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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1215 on: November 18, 2012, 06:59:10 PM »
Okay... What the Abomination just did is going to be explained soon hopefully.
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1216 on: November 19, 2012, 11:15:58 AM »
It'll be explained in the next chapter.  When I get around to writing it . . .

Anyway, a new page, so . . .

  • Book XXII: Pits of Terror
The RAFians fall into pits that show them their greatest fears. Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXIII: RAF Comix
The RAFians are sucked into a comic book made by Damien. Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXIV: The First Master
Cloak meditates alone in a forest, and has a vision about the first Master . . . the first Elements Master. Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXV: RAF -- The Musical
The RAFians find themselves trapped in a musical where everyone must burst into song occasionally.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXVI: Outage Outrage
The RAFians find themselves losing their powers.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXVII: Infinity and Eternity
The Infinity Gems and the Eternity Stones make themselves known.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXVIII: The Virus Rings
The RAFians are attacked by foes they never thought they'd see again.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXIX: Soul-Suckers
The RAFians are attacked by Dementors, which have a rather large effect on Cloak.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXX: Mayhem of the Music Miser
Cloak recalls the RAFians' previous confrontation with the Music Miser three years ago.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXXI: The Metal-Maker
The RAFians must save their own from a Roboticizer. Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXXII: Richard is Missing
The RAFians must cope without Richard.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXXIII: Emotional Food
The RAFians must confront a different kind of vampire.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXXIV: Transformation Confrontation
The RAFians must confront some strange machines.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXXV: Richard's Horn
The RAFians must get Richard's Horn, a mystical musical instrument, back from Malice, who received it from a RAFian traitor.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXXVI: Feral Scream
A Wildwethel-centric book, he must deal with his feral side.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXXVII: Predators and Prey
The RAFians are being preyed upon by some sentient predators.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXXVIII: A Protean Problem
The RAFians must deal with a powerful snot-nosed kid who, quite literally, can do whatever he wants.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XXXIX: The Horsemen
Four RAFians are captured and converted into four Horsemen of the ancient, rogue Realm Walker Cataclysm.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XL: Sizeable Pain in the Necks
The RAFians must deal with Heinlein aliens. Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XLI: RAF's Nightmare
The RAFians must survive their own nightmares.  Nineteen chapters planned.
  • Book XLII: Unlucky Charms
The RAFians must contend with a rather bloodthirsty leprechaun. Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XLIII: The Piper
The RAFians must contend with a pied piper. Nineteen chapters planned.
  • Book XLIV: Starlight Desire
The RAFians race Malice, Abomination, and the Banned to a wishing star (no, not Estelore). Eighteen chapters planned.
  • Book XLV: A War of Armor
Parker is outraged to see knockoffs of his rather unique armor and what they're being used for.  Twenty-two chapters planned.
  • Book XLVI: The Worst Plague
The RAFians must weather the worst plague to ever existed -- the Hate Plague.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XLVII: Little Alien Napoleons
The RAFians are caught in the middle of a war between Helmacrons and Fmeks.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XLVIII: Go Away!
The RAFians must deal with the paparazzi who are all of a sudden interested in them.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book XLIX: RAFian Tales
RAFians tell various RAFian-themed stories across a lunch table.  Twenty chapters planned -- a RAFian story per chapter, discounting the intro.
  • Book L: Maul
The RAFians must deal with the result of one of Demos's experiments.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LI: Erised Orbs
The RAFians must face their greatest desires.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LII: RAFians Alive!
Read the "Mummies Alive" parody in the RAFize songs thread.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LIII: The Pain Reliever
The RAFians must deal with an elderly Vulcan styling himself the "Pain Reliever".  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LIV: Beyond the Veils
