horse, it probably would
have done so by now, Garren thought. The cheery thought quickly died
away as other possibilities began to register. So much for Paradise.
As suddenly as they appeared, the wolves melted back into the
woods. Garren turned in his saddle, trying to spy the dark, fleeting
shapes, but it was impossible. Sighing, Garren turned Justin back the
way they ahd come come. Justin took one step.
A wolf stepped in front of the horse. Garren drew his sword in one
fluid motion and prepared for an attack, but the wolf was gone. Garren
shifter nervously, wolves never behaved like this in England. He tried
to urge Justin forward, but the strong horse refused.
He smells them, Garren thought. Garren turned him to the path they
were taking before, and again, Justin refused. Growing angry, Garren
tried to force Justin forward, but the horse refused. Suddenly, Justin
picked a path and started moving. Very fast.
The trees whipped by as Justin gained speed. Nostrils flaring,
Garren could tell the horse was panicking, but there was little he
could do besides hold on. Branches snapped on Garren's armor, doing
little to him except driving him off the saddle. Garren reached for
his sword and swore when he found the scabbard empty. He must have
dropped it when he grabbed the reins. Looking behind, Garren thought
he could see the pack after him as shadows flitted from tree to tree.
Turnign forward, Garren...
Caught a good size branch to his chest and fell off Justin with a
thud. Garren's chest seemed to be on fire as he gasped for air. A
wolf howled. Struggling to his feet, Garren spied Justin careening
through the woods. Too far.
Stumbling along, using trees to keep him from falling, Garren came
upon a life sized statue of a wolf standing next to a man. The man
held a sword in his right hand. Turning, Garren spied the Grey running
right at him. Reaching for the sword, Garren stumbled butr caught
himself. Grabbing the hilt, Garren heaved.
The sword slid free with no trouble and Garren stared at it
momentarily. Looking up, he noticed he was surrounded by the wolves.
'Well, i go down fighting, and some of you will die with me.'
Garren thought defiantly.
'Human, why so hostile?' Thought the Grey.
Garren dropped the sword in surprise. He had heard the wolf in his
head.
Garren
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Sol watches over her that night... morning comes and goes, and
Alison is still sleeping. Sol figures she'll be out for the better
part of the day.
Sol glances behind him, and there is Mister Data. "Hello, Sol," he
says, "do you require assistance?"
"Yeah, kind of. Can you just watch over Alison for me? I heard
there's wolves around, and also a crazy raccoon. Just don't want to
leave her alone."
"Understood, sir."
"Oh, and here..." Sol motions down the side of the plateau where
two figures are making their way up, "Here comes Einstein and Stephen
Hawkings to keep you company."
"Yes sir. Thank you, sir."
Sol walks off down the enbarkment, holding the mask Vampiress gave
him, and wondering...
Sol
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The White Ninja exits the new home that he inhabites, high in the
Sierra Vaxlandia. He makes his journey he has been debating for some
time, unknowing whether he wants to know the truth. He makes his way
to the musuem that Vampiress advertised about.
The White Ninja
(My fortress of Solitude)
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Suddenly, ETRigan is distracted from what he was doing (well, nothing
really) by a scent wafting on the breeze. It is a scent he has
encountered before...long before, under circumstances best not
remembered.
"I've only been here a short while, and now this. Well, I didn't
come here for a vacation."
With that, the eldrich daemon launches himself in the air, not
quite sure if he is the hunter after the prey, or the other way around.
-ETRigan-
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vampiress laid on her bed breathing heavily.. wishing a fervent silent
prayer (for the first time in her immortal life..) for an antidote..
a cure from her disease.. she knew that if anyone knew of her
incredible secret, the others would kill her instantly. but she
didn't want to die.. she's seen her freinds grow old and die more
new freinds they grow old and die.. and besides.. she knows wants
to experince love again..
"oh.. if only i can tell my terrible secret.." gasped vampiress..
suddenly went quiet, as she heard noise from downstairs, where her
masks are displayed.. from the shadows of the stairway.. she noticed
white ninja admiring her work.. and stopped at the mask that
represents him..
'i wonder how well she knows me.. ' wonders white ninja..
'maybe i can trust him with my terrible secret..?' vampiress asked
herself..
vamp..
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(Bite him, dudette! :) )
Liz gives up entirely on the idea of sleep once more and heads back
downstairs. After fixing a cup of her favorite herbal tea, she settles
down in her favorite recliner and gazes into the fire.
"I would do anything for love....
I'd run right into hell and back...." She sighs, firm in the knowledge
that the one she longed for for so long doesn't return the sentiment.
"So what now?" She sighed again. Far too many would enjoy her
company, or so it seemed oftentimes. Many more would rather just enjoy
her body. With a snort of derision to those, she takes a sip of tea.
"Maybe celibacy isn't so bad.... for now. Men can wait.... I have a
lot to do. Working on that sand castle... replanting the flower bed...
keeping the rest of the islanders out of mischief...." She gazes down
into her tea. She focuses hard upon a single question and finishes the
tea, then swirls the remainders around and lets them settle. One
glance at the leaves tells her the answer.
"Aww... why can't I just give up? Please?" she asks the unresponsive
leaves. They remain settled in a sign of love.
"Fine. Be that way." Disgruntled and refusing to admit to a certain
tingle of curiosity and anticipation, she returns her gaze to the fire.
After a moment, she looks back at the cup.
"OK, then.... who?"
Liz
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Out of nowhere, BloOdShEd appears with an axe in his hand, ready to
kill Liz.....she tries to change his mind...how?
BloOdShEd
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With a large semiautomatic rifle.
"Did I mention that I had a couple years of police training?" she grins
at her attacker as she hoses him liberally with the gun. Only a few
fragments remain, which she sweeps up with a mop. She then gazes up to
the sky towards the MODGOD and cries "Self-Defense! The bozo was gonna
axe me! 'K?"
Liz
Who don't take kindly to strangers
with axes invading her cottage
(And who doesn't negotiate)
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The next thing that happens, BloOdShEd II comes in, and says, "you
killed my father's brother's uncle's son's nephew's best friend's
sister's brother!" I wil avenge his death!....
BloOdShEd
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"Get a bloody clue, will you!" Liz yells, getting INCREDIBLY peeved at
having her nice peaceful rest interrupted by this shmendrick. She then
casts a "BANISH SHMENDRICK TO OUTER REALMS OF HADES WHERE BARNEY SINGS
HIS EVIL SONGS ALL DAY" spell, and BloOdShEd II is gone.
"Oy!" she yells, flustered, and flops down into her recliner.
Liz
Who is getting genuinely miffed
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Out of nowhere pops, who else? BloOdShEd III! This one, however, is
just a friend. However, he has snuck up on Liz and has her in a
headlock when...
He snaps her head around, just like in Death
Becomes her! She is still alive, though. She starts to fight back,
not being able to look at what she's hitting..
BloOdShEd
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Alright. I am incredibly sick of this. Is there any particular reason
you are attempting to kill me, or are you just being a total jerk.
Take a BloOdY hike, ok?!?
Yes, I realize this could constitute a flame, but I would like to know
why these attempted homicides are occurring.
Thank you,
Liz Croteau
Incredibly Irate LEVver
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BloOdShEd III, scared at the Irate woman's breath, turns around and
runs for his life!
BloOdShEd
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That's it. NOW I am pissed off.
Liz
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BloOdShEd doesn't know how pist off she is, as he is halfway through
the forest!
BloOdShEd
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Liz, thankful at last that this anal wart has left her, waves a hand,
and no trace of the pest remains. Her neck feels a tad chafed from the
rather wussy attempt at maiming her, and she is incredibly unsettled
that someone would try to do her harm in her own home without any known
cause in this presumed paradise. She sends a flock of carrier spirits
with scrolls bearing the tidings of this deranged twit roaming loose on
the island to all her friends around the island, so that they might not
be caught by surprise.
This taken care of, she casts a magic lock spell upon her home and
settles down in her recliner once more.
Liz
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His nose awoke before the rest of him did; receiving the subtle
hints of the approaching dawn in the air. Cracking one eye, he peered
to the east to see the blazing sun rising in the Eastern sky. In the
distance a bird chirped, and a squirrel in the boughs overhead dashed
about in search of breakfast.
Getting to his feet, he took a couple of steps, stretching the
muscles which had lain dormant all night. Taking a deep breath of
fresh morning air, he broke into a run.
In a few moments, he hallen into a smooth, steady ryt pace. Each paw
and leg worked with one another to speed over the unfamilair terrain with
uncanny agility. Each and every muscle had its own job, thrusting the
powerful body foward. Each separate contact with the earth lasted but
for a moment; the paw instantly moving foward to seek out its next
position on the landscape. It was easy to lose oneself.
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Sol is wandering off towards the mountains, for the air does him
good. He is traversing a little footpath through the woods, when
suddenly, a psycho with an Axe comes slamming into him... it looks like
BloOdShED, but he has a Roman Numeral III tatood into the middle of his
forehead.
"Agaaaaah!" shouts BloOdShED, swinging the axe.
Sol does a half-yard side step, and watches the guy go slamming
into an Albino Oak.
Shaking his head, the replicant turns around, sputters, and runs at
him again, yelling.
"Agaaaaah!" he shouts again.
Sol ducks as he swings the axe, then jumps, and jumps and ducks.
Sol moves back, and BloOdShED III runs after him, just in time to hit
another tree.
He stops swinging, and stares dead-pan at Sol for a while.
Sol's face is serious. "You bring death here. I feel my friend in
your thoughts. Why do you do this?"
The Stranger has to think about this. "Dunno," he says, "I just
thought it would be cool to have an axe, that's all."
"And you thought it would be cool to snap Liz's neck, too, huh?"
BloOdShEd thinks about this, and scratches his head.
"Just go," motions Sol down the path, "go play with Ghengis Khan.
He likes axes."
Ghengis Khan steps out from behind a tree, with flowers dripping
out of his mouth. He spins his pike with great skill, and grunts a
challenge to the axe-wielder.
Sol
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BloOdShEd III then takes the axe and brutally wipes out Genghis Khan,
receiving no challenge whatsoever. He then runs to Solenoid, and cries
that he's bored.
BloOdShEd
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Ewokie borrows a friend's boat and tells all the people in vaxlandia.
"I'm going on a cruise around the world by myself. Good-bye all! Be
seeing ya whenever I get back."
With that she puts her suitcases in the boat, gets in, waves good bye,
and sails away.
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The White Ninja senses that he is being watched....and turns to face
the concealed vampire.
"Step out from the shadows." He says. "And tell me, what do you know
if me. Do you know enough to make a mask? If so, what can I give you
in return?"
The White Ninja
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Sceadeau is watching the White Ninja from behind a tree, waiting to see
if he can play any part in what is about to happen
-- Sceadeau
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Another flash of bright light in front of liz strikes out and
Phantomstalker appears.....(plasma blaster still smoking)
"everything alright Liz? Heard through the rifts that some
nerd was causeing trouble.....shall I dispatch him?"
--Phantomstalker
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"your mask represents your past.. you had an enemy who is after
you.. am I right? you should take the mask and face your fear, after
all you're a ninja.. when things look better for you, your mask will
chance its appearance to whatever your characteristics will be.. "
vampiress sat down in her old wicker chair and began to breathe
easier.. "what I want from you is to keep a secret.. i have a dark
dark secret.. and no one else should know about it, since it may cost
my life.."
"what is it..? " asked white ninja, sensing her pain..
"the vampire that made me... have bad blood.. he drank some
girl's blood who was dying of a mysterious disease.. now that blood
is in mine.. this blood is eating peices of me away.." taking off
her glove.. exposing white patches of wrinkles.. "since i discovered
this, i jsut drank from the blood bank.. and nothing helped me..
please, will you help me find an antidote..? I don't want to die.. i
want to experience love again once again in my life.. the last one
gave me this.. death.. and now he's gone, that bastard!!"
vampiress sensed someone else is there.. and put back her glove
on.. and called out into the night.. "who's there? " vampiress
turned to white ninja ,"if you brought someone to kill me, you should
keep in mind that these masks have powers of their ownn.. they can be
like a curse if anything bad happens to me, or the owner of the
masks, sooooooo.. beware..!!" vampiress then moved into the
shadows..
vampiress
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Sceadeau walked out from behind the tree with his hands held open, palm
up towards the sky.
"No, Vampress, I am neither an ally nor or enemy of thine ninja. I
have been watching the events unwravel before me. I feel that you will
not have to die. I have the means to cure you of this sickness. But
thereis an element necessary for it hidden from me. Only one of your
powers may be able to reach it.
"But the road shall be most trecherous indeed. You must travel
past The Caves of Darkness to get to negative space beyond.
"Are you up for this challenge?"
-- Sceadeau
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"i'll do anything.. but I don't wnat to give up my ability to make
things.. it's the only i have.. and besides, i love challenges.."
says teh vampiress, still straining to get more strength..
vampiress
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Far from the various scenes of destruction and mayhem, but rather near
to the beach, DS turns to Tas and asks...
"Where did you say you wanted to build that castle? You don't want a
glass one again, do you?"
Dragon Strike
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Sol makes it to the top of a mountain... he can see everything from
here. His friends voices in his mind are faint, like a static radio
channel.
"I can feel you all," thinks Sol. Most strongly, he feels their
separate pains, some pronounced with the passage of recent events, some
subdued and relatively passive. He is focusing now on none in
particular... just the feel of all of it together.
He is detatched from it all now, like floating on the outside. He
considers how senseless, how un-necessary it all seems.
And at the same time, (he laughs at the irony) he considers how
much they all seem to need it.
As he needs his.
Sol
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"You need to make something to cross the boundary into negative space
and retrieve for me the Crystal of Voyt.
"I cannot help you once you are there, but I can send messages to
you to help you break the challanges of getting in to it.
"The challanges will test all aspects of yourself. Even those
which you might not want to.
"Go. Go now to the boundary seprating negative and positive space
and await the challanges."
-- Sceadeau
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LEVVAX::ETR0370 "ETRigan" 27 lines 21-SEP-1993 17:48
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ETRigan lands softly in the small forest clearing. It is a
picturesque place, with birds chirping merrily, flowers unfolded for
all to admire, and the sun shining down, bathing everything with it's
warm rays. Not at all the type of place you would expect to find an
Arch-daemon from Hell.
Ad yet this was where the scent had come from. ETRigan eyes the
clearing warily. The last altercation with this particular monster was
what convinced ETRigan to leave Hell in the first place. He had
decided that he could not stand to be in the same dimention with such a
thouroughly disgusting and loathsome creature. To have it appear here
could mean only one thing...he was wanted back in his world. For that
was this creature's hobby; to bring back those that had left. He was a
bounty hunter in every sense of the term, but he didn't take money as
payment. He took something far, far worse.
ETRigan decides to force the issue.
"I know what you want. Come out and face me!"
As ther last word leaves his lips, a dragonfly that had been
buzzing around the clearing suddenly stops, and a voice echoes through
ETRigan's mind.
"So, you think you're tough. Belial wasn't too happy about your
departure. He wants you back. Now are you going to behave, or am I
gonna have to dismember you?"
"You tried that last time; it didn't work then."
"Yeah, but last time was just a joke. This is for real."
With that, the dragon fly begins to expand....
-ETRigan-
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The White Ninja turns to walk away. Seeing that Sceadau(I'm really
sorry I misspelled it.) has Vampiress taken care of. He goes to the
beach to ponder the enemies of the past. "Which one could it be?"
He thinks to himself.
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LEVVAX::GKB3790 "Where's the toast?" 16 lines 21-SEP-1993 18:28
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The forest began to thin out, giving way to the rougher mountainous
terrain. It was slower moving here, as it was much more of an uphill
slope than before. His graceful stride had been slowed to a trot. He
wove his way up the mountainside. For reasons unknown to him, he was
drawn toward the summit. On he pushed, further up until finally the
ground flattened out.
The view was spectacular. The forests swept out belowlike a giant
blanket, covering the land.
Suddenly, he caught a scent in the air. Man. He peered cautiously
about, and his eyes came to rest upon a solitary figure a few hundred
yards distant. He looked peaceful, and deep in thought. He walked
foward on silent feet, stopping a stone's throw away. He perched
himself upon a large flat rock and sat down on his haunches, patiently
watching the lone figure.
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TLD finishes his home, and looks at it in wonder...
~
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...for the roof was supposed to be on top.
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So, he called in a construction crew and put the roof (that was lying
next to the house) on top.
"YES!!!! MY MASTERPIECE IS DONE!!! EGOR!!! COME EGOR!!! WE GO FIND
BRAINS!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH"
Then he woke up from his daydreaming, and went to fetch Sol to look at
his new hovel, which only the owner knew where it was (and the
construction crew; though they didn't know why they were moving a hunk
of dirt onto a mound...)
~
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Gerrit looks down as he to see the ground coming closer and closer and
closer....ouch! He then realizes that he has just dropped down into
Vaxlandia and walks off in search of people he knows.
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LEVVAX::TLR8799 "Whaddya mean, Doc? I'm not insane?" 7 lines 21-SEP-1993 20:14
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The Joker realizes that 4 days has passes by and wonders who froze him.
He sets off to get away from Vaxlandia and go into the real world to
track down NightBird and get the map of Vaxlandia from her and return
to Vaxlandia once the mission is accomplished. The Joker jumps into
the air and disappears in a puff of smoke.
The Joker
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As Gerrit looks around, he is completely confused and lost. If only he
could find someone in Vaxlandia to lead him around.
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "WENCH!!!" 15 lines 21-SEP-1993 23:04
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Liz hugs Phantomstalker in relief.
"Oh, god, yes. We can't have someone like that threatening the lives
of the other LEVvers!!! I mean, I can take care of myself, but I
wouldn't want anyone else to get caught off guard... It's almost as bad
as when B... Bar.... ugh I can't even say its name.... was here."
Almost bursting into tears from exaustion and stress, she sinks into a
chair.
"Why do these shmucks have do go around hacking people up? Can't they
see it is rather.... stupid?"
Liz
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Sol looks over the mountain's edge... it is a long way down.
He considers the angle.
-Sometimes, you just can't know,- he thinks.
He clears his mind of all the uncertainty, all the doubt. He just
stares off into space, not registering anything. Then he just lets
himself fall off.
He falls into the wind, the sensation rushing around him. He
throws his head back, letting the wind take him fully. Then, he glides
on the thermal, curving back up and into the sky.
Sol
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Phantomstalker looks down at Liz.
"Yea...I know it's a pain in the a$$. There is no excuse for that
kind of behavior.....maybe I should hang around the island for a few
days to make sure everything is ok. The war in the rifts can
wait....friends are more important."
Phantomstalker looks down at liz and gives her a warm smile.
"TAS!!! Where are you? I need you for a sec!"
--Phantomstalker
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Tas runs up.
"Yes, how are you sir, what do you need, SIR? Will you be taking
out the ferret today, sir? Or perhaps a rapier medium class fighter?
No, you want tto screw the cow again? I'm sorry sir, can't help you
sir."
Tas looks spiffy in his conferation planets uniform, rank 1st lt, pilot
of a rapier fighter.
Tas
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" sceadeau.. I'm confused as it is.. there's too much i have to
do.. maybe you'd better come with me.. " vampiress sees white ninja
walking away into the night.. "no.. wait, white ninja..!! i want you
to remember what i told you.. about the mask.. it's important.. it
has powers of its own... "
"ok.. vampiress, i'll remember.. " said white ninja..
"sceadeau.. you're after me, aren't you..? what do you want..?
why should i trust you.. i think you'd better come with me so i can be
sure you're telling me the truth.. " vampiress looked at the stranger,
with caution..
vampiress..
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "WENCH!!!" 11 lines 22-SEP-1993 17:15
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"Thanks boys." Liz glances around the living room. Various weapons
hang in decorative spots on the wall, but she ignores those and reaches
into the corner.
Raising her hoopak, she cries "VAXlandia Defense Squad... Let's rock!"
Liz
VAXlandia Defense Squad
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Phantomstalker pulls out a small lap-top with a small radar dish. He
punches a few buttons and 5 feet off the ground to the left, a bright
flash of light flashes and an equiptment chest
appears.....Phantomstalker pulls out a few pen-like instruments and
says to Tas, "Here buddy, burry these every 1/4 mile along the beach
until you run out....these act as early warning systems....My comanding
officer will be sending more stuff in a few minuites."
--Phantomstalker
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the mad hatter jumps out of the bushes with a flame-thower and says...
