A place for the call. Can you answer it?
14 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 17 Part 6 In his peripheral vision, Sal saw the man try to take his virtual image by the arm. The main reacted instantly--almost before his fingers touched the image's arm. the ping alarm rose in Sal's ear, and simultaneously an alarm began t...
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Chapter 17 Part 5 Another advantage to staying close was that Sal could treat his image he left behind more as a puppet. The program he left behind was there in case he needed to make a break for it entirely. Since he was sticking around a little lon...
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Chapter 17 Part 4 He pulled up his interface, audio only. He whispered a few commands into it unobtrusively. His first order of business was to take an image of himself as he sat at the bar right now. Once this was accomplished, he overlapped the ima...
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Chapter 17 Part 3 Soon Sal felt the sitting sensation of being on a Palcan Transport. As soon as the motion was underway, he suddenly had the feeling of his blindfold being loosened. The blindfold came off, and the next thing Sal saw were the knuckle...
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Chapter 17 Part 2The weird thing about Bubble Joust is that you would expect the person who fell the most would be at the disadvantage. Sometimes, though, the exact opposite would happen. A person might have eight rounds to the other person's two, bu...
8 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 17 Part 1 Sal nursed his drink. He could just discern the heads undulating on the stereophonic kinetic floor. He had made it a habit to profile people by figuring out where they would eventually occupy the floor.The stereophonic kinetic floor...
7 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 16Part 1 Archive File 0097634ety Excerpt from Sigmus Practicar's "The Old Gods"begin file What is known of the Old Gods we most get from secondary sources. It is widely thought that when the Shapers--the holy ones--began their task that they...
6 Jan 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 15 Part 5A slave was coerced or brainwashed. The first movement was almost always coercion--the second was almost always brainwashing. Uzne's tattoo was coercion. His wife and god were brainwashing. At this moment, Uzine might be the only chi...
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Chapter 15 Part 4Uzine, despite everything he had seen Hiro do, was torn where this decision was involved. His life as he knew it was essentially over. What Hiro was asking him to do was to widen his perspective beyond himself and to consider others....
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Chapter 15 Part 3Uzine averted his eyes. "Then, if I may ask, Hiro, what is it that you are? I do not wish to offend one such as yourself!""The best way to think of me, Uzine, is as an interested party." Hiro stopped and a sly smile crossed his face....