Aquilai and Aila must confront old foes while the other RAFians must put up with a Czarinian bounty hunter.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LV: Dangerous Deals
Demos meets up with his half-brother, Shenecron, who has a perchant for making deals.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LVI: Of One Mind
Malice seeks out the Unimind.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LVII: The End of Time
The RAFians must contend with two Kryptonians (who think they're Time Lords) and prevent them from ending time altogether.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LVIII: Hematomimic
The RAFians must capture a Plasmavore and put up with it's rather stupid Judoon jailer.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LIX: Sins of Youth
Estelore, Richard, Parker, and Cloak must survive when the entire city and forum have been reduced to two-year-olds.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LX: The Replacements
The RAFians must contend with the fame-feeding Eidolon Consciousness.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXI: Arachnoids
The RAFians must contend with the Arachnoids and finding a cure for one of their own that was poisoned before it's too late.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXII: Personal Tissues
The RAFians must contend with some one misusing Bibliophaetos's discarded book shell.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXIII: Memory Today, Gone Tomorrow
The RAFians lose their memory and must find a way to regain it.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXIV: Appliance Armageddon
A superintelligent computer controls all electronics, and the RAFians must stop it.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXV: Prodigy and Composite
Some RAFians are merged into two separate entities.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXVI: The Merging
The Universes begin colliding and merging.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXVII: Be A Doll
The RAFians are confronted by a Super Chucky.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXVIII: They're Such Cards
The RAFians are sealed into cards, which end up trapped in an ancient leather-bound book, and it's up to three kids to free them.  An out-of-continuity book.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXIX: Dinosaur Island
Everyone, except those that bear a Mark, begin turning saurian.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXX: Corrupted
The RAFians must deal with the son of Cataclysm, Corruptor.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXXI: Artificial Skins
The RAFians must deal with symbiotes.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXXII: Separation Anxiety
The RAFians must contend with an ethereal virus.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXXIII: A Thing About RAFians
The RAFians must contend with Seekers, which home in onto their Marks.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXXIV: A Planted Idea
The RAFians must contend with a floramaniac.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXXV: Vacation Photos
The RAFians are sucked into a Polarisoid camera.  Twenty chapters planned.
  • Book LXXVI: A Personal Gremlin
The RAFians must contend with gremlins.  One chapter planned thus far.
  • Book LXXVII: The Rust is Silence
The Rafians must deal with an oxidation ray wielded by a criminal.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXVIII: The Toyman Cometh
The RAFians deal with a Toyman-esque character.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXIX: RAFian Idol
Yes, just another excuse to put in more of the (as of writing) nearly 800 parodies.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXX: Savage Heart
Cloak battles an ancient being called Carrotik.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXXI: Slave Islands and Juggernauts
Three RAFians are taken prisoners by the Knights and sold into the slavery of New Genoshia, while the others deal with a juggernaut.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXXII: Shredding a King
The RAFians deal with a demonic Shredder-like ghost called Regiphaetos.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXXIII: RAF -- The TV Show
The RAFians are forcibly recruited to one of Mojo's programs.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXXIV: The Drinker
The RAFians must contend with a Spirit-Drinker. No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXXV: The Last Laugh
The RAFians must face Joker Gas.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXXVI: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Villain
The RAFians must contend with mind control cards which are ineffective on them.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXXVII: Sight Unseen
Six RAFians are rendered functionally blind, optically-speaking.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXXVIII: Don't Let It Snow
