Maharg67's Den (shorter works, short stories, poetry, etc.)

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Zombies from the Sky: Twenty-Eight

Was One 10.1[11]{14}

One 23.1[24]{29}

 

Just as Captain ManMonster's people had gained access to bushpod bushes, so of course had the other group's new allies. The bushpod bushes ran in a curving line that followed the shoreline, of the big lagoon, at a distance. It seemed to go from metallic stone artefact to artefact, as if this had some importance to the exotic plants' survival. Captain ManMonster's people had to travel further than did the others and often gained bushpods indirectly through trade with peoples who dwelt closer to the lagoon; these were not all animans for there were relative minorities of oomans, wozzles and others.

 

A group of animans, a mixture of many types as usual, were seminomadic traders and it was they who brought a message from Captain ManMonster to the other group; the one at the settlement. Five donkeys carried fairly large packs filled with tradegoods crafted by animan, and other, artisans. Yet there were also a few odd items such as a telescope, a lightly scratched phonograph record and some boxcans of a processed meat-vegtable cheese like stuff. ManMonster assumed, at first, they came from elsewhere but the animans spoke of manufacturing, food processing, being done in the largely mysterious Utopian Heartland of the largest island of the archipelago.

 

The archipelago was named the Utopian Isles along with other names such as the Isles of Mist, the Misty Archipelago and too many others; only a very few names were commonly used.

 

The captain wanted to meet with the First Mate, a very old and close friend of his. In the message he assured the others, from the tramp-steamer, that being on the island had mollified his rages, making his berserker side controllable. He had no idea why this was. It was as if he was meant to be there, as if he had always meant to end up there. He was also, from the first moment he went across the reef, increasingly aware that these were far more than just typical islands.

 

The First Mate sat on a wooden stool, of local make, and verified the hand writing though it was a little clumsier than normal. That was clearly because of the captain's clumsier hands and poorer writing implements. The contact from the captain cheered him up and he cared nothing about the changes that his old friend had gone through.

 

He looked up at the gathering of some others there. The triplets were there along with the small girl, her dog, some cats, two nombies, rats, the professor, his daughter, and the doctor plus some local animan village elders. Others were sleeping or doing chores or being busy in other ways.

 

"Its his writing, though messier than even his typical scrawl, and written in the way that he would have done. It took some carefully translating, which I gained only with long practice at deciphering the captain's writing. He helped his people, as he calls them, fight off a big group of nasty creatures called tigerchimps. Seems that those, that are called the masters, send the tigerchimps to keep locals frightened, down trodden, in smaller numbers and disorganising so they do not threaten the Lords of Utopia. The tigerchimps carry out looting, rape, destruction but mostly murder against locals. Yet the tigerchimps have other duties such as dealing with outlanders, rebels and other threats including zombies and reavers."

 

Outlanders!? Rebels!? Zombies!? Reavers!? Other threats!?

 

Some local birds made odd 'clicking' songs that travelled well through the island forest. It was quite warm but not to hot. A cooling breeze was coming inshore and was helping all there to feel better. Crickets sounded off, unseen, in some undergrowth at the edges of the small clearing that they were in. In the treetops were carefully concealed semi-enclosed platforms were some animans lived, especially the smaller tree climbing kinds. Such tree platforms made good observation outposts, looking out for danger but also gaining other information.

 

The professor spoke out. "The tigerchimp operations seem to be rather brutal, and chaotic, in nature."

 

Jataka, a female chimp-human village elder, spoke out. "It was not always this way for the immortals, that ruled the Utopian Isles, kept everything well organised and treated all with fairness. Then green comet things fell from the sky, crashing into islands and seas of the archipelago. All changed after that! It is said that madness fell upon the immortals and all of the islands. It is but one story amongst many and yet it is a common one. There is more but it is all very scary. I will show you the story as recorded in a very special way hidden away from every day life."

 

And so she did!

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Zombies from the Sky: Twenty-Nine

Was One 10a

One 24.1[25]{30}

 

Tigerchimps gathered at a place where a train station stood with its crumbling buildings and rusting locomotive, carriages and railway line. It was a fairly small train, having not had much to do but carry some cargo and a few local folk. Yet it had been important to island society. Back then tigerchimps had been responsible for protecting people, not terrifying them, but only a relatively few had gone to that island. Far many tigerchimps felt elsewhere, especially in their own home islands that they shared with a few other exotic hybrid kinds of people.

 

Overgrowth, of the surrounding jungle, helped conceal it. Monkeys were active in the trees and so were birds along with other creatures. Hidden there were also three rebel scouts, being small monkeymans. They were more observers, than fighters, for they were of no real threat against such as tigerchimps. They did, what they did, with much skill and experience.

 

The abandoned station had become their local base of operations where the massive tigerchimp had his throne and where there were some exotic devices. The glistening living mechanisms were disturbing to use, to many including the tigerchimps, but did have their purpose. There were also some hand cranker music boxes, a phonograph, and even a hand cranked lamp that were all used at times with great care; they, and other items, were the prized treasures of the group.

