Memoirs of a RAFian

[Cloak]

Second chapter comin' at you.
 

CHAPTER TWO:
The Death Sphere

Cloak was evacuated from the site while the other RAFians search for Richard, but don't find so much as a trace.
 
And the pod was M.I.A. as well.
 

***

Cloak, who remained unconscious, was laid down in the infirmary. Questions could wait, could be answered later.
 
Kelly and Goom, really the only medics RAF had on hand, watched over his condition.
 

***

Yarin was once again taking up the duty of monitoring the sensors and communications. His Nyac physiology making it rather easier on him than RAFians of other species (and considering he was the only RAFian Nyac, this made rather him indispensable in such a position).
 
But that did not change the fact that it could be inconceivably dull and boring, even to Nyac sensibilities.
 
Anyway, the O.W.N. network -- which had extraorbital sensors on it installed at the major global powers absolute insistance (though Knights of Humanity -- and conspiracy theorists with nothing better to do -- insisted that they'd be used for spying and other malicious actions, showing just how little they truly knew). These world powers recognized that, while not all non-Terrans were malicious, not all were friendly either.
 
There was a rather large blip discovered on on of the sensor relays.
 
Yarin was on the case immediately. He immediately scanned the object, assuming that it was simply just an asteroid that the O.W.N. satellites, which had been modified into a planetary shield.
 
"Huh?"
 
The scan had to be wrong. It was roughly the size of Earth's moon . . . but hollow.
 
"Oh -- that's not good," Yarin said as the moon flared out and transformed into a weapon array. One that size and magnitude . . . would shatter the planetary shield. It would spare the planet but only to wait for the second shot.
 
Yarin turned on the intercom with a flick of the switch, and said, "Attention, RAF. Alert: an extraorbital object of immense power is attacking the Earth. One shot will shatter the shield. This forum is dead-center of the predicted blast epicenter."
 
This was enough to jar Cloak back to consciousness.

[redtailedsaffa]

Whoa, this is a fine start!

[Cloak]

Yeah, I think so, too, Saffa.

Anyway, planning out the chapters of "The Theft of Intellectual Property" -- ten chapters in.

• 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 3XXX.  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.

• Book CXXXVI: Midas Duck

The RAFians must contend with a very strange golden idol and a greedy sneak-thief.

• Book CXXXVII: War with the Warworlds

The RAFians must defeat two heavily-armed Warworlds.

• Book CXXXVIII: Solar Sucks

The RAFians must save Estelore from a device able to suck out her stellar substance and lifeforce.

• Book CXXXIX: Hounded

The RAFians are attacked by hellhounds that only Demos can see, although Cloak can "see" them via Earthsight.

• Book CXL: Politics

The RAFians, much to Cloak's chagrin and irritation, get caught up in the middle of Realm Walker politics.

• Book CXLI: Buggy Afternoon

A Bug is after Parker's blood, to "avenge" their brother slain by the SPARTAN.

• Book CXLII: Cloak's Nightmare

Cloak has an exceedingly vivid nightmare of the Great RAFian Purge. . . .

• Book CXLIII: Cloak and the Olympians

Cloak confronts and defies the Olympians.

• Book CXLIV: Down to Earth

The RAFians have gravity-related problems.

• Book CXLV: Hittin' the Dino-Sauce

The RAFians learn the dangers of Dino-Sauce.

• Book CXLVI: Blood Feud

Shanker's past comes into light. . . .

• Book CXLVII: She's Back! A Dino Story

Pretty much a shameless parody of "We're Back! A Dinosaur Story".

• Book CXLVIII: A Journey into Her Past

Delving into Noelle's pre-RAFian life and her relationship with Ardnalil-Shicom-Maar.

• Book CXLIX: Mortality and Morality

The RAFians face some rather conceited Leviathons.

• Book CL: Utter Pandemonium

Cloak, Gaz, Saffa, Underseen, and Hunter investigate odd goings-on at a theme park island named "Haunted Island".

• Book CLI: A Reality Rewrite

Cloak, Faerie, Broken, and Broken's protege discover a magical, reality-altering typewriter.  Cloak, being a Realm Walker and the other three, being magical, are immune to its rewrites of reality.

• Book CLII: The Coming of Galacticron

The RAFians must save Earth from Galacticron.

• Book CLIII: Theft of Intellectual Property

The RAFians must contend with Brainiac.

• Book CLIV: The Contingency

The RAFians must battle the Talos Project and their living weapon -- Weapon XLIX.

• Book CLV: Muppet, Muppet Man

Parker and Gaz are turned into Muppets. ()

• Book CLVI: Larval Ambush

The RAFians must deal with insectoid creatures who are parasitoids with humans.

• Book CLVII: As the World Doesn't Turn

The RAFians must stop a group of feline aliens from stopping the world from rotating.