The RAFians must face a second Ice Age caused by a Diznee Ice Ifrit.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book LXXXIX: The Rachel Toxin
The RAFians must find a cure to a toxin that increases the fearlessness, hostility and aggressiveness induced in people which the Mark cannot protect the RAFians from.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book XC: Virus Alert!
The RAFians face a dangerous virus seeking a host.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book XCI: A Youthful Thief
The RAFians face a creature that siphons off the youth in its victims, provided they're younger than him.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book XCII: Calendar Creep
The RAFians face the Calendar Creep, a criminal whose crimes are holiday themed.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book XCIII: The Branding
Faerie fights a witch-boy named Salem (and his magical black cat, Saberhagen) for a magical branding iron in Faeries possession.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book XCIV: The Void Zone
Essentially gonna be a "Subspace Emissary" parody.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book XCV: An Epic Yarn
The RAFians' world is turned into yarn and fabric.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book XCVI: RAFian Gladiators
RAFians are kidnapped by Gamesmaster, another rogue Realm Walker, and force to participate in gladiatorial games.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book XCVII: The Box
The RAFians must cage thirteen Revenants released from Pandora's Box -- each representing and amplifying a particular feeling (i.e. hatred), while looking for the perfect host.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book XCVIII: From the Shadows
The RAFians must save their shadows and the shadows of everyone else from being absorbed (eaten) by the Umbraraptors.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book XCIX: Grimm Prospects
The RAFians discover Malice controlling several "wesen" with control collars akin to April's in "Catwoman from Channel Six" and get stuck in one-on-one battles to the death with them.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book C: Loop-De-Loop
Everyone's trapped in a temporal loop, but the only ones that realize it are Cloak, Shadow, Aila, and Aquilai.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CI: Get 'Em, Shaw
The RAFians face a creature native to the planet Gossamer, who's under the control of Malice.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CII: Threadfall
The RAFians must exterminate an epidemic of Thread.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CIII: Siren's Song
The RAFians must deal with a siren and her alluring song.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CIV: Resistance is Futile
The RAFians must deal with a hybridization of the Borg and the Hive chips (Ben 10: Alien Swarm) -- which the Mark cannot protect them from, nor the Unity energy can destroy.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CV: The Titan
The RAFians must contend with the Titan serum and its effects.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CVI: A Stony Glare
The RAFians must deal with a hungry Stone-Biter and a petrifying venom of a Diznee Stone Ifrit.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CVII: Spritely Pests
The RAFians must deal with irritating sprites, which Faerie has had some rather tenuous experiences with.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CVIII: Destroy All . . . What?
The RAFians must contend with a Furon incursion, and it turns out the Nyacs have knowledge of Furons. . . . No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CIX: Going Backwards
A grievious malfunction in Aquilai's TARDIS causes time to reverse its flow and flow backwards.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CX: Death Takes A Holiday
The RAFians must convince Death to take up his role again.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CXI: High Price Stakes
Shanker and Gaz must flee and elude Daphne, the vampire hunter.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CXII: A Killer Housing Market
The RAFians must survive and either destroy or escape a killer house.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CXIII: A Silenced World
The RAFians must cope with a world that has become muted and a young sorceress, Melissa Spellman.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CXIV: The Bureau
The RAFians must save their own from the insideous Bureau of Lost.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CXV: To Tell the Truth
Broken's apprentice, Melissa, accidentally casts a spell forcing everyone to tell the truth.  No chapters planned out yet.
  • Book CXVI: Skin Crawlers
The RAFians, repulsed and revolted, must contend with Hundred (who eventually becomes Thousand, then becomes Million, then Billion, and then, finally, Trillion).  No chapters planned out yet.

