AGWW Online - Log 2003/07/01
Mage - Adventures in the Digital Web
Session 2x02: Sector Development
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A.C.Newton (Sons of Ether) - played by Stayka Asmodai (Virtual Adepts) - played by Asmodai Callista7 (Virtual Adepts) - played by Stayka Cyborg X522 (Iteration X) - played by Stayka Hannibal Golux (Virtual Adepts) - played by Nimrod Jones Kaya Smith (Virtual Adepts) - played by Fuzzy Agent Kevin Grey (NWO) - played by Stayka Dr.Lyman Cleve (Void Engineers) - played by Stayka Marvin Black (Hollow One) - played by Sven Maxine - played by Stayka Michaelangelo (Virtual Adepts) - played by Dingo Nita Smith (Virtual Adepts) - played by Fuzzy Sl4v33n (Orphans) - played by Asmodai X-Cel (Virtual Adepts) - played by Asmodai Z4rt4n (Virtual Adepts) - played by Asmodai Lots of crows (Don't ask!) ST - Stayka
<La_ST> Now is one week after the last session - both in realtime and in story time. All the contestants who signed up should now present their designs. At first this will be a simulation of course, as most people won't have the necessary skills to reformat ta sector, but of course the best entries will get the support they need to implement them at the real thing.
Hannibal_Golux puts his hand up... "Minor correction: two weeks since last DW session."
<La_ST> (Ok. 2 weeks IRL, 1 week story time) - So now the Spy's DEmise has a big room set up as kind of holodeck to away the presentations
Maxine smiles in the round of the waiting patrons.
__Nita__ smiles to Maxine
<Maxine> Okay, we will draw lots who will present his or her design first.
Hannibal_Golux is making some last minute modifications.
Marvin_Black shows up in the Demise... Even though nobody fetched him today
<Marvin_Black> ACTION s icon looks a little bit different then usual. He still is clad in his usual black garb, but he looks a bit palerand his hair, though still thin is a little bit longer. Yet still the biggest change are two black angel's wings sprout from his back, giving him the look of a fallen dark angel, those who are said to bring bad news and whose sightings foretell the worst events, making his appearance even gloomier and creepier than usua
<La_ST> (Okay. Shall we roll dice or shall we beginn with Marv? Or AC? I bet the others need some moments to think up some thing still)
<__Kay__> hey Marv, nice Icon O:)
KevinGrey wears a worn black worker's overall, this signaling that he was just a helping hand for AC
<Marvin_Black> Well.. if you are forced into something... It's easier being able to check from above.. Even though I still have no chance. I don't even know why I'm here.
Michaelangel0 is quite calm (on the contrary to his player)
<Maxine> Okay, my random generator just fell on -
X-Cel is in the Demise wearing a shapely, fincely cut black suit, her long black hair is covered in somethign that seems like a mocking of a nun's hat...
<Maxine> Callista7! - Callista7, you may present your design in the holo chamber now
Asm0dai is standing in a fine tailored white suit, his hair closely cropped, and wearinfa white overcoat... his shades are still on his eyes and he is talkign to X-Cel
Callista7 is a tall woman with flowing copper hair, clad in a long, blue robe. Her eyes are stormy grey, and she seems to have a shining golden aura around herself. Callista7's voice is husky and deep, as she invites you to watch the design at the monitors that are located all over the Demise.
<Callista7> My proposal is calles the "Tower of Hali".
Callista7 waves her hand, and golden sparks shimmer, activating her design. A large deep violet plain evolves on the ground, crystallizing in a deep, black see with waves likes clouds in wich shimmering stars sparkle.
Hannibal_Golux shuffles into the Demise discreetly having just finished the last touches on his design.
<Callista7> On an island inmidst the cloud see, an imposing white tower raises. It shimmers like moonstone or pearls, and the light from half a dozen rainbow coloured moons opalesces in the material of the spire.
<Callista7> A forest blinks into existence at one shore of the see, and the cloudwaves break and spill onto the deep violet beach. The trees are made of copper and silver with leaves of metallic blue and green; they, too, sparkle in the iridescent light of the dancing moons. Strange birds sing melodies in haunting voices, they fly up from the copper trees, and now one can see a ring in the sky rising, a metallic rainbow ribbon that suggests the planet the audience is now standing on is majestically ringed like Saturn. Callista7 waves her hand elegantly, and the point of view of the visitors shifts, now one can see the inside of the tower.
X-Cel is sipping a cocktail next to Asmodai and with him looking at the presentation.
<Callista7> It is like a fairytale palace in pearls and crystals, and there are flowing tables and seats that invite visitors to stay, relax and watch the outside from crystalline windows that only show from the inside.
Callista7 waves her hand again and bows.
<Callista7> So this is my entry for the contest.
<Maxine> So, this was Callista7 bani Virtual Adepts. Thank you very much!
Asm0dai looks at X-Cel as she smiles.
Hannibal_Golux claps.
Marvin_Black mutters.
<Marvin_Black> What was this all about??
AC_Newton claps her hands enthusiastically.
<AC_Newton> Wow! That looked cool!
X-Cel seems to be doign somthing on a holo board
<AC_Newton> Well, it was *beautiful*. An oasis of silence.
<Marvin_Black> Wow... A parody of reality...
<Hannibal_Golux> (LOL)
<Marvin_Black> As if reality wasn't parody enough.
<KevinGrey> Well, it was nicely designed at least.
<Maxine> So, let us now get to the next contestant...
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: Isn't a parody parodying itself a paradox?
<Maxine> Marvin Black bani Hollow Ones?
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: It's a parody of a parody making it even... Ups...
<Maxine> Where do we have him? Marvin, it is your turn to present!
Marvin_Black whispers to Hanni before he goes.
<Marvin_Black> Now take a look at *my* world
Marvin_Black comes forth
Hannibal_Golux smiles, eager to see Marvin's entry, but also somewhat apprehensive.
AC_Newton looks curiously at the monitors
<Marvin_Black> Well.. My entry shows what reality is like if you take all the polish and make-up away most people tend to put on it...
Asm0dai grins when he sees Marv going towards the holoprojector and whispers something to X-Cel.
X-Cel grins.
<Marvin_Black> As you approach the sector from the conduit you notice a change of feeling. It gets dark and creeping, but that's nothing compared to what can get over you as you arrive and see the sector as a whole.
You see something that could be a suburban area of a city, but it seems weirdly twisted. The sky is like a black cloth above you without any star twinkling there. Instead of a street you stand on rusty grates that stretch out between the houses. Drains can be seen going along under the grates and are continually letting loose small drops of water that fall down to a blackness that stretches out beneath them and thus also under your feet. The houses seem to crumble and cracks run along the walls, the windows are stained and dirty, some have strange red blotches on them. Some of the buildings are tarped of so you can't see what they look like. As you approach the "streets" there is total silence, but the clanking sound of your steps and the moaning of the rusty grates beneath your feet and as you get nearer a dense fog starts to surround you, making it impossible to seem more than a few meters in any direction.
The houses seem to be towering above you as shadows, since the thick fog deny you a clear view to the top of them. You walk between those crumbling and decaying houses and sounds start to evolve from around you. Silent whispers, slithering or smacking sounds that seem to come closer and go away from you. Sometimes you could swear you see shadows and shades of strange creatures in the fog shambling away from you as you come nearer.
Some of the streets turn out to be dead ends as the grate is broken and points down into the blackness below that seems endless. If take a longer look down there you get the feeling the dark space below goes on forever, but in the same time would like to jump out, grasp you and pull you down there forever.
Broken cars and motorbikes sometimes line the street, totally rusted, some even falling apart. Shop windows are broken or and the showcases empty or filled with twisted equivalents of what the original shop would show. You can see blood stained watches, rotten food, a bakery even shows a cake with blood red and sickly green cream. The street signs at crossings are rusted too, but you still can make out names like "Lovecraft Av" or "King Road".
Some dead ends are not leading into black depths, but to wire fencing at the end where you can see creatures, half flesh, half fluid metal being tortured. Blood drips from open wounds to the floor, while the creature is twisting in agony letting out shrill screams. As you get deeper into the area those creature also are showcased in columns, tortured, twisting, screaming, trying to get out, but chained firm in there, slowly losing more and more of their flesh, being torn or cut apart from whatever form they used to have. Some of those creatures don't even seem to have something like a mouth, face or other human features. You almost tend to say those creatures in some of the columns have been lucky, since they have been impaled, or otherwise held firm with nails, spikes or chains and are already dead, only their lump, twisted, deranged, tortured or ripped apart bodies to be shown to the world.
Special Places / Buildings
General interior if the buildings
The houses are as crumbled and cracked from the inside, as they are from the outside. They are dirty and smeared with red and brown spots at the walls. Some houses even have a dirty stone floor, where others have large holes in the ground making you unable to explore further. Furniture is mostly broken and seems to be brutally torn apart, if it is still intact it's dirty and will fall apart soon.
The School
You see a building of three floors as the rows of dirty windows indicate. The grate leads two the door, between withered bushes and grass. The door to the interior is of a tarnished red color and dirty iron bars are mounted on them to pull them open. As you do so a loud creaking sound that echoes throughout the building, but as you enter an eerie silence falls down on you. Nothing is to be heard, but your virtual breathing. The halls are empty and dark, but at least you leave the everpresent fog outside. But this relief flows away as this unnatural silence creeps to you and the shadows of the long halls seem to gain an overwhelming weight and every step you take echoes throughout the entire building. The floor changes from the grate you seemed to walk on forever to solid dirty stone, so you do not have to endure the darkness beneath your feet anymore, but the echoes get even louder. Cobwebs "decorate" the ceiling and some doors and spiders are crawling all about.
As you walk through the school more than once you have to change directions, walk through rooms or change floors to get somewhere, since seemingly by chance placed gates block your way. Sometimes faint sighs and cries suddenly echo through the halls, sounding heartbreaking and creepy but as suddenly as they came they disappear again.
Some rooms:
-bathrooms
The bathrooms in the school are plain dirty and disgusting. A red-brown fluid is flooding from the toilets and gathers in puddles. The walls are smeared with this fluid it seems.
