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[N News Service]

Eruption or Crime?

Recent eruptee Juri McClendon is under investigation by Alabama Asst.

District Attorney Alexander Stimson after evidence came to light that her

recent eruption may have been the result of arson rather than having been

the cause of the fire. Ms. McClendon erupted during a fire in an old

Huntsville neighborhood when a fire broke out in her rental home. "We cannot

allow people to cause damage and chaos simply out of some misguided desire

to see if they are novas" Asst. District Attorney Stimson was quoted as

saying during a recent phone call, "There is some evidence that suggest this

may have been a part of a pattern. If this turns out to be the case we

intend to use the full weight of the law to make her answer for her reckless

behavior."

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The Tape is in!! Mystery Mouth In Manhattan!!

Recovered video tape from the security cameras at the demolished PETA New

York headquarters verified what witnesses have claimed for the past few

weeks, that the destructive force that tore through the building was none

other than the enigmatic Tum-Tum. "We don't have any clue as to why he

showed up." claims Patricia King, director of the New York office, " We're

all working and then 'boom' the front doors explode in and he's tearing up

the place screaming something about turkeys and the letter G. Luckily he

didn't eat anyone this time and we all got out."

Some injuries were reported but no missing persons have been reported

suggesting that this time Tum Tum left without eating anyone on the

premises. Where he comes from and were he goes are still a mystery.

Directive and Utopian offices gave no official comment as to whether or not

they are hunting Tum-Tum.

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Congress Looking Into XWF Bloodbath

After the bloody fracas between new nova sensation Totem and the XWF Red

Circle Champion, Congress is again looking into the legal status of the nova

entertainment group specializing in theatrical productions of combat themed

extravaganzas. While normally violent affairs the combat between Totem and

Ravana went farther than most with Totem apparently losing control and

attempting to murder Ravana. Totem's subsequent excursion into the audience

was also the subject of the Congressional hearings.

"All I can think of is what if next time some nova doesn't control

themselves? Are we going to be seeing human bodies piling up?" exclaimed

Chris Cannonn (R, Utah) during the hearings. Responses by XWF executive

Rick Flair are expected next week.

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[David 'Dr. Troll' Smith]

If we see him at more matches, then we'll know that Totem is a better actor than is good for him. ::Sigh:: And I could have had tickets for that match but didn't go.

[Sakurako Hino]

*shakes head*

I can see the XWF is getting into the muck and mire, this time more deeper than ever before. I hate to say it, but the XWF isn't exactly safe for Human consumption. I saw it first hand. (Hell, I thought my life was over that night.) Scary stuff, even for a Nova like me.

As for TUM TUM... oh dear...

[Ghostwriter]

What cheeses me off is that Ravana's actions and intent aren't being blamed for the mess. Totem was provoked into losing it - I know, I was there and in his mind.

[Jager]

Regan, that is part of the game, getting into the head of the other guy.

Tossing Totem into a combat match, now that was irresponsible.

No! Wait! Totem is a monster.

Yeah, right. Pull the other one.

[Wakinyan]

I was pretty stupid to do it. I saw the money and thought it was just fake grandstanding bravado. I don't blame anyone but myself for letting things go the way they went.

[DigiGeist]

Look, Ravana instigated Totem into raging. I could see it in his eyes. Ravana's a bastard...... Okay... I really shouldn't take it further than that. I spent a day in the klink to cool off after my... outburst.

But still, Ravana = Bully.

[Bastian]

We are blaming the novas for being who they are, but not the baselines who enticed them together for baseline amusements?

Was Ravana chosen at random, or picked because they knew his style, attitude, and purpose?

Totem's temper was discussed, by him, before anyone saw it on PPV.

As for the rest; they should leave the recent eruptee alone. Past lives are just that ... in the past. I doubt many of them would want all their past being dredged up again.

and ...

GO, TUM-TUM!!! GO!!!

