Because I have to post something. At least to keep the forum alive....

So. Let's mess with Mackie again.

Quote:He remembered reaching for the eject handles.

And the Crunch of the impact.

“Mackie?”

Needless to say, his Sister's voice in his mind came as a surprise. Abruptly awakened in sparks-on-black grid of virtual space, he saw her there.

“Sis,” he managed to say.

“You had an accident,” she said, taking a moment to choose her wods.

“I crashed.” Had he a body, he might've felt himself go cold.

“You remembered?”

She almost seemed distracted, surprised. Like she’d seen a ghost.

“But we're in virtual space...”

“I…” he saw her mind switch gears. “I got your mind.”

Somewhere, something quailed, even without a body he thought he'd be sick. It couldn't be too serious. Not when he was still thinking. But still, that look on her face – even simulated – crawled up his spine.

“Um...”

“But not your body.”

“What...”

“I just have to load some new system drivers.”

Mackie saw who had signed the drivers – personally. A dreadful possibility loomed large in his mind. It died, replaced by one far more exciting...

He'd finally been allowed onto the Forge with all it's cool stuff and hot, busty women.

“We're about to bring you online. Promise you won't scream.”

“Scream?” he managed, before oblivion took hold.

Reality returned with a bang.

The scent of ozone tingled in his nostrils as he took his first breath, filling his lungs.

He recognised the room. The old engineer's office beside the power-plant, where Shinji'd been born. Hundreds of energy meters read out the power flowing through each and every circuit on the asteroid, filling the room with dim blue light. Numbers flickered as circuits switched on automatic. It gave the whole room a delicious Frankenstein ambience.

Above him, decade-old second hand scanners and spotlights that'd obviously been borrowed.

It all felt wrong. Every single muscle, every nerve out of place. The drivers didn't cover half of it.

Mackie pushed himself upright. The weight on his chest shifted. Sitting opposite him, his sister's puppet, naked. One the one hand, it was hard not to note just how much of an achingly hot body she had. Her wide, blue eyes. The soft, sleek curves of her athletic body. Her tanned skin stretched taught over toned muscles. Her breasts swelled on her chest with each breath – unnaturally symetrical and artificially perfect.

“Wow,” he breathed. She matched him.

He felt his heart race, his chest quivering in time. Lightning struck throughout his body, each breath quivering. It filled his whole body, alien and wrong, tracking inside when it should've been expanding, filling his chest with a jolt on every breath.

His mind finally caught up to the fact that the puppet reflected each and every single move he made... almost like a mirror.

“Oh,”

He looked down, placing two hands on his chest, inhaling. His breath shivered as he squeezed, confirming they really and truly were attached to him.

“He noticed,” a voice giggled, somewhere to herself. Mackie turned to face, hair brushing off his shoulders.

Kotono. Wearing her usual aerobic outfit, fresh from a run. He skin glistened with sweat.

“Noticed?” he said, hearing his sister's voice.

“I win” Daryl piped up. She stood against the far wall, still in her skintight flightsuit. “Breasts first. Pay up ladies”

“Damn.”

His Sister, standing behind him, flanked on both sides by some pretty funky looking hardware. Cables trailed from it to the headrest on the workbench.

The pieces began to assemble themselves in his mind. He groped some more, just confirm it.

“Wa.....Wa.......Whu...... Huh?” Frightened eyes looked for an explanation

“It was the only option,”

“You should've just left me in virtual space!”

“We couldn't. Not for much longer. It would've harmed your mental patterns.”

“The Knightwing, then....” Even being back inside that tin can would've felt better.

“We stripped all that hardware out. It would've taken a week...”

“Anything then!. Anything but this...” He poked himself in the chest. The breast bounced. The sensation traced like lightning through his body. “This is a sex toy!”

“I spoke to A.C. We had a few hours at most before decoherence set in.”

Not even a glimmer of humour, of hope that it'd been a cruel prank. His sister stared at him, her expression deadly serious.

Mackie started to shake. She stopped towards him. Cold ceramic pulled bare skin into a chilling embrace, every sensitive spot on the puppet sparking to life at once drawing a shivering gasp to Mackie's lips.

A shudder raced through his body.

She pushed back, her warm smile beaming back at him, formed from full, luscious lips. Glacier blue eyes shone with kindness,

“You'll be alright. You're still my brother. If I have to, I'll build you a new body myself.”