AC_Newton shudders and snuggles into Kev's arms for comfort
<Marvin_Black> ** -music room
A harp with strings that seem to be made of human skin stands in a corner. Blood seems to have hit it one time, for it shows red spots at the top. A piano is completely wrapped up in cobwebs and spiders seem to have build up a colony there. The floor is covered with dust, that raises with every step you take. As you walk further into the room, suddenly all the dust raises at once, like some unfelt wind swept through the room and you hear a ghostly laughter around you.
AC_Newton sqeaks and jumps up into Kev's arms.
<AC_Newton> Spiders!!!
<AC_Newton> (Asmo's Mind effect has worn off after 6 months)
KevinGrey sighs and is glad that in the DW he can carry her with ease
<Marvin_Black> -The library
You enter a room with Bookshelves all around. The books that should be neatly stuffed in the shelves are mostly thrown to the ground. This rooms seems very dark and you get a creepy feeling as you take a few steps into the room to look around. The door slams shut behind you and a shadow walks past you into the room, turning around a corner out of sight. As you follow this shadow it is nowhere to be seen. Then some of the books in the shelves fall down to the floor, without you even being near the shelves.
-Dressing Room
The benches are toppled and the lockers seem to have been smashed with something heavy, for there are dents everywhere. Only one locker is open if you go around the corner to the other side of the room. It is slightly open and if you open it completely a gross sight hits your eyes. The locker is completely splattered and covered with blood and guts, like something or someone decided to enter the locker and light a bomb without leaving the locker.
Just as you are about to leave the room you hear something like someone is hammering at one of the locker's doors... From the inside.
<Marvin_Black> -Headmaster's room
This room is empty, but for a humanlike figure that is pinned to the wall, the lower body totally missing and the lower part of the spine still visible. The head has fallen forward to the figures chest. Even though it is humanlike it sill is not human, as you can tell by the deformed fingers and the strange skin tone, which is something like a very pale green. A pool of blood gathered beneath this figure and it's still dripping blood, so it seems it has just been killed. The walls are also stained with blood.
The Hospital
One building that might come to you attention is the one that's by far the highest building in the sector. As you come nearer to the building you realize it must be a hospital, even thogh the color of the outer walls are not of the usual sterile white, but have turned into something you could almost call nicotine yellow. As you pass the gate to the building a moaning wind rises and the fog starts to take mind dizzying patterns of fast movement, instead of slowly crawling along the streets.If you look closer you could almost think there are faces twisted by pain and agony formed by the fog, but before you can be sure they dissipate into the fog again.
As you open the dark double doors and enter the hospital you look at a sick parody of a hospital. Where this should be a place of health and recovery you look at the rusted grate below your fett you are already used to, walls of a dirty redish brown color, some hospital beds are scattered in the entrance room, dirty and covered with red blotches, straps dangling at the side to fix the patients firm into place. This is rather a place to get sick or catch some infection.
At the reception sits a skeleton in a nurses dress, her hands resting on a blood covered notepad, still holding a pen in her skeletal hand that is filled with blood. As you walk on through the halls you notice there are also wheelchairs, but those are looking like someone tried to integrate electrical chairs into them. Every now and then a moaning whisper of agony wanders through the halls and suddenly disappears. The whole hospital has a depressing atmosphere of death and sickness. On some occasions you have to walk very close to the wall, for the grate is broken and leads down into blackness and to get forward you have to walk the edges still intact.
Some rooms
-Room 101
KevinGrey raises an eyebrow
Asm0dai looks at the # and tilts his head
<Marvin_Black> You enter a room that is empty but for one single hospital bad you are used to see by now. But as you all are inside a heartbreaking female sobbing can be heard throughout the entire room, that wants to grab your hearts and tear them down to the depths of your souls where you hide away memories of deep loss and sorrow.
Hannibal_Golux expects Grey to object and "correct" Marvin's depiction.
<Marvin_Black> -The Elevator
The elevator is completely made of the grate you were walking on. It is dirty and rusted. Moaning,screeching and clanking sounds echo through the elevator shaft as the elevator moves. You can see the depths below you, the cables above you and the walls moving. Sometimes between the floors you have the feeling to look into another world, as if the place you wouldn't be strange enough. You look at even more atrocities, scenes of torture and pain. Creatures living through eternal agony and pain, living even though they seem to be dying endless deaths.
-TV Room
This room has dirty chairs scattered all about. Most of them look dirty and have dark spots on them, so you wouldn't feel like sitting down anyway. A TV set is placed on a table. It looks old and is missing any knobs or buttons to turn it on or off, neither has it any plugs or cables to connect it to a power source. But as you look around the room it turns on. There are scenes of a lottery winner getting robbed, a just married couple dying in a car car crash and many other examples of good luck turning into disaster or disaster resulting from good luck. This goes on for a very long time and then as sudden as it started the TV turns off again.
-Storage Room
This is where once all the things that are needed in a hospital were stored you guess. Hunks of wood are hanging from the wall and a stash of blankets, glasses, cubs, bottles and flasks have fallen into a big heap in one corner. Beneath you can make out blood dripping down and even something like a deformed arm or leg. A creature seems to be buried under all this stuff.
-Room 312
This room has a tiled floor. The tiles are cracked and at first sight you think they are dirty, but as you enter the room completely the true horror gets you. Blood is seeping from the cracks between the tiles and coiling in fine lines like long worms towards the walls. There it flows upwards and disappears in drains you can see sticking out of the ceiling
The Park
On the far end of the sector is a park. To get there you have to cross the whole sector and see everything else going on. The fog clears a little bit, so you can see what is ahead of you. Even though this view isn't mood lifting as the sight of a normal park would be. The floor slowly changes from the grates to concrete pavement as you come closer. Bushes mark the entrance to the park itself, withered, dry, without any leaves. From then on you see brown grass to your left and right, that looks equally dead as the bushes from the entrance. Black trees are scattered about the place, twisted and lifeless. The bark of those trees seems to form faces of agony, frozen into the bark and enlarged, screaming in pain. As you walk on you can see a lake within the fog, but before you get too close you see a corpse dangling from a tree. A rope bound around what you would think is the neck the body is totally limp. But that's not what gets under your skin. The skin of what ever it was seems to be torn of and lies in a lump beneath the corpse, so you can see it's raw red flesh.
As you come near to the lake you stop in your tracks, as you can make out silvery tentacles coming from the water feeling around the lakeside for whatever they are seeking to drag it down into the water.
The Amusement Park
Next to the park lies the amusement park. Even though you think it's not the proper name to describe it. It is lined by a rusty fence. Above the front gate you think once the name of the park could be read, but most of the colorful light-bulbs have fallen out. You walk through the gates and see a place that seems to have taken all that is joyful and turned it around. Plush bunnies lie around on the ground with blood stains around their moths, as if they had bitten someone. Crane games stand around, but instead of watches and plush animals those hold small knives or organs. The grate to get more and more rusted and instable, for there are many holes around here. The rides are dirty and rusted, some are even totally broken. A merry-go-around seems to be intact though it is dirt covered and doesn't look very inviting with all the brown and red smear and the rusted bars. As you come nearer it suddenly starts moving. The animals go up and down and the lights start with some flashes and bulbs breaking. Instead of the happy music that one would expect you hear a cacophony of screams starts. Screams of agony, pain and fear.
Marvin_Black finishes his presentation with the simple words
<La_ST> (yup)
<Marvin_Black> Well, this is what reality looks like and my entry
AC_Newton thinks this is horrible. She is happy that Kev comforts her and puts her head agains his shoulder.
<Hannibal_Golux> Wow, that was better than any fairground ghost train.
KevinGrey nods impressed. Amazing work.
<KevinGrey> Not my taste, sure, but impressive
Hannibal_Golux nudges Marv.
<Hannibal_Golux> And here I was thinking you'd just present us with a void.
Marvin_Black returns to the others
KevinGrey still carries AC who obviously doesn't want to be put to ger feet again.
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: No, just the real world
<Michaelangel0> Amusing.
Asm0dai seems to talk interested with X-Cel
<Hannibal_Golux> You forgot the maggot infested candyfloss. You always need candyfloss at a fairground.
Hannibal_Golux feigns disapproval.
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: No fairground... No make up... Just *my* world... *my* reality
<Maxine> Well, I am still stunned by this entry, I have to admit. Thank you, Marvin!
Hannibal_Golux claps.
<__Nita__> (/me wonders if "candyfloss" is "cottoncandy"? heated spun sugar?)
<La_ST> The crows was silent as first, but now applause comes up, first hesitantly, then louder
<Hannibal_Golux> (Yes, we call it "candyfloss" in the UK. Should have used the Americanism, really)
<__Nita__> (thanks)
<Maxine> Well, this was definitely worthy of a Hollow one!
Marvin_Black looks around
<Marvin_Black> No good...
<Maxine> Let us see... My random number generator gives out - Michaelangelo!
Hannibal_Golux leans over to Marv.
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: Do you think they missed the point?
Hannibal_Golux winks.
Marvin_Black nods
<Marvin_Black> They did...
<Maxine> Another Virtual Adept who wants to present us with an artsy reality.
X-Cel looks at Asmo and words bizzare and surreal seem to cross the conversation.
<Michaelangel0> Alright. Let's do this. All of you who like Reality 2.0, here's something that will make those sleepers living in it feel right at home.
Michaelangel0 sounds a bit sarcastic.
X-Cel hits herself on the head at her protege's comment and whispers to Asmo: "I will kill him..."
<Michaelangel0> That should have been living in the Reality 1.0.
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: Although I must admit that there are times I wish I didn't remember everything. Your entry is going to be one that's going to keep me warm on a winter's night.
<AC_Newton> I'm curious. But I hope it looks brighter.
Michaelangel0 starts up the program of his creation....
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: umm.. This is the real world.. How is it keeping you warm?
KevinGrey wonders if AC would like to get off his arms again...
<Michaelangel0> You are standing in the middle of a red cracked desert. The sun is under and there is a enormous belt of asteroids visible in the sky.
<AC_Newton> Cool! That's more to my liking. Looks like some neat science-fiction...
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: It's called sarcasm, bud.
