Vixen Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 This year in review:- massive financial wrangling with the financial overseers of university. Remarked via voice-synthesizer at one point during debate, "don't make me get out of this chair." Only person not to laugh was me, due to lack of voicebox.- twin-tailed fox discovered in posession of man who smuggled it illegally from Japan. Scientific study goes to Pinnacle University's cryptozoology staff.- sister's bookstore becomes profitable for first time.- problems encountered with corporation trying to barge in on opportunity to study two-tailed fox, informally believed to be a recessive trait responsible for legends of Japanese kami fox spirits.- informed that spinal replacement surgery and replication of voicebox now only has a waiting list three years long - first come, first served, according to insurance company. Daydreams begin, often and vividly, of running through the streets and singing at the top of my lungs.- fire at university. Lab destroyed. Suspicious-but-unconfirmed link to corporation trying to smear the university and collect the lab specimen. Discovered - but unable to prove - faracytes in brain of two-tailed fox. Caught in fire. Erupted into a creature of myth.- able to walk and talk for first time in 12 years. Discovered OpNet board. Got freelance assignments for Project Utopia. Visited Amp Room, met many strange and unusual people. Encountered Geryon - on "people to avoid" list for next year.After reviewing the major accomplishments of the year, I can only think one thing - this was the year God discovered acid. All the big events seemed to cluster around my eruption, and it got me thinking. About how the node changes things about you, and changes things around you to tackle what the node itself didn't change. About how it's so small yet matters so much. About how eruptions literally started occuring out of thin air in 1998 and how, years later, understanding is still so limited...I got to thinking. What if it all went away?What if tomorrow, your node shuts off, never to power itself up again? What if the quantum energies that make you all novas, disappear as quickly as they came? What if tomorrow you had to go back to being normal, baseline people? Just like you were before you erupted? What would happen to you, to the people you know, to the world you're in, if you were no longer a nova - and no one else was either? What if the Nova Age ended as abruptly as it came?Me?Well... I'd miss it, that's for sure. The stuff I'd miss the most would be the "normal" stuff, though. Walking, talking... just being a normal person, without a wheelchair or a voice synthesizer. Yes, flying over an endless lake is calming. Yes, the OtherSpace lets me show everyone exactly what I'm thinking instead of having to describe it. But it'd be the "human" things I miss the most. And I wouldn't miss them that much, really - three years is a long time, but it's a long time for everyone else with my injuries, not just me, and I'd have no right to feel cheated out of loosing the quantum lottery.What would you do, though, if it all went away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronin Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Vixen.Cool question.As for me, I've had a much longer run at this whole 'fat-cracklin'-cosmic-power-o-the-gods' thing than I think any of us were intended to, and a damn lot longer than most. I have experienced the incredible, felt the sublime, caused the unthinkable and done the impossible.If it all went away tomorrow, I'd find a girl, fall in love, get married, have a dozen kids and spend the rest of my boring, baseline life working somewhere I liked doing something I felt was worthwhile. And I'd die happy..ronin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agnelli Celeste Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 What would my life b without a node? Is that what your are asking? I do hope it is. Well, I wouldn't be so lucky. Let me see. Point one, I feel what people say now.It may as well be hearing but I mean I don't hear. So I guess that would mean I would be deaf again , if I am not deaf now.A tricky topicPoint two, I wouldn't be able to look at someone and tell you what they are feeling.See, dispite of all the horrid things that came from nodes, dispite all the teragens, anti-nova cults.I think that at the end of the day, nodes are like any other tools. Nodes are not evil, they are not good. They just are,And keeping that in mind ,I say that if left to their own devices people are good, kind and want nothing more than to know they will have good food,a house and a bit of free time with some toys.So, when some gets a node I think they are more likely to try to help others over harming them So what would happen if the nodes went away..I can say this, the face of earth would for ever be darkened.I don't really know what I would do if I lost my node, well other than cry, for like forever. I mean I can all but run up walls, walk across rush hour in a 5 lane freeway, I could tell you what your feeling by looking at you.To lose that would be more than a cramp in my style, not count on my eufiber it just feels so good.So as I said, it would be a total wack da. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Nothing would change. The world would still be a fucked up place filled with horrors and hope. Why would I stop trying? I don't do what I chose to do because I am a nova. I do it because I feel someone should. Being a nova changes the scope, not the direction.In the long run, I guess I would end up broke, broken, and dead, but I have had that understanding all along.Still, great question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arek Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Presumably, I'd be able to eventually physically age old enough to buy my own beer. And actually feel some of it's effects for once. Though I can't say I'd very much look forward to the 'hangover' of baseline myth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashnod Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Jager:Nothing would change. The world would still be a fucked up place filled with horrors and hope. Why would I stop trying? I don't do what I chose to do because I am a nova. I do it because I feel someone should. Being a nova changes the