Action, Adventure, Excitement, Part 7b Chapter 4 (Void group, pt. 1) Subject: Re: AAE7b: Present Simple (You call this 'simple'!?) On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 20:13:42 -0700 Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010479 >Squee Said As CAoL Message # 00010449 > > Jim cocks his head contemplatively, "If it would be alright, we >would like ot send some of ourselves with you for this meeting. Such >a thing would be a rare chance we are thinking, though with this >group it is probably debatable. However because of our ties with The >Controller judgement may move a risk. Please pause a moment as >volenteers are requested." > Literally a moment later, Jim begins to ripple and he holds a hand >up to his chest. A silverly looking globule oozed forth from his >chest and into the palmof his hand, then it begins taking on a shape, >until soon there is a 8" tall version of Jim standing there. He leaps >up inot the air on mini boot jetds, "We will go with you lady Aurora >if you will permit it." Aurora looks at the tiny "Jim" and smiles, /*"You are certainly welcome. Any other 'takers'?"*/ ================================= Subject: AAE7b: Into the Void On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:47:11 -0700 Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010510 >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010479 > >Aurora looks at the tiny "Jim" and smiles, /*"You are certainly >welcome. Any other 'takers'?"*/ /*"Well, as there seem to be no other 'takers', let's be off."*/ Aurora says, before she and the tiny "Jim" vanish. Those with super speed senses, or time senses may get a 'feeling' for where they have gone. A 'place' that isn't. A 'place' where time and space have no meaning, where dimensionality is giberish. A 'place' where 'normal' matter and energy cannot exist. /*"Jim, we are currently in the void between universes. No matter what, you MUST stay near me, as I am maintaining a 'volume' that you and I can exist in. I will soon be thrusting us -outside- even this. At that point we will be at the mercy of That Which Creates. Oracle tells me that -HE- won't let us perish, but when dealing with beings such as The Stardragon, The Great Adversary, and That Which Creates, his powers are GREATLY limited."*/ As she -speaks- Jim can get the sense that they are moving, without moving. /*"A little far..."*/ She begins as she is RUDELY interupted. *"Ah, Aurora, my dear, I'm afraid I can't let you go any farther. A...-friend- has asked me to put an end to this little journey of yours.*" Cerberus says. "*Not alone? Well these should take care of that knat with you.*" He states as he snaps his fingers, and appears. ================================= Subject: AAE7b: Into the Void On 06-19-2001 at 16:49:09 FailSafe Said As CAoL Message # 00010515 >On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:47:11 -0700 >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010510 > >*"Ah, Aurora, my dear, I'm afraid I can't let you go any farther. >A... -friend- has asked me to put an end to this little journey of >yours.*" Cerberus says. "*Not alone? Well these should take care of >that knat with you.*" He states as he snaps his fingers, and > appears. A slight but significant change occures in the texture of the Void. An impression of Bright-Eyed interest *Excuse me. Is this a Proper Battle or is it an Ambush?* SideBand impression He will not intervine in a Proper Battle unles requested, An Ambush on the other hand He will feel free to Join in... OOC Well this is His Native Enviroment... ;) ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7b: Into the Void On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:12:15 -0700 Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010527 >FailSafe Said As CAoL Message # 00010515 > >A slight but significant change occures in the texture of the Void. > >An impression of Bright-Eyed interest >*Excuse me. > Is this a Proper Battle or is it an Ambush?* *"YOU! Well, These should be able to handle YOU!"* Cerberus exclaims as he summons two of his lieutenants. /*"Well -I- certainly didn't expect HIM to be here. Your aid would be welcome, to me at least, if you wish to."*/ Aurora answers. ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7b: Into the Void On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:30:24 -0700 Squee Said As CAoL Message # 00010536 >On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:12:15 -0700 >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010527 > >>FailSafe Said As CAoL Message # 00010515 >> >>>On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:47:11 -0700 >>>Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010510 >>> >>>*"Ah, Aurora, my dear, I'm afraid I can't let you go any farther. >>>A... -friend- has asked me to put an end to this little journey of >>>yours.*" Cerberus says. "*Not alone? Well these should take care of >>>that knat with you.*" He states as he snaps his fingers, and A pack of toy sized hunter killer drones >>>appears. Jim zips off Aurora's shoulder as the drones come at him. The temperature rise of the air around the drones' laser blasts showing they're no more toys than Jim is, even if he is only 8" tall. He first flies about, dodging blasts and trying to collect data on the drones as they attack. This plan gets scrapped in a hurry though when a missile pod opens up in one of the drones and Jim barely has time to erect a frocefield around himslef before they impact, tossing him tumbling backwards through the air. #Data processing.