Hannibal_Golux grins.
<Michaelangel0> For those of you familiar with the constellations, this is Earth.
<Hannibal_Golux> (quietly) Earth is a constellation?
<AC_Newton> He means the constellations in the sky!
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: For a moment you got me even more worried than usual.. And that's hard to do.
<Michaelangel0> At the horizon, a few mountains are visible. There's not a cloud in the air and the atmosphere is very dry. A cold wind appears and some of the top of the soil starts moving.
AC_Newton hopes there are no spiders this time and gets to her feet again. She leans against Kev, just to be on the safe side.
<Hannibal_Golux> (quietly) AC: Perhaps you need to join Marvin in Sarcasm 101 class.
<Michaelangel0> Rembember people, reality is still out there. Spend too much time in here and you may forget that this is how it could look in a few years.
<Hannibal_Golux> Hmm. Nice and peaceful.
Michaelangel0 ends the simulation with a grin.
Hannibal_Golux claps.
<AC_Newton> This was it?
KevinGrey claps politely, too.
X-Cel looks at Asmo aghast...
<Hannibal_Golux> I liked the rocks in the sky.
<Maxine> So, this was the entry of Michaelangelo bani Virtual Adepts. Thank you Michaelangelo!
Asm0dai nods with his shoulders.
Michaelangel0 smiles
Maxine smiles, too
<Hannibal_Golux> Floatings rocks in sky good.
Hannibal_Golux winks at Michaelangelo.
X-Cel shoots daggers in Michalangelo's direction
Michaelangel0 smiles sweetly to X-Cel
<Michaelangel0> Hannibal, you should see the coding on this thing someday... it may look easy, but it wasn't....
<Maxine> So, let me see what my random generator gives out...
<Hannibal_Golux> Mike: I can imagine, great texture on those asteroids.
<Marvin_Black> At least it wasn't total delusion.. Another pic of what is to come...
<Michaelangel0> Hanni: What textures. It's the closest thing to reality one can manage inside here.
<Maxine> Slaveen of the Orphan faction! Please come here and present your entry!
Sl4v33n comes out from the crows
<Sl4v33n> (crowd)
<Hannibal_Golux> (man, those crows get everywhere, in your hair, under your feet and between your toes)
<Hannibal_Golux> (those darn crows)
<Marvin_Black> (they can even tear your soul out of the afterworld *g*)
<__Nita__> (crows feet?)
Sl4v33n is a huge man with long black hair, wearing a set of black skins fashinoned into a trenchocat and wearing set of blakc JEans and a T-shirt saying "Zora is my love"
<Hannibal_Golux> (heh-heh)
AC_Newton wonders when she can present her design
Hannibal_Golux nods, "Everyone loves Zora."
<Hannibal_Golux> Who is Zora?
Sl4v33n comes to the projcetor, bows to the audience and inserst a small sheening disc...
Hannibal_Golux grins
<Sl4v33n> Suddenly the whole Demise is filled with total blackness... There is no light anywhere... only darkness, and the soft murmuring of flowing water...
<Hannibal_Golux> Cool, a sensory deprivation tank.
AC_Newton is glad she still holds Kev's hand
<Sl4v33n> Slowly the place seems to get more and more light... the color is softly green and the light is getting stronger and stronger...
<Marvin_Black> Till moments ago I almost liked it.. Except the water
<Sl4v33n> The light is soft and soothing... As the light goes up you notice that this is a huge cylindrical cave... the walls are perfectly hsaped into high mounsd with stalactites and stalagmites. On the walls there seems to be a soft emmanating green mould that seems to be creating light in the cave. As the soft light illuminates the cavern enough for the place to be seen, all around the stalactites and stalagmites, along their height, light seems to slowly appear... it is also the green light... but it is much more cosy and makes the cubicles carved from the spires to look as rooms.
<Hannibal_Golux> 'mites go up, 'tites go down. That's the way the nice lady at the brothel explained it to me once.
AC_Newton looks somewhat scandalized at Hannibal
Hannibal_Golux grins cheekily at AC.
<Sl4v33n> Below , in the lower part of a cavern there is a huge river that seems to move slowly... on it are a number of finely carved ornamented figures decipting beautifull humans playing, jumping and looking at the sun...
<Hannibal_Golux> AC: She liked the tights and avoided the mites. But it always seemed somewhat the other way around.
KevinGrey grins at the comment.
<Sl4v33n> The boats are going slowly, not tilting... they are filled with comfortable pillows and cushions... there seems to be exactly enough place for two on them...
AC_Newton still thinks Hannibals is somewhat... outspoken there.
<Sl4v33n> As a boat goes nearer to the audience it is obviosu that it controls itself in a nice little smooth move...
AC_Newton likes that design.
<Sl4v33n> There seems to be a small table that folds perfectly into the side and seems to be holdign a bottle of fine champagne and a number of small cnacks next to them...
Marvin_Black has to think of these strange movies Hanni gave him and rolls his eyes
<Sl4v33n> As the boat moves away there is a huge central stalactite in the center of the cave... all the other spires seem to circle it...
<Hannibal_Golux> (Marvin should probably not watch any David Lynch. Or David Cronenberg, for that matter.)
<Sl4v33n> As the focus shifts to it, soft white ligghts appear circling a huge Stage... below it is a bar. As the lights go up on the stage appears a large orchestra... and with the light rising they start "On Blue Danube". The sound perfectly resonates through the room, filling it with perfect noise...
KevinGrey whispers something in AC's ear, and she blushes.
<Marvin_Black> I'm getting sick... What the heck should this be?
<Sl4v33n> As all the other lights are now softly illuminating the cubicles they seem to be filled with comfortable chairs and a round table...
<Hannibal_Golux> Go back to your "reality", go to the graveyard, dig up an old romantic and ask him. You'll have to reattach his jaw first, and get him to stop complaining that his ruffles are dirty and stained with decay... But he'll tell you.
<Sl4v33n> As the focus shifts in a fishes eye view from the waters surafce, you notice that the boats and the cave are an everlasting loop, that contiunaly folds back into itself...
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: Well.. My sector even has a graveyard... Next to the church
<Sl4v33n> ... and the small gondolas flow away from the others still hearing the music and feeling a bit private and away from the others...
<Hannibal_Golux> No doubt the church is long abandoned, crumbling and only the dead hold Requiem there, now.
<Sl4v33n> As the fish through wich's eyes you are seeing sems to dive, you notice that the whole small river is fileld with an assortment of marine life... all of it workign the normal circle of life...
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: It is abandoned, crumbled, has blood red windows turning the whole room into a blood red, demonish light...
<Sl4v33n> With a octopuss slowly extendign its tentacles from a small cave to catch a small glittery fish that is passing next to it...
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: You mean the windows are still intact? I'm disappointed in you.
<Sl4v33n> As the fish turns towards to lower parts of the stalactites you see that all of them seem to be extruding soem sort of light...
<Hannibal_Golux> Man, octopusses are just damned strange. Did you know [insert trivia here]?
<La_ST> (*g*)
<Sl4v33n> As the fish goes closer to the central one through large glass viewports you see comfortable hotel rooms, and a large ballroom that has a huge glass wall lookign at the soft light from above and the creatures flowing there... The fish moves yet more, and soon it comes closer to the other stalactites... as it nears their small viewports you see wonderfull rooms that are fileld with cushions, and there seem to be soft velvety curtaisn on it... the rooms seem perfect for any private encounters and... conversations...
KevinGrey again whispers something into AC's ear ^_^
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: It doesn't matter anyway. I don't even know why I did it...
AC_Newton is still flushed and snuggles up to him.
<Sl4v33n> As the fish goes on and comes back to the big central stalactite, and looks up... as it looks up the focus shifts into the sky, and you see Sl4v33n stnading next to the orchestra smiling...
Marvin_Black avoids looking at AC and Kev.
Hannibal_Golux shoots daggers at Grey.
<Hannibal_Golux> (heh-heh, and as ZenCadet that would have been literally)
<Sl4v33n> This is my entry... i call it the cavern pecina... i hope that you have liked it and will give me a chance to make it true...
Hannibal_Golux claps
KevinGrey just grins insolentsly at Hannibal, then he lets go of AC and applauds.
AC_Newton does so, too
<__Nita__> (/me wondered if Grey was gonna make a forces shield to reflect the daggers)
Marvin_Black shakes his head
<Maxine> So, this was Slaveen of the Orphans. Truly nicely done!
Sl4v33n bows, as the camera shifts again, and a set of curtains fall in front of everyone's view, with soft violin music fading and the lights turning back on and Slaveen standing proudly next to the projector...
<Maxine> So, who will be next...
<Hannibal_Golux> (Yeah, well the MIB aren't particularly original, always falling back on tired old tricks that they keep using over and over again. And you never remember that they've done it all before because of those red flashy things.)
<__Nita__> (flashy things... Mind 3 apparatus?)
<KevinGrey> (Phew. I don't need any Mind Procedures for AC)
Sl4v33n smiles and heads back to the crowd...
<Maxine> Ah! Another member of the Virtual Adepts. You guys sure love to design interesting sectors! Hannibal Golux, please come forth!
Hannibal_Golux grins and steps forward.
<__Nita__> (/me giggles)
<Hannibal_Golux> My entry is less of a cinematic journey and more an experimental installation within space.
Hannibal_Golux produces a little black box with a red button and a little aerial. He presses the button and the entire Demise fills with a holographic "real" simulation of his entry.
AC_Newton looks curiously at the design.
<Hannibal_Golux> If Escher had worked with fractals while overdosed on LSD he would have only begun to have dreamed of the disorientation on the senses that follows entering Han's area, titled "Chaos, I" a subtle pun on "Chaos Eye" for that is the very sense that most needs to adjust. It takes a few moments for your senses to adjust, but when they do you find yourself staring at a fractal scape in which every item of furniture and every fixture extrudes from the floor, walls and/or ceiling as an extension of a 3-Dimensional recusive image. Examining a chair you see that the pattern repeats itself, a chair within a chair within a chair within a chair, likewise the tables and everything else. The real artistic flair comes from the recursive colour schemes, which are gentle and meditative, different areas of the room following their own colour cycles. Almost imperceptibly you notice that the colours are slowly shifting so that after a few moments you suddenly realise that the whole room is filled with different colours, the transition as slow and subtle as a setting sun.