scope, not the direction.In the long run, I guess I would end up broke, broken, and dead, but I have had that understanding all along.Still, great question.Thank you for sticking to your guns, Jager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arek Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 I may be new here, but am I right in deducing that he isn't the resident ray of sunshine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agnelli Celeste Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Arek,I am new here and sun and shine don't really go with Jagar..More like moan and pout.Not saying that there is anthign wrong witht aht..just not the funniest of things to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronin Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Jager.For me at least, keeping to task with the whole 'changing the world' shtick would take a bit of getting used to, if only to keep alive. On further consideration, I'd probably get killed trying to stop a robbery having forgotten that LAW rockets bounce off me.However, if I survived the adjustment back to mortality, see Plan A. I've done enough changing the world for three lifetimes..ronin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugin Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 What an absolutely horrid thought. Losing who I am? Death would be preferable thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 There is no going back. Becoming a nova fixed my lungs, and my research. Losing the quantum wouldn't take away those things, and I hope I'd be grown up enough now to not take up cigarettes again.I'd lose my temper (that sounds much more ironic now in print) & I wouldn't miss that. I'd also lose the quick healing, the Troll form, the strength, and the clones. Would I miss those? Yes, I would.More to the point, those things are part of who I am now. I'd rather lose one of my hands.But what would I do? If I hadn't erupted, I'd still be tring to prove true something that isn't. Eventually I would have gotten my degree and gone to work for a large company. If life were very ironic, a cigarett company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apep Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 I don't think I've ever been a baseline. The thought of becomeing one is a bit disgusting to me. I could only hope that when my de-evolution occurs I would be traveling through the abyss at that time, therefore being trapped there forever until my death. Then I would never have to see the dullness of the world without the shining race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashnod Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 The stories of gods and goddesses losing their divinity and somehow finding happiness in the ordinary lives of mortals were all written by mortals.The stories of gods and goddesses willingly giving up their divinity to be with the mortal they love were all written by mortals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Ashnod:The stories of gods and goddesses losing their divinity and somehow finding happiness in the ordinary lives of mortals were all written by mortals.The stories of gods and goddesses willingly giving up their divinity to be with the mortal they love were all written by mortals....meaning that being nova is always a blessing and never a curse? I've never met him, but would Sloppy Joe agree with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apep Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 All Slop has to do is come to terms with himself. He's not "cursed" at all. He's actually quite gifted, he just hasn't fully learned how to let go. I have faith in him, he'll learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Or Apep, he won't adapt and he'll end up as a gooey puddle on the floor. Either way, it's not a fun situation to be in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apep Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Sure it is a possiblity. What's wrong with being a puddle? I think he could probably be any shape he wanted to be. His problem is that he's still trying to walk around as if he's a human. Well, he's not. If he doesn't adapt, it's because he failed himself, not because he's cursed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Davis Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 And I should let myself turn into a mass of photons?Burning so bright that even other novas could not get closse to me?Is that my blessing, to shine so bright that I would kill anything that would aproch me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apep Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Sandy Davis- Miss-Fortune:And I should let myself turn into a mass of photons?Burning so bright that even other novas could not get closse to me?Is that my blessing, to shine so bright that I would kill anything that would aproch me?Is this a problem you're having? Is this how you mean to develope yourelf? I don't understand the relevance of your reply. My point that yes, Slop is in an uncomfortable situation right now, but it is something that he can learn to manipulate to his advantage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Some novas have changed to the point that losing the node wouldn't mean going back to a baseline life.Dorming down is dull, or so I have been told, but does it change our memories and experiences?Serious question on my part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Davis Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 I see both you and Ashnod, seem to be in the habit of over quoting people.For my point, as I grow in power, it get harder to to keep the light I chine from coming out.I do nto have blood as you know it,and it is rather well, harmful.Can you that your blood can cut hard metals?I fear that I am losseing my body,and it is turning into a form of light so hot that I may or not burn the air around me.Weather or nor air around me will burn. It is clear that only very few novas could even get near me,without dying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apep Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 First off, I am nothing like my mother, she is an excellent debater, while I am constantly struggling with words. I didn't realize I over quoted anyone, if that's the case, get