Memoirs of a RAFian

[Underseen]

I don't that place because you make it sound terrible.

[DinosaurNothlit]

Finally got caught up!  Excellent work, as always.  You definitely deserve the 'fic of the year' nomination.

Interesting twist in the previous book, making Abomination into slightly less of a villain and more of an identifiable character.  Maybe there's a redemption somewhere in his future?

And, of course, the most recent book has me on the edge of my seat.  I mean, geez, what sort of creature/entity could block a Walker's powers like that?  Can't wait to find out.

Anyway, I wish you the best of luck with everything.  I'm glad things seem to be looking up for you, and hopefully they continue to do so. 

[Cloak]

Well, as it turns out, I have to find housing elsewhere -- my aunt made sure to tell me that they aren't abandoning me, but my cousin's wife has a high-risk pregnancy, and I walk too quietly.  And I scare the crap out of her when I do that (although it isn't something I do on purpose, and my aunt calls it my "panther walk").  If I stay, there's a chance that I might do something without thinking about it, to jeopardize the baby's health.

I don't really know how to feel about it, to be honest.  But the root of this problem is still my mother.  It was just REAL bad timing for them that my mother kicked me out, in that cold-hearted, unfeeling way that she did.  It's actually now a full month since I've cut her out of my life.

Anyway, Dino, the Abomination thing . . . I was mostly using him and Malice as a surrogate between me and my mother.  As for redemption . . . uh, don't really hang your hat on that.  They have a Joker/Harley Quinn-type relationship -- an abusive one.  As for the recent book . . . well, that'd be telling.

[Gaz]

Good luck with everything. I would offer to help you out if I were closer.

[DinosaurNothlit]

Man, that sucks.  I'm sorry.  If there's anything at all that I can do to help you out, please don't hesitate to ask.  I'm probably one of the few RAFians with a decent savings account that I don't need, so if money would help you out in any way at all, just let me know.  I wish you the best of luck with everything.

*tries to hug Cloaky without touching the cloak*

[Underseen]

Do you have any friends that won't mind you being with them for a [more than] couple days. I've done that before to my friend that got kicked out for drug abuse (after he was clean of course).

[Cloak]

That's the thing, my aunt and my cousins are looking for housing with me.  But on a more sour note, I emailed Shadow about what went on, and my sister chatised me for it in a return email.  Looks like Shadow's out of my life for now.

She doesn't even realize just how my mother is manipulating her, acting like she gives a rat's ass about me.  SHE is the one that heartless threw me out on a cold night, not giving a damn if I lived or died.  And Faith is ACTUALLY defending her.  :'( :'( :'(

So . . . I truly have to bid Shadow goodbye.  Because my sister's gonna cut me off anyway if I tell her the truth.  I don't want to, but Faith clearly cannot see when she's being played.

[Gaz]

At least you're not having to do this completely alone. Sorry to hear about all that other stuff with your family. That really sucks.

Let me know if there is some way I can help out.

[Underseen]

I wish I can say I know how it feels to be kicked out on a cold December night, but I don't. I really feel sorry for you and I will keep you in my prayers and I hope better things will come.

[Cloak]

I was kicked out in November, Underseen.  My aunt and cousins aren't kicking me out, but helping me get an apartment of my own.  Heck, they said they'd even help out furnishing it.

But if you see Shadow dropping out of the fic, you'll know why.  The pain is still fresh.

And I'd write more once I get a more reliable Internet.

[Underseen]

That's why I said "I wish I can say I knew what it felt like to be kicked out on a  December night." I was once kicked out on Thanksgiving, but it was more of me running away ...

[Cloak]

• Book XXIII: RAF Comix

The RAFians are sucked into a comic book made by Damien.

• Book XXIV: The First Master

Cloak meditates alone in a forest, and has a vision about the first Master . . . the first Elements Master.

• Book XXV: RAF -- The Musical

The RAFians find themselves trapped in a musical where everyone must burst into song occasionally.

• Book XXVI: Outage Outrage

The RAFians find themselves losing their powers.

• Book XXVII: Infinity and Eternity

The Infinity Gems and the Eternity Stones make themselves known.

• Book XXVIII: The Virus Rings

The RAFians are attacked by foes they never thought they'd see again.

• Book XXIX: Soul-Suckers

The RAFians are attacked by Dementors, which have a rather large effect on Cloak.

• Book XXX: Mayhem of the Music Miser

Cloak recalls the RAFians' previous confrontation with the Music Miser three years ago.

