The Contest of Power (Wiki-Warrior style story) (Fallout)
- Thread starter Aurora Moon
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The Sunny have natural growing fruits and pop green and soil.
Aurora Moon
Verfied Insomniac with too much time on her hands
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I think by this point the followers have taken it over as it's right next to the hospital they're occupying. and I'm sure they moved all the plants and some of the fish indoors already.
Cindy's gotten more training off-screen than Karina and Iona at this time.
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Chapter 62--Testing out the Shrinking/Growing Ray, part two (finale)
Aurora Moon
Verfied Insomniac with too much time on her hands
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
>Ring<
A pale cream-colored pony with a blue mane and tail blinked, mid-way in the process of balancing a tray with food on it with one hoof/limb and looking as if he had been bringing this food to a table at a restaurant, appeared.
"There. That should be enough test subjects who'll test the food for us." Karina commented.
She then went over to the pony to give him the standard info as to how he got here and why he was here. Karina wouldn't normally think such a cute pony thing was sapient, but judging by how he was carrying that tray, and that weird butt tattoo on his butt? This was obviously a horse species that evolved to be sapient and sentient.
To her surprise, such an adorable-looking pony turned out to be very rude and snooty-sounding.
"Hmph! While I'm truly a food connoisseur and it's nice to be acknowledged for my talent in that area, I can't say I appreciate being spirited away like this on such short notice, and I see you're not even prepared to provide me any gold bits as compensation for my time, which I may add is very highly valuable?" He said as he raised one eyebrow at Karina.
Karina smiled weakly. "Well, we're testing an enlarging ray, so I'm sure we can find a gold watch or something else and enlarge it to give you all the gold you want. But for now, we're testing to see if the enlarging ray has any unusual effects or alters the taste of the giantized foods."
She then pointed over at Dr. Glenn, a surprisingly young teenage doctor who was still being hovered over protectively by his assistant Lamia, Sapphee.
"We have a doctor on hand who specializes in all lifeforms in case you have an allergic reaction to anything, as we have your safety high on our list of priorities here. So please don't be frightened to partake in our testing here. As I said, we will do our best to compensate you all."
This seemed to mollify the Earth Pony somewhat, as he sniffed. "That's something, at least."
He then asked, "So what sort of creatures are you all, anyhow? Are you all minotaurs? I've heard of them but never seen them before…. I would've thought you all had horns, however."
"Uh, no. We're all human beings. Well, mostly. We do have some non-humans over there." With that, she gestured at the Lamia and the Snubull creature.
The pony seemed to not care, as he said, "Well, whatever. Let's get this over with already."
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So the next hour was mostly them enlarging every food they had on hand, such as some of the remaining fruit they had.
Snubull became overly excited when it saw the giant Tangarine fruit, and wasted no time in tearing through the now tough leathery hide with its powerful jaws to get to the juicy bits inside.
It was then that they discovered that not every food was decent to eat enlarged. The thing about Tangerines and other citrus fruits? If you zoomed in on those fruits, then you would realize that they were basically connected bundles of edible balloon-like sacs that held a lot of juice inside them.
So yeah, with a giant fruit like that you could easily cut a sac out without damaging the fruit and feel like you were holding a balloon full of Tangarine juice… and that you could bite into the edible sac to have the juices burst forth into your mouth.
In other words, it was a novel way to have Tangarine juice but at the same time not very filling. A good way to get a lot of drinkable juice, however.
Savoir Faire commented this would be a great way of getting everyone juice without having to use glasses, as they could very easily eat the fruit sac itself too, leaving no waste behind. And the Tanagrine rinds could be easily used for a lot of things as well. Overall this was the fruit that everyone liked the most, as the rest mainly were enlarged canned foods besides the Boy Chok.
And well, packaged pre-war food was still edible but got stale-tasting after 200 years.
Something the pony complained loudly about saying that he very much preferred the Boy Chok greens and the fruit too. Snubull, on the other hand, seemed to have no problems eating canned food.
Karina couldn't help but think that it was lucky that the pony was so damn cute because he would've been highly obnoxious and intolerable otherwise.
But anyways, there was a lot of scanning and check-overs by both the monster doctor and Iona, and thankfully it seemed that nothing happened so far. So it meant that the enlarged foods seemed safe to eat, and with that, the Buffalo solider who had signed himself up as a guinea pig happily joined in the second round of testing--Human trials.
Normally, this sort of testing should've really occurred months after the animal testing…. But well, who had the time for that nowadays??
Surspingly enough Joycelyn and other women joined in on this once the Buffalo soldier confirmed that he didn't feel any adverse effects or even that the food tasted fine so far.
By the time it was dark, the whole event had turned into a large feast with enlarged dinosaur meat, a side of giant beans, and tangerine fruit sacs to drink from. There were large fire pits with the dinosaur meat on a rotating roast spit, and large pots of cooked giant beans and Boy chok that were diced up for easier eating.
Of course, Karina and Iona didn't forget their promises while all of this was being set up and did indeed enlarge a giant gold watch that was then cut up into metal strips so that every summoned member got a fair share of both Brass and Iron (what the gears were made out of), and the gold which was all put into large makeshift bags made from old clothing they had found in the locker rooms of Vault 129.
The summoned was told to always hold on to the bags at all times, so this way should all the summoned "time out" once their time was up, and return to their world, they wouldn't leave empty-handed accidentally.
But Snubull was the only one who didn't seem appreciative of this at all and kept on looking over at the food. Snubull was much happier when Karina noticed this and instead replaced the bag full of metals with Foodstuff instead.
"Snubull!" The creature cried out in thanks at this.
It seemed intelligent enough to understand that the bag full of food was for later on, and opted to focus on the foods being grilled outside this evening and ate that until it lay on the ground with a fully contented expression on its face, rubbing its belly as it slowly got dulled into a food coma.
Meanwhile, Karina sat with her summoned creatures/people and got to know them.
Savoir Faire seemed surprised to find out that he was in another world completely, with Karina having the "special talent" to summon things and living beings from other worlds.
"I should probably report to the Queen about this… contact with other worlds is highly irregular." He said, and then he slumped. "But would anybody even believe me?"
Karina then said, "Maybe if you had some proof, something that couldn't be created over there? I'm willing to give you something that can't be so easily fabricated where you live."
The pony perked up at that. "You'd do that for me?"
Karina nodded. "Well, yeah. I did very rudely pull you from your world without your consent, just so I could test food to see if it was safe. You do deserve a fair amount of compensation after all of that. And anything to help you not be seen as a madman back home would be part of that."
Savoir Faire nodded and sniffed at that. "Indeed. It's nice to see that you have some common sense, at least."
Karina then said with a sheepish expression, "Plus there are chances that in the future I might randomly pull other ponies over to this side so the more ponies that know about this, the better. I don't want ponies to panic thinking I mean them ill when most likely all I'd do is ask for their help on various things before sending them back home."
"....." Savoir Faire had no idea how to react to this at all.
Dr. Glenn then spoke up. "It's amazing though… other worlds… wow! I wonder what other creatures are out there? I see so many different intelligent species in my line of work, I can't start to fathom how many more unusual creatures I might see out there."
Karina took a bite out of her diced beans and Boy chok stew, before speaking again. "Speaking of which… It's amazing how you became a doctor at such a young age when children like you would still be in school. How did that come about?"
Dr. Glenn started to look mildly offended at that. "I'm not a child, I'm fifteen. I'm an adult in my own right."
Karina blinked at that.
Right, Dr. Glenn came from a medieval fantasy world where both monster-kind and Humanity had finally achieved peace with each other after decades of war. In such a world, teenagers would be considered adults and not kids due to humanity's low life expectancy, especially if they didn't even have modern conveniences like indoor plumbing to help extend their lifespans.
She then said, "Ah, cultural differences between our worlds, I suppose. You see, in our world here, you'd be considered a young kid. Way too young to be of marriageable age without it becoming scandalous as kids around your age would still be in school or a university to study for their future careers."
Savoir Faire nodded. "That's how it is for my people too. Young colts of that age would still be figuring out which jobs they wanted to do, and still living with their parents."
That seemed utterly alien to Dr. Glenn as he blinked. "Oh…"
Oddly enough, This was enough to relax Sapphee the Lamia who had been glaring at every woman who came too close to Dr. Glenn. Apparently, she was worried that somebody here would see Dr. Glenn as a prospective lover/husband. Looked as if somebody had strong feelings for the young doctor, and it wasn't her, heh.
With that, they all started animatedly started discussing the differences between all their worlds and were amazed to notice that a lot of things remained the same despite some differences.
It was true, that saying. "The more things change, the more some things stay the same."
Karina could kinda sense that it was getting close to the time before they all vanished back to where they came from, so she got up and told Savior Faire she'd look for something he'd take back home as proof.
She rummaged again in the locker rooms and found an working pre-war camera with some camera roll still in it, and it still had 7 shots left over in it along with other images that somebody must've taken before they put it in the locker room.
She hurried back out and asked Savoir Faire if they had cameras back home.
"Of course, we do. What do you take us for, a bunch of tech-free savages?" He replied in that same snotty manner.
Karina then held up the camera and told him her idea.
Savoir Faire was all for the idea, so they took a few group photos, and with that, she handed the camera over to him so that he could put it in his bag along with the metal scraps.
The improv feast continued the rest of the night, with the summoned members eventually disappearing one by one.
And it eventually got too late and too cold for all the women to want to stay out here any longer, so they all slowly retired to the vault for the night.