over it.Well then why don't you just kill yourself and get it over with. Again, there is no reason that this is something you can't learn to deal with. I'm certainly not going to pitty you. I don't give a frag what your blood can do. Mine isn't exactly normal itself. But you don't see me worrying about becoming a living portal to the abyss. Oh no, every nova that gets near me might get sucked into the vacum of nothing that I've become.Look, all of us, if not given direction, can be a serious danger to everything around us. If your are being so wreckless that you're wracking up the taint without knowing where to put it, then by all means, let someone put you out of your misery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Davis Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 You missed the point, and reason for my posting.I do not feel bad nor want your pity, but a blessing?I would call what I have a blessing.As for my misery, as far I know, you are a scary nova, but it would most likely take more than you to do such a task.And if we meet in person, well, wouldn't think it would be nice evening.And for over quoting, by taking a whole post, and quoting it..THat is a good way to bring bring up old ideas, lost back in a thread. Say if i used the whole post post about novas being gods.That would be a good use, well maybe.But quoting the post just above you is saying that you either think other people can't fallow a thread at all, are trying to make your posts "bigger" or are simply do not understand the point of quoting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Gaedel Glas Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Twenty pounds on the Apep then, with odds at 10 ta 1 against the wispy tart that loves ta talk about herself. Another twenty says the Apep rings her bells in under a minute.Don't take it personal Morg. The smart fella always bets against the one doing all the jawing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugin Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by 'Sir' Gaedel Glas:Twenty pounds on the Apep then, with odds at 10 ta 1 against the wispy tart that loves ta talk about herself. Another twenty says the Apep rings her bells in under a minute.I make it an even million that it wouldn't last thirty seconds. Oh, and congratulations on the new adornment to your already fine name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashnod Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Sandy Davis- Miss-Fortune:I see both you and Ashnod, seem to be in the habit of over quoting people. Only because it's an easy reference to the reader. If someone is going to make a point of eviscerating my text, I appreciate it when they give me reference to what part they had issue with.Also, dear, because it comes up automatically when you click the "reply" icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Gaedel Glas Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by James 'Prodigy' Meehan:I make it an even million that it wouldn't last thirty seconds. Too rich fer my finances. Besides, I'm not sure she couldn't do it. Morges would be blatherin' and like to wake in a day 'r two wonderin' about the license of the auto what hit her.I swear, was it every newsie that carried that story? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Davis Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 I am adding a reply by doing as you said you do..ANd still nothing.Also it is not about making a reference, it is about making a redundant a reference.It is like going up to someone and re-petting everything you hear them say, rigth right they say it.As I say quoting people, such as the way you did now.One point of the topic, and it was a reference to what I said.But too often you post right after a person,and quote their whole post, then add one line.So you miss the point of posting, and if you were righting a book, you would slapped into a curt so fast your head would spin.So, please use less quotes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Gaedel Glas Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Sandy Davis- Miss-Fortune:I am adding a reply by doing as you said you do..ANd still nothing.Also it is not about making a reference, it is about making a redundant a reference.It is like going up to someone and re-petting everything you hear them say, rigth right they say it.As I say quoting people, such as the way you did now.One point of the topic, and it was a reference to what I said.But too often you post right after a person,and quote their whole post, then add one line.So you miss the point of posting, and if you were righting a book, you would slapped into a curt so fast your head would spin.So, please use less quotes...Heh. Bloody sensitive aren't ya? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Apep:All Slop has to do is come to terms with himself. He's not "cursed" at all.So, if we offered to remove his Q, he wouldn't accept?More to the point, would you be happy with his abilities?Personally, I think being a nova is something of a mixed bag for most of us. But just as some seemed to get only the benefits, others seemed to have gotten only the curses. Joe doesn't seem to be any happier in his position than I would be (although again, I've never met the guy).Do I wish to go back?, No. But can I say that I will never wish to go back?, again No. I like where I'm at, but I'm less happy with the path I'm on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Gaedel Glas Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by David 'Dr. Troll' Smith:More to the point, would you be happy with his abilities?Would ya be happy wit mine? Or I wit yers?Not so fancy an argument as it might seem. We get our choice by who we are 'n what we believe. Then we get ta live wit it. I have no idea who yer talking 'bout but if they be nova I know they had the same moment we all had. The Vixen can blame it some bloody fox, Endeavor on a quantum joke and Morg on cosmic bad luck. What of it? They are who wanted ta be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by 'Sir' Gaedel Glas:They are who wanted ta be.This ignores that there is a large element of luck to all of this. Had I not erupted by losing my temper, and had I not read some comics right before that, I would be something other than a guy who turns into a regenerating 