# #Qwery: Mass needed for construction of master control device?# #Current mss in insufficient. [] Mass needed. for is [] mass, of which [] is surrently needed to maintain form, limb mobility, propulsion jets and force field generation coil.# #Drones power level appears to be []. Armor level is [] Prognosis: we're screwed.# Jim zips about twisting to avoid two more laser blasts. #speed is greater match than drones. Drones defensive measures appear to be mechanical in nature. Sensor range seems to be limited. Plan is being formulated.# Jim zips to avoid another cluster of missiles, then three laser blaster focus on him all at once and he seems to become vaporized by the powerful energy blasts. The drones pause and start scanning in case it's a trick of cloaking or invisibility. Then one of the drones begins to shudder and vibrate. The shaking drone shifts and begins opening fire on the other drones, lasers slicing into their metal armor and then missiles slipping through the new holes to explode inside and do the most damage possible to the other drones' delicate systems. Soon all the drones are disabled and the shuddering one begins to spark and shake until it too explodes. Jim draws himself back together. and looks about. #Internal count complete. Only 412 nanites unaccounted for nad beleived destroyed or deactivated.# "They just don't make then like they used to..." >/*"Well -I- certainly didn't expect HIM to be here. Your aid would be >welcome, to me at least, if you wish to."*/ Aurora answers. Jim looks at Aurora, "A friend of yours we take it?" ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7b: Into the Void On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 04:59:08 -0700 Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010537 >Squee Said As CAoL Message # 00010536 > > Jim looks at Aurora, "A friend of yours we take it?" /"His name is Cerberus. He is currently THE most powerful Starspawn currently known. When The Stardragon destroyed the First Empire of Evil, Cerberus survived. He was the ONLY Lieutenant of Caribdis that survived. Afterward he rebuilt the Empire of Evil. The only things holding him in check are the fact that neither my Coalition of Light nor Oracle's Compact of the Unaligned will let him have his way with the Macroverse. It doesn't help his case that The Stardragon is usually a little annoyed with him. Leave him to me, I have a plan to deal with him. Just don't attract his attention and don't get stepped on. The only being of this Macroverse that I know of who is MORE powerful, is The Stardragon itself."/ She answers, as she pulls something that looks a lot like a staff, with a spike on each end, seemingly from nowhere. The tips of the staff are painful to look at too hard. Then ensues a dance of life and death drawn from the martial arts of a million worlds, learned in a life that spanned 500 Billion years. It's clear to Jim, and Failsafe, that Aurora is slightly more skilled than Cerberus, but what he lacked with skill, he more than made up for in pure brute power. Back, and back she is pushed, always back peddling, until finally she smiles knowingly at Jim, and blocks a full roundhouse swing of his Glaive. At the instant of contact of the two weapons there is a flash of something that isn't light, sound, or anything like them, but it's seen, and heard just the same and there is a sensation of movement, even though nothing seems to change. Startled Cerberus steps back, and finds himself between two VERY angry beings. The Stardragon reaches out, and grabs the surprised Cerberus by the back of his neck. /*"He's mine!"*/ The Stardragon says. From the posture, the body language, the confidence, Jim would conclude that this is The Adult Stardragon. /*"Don't kill him. There are tasks, he must have a hand in, yet to do."*/ The other being says. /*"Very well... Don't look too pleased Cerberus, he told me not to KILL you. He didn't tell me I couldn't MAIM you."*/ The Stardragon answers. With that Cerberus and The Stardragon vanish. ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7b: Into the Void On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:45:29 -0700 Squee Said As CAoL Message # 00010538 >On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 04:59:08 -0700 >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010537 > >/"His name is Cerberus. He is currently THE most powerful Starspawn >currently known. When The Stardragon destroyed the First Empire of >Evil, Cerberus survived. He was the ONLY Lieutenant of Caribdis that >survived. Jim nods, "Information filed in memory, though we were referring to the other one actually..." he hooks a thumb at Failsafe. ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7b: Into the Void On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:11:33 -0700 Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010540 >Squee Said As CAoL Message # 00010538 > > Jim nods, "Information filed in memory, though we were referring to >the other one actually..." he hooks a thumb at Failsafe. /"Ah. Yes Failsafe is a friend. The CAoL encountered him just before Fuzzy was restored. He was and possibly still is the Guardian of the Matrix Cosm."