"let's kick some fox-butt"
the MAD hatter
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Liz sighs sadly, digging the end of the hoopak into the ground.
"I really hoped it would never come to this.... Defense Squads, early
warning devices.... I hoped that just once I could find a place that is
happy and safe and I don't have to worry about being harmed... Why is
it such a difficult concept for people to grasp?"
She sighs again as she watches the devices sink like talons into the
ground.
Liz
Disillusioned Youth
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LEVVAX::MSA7064 "Foxy...Suga-Tush" 8 lines 22-SEP-1993 17:40
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"No....I...uh....can't" stutters Sceadeau to the Vampiress.
"I..cannot come with you because," regaining his composure, "I have
this right here." And from under his cloak he pulls a potion.
"I forgot that I had this potion...it will _cure_ you...
care for a sip?"
-- Sceadeau
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Gerrit sits down, depressed. He decides to wait and see if any human
beings (or furry animals) will come by so that he might not be so
lonely.
Gerrit
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BloOdShEd walks in, without his axe. The axe has been traded in for a
huge novel, War and Peace. BloOdShEd asks GAK howzhe doing.
BloOdShEd, sitting down now, starts to read his novel.
BloOdShEd
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LEVVAX::JMS3520 "Blade Runner" 15 lines 22-SEP-1993 17:52
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Phantomstalker looks at bloodshed and says, "well....I think he's
turned peacful....we wont have to worry about him for a while."
"I think I'll stay here for a few days...Been fighting for a
while."
Phantomstalker sheads his body armor to reveal him wearing a
Hawiian shirt and shorts...puts on a pair of shades and places the
armor in the chest. "AH...thats much better! Time to get a tan!"
Phantomstalker sheds the shirt to reveal a large muscular body from
hell....He lies down and soaks the rays.
--Phantomstalker
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "WENCH!!!" 8 lines 22-SEP-1993 17:58
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Liz sighs in relief (and admiration)
Throwing her hoopak back into her cottage, she tosses off her flannel
shirt and dives for the water in her red bikini.
Liz
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LEVVAX::JMS3520 "Blade Runner" 4 lines 22-SEP-1993 18:00
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Phantomstalker looks at liz and bites his nuckle. :)
--Phantomstalker
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Gerrit looks over at the group and smiles, happy to finally have
someone to be with. He lays back, enjoying the warm sunshine beating
down on his face, and just ponders the meaning of life.
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "WENCH!!!" 10 lines 22-SEP-1993 18:04
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Liz pops above the surface for an instant, glances at Phantomstalker,
and says one word....
"Suffer!"
Liz
Evil Kender Wench
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LEVVAX::JKK7796 "THE MAD HATTER" 7 lines 22-SEP-1993 18:22
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the mad hatter sets his flame thrower neatly by a tree and dives in the
water to swim with all his fish-friends...
the mad hatter
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "WENCH!!!" 5 lines 22-SEP-1993 19:45
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Liz dives deep beneath the water and collects seashels.
Liz
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LEVVAX::VPM0500 "DarkShadow is here..." 13 lines 22-SEP-1993 20:15
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Then everyone stops. There is something in the air...Something
magic...everyone even the animals and birds feels it...the mountains
also feel for they shake with terror...the trees feel it and whisper
barely among themselves..."Dark...Dark...Dark..."
Phantomstalker jerks up from his trance with Liz. Liz leaps from
the water, dripping wet. She is shaking with fear.
"What's wrong?" PS whispered.
"Oh, no! It can't be! Joker told me about this evil magic. It is
DarkShadow. He is bad news. We are definitely in deep trouble.
Actually Vaxlandia is in very deep trouble!" Liz grimaces.
......O | DarkShadow
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The dragonfly expands until it's the size of a small house, then a
big house. However, it does not change form.
"What kind of trick is this?!" Etrigan demands.
"No trick." In the blink of an eye, the dragonfly changes to a
mouse, then a hawk. "I told you that there were many people interested
in your return. Some of them decided to help me in my task. Now I'll
ask again, will you come along or do I get to hurt you?"
"No to both. I'm not going. I've found a place to stay, here.
I've found people like myself."
"Large yellow daemons? I doubt that."
"Shut up. I'm not going. You might as well just go back."
"Not without YOU!"
With that, the hawk, still the size of a house, launches itself at
Etrigan, who jumps straight up in the air. As the hawk passes under,
he blasts it with both fists. As he lands, he noptices the hawk
turning, hardly fazed by the blasts.
Etrigan sneers. "Still havn't improved, have you. Not even a neophyte daemon would
be caught off guard like that."
"It doesn't matter. I've still got a few tricks up my sleeve." As
Etrigan watches, the hawk begins to glow, starting red and moving up
through the spectrum, until he reaches the white of molten metal.
Etrigan throws up his arms to block his face as the bounty hunter
goes critical. The explosion levels the forest for 1000 feet all
around, and for the second time that day the island rocxkes as if hit
with a sledgehammer wielded by the gods.
-ETRigan-
(ouch)
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Gerrit hides under a rock and hopes that DarkShadow doesn't see him.
As he is hiding in fear, he smells something strange...
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Sol glides on the wind until late that evening, a Pink Floyd song
in his head, and a complete lack of conflict in his mind. He is at
peace, thinking of nothing, fearing nothing; his whole being supported
by faith.
A single thought slips into his mind, a simple question, which he
ponders. As his mind considers the problem, he finds himself gliding
back to the ground. He touches lightly, running across the ground to a
gentle stop.
He looks around at his surroundings. In front of him lie the
still-twitching remains of Ghengis Khan. Sol shakes his head slowly,
then waves a thought over the parts. They slide back together, as if
connected by strings, and the Warrior rises, whole, and unharmed.
-This place is paradise,- thinks Sol, -A place of mind, and of an
ideal. No harm can come to us here unless we let it.-
Ghengis Khan scratches his butt. "Hungry, guy?" asks Sol, handing
him a Twinkie, "Here ya go. Come on. Let's go."
Sol
Ghengis Khan
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "WENCH!!!" 15 lines 22-SEP-1993 20:31
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Liz, PHENOMENALLY miffed that someone new is completely disregarding
the whole point of this island, leaps out of the water and into her
uniform.
"THAT'S IT! I am @#$%^& sick of Dark Shadows hanging over VAXlandia.
Will you people who would trash the peace of this land please GET A
@#$%^ CLUE and go post in GAME_ROOM or something??? JEEZ!" she cries
to the skies and the lameoid dark shadow hovering over the land.
With that, she awaits the removal of this pestilence.
Liz
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Gerrit peeks out from underneath the rock and asks if everything is
fine yet.
Gerrit
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"It better be, Gerrit. Otherwise, this kender is gonna get really,
REALLY............. upset." Liz says with clenched jaws.
Liz
(Who is a mite miffed at all
those who seem bound and determined
to trash the one place she
can come for PEACEFUL interaction
with her friends and not worry about
being attacked, harassed, or
intentionally demeaned or insulted.)
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LEVVAX::JDD9642 "You're such a tool..." 9 lines 22-SEP-1993 20:50
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Jou-day, sensing Liz' anger and sadness, once again casts a spell
over Vaxlandia
"Sad it had to come to this, foolish folk, this place is intended
for peace, and peace it shall have." he says as he speaks the words
which will turn to dust any who break the peace.
"My advice to you, young lady is to keep a lot of Pledge handy."
Jou-day
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"Thanks, dude!!!" Liz cries happily to Jour-day, then tosses off her
uniform once more to frolic happily in the surf in her red bikini.
Liz
(Coolness!)
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 13 lines 22-SEP-1993 20:57
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Ghengis Khan eats his Twinkie and watches the glittery magic.
"Dust, huh?" thinks Sol, as Ghengis Khan ignores him, "egaaah. Make
orange juice with a sledge-hammer, whydoncha?"
Of course, Sol is really too far off for anyone to really hear...
except for Ghengis Khan, who doesn't speak much English. Sol treks
back toward the beachfront, looking for the familiar faces of his
friends.
Sol
G K
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LEVVAX::GAK4178 "Black Amethyst" 9 lines 22-SEP-1993 21:05
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Seeing Liz joyful, Gerrit climbs his flat self out from underneath the
rock. Politely and humbly, he bows to all, thanking them for keeping
him safe.
"I think i'll go jump in the nice cool fresh water", Gerrit
exclaims! He slides into his flourescent blue swim-suit and jumps in
the water, making all the fish swim elsewhere, and splattering water
all over the shore.
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Phantomstalker suits up and runs to the highest mountian peak...With
the power in his body armor, he was able to do a 4 mile sprint in about
1 minuite. After reaching the top, he stands vigilant looking out for
trouble. He also bites the nuckle on his glove looking at liz through
the magnification field on his visor.
--Bikinistalker
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 10 lines 22-SEP-1993 22:49
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Sol just happens to be standing at the top of the mountain right
next door... the peaks are about 5 feet apart.
"Hi, Stalker! Long time no see. Nice armor." Sol tries to comb
his hair, decides it looks the same, and fluffs it up.
Ghengis Khan is on a plateau not far below, where he has found a
hidden stash of ho-ho's.
Sol
Ghengis Khan
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Phantomstalker give's sol a thumb's up and gives him a warm smile.
--Smilestalker
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Sol smiles, giving SmileStalker a thumb's up and a pack of hoho's (much
to Ghengis Khan's objection).
"Here. Have one. They taste better at 40,000 feet."
Sol
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The blast sends Etrigan crashing through the forest and into the
water, where he skips along for forty feet before finally sinking.
With a great explosion of water, he rises, and stands on the surface,
looking both wet and mad. Oddly enough, the hat is still on his head.
Some sparkling dust lands on him, and makes him sneeze.
"Etrigan looks towards the column of smoke rising from the (newly
formed) clearing. "If that didn't kill you," he thinks, "than I'll be
more than happy to finish the job!"
With a roar, he leaps back towards the forest.
-ETRigan-
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Mister Data steps in front of the daemon, ETRigan, as he bounds back
through the field. The android is considerably stronger than he looks,
and succeeds in halting the daemon.
"If your intention is to slay an individual here in VAXlandia, then
I would strongly advise against it."
"Move Aside!" rasps ETRigan, "This matter is none of your concern."
"No sir," admits Mister Data, "However, I suggest it may be of
concern to you. There is presently a magical buffer-field surrounding
this island. If you continue to proceed in an un-lev manner, your form
shall turn to dust."
Mister Data
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He had been running for a few hours. His muscles were getting sore
and he once again felt hunger gnawing at his stomach. He was
considering doing some hunting while it was still light when he caught
some human scent on the air.
Making his way past a pile of rocks, he saw a stretch of beach a
few hundred yards away. To the east he saw a trio of figures playing
in the surf.
Feeling a longing for human companionship, he lay down and shut his
eyes, invoking the change.
It hurt, as before, but not nearly as bad nor did it take as long.
A minute or so later he stood, this time on two feet. Then he strode
off toward the beach.
When he was only a few yards away, he saw on of the people, a woman
in a red bikini, look up and lock her eyes onto him. She grinned
widely, and he was about to open his mouth when he looked on and
realized he had no clothes on.
Instantly his face flushed and he took a step foward and dove into
the waves.
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A hundred yards off near the shore, an old, hunched over figure
strolls along the beach, dressed in custodial fashion, metal-detector
in hand. At his side in a leather holster is a Dustbuster.
He glances at ETRigan for a moment, then looks over at Sol & Liz
and smiles. "Gotta keep up with those unsightly little piles o' dust"
he sez, tossing Sol the holster."
He continues down the beach chuckling quietly to himself.
-Jou-day
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The Sol on the beachfront grabs the holster, winking at Jou-Day.
Alternate Ghengis is digging a hole... not a magnificent other-worldly
hole, but just a hole with which to fill with sea water.
Sol watches as his friends play in the waves, but avoids the water
himself, keeping always just a step away from the tide.
(To Jou-Day) "You are a mage, yes? I've not seen you here before,
sir."
Sol
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Gerrit continues to play in the waves, wishing he had his boogie bord
so that he would not need to figure out how to body surf. As he
crashes into the sand underneath the water, he learns yet another
lesson of what NOT to try while body surfing. Wet and dripping, Gerrit
decides to stay in the water, while enjoying the scenery, both natural
and human.
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Roach, being the Eagle Scout that he his, happens to be strolling down
the beach at this very instant. And, since he is always prepared, he
offers his boogie board to Gerrit so he does not kill himself learning
to bodysurf.
Roach
;Q
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Gerrit, thanking Roach for the boogie board, wonders if his friend
back home would send his wetsuit to him. "Nahh, i'd rather just be
cold than bother." So he jumps in the water and rides the waves,
enjoying every minute of it.
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"have this potion been tested..? you're not pulling anything on
me, are you.. no tricks, no blackmail, no murder..? you're not
killing me..? " says vampiress doubting a word of what sceadeau said..
"and .. yo invaded my privacy.. you listened to my secrets.. i will
never forgive you for that.. !!" vampiress.. watching for
sceadeau's reaction..
>>Vampiress<<
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Etrigan turns to face Data. "Look, I'd really appreciate it if
you'd just let me go. You have no idea of what's going on."
"I am warning you for your own good. The magic field, illogical as
it is, will turn y...."
"I ran into the field already. It made me sneeze, and that's all.
What I'm trying to tell you is...Duck!"
Etrigan drops to the sand, dragging Data down with him. The
hell-sent bounty hunter whistles inches overhead, still glowing from
his recent outburst. He hits the water, and great clouds of steam
billow forth, as well as a few poached fish.
"I'm trying to explain to you. That thing," Etrigan points in the
general direction of the steam,"followed me here, and is intent on
dragging me back to Hell. I'd just as soon not fight him, but I'm not
going back. Since the field didn't have much affect on me, I don't
think it's going to have much affect on him. Now unless you have any
suggestions, I would recomend we move, 'cause he's going to be back in
a few seconds, and probably not happy about his bath."
-ETRigan-
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"HELLO SAILOR!" Liz laughs as the..... fascinating newcomer charges
into the water. Noticing how beet red he had become (and how
uncomfortable, as he was indeed suffering from.... exposure to the
elements), she wiggles a few fingers at him and he finds himself
wearing a pair of red swim trunks.
"Better?" she asks him, offering him a towel as she dries her hair.
Liz
Boy Scout till the end
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Mister Data, taking into account this new information, runs with the
Daemon, ETRigan, monitering carefully his moves in order to improve his
own defense. The Hellspawn soars and plunges behind them, throwing
bouts of burning ash from its hands.
Data does not believe in the afterlife, but he -does- believe in
flaming ash.
Mister Data
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Etrigan suddenly turns and faces Data.
"Who set up that field to repel un-LEV acts?!"
-ETRigan-
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In a swirl of mist, Sceadeau fades away.
"Very good, " says a voice into the Vampress's ear, "you have past
the first test. Never trust anyone. Except me, of course. Or can
you? Don't you want to be free, Vamp? I have the power to make you
free, if only you do what I need.....
"I need for you to get the crystal...I have your potion, for sure.
Do you doubt the one hope you have left? I am not evil, just
protective. I have to make sure you are the one who was prophicied.
If you are, my dear, then I will serve by your side, if ever you need
me.
"Are you willing to take the risk?"
-- Sceadeau
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Jou-day walks over to Sol, speaking quietly says, "Mage, yeah. I
guess that's what they used to call it, not many people use that kinda
language anymore. Not even much call for my type in this world, all
these machines folk have. But, listen. Just keep it between you and me,
bud. I'm just the Custodian if anybody asks. People start talking 'bout
mages and such, next thing you know, people are askin' for special
favors. Make 'er love me. Make 'im smarter. Help me get rid 'o this
wart, that sort of thing. All these folk usin' crystals and potions, and
all that other fancy stuff are just askin' for trouble, but I'm keepin'
an eye on things for you. You need me I'll be restin' under the cypress
tree by the edge of lake."
Jou-day hunches ofer, as if under a heavy load, and walks on...
-jou-day
'
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Someone is standing at where no one can see or hear. He gazes down at
the green land filled with rich air and cool mountains. He smiles
sadly at the "curse" thrown by Jou-day. Shaking his head and then
laughing, he turns his back at the land. It is a wierd laugh, a kind
of laugh that one would swore it comes from the dead.
"You think that you can stop me, my dear foe, don't you?" He says
to the land. "No one can stop DarkShadow from taking advantage of the
land. There are more secrets buried in the land than you can imagine.
And I am going to use them no matter how you can stop me."
DarkShadow turns away and creeps into the dark clouds that are the
only home to him.
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"Sir, I believe the person you are looking for is a man named
Jou-day. I know not his location, I know only that he is some form of
guardian to this place. Did you not hear his voice, sir? The decibal
level was very high."
Data dodges another blast, then another.
Mister Data
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Liz lies back on a beach towel and falls asleep, tired from all the
fighting and idiocy that certain people seem bound and determined to
drag into VAXlandia. As she lies there, she senses a battle of great
magic and power happening on the other side of the island.
"I'll see what's going on... later..." she says, drifting off to sleep.
Liz
(Who doesn't sunburn
So she can fall asleep
in a bikini and not
worry about it! :) )
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Sol is surfing on a wave, riding on a hover-board which is strapped
to his feet. He waves to his friends on shore including the Sol who is
wandering up and down the shore w/ the beach-people.
Suddenly, his hover-board flips over... he is still strapped to it,
but the board continues to float about 1/2 above the surf. Sol
struggles to flip himself upright.
Mountain-top Sol just watches both the other Sols from his
high-perch... he is unaware of them, for they are no more than dots
from here.
Sol
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DarkShadow leans on the back of his cloud chair, feeling tired. He has
spent a lot of time in searching for unknown secrets of Vaxlandia.
Actually over three hundred years. He looks up at a small open hole on
the cloud ceiling. The hole is not an ordinary hole, but a magic
telescope. DarkShadow is gazing at the Andromeda Galaxy with sadness
in his heart. He closes his eyes and a brief picture springs into his
mind's eye. The picture is a three dimension hologram of his home
planet.
"Eth'anla...", he whispers," my dear home, my sweet home, how I long
for you...if it was not for those stupid inhabitants of you, I would be
enjoying in your arms. But no! They do not appreciate my ideas and
my radical movements for peace in their stupid war! They just took me
from you with force and exiled me away from you and your bosoms!
"It did not take a long time for me to crash on this planet. A mere
hundred and a half is not much for my broken heart and renewed revenge.
I promise you, my dear Eth'anla, that I will return to your arms and
your passion.
"There are a few things to finish here...I have to take over this land
for it is unusually unique, far different from the other lands which
are already littered with stupid crimes and stupid messes from the
politics. But here in this land, there is magic, a different magic.
It is not as strong as mine but it is unique. The common rules of magic tells
me that when there is a unique kind of magic, it means that its purpose
is to serve those who are in need of help. But from my own rules, it
means more reinforcements to my army that I am building now. I need an
army to conquer this land and then eventually the planet and at last,
you.
" Love is never conquered
Only being pushed down
But always springs
With a new explosion of fire and passion
Love is strong
Never underestimate love
For love is the unique magic
That always comes up
With victory
"Aye, Eth'anla my dear beloved home, my love will make me victorious
and deliver me to your bosoms.
"Only a few things to overcome here..."
DarkShadow turns his black eyes, now lit with a rekindled fire of
passion, at the now dark Vaxlandia.
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A beeping distracts Phantomstalker from his magnification field
directed at Liz... He checks the meeters on his Heads-up display in his
face-lpate and notices that the PKE psionic energy are more than
normal...much higher than they should be....He turns a few dials and
zeroes in on the wavelength meter. He notices an image surrounding the
island about 10,000 feet up. He turns the dial to select Empathic mode
and sees a firery read image...
"Oh crap! Its that DARKSHADOW wiennie thing."
Phantomstalker targets a special SAM at the center of the cloud. Fires
and within seconds, there is a huge bright flash of light....much
brighter than a 20 kilo-ton bomb...but within seconds....the light is
gone and so are the clouds revealing the bright blue sky.
Phantomstalker reports to his superiors through the Rifts,"Yes sir!
I fired a SAM into the cloud opening a portal to through the rifts and
sucking the entity called DARKSHADOW into a dimession encoded by the
people of vaxlandia....Kind of a Jail-dimention if you will Sir! I'm no
longer reading anymore empathic or PKE readings.......No
sir.....Request permission to remain on Vaxlandia as permament
post......thanks you sir....very well sir......I do to
sir.....roger....over and out...."
--Phantomstalker
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(Get a life and a clue....)