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A/N: I think out of everyone else, the wild Snubull seemed the happiest. It wasn't ready to be captured by a trainer, but it was also hungry so it got to eat without worrying about being captured by a Pokeball. And it got to eat as much as it wanted so much that it went into a food coma. 🙂
And I wasn't planning on the improv feast party forming out of nowhere, but it just happened. It seemed to be a natural consequence of all the characters wanting to eat giant food once they confirmed it was safe.
| https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Savoir_Fare 8 Savoir Fare, or Horte Cuisine, is a male Earth pony waiter with a pale cream coat, a two-tone blue mane and tail, brown eyes, and a cutie mark of a serving dish with a silver cover. He is not named in the show, being called simply "Waiter" in the credits of the season five episode Slice of Life, but he is named in merchandise and other media. Effect: For eight hours, this Earth Pony is summoned to be used as a food tester. |
A pale cream-colored pony with a blue mane and tail blinked, mid-way in the process of balancing a tray with food on it with one hoof/limb and looking as if he had been bringing this food to a table at a restaurant, appeared.
"There. That should be enough test subjects who'll test the food for us." Karina commented.
She then went over to the pony to give him the standard info as to how he got here and why he was here. Karina wouldn't normally think such a cute pony thing was sapient, but judging by how he was carrying that tray, and that weird butt tattoo on his butt? This was obviously a horse species that evolved to be sapient and sentient.
To her surprise, such an adorable-looking pony turned out to be very rude and snooty-sounding.
"Hmph! While I'm truly a food connoisseur and it's nice to be acknowledged for my talent in that area, I can't say I appreciate being spirited away like this on such short notice, and I see you're not even prepared to provide me any gold bits as compensation for my time, which I may add is very highly valuable?" He said as he raised one eyebrow at Karina.
Karina smiled weakly. "Well, we're testing an enlarging ray, so I'm sure we can find a gold watch or something else and enlarge it to give you all the gold you want. But for now, we're testing to see if the enlarging ray has any unusual effects or alters the taste of the giantized foods."
She then pointed over at Dr. Glenn, a surprisingly young teenage doctor who was still being hovered over protectively by his assistant Lamia, Sapphee.
"We have a doctor on hand who specializes in all lifeforms in case you have an allergic reaction to anything, as we have your safety high on our list of priorities here. So please don't be frightened to partake in our testing here. As I said, we will do our best to compensate you all."
This seemed to mollify the Earth Pony somewhat, as he sniffed. "That's something, at least."
He then asked, "So what sort of creatures are you all, anyhow? Are you all minotaurs? I've heard of them but never seen them before…. I would've thought you all had horns, however."
"Uh, no. We're all human beings. Well, mostly. We do have some non-humans over there." With that, she gestured at the Lamia and the Snubull creature.
The pony seemed to not care, as he said, "Well, whatever. Let's get this over with already."
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So the next hour was mostly them enlarging every food they had on hand, such as some of the remaining fruit they had.
Snubull became overly excited when it saw the giant Tangarine fruit, and wasted no time in tearing through the now tough leathery hide with its powerful jaws to get to the juicy bits inside.
It was then that they discovered that not every food was decent to eat enlarged. The thing about Tangerines and other citrus fruits? If you zoomed in on those fruits, then you would realize that they were basically connected bundles of edible balloon-like sacs that held a lot of juice inside them.
So yeah, with a giant fruit like that you could easily cut a sac out without damaging the fruit and feel like you were holding a balloon full of Tangarine juice… and that you could bite into the edible sac to have the juices burst forth into your mouth.
In other words, it was a novel way to have Tangarine juice but at the same time not very filling. A good way to get a lot of drinkable juice, however.
Savoir Faire commented this would be a great way of getting everyone juice without having to use glasses, as they could very easily eat the fruit sac itself too, leaving no waste behind. And the Tanagrine rinds could be easily used for a lot of things as well. Overall this was the fruit that everyone liked the most, as the rest mainly were enlarged canned foods besides the Boy Chok.
And well, packaged pre-war food was still edible but got stale-tasting after 200 years.
Something the pony complained loudly about saying that he very much preferred the Boy Chok greens and the fruit too. Snubull, on the other hand, seemed to have no problems eating canned food.
Karina couldn't help but think that it was lucky that the pony was so damn cute because he would've been highly obnoxious and intolerable otherwise.
But anyways, there was a lot of scanning and check-overs by both the monster doctor and Iona, and thankfully it seemed that nothing happened so far. So it meant that the enlarged foods seemed safe to eat, and with that, the Buffalo solider who had signed himself up as a guinea pig happily joined in the second round of testing--Human trials.
Normally, this sort of testing should've really occurred months after the animal testing…. But well, who had the time for that nowadays??
Surspingly enough Joycelyn and other women joined in on this once the Buffalo soldier confirmed that he didn't feel any adverse effects or even that the food tasted fine so far.
By the time it was dark, the whole event had turned into a large feast with enlarged dinosaur meat, a side of giant beans, and tangerine fruit sacs to drink from. There were large fire pits with the dinosaur meat on a rotating roast spit, and large pots of cooked giant beans and Boy chok that were diced up for easier eating.
Of course, Karina and Iona didn't forget their promises while all of this was being set up and did indeed enlarge a giant gold watch that was then cut up into metal strips so that every summoned member got a fair share of both Brass and Iron (what the gears were made out of), and the gold which was all put into large makeshift bags made from old clothing they had found in the locker rooms of Vault 129.
The summoned was told to always hold on to the bags at all times, so this way should all the summoned "time out" once their time was up, and return to their world, they wouldn't leave empty-handed accidentally.
But Snubull was the only one who didn't seem appreciative of this at all and kept on looking over at the food. Snubull was much happier when Karina noticed this and instead replaced the bag full of metals with Foodstuff instead.
"Snubull!" The creature cried out in thanks at this.
It seemed intelligent enough to understand that the bag full of food was for later on, and opted to focus on the foods being grilled outside this evening and ate that until it lay on the ground with a fully contented expression on its face, rubbing its belly as it slowly got dulled into a food coma.
Meanwhile, Karina sat with her summoned creatures/people and got to know them.
Savoir Faire seemed surprised to find out that he was in another world completely, with Karina having the "special talent" to summon things and living beings from other worlds.
"I should probably report to the Queen about this… contact with other worlds is highly irregular." He said, and then he slumped. "But would anybody even believe me?"
Karina then said, "Maybe if you had some proof, something that couldn't be created over there? I'm willing to give you something that can't be so easily fabricated where you live."
The pony perked up at that. "You'd do that for me?"
Karina nodded. "Well, yeah. I did very rudely pull you from your world without your consent, just so I could test food to see if it was safe. You do deserve a fair amount of compensation after all of that. And anything to help you not be seen as a madman back home would be part of that."
Savoir Faire nodded and sniffed at that. "Indeed. It's nice to see that you have some common sense, at least."
Karina then said with a sheepish expression, "Plus there are chances that in the future I might randomly pull other ponies over to this side so the more ponies that know about this, the better. I don't want ponies to panic thinking I mean them ill when most likely all I'd do is ask for their help on various things before sending them back home."
"....." Savoir Faire had no idea how to react to this at all.
Dr. Glenn then spoke up. "It's amazing though… other worlds… wow! I wonder what other creatures are out there? I see so many different intelligent species in my line of work, I can't start to fathom how many more unusual creatures I might see out there."
Karina took a bite out of her diced beans and Boy chok stew, before speaking again. "Speaking of which… It's amazing how you became a doctor at such a young age when children like you would still be in school. How did that come about?"
Dr. Glenn started to look mildly offended at that. "I'm not a child, I'm fifteen. I'm an adult in my own right."
Karina blinked at that.
Right, Dr. Glenn came from a medieval fantasy world where both monster-kind and Humanity had finally achieved peace with each other after decades of war. In such a world, teenagers would be considered adults and not kids due to humanity's low life expectancy, especially if they didn't even have modern conveniences like indoor plumbing to help extend their lifespans.
She then said, "Ah, cultural differences between our worlds, I suppose. You see, in our world here, you'd be considered a young kid. Way too young to be of marriageable age without it becoming scandalous as kids around your age would still be in school or a university to study for their future careers."
Savoir Faire nodded. "That's how it is for my people too. Young colts of that age would still be figuring out which jobs they wanted to do, and still living with their parents."
That seemed utterly alien to Dr. Glenn as he blinked. "Oh…"
Oddly enough, This was enough to relax Sapphee the Lamia who had been glaring at every woman who came too close to Dr. Glenn. Apparently, she was worried that somebody here would see Dr. Glenn as a prospective lover/husband. Looked as if somebody had strong feelings for the young doctor, and it wasn't her, heh.
With that, they all started animatedly started discussing the differences between all their worlds and were amazed to notice that a lot of things remained the same despite some differences.
It was true, that saying. "The more things change, the more some things stay the same."
Karina could kinda sense that it was getting close to the time before they all vanished back to where they came from, so she got up and told Savior Faire she'd look for something he'd take back home as proof.
She rummaged again in the locker rooms and found an working pre-war camera with some camera roll still in it, and it still had 7 shots left over in it along with other images that somebody must've taken before they put it in the locker room.
She hurried back out and asked Savoir Faire if they had cameras back home.
"Of course, we do. What do you take us for, a bunch of tech-free savages?" He replied in that same snotty manner.
Karina then held up the camera and told him her idea.
Savoir Faire was all for the idea, so they took a few group photos, and with that, she handed the camera over to him so that he could put it in his bag along with the metal scraps.
The improv feast continued the rest of the night, with the summoned members eventually disappearing one by one.
And it eventually got too late and too cold for all the women to want to stay out here any longer, so they all slowly retired to the vault for the night.
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A/N: I think out of everyone else, the wild Snubull seemed the happiest. It wasn't ready to be captured by a trainer, but it was also hungry so it got to eat without worrying about being captured by a Pokeball. And it got to eat as much as it wanted so much that it went into a food coma. 🙂
And I wasn't planning on the improv feast party forming out of nowhere, but it just happened. It seemed to be a natural consequence of all the characters wanting to eat giant food once they confirmed it was safe.
clonezero
Is it a bad thing if my t read list keeps growing?