/ Aurora answers. ================================= Subject: AAE7b: Into the Void On 07-03-2001 at 12:22:41 FailSafe Said As CAoL Message # 00010547 >On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:47:11 -0700 >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010510 > >/*"Jim, we are currently in the void between universes. No matter >what, you MUST stay near me, as I am maintaining a 'volume' that you >and I can exist in. I will soon be thrusting us -outside- even this. >At that point we will be at the mercy of That Which Creates. Oracle >tells me that -HE- won't let us perish, but when dealing with beings >such as The Stardragon, The Great Adversary, and That Which Creates, >his powers are GREATLY limited."*/ -OOC: I assume the need for enviromental Protection, Also applies to Cerberus and his Goons... It Does Not Apply to FailSafe- -Merge- >On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:12:15 -0700 >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010527 >>FailSafe Said As CAoL Message # 00010515 >> >>A slight but significant change occures in the texture of the Void. >> >>An impression of Bright-Eyed interest >>*Excuse me. >> Is this a Proper Battle or is it an Ambush?* > >*"YOU! Well, These should be able to handle YOU!"* Cerberus exclaims >as he summons two of his lieutenants. Addressing the Lieutenants *Hello Folks, How are you today?* The Two start Trying to Bind FailSafe's Energies, In a Structure Reminiscent of a Tholian Web... But with Too Many Dimensions. As FailSafe "SideSteps" the Effect, *Are you really sure you want to do That? Spatio-Temporal Effects are prone to, Erratic Behavior in this Environment* One section of the Web dims to barely Perceptible, While another Flares up before burning out... > -OOC: And only when He Plays by the Rules of Time and Space. ;) - >/*"Well -I- certainly didn't expect HIM to be here. Your aid would be >welcome, to me at least, if you wish to."*/ Aurora answers. A Discrete Time/Space Emulation Field forms Around Jim, This Relieves Aurora's resource, Of the Need to Protect Jim from the Environment... Before more can be done The StarDragon makes off with Cerberus. When that Happens, The Lieutenants Shields, Start Losing Energy at an Preposterous Rate, Until they are forced to, Return to a more normal Environment, For the sake of Survival... -Merge- >On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:11:33 -0700 >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010540 >>Squee Said As CAoL Message # 00010538 >> >> Jim nods, "Information filed in memory, though we were referring to >>the other one actually..." he hooks a thumb at Failsafe. > >/"Ah. Yes Failsafe is a friend. The CAoL encountered him just before >Fuzzy was restored. He was and possibly still is the Guardian of the >Matrix Cosm."/ Aurora answers. *The Corporeal Inhabitants or the MatrixCosm Called me, The Final Guardian, or The Guardian of the Final Gate... I suspect that this was due to a subliminal reference to, My task in preventing The Keystone 'Lord Fuzzy' from Detonating, In an inappropriate time and place... But it may also have related to my tendency to show up, When anyone started trying to mess around with the First Realm.* ================================= Subject: AAE7B: That Which Creates On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:11:01 -0700 Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010566 Having tricked Cerberus into going with them when she transported the small group into That Which Is Beyond. Aurora seems satisfied when The Stardragon takes a hand in dealing with Cerberus. Then That Which Creates speaks. *"Well met Aurora, Jim, Failsafe. What inspires you to undertake such a dangerous mission as comming HERE?"* He says. The companions can sense both great power, and tremendous benevolence in his voice. *"My Lord, we come on behalf of the Seven family. The CAoL has undertaken a project to restore them to life. We have come to obtain your permission, and assistance in this endeavor."* Aurora answers. *"Yes, the Sevens. The Stardragon and I owe them much, as does The Adversary though in opposite senses. You have MY permission and I will influence those gods that others are seeking to entreat. However, in restoring them you must not commit paradox. You know what that does to The Stardragon, and with beings so close to it the effect would be magnified greatly. To that end each individual person must be restored in a particular place and time for that person. Here are the places that those you are to restore must be {}. I will inspire the other restoring forces with the needed locations for their subjects."* HE says as he hands Aurora some (OOC: sorry I don't remember how many are getting restored) brightly polished spheres. *"These contain the spirits to be restored. -I- held them back from going on to their next cycles, anticipating the CAoL's intrest. As forces restore individuals, the sphere's will be consumed. Keep them safe until the task is completed."* *"Jim, you surely had a personal reason for comming to see -ME-. Would you care to discus it with me?"* HE asks gently. *"Failsafe, it's always a pleasure to -see- you. Did you have a reason for your visit, or were you simply attracted to the disturbance, as was The Stardragon?"