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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #2415 on: July 24, 2013, 10:47:37 PM »
Now all we need is Malice...

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #2416 on: July 24, 2013, 11:29:02 PM »
Don't count on it, Saffa.

She doesn't place any more stock in wishing items anymore than I do. Other than a possible cameo at the end, she won't appear in this book, and have any involvement or bearing on this plot.

EDIT: Anyway, here's the list

  • 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.
  • Book CLXI: League of Assassins
The League of Assassins set a number of Assassins after Blue.
  • Book CLXII: Dark RAFians
The RAFians come up against an evil team modeled after them, attempting to usurp their postions.
  • Book CLXIII: Danger Rising
The RAFians' training sim gains sentience.
  • Book CLXIV: Moody
Gaz and Saffa accidentally have Moodulators attached to them.
  • Book CLXV: Bound Together
Some RAFians get molecularly stuck together.
  • Book CLXVI: The Legion of RAFians
The 31st century RAFians are being picked off and controlled by a group calling themselves the Fantastic Fatalities. May be an out-of-continuity book.
  • Book CLXVII: Monster Mash
A deranged Yeerk tries to merge its DNA with a Geonosian Brain Worm to rid itself of its Kadronna dependency.
  • Book CLXVIII: Jumping to Conclusions
A xenophobic, reliously-zealous, former government man confuses Cloak with a "Jumper".
  • Book CLXIX: You Wish!
An ancient lamp is uncovered, and an ancient warlock seeks it out, while RAF gets caught in the middle.
  • Book CLXX: Hat's Off
The RAFians must deal with a quartet of hat-like aliens.
  • Book CLXXI: You Are What You Read
The RAFians must deal with a "Captain Marvel"-style vigilante, who turns supervillian.
  • Book CLXXII: Wrath of the Colossuses
The RAfians must stop the rising Nazca Colossuses.
  • Book CLXXIII: The Year Without RAF
Estelore tells the RAFian version of "The Year Without Santa Claus".
  • Book CLXXIV: Kidnapped
The government begins to kidnap RAFians.
  • Book CLXXV: Lockdown
The RAFian database had been hacked and lockdown activated.
  • Book CLXXVI: Exhile
Cloak discovers the "Book of Prophecy".
  • Book CLXXVII: Swarm of Supermen
RAF is under attack from Kryptonians. Out-of-continuity.
  • Book CLXXVIII: Dullsville
An alien tick turns RAF in't a boring, drab place.
  • Book CLXXIX: Technovampirism
A malicious Galvanic Mechamorph assimilates technology into himself.
  • Book CLXXX: Go to Hell
Some RAFians are sent to Hell, and must escape.
  • Book CLXXXI: Schism
Parker and Cloak have a conflict of methodology. Out-of-continuity.
  • Book CLXXXII: Caught in the Middle
The RAFians are caught in the middle of the Wager of the Octessence and their Exemplars.
  • Book CLXXXIII: A Fractured Mind
The RAFians try to help a mutant boy with multiple personality disorder.
  • Book CLXXXIV: The A.R.A.
The RAFians must battle the A.R.A.
  • Book CLXXXV: Orphanage of the Damned
The RAFians must face a "Granny Goodness" and her brainwashed orphans.
  • Book CLXXXVI: Remnant A.E.
The Earth blows up, and the RAFians must survive space. Out-of-continuity.
  • Book CLXXXVII: Dried Out
The RAFians must deal with a strange creature created by black magic.
  • Book CLXXXVIII: Hammer Time
The RAFians must deal with sentient hammers who possess those worthy to wield them, forged by Singularity.
  • Book CLXXXIX: Shenecron's Pets
The RAFians must battle Shenecron's monstrous pets.
  • Book CXC: The Prism
Four RAFians are seperated into the emotional spectrum.
  • Book CXCI: An Attention Hog
The RAFian deal with a rogue quantum lichen.
  • Book CXCII: The Engulfer
The RAFians must deal with creature created of the DNA of two RAFians and a Heinlin.
  • Book CXCIII: The Horde
The RAFians must battle self-replicating creatures.
  • Book CXCIV: RAF 1602
RAF, set in 1602.
  • Book CXCV: Reanimated
The RAFians must deal with a creature that reanimates dead bodies as its own.

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« Last Edit: July 25, 2013, 08:52:18 AM by CloakedFigure »


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 #2417 on: July 25, 2013, 09:16:32 AM »
Okay, maybe I can get this chapter up.
 
CHAPTER SIX:
What Wish Would You Want?