• Book XXXI: The Metal-Maker

The RAFians must save their own from a Roboticizer.

• Book XXXII: Richard is Missing

The RAFians must cope without Richard.

• Book XXXIII: Emotional Food

The RAFians must confront a different kind of vampire.

• Book XXXIV: Transformation Confrontation

The RAFians must confront some strange machines.

• 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.

• Book XXXVI: Feral Scream

A Wildwethel-centric book, he must deal with his feral side.

• Book XXXVII: Predators and Prey

The RAFians are being preyed upon by some sentient predators.

• Book XXXVIII: A Protean Problem

The RAFians must deal with a powerful snot-nosed kid who, quite literally, can do whatever he wants.

• Book XXXIX: The Horsemen

Four RAFians are captured and converted into four Horsemen of the ancient, rogue Realm Walker Cataclysm.

• Book XL: Sizeable Pain in the Necks

The RAFians must deal with Heinlein aliens.

• Book XLI: RAF's Nightmare

The RAFians must survive their own nightmares.

• Book XLII: Unlucky Charms

The RAFians must contend with a rather bloodthirsty leprechaun.

• Book XLIII: The Piper

The RAFians must contend with a pied piper.

• Book XLIV: Starlight Desire

The RAFians race Malice, Abomination, and the Banned to a wishing star (no, not Estelore).

• Book XLV: A War of Armor

Parker is outraged to see knockoffs of his rather unique armor and what they're being used for.

• Book XLVI: The Worst Plague

The RAFians must weather the worst plague to ever existed -- the Hate Plague.

• Book XLVII: Little Alien Napoleons

The RAFians are caught in the middle of a war between Helmacrons and Fmeks.

• Book XLVIII: Go Away!

The RAFians must deal with the paparazzi who are all of a sudden interested in them.

• Book XLIX: RAFian Tales

RAFians tell various RAFian-themed stories across a lunch table.

• Book L: Maul

The RAFians must deal with the result of one of Demos's experiments.

• Book LI: Erised Orbs

The RAFians must face their greatest desires.

• Book LII: RAFians Alive!

Read the "Mummies Alive" parody in the RAFize songs thread.

• Book LIII: The Pain Reliever

The RAFians must deal with an elderly Vulcan styling himself the "Pain Reliever".

• Book LIV: Beyond the Veils

Aquilai and Aila must confront old foes while the other RAFians must put up with a Czarinian bounty hunter.

• Book LV: Dangerous Deals

Demos meets up with his half-brother, Shenecron, who has a perchant for making deals.

• Book LVI: Of One Mind

Malice seeks out the Unimind.

• 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.

• Book LVIII: Hematomimic

The RAFians must capture a Plasmavore and put up with it's rather stupid Judoon jailer.

• 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.

• Book LX: The Replacements

The RAFians must contend with the fame-feeding Eidolon Consciousness.

• 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.

• Book LXII: Personal Tissues

The RAFians must contend with some one misusing Bibliophaetos's discarded book shell.

• Book LXIII: Memory Today, Gone Tomorrow

The RAFians lose their memory and must find a way to regain it.

• Book LXIV: Appliance Armageddon

A superintelligent computer controls all electronics, and the RAFians must stop it.

• Book LXV: Prodigy and Composite

Some RAFians are merged into two separate entities.

• Book LXVI: The Merging

The Universes begin colliding and merging.

• Book LXVII: Be A Doll

The RAFians are confronted by a Super Chucky.

• 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.

• Book LXIX: Dinosaur Island

Everyone, except those that bear a Mark, begin turning saurian.

• Book LXX: Corrupted

The RAFians must deal with the son of Cataclysm, Corruptor.

• Book LXXI: Artificial Skins

The RAFians must deal with symbiotes.

• Book LXXII: Separation Anxiety

The RAFians must contend with an ethereal virus.

• Book LXXIII: A Thing About RAFians

The RAFians must contend with Seekers, which home in onto their Marks.

• Book LXXIV: A Planted Idea

The RAFians must contend with a floramaniac.

• Book LXXV: Vacation Photos

The RAFians are sucked into a Polarisoid camera.

• Book LXXVI: A Personal Gremlin

The RAFians must contend with gremlins.

• Book LXXVII: The Rust is Silence

The Rafians must deal with an oxidation ray wielded by a criminal.