* He queries. Aurora smiles at the information that her ploy worked. ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7B: That Which Creates On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:56:05 -0700 FailSafe Said As CAoL Message # 00010574 >On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:11:01 -0700 >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010566 > >*"Failsafe, it's always a pleasure to -see- you. Did you have a >reason for your visit, or were you simply attracted to the >disturbance, as was The Stardragon?"* He queries. Aurora smiles at >the information that her ploy worked. *Originally I was attracted by the Disturbance, However A Question has occured to me...* *Lord Fuzzy is currently in denial, As to His Nature and Role in Quantum Reality. I suspect the Situation will clear itself in at most a few million years, Should anything be done about this situation? That is after all a Very short time on a Cosmic Scale.* ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7B: That Which Creates On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:11:12 -0700 Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010584 >FailSafe Said As CAoL Message # 00010574 > >*Originally I was attracted by the Disturbance, > However A Question has occured to me...* > >*Lord Fuzzy is currently in denial, > As to His Nature and Role in Quantum Reality. > I suspect the Situation will clear itself in at most a few million > years, > Should anything be done about this situation? > That is after all a Very short time on a Cosmic Scale.* *"Ah... I do not see this as a serious problem. Fuzzy will in any event eventually come to realize the Truth about himself. If, for one reason or another, it becomes necessary for him to be -enlightened- there are several ways that he can be convinced to accept the Truth. You can rest easy on this subject. When it needs to happen, it will happen."* That Which Creates answers. ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7B: That Which Creates On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 10:52:25 -0700 Squee Said As CAoL Message # 00010585 >On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:11:01 -0700 >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010566 > >Having tricked Cerberus into going with them when she transported the >small group into That Which Is Beyond. Aurora seems satisfied when >The Stardragon takes a hand in dealing with Cerberus. Then That Which >Creates speaks. > >*"Well met Aurora, Jim, Failsafe. What inspires you to undertake such >a dangerous mission as comming HERE?"* He says. The companions can >sense both great power, and tremendous benevolence in his voice. Mini Jim gives a bow, #"We greet the being known as That Which Creates. We have come to seek the reclaimation of the lost members of the seven family and reunite them with Michael Seven. We thought if any being would be able to acomplish this you would, if only you will acept our pleas."# >*"Jim, you surely had a personal reason for comming to see -ME-. >Would you care to discus it with me?"* HE asks gently. #" We saught to sustain personal curiosity. our personal origins are known to us form out contruction records. our creator can thus be traces since we are but machies. We had curiosity of the being that created our creator however."# ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7B: That Which Creates On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:11:07 -0700 Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010586 >Squee Said As CAoL Message # 00010585 > >>*"Jim, you surely had a personal reason for comming to see -ME-. >>Would you care to discus it with me?"* HE asks gently. > > #" We saught to sustain personal curiosity. our personal origins are >known to us form out contruction records. our creator can thus be >traces since we are but machies. We had curiosity of the being that >created our creator however."# *#"Only machines?"#* That Which Creates laughs heartily. *#"Nothing which houses a spirit can be -only a machine-. Anything that can house a mind can house a spirit. Which you surely do. Do you think that I would condemn to a life long punishment those whose only crime, and it isn't a crime you know, is to be constructed rather than engendered? There are fleshly entities that reproduce by fission. Not unlike your origin save they are protoplasm. The fact that a mind is group or hive based does not diminish its capacity to hold a spirit. You are as much a child of mine as any creature made of flesh, or energy, and as such are entitled to the same recognition, and respect as any other. That part of your memories are based upon the memories of The Controler, is just another facet of The Plan, the working out of the Grand Pattern. Now what, about me, piques your curiosity?"#* ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7B: That Which Creates On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 17:11:10 -0700 Squee Said As CAoL Message # 00010587 >On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:11:07 -0700 >Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010586 > >*#"Only machines?"