Memoirs of a RAFian

[Cloak]

We're not even 75% through the books I've planned.  I didn't expect to be so ambitious. . . .  Anyway, shortish introduction chapter.

BOOK XXVI:
Outage Outrage
CHAPTER ONE:
The Emotional Quagmire

Cloak's surly attitude eventually passed, as he continued to post, along with RAFian compatriots.  Soon after the whole musical fiasco, after the remainder of the MP3 monster's body was relocated and buried at a far safer location, RAF returned to it's former state of glorious zaniness.  Horse even said, "The threads are alive with the sound of posting . . ." proceeding to hum "The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music".
 
And yet, whenever Cloak found himself alone, he could not help but start to dwell on those matters which bothered himself.  His tumultous past, the decisions he regretted . . . sometimes he couldn't pull himself out of that mire for a few hours at a time.  He did not like this, he thought he was over this baggage.  Granted, the RAFians, for the most part, knew all of these things, and would attempt to help him out of that emotional quagmire.
 
Of course, this led to a sense of guilt, as Cloak knew that they shouldn't have to worry and fret themselves about his past problems.  Unfortunately, these problems had left an indeliable mark on Cloak, one that one does not see with their eyes.  He had some problems with PTSD and such from his rather cruel mother.
 
Cloak clenched his eyes shut and shook his head, as if chasing away these bad memories, these painful experiences.  It worked for the interim, but they would eventually rear there ugly heads again, he knew.  It was when he did this, that he realized that he was being watched . . .
 
He looked around, but he could not see with his eyes or the Earth who or what it was -- if there was even anyone there in the first place.  He shook his head vigorously again.  Now he was getting paranoid.
 
He proceeded to the Bored Board, hoping that Aquilai would be there, so that the two of them would play the Continue Game and the Word Chain.  Perhaps doing something somewhat mindlessly like that would help ease him of the unhelpful thoughts. . . .
 
Little did he know that he WAS being watched by a boy in a tree in the nearby forest.  This wasn't just some ordinary boy, either.  He wasn't human but a young Osmosian, but that wasn't all.  He was also one of the victims of the Darwin Ray that escaped, meaning that he was an evolved Osmosian, though he didn't really look any different on the outside.
 
The boy had shoulder-length black hair, sunken eyes with dark lines around them, and a rather long, athletic build.  He wore a pair of rather rather blocky shoes, pinstriped socks, athletic wristbands, ragged and tore-up jeans, and a black shirt with a white painted skull on it and the sleeves tore off.
 
Even he himself didn't know what attracted him to the forum, but all he knew was he wanted what they had.  Not their humor or fun or levity.  He desired their powers, and he had a plan for obtaining them.

[Cloak]

New page.

• 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 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.

[Underseen]

goodbye ending, I enjoyed the fight scene and I feel good that Malice is still alive.

The Osmosian looks like Kevin from the original Ben ten.

[Cloak]

The Osmosian looks like Kevin from the original Ben ten.

Exactly, Underseen.

[Underseen]

If he takes my powers will I stay in the form I was in or turn into Polymorphic Slime?

[Cloak]

He'd look exactly the same, only gaining the powers, growing parts when the powers are activated.  Think Ultimate Ben 10000.

Granted, this absorping thing can get out of hand as you will see soon enough . . .

[Underseen]

I was talking about myself.

[Cloak]

Oh. Well, due to the nature og your powers, you'd be rather slick to touch in the first place. . . .

You'll just have to wait and see.

EDIT:  Added two new book ideas (CXLVI and CXLVII), and sorry that I hadn't posted this sooner -- I just found out recently that I can do the Global Link thing with my White2 game.
 
Now, the dangers of a good deed.