The light source seems to be the colours themselves and there is no fixed light source in the room, but rather everything has been carefully timed so that at different moments in time different parts of the room are bright enough to be a light source, creating soothing, shifting coloured lights, following a seemingly random pattern.
The gaps between the 3-D textured fractalscape belie the size of this space and how Han has masterfully folded it in on itself. Treading carefully between the fractals you walk down fractal corridors, the room you left seeming to twist impossibly behind you and you enter to recursive rooms of similar design, but also subtly different in both colour and mood and arrangement of fixtures.
The whole space is like a chaos maths labyrinth, twisting and turning around on itself in impossible ways, rooms and space existing and connecting in ways that it should not, but sight and sense of direction are not the only senses that are effected.
Throughout the entire space, blending smoothly from area to area the fractals are translated into sound, moving together and swirling in a calming soundscape of slow random notes, hypnotic and translike. At times, the sounds almost seem to depict familiar tones, tunes or even other samples, such as the crashing of an ocean wave, but they are momentary and transitory to the ever changing composition of the room, and your movements thro
Smell, also, has a part to play (although much more minor) with each colour there is a particular odour attached, as the colours dance and meet in the room, so the odours blend together to create a unique fragrance. As the colours change so do the blend of fragrances.
And finally, touch. Seating yourself in one of the seats, there is a relaxing sensation as though your body is being gently massaged, although at a mere command you can "anti-alias" the effect so that you don't feel it.
No matter how lost you think you are, there is an easy menu system to find friends, collegues or other people you are meeting. With a tracker in place and fractal corridor (even if you are still going forward having just left them) will always lead to your required destination with a perfect transition, once again seemingly defying the laws of space and physics. Likewise, at any time you can use the "Exit" command for a recursive corr effect.
The most exciting "plug in" available is the "intuitive system". Activated it performs subtle and discreet surface scans of the patron's minds so that they need only *think* the commands and about where they want to go and the Chaos space will move itself around them naturally and fluidly without the need to access the pop-up menues.
Protecting your privacy the feed into the I.S. is completely encrypted and is a passive scan so will only keep alert for active key thoughts. Over time, the built in AI systems will be able to intelligently anticipate the needs with the "intuitive system" running in standby or even deactivated for those times when patrons require, for whatever reason, to protect their privacy.
Bending in and around itself, using true fractal coding to implement infinite recursion this entry offers potentially infinite space crammed within actual limited space.
Hannibal_Golux presses the button and the presentation ends, the fractals spiralling away to reform into the Demise.
<AC_Newton> wow
<Marvin_Black> Twisted like the world is...
Asm0dai smiles...
Hannibal_Golux smiles. He thanks the audience and returns to the crows.
<Maxine> So, here we had Hannibal Golux bani Virtual Adepts, very nice, too. Thank you very much!
Maxine smiles at him.
Hannibal_Golux flashes a smile back at Maxine.
KevinGrey applauds politely.
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: That's twisted... I almost like it.. Just like the world is twisted...
<Hannibal_Golux> Wow, you *almost* liked it... From you I take that as the highest compliment.
AC_Newton sighs.
<AC_Newton> I think I don't have a chance...
<Marvin_Black> AC: Welcome to the club.
Hannibal_Golux grins again.
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: At least it has a stint of reality in it
<Maxine> Well, let us see who is next... Ah, now my random generator brought up a very unusual team. Who would have thought we'd get a submission from an Etherite together with an NWO agent? AC.Newton bani Sons of Ether and Kevin Grey of the NWO - your turn!
<AC_Newton> Oh, it's us! - Kev!!
AC_Newton drags Kevin with her to the 'stage', and Kevin Grey looks almost a bit fatalistically.
Hannibal_Golux folds his arms.
<Michaelangel0> (/me imagines AC bouncing happily around... "It's us, it's us..." bouncing continued *G*)
<Hannibal_Golux> (LOL)
AC_Newton waves happily to the crows
<AC_Newton> crowd
<Hannibal_Golux> (see her go)
<AC_Newton> (*g*)
<AC_Newton> Well, okay, it was my idea - but Kev helped me a lot with it! - I'll show you the coolest Utopia!
<Hannibal_Golux> (There are those damned crows again)
Crows (fuzzy@rrcs-midsouth-24-172-21-218.biz.rr.com) joined #agww.
Crows waves back
<La_ST> (LOL)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Gah! You beat me to it!)
AC_Newton activates her performance.
Hannibal_Golux leans over to Marv.
<Hannibal_Golux> (whispering) Shall I fetch you a bucket?
<AC_Newton> The monitors show a cityscape that looks as if it was taken from some old space opera.
<Hannibal_Golux> (whispering to Marv) Or maybe a razor?
<AC_Newton> Colourful towering skyscrapers with glittering windows, the sun glistens out of an impossible blue sky.
<Hannibal_Golux> (whispering to Marv) Maybe it's just easier if you don't look.
<AC_Newton> Between the buildings there are walkways with a kind of conveyor belts that carry people along.
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: No need... I rather choose the devil I know than the devil I don't know...
Hannibal_Golux nudges Marv and stifles a chuckle.
<AC_Newton> Shimmering antigravitational roads float between the buildings and colourful aeroshuttles make their way along
<Hannibal_Golux> Hey, Marv. Look, people are food products. Something to appeal to our sensibilities. Now that's how to serve Man...
<AC_Newton> In the fantastic blue sky one sees occasional silver starships tracing their way.
Hannibal_Golux looks at the view. "I bet this isn't Utopia for traffic cops."
<AC_Newton> Beyond the futuristic city one sees a colourful park landscape that surrounds it, with flower beds in red and blue and orange
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: Soylent Green is made from human flesh...
X-Cel grins and talks with Asmo feverently while he sees mto be trying to explain something... they seem to be in disagreement
<Hannibal_Golux> Yeah, I know. And "it's a cook book!"
<AC_Newton> A small spaceport is embedded in the park and shimmering spaceships start silently on antigravitational fields. As she zooms nearer into the city, one sees that everything is very spacious there. The ground between the buildings is filled up with lawns and flowers where no sidewalks are.
Hannibal_Golux quickly creates an icon of a book with the lettering "How to Serve Man" and resists the urge to run around screaming "It's a cook book!"
<AC_Newton> Strange robots walk through the streets and mingle between colourful clothed people. They all wear 40es SF spacesuit style overalls and outfits in silver and gold.
AC_Newton leads the viewers in one mauve-coloured skyscraper.
<Hannibal_Golux> I know they said that fashion trends are going backwards, but...
Hannibal_Golux grins
<AC_Newton> Inside it is an enourmous library, myriads of CDs and other media can be viewed and appreciated here
AC_Newton smiles and merrily runs to the next building.
<Hannibal_Golux> Aw, man, no one said we'd have to run to keep up with her.
<AC_Newton> This time is is a zero-g sports hall where flying people throw a kind of basketball at each other and through numerous hoops.
<Hannibal_Golux> Anyone else think right now, apart from Grey, think that she ought to be tied to some kind of rope to stop her running away? OK, Grey probably won't use it for that purpose, but that's a room I don't want to see in this competition.
<AC_Newton> The spectators sit on floating tables and have cocktails and snacks before them which luckily don't float around.
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: That's AC... Totally detached from Earth and reality.
KevinGrey grins. You have a naughty imagination, Hanni. ^_^
<Hannibal_Golux> (And unfortunately an Eidetic one... *shudder*)
<Asm0dai> (Why do I have the hunch that Grey only did coding here? He is not a naive Techie anymore... He is a man :))
AC_Newton goes forth to the next building.
<AC_Newton> This time it is an exhibit of Etherite Science! Lots of weird objects and devices tick and hum and make other strange noises.
AC_Newton virtually beams at the audience.
Hannibal_Golux puts on a darker pair of sunglasses.
Marvin_Black spreads his wings before his eyes, to take cover from blinding
AC_Newton leads them into a huge hologphic simulator where one can practice space dog fights.
Asm0dai looks and leans to X-Cel to exchange opinions
<Hannibal_Golux> Dog fighting... now that's more Marv's style.
<AC_Newton> The simulation has cool planets majestically rotating in the background, about a third of them with rings.
<Hannibal_Golux> The bloody and ferocious canines, ripping at each other's throats in the most degrading and depraved of sports.
<AC_Newton> The next sight is an observatory where one can take a look deep into Etherspace. One sees the weirdest spaceships and other vehicles floating about
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: Just watch humans... It can't be more primal.
<AC_Newton> And the final attraction is a kind of space circus under a huge dome.
<Hannibal_Golux> Space monkeys! Space elephants!
<AC_Newton> Strange aliens do amazing tricks in the air and on the ground, and a scientific magician shows tricks with devices from an long lost culture.
<Marvin_Black> Space madness...
<Hannibal_Golux> Space trapeze..... would be a bit one directional I think...
AC_Newton returns the view to the totale.
<AC_Newton> So, I think that was it.
AC_Newton bow.
Hannibal_Golux claps politely.
<Maxine> Well, this was every bit Etherite ...
<Hannibal_Golux> (Well, Grey had a hand in it)
Maxine smiles.
<Maxine> Thank you, AC - and Kevin Grey...
Marvin_Black folds his wings back together
<Hannibal_Golux> (Oh well, looks like we're not seeing Red's shrine to Marv then)
<La_ST> (Seems like it. Too bad that)
<Maxine> So... It seems we have one final entry still...
<Marvin_Black> (Well more time for Marv to insist on his pov *g* But it's too bad, really)
<Maxine> Cyborg X552 of Iteration X
<Hannibal_Golux> Is that supposed to be a name?
<Marvin_Black> No, a serial number...
<Maxine> Well, this contest was free for all, so please come forth...
<__Nita__> (hmms Borg?)
<Hannibal_Golux> Oh, is it a nick serial number, short for something like X552-4B19OL-QRX2D or something?
X552 makes her way to the stage. She is a full cyborg it seems, a classical ItXer who almost managed to come as close to the machine as possible.
