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Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1335 on: February 01, 2013, 03:15:17 PM »
Woo! Party! :)

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1336 on: February 02, 2013, 12:09:31 AM »
Nate doesn't get invited to parties... Nate is the party

Didn't you mention a while back (at least 2-4 books ago) that you were going to have a book in which Seal and Faerie get upgrades in their weapons and that a couple of characters get their own unique weapons too? Do you remember what book that was going to be in? Because I might incorporate it into my story.
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1337 on: February 02, 2013, 07:23:44 AM »
In the book "Infinity and Eternity".  Better PM me for more.  It would be a major spoiler about what weapons are what.


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 #1338 on: February 02, 2013, 11:52:04 AM »
I just wanted to know what book it happens in. Thanks
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1339 on: February 02, 2013, 12:10:19 PM »
Oh oh oh I want a head-mounted Dracon cannon plz!

What?  No, I didn't say anything.  You must be hearing things.  Crazy person.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1340 on: February 02, 2013, 12:12:43 PM »
Oh oh oh I want a head-mounted Dracon cannon plz!

What?  No, I didn't say anything.  You must be hearing things.  Crazy person.

Hmm . . .


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1341 on: February 02, 2013, 12:16:39 PM »
A head mounted Dracon Cannon on a Dinosaur sounds kind of scary...
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1342 on: February 02, 2013, 05:55:51 PM »
That's kinda the point, silly.

I mean, what?  Dracon cannon on a dinosaur?  Wherever did you get an awesome idea like that?

But seriously, though, it isn't my intention to pressure you at all.  Your story is much too awesome as it is for me to ever tell you how to write it.
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1343 on: February 04, 2013, 09:27:39 AM »
First . . . the list.

  • 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 at Terenia's school.
  • 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. . . .
  • Book CXXVI: The Element Feeder
The RAFians deal with a creature who feeds on a specific element and matures to a different element each time as it matures. . . .
  • Book CXXVII: The Rider and the Walker
The RAFians come up against the Ghost Rider.
  • Book CXXVIII: Headhunters
What will happen when RAFians lose their heads?  Seriously.
  • Book CXXIX: The Color Purple, Man!
The RAFians confront the Purple Man, who manages to turn the entire government against them . . .
  • Book CXXX: The Nemetrix Beetle
The RAFians confront the Black Beetle with Nemetrix properties.
  • Book CXXXI: It's Tought to Be A Mod
The members of a primitive forum declare Demos and Blue to be mods. . . .
  • Book CXXXII:Who-Zilla?
An energy reaction begins turning RAFians into monstrous creatures in 3013.  Out-of-continuity book.
  • Book CXXXIII:Well, Techadon-ally . . .
The RAFians confront Techadons who assign them qualitive quatilities, and refuse to acknowledge any defeats.
  • Book CXXXIV:The Mind's Eye
The RAFians face Spellbinder and his realistic illusions.
  • Book CXXXV:Bas-ic Instincts
Bas awakens and attempts to take control of Cloak and other felines.

Now, a new chapter -- short, sorrry . . . that will have no RAFians in it.  (Might as well get used to it, the next book won't have any RAFians in it, except for a brief bit with me at the beginning and end.)

CHAPTER TWO:
The B.I.R.

 
Meanwhile, whilst the RAFians were celebrating for the sheer sake of celebrating, a short distance away, on the outskirts of the city, a platinium blonde man in his mid-twenties was tinkering on something that should have never been trifled with.  He was taking a wrench and screwdriver to a machine that looked rather eerily like the shrinking machine from "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", only colored entirely gun-metal-gray.
 
"That should do it," he said.  He was Brian Simon Savage, a rather poor writer in his own right, but a mediocre inventor and exceptional engineer.  His device was far more dangerous then he realized.  "There.  The Biblio-Immersion Ray should be functioning at optimal capacity."
 
One had to wonder if he even knew what he was talking about, as his nickname was "BS" -- a nickname that he despised to no end.  And who could blame him for that?
 
Then he pressed a red button on the machine and it powered to life, with the "barrel" part of the ray glowing with white, almost ethereal light.  Then he placed a book (a half-written book with rather crudely-drawn chapter pictures) upon the targeted area.  Then he fired the ray, which looked rather wispy, like wind made into white light, at the book.  Then the ray deactivated and powered down quite noticeably.
 
"Now," he said, his voice rather stupidly greedy, "to experience what all these publishers and literary agencies refused to acknowledge.  The genius that they turned a blind eye to."
 