Liz wakes up and stretches luxuriously. She looks around to see what
her friends are doing. As she looks around, she sees Dazzler
approaching. Liz waves her arms until Dazzler spots her and joins her
on the sand.
"Hey, Alison, what's new?"
"I just woke up. I've been asleep for... I don't know how long!"
"Yeah... sleep is cool. Hey.... have you checked out the new people on
the island? One was a homicidal maniac... he reformed, one hides under
rocks, one's a really bizarre demon-type, and somewhere, there's some
sphincter boy who wants to trash the topic.... big surprise...."
"Why would someone want to do that?" Alison asks, looking puzzled.
"Thinks he's some big stud or something for attempting to ruin
something so many people enjoy," Liz says angrily, tossing a twig into
the water.
"Nice guy," Alison says dryly.
Liz
Alison/Dazzler
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Liz wakes up and stretches luxuriously. She looks around to see what
her friends are doing. As she looks around, she sees Dazzler
approaching. Liz waves her arms until Dazzler spots her and joins her
on the sand.
"Hey, Alison, what's new?"
"I just woke up. I've been asleep for... I don't know how long!"
"Yeah... sleep is cool. Hey.... have you checked out the new people on
the island? One was a homicidal maniac... he reformed, one hides under
rocks, one's a really bizarre demon-type, and somewhere, there's some
sphincter boy who wants to trash the topic.... big surprise...."
"Why would someone want to do that?" Alison asks, looking puzzled.
"Thinks he's some big stud or something for attempting to ruin
something so many people enjoy," Liz says angrily, tossing a twig into
the water.
"Nice guy," Alison says dryly.
Suddenly, a loud explosion startles both women.
"What was that?" cries Alison. Liz pauses and casts a quick spell to
see what happened. She cringes.
"Ugh.... remember that guy we were talking about?"
"Oh no.... what about him?"
"Don't worry about him. He's...... ugh.... you know the Realm of the
Purple Satan Who Sings Foul Bilge For Eternity?"
"I've heard about it.... truly terrifying!"
"Well......... Phantomstalker kinda nuked him there."
Alison gasps. Liz nods, and sighs, relieved that this dark shadow has
been lifted from over their heads.
Liz
Alison/Dazzler
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Alison flops down on the sand next to Liz. "I've been dreaming...
I never could do that before! It's like watching a movie in your
sleep. I guess this sleeping thing won't be so bad after all."
Alison goes on to describe one of her dreams in great detail... had
to do with a city, and a little cafe' she found, and a waiter who
couldn't seem to get her order quite right.
Liz listens patiently, and offers an interesting opinion now and
then.
"have you ever been to a cafe'?" asks Alison, who suddenly seems
very interested in cafe's in particular, and dreams in general.
Alison (Dazzler)
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Suddenly, something falls out of the sky. It's a bird? It's a plane?
Nope..it's 'swokie and her Great Dane.
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Phantomstalker Bows to the girls on the beach and resumes his
magnification field on them...
--Phantomstalker
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Alison waves at PhantomStalker, who stands out like a big mauve dot
on the far-away mountain-top.
Alison
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Liz makes a face at Phantomstalker and his magnification field, then
turns to Alison, recounting an adventure she had at a cafe with a llama
named Fred and a group of Himalayan Flamenco Dancers.
Liz
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Darkshadow watches as his only home is gone into a fiery hot gas. He
just is lucky. He has left his android servant in the clouds.
Phantomstalker has detected the android and blasts it into atoms,
thinking it as DarkShadow.
Quietly DarkShadow appears behind Phantomstalker and stops briefly to
look at the girls at the beach. He listens to them and realizes that
they are talking about him. 'If you really know me, I am not really a
big stud but a small guy with a big heart that is just broken. It is
just I have to do. I am sorry but I have no choice.'
He reaches out his hand and touches Phantomstalker. PS jumped up,
startled. PS stared around and froze with shock as he finds himself,
looking at the black eyes of DarkShadow.
"Uh..How--How did you get here? I did not hear you!"
DS smiles dryily. "It is simple. I am DarkShadow."
"Oh yeah, a shadow do not make noises, right." PS laughs. As fast as
he could, he draws out his weapon and aimes at the evil person. He
cannot move.
"Do not worry about me... I am not that evil enough to kill you without
a reason. I simply came here to seek your help."
"Huh? My--my help? why?"
DarkShadow sighs and turns to the beach and then at the ocean. "I am
not really an evil entity. I am just an person who do not really
belong here. In fact, I came from up there."
"Up there? You mean-- from outer space--"
"Yes, and I need your help to control this land from something more
evil. My home planet has plans to take control of this planet."
DarkShadow stops suddenly and turns around at the mountains. "Excuse
me, I will be back." He disappears into the sky.
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F*CK YOU......people of vaxlandia don't want any trouble and I really
hate it when others control my character....I'm sure all people hate
having their characters being controled by others....
NEW RULE OF VAXLANDIA...NO CONTROLING OF OTHER CHARACTERS....THAT IS
UN-LEV.
If you want to take over something, take over the enigma
quadrant....vaxlandia is for peace and relaxing...I'm the protector of
vaxlandia and I take orders from NIGHT-BRID the creator of
vaxlandia.....
--Phantomstalker
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Agreed.
(Unless, of course, you have EXPRESSED PERMISSION of the other person
involved.)
Liz
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You can do almost anything to my characters other than kill/maim
them... please lay off Sol, though... he's mine.
Sol
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(Delete yer rules posts, they're not part of the story!)
As Gerrit comes walking up from the water, he plops down onto the sand
tired. He reaches down and adjusts his toes since they disjointed
after four hours of boogie boarding in the water as usual. Gerrit
rolls in the sand, covering his entire body in the sand. Finally, he
looks up to see Liz and Alison chatting away, then 'swokie and a cute
doggie fall out of the sky. Laying on his belly (ehe), Gerrit whisles
at the dog to come...
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NightBird whirls around to stand face to face with the man behind the
mask. "Erik," she says softly, "I wasn't sure if you'd still be here."
Erik smiles and walks up to her. "I told you... this pagoda I haunt
like a certain Opera house... it seems like another lifetime, another
place--"
"--another love.." nightbird blurts out, then blushes slightly andd
looks the other way.
"Yes," Erik replies, "another love..." he reaches out a gloved hand
to pet the 'raptor... who is in 7th heaven from all the attention.
"You really shouldn't spoil him," Erik says, "They aren't exactly
household pets."
NightBird nods and gently turns the 'raptor towards the direction
of the Pen, and shoo's him off. She turns and faces Erik once more,
and the two caped figures stare at each other, waiting for the other to
say something. The eastern sky is a pale lavender with a hint of fiery
orange as the dawn pushes its way through the horizon.
Erik offers his arm, and NightBird takes it slowly, then to couple
steps into the pagoda.
"I saw the music." Nightbird says softly as she takes a seat by the
window. "It was beautiful."
Erik sighs heavily as he stands in the shadow, leaning his weary
body against a wall. "The music said what I could not... Perhaps there
is nothing to me... just notes on paper."
NightBird peers into the shadows and shakes her head. "There is
much more to you than you give yourself credit for. yes, you are your
music... but the music is a part of you... the music is your heart's
way of speaking out... your music, your voice... your--" NightBird
shudders with an uncontrollable sob and stands to leave. "I c-c-can't
do this... I just can't... I... I--" she turns and heads for the door,
but Erik is there, blocking her escape.
"You can't what? What can't you do, 'Bird?" Erik asks in a soft
but demanding whisper. "You can't bring yourself to care for _this_,"
and he gestures at the mask, "After all this time... I thought you saw
past this horrid mask... I thought you were different... but you
aren't. You are as frightened and untrusting and pathetic as the
others!"
NightBird staggers backwards, as if she had been slapped. Her eyes
go wide and she shakes her head wildly and stares at him. "Erik? Is
that what you think? Is that what you believe me to be?" she asks,
"You should know me well enough to know that what I see is the music I
hear and the soft words and the gentle manner... I see _you_, Erik...
not some piece of cloth that adorns your scarred face!" She turns from
him in disbelief and walks over to the window seat, then collapses into
it from the shock of his words.
"It isn't your face I'm afraid of, Erik," she says softly into her
hands, which lay lifeless in her lap, "it's just the idea of being
close to _anyone_ anymore. I've known nothing but pain and betrayal
and suffering and hatred and loss from anyone who's ever meant anything
to me... my Mother and Father, Will Hudson, Alec Gunther... I've lost
them all... and to the same horrid fate." While she talks, Erik goes
to her and sits behind her, gently resting his hands on her shoulders.
She turns into his arms and sinks into his warm embrace
"I know this is paradise..." she continues, "a paradise I had a
large part in creating... 'they' would never be here, that much I am
almost certain of... but the old fears...
"The four people who meant the most to me died at the hands of
those damned monsters... those Aliens from Acheron. But it wasn't just
them... there were people in that unit that went to Acheron with Ellen
Ripley who were my first real friends! They died... they all died.
Except Hicks. I couldn't even face him... I couldn't even visit him in
the station's medical unit... I hated him for coming back... it should
have been Will..." The tears flow freely now as Erik's embrace becomes
tighter around her shaking shoulders.
"Erik... you mean more to me than any words I could find in the
Four Quadrants. I don't want to lose you... but it almost seems that
to save you... I have to give you up... either way... I lose."
Erik smiles and runs a hand through her short curly hair. "There
are no such creatures on this Island, 'Bird" he says, "The most
dangerous things here are your pet 'raptors... and these egotistical
charlatans who are trying to destroy the Island. The only thing
keeping you from me is here," and he points at her heart, "unlock those
steel gates, dearest Jehanne... and let my love add life and warmth to
that glacier within your heart."
NightBird sighs and clutches to him like a drowning child...
feeling, for the first time in so many years, love and trust and
belonging.
She suddenly sits upright and stares with unfocused eyes towards
the far wall... "Something is wrong on the Island," she said sharply,
all signs of her crying and desperate embrace gone in a flash.
She holds tight to Erik's arms and sends her Mind's Eye out into
the clear skies of Dawn and seeks out the message calling to her. In
moments, she gasps as her Mind's Eye plunges back into her body and
looks at Erik with steely flints of anger lurking within her eyes.
"There are few things in life I simply cannot tolerate. Wreaking
senseless havoc and trying to undo my Island is one of the top two."
She stands and storms for the door, sending a mental message to her
pack of Velociraptors. "Erik, I'll be back... There's trouble brewing
and I'm going to finish this now, before it gets out of hand!" With
that, she rushes out of the door and revves up her ATV.
"Damn... i swear i love her sometimes" he says with a chuckle...
Nightbird
[ADMIN]: breast... as mentioned above... is not referring to her
MAMMARIES... YOU TWITS!!!!!
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regarding the admin note in previous note...
the original line was "glacier beneath your breast" but i changed it
because i knew of the mentality of too many members of this
conference... ;^P
AMA
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LEVVAX::GKB3790 "Where's the toast?" 8 lines 23-SEP-1993 21:44
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Staring down at the pair of bright red swim trunks, he accepted the
proffered towel and wiped himself off.
"Thanks for the towel," he said, stretching a hand in her
direction. "My name's Lupe."
--Cav
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "WENCH!!!" 8 lines 23-SEP-1993 23:13
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Liz leans over and accepts the hand. Shaking it firmly, she replies
"Liz, kender from hell. Nice to meet ya! Where are you from? I
didn't see you come in!"
Liz
Bikini Kender from Hell
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LEVVAX::ETR0370 "ETRigan" 20 lines 24-SEP-1993 00:03
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Etrigan turns and blasts the creature, knocking him back several
feet and creating a rather large hole in his belly. Almost immediatly,
the hole starts to close up.
Etrigan turns back to Data and asks, "Can you use your sensors to
find this 'Jou-day'?"
"I believe that is within my capabilities." Data replies.
"Are you afraid of heights?"
"I am not programed to fear anything. Fear is an illogical
response to external stim...."
"Well, lets see if we can't change that!"
Etrigan grabs Data under the arms, and begins to travel over the
island by means of huge leaps, darting back and forth both to allow
Data to scan and to prevent the beast from closing in on them.
Suddenly Data taps Etrigan on the shoulder, and points to a cypress
tree on the edge of the forest. Etrigan comes to a landing nearby,
sets Data down, and rushes over to the old man sitting under the tree.
"Did you set up the field that's supposed to keep everything
peaceful?"
-ETRigan-
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"Where I'm from? To tell you the truth, I don't quite remember. I
just remember waking up here a little while ago. everything before
then is just foggy in my mind."
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LEVVAX::JDD9642 "Not Guilty" 15 lines 24-SEP-1993 08:14
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Jou-day cracks an eye and glances at the stranger, then closes it
once again. He begins to speak in a soft voice:
"I'm a custodian, son. Nothing more. I don't create spells, and I
don't make things happen. This land has a power all it's own, since
before the dawn of time. You've no business here, this is a land of
peace. You will learn to live as a Vaxlandian or you will leave. Me? I
don't have a thing to do with it, the land creates its own spells. I
tell you this as a warning, nothing more, nothing less."
As the old man rolls over, ETRigan fins himself standing naked and
unarmed with nothing to hide behind but his plastic buddy, Data. As he
starts to turn away he notices Jou-day's hand resting on a small brush
and a dustpan, and he hears a small voice chuckling...
Jou-day
unarmed,
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"Do you require clothing, sir?" asks Data helpfully, "since I am
not capable of modesty, perhaps you would like to borrow mine." Data
starts taking off his Uniform.
Mister Data
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LEVVAX::DED8895 "Everybody must get stoned! ;Q" 9 lines 24-SEP-1993 10:34
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Maenwhile, Roach has become disgusted with all the violence he has
witnessed in his short time in VAXlandia. Yet, knowing that this is a
land of peace that is being ruined by only a few people, he decides to
explore the little island in search of a nice, peaceful and serine
place where he can rest and just enjoy himself. So, he immediately
starts out towards the center of the island, deep into the forest.
Roach
;Q
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LEVVAX::JMS3520 "Blade Runner" 8 lines 24-SEP-1993 13:19
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If you need and assistance ROACH, just signal me and I'll guide you
around...."
Phantomstalker returns to his post and scans the island for any
real trouble
--Trouble-stalker
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "I'm a Valkyrie! Tee HEE!" 11 lines 24-SEP-1993 13:31
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Just watch the cottage in the mountains by Praxian Falls......
The resident is a bit odd..... :)
Liz rolls over onto her stomach and resumes chatting with Alison and
Lupe, wondering all the while why Lupe has that little tuft of bunny
fur caught in his hair.
Liz
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LEVVAX::VPM0500 "DarkShadow is here!" 10 lines 24-SEP-1993 13:55
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DarkShadow appears in a puff of smoke. He coughs and wheezes. He
takes out a black notebook.
'No smoke entrances. Allergic to smoke.' He writes.
He looks around and sees a tree. Deciding to sit by the tree, he walks
there, enjoying the clean air and wondering why he wants to take
control of the land. Then he remembers that he is evil. Oh, yeah.
He sees an old man, lying by the tree. He stops. He sees with his
magic senses that the old man is very powerful and by the way Nature
is with him, DArky guesses that the man is taking care of the land.
"Hello, my dear old man. HAve a good sleep?" DArky says.
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LEVVAX::JDD9642 "Not Guilty" 11 lines 24-SEP-1993 14:09
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Jou-day turns to see Darkshadow towering over him. He rises to his
feet and stares, his eyes beginning to smoulder.
"Take over Vaxlandia? Don't be absurd. This land will swallow you
whole!" As he speaks he seems to grow larger, the sky darkens, and
tremors begin to shake the island.
"Stay as long as you like, make alliances. There are many here who
can help in your quest. But I warn you, treat even the smallest animal
with anything resembling malice and your soul is mine."
-Jou-day
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LEVVAX::AMA4524 "Angel of Music" 32 lines 24-SEP-1993 14:24
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NightBird races along the Tracker's Trail at a frightening speed,
swearing and ducking beneath low hanging branches. She arrives at the
'Raptor Pen and smiles in satisfaction as her 24 'raptors, aging from
young 1 year olds to adults towering over her, hop and growl in
agitation. "I have a little job for you, my pets" she says as she
tosses them raw meat from her supply bin, "There are some rather
Un-Vaxlandian strangers on the Island, and they are trying their
damn-dest to destroy what i have labored to acheive. I want you to
find this DarkShadow, and another named ETRigan, and I want you to
bring them to me. They are not to be killed... i just want them
brought to my pagoda near Lake Pookie. Now Go, children... and make me
proud" with that she flings open the gate and the 'Raptors tear out of
the pen in a frenzy. She is not worried, however, because the 'raptors
will not cause harm to anyone who belongs, or who abides by the
unspoken rules of VaxLandia.
"PhantomStalker, this is NightBird. I am sending the 'Raptors out
to apprehend DarkShadow and ETRigan. It would appear that I need to
have a little talk with these two before I allow them to roam the
island freely once more. You might want to warn the Island's residents
to be wary... the Raptors won't intentionally harm them, but if the
interlopers put up a fight, it could get messy. NightBird out."
Then NightBird climbs back on her ATV and races for her Lakeside
Pagoda. "I never thought I'd have to do this," she mutters, "to think
I actually would have to lay down the law... put on the old
"magistrate" hat... i hate this job, i've never had to actually act
like a ruler or anything, we've never needed it.. but this is going to
far and they must stand and face an authority figure. This is
ridiculous... this is supposed to be Paradise... now they're turning me
into a Hall Monitor!"
NightBird
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LEVVAX::MSA7064 "Kiss my Suga-Tush" 19 lines 24-SEP-1993 14:24
-< Hope you don't mind, Jamin...Sceadeau >-
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A small furry woodland creature aproaches the stranger. "Friend or
foe to this land."
"Who..what..me?" Asked Roach. "No. I'm a friend here. Aren't
you a small furry woodland creature?"
The creature changed into.....a bloodhound.
"No...I am a tracker dog. I felt that you needed some rest and
relaxation from the hectic world. I am here to be your guide to
peace.
"Just grab my chain and I will lead you to a peaceful spot in the
forest. PeaceStalker sent me to find you..... I will lead you to
them. They are _real_ nice and understand the need for _peace_ and
_serenity_ that this land was founded upon."
"So....are you coming?"
-- Friendly, peaceful tracker dog whose sole purpose in Vaxlandia
is to help Roach find what he's looking for before anyone starts
trouble in this peaceful land that is not supposed to have any.
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LEVVAX::VPM0500 "DarkShadow is here!" 18 lines 24-SEP-1993 15:30
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DarkShadow stares at this old man as he finishes his threat. He stands
silent for a while.
He then looks at Jou-day. "My dear old man, I understand your concern
and I respect it. However it is my business to overtake this land for
it is my choice in order to achieve my goal: building defense
fortiments here and armies here. I am telling you that I am not really
that evil to maim or kill for blood. I also have a conscience. To
prove that, I promise that I will not harm those who are not in my way
in getting to my goal. Why? Well, it is difficult to explain. In
short, there will be more trouble coming. There are very evil aliens
coming to this planet from the Andromeda Galaxy. I know because I was
one of them. Since I came here a few hundred years, I have changed to
a more consentious person. I am planning to prepare this land to
defend itself from these evil aliens."
DarkShadow paused. "Besides you cannot stop me for I have a unknown
source of power and magic to aid me. But what the heck? I just made
the promise that I will not harm anyone that is not in my way and I
will keep my word."
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LEVVAX::KAB8121 "WINDOWS TO THE SOUL" 8 lines 24-SEP-1993 15:50
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"well.. it depends on what the risks involved are.. first of
all.. why did you come up to me right after i talked to white
ninja? i'm sure you heard my secret.. I won't tolerate those who
has no respect for others and their privacy.. " vampiress fumed..
VAmpiress..
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LEVVAX::ETR0370 "ETRigan" 52 lines 24-SEP-1993 16:05
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Etrigan looks at the old man strangly, thinking," Why claim to be
nothing but a custodian when obviously he is so much more? And why claim
to have disarmed me when I wasn't armed to begin with?"
Etrigan shruggs, and makes a small gesture with his hand. A new
set of clothes appeares from nowhere, all except the hat. With another
gesture, a thick cloud of dust leaps from the old man and flies around
Etrigan's head coalecing(sp?) into his hat.
"No one messes with the hat." With that, Etrigan turns to Data to
explain that he doesn't really need a Starfleet uniform, and that it
probably won't fit anyway, when he notices a device hanging at the
Androids waist.
"Look can I borrow your tricorder for a second?"