• Book LXXVIII: The Toyman Cometh

The RAFians deal with a Toyman-esque character.

• Book LXXIX: RAFian Idol

Yes, just another excuse to put in more of the (as of writing) nearly 800 parodies.

• Book LXXX: Savage Heart

Cloak battles an ancient being called Garrotik.

• 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.

• Book LXXXII: Shredding a King

The RAFians deal with a demonic Shredder-like ghost called Regiphaetos.

• Book LXXXIII: RAF -- The TV Show

The RAFians are forcibly recruited to Mojo's programs.

• Book LXXXIV: The Drinker

The RAFians must contend with a Spirit-Drinker.

• Book LXXXV: The Last Laugh

The RAFians must face Joker Gas.

• Book LXXXVI: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Villain

The RAFians must contend with mind control cards which are ineffective on them.

• Book LXXXVII: Sight Unseen

Six RAFians are rendered functionally blind, optically-speaking.

• Book LXXXVIII: Don't Let It Snow

The RAFians must face a second Ice Age caused by a Diznee Ice Ifrit.

• 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.

• Book XC: Virus Alert!

The RAFians face a dangerous virus seeking a host.

• Book XCI: A Youthful Thief

The RAFians face a creature that siphons off the youth in its victims, provided they're younger than him.

• Book XCII: Calendar Creep

The RAFians face the Calendar Creep, a criminal whose crimes are holiday themed.

• Book XCIII: The Branding

Faerie fights a witch-boy named Salem (and his magical black cat, Saberhagen) for a magical branding iron in Faerie's possession.

• Book XCIV: The Void Zone

Nothing like a "Subspace Emissary" parody.  Sorry.

• Book XCV: An Epic Yarn

The RAFians' world is turned into yarn and fabric.

• Book XCVI: RAFian Gladiators

RAFians are kidnapped by Gamesmaster, another rogue Realm Walker, and force to participate in gladiatorial games.

• 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.

• Book XCVIII: From the Shadows

The RAFians must save their shadows and the shadows of everyone else from being absorbed (eaten) by the Umbraraptors, but not everything is what it seems.

• 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.  One will die.

• Book C: Loop-De-Loop

Everyone's trapped in a temporal loop, but the only ones that realize it are Cloak, Aila, and Aquilai.

• Book CI: Get 'Em, Shaw

The RAFians face a creature native to the planet Gossamer, who's under the control of Malice.

• Book CII: Threadfall

The RAFians must exterminate an epidemic of Thread.

• Book CIII: Siren's Song

The RAFians must deal with a siren and her alluring song.

• 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.

• Book CV: The Titan

The RAFians must contend with the Titan serum and its effects.

• Book CVI: A Stony Glare

The RAFians must deal with a hungry Stone-Biter and a petrifying venom of a Diznee Stone Ifrit.

• Book CVII: Spritely Pests

The RAFians must deal with irritating sprites, which Faerie has had some rather tenuous experiences with.

• Book CVIII: Destroy All . . . What?

The RAFians must contend with a Furon incursion, and it turns out the Nyacs have knowledge of Furons. . . .

• Book CIX: Going Backwards

A grievious malfunction in Aquilai's TARDIS causes time to reverse its flow and flow backwards.

• Book CX: Death Takes A Holiday

The RAFians must convince Death to take up his role again.  A RAFian will die in this book, and it is within the continuity.

• Book CXI: High Price Stakes

Shanker and Gaz must flee and elude Daphne, the vampire hunter.

• Book CXII: A Killer Housing Market

The RAFians must survive and either destroy or escape a killer house.

• Book CXIII: A Silenced World

The RAFians must cope with a world that has become muted and a young sorceress, Melissa Spellman.

• Book CXIV: The Bureau

The RAFians must save their own from the insideous Bureau of Lost.

• Book CXV: To Tell the Truth

Broken's apprentice, Melissa, accidentally casts a spell forcing everyone to tell the truth.

• 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).

• Book CXVII: School of Stepford Lies

The RAFians must save the children from a school that turns them into Stepford students.

• Book CXVIII: Ol' Salty

The RAFians must deal with the Salt Man.

• Book CXIX: The Great Race

The RAFians hold a race that Aloth cons himself into.  Who will win?

• Book CXX: Ape Escape

The RAFians must help super intelligent apes -- Caesar the chimp, Brutus the gorilla, and Maestro the orangutan -- reconcil their misanthropy.

• Book CXXI: A Different Kind of Unity

The RAFians must contend with a parasitic "unity".