CHAPTER NINE:
The Gendreconcido Wave

Six hours had passed, and the surge had surpassed Estelore, making her way back rather sedately, in stellar terms of speed.  She even felt its "slipstream" of sorts buffet her -- but it did not affect her.  However, she did not fail to notice that the surge was headed to Earth.

Great, she thought, as if the others hadn't enough to deal with.

If she had the presence of mind at the time to call to RAF, the whole mess probably would have been adverted -- but not likely.  It would take it about seven hours to reach Earth and Estelore had to beat that time.

She had attempted to us her stellar might to disintegrate the surge, or diffuse it somehow, but her blasts missed by mere fractions of an inch.  It was infuriating to the star, like an opponent who spams Protect, Detect, Sand Attack or Double Team*.

But Estelore is nothing but persistant.  She continued this futile assault, until they came the solar system's space, and she had to encapsulate herself into her humanoid avatar before entering the Earth's atmosphere.

Unfortunately, the few seconds Estelore required to do this gave the surge wave a big honkin' headstart.  To big of a headstart -- it made landfall just outside the city and RAF.  The resultant shockwave razed everything all over the planet.  But it did destroy anyone, no.  It just made them androgynous and neuter.  It basically removed all sexual dimorphism as well as all genders.

It turned the Earth into a world of hermaphadytes -- except Parker (whose armor shielded him), the Lanterns (whos Lantern aura protected them once more), and the still-comatose Cloak (who was born of energy, so it affects him a different way instead, allowing him to communicate with . . . well, that would be telling).

And, the wave managed to somehow wreak the emitter and barrel for the reversing ray.  The now genderless Aquilai, Goom and Yarin looked aghast at their reversal ray lying there in pieces.

"At least we managed to capture a spectral scan of it," Aquilai said quietly and sheepishly.

"Well, we better work fast," Yarin said, "before we get disgruntled RAFians storming in here."

***

"You must accept the elements for what we, what they are," said Earth Cloak.  "The very nature of each element is different and easily can be used for malicious or altruistic purposes."

"They are what they are, and we are what we are." Fire Cloak added.

"Yes," Cloak said.  "I guess I've always know that, but I was too afraid . . ."

"You weren't afraid of us, you were afraid of losing control of yourself," Air Cloak supplied smartly.

"Yes."

With that, the elemental Cloaks vanished, returning to the Realm Walker.  Cloak opened his eyes and saw that he wasn't in a vast black void, but he wasn't back at RAF either.

"What the . . . not another test!!"

"No," came a voice that was entirely unfamiliar.  It belonged to a Realm Walker who Cloak had never seen, who had his back to Cloak.  "But I need to talk to you.  I'm sure you don't know me, but I am your distant ancestor.  I'm the first Elements Master."

---
*Pokemon references, to those unfamiliar with the franchise.
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1217 on: November 19, 2012, 06:51:57 PM »
What the heck...
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1218 on: November 19, 2012, 07:51:20 PM »
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« Reply #1219 on: November 19, 2012, 10:56:47 PM »
This is good stuff. I look forward to more.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1220 on: November 20, 2012, 12:21:17 AM »
Thanks, Gazzy.

*is unsure what to make of Sakki and Underseen's reactions.*

CHAPTER TEN:
An Old Master and Adjustments

The RAFians and denizens of the city seemed rather subdued, but continued on with their lives despite the rather big change that happened to them recently.  There wasn't an easy solution to this -- Goom, Aquilai, and Yarin did not know if their reversal ray would even work on them once they've repaired it.

"The emitter's shot to h--"

"The barrel's mangled beyond repair."

"The body's held up fairly well, though."

Basically, everything they said after that, was indistinguishable due to the overlapping voices.

The denizens of the city were blissfully unaware that they had ever had genders, so they were happily unaware of the change.  But it was a bit more traumatic for the RAFians (but not by much -- Gaz's encounter with Madre de Vampyra in the past was far more traumatic for her, and the events of which she still did not want to talk about, as they were still painful to her).

Cloak remained in his coma, and his fellow RAFians began to really worry whether or not he'd ever awaken from it.  They didn't know of the internal struggle that was going on or went on in Cloak -- it was tough to tell the timing of things in the void.

***

"What do you mean you're the first Elements Master?" Cloak said, feeling scared as a cub again.  But he swallowed his fear, buried it, as he looked at the back of the Realm Walker.

"Just that," he said as he stood and turned around.  He was a stag-form Realm Walker, with twelve-point antlers.  Cloak wondered how he Walked -- those antlers didn't really seem able to easy fit into a hood of a cloak.

"I know what you're wondering," he said, as if he read Cloak's mind, "during my time, the realms did not exist.  There was just the Nexus.  You, son, are the only Elements Master, the only Realm Walker, to take up residence in any of the Realms.  You are unique, in that regard."

Cloak said nothing, but the first Master seemed to gather what this meant.

"My taken name was Avatar*," he explained.  "You really should know that for everything, there is always a first.  I'm the first of our line to master the Elements, which no one had done before me.  And, like you, I favored the Earth Element."