The RAFians continued to sail over terrain to get to the wishing star, which shouldn't exist by all scientific means.  Although, by that same token, Realm Walkers and sentient stars would probably be an impossibility as well. Meanwhile, Underseen was getting thoughtful as music started up and he sang:

"Did you ever wish that
You could have a wish
That would come true?
I wonder what my wish would be?
Which wish I would
Want to wish, you see?
Which wish would be
The wish for me?
Geez, I wish I knew.
"

Abby sang, without missing a beat, though punctuating it with a cough:

"I'd wish we were happy and
Be glad for what we got.
"

Underseen shrugged and added:

"And I'd wish we could make this
Journey when the weather's hot.
"

Then the three asked, aloud, despite being too far from the others to be heard:
 
"If you could reach that wishing star
And it was yours to take?
What wish would you want the most
And what wish would you make . . . ?
"


Faerie did not sing, but spoke most directly, "If I'm kicking butt, then I'd be happy!"

FuBar sang, in an aside:

"If I could roam,
Then I'll be happy.
It's just a little task,
And it isn't much to ask.
If I could have my wish,
And a little kitty dish.
And then I'll be happy!
"

Liz sang:

"I would wish for every single person would
Appreciate me only for my mind,
Because I got a mean I/Q of 192.
They love me for my looks
But never for my books.
So, love me for my brain.
Then I'll be happy.
"

Yarin sang, holding up a small flask of a blackish, carbonated liquid:

"This stupid darn elixir!
I would wish that I could fix her.
Because it's always been a failure and a flop.
"

Meanwhile, Yorick and Aloth trudged through snowdrifts, singing angrily.

"We've been insulted and neglected
And we've never been respected.
And we wish the wishing star
To make it stop!
"

Gaz sang, making extensive use of the hyperbole:

"I have bunions, arthritis,
lumbago, bursitis,
I need glasses and
I wish retirement, you see,
In a giant RAF thread for me.
Then I'd be happy.*
"

Then Saffa, Underseen, and Abby sang:
 
"If we could have our wish,
Then we'd be happy!
"

Fubar declared, "I want to roam!"

Yorick and Aloth announced, "We want respect!"

Then Saffa, Underseen, and Abby sang;

"If you wish on a wishing star --"

Underseen sang:

"You'll get your wish, you see,
Then, for sure, you're gonna be --
"

Then the other two joined in:

"Happy!"

Then the others joined in with the same word several times.  Then, together, they sang:

"When I get that wishing star I'll be happy!"

Then Queen, who was watching all this sedately from the window of her car, sang:

"And when I get my wish, they'll all be gone."

---
*Sorry, Gaz, I couldn't resist. ;) :P
« Last Edit: July 25, 2013, 09:19:30 AM by CloakedFigure »


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 #2418 on: July 25, 2013, 10:22:21 AM »
Well. We can't let Queen get the wish, or poof, no more RAFians.
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« Reply #2419 on: July 25, 2013, 12:22:28 PM »
Really? You think so?

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Sorry, no more new chapters today. Need to rest up for my shift . . . and it'll be after midnight when I get home, so it won't technically be today.


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 #2420 on: July 26, 2013, 08:03:54 AM »
Did your computer go bye-bye again? I saw you posting...

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #2421 on: July 26, 2013, 08:44:11 AM »
I was . . . then I didn't feel up to it (considering what happened yesterday, and worrying about being fired because of it -- the guy was clearly accustomed to using people as doormats, and after my problems with my mom, I will never be anyone's door mat again). There very well may not be a chapter today, but I will try.

EDIT: Which is why I came to Meridian -- it's a Recovery Education Center sorta deal.  As much as I can talk it out with my fellow RAFians, it was something I needed -- a face-to-face council with someone.  But don't get me wrong -- I really appreciate the support of my fellow RAFians.
« Last Edit: July 26, 2013, 08:57:41 AM by CloakedFigure »


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 #2422 on: July 26, 2013, 08:52:59 AM »
Hey, it's okay, if you don't feel like posting, you don't need to, unless it's helping you get things off your mind. Though I don't see how that would work out with  the current book.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #2423 on: July 26, 2013, 09:32:39 AM »
But I will try. I apologize in advance if the brevity is offensively apparent.
 
CHAPTER SEVEN:
Tumbling, Stumbling Down

Cloak had heard the song, and was given pause for incredulity.  Did they truly think that whoever touched this star would be granted a wish?  How absurd!  The only way a wish comes true is through hard work with trials and tribulation.  Magically gaining what you desire -- how worthless would the object be?  How worthless the endeavor?  Great things are brought about not by magical wish-granting, but through blood, sweet and tears.
 
As he padded quietly through the snow-covered forest, Cloak pondered this conundrum. Cloak had never understood this Dweller facet -- humans aren't the only Dweller species to experience such a ludicrous desire, a desire for instantaneous wish fulfillment, without any of the toil or effort required to accomplish such feats.  Then again, Cloak noted mentally, most -- if not all -- Realm Walkers consider things such as wish-granting a foreign concept.

