Subj: The intention is to fill it up as people contribute (although yes, that might make it pretty short).Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:34:46 pm EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 11:20:33 am EDT |
> > Saving the Future – Part 5: Whodunnit?
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> > People didn’t seem to feel they could easily write full follow-ons to this scenario, so we’ll try it a little differently.
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> > I thought we’d attempt a little experiment in interactive narrative. If you’d care to tell me what your character – or other non-poster characters, or even other poster characters – would likely do in this situation, then I’ll write a response telling you what happens. If your character has skills at tracking, for example, and you want to examine the cell, then tell me and I’ll write a response saying what you find. Eventually we’ll tie up all the little fragments into a coherent chapter.
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> > Who would you question? What would you ask? What specialist expertise might you call in? Where would you search? Who would you accuse?
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> > If you’d prefer to contribute a section all by yourself, either to slot between the scenes of the last chapter or this one, just post them. We’ll find a way to fit them in.
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> > And if you have “secret†actions you don’t want other posters to know about just yet in the story, you can e-mail me at iw at watsonhouse. freeserve. co. uk
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> > Just to reassure you, the culprit or culprits has/have appeared in more than one PV story in the last year, and a little investigation with the right questions should throw up enough clues to identify him/her/them/it.
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> > Proceed.
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> > Previously:
> > Part One by Dancer
> > Part Two by Visionary
> > Part Three by the Hooded Hood
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> > ***
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> > In the secure holding cell under the Lair Mansion security chief Argus MacHarridan lay unconscious, his drugged coffee spilled out on the floor. The barred door was open, activated by the Legion’s most secret emergency over-ride code. Hallie’s own remote monitor feed had somehow been spoofed, reeling back five minutes of replay while the deed was done. None of the internal building cameras showed the unconscious power-dampened Lyle escaping, and none of the teleport, dimension-shift, or time-travel detectors had been triggered.
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> > The SPUD helicarrier and the troops positioned round the Mansion had seen nothing.
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> > Danny Lyle was gone, and it looked like an inside job. Dan Drury was furious, chomping on his cigar and ready to arrest every last superhero on the planet.
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> > “We didn’t take Lyle,†Hatman assured him. “At least, if one of us did it wasn’t an officially sanctioned LL operation. Someone’s working outside the team, and when I find them they’re likely off the team.â€Â
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> > “Someone who could just spirit Lyle away from the most secure cell you guys’ve got,†snorted Drury. “Like the Manga Shoggoth say, or that Liu Xi chick?â€Â
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> > “We would be able to detect even that,†Al B. Harper promised.
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> > “We’ll get to the bottom of this,†Hatman promised him. “For all we know Danny could have been taken by an enemy of ours to use against us – Thighmaster or Beth von Zemo or Peter von Doom; maybe even his mother Symmetry.â€Â
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> > “No time disturbance,†noted Al B.
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> > “But we will get to the bottom of it,†declared the capped crusader. “We’ll find out whodunit, and how, and why, and where Danny is now.â€Â
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> > “You’d better,†warned the head honcho of SPUD.
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> > “And then,†Hatman went on, “you can’t have him.â€Â
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> > ***
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> > Your efforts go here…
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> > ***
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> > Original concepts, characters, and situations copyright © 2008 reserved by Ian Watson. Other Parodyverse characters copyright © 2008 to their creators. The use of characters and situations reminiscent of other popular works do not constitute a challenge to the copyrights or trademarks of those works. The right of Ian Watson to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. |
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