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AUTHOR: GLADIATOR NEW MESSAGE TITLE: STORY BASE V: THE
UNDISCOVERED MESSAGES Date: 12-26-91 (03:44) Number: 220 of 249
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: THE PUNISHER Read: (N/A)
Subj: UH OH.....STB V Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: STORY (39) Read Type: GENERAL (+)
But that the dread of something after death, THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY from whose bourn No
traveler returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly
to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the
native hue of resolution Is sickled o'er with the pale cast of of thought, And ENTERPRISEs
of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of
action.
Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1
Though this be madness there be method in it.
Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2
I find it hard, It's hard to find, Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind.
Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit
Well, we find ourselves at yet another turning point. What lies beyond we do not know. It
is a new fronteir, aloof, frightening, exhausting. Dare we enter and pursue the details?
The untold chapters in the epic saga which precedes this message lie yet untold. Dare
venture into the undiscovered country?
Yes!
STORY BASE V:
THE UNDISCOVERED MESSAGES!
We're screwed for sure now.
Date: 12-26-91 (23:20) Number: 232 of 249
To: THE PUNISHER Refer#: NONE
From: GLADIATOR Read: 12-27-91 (07:20)
Subj: BEWERE-GEEKS Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: STORY (39) Read Type: GENERAL (+)
Somewhere near sector 8....on the shitted Earth. Five lone survivors looked over a
desolate plain......
They had spend the better half of the day gathering provisions for themselves and storing
them in the bunker. They knew a storm was coming from the news reports they received
through their computer network. Not a normal storm, of rain and lightning or even
tornadoes...one much worse...a storm of Aliens. They had kown the suicidal attempts made
by other cities in attempting to thwart off an Alien horde. They knew that their Rampage
would never be stopped but by offworld help. They only hoped the Nordic would arrive soon.
Their town, of course, was doomed. The five friends took refuge in an old abandoned
nuclear fallout shelter that once belonged to a generations old uncle Owen. As they
prepared to desend into the concrete dwelling they could still hear the wail of the air
raid sirens blaring. If only it was an air raid. A large number of the inhabitants were
busy maning a newly erected wall at the north end of town, and were armed with a variety
of weapons. Many had shotguns, and many had pistols to back them up.
Geoff stared through an opening in the wall...down the road streching to the north he
could almost make out the uncountable row upon row of advancing Aliens. He heard a dewd
next to him mutter, "Those dam bugs, they killed my best friend in the town over
yonder." "This is my best friend!" Geoff said to the man as he fired off a
few rounds of his AK-47. The evening sky soon turned black as night was upon them, for
their was no moonlight..the entire atmosphere of the planet was clouded over with ash and
soot from devastated cities accross the globe aBlaze. When the assault came, there was no
first wave...just one tital, torrential flow. It was mass chaos as the defenders were
overrun in seconds. Prancing shadows Screeed with delite as scores people were wasted in
wild frenzy. Xenomorphs overran the entire countryside in only a few minutes. No one was
spared...not even one human was left barly alive.....
After several days the bunker was opened, and the five lone survivors stepped out. The
smell of acid and rotting flesh gave the air a foul-nasty(tm) odor. The entire area
surrounding the bunker had been ravaged. There wern't too many upstanding structures left.
Luckily there was no sign of the alien cyclone...like a spreading disease they had moved
on to the next town....
Date: 12-27-91 (00:30) Number: 233 of 249
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: DEATH STRIKE Read: (N/A)
Subj: GOONDAGAS Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: STORY (39) Read Type: GENERAL (+)
"As the watcher, I must observe all things, however evil or foul. Now, we all know
that the octum MegaFleet(tm), while eradicating the Zykorian armada also slew the peaceful
race known as the Goodagas. Such is the price of savage butchery. Howver, unbeknownst to
the onrushing Octom war maching, the Goondagas were playing an important, indeed critical
role in this unfolding saga."
In the imperial palace of planet Goonda, two figures meet in the thrown room.
"Greetings, presidant Goondasal, I am Goonduxor. I am here to tell you something of
pressing importance."
"Yes, one called Goonduxor, you may speak."
"Thank you my president. My research team and I have discoverd something most
strange. During our routine space/timestream measurment exercises, we've discoverd that
someone is manipulating the time continuum extensivly."
"That is troubling..it can only lead to chaos and death. Our own past experience has
told us that."
"Yes sir. To that end, my team and I have created a UNIdirectional multiamplitue
space/time fluxuation source tracking device. It will back track the space/time anomaly to
thier initial source and annaliate it with a concentrated burst of NegaTime(tm). I know it
is drastic, but timestream manipulation is a grave manner."