If Twilight's already an alicorn then she may end up interested in trying to find this dimension. Though she's likely to stumble upon the Fallout: Equestria section of the multiverse first.
Pink Eyes remains to be my fav from that sub genre.
Pink Eyes remains to be my fav from that sub genre.
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GamingandReading
Browses and Replies With Haste
- Pronouns
- He/Him
This was nice. Wholesome bites like this makes me happy.
- Location
- United States
Um, do you mean Fallout Equestria? Because Canon Equestria did have things like Trains and Cameras, even if it didn't seem so. Though I can only imagine Equestria under Twilight's Rule having a tech boom as well, or at least the beginning of it.
Though I hope there wasn't something naughty on that roll of film from the previous owner. That wouldn't be a Good First Impression would it?
- Location
- kentucky
remember i said advanced tech
Chapter 63--Using the Fallout Shelter machine.
Aurora Moon
Verfied Insomniac with too much time on her hands
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
"I'm so refreshed!" It startled Karina as she found herself randomly yelling that when she got out of her new bed. She couldn't help but wonder why one felt compelled to say that every time she got out of that bed and if there was a way to stop that effect.
>Ring<
Unfortunately, Karina wasn't quite ready for the Oak dresser to pop up in front of her so suddenly because she stubbed her toe against the legs of the oak dresser.
"Ow!" she yelped loudly before hopping away from the dresser.
>Ring<
The holodisks loudly clattered to the floor once they appeared out of thin air and were suspended in the air comically for a few seconds before physics finally took effect.
"Hey, keep it down! I'm trying to sleep here!" somebody yelled out in the dark, and Karina groaned before yelling back, "Sorry!"
She then sat on the bed, rubbing her sock-covered foot which she had stubbed her stone on, and then bent down on the floor to pick up her Pip-boy which she had taken off along with her boots before she laid down for the night. She then tilted the screen so that she could see what time it was.
……..
What the hell, it was 5 am in the morning and she felt like she had slept for 8-9 hours straight instead of less time than that.
It was still dark out, for Pete's sake.
…..
She was going back to sleep because no way she could possibly feel this energized so early in the AM. Because one thing she never was, being a morning person. In fact, she completely detested those who could get up so early in the morning and be so energized and perky without even having a cup of coffee.
……
Against her will, she found herself jumping out of bed and yelling "I'm so refreshed!" after she tried to fall asleep after a few minutes.
Grr. well, if the bed wanted her to be one of those annoying perky morning people, then fine! Didn't mean she had to like it.
Grumbling slightly, she slapped her Pip-boy on her wrist and then pulled on her boots before getting up to go to the cafeteria.
To her surprise, Cindy was there along with Coupe, and the two of them appeared to be eating the leftovers from the improvised instant food festival the other day after they enlarged some food that was now big enough to feed a whole village.
"Gosh. I ate so much yesterday and today I'm still so hungry. What gives?" Cindy grumbled.
"It's because you're still in the middle of cultivating and purifying your body using some of the magic exercises I taught you. And that does take up a lot of energy." the green-furred fairy explained.
Karina looked Cindy over while she was sitting down eating, and the two of them hadn't noticed her come in yet.
It seemed that Cindy was making great progress because she was now reasonably tall for a human woman at 6'0, which could be the same as a tall human male, instead of at 7'5 like she was before.
"I've got to say, you're making great progress. What are you at, now? 6 feet tall now?" Karina chimed in as she walked past them towards the coffee machine.
Might as brew a lot of coffee today while she was at it. She still felt energized, but that could wear off fast.
"Oh, hello. You're up awfully early." Cindy commented.
"I could say the same about you?" Karina asked back.
Cindy sighed. "The way the magic is and the way I've been using it's been playing havoc on my sleeping patterns. When I try to pull ambient magic into myself as part of my exercises then I feel so energized I can't sleep so then I do all those other exercises to burn off the excess magic but then I feel so tired I crash for hours at odd times of the day. And it doesn't help that when I'm purifying myself, this black gunk keeps on coming out of my pores and other places. ugh."
"I've told you before, that's perfectly normal. That's your body getting rid of all impurities, like that serum they pumped into you." Coupe stated rather factually.
"I know, I know. But I still don't like having to take so many showers in one day. Kinda feels like I'd be pushing the vault's water chip to its' limits." Cindy mumbled.
Karina sat down with them after she got her coffee, and then pointed out, "But at this speed, you're going, you won't have to put up with that any longer. You've been making a great time. Hell, most regular exercises have women waiting months if not a year before they finally achieve their ideal body shape."
Cindy brightened up at this. "That's true. It's been weeks now, I think, and I'm nearly back to normal. Still…. I could do with a nap right now."
"You could take my new bed for now. I summoned it a while ago and I've noticed something odd with it…. It seems to give me a lot of energy fast, to the point that sleeping a full night or full day is impossible." Karina suggested.
Cindy perked up at that. "Oh, sounds like a bed made for short naps, then!"
Karina hadn't thought of that, but she supposed Cindy was right. If sleeping a full night was impossible on that bed, then it was definitely a napping bed rather than one designed for a night's sleep.
That did mean she needed another bed, that one designated for a long night's worth of sleep, however.
"So, where is this new bed of yours?" Cindy asked curiously, so Karina got out of her seat still holding her coffee cup.
"I'll show you."
With that, she led the two of them back to the sleeping quarters and showed them the corner where she had been sleeping earlier. She noticed the holodisks still on the floor and put her cup on the Oak dresser to collect them all.
Meanwhile, Cindy went to sit on the bed, and commented, "Hmmm, it feels much softer and more comfortable than the military-grade thin mattresses we got here. Is this mattress actually ten times thick than the other mattresses here??"
She then laid down stretching her whole body across the bed and then sighed. "Oh yes, this is so nice…"
And just like that, she was out like a light.
Coupe blinked. Karina then turned to face him, now holding all the holodisks in one arm while she picked up the coffee.
She then said, "might've been training her too hard, if she's this exhausted."
With that, Karina walked away towards the lab room to drop the holodisks for Iona to look at later.
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After that, Karina was at a loss. She didn't know what to do so early this morning. The majority of the people were still asleep at this hour after all!
But, she then remembered Lauren saying something about how she wanted to use the fallout shelter machine to help clear out the original rooms where all of the men had died and turn one of the largest rooms into a proper hydroponics room.
…. Well, why not? She could get started on that.
She strolled over to the fallout shelter room connected to the Overseer's office and then started selecting a bunch of preprogrammed commands to activate the robots on the other side of the room that were still resting or recharging in their pods.
Once the robots were activated she let out a verbal command to have them follow her to the largest room that had held most of the men, and start recycling everything in it save for the computers. The computers would be spared and moved to a different room, that way they would still have all the data and files on hand in case they needed it.
And she didn't plan to just sit back and let the robots do all the work, oh no. she was the type who liked to keep her hands busy, so she helped the robots unscrew the large sleeping pods that used to hold the unfortunate men in them.
And with that, she helped carry the glass parts back to the fallout shelter room, where they would be put into this machine to help recycle them. And did the same for all the other machine bits from the sleeping pods, such as the medical monitoring devices.
It was slow work though, and it was finally at 7 am when everyone else woke up to find out that Karina had managed to make good progress on cleaning out one of the rooms.
There were still a lot of sleeping pods, but Karina had removed 15 with help from the robots so far and already there was a lot of noticeable blank space now.
Lauren seemed pleasantly surprised at this, as she came into the room with a coffee cup that had been halfway enlarged, (Iona had figured out the settings to scale it up or down however she wanted), and now no longer looked ridiculously tiny in her large hands.
"You didn't get rid of the computers along the wall?" She asked, curious.
Karina answered, "I thought about that, but what if there are some important files on them? Wouldn't it be better to simply move them to a different room?"
Lauren snorted. "We can just easily transfer the data over, and then recycle them. Hmm, I'll do that now, can't let you do all the hard work."
"Oh, alright." Karina blinked before getting back to work.
8 am, Everyone had gotten their share of coffee and breakfast and so Joceyln and some of the others started coming in to help clear out the room, with some direction from the robots.
Finally, by 12 pm, the whole room was now bare and looked like it could be easily rented out as a party space, that's how big it seemed now without all the pods cluttering it up.
Lauren seemed satisfied by the size, as it meant that this room might actually grow enough food to be able to feed everyone.
With that, the two of them went to the Fallout Shelter room to see how many more resources they needed to recycle before they could convert that room into a hydroponics room. The good news, they were halfway there but they still needed a ridiculous amount of metals to build up the room as the hydroponics room was meant to have a lot of pipes and other things that would move the water through them to prevent the water from becoming sitting water, which often smelled over time and could be detrimental to the plants growing there.
"What if we have the robots knock down the wall connecting to the other pod room, and recycle that room too? Then we'd have enough for a very large Hydronics room that could feed the entire vault then some." Karina suggested.
Lauren looked thoughtful at that as she mulled that over, and then nodded. She said, "I was gonna suggest that we find some old tools that nobody's using and enlarge them to cheat our way through the resources needed, but that sounds good too. We'll have to rearrange the rooms around anyways, the rooms as they are right now no longer make sense if we're supposed to turn this into a livable place permanently."
Karina nodded back, and then her stomach rumbled loudly.
She chuckled sheepishly. "All this talk must've made me hungry."
Lauren smiled. "Go on then, have your lunch break."
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"Well, well. We meet again, Cindy." Karina commented as she walked into the Cafeteria to find Cindy there once again.
Cindy waved at her while Karina walked over to the side of the cafeteria to grab herself some food leftovers.
