|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- HONEYSUCKLE ROVER--CUP 13--"Ginger Beer" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Honeysuckle Rover  ||  -------> (Cup SRhr013, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Liss was wearing a straw "Vaudeville singer" hat, smoking a cigar and sprinkling ginger beer all over the steaming hot lava. "Why a volcano?" Quile asked. "Gotta start somewhere, kid." Liss answered, smiling. Earlier, Liss has used her crossbow to blast a hole in reality, and they came to this other world, by a volcano. "So we're really just waiting." Quile said after time. Liss blew a smoke ring and said "We are in the past. Our being here proves it. Therefore we have a golden opportunity." "Are there any people here, on this world?" Quile asked. "I think so." "Will we meet them?" "Why, thinking of a threesome so soon?" "No." "You are, kid. You are." "No." "Well," Liss said, surveying her work--barely perceptible ginger beer stains on the lava, "here's the deal. If we ARE all God, all the same person, then when this universe collapses, we'll all the the same person again. But I LIKE being me. I like being Liss. I don't want to evaporate, be forgotten like a fading dream." "How do you know what you know?" Liss stared at Quile. "I know what I know. If you mean I might be wrong, sure. I'm not omniscient, and even if I was I couldn't be sure of it. I wanna keep on going, I like the challenges that limitations gift me." "So we are going to make a shelter... and populate it... and it will withstand the end of everything else." "I'm sure I have it in me. And with your help, I'm pretty sure we can do it." "Why?" "Because I'm like Sleap. You're like Sleap. We have it in us. We are among the most powerful people anywhere." "Why is all this happening?" "Daptin Gone, that guy I told you about, was there when all this was first created. He was a barely-sentient pinecone, but he was there. But what almost no one knows is that there was a time that preceded the creation, a few times actually. See, Daptin was a pine tree in the VERY FIRST one, the absolutely primal place. By the time of the creation of the universe as we know it, some guy involved, a prime mover in the creation, he had a pinecone from Daptin as tree, see? It was a mistake, or maybe not. So these guys, they made all these grand plans, but Daptin was there. And, haha, even as a pinecone, even barely conscious, he had PRIMACY over them. He was EARLIER than them. Get it? The earlier you are, the more PRIME you are. So Daptin wrecked their plans, as was his RIGHT to do." "So then he's more powerful than Sleap. So why did he let her kick him out of his Land?" "Ah, come on. Daptin is all screwed up. He doesn't know if he's coming or going. That's why Sleap wanted to use him. Sleap knew the truth about him." "So can't we help Daptin help himself?" "Look lover, that's an IF. We MIGHT be able to help Daptin, but I don't think it would work in the long run. I think that Sleap will have her way. She wants to pierce Gnoboslast, and she wants to soon. I want to survive." "What IS outside of Gnoboslast?" "A place that no one in here can ever know about. That Which Lies Outside." "So what's our next move, lover?" Liss smiled at that. "Any puzzling agrarian psychic war will do." -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----