So Far
The Mystical Mesmerising Magical Moebius
Dear Wendy,
Monday we were sent out to find a powerful magical item called
the Moebius that was stolen by the Coalition early yesterday.
Yeah, that's the thing that the monster with the round
body and the limbs I told you about wanted. What was
it you called it, oh yeah, the Basket Ball from Hell. So
it looks like we may run into it again. My bones still get
cold when I think about the wailing of that staff it had.
I don't want to find out why it makes that terrible
noise.
We got the Moedius without a hitch from the C.S. Like
taking candy from a baby. That Glitter Boy sure punches
through Samas like they're made out of paper. Knocks
them out of the sky on the first shot half the time. I
can hardly hear a thing after a couple of shots and that's
with the ear protection and being a good distance away.
Monstrous machine it is. I'm so glad it's on our
side. Haven't hardly passed three words between me and
the pilot. Keeps to himself. Has his own friends
in Tolkeen. I can't imagine him alone all of that time
without being in his machine.
Here's where the hitch has come. Tuesday we were robbed
of the artefact by a group of people with heavy robot support
that Max says are Germans. Yeah I know you don't want to
hear the name Max. It wasn't all his fault that the last
Walker was misted in his bedroll. Anyway these Germans
outmuscled us, even Archer had to concede we were out of our
depth entirely. They had this one huge robot with four
arms and massive rockets for feet. This thing would have
chewed us up and hoarked us out. We hoped to be able to
catch up with them and attack by our own rules.
A ray of hope can on Friday night. Apparently the
Moebius was found in a town called Gibson. We went out
the next day and tracked down an older couple on the outskirts
of town who said they had it. They invited us in for tea
and cookies and told us about their collection of Moebius.
Said they had the entire series. We all traipsed
down into their cellar and they showed us a collection of
pre-rifts books called "cawmics" with the title "Silent
Moebius." I think I felt embarrassed enough for all of
us.
I best get this letter sent off to you. Hoping things
are well in the city.
Love Chris.
ooo
Dear Wendy,
It's Wednesday December 8 today. We found the Germans
and raided their camp the night before last. The Second
String was called in. Real creepy bunch. There's a
pair of psychics who act like they're completely untouchable
and you can't forward that credit if it won't fill the card.
Then there was this other Line Walker. I talked to
him briefly. He's focused on stealth and can practically
be a ghost. He says even the psychics give him the
willies. Things got wilder from there. The plan
was to raid the camp in waves, scope out everything, find
the Moebius and disrupt the Germans as much as possible.
Everything went down like clock work. You should have
seen it, it was amazing, we were amazing. There was some
sort of communication going on between these Germans and the
Coalition involving a huge computer and tonnes of data.
We shut that down in short order. Archer set up
bombs in several places and we put the bastards to pay for
ripping us off. And speaking of ripping off, somebody
stole the Moebius before we got there. We found the
shipping case for it in a "guarded" position and it was empty.
I hate to do it again but I got to run.
Love Chris.
ooo
A Spotter's Audio Guide to Comedy by Nim's Grimms' Juicer
Alpha Codename Rad
We came across something today. There was this creature
that had a body like a basketball and several assorted long
limbs. There were two long segmented legs with long
three toed feet. There were two long tentacles ending in
tiny two fingered hands with an opposable thumb. Finally
there was another two tentacles ending in complex balls.
There was a tail too. It ended with a sharp
triangle shaped piece.
This legged basketball had some kind of powerful magical staff
which Chris determined was responsible for the increased
blizzard conditions in the area. The creature was also
in possession of the Moebius that we were tasked with retrieving.
It seemed impossible that this fragile looking creature
was capable of dispatching with a Coalie squad. We would
soon find out how it managed it for ourselves.
Okay now that I have the creature in your mind it's time for
the hilarity that ensued. The dragon, G'lishi was very
interested in the creature. I think that he tried to
communicate with it but soon he was sitting on his back
haunches pleading with it, or so Chris told me, begging for it
to give him his sight back. He needed his sight he
wailed. I didn't know what all the thrashing and yowling
was all about. I was trying to a sight on it to shoot
it. Then G'lishi tried to find the creature moving forward
from where he was. Somehow, I can't tell how but he got
going in an arc and began making his way off in the wrong
direction.
Now next to get a dose of the creature's brand of comedy was
R.C. I don't know how that boy survives but he does.
I'm glad. It would be very dull without him
sucking up missiles, bickering with Ol' Shiny Butt, and
piloting the Flying Patch. Oh man, let me tell you about
the Flying Patch. He got himself one of the new recon
Samas. Stripped it off the pilot after he smeared
another guy with the built in self-destruct. Anyway, this
suit is like a big blue blanket he can't go anywhere without.
It has taken so much damage and gotten fixed so many
times that the armour plates point every which way, there's
more bolts than surface area, and I swear some of the parts
are actually soggy.
To get back to the point R.C. comes flying in with the Patch
and just grabs the Moebius right off of the basketball thing.
I thought for sure we'd made it easy but then as R.C.
goes past that magic staff whips up and a blot of blue slams
the Patch and it flips end for end for end encased in a
Patch-sized ice cube. I just about drekked myself.
While the blind dragon sweeping his way off into the
forest was maybe cruel funny, R.C. stuck upside down in a
giant ice cube screaming his head off about his head getting
ready to burst like a blister was nothing but pure fun.
I could hardly stop laughing.
It took I don't know how many minutes to get him out.
If G'lishi had stuck around we could have at least
righted him. Instead Chris expended a fair bit of
energy thawing him out like a frozen pizza in a microwave.
The basketball had taken off before this point but not
before we'd seen it's friend. There was this thing
bigger than G'lishi, with hard plating, four massive limbs,
several smaller limbs, a long razor sharp blade studded tail,
and what looked like weapons muzzles. It was the most
unnatural thing I have ever seen. Totally alien.
No comparison to anything the world ever saw before the
rifts. Anyways the basketball got onto this other being
and they took off.
Well that's it for this chapter. Until you get a chance
to stick the next one in your ear remember... Keep your eyes
open and your pants done up.
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