She then sat down across from Cindy as Cindy said, "You were right… that bed is really something else. Although…." She then frowned slightly as she asked, "But was it just me, or did it make you yell out 'I'm so refreshed!' when you get out of bed?"
Karina chuckled, somewhat glad it wasn't just her the bed had the effect on too. "I know, it did that to me too. I guess it's a magic bed or something?"
Cindy mulled that over thoughtfully, and then she smiled. "Yeah, that would track. If superpowers exist… then why can't magic exist somewhere else too? Although I have to wonder what kind of person would want only four to three hours of sleep and not a full night's sleep?"
"Easy. A college student." Karina replied instantly. "I remember having to do all-nighters when I was studying or having to write essays. That bed would've been a godsend to me back then."
Cindy nodded. "Makes sense. I would think they'd find some way to have the spell not require the yelling part, however."
It was then that the two of them saw Yoda walk into the Cafeteria, and saw his large ears perk up slightly upon seeing Karina as if he had been looking for her.
Yoda waddled over and then hopped up onto the sea next to Karina.
He then told her, "Karina, premonition, had I. When this morning sleeping and dreaming earlier, seeking me to train him in the ways of the Jedi, dreamt of a young man who would. He who walks across the skies."
Karina blinked at that puzzledly. "Okay?"
Yoda smiled pleasantly. "An interesting and overall enjoyable experience seeing this world for myself, it was. But, Karina, the force beckons. Feel it, I can."
Karina blinked again. "Oh, alright. Would you like me to get you some things to send along with you on your trip back?"
Cindy pouted. "Aw. I'm gonna miss seeing you wander the hallways, little guy."
Yoda inclined his head. "I require not anything for my return trip home, but for the offer thank you, Karina. And Cindy, do tell the others that I said farewell and well wishes."
Cindy nodded at that, and Karina put her hand on Yoda's shoulder and closed her eyes, willing him away.
And within seconds she could feel displaced air under her hand instead of something warm and solid.
Cindy sighed. "I guess even a guy like him would eventually want to go back home after all. But he made for an interesting second teacher in addition to Coupe."
Karina then asked, "What'd he teach you about?"
Cindy shrugged. "Not much. I was no Jedi, whatever that means, so the only thing he could teach me was a few meditation techniques and ways to control and focus my feelings so that they could be channeled properly. He also taught me a few sword moves that could be used by non-Jedi."
"Sword moves? Aw man, I wish I could've gotten on in that." Karina mumbled around her food as she ate.
Cindy smirked, "You were quite busy, Karina. Especially today."
Karina nodded and swallowed her food. "That's true."
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A/N: and so we say farewell to Yoda. I just felt it was time, you know? I realized I hadn't focused much on him in the past chapters and I couldn't think of anything else he could be useful for….
I sorta forgot about him because there was no use for him. So when that happens, I think that's time to send him back.
>Ring<
| https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Oak_Dresser Roll 20 A regular Oak dresser from Stardew Valley, you can place this anywhere you want. Effect: As this is a 20, this thing is ridiculously durable, in pristine condition, and is permanent forever. |
Unfortunately, Karina wasn't quite ready for the Oak dresser to pop up in front of her so suddenly because she stubbed her toe against the legs of the oak dresser.
"Ow!" she yelped loudly before hopping away from the dresser.
>Ring<
| https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Sega_Smash_Pack Roll 18 A series of game collections compiled on various disks, if I'm reading this correctly. All of them are typically in that 16-bit sprite game format, save for a few unique ones like the ComixZone game, in which you play a character trapped in a comic book who's trying to escape back into the real world. There are at least 13 games mentioned on this list. Effect: This is converted into a collection of Holo-games, each on its separate holodisk as I don't think people might be happy having to share one Holodisk between all of them for entertainment purposes. |
The holodisks loudly clattered to the floor once they appeared out of thin air and were suspended in the air comically for a few seconds before physics finally took effect.
"Hey, keep it down! I'm trying to sleep here!" somebody yelled out in the dark, and Karina groaned before yelling back, "Sorry!"
She then sat on the bed, rubbing her sock-covered foot which she had stubbed her stone on, and then bent down on the floor to pick up her Pip-boy which she had taken off along with her boots before she laid down for the night. She then tilted the screen so that she could see what time it was.
……..
What the hell, it was 5 am in the morning and she felt like she had slept for 8-9 hours straight instead of less time than that.
It was still dark out, for Pete's sake.
…..
She was going back to sleep because no way she could possibly feel this energized so early in the AM. Because one thing she never was, being a morning person. In fact, she completely detested those who could get up so early in the morning and be so energized and perky without even having a cup of coffee.
……
Against her will, she found herself jumping out of bed and yelling "I'm so refreshed!" after she tried to fall asleep after a few minutes.
Grr. well, if the bed wanted her to be one of those annoying perky morning people, then fine! Didn't mean she had to like it.
Grumbling slightly, she slapped her Pip-boy on her wrist and then pulled on her boots before getting up to go to the cafeteria.
To her surprise, Cindy was there along with Coupe, and the two of them appeared to be eating the leftovers from the improvised instant food festival the other day after they enlarged some food that was now big enough to feed a whole village.
"Gosh. I ate so much yesterday and today I'm still so hungry. What gives?" Cindy grumbled.
"It's because you're still in the middle of cultivating and purifying your body using some of the magic exercises I taught you. And that does take up a lot of energy." the green-furred fairy explained.
Karina looked Cindy over while she was sitting down eating, and the two of them hadn't noticed her come in yet.
It seemed that Cindy was making great progress because she was now reasonably tall for a human woman at 6'0, which could be the same as a tall human male, instead of at 7'5 like she was before.
"I've got to say, you're making great progress. What are you at, now? 6 feet tall now?" Karina chimed in as she walked past them towards the coffee machine.
Might as brew a lot of coffee today while she was at it. She still felt energized, but that could wear off fast.
"Oh, hello. You're up awfully early." Cindy commented.
"I could say the same about you?" Karina asked back.
Cindy sighed. "The way the magic is and the way I've been using it's been playing havoc on my sleeping patterns. When I try to pull ambient magic into myself as part of my exercises then I feel so energized I can't sleep so then I do all those other exercises to burn off the excess magic but then I feel so tired I crash for hours at odd times of the day. And it doesn't help that when I'm purifying myself, this black gunk keeps on coming out of my pores and other places. ugh."
"I've told you before, that's perfectly normal. That's your body getting rid of all impurities, like that serum they pumped into you." Coupe stated rather factually.
"I know, I know. But I still don't like having to take so many showers in one day. Kinda feels like I'd be pushing the vault's water chip to its' limits." Cindy mumbled.
Karina sat down with them after she got her coffee, and then pointed out, "But at this speed, you're going, you won't have to put up with that any longer. You've been making a great time. Hell, most regular exercises have women waiting months if not a year before they finally achieve their ideal body shape."
Cindy brightened up at this. "That's true. It's been weeks now, I think, and I'm nearly back to normal. Still…. I could do with a nap right now."
"You could take my new bed for now. I summoned it a while ago and I've noticed something odd with it…. It seems to give me a lot of energy fast, to the point that sleeping a full night or full day is impossible." Karina suggested.
Cindy perked up at that. "Oh, sounds like a bed made for short naps, then!"
Karina hadn't thought of that, but she supposed Cindy was right. If sleeping a full night was impossible on that bed, then it was definitely a napping bed rather than one designed for a night's sleep.
That did mean she needed another bed, that one designated for a long night's worth of sleep, however.
"So, where is this new bed of yours?" Cindy asked curiously, so Karina got out of her seat still holding her coffee cup.
"I'll show you."
With that, she led the two of them back to the sleeping quarters and showed them the corner where she had been sleeping earlier. She noticed the holodisks still on the floor and put her cup on the Oak dresser to collect them all.
Meanwhile, Cindy went to sit on the bed, and commented, "Hmmm, it feels much softer and more comfortable than the military-grade thin mattresses we got here. Is this mattress actually ten times thick than the other mattresses here??"
She then laid down stretching her whole body across the bed and then sighed. "Oh yes, this is so nice…"
And just like that, she was out like a light.
Coupe blinked. Karina then turned to face him, now holding all the holodisks in one arm while she picked up the coffee.
She then said, "might've been training her too hard, if she's this exhausted."
With that, Karina walked away towards the lab room to drop the holodisks for Iona to look at later.
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After that, Karina was at a loss. She didn't know what to do so early this morning. The majority of the people were still asleep at this hour after all!
But, she then remembered Lauren saying something about how she wanted to use the fallout shelter machine to help clear out the original rooms where all of the men had died and turn one of the largest rooms into a proper hydroponics room.
…. Well, why not? She could get started on that.
She strolled over to the fallout shelter room connected to the Overseer's office and then started selecting a bunch of preprogrammed commands to activate the robots on the other side of the room that were still resting or recharging in their pods.
Once the robots were activated she let out a verbal command to have them follow her to the largest room that had held most of the men, and start recycling everything in it save for the computers. The computers would be spared and moved to a different room, that way they would still have all the data and files on hand in case they needed it.
And she didn't plan to just sit back and let the robots do all the work, oh no. she was the type who liked to keep her hands busy, so she helped the robots unscrew the large sleeping pods that used to hold the unfortunate men in them.
And with that, she helped carry the glass parts back to the fallout shelter room, where they would be put into this machine to help recycle them. And did the same for all the other machine bits from the sleeping pods, such as the medical monitoring devices.
It was slow work though, and it was finally at 7 am when everyone else woke up to find out that Karina had managed to make good progress on cleaning out one of the rooms.
There were still a lot of sleeping pods, but Karina had removed 15 with help from the robots so far and already there was a lot of noticeable blank space now.
