• LNH: Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths! #Square Root of 6pi: "PWP"

    From Drew Nilium@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 7 03:09:46 2021
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    HUNGRY, HUNGRY SABERTOOTHS!
    Issue #Square Root of 6pi: "PWP"
    A tale

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    Plotchopper sits in the Gray Area of the Moon, resting his back on the Looker's dome and looking out over the ruins of Acton Manor.

    The Earth is beautiful. It's hard to remember that, sometimes.

    It's hard to remember anything, sometimes.

    He knows he sacrificed his backstory for power. Not all at once. When he'd started doing the net.villain thing, he'd still been most of a person. But it was so easy. When he gave up the memory of something valuable, the chains of meaning broke, and hardly anything seemed worth remembering, remembering hardly seemed worth more than power...

    ...turns out, a past is necessary to have a future. He will never have the satisfaction of an ending, or even a fleeting resolution.

    He feels empty. He feels... hungry.

    There is a swirl of dust. He looks up and

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    Villains clash against villains in mighty combat, and Plotchopper laughs! He is eternally joyous!

    His Plotaxe clashes against OTP's claws! Things are happening to him, always, constantly! He slices thru Polybag Person's cape! Exciting things, the most important parts of any story! Captain Coredump tosses him across the room! His downtime is somewhere offscreen! A deadly spork grazes his cheek! And! He is in Valhalla!

    He is alive, full of electric vigor, out of control and in the moment. Every sacrifice has been worth this eternal now.

    A voice crackles over the PA system. "LET'S

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    Plotchopper stares at Agent Bennigan. He feels the man plucking at the threads of his plot. And when this does not work, the dread in the man's eyes makes him... *hungry*.

    This should unnerve him. It does not. Very little does. He wonders why.

    He wonders who, exactly, he's been sacrificing his backstory *to*. He doesn't remember. Of course he doesn't. You would think that would make it difficult to keep doing it. Unless someone was making sure you could.

    When he opened his memories to who-knows-what... Maybe some part of him began leaking out thru the cracks? Or maybe... something else is leaking *in*.

    He hears Mister Homage

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    Plotchopper floats outside of time, sitting in the EastJet, halfway between pulled out of one day and tossed into the next.

    He sits, staring out the window, and remembers everything. The man who had made the terrible bargain. The being who had accepted it. Why he'd done it. Who he'd done it for.

    Once you have the pieces, you can fit them together and see the pattern. Somehow, it all makes sense. He can say with certainty: He is still

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    Drew "Person Without Plot" Nilium

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  • From Drew Nilium@21:1/5 to Drew Nilium on Mon Feb 8 05:34:43 2021
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    On 2/6/21 10:09 PM, Drew Nilium wrote:
    HUNGRY, HUNGRY SABERTOOTHS!
    Issue #Square Root of 6pi: "PWP"
    A tale

    Incidentally, this is, in fact, the 50th issue of Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths!. Not counting the tie-ins, of course.

    Drew "the numbering is so far behind" Nilium

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