 

With some difficulty, a tigerchimp with empathic-telepathic abilities, used a gruesome looking cap device to report to one faction of the Utopian Lords. Those were survivors of the original immortals such as Lord Frankenstein, who had a rogue damphir daughter known as the Oracle that the tigerchimps were only too aware of. After delivering the message the tigerchimp suffered sharp head pains; he was given strong medicines before he lay down and slept deeply.

 

The report had been given on Captain ManMonster and the way he had helped to hurl back the tigerchimps, to hurt them, in a way not done since the actual crisis was happening. The report also mentioned, with evident surprise, that the powerful transformed captain had not seemed to be out to kill the tigerchimps but only to drive them off and that he had not killed the tigerchimp leader despite having more than one opportunity to do so. The tigerchimp leader dared to admit that his group could not defeat Captain ManMonster, and his people, and he even more daringly suggested a treaty between the tigerchimp's masters, the hulking biggorads, and the newcomers along with the Oracle.

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Stephen on January 16, 2013 quoted from a website Really Funny Jokes

 

A three-year old walks over to a pregnant lady while waiting with his mother in a doctor’s surgery.

“Why is your stomach so big?” – he asks.
“I´m having a baby.” – she replies.
“Is the baby in your stomach?” – he asks, with his big eyes.
“Yes, it is.” – she says.

“Is it a good baby?” – he asks, with a puzzled look.
“Oh, yes. A really good baby.” – the lady replies.

Shocked, and surprised, he asks: “Then why did you eat him?”

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Zombies from the Sky: Thirty

New Episode

One 25.1[26]{31}

 

BillyKid , CalamityJane and DocHoliday shimmered into existence inside an ancient structure, deep underground of Freedom Island where the Oracle had much influence. As if exotic left overs, from the Wild West, they were a cowboy, a cowgirl, and a wild west doctor with a black tophat. Their boots were of the combat style but each tall, broad shouldered figure had a pair of very big revolvers holstered at her, or his, sides. CalamityJane was less tall, and broad shouldered, than her male counterparts. Each wore a big backpack that seemed too large for them to carry but they did so with ease.

 

At the same time the refugee column, as led by Cragigula and Salisha, reached Freedom Island and was met by a large group sent by the Oracle. They came with tunnel-ponies pulling carts, riding ponies and some modog (big passive hounds) pulled carts also. There were also a couple of bicycle riders and a rider of a very large tricycle with a container at the back. There were warriors, workers, artisans, healers, scouts and others there to assist.

 

The fighting, at the Heartlands, came to a stillness as if all sides were exhausted and ready to pull back, which was true. The siege ended.

 

Small, flying flying, agile dragons began to be spotted in the air, in the waters and on the ground. That is they were small for dragon kind. They appeared to be scouting parts of the great, mysterious, archipelago. For what was far from obvious to the few observers skilled, and-or lucky, enough to spot them.

 

Many exotic, big things, moved into the seas of the islands and, of them, many were very exotic. Some were kraken, giant squid like creatures, whale like whalenta and even double tail-legged trigens.

 

The ancient undersea realm, of Atlantis, began to stir. The dolphin tailed merfolk were disturbed.

 

Generally life carried on, as usual, across the great span of islands, other land masses and more exotic features.

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Zombies from the Sky: Thirty-One

Was One 11.1[12]{15}

One 26.1[27]{32}

 

Jataka, the chimpman woman, led them into a cave system below the settlement, passed where stores were kept and then they were in the Chambers of Remembering. It was a privilege for the newcomers to be invited there.

 

The ochre paintings, on the wall, were impressive and informative as art. They showed impressions of a happier life before the things fell from the sky, the time of the falling things, and afterwards the age of chaos; after that the chaos eased but life had become tougher for the animans, and other folk, of the area.

 

Since the 'Falling Sky' communications had become much more difficult but reports had come from other parts of the Utopian Isles that life was worsened for most. No information had come from the Heartlands.

 

There was a big stack of skulls, from the Time of Chaos, when many animans had turned into zombies only to be killed off by their own kind. A green glimmering mist had come, had caused the undeaths, and then had been destroyed. Except that the locals did not know who, or how, it had been done. It was whispered that powerful immortal factions had formed an unlikely alliance to deal with the threat but many doubted the truth was so straight forward.

 

That was when the first tigerchimps had come to the local islands, bringing their berserker rage and causing many deaths. They had been driven off, killed off, with great effort and many losses only to return later in much smaller, less destructive, numbers.

 

During the Time of Chaos the old trade activity had weakened and many prized tradegoods had dwindled in number and decreased in quality. One chamber had some musket-rifles, a damaged phonograph, a winder-telephone and some cable, a stack of books, some postcards, a slightly damaged wooden frame with an oil painting and a few other such items.