Clearly, Brian hadn't much common sense.  Hadn't considered the possible consequences or dangers of this endeavor.  He turned to the book, and looked hungrily.  The book was glowing with the ray's light, the light licking at the pages.  Any other person in their right mind would be able to tell that it wasn't right, would be able see the dangers of immersing themselves in an unfinished work with such a ray.
 
But Brian had carelessly ignored such things, and was foolishly single-minded in his work to bring himself into a world where he was king.  A king that knew all, who could do no wrong.  He placed his hand upon the pages on which he jotted down his innermost fantasy, and he was slurped inside like a spaghetti noodle into a hungry mouth.  The energy seemed to disappate, but he soon discovered that he was now unable to return back to his world -- not that he really wanted to -- until his tale was complete.
 
He naively thought he could stay there, and his happiness would be neverending.  He never once expected that his story to take on a life of its own.  He never anticipated the assassination . . .
 
Outside the world, the book maintained a silvery-white glow, until Savage's death.  Then the light disappated, but he wasn't spat out of the book, as one may have expected.  His mind, body and soul was now forevermore trapped in the book.  Only now he hadn't any control over what happened in his story, and he hadn't remembered that he left the stove on . . . and that potholder was a little too close to the hot burner . . .
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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 #1344 on: February 04, 2013, 11:35:20 AM »
Now, a bit more while I'm still feeling the energy and have the time. . . .

CHAPTER THREE:
Drawing Boards and Discoveries

Damien was at his drawing board, drawing out a comic of the past adventures of the RAFians . . . prior to the creation of the Mark, as well as adding in a few of his own adventures.  Granted, he had a little difficulty on picking a style, and ended up using a different style for each story.
 
He was doing this when the call came in to RAF.  There was a major fire at an old, rundown, dilapidated house.  Damien recalled seeing the house on a previous adventure several months before . . . that house was filled with more holes than swiss cheese.  Which probably accounted for the large number of rodents seen there.  Perhaps a lightning-strike had put the house out of its misery.
 
Damien wasn't called out to investigate it, as Yarin, Cloak and Gaz were.  Three as the situation's threat level was deemed as minimal.  Damien was sure that the others wouldn't discover anything interesting.  After all, it was just a burned-out house.
 
***

Cloak's feet crunched over the charred wood, and looked around.  It wasn't the Biltmore House, but it wasn't a studio apartment either.  There wasn't much left, nothing combustible anyway.
 
"Someone was living here," Gaz said.  "This stove seemed to be the cause."
 
"But there's really no way to be sure," Yarin pointed out.  He and Cloak were wearing ID masks to disguise them as normal humans.  "We should have brough Aquilai or Aila with us."
 
"They're not Chronosapiens," Cloak said.  "They wouldn't be able to show us exactly what happened like that.  They don't have that power."
 
"Besides," Gaz said, with a heavy sigh, "we don't . . . wait.  Wait, what's that?"
 
She pointed over to something completely covered with soot.  Yarin went over to the device so fast that he jarred his ID mask off, which Gaz deftly caught and planted back on his face.
 
"This is no time to be careless!" Gaz said reprovingly.
 
"Whatever!  I must examine this thing." Yarin said, a light appearing in his ID mask-altered eyes.  "We must take it with us."
 
"What?!" Gaz said.  "That must weight like a hundred pounds."
 
"Cloak can do it!  Right?"
 
"I can," he said.  "But I really don't see the reason why.  For all we know, it could have been the cause of this fire."
 
"There's one way to find out." Yarin insisted.
 
Cloak sighed heavily.
 
"Oh, okay.  It's against my better judgement, but . . . okay, Yarin."


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 #1345 on: February 04, 2013, 05:53:59 PM »
There goes Brian :s
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1346 on: February 05, 2013, 09:40:44 AM »
Yep.  We won't see him again . . . hmmm . . . well . . . no.  We won't see him ever again.

CHAPTER FOUR:
Immersing Yourself in A Project

Damien had been working nonstop on his little comic, and he continued to be nearly-oblivious to all other things around him.  But when he heard that loud THUMP that caused a vibration through the ground even the Earthsight-blind could feel.  Damien grabbed his comic book, almost absently, and trotted out onto the RAFgrounds to see what the hubbub was about.
 
***

Cloak was throughly disgruntled, as the machine was quite a bit more weighty than it appeared to be.  He was sure that the device was more useful as an oversized paper weight, but Yarin disagreed voraciously.  He was like a child to which the next five Christmases had come early.
 
