Category Archives: Rodentia 02
00520211 (Rubi > Baederwood (appearing out of nowhere))
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0052, 0211, Baederwood, Google Street View, Heterocera, Jeogeot, Pennsylvania, Rodentia 02, Rubi
00520209
“Okama Majo won’t succumb to temptation like I did, Caucasian Tommy Brade — TOM. *I’ll* make sure of that.” He was needlessly applying suntan lotion to his upper middle aged body with its monstrous, perpetually pipe penetrated head always smoking Blue Pennant instead of inferior Red Dragon. Call it another perk of the afterlife, like the inability of his skin to burn (old habits die hard). He never ran out of the superior tobacco brand now; no more long trips up to the hillbilly and fairy infested counties of lower west central West Virginie for a replenishing of his otherwise rare stock. It was never a pleasant stay.
“Bees,” C.T. Brade said back, also known as Tommy One Shoe. He wasn’t looking at his football throwing hand like during his first visit to Zebrasil in the middle of the Korean Channel in the center of the Jeogeot continent of the world of Our Second Lyfe those many years ago but down at his knees. A little below actually, peering over and between them at his one remaining foot, now shoeless and on fire. Mr. Babyface stopped needlessly rubbing for a minute and stared with him, understanding the meaning. His big face made an expression like he was his puffing on inferior again instead of superior, time back on.
“You think you have those 2 forest girls exactly where you want them,” he said after imagining the return of the burning, the Red.
“*POP*,” TOM sounds. “*POP POP*. *POP*.”
Yeah they can’t kill you I know, Babyface thinks to himself, not daring to speak more because of Tom’s naked/barefooted threat. But we have other weapons they can use. We’ll keep planting them around, like trees. You’ll see.
He had had enough of seeing red and turned away.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0052, 0209, Baederwood, Jeogeot, Rodentia 02, West Virginia, Xilted
00520208
2 boats. 2 ships in essence. Aliens. Now to the shack.
“Clean. Someone wanted this… to be found.”
—–
“There! Behind the server we just moved. A gun!”
“Well pick it up sister of mine. We need it! Tom is just outside. The one server won’t stop him. No time!”
—–
*POP*. *POP POP*… *POP*.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0052, 0208, Baederwood, Forest, Jeogeot, Rodentia 02, VOTV
00520207 (see the forest)
“Freeze it!” she said behind me. “There. The square that is this sim.”
“That is this forest,” I dutifully completed.
“TOM shows us this,” she tacitly agrees.
Tom again, I think. All caps, like she said before when the name was first brought up in an emphasized way. Tom is after us. Tom thinks we know too much. Us — why did she call us sisters? Green and blue green and blue she also emphasized. Also: something about AI. TOM is the name of the file we’re viewing. Too much (back to 00520208).
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0052, 0207, Baederwood, Blue Mountain, City Park, County Park, Forest, Jeogeot, Rodentia 02, VOTV
00520206
“I’ll help.”
“W-what?” She spins away from the vintage computer and its monitor to face the speaker. Green! Like the forest, these woods. “W-who *are* you?” she managed in her shock.
“Not another assailant, don’t worry,” spoke the shadowy green stranger in a human enough voice, back still glued to a computer server about 10 feet away. “We know about the triple numbers. We were expecting you. We knew exactly where you’d show up. The bunker is for your protection. As well as mine.”
Shelley tried to absorb this new information. The green being needed protection too? But from what? So she asked her this.
“Someone ancient. You should boot up your computer now. Check those files. But first–”
“Barricade,” Shelley guessed about what the other was going to say. They become in sync here. Funny how she adapted to the presence of this alien figure so quickly.