 

Yet another chamber held carefully stored scrolls with writing and some basic illustrations; these were histories, and other accounts, of the local animan people since the Age of Chaos had ended.

 

The same cave had other stored items as related to those records such as samples of cottage industry items manufactured since that time; there were bows, arrows, baskets, various tools, clothing and other items. Many were at least partly made from certain kinds of bushpods.

 

There were wooden carvings of individuals and carved reliefs of some events.

 

It turned out that there had been some animans who had become living monsters, or unlifen, but they had been driven away by the unchanged animans; it had been out of fear, anger, and was not something that all current animans were proud of.

 

It was in that cave chamber that Jataka confessed a secret known only by a very few local animans.

Edited July 31, 2015 by Maharg67

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Zombies from the Sky: Thirty-Two

Was One 11a

One 27.1[28]{33}

 

An ancient alien artefact, of metallic stone and glowing metallic crystal materials, went from semiactive to active.

 

Crystal formations glowed brighter and a soft thrumming noise could be heard though it was only moderately loud. The formation of cubes, globes and cones was melded to a metallic stone wall, of a large glowcavern, and in that wall were also metallic stone alcoves.

 

The great metallic stone chamber was illuminated more than it had been. Great statues of what looked like slimly muscular-voluptuous, seminaked, horned, four armed, four breasted, women were to be seen towering up in each corner. Each figure held four exotic devices that were sometimes familiar, in general form, but just as often were far from so. Were they AraAncients or deities of AraAncient religion or symbolic of something else? None seemed to know the answers to such questions.

 

For the moment, nothing more happened!

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How they march so wonderful and precise

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But this is no real army going to war

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Just a parade entertainment of attractive women with guns.

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Ice Coffee

So very wonderful

I love it!

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Zombies from the Sky: Thirty-Three

Was Zero 4.1[4]{16}

Zero 6.1[6]{34}

 

Reluctantly, the League of Nations Security Council admitted to the world that a 'things had fallen' from the sky in the past but the incidents had been few, and far, between. Or at least only a 'few' had been recorded in any real verifiable fashion.

 

There had been enough events, of hard enough impact on humanity, for special organisations and long term projects to be established. Some of these were as follows:

 

In 2001BC a green mist had fallen upon a bronze age citystate of Caribbean America, after the record sighting of a comet-projectile falling into close by ocean waters by a fishing vessel. The relatively advanced civilisation, of Tazanea, was wiped out except for some survivors who continued on with a more primitive existence.

 

In 783DC a large European island settlement, of the Romanard Empire, had been established in the Atlantic Ocean. A comet-projectile had struck the ocean only about 20 kilometres from it and a green glimmering mist had struck the island. By the time other Romanard vessels came to the island, there remained only a few shambling zombies and some immune survivors plus some unlifen entities. The glimmering mist was gone, the zombies were dying with out its supportive existence. The Romanards, in the ships, refused to allow any survivors to come on board but they did unload equipment and supplies before returning to the main empire. After that the existence of the island colony became an imperial secret with citizens being banned from even 'remembering that it had existed'; that is except for a very few.

 

In 1011AD an African coastal island civilisation, name lost, had experienced an invasion of glimmering mist followed by one of glowing white mist. The civilisation was 'vanished' by the time people found it after the event, including returning traders of the island. In fear the island was abandoned, was made forbidden by other African civilisations.

 

In 1405AD a large fleet of Holy Crusader vessels, on their way to the Middle East, was travelling the Mediterranean when it vanished. There were on going whispers of an investigation, by the Knights Templar, discovering some interesting findings but nothing was made public.

 

In 1854AD a squadron of British steam-sail gunboats encountered, off the north west coast of Africa, a green glimmering mist and in it a mixture of sailing vessels full of zombies, lesser ghouls and even less lichs. Withdrawing smartly away from the mist, the vessels began to bombard the undead filled vessels. Many were sunk, destroying the undead in them. During this time a vessel came out of the mist with immunes and unlifen. The survivors were put under 'protective custody' and sent to the British Imperial Capital of London. The mist vanished and the undead supposedly perished with out its support.

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Zombies from the Sky: Thirty-Three

New Extension of Old Episode

Zero 6.2[7]{35}

 

In 1867AD a green mist was spotted moving towards a lightly populated Pacific Island, about 490 kilometres westward of North America. A strange form of rescue came as something arose from the waters and unleashed upon the mist some kind of sizzling, glowing, beams of intense heat and light. The something looked, in the distance, like a vaguely squat sphere shaped object held up, by three beams of pulsating blue energy, above the surface of the water.

 

There were other such reports and on going efforts to research them and to discover other, yet to be officially gained, information on reports or stories or clues of strange events. This included psychic traces, physical evidence, of past exotic events having happened in some places.

Edited August 3, 2015 by Maharg67