"Yes, but I must remind you that it is Starfleet property, and that
any damage that it...."
"Yeah, whatever." Seeing the bounty hunter approaching rapidly,
looking mightily peeved, Etrigan begins a complez series of gestures.
When he is finished, there is no sound, no motion, in fact nothing.
The land looks as if time has been frozen, which in fact it has.
Grabbing his tool chest from a conviniently placed pocket dimension,
Etrigan opens up the tricorder and sets to work.
After a couple hours (subjective) he closes the tricorder and
returns his tools. Standing to stretch out the kinks in his back, he
reminds himself to put a workbench and chair in with the tools when he
gets the chance. Having stretched, he walks around to where the
monster hangs suspended in time. Stoping directly behind the beast,
Etrigan releases his earlier spell.
Time starts back up, and the thing stops, it's target apparently
having vanished. Etrigan takes the oportunity to reveal his presence.
"Hey ugly!"
As it whirls around, Etrigan points the tricorder at the monster
and presses a button.
"See you around, McDougle."
"There is a flash of light, and a small pop. Etrigan walks over to
Data, who has started puting his uniform back on, and hands him the
tricorder.
"You have changed your mind?" Then Data does what passes for a
double take for him: he blinks.
"What happened to that monsterous beast flying around?"
"I got rid of him. Right now he should be floating around the
Enigma Quadrant. Oh yeah, don't press these three buttons in a row."
Having solved his latest problem, (happy, everyone?) Etrigan
wanders off to lie on the beach and soak up the sun. As he lies down,
he makes a little sign in the air with his index finger.
All over the island, there is a sigh, as of air escaping from a
tire. All the devastation wrought by the battle is erased, replaced by
the lush forests and small furry woodland creatures that resided there
before.
-ETRigan-
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LEVVAX::JGM7683 3 lines 24-SEP-1993 19:23
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TLD looks around, confused after hitting "n u" in the topic...
~
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LEVVAX::MSA7064 "Kiss my Suga-Tush" 18 lines 24-SEP-1993 20:42
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"But I had to be sure. Forgive my intrusion, please, m'lady, I
had not intention of infuriating you. I have the utmost respect for
your privacy and am sorry for the untimely intrusion." Sceadeau
materialized in front of her, dressed all in black, with his hood
covering his face.
The vampiress looks at him warily.
"You do not believe me, m'lady. Here," Sceadeau removed his hood,
showing his face for the first time. He bowed his head, exposing the
sensitive part of the neck. "I offer you this. My life for the
fulfillment of the prophecy. We need peace here, m'lady, what is wrong
with a little mutual benifit.
"Kill me, if you wish. It does not matter. We need peace, you
need help. Why resist?
Sceadeau keeps his neck exposed, awaiting her decision.
-- Sceadeau
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "She's not my type." 39 lines 24-SEP-1993 22:25
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Liz rises and stretches, bidding farewell to her friends for a time to
go get her sunblock from her cottage (being the senile critter that she
is). About twenty feet from the peaceful little cottage, she spies
movement in the bushes. A velociraptor.
"Aw, nuts!" she breathes, ducking into the shadows. The little 'raptor
enters the clearing, sniffing the air. It looks directly at Liz,
sniffs again, and turns to leave, almost completely ignoring her. Liz,
dumbfounded, whispers "What are you up to?"
Suddenly, she realizes that she is wearing the Bikini Tie of Dinosaur
Communicating. She tightens the knot on the back of her neck, and
repeats the question. The 'raptor turns, a bit surprised to find
someone speaking to it, and hisses "Quiet! I'm trying to find a couple
of people for Mom."
"Mom?"
"The one you call 'NightBird'."
"Oh. Who?"
"ETRigan and DarkShadow."
"Ugh," Liz sighs. "I have a feeling ETRigan has gotten the idea of the
law of the land. DarkShadow...... hey, want some help?"
The raptor, still a bit surprized to have found a
non-raptor/non-NightBird that can communicate with it, agrees. The
two unlikely allies head off into the woods.
Liz
Raptor
(Angie.... I hereby give consent for you to assist in raptor control...
:) )
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LEVVAX::VPM0500 "DarkShadow is here!" 26 lines 25-SEP-1993 14:33
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DArky turns from Jou-day and is about to vanish when everything froze.
He looks around, puzzled. His magic is too strong to allow the
time-freezing spell to touch him. He watchs, fastinated as the two
men, one of them apparantly an antroid, defeats a devastated bounty
hunter.
He smiles, and then slowly frowns. He recalls back to a moment that he
had encountered a bounty hunter in his home planet. The hunter had
been hired by unknown high authorities to slay DarkShadow. But insteads the
hunter had killed the bride and got away with it.
DarkShadow had made a vow to his dead bride to seek the hunter and nake
him suffer.
He comes into the reality and stares at the two men. He hears that the
bounty hunter is sent to the Enigma Quadrant. He decides to go there.
He turns to Jou-day. "It looks like that my plans are changed.
VAxlandia is...pardoned. Peace belongs to this land, not violence."
DArkShadow makes a gesture. A smoky door appears beside him. He is
about to enter into it when his magic notebook suddenly appears and
beeps. He stares at it.
"Oh, that is right. I have an allergy to smoke. Thanks!"
He then starts to make complex movements and stops. "In second
thought, I will go to the Towne Pub for a beer and a rest. Adios, my
dear old man!" He disappears in a flash of fire. His notebook beeps
frantically and then vanishes. The smoky door hovers for a while and
suddenly disperses as a velociraptor snarls through it. The dangerous
animal stops, puzzled, and eyes at Jou-day and then at the two men
nearby. It shrugs and vanishes back to where it came from.
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Jou-day leans against his staff, chuckling softly.
"Pardoned, are we? Yes, my friend...and so are you, this time. Well
NB, looks like things are beginning to settle down once again. Good
thing, too. All that violence" *shudders* "gives me the willies!"
"Oh, and say hello to Erik, my dear....", he says as he walks
softly towards the hills.
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LEVVAX::AMA4524 "Angel of Music" 26 lines 26-SEP-1993 00:48
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NightBird sits at her desk, tapping restlessly with a pencil. She
is highly agitated at the weird goings on on her Island. People
appearing and disappearing left and right... all the craziness. "I
should just sell the Island," she mutters to herself, and tosses the
pen on the desk, "All i wanted was peace and quiet, a place to escape
and chill..."
She looks up as the door slowly opens, and Erik walks through. "I
hope I'm not intruding," he says softly.
She offers an amusing smile and says, "How do you do that? I left
you not 2 hours ago... and here you are... and you dont' own any kind
of vehicle... how do you do it???"
Erik smiles and replies, "You forget my dear, I'm the Phantom...
its my job to amaze and astound..."
"Erik," she says seriously, "I want you to knw that I do lovee
you... and as soon as all this crazy stuff calms down, I'll be able to
put a realistic effort into something a bit more meaningful... I
promise."
Erik walks over to him and removes his mask. "I believe you my
dear... and more importantly, I believe _in_ you" With that he bends
over and kisses her softly on her cheek, then goes into the kitchen to
make a cheesecake.
nightBird
Erik
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Gerrit, still lazily laying out on the sand wonders why everyone is
making such a fuss. As he drifts off to sleep (bound to get severely
burned) dreams of capture dance in his head.
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Phantomstalker tracks each raptor.....one of them is close to
Darkshadow....but is not directly in the path of it....Phantomstalker
do a level one scan on the whole island and notices the PKE energy
rising again....He wonders...
--Phantomstalker
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 21 lines 26-SEP-1993 16:54
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Sol has returned to the circle of trees... having rejoined himself.
He has been doing much thinking lately.
-I need to go- he thinks, -It is time to go.- Ten million hobbies
and interests, and he has restricted himself to only one. VAX.
-It's time to explore the rest of myself. There's more to me than
this. More to me than an artificial island.- He picks up a rock and
throws it off the plateau as hard as he can. It stops in mid-air,
causing a black-and-gold grid to flicker where it hit.
-It isn't real,- thinks Sol, -None of this is real. I love this
place, but I can't stay locked inside this box anymore.-
"Computer!" he shouts, "exit."
A hatch-door appears out of nowhere, and opens. Sol looks out over
the beach, the mountains, the sea. He sees his friends, Liz, Tas,
Stalker, and wonders whether he should say goodbye. No. That would
just be another part of the illusion, just another way to perpetuate
this artificial fantasy.
-See you in the Real World,- he whispers to them, then shrugs and
steps through the portal.
Sol
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Tas, though miles away, grins at Sol's leaving.
"The line between illusion and real is very thin indeed, my
friend."
Tas
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Liz watches Sol vanish and smiles to herself.
"See ya, pal..." she sighs. Her reverie is interrupted by a surprised
squeak from her young raptor friend.
"Hey! Where are...." Liz catches up to the raptor, who had charged
ahead some ways, just in time to see a door of smoke close.
Liz tenses, then relaxes.
"Well, thank the gods that's over with!" she sighs, turning to see her
friend dashing off.
"Hey! Wait up!" she yells, following her friend.
Liz
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The White Ninja once again ventures forth from his abode, high in the
sierra vaxlandia's. He steps onto his very elevated front porch, and
fills his lungs with clean crisp air. The warm sun beams down on his
face.
"Hi, everyone. I'm back." He says to no one in particular.
The White Ninja
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"hmm.. interesting.. sceadeau, you really would do this..?
you're the first man to offer me your life.. " vampiress turned
araound.. lost in thought.. "would you give your life ... or would
you rather live eternally?? but then.. your not mortal, are you? "
Vampiress wanders across the room, and stopped across a mask that
represents sceadeau.. took it off the wall, and walked back to where
sceadeau was standing.. and handed the mask to him.. "what does this
mask remind you of..? why do you hide yourself in the night..?
your such a handsome man.. yet you hide your face.. you're by far the
most mysterious human i've ever met.. "
sceadeau blushed.. "you're mysterious, too.. you know.. "
vampiress smiled.. " i know.. and i try to keep it that way..
well..? answer my question.. "
vampyress..
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DS comes wandering down the beach, a dazed look on his face.
"Gracious!" he s to no one in particular, "turn around for one
moment, the Kender are gone and everything gets all weird."
He notices Garret and Lupe up the beach and heads toward them.
Dragon Strike
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Gerrit notices Dragon Strike walkin towards him and Garret. Gerrit
waves to him, motioning for him to come over. Sandy, but almost dry,
he shakes all the sand off of him and sits on the towle, wondering what
Dragon Strike has been up to lately in VAXlandia.
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Liz and her new friend, Aloycious the velociraptor, find their way to
NightBird's place. Liz hears Angie's voice, followed by a deeper,
unfamiliar voice.
"Oops! She has company.... with a really sexy voice!" she gasps, then
adds to the raptor "Give her my regards.... don't want to interrupt!"
With that, she heads back towards the woods.
Liz
The Tactful Kender
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Garren rides out onto the beach in full armor, weapon by his side.
Behind him and alongside him, a pack forty strong of wolves lope along
the sand. He rides up to Tas.
"We're leaving, little bud. You're welcome to follow, if you
wish." Tas thinks for a moment, then climbs up on Justin, sitting
behind Garren. The wolves circle the horse and its passengers, then
one by one, start to...sing almost. The wolves and figures slowly fade
from sight, the song echoing in the wind.
Tas
Garren
Wolfpack
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(* Seeing a good topic start to die out *)
A being, familiar to those who have been here a long time, walks
across the island to the place known as Sunrise Bluff. The trees, who
have been blocking the roads in and out, part to let the stranger pass.
The wind blows, as he passes, and in it can be heard an echo
"Solenoid". But this is not the Solenoid who had left Vaxlandia so
many moons ago. He is dressed in black robes, like a long dead
magician, and is accompanied by the darkest "cloud" over the island. I
say it is a cloud because it is not made up of enough matter to account
for an entity. But is too dense to be a shadow.
After the stranger passes, he turns around and throws a fireball,
right from his hands, and the cloud disappears. The trees are set on a
fire that is quickly put out by the Vaxlandia fire control system. "I
never liked those blasted trees anyway. Always being nice to everyone.
HA." The stranger continues on towards the bluff itself, with the
cloud, which had seemingly rematerialized after the fire, on his tail.
Its good to be home. All thos other hobbies were for the birds, people
are not important, only me. Now I can destroy this island once and for
all, showing these LEV people that levity is irrelevant. He smiles at
the thought, remembering his last encounter with the LEV cop
Charlemagne. And there will be no one to stop me.
Across the island PhantomStalker receives a commique over his
radio...................
Back on the bluff, Solenoid pulls what appears to be a strange
glowing orb from inside his robes. He sits down and begins to summon
magic even he would be unable to control.......
(* Sole gave me permission for this, if you want
to push it. I can produce this proof. *)
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As the magic starts to coarse through him, he mutters,"Can't hold my
shape much longer...."
hehehe
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As his shape starts to fade, in its place is a globular muck, about the
size of a tire. The muck forms itself into the technician from last
winter in the Town Pub.
"I HAVE RETURNED TO MY FAVORITE SHAPE!"
"Now to destroy this petty island, before the locals get too wise."
THE SMOKEDUSTER
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Liz finally gets fed up with anal warts such as this. She goes up to
her room and throws open a closet door. The dust flies out in a
glittering cloud, lit by the afternoon sun. A tear rolls down her face
as she pulls out a cloak, a pack, and her tights and tunic. Throwing a
few precious belongings into the pack, she tosses on her travelling
clothes and picks up her walking stick.
"I'll be back...someday," she vows as she takes a breath and twists a
garnet ring on her right hand. As the golden cloud sweeps her away,
her voice lingers.
"Someday."
Liz
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Meanwhile, high on a mountaintop, Jou-day chuckles to himself. He
watched the geek below as he prepares to destroy what is a completely
holographic replication of Vaxlandia, set in motion by fools who think
there is power in the world to destroy the true land.
"He'll be halfway to Arkansas, or whereever it is he's searching
for before he even begins to realise the truth....such a pathetic
little man..."
-Jou-day
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Gerrit, getting sad that no one is payin any attention to him, decides
to build a plane...
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TLD, seeing a problem arising that he does not want to be part of, digs
in his pocket and pulls out an amulet. Opening the amulet, whispers
can be heard from miles around. As they grow into a tremendous
tummult, a glow can be seen around TLD. The din grows until it sounds
as if the island is covered with a tremendous wave. The glow envelops
TLD, and suddenly he is gone. The glow is gone, and the sound quiets
down until it is also gone. The amulet drops to the ground. Engraved
in the back are the words...
"Someday, Somehow, I will again return."
~
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Sceadeau stares at Vampiress for a sec.
"I'm sick of this, aren't you? Let's go together, away from this
place. Away from the sickness plaguing this land. I thought this was
a happy place, but, guess not. I'm going, will you join me?"
Sceadeau extended a weather hand to the Vampiress and began to fade
away.
-- Sceadeau
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" ok.. let's go.. and then i'll sleep for about a year.. so i can
have more strength.. " said vampiress, smiling an honest smile..
vampiress..
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In the skys, a cloud appeared... Not like any cloud ever seen in
VaxLandia before... now; this one had an aura of good. It looked like
white with silver sparkles inside it. As it came, all wind stopped and
time seemed to slow to nothing. The cloud opened in the center just
enough to allow a beam of sunlight through that covered the island like
a flashlight beam would cover a key. The people who remained on
VaxLandia suddenly felt a lot better about themselves; those with
special powers that helped good felt their power strengthening, and
those with bad weakened. The cloud came down just before the island
and seemed to wait. The beam closed off and the cloud enveloped the
island like a hand taking up a ping pong ball. The cloud made
everything brighter and everything gayer [happier] for all. Even
Vampiress, who liked the night more than the day, couldn't help but to
feel good about seeing this in full view. After about ten minutes, the
cloud lifted and went off in the direction it had come... The amulet
TLD had dropped no longer laid on the ground, it now was in the hands
of Vampiress. No evil remained on the island, and nothing that would
in any way cause harm to another. The cloud, now darker than it had
been originally, disappeared in the bright daylight.
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Liz crashes to the beach with a squeak.
"Ooch! My aching rump!" she yelps, dusting off her travel clothes and
rising shakily to her feet. "Where the... Oh, JEEZ! Who's the wise
guy who shok up my spell?!?" Before she has a chance to get too
incensed, she notices the strange feeling in the air. Peace. At last.
"Oh, alright. Mikayli can wait." With a sigh, Liz returns to her
cottage to unpack.
Liz
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And in the moment of the brightest light was created the darkest
shadow. And the shadow became aware. And the shadow knew hunger.
Jigh sensed the forest around him, searching for intruders and dark
things that lurk in every corner. He was one with the forest his
mistress and master, NightBird, had created. He could feel the trees
bending in the wind, the birds singing, the buzzing of an insect, and
slight changes in temperature. Ever alert, the Raptors hunted that
which did not belong. And Jigh could smell the wrongess that just
appeared.
'Huyt, Reot. Shadow arises. Join.' The Raptors were smart, but
not in the way humans were. They spoke through mental images, smells
and feelings.
Soon the other Raptor's of Patrol 15 arrived and the three moved through
the virgin forest at the base of the mountains at full speed, but never
once sacrificing stealth. Only the leaves on the ground noted their
passage, though it was more like a kiss from a soft wind than the step
of a six foot tall killer lizard. The animals of the forest were
oblivious to the three hunters.
Running in an arrow formation roughly a hundred yards apart, the
other two quickly caught the scent. Death. Decay. Hunger. Jigh
shuddered at the images the smell brough to mind and for once wished he
could block it out. The images Jigh was receiving from the other two
were similar, but the three nevered waverd from their task. An enemy
had invaded their master's private sanctum, and they were to be dealt
with. Unmercifully, uncaring, the Raptors brought swift justice in the
form of torn throats and sliced stomaches. Evil would not be
tolerated.
Jigh silently ordered the other two to spread out as the scent grew
stronger. The taint of the Jaftyu-iy (as Jigh took to calling it)
covered everything. The trees were sick from the touch and presence of
the evil. It be a while before that sickness grew noticeable to anyone
else, but Jigh could sense it. The decay had begun, and it must end.
Jigh stood erect as Reot sent an image of a darting shape. Jigh
ordered Hyut to meet him at Reot's position and then ran to meet them.
Jigh stumbled in mid stride and fell as Reot's mental death cry tore
through his brain. Jumping back to his feet, Jigh ran even harder,
forgetting silence and finesse. A Raptor had been killed.
Jigh burst into the small clearing where Reot had been. Totally
gone now, except for a few blood splotches on the leaves, Jigh searched
for the scent of the killer. Hyut burst into the clearing and
disappeared back into the underbrush, circling the area. Within
moments, he returned.
'Nothing.' Jigh confirmed it silently. It was as if Reot had
disppeared. There had been no warning from Reot, just the death cry.
There had been no fight either.
Hyut screamed. Jigh turned to see a large shadowy shape covering
the lithe, strong Raptor. Hyut was dead before he hit the ground. The
shadow turned toward to Jigh. And for the first time, Jigh knew fear.
Absolute terror. With a screech, Jigh hurtled himself into the forest.
Escape was all that was on his mind. There were few things that could
outrun a Raptor in its forest. Very few. Jigh knew that this was one
of them.
The Shadowy form launched itself after Jigh, the tree it brushed
dying instantly. The Raptor was a mere twenty feet ahead. The Shadow
wailed.
Mental images of horrors and hunger unspoken filled Jigh's mind.
Jigh managed to send one image before the darkness overtook him. One
message to his kind. Then, Jigh died. And the Shadow feasted.
'Jaftyu-iy! Jaftyu-iy!'
Gryop Looked up. Patrol 15 had been destroyed. The awful death
cries had been felt across the island by all Raptors. Hastily, Gryop
sent Logt, his fastest Raptor. Jaftyu-iy had come, Walking Death.
Raptors
Jaftyu-iy
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John was in his garden by the Raptor pen planting some peppers when
Logt appeared in the yard. Sighing, John wondered what it would be
this time.
'Huntmaster, needed. Patrol killed.' Logt pranced on his feet
anxious to move, to find his mistress.
John was stunned. A patrol of Raptors had been killed? What on
this island could even hope to accomplish that? No new humanoids or
such had arrived, and all the old were accounted for. Noticing Logt's
impatience to be on, John waved him off as he ran to his jeep. He
needed to get to the control center.