#* That Which Creates laughs heartily. *#"Nothing >which houses a spirit can be -only a machine-. Anything that can >house a mind can house a spirit. Which you surely do. Do you think >that I would condemn to a life long punishment those whose only >crime, and it isn't a crime you know, is to be constructed rather >than engendered? There are fleshly entities that reproduce by >fission. Not unlike your origin save they are protoplasm. The fact >that a mind is group or hive based does not diminish its capacity to >hold a spirit. You are as much a child of mine as any creature made >of flesh, or energy, and as such are entitled to the same >recognition, and respect as any other. That part of your memories are >based upon the memories of The Controler, is just another facet of >The Plan, the working out of the Grand Pattern. Now what, about me, >piques your curiosity?"#* Mini Jim cocks his head, #"Pardon, but the speech of the spirit does not compute to steal a phrase. We hold no spirit. We function only differntly than the non-sentient repair colony we had been designed as due to reprogramming and interfacing from Justin Fleish. We have completel knowledge of the religious works of a hundred dimentions and understand what you speak of however no matter what our form may seem we are still machines, working within the set perameters of our programming. When we are disabled or destroyed to the last nanite, we will not have a spirit that journies to another place as the sevens did or become another entity. We will simply cease to exist until someone takes the desire to try to rebuild us and recreate our programming."# #"Qweries that have been brought about with the need of information ot be filled in for understading would take more time I think than Michale Knight Seven is wishing to be spending waiting for our return we fear. Visual observation qweries have been filled as have audiotry measurments however information needed ot process for understanding of your own origins and what was creating you, as well as the mainstay of your background would take millenia we assume."# ================================= Subject: Re: AAE7B: That Which Creates On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:23:34 -0700 Dane Said As CAoL Message # 00010588 >Squee Said As CAoL Message # 00010587 > > Mini Jim cocks his head, #"Pardon, but the speech of the spirit does >not compute to steal a phrase. We hold no spirit. We function only >differntly than the non-sentient repair colony we had been designed >as due to reprogramming and interfacing from Justin Fleish. We have >completel knowledge of the religious works of a hundred dimentions >and understand what you speak of however no matter what our form may >seem we are still machines, working within the set perameters of our >programming. When we are disabled or destroyed to the last nanite, we >will not have a spirit that journies to another place as the sevens >did or become another entity. We will simply cease to exist until >someone takes the desire to try to rebuild us and recreate our >programming."# *#"Well, you will comprehend my meaning in the fullness of time."#* That Which Creates says with a smile. > #"Qweries that have been brought about with the need of information >ot be filled in for understading would take more time I think than >Michale Knight Seven is wishing to be spending waiting for our return >we fear. Visual observation qweries have been filled as have audiotry >measurments however information needed ot process for understanding >of your own origins and what was creating you, as well as the >mainstay of your background would take millenia we assume."# *#"My full story? Yes that WOULD take a GREAT deal of time. Even though strictly speaking time is meaningless here. However I CAN sum up for you. My origin is near enough identical with every entity of your native macroverse that you could pick any entity from your frames of reference and say that there -I- was once. When a spirit has advanced enough to be able to withstand the transition it becomes a being such as -I-. Usually little or no assistance is needed. In rare cases aid is required. If the aid renderer has erred as to the subject's readiness, almost always the subject's mind breaks though how it breaks varies greatly. The Adversary has such a mind, broken, twisted, and full of hatred for all things. So, baring interferance, one day YOUR spirit will join me -here- and you will be able to see things as I do. And just as you will advance when you are ready, so will I advance when -I- am ready. Thus has it been written. Who was the first? In a place where time has no true meaning, that is difficult if not impossible to say, even if -I- knew. As it happens however, that is something that I do not know. What I DO know is that those that 'preceeded' me walked the same path I did, and which you now walk. Perhaps when I have advanced I will know who, but until then I do what those who taught me did. Creating worlds for spirits to become souls in. This creating I do via the instrumentality of The Stardragon. My Spouse helps me create spirits to populate those worlds. Has this helped in your understanding? If you desire more information about spirits, you may want to talk to Aurora. She will be better able to translate the concepts into something that you can understand."#* That Which Creates answers gently. =================================