[David 'Dr. Troll' Smith]

Quote:

Totem: ...I saw the money and thought it was just fake grandstanding bravado.

Only outside the ring. Well... lots of victories are fluff (jobbers). But the novas in the circut are the real deal.

If you stay with the XWF presumably they will plan for this sort of thing.

[Great Monster C]

I do have to say that Totem's fight did seem excessivly violent to me. We have some clients who were concerned about it and I've seen the tapes. Anyone who considered a near murder entertainment needs help.

As for TumTum, having lost a considerable investment in Famous Amos to him in the past, I can only say don't stand between him and his food.

[DigiGeist]

Tum Tum... what can I say about that guy.

He must have some dimensional pocket for a pocket...

Just how much damage has this Nova eating machine done? (Sort of explains why Famous Amos cookies are $6 a bag...)

[Violette 'V' D'Aronique]

It's an interesting question, don't you think? How far can someone go towards becoming a Nova before it's too much? The NULL MANIFESTO would probably say that no limits exist, except killing your fellow Novas, but it never says thou shalt not kill your genetic brothers and sisters so who knows. Society at large would probably say something like the line exists where another person would be harmed or that the attempt to erupt put other people in potential danger.

Hmm.

I think that had I known in advance that I had the potential to erupt, I'd have tried to do it too. I think we give potential eruptees a very dangerous weapon once we confirm their potential.

Think about it. We say, "you have the possibility to become a Nova. Eruption usually occurs in times of great stress, fear, or peril. But, don't do something stupid like trying to erupt, you'll only kill yourself."

Damn....what a mindscrew. How do you handle something like that? You want to become a Nova, and you know you've got the goods to do it, but most documented eruptions occur in situations that are highly illegal to create intentionally (accidents, attacks, trauma, etc).

[Lemmy Chillmeister]

Well, all I can say, is if I had known I had the potential I probably would have gone dancing in traffic the first fucking opportunity possible.

But I've always had what the shrinks called an 'impulse control problem'.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

Violette D'Aronique: Okay, I take back the One Eye Blind Girl comment I made earlier. The last three paragraphs of your post are sympathetic enough to my problems that I shouldn't be cracking on you too hard. You're okay for a T2M'er, and I'll leave it at that.

[David 'Dr. Troll' Smith]

Quote:

Violette 'V' D'Aronique:...Think about it. We say, "you have the possibility to become a Nova. Eruption usually occurs in times of great stress, fear, or peril. But, don't do something stupid like trying to erupt, you'll only kill yourself."

Damn....what a mindscrew. How do you handle something like that? You want to become a Nova, and you know you've got the goods to do it, but most documented eruptions occur in situations that are highly illegal to create intentionally (accidents, attacks, trauma, etc).

The key is usually stress. Stress doesn't have to mean putting yourself in danger.

Legal forms of stress that you could subject yourself to are; sex, sky-diving, and being with a nova.

I suppose you could combine all three.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

Sex with a Nova while sky-diving?

I am SOOOOO there. Any takers? Hell, I'd have sex with Leviathian if we were skydiving and I'd erupt and survive it.

[Lemmy Chillmeister]

Sorry chickieboo, I don't fuck baselines anymore. New rule.

If Preston (the old man, not the kid) shows up again, ask him. Dude is so pent up he'd probably blow your head clean off. If that kinda danger doesn't get you to erupt, nothing will.

[Wakinyan]

I guess I need to adopt a policy like that as well for obvious reasons. Not for your reasons though Lemmy. They are just to.... Fragile. Yeah that's the best way to put it.

I could help you with the skydiving with a Nova part though Pyre.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

I might take you up on that, Totem. Thanks for the offer.

[Y.T.]

Totem, are you sure that's wise?

[Wakinyan]

Maybe not but you live and learn.

[Zed]

Any time I go skydiving my parachute pack ends up releasing a kitchen sink when I pull the cord. I usually end up at the bottom of a Zed-shaped hole in the ground.