<Hannibal_Golux> Whoa! Check out those RAM chips!
X552 turns her head and two gleaming red eyes look directly at Hannibal.
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: Check out what happens if she comes near a magnet.
Michaelangel0 laughs (and chokes on his snack).
<Hannibal_Golux> Like the hardware.
<X552> It is just X552, and I do not appreciate such flat jokes.
X552 activates the presentation
Hannibal_Golux gives the machine a sardonic salute of acknowledgement with a cheeky grin.
<X552> This time the scenario looks as if it was either taken from Metropolis or another movie where the machines have taken away the victory over man kind.
Marvin_Black whispers
<Marvin_Black> Terminator anyone?
<X552> Huge metallic structures fill the sector, and robots of all kinds weasel through access gatets and metallic corridors
<Hannibal_Golux> Transformers anyone?
<Asm0dai> (Metropolis, the movie or the anime, ST ?)
<__Nita__> (planing on seeiung T3 this weekend)
Michaelangel0 goes to see charlies angels :)
<Michaelangel0> ()
<X552> The point of view shifts through claustrophobic corridors to a wide plane...
<Asm0dai> (i need to see both...)
<Hannibal_Golux> (I presume this is Metropolis the Fritz Lang movie)
<X552> This plane is also made of silvery blue steel...
<Hannibal_Golux> (Great film, except when they tried adding the pop soundtrack, just watch it mute with your favourite music of choice playing)
<X552> The point of vew shifts again to show a phantastic tower of organically formed metal. It reaches high up to the sky, and seems to contain an elevator that connects the ground to a ring-formed space station that encircles the planet. Now one can see high speed cars running in precise patterns over the plane, transporting robot and cyborgs along.
<Hannibal_Golux> Oooo.... space
<X552> One view within the metallic power structure shows a huge learning area, where people can plug themselves into computers and download information or play through similation.
<Hannibal_Golux> I wonder if somewhere some wacky, crazy robot scientist is experimenting with the possibility of organic carbon-based intelligent life-forms.
X552 then zooms farther out again, and one sees that the whole planet seems to consist of metal and metallic structures.
<X552> Presentation end.
Hannibal_Golux claps.
<Maxine> Well, this was ...impressive, too. Thank you, Cyborg X552 of Iteration X!
KevinGrey claps too, because it seems polite to him.
<AC_Newton> Wow, this was scary, too...
X-Cel seems to be unsure if this was art or total lack of it...
<Hannibal_Golux> (/me blames the crows)
Marvin_Black stays silent at the moment
<Hannibal_Golux> So what did you think of that one, Marv?
<Maxine> Well, now we let the jury discuss some things for a moment, and we will hear the results in short time
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: Don't know. WHat the heck was this? Terminator wannabe?
<Hannibal_Golux> It was a planet of silicon and steel. Hey, like Hollywood.
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: Yay... Hollywood... The great machinery of delusion and make up for reality
<Hannibal_Golux> Speaking of which... did you watch any of those films I recommended/
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: Yeah.. WHat in all the bloody hells have they to do with the real world?
Hannibal_Golux appears to be momentarily speechless.
<Hannibal_Golux> Not a lot admittedly.
<Hannibal_Golux> But they are supposed to show you a window into people's emotions and te glimpse of a side of the real world that you are lacking.
<La_ST> (We are just calculating the results ^_^ )
<Hannibal_Golux> (And this year Norway did better than UK!)
<Marvin_Black> This? Don't make me puke my guts out! This has nothing to do with anything in the real world, but illusions
<La_ST> (And Austria again gave 0 points to Germany!)
Asm0dai nods to X-Cel and the lights in the Demise dim, with a soft drumming starting slow and away. .but slowly accelrating and going to a deep rumble that shakes the demise...
<Hannibal_Golux> But it's the illusions that is in everyone's hearts and minds. Some would argue that at the root of all reality is love. Personally, I think it's 1s and 0s.
AC_Newton and Kev have returned to Hannibal and Marv
<Hannibal_Golux> I know that you think it's just zeroes.
<Hannibal_Golux> AC: (flatly) Exciting, huh? I'm just bursting with suspense.
<Marvin_Black> No.. I think that's where everything will go
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: So you are saying that every 1 will go to 0.
Hannibal_Golux grins
<Marvin_Black> I'm not bursting by anything.. I know I wont win.
Hannibal_Golux was being cynical again.
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: You're right, you're not even bursting with fetid pustules, either.
<AC_Newton> I don't think I have a chance anyway...
AC_Newton sighs.
<Hannibal_Golux> AC: Everyone has a chance. The degree to which you have a chance and the possibility of the probability arriving at 1 is all dependent on whether you are the winner.
Hannibal_Golux grins.
<Marvin_Black> Could they announce the winner, so we can go home to mourn the downfall of the world?
<AC_Newton> I think thid guy with the neat watery club should win. That was cool.
<Marvin_Black> That was bullshit...
<Hannibal_Golux> You liked the stalactites, huh? Or what did you rate on the stalagmites?
<__Nita__> (/me forgets, is ...mites up and ...tites down?)
<Hannibal_Golux> (tites down... hence Han's joke earlier)
AC_Newton blushes.
<Hannibal_Golux> So what did you think of my little entry, Newton?
<AC_Newton> Well, I liked that it looked like a neat place to spend some time in
Hannibal_Golux smiles
<Hannibal_Golux> That was the intention. And who said maths was dull?
<AC_Newton> Well, I found you entry intriguing. It was so cool that I think there won't be points left for me.
<Hannibal_Golux> I'm not sure there is a ration on points. It's not a first come, first serve business.
Hannibal_Golux grins cheekily.
<AC_Newton> Well, I hope so
<Marvin_Black> I wont get any...
<AC_Newton> I would so love to see my design implemented here somewhere
<Hannibal_Golux> Oh I'm sure you'll get something, Marv. Your tribute to reality was very... interesting.
<AC_Newton> I found it very creepy. Especially the spiders!
<Hannibal_Golux> Creepy? No, it was... challenging.
<Marvin_Black> Hannibal: Yeah, I will get a headache, or a somethign like that
<KevinGrey> Well, I won't complain about the spiders...
__Nita__ would like to visit AC's sector
<Marvin_Black> AC: Sure.. You can't stand what reality is like, I'd guess.
KevinGrey grins. After all, he liked to comfort her.
Hannibal_Golux nods, apparently happy with his choice of words, but then a far off look seems to indicate that he is still struggling for other descriptors.
<AC_Newton> You would, Nita? Well, I guess I need to win for that...
__Nita__ nods
<AC_Newton> Well, I like my reality better than yours!
Hannibal_Golux bursts out laughing.
<Marvin_Black> AC: Yours has nothing to do with the real world.
Michaelangel0 snickers.
<Hannibal_Golux> Now we're really getting into soliptic subjective reality.
<__Nita__> (/me thinks of the "Kennel Ration" commercial ... "my dog's bigger than yours..."
<AC_Newton> Well, but mine looks nicer and doesn't have any spiders in it.
__Nita__ would rather see a more positive world
<Hannibal_Golux> Newton. Just three words: "It's a cookbook!"
<Marvin_Black> AC: As I said: Makeup for reality, for thoe who can't cope with it
<AC_Newton> A Cookbook?
<__Nita__> *sighs*
<Hannibal_Golux> To Serve Man
<Michaelangel0> oh well.. it was interesting to code stuff like atoms, molecules, gravity, and the forces between them. I do hope however that my world does not collapse before it's implemented... because that is what it'll do.
<AC_Newton> Why should it do that?
<Michaelangel0> because I coded some natural laws into it..
Asm0dai ahemms louldy and it reverrbates through the whole room as the drumming becomes incessant... the whole room is resonating and in darkness... it suddenly stops... lights focus on the centre of the demise...
AC_Newton squeezes Kev's hand
Marvin_Black sighs
Asm0dai stands in there in his snow white overcoat with the shades on... a bit behind him are standing X-Cel ian a long black gown wearing a nun's hat, Teora wearign a jumpsuit and glowing in holographic light, and next to them are two finely attired Demise regulars... Lyman (a VE & Jessi...
<Asm0dai> Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you to the first organised sector creation contest. This contest was created to pit the wits of quality coders and artists of the web and judge them on the merit of their work... We had quite a few applications, and they ranged from mediocre to exquisite...
AC_Newton hopes hers didn't belong to the "mediocre"
<Asm0dai> ... for some of them we even wondered if they were joking with their entries...
Michaelangel0 grins
<Marvin_Black> They're talking about me...
Hannibal_Golux thinks the Borg entry was perfect. Perfectly mediocre.
<AC_Newton> I think you should have left out the spiders
<Asm0dai> But this has been an interesting few days, and you have been able to see today a cross between the best of things we saw...
<Michaelangel0> Actually.. you intended yours seriously..
Hannibal_Golux looks shocked.
<Hannibal_Golux> Marvin, are you admitting to having a sense of humour?
<Asm0dai> Unfortunatley, not all of them were superior...
<Marvin_Black> No... But they may misinterpret it
<Hannibal_Golux> ... I'm not sure that's possible.
<Asm0dai> We are to announce the winners... the first 5 will get to refashion a sector that was trashed if their work was shown exquisite...
<Hannibal_Golux> First five? I thought there could be only one?
<Marvin_Black> No, that was Highlander
<AC_Newton> Now, one got some Virgin Web
<__Nita__> nah, that's The Highlander
<Asm0dai> While i had the dubiosu honor of going through all of the entries i was paired with a number of judges that were objective and quite persistent in their work...
__Nita__ giggles
<Hannibal_Golux> Ah, the runners up get recycled space, huh?
<AC_Newton> The other can remodel damaged sectors. I heard they will get help if they don't have the necessary knowledge
<Asm0dai> ... without further ado i will give you our voice that will share oour thoughts on the work you have given us...
Asm0dai falls back and sits into one of the comfy chairs
<AC_Newton> Yeah, that's it...
X-Cel comes into the light smiling...
__Nita__ sips her fizzy drink
AC_Newton is sooooo excited
Michaelangel0 smiles mockingly to X-Cel
<Hannibal_Golux> (whispers to AC) Damn, the whoopie cushion I put under Asmodai's chair didn't work.