Lauren seemed pleasantly surprised at this, as she came into the room with a coffee cup that had been halfway enlarged, (Iona had figured out the settings to scale it up or down however she wanted), and now no longer looked ridiculously tiny in her large hands.
"You didn't get rid of the computers along the wall?" She asked, curious.
Karina answered, "I thought about that, but what if there are some important files on them? Wouldn't it be better to simply move them to a different room?"
Lauren snorted. "We can just easily transfer the data over, and then recycle them. Hmm, I'll do that now, can't let you do all the hard work."
"Oh, alright." Karina blinked before getting back to work.
8 am, Everyone had gotten their share of coffee and breakfast and so Joceyln and some of the others started coming in to help clear out the room, with some direction from the robots.
Finally, by 12 pm, the whole room was now bare and looked like it could be easily rented out as a party space, that's how big it seemed now without all the pods cluttering it up.
Lauren seemed satisfied by the size, as it meant that this room might actually grow enough food to be able to feed everyone.
With that, the two of them went to the Fallout Shelter room to see how many more resources they needed to recycle before they could convert that room into a hydroponics room. The good news, they were halfway there but they still needed a ridiculous amount of metals to build up the room as the hydroponics room was meant to have a lot of pipes and other things that would move the water through them to prevent the water from becoming sitting water, which often smelled over time and could be detrimental to the plants growing there.
"What if we have the robots knock down the wall connecting to the other pod room, and recycle that room too? Then we'd have enough for a very large Hydronics room that could feed the entire vault then some." Karina suggested.
Lauren looked thoughtful at that as she mulled that over, and then nodded. She said, "I was gonna suggest that we find some old tools that nobody's using and enlarge them to cheat our way through the resources needed, but that sounds good too. We'll have to rearrange the rooms around anyways, the rooms as they are right now no longer make sense if we're supposed to turn this into a livable place permanently."
Karina nodded back, and then her stomach rumbled loudly.
She chuckled sheepishly. "All this talk must've made me hungry."
Lauren smiled. "Go on then, have your lunch break."
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"Well, well. We meet again, Cindy." Karina commented as she walked into the Cafeteria to find Cindy there once again.
Cindy waved at her while Karina walked over to the side of the cafeteria to grab herself some food leftovers.
She then sat down across from Cindy as Cindy said, "You were right… that bed is really something else. Although…." She then frowned slightly as she asked, "But was it just me, or did it make you yell out 'I'm so refreshed!' when you get out of bed?"
Karina chuckled, somewhat glad it wasn't just her the bed had the effect on too. "I know, it did that to me too. I guess it's a magic bed or something?"
Cindy mulled that over thoughtfully, and then she smiled. "Yeah, that would track. If superpowers exist… then why can't magic exist somewhere else too? Although I have to wonder what kind of person would want only four to three hours of sleep and not a full night's sleep?"
"Easy. A college student." Karina replied instantly. "I remember having to do all-nighters when I was studying or having to write essays. That bed would've been a godsend to me back then."
Cindy nodded. "Makes sense. I would think they'd find some way to have the spell not require the yelling part, however."
It was then that the two of them saw Yoda walk into the Cafeteria, and saw his large ears perk up slightly upon seeing Karina as if he had been looking for her.
Yoda waddled over and then hopped up onto the sea next to Karina.
He then told her, "Karina, premonition, had I. When this morning sleeping and dreaming earlier, seeking me to train him in the ways of the Jedi, dreamt of a young man who would. He who walks across the skies."
Karina blinked at that puzzledly. "Okay?"
Yoda smiled pleasantly. "An interesting and overall enjoyable experience seeing this world for myself, it was. But, Karina, the force beckons. Feel it, I can."
Karina blinked again. "Oh, alright. Would you like me to get you some things to send along with you on your trip back?"
Cindy pouted. "Aw. I'm gonna miss seeing you wander the hallways, little guy."
Yoda inclined his head. "I require not anything for my return trip home, but for the offer thank you, Karina. And Cindy, do tell the others that I said farewell and well wishes."
Cindy nodded at that, and Karina put her hand on Yoda's shoulder and closed her eyes, willing him away.
And within seconds she could feel displaced air under her hand instead of something warm and solid.
Cindy sighed. "I guess even a guy like him would eventually want to go back home after all. But he made for an interesting second teacher in addition to Coupe."
Karina then asked, "What'd he teach you about?"
Cindy shrugged. "Not much. I was no Jedi, whatever that means, so the only thing he could teach me was a few meditation techniques and ways to control and focus my feelings so that they could be channeled properly. He also taught me a few sword moves that could be used by non-Jedi."
"Sword moves? Aw man, I wish I could've gotten on in that." Karina mumbled around her food as she ate.
Cindy smirked, "You were quite busy, Karina. Especially today."
Karina nodded and swallowed her food. "That's true."
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A/N: and so we say farewell to Yoda. I just felt it was time, you know? I realized I hadn't focused much on him in the past chapters and I couldn't think of anything else he could be useful for….
I sorta forgot about him because there was no use for him. So when that happens, I think that's time to send him back.
SoixanteZio
Dead man walking
- Location
- anywhere
Oh Yoda. Well that's all I can say since he was there and now he's not.
- Location
- kentucky
link please to the other wiki story
clonezero
Is it a bad thing if my t read list keeps growing?
Not sure if linking to SB is allowed so just search for donutdodonngo and their stories "Super Randomizer Lux" and "A Realm Randomizer".
Though I think you already read those two as I vaguely remember you commenting on them. I may be wrong because I see you commenting on a whole lot of stories I read.
Though I think you already read those two as I vaguely remember you commenting on them. I may be wrong because I see you commenting on a whole lot of stories I read.
Aurora Moon
Verfied Insomniac with too much time on her hands
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
they're pretty good stories, I would recommend them myself.
- Location
- Ohio
Question?
What happens if you were to roll:
Copyright?
Flash Clone?
Props?
Stage?
Growth?
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Copyright I think would prevent you from summoning or using original things, probably forcing you to pay in someway to get an official copy of said person or thing. At least for things that are copyrighted or owned as an intellectual property.
Flash Clone I think would create a clone body of said person, likely without the property, and memories. Unless you had a high roll of this, at which point it would likely make a clone with everything.
Props I think would hand you prop versions of whatever item you roll that would depending on the roll would become the real thing either in use, or over time would evolve into the real thing. Like say a Prop Master Sword that because of a high roll gains similar power as the real Master Sword, though it would likely need to recharge after so and so amount of use.
Stage I believe would for example give you a stage mock up of the Millenium Falcon if you rolled it, of various quality depending on the roll. And over time "workers" would convert the stage into the real thing, never when you are looking at it, but when people are asleep or not around.
Growth I think would cause whatever you rolled grow in strength over time, so a weak item would over time grow until it was if you had rolled very high on it.
All of these would likely fall on certain roll combinations or something if they were actually used.
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Props might have been a good idea just from the fact that Summoning the Master Sword or some key item would bring those vital to said item knocking, and not calmly. More like murdering the ROB and tearing apart the Fallout World to get their stuff back, Q pretty much warned that if they try and nab something else from the Star Trek reality... That he and the Q would put them down, implying the playing ROB's aren't strong enough to resist things like Q or the Goddesses of the Tri-Force...
What happens if you were to roll:
Copyright?
Flash Clone?
Props?
Stage?
Growth?
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Copyright I think would prevent you from summoning or using original things, probably forcing you to pay in someway to get an official copy of said person or thing. At least for things that are copyrighted or owned as an intellectual property.
Flash Clone I think would create a clone body of said person, likely without the property, and memories. Unless you had a high roll of this, at which point it would likely make a clone with everything.
Props I think would hand you prop versions of whatever item you roll that would depending on the roll would become the real thing either in use, or over time would evolve into the real thing. Like say a Prop Master Sword that because of a high roll gains similar power as the real Master Sword, though it would likely need to recharge after so and so amount of use.
Stage I believe would for example give you a stage mock up of the Millenium Falcon if you rolled it, of various quality depending on the roll. And over time "workers" would convert the stage into the real thing, never when you are looking at it, but when people are asleep or not around.
Growth I think would cause whatever you rolled grow in strength over time, so a weak item would over time grow until it was if you had rolled very high on it.
All of these would likely fall on certain roll combinations or something if they were actually used.
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Props might have been a good idea just from the fact that Summoning the Master Sword or some key item would bring those vital to said item knocking, and not calmly. More like murdering the ROB and tearing apart the Fallout World to get their stuff back, Q pretty much warned that if they try and nab something else from the Star Trek reality... That he and the Q would put them down, implying the playing ROB's aren't strong enough to resist things like Q or the Goddesses of the Tri-Force...
Aurora Moon
Verfied Insomniac with too much time on her hands
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Actually, it was the Prophets from Star Trek, not the Q.
The Q wouldn't have cared, I think, but they might've popped in now and then to mess around with the ROB's contest for the lolz.... many of them can be trolls like that.
- Location
- Ohio
Whoops, but this still implies that taking the Master Sword even temporarily would end badly. Same with anything empowered by powerful deities...
Aurora Moon
Verfied Insomniac with too much time on her hands
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
True, gods can be easily annoyed.
- Location
- Ohio
I wonder if Karina is reaching into failed iterations of the realities? At least in some cases, kind of like how Fallout 76 has "Worlds" where you can wander by yourself or other people? Or how places like the Marvel Universe have multiverses where things went wrong and led to a dead end in that world, where it is hurling to the dumpster over a long period of time.
So an example would be summoning an Iron Man Armor from someplace Tony bought the farm, retired, or it was kept in good condition in a kind of museum to Stark in an alternate future. Like in 2099 or a variant that would have a gallery of working Iron Man Armors that just shows them because they are hopelessly out of date in the future, so Karina yanks a Silver Centurion armor or something that is faithfully recreated somehow.