"Don't be so huffy, Cloak," Yarin chided, "think of all the things we can learn from this device!  Think if we get operational again!"
 
Cloak repressed a snarl, and pointed out, "You don't know what it does, Yarin.  It could be a simple shrink ray, or it could be a doomsday device.  It could very well be the reason the house burned to a crisp!!"
 
"Oh, don't be such a downer, Cloak." Yarin replied.  Cloak had a sneaking suspicion that he didn't really hear Cloak's words, just his intonation.
 
Cloak threw his hands up in the air exasperatedly.  "Yarin, ever heard the phrase 'curiosity killed the cat'?"
 
"But I'm not a cat," he said distractedly.
 
"That's not the point." Gaz joined in.
 
"What's going on?" Underseen asked as Damien and Horse trotted over to see what was up.
 
"Yarin found this -- this thing, whatever it is -- and he wants to activate it, to make it functional." Gaz explained with his armed crossed.  "And he doesn't know what it does!"
 
"Oh." Underseen said, casually.
 
"Why?" Horse asked.
 
"Who knows?" Cloak said.
 
"Cloak, you're a cat right?" Yarin said, for once taking his eyes off the machine, the B.I.R., and locking his gaze upon the Realm Walker.  "Aren't you a little curious?"
 
"No." Cloak said with resounding finality.
 
Suddenly, Queen appeared around the device attempting to drag it away unnoticed.

"Hey!" Yarin exclaimed.  "That's not yours!"

"Technically, it isn't yours either, Yarin," Cloak pointed out.

"THAT is immaterial," Yarin snapped.  "I have scavenger rights!"

Cloak just wondered benignly how Queen got onto RAF land unnoticed.  Then he noticed a broom and what appeared to be a invisibility cloak.  He nodded slightly.  The aerial defenses needed to be looked at again.

"It is mine!" Queen claimed, still attempting futilely to drag it away.

"No, foolish Dweller," came another unseen voice, whose tone was icier than Antartica.  "It is mine.  I lay claim to it."

"No!  I found it!  It is mine!!  Scavenger rights!" Yarin roared, outrage.

"Yarin, Malice doesn't care about any rules but her own." Cloak said coldly.

"You flatter me," Malice said with twinkling eyes.

Suddenly, the machine powered to life, but was unnoticed by everyone, due to the arguing.  Everyone except Damien, who the device was pointed at.

"Um, guys?" he said nervously.

No one heard him.

"GUYS!!" he shouted.

But it was too late.  The ray hit his comic book -- and he, Cloak, Horse, Gaz, Underseen, Yarin, Malice, and Queen were sucked inside its pages . . .


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 #1347 on: February 05, 2013, 10:24:13 AM »
'Nother chapter.

CHAPTER FIVE:
RAF Noir

The group landed roughly and hard.  They were all disorientated, although Queen and Malice had landed elsewhere convienently enough.  They righted themselves as they stood up, and, instantly, Cloak was confused.
 
Everything was in grayscale.  There wasn't a drop of color -- no reds, no blues, no greens, and no yellows.  Only white, black and gray.  How was this possible?  Then he nearly jumped out of his skin as he looked down at himself.  He wasn't in his usually attire of a black cloak and clothing reminescent of Disney's Quasimodo (only in blacks and grays and browns), with a sleeve for his tail and black gloves.  Instead, he wore a black trench coat, gray shirt,black slacks, shiny black shoes, some sort of black fim noir hat, and a tiger-print tie that clashed horribly with everything.  He was human, granted his features easily put into mind a tiger.
 
The others were situated similarly.  Underseen was in a long-sleeved white shirt with rolled-up sleeves, black suspenders, and gray slacks -- also undeniably human.  The expression on his face was briefly shock, then he scrunched it up as if he was trying to lay an egg.  He did this several times before donning a crestfallen look on his face.

Horse wore a simple white dress, snow white hair pulled up into a bun and wearing white high heels.  She had big, black eyes, referencing the seal that she once was.  She was gazing at her human hands as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing.  She clenched and unclenched her hands several times, eventually ending up wearing a look of disapproval on her face.

Gaz wore a sparkly gray dress, dark hair pulled up into a bun with some sort of beaded mesh in her hair.  She also wore dark gray gloves than went up to her elbows and she wore high heel shoes that looked far more like torture devices.  She felt her upper canine teeth and wore a look of shock.  She gazed around.

