SW10/WWW: Powernaut 2006 #10: Secure This Tower!

[Scott Eiler]

Okay, the tower wasn't *that* much of a threat.  So, what was its 
purpose...  and might some *other* threat be more serious than people 
thought?  If so, how will the Powernaut(s) respond?  Powernaut 2006 
approaches the conclusion... of Part One!

http://www.eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/2006.htm#10

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Bonus Section: Commentary from Wyatt Ferguson! About That Darkness

I should probably explain Ultimate Darkness...  It is the void between 
the universes.  Each universe is kind of like a little bubble in the 
Darkness.  And all those bubbles, kind of give the Darkness indigestion. 
  So it has had some attitude, for as long as humans have trafficked 
with it.

I got a chance to see the mages playing their Ultimate Darkness games in 
the camp in Iowa.  I didn't take it seriously, because I've heard that 
Ultimate Darkness is well adjusted nowadays.  It kind of has a crush on 
one young woman, Pam Brown.  Really.  The World Journal Monthly said so. 
  They even call her "The Bride of the Ultimate Darkness".  (ref: 
http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2004/journal_dark.htm)  And they're 
usually pretty reputable, among people who know how weird our world 
really is.  Besides, I've met Pam.  She seems a good custodian for 
Ultimate Darkness.  (ref: 
http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2004/aleut.htm#movement)

However, no one knows where Pam is right now.  When superhumans were 
abducted and depowered last year, Pam was not there, any more than any 
other avatar / Force of Nature was.  (ref: 
http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2005/journal_melon.htm)  And she was 
wounded in 2004.  So she may be in isolation among Darkness.

Ultimate Darkness acts kind of like a lovesick puppy when it doesn't 
have Pam handy.  And now we have these Dork (excuse me, "Dark") Mages, 
talking with Darkness using what seems to be Doom Squirrels.  (North 
America currently has a vacancy for Doom Creatures; Doom Squirrels seem 
to have risen in response.)  With all that, Ultimate Darkness might be 
kind of scary right now.  But if Dork Mages can make deals with it and 
light themselves up within it, I'm guessing *anyone* can.

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

When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama

I know. - Archie Andrews

- from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.