From 3d510ae558c56a2ff43c7b25611de1736aeb2dc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Tomasino Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:00:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] backup --- gopher/RSS Revenant/1627.txt | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- gopher/RSS Revenant/1628.txt | 0 2 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) create mode 100644 gopher/RSS Revenant/1628.txt diff --git a/gopher/RSS Revenant/1627.txt b/gopher/RSS Revenant/1627.txt index c106dfa..883bf61 100644 --- a/gopher/RSS Revenant/1627.txt +++ b/gopher/RSS Revenant/1627.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ We had been waiting for some time, 32 shifts from green to red had -passed by on the blur of light at my feet. Might've been half an hour, -but it felt like a week. Cranium was meditating, loudly. Two -tiny Mr Swarms were playing catch with a mote they found on -the floor. Hex was brushing her hands across the walls, mumbling to -herself. +passed by on the blur of light at my feet. Might have been half an +hour, or an hour, but it felt like a week. Cranium was meditating, +loudly. Two tiny Mr Swarms were playing catch with a mote they +found on the floor, the large Mr Swarm idly watching. Hex was +brushing her hands across the walls, mumbling to herself. "Oh!", she blurted as the floor rose under her heel. @@ -11,14 +11,95 @@ herself. form bowed and continued, "Your quarters have been finalized, they shall be more than satisfactory. Come." -We followed our guide to a circular room with 4 doors spaced evenly -around it. Behind each door laid a nearly triangular room that -terminated in a large curved wall, glowing a calming amber color -like firelight. A long low bench, about 4 feet wide, ran along one -wall, a portion at the end held a thick mattress below it was a -folded stack of various bedding. The other wall contained a long -counter, with a small sink near the door. There appeared to be a -small selection of books on the far end. +We followed our guide to a large circular room with 4 doors spaced +evenly around it. Behind each door laid a nearly triangular room +that terminated in a large curved wall, glowing a calming amber +color like firelight. A long low bench, about 4 feet wide, ran +along one wall, a portion at the end held a thick mattress below it +was a folded stack of various bedding. The other wall contained a +long counter, with a small sink near the door. There appeared to be +a small selection of books on the far end. "Please, refresh yourselves. If you wish you can inform yourselves -with the information packages we've left in your quarters. +with the materials we've left in your quarters. When you are ready, +meet here in the central hall." our guide continued, "We are +anxious to begin our conversation, please notify that you are +prepared with the device on the table." Our guide flattened into +the floor, and small table and 4 benches arose out of it, on top +was a large button-like object. + +We adjourned to our temporary quarters. I found a towel near the +bedding and spun it in the air experimentally, then tried the sink. +It turned on the moment I stuck my towel under the faucet. A clear +liquid was familiarly pouring out of it. It only made towel wet, +and didn't seem to have any negative effects on my gloves. I gave +the towel a twist and snapped it in the air. + +What appeared to be books were a collection of tablets, each marked +with a number of angles in ascending order. I picked up the last +one, there was a nearly formed 7-pointed star on the edge. I +flipped it over in my hands the same motif appeared on each face. +I went to hold it up to the light, but the moment my second hand +touched it a blur of light flashed before my eyes, and I was +outside in the wasteland. Startled, I dropped it and found myself +still standing in my room. + +I walked out into our lobby, and checked the other doors - everyone +else was consumed by their tablets, so I returned to my room and +grabbed the tablet marked with only one line on the edge. Instantly +I was standing outside, before whatever catastrophe we saw on the +surface of the planet ever began. The sky was the same blue/purple, +dotted with high whisks of clouds. The sun shown a pale red, making +the freckles on my arms appear black. I looked down, and found +myself in my favorite beachwear: a red Tommy Bahama and linen +slacks. We were on the light side of the planet, near a lake, +surrounded by short squat trees. + +"Welcome to Nalmyke, 46 Billion years ago..." a narration began. I +put down the tablet and picked up the second one. "The Glodan +Empire reigned from 2900 to 1700 years ago. Their power extended +from the Afram Sea to the Frozen Spires of Durklunt." + +Miles below my feet was a large ocean, The world spun across +hills and valleys, simple gravel roads, lakes dotted with tiny +ships, and finally across the horizon where frozen cliffs touched +the sky in perpetual darkness. A lone track led into some sort of +fortification built into the cliffs face. + +"Glodians power also came from their ability to sycrentize with +other cultures, their own culture fascinated with the art and +socio-political theories set forth by the Flalo people before +them." Onyx busts of kings and great thinkers whirred past me in +space like I was supposed to recognize them. I set the tablet down +and walked back into the lobby. + +"You can take off that mask, already" Hex said, balancing her +athame on her finger. "The water in the sinks has a bit of sulphur +in it, but it's fresh." + +I pulled off my mask and wrestled it into its compartment on my +back. The air was heavy, and pleasantly earthy. + +"The others still immersed in history?" + +"Yup." + +"Find anything out?" + +"You didn't finish either?" Hex didn't wait for my response. "I +skipped around. From what I can tell, they co-evolved with our +ancestors. Built several great civilizations, before being attacked +by aliens and uniting as one people. Unfortunately, by this time +most of the surface was uninhabitable, and the atmosphere was badly +damaged... Oh, and, we're in some sort of government bunker." + +"You think they're listening to us?" I wondered aloud. + +"Not right now, no, they're still close though, I can still sense +them." Hex rolled her head, and slowly opened her eyes. + +I knocked on the 2 closed doors, no reply. I sat across from Hex +and noticed she had done one of her Tarot spreads. + +"Don't mind the Death card, there - it symbolizes the end of one +thing, and the beginning of another." diff --git a/gopher/RSS Revenant/1628.txt b/gopher/RSS Revenant/1628.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29