The jeep slid to halt outside a small building nestled in the
trees. John jumped out, running in the nearest door, dodging Raptors
doing thier tasks or preparing to patrol. The activity was hurried
today, and John noticed Raptors grouping in five and sixes rather than
the usual three. Gryop most think something seriously wrong to alter
the plans. Raptors were intelligent, but instinct guided their actions
more often than not.
John entered the main control room and immediately found Gryop
issuing orders to a group of Raptors. As Gryop finished up, he looked
up at John.
'Jaftyu-iy. Death Walks. Here.' Gryop pointed to a scale map of
the island on a nearby table. No matter how often John saw it, he
could not believe it. Magical in nature, it kept track of the location
of every Raptor and person on the island with small 3 dimensional
holograms. One look was all John needed to see that every Raptor on
the island was moving to one spot.
"Gryop, halt the Raptors." Gryop must think the threat very
serious indeed. Some of the Raptors had almost 200 miles to run for
their destination. "Only send Raptors within 15 miles of the slaying
to investigate. Send the rest back on their normal patrols, we can't
leave the entire island undefended.
Gryop acknowledged with a slight nod of the head and sent the
appropriate mental orders.
"Now, Gryop, just what the hell happened?"
Ufty-jo ordered his patrol, now with six Raptors into the diamond
attack formation. The three in front ran in a tight arrow head
formation within five yards of each other. The three in back ran the
same, but inverted. All were alert, all could smell the death.
'Close. Be ready.' The forest here was quiet, no animals stirred.
A soft breeze stirred the trees above. Ufty-jo knew they were within
two thousand strides of the spot that the others died, and if he had
hair on the back of his neck, it would be standing on end.
Trusa informed Ufty-jo that she had seen a shape off to the right.
Ufty-jo ordered the Raptors to split into two groups, and they circled
around on the shape. Ufty-jo could see the shape now, lowering
himslef, he prepared to attack. But the sight he beheld almost made
him sick.
Reot's tortured, burned body was staked up into a fighting stance.
The Raptor's eyes still held the terror and pain it had felt on dying.
The smell of the area was one of insanity.
The sense of sickness and wrongness faded quickly in each Raptor,
replaced by the firy rage of hate. Whoever did this would pay. But
the Raptors were reluctant to step towards the evil they all could
feel. Reot's body was clearing a marker for its territory, in their,
they would no longer be in the comfort of their forest, fighting on
thier ground. They would be in its lair.
Ufty-jo silently ordered his team forward, and into the darkness
they disappeared.
John sat dazed in the control room, watching the Raptor teams close
in on whatever had killed Patrol 15. Patrol 8 had just arrived and
entered the area. All contact was lost with them at 1500 strides from
the marked location. John wondered what had the power to do that.
Gryop was in constant communication with Raptors across the island,
and messengers hurried to and fro. The Raptors had all wanted to
return, to fight Jaftyu-iy to the end. The Final Battle many called
it. Gryop wondered himself if it wasn't the end, but John assured him
that it was just some renengade who had gotten lucky. But Gryop could
smell John's disbelief in his own words. The images Gryop had shown
John were too powerful to be mistaken for anyhting that they were.
Trouble at the very least. But all they could do now was wait,
hopefully the mistress would be found soon. She would have a better
idea as to what to do.
Ufty-jo halted his patrol. Ahead was the clearing that Hyut and
Reot had been taken. The smell here and in the rest of the forest had
become so strong it was impossible for the Raptors to track their prey.
The smell covered everything. They could only keep their eyes open.
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[admin: Umm, I ran out of time to finish the last post, I'll get back
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From the far edge of the clearing, movement caught the eyes of all
the Raptors. Ufty-jo ordered his team into the diamond attack
formation, and with a speed lightning could envy, launched itself at
the abomination in the woods. The six Raptors darted through the
underbrush, their prey staying just ahead of them. Instinct drove them
to the kill, instinct so powerful the Raptors could barely remember the
names they were given at birth, let alone control. But Ufty-jo
remembered, and though he desperately wanted to forget the years of
training, they would not stop nagging him. The Raptors were being led
into a trap.
Ufty-jo halted and reversed direction in a heart beat. Four of the
Raptors kept pace and direction with him, but two, Nyti and Poles kept
up after the running 'thing'. Ufty-jo screamed mental orders, but the
reason in the two young Raptors was gone. They had only thoughts for
the kill. And Ufty-jo was not surprised when their death cries filled
the air. he was surprised, however, at the mental images sent to him
just before they had died. Reot was alive. Ufty-jo thought
disgustedly, not alive. Some twisted version of life. Ufty-jo knew
that he could not fight this evil.
But the sound for retreat was too late. Reot appeared from the
left, a large blur of talon and teeth, dropping the back Raptor. Hyut
appeared next, and right after that, Jigh. Peices of their flesh
falling off, eyes filled with hate for the living, they tore after the
living Raptors, now in full retreat. Ufty-jo tried desperately to send
a message to the Huntmaster, but something was preventing it. Only
1000 strides till they broke free of this evil domain. Ufty-jo never
noticed the next two Raptors on his team fall. Alone, Ufty-jo ran
recklessly for the edge of the evil.
Jaftyu-iy appeared to Ufty's right, and pursued. Ufty-jo thought
only of escape, the smell of his now dead friends tainted driving him
to insanity. 600 strides. 500 strides. Ufty-jo knew some small hope.
He was going to make it.
And as he crossed the gap, he felt the lines of communication open.
Silently, he screamed for all to hear. 'The Ajkkar run with e
Jaftyu-iy!' And he screamed again, as a long talon split him clean in
half. He didn't have time to screech a death cry.
Laughter, the very sound of insanity, filled the forest.
'The Ajkkar run with the Jaftyu-iy!' Gryop turned pale, or as
close to pale as a Raptor could get. Silently, he communicated to the
huntmaster.
'Ajkkar, the souless.'
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NightBird and Erik fill the night air with music and laughter and
praise... as love blooms and doubts are overcome...
NightBird had just finished her favorite arrangement of Mozart's
Ave Verum Corpus, and was just about to begin Schubert's Ave Maria
when a sudden wrenching pain overcame her... her gentle melody broke
harshly into a shriek of terror and pain... and she clawed at the sky,
then collapsed into a heap on the floor of the pagoda.
Erik rushed to her side and grabbed her shoulders. She was sobbing
loudly and trembling all over, then turned her face to look at him.
A river of tears coursed down her cheeks as she stared at him with wide
eyes.
"My children..." she wailed loudly, "my children are dying...
someone is killing my babies!" Another wave of pain ripped through her
body and she convulsed in his arms.
"OH GODDD... MY 'RAPTORS!!!!! WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY
RAPTORS????!!!"
Erik tried in vain to calm her, but she was beyond consolation.
She tore from his grip and ran to her ATV, then raced across the
country-side to find her dying 'raptors.
Erik shuddered and clutched the libretto NightBird had dropped when
her convulsions hit...
NightBird
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Gerrit, seeing that everyone is doing so much, and he is still not
having fun in the great world of Vaxlandia, decides to roam off into
the bright sunset of tomorrow...
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Somewhere, a hatch-door opens. Sol steps through, as he is,
looking at his watch. "Two weeks," he muses, tapping the watch-face.
He looks around. Hmmmph. Same as ever. He looks at his
circle-of-trees. They have all burned down.
Vaxlandia. Notes. Yay, fun. He jumps up and down. Nothing. He
tries again. Nothing. He shrugs, then flops into the grass.
The place looks different somehow.
Sol snaps his fingers, and Nietzsche appears. The philosopher
opens a book and says, "Love of -one- is a piece of barbarism: for it
is practised at the expense of all others."
"Ahhh, shutup," says Sol, and waves him away before he can finish.
Sol drops a bag, and removes a bunch of textbooks, among them
Philosophy. Nietzsche is on the cover.
"Good," says Sol, "Now why don't you stay in there?"
Sol
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Jou-day appears and finds Sol staring out to the sea...
"Hello, friend. Still the same questions troubling you? You just
can't seem to find peace within. Still wrestling with the Familiar
Stranger Within? I cannot give you the answers you seek, but in
talking, perhaps you can find them within yourself. Speak, friend."
-jou-day
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Sol tilts his head and gives Jou-day a terse smile. "Wrestling
with the Stranger Within? Constantly. Always. It's like looking for
something when you don't know what it is. The answers will come. They
always do. It's patience that's the trick."
Sol offers the custodian a sandwich. "Tell me about this island,
Jou-day. What's it like? Why do people come here? And why is it what
it is?"
Sol
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Hmm...I've wondered that myself, Sol. Vaxlandia...an island where
one can find a few moments of inner-peace, and yet one after another
attempts to destroy it's harmony. Not unlike your own struggles. We
search for that peace, most of us. Yet would any of us know what to do
with it, once attained? And so it's become with Vaxlandia...this land
seems to have become the place where we all try to face that inner
struggle on a physical level, one we fine easier to relate to. Giving
the intangibles real, physical attributes. Perhaps that's why it's so
familiar, yet so strange. And why do you come here?
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John studied the map before him.
"I don't want any Raptors to go within 1000 strides of this point."
John all but punched the map with is finger. "I want half of the
Raptor force there, broke into roving patrols checking the perimeter at
all times. Ten Raptors to a patrol. They are not to engage the enemy
until they have communictaed its whereabouts to us. They are to let us
decide. Forty Raptors are dead, I will not have any more die
needlessly. I'm going out to take a look." John grabbed his jacket
and stormed out of the command center.
Gryop began communicating the orders to the necessary Raptors. The
safety net would be up within the hour. Gryop's replacement, a Raptor
named Tyrel, came in and relieved him of duty. Gryop headed towards
the pens for a much needed rest.
Gryop finally got up. The nightmares were too much. The screams
of Reot, Jigh, and Hyut echoed through his mind. The split second
images of their killer filled his mind. What was it? Gryop wasn't
sure, it had seemed to shift constantly, never keeping one form. Sort
of like the Shadow cast from a large tree swaying in the wind. Yes,
that was it. But more than a shadow. It was alive.
Gryop shuddered, trying to force the thoughts from his mind. The
pen was filled with shadows, and Gryop found himself nervously looking
into every one, hoping to catch some movement before the shadow
swallowed him whole. The moon shone in the opening far above him in
the pens, and Gryop moved into the soft, comforting light. No shadow
could exist in the light. No shadow could get to him here.
John pulled his jeep to the side of the dirt road. He was still
some thirty miles from the perimeter the Raptors had set up. It was
too dark to continue, despite the bright light of the full moon far
overhead.
"Well, I won't help anyone if I kill myself getting there." John
pulled a whistle from his pocket and blew on it twice, one short, one
long. His Raptor escort would have known he had stopped within minutes
and come to investigate, but John liked to keep them informed. The
signal would let them know to get something to eat, the come to camp.
John would share watches with his Raptors.
Opening the back of the truck, John pulled out his sleeping bag and
some bags of rations. Slinging those over his shoulder, John grabbed
his shotgun and the muntions belt. A week ago, John would have laughed
at the idea of carrying a gun around this island. Of course, he
wouldn't have bet dime one against a Raptor in a fight either. But
that was a week ago.
Cautiously moving into the forest, John soon found what he was
looking for. A small clearing lay nestled between giant oak trees in
this nearly virgin forest. The full moon shone down making it easy for
John to see what lurked in one of his favorite camping spots. Spying
nothing, John moved into the clearing. Across from him, the two
Raptors he brought along also emerged. When they were close enough,
they sent the metal images for safety to him. Nothing would disturb
them tonight.
John had some ability to speak with the Raptors in the mental form
they used. He had to be very close, usually no more than ten feet. It
was a weird from of communication, and very hard to translate from
Raptor to human. They spoke of feelings, and images, most of which
were very powerful and so accurately described things that John
wondered if he had not actually sensed what they had or seen what they
had seen. The human language was so pityfully clumsy next to theirs,
so mechanical and uncaring. But the Raptors had seemed to think the
human language was the greatest thing next to sliced bread, and almost
all have learned it. None could speak it, not like a human, due to
obvious physical differences. They would think English to John instead
of images and feelings. It was choppy, and sometimes downright
horrible, but they loved it. John helped many Raptors on many a day to
better their English while he was working in his garden back at the
base. They in turn helped him. But it seemed to be something you had
to be born with, cause no matter how hard he tried, John could not get
it. So he settled for what he had.
John decided to make a fire, so while the Raptors were eating thier
kill, he moved into the woods and collected some wood. Within minutes,
John had a small blaze going. Putting the can of soup near the fire to
warm up, John lay back on his sleeping bag to look at the moon.
"You guys ever want to go to the moon?" John smiled at the
confused images he recieved from the Raptors. John chuckled a little
at Gfurn's response. Why would anyone wanna visit a big rock? Klopp
seemed to agree.
"Well, why not. To go somewhere different, to see new sights. I
would like too." John sat up to check his soup.
'No. Sights not interest much. Woods good. Happy.' Klopp was
one of John's newer students of English, and he was learning fast.
John was about to compliment the Raptor when he caught movement out of
the corner of his eye. Grabbing the shotgun, he slowly stood up. He
couldn't see a thing in the shadows beyond the clearing.
Klopp and Gfurn looked up from their deer at John questioningly,
their own converstion on the 'rock' dying almost instantly.
[admin: Lunch time, I'll be back. :) ]
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vampiress.. seeing that her job is done.. took her valuables and
left Vaxlandia for paris, the land of the arts.. the world of dark
fantasies.. also in hopes of finding Lestat..
vampiress..
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Klopp and Gfurn rose to their feet, sniffing the air.
'Nothing. There is nothing there.'
John continued to stare at the spot. He would have sworn on his
mom's eight track collection that he had seen movement.
"You guys are right. I'm just jumpy. Just a shadow." John slowly
sat down. The Raptors turned back to their meal. Shadows made by the
flickering firelight danced along the tree line, drawing John's eye
every few moments. Two giant shadow Raptors silently ate their meal.
Trees swayed in the wind. John tried to push the thoughts from his
mind while he slowly ate his chicken noodle soup.
"I'll take first watch, guys." Gfurn looked up quickly. "Oh
sorry, and girls." John smiled. Recieving a mental hmmmpfff, John
laughed. Women were the same everywhere. Klopp looked at Gfurn, then
John and rolled his eyes. Laughing harder, John thought he saw Klopp
smile at Gfurn. Men and women, didn't matter what species, were the
same everywhere.
The two Raptors hunkered down in their odd sitting position, and
within moments were asleep. Even asleep, they look so deadly, John
thought. What the hell could be out there to stop them. John pushed it
from his mind and sat back, studying the stars and the moon, listening
intently for any signs of anything, the shot gun loaded and ready
across his lap. Time passed slowly.
Sometime after midnight, Gfurn rose from her sleep and walked over
to John. Nudging him on the shoulder, John nearly jumped from his
skin.
"Geez Gfurn, you scared me." Gfurn grinned.
'You're turn for sleep, John. I got the watch.'
John nodded his head and stumbled over to his sleeping bag. Some
shut eye sounded good right about now. Lying down, not even bothering
to cover himself, John fell asleep.
Gfurn moved into the night, becoming as silent and invisable as a
shadow in a dark room. Circling the camp once, she was satisifed
nothing had come near. If it had, she would have smelled it. John was
good, but he was a human after all, he might have missed something.
Giving the equivalent to the Raptor sigh, Gfurn sat on the edge of the
clearing, obscured by shadows, waiting. Silently she studied the pair
with her in the dying firelight and the bright light of the full moon.
Klopp liked her, that she knew, but he hadn't made any moves yet.
'I'll consider him.' Gfurn smiled. She already knew he would be
the one, when the time of choosing came. But she must'nt let it be
known to him. Better he sweat a little.
A shadow moved across the way. Gfurn didn't move, her breathing
slowing almost to the point of death. Standing there for long minutes,
Gfurn patiently waited for it, whatever it was, to move again. But
nothing moved. Only the swaying shadows of the trees in the moonlight.
Then it moved again. This time Gfurn was sure of it, SOMETHING was
there, but there was nothing! Gfurn could not scent or see anything.
Puzzled, she stepped from the shadows.
The smell of death and decay hit her like a ton of bricks, and she
nearly passed out from the strength of it. Struggling with the
powerful images that threaten to overtake her, she looked into the
clearing.
A mass of something slowly rose from one of the shadows. It was
darker than dark itself. Tendrils reached from the cloud of darkness
as it entered the clearing. Jaws opened and closed all along its body.
The screams, silent mental images, echoed through Gfurn's head.
'Hhhhhhhaaaaaaaattttttttteeeeeeee.
Ccccccoooooooollllllllddddddd.'
[admin: once again, I must leave. Gabe, go ahead, respnd. I'll
finish this later.]
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Lupe was running again. He had been restless for days now; never
sleeping for more than a few hours, never staying in the same place
unless it was to eat or rest, and never changing out of wolf form.
He felt safe while moving; safe from whatever it was that had happened
to the island that had once known peace.
THe other animals could sense it as well. They were all in a state
much like his own, always alert, making his job of finding meals much
more difficult than usual.
And most frightening of all were the creatures which had appeared
en masse in the last day or two. They seemed to be dinosaurs. Not the
massive behemoths which usually come to mind when the word comes up,
but smaller ones. They were only about six feet tall, but their
movements betrayed them as born hunters.
They moved with an almost fluid grace, slicing through the forest
silently, much like a wolf's own running style. They did, howver, run
at a pace that Lupe found himself hard pressed to keep up with.
Their sense of smell rivaled his own. The times he had encountered
them, he had been careful to both well hidden and downwind of them, and
yet he could tell that they sense him. Fortunately they never seemed
interested in anything other than a quick glance in his general
direction.
And as of late, they were showing up more frequestly, and in
greater numbers. The manner in which they travelled through the forest
was not one for hunting. They were patrolling. Lupe had seen them
appear in the same areas at fairly even intervals of time. These acts
reminded him of long ago whe he had hunted with the pack. During those
times, it had seemed as though his thoughts and senses had expanded and
melded with those of the rest of the packs. When they hunted they
hunted as one. Lupe was sure the dinosaur creatures acted much the
same way. He could tell when they passed by.
Each time the patrols passed it was the same. His inner senses
warned him first. It was as if he could feel them coming. Next he
could detect their scent, as did most of the other animals. The birds
became silent; the smaller creatures ran for cover. Perhaps they could
feel the tremors in the ground.
When hunting, stealth is crucial. Absolute silence and slow
movements make the difference between a good nights rest with a meal
resting comfortably in your belly or going hungry. The dinosaurs,
however, were paying more attention to speed than they were to being
discreet. They appeared to his sight at the same their footfalls
reached his ears.
They ran in a tight formation; diamond shaped. The leader broke
the trail and the rest followed. The distances between them varied
little, and then only to skirt a tree or other obstacle. Their
powerful legs rocketed them over the rough terrain at a speed Lupe
could only hope to reachwith an all-out sprint. Their lower bodies
seemed disjointed from their heads, as they were constantly scanning
the surrounding terrain. As they dashed by, the steady thump of their
footfalls was the only mark of their passage.
From the time he had first seen them to when they had disaapeared
from sight in the dense foilage was only a matter of seconds.
The latest one had passed by Lupe no more than fifteen minutes ago.
He was running again, following they path they had taken through the
woods, when a faint light off in the distance caught his eye. Despite
his desire to follow their trail, his curiosity got the best of him and
he turned off and loped across the forest floor, his eye focused on the
dim light ahead of him.
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In the skys, a cloud AGAIN appeared... just like a cloud recently seen in
VaxLandia... now; this one had a stronger aura of good. It looked like
white with silver sparkles inside it. As it came, all wind stopped and
time seemed to slow to nothing. The cloud opened in the center just
enough to allow a beam of sunlight through that covered the island like
a flashlight beam would cover a key. The people who remained on
VaxLandia suddenly felt a lot better about themselves; those with
special powers that helped good felt their power strengthening, and
those with bad weakened. The cloud came down just before the island
and seemed to wait. The beam closed off and the cloud enveloped the
island like a hand taking up a ping pong ball. The cloud made
everything brighter and everything gayer [happier] for all. Even
Vampiress, who liked the night more than the day, couldn't help but to
feel good about seeing this in full view. After about ten minutes, the
cloud lifted and went off in the direction it had come... The amulet
TLD had dropped no longer laid on the ground, it now was in the hands
of Vampiress. No evil remained on the island, and nothing that would
in any way cause harm to another. The cloud, now darker than it had
been originally, disappeared in the bright daylight.
~
(It will return AGAIN if the evil stuff keeps up... Take it to the
Enigma quadrant like I am.)
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"Vampiress...so long."