[Great Monster C]

And how are we supposed to know when Novas are kidding? I complained about the usage of the phrase 'and monkeys might fly from my butt' during a visit to the AmpRoom. I thought it was trite. And then the son of a gun did it.

[Sakurako Hino]

Quote:

Originally posted by Zed:
Any time I go skydiving my parachute pack ends up releasing a kitchen sink when I pull the cord. I usually end up at the bottom of a Zed-shaped hole in the ground.

Thank God I can fly...

Although, it's rather fun to skydive anyway. At least for me. All I have to do is fly up to a certain height, turn off the node, and freefall. Then, phoomp, parachute opens and I land. Of course, I've been known to use my flight while parachuting to lengthen the time drifting down on the chute.

It's actually a fun little time.

[Wakinyan]

One of my favorite things to do while flying is tuck and dive. I am pretty sure I get up to almost the speed of sound in a steep dive. I can stop myself almost on a dime. Just ask Codex she saw first hand.

[Sakurako Hino]

I wouldn't try such a stunt. Strictly speaking from my end of things. I'm not as tough as you are. Although, flying up to high altitudes and free-falling from 200,000 feet or higher is quite a rush. Carrying the oxygen up is a b**ch, though. Sorta encumbering.

Not to mention all the other gear I have to carry for such "entertainment".

One day I plan to jump from LEO. I'm already designing the heat shield system for the first stage of re-entry. Once it does it's job, the next thing (which still needs designing) is the super-high altitude opening chute.

What I do for fun, huh? ^o^

[DigiGeist]

You know guys, I had to learn how to do HALO and low altitude parachuting. Something Interpol isn't usually known for. But, when you positively, absolutely, must have that operative in a country overnight... Nothing beats a delivery by silk.

Although now, you'd never get me to do such a thing unless I needed to bail out of a plane about to nosedive. In other words... only if I had to.

[Jager]

Skydiving loses some of its charm when you realize that terminal velocity isn't really terminal anymore.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

I thought terminal velocity was the point at which an object could no longer accelerate as it plummeted downward due to air resistance?

Reaching zero acceleration?

Crappy pun, Blind Man. Wasn't very funny or insightful.

[Wakinyan]

I think Pyre if you ever do erupt you should hope for some Nova scale social improvements.

[Jager]

Its hard to build a crystal palace on a cracked foundation, Totem.

Pyre, if you aren't even going to try ...

Just to be sure, I had the Terminal Velocity discussion with four relatively intelligent baselines. I got four different perspectives, none of which matched yours. Odd.

[Sakurako Hino]

Quote:

Originally posted by Jager:
Skydiving loses some of its charm when you realize that terminal velocity isn't really terminal anymore.

I don't mind. It's like a roller-coaster ride to me now. Besides, back before the node, I always wanted to skydive. I didn't have the freedom or time to do so, but now that I have both... I guess some fulfillment of childhood dreams isn't bad.

Besides, the view is the payoff for me, not the thrill.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

Quote:

Originally posted by Jager:
Its hard to build a crystal palace on a cracked foundation, Totem.

Pyre, if you aren't even going to try ...

Just to be sure, I had the Terminal Velocity discussion with four relatively intelligent baselines. I got four different perspectives, none of which matched yours. Odd.

Not my fault if you talk to uneducated idiots, Blind Man. What I quoted is the scientific definition.

the constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling through the atmosphere under the attraction of gravity

or

the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity.

or

The limit toward which the velocity of a body approaches, as of a body falling through the air.Terminal velocity occurs when the acceleration of a freely falling object is equal to zero.


Three different baseline sources online which all agree with me. Sorry, better luck next time.

[Jager]

How about this:

Terminal Velocity

Terminal Injury

When you are skilled/tough enough as a nova that falling from any height is no longer fatal.

