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Chesepians
Sorry for taking so long. I've been under a lot of stress lately. This bit of the story was rather tricky to get right, and it was hard to concentrate on it with all the stupid crap happening in real life.
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"So where did you go?" said Dan. "What happened between there and here?"
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Evangelicals
"So, what did they do with all the kids?" said Dan.
"We were in legal limbo for a while," said Janet. "We were orphans. Our legal guardians were the camp counselors. Considering how we'd been treated, the Mac dupes weren't comfortable leaving us with them. They converted the guard barracks into a Mac hive and moved in with us. They're still there. ( Read more... ) -
Liberation
"So, what happened?" said Dan ( Read more... ) -
Consumption
"As Nimbus was consumed by His jealousy, the Dark Souls were possessed by a desire to consume," said Janet.
"The Plutarchs told you that?" said Dan.
"The priest didn't tell us that the 'Light Souls' were the same people who engineered the Consumer Society in the first place," said Janet. "He said Luminia showed the Light Souls how easy it was to ( Read more... ) -
Luminism
"I was put on a bus with other orphan children," said Janet. "Many of them were crying. Like me, they'd been hoping their parents would wake up again, and had just found out they wouldn't. There were councilors on the bus. They told us God had taken our parents from us because of their sins and the sins of our ancestors. They had paid the price in ( Read more... ) -
Survivor
Dan's apartment building sat at the top of a ridge. A bike path ran along the bottom. It still seemed to be in good shape. In one direction, it ran to the Virginia Tech campus. In the other, it wound through the countryside a bit, then curved back into downtown Blacksburg. Dan thought that taking the path into town would be a good way to get an ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Dan said the magic words, "MacMap, matReal, at-here, at-now, one-to-one, first-person, realtime." This invoked the mapping utility, showing the real world ("matReal," material reality), specifically the ruins of Dan's old apartment ("at-here, at-now," the place corresponding to Dan's location in the Necroverse, at the present time), at a one-to-one ( Read more... ) -
More story coming soon
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Had to deal with more real life stuff. It just keeps happening.
Also, I have to confess that I've lost a little of my enthusiasm for this project. The breakdown of civilization as we know it appears to be happening more or less as predicted, and I am genuinely worried how I and those close to me are going to ( Read more... ) -
Scripzorz
When Dan's dinner was ready, he turned the TV news on while he ate. It was mainly more stuff about the Maxodus and the energy debate, but nothing really major had happened since lunch. There was a segment on how some of the cyberdupes were grumbling about how much energy it was taking to send the biodupes into space when they could just transmit a ( Read more... )