• Book CXXII: The Great Brain Robery

Someone is stealing brains for an unknown purpose.

• Book CXXIII: The Bounty Hunter

The Knights, in their hypocricy, hire a Tsul'Kalu bounty hunter to collect select RAFians (to taxidermy).

• Book CXXIV: New Controllers

The RAFians confront Zirconians.

• Book CXXV: Creeping Crystal

A wave of crystallizing energy is sweeping the land. . . .

[Underseen]

The new chapters sound good... Since you just posted that either you or on someones computer or your internet is back up. I'm thinking option 1.

EDIT: I started a rough draft on my own RAFfic, but when I finished the first chapter I realized it was kind of similar to Seal's "Revenge of The Banned", but it had some differences in the plot, and characters. Do you think I should still post it on RAF because it was kind of a spin-off of Memoirs and I think you would like it. I also brainstormed possible ideas for other books in my series, but I still haven't thought of a title.

[Cloak]

Yes, I posted it, and no, my internet isn't back up, although I was gonna try to see if I could post during the thirty minute time limit, using (~) as a symbol to indicate the chapter is incomplete.  But apparently all the PCs are reserved from 1 to 2:30.

So, Monday . . . er, no, I have the briefing from the housing authority (I was wrong, it was yesterday, so I have to go Monday), so Tuesday.  Possibly.  I do much intend to write it more.

As for your fic, I've gotten inspiration myself from Blue's old RAF:TAS, Horse's fics, and my own parodies.  So, no, I don't mind -- although a title's a rather important thing to have.  Just hopefully it won't be called "Memoirs GX" -- (yes, a Yu-Gi-Oh! reference).

This may be a stunted chapter.

CHAPTER SEVEN:
Thirteen

"Let's get the others, shall we?" Cloak said, with a weary little sigh in his voice.

"What are you talking . . . oh, never mind, I get it." Faerie stated, as she followed the others.  All of them placed the hand bearing their Marks upon the wall.

FLASH!

It was dark.  Very dark.  There were faint luminescent glows, but it was rather illegible at these distances.  There were a variety of colors . . . pink, red, blue, green, yellow, brown, purple, orange, olive, indigo, white, tan, gold, gray, violet, silver, black, pewter, cerulean, vermilion, celadon, lavender, fuchsia, saffron, cinnabar, viridian, goldenrod, ecru, cyan, mahogany, and more. . . .

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the many colors were just one thing, in a myriad of forms.  The number thirteen -- 13, XIII, several dots or hearts or things in a variety of configuration -- and there was a sniffling, sobbing sound coming from the center.  These luminous things, these thirteens, attacked this figure as if they were nothing more than biting flies rather than just luminous numbers and what not.

Cloak easily knew whose fear this was.  But when his shouted, his voice sounded small and meaningless in this void.  Even when the others joined him in chorus, their voices, added to his own, didn't seem to strengthen the sound.  Dino was still sobbing, shaking from her snout to the very tip of her tail.  It was a rather disconcerting thing to see -- Cloak had NEVER seen Dino so frightened.

"IT'S NOT REAL!!!!!" they attempted again, and this time, her head perked up at the sound.  Her tremendous shivering halted, and she seemed more confused than afraid after a few minutes.  So, they shouted again, "IT'S NOT REAL!!!!!"

"It's . . . it's not real?" Dino said, more to herself than the others.  Then she seemed to think this over, and stood up straighter, eyes blazing with emotion.  Then her body pulsed with power, the power of her realization.  "Of course, it's not!  How could it be?  There couldn't be just '13' lights without a source."

This FLASH was a bit brighter and more unnecessarily powerful than it should have been.  The RAFians had trouble righting themselves afterward, and Dino had the most, still covered with that nasty goo.

"Yuck -- fear spit," she moaned.

"Joke's already been done," Cloak commented benignly and wearily.

"Where are we?"

"Dunno," Parker said, "not the Ritz."

"Thank you for that, Parker," Faerie said drily.

They didn't feel the need to comment about it.  Dino's fear of 13 was rather well known, and she didn't hide it.  But she seemed to be getting along better than Cloak had anticipated.  Her Mark glowed faintly between her eyes as if it were a welt or oddly-shaped bruise.

"That leaves Ash, Goom and Underseen, I think," Gaz said.

"Then the real work begins."

[Underseen]

I will work more on the title and the stories today. Great update though.