Terminal Velocity - the maximum velocity (yes, when the acceleration reaches zero) a falling object achieves.

Terminal - life threatening

Not that I didn't get were you were coming from, but it was sad to see you couldn't get past your own perceptions to see were I was coming from, as well.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

You are SOOOOO blind, Blind Man.

Not only did I see where you were coming from, I said that it was a bad pun and not funny.

Not only that, it's stupid. Baselines have been surviving falls from obscene heights for years. They don't do it consistently, and they don't do it well (lots a broken bodies most of the time), but they've done it. There isn't any designated fatality line for the speed of a fall in a baseline. You can die falling off a roof when you're as fragile as us.

Suddenly you want to define a speed for Novas falling that's fatal? Diversity in action prevents that from happening, what with how tough some of you are compared to others. What's fatal for one isn't necessarily fatal for another. And that fatality isn't going to be measured by how close you are to achieving zero acceleration on your downward descent.

[Jager]

And you still don't get it, do ya, so I am just going to stop trying.

You are arrogant and self-absorbed. I'm sure you will make a great nova.

[Matryoshka]

Jager, people change.You have, she will.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

You know, there are some people out there who insist certain works of art or philosophy are so mindbreaking, that anyone who doesn't like them just doesn't get it. I saw this kind of crap my first semester of college. You don't like it, you obviously don't get it. Because if you got it, you'd like it.

They forget about the people who get it and simply don't like it. Period.

So, to say this again, Blind Man. I get it. Okay? I get it. I got it before I ever came here. You're not telling me anything new, 'kay? I heard it all before from people more eloquent than you. So, I'm sorry to damage your fragile little ego or whatever it is that makes you feel so damn important or significant, but you're playing re-runs of shit other people said to me long before I came to this place. I got it then, I get it now, and whatever it is you're trying to force down my throat, it's something I'd already put some serious fucking thought into before your little fingers began typing it.

Baseline doesn't equal stupid, nor does it equal ignorant.

Or, to put it another way, and pay attention please. There is a limit to how much you can know about a situation or a condition without having experienced it, and a limit to what the words of someone who has experienced that situation or condition can convey. After a time, attempts by one experienced to describe this to one inexperienced become repetitive.

Hot damn, I love my college education.

Basically, Blind Man, there's only so much I can understand before actually experiencing it, and I already understood that before I starting bantering with you. And if you were half as wise as these people think you are, you'd have known that already. I said the exact same thing in less-vulgar words in my 3,4, and 5th posts here. Why the hell are you still chasing my ass about this?

Just chalk it up to the fact that I'm not erupted, that I can't know what it's like to be erupted, but that I understand as much as I can without having erupted, and move the fuck on, 'kay?

Be a Nova for crying out loud and stop arguing with someone beneath you.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

Quote:

Originally posted by Lemmy Chillmeister:
Sorry chickieboo, I don't fuck baselines anymore. New rule.

If Preston (the old man, not the kid) shows up again, ask him. Dude is so pent up he'd probably blow your head clean off. If that kinda danger doesn't get you to erupt, nothing will.

So...since I'm a Nova how about taking a dive with me?

Come on, think about it. Fire and Ice coming together. Sounds pretty damn spectacular to me.

[Lemmy Chillmeister]

Quote:

Originally posted by Juri 'Salamander' McClendon:

Quote:

Originally posted by Lemmy Chillmeister:
Sorry chickieboo, I don't fuck baselines anymore. New rule.

If Preston (the old man, not the kid) shows up again, ask him. Dude is so pent up he'd probably blow your head clean off. If that kinda danger doesn't get you to erupt, nothing will.

So...since I'm a Nova how about taking a dive with me?

Come on, think about it. Fire and Ice coming together. Sounds pretty damn spectacular to me.

You just wanna meet, I'm game. If more happens, that's fucking cool. And viceversa. Sorry for the delay in replying, I missed this little note. My bad.