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Post #181 [Two][89.1][26.1] In the Seekahomecentre now lay replicas of the preservation cubes and what lay in them. Seekachampions examined them along with other Seekars. To the former there was something indistinct about them that caused them a deep, hard to define, feeling of disquiet. They recorded everything that they could with larger, loss portable, hitech than they had had with them when they had been in that 'reflection of yet somewhere else'; that is a mysterious location that the 'voice' had not identified. What was before them was 'raw' in that it was a more like the everyday existence, nature, of Doomsworld life for most people though with facets more advanced than most had; the Seekars, if anything, had more advanced tech in the form of computers, robots and in other forms. Just walking amongst the preservation cubes was an amazing experience in its own right. There were notes made, drawings sketched, and some discussions undertaken. A strange shivering sensation went, briefly, through everybody-everything as yet more changes seemed to be happening to Doomsworld.
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Post #181 [Two][88.1][25.1] Sharry0101, Shanda0101 and Shenny0101 slept deeply back in Seekahomeworld being in a Seekabase in Seekahomecity along with the rest of Seekataskteam0101 as designated at that time. In Seekahome the Seekachampions had taken upon themselves, each, the designation of 000+ such as Sharry0001. Then there was Newzantaccalla! When Seekars closed in on the mysterious group, with their clean burning neocoal vehicles, they found only a disturbing scene of distorted, split open, human bodies and larger type animals; the vehicles were abandoned as was the equipment-supplies except for food rations that had often been devoured. Seekascouts were first to arrive but Seekachampions came soon enough so alarming was the scene. Seekatranspost03 materialised and soon detective, forensics, work was taking place. The surviving babies, and toddlers, were lightly drugged into a mild stupor. Thus they had survived as other young children had not. The EverWanderer had come to the scene, with the Seekachampions, and as Teresa she frowned hard. “Infestators known as fleshpuppetteers take over preferred type biological bodies and turn them into fleshpuppets. They were another horror weapon created during the Doomswar. Not only were a number of varieties created but mutation caused the creation of new subspecies.” Shanda0201 looked around at Seekapartners, Seekacompanions and Seekaminions busy checking carefully the area. New names had arisen as Seekadroids, Seekarobots and Seekadrones as new upgraded, refined and augmented androids, robots and drones. With them where older type androids, robots and drones. “I deepsense that the fleshpuppets were controlled largely through the means of causing them with pleasure-pain or, at times, agony-ecstasy. The very young could not be fleshpuppettised and so we found them either devoured, or rescued, but not infested.” Some animals had escaped and were tracked down to be carefully placed, in care, as the dozen babies and infants had been. Even before they went into the Seekatranspost the rescued were carefully checked and were found to be clean of infestation, the animals being too small to be so; that is smaller type ones and the very young of bigger type creatures. When the Rainbowflash, of energies, washed through the area there came to be 'returned' most of the people, and all of the animals, that had been killed whether they had been infested or not. None, of the older humans, were in any condition to be questioned as they were deep asleep. Sharry0201 frowned. “Why did the infestators break out here, and now, from their host bodies when that would make them more vulnerable? There is more to what took place here than is obvious! There was a very dark presence here, of deep malignance in nature, if one could use that term for it, that is somehow familiar to us.”