Besides, Cloak considered, if stars had that power, why the Veil would Estelore have never used it? It could be that not all stars possess this ability, like the difference between metahumans and ordinary humans.

Cloak saw the RAFians stream out of a narrow mountain pass, and his eyes widened.  He sensed the vibrations very quickly, and, without thinking, leaped up as the first rumbling started.  His unconscious mind seemed to take over, as he formed a rather large air scooter, which hovered beneath him.  It was easy to balance atop it, as felines are renown for there senses of balance.

He could feel the avalanche buffeting the bottom of the air scooter, but he always bobbed above it, as if the snow in the avalanche was using the air scooter as a beach ball.

But it turned out the other RAFians hadn't escaped the wrath of this tumbling snow, but each were riding it down in their own way.  Underseen was an unusually large and lithe Venber -- with Abby clinging so tightly to his neck that her knuckles were white, whereas Underseen couldn't seem to feel it.

Naturally, all the fliers were flying from it -- Parker using his Owl Ride Armor and Gaz went batty.  Saffa and Noelle went Psycholopterran, passing through the snow (literally) and flew up and away.  But most were either using makeshift toboggans, sleds, skis or snowboards to careen down to the base.

<Funny meeting you here,> Noelle replied drily, addressing Cloak.

"You all are on a fool's errand," Cloak said, quietly.

<Didn't catch that.>

"Never mind."

Meanwhile, Abby was screaming -- not "rollar-coaster-aaaah" but "I'm-gonna-throw-up-and-die-aaaaah".

"Abby, you okay?" Underseen asked.

"DO I HAVE TO ANSWER?!?!" Abby screamed, now digging her nails into Underseen's Venber flesh and regreting it immediately.  Underseen could take the Venber's form, the texture, but he could not mimic the Venber's temperature tolerances, so he would not melt by the heat generated from Abby's crushing grip.

They all eventually reached the bottom safely. . . . Of course, Yorick and Aloth were buried headfirst in the snowdrift, legs dangling most awkwardly.


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 #2424 on: July 26, 2013, 09:36:57 AM »
Ooh, Abby, you're becoming almost murderous with this wish. ;)

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"Abby, you okay?" [...] "DO I HAVE TO ANSWER?!?!"

I got that reference. :D

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #2425 on: July 26, 2013, 09:51:38 AM »
It's a RAFalanche!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #2426 on: July 26, 2013, 09:53:09 AM »
:facepalm: Ay, caramba, DN.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #2427 on: July 26, 2013, 01:58:08 PM »
I liked Dino's joke
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #2428 on: July 27, 2013, 05:53:40 AM »
No new chapter until later, or maybe not at all. Went from working 3:30 to midnight to 10 AM to 6:30 PM. Exhausted.

EDIT: New chapter. Hopefully it's not too short or has stupid errors. I'm still quite tired.

CHAPTER EIGHT:
Deaf Ears

At the base of the mountain, Cloak hopped of the air scooter which soon dissipated. His face was in scrutible as the wind forced his cloak and hood to billow melodramatically. He glanced around to see the rest of the RAFians landing or demorphing or what have you.

"So, after the wish, too, eh, Cloak?" Dino smirked.

"There is no wish," Cloak said.

Dino's cheeky smirk faded almost immediately. "What?"

"There is no wish," Cloak said, his tone stern and serious. "The very idea is ludicrous. Absurd."

"Bull," Rotiart accused. "You just want us off the trail so you can hog that wish all for yourself!!!"

Several of the RAFians seemed to think that Rotiart had a fair point. Noticing this, Cloak curled his lip in disgust.

"One, I have no -- I repeat again, no -- interest in this supposed wish (should it even exist, which I highly doubt)." Cloak said. His tone was even, calm, and impatient. "Second, if that thing is truly a 'star' how do you plan on touching it?"

Silence met these works, but the faces of the others showed mutinous looks of defiance. Cloak sighed heavily and rubbed his forehead in frustration.

"Look --"

"Why are you going after it, then?" said a quiet voice. Azzy.

"I thought it was Esty," said Cloak earnestly. "I though she could have been in distress."

"That starlight is blue," Gaz pointed out. "Esty's is yellow."

Cloak shrugged, "There are chromatokinetics in existence."

"What-to-kinetics?" Abby asked.

"They can manipulate colors," Cloak said.

"Sounds real useful." Sakki said, unable to keep the derision from her voice.

"In any case, that is immaterial," Cloak said, tone formal and business-like. "Have any of you considered all this wish nonsense is nothing more but bait for a trap?"
« Last Edit: July 27, 2013, 08:07:14 PM by CloakedFigure »


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 #2429 on: July 27, 2013, 08:12:02 PM »
You could be either doubtful or correct.
RAF awards 2012: Best Newcomer... It feels good too

Well, Blue is my RAFcousin.
 Blaze is my RAFbrother and formidable rival.