SW10/HCC/REPOST: April 2011 #2: The Satanists with the Silver Skull Machine

[Scott Eiler]

Andrew Perron wrote:
> On Sun, 1 May 2011 03:07:15 +0000 (UTC), Scott Eiler wrote:
> 
>> Their leader said, "What you call evil we are *proud* to call moral.  I am Auge 
>> von Shaitan.  The Eye of Satan."
> 
> Now *there*'s a motto/battlecry.

I'm pretty sure it's what real Satanists believe, too.  If I'm going to use them 
as villains, I should at least try to be accurate.


>> I said, "I do."  The others said, "I do."  Only Terri was silent.  I asked, "Terri?"
>>
>> "I'm sorry!  Those were real people we met!  I can't vote to destroy them!"
> 
> Woo!

Yep.  It's good to have someone like Terri around, now that my characters have 
taken on the challenge of being more moral than Marvel Comics.


>> "Please pardon me.  And allow me to introduce myself.  I am Doctor Joseph 
>> Biggby-Fisher of the Imperial Academy of Metascience..."
> 
> I love that name!

Thanks.  I generated it out of Facebook posts, mostly "What's your name at the 
Royal Wedding?"  8{D>


>> "... Right.  You may understand, Her Majesty's Gouvernment is undertaking 
>> radical measures against radical climate change.
> 
> Interesting it'd still be there in this world.

It's not a *different* world, though.  Terri wished for Victorians, but she 
didn't wish for a new orbit.


>> I said, "Seems to me, it's all just the same problems, different year.  We can 
>> move the Earth around, but we can't fix man."
> 
> ...by the way, this hasn't changed, but: I dunno.  This kind of thing
> always seems like a cop-out to me, or at least cowardly.  Sure, you don't
> want to try to solve all of people's problems for them, and sure, there's a
> slippery slope... but I think I'd, y'know, *try* to put in a patch for the
> upcoming armageddon.

Yeah, I know it's kind of a copout.  But I avoided a much bigger copout with it. 
  At this point, the story is what it is.  But I can understand why people might 
at least recommend that.  So:  Instant story insert!

...

Bill said, "You know that old story about how you wait for God to save you from 
the flood, even though he just sent you a canoe?  I think God just sent us 
something."

Wyatt responded, "This isn't a canoe.  It's the Death Star."

I (*** that being Richard ***) said, "Bill's got a point.  The Victorian 
gentleman knew how to ask for *just* the power he needs.  While we've *got* the 
power, we could ask for that too."

Jane said, "Really, shouldn't we give the power back and *then* ask?"

I responded, "The time to pray is always now."  Jane agreed, and everyone else 
liked the idea.  So I led another group prayer.

...

Hey, I like it.  I'll probably polish the language a bit when I insert it for 
real, but you get the idea.


> I really hope Dr. Biggby-Fisher does make another
> appearance, one way or another... 
> 
> Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, who apparently thinks every friggin'
> thing is interesting.

Hey, I bet *his* world doesn't have The Trillions on it!  So the Doctor could be 
visiting Chancellor Wyatt sometime...  Good thing I haven't been making plans 
for what to write *other* than some big boring end of the world story, because 
as often happens, my characters have their own plans.

(Hey, this is kind of like how Bloom County ended!)

-- 
(signed) Scott Eiler  8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------

Only their myths concerned peace and contentment, and that in such a
coercive, sullen package it was obvious that the Earth humans resented
the very idea.

- from "Passing" by Elaine Radford, Aboriginal SF, May/June 1987.