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Post #180 [Two][87.1][24.1] The fighting, in Newzantacca, was urban warfare except in the templeparks, and public garden parks, being often of semiwilderness in nature as befitted Shaztec-Zhastec ways. Seekatroopers were active in non secured areas, along with Seekascouts, while secured ones were kept so by Seekaguards and Seekasecuritors; the former dealt with the whole areas, in general, while the latter focused on Seekar locations. Locals were being recruited into Seekamilitia units. Sharry0201 spoke to the envoys of the Radical Reformation Alliance of Newzantaccalla, the RRAN. “We Seekars are mandated to do what we do such as in ruling over the whole of Seekamary. That is Celestial Mandate-Protocols as linked to the Celestial Goddessgods.” A cold eyed woman gave a rather cold smile as if trying a warm version but failing to do so. “Semiautonomous rule is the story going around.” Sharry0201 frowned softly at the woman. “It is the truth as we are Mandated-Protocoled to do so but only if you locals accept the situation as it is. Otherwise we will be forced to go into hard occupation mode.” She, who was named Manticory, spoke. “My people are neither Shaztecs or Zhastecs! We are former clonefolk created to be living computers.” The Seekachampion nodded. “The Icentatici of the Handentici that started out as a codename of a cloning program of projects, one project being the one that produced your people. Each project had its own codename that became the name of its clone product. Not all the projects went as smoothly as did the Icentatici one did.” The woman nodded. “We have gone out of our way to carefully breed with other human subspecies to reduce our 'coldness' but with only mixed results. Yet I see what you mean when it comes to some of our cousin clone peoples like the crazed ones, the enraged ones and the consciousless ones; we are not like the last thanks to our attempts to change so we call ourselves the coolatatici!” Sharry0201 nodded. “As in 'cool and groovy'.” Manticory attempted a warm smile and almost made it. “Yes, as in that OldEarth way of putting matters. The infestation came from the Doomswar. The Icentatici were involved in the research-development of the distortion-infestations known as Pra101a to Pra118b. Our genetically engineered, biological, databanks have us think that it is most likely Pra112c as a successful subvarient of the Pra112 Line.” Reports came to Sharry0201 through psychic means that Seekamilitia units, being made up of a core of Seekafolk but mostly of locals, were doing increasingly more of the fighting. The last were being given up-training, more equipment, better pay-conditions and service-support than they used to have. As much as was possible, the infested were knocked out, captured and isolated to be studied by more advanced means. A partial antidote had been created that slowed down the rate of infestation in a victim's body. The Icentatici made for very good scientists and were soon assisting to work out how to stop the infestations and how to capture infestators for closer study. The main drive was to find a vaccine to stop the bizarre infestation in its tracks.
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An Australian show called 'Return to Paradise', a who done it type series based on the British one 'A Murder in Paradise' having the same 'Agatha Christi like format'; that is all the suspects are rounded up at the end of every episode, except for two episode specials, and the hero detective points out the villain, or villains, and how they carried out their crime.
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Post #179 [Two][86.1][23.1] Metallic, transparent, ice cubes? They were each 10 cubic metres in dimensions and there were many of them confronting the three Seekachampions. Sharry0101, Shanda0101 and Shenny0101 stopped before where a lightly distorted, young, woman was ensconced in an advanced tech hoverchair. There were items suspended all around her but none obscured her. Amongst them were a wheelchair, still quite advanced, paraplegic usable sporting goods such as a compound bow, a bookshelf full of books in different languages, computers, painted portraits, small lifeforms such as plants plus animals, bits of clothing and more. There other such cubes each with a person in them. Many of those where like the Seekachampions in appearance. They were surrounded by varieties of items with some commonalities existing between them; one such were computer hardware. Other 'cubes' had other human, or human like, individuals in them along with items but there were also ones with other, bigger, lifeforms in them; those were mostly of more known, 'normal', kinds but a few were more fantastical. Then there ones that held robots and other sophisticated machines of which a few were very hard to identify when it came to their nature and purpose. Sharry0101 spoke. “The lifeforms, the devices, are linked together but at center are the humans that look like we Seekachampions. This is an amazingly important, and decisive, discovery or that is the 'impression' that I gain just by being here. This is not the real place but a reflection of it, as realistic as that is.” The voice spoke from all directions at once or so it seemed to be. It was quiet but carried easily and was well heard by the three. “You must depart now to absorb what you have learned but at the Seekahomecentre you will find a special subcentre linked to this, recent, experience. You have done very well in showing the courage to come here though it disturbed you more deeply than you were fully aware of at the time; you, and your peoples, will be well rewarded because of it.” The three Seekachampions felt themselves falling into welcoming, comforting, darkness and would not wake up until they were back in the Seekahomeworld.
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At home I wear shorts and Tshirts but away from there? Cargo pants are a fave thanks to all of the extra pockets and, yes, Tshirts being often embellished ones! I am not very fashionable!