"Yes, quite. Initiate your plan at once."
(The next four paragraphs take place in 8 seconds)
The meeting was innerupted by a blaring siren.
"Sir we are under attack!!!" Yelled a TechGoodaga(tm)
"Contact them! Tell them we are a peaceful, unarmed race, and that we ar e trying to
save the omniverse from a series of space/time manipulations that will ----" The
president was cut off as the planet Gooda was pulverised and reduced to so much usless
cosmic gravel. Thus, had the Goodagas not been destroyed, as an afterthought of a battle
frenzy'd Octom subarmada MinuteTaskForce(tm) commander, the Grey's would have been stopped
early, and the most horrible war in the history of the omniverse avoided.
Date: 12-27-91 (06:17) Number: 234 of 249
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: THE KINGPIN Read: (N/A)
Subj: I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO... Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: STORY (39) Read Type: GENERAL (+)
Post was his name. The Watcher had just gotten home from Watching Class and decided to
practice. He went to the kitchen and got his nachos, red hot chili peppers, popKerns,
kookiedough, and bark's rootbeer. Post spead all his junkfood around his couch and sat
down. Once he made sure he could reach all the food (via the ralph kramden method), Post
began paging through his viewing guide... Morons origin.... not, to dramatic... Goondagas
demise... he had seen that one yesterday... AHHHHH Kirk and company get stopped by the
cops... he turned on his remote and started watching.....
"He's comming around Jim." Bones said as Randy awoke in with a slurr
"mmuunneernnnmmmmphhh" was the only thing randy said as he sat up. "Bones
don't use such strong stuff next time." Kirk snapped as he gently slapped the
teenagers face to help him back to conciousness. "Randy.... Randy, it's 'time to
go.... now' he and Spock helped Randy to his feet then they started to walk to the door of
the house. Randy made quick jerks as he realized what was happening. "Where did you
come from... and where are we going?" Kirk took charge, "We have come back in
time from what on you calander is...." thinking to himself that he didn't exactly
know "sometime in the future, on your feet are two
transdimentional-intertimelink-multiport-trsyncronial-gateway wreastling shoes, we are
here to destroy them and prevent you from going to your friends house for a "sleep
over". "What will my going to the sleepover do?" "You will hit a
friend of ours on the head with these shoes and open a gateway from another dimesion
through which an invading armada of warships come and take over this universe in a matter
of days." Randy took it pretty well, "I think I'm going to throw up.... Who, is
it, that I hit?" "He has nothing to do with this." Spock put in. Everyone
paused and looked at him quizically. Spock began to speek and shut up. "They are the
Octum, from the eight dimesion. We will explain to you on the way, we must start
walking." "Where are we going?" "To a place called Hawthorne."
"I think we should drive, or it could take a while." "Captain, you will not
be driving of course." Spock said in a matter of fact voice. "I really have
improved since then." Kirk said. "What a minute, I'm driving." Randy said.
They got into the Pha.. Laser and drove off. Music was playing, Kirk said "That sound
very familiar." "Well, forget it." Randy said as he popped the soundtrack
from ST2 out of the tape player. They were going on St Marys road just about to turn onto
176 when the cop turned on his lights. "Aww shit!!!" Randy said as he noticed
the cop behind him. He started onto 176 and pulled over. "That's a police officer.
Right?" Chekov asked from the crowded back seat. "Yea, I must have been speeding
or something." "Well me and Spock have handled the cops before... watch
this..." They all got out of the car. The officer walked up to them. Looked them all
over and stood face to face with Kirk.... "I don't know you....." the cop
sidesteped to face Randy " but you... I never forget a face.....Mr....Yarc. Isn't
it?" "Randy, who is this man? Officer I demand" Bones was cut off "You
are in a position to demand nothing, I on the other hand am in a postion to charge you for
many things. You mean you haven't told them... to amuse your friends... about how 12 days
ago you cut me off and caused and accident where a whole intersection of cars was laid
wasted." the officer gestured with his hands. Chekov said "I've never even met
Randy before today." "RANDY.... randy... never told you how RANDY turned the
corner at greenbay and 120 during a redlight and caused me to run into a pickup. RANDY
never bothered to look back. It was only the fact of my superior police training that
allowed me to survive... You didn't expect to see me again did you? Where are you
going?" Randy looked down and then over to Kirk. The cop pulled out his gun and
steped back. Wherrrrreeeee." "Oh how careless of your wife to let you go out
like that." Kirk said "Yes let me help you." Spock said as the distracted
cop looked at his shoulder and was stabbed by one of McCoys hypos from the other
direction. The cop swatted the hypo away and it went into Randy's chest and he went out as
well as the cop." "It worked better the last time." Kirk said as the picked
Randy up and put him in the back seat of the car. Spock began to drive as Bones, Chekov
and Kirk tried to reawaken Randy.