• Book CLVIII: Princess Pearls

A few girls of RAf discover the Princess Pearls.

• Book CLVIX: Attack of the Killer Produce

The RAfians must deal and cope with killer produce.

• Book CLX: Moonscarred Menace

The RAfians investigate mysterious disappearances on Moonscar Island.

[Cloak]

Third chapter today -- probably shouldn't expect another until a little later.  Okay, relatively short chapter.
 

CHAPTER THREE:
Charge of the Light Degrade

The planetoid had transformed into a roughly flower-like shape with a sort of cannon at it's center.  It was this that began to charge up with multichromatic energy.  The energy separated into a star burst pattern, separating the colors.  Then they hit the next electrode thingy and then energy of white and black culminated and coalesced at the tip.
 

***

Cloak dashed from the infirmary and looked up and could see the overlarge weapon well enough.  He knew the planetary shield would not be enough.  It would shatter. . . . Then Earth would be doomed.  But, not only that, RAF would be decimated.  No . . . not just decimated, as in Ground Zero, but obliterated.  All traces eliminated, evaporated into nothing.
 
This would not stand.  This would not be allowed.
 
The thing unleashed its first blast, and, as thought and believed, the beam destroyed the planetary shield.  But the power of the beam was such as that the shield was not only destroyed but the O.W.N. satellites were destroyed beyond repair.  They did not drop down upon the Earth, but knocked out of their orbits with sufficent force and drifted into the vastness of space as debris.

"Alert!" Yarin exclaimed on the intercom.  "The O.W.N. satellites have been damaged beyond repair!"

The next shot would hit the planet's surface. Directly where Cloak stood. Cloak was aware of this fact.  It's why he stood where he stood.  He knew what he must do.

"Cloak, get going!" Abby said.

"It's gonna fire again!" Saffa warned.

"I know," Cloak said quietly.

"If you know, then you should start hauling butt!" Underseen said.

"No," Cloak said, not taking his eyes of the weapon.  It was charging up for a secondary blast.  "You three go.  I know what I must do."

"You'll kill yourself!" Abby declared.

"No . . . I won't."

"Cloak, even you can't redirect that much energy!" Underseen said.

"Well . . ." Cloak said, taking a stance and pointing his right index finger and middle finger at the weapon, "we'll see won't we?  Now, get out of the way.  Seriously, don't make me MAKE you get out of the way.  I won't be gentle."

[redtailedsaffa]

Oh no. Talk about a hold-your-breath moment.

[theyoungphoenix]

Ahhh!!! No kidding!!!

[Cloak]

I admit, I did not expect such a reaction.

Now, a new chapter.

CENTER FOUR:
Blast It!

The beam travelled toward Earth at a rapid pace, Cloak's determination was evident upon his face. His eyes were golden-scarlet suns.

"Cloak --"

"I'm not arguing with you, Saffa," Cloak scolded the younger RAFian, "this is how it is. I'm ready. And you can stifle that protest in your throat right now, Underseen."

The beam lanced towards the Earth, spanning the considerable distance in mere moments. It raced closer and closer.

Then it was siphoned into Cloak's outstretched fingers. Down his arm, across his belly, up and out the two fingers opposite. So there was now two beams of energy, one going down, one going up.

Eventually, the second beam made contact with the weapon. Instead of obliterating RAF, wiping it of the map -- and wiping the map off the map -- the weapon itself was annihilated, reduced to space debris.

When the last of the energy had been redirected, Cloak stood, looking haggard and stooped.

"Cloak . . . ?" Underseen ventured hesitantly.

WHUMPH!

Cloak fell, face first, to the ground, eyes shut. It was this time that the other RAFians were gathering round.

"He's dead!" Abby was heard to yell fretfully.

"No," Parker said, "he isn't."

Blue explained that when a Realm Walker dies, only the cloak is left behind, "So, Cloak's not dead, just clearly exhausted."

"Yes, he clearly expended a lot of energy," Goom said, "again."

"Yes, such actions certainly cannot be healthy," Phoenix said concernedly. "Well, best get him back to the infirmary. Parker. give me a hand here."

[Cloak]

Now, the last chapter today . . . and it'll probably be on the short side. Sorry.

CHAPTER FIVE:
RAF In Turmoil

Cloak was resting on a bed, in a dreamless sleep, he appeared to be barely breathing, and Abby wasn't entirely convinced that Cloak lived, but, then again, Cloak was the only Realm Walker she's had contact with*, so she didn't really know better.

Then there was the subject of Richard's disappearance. Rotiart was leery and suspicious of Cloak, but, then again, it was no secret that Rotiart was no fan of the Elements Master.