Cloak looked at Avatar with his head slightly ****ed to the left.  Avatar met this look with hearty laughter.

"I'm the first Elements Master, kid!  Not the first Realm Walker!"

"You said you needed to talk to me." Cloak said seriously.

"Ah, not to be distracted, I see.  An admirable trait to have in an Elements Master."  Avatar said.  "It's natural for any Elements Master to fear their power and, naturally, their emotions, as their emotions empower the Elements they control.  And we've all doubts.  In ourselves, in our control over our abilities."

"I got that," Cloak said, drily.  He wasn't sure whether or not he liked this guy.

"Yes, you do.  But you feel a need to bury your feelings, run away from your emotions." Avatar said, taking on a hearty but stern paternal tone.  "This is not good, Cloak.  It makes you a powder keg ready to go off at any moment.  A time bomb ticking away."

Cloak said nothing . . . though he knew and accepted what Avatar said as truth.

"You must accept your power.  You must accept your feelings, you mustn't flee from them, afraid of the harm that will come about." Avatar said.  "But to go to the extreme of being lax about them either.  You also mustn't hide away when others need your help."

"Huh?"

"Well, you'll understand soon enough." Avatar said.  "But now go, your friends -- and friends I've found are invaluable to have at your side -- need you.  Do not forgot our talk, young Master."

But, naturally, Cloak does.

---
*Yes, this is a nod to "Avatar: the Last Airbender" and "The Legend of Korra".
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1221 on: November 20, 2012, 11:01:14 AM »
Oh, how I miss Avatar: The Last Airbender. I hate when my non-Avatar-fan friends call Aang, Avatar and state it as his name... I know it can be used as a title, but not his name.
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1222 on: November 20, 2012, 11:03:35 AM »
Could be worse -- they could be using M. Knight's f*cked up pronunciation of it.


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« Reply #1223 on: November 20, 2012, 11:19:41 AM »
I know M. Night is Indian, but why did he make all of the characters in the movie Indian?

The reason I said "What the heck" about the last chapter is because after they got people back to normal they lose their genders.
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« Reply #1224 on: November 20, 2012, 11:32:27 AM »
I know M. Night is Indian, but why did he make all of the characters in the movie Indian?

That actually wasn't my biggest gripe about the movie -- it was M. Night's apparent need to change or alter just about everything that made Avatar what it was, even the names!  I mean, the show was successful for a reason!  And the casting was apparently one of the biggest sore points.  But what really offended me was how weak he made earthbending look.  (Granted, I've only seen promos and what not, but considering what I saw of it from YouTube -- well, I never wanted to see it.)  But that's getting into off-topic territory.

The reason I said "What the heck" about the last chapter is because after they got people back to normal they lose their genders.

Hey, that kind of thing (something good happens that is immediately shut down by something bad) happens more often than I care to admit. :shrug:  Granted, it is a bit of screw-the-audience thing.

Anyway, on a different tangent, I may post another chapter later on tonight, but -- don't get your hopes up.  Oh, and did post an idea for Book CIX.


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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1225 on: November 20, 2012, 12:19:32 PM »
Giddy... I will be playing Halo 4 until then...
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« Reply #1226 on: November 21, 2012, 09:49:04 AM »
Did you mean you're giddy or did you mean "goody", Underseen?

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Chapter Eleven:
The Awakening

Suddenly, everything around Cloak went dark, although the form of his ancestor remained for but a moment.  Then he too faded away into nothingness.  He felt as if he had been put in the middle of a washing machine who spun with hurricane gale forces.

He did not know up from down, left from right, back from forward anymore.  It was that chaotic, and random.  To say that Cloak felt confused was a rather large understatement.

Then he found that he was reclining on his back all of a sudden.  Eyes closed.  His body felt rather stiff, as if he hadn't been moved in a while.  With a quiet moan, he opened his eyes, and sat up.  There was a numbness in his body that he couldn't explain, but it was welcome, as it meant he was back in the waking world.

