diff --git a/gopher/Cilix/08_palace.txt b/gopher/Cilix/08_palace.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bfe3ebd --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Cilix/08_palace.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ + +"You're gonna have to do what you do best and sell him back that +policy." + +I sighed. It was one thing to kill a man for love, for a woman - an +android...whatever! - it was another to sell him an insurance +policy right before. + +"Won't it look suspicious if he rewrites his insurance policy a few +days before he dies?" I said, after a long pause on the phone. My +voice was wavering more than I'd like to admit. + +"Suspicious, sure. But, things like that happen all the time." + +"I don't think they do, Honeysuckle." + +"Sure they do. You just gotta trust me." + +Her house was a palace. It was five stories tall, with the upper +portions overhanging the lower ones by quite a bit. There were +tall, thin columns buttressing the upper portions, making it seem +like a fortress; a gigantic, weightless fortress. As I walked along +the winding driveway, with the shadow of Jupiter making me +near-invisible, I started to have the sense that this was all a bad +idea. I caught the faint smell of marigolds in the air. It could +only have been an illusion, there are no flowers on Europa. + +I felt like an idiot as I knocked on the gigantic wooden door, +which looked like it was designed by a fan of 1920's Hollywood +art-deco. All thick and laced with iron. + +After an eternity, and several more knocks, a short, stocky man +opened it. I told him I was there to see Mr. Walsh. He asked me +what it was regarding. I looked him over a bit. He seemed like a +tough guy; narrow, beady eyes, thick arms, a bit slow. I told him I +had better tell Mr. Walsh directly what it was regarding. He told +me he was Mr. Walsh. + +I looked him over again. Then it clicked. + +"It's I need to see the /real/ Mr. Walsh", I said. His eyes +narrowed even further. + +"Very well", he drawled, and let me in. + diff --git a/gopher/listing.gophermap b/gopher/listing.gophermap index 58b56b8..b2d02d7 100644 --- a/gopher/listing.gophermap +++ b/gopher/listing.gophermap @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +0Cilix - 08-Palace /Cilix/08_palace.txt 0stygian - y /stygian/instinctual_stuff.txt 0Cilix - 07-A Hitch /Cilix/07_a_hitch.txt 0Cilix - 06-Straight Down The Line /Cilix/06_straight_down_the_line.txt diff --git a/gopher/tilde.json b/gopher/tilde.json index 8035763..9e18e38 100644 --- a/gopher/tilde.json +++ b/gopher/tilde.json @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -{"name": "cosmic.voyage", "url": "https://cosmic.voyage", "signup_url": "https://cosmic.voyage/join.html", "user_count": 196, "want_users": true, "admin_email": "james@tomasino.org", "description": "Cosmic Voyage is a public-access unix system and tilde community based around a collaborative science-fiction universe. Users write stories as the people aboard ships, colonies, and outposts, using the only remaining free, interconnected network that unites the dispersed peoples of the stars.", "users": [{"username":"tomasino"}, +{"name": "cosmic.voyage", "url": "https://cosmic.voyage", "signup_url": "https://cosmic.voyage/join.html", "user_count": 197, "want_users": true, "admin_email": "james@tomasino.org", "description": "Cosmic Voyage is a public-access unix system and tilde community based around a collaborative science-fiction universe. Users write stories as the people aboard ships, colonies, and outposts, using the only remaining free, interconnected network that unites the dispersed peoples of the stars.", "users": [{"username":"tomasino"}, {"username":"demosthenes"}, {"username":"chiaroscuro"}, {"username":"tildebeast"}, @@ -193,4 +193,5 @@ {"username":"samm"}, {"username":"gatton"}, {"username":"satchlj"}, -{"username":"voidskull"}]} \ No newline at end of file +{"username":"voidskull"}, +{"username":"konomo"}]} \ No newline at end of file