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Post #178 Follows on directly from previous Post #177. [Two][85.2][22.2] Sharry0201 whirled and fired off a heavy stunpulsebullet from her fingertips, of her right hand, making the distorting human shudder but not to fall. It was the Seekasecuritor that had earlier on reported to her except he was becoming something else. Two more stunpulsebullets dropped him and then Seekabodyguards were restraining him before taking him off to the secured, quarantine, medical area. The sounds of stunpulsebullets, being unleashed, were soon joined by those of blastpulsebullets and solid bullets being fired off. Shouts, screams and other sounds of trouble; they were mingled with some that were both strange and disturbing. What happened there was soon contained but it came to the headquarters that the strange outbreaks were taking place across the templecity and, in a more scattered way, the templecitystate. Sharry0201 frowned softly. “The deep infestation could not have gotten into the bubblezone, through its bubble-barriers, and so it must have been here before the bubblezone engulfed the templecitystate. There was a Rainbowflash, that went through the area, at that point but perhaps it was not strong enough to deal with all of the infested sleepers. Question is if those infested are here then what else could be hidden away?” She went on. “The Seekasecuritor that came to me was recruited from the local population and is noted as being a Shaztec.” The number of incoming Seekar reinforcements increased greatly along with the flow of other types of resources.
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Inspired by the movie 'Blazing Saddles'. The Great Automated Tollgate: an enemy army reaches it but can not find the right change, or even the right currency, to get through it and so they withdraw in frustration; the day is won for the defenders in a bloodless fashion!
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From 'George of the Jungle' Watch out for that tree, crash!
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Out: a very antisocial wombat. In: the same wombat not wanting to hang around where 'people' are.
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The Titanic-Olympic Switch Theory is false! It could not have been carried out and even if it could have been it would not have been worth all the effort spent to do it; also too much could have gone wrong thus exposing the 'conspiracy' to defraud the insurance people. I totally agree with you, RedHeadAngel and zixi.
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Looking again, at this topic, I have decided to add more to it! The blind man spoke to the deaf man. "I see you, clearly!" The deaf man replied to the blind man. "I hear you, clearly!" A hundred people were asked if they were individuals. 99 said that they were so. one said they they were not! -
63 years old since 18th April!
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Post #177 [Two][85.1][22.1] Sharry0201 felt soft shudders go through the fortified, concrete, building as an enemy cannon shell struck its side but failed to penetrate its thick, reinforced, walls. The Seekars arrival had not pleased all who dwelt in the templecity and a delicate balance of power had been broken; in result a civil struggle had broken out with a few targeting the newcomers though others either ignored them or joined them in a growing alliance. The Seekafolk were assisting local people, were winning favour with them. They were also proving that they were better trained, equipped and supported fighters. A Seekasecuritor, a uniformed security member of Seekasecurity, came spoke to Sharry0201. “The Antiprotocostis Order has surrendered just as did the Protocostis Order earlier. Seekatroopers, along with allied locals, have now secured 78% of the city. Seekars continue to bring in more resources both the local folk and ourselves who are here. Another Seekaguard Platoon has arrived to help keep secure the occupied areas.” Sharry0201 turned to the man. “Take a short break in the R&R chamber. You need it!” The tired Seekar nodded his gratitude before departing to the mentioned destination. Seekasecurity was busy, in Newzantacca, but mostly as undercover Seekaagents. Like all of the Seekars there they were only few in number though reinforcements were constantly arriving. Seekatranscubes materialised to deliver reinforcements and supplies. They took back wounded locals and those wishing to go with them to Seekaoutkeep; they would most likely return. Sharry0101 joined four other Seekachampions at a holomaptable showing the templecity of Newzantacca along with the immediate area, of Newzantaccalla, around it. Seekascouts had been checking out the templecitystate, closer to the templecity, as squads; they had spent much of their time learning valuable information from local villagers, townies, priests, farmers and many others. A small number, of Seekachampions, had managed to activate a Minor Giftling to provide the Order Charitable items to assist them and others through them. The Newzantaccalla Faith was becoming far more moderate, fair and caring than the Shazzantaccalla Religions had been along with being community based. A Minor Wishling had provided the Order Charitable with a deep well to provide fresh water and had with it a solar powered pump. Minigamelings came more distinctively into their own category as Minipulselings, Minishieldlings, Minihealings and others as they came to exist. In contrast such as Pulselings, even minor versions of them, became much more powerful. All Seekars, though not all Seekafolk, gained the ability to utilise Minigamelings though under light regulation. A holographic pin-banner was moved a small distance across hills north of the templecity. A remotedrone had encountered a large, mysterious, force but then had then abruptly ceased to transmit any audio-visuals, or other data. Sharry0201 frowned. “With a few armoured-armed vehicles but also non military types. Clean burning steamcraft on wheels or tracks or both. This appears to be a protected settler, or refugee, group. There are none of our Seekascouts in the immediate area but we can send a squad to intercept the group. Seekatroopers can also be sent as three squads with the support of other kinds of Seekars. I have a hunch that the unknown faction may be very troublesome so the stronger the intercepting force is, the better.” Another cannon shell struck the very same wall and, again, had little impact on the concrete barrier.