Yarin looked as human as the rest of them, dressed like Cloak (only with out the tie and trenchcoat).  He looked, frankily, a little disgusted and more disoriented than the rest.

Damien wore the same style as Underseen, only with the colors reversed.  He was the only one that didn't seem surprised at this change. . . .

"What just happened here?" Gaz said, and Cloak detected a tad bit of fear.

"We're . . ." Damien began before losing nerve.

"We're what, Damien?" Cloak said.

"We're in my comic."

"What?" Underseen said, blinking.  "Is that why I can't shapeshift?!"

"Quiet, you fool." Horse snapped.  "My cryokinesis and hydrokinesis is gone too, but you don't hear me screaming about it, all right?"

"Yes . . . the Elements have been silenced from me as well." Cloak said, quietly.  "I'm not even sure I can Walk out from this."

"You haven't tried?" Damien asked.

"There's the chance I could end up in a worse realm than this," Cloak said.

"What could be worse than this?" Underseen said, and Cloak shot him a look that clearly said, you don't EVEN want to know.

"So, this is that device's power!" Yarin said.  "I'm not sure I like it much.  How do we get out, I wonder?"

"You don't." said a voice.

Further ahead on the strangely deserted street was Queen.  She was dressed as Queen Elizabeth was when she visited 1939 New York's World Fair, but dressed in black.  Her arms were folded imperiously, as if this was intimidating to the RAFians, who apparently retained their marks, although it had been branded on their lower arms, rather than their hands.  And it seemed to be little more than that in this book, brandings.

"And, indulge me, Queenie," Cloak snarled.  "Just how are you planning on keeping us here?"

Clearly she hadn't considered resistance.

"She has nothing," said another voice on the opposite end of the street.  "But I can."


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 #1348 on: February 05, 2013, 10:52:27 AM »
One more?

CHAPTER SIX:
The Maltese Pootang

Cloak snorted rather obviously.  He knew that voice all to well.  She may look like an old, wrinkly flapper, but she was still who he knew she was.

"Malice, what makes you think you've powers here that you don't in reality?  Powers that I don't?"
 
"Impudent --"
 
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know." Cloak said, waving away the comment, then rolling his eyes as he said,  "I'm an impudent, ignorant whelp.  Yeah, whatever.  We have more pressing matters to discuss then to deal with the likes of minor threats like you two."

They didn't like that much, but the RAFians ignored them.  If Cloak's abilities have been surpressed, then assuredly Malice's must have been as well.  The RAFians walked away from them, ignoring their cries of "Don't ignore me!"  "Don't turn you back at me!"  "Don't you DARE snicker at me!!"

Once they were far enough away from the two, the RAFians began speaking in earnest.

"So, Damien, how does this story end."

"It doesn't."

They stopped walking.

"What?" Gaz said.  "I must not have HEARD you correctly."

"I was just kidding, it does have an end." Damien said, holding his hands up in mock surrender.

"THIS is not a time for 'kidding around'." Cloak said, very seriously.  "Now, answer the question!"

"And you wonder why I'm not very active," he mutter, but Cloak still heard him and glowered at him for that jibe.  "To finish the story, we must find the Maltese Pootang.  But, that's only one of the stories."

"ONE of the stories?" Underseen noticed.

"Yes, this book isn't a singular graphical narrative," Damien said, almost proudly, "but a compilation."

"And we'll have find our way through each one." Yarin realized.  "How many?"

Damien seemed to shrink a little, "Only three.  Maybe four."

"Great." Horse said.  "We've got our work cut out for us."

"First thing's first," Cloak said, with folded arms. Then he turned to Damien and said, "Where's the Maltese Pootang?"

***

It took what felt like several hours, which Cloak wished he could have just hopped to another panel like on that episode of Fairly Oddparents, but he was unable to do such here.  But they came upon where the Maltese Pootang was hidden -- a old warehouse at the waterfront.  And Queen had taken it away.

Then she got in a game of "Catch the Statuette" with Malice, who came to demand the bronze-plated statuette.  Eventually the RAFians themselves got into the fray and were able to keep it away from the two.  And then they were able to end the story by getting the "fuzz" to arrest the two.  Strangely, the officers resembled human representations of Goom, Phoenix and Russell.

"That wasn't the way it was supposed to end, though," Damien complained.

"Oh, get over it," Cloak said.  "It worked out for us in the end."

Suddenly, there was a bright, brillant FLASH!!


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 #1349 on: February 05, 2013, 06:10:46 PM »
This is fun
RAF awards 2012: Best Newcomer... It feels good too

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