Marvin_Black orders a Horror
<AC_Newton> You did *what*???
Hannibal_Golux winks.
AC_Newton looks at Hannibal in slight amazement
<X-Cel> This was surely quite a challenge and we saw a lot of interesting things... now to share our judgment with all of you...
KevinGrey tenderly caresses AC's cheek, and she smiles.
Marvin_Black sips his Horror
<Hannibal_Golux> (in reverse order?)
Hannibal_Golux sips a Deep One.
<X-Cel> Number 5... the exuqisite work of a Futuristic Utopia of science and advancment - A.C. Newton & Kevin Gray!
Asm0dai smiles
Hannibal_Golux claps
<AC_Newton> Nr.5 ???
__Nita__ claps
<AC_Newton> That means - my sector gets implemented???
AC_Newton jumps up
<Marvin_Black> Well at least you made it this far...
<AC_Newton> WAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<Marvin_Black> I hope you get along with fates backlash
<Hannibal_Golux> (How many entries did we have?)
KevinGrey draws her into his arms and kisses her passionately.
<KevinGrey> Told you!
Asm0dai starts a huge clapping and a set of lights shifting...
__Nita__ smiles warmly to AC and Mr Grey
<AC_Newton> (7)
Marvin_Black expects to be 7th
Hannibal_Golux upon hearing Grey's comment stifles the desire to mutter "Rigged!" just to wind him up.
KevinGrey takes AC's hand and leads her towards the stage
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: You are forgetting how much mankind likes to wallow in misery. You're probably number 1.
<Marvin_Black> Stop the joking... I didn't even consider to enter... No chance I'll be among the first six
X-Cel smiles to Acy and gives her a spiraling globe that shifts ones and zeroes and turns into a small replica of her town, and then back into the globe of code...
<AC_Newton> Cool! Thank you!!
AC_Newton addresses the audience
Michaelangel0 sits back and puts his hands behind his head.
<AC_Newton> I would never have expected that... Ah, it is so great! Thank you! - And first of all - thank *you*, Kev!!
AC_Newton stands on the toes and gives him a kiss on the cheek.
Asm0dai smiles from his comfortable chair.
<Hannibal_Golux> (muttering to Marv) I think she thinks she's won an Oscar.
<Marvin_Black> Could they stop this? It's against the human rights bill...
AC_Newton jumps merrily up and down, then she bounces back to her seat, followed by Kevin.
<Marvin_Black> Hanni: I never thought her to be bound to reality
<Hannibal_Golux> She's bound to reality. It's just not ours.
KevinGrey chuckles and sits down next to her
__Kay__ walks over to AC and says Congrats
AC_Newton beams at Kay.
<AC_Newton> Thank you :-) You can't imagine how happy I am!
<X-Cel> This was AC Newton for her Utopia...
<AC_Newton> ...and don't forget Kevin! :-)
<__Kay__> looks forward to seeing the sector
Hannibal_Golux thinks he should have programmed the VCR to record the awards ceremony. These things have a habit of lasting the whole night and playing havoc with the TV schedule.
AC_Newton looks to Asmodai and XCel
<X-Cel> The 4th place goes to the swampy wonderland of pulp adventure, dark science, and God old 80's fun...
AC_Newton wants to know the other places.
<X-Cel> ...Zartan!
<Hannibal_Golux> Zartan? (Did I even see his entry?)
<X-Cel> (yes)
<La_ST> (Well, there were some more entries than the one now presented
<Hannibal_Golux> (Was I actually logged in at the time?)
<La_ST> (Remember the long queue last time?)
Z4rt4n goes up from the crows looking like a long black haired man in a armor set, combat boots and a face painted in black darkness...
<La_ST> (Always the crows ^_^ )
<Hannibal_Golux> (Yes, I guessed this was only a slice, but I don't remember seeing this so I was wondering it this was an off-screen candidate...)
<__Nita__> (send in the Crows)
<La_ST> (Well, we needed one and the other after all...)
Z4rt4n heads to the stage, and takes the Small globe that seems to shift into a swamp, a laboratory and a number of vehicles running along the swamp exchanging fire...
<Hannibal_Golux> (Dem crows, dem crows, dem blaaaack crows!)
Z4rt4n nods t to X-Cel and looks at the crowd...
<AC_Newton> This looked interesting, too
Hannibal_Golux claps
<AC_Newton> Ah, there were so many presentations...
<Marvin_Black> (His power comes fromt he crow. Kill the bird to kill him)
<__Nita__> (hmms so he has lite makeup, and black lip liner and corw eye makeup?)
AC_Newton applauds enthusiastically
<Z4rt4n> I would just like to note, that my fandom of the great 80's toon GI Joe inspired me to do a version of the orignal Zartan's hiedout with features for entertainament of webheads...
AC_Newton still is so happy she wasn't the last
<Z4rt4n> ... this is a great honor and all i can say that the Dreadnoks will always gice you a good time in the Zartan's swamps...
Z4rt4n bows to the crowd , and most of the crowd starts clapping (Joes were the staples of 80's kids who are now most of the webheads)
AC_Newton applauds
<Hannibal_Golux> (phone again)
AC_Newton doesn't know that Joe, but it looked cool nonetheless)
Marvin_Black sighs
<Marvin_Black> Could we bring this to a quick end?
Z4rt4n heads back into the crows and sits next to a group of people dressed as bikers and roughnecks...
X-Cel smiles... )
<X-Cel> After this hommage to the 80's that will surely give a fun experience for one out for some fun we move to the next place...
Hannibal_Golux codes the icon of a gun and hands it to Marv.
<Hannibal_Golux> Is this the quick end you are looking for?
<X-Cel> The 3rd place goes to the fractal chaos of Hanibal Golux!
<AC_Newton> Hanni!!!!! - Coooool!
<Marvin_Black> Han: As I said: I rather chose the devil I know, than the devil I don't know. I know the tortures of live, but not those of Death
__Nita__ cl;aps for Hanni
<Hannibal_Golux> Aw, only third...
AC_Newton smiles at him
<AC_Newton> Congrats!
Asm0dai starts another round of rumbling applause and most epople join in...
Hannibal_Golux smiles and approaches the stage.
<AC_Newton> I knew your design was soooo cool!
AC_Newton appplauds frantically.
__Kay__ claps
KevinGrey applauds politely.
Marvin_Black sighs
X-Cel leans next to him and gives him a kiss on the cheek and the globe that shifts into the fractal patterns of his work
<Hannibal_Golux> Thank you, judges. In a world of zeroes there can be only one. Well, only one third place at least.
Hannibal_Golux grins.
Asm0dai grins
<AC_Newton> shouts
Hannibal_Golux waves to the crowd and the crows and takes his award.
<AC_Newton> (shouts) Hannibal!!!!!!!
KevinGrey frowns slightly.
X-Cel leans to Hannibal and heads him a silver 3.5 disk that seems to glitter
<X-Cel> And this is thew award for the 3rd place...
<Hannibal_Golux> Oooh, shiny.
<AC_Newton> Oh, he also gets a present!
<X-Cel> Hannibal here got a custom made rarity... this is the only copy od the SoftWar virus. It has not been possible to be copied....
Hannibal_Golux regards the silver disk.
<X-Cel> SoftWar allows the user to attack computers fro mthe web or real sapace physically... the only way to activate is through activtiung it at the connection node of the sector...
<Michaelangel0> (phone)
<Hannibal_Golux> How thoughtful.
<X-Cel> ... and its great quylity is tht it will phsyically trash the systemwhose node is attacked... without ever incuring the Paradox effect...
<Hannibal_Golux> I shall treasure this next time I have a disagreement with my bank manager.
<AC_Newton> This sounds like a really nasty thingy...
Hannibal_Golux grins to the audience.
AC_Newton applauds again
<AC_Newton> Hannibal! This is soooo cool!
Hannibal_Golux returns to the others and gives Grey a wicked smile.
KevinGrey smiles politely back
<Hannibal_Golux> Watch out, MIB, huh?
<KevinGrey> I always watch out where you are concerned.
Hannibal_Golux pockets the disk.
<Marvin_Black> Why did I come here anyway?
<__Nita__> (to enter the contest?)
<AC_Newton> Marv: To have fun?
<X-Cel> As we come to the 2nd pace i needs to inform the aduicne of something... we have a problem... Would Slaveen and Marvin BLack join me at the podium?
<AC_Newton> A problem?
<Hannibal_Golux> Newton, you appear to have forgotten that fun is anathema in Marvin's vocabulary.
<__Nita__> a tie?
Sl4v33n looks confused and rises up...
Marvin_Black raises an eyebrow and looks up like he's expecting a thunderbolt to drop
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: They're going to make you fight to the death. Do you want my batlath?
<AC_Newton> Hm. Yeah. And he likes spiders.
Sl4v33n heads to the podium looking a bit confused...
<Hannibal_Golux> Tell him your life history! He'll drop in 15 seconds!
Marvin_Black slowly goes forth like he's expecting a knife thrown at him any time
KevinGrey chuckles
<__Nita__> spiders: the programs that catalog software?
<AC_Newton> No, Nita. Ugly spider holograms
<__Nita__> oh - the 8 leged things :(
Sl4v33n stands next to X-Cel looking into the crows looking for MArc...
AC_Newton is very much afraid of spiders.
<Sl4v33n> (v)
<X-Cel> Is Marvin Black here?
<Hannibal_Golux> (Those crows!)
<Marvin_Black> (He is on his way.. Look some lines up ^_^)
__Kay__ offers AC a teddybear
Asm0dai starts a big light that tracks Marv as he is going to the podium
<Hannibal_Golux> (Marv being ignored even on the podium... impressive)
AC_Newton smiles
<AC_Newton> Thanks
<Hannibal_Golux> (most impressive)
AC_Newton takes the teddybear and cuddles it.
__Kay__ smiles sweetly
KevinGrey puts up an "And me?" look.
Marvin_Black arrives at the podium
<Marvin_Black> (That's Arcane ^_^)
<Hannibal_Golux> Grey: I'm onto your evil plan. You've transplanted the brain of a 7 year old into Newton's body.