"Good-bye all....." Sceadeau starts to fade but then realizes....
he doesn't need to leave. He'll just throw up a canopy of good over a
section of the land. The evil will never leave, but we should at least
keep it outside.
He spread his arms a made a canopy under which no evil could ever
fall, encompasing all those who wish it to encompase their land. Liz's
cottage is the first under the canopy. I hope all will...someday.
Sceadeau travels to Liz's hut, knowing full well that no harm could
come to him there.
-- Sceadeau
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[Admin: Mod, you make the call. NightBird, who made this island, has
no problem with my storyline, but Monkey boy here seems intent on
ruining a good story. I'm not interrupting anyone else's fun here, the
island is huge, they can have their own little plots going on
elsewhere. Tell the SS of Lev to back off, cause I'm getting pissed.]
Tas
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[Unlike the real world, this island is big enough to let everyone live
and do what they want without stepping on each other's toes. Let's
please keep it that way. After all..We wouldn't want a HUGE meteor
coming down a crushing the island (for those of you that remember :))]
-Dank
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Damn. Forgot about that.
Sol
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Almost dying of exhaustion, the jet-black bird of prey spots land....
Banking toward it, he hopes there will be suitable prey and even better
companions than his homeland.
Spotting a high, craggy cliff, the raven lands, metamorphing into the
shape of a man. Seeing a suitable cave nearby, he sets out to get some
shut-eye.
His last thought before falling asleep...."Finnally, RavenThorne has
found a home...."
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Sol blows a handful of ashes out of his hand as he chats with
Jou-Day. "Dunno why I come here. I think part of it is that I like to
be reminded that we can have a paradise if everyone just wants it badly
enough. So much of the world's ill could be staved if people just
tried. I don't care how necessary a war is. It can't happen if
everyone just lays down their guns and refuses."
Jou-Day promps gently, as is his nature. "But why do -you- come
here?"
Sol laughs. This guy's not unlike him. "Because I want to prove,
to myself as much as anyone else, that I can be one of those who will
lay down his gun."
Sol
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Jou-Day's gaze seems focused on both the past and the future,
locked on a point where both might converge...."Lay your weapons down
then, by all means...here in Vaxlandia it's a viable option. But
remember Sol, it the outer worlds, it's never that simple. When you run
across a threat to you or your loved ones, reason tends to fly out the
window. Lay your weapons down, just don't forget where you put them out
there."
Jou-Day sends a glance towards Sol. "Then again, I _am_ just a
simple custodian." he says with a wry smile. "So tell me how you plan to
deal with them outside of here. Do you really think there's hope for
them on the other side? Do you think you can get _them_ to lay down
their weapons?"
-Jou-Day
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Somewhere else in the island...in a clearing... a deer is drinking from a bright,
sparkling cool spring. It freezes, sensing something and raises its
head, puzzled. Seeing nothing, it relaxes and returns to drink the
spring.
A sound of a stick snapping. The deer, fully alarmed, jerks its head
back and faces at the sound and at the bushes. Silence. The birds stop singing.
Suddenly something hurtles through the bushes and roars toward the
deer. The deer leaps with fright and lungs into the spring, the water
splashing at all directions. The thing snarls, plunging into the
spring, and baring its razor sharp teeth at the trembling animal.
It happens. The water starts to glow bright white. The deer whines,
surprised, as it finds itself levitating out of the water. The thing
snarls with shock.
Blue sparks of fire appear from the glowing white water and swirl
around the deer. Eventually the sparks merge into a tall black man,
wearing black clothes,a black mask that entirely covers his face, and a
black hat. The man gazes down at the shivering deer in his arms and
then at this thing. His black eyes, visible on his mask, narrow with
anger.
"My dear deer, may you go in peace and do not fear of this...alien."
The man lowers the deer gently on the land before the spring. The
alien snarls and moves toward the man.
"Go in peace, my dear." The man waves toward the forest. The deer
looks up at the man and then at the coming alien. It then flashes into
the bushes.
The alien at last comes on the land and turns, roaring, at the man.
The stranger stands, silent. "So, alien, you manage to escape from the
Enigma Quadrant, hoping to get away with murder, huh? Well, my man...or
alien...I have good news for you. You don't have to run and hide for
your whole miserable life. You cannot escape from DarkShadow!"
Blue balls of fire emerge from the spring and whirl around the black
stranger.
The alien snarls uneasily. "Uhhhh...ye no make me
gone...heheheheheh...no make me gone, heheh...ye no revenge for me
killing ye heheheh love heheh! Me kill ye love in ye planet! Heheh!"
DarkShadow smiles grimily. "Your time is here. There is no way for you
to get away with the murder of my...wife at home. Well, see you in
hell!" He waves at the screaming alien. The balls of fire lungs at
the alien.
The alien screams again and plungs at DarkShadow. It is enveloped in
fire, screaming in pain. It draws something from its body. Screams.
This time the balls of fire scream.
"No!" DarkShadow yells in horror as his servants vanish. "You..."
He doesn't finish his sentence. He finds himself, falling backward into
the spring as the alien leaps at him, tearing apart his flesh and
clothes.
DarkShadow sees images of his wife dying in blood and wonders why he is
not feeling pain. Then his vision is full of blood. He tries to fight
back but finds himself very weak. He only sees the baring teeth of the
alien through the blood. Suddenly the teeth swoops to his face.
DarkShadow sees blackness, a different kind of blackness, apart from
his blackness. He knew that he is seeing death.
'See you in heaven.....my love' He only thinks of these words.
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"I don't think I can get them to lay down theirs... I only know
that I can lay down mine. You're right, of course... innocents should
not suffer for the whims of another. But there is sometimes a fine
line between genuine Protecting and mere Prideful Vengence. If I must
fight to protect, so be it, but may I be struck when I cross over that
line."
Sol scrawls some crop-circle patterns in the burned earth.
"It's not always easy to know where that line is, I guess.
Sometimes, I catch myself blaming those who exercise un-necessary harm.
And then I have to ask myself if I have ever done so, and I have to say
yes. Sometimes purposefully, mostly just by not thinking, but we all
do it. Sometimes. I came to that realization, finally, and it has
taken me many years of my life to learn patience, and I'd be arrogant
to say I've learned it all, because I haven't. And yet, for all the
effort it took me, I still seem to blame others when they screw up. I
keep forgetting that it isn't as obvious to everyone as it is for me.
And yet, it's like, why shouldn't it be? How hard is it to just try
and be nice to each other for a change? I don't know, Jou-Day. What
do you think?"
Sol
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Erik holds fast to NightBird as she sits hunched in a corner. She has
been crying ceaselessly, and nothing he can say will soothe her pain.
"Darling, you must tell me what is wrong... how can I help you if I
don't know what is making you suffer?"
NightBird held onto him tightly and moaned, "Something is killing
my babies... my precious raptors. Something is in the forest...
something that reeks of decay and death and rot and mold... it is
stalking and killing my Velociraptors. Their pain is so intense, so
full of pure emotion... their deaths are so agonizing..." she wandered
off and stared blankly at the far wall.
"'Bird," Erik said softly, "'Bird, what are you thinking?" He
lifted her to her feet and shook her out of her trancelike state.
"What is going on in that devious mind of yours?" he asked.
He could almost see her mind clearing as her eyes refocused and
stared at him. "Revenge," she said softly. "These 'Raptors are my
children... my creation... and an interal part of this Island. Some
unknown and unwelcome being has taken it upon itself to change that. A
malevolent entity is stalking my 'Raptors, and they are helpless
against it."
Erik sighed and walked to the other side of the room. "You
mentioned something about death and decay... what did you mean by
that?" he asked.
NightBird leaned against the wall and crossed her arms across her
chest. "Velociraptors express themselves more in terms of feelings and
emotions and sensory input, rather than an actual language. They are
capable of learning English, but physically they are unable to _speak_
it."
"Then how do you understand them?" he inquired.
"Well, 'Raptors communicate through mental images... a form of
singular mindedness... collective consciousness... except they are
capable and do in fact act as individuals... similar to ants or bees in
a way... the thoughts and images are shared mentally..."
"I see, and you, with your heightened psychic abilities, are able
to tune into that mental imagery, correct?" Erik suggested.
NightBird's full lips twisted into a smirk. "I can understand them
better, and from greater distances, yes... but anyone can hear and
understand their thoughts if they can open their mind and clear out the
extraneous line noise.
"Anyway... the 'Raptors all experienced the same mental images
before their demise... death, decay, rot... a sickening, overpowering
scent... and a dark shadow that almost seems to lurk in the back of
your mind... the corner of your eye."
Erik walked over to the computer console and punched in a few
keys. "Hmm... decay... rot... overpowering stench..." Erik mulled over
this for a moment. "Tyrannosaurus." he said finally.
"I'm sorry?" NightBird said. She had been staring out the window
and Erik's voice had startled her.
"I said 'Tyrannosaurus, as in T-Rex." he said.
"I know what a Tyrannosaurus is, Erik," she snapped, then
immediately nodded her head in apology.
"Perhaps that is what this is. A T-Rex has found its way onto your
Island. Carnivores are believed to have had very bad breath because of
the pieces of old and decaying flesh caught between their teeth."
NightBird's hand flew involutarily to her stomach and she rolled
her eyes towards the ceiling. "Must you, Erik?" she asked.
"Well, you get my point," he said with a wicked grin, "T-Rex's have
the worst case of yuck mouth... just ask Michael Crichton."
NightBird scowled at him and sat at another terminal... thinking to
herself. She looked up at the
wall-sized map of Vaxlandia, staring at The City and Lev Harbor. A
sudden chill ran up her spine as she stared at the word blinking over
and over on her screen...
TYRANNOSAURUS REX: DEADLY CARNIVORE
NB
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Sol realizes that danger is coming. He contemplates Paradise. Is
Vaxlandia still paradise? Nothing here can hurt him unless he chooses to
allow it. Has this Abstract Image of Paradise persisted, or does he
find himself only contemplating higher paradises here, Abstractions
within an Abstraction? Pfff, fine. Nothing can hurt him here unless
he lets it, anyway.
He bids Jou-Day allow him a moment. He motions his hands skyward.
From the ashes re-rises his Circle of Trees. -Hmmm, not bad,- he
thinks. He spans his hand over his head, and a transparent bubble
forms over the circle of trees, like the color of dish-soap.
"I have formed a pocket of -jen-" says Sol to Jou-Day. "I declare
this space to be my personal paradise. No one may enter who does not
share the desire for peace, and no harm may come to those within this
pocket. No one can alter the nature of this place any more than they
can alter the nature of my thoughts. Those who do not desire peace may
not remain, and shall be pushed out of the circle by the force of peace
here. Any who fear the outside may stay here without fear... any
attack on the bubble or anyone within it is a personal attack on me."
Sol ends his incantation, and the bubble waves in the wind, then
fades to invisibility, its location only known by the location of the
trees.
Sol
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[continued .355]
Gfurn's mind raced with the possibilities, trying to comprehend the
incomprehensible. The most awful thing, a thing of her nightmares,
lept to the fore front of her mind. A Lohuyning, known to the humans
as King of the Lizards, the Tyrannosaurus Rex. It had finally come for
her! Run! Her mind screamed, the fears of childhood flooding her
conscious mind. She couldn't move. She couldn't scream. She could
could only stare in horrified wonder as the Shadow learned from her
nightmare and took the form of a T rex.
Klopp stirred, a thought nagging at his mind. Something was wrong,
but groggily, he tried to push the thought away. Louder and louder the
thought became, refusing to be silenced. Angrily, Klopp awoke. And
looked straight into the shadowy maws of the most feared predator in
the world. Needless to say, he screamed.
John jumped awake, clutching the shot gun. Seeing the momentous
dark shape before him, he scurried backwards.
"IT CAN'T BE! IT'S NOT POSSIBLE!" The shadowy T Rex raised its
head to the sky and its jaws opened, as if it were roaring its
challenge. The forest remained dead silent. Stepping forward with one
of its powerful hind legs, the T Rex attacked. Klopp jumped to the
right, but the T Rex reacted and its head darted after the Raptor,
catching it in its teeth. Klopp spasmed and died.
Gfurn was shocked out of fear. It had killed Klopp, her mate to
be. Rage filled the lithe Raptor, clouding over her better judgement.
Like a bolt of lightning, she leaped forward, eyes seeing the exposed
nck, teeth tasting the life blood of the neck's artery.
John thought he screamed for her to stop, but who could hear
between shot gun blasts? Shot after shot, straight into the Rex's
head. The Rex should have been dead, but he acted as if John and the
shotgun didn't exist. When Gfurn neared, he dropped Klopp's mangled
body to the ground. John stood up and moved into the trees.
Gfurn darted in, teeth clamping down. Quickly she released. The
Rex wasn't entirely real, it was almost like she bit into super dense
fog. But the Rex reacted to the bite. Silently roaring, he lunged at
Gfurn. Barely, she dodged the attack. Swiping a forclaw, she nicked
his nose. Another silent roar.
John stood just within the trees, about fifteen feet to the right
of the pair, mesmerized by the deadly dance in front of him. The
raptor darted in and out, always narrowly escaping death. The Rex
steadily pushed forward, soon entering the middle of the clearing.
Another ten feet, and Gfurn would run out of manuvering room. She
would surely die. John looked to the sky. The moon was behind a
cloud.
Klopp stood up. John looked over at the 'dead' Raptor. Its body
bloody and torn, the Raptor took a moment to settle itself. Then it
looked right John, its eyes glowing a soft blue light. Ajkkar. Alive
but dead. Klopp moved into the woods. John knew he was the prey.
Gfurn managed to dart around the Rex, scoring some minor hits to
its hind legs. Raptors had tremendous energy reserves, but the Rex did
not allow a seconds worth of rest. The only thing keeping her up was
the rage and hate, and even that would not be enough soon. She noticed
Klopp stand up and could smell the taint of his death, but ignored it
out of necessity. John would have to deal with him. Gfurn jumped
left, the Rex's leg narrowly crushing her.
John hastily climbed the nearest tree. On the ground, he would be
no match for a Raptor. Sweat pouring down his face, as much from fear
as anything else, he waited for the Raptor. Trying desperately to calm
himself, he tried to listen for the Raptor's thoughts. Hurriedly, he
reloaded his shot gun, thankful he hadn't taken off the ammo belt when
he lay down.
Klopp's thouughts invaded Johns mind. Startled he dropped the
shell he was pushing into the chamber. Klopp knew right where he was.
John glanced about, looking desperately. Klopp was real close, else
John wouldn't have felt him.
The Rex scored a hit on Gfurn. Gfurn stumbled and landed face
first on the grass. Triumphantly, the Rex moved in for the kill.
Gfurn wanted to cry. She didn't want to die, didn't want to become
ajkkar. Looking to the heaven, she hastily said a prayer to the human
god. If he was listening. Slowly, she watched the cloud inch its way
along the sky. And the full moon suddenly emerged from behind it.
The Rex stepped back as if in pain, the light of the moon covering
it completely in the small clearing.
And the added light gave John a glimpse of movement. Frantically
he fired in the direction he had seen it. The Raptor squealed, and
something fell to the ground. The Rex in the clearing roared again,
but this time not silently
'AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!" Shaking its head as if in great pain, the Rex
fled for the woods. John nearly fell out of the tree when he saw the
Rex suddenly melt into stream of darkness that disappeard into the
shadow.
Gfurn, her mind in shock, dazedly noted the stench disappeared as
quickly as it had come. It was gone.
John dropped from the tree and ran into the clearing. He lay next
to gfurn, shot gun ready, thankful for light, fearful for the shadows.
They stay there until morning.
Gryop could not make the nightmares go away. Voices spoke in his
head, evil twisted things. Cries of torment and pain, not those of the
living, but those of dead, kept him from sleep. He even dreamed the
shadow had taken a shape, a T Rex, and attacked John. Nervously,
fearfully, he watched the shadows, trembling in fear.
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Jou-Day closes his eyes and drinks in the beauty of this circle of
trees, as he feels a quiet calm flow through him. He ponders the events
of the last few moments, grateful for the shelter from the onslaught of
evil on the island.
"Is this the way it must be Sol? Vaxlandia, given birth as a
respite for those souls wearry of the storms in the outer world, only
to be ravaged by storms of it's own? And now you've created yet
another, but what if this becomes breached? and what of those who
cannot reach this place?"
The feeling of peace begins to slip from Jou-Day's grasp as his
thoughts return to the struggle enveloping the island. "I'm afraid this
battle is yours, my dear Nightbird. I've powers enough to keep the
humans from harming the island and each other. But this...this involves
death. Death is beyond ny jurisdiction...I cannot interfere."
Jou-Day
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He blinks his eyes. He screams as instense light forces itself into
his eyes. He eventually comes to focus at the light and gazes at it,
puzzled. It looks like that he is in a furnace room, for hot light is
there around him. He groans in pain, trying to remember what he in
hell is doing here. He could not grasp of what happened to him.
He finally realizes that he could not remember who he is. He looks
down at his body and gasps in shock for a reason he could not recall.
He has no body. No flesh. Nothing.
"Where am I? Who am I?" He says to the hot light. He really do
not expect what he hears next.
"You are inside the sun."
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After a brief rest, RavenThorne arises and scans the horizon. "Well,
time to check this place out..." Jumping off of the cliff, he morphs
into a raven and heads west.
His first impression of the island was that it was the most beautiful
place he had ever seen...some places were almost primordial, it seemed.
He saw a few villages, and some strange looking compound. After his
brief circling of the island, he then flew in closer for a better view
of its inhabitants. What he saw shocked him. Everyone seemed to be in
turmoil...there seemed to be no peace. Saddened, he flew on.
Off in the distance, he saw a circular stand of trees, with two figures
sitting and conversing...he was immediately struck with the
peacefulness of this place. As he was about to land in one of the
trees to listen to their conversation, a feeling washed over him....
He knew then, there would be no way he could enter those trees until he
had conquered his own inner turmoil...for this was a place of peace...
Landing outside, he morphed back into the form of a man.. Sighing, he
turned away and scanned the horizon...lost in his thoughts....
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He stares at the hot light. 'Why? How?'
The light changes colors, from white to blue to orange. 'You are
destined.'
He pauses, thinking. 'Destined? To what?'
'Watch. You have to find out.'
The light then grows more intense and hotter.
He yells in pain. He only see whiteness. Suddenly he finds himself,
standing over a blue and green planet, surrounded with white clouds.
He stares around, fastinated at millions and millions of colorful stars
around him. 'Am I a god?'
The stars begin to twinkle.
He stares. He realizes that the stars and everything are communicating
to him. 'What are you saying?'
He then feels a strange emotion he feels that he never have before. He
is experiencing joy and happiness. He smiles and looks below at the
planet. Somehow he have visited this planet but it is not his home
planet. Why did he come here?
'Hail, ye man of suffering and pain. Rejoice! Ye are born again!'
He turns around and stares. Before him, the stars have merged into a
sparkling colorful sphere of light. A shadow emerges from the sphere
and forms into a human body. Clothes that look more Roman appear
around the body. The person lifts her head and turns to the staring
man. 'I am Eden, the Goddess of Earth. I choose you as a new warrior
to fight evil on this planet.'
He gapes at the goddess. "What? But--I do not understand! I mean, I
do not know anything! In fact, I do not know who I am!"
"Very well. You recently died on an island called Vaxlandia so that is
why you could not remember what happened to you. "
The man is silent. "I died? But...damn it! Wait a minute, you know
who I really am. Why don't you tell me that?"
The goddess shakes her head sadly. "No. You are born again. Whoever
you was had died. It is time for you to go on as a new person."
"No! I want to be the same person!"
"I am sorry."
The man starts to react and then pauses. "Okay, what do I have to
do now?"
The goddess points toward a small mass on the oceans in the planet.
"You have a job there. You have to stop the evils that happen on that
island."
"Vaxlandia? Like where I had died?"
Eden turns to the man. "That person you were had died. You are a new
person. Now go for time is wasting."
"Wait! I must have a name before I go."
Eden considers for a moment. "Very well. Ye are now called as the
Light Warrior. You shall not have super powers. You are now a human
like others in the planet. You must fulfill your mission as a human
and a person, not a super-hero. You must not kill even your enemies,
that's very important. Remember that you have wit and intelligence on
your side. May victory be with you!"
The Light Warrior starts. "Wait! You mean that I was not human and had
super powers?! You mean---"
He finds himself on a beach before an vast ocean. He looks down at
himself. He has no clothes. He looks up, groaning. "Nice way to send
me here without clothes!"