Maybe a Master Sword from a world where the Cycle is broken and Zelda and Link are permanently dead, and the Master Sword lays somewhere neglected and lacking the power or light it once wielded. So if Karina summoned it, it would be given a counterfeit wellspring of power, and passed off as the real working Master Sword instead of a discarded one that had no power.
It would probably relieve Karina if she found out that the thing she summoned was just basically from a Fallout World where the Quests in that game all failed, and Super Mutants were running wild. You know the Dairy Farm or whatever it was.
Cause that would allow the ROB to slip past Gods that would be paying attention, by snatching from worlds where the Gods gave up on them since they were sinking like the Titanic, or even where the higher powers are dead and they can make a quick snatch and grab with quarantine in dead worlds alongside purification. Just in case it was from a world like Marvel or DC Zombies and their is a chance they could get infected by something...
So an example would be summoning an Iron Man Armor from someplace Tony bought the farm, retired, or it was kept in good condition in a kind of museum to Stark in an alternate future. Like in 2099 or a variant that would have a gallery of working Iron Man Armors that just shows them because they are hopelessly out of date in the future, so Karina yanks a Silver Centurion armor or something that is faithfully recreated somehow.
Maybe a Master Sword from a world where the Cycle is broken and Zelda and Link are permanently dead, and the Master Sword lays somewhere neglected and lacking the power or light it once wielded. So if Karina summoned it, it would be given a counterfeit wellspring of power, and passed off as the real working Master Sword instead of a discarded one that had no power.
It would probably relieve Karina if she found out that the thing she summoned was just basically from a Fallout World where the Quests in that game all failed, and Super Mutants were running wild. You know the Dairy Farm or whatever it was.
Cause that would allow the ROB to slip past Gods that would be paying attention, by snatching from worlds where the Gods gave up on them since they were sinking like the Titanic, or even where the higher powers are dead and they can make a quick snatch and grab with quarantine in dead worlds alongside purification. Just in case it was from a world like Marvel or DC Zombies and their is a chance they could get infected by something...
- Location
- France
The problem is that this wouldn't work for grabbing people, and if they're not worrying about the attention from grabbing people I doubt they'd be more careful for items.
- Location
- Ohio
Depends on what you see as failed worlds, for example a Darth Vader from a world where his children died to misadventure in their youth, and so he will never see redemption. Making the world a lesser echo of the original planned destiny, so less observed and easier to steal from. Yoda from a world where Palpatine choked to death on dinner while waiting for Vader to report on the Operation to crush the Rebels on Hoth, with him dragging Vader with him due to their connection...
You know what I mean? Like pulling people from the Underground from a world where the Protagonist of Fallout 4 sided with the Brotherhood of Steel and was leading a raid on the Underground, in other words a world where the people are either doomed or suddenly not so critical for the world to go on. Like borrowing heroes after their adventure was over, but bringing them over in the shape they were in when they were still active.
For example snatching an Obi-Wan Kenobi from his death bed, pulling him through as he was back in his prime, and then putting him back in such away that when he passes he still thought it was just a fever dream. Link after he put up the Master Sword and got married, only to show up with the memories and physical state he was in when he was younger, and with that he was wielding a temporal echo of the Master Sword rather than the real one.
Chapter 64-- Addictive Evil Burger
Aurora Moon
Verfied Insomniac with too much time on her hands
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The air was thick with a melancholy feeling and for a good reason.
Today, they were holding a public funeral for the men, women, and one child who had died during the armless dinosaur horde ramage AND the giant slime monster attack.
And to the side, there was a ridiculously large steam broiler thing that had been cobbled together with old airplane parts and other machine parts by the more ingenious people of District 11.
And inside it was the body parts of the crab monster's corpse which had been slowly cooked over the past two days inside a stew of sorts.
Apparently, the bigger a crab was the more hours there needed to be to properly cook it so that you couldn't catch any diseases from it. And this crab was so huge that it needed to be cooked for days. Who knew?
The funeral service didn't happen immediately, as they had to deal with the broken fences that originally kept out mutated monsters of the wasteland AND raiders first.
And clean up everything of every possible hazardous material, of course. There was still a lot of dangerous slime residue laying about, which one man found out the hard way when touching some of the slimes only for his arm to break out in a nasty rash before mutating into… something? The rest of him was still human, it was just his arm that mutated. The worst part, he had been the lucky one, because another man wasn't quite so fortunate.
That second one broke out laughing manically after touching another slime puddle and died with a gruesome grin on his now pasty-white face, which highlighted his blood-red lips even more. It would seem that every slime puddle they found had different varying effects, for some reason.
After that, there was an agreement all around that the only people doing the cleaning up would have a hazard hazmat suit on to protect themselves from any of the mutating and corrosive slimes, and that those slimes would be vacuumed up into secure containers to be studied so that they could create counterattacks against this vile slime, just in case there were more monsters like that out there.
That, and they really didn't want the slime to steep into the ground here, who knew what kind of effect that would have?
So yeah, hence why all of this was happening days later.
Regan's power had itched to be used during those two days, but thankfully, it was mostly duds as he couldn't afford for the people to become suspicious that he was a dangerous mutant or something else worse.
For instance, for 10 hours yesterday, he had the ability to become a video game programmer before the skill wore off. Really, what use did he have for such a skill right now?
He had been so relieved because he had been desperately holding off using his power for so long that it was like trying to hold in a fart before your stomach started hurting too badly and it had to be let out stat. And afterward, he was even more relieved that nothing bad happened.
And today, in a secluded location he pulled his power so that it wouldn't force him to pull on power during an inconvenient time, and all he got was your basic everyday washer that was the same make and model he saw growing up pre-war, and according to his UI interface, it would only last four hours before disappearing again.
He'd be more annoyed by those duds if not for the fact that his power had really helped him out when he truly needed it, like with that crab monster. So maybe it was just tuckered out after summoning something so large and alive?
Anyways, all of that led to him standing out front with Kevin during the funeral services, while Old Tom made a "beautiful" speech about how life was short, but what really mattered was how you lived and how you went out.
"Out here, you'll never be sure what gets ya in the end. If you're lucky, it's cancer or old age. If you're unlucky, you end up in a Supermutant's stewpot meal, or worse. Might even be stabbed in the back by one of those filthy Raiders."
A few in the crowd booed at the mention of the Raiders.
Tom nodded. "I know, I know. What a way to go out, huh? But this brings me to my next point. Seeing that our lives are so short, sometimes the most important thing you can do is to choose how you go out, and what you're remembered for. And today, I'm here to tell you that those people that we're honoring today died like heroes! They died defending their loved ones and their homes! I swear on my soul that their names will be written in the annuals of District 11's history and that they will not be forgotten. They shall be eternally remembered as heroes."
There was some polite clapping at this. The crowd wasn't too happy at the idea that those men had died, but they also seemed to like the idea that they would be eternally remembered.
And the widows and children standing behind Old Tom sniffled loudly at this, trying their best not to cry too much, even though they were now crying silently.
Old Tom then glanced over at Regan, who nodded at him. He then added, "And of course, we would also honor the giant Mirelurk named 'Rock' who came at Regan and Kevin's behest and helped us defeat the slime monster. Apparently, the new merchant and his bodyguard befriended and tamed the giant Mirelurk on their travels, and had it hidden nearby so that they could continue to feed it and keep it tamed. This Mirelurk of theirs was how they kept themselves safe for a long while as it served as a secondary bodyguard to them and helped ward off predators. And then on the day the slime monster attacked, it showed up to defend Regan and Kevin, and by extension also the rest of us."
Kevin wiped away a tear at this and nodded appreciatively at that.
Regan had to tell Old Tom something after everything was over, and so that had been the story they went with.
And of course, Regan had to find a way to stop Kevin from going ballistic if the community here wanted to eat Rock after determining that he was safe to eat despite the slime damaging his outer shell. So he had hit on a clever solution and brought Old Tom into it.
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--Days ago--
"I want you to promise not to react too badly for not telling you before in the first place." Regan said, "But the truth is… Kevin isn't…. Exactly normal. He has a telepathic connection to all sealife and other life that lives in rivers and lakes. He can talk to Mirelurks and the like, making them friendly instead of aggressive. He's always been like that ever since he was a kid, he doesn't know any other way to be. So please don't hold that against him."
Old Tom blinked. "Ah, so he's one of dem Pyskers out west that I've heard of?"
Regan mentally filed that away for later, and he nodded. "Exactly."
Old Tom sighs. "Well, I don't blame you for keeping that close to your chest. A lot of people here do have a fair amount of prejudice against those who are different, and those Super mutants out there just make it worse. Got them thinking that all mutated humans are just one step away from becoming a Supermutant outright."
Regan nodded and then grimaced. "But this brings up an awkward point I need to be talking to you about. That giant crab out there, no way the people here aren't gonna eat it?"
"If it's deemed safe, then yeah most people would want to eat it. Waste not, and all that." Old Tom looked puzzled at the suggestion that nobody would ever want to eat a giant tasty crab.
Regan sighs. "That's what I thought. The thing about Kevin? Because he has this connection to all sorts of life that swims and lives in the water… he then knows how intelligent many of those creatures can be, and as a result, they're like people to him. Even the aggressive ones are merely like raiders to him. Irritating pests who deserve to be killed, but never eaten. To him, it'd be like becoming a cannibal."
Old Tom looked lost. "And what would you have me do about that?"
Regan then leaned in as if to share something secret. "Well, I was thinking, what if we also honored the crab monster alongside all the dead, and lied to him that any cooking devices we stuffed the monster into were part of a cremation process? I'd keep him away when it was time for the people to eat the creature, and afterward, you could cut up the leftover shells and put them all into an urn along with some ashes. We give the urn to Kevin after all the eating is done."
Old Tom looked doubtful. "Would Kevin be dumb enough to go for this?"
