[8Fold/Contest] Journal Into... #14 : All Us Zombies (HC13)

[Andrew Perron]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Saxon Brenton <saxonbrenton at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon 27 Sep 2010 Andrew Perron replied:
>>>      Massive sub-sonic force penetrated the force field and shook the
>>> diabolical Professor Longitude like a rattle.  He barely had enough
>>> time to adjust the inertial dampeners to compensate.  Still, he had
>>> remained standing in the face of his enemy.
>>
>> Ooooh, nice way of getting around a forcefield.
>
> If sound waves can get through then sonic shockwaves should too.
> Actually that's true for light and light-based lasers as well.  I suppose
> it's just a case of rigging the battle-conditions equivalent of light and
> sound filters.

*nods* I'd seen the light-based workaround before, but I'd never
considered sound.

>>> wouldn't be budged by anything short of the space-time shredder...
>>> Ooo, now there was an idea.
>>
>> Stealing technology from the hamsters, eh?  Tsk tsk.
>
> {blinks}  My goodness, you're right.  I hadn't made the connection with
> the temporal shredder in _Time Capsules_ #12.  At that point in the story
> I knew I wanted a confrontation, and I just threw in various ideas of
> technobable mad science weapons off the top of my head.  It seems that
> memes about spacial and temporal shredding are filed under 'neat stuff'
> somewhere in my headspace.  (This is obviously something that the
> characters over in _Limp-Asparagus Lad_ will try to mock me for.)

Protect your personal information by binding yourself into a time loop
and destroying your own past!

>>> "And you know, *Dad*," he said, making that last word a  thing of
>>> scorn,
>>
>> That seems more casual than he's been so far.
>
> True.  And for the life of me I'm still not sure if that's a mistake on
> my part or whether it should be kept as an indication that Doctor isn't
> necessarily proficient at this 'pretending to be self-willed with a real
> personality' schtick.

I was thinking it might be the latter.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, reverseclone!