CHAPTER TWO:
No Good Deed . . .*

The Osmosian boy decided to put his plan into action, having managed to steal the powers of a Skrull boy (who was living on the planet legally).  Then, almost vampirically, drained the life force out of the poor creature so that he was quite literally nothing but a bag of skin and bones -- as to keep the poor boy quiet, although such a measure was rather excessive.  But, due to the Darwin Ray, he did not gain just 10% of the power's strength, effectiveness, and potency, he gained 100% of it.  And they did not go away but retained its permanency, and his physical form is not altered to reflect the absorbed power's source, like others, unless it's important and vital to use the ability.
 
Now he had an adequate power to fulfill his desires, his machinations.  And he wasn't even old enough to have grown his horns yet**, although now he was able to grow those horns and back at will.  But he was quite literally indifferent to what this would mean.  He managed to find a huge boulder, and then managed to wiggle a leg beneath it . . .
 

***

Cerulean and Demos were doing some minor patrol in the land between RAF and the nearest city.  The two were rather bored with the whole endeavor, and boredom inevitably leads to carelessness, unfortunately.
 
"Why did we get stuck on patrol duty?" Demos groused.
 
"Quit griping," Cerulean said, zipping here and there.  "We got the duty, so suck it up."
 
"Griping is what demons do best, though," Demos said, stifling a smirk.
 
"Sucks to be you, then," Cerulean said airily.
 
Suddenly, a youthful voice cried, "HELP!  HELP!" and the two RAFians turned to the sound.
 
"Why me?" Demos griped.
 
"Oh, you were bored and you know it," Cerulean pointed out.
 
"That's my story, and I'm sticking to it."
 
"That made no sense."
 
"It wasn't supposed to." Demos said, with a rationalizing tone.
 
Then the two arrived on the scene -- the same scene that the Osmosian boy planted his trap to be trapped under a boulder himself.  Only he did not hold his own appearance -- he had short-cropped blonde hair, stormy gray eyes, was scrawnier and looked to be five years younger than he actually was.  It was obvious that he was using the Skrull's shapeshifting powers to affect a more innocent image of himself.
 
"Hold on, boy, we'll get you out of there." Cerulean said.
 
"Do we have to?" Demos said with a deliberate whine his voice.
 
"YES." Cerulean said, as he reached for the boy's hand, "now blast that boulder away."
 
"You want to melt the human?" Demos asked.
 
"No, of course not, just use a concussive blast of fire," Cerulean said.
 
Demos complied, expecting the melt the boy, unaware that the boy was really in his mid-teens.  But he did not melt the boy as he expected, but did manage to send the boulder tumbling away, which pleased him somewhat, like a young child hitting their father in the groin***.
 
Cerulean touched the boy's hand to help him up, and suddenly felt strange.  Weakened, as if he had the flu.  Demos came over and grabbed the other boy's hand to help him up when he noticed Cerulean's affliction.  Then Demos too felt weakened, drained.  Neither of them understood why.

"Ooooh . . ." Cerulean said woozily, as he held his head.  Neither of the two realized that the Osmosian was gone until he had fled.  Instead of remaining, the two stumped off to RAF -- still retaining their Marks.

***

Meanwhile, a few miles away, in a remote area, the Osmosian returned to his natural form, elating on stealing Cerulean's super-speed and Demos's pyrokinesis and regeneration powers.  But he was disappointed, vastly disappointed, to discover that he hadn't stolen their Marks, not realizing he could easily have get his own by joining the forum.

"I'll just have to steal the powers of a few more of these aliens, of these RAFians," he muttered to himself with a rather insane smile on his face. . . .
 
---
*Reference to the phrase "No good deed goes unpunished".
 
** Read at a Ben 10 wiki that Osmosians need to be a hundred years old to grow the four horns Aggregor has.
 
*** Ever see those kids smile when they do that on "America's Funniest Videos"?

[Underseen]

He is already basically unstoppable with regeneration and super speed, but also has the skrulls power (which has limits) and he is thinking about getting a mark.

[Cloak]

Once people like him have a taste of power -- they'll always want more.  Like Rachel (the Animorph) once said, power is an addiction.