Regan shook his head. "I think he'd know deep down what we were doing, but I think he'd go along with it and would appreciate the polite fiction as it were. This way he wouldn't feel like he was living in a community full of cannibals and would pretend very hard that no Mirelurks hadn't been eaten in his presence. Definitely not the pet he had loved so much and taken care of for so long. You wouldn't eat somebody's pet dog after it died in front of them, right? Even though you were starving. Instead, you'd eat it behind their back, just to be polite. Same idea here."
The old man mulled this over and then nodded. "Hmm. Aye, we can do that. Besides, the community needs some kind of explanation for what went on out there anyhow."
He then chuckled loudly. "I tell ya, Regan, you and Kevin will be the target of some really interesting gossip in the following month. You come into town with a car that's so pristine as if it came straight from the pre-war days, have all sorts of unusual foods that you sell that nobody's seen before, and now a giant pet Mirelurk that's been secretly following ya around. One that heroically died defending everyone from an enemy monster."
Regan smiled wanly. "Well, what can I say? I've always led an interesting life. The stuff I've seen and done, most don't believe me because half the time they sound like tall tales."
Old Tom snorted. "I can see that. You'll have to tell me all about it over some beers one of those days. But for now, got to deal with the broken fencing and other things if you don't mind."
Regan nodded and sat down to drink his beer while Tom left.
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--Back in the present time--
Tom said a few more nice words about Rock the crab monster and then moved back to talking about the deceased men and that he'd allow the relatives and friends of the deceased to take over the podium so that they could say a few words about their loved ones.
Regan and Kevin took this time to sit down and look their best to look respectful and mournful, although in this case, it wasn't too hard for Kevin to do as he was still mourning the crab monster he had barely gotten to know.
As one of the grieving widows started blathering on about her deceased husband, Regan then asked Kevin quietly, "so how come you get so attached to those creatures quickly? He was here barely for a few minutes and then you're already mourning him as you knew him for weeks."
Kevin smiled wanly. "It's part of my powers and who I am. When I create a telepathic connection by speaking to them, it's like I get an overall vivid picture of who they are… I just get to know them really well that way, ya know? There's this instant rapport as a result."
His smile faded. And he sighed. "Of course, there's a bit of a downside. The shrink my mom had me go to as a kid kept on saying that the reason why I had a hard time connecting to other human kids my age was that I didn't like how long it took to take to know humans in comparison to that instant connection I have with aquatic animals. Looking back on it, he might've had a point there."
Regan then commented, "It probably doesn't help that humans can be way too complicated in comparison to sea life and other animals, hmm? No bullshit social expectations like having a job, having to socialize with people you hate just to get ahead, that sort of thing. If a sea creature hates somebody, they just eat them without worrying about the recursions or being judged. Hell, they don't even get judged for doing that, everyone just accepts that's who they are. Must be nice."
Kevin held in a snort, as that wouldn't have been appropriate at a venture like this. "Hmm, tell me about it! That's why I like you, Regan. You really get me in a way other humans don't."
They both lapsed into silence as they watched the rest of the service.
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Finally, it was time, as Old Tom stated that they were going to carry the bodies out to be cremated and that afterward, they'd all have a big dinner.
Regan took this to be the signal to take Kevin away. "Come on Kevin. I'll make you something nice to eat."
Kevin looked confused at this. "But why shouldn't we join them?"
Regan then said, "I don't know if you know this…. But in this world, most people depend on 200 years old canned food. The companies back then had the foresight to make their food last a very long time, but the downside is that the food tends to become very stale over time. Or, they tend to catch giant bugs and cook them. Today they're having a feast of giant mutated bugs cooked over a large fire."
Regan leaned in. "You really want to eat that? Or do you want to eat something good and fresh… something I'd summon and cook for you?"
Kevin looked mildly disgusted at the idea of eating 200-year-old food, or bugs. "Ew. yeah, let's get out of here then."
As the two of them got up to leave, Regan made eye contact with Old Tom and he nodded and gave a thumbs up, indicating everything was good with Kevin.
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As they arrived back in their hotel room, Regan then pulled on his power asking for something good to eat but not summoning anything that would be out of place that Regan would have a hard time explaining away.
>Bong<
Two bags and a paper tray appeared in Regan's hands, causing him to fumble a little bit but he managed to stop the milkshakes from spilling over.
Kevin helped steady Regan just in time too, and then he chuckled when he saw what was in Regan's hands.
"Well, I have to admit that does beat eating 200 years old canned food or bugs." He commented as he took the tray of milkshakes from Regan and moved it over to a side table, where Regan followed.
The two of them sat down and then opened up the bags to find a burger that had a ridiculously huge beefy patty, equally thick in height as it was big. It was so big that the cheese and other slices of vegetables on it under the bun didn't look as if they'd do a nice job balancing out all the meat.
"Well, I guess that's where the name Mondo burger comes from if this is their main selling point," Regan commented.
Kevin then pointed out the ridiculously large side of fries too. "They super-sized their fries too. Nice."
Regan got to work on eating the burger off the bat, while Kevin choose to work on the fries first as he was the sort that preferred to eat the fries quickly before they cooled off.
"... holy shit, what's in this?" Regan mumbled as he stared down at his burger in amazement. He had been worried about the giant patty causing his burger meal to become unbalanced, but there was something in it that was just so…. addictively delicious. Like some kind of special spice kneaded into the meat before cooking, maybe?
The more he chewed it, and the more bites he took, the more he wanted more.
Kevin was curious enough to take one bite once he saw Regan's reaction. And then he started eating more of the burger, abandoning his fries in favor of the burger despite the fact that he hated cold fries.
"Holy shit is right. This is so amazing." Kevin moaned.
They completely forgot about the depressing funeral they had been to, in favor of just mindlessly eating everything in sight on their table.
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A/N: Never thought evil burgers could be a thing, but there it is. What sorts of nasty side effects would it have in order for it to be outlawed, do you think? It can't be the addictiveness factor alone, otherwise, we'd have a whole lot of legal foods today outlawed.
I'm thinking it increases the chances of heart attacks or something. Heh.
Today, they were holding a public funeral for the men, women, and one child who had died during the armless dinosaur horde ramage AND the giant slime monster attack.
And to the side, there was a ridiculously large steam broiler thing that had been cobbled together with old airplane parts and other machine parts by the more ingenious people of District 11.
And inside it was the body parts of the crab monster's corpse which had been slowly cooked over the past two days inside a stew of sorts.
Apparently, the bigger a crab was the more hours there needed to be to properly cook it so that you couldn't catch any diseases from it. And this crab was so huge that it needed to be cooked for days. Who knew?
The funeral service didn't happen immediately, as they had to deal with the broken fences that originally kept out mutated monsters of the wasteland AND raiders first.
And clean up everything of every possible hazardous material, of course. There was still a lot of dangerous slime residue laying about, which one man found out the hard way when touching some of the slimes only for his arm to break out in a nasty rash before mutating into… something? The rest of him was still human, it was just his arm that mutated. The worst part, he had been the lucky one, because another man wasn't quite so fortunate.
That second one broke out laughing manically after touching another slime puddle and died with a gruesome grin on his now pasty-white face, which highlighted his blood-red lips even more. It would seem that every slime puddle they found had different varying effects, for some reason.
After that, there was an agreement all around that the only people doing the cleaning up would have a hazard hazmat suit on to protect themselves from any of the mutating and corrosive slimes, and that those slimes would be vacuumed up into secure containers to be studied so that they could create counterattacks against this vile slime, just in case there were more monsters like that out there.
That, and they really didn't want the slime to steep into the ground here, who knew what kind of effect that would have?
So yeah, hence why all of this was happening days later.
Regan's power had itched to be used during those two days, but thankfully, it was mostly duds as he couldn't afford for the people to become suspicious that he was a dangerous mutant or something else worse.
For instance, for 10 hours yesterday, he had the ability to become a video game programmer before the skill wore off. Really, what use did he have for such a skill right now?
He had been so relieved because he had been desperately holding off using his power for so long that it was like trying to hold in a fart before your stomach started hurting too badly and it had to be let out stat. And afterward, he was even more relieved that nothing bad happened.
And today, in a secluded location he pulled his power so that it wouldn't force him to pull on power during an inconvenient time, and all he got was your basic everyday washer that was the same make and model he saw growing up pre-war, and according to his UI interface, it would only last four hours before disappearing again.
He'd be more annoyed by those duds if not for the fact that his power had really helped him out when he truly needed it, like with that crab monster. So maybe it was just tuckered out after summoning something so large and alive?
Anyways, all of that led to him standing out front with Kevin during the funeral services, while Old Tom made a "beautiful" speech about how life was short, but what really mattered was how you lived and how you went out.
"Out here, you'll never be sure what gets ya in the end. If you're lucky, it's cancer or old age. If you're unlucky, you end up in a Supermutant's stewpot meal, or worse. Might even be stabbed in the back by one of those filthy Raiders."
A few in the crowd booed at the mention of the Raiders.
Tom nodded. "I know, I know. What a way to go out, huh? But this brings me to my next point. Seeing that our lives are so short, sometimes the most important thing you can do is to choose how you go out, and what you're remembered for. And today, I'm here to tell you that those people that we're honoring today died like heroes! They died defending their loved ones and their homes! I swear on my soul that their names will be written in the annuals of District 11's history and that they will not be forgotten. They shall be eternally remembered as heroes."
There was some polite clapping at this. The crowd wasn't too happy at the idea that those men had died, but they also seemed to like the idea that they would be eternally remembered.
And the widows and children standing behind Old Tom sniffled loudly at this, trying their best not to cry too much, even though they were now crying silently.