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Post #176 [Two][84.1][21.1] Impressionism, abstraction and other terms could be used for what the three Seekachampions were experiencing as they made their way through a very strange happening but no words seemed even adequate to explain what was happening around them. Worlds collided, blended, deconstructed, reconstructed, exploded, split asunder, and the same happened with billions of lesser objects, patterns of energy, lifeforms, buildings and much else including those that could not be identified clearly if at all. Yet they had the impression that a powerful, subtle, force was both protecting and guiding them carefully through the apparent madness. The Seekachampions lost track of time and entered a kind of semiconscious state of mind.
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Post #175 [Two][83.1][20.1] Seekamind was now interacting with what were known as the Seekamindars with the term Seekaprimes being only used, now, for those in special command and oversight positions. There were only the 15 Seekamindars. Seekamind: “Over a trillion soul entities were saved by that great metaphysical battle that was waged in the Doomscore and by other, linked, means. Sanctumary is constantly expanding with the expansion of old bubblezones and the manifestation of new ones. Gaiaumary is expanding in the same fashion but has easily overtaken Sanctumary in size as it is focused on flora, fauna, fungi, fringe and other types of entities as both wildlife and wildfolk.” All Seekamindars as one: “The transmultidimensional realms, as far as we know, are now Seekahomeworld, Seekamary, Seekaoutkeep, Sanctumary, Safeumary, Smartumary, Gaiaumary, Hubutary and Gamesutary along with the small one of Seekatranspost03.” That Seekatranspost was the only one yet active that used to be the only one existing but with no number attached. Seekatranspost01 would soon be active but only inside Seekahomeworld while Seekatranspost02 would be going between Seekarealms while focusing mainly on those outside of Seekahomeworld. Seekatranscubes would be heavily relied upon to do much of the secondary work, especially transportation duties. Seekamind: “We have yet to get fuller understandings of Smartumary, Hubutary and Gamesutary. Seekoutpost01 will soon be founded, and active, in Hubutary that appears to be a 'hub' of activity for many factions involved in the Doomsworldgame of the Doomsgames. The Doomsworldgamegods, and Doomsgamegods, may well have embassies there if not the lords that serve them.” The meeting went on!
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Post #174 [Two][82.1][19.1] Just as quickly as Seekaoutpost01 gained its name it changed to a new one of Seekamary with all of its bubblezones. While Seekamary could serve, as a halfway point to Sanctumary or to Seekaoutkeep, there seemed to be more to its reasons for existing than that. Many of the bubblezones were home realms, in their own right, or becoming so. In Newzantacca the Seekachampions there were assisted by other Seekars to track down the real Gordon Geoffrey TLAAS to the rooms that the fake one had indicated that he was heading towards. What they found was the sort of residence that a person like Gordon would be expected to live and even work in. Then they found the very cleverly hidden entrance to a smallish basement chamber. They soon realised that it had held some special, but portable, resources that had been quickly taken away by more than one person. They could have taken some, smaller, items from upramp, but it would take more work to try to work out what, if anything, had been removed from there; there had been no noticeable missing of any items; that is such as paintings taken from walls leaving behind rectangular areas freer of dust than the surrounding wall area. Sharry0201 checked a softly beeping device that she held. “Some kind of teleportation transportation was used here, perhaps of a phaseshifting kind. The level of technology shown is quite advanced but I doubt that it could get through the bubblezone barriers. Thus it will still be inside Newzantaccalla though perhaps not in Newzantacca itself.” A large Seekar Envoy Taskforce arrived in Newzantaccalla offering to the templecitystate a chance to be a semiautonomous realm under the overall regulation of the Seekagovernment and broader Seekastate.