Second one today, methinks.

CHAPTER THREE:
The New Hero

"I . . . I really don't know." Kelly said, after examining Demos and Cerulean.  She looked completely confused and flummoxed.  "As far as I can tell, aside from momentary weakness, they're both perfectly healthy."
 
"But my speed . . ." Cerulean protested rather meekly.
 
"And my regeneration, I've never had to come into the infirmary before." Demos brooded.  Then he demanded, "Do you know how embarrassing this is for me?!"
 
"Calm down, Demos," Richard said, quietly.  Then he turned to AniDragon, and said, "What about you?  Can you undo this?"
 
"If their powers were being suppressed or negated, sure." AniDragon said, pensively.  "But this isn't suppression or negation, Richard.  This . . . this is something else."
 
"What else?" SuperNate pressed at at once.
 
AniDragon hesitated, as if she did not want to say what she considered, as it may be too horrible to think about.  But she found that she could dawdle no longer.  She sighed and continued, "I cannot bind or amplify what's no longer there."
 
"What's . . ." Phoenix said, appalled.
 
"What's no longer there." AniDragon finished.
 
"What do you mean by that?" Goom said, clearly as alarmed as Goombas can get.
 
"What I mean is," she started, took a deep breath, "that it would appear that the powers are gone."
 
"Gone?!  WHAT DO YOU MEAN GONE?!" Demos demanded.
 
"Calm yourself, Demos, you're gonna give yourself a heart attack!" Kelly scolded.
 
"I CAN'T HAVE A --" Demos roared, before realizing what it meant.  Then he muttered, in a very quiet voice, "Oh, right."
 
"How can they be gone?" Cerulean said, his color quite pallad.
 
"I suspect they've been removed," AniDragon said.  "Transferred, if you will."
 
"It was that little brat." Demos said scathingly.  "I knew I should have melted him!!"
 
"Um, guys?" Underseen said, popping in from the door.  "You might want to turn on the TV -- Channel Thirteen."
 
Richard did as Underseen suggested.  On the screen was a teenager in a rather loud superhero costume of yellows, blacks, and reds.  He obscured his face with an eye mask and orange googles.
 
"Okay, that guy seriously needs some fashion sense," Phoenix said, as the colors were almost too bright to look at directly and clashed horribly with one another.  "What is he doing, anyway?"
 
"He just saved an orphanage from a blazing fire," Richard said, pointing to the screen and a rather shapely woman with flowing hair who was reporting.  "Says his name is 'Syphoon'."
 
That was pronounced "psy-foon".
 
"'Syphoon'?" Super Nate ****ed his head, with an raised eyebrow.  "A combination of 'siphon' and 'typhoon', perchance?"
 
"You think he's the one who did this to us?" Cerulean asked.  "Can't be.  The boy we 'rescued' was between ten and thirteen.  He looks like sixteen, seventeen"
 
"Clearly he must have stolen another's powers before yours," Richard said, shrewdly.
 
<What do we do about it?> said Russell, who remained quiet until now.
 
Richard shut his eyes and he rubbed his chin in a thoughtful manner.  It felt like a full fifteen minutes before his eyes snapped open, and he declared an emergency meeting in the auditorium.

[Underseen]

Demos without regeneration is like Captain Hammer at the end of Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog.

Well now considering there is a lock down they won't let him join.

[Cloak]

Lock down?   When did I say there was a lock down?

Anyway, I don't even know who Captain Hammer is, or who Dr. Horrible or what his sing along blog is.

[Underseen]

My bad I misinterpreted the last sentence... that tends to happen when I'm tired.

[Cloak]

Ah.  Well, I'm tapped out for chapters today.  Rainy day tends to suck out a lot of energy -- I suppose this is what we have pay for having such a nice, warm weekend. . . .

More tomorrow.  Hopefully!!

[AniDragon]

I enjoy the name Syphoon far more than I probably should.