Old Tom then glanced over at Regan, who nodded at him. He then added, "And of course, we would also honor the giant Mirelurk named 'Rock' who came at Regan and Kevin's behest and helped us defeat the slime monster. Apparently, the new merchant and his bodyguard befriended and tamed the giant Mirelurk on their travels, and had it hidden nearby so that they could continue to feed it and keep it tamed. This Mirelurk of theirs was how they kept themselves safe for a long while as it served as a secondary bodyguard to them and helped ward off predators. And then on the day the slime monster attacked, it showed up to defend Regan and Kevin, and by extension also the rest of us."
Kevin wiped away a tear at this and nodded appreciatively at that.
Regan had to tell Old Tom something after everything was over, and so that had been the story they went with.
And of course, Regan had to find a way to stop Kevin from going ballistic if the community here wanted to eat Rock after determining that he was safe to eat despite the slime damaging his outer shell. So he had hit on a clever solution and brought Old Tom into it.
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--Days ago--
"I want you to promise not to react too badly for not telling you before in the first place." Regan said, "But the truth is… Kevin isn't…. Exactly normal. He has a telepathic connection to all sealife and other life that lives in rivers and lakes. He can talk to Mirelurks and the like, making them friendly instead of aggressive. He's always been like that ever since he was a kid, he doesn't know any other way to be. So please don't hold that against him."
Old Tom blinked. "Ah, so he's one of dem Pyskers out west that I've heard of?"
Regan mentally filed that away for later, and he nodded. "Exactly."
Old Tom sighs. "Well, I don't blame you for keeping that close to your chest. A lot of people here do have a fair amount of prejudice against those who are different, and those Super mutants out there just make it worse. Got them thinking that all mutated humans are just one step away from becoming a Supermutant outright."
Regan nodded and then grimaced. "But this brings up an awkward point I need to be talking to you about. That giant crab out there, no way the people here aren't gonna eat it?"
"If it's deemed safe, then yeah most people would want to eat it. Waste not, and all that." Old Tom looked puzzled at the suggestion that nobody would ever want to eat a giant tasty crab.
Regan sighs. "That's what I thought. The thing about Kevin? Because he has this connection to all sorts of life that swims and lives in the water… he then knows how intelligent many of those creatures can be, and as a result, they're like people to him. Even the aggressive ones are merely like raiders to him. Irritating pests who deserve to be killed, but never eaten. To him, it'd be like becoming a cannibal."
Old Tom looked lost. "And what would you have me do about that?"
Regan then leaned in as if to share something secret. "Well, I was thinking, what if we also honored the crab monster alongside all the dead, and lied to him that any cooking devices we stuffed the monster into were part of a cremation process? I'd keep him away when it was time for the people to eat the creature, and afterward, you could cut up the leftover shells and put them all into an urn along with some ashes. We give the urn to Kevin after all the eating is done."
Old Tom looked doubtful. "Would Kevin be dumb enough to go for this?"
Regan shook his head. "I think he'd know deep down what we were doing, but I think he'd go along with it and would appreciate the polite fiction as it were. This way he wouldn't feel like he was living in a community full of cannibals and would pretend very hard that no Mirelurks hadn't been eaten in his presence. Definitely not the pet he had loved so much and taken care of for so long. You wouldn't eat somebody's pet dog after it died in front of them, right? Even though you were starving. Instead, you'd eat it behind their back, just to be polite. Same idea here."
The old man mulled this over and then nodded. "Hmm. Aye, we can do that. Besides, the community needs some kind of explanation for what went on out there anyhow."
He then chuckled loudly. "I tell ya, Regan, you and Kevin will be the target of some really interesting gossip in the following month. You come into town with a car that's so pristine as if it came straight from the pre-war days, have all sorts of unusual foods that you sell that nobody's seen before, and now a giant pet Mirelurk that's been secretly following ya around. One that heroically died defending everyone from an enemy monster."
Regan smiled wanly. "Well, what can I say? I've always led an interesting life. The stuff I've seen and done, most don't believe me because half the time they sound like tall tales."
Old Tom snorted. "I can see that. You'll have to tell me all about it over some beers one of those days. But for now, got to deal with the broken fencing and other things if you don't mind."
Regan nodded and sat down to drink his beer while Tom left.
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--Back in the present time--
Tom said a few more nice words about Rock the crab monster and then moved back to talking about the deceased men and that he'd allow the relatives and friends of the deceased to take over the podium so that they could say a few words about their loved ones.
Regan and Kevin took this time to sit down and look their best to look respectful and mournful, although in this case, it wasn't too hard for Kevin to do as he was still mourning the crab monster he had barely gotten to know.
As one of the grieving widows started blathering on about her deceased husband, Regan then asked Kevin quietly, "so how come you get so attached to those creatures quickly? He was here barely for a few minutes and then you're already mourning him as you knew him for weeks."
Kevin smiled wanly. "It's part of my powers and who I am. When I create a telepathic connection by speaking to them, it's like I get an overall vivid picture of who they are… I just get to know them really well that way, ya know? There's this instant rapport as a result."
His smile faded. And he sighed. "Of course, there's a bit of a downside. The shrink my mom had me go to as a kid kept on saying that the reason why I had a hard time connecting to other human kids my age was that I didn't like how long it took to take to know humans in comparison to that instant connection I have with aquatic animals. Looking back on it, he might've had a point there."
Regan then commented, "It probably doesn't help that humans can be way too complicated in comparison to sea life and other animals, hmm? No bullshit social expectations like having a job, having to socialize with people you hate just to get ahead, that sort of thing. If a sea creature hates somebody, they just eat them without worrying about the recursions or being judged. Hell, they don't even get judged for doing that, everyone just accepts that's who they are. Must be nice."
Kevin held in a snort, as that wouldn't have been appropriate at a venture like this. "Hmm, tell me about it! That's why I like you, Regan. You really get me in a way other humans don't."
They both lapsed into silence as they watched the rest of the service.
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Finally, it was time, as Old Tom stated that they were going to carry the bodies out to be cremated and that afterward, they'd all have a big dinner.
Regan took this to be the signal to take Kevin away. "Come on Kevin. I'll make you something nice to eat."
Kevin looked confused at this. "But why shouldn't we join them?"
Regan then said, "I don't know if you know this…. But in this world, most people depend on 200 years old canned food. The companies back then had the foresight to make their food last a very long time, but the downside is that the food tends to become very stale over time. Or, they tend to catch giant bugs and cook them. Today they're having a feast of giant mutated bugs cooked over a large fire."
Regan leaned in. "You really want to eat that? Or do you want to eat something good and fresh… something I'd summon and cook for you?"
Kevin looked mildly disgusted at the idea of eating 200-year-old food, or bugs. "Ew. yeah, let's get out of here then."
As the two of them got up to leave, Regan made eye contact with Old Tom and he nodded and gave a thumbs up, indicating everything was good with Kevin.
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As they arrived back in their hotel room, Regan then pulled on his power asking for something good to eat but not summoning anything that would be out of place that Regan would have a hard time explaining away.
>Bong<
| https://evil.fandom.com/wiki/Mondo_Burger Roll 12 Mondo Burger is the fictional rival fast food restaurant featured in the 1997 Nickelodeon comedy movie Good Burger. The restaurant is owned by the Mondo Burger CEO/manager Kurt Bozwell, who will stop at nothing to make his restaurant the top chain and put Good Burger out of business in less than 2 years' time. It's labeled an EVIL food chain for knowingly using highly illegal food additives in its foods to make its foods more addictively tasty, regardless of the effect it has on its customers. The effects are unknown but clearly highly unhealthy and make customers addicted to the food. Only a rival restaurant with really GOOD burgers can help ex-customers beat this addiction to evil burgers! Effect: Due to the low roll and Reagan's demand that there be no buildings or creatures that would be hard to explain away by the public, Regan just gets two orders of burgers, fries, and shakes from Mondo Burger to go in two bags clearly labeled Mondo Burger and a recyclable paper tray holding two shakes. |
Two bags and a paper tray appeared in Regan's hands, causing him to fumble a little bit but he managed to stop the milkshakes from spilling over.
Kevin helped steady Regan just in time too, and then he chuckled when he saw what was in Regan's hands.
"Well, I have to admit that does beat eating 200 years old canned food or bugs." He commented as he took the tray of milkshakes from Regan and moved it over to a side table, where Regan followed.
The two of them sat down and then opened up the bags to find a burger that had a ridiculously huge beefy patty, equally thick in height as it was big. It was so big that the cheese and other slices of vegetables on it under the bun didn't look as if they'd do a nice job balancing out all the meat.
"Well, I guess that's where the name Mondo burger comes from if this is their main selling point," Regan commented.
Kevin then pointed out the ridiculously large side of fries too. "They super-sized their fries too. Nice."
Regan got to work on eating the burger off the bat, while Kevin choose to work on the fries first as he was the sort that preferred to eat the fries quickly before they cooled off.
"... holy shit, what's in this?" Regan mumbled as he stared down at his burger in amazement. He had been worried about the giant patty causing his burger meal to become unbalanced, but there was something in it that was just so…. addictively delicious. Like some kind of special spice kneaded into the meat before cooking, maybe?
The more he chewed it, and the more bites he took, the more he wanted more.
Kevin was curious enough to take one bite once he saw Regan's reaction. And then he started eating more of the burger, abandoning his fries in favor of the burger despite the fact that he hated cold fries.
"Holy shit is right. This is so amazing." Kevin moaned.
They completely forgot about the depressing funeral they had been to, in favor of just mindlessly eating everything in sight on their table.
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A/N: Never thought evil burgers could be a thing, but there it is. What sorts of nasty side effects would it have in order for it to be outlawed, do you think? It can't be the addictiveness factor alone, otherwise, we'd have a whole lot of legal foods today outlawed.
I'm thinking it increases the chances of heart attacks or something. Heh.
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