He starts to look around and sees trees ahead. He walks to the trees
and finds that the leaves are big enough to wrap around him. He sits
against an broken tree and sets to make his own clothes. 'The mission
can wait. There is no way that I must battle naked!"
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Sol sends a thought to RavenThorne.
-Fear not if your inner self is turmoil... that you seek and desire
peace is what is important... please, enter if you wish. All I ask is
that you bring no harm to those within, and as long as you abide by
this, you may be here. Come, enjoy the peace here, and may it serve to
ease your troubled thoughts.-
"Jou-Day, I am saddened that pain and death have come to paradise,
and I question what this means. But I do know that although i cannot
control the actions of others (and I should not anyway), I do know that
I may determine with certainty my own actions, and my own perspective.
This pocket of mine will exist as Paradise as long as I wish it, just
as VAXlandia existed as Paradise for as long as -its- inhabitants
wished it. They simply no longer wish it.
"Regretful though it may be, I cannot be tied down with the
consequences of actions that I cannot change. But I can and will
sustain what peace I may here, within me, and extend that peace to
those that will have it. By its very nature, Peace cannot be forced on
those who do not wish it. Perhaps they, too, will accept it when
they are ready."
Sol stares outside the bubble, watching the beautiful landscape of
VAXlandia, which largely, is still itself, peaceful. And he mourns for
what may fall next.
Sol
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Tas appears on a rock, next to Sol.
"Evil comes to those who bring it. Thats why paradise is plagued
with it. Because human nature, not even raptor nature, is perfect. We
brought the evil. Even your bubble here, will be affected sooner or
later. Not by outside forces, not by others. But by your own inner
turmoil. Your construction can be only as pure as you are."
Tas starts whittling a stick with RabbitSlayer.
"You see, the evil that attacks this island is the counterpart to
the goodness the goodness that supposedly defends it. Lets take this
cloud for instance. In all things, except the extremes, a balance must
exist. When the side of good grows dominant, eventually evil outpaces
it and then the evil gains the upper hand. Then good, then evil, sorta
like a pendulum. The cloud took all the evil away. The little bit
that existed here served as a scab of sorts, holding the rest at bay.
When the scab was removed, evil flowed freely, much like the blood
would on a real wound. Things must be allowed to take their course
now. And in the end, it will be."
Tas
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"Paradise is supposed to be perfect, Tas. That's why it's called
paradise. And I quote, according to the Webster's Revised 1992
Dictionary and Thesaurus, 'Paradise is any place of or offering perfect
happiness.' I am here for that reason - I want to enjoy paradise. And
for me, paradise is peace and harmony. So here it is."
Sol draws more geometry with his stick. "Quite frankly, Tas, the
rest of ya can go do whatever ya want. That's your choice. But it
isn't paradise."
Sol
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"What has been said is the truth..."
The others turn to watch RavenThorne walk towards them. As he reaches
the trees, he stops for a moment, looking down...then presses on...and
stands just outside of the small group.
"I have been many places, although I must admit...Vaxlandia is the
most beautiful," he briefly scans the horizon and sighs, "but since
this place is a reflection of the 'self' it can only be as strong, or
weak, as yourself. Those who know their 'self' are at an
advantage...as you, Sol, appear to be. The self is the most powerful
thing in existance, and it is also the hardest thing to find..."
"I also think I know the cause of evil here...it is an integral
part of us all...it is fear."
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"Yes," speaks Sol from within the bubble, "Fear is the bane of all,
the cause of all 'evil.' But it doesn't belong here. It belongs back
there... on the mainland, Reality." He motions back over the sea. The
mainland is dark and pulsing, with clouds floating over it, and
lightning flashing. "We're all afraid sometimes. But can't we all at
least conceive that a place free of pain can exist? This place is
formed by our thoughts... we think, and it is so. I think this
tree-circle a pocket of -jen-, and so it is. Have you never wished for
such a haven? Think it, and it is. Tas thinks, "T-Rex," and there it
is. Dark Shadow thinks "Ultimate Power," and so he has it. BloodShed
III thinks, "Big Axe," and there it is. I think "Alison Blaire," and
she is here.
"It really is that easy. Tas can imagine me swallowed by T-Rex,
but does it hurt me? No. Because I need only will it not be so, and
it is. The power of one's will is very strong here. We can have
Paradise if we only want it. If we don't want it, then obviously, we
won't. It's as simple as that."
Sol stands up. "I want to share that with anyone who wants it.
Please, my friends, don't get me wrong... I do not dis your fun... Tas,
if you want to have a T-Rex attack, that's fine... it's not bothering
anyone. The Raptors you slaughter are just shadow-images - and 'Bird
has given her consent. But there are, among us here on this island,
those who need the peace. There are those who have departed because of
all the violence. I do not say that it is bad to have fun, only that
they should not be denied the paradise promised them in Note 7.0. This
circle of trees is my peace. None who wish it shall be turned away."
"Good luck with your battles," Sol bids Tas, "and if ya see any of
those bloody carnivores a skulkin' around MY tree-circle, you be sure
to come and tell me, okay?"
Sol
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Etrigan wakes up from his nap on the beach, and looks around. He
can sense great evil lurking in the forest, and also a great good,
coming from the other side of the island. Sol seems to have returned.
Shaking the sand from himself, Etrigan rises, and heads off toward
the peace that has ben created in the midst of turmoil.
-ETRigan-
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 19 lines 13-OCT-1993 18:36
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Ghengis Khan is not interested in bubbles or dinosaurs. Right now,
he is more interested in a tag-team wrestling match he is having with
Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, and Bugs Bunny. Andre the Giant flies off
the pole, kicking Bugs where the sun don't shine, and punching him in
the face to prevent him from getting up.
"Foul," shouts Data in his striped Referee suit, "You are out of
order. Penalty Point."
Andre the Giant slugs Bugs again, and Data starts blowing the
whistle.
Ghengis Khan takes out his Q-staff and starts beating on Andre to
get off his partner. Hulk Hogan just jumps around in his pink ballet
skirt.
GK
Bugs
Andre
Hulkster
Data
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Tas looks at Sol.
"I did not come here to insult, merely to share my veiwpoint.
Paradise is perfect. But people are not perfect. When you mix the
two, you cannot still have perfection. That is my point. The product
of a flawed person, no matter how close to perfect, is still flawed.
The less the better, but none the less, it is still there. And I don't
think it can be ignored. But, if I am disturbing your paradise, then I
apologize, I shall leave."
Tas gathers his hoopak and heads out of the bubble.
Tas
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Sol shrugs as Tas leaves. "No, people aren't perfect..." he says
to himself, "not today. But we can dream..."
Sol
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TLD goes into his new house and opens his bag, handed down from ancient
times when grief and strife were the norm... A few glowing stones come
out into his hand, and he crushes them together into dust. He pours
the dust back into the bag and says an ancient phrase...
"Gal du krat, nak tikan kor"
Suddenly, the cloud that had rid the island of evil surrounds his
hovel; yet it is opaque this time... One can look out, one can look
in; however, any evil cannot pass through; as TLD is not human; but
Orcan... Orcas have no evil; they live for life.
~
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Jou-Day dreams himself up a hammock and a tall vodka-tonic, kicks
his mucklucks and kaks out.
"Y'know Sol, I'm thinking it's time for some r & r. All this magic
give's a mage one powerful thirst. Like I always say - nothin' like a
high colonic and a vodka tonic!"
-Jou-Day
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Smiling and liking Jou-day's style, Raven sits down against a tree
and takes out a bottle of JD, a cigarette, and just relaxes, staring
into the setting sun...
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LEVVAX::ETR0370 "ETRigan" 10 lines 13-OCT-1993 23:01
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Etrigan walks through the bubble, toward the group assembled therin.
He conjures The Chair and a mountain dew, and sits back to relax.
"While this island was created as paradise, everyone has their own
idea what paradise is. What for some is tranquil and serene, is for
others mind-bogglingly boring. It all depends on ones point of view."
Having said his peice (or peace) Etrigan reaches into the air, and
pulls down a large tome, settles back into the Chair, and begins to
read.
-ETRigan-
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Ed, beaching his Acme Rubber Raft Model 8204 on the side of the
island, begins walking forward and searching for a drink to make the
memory of Courtney gone.
Note: this is called foreshadowing.
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Sol stands on the edge of his cliff and throws rocks into the
ocean.
Sol
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Sol stops throwing rocks, thinks a minute, then says, "Awww, what the
heck?"
He steps out of the Circle, bidding Jou-Day thanks for the
conversation. "Stay in the Circle as long as you like... I shall
return."
Sol, in a fluid motion, produces a hyper-gun, complete with
back-pack, ammunition, and gear.
"Tas, where are ya, buddy? Let's go kick some *&%$in' dinosaur
*ss!"
Sol
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Etrigan looks up from his book at the figures retreating into the
distance, both heavily armed. He shakes his head and looks at the sky.
"Y'know, when I do this kind of stuff, I get yelled at."
He returns to his book, thinking to himself that he may go help...
after a few more chapters.
-ETRigan-
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Raven watches them leave, sighes and mumbles to himself, "I've seen
too much killing....." Takes another swig off of his bottle and closes
his eyes..
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"Paradise is perfect. This isn't perfect. Therefore, this isn't
paradise," says Sol, with a negative glint in his eye. "Well, they
asked for it, now they die for it." Sol starts running off towards the
woods.
Ghengis Khan looks up, then stops beating Andre the Giant. Ghengis
Khan grabs his pole-axe and grunts.
"That's right, big guy. You don't have to be bored anymore. We
have to bring some justice to this place, and if the only way we can do
it is by breaking a few eggs, then cest ll' ve!"
The Solenoid grins and slams an ammo-clip into his hyper-gun, which
he has named "Justice."
"Ho!" shouts Sol, "We're gonna have some Fun!"
And he goes running full speed to the Deep Woods.
Sol
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Tas grumbles to no one in particular, looking at Sol.
"It may be necessary, but that doesn't mean you have to like it
too."
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Sol turns about, his eyes rimmed strangely as he returns Tas'
gaze. "Lighten up, Tas! It's all just make-believe, really... watch!"
He takes his Hyper-Gun, aims it at Ghengis Khan, who mumbles and
protests, then pulls the trigger and blows him away. Flesh goes
everywhere, dripping off his skeleton in a sickly, red-and-pink goo.
Sol kicks the skull away with his foot as the maggots crawl out of the
ground to feast upon the disgusting mess, Ghengis Khan's dying
esophogus letting loose the last incomprehensible bits of a scream.
Then, Sol snaps his fingers and all the guts and blood swell back
together into Gengis Khan, who feels his re-formed body and backs away
a step or two.
"Nothin' wrong with a little bit of fun," grins Sol, scratching his
head with the butt of his gun, "The topic's just a little different
now. I'll just go with the flow. If I want bunnies and quiet grass,
I'll go back and hide in my Circle of Trees. But right now, it's Party
Time!"
He mumbles something to himself, then something else, then slaps
himself in the face, then laughs and walks
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Sol whispers something into his wristwatch, then scans for
Dino-spoor.
Sol
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Ed, hearing the disturbance a few miles away, proceeds to load his 6.5
by 55 mm Swedish mauser with the sporterized stock and variable 3x9
power scope.
He then removes from his pouch the picture of Courtney the girl he
thought he loved before he came here, the girl who dumped him for
moving away. He burns the picture, and goes hunting.
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"Ed! Ed! Over here! I hear one!"
Sol motions to Ed to be cautious as they stalk through the woods.
The Evil Coffey-Saurus wimbles in the wabe, and Sol stuffs some
hyper-powder into his gun in anticipation.
The terrible Dinosaur slavers and farts, talking in circles and
coming ever closer, dripping paradox from its naseating maw.
The creature snaps forward, its jaws closing just a millimeter from
Sol's head. Sol ducks and rolls, tearing a grenade out of his belt.
Pulling the pin with his tongue, he throws the bomb, straight down the
Coffey-Saur's throat, spiralling down into its stomach where it sits
like an unwelcome laxative.
The terrible creature explodes in a thick pulpy mess from the
inside out, it's head catapulting out through its stomach at the
terrible explosion. A vomitous, sickly stench travels through the
trees, running and pouring all over the wildlife.
"That'll teach him!" laughs Sol, "That'll teach 'im good! Bring
evil to MY summer-beachfront, will you? WILL YOU??"
Sol rubs his big biceps and rubs the stubble on his chin. "Geez...
I need a shave."
Sol
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Ghengis Khan eats the mess.
Ghengis Khan
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Nazis start pouring out of the deep forest as Sol delves deeper and
deeper in. They yell words in German, straight out of Wolfeinstein
3-D. Sol showers them liberally with hyper-ammo, punching through
their weak, inadequate 3-dimensional bodies. They keep coming, and one
shoots Sol through the heart. Sol buckles, then clenches his fist.
His bleeding chest mends itself, and the bullet that pierced it flies
back to hit his attacker. And he dies, agonizingly, as the bullet sews
through him like a needle going repeatedly through fabric. The man
gasps and crumbles.
"Won't you listen?" yells Sol at the Nazis, "you evil butchers only
understand one thing... THIS!" He holds up his gun, Justice, and it
burns in the sun. "I don't like this anymore than you do, Nazis, but
if this is the only way to bring peace, then I'll kill you all, God
save me!"
Ghengis Khan leaps to a mound of earth, swinging his pole-axe in
wide, deadly circles, toppling Nazi after stubborn Nazi.
Sol hoses them down with flaming ammunition. "You thoughtless
butchers! You thoughtless murderers! Don't you know what you are?
You heartless, mindless executioners!"
The Nazis fall, like rag dolls, determined but doomed to failure.
"Well, its too late to second-guess now," shouts Sol above the
thunder of his hyper-automatic, "Because I'm not going to stop until
I've safeguarded the land I love. You give me no choice. No choice."
The Nazis retreat in fear, but Sol picks them off, like bottles off
a fence. Some run out of range, but they are swallowed up by the
Hell-Demons that wait in the trees.
"Burn, German Scum! Burn and die! Face the music for what you
have done, and know that you deserve every bit!"
Ghengis Khan voices his battle-cry, stomping around in victory.
Sol stares calculatingly into the trees, gun cocked. Then, there
is a voice from behind... a familiar voice.
Sol
Ghengis Khan
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"Sol, what are you doing? Can't you see what you're doing?" It is
Alison, and she stands behind, in the woods, watching the grisly
occurance with disdain and uncertainty.
The man who is Sol turns around... and she is shocked at his
appearance. He is split down the middle - one half in positive, the
other in negative. He turns around, surprised to see her here.
"Alison...?" he ventures, his voice strange in its summation.
"You're killing... look at all this... killing!" She tries to find
some words to fit her thoughts, but there aren't any.
"But it isn't real," laughs Sol matter-of-factly, "they aren't
real. They're fake. It's all just a story..."
"Fake? Like I was fake when you thought -me- up? Is that what I
was? Fake?"
"We can do whatever we want here as long as it doesn't involve
anyone else. It's all in fun. I'm playing according to the rules.
Everything I've done is perfectly legit."
"Playing according to what rules, Sol? The topic's rules? The
Society's rules? What about -your- rules? You don't believe in a
single thing you're doing, and you know it."
"Alison..."
"You Know It! Don't you care about paradise anymore?"
"I do, but..."
"But you sure don't act like it. What good is all this going to
accomplish?" She gestures at the bloody Nazi bodies. "Are you
supposed to be making a point here? Their way doesn't work! You know
that! You aren't making a point at all... through all this violence,
the most you could have done was make a lot of people very angry. Is
that what you wanted? To piss everybody off?"
Dionesol is quiet and considers.
"If this paradise really is dead like you say it is, Sol, then let
it go. If people don't want to believe, you can't force them. If this
place is just a burned out shell of what it was, then let it go."
The negative half of Sol melts away, back into his body. Sol looks
at the ground.
Alison comes and puts a hand on his shoulder. "You can't kill a
dream, remember? You tried it before." She winks.
Sol smiles and takes her hand. "I'm sorry I acted like an *ss. I
just love this place too much, and well, I didn't think."
"This place is in your mind," she says, "the island is a paper tiger.
Let it go."
Sol sighs and smiles. "You know, Alison, you make an awful lot of
sense sometimes."
She is happy for the compliment. "Let's go," she says.
* * * * *
that night...
Sol and Alison return to the Circle of trees. Sol has restored all
the dead Nazis and Dinosaurs to what they were before he left the
Circle. He signs a peace-treaty with WWII Germany, and draws up an
agreeable and fair negotiation. The Nazis get an infinite pocket of
land in VaxLandia (squeezed into a 3 acre space) which is loaded with
all the Natural Resources and Aryans they could ever want. All the
Jews are relocated to the Holy Land on the other side of the island,
and all the Gas-Chambers are turned into photo-booths.
The Coffey-Saur comes back to life, and roams contentedly in the
Surrealist Jungle.
Sol appologises to Tas for making an *ss out of himself, and gives
to Tasslehoff his Circle of Trees. "Keep it safe," says Sol, "I wish you
success."
Sol takes a last look at the beach. "Thank you, Jou-Day. You take
care of this place. You know how to reach me if I'm ever needed." He
pats the man on the shoulder.
He glances out at the sand-castles, and at Liz's house, long past
deserted. He takes one last look into the sea, and throws a stone into
it for old time's sake.
Dazzler and Sol exchange glances. "Here's to the continuence of
the Dream," toasts Sol to all, holding Dazzler around the waist. He
clinks his glass with Alison's, and in a subtle vanishing, they are
gone.
Sol
Dazzler
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The Light Warrior is up on a very tall tree, trying to see what the
island is like. He sees a kind of bubble far away that is glowing. He
puzzles over it and then looks toward the other side of the island.
Clouds are covering over that part of the island. Lightnings
repeatingly strike over the part. He eventually concludes that this
island is separated into two parts : the good and evil ones.
He muses for a moment, deciding what to do next. His mission is
not clear to him, thanks to the goddess. Must he go and seek peace
with the evil and bind it to the good? Or, must he go and battle
against the evil and declare this island as safe for the good?
He ponders over these questions while he sits beside a pond. He picks
up a stone and throws it at the pond, absentminded.
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A Roman Being, wearing ancient Bronzen Armor and a helmet, appears
on the beach of VAXlandia. He holds scales in one hand, and a sword in
the other. He looks left, then right.
Then vanishes.
Roman
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LEVVAX::RHP7572 "Raven- Reluctant Messiah" 5 lines 17-OCT-1993 17:03
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Raven, wandering the shoreline, wonders what happened to his bottle of
JD, and lights another cigarette. Glancing towards the mainland, he
wonders why this Vaxlandia place seems so dead lately....
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LEVVAX::ETR0370 "We are the knights who say NI!" 3 lines 17-OCT-1993 20:21
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Maybe I'll get up and do something....After the good bit of the book.
-ETRigan-
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "They aren't THAT perky!" 16 lines 18-OCT-1993 00:31
-< Someday my prince shall come... but not too soon... >-
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Liz looks around her bedroom, sighing in satisfaction. The magical
preparations are all in place. There is but one step to perform.
"Goodbye for now, guys... someday I shall return to you...but I have
things to do in other realms of life..." She wipes the tears away and
lies down on the red silk sheets. As the magical words form in her
mind, she pronounces them carefully. A soft golden glow envelops her,
then radiates over the bedroom, then the cottage. Liz's breathing
becomes labored for a moment, then slows, then steadies into deepest
slumber.
Liz
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LEVVAX::JGM7683 7 lines 18-OCT-1993 00:58
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Light surrounds the forest that TLD's house is in.
The entire forest disappears off the face of the island and is gone...
FOREVER!!!!!!!
~
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LEVVAX::MSA7064 "Shadow Rogue" 9 lines 18-OCT-1993 05:15
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Sceadeau appears at Liz's front door.
"Hello," he shouts, knocking on the door.
"Hello," agian.
Again no answer. Sceadeau stands in the doorway with arms folded
across his chest, protecting Liz during her hybernation from all evil.
-- Sceadeau
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LEVVAX::JPL6314 "Dragon Strike" 11 lines 18-OCT-1993 07:28
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DS is ambling down one of the forest trails on his way to Liz's
house. A herd of Velociraptors go tearing across the path in front of
him, paying the dragon little notice.
"Geez, turn your back for one minute and everything starts going
crazy. I wonder where Liz and Tas are?"
He looks back in the direction the Velociraptors were running from.
'What is all that noise coming this way?' he wonders.