Gaz and AniDragon, however, couldn't put their fingers on it, but they thought this was familiar, somehow. It annoyed the two to no end.**

Other than this and a air of foreboding, RAF pretty much resumed their previous activities. Gaz posted her reviews, the RAF couples did dates and things -- same old, same old.

But, although no one wanted to speak of it, Richard's prolonged disappearance could point to one outcome of his fate. It was the dreaded outcome that no RAFian wanted to think of, or even consider.

Richard could not be dead. He had to be alive, just tansported somewhere, perhaps in a focused cryonic sleep.

Despite this, there was a very real possibility of this, a great fear of the RAFians being true.

Would RAF be the same without its founder?

***

In a void of muted colors, two skeletal heads with glowing orbs for eyes with fine filament-like cilia tendrils were hovering rather aimlessly.

"Did --" the voice if the slightly larger one was indistinct here "--retrieve the merchandise?"

"Picked it up a small time ago," the more subservient one replied.

"Good, that's one nuisance dealt with," the larger Vox acknowledged. "Now the experiments can truly begin."

"Yes, let them begin."

---
*Yes, I consider the Intro Randomness Act 2 a different continuity.

** :wink: :wink:

[theyoungphoenix]

I love this. It's getting really good.

[Cloak]

Thanks, Abby.

Now, the first, and maybe -- unless I feel better emotionally -- only, chapter today. I suppose it's ironic given the title of this short chapter.
 

CHAPTER SIX:
Bad Mood

It soon became clear that whatever happened to Richard would not be resolved soon enough. Someone had to step up and take his role. To bear Richard's hefty burden of leadership.
 
Phoenix, though rather unwilling, stepped up and, with a heavy heart, took the role, the burden of being the head of a growing forum.
 
Had Cloak been conscious, he wouldn't have envied Phoenix. Not even a little. Cloak had always thought himself unworthy such power, such authority . . . such a burden.
 
Phoenix wore a somber look and he seemed to have aged several years' time.
 
"Why should you lead?" Rotiart said, immediately upon close proximity to Phoenix when the little upstart first heard. "What gives you the right?"
 
"Not very bright, this Rotiart," Abby whispered to Gaz.
 
"Oh, you don't know the half of it."
 
Phoenix took it in stride, but Rotiart was not the sharpest tool in the shed. He kept pushing his luck.
 
Eventually, the pressure got to Phoenix and he seized Rotiart by the neck, and lifted the young brat to eye level. Phoenix said, in a voice like a smoldering brushfire, "I'm in a bad mood. Care to push your luck any further?"
 
"Nuh-uh," Rotiart said in a strangled voice. Phoenix released the little monster, who decided to give Phoenix a wide birth.
 
"I guess he learned his lesson," Abby said.
 
Parker hadn't even looked up from his newspaper, "He really did have it coming."

[theyoungphoenix]

No, that bad mood can't stay. You need.... INSPIRATION!!!

[redtailedsaffa]

Yay Phoenix!

And that's where your inspiration will come from, Abby.

[Cloak]

Well, I finished planning the chapters for "Theft of Intellectual Property", which may see a title change by the time we get to it (by which time, I'd probably have ideas for #CCL (#250) or even #CCC (#300)).

Another chapter.  Bit on the short side and a little bit "bare bones". I may post more later, but don't hold me to that.
 

CHAPTER SEVEN:
Has Anybody Seen This Guy?

Phoenix called a meeting of all RAFians in the auditorium shortly thereafter.  There was little mystery about what this meeting would pertain to.

"As you all may have gathered," Phoenix announced, in ringing tones, "we're here about Richard.  I, for one, refuse to believe that he had met his demise."

There was a smattering of agreement from the RAFians. Rotiart, however, was shrunk down in his chair, as if he hoped not to be seen by Phoenix.  The little altercation had clearly terrified the little snot.

Then Phoenix gave groups of RAFians assignments in which to look, and then sent them on their way.
 

***

During their global search, a voice-over sang:

We've got to get together,
Got to use our minds.
We've got to find Richard
And there's not much time.

We've got to travel light,
We'll go place to place.
Askin' everybody,
"Have you seen this face?"

Has anybody seen this guy?
He's really got it all.
Has anybody seen this guy?
He's about this tall.
No lead will go on by,
Has anybody seen this guy?

Here's a little picture,
For a quick reminder,
I'm hopin' you might have a clue.
Does he look a little bit like someone you know?
Does he look a little bit like you?

Has anybody seen this guy?
He's really got it all.
Has anybody seen this guy?
He's about this tall.
No lead will go on by,
Has anybody seen this guy?
Has anybody seen this guy?

But, sadly, despite this exhaustive global search, not one team found any trace of the founder of RAF, the father of RAF.  Not even a trace of the pod-like pustule that absconded with him.

[theyoungphoenix]

poor Richard.

[Underseen]

The only person who recognized that the device was Vox in origin is now out cold.