Pokey Minch (
ceasetoexist) wrote2010-07-05 10:10 pm
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I can keep rhythm with no metronome
[Good evening Mayfield, have a rather annoyed and tired little would-be child tyrant bitching over the phone.]
So, you know, I wasn't holding out much hope this place would be interesting in any way. But if there's one thing I like less then being kidnapped and forced into some crap-sack town, it's being made to go back to school and listen to some preachy, conformist junk.
...I'm bored. Let's play a game. It's a simple one for now: riddles. I'll start.
How do you control something you cannot touch, cannot comprehend, cannot hear, and cannot kill?
[There's a pause for a moment. It seems like he's waiting for answers until..]
Hey. Weird kid that called me the other day. The one who knows who I am. I want to talk with you again.
[Another pause. And when he speaks again, his voice is a hiss; not necessarily angry, but unpleasant as he swallows down his pride.]
Please.
So, you know, I wasn't holding out much hope this place would be interesting in any way. But if there's one thing I like less then being kidnapped and forced into some crap-sack town, it's being made to go back to school and listen to some preachy, conformist junk.
...I'm bored. Let's play a game. It's a simple one for now: riddles. I'll start.
How do you control something you cannot touch, cannot comprehend, cannot hear, and cannot kill?
[There's a pause for a moment. It seems like he's waiting for answers until..]
Hey. Weird kid that called me the other day. The one who knows who I am. I want to talk with you again.
[Another pause. And when he speaks again, his voice is a hiss; not necessarily angry, but unpleasant as he swallows down his pride.]
Please.
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We're playing question and answer time again, but this time? I'm the one asking questions.
...What are you? Are you human? Some kinda paradox clone or some bullcrap I sent to the past to warn me about something? Some kinda time-echo? What?
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No. But I guess you did make me, in a way. I'm . . . I'm the one who's fated to bring about the destruction of my world.
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That's bullcrap, for two reasons. One: fate doesn't exist. You make it your own path entirely in life. Two: even if I did "create" you, I'm out of the "world destroying biz". Tried once, it failed. Kinda sucked too. Don't see why I'd do it again.
...Maybe if I was ultra bored.
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But imagine how you'll feel in ten million years if you're bored now . . .
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No. We wouldn't stop existing. We'd probably just create a different reality. It wouldn't change whatever happens to wherever you're from, but it'd change something else perhaps. Convergence and separation. That's how reality works. Not fate.
And it's pretty damn unfair that you know my name, but I don't know yours. What do they call you, o ender of worlds?
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. . .
If we're talking fairness, I have every reason not to tell you my name.
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...Really? King P? That's the best I could have come up with in "ten million years"? My God I get uncreative.
...So everyone in your world is dead then?
Pfeh. Fine. I'll just call you Hermes. Good enough name for a messenger I don't know, I guess. And appropriate for a god like me.
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I don't know. I didn't see what happened after.
. . . Maybe you're already a little crazy now.
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...That'd make sense, as much as I hate to admit it. After about "ten million years", if I really do do this schtick that long, I guess I'd have run out of things to see and do.
How, exactly, do I get you to destroy the world? Just out of curiosity. I mean did I trick you, or what?
...Gonna be honest. I'm a jerk, but I ain't out to kill people
usually. So that kinda sucks to hear...Maybe. Who's to say, really?
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So, um. Are you willing to change now?
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Change is a pretty big undertaking, Hermes. And to be fair? I still like doing what I'm doing. It's fun to raise hell. It's what I'm honestly WIRED to do.
...But I'll give it a try, not raising as much hell. We'll see how things go.
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After all, I don't know just how the game's going to go, either. Maybe I'll find ways to amuse myself that won't cause too much damage to people.
I'm just kidding.
I'll only keep it to property damage.
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[Obviously, Lucas still doesn't trust Porky entirely or even at all, but it sounds as if he means it. And Lucas, of course, is the type to give someone the benefit of the doubt. Even the monster who ruined his life. Because, after all, this one hadn't done it yet, and if he really could get him to change . . . ]
Good. I guess that's all I can ask from you right now.
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Yeah. It is.
Cause this town took something from me, and like hell I'm going to let that stand.
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....
Yeah. The Time Distorter. And it wasn't just a time machine. It was a mobile weapon platform, and it could analyze the environment and had my records on the places I'd been and seen and crap.
The Distorter is what I want back, and I will get it back.
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[Yeah right Porky how dumb do you think I am. Lucas makes a mental note to think about what it is that Porky is missing, although he has a few inklings. A framed yo-yo, perhaps, or maybe a movie of a group of four children set on full repeat.]
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I guess. Heard that random crap happens that, if we deal with it, we can get our stuff back.
This one of those events you think? With the communism bullcrap?
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((OoC: Do you know, Ness, Lucas, and Porky could all claim the yo-yo as a regain. I wonder what would happen.))
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Yeah, see. Just waiting around for something to happen and doing nothing? Not what I do.
[OOC:Dunno, but quite possibly hilarity.]
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But thanks for the sentiment, misplaced as it is.
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You should see the body Fran made for Judas
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Listen, this was just a riddle, but you honestly think you could do something like that? Entrap the formless, I mean?
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[Fail Filter
How much do your services cost?
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Can I get a name?
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Pokey Minch.
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