SW10: September 2010 #1: The Sinking, Part 2

[Andrew Perron]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:42:45 +0000 (UTC), Scott Eiler wrote:

> On Oct 26, 12:46 pm, Andrew Perron <pwer... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:48:07 +0000 (UTC), Scott Eiler wrote:
>>> Before Nell, there was a young woman named Kristi. She made me swear
>>> never to call her the Whale Girl. I myself brought her back from the
>>> future. Her future was the end of the world by a plague of cold.
>>
>> ...as in temperature, or as in the common cold?
> 
> Temperature.  Maybe I should say "coldness".

"Plague" is probably just the wrong word there.  Probably "doom by cold" or
something would work best.

>>> Since our Earth's orbit changed, much of U.S. national security has
>>> depended on a calm population. This was initially delivered by the
>>> "Emperor Ted" with alien armor. But the effects of this armor have
>>> been wearing off since February of this year.
>>
>> Wait what?
> 
> Oh, didn't you get the side note I buried inside one of my seven
> stories from before March this year?  8{D>

Quest for the Seven Stories!

>>> If Ellipsis really was propping up the national security, it must have
>>> been reluctantly. He used to sponsor independence movements in
>>> Greenland, Keewatin, the Aleutian Islands, and everywhere else he
>>> could get away with. In Patagonia this backfired.
>>
>> Hmmmmmm.  Blackmail or just desperate times?
> 
> Desperate times (if you're asking how Ellipsis signed on the Vice-
> Presidential team).

I was indeed.  And it makes sense. (Especially considering you don't need
*more* darkness now.)

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, National Hope I Get A Job Month.