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robotnik2004 ([personal profile] robotnik2004) wrote2005-04-13 01:35 pm
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00. Underture

Advice given to me by an older member of the Academy on how to avoid committees and similar service work in academia: “It can be extremely useful to be seen as unsound.”



Born inside a supernova (He's Viv Vortex)
He gets in 18 and over (He's Viv Vortex)


Psychedelic V-Space! The Varmus’ immense rocktopoid ship, the Kräken, has Viv Vortex’s Flying V spaceship in its tentacles. The Kräken plays the smaller ship like a guitar, gradually tearing the Flying V apart. Viv fires the Groove Thrusters and tries to steer his ship into a Purple Hole. One of his crewmates, a gorgeous blonde (does she maybe look like somebody we know?), asks: “Viv, how will I find you on the other side?” He points to the clouds of the Head Nebula: they form a yin-yang swirl, a cosmic 69. “Remember the sign, baby.” And then he’s gone, a power chord shift across dimensions, his essence converted into pure rock. The Varmus’ voice rumbles like magma. “FOLLOW HIM. THERE IS NOWHERE HE CAN GO I WILL NOT FOLLOW.” The rocktopoids report: “We’ve lost his signal, but not the girl’s.” The Varmus is pleased. “THE GIRL WILL LEAD ME TO HIM.” The Varmus powers up the Kräken’s planet-sized Anti-Woofers, tells his crew: “PREPARE TO BECOME UN-SOUND.”

(To be continued...)

[identity profile] robotnik.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Not in your reality, Earthling.

(Actually, that's not quite true: the Viv Vortex song is an actual recording by one of our players. But the others won't be available on your Earth interweb until 2074, and by then they'll be suppressed by the Ministry of Sound.)

[identity profile] shiffer.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I am a high ranking member of the Hush Police. I'm sure Mother won't mind if I put some extra hours into... Threat Analysis. Yeah, that's it. Any chance I could get my grubby little hands on that recording, just for kicks? I'll trade you the filks my M:TA party made off the Buffy musical a few years back (if I can find them), or those horrifyingly fascinating Year of the Burning Dogs recordings I forced [livejournal.com profile] tryscer to make last year.

By the by, did I ever get around to mentioning that I'm using your old Starchildren writeups to run a one-shot game?