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The Rogue Scholar

12 Dec 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 7 Part 2Suddenly, a thin white line of light appeared on the perfectly black mirrored surface. The little line grew larger and began to reveal a door being opened. Pretty soon, a figure clad in a black suit was silhouetted by the white light....

The Rogue Scholar

11 Dec 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 7 Part 1Sal felt his stomach still churning as he sat restrained in what he was guessing was a sensory deprivation room. He was not certain how long he had been here, but since his stomach started to feel like this four hours after point-to-p...

The Rogue Scholar

10 Dec 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 6 Archival File #570 code approved 221AS Commercial Bureau-Original Commercial FollowsHEY! ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH YOUR LIFE? Do YOU have a significant other that isn't a digital representation? Well, it's just possible that YOU might be a los...

The Rogue Scholar

9 Dec 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 5 Part 3 Rei had so much respect for the shapers that she had known when she was young she wanted to serve in the Conservatorium. Her parents had read her stories about the shapers, and she had looked to the shapers as idols. When she had gro...

The Rogue Scholar

7 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 5 part 2Rei inclined her head slightly to the left as she considered the man's words. She drew her soft lips into a straight line as she narrowed her concentration. Sigmus Practicar. The name sounded familiar. Suddenly, in a flash, she saw in...

The Rogue Scholar

27 Mar 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 5 Part 1 Rei Carlotta shelved another volume. It was unusual for people to prefer physical books these days. The majority of the actual books seldom moved off the shelves of the Ashram Conservatorium. The only reason physical copies existed a...

The Rogue Scholar

18 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 4   Shaper Journal 1.008 Hierarch 1 entry 0058--Shaper Naturo Seti It occurs to me that the only order man has every truly known in recorded history on the Earth is the example which nature has set. When man eventually succeeded in freeing hi...

The Rogue Scholar

11 Mar 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 3 Part II The court decision involving Pitt Preserve was a landmark case. Mr. Prizer did not admit to fraud. The court could not accuse him of fraud, because the holonosphere had proven itself to be a real thing. When the organization that re...

The Rogue Scholar

4 Mar 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 3 Part I Sal Grimone had a serious problem. He glanced nervously through his programming interface. It had not worked. It should have worked. He checked the code again. Everything was as it was supposed to be. The object invocation was correc...

The Rogue Scholar

24 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 2 Shaper Journal 1.004 Hierarch 1 entry 0042--Shaper Naturo Seti Protean science has dissolved all we knew about civilization with wide-sweeping changes among all fields. The realization that reality is but a hologram as backed by our science...