Post turned the viewer off. He had laughed enough tonight. He went to his room and began
playing Solar Realm's Elite. The Ensata Terrorists were making their Spinward March and he
had to stop them.
Date: 12-27-91 (07:20) Number: 235 of 249
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: THE PUNISHER Read: HAS REPLIES
Subj: THE WATCHER..... Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: STORY (39) Read Type: GENERAL (+)
Greetings Readers....(or listeners if we ever put this on tape)...I am the Watcher and as
you may have guessed from my name I watch things. Since the "end" of STORY BASE
IV: THE FINAL CONTINUUM a lot of questions have come up unanswered...Just where did Belloq
come from?.....Where did Luke go in the goatmobile?....Did the Goondagas put up a fight?
and many more have puzzled me. So I have decided to infiltrate the story base once
again(on at least one occasion the characters were too clever for me and I was
caught...Shit happens)......Lets us start early....somewhere before message #4.......I
think it goes something like this....
Steve "Monkey" Smith was walking toward Main Street to meet his friend Joel Mort
at the store. Little did Smith know that Joel wouldn't even get to the store until message
#5, but Smith liked being early so he trudged on in the early moonlight. It was a nice
night and the town streets were deserted except for the swirl of mist around light poles,
leading the imagination to thoughts of ghouls and spectres. Suddenly, Smith heard a noise,
he looked and saw that it was just old man Kirk opening up his antique museum. That Kirk
guy sure was weird...why would he open up the museum this early? From out of a side street
darted a black shape. Were its arms waving? Smith began to feel the telltale signs. It was
happening...he would transform into something hideous. He had not used his ability since
before his adventure with Wahoo....yet it appeared his services would be needed again.
Another shape appeared...this one was scurrying...clearly it meant no good...Nothing good
would be WALKING THE SHADOWS this early in the morning....Yes! Smith pressed the face of
the glowing watch and shuddered as the effect of it changed him into his lycanthrope alter
ego...a very hungry werewolf!
Stepping out of the swirling mist stood an old man with a staff. "Hello wolfy...I am
Gandalf the GREY....Well they thought they could beat me with that cheap Avalon plot
twist...I'll show them! And you're gonna help me do it!" The old man waved his staff
and a portal opened and the WereSmith was sucked into it where he materialized in a
patchwork or corridors (maybe I should have said hallways). All he could think about was
how hungry he was...wait..he could see it..right in front of him was a little troll. Food!
Wait the troll vanished into this machine that said "Timeporter" across the top.
Well a meal wasn't getting away that easily. With one huge bound the Weresmithwolf was
into the timeporter where he materialized........Crashing through a closed door!(See SB1:
Message #165)
When all of a sudden....(See SB1: Message #4).
.....back to the Watcher....
"With the lights on, it less dangerous.....Here we are now, entertain us!"...The
Watcher paused to meditate on Nirvanna's great lyrics..they were cosmic indeed. He snapped
off the radio just before hearing the next song. (If he had left the radio on he would
have heard Lef Deppards 1986 smash hit "Say the Toads Rule" (also known in some
circles as "Say the Night's Cool")) He walked over to Watcher home entertainment
center and ported himself to Earth...circa message #99
"Synchronize data links! Atomic batteries to scale! Ready to form Voltron(tm)!
Megathrusters are go! Form feet and legs. Form arms and body, and I'll form the
head!", Lance called through his communicator to the other four lions. The five lions
quickly formed themselves into Voltron amid cool music and generic animation effects.
"Form Blazing sword!"..the heads of the green and red lions clashed and pulled
apart revealing the razor keen "blazing" sword between them.(We all knew that
was coming didn't we.) Voltron gritted his teeth as he saw the latest batch of Octom
Robeasts crawl over the horizon....Lance only hoped that Thunderbirds 2086 were faring
better.