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Post #173 [Two][81.1][18.1] Sharry0101, Shenny0101 and Shanda0101 made their way through a great hallway with cube shaped alcoves dotting the high walls. It seemed that generic items, of Doomsworld, were there including many that were very familiar to the three Seekachampions. Each alcove was full of softly shimmering, sometimes sparkling, energy fields but their contents could be clearly seen. While they moved the hallway echoed with sound effects, of Doomsworld, and there came smells that also reflected aspects of that world. Sharry0101 spoke. “Real but not real!” Shenny0101: “This place reflects the creation...” She shrugged. “Of Doomsworld or are these items of at least one NewEarth that became Doomsworld?” Robots, androids, kitchen chairs, paintings, wall-racks of laserguns, workbenches, electric runabouts, sculptures, beds, what could have been humans wearing a wide range of outfits, animals, plants, fungi, exotic entities beyond those definitions and much else. A row of zocyborgmans stood across from a large assortment of mannoids. A mysterious machine that looked part torture device, part pleasure machine, faced a row of flush toilets. A winged dragon slept next to a large nest of eggs while close to it a Tyrannosaurus dinosaur stood proudly ready to fight for her eggs. They stopped to study a big, wide, alcove with what seemed to be the 15 Seekachampions being dressed in curious fleximetallic jumpsuits, slim boots and transparent bubblehelmets; the jumpsuits were silvery but the boots were black as were pouchbelts dotted with other items such as holstered pistols, sheaved knives and contained rods. Shanda0101 spoke. “Alive but not so! Us but not us! Most confusing!” What ever the energy fields were, they were getting in the way of instruments reading what was in the alcoves and yet the three got the impression that there was a far more subtle factor at play, in what was happening to them. They paused in a non energy field filled alcove with free goods vending machines, water dispensers, doors to service-support cubicles and more. So they drank coffee, ate foodbars and consumed pristine water. In that alcove they realised that they could hear, or smell, nothing outside of the alcove. After using some of the cubicles, they moved on.
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Post #172 [Two][80.2][17.2] Shimmy0201 asked. “Did it go back through the gateway?” Gordon shook his head. “I am not totally certain but I would say that it did not do so. The complex was abandoned with all resources being saved that could be. There is a good chance that the complex is still there and in the same, sorry, condition that we left it in. Somehow I ended up in Newzantacca though I am not sure how I ended up being here. The site was known as Deep Alpha Development Complex 161661 or DADCo161661, being pronounced as a word ending in numbers.” Shimmy0201 asked a question as she followed a 'hunch'. “Have you heard of cyborgolems?” Gordon frowned. “One of the warring factions, in Shazzantaccalla, is known as the Hardlightened and they have become infamous for using not only cyborgolems but shorter cybornoid type humanoids; except that some of those Cybors have escaped from their control, turning upon them or just vanishing away. To learn about what is going on, in Shazzantaccalla, one need but listen to the refugees coming from there but especially from Shazzantacca itself. I gain a small amount of income by gathering information, sorting it and passing it along to another faction along with briefings; that is the monthly journal known as the Lighting of Shadows.” Soon Gordon departed to his rooms at a local communal residence where one did various tasks as part of one's contract to stay there. Gordon's name had been in the tea-towel list but so had the name of the journal that he sold information to that was at least partly based there in Newzantacca. Shimmy0201 soon retired to sleep in a dometent along with K9herois and two of his sisters being K8braveis and K7guardis. The four were a snug fit but were soon all sleeping peacefully, comfortably together. Somehow it was no surprise, to the Seekachampions there, that Gordon Geoffrey TLAAS had not reached his rooms but had vanished before getting there.