10 foot tall green mitoid.My life as a baseline should have turned me into a super-chemist, engineer, or cyberkenetic. Instead, because I had one off day, I'm this. Well, OK, I can live with this even if it isn't what I'd have chosen in a saner moment. I can even enjoy this, because this is better than I had before.Sloppy Joe is now a walking pool of cancerous goo. Maybe he hated himself that day. Maybe he identified with cancer that day. But sooner or later I probably would have gotten lung cancer. If I'd erupted at a different time, under different stresses, well, "there but for the grace of god go I". And if it could happen to me, and him, then it could also happen to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugin Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Miss Davis, I make a concerted effort to ignore you and not to encourage your participation on these boards, but this I cannot ignore. With your fumble-fingered, grammar-smashing, numbskulled posts you have the temerity to call Ashnod to the carpet for her style of posting? I find this hard to believe.What Ashnod does is an effort to respond to the direct words of another poster rather than interpret them in her own manner and misrepresent the person with whom she is conversing. She is being polite and accurate, something you would do well to mimic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Gaedel Glas Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by David 'Dr. Troll' Smith:And if it could happen to me, and him, then it could also happen to you.Aye, it could. Does that absolve of us fer our sin of choice? The luck is in the moment the light shines through. Not in what we choose. Would ya blame the universe fer choosin' the moment when it's not the moment really at fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apep Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Like I said before about the whole quoting issue, fucking get over it. I'll quote as often as I want, whenever I want, for whatever reason I want. Jesus Sandy, do you really want to fight me because of a few words? You've a worse temper than myself. I advise you not to threaten me again. Troll, I can't say I'd be happy with his abilities, they were meant for him,not for me. I think I'd manage just fine though. I would be sorely disapointed if he chose to give up his quantum if the opportunity arose. But I've noticed that I have a more optimistic outlook for this sort of thing than most. The transformations that we undergoe aren't something to be repulsed by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arek Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 The physical changes that we take as we grow in power aren't that big of a deal, unless they cause harm in some way, such as new allergies, or some sort of chronic pain that never goes away. Some of them are fairly interesting or unique. Antaeus seemed to resemble nature itself, while the energy emissions of various Novas are quite an attention grabber. Again, they aren't that big of a deal.But are the mental changes as pleasent? the occasional psychotic breaks that some of us may undergo? Or homicidal mania? Or uncontrollable rage? The idea that I'm no longer in full control of my actions because I've 'evolved' doesn't thrill me, it terrifies me. Not enough to limit my trying to fulfill my potential, but enough to make me careful of my efforts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Arek: Well put.Apep: that "they were meant for him,not for me." sounds like you put our various choices down to a higher power? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashnod Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Sandy Davis- Miss-Fortune:I am adding a reply by doing as you said you do..ANd still nothing.Also it is not about making a reference, it is about making a redundant a reference.It is like going up to someone and re-petting everything you hear them say, rigth right they say it.As I say quoting people, such as the way you did now.One point of the topic, and it was a reference to what I said.But too often you post right after a person,and quote their whole post, then add one line.So you miss the point of posting, and if you were righting a book, you would slapped into a curt so fast your head would spin.So, please use less quotes...Note how I said reply "icon" and not button. The little one with quotes in the corner of each post? The one that means I am replying to YOU specifically and not simply adding a reply to the thread in general? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apep Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by David 'Dr. Troll' Smith: Apep: that "they were meant for him,not for me." sounds like you put our various choices down to a higher power?No, that's not what I meant. I'm not sure I believe in that sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Davis Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Apep:Well then why don't you just kill yourself and get it over with. Again, there is no reason that this is something you can't learn to deal with. I'm certainly not going to pitty you. I don't give a frag what your blood can do. Mine isn't exactly normal itself. But you don't see me worrying about becoming a living portal to the abyss. Oh no, every nova that gets near me might get sucked into the vacum of nothing that I've become.Look, all of us, if not given direction, can be a serious danger to everything around us. If your are being so wreckless that you're wracking up the taint without knowing where to put it, then by all means, let someone put you out of your misery.You miss-understood the meaning. To say that all novas are blessed.Then to say say someone one should kill me...Well, I have something to tell, you I am not worrying about becoming a sun, I am saying that if the blessing fo yours go one longer I will become a sun.ANd what ticked me off was again not your habit of quoting, that is bothersome.Rather you I was and still am pissed off,as you think i should be killed because what I am.You say that my death would be a gift.So,I am left with idea that the media has shown the true light on you and you just are good at covering it up.After all if Utopia is so bad ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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