<__Nita__> (Marv needs to supress his Arcane some)
X-Cel smiles and sets Marv to the left of her, and Slaveen to the right....
<Hannibal_Golux> (/me wonders if that would actually raise AC's mental age?)
<KevinGrey> Naw. She is just always somewhat ...enthusiastic.
<La_ST> (*g* Probably ^_^)
<Hannibal_Golux> (shouts) To the death!
<X-Cel> We, the judges even tried a recount... but we cannot choose which of these two presenters really desrve the award and the Virgin web... bot hdid an equisite piece of work, and while Marv's sector was bleack and dark... it was still perfect...
<__Nita__> (/me thought brain transplants is rather SoEish?)
<La_ST> (Nita - it is ^_^ )
<Hannibal_Golux> (shouts) To the death!
<AC_Newton> I think I'd like Slaveen to win.
<X-Cel> ... and Slaveen's sector is quite a quality work that will work wonders for the romantics, and virtual sex lovers among the crows.
<X-Cel> (oh my GOD AGAIN)
X-Cel smiles in a smirk at this last comment.
AC_Newton blushes very red.
Michaelangel0 grins.
KevinGrey can't suppress a broad grin either.
<Hannibal_Golux> (those randy birds!)
Marvin_Black looks around
<Hannibal_Golux> (shouts) To the death! (this is as much a recommendation for solving the problem as it is a suggestion of who gets Han's backing)
Sl4v33n looks a bit confused at the crowd and then at Marv
<Hannibal_Golux> (Oh they don't half carrion...)
Nick change: __Kay__ -> Crows
<Crows> Caw Caw
<La_ST> (LOL)
<Hannibal_Golux> (ARG! I cannot believe I just made that joke!)
<Hannibal_Golux> (shouts) Misery!
<Hannibal_Golux> (shouts) Decay!
<Hannibal_Golux> (shouts) To the death!
Marvin_Black gulps
AC_Newton looks shocked at Hannibal
<AC_Newton> Marv infected you!
<X-Cel> ALthough it is obviosu that the crowds have their own oppinions... me ahemms... we have planned a extra trial...
<Hannibal_Golux> (whispers) No, but I can't wait to see the look on his face if he gets to defile the virgin web.
<X-Cel> Mr. Cleeve, could you step up and explain what we are going to do ?
X-Cel steps bavk
<Hannibal_Golux> (shouts) Death!
Hannibal_Golux fights back a smirk that no one noticed that his last comment had nothing to do with Marvin.
Lyman is a typical Void Engineer - bright orange jumpsuit and all. His light brown hair is cropped moderately short, and he wears a futuristic style of glasses
Lyman smiles amused
<Lyman> Well, I have to admit if it were for me, I knew who the winner was, but the jury consisted of 5 judges...
Marvin_Black looks around like he expects the podium to blow up any moment
<Hannibal_Golux> (whispers to AC) How do you have a tie with 5 judges?
<Lyman> So we need to set up a little extra contest between the two to decide
<Hannibal_Golux> (shout) A fight to the death!
<AC_Newton> (Must be something about points they give)
<Lyman> Even though there seems to be a vocal crowd who wants to see a fight to the death, we will find a somewhat more elegant solution.
<Hannibal_Golux> (shouts) A debate to the death!
<Hannibal_Golux> (shouts) A debate on death!
<Lyman> Actually this will indeed involve a shoot out, but in the gaming sector here in the DW
<Hannibal_Golux> A shoot-out. Cool. TO THE DEATH!
<Hannibal_Golux> Send in the crows!
Marvin_Black sighs
Sl4v33n looks at Marv judging him...
<Lyman> And to make this really interesting, you two will have the possibility to change the surroundings at will. You will fight in a holochamber, and each of you can try to influece the surrounding to his benefit
<Hannibal_Golux> (heh-heh, cool, clash of the titans)
<Lyman> Well, let us transfer the two contestants to the battle chamber and set the monitors to watch!
<Hannibal_Golux> (/me also thinks of Disney's Sword in the Stone)
Asm0dai ahemms loudly...
<Michaelangel0> (The mage Duel ?)
<Lyman> Unless one of you wants to forfeit?
<Hannibal_Golux> (yep)
<Asm0dai> Sorry Lyman... but you are too stagnant... we will be using the projectors... not the little silly screen...
Marvin_Black looks at Hanni, AC and Kev
Asm0dai presses a few keys and creates a huge holofield presentign an empty battlefield over the crowd...
<Lyman> Well, you can use that, too, of course, if you so desire
Hannibal_Golux gives Marv a double thumbs up.
Hannibal_Golux recodes his icon and gives him a quadruple thumbs up.
X-Cel smiles... and we the judges will also be there...
Marvin_Black skips the forfeit, knowing he will face unpleasant Death if he did
<AC_Newton> WEll, Marv, fight for your sector!
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: Use the Force. No, wait, use the Entropy.
<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: Open your mind to him!
AC_Newton still thinks she'd prefer Slaveen to win, but on the other hand, that sector will be implemented no matter was. She gives Kev a thoughtfull look
Asm0dai overlays a small holo in front of Marv's eye... if you forfiet i wil ldrag your ass to Erebus and back...
<Marvin_Black> (It would be cruel to send him Marv's emotions
;) )Marvin_Black sighs
<Hannibal_Golux> (do you want to win or be a zero)
<KevinGrey> Well, Marv, you should. You were both an apt programmer and fighter. I'd be disappointed to see you lose.
<Hannibal_Golux> (Erebus? Isn't that for werewolves only?)
<Asm0dai> (Han not if you simpyl mean hell with it)
<La_ST> (Okay, combattants into the arena!)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Then wouldn't it be simpler to say Hades if you want to be esoteric, or Malfeas, even?)
<Marvin_Black> (I hope Slaveen has the mind of his sector... If so Marv would be at advantage. ;) Does "influence surroundings" meanincluding creatures and "living beings"?)
<Lyman> It seems both parties want to fight...
<La_ST> (Yes, Marv)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Uh-oh)
<La_ST> (Whatever you can prog at short notice)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Go, go, Gadget Crows!)
<La_ST> (I bet both have program modules ready ^_^ )
Sl4v33n asks in a deep accented voice... Can we start preapring now?
<Lyman> Sure
<Marvin_Black> (Marv has some creatures he thought of adding to the disgn of his sector *g*)
<Lyman> That's what I am waiting for - and the crowd too
Marvin_Black sighs
Michaelangel0 codes a beautifull black crow, with an almost silver lookin beak, and pearly black eyes...
Sl4v33n takes out a laprop from his coat and starts coding like a freak...
<Hannibal_Golux> This is going to be fun.
<La_ST> (Marv: I think we'll do that free form - cooler descriptions win :-)
Marvin_Black starts to prog some creatures, walls and so on
<Marvin_Black> (K)
<Hannibal_Golux> And far more successful than Freddie Vs. Jason
<Hannibal_Golux> I should record this, I think this will likely be a winner on the pay-per-view
<AC_Newton> I hope he's stay away from spiders
Hannibal_Golux activates his recording devices (read: opens his eyes)
<AC_Newton> he'll
Asm0dai sends Han a holo meesage with the exclusive rights for the fight and it already being on...
AC_Newton looks at Marv and the other guy
<Hannibal_Golux> (to stop Han "recording" this you're going to have to pluck out his eyes with those damned crows)
<Asm0dai> (please do record but roylties are settled :))
<Hannibal_Golux> (we'll negotiate percentages and fees later
;) )<Marvin_Black> (Description of the fight, or of the means to fight? *g*)
<La_ST> (Marv: Both)
<Asm0dai> (riight... i still have access to the Demise cameras :))
Asm0dai trasnports bot hto the digital room...
<La_ST> (So feel free to beginn)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Heh-heh, with Han's Corresponence of 5 he can get dynamic cinematic "camera" shots)
<Lyman> So, are you ready, Mr.Black, Slaveen
<AC_Newton> (Hanni: Bullet time on steroids)
<Asm0dai> Begin in...
<Asm0dai> 5
<Asm0dai> ...4...
Hannibal_Golux gets a close-up of Marv and a close up of Slaveen. He cuts back and forth closing in on their eyes as they stare each other down.
<Asm0dai> ...3...
<Asm0dai> ...2...
<Hannibal_Golux> (homage to Sergio Leoné)
<Asm0dai> ...1...
<Asm0dai> GO!
Sl4v33n instantly changes the room into molten lava and a set of small tight spires, leaving Marv jut above lava...
<AC_Newton> Marv, *do* something!
Sl4v33n creats himself a set of angel like wings and flows into the air, looking at Marv falling itno Lava, and suddenly creating a suit of armor around him and a huge Axe in his hands...
Marvin_Black counters and changes the floor into flesh and skulls, hands reaching out beneath Slaveen to hold him tight in place. More hands come up i the area round Slaveen, in case he moves. Also spikes come up between the hands, in case Slaveen stumbles. The scent of burnign flesh comes up.
Marvin_Black spreads his own wings he already had and creates a weird flying creatures that seems to be patched together out of flesh and attacks Slaveen
<Hannibal_Golux> Cool. Black versus White.
Sl4v33n smiles as His hands have no reach... he simpy lwaves his axe and a sudden tear appears in the grounf eating AMrv and sending him among the hands and bodies
<Sl4v33n> me dodges flows backwards and hits Marv at the wing
Sl4v33n flows through the air diving and shooting bolts of white light at Marv throug hhis wjhole arc...
AC_Newton looks fascinated at the projection
Hannibal_Golux is getting some great "camera" shots.
Marvin_Black dodges to the right, while his creature tears at Slaveens wings, meanwhile turning the room into utter darkness in which Slaveen is the only light to be seen
Sl4v33n drops his wings falling towards the ground ans suddenly dissapearing in a fogy mist...
Sl4v33n appears behind Marv with a new set of wings tearign into his bac kwith the axe
Marvin_Black merges with the darkness and disappears, while more flying creatures appear and an unnerving sound starts playing
Sl4v33n moves downwards with the slash rasifng hsi other hand and setting two angels in white flowing togas with greatswords at Marv...