Date: 12-27-91 (20:27) Number: 239 of 249
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: GLADIATOR Read: (N/A)
Subj: BAGGINS FAMILY Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: STORY (39) Read Type: GENERAL (+)
There's Gandalf and there's Gimly
There's Legolas and Indym
There all together wookies
The Baggins Family
Date: 12-28-91 (04:25) Number: 240 of 249
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: THE PUNISHER Read: (N/A)
Subj: THE BAGGINS FAMILY Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: STORY (39) Read Type: GENERAL (+)
Kirk runs the museum
Spocko tries to help him
McCoy is always bitchin
The Baggins Family
Date: 12-30-91 (23:37) Number: 246 of 249
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: GLADIATOR Read: (N/A)
Subj: LAND OF THE LOST Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: STORY (39) Read Type: GENERAL (+)
Marshall, Will and Holly....on a ROUTINE EXPEDITION (See subject, Buku fuck back).........
The rapids were really getting rough now...the churning water had busted both the paddles
to the tiny raft as it twisted and turned (argamumphed?) through the white water. The raft
was moving sideways down the channel...it hit some shallow rocks and Holly almost fell
overboard. Samewhere buku fuck back they had taken a wrong turn in the river....now they
were in trouble. Up ahead was a waterfall...... "Daddy, daddy...look
out!!........AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHAAHAHHHH!!!!" They all screamed as they plumeted over
the side.......
...somehow the raft stayed upright though as it landed at the bottom of the falls....but
now they were in even worse trouble....A WHIRLLPOOL!!!!" Water gushed over the side
and the raft began to list. "Round and round...what goes around comes
around.............." the three Explorers lost consienceness as the waves engulfed
them.
The raft came to rest at the shallow end of a small stream..the three occupents inside
still unconscious, unknowingly lost in a land before time.
"RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAuuuuugggggh!!!!" was the next thing they all
heard as they came too. Marshall saw it first, a Tyranosaurus Rex!! Holy Shieeeeet!! He
helped Wil and Holly out of the raft and as the Grumpy dinasaur made more growling noises
they all ran like hell! There were mountains only a short distance away...they headed in
that direction. The T-Rex was gaining on them, but they soon could make out some caves.
Perhaps they could hide in there and make it their new home? With a hop, skip and a jump
they climbed up a few rocks and found their way inside one of the caves....They ran into
the blackness until they reached a far wall. As they looked back they could see the
dinosaur's sword like teeth snapping just ouside the entrence. "Where are we??"
panted Wil. "I'm not sure son......but wherever it is we have to first get rid of
that" Marshal pointed toward the Thundar lizard. "Yeah...too bad we don't have a
flyswatter" cackled Holly. Just as holly said it, Marshall and Wil were moving to
pick up a large bone on the cave floor. "Ready?? " "Yeah!!"
"Go...." They both ran toward the entrance, and jammed the bone vertical into
the dinosaurs mouth. It reared on hits hind legs....reaching feverishly with its dink
front arms for the bone in its Jaws. Roaring, howling mad the tyranosaurs stomped off into
the marshes trampling several small new species of fern life.
It was dark very soon after that, and they had a fire going at the mouth of the cave using
some matches Wil found in his pocket. "You know its funny....." I remember going
over the falls..but then it's just a blank." "Yeah..I know what you mean"
Holly replied to her brother, "It's also funny though our clothes weren't even
wet....i don't know how are raft got to where it was, or even what this place even
is!" "It's like someone placed us here as part of an experiment........."
commented Marshal. "Hey look at that!" Holly pointed out toward the moon lit
sky..."3 moons!!" "Where are we..............."
The trio decided to make camp inside the cave that night, they weren't about to wander
into the unknown hearing the sounds of dinosaurs in the distance. The next morning Marshal
and Wil deceided they would try and make it back to the raft and salvage what equipment
they could. "You stay in the cave Holly, I don't want anything happening to
you." Marshal instructed the girl. Marshal and Wil started on their way... The amount
of plant growth was unbelievable..they hadn't noticed it while they were escaping the
T-Rex. It took them awhile to search for the raft.
Meanwhile back at the cave...Holly suddenly noticed a baby brontasaurs nibbling at some
small ferns at the base of the cave. She wasn't about to just sit around all day...she
started hopping down the stones toward the little dinosaur. "Ohh you're so
cute..." It wasn't long before she was on its back riding it like a Camel. She rode
the little beasty around for quite sometime, and just as she was getting the hang of it,
the dinosaur stopped abruptly. Holly looked up to the scene of a 3 foot ape. He stared
back at her for a moment, but then took off running.... Holly leaped off the baby bronto,
and chased after the little monkey. "Cameer little fella, I'm not gonna hurt you... I
just want to be friends." (My name is Casper.....) It was almost 8 minutes before the
monkeything ran outta energy and stopped.... Holly soon befriended the little Ape, and she
came to know him as Chaka the monkey. She deceided she would take him back to the cave
with her. She had ran so far, she was now lost...she wondered for hours...but soon she
heard the calls of her father and Wil. "Over here...." she yelled back. They ran
up and greeted her, and after her dad was done bitching her out, she introduced Chaka.