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Post #171 [Two][80.1][17.1] Newzantacca was a cleaner, neater, safer, more service-supportive version of Shazzantacca the supertemplecity. It was also smaller and being lightly flooded with refugees from Newzantaccalla the supertemplecitystate. So the expeditionary group dwelt in a temporary encampment while Seekataskteam0201 managed to gain permission to activate a Major Giftling and did so. Dometents, blankets, backpacks full of useful items, food rationpacks, oil-f@&#!ts, axes, carpentry clawhammers, healing serums, rolls of special bandage, cooking utensils, camp-lamps, coils of rope and more. In sizes the dometents went from small right through to huge in size; the last were as big as circus tents. As the semienclosed campfire heated up food, drink and water, Shimmy0201 sat with a projected K9herois who slept with his head in her lap. The monotrimorpher, now able to become a human as well as three variations of wolfdog, was also proving to have other special abilities; this was also true of the other dozen of his Wolfdog13 but they were proving to have both general and more individualistic ones. She spoke to a gnarled looking, aged, man who was over a thousand years old and who had been alive before the Doomsdays took place. Small, loop animated, tattoos dotted his visible arm areas, the rest of him being covered except for his face. “Your name is on what we call the Mystery Tea-Towel List.” She explained the nature of the list, the tea-towel, but not how the tea-towel had come to be with the Seekachampions. “Gordon Geoffrey TLAAS, the TLAAS standing for Teacher Learner of All Arts and Sciences. It was an attempt to get past academic gate keeping but the TLAAS Movement was not popular in Centropia, at least not with the university elites there. You were a prime member of the movement.” He shrugged. “Now I am but a lowly tattoo artist who mainly does temporary or semipermanent ones that are stationary. So why do you want to talk to me?” The Seekachampion shrugged. “Because your name is on a list that we obtained through means that I can not mention to you. We gained information stating that you once served as a research scientist for the UCC Ministry of Research Development. You were noted as being a brilliant physicist. You took part in Project Pronounced Active Particles!” Gordon snorted in disdain. “Name was a fake. We were involved in a Project Solidity Reality that utilised supertech theories and prototype technologies to do a deep analyse of the very 'fabric' of the NewEarth. Turned out there was more than one NewEarth and that none were truly stable though a very few were more so than the others. The UCC was of one such world named NewTerra while the Risengodfolk focused one was NewTopia. Somehow the Doomsdays, how every many of those there were that took place, blended NewEarths into one, bigger, Doomsworld. Or those were our findings until we realised that our world was a kind of blending of those two. We named it NewHubia for want of a better term, especially after we realised that our NewEarth was a transit hub between many of the NewEarths but also with realms outside of them; that is off worlders, out worlders, side worlders and some we found no useful labels for.” Gordon frowned. “Some great, deadly, exotic, entity attacked the heavily secured, deeply hidden, research complex. Most escaped but many were killed or wounded. The attacker, of deep malignant nature, was driven off but the complex was both largely destroyed and compromised.” Shimmy0201 gave him an ironic smile. The man sighed. “Oh very well, we opened a transdimensional gateway, through our arrogance ways of thinking, and through it came the entity.”
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Post #170 [Two][79.1][16.1] The original, fake, fangiftbox was opened up so as to be spread flat across part of the tabletop. A map had been found there that seemed to be the layout of a large complex either inside a building or underground, the map did not say; there was only some general information and what seemed to be clues. The original, fake, self-heating cupcans, of coffee, had had their wraparound labels removed to reveal 10 different minimaps that seemed to be linked to aspects of the bigger map. The fake pointscard had concealed in its false official data five coded passwords with the clue that they were to do with five, hidden, vault doors. The tea-towel's back was blank until viewed with a black light. Then it showed a list of names but with out any definitions to what they meant, were linked to. While some were clearly that of named locations, others of individuals or groups, a few could not be so easily worked out. The gained information was shared with a selected list of Seekars including all Seekachampions, of course.