Dragon Strike
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LEVVAX::CJW3890 "Lews Therin Kinslayer" 5 lines 18-OCT-1993 08:52
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Tas jumps out of a tree and lands on DS's snout, shaking large
amounts of pepper down his throat.
"How ya doin, buddy?" Tas grins.
Tas
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "They aren't THAT perky!" 18 lines 18-OCT-1993 11:24
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Suddenly, in a burst of energy and conflicting magic, the golden glow
of protective magic dissipates, knocking Sceadeau safely out of the
doorway before it blasts open. Liz emerges with a stretch and a yawn.
"Sheesh! Leave it to a dragon to come along and nuke my spell." Liz
ambles down the pathway, helping Sceadeau to his feet and thanking him
for his protection (even though her magic would have protected her just
fine... remember the rainbow raptors?) as she walks by.
As she rounds the corner, she spots a blast of pepper-scented flame.
"DS!!!!! Welcome back!" She runs over (clear of any further blasts of
flame) and embraces the dragon and her fellow kender.
"So....any new adventures to be had around here?"
Liz
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LEVVAX::JGM7683 12 lines 18-OCT-1993 13:52
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A voice is aimed toward Liz and Vampiress...
"Come to UTOPIA!!!!
No evil can survive there!
All you can eat!
Mint chocolate chip Ice Cream, Tofu, and anything else you can think
of!"
~
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LEVVAX::CJW3890 "Lews Therin Kinslayer" 6 lines 18-OCT-1993 14:44
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Tas runs in circles till he gets too dizzy to stand, falls, then just
lays on teh ground mumbling out loud.
"The world is spinning, how cool."
Tas
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "They aren't THAT perky!" 13 lines 18-OCT-1993 15:49
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Liz gazes up towards the voice that calls her.
"Utopia...hmm...perfect paridise...nothing wrong ever....how dull!
Life has to have a few glitches to make it interesting...mass murderers
are a tad much, sure, but unless a few funky things happen, I get
incredibly bored."
With that, Liz grabs a stick, pulls some marshmallows out of a pouch,
and roasts them over a burning stump for herself and her two friends.
Liz
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 20 lines 19-OCT-1993 10:55
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Ghengis Khan, lacking anything better to do, runs around and around
a big tree, hacking at the trunk. He gets bored of that, watches the
grass ripple in the breeze, spits in it, then runs around the tree some
more hacking at the trunk.
Mister Data walks down the hill from Sunrise Bluff.
He stares down at Tas who is doing weird stuff with the ground. He
stares at Ghengis Khan, considering why in the world he would want to
beat up a tree.
He stares at Liz who is talking at the sky. He stares at the sky
which does not appear to be responding. Then he looks at Liz again,
giving her a dubious look.
He stands in the middle of the beach, trying to grasp the concept
of contractions.
Ghengis Khan hacks at the trunk.
Data
GK
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LEVVAX::ETR0370 "We are the knights who say NI!" 7 lines 19-OCT-1993 11:09
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Having finished the good bits, Etrigan looks up from his book to see
Data walking down the beach. He sets the book down, and gets up,
causing both book and Chair to return to wherever they appeared from.
Exiting the field of -Jou- , Etrigan walks toward Data, hoping for
some intelligent conversation.
-ETRigan-
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LEVVAX::ENB1783 "The Smoking Philosopher" 5 lines 19-OCT-1993 14:17
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Ed lights a cigarette, and puts away his firearm. He then draws a
large set of carving tools, and proceeds to turn all the trees in the
area into the likenesses of old movie stars, such as Charlie Chaplin,
Bridget Bardoe, and the rest.
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 5 lines 19-OCT-1993 14:47
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And Ghengis Khan runs around the wooden likenesses and beats them with
his pole-axe.
GK
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LEVVAX::PAH5543 "The Black Cat" 7 lines 19-OCT-1993 16:18
-< New Arival >-
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The newest arrival to Vaxlandia is Kindyl, the Fire Wizard. He arrives
in a flash of burned grass and scorched rocks, and surveys his new home
with hope... The hope that there is plenty to burn... (ain't
pyromania wonderful?!?)
"The Black Cat"
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 10 lines 19-OCT-1993 20:28
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Data looks toward his Demon Friend, who is coming to visit.
"Hello, friend ETRigan. I am pondering the significance of
contractions. Why has my program been unable to master their usage? I
am able to synchronize mathematically the internal combustion rate of a
star, and yet this small gramatical nuance eludes me. For example,
when is a contraction appropriately used? Why do humans sometimes use
them, and sometimes not? It is a perplexing question."
Data
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LEVVAX::ETR0370 "We are the knights who say NI!" 11 lines 19-OCT-1993 22:46
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"Well, to answer your first question, I've noticed that you always
speak in proper english. In proper english, contractions are still
considered a form of slang, and are not used. While heard in
conversation, they are never found in written works, unless in direct
quotes or in a narrative piece. Using that as a start, you may be able
to furthur understand your apparent innability to master the
contraction."
Pondering a language that is confusing at best, Etrigan and Data
continue to walk along the beach.
-ETRigan-
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LEVVAX::JPL6314 "Dragon Strike" 8 lines 20-OCT-1993 07:22
-< WA-CHOOOOO! >-
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DS sneezes setting fire to some nearby shrubbery. (ni!) Rubbing
his nose, he looks at Liz with watering eyes. "I doing fine. Is
anything going on?"
As Tas staggers by, he grabs the pepper from him and proceeds to go
after him with it.
Dragon Strike
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "They aren't THAT perky!" 10 lines 20-OCT-1993 19:35
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"Not really...that I know of anyways...I tried out a magical suspension
spell...been out of it a while." Liz yawns and stretches, dusting the
remainder of the magic sleep out of her hair.
"Oh, by the way..." She flying tackle hugs her friend, just for the fun
of it.
Liz
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 37 lines 20-OCT-1993 21:45
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Far away, in the midst of the isle, Tara from StoryBoard sits at a
table in a small cottage. She never really left VAXlandia, but has
not been seen for a long while, choosing the solitude of the woods to
the crazy mixed-up exterior. -Nobody even remembers who I am,- she
suspects.
Tara is a young woman, about 21. Her hair is short-cropped about
her head, and blonde in color. She is also very pregnant. She runs
her hand smoothly across her stomach, daydreaming. -I don't know how
to be a mother,- she thinks, -I never even wanted to leave the Western
Continent. I fought to save a place I'll probably never see again.-
She stares out the window, into the trees. There is a thunderous
shake. The cottage rocks. She becomes quiet, and listens. Soon, they
pass again.
The door opens. A man wearing blue and black steps in. Like Tara,
he is blonde. His features are fair, and even elf-like. He has only 3
fingers on each hand instead of the common four, and a symbol of a star
is on his left breast.
"Tara, the big lizard-creatures are still out. They aren't the
meat-eating kind, though, so I think we're safe."
She smiles at him. "Thank you for letting me stay here for a
while," she says to him, "I don't know what to expect out there
anymore."
Longshot closes the door and throws a pile of roots onto a table,
then goes to the window to join her. He puts his hand on her stomach
enthusiastically, and she jolts a little in surprise, but smiles. "You
are making a child," he says, "You need to be here now." He puts a
palm on her stomach and feels the kicking. "You're almost finished!"
he says excitedly, "How long before you can let it out?"
"I'm due in a month," she says. She sighs.
Longshot looks up. "Don't be sad," he says, "Soon you will be a
parent."
"Yeah," she says, quietly. She pats Longshot's shoulder
reassuringly as her gaze wanders.
Tara
Longshot
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LEVVAX::AMA4524 "Angel of Music" 35 lines 20-OCT-1993 23:30
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"Jehanne? Wake up..." a voice said from far above her. NightBird
felt as if she were drowning beneath a sea of black down pillows, and
the voice seemed so distant she believed it to be just a dream.
Slowly, she struggled up and out of her hazy semi-consciousness, and
her eyes fluttered open, only to squint against the bright sunshine of
morning.
"Erik? Where am I? What happened?" she said, her voice dry and
raspy within her throat. She slowly pushed herself into a sitting
position against the headboard of her bed and looked around.
"It's over, 'Bird... your 'raptors are safe." Erik said with a warm
smile as he handed her a cup of hot herbal tea. "Here, drink this...
you were quite busy last night, and you need to get some of your energy
back."
"Busy?" she said, and offered him a perplexed look, "Busy doing
what? I can't remember anything..."
Erik smiled at her and shook his head. "Don't worry about such
things right now dear... just know that you fought with every ounce of
your Will for what you believed in, and you saved your Island.
Vaxlandia is once again what it once was."
NightBird smiled weakly and sipped at the tea. "I don't remember a
thing... but I figure I must have been thinking pretty hard, and
exerting a lot of psy-energy, because the way my head feels... I can
rightly sympathize with a split coconut about now."
"You are truly the Guardian of this Island, Fair Jehanne... and
everyone and everything on Vaxlandia is singing praise to your name."
NightBird blushed and shook her head. "Dearest Erik... please stop
calling me Jehanne... that young girl died many years ago... besides, I
don't see what a little mind push here and there could possibly do to
save the entire Island... and singing my praise? Hardly!"
"You'll understand soon enough my love..."
Nightbird
Erik
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LEVVAX::BRC8940 "Bryan" 22 lines 22-OCT-1993 09:14
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The Stranger appears via a bright yellow-purplish light.
"Well dang nambit! This is kool as molassas in March, peace and war in
one little ole topic....heheh...kinda reminds me of the fun me and Mr.
Ninja used to have in Storyboard.."
Ed looks confuzzeld..."Who the hell are you?"
"They call me 'The Stranger'. Can you hook me up with a light partner?"
The Stranger pulls out a box of fine cuban cigars offers one to Ed and
takes one for himself, Ed pulls out his zippo lighter and lights
The Strangers stoggie..
"Aint nothin' in this world like a good stoggie."
Sol watches this bizzare ritual from afar.
-- The Stranger
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LEVVAX::BRC8940 "Bryan" 5 lines 22-OCT-1993 09:23
-< Tasty >-
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Houdini just sits on the rock with his buddy Sol eating a vegitarian
salad, with olive oill, and garlic.
Houdini
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LEVVAX::RHP7572 "Raven- Reluctant Messiah" 2 lines 22-OCT-1993 12:22
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Raven is still watching the wave crash in, then roll out.
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "Ever Waltz with the Wind?" 16 lines 22-OCT-1993 16:09
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Liz bids Tas and DS goodbye-for-now, and heads off into the woods.
Walking cautiously, she makes her way to a small, windswept clearing
atop one of the many small mountains within the woods' confines. She
pulls an old, battered boom box from behind a rock and presses "PLAY".
A single violin begins its soothing strains. Liz begins to move slowly
around. The sole violin is joined by another...and a piano... The
"Heaven's Gate Waltz" begins... Liz dances. Suddenly, out of nowhere,
a shadowy form begins to move alongside her. With a soft smile, Liz
accepts its outstretched hand, and they whirl together around the small
clearing.
Liz
?
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LEVVAX::MSA7064 "Shadow Rogue" 9 lines 23-OCT-1993 12:28
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Sceadeau gazes contentedly out into the field. He see's how happy his
friend, Liz, is...dancing with whoever it is. He lays down on his
stomach, propping up his elbows and holding his face with his hands,
and sighs.
"That is what happiness is all about," he says softly to himself.
-- Sceadeau
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 5 lines 23-OCT-1993 18:03
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(But despite the fact that Houdini THINKS he's sitting with Sol,
Sol is really not there - see previous notes... but if it isn't
Sol, then who could it be?)
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LEVVAX::RHP7572 "Raven- Reluctant Messiah" 3 lines 23-OCT-1993 20:31
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(Hmmm...Could be a certain polymorpher, who goes by a certain
name, but usually prefers large black birds.....)
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LEVVAX::EJC7658 "Ever Waltz with the Wind?" 16 lines 23-OCT-1993 20:36
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As Liz and the shadowshape whirl around the clearing, a soft voice asks
her "Can you follow me...Will you follow me?"
"We all live in darkness and light...Shadows are the median...Yes, I can
follow you to the shadows."
With those words, Liz's form begins to become hazy, shimmering in the
shadows of the trees. Soon, nothing remains but two spinning shadows,
mingling in joyful abandon as the music fades. As the last notes of
the waltz drift through the air, the two shadows vanish, mingling with
the shadows of the trees.
Liz
Shadowshape
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LEVVAX::ABL4290 "The one, the Prime." 8 lines 23-OCT-1993 21:27
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Ghengis Khan, seeing only the last of the flickering shadows (and
thinking it was a large-game animal he could kill for dinner) looks
around, puzzled-ly, sniffing the air.
Seeing nothing of interest here, he wanders into the woods in
search of something edible.
Ghengis Khan
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LEVVAX::TLR8799 "Whaddya mean, Doc? I'm not insane?" 10 lines 24-OCT-1993 18:00
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The Joker approaches Ghengis Khan and asks him if there are any
extraction law between Town Pub and Vaxlandia. Ghengis Khan wants to
know why he is asked such a question before he kills The Joker and The
Joker tells him that he is on the run for the shooting at Town Pub.
Ghengis Khan throws his head back and roars with laughter and slaps The
Joker so hard that The Joker has fallen down and suffers a case of
whiplash. The Joker remains motionless, afraid to even bat an
eyelash...
The Joker
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LEVVAX::AMA4524 "Angel of Music" 76 lines 24-OCT-1993 20:01
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NightBird settled back into the fat downy floor pillows and stared
at a little bird singing sweetly in the window. She found it odd that,
although she spent most of her life gliding silent and effortless
through the shadows and darkness of night... she relished mornings and
felt complete once she stood witness to the birth of a new day. She
stared contentedly at the small, vibrantly colored bird, and smiled.
The little bird seemed to sense her stare and turned to look directly
at her. The little bird stopped its trilly song and launched from the
branch it had been sitting on, to fly directly into the window of the
pagoda and perch on a very surprised NightBird's knee. The bird began
another energetic song... it's chirping and trilling soaring and
echoing excitedly throughout the room. NightBird sat staring at the
bird in open astonishment, her mouth open in amazement.
she thought to herself... and
as the words formed in her mind... the bird's chirping changed...
NightBird realized in another moment of astonishment that she could
understand the bird! The little bird's song was a song of rejoicing
and celebration! The bird was praising the Savior of Vaxlandia!
Erik came into the room as the bird's song got louder and louder...
but the bird stopped singing suddenly and flew off when it caught sight
of Erik.
"Erik!" NightBird said breathlessly, "The most amazing thing just
happened!! That Bird! I could understand its song! I knew what it
was singing about! It flew right into the window and starting singing
to me!"
She jumped from the pillows and flew to the window. The tree in
which the little bird had been perched was filled with colorful
birds... all singing in the same excited and joyous manner as her
visitor.
"Listen to them Erik!" she said, and whirled around to face him.
Erik had a curious smile on his face... and enveloped her in a look she
couldn't read. "What is it, Erik?" she asked... suddenly wary of his
look.
"It's nothing, Jehanne." he said quietly, and walked over to stand
next to her and look out the window.
"Please don't call me that, Erik," she said absently, and stared at
the birds in the tree.
"Do you remember anything about last night yet?" he asked, still
looking at the tree.
"No... not yet... which actually is beginning to bother me." she
turned and walked back towards the pile of pillows to retrieve her cup
of tea.
"Why does it bother you, dear?" he asked calmly.
"Because, I never black out... drugs or inconveniences or blows to
the head or anything never make me forget... a certain level of my
consciousness always retains my experiences... if it is buried deep
within my subconscious... then i merely meditate a bit longer than
usual." hse explained and sipped the last of her tea.
"Well, why don't you meditate now?" he asked
"I don't know... maybe because I've been sleeping so much
already... if I relax myself now... i might just end up falling asleep
again."
"Well, m'dear," Erik said with a warm smile, and walked over to
take her arm, "we'll just have to escort you back to your room so that
you can meditate or sleep to your heart's content. Otherwise, you'll
begin sulking before too long and become quite unbearable!"
NightBird playfully protested and tried to pull free, but Erik
caught her around the waist and pulled her close. "Get your rest,
dear... you've earned it.." he then kissed her lightly on the cheek and
led her to her room.
"I hope I remember something... I wish I knew what the heck I did
to make everyone around here act like such fools!" she said and lowered
herself into a lotus position in front of two candles. She stared
intently at one of the candles, a slender black tapered candle in a
simple wooden holder, and the wick burst into a warm dancing flame.
She lit the other in the same manner... the other being a white taper
in an identical holder. She stared unfocused into a point between the
two candles, letting the brilliant flames shimmer in her peripheral
vision.
"I'll leave you know... your Majesty," Erik said softly and bowed,
but NightBird was already lost in her trance-like meditation. "I only
hope you are ready to remember..."
NightBird
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NightBird turns towards the readers of this topic and smiles... it
is a smile of both fondness and regret...
"It would seem," she says in a soft voice, "that unless my writer
plans on staying on the VAX for an eternity to keep my alive... I must
bid all a fond farewell. I let myself become possessed by one of my
many other faces... the evil spirit known as HellBound... and now... I
see that others who have joined in this useless and pointless game are
disappearing from Lev Existence. I know that once my writer hits
ctrl-z three times... I will cease to exist and no longer be Guardian
of this Island... Should any wish to know of my battle with the
Darkness, and how I saved the island... feel free to E-mail my writer,
and I am certain she will satisfy your curiosity."
NightBird sighs and blows out the candles, then turns to find Erik.
Upon finding her soul-mate, they stand at the doorway of the pagoda,
arm in arm... and gaze out into the horizon.
"Farewell Vaxlandia... my heart and soul are with you always..."
NightBird
Erik
the Velociraptor Pack
the little birdies in the trees...
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Somewhere far off, Ghengis Khan is prancing through the woods.
As he eats flowers out of Liz's Garden, he comes upon a strange
occurance... all the flowers have become Black-And-White!
But he eats em anyway, and so there goes the proof.
Ghengis Khan
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The Roman stands guard at the top of a mountain, overlooking
VAXlandia. With NightBird's passing, he has felt a pang of something
unexplainable. But he guards on.
"Intruder," he thinks. He vanishes from the mountain-top, and
re-appears on the beach.
He raises his arms as if in defense. There is a pattern like a
transport beam, as if a human being is beaming into VAXlandia. But he
fights the pattern, which weakens and flashes away.
Roman
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As they walk down the beach, discussing the English language and
the illogical behavior of humans, Data and Etrigan come upon a strange
patch of flowers. From each stem come two flowers, one black and one
white. Suddenly Etrigan feels a pang, as a powerful force of good
leaves the island.
"Etrigan, what is wrong?"
"Nothing. Another has left the island, taking all that was her
along. Such a departure is sure to have consequences."
"I do not understand how you are able to perceive such things."
Etrigan gives Data a sheepish grin. "Let's just say my sensors are
slightly different than yours."
"That was an attempt at humor, was it not?"
"Yes, it was. But let us not dwell on the comings and goings on
the island. Would you care for some tea?"
Etrigan motions with his hand, and a small bone china cup and
saucer appear in it, the cup filled with the best tea immaginable.
"I have no need for refreshment," Data replies,"and the manner in
which you aquired this tea is most illogical."
"Not at all. I have tea," Etrigan raises the hand holding the cup,
"and I have no tea." He raises the other hand. "Therefore I have no
common sence. Logic has nothing to do with it."
Data tries to follow this logic, complete with Adams refrences and
Brownian motion producers, and arrives at the conclusion that he would
rather fancy a cup of tea after all. Before he can ponder the illogic
of this decision, Etrigan hands him cup and saucer, and they continue
their walk down the beach, sipping carefully.
-ETRigan-
Data
(how'm I doing sol?)
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Data watches ETRigan, taking clues as to how best to sip the tea.
It is humorous to onlookers to see how Data mimicks the demon's
movements exactly.
Data finishes with a worthy slurp. "I have no tea." He gives an
exaggerated grin. Then returns to normal. "Was that funny?"
ETRigan shakes his head no. "But keep trying."
Data
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The Joker gets up and brushes the sand off his clothes and looks around
for another less-threatening person to ask about the extradition law.
He sees Data and some human drinking something and walks over to them.
"Howdy there, I need to know if there is an extradition law that exists
between Vaxlandia and Towne Pub," The Joker asks.
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"I am not fully familiar with the laws of this land," says Data,
"but I do not believe that the laws you speak of exist..."
Data offers the Joker his tea-cup. "A gift... for you," he says,
presenting it cerimoniously.
Data