"Oh, you're up." a voice said.  Cloak recognized it as Kelly's.  Only . . . something sounded slightly off.  Cloak looked up at her, but his eyesight was blurred a bit.  That went away after a few seconds.

Cloak saw Kelly clearly as the Oompa Loompa* as she was, and saw that he was in the infirmary.  It was already dark out.

"How're you feeling?" Kelly asked.  It was an earnest question.

"Confused, truthfully." Cloak said honestly.  "How long was I out?"

"A couple of weeks," Kelly replied quietly.

"What?!"  Cloak had expected the answer to be a couple of hours at most.  "How . . . how . . . h-how?!"

"I don't know any more than you do about that," Kelly said, swiftly switching her tone from kindly nurse to strict disciplinarian.  "But if you don't relax you're bound to do more harm to yourself, so calm yourself down or I will be force to sedate you.  We're lucky enough that the Androgynecopraesent Wave just put you into a coma!!"

Cloak stared at her for a minute.

"The what Wave?"

"Lay back down, and I'll tell you what I know," Kelly said, uncharacteristicall y severe.  Cloak complied, but in a rather numb, unconscious way.  "That's better -- you don't need to get so worked up right now.  Goom, Aquilai, and Yarin are already working on a cure for the Gendreconcido Wave."

"You said 'Androgynecopraesant Wave'," Cloak pointed out.

"Well, there were two."

"Two?"

"Let me start at the beginning."

---
*I don't know if Oompa Loompas  have sexual dimorphism, truthfully, so, I decided not to mention it.
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Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

RAFians Referenced Specifically: Demos.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1227 on: November 21, 2012, 11:39:22 AM »
Posting another chapter, because I don't know if I'll be on at all tomorrow.  It being Thanksgiving and all.  Anyway, another short chapter.

Chapter Twelve:
Parts!  My Kingdom for Parts!

Meanwhile, in the lab, Goom, Aquilai, and Yarin had stumbled across a very inconvienent snafu in their plans.  They needed a new emitter, and the spare was also damaged beyond repair, and they couldn't find the spare of the spare.

"Well, this is just perfect." Yarin sighed.  "We need a new emitter, the barrel is bent beyond viable repair, the wave-particle matrix is just shrapnel now, and the casing is just sufficiently warped enough to be insufficient to use."

"It could be worse, I suppose." Goom said.

"There's the kiss of death," Aquilai commented benignly.  Then he heaved a heavy sigh, "And we haven't any parts to replace them in the lab."

"Or make them from scratch." Yarin added, head in his upper arms, while his lower arms rubbed his face in a fretful manner.

"Well, we'll just have to order them," Goom said, with an air of determined optimism.  "Then wait for them to arrive by the delivery man."

"You think they'd accept an Alien Express card*?" Yarin asked.

***

Abomination had watched all this unfold, and he watched with greedy anticipation.  His relationship with Malice had been recently strained (he still deluded himself that it was one of lovers instead of a boss-lackey relationship).  He thought, he hoped, that by taking the initiative and blowing up the two planets when the time was perfect, that it would curry favor with his beloved.

He was so pitingly desirious of her affection that he went to such lengths.  He wouldn't have cared if the planets or Androgynecopraesent's moons held life, he would have snuffed them all out just the same.  As long as he got Malice's love, blissfully unaware that Malice has never truly loved anyone other than her self, nor has she felt it in return.  She just saw love as a way of manipulating people to do what she wants.

Abomination eventually takes off . . . eager to tell Malice what he's done . . . but after a romantic dinner . . . yeah, after dinner. . . .

***

"They're here," Yarin said.

"About time." Aquilai commented.

"Just lucky they accepted Alien Express," Goom said.  "Now, let's get to work, shall we?"

---
*Yes, it's a reference to the 80s TMNT.  "The Attack of MACC", I think the episode's called.


