I've decided to give myself some goals tomorrow, so that this plan doesn't go completely to waste.
1. I intend to beat the next gym leader (#5 I think) in Pokémon X.
2. I intend to assemble the 3D pieces of my copy of Ogre.
3. During #2, I intend to try to catch up on Sleepy Hollow. This is limited to during Ogre assembly time, though, so there's no guarantee that I'll get fully caught up.
4. Bonus goal: Beat the next gym leader after item #1 (so, 6th gym leader, if I recall correctly).
I mean, I'm just really far behind on Pokémon X, so I need to get kraken! Wait....
P.S.: 5. Bonus goal: Rock Smash until I finally find an Old Amber. I stumbled across a hint that this might only be possible in Glittering Cave, so I'll try there.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Sudden Short Story 57
"You're the man from the past, aren't you?" asked the man entering the room with the water. A small table arose from the floor near the center of the room, where a helmeted figure stood. "Plain water, in case you're thirsty," he said, placing the pitcher and glass on the new surface.
"Yes," said the man, never looking away from the wall on which many figures were projected. They bore the knowledge of the synthesis of a serum that could cure his ailing - and, at the moment, long-dead - wife, "I am the man from the past. I'm done here, though, since I've finished committing this data to memory, so I'll be going back there soon. That's not why the water is here, by the way."
The servant grew slightly nervous at this. "Well, that's what I was told."
"Something on your person when you entered this room was meant to release nanobots into the air, since I scanned it upon entering, but might not be bothered to do so every time that the door is opened. Your boss was likely frustrated that my helm bears a Faraday cage. However, they won't be able to follow me, for the same reason that it would be fruitless to drink that water, despite my thirst: My transporter is quantum-bound to the particles in my body." With that, he disappeared.
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"A craft just launched from the next system over, sir, heading rimward, but 44.7286 off the galactic plane," said a cog of a man stationed at a control panel. "It's topped out at 0.99926c, though. It looks like it's got some outdated stealth tech."
"Send our fastest ship after it now," said his boss. "We'll catch up, though it'll be a while, due to the delay."
"Ours has departed with the most proximate crew available. They're at speed. They should catch up in about three years, give or take for possible evasive maneuvers."
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"I expect the entire galaxy to be searched thoroughly," said the man in the pointless throne. "You don't understand how valuable this knowledge is. The man from the past knows the secret to bi-directional time travel. I want every piece of his decoy craft examined meticulously for any trace of his true destination."
"You don't yet control the whole galaxy," advised his minion. "Your rivals will take offense at your probing their territory so thoroughly."
"Let them," decried the would-be ruler of the galaxy. "Once I have the secret to time-travel, I can shape the galaxy to my very needs."
I would go on about what else happened, but their entire timeline ceased to be once the man from the past saved his wife.
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Author's note: This bit of story was inspired by the song The Time Machine by The Cog is Dead. I worked out the details of creating, using, and concealing a relativistic bi-directional time machine, though they unfortunately didn't emerge during the narrative.
"Yes," said the man, never looking away from the wall on which many figures were projected. They bore the knowledge of the synthesis of a serum that could cure his ailing - and, at the moment, long-dead - wife, "I am the man from the past. I'm done here, though, since I've finished committing this data to memory, so I'll be going back there soon. That's not why the water is here, by the way."
The servant grew slightly nervous at this. "Well, that's what I was told."
"Something on your person when you entered this room was meant to release nanobots into the air, since I scanned it upon entering, but might not be bothered to do so every time that the door is opened. Your boss was likely frustrated that my helm bears a Faraday cage. However, they won't be able to follow me, for the same reason that it would be fruitless to drink that water, despite my thirst: My transporter is quantum-bound to the particles in my body." With that, he disappeared.
---
"A craft just launched from the next system over, sir, heading rimward, but 44.7286 off the galactic plane," said a cog of a man stationed at a control panel. "It's topped out at 0.99926c, though. It looks like it's got some outdated stealth tech."
"Send our fastest ship after it now," said his boss. "We'll catch up, though it'll be a while, due to the delay."
"Ours has departed with the most proximate crew available. They're at speed. They should catch up in about three years, give or take for possible evasive maneuvers."
---
"I expect the entire galaxy to be searched thoroughly," said the man in the pointless throne. "You don't understand how valuable this knowledge is. The man from the past knows the secret to bi-directional time travel. I want every piece of his decoy craft examined meticulously for any trace of his true destination."
"You don't yet control the whole galaxy," advised his minion. "Your rivals will take offense at your probing their territory so thoroughly."
"Let them," decried the would-be ruler of the galaxy. "Once I have the secret to time-travel, I can shape the galaxy to my very needs."
I would go on about what else happened, but their entire timeline ceased to be once the man from the past saved his wife.
