[MV] The Super Wizard From Space #42: The Secret History Of The Seven Cosmic Crowns, part 1

Wil Alambre wilalambre at gmail.com
Tue May 7 20:17:41 PDT 2013



On 2013-05-07, at 9:56 PM, Scott Eiler <seiler at eilertech.com> wrote:

> On 5/7/2013 6:36 PM, Wil Alambre wrote:
> 
>> Seven full universes worth of reality suddenly EXIST inside their frail brains
>> and flatten them.
>> 
>> Their screams get smeared along with their consciousnesses. The impossible
>> immense weight CRUSHES and CRUNCHES and CRACKS. Their blood freezes in all the
>> INFINITE space they all suddenly ARE and are IN. Their flesh BURNS away in the
>> infinite stars they suddenly have. Their bones ROT and AGE in the infinite
>> amount of centuries they all experience.
> 
> Nice bits of WORDING there.  And it's a very sensible approach to what would really happen if you were One With The Universe.

I'm still experimenting with the display and formatting of text. In this posting, I switched from wrapping text in asterisks to capitalizing words I wanted to emphasis. I'm attempting to emulate the bombastic feel bolded words get in comic books.

Hm. On that thought, I should experiment with a more comic book caption like font in the website postings!

>> The seven foreign universes stay hooked to the vestige visions that netted
>> them, but get trapped in an reality that does NOT welcome them. The invading
>> universes try to expand out and away from the ebbing minds, but a full and
>> defined existence pushes BACK against them. BACK into the scraps of those
>> small mortals. BACK into the detritus of their last echoing thoughts. BACK
>> into the surviving remnants of their computerized caps.
>> 
>> The seven metal caps absorb. Store. Archive. The spiral circuits, designed to
>> optimize and amplify, condense ENERGIES into themselves to create BETTER
>> containers. BETTER versions of themselves.
> 
> Yeah, that's a nice way to end up with really powerful hats.

As good an explanation for magical macguffins as anything else, I suppose :) Plus, I like the in-story representation that my fiction is inspired and built upon the success of the series that came before it :)

- W


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