<Marvin_Black> (I thought its about description not about fast typing)
Sl4v33n curls up and his wings cover him in a fetal position
<Sl4v33n> (about both :))
Marvin_Black is invisible in the darkness, while more and more flying creatures appear
<Hannibal_Golux> (in all fairness I think it should be structured in a call & response motif)
Sl4v33n curls up and suddenly flashes of light fill the room blowign all of the Marv's creatures fro mthe air leaving hsi two angels next to him looking for Marv...
<Marvin_Black> (That's what I thought)
<La_ST> (Would be a good idea, I think)
<La_ST> (So please, make it so :-)
Sl4v33n is up for that... your turn :)
Marvin_Black is an almost invisible mist on the floor. Suddendly pillars of flame explode under Slaveen trying to engulf him and burn him.
Hannibal_Golux will brb, but leaves his "eyes" recording the event of the... hour.
Sl4v33n dissapears in a stack of fethers flowing in the air, removing all the air in the room creating a total void of emptiness and no air...
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Hannibal_Golux reconnects to his eyes
Marvin_Black creates a bubble of atmosphere around himself, but also a barrier of skulls and moaning flesh around the center of the implosion, thus entrapping it and hopefully Slaveen.
Michaelangel0 is bothered with the crow, and has it burst into a cloud of black feathers.
AC_Newton chears for Marv now
Sl4v33n suddenly appears fro mthe skies riding a huge flaming meteorite his white wings flowing... as the meteorite heads downowards it crashes into Marv sending him and his small circle into oblivion...
<AC_Newton> That was a foul!!
Asm0dai looks amazed...
Sl4v33n scowls
Marvin_Black also know the game of disappearing, but he's not reappearing just once, but thrice with two projections of him, around Slaveen, sending in pure black energy from three directions at him. All three icons look identical, so he can not distinguish copy from the real one.
Asm0dai suddenly splits into 12 copies, each with the wings heading into one direction some of them diving, some of the mflowing upwards and each of them flowign so that 4 of the m go through each of the Marv's slicing them in half
<Asm0dai> (whoops wrong char!)
<Michaelangel0> (FOUL)
<AC_Newton> That's unfair!
Sl4v33n suddenly splits into 12 copies, each with the wings heading into one direction some of them diving, some of the mflowing upwards and each of them flowign so that 4 of the m go through each of the Marv's slicing them in half
Asm0dai is stil lsiting in his palce looking quite interested
Asm0dai is impressed by the number of combatants nad the feathers, skulls amd bodies flowign around
Marvin_Black also multiplies as some of the icons disappear more reappear. For every icon sliced two appear in place of it, so the more Marvs are sliced the more are in the room. All Marv's open their moths in unison sending out a mind breaking scream of agony, fear, anger and pain that feels like all the bad feelings from the world are aimed at Slaveen in this scream at once.
<AC_Newton> (Attack of the Killer Marvs)
<Hannibal_Golux> (it must be love, Marv is opening his heart to the guy)
<Marvin_Black> (Hey, this is an attack)
Asm0dai scream as it hits him... each of him screams suddenly focusign back into a one... him glowing stronger and stronger and then suddenly turining into a star and the place turning into a starfield... usdeenly he goes supernova destryoing everything around him, and coming out as a small curled up angel after the whole room is filled with the whitness and the blackness of the void...
<Asm0dai> (damn...)
<La_ST> (we know who it was)
X-Cel wows at the effects...
<La_ST> (Ah)
X-Cel thinks of hiring both for her next tour...
Michaelangel0 walks away and will check the results next time.
<La_ST> (Dingo: Cya)
Marvin_Black s true icon is surrounded by a field of entropic energy, scattering the supernova around him. The instant Slaveen appears as an angel demons appear around him grabing after him looking to mangle him.
<Asm0dai> (cya dingo)
<Marvin_Black> (C ya)
<Michaelangel0> (Not going... Michaelangelo is going)
Sl4v33n curls up into his wings dissapaearing in a pile of fethers and blood appearing in the exact spot Marv occupied... cushing him in the process
<La_ST> (Oh)
<Hannibal_Golux> (bye dingo)
<Sl4v33n> (LOL)
<Michaelangel0> (I AM NOT GOING, MICHAELANGELO IS GOING....)
<Hannibal_Golux> (ah)
<La_ST> (*9*
Marvin_Black keeps moving all about, so it's hard to make out an exact spot. The moment Slaveen appears Marv is already gone. But now a new ground appears. The grates from Marv's sector appear beneath Slaveen, but right under him it is broken and the space at the edge is occupied by a nurse like creature, with no face and a crowbar in hand.
Sl4v33n turns to the nurse creature and rips its head off, focusing to change the place into skies with clouds, so that arv would fall
<Marvin_Black> (Ehm.. is he doing or, just focusing right now?)
<Asm0dai> (doing)
<Marvin_Black> (Just wondering, since Marv is already flying *g*)
<Sl4v33n> (whoops i forgot... your move anyway)
Marvin_Black enhances the effect bringing the whole area above Slaveen and then making it crumble, so Slaveen is covered in a rain of ruins, rusted metal grates, smashing him to pulp.
Sl4v33n falls down and crashes into the floor only his wings reaminign under the pile of rubble...
Asm0dai ends the simulation and both of them are standing next to him... both looking haggard, torn and icons looking messy
Marvin_Black "breathes" heavily
<AC_Newton> Marv won°!! Yeah!!!
Sl4v33n throws a tired look at Marv and offers him a hand without saying a word...
<AC_Newton> Err... But he should omit programing those spiders
X-Cel smiles
Marvin_Black takes his hand and shakes it
<X-Cel> What sportsmanship! Ladies and gentlemen this was a great night... pelase contatsatnats stay here...
Hannibal_Golux applauds.
AC_Newton too
Hannibal_Golux can't contain his laughter at the irony.
<KevinGrey> And me ^1_^
<X-Cel> The 2nd place goes to Slaveen! his excellent Pecina cave was one of the finest work i saw, but his work in the oconflict against Mr. BLack still made him the 2nd best...
__Nita__ stands and appludes
X-Cel gives Slaven the globe that shifts into the cave...
AC_Newton applauds enthusiastically
Sl4v33n looks at the gloe proudly and bows to the audience
Marvin_Black still breathes heavily
AC_Newton applauds there, too
<X-Cel> Also for his work Slaveen will get the v2 series of the HEAT chip!
<X-Cel> The details for picking it up will be made to him privately....
Asm0dai raises up
<Asm0dai> Ladies and gentlmen... it is my honor to inform you that Maxine has changed the sector Slaveen will be changing...
<Asm0dai> ... Ms Slaveen will be recreating the ex Room 21 of the Demise, and his Pecinca cave will become one of the Demise sectors!
<Asm0dai> ... Maxine...
Sl4v33n looks amazed and awed
<Maxine> Yes, I liked this bar so much that it will now become a further asset to the DEmise
<Maxine> Thank you very much for your neat piece of programming!
Marvin_Black starts reprogramming his icon to look like the inital dark angel again
Sl4v33n still looks confused
<Hannibal_Golux> (are we wrapping this up after Marv gets his award?)
Marvin_Black sends holocraphic messages to Hanni and Asmo "I hope you are pleased now"
<La_ST> (yup)
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK, it's just I'm getting tired and have an interview in the morning)
<La_ST> (I'm tired too - actually I only wanted to play until 23:00
<Hannibal_Golux> (that's what you get for putting in a freeform mage duel)
<Hannibal_Golux> :)
<Marvin_Black> (This duel could have went on forever you know *g*)
X-Cel smiles... and the absulote award goes to Marvin Black...
Hannibal_Golux messages back, "I don't think the judges know what they have done. ;) "
<La_ST> (That was because we were surprised ourselves that we got that tie)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Marv: I'm sure it could have)
Marvin_Black turns toward the crowd, still exhausted, then to X-Cel
<X-Cel> His work is not very comfortable... but it is total sucess in coding, completness and appearance... to him goes the Sector 23X for rehashing, and a space of Virgin Web that is currently encrypted my our security expert... Asmodai...
X-Cel smiles at asmo...
Asm0dai makes a small vow...
<Asm0dai> (bow)
<X-Cel> Aynway... this has been an excellent night... from now on... let's jsut party and make this even more memorable...
Hannibal_Golux quietly scoffs at the title "security expert"
<KevinGrey> Party is a good idea...
Marvin_Black returns to the others
Hannibal_Golux pats Marv on the back.
<AC_Newton> Marv! Congrats!
<Marvin_Black> If anyone looks for me I'm locked up and bolted in my room...
<Hannibal_Golux> You knocked them dead.
Asm0dai makes a few keystrokes and studdenyl there is a DJ pult with X-cEl there controlling lights and music dressed as a nun, and he appears next to the others...
<KevinGrey> My respect, Marvin
Asm0dai claps Marv on the nack... good one Marv...
<Hannibal_Golux> (Asmo: that can be interpreted as a painful typo)
<La_ST> (LOL)
<Marvin_Black> I don't want to think of what will happen to me now. If it weren't for you and Asmo and knowing I could face the Death in the fight or by your hands...
<Asm0dai> This Slaveen guy was good as well... but Marv really seems to have whipped him...
<Asm0dai> (i noticed... .thanks for reminding me... sometimes i hate speed typing.. i tend to be better the faster i go... strange, no?))
<AC_Newton> Marv, would you do me a favour? Please leave out the spiders!
_Mike_ grins
<Asm0dai> ... aww shucks, Marv... what is a death threat among friends!
<Hannibal_Golux> Well, time is precious and as much as I would like to stay and wallow in your further praises I must leave.
<La_ST> (OKay. We can wrap it up now)
<Hannibal_Golux> Important business and all.
<Marvin_Black> And in there it was also Death fight.. One can never know if the security works...
Sl4v33n is lost somwhere i nthe cheering crowd MAxine at hand and fans cheering and carrying him around... Marv seems to be protected only by the fact of the Web bigshots around him...
<AC_Newton> And I want to celebrate our 5th place with Kev!
Sl4v33n is carried off into another part of the Demise.
-- To Be Continued --
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