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Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1228 on: November 22, 2012, 01:52:43 PM »
Well, apparently, I AM gonna be online today.  And, since I don't have to get the mail, I'm probably gonna post chapters off and on all day.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
Introspections and Reflections

" -- And that brings you up to speed," Kelly finished.

"Two waves?" Cloak said, more to himself than Kelly, "The destruction of Androgynecopraesent and Gendreconcido . . ."

"Cloak?  Are you okay?"

It was few seconds before Cloak registered what Kelly had said, or that Kelly even had spoken in the first place.

"In a manner of speaking," Cloak muttered, looking out the window still deep in thought.  He had naturally assumed that Malice was behind this.  But . . . it didn't make sense.  It seemed rather too stupid and contrived for Malice.  Gender swaps and neutering?  Seemed a little banal and . . . well, pointless, really.

Malice had done everything to RAF to either get back at Cloak, annoy him, or simply for her own amusement.  Cloak could not think what possibly could Malice see in this.  Cloak wasn't affected, and the RAFians didn't seem humiliated at all.  The denizens of the city didn't seem to remember things being any different from what it was now.

Life in the city wasn't as unaffected as once thought, Cloak realized quite quickly.  Genders had eliminated several forms of discrimination.

All gender-based discrimination, such as homophobia, transphobia, and whatnot had been rendered defunct in a genderless environment.  So was misandry -- the hatred of men and boys -- and misogyny -- the hatred of women and girls.

But hatred like that cannot simply evaporate, and so it is transferred to other areas.  Some elitists transferred such bigoted hatred into racism, ageism, class discrimination (or "classism"), genetic discrimination (or "genism"), height discrimination (or "heightism"), language discrimination (or "languagism"), attractiveness discrimination (or "lookism"), mental stability discrimination (or "mentalism"), hierarchy discrimination (or "rankism"), religious discrimination (or "religionism"), size discrimination (or "sizeism"), speciesism, weight discrimination (or "weightism"), or some combination of the aforementioned discriminations.*

Violent crimes fuelled by hatred, channelled by wrath, and encased in distrust did not stop with the Gendreconcido Wave.  It was just funnelled into other areas that did not require a gender.

It was amazing, completely unfathomable, how hateful any sentient creature could be.  Humans are by no means the only species susceptible to hate -- hate laced with murderous desire.  Cloak knew that Realm Walkers were just as susceptible to it -- all sentient creatures who ever had a thought independent from instinct were.  The mere fact that the Red Lanterns exist is proof of this.

But why?  Why must it be so?

It was something Cloak never understood, though he felt the unholy flames of hate lick at his own heart.  Like all his emotions, he attempted to bury it as well.  He never understood why someone would want to kill someone simply because they're of a different age, class, genotype, height, race, rank, religion, size, weight, etcera.

Then Cloak widened his eyes as he realized something.  Perhaps this whole wave ordeal wasn't as stupid as he thought.  Perhaps, just perhaps, Malice intended to escalate already unstable, bigoted people's hatreds by removing a type of discrimination.  All that hate has to go somewhere.  Bigotry doesn't just evaporate into nothingness -- it dies, and dies slowly, if at all.

That would be up Malice's ally -- watching Dwellers killing each other over trivial matters. . . . If that's her plan . . .

Then again, Cloak thought, I could be reading too much into this, I don't know Malice's plans or motiviations, not really.  It would be really foolish of me to assume that which I am not certain of.

"Cloak?" Kelly's voice penetrated through Cloak's thoughts.

"Huh?"

"Cloak, I think you need to go down to the mess hall and get yourself something to eat," she said, rather benignly.

"I'm not hungry," Cloak replied brusquely.

"You should try to eat something," Kelly said, writing on a clipboard, "keep your strength up.  It'll do you some good.  I'll go inform the mods that you're awake."

With that she left the room, and Cloak stood up.  He wasn't really hungry, but he probably should get some food in him.

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*Yes, I looked these up at Wikipedia.


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Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1229 on: November 22, 2012, 02:41:17 PM »
Another chapter -- go!