"Camon..lets get back to the cave, we have some food we brought back from the
raft" "Alright, i'm starved!" On their way back though...they met
Alice....Alisaurus. They all broke into a sprint as the huge dinosaur chased them...as
they came into a clearing they caught sight of a lost city! "Let's make for
there!!" They all crossed a log bridge and soon were inside the ruins. It was misty
and kinda chillin. As they rounded the corner of a passage they all jumped at the sight of
a SLEESTACK!!! Lucky for them it was dormant. Marshall grabbed a torch off the wall. They
moved on down the passage way...passing several other rows of Sleestack. "This place
give me the creeps...." muttered Holly. A sound almost like that of whistling could
be heard in the distance behind from where the party had just come. Chaka seemed to be
urging them on ahead. The sound seemed to be all around them now..down every passage, and
it was getting louder! "Ksssssssssssscccccchhhhhhh" "kkksshshshshs"
"KKcckkkssshhuuhhhssshshshshhhh" Around a bend, a group of sleestack ambushed
them. "AAAAAHHHHHHhhhh" they all yelled and ran down the only open tunnel. At
the end of it they could see incadescent light illumanating out the doorway...The
sleestack were hot on their trail! As they entered the small room, they were all startled
to find another of the sleestacks turn unto them and hold its hands up. It touched a
crystal light on a pedastal and suddently all the Sleestack behind them were stopped. They
would not enter the same room. Marshal stepped up... "Thank you..." "Darmok
and Jalad at Tanagra" said this new Sleestack. After some small talk..the humans and
the Sleestack finally got aquainted and did away with the colorful metaphors. His name was
Enick, and he was also lost. He told of how he was also trying to get back to his
people.....They had abandonded him, lost in time for his views. He did not agree with what
other members of his race were doing. He was the most advanced form of his people, and
from a small smokeylike portal in the wall, Enack showed the humans the other stages of
his lifeform. First to come into view was a sort of hoofed manimal...next cam a short 4 to
5 ft being with large oval black eyes. A tiny slit for a mouth, and it seemed to be
floating, and waving its arms.... More scenes started to come through clearly now..huge
armies, great ships in space, and battles. It was horrible...
"And what are those on that pedastal?" asked Wil. "These are the crystals
that control space/time. They are the keys to the past, present and future. if they are
aligned correctly I will be able to get back to my own time. There are three other sets
like it outside the lost city. They are enclosed in what's known as a Pylon....In a sense,
a time portal. I am very close to completing their alignment.....within another few
seconds, Marshal, Wil, and Holly watched Enick disappear into the
portal................."
Date: 01-01-92 (02:33) Number: 247 of 249
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: THE PUNISHER Read: (N/A)
Subj: TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES! Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: STORY (39) Read Type: GENERAL (+)
The time is the 24th and 1/2 century.....
The place is the Vortark ruins of Beta Riangese IV.....
The man is Duck Dogers (in the 24th and 1/2 Century!!!)...Not.
Vash (Picard' chick for Q PID etc...) marveled at the stones she held in her hand. Q
marvelled at her figure. Vash reflected that she had been having a great time since she
dumped that somber loser named Picard for Q. With him it was just one fun filled party
that never ended with some erotica thrown in.
"Q, dear, do you know what these are?", she asked holding the crystals out to
him.
"Of course, they are the guidance crystals so Sleestack TimePylons(tm), but their
luster does not come close to matching your eyes under the triple moons.
A sound made them both look up....something was screaming out of the sky towards them.
"I knew I shouldn't have let you fly!!", Luke was yelling, "You dragged us
right into that temoral distortion!"
Indy just made a face and tapped the fuel guage on the goatmobile, and grunted between
clenched teeth, "Shutup kid or you'll find yourself floating home." They braced
for impact and then the goatmobile hung in the air.
"Well, what have we here, a pair of new dullards." Q said as he waved his hand
and Luke and Indy appeared on the planets surface.
"Hey...lighen up.....what's that!", Indy pointed into a quickly forming mist.
They heard Vash scream and looked. There coming through the mist was a Sleestack!
"I am Enick, WHO might you be?"
"Who! WHO? Where" Q screamed in panic! {Say like Boba Fett! Boba Fett! Where?}
In the background K-9 barked happily.
Unbeknownst to all parties involved the 42 Dalek Tank Brigade was
wereBEARing down on them.
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