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Post #169 Follows on directly from previous Post #168. [Two][78.2][15.2] The Seekabrainiacs, and cyborgolem rejects were sent to a secured safe quarantine area along with some animals and plants that they had with them. Of course they also took personal property with them or at least Seekafolk took almost everything that had to be carried including smaller lifeforms; electric motocarts were used for this task. Seekaservers, Seekasecuritors and a few Seekaspecialists came to check the location out more as did more Seekachampions so they became six of them there. There were also Seekacompanions and Seekaminions. Then a LittleChestManif came to keep them company as he trotted along on his four, double jointed, legs. There was an odd, subtle, sensation that only the Seekachampions picked up even as they walked through a large, largely bare, concrete chamber. Then they, the Seekachampions, saw the glowing door frame and doubledoor set into it. The oddity was that it was out in the open and not inset into any wall. Even they could only see it if looking at its front as walking around it soon proved. Also only Seekachampions could go through the doors once they were both open and three of them did so while three staid back with the other Seekars there. It was some hours before they were to return after making a strange discovery.
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Post #168 To fit in with the standard use of the word 'golem' as a hulking humanoid, robonoids have been renamed as robogolems to go along with such as fleshgolems and new cyborgolems. [Two][78.1][15.1] A third CdTH gave access to a large basement chamber below a long boarded up research development centre in Seekahomecity. It had been active in Seekahometown but closed down forcefully before the metropolis grew bigger enough to become a city. There were neat lines of concrete vats, strange experimental machines, networks of tubes running overhead through grids that secured them in place. Sharry0101 frowned hard. “We Seekachampions led the big raid that saw the ending of the Seekabrainiacs, as they called themselves, but we did not find this basement space. The Seekabrainiacs were attempting to create cyborged fleshgolems of enhanced capacity and abilities. Cyborgolems they called them. They were being generously rewarded to create the entities and the technologies behind them. They would then sell on the creatures and related items before destroying the place so as to get rid of all evidence of it having existed. They intended to use the newly gained resources to start a conspiracy to overthrow the Seekagovernment of the time. They were either executed or ended up doing long stints of moderate level convict labour.” Shimmy0101 frowned. “Just how many chambers did we fail to discover?” There were four vat chambers, two other kinds of laboratories, a workshop, two dormitories, a kitchen attached to a cafeteria, a security barracks, storerooms, an armoury, a laundry, ablutions, other utilities and more. There were no signs of anybody having been there for a long time until they came to the kitchen! The group of cyborgolems were not what one would call success stories and with them was a youthful, but elderly, woman in the stained hoodrobe of a Seekabrainiac. She was carefully checking the crooked teeth of a very squat, wide, humanoid and spoke with out looking around. “So, you Seekachampions have caught up with the truth at last. A whole lot of cyborgolems were sold to an unknown third party along with some relevant equipment-supplies and data. Five Seekabrainiac, no longer using that name, went off with the mysterious ones; a few went with them that had served we Seekabrainiacs but others either staid here or returned sneakily to the city proper. You will do no harm to my young friends here.” Shimmy0101 smiled. “Of course not! Seekahome will welcome them after we have checked them over and the same invitation is given to you and any others, of your group, here. Perhaps we can even help those that you have not mentioned yet.” The Seekabrainiac sighed. “Rogue rejects of varied levels of threat! We have managed to subdue most of them, to place them in enclosures or even into deepsleepcapsules. A Rainbowflash came through the area, greatly improving the everybody-everything and even the rogues that it engulfed.” Shanda0101 spoke. “Do you have any idea where the group went that was made up of strangers and a few from this place?” The other spoke. “I overheard somebody mention the word 'Shazzantaccalla' and then that one was struck heavily for daring to use that term openly. From what little I otherwise picked up there seemed to be a power struggle going on there and one of the factions wanted cyborgolems as soldier-workers. There was a way of getting there but it was one that was going to close soon. I do not think that I have anything else to add of any real relevance.”