CHAPTER FOURTEEN:
Prototypes on Parade

While Cloak had awoken, Goom, Aquilai and Yarin continued to work on the prototypes, and Mithril had, rather reluctantly, accepted being their test subject.  (He insisted that Sakki somehow tricked him into it.)

Meanwhile, unheard by all except the reader, was a song:

"Look out! Look out!
Smilies on parade!
"

The prototype did not return Mithril's gender to him, but made his hair grow uncontrollably for five minutes.  It filled up a third of the room.

"Here they come!
Hippety hoppety.
"

After a couple of quick adjustments, the prototype gave Mithril explosive burps for ten minutes.

"They're here and there
Prototypes ev'rywhere!
"

Again, the three made another few adjustments, and then fired at Mithril.  It forced him to speak in a very bad British accent for fifteen minutes.

"Look out! Look out!
They're walking around the bed!
"

After more adjustments, the prototype turned Mithril into a rather angry-looking tree for twenty or so seconds.

"On their head
Clippety cloppety!
"

After more adjustments, the prototype just reversed Mithril clothing . . . his pants were on his upper body and his shirt on his lower body.  Mithril quickly corrected this himself.

"That was not funny!" he protested angrily.

"Arrayed in braid
Prototypes on parade!
"

Now the prototype made Mithril look like he walked through a rainbow for fifteen minutes, and Mithril was quickly becoming disgruntled.  He was also starting to wonder if this was worth it, going though this abuse.

"What'll we do? What'll we do?
What an unusual view!
"

The prototype made Mithril's muscles bulge up rather conspicuously, making him appear to be a rather cartoonish-looking professional bodybuilder.

"Okay, this isn't so bad . . . is it --" Mithril began, then his muscles deflated, and he added, "oh."

"I could stand the sight of worms
And look at microscopic germs.
"

The prototype suspended Mithril in gelatin dessert, which, upon being freed, Mithril reflected was better than being frozen in carbonite.

"But pretty prototypes, dear,
Is really much for me!
"

"You know, guys, I think that I've really had about enough of --"

But then the next prototype rendered him mute for ten minutes.

"We must remember this next time Rotiart gets mouthy," Yarin observed passively.  Mithril just glared at the three.

"We're not the type to faint
When things are odd or things are quaint.
"

"Guys, I think I'm gonna go now --"

But then the next prototype removed his bones.

"Hey!  I NEEDED those!"

"I think we're getting close, though." Aquilai said.

"Ugh, they don't pay me enough for this." Mithril muttered.

"We're not paying you at all, though," Goom said, with only a sideways glance as Mithril's bones returned.

"But seeing things you know that ain't
Can certainly give you an awful fright!
"

"Guys, can we just put this off until --"

The prototype then turned Mithril into an insubstantial state for five minutes, but it was enough to get him to toss his cookies all over the ground.

"Intriguing reaction," Aquilai noted benignly.  "Don't worry, Mithril, we're almost there."

"What a sight!
Chase 'em away!
"

"Really, guys!  I've really had enou--" Mithril began, but the prototype turns him into one of those little polyp things of Ursula's from Disney's "The Little Mermaid".  He glares accusingly at the trio, even after he returns to his normal form nine minutes later.

"Chase 'em away!
We're afraid we need your aid.
"

"Last time, Mithril," Goom said, "I promise."

Mithril protested.  "I don't want to do this anymore."

"Just this last time," Goom said.

"No!" Mithril proclaimed, but it was too late, and the prototype fired.  Mithril winced and braced himself, but then realized nothing had happened.

"Prototypes on parade!
Prototypes,
Prototypes . . .
"

"Last time, I swear," Goom said, earnestly.

"No!  You said that last time!"  Mithril insisted.  "No!"

But the prototype was fired, and this time something did happen.  Mithril became a "he" again.  It worked.

"Good," Mithril said, then in a very Snake Jailbird way said, "'Bye!"


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

RAFians Referenced Specifically: Demos.