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Another last-minute submission...
So, this last week's
Thursday_Prompt started off with a murder mystery at a VR party, with a prompt for us to each finish it up from our own point of view. I had an idea, asked 
Major Matt Mason if he'd be interested in being in my story since the idea worked well with him, and then finished this up. Had to drop a couple of bits I had been thinking about because I just couldn't fit them in without breaking the flow too much. I didn't have time to run the completed work by him before posting it, sadly, but hopefully there isn't a problem. It's a quick piece anyway.
(Like a bit of Jenora feeling a healing spell keeping the victim in stasis. "How can you feel that?" "Oh, I was friends with a unicorn once who gave me a piece of her horn." "... Really?" "Hey, you of all people should know just how much story can accumulate over thirty years with the same character. How is Tali doing these days, anyway?")
Honestly, the ending is a bit meta, but it's a VR simulation where we're all inhabiting our avatar characters, it almost has to be anyway...
So, this last week's
Thursday_Prompt started off with a murder mystery at a VR party, with a prompt for us to each finish it up from our own point of view. I had an idea, asked 
Major Matt Mason if he'd be interested in being in my story since the idea worked well with him, and then finished this up. Had to drop a couple of bits I had been thinking about because I just couldn't fit them in without breaking the flow too much. I didn't have time to run the completed work by him before posting it, sadly, but hopefully there isn't a problem. It's a quick piece anyway.(Like a bit of Jenora feeling a healing spell keeping the victim in stasis. "How can you feel that?" "Oh, I was friends with a unicorn once who gave me a piece of her horn." "... Really?" "Hey, you of all people should know just how much story can accumulate over thirty years with the same character. How is Tali doing these days, anyway?")
Honestly, the ending is a bit meta, but it's a VR simulation where we're all inhabiting our avatar characters, it almost has to be anyway...
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"Come, Jenora, the game is afoot!"
I rather think of your clever self as a feliform Moriarty in the Enterprise-D's Holodeck, but instead of taking over the ship and threatening its destruction if your demands are not met, you instead profess to convince the entire crew to come to a cargo bay big enough to fit your 130-foot-tall self comfortably lying down, and treat you to an afternoon's full-body massage and grooming.
I mean, a lovely golden-brown megacat has to make sure her Data-Holmes is put dutifully on the Spot. <3 She's very good at interfering with her person's ability to work, something Data and I both share in the loving relationship you and I share as beloved mates and paramours. (Also me being an ant, your ant! This is important.)
-2Paw.
I rather think of your clever self as a feliform Moriarty in the Enterprise-D's Holodeck, but instead of taking over the ship and threatening its destruction if your demands are not met, you instead profess to convince the entire crew to come to a cargo bay big enough to fit your 130-foot-tall self comfortably lying down, and treat you to an afternoon's full-body massage and grooming.
I mean, a lovely golden-brown megacat has to make sure her Data-Holmes is put dutifully on the Spot. <3 She's very good at interfering with her person's ability to work, something Data and I both share in the loving relationship you and I share as beloved mates and paramours. (Also me being an ant, your ant! This is important.)
-2Paw.
*chuckles at the idea, then groans at Data being 'on the Spot' when a cat is involved*
And with regards to the ant reference in the story... honestly, things like that showed up often enough in Rudy Rucker's work that I think I can pretty safely say Rucker is a bit of a macrophile himself. The fact that in an essay he wrote on science fiction he explicitly included scale changes in a list of ways to travel to new places only cements my opinion.
And with regards to the ant reference in the story... honestly, things like that showed up often enough in Rudy Rucker's work that I think I can pretty safely say Rucker is a bit of a macrophile himself. The fact that in an essay he wrote on science fiction he explicitly included scale changes in a list of ways to travel to new places only cements my opinion.
The only Rudy Rucker novel I own and have read more than once is Wetwear but while my limited experience with his narrative work had not suggested to me and my biases with any strength he was a macrophile or shared such interests akin to yours and mine, even that one long-form narrative work of his creative writ gives a reasonable impression of the man and his moods, as it were.
Rudy's genera of cyberpunk context and writing seems to focus more on biomodding abstractions and body-morphing- like the 'meshing' sex-drug in Wetwear that temporarily restricts appropriate and standard cellular wall bondings, allowing two people or more to autoerotically 'puddle' until the drug wears off and their normal cellular behaviour snaps back into place- genetic engineering, the use of anagathics and genetic-aging repairs than chipped synthetic body parts, implanted machine tech and cyberlimbs and similar artificial enhancile tech, though with the same keen Gibsonian eye to class-based availability of cybertech, modifications and access to each, depending on the social and wealth strata one occupies, and what one sacrifices to becoming 'more than human'.
Have to say I find it fascinating that as significant a speculative fiction author as Mr. Rucker is apparently, keenly a macrophile himself even if he might not use the world or imply it more directly than he has.
-2Paw.
Rudy's genera of cyberpunk context and writing seems to focus more on biomodding abstractions and body-morphing- like the 'meshing' sex-drug in Wetwear that temporarily restricts appropriate and standard cellular wall bondings, allowing two people or more to autoerotically 'puddle' until the drug wears off and their normal cellular behaviour snaps back into place- genetic engineering, the use of anagathics and genetic-aging repairs than chipped synthetic body parts, implanted machine tech and cyberlimbs and similar artificial enhancile tech, though with the same keen Gibsonian eye to class-based availability of cybertech, modifications and access to each, depending on the social and wealth strata one occupies, and what one sacrifices to becoming 'more than human'.
Have to say I find it fascinating that as significant a speculative fiction author as Mr. Rucker is apparently, keenly a macrophile himself even if he might not use the world or imply it more directly than he has.
-2Paw.
Well, as for the murder in VR part, that's just the prompt we were given; there's a whole first scene in the original prompt, which is why I linked to it in the description. (It explicitly mentions an 'Unrestricted Mode' involving psychosomatic feedback.)
As for the radio... I'm a ham radio op and Major Matt Mason uses a 1960s astronaut toy as his avatar. I figured it was inevitable that some geeking out of that sort was going to happen.
As for the radio... I'm a ham radio op and
Major Matt Mason uses a 1960s astronaut toy as his avatar. I figured it was inevitable that some geeking out of that sort was going to happen. 
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