Reset. His thought process stopped, locking into the moment. Impact. Spinning. Ground.

“I thought I was dead.” He felt his voice shake. “I thought they killed me,”

“Who?”

Jet pushed back.

Mackie felt his throat go tight. “I was shot down.”

The look on his Sister's face terrified him.

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I've been brainstorming details from the Ministry Battle with this on endless loop:

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I was rereading DW II, and I spotted a typo in chapter three:

Quote:Well, serious for this here-and-now. The local state-of-the-rat
isn't bad, but then again, they've never had to deal with
electropaths and the occasional meta who can digitize himself
with a thought.

Mushroom Kingdom exists to detect and discover potential Mushroom Farmers before planting their first Crop, along with potential routes rogue Mushroom Farmers may feasibly use to plant Mushrooms, so that they may be cut off before any Crops are Yielded.

Rule 1 of Mushroom Kingdom: You do not discuss Mushroom Kingdom with outsiders
Rule 2 of Mushroom Kingdom: You do not discuss Mushroom Kingdom with outsiders.
Rule 3 of Mushroom Kingdom: Nobody Joins Mushroom Kingdom. Mushroom Kingdom Seeks out its Members.
Rule 4 of Mushroom Kingdom: A Farmer becomes eligible upon independant discovery of a viable method to Plant Mushrooms.

Rule 5 of Mushroom Kingdom: A Member shall not knowingly assist another Farmer in the discovery of a viable method to Plant Mushrooms.
Rule 6 of Mushroom Kingdom: No member of Mushroom Kingdom may intentionally plant Mushrooms without due legal authority
Rule 7 of Mushroom Kingdom: All members of Mushroom Kingdom must do their utmost to ensure no Mushrooms are planted in Civilised Space.
Rule 8 of Mushroom Kingdom: The Penalty for Transgression of any of these rules, is banning from life.

Do you, who have learned the sin of Mushroom Farming, understand and agree to these rules?

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I really wish I had a better name than Mushroom Kingdom. Subtley is not my strongpoint.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

Welp, I just checked the Somerset County court's webpage, and as it so happens, I have to report to jury duty tomorrow.  (I've known for weeks that I've been summoned, but you never know until the night before if they really need you to come in.)  If I can wrest it from Peggy's grasp, I'll take my tablet w/keyboard with me and try to keep writing DW8 Chapter 5, otherwise I expect I'll catch up on a lot of my reading.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

In my latest post to the Fenspace Forum, I tried to add a smilie and found there aren't any set up for the board.

Yuku Wrote:There are no smilies set for this community

Are you still using your gmail account?  If not, please email me with your current address.
Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I bought GURPS Thaumatology: Sorcery not long after it came out (maybe even same day). I've been supposed to mention it for a while, because I'm pretty sure Necron is best modeled using its systems.

http://www.warehouse23.com/products/SJG37-1656

That is all.

I'm TD, 27, a Libra and very amateur writer from South Australia.

I was lead to Fenspace by a story posted by JakeGrey on SD.Net  . Spent the last month or so devouring the Wiki and the AO3 story list and some posts here on the forum and am greatly intrigued by the setting. Such an interesting premise.

An idea has been floating around in my head for a story (Which I’m planning on making an Infinities one since it’ll be me and rather sue-ish). Hopefully it won't be too bad.

Looking forward to being a part of the community and chatting with you all, thank you.

A few songs I came across online.  From the scooby doo cartoons there are 2 Hex Girl songs (one video with cartoon footage for both songs, and individual lyric videos)  that would appear to be mind changing songs


I'm an Hex Girl is either a Mind control song or a simulacrum of the singers (although I can't imagine the latter being very useful).
Earth, Wind, Fire and Air has a few lines that suggest elemental powers, but my first thought is another mind changing spell.  I would have the people who hear the song ignore/forget their current plans and instead focus on an environmental issue for a couple of issues.  It could be useful if an evil event just has to be completed at the precise time and you can distract everyone for a precious minute or so.
Finally Maybe Tommorrow (Theme from Littlest Hobo) by Terry Bush 
I see as a type of Meta Song allowing someone to follow Doug through the portal for a single step before returning to their own world.  I have also wondered if it could be a gate song with all the traveling references and I could imagine it making a decent Drunkard's Walk theme song or AMV.
Mark