"Necessary Evil"

 

We the authors have decided to twist your insane minds even further....

 What follows are three distinct and different endings to the story.  Each of us wrote with no foreknowledge of what the other author was going to write about except for certain guidelines. 

 Throughout the story we have introduced multiple storylines, and you may have encountered certain shall we say...anomalies in our thought patterns.  These temporal distortions have a way a manifesting themselves in the midst of the madness, and chaos brought about by the fact the story has been written by three different authors.  Have no fear, the truth is out there, and all will be explained.

 Below is a list of the criteria each of us attempted to touch upon in the creation of our own unique endings.

 We challenge you to read the messages with an open mind so as to not be overwhelmed by a dirge of cosmic insanity.  It is our hope that the individual messages and endings will have a synergistic effect on the overall content, and ultimately give a true sense of multiple timelines occurring through infinite possible futures.

 Enjoy....

            ·        Area 42 - X Files

·        Stargate / Indiana Jones's / The Bishop

·        Kirk unstuck in time

·        Sulu - Excelsior crashing on planet

·        The Lost World

·        Gandalf the Grey / White

·        Regula II space station

·        Avalon / Sauron

·        Saruman / Kolton / Orcs

·        Emperor

·        Greys

·        Middle Earth - Frodo, hobbits, and Aragorn

·        Amulets

·        Borg

·        Enterprise B

·        Hyuj and the box

·        Trapazhedron

·        Z'ha'dum - The last megabattle, examples include:

Captain Sheridan, B5, Voyager, Imperial / Rebel Fleets, Robotech GMU, Max Sterling, Battlemechs, Wallart

·        The Great Old Ones, Elder gods, Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, Octorg, Cthulhu

 

"The City in the Sea"

 

Before we reach our end, we should take time to reminisce in what was quite possibly the true beginning of it all:

 

Lo! Death had reared himself a throne

In a strange city lying alone

Far down within the dim West

Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best

Have gone to their eternal rest.

There shrines and palaces and towers

(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)

Resemble nothing that is ours.

Around, by lifting winds forgot,

Resignedly beneath the sky

The melancholy waters lie.

 

No rays from the holy Heaven come down

On the long night-time of that town;

But light from out the lurid sea

Streams up the turrets silently--

Gleams up the pinnacles far  and free--

Up domes--up spires--up kingly halls--

Up fanes--up Babylon-like walls--

Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers

Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers--

Up many and many a marvelous shrine

Whose wreathed friezes intertwine

The viol, the violet, and the vine.

Resignedly beneath the sky

The melancholy waters lie.

So blend the turrets and shadows there

That all seem pendulous in air,

While from a proud tower in the town

Death looks gigantically down.

 

There open fanes and gaping graves

Yawn level with the luminous waves;

But not the riches there that lie

In each idol's diamond eye--

Not the gayly-jewelled dead

Tempt the waters from their bed;

For no ripples curl, alas!

Along that wilderness of glass--

No swellings tell that winds may be

Upon some far-off happier sea--

No heavings hint that winds have been

On seas less hideously serene.

 

But lo, a stir is in the air!

The wave--there is a movement there!

As if the towers had thrust aside,

In slightly sinking, the dull tide--

As if their tops had feebly given

A void within the filmy Heaven.

The waves have now a redder glow--

The hours are breathing faint and low--

And when, amid no earthly moans,

Down, down that town shall settle hence,

Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,

Shall do it reverence.

                        -THE CITY IN THE SEA

                                    EDGAR ALLAN POE

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