“I think we should start with these servers I’m leaning against. They’re useless now anyway. Anything left to know is on that hard drive…” Sister, should she call her sister? She decided to go for it. tbc
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0052, 0206, Baederwood, Jeogeot, Rodentia 02
00520205
62 62 62. Triple number for the sim that’s basically the same as this forest. Lone one, unlike the two she discovered in Bandanaboro (77/77/77 and 88/88/88). Unusual to have more that one per sim, she understood. And what’s that over there? Small grey structure, perhaps cement — a bunker? She listens for any sounds coming from that direction. A full half minute. Only crickets all around her and a single crow cawing somewhere in the trees above. A warning?
Then: footsteps behind her! “Oh God what’s *that*,” she couldn’t help but say aloud despite trying to be as quiet as possible here. Suddenly the bunker or whatever she saw in the distance didn’t seem so forbidding. She hurried to its open door and went inside to get away from the open woods.
At least there’s no one *sitting* over there, she thinks. Nor a skeleton or a decomposing body or anything like that. But those footsteps. What was that??
Spotting nothing following her, she decides it would be best to hunker down here for the night, leave first thing in the morning, set up some kind of barricade at this opening if possible. She’s *not* going to teleport out of this sim and back to safety in the arms of her handsome, broad shouldered Eddy. She’s going to see this solo mission through. She can hang on to her wits.
Yes, she’ll sit down in front of this old computer, see if she can get it powered up through this generator and take a look at its files. That’ll keep her mind occupied while she waits for daylight. Maybe drink some of this Russian vodka on the floor someone left behind, ho. Is this a listening station by chance? Wouldn’t that be the oddest?
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0052, 0205, Baederwood, Jeogeot, Rodentia 02
00520203
“Honey. Why don’t you come to bed now. Stop worrying about that portal over there.”
“I can’t sleep. Aren’t you… excited?” she decided to call the feeling.
“Sure. I’m here aren’t I? With you.” Always, he thinks but doesn’t say. He still wasn’t sure the feeling was mutual. And that damn portal that’s got her obsessed now, a new one. He’s worried she’ll see something in it that he won’t. Or can’t.
“What time will we go in it tomorrow? We’ve explored the town here today, the immediate neighborhood. We’ve put it off long enough. The forest… beckons.”
Beckons, he thinks. Interesting way to put it. Sounds like a trap. “Um, how about 2 o’clock?”
“In the *afternoon*? What if we miss something? No, I want to spend a whole day in there, or as close as we can get with our late sleeping habits. How about 9?”
“*Morning*?” he exclaims in turn. “The dew won’t even be off the grass by then. We’ll get our feet wet. Through the shoes.”
“What shoes?” she says to this.
“Our tennis shoes of course,” he replies. “The ones we’re wearing, well, now.” He looks at her feet, then down to his. He knows dew. He had to battle it as a part time cow herder back in the 01’s. These canvas dogs don’t stand a chance.
“Oh. I was thinking boots, as in combat, as in we’re going to war. Against the woods.”
What is she on about now? he ponders. War? Woods? Boots? “There’s nothing in there. That’s what Daisy said.”
“Oh Daisy Daisy Daisy. Just because she lived with her maw here for those several weeks.”
“Years,” Eddy corrected.
“Whatever. (*sigh*) I was just joking about the boots. And the war.”
“Oh. Good.”
“But we’ll still have to battle dew. I’ve decided to go barefoot, how about you?”
It was his worse fear come true.
—–
9 AM the next morning:
“I don’t like this, Shelley. I don’t like this one *bite*.”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0052, 0203, Baederwood, Jeogeot, Rea, Rodentia 02
00520107
Red yellow green at this 2nd Forest center. But why is blue hidden that we also understand is present from 01?
Again: Andie knows.
Spacecraft. tbc
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0052, 0107, Baederwood, Forest, Rodentia 02
00510208 (metals)
“You asked for a gold car, I provided.”
(pause) “AI?”
—–
“Silver Lake now? What the heck is going on here??”
—–
Lead to end.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0051, 0208, California, Dokken Hollow, GTA, Jeogeot, Rodentia 02