-----
Author's note: This bit of story was inspired by the song The Time Machine by The Cog is Dead. I worked out the details of creating, using, and concealing a relativistic bi-directional time machine, though they unfortunately didn't emerge during the narrative.
Regarding the Introduction to Mega Evolution
The player's introduction to Mega Evolution in Pokémon X & Y would have been easy to mess up, but I think that they got it right.
By the way, there are some spoilers in this post.
The way that we get a Lucario from Korrina still feels slightly forced, but at least they put in scenes prior to that that indicate that it was taking a liking to us. The main good thing about this is that we don't have to level up a pokémon to the Mega Evolution point on our own. From what I recall, we only get one (I'm not counting Mega Blaziken since that promotion will end), and I was trying to do a team of only new pokémon, so finding out that I had to swap out my Gogoat for my Bulbasaur and grind it until I got Venusaur would have been tedious.
Since they're including most pokémon from every generation in these games, I think that I'll eventually make a team from each generation. I just realized that I can include both Mega Venusaur and Mega Aerodactyl on my Gen I team - at least after I dig up some Old Amber.
I do hope one thing, going forward: If they decide in Generation VII to give a new Mega Evolution to a previous-generation pokémon, then they should at least not try to do any fancy tricks to explain it away. You just never had, I don't know, Dragoniteite or whatever. It's that simple.
By the way, there are some spoilers in this post.
The way that we get a Lucario from Korrina still feels slightly forced, but at least they put in scenes prior to that that indicate that it was taking a liking to us. The main good thing about this is that we don't have to level up a pokémon to the Mega Evolution point on our own. From what I recall, we only get one (I'm not counting Mega Blaziken since that promotion will end), and I was trying to do a team of only new pokémon, so finding out that I had to swap out my Gogoat for my Bulbasaur and grind it until I got Venusaur would have been tedious.
Since they're including most pokémon from every generation in these games, I think that I'll eventually make a team from each generation. I just realized that I can include both Mega Venusaur and Mega Aerodactyl on my Gen I team - at least after I dig up some Old Amber.
I do hope one thing, going forward: If they decide in Generation VII to give a new Mega Evolution to a previous-generation pokémon, then they should at least not try to do any fancy tricks to explain it away. You just never had, I don't know, Dragoniteite or whatever. It's that simple.
Sudden Short Story 56
The scene at Megiddo that day was difficult to describe, even by the many witnesses after the fact. A man sat upon an old stone, whetting his blade, and that was the only thing that made sense. Two billion people were there, even though there wasn't room, and they remained distributed across the planet. Many gods were there, towering over the congregation, and yet no taller than an adult. They were thirty-three and yet three-thousand. They were omniscient, and yet confused.
"What is happening?" asked the god.
"You are bound by my oath," spake the man. "I was serious about my promise to you. You forsook one of your flock, which was unwise in the first place. But I made my promise, and I intend to keep it."
"Her death was part of my greater plan," said many of the faces, "I work in mysterious ways." A few, though, said "the devil did it." They all seemed to expect this to save them.
The man with the sword stood and approached the gods, pocketing his whetstone along the way. He stopped before him. "Restore her to life by my side, and I will release you from my previous oath. Otherwise, I will kill you."
Many of him became defiant. "How? With that sword? You'll have to cut through two billion others before you can touch me."
"I would," said the man, "but this is no ordinary blade. In fact, it's so strong and sharp that it could pierce an iron chariot."
In that moment, the people saw something that they had never themselves seen before. Their gods were afraid. And, in that moment, the man thrust his sword under the gods' ribcage and into their heart, and the blade was multiplied across them all.
By the time that the blade was pulled out, the witnesses were gone, except that they were wherever they'd been the whole time. None of them were terribly affected by what they thought that they'd seen, though.
After all, they'd never really believed that particular set of fairy tales, right?
"What is happening?" asked the god.
"You are bound by my oath," spake the man. "I was serious about my promise to you. You forsook one of your flock, which was unwise in the first place. But I made my promise, and I intend to keep it."
"Her death was part of my greater plan," said many of the faces, "I work in mysterious ways." A few, though, said "the devil did it." They all seemed to expect this to save them.
The man with the sword stood and approached the gods, pocketing his whetstone along the way. He stopped before him. "Restore her to life by my side, and I will release you from my previous oath. Otherwise, I will kill you."
Many of him became defiant. "How? With that sword? You'll have to cut through two billion others before you can touch me."
"I would," said the man, "but this is no ordinary blade. In fact, it's so strong and sharp that it could pierce an iron chariot."
In that moment, the people saw something that they had never themselves seen before. Their gods were afraid. And, in that moment, the man thrust his sword under the gods' ribcage and into their heart, and the blade was multiplied across them all.
By the time that the blade was pulled out, the witnesses were gone, except that they were wherever they'd been the whole time. None of them were terribly affected by what they thought that they'd seen, though.
After all, they'd never really believed that particular set of fairy tales, right?
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