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Post #167 Follows on directly from previous Post #166. [Two][77.2] [14.2] A globe shaped base was at the center of the bubblezone and it was dome like above the ground. It was opaque but out from it were four, small, non transparent ones and four transparently protective bubbles; the last were adapted to allow for air flow and other movements through them. The starprobeship came to be enclosed in its own transparent bubble, the vessel remaining quiet, and still, even to the instruments placed inside the bubble. It soon turned out that the bubblezone was transmultidimensional being more than one bubblezone in 'parallel' in dimensional realm terms. One of those other parallel bubblezones now enclosed Anklelusdeep and its surrounding territory. There would turn out to be 13 such bubblezones with most being bare except for nature. Why had this taken place? The main bubblezone was a halfway step to Seekaoutkeep! One bubblezone was the same to the supertemplecitystate of Shazzantaccalla! All of the bubblezones were slowly-steadily expanding 'internally'. They were multipurpose but most of all was their flexibility in being able to help in future, unforeseen, events. Seekatranspost01 materialised in the newly changed bubblezone of the yet to be named, new, dome-complex. Plans were soon being made for the taskteam to go forward to the bubblezone that was closer to the target supertemplecitystate but also to the true Shaztec Sacred Chamber of 13 Divine Entrances to the Labyrinth of Testing, Truths, Troves and Torment.
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Post #166 [Two][77.1] [14.1] At first it seemed that the Puritycultists, and their allies, had died fighting against the Shadowcultists and their allies but it soon became apparent that they had combined forces to do battle against a third force. They may have started out battling each other but then Eloi warmages, backed by morlocks, had swarmed out of the ground and this time had brought with them bigger fighting creatures. By working out the time of death for corpses, including those from all three factions, the conclusion was that the battle had taken place in the semidarkness of a long dawntime. These particular Eloi had adapted to living beneath the ground along with morlocks and other entities more comfortable with nocturnal conditions. There had been Eloi with springdartguns of different sizes but also bigger, springbolt firing, springboltguns along with springballguns hurling explosive springballs. There came the next discovery that the newcomers had ended up joining with the first two factions to arrive; that is to fight against a force most hard to define. Except that the remains of giant, rope like, tentacles were more than just a general clue. They had destroyed members of the Shadowcult, Puritycult and Eloiclan factions there. Many bodies were desiccated unnaturally as in a vampiric type feeding of blood, liquefied flesh and auric life energies. In turn the tentacles had often been destroyed. Then it was realised that the tentacles themselves were desiccated so had they been also fighting the one foe to all others there? The interplanetary starprobeship was 'inverted' being of a strange, softly glowing, blueness with everything on it reversed such as symbols and words. Starprobes had been sent out first and then starprobeships had followed up on any important starprobe discoveries of a range of types that met the right official criteria. Starprobes had sometimes vanished mysteriously but so had a smaller number of starprobeships and smaller starprobeboats. In some, more dangerous, zones the starprobecraft had gone in convoys. The exposed section, of upper hull, of the craft burned strangely as brightening sunlight fell upon it of early daytime. It had been exposed but by what and when had it taken place? The Inverse Dimensional Realms where natural to those entities that were there but there were those, amongst them, that could not easily adapted to existing in non inverted type dimensional realms. Sharry0201 requested a Major Wishling to activate and gained a Medium Wishling instead that she utilised. Even as the Seekachampion did so a Medium Wishling was also activated. A Rainbowflash swept through everybody and everything, doing so downwards as well as outwards. The very big SS Seekaforth0133 was now inside the bubble that covered above ground, as a dome, and below in a more bowl like fashion. The big machine stood on great, unfolded, landing struts. There had returned many of those who had died but not all. The tentacles were rainbow patterned and helpful but there were also those that had been linked to an Eloiclan, the Shadowcult and the Puritycult. They were now pleased to serve the Seekars, to be part of the Seekafolk. They had gone through Celestial Testing and had passed but the process had also saved them. So it was that Seekaoutpost01 returned to existence just as it had ceased to do so with the Seekavaults ending up in the Seekaunderlands.
