LNH20: Clueless Lad Team-Up #1: Featuring Nudist Man!
Scott Eiler
seiler at eilertech.com
Mon Dec 19 18:22:47 PST 2011
CLUELESS LAD TEAM-UP #1
featuring Nudist Man!
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This story probably takes place before The Spoon of Destiny.
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Nudist Man was on vacation from the Legion of Net.Heroes. As their
Ultimate Nudist, he'd disrupted a lot of villainous plans. And he'd
disrupt a lot more. But on vacation, he needed a quiet place to be his
nudist self.
He was hiking west from the Appalachian Trail. The main trail was too
crowded for him. And he'd heard about a raptor observatory in West
Virginia. Oh, why not.
Nudist Man was a nudist, but he still had to stock his backpack. Like
any Trail hiker, he'd sent canned goods ahead. So he walked into the
post office of Dimm Hollow, West Virginia. He took out the ID from his
backpack, showed it to the postmaster, and got his package.
The locals gaped at him. But he exuded self-confidence. Being a nudist
wasn't easy, but he'd mastered it. No one commented as he picked up his
package and walked out. Until...
One tall teenage boy on the street said, "Hey, mister, you shouldn't
ought to dress like that. Or undress, I guess. We don't *do* that in
Dimm Hollow."
Suddenly, Nudist Man was wearing blue jeans!
He silently opened his mouth, spread his arms, and looked at the boy.
His unspoken question was obvious, at least to the teen. And hopefully
to intelligent readers such as ourselves.
The teen responded, "Heck if *I* know where your new pants came from.
But maybe you should keep 'em."
Nudist Man unzipped and dropped them.
Suddenly he had new pants underneath! The teen said, "No, we don't drop
our pants in public here in Dimm Hollow."
So Nudist Man dropped his pants again.
... Ten pairs of pants later, the teen boy said, "Okay. You must be
from some place where people drop their pants in public. Kind of like
where the women cover their bodies, but the other way round. Like no
clothes instead of clothes, and men instead of women... Uh, welcome to
town."
Nudist Man sloughed off the fallen trousers, and walked out of town.
Back on the trail, he wondered about clueless lads, as Doc Nostalgia
would put it. What clueless lads could West Virginia hold, whose power
could manufacture clothes out of nothingness? Possibly a curiosity for
the science staff back at Legion of Net.Heroes Headquarters. Maybe even
hero material, compared with some of the others from old versions of the
Legion.
Back in Dimm Hollow, that same clueless lad said to his friends, "Hey,
that was weird. I wonder what else will be out there when I go join the
Net.ropolis Police Academy?"
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Author's Notes:
Nudist Man was created by Tom Russell. I hope I've properly kept track
that he's Free For Use, and I hope I've properly reflected the
awesomeness that must be Nudist Man. All other characters (such as they
are) are hereby declared Free For Use by Eiler Technical Enterprises.
I see The Writers are feverishly building the world once again, starting
with a big saga. Clueless Lad was originally designed as an
introduction to a world like this. Perhaps he may serve that purpose
now, the easy way. One character at a time.
Oh, and who's *on* the science staff at Legion of Net.Heroes
Headquarters? That seems to be open as yet. I suspect "Doc" is just an
honorary title for Doc Nostalgia. And Kindle's been showing up a lot,
but she's more a clinician.
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(signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------
Turns out I'm an anally-fixated oedipal paranoid with
south-of-the-border schizophrenic delusions... But never mind, I've
found me the ideal job. I'm going to run for President!
- Major Honey, scripted by Grant Morrison, Doom Patrol #46, August 1991.
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