|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- A ROAD MAP OF ARCTICA--CUP 4--"IMPGLEIN" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  A Road Map of Arctica  ||  -------> (Cup SRrm004, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = I am Daptin Gone. Lying here in my bed in my Warhome, travelling for months, a million miles down Twicvion lane, and I'm losing it. It's all so complicated and confusing. My awareness... limited... in my Land... Daptin's Land... I had a sort of omniscience... but I was still getting accustomed to it when I got banished... banished from the world I created. And now... nothing to do but wait. If I'm so damn powerful, why can't I do something? Maybe I could... it's just... being here... in that portion of reality known as Rillekon's Road... only one thin sliver away from Gnoboslast... one step away from the last layer of the onion... from That Which Exists Outside... here, I'm afraid to muster too much magical force... for fear of screwing things up... for fear of being wiped out again, like what happened with the goodbye popcorn... Yeah... what was that all about? Obfuser. The Ultra Occult Entity. What do I really know about him? In college I knew him from my dreams... and I would "talk" to him when I was awake, but he was just a voice in my head... he kept saying that he knew what I was going through and that he wanted to help me... mostly it was just me wanting to get into some girl's pants... I thought he was just a figment of my imagination... but one day he showed up, looking like some skinny freshman... and we hung out... it was weird how I was so nonchalant about this immensely powerful entity being my buddy... I don't know... I told him about my experience at Canyon with The Tracy Taciturn... about my miraculous cure... about how a lot of the people around me thought the whole Hizzings Disease thing was a hoax all along... about how I went to college far away from home... Thatterine College in Gullia Fair in Baskonontana... to get away from the whole scene... I told him how I kept saying "Here is Canyon" over and over again, to try and get back there... to no avail... He told me he knew something about what was going on, but he really couldn't tell me. He did help me get into those girls' pants though... that was good of him... My life... such a blur... trying to keep it all in perspective is so hard... things have gotten so complicated... it's like my life before Agoopish is this big blur... and trying to remember is like trying to create... as if I got to Agoopish with no past, and I'm just making it all up as I go along... it's just that so much has happened... all this universal cosmic stuff, and me at the receiving end, always in the dark... Years after Canyon came Overwhelm Associates... finally, I was into the supernatural again in a big way... a Quality Scout, travelling to myriad Overwhelm teams on myriad worlds... writing reports... It all happened so fast... Dean Roarke Maiden... my good friend in college... he got me into Overwhelm... he was the son of a professor who died... a professor who was good friends with Bavler Bestroystraw and Letevs Fife and the whole gang who were the Aconck pioneers... Professor Jile Maiden... Whatever happened to Dean? I was supposed to get together with him, but then I was introduced to Agoopish, so it never happened. I was afraid he was starting his own pirate Aconck company, and was going to ask me to join... guess I'll never know now... Who am I? Who am I really? It seems like I am an extremely pivotal personality in the scheme of things... Fox said that I prevented him from ending the world... and now, my Land is serving as the platform for Sleap Drassy to quite possibly end the world herself... almost like... I saved the universe from Fox, just to allow it to be destroyed by Drassy. But what does it all mean, all these experiences? Aconck, Agoopish, Cup of Coffee, Daptin's Land, Rillekon's Road, Gnoboslast... I want it all to make sense, but the more I think about it, the less sense it all makes. I am the center of my own universe. So why do I feel so transparent? Why do I feel like I'm my own best friend, a best friend I'm slowly realizing I know very little about? What can I do? What should I do? I just want a world where things are stable, where you can get to know people without worrying that you... or they... will get swept into some alternate universe at a moment's notice... I mean, I have a strong feeling that I'll see my love Spanking New Sarah again... but considering where I am... it might not happen... there's a good chance that it might not happen... I'm falling asleep... let me fall asleep... I can't deal with this anymore... * * * * * You drive down Route 9 and you see a store called Impglein. You're puzzled, because you've never heard of such a store. So you stop... and you get out of your car, and you look into the store... all sorts of cool stuff in there... and you look up at the sign... IMPGLEIN... and you fear that this might all be a dream... with your luck, it probably is... finding such a cool store, then waking up before you get to see what's inside... -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----