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Rokas · Post by **Rokas** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:07 pm

Removed.

BrockthePaine · Post by **BrockthePaine** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:47 pm

Brock likes.

"Welcome to New Yawk City, enjoy yer stay... once you shake the Apaches, that is."

AYBABTU · Post by **AYBABTU** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:02 pm

Sweeeeet.

BrockthePaine · Post by **BrockthePaine** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:10 pm

We needs more. Write more! :cracks slave whip:

AYBABTU · Post by **AYBABTU** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:12 pm

*grabs a gun and beats the writer with it*You heard the boss, write more!

Rokas · Post by **Rokas** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:19 pm

Fine, fine, I'll work on it some more. :p Glad ya like it.

BrockthePaine · Post by **BrockthePaine** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:21 pm

Hey hey now, don't beat the writer with a gun... you might put the sights out of alignment. We want him to write more, not spend the evening with a concussion

AYBABTU · Post by **AYBABTU** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:25 pm

Aw...but you pay me to beat him...says so in my contract. I'm security guard/slave driver.

Rokas · Post by **Rokas** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:51 pm

Two things:

1. Dang straight, you'll put the sights out of alignment! Don't go messin' a gun up on my account. ;p

2. Brock, "raiding alien empires for ice cream?" Awesome.

And a note, that ain't New York in the story. ;p All gets revealed, however... Once I write it.

AYBABTU · Post by **AYBABTU** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:02 pm

Okeydoke...but still, the threat of a beating remains.

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:01 pm

Odd that they would feel no lux, I thought that would be only if there were no living things nearby. Still, great story!! Now, are they in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Veracruz, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Acapulco, San Francisco, Sydney, Perth, Barcelona, New Orleans, or maybe even Galveston?

Dapple · Post by **Dapple** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:22 pm

One thing I didn't get was the description of what was the thing in the sky, instead of the moon.
Great job keep it up.

BrockthePaine · Post by **BrockthePaine** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:43 pm

Dapple wrote:One thing I didn't get was the description of what was the thing in the sky, instead of the moon.

It's the Death Star!

No, actually, I think it really is the moon. But instead of being gray, it's blue and white...?

Dapple · Post by **Dapple** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:46 pm

I kinda think of the moon as already being grayish white.

Rokas · Post by **Rokas** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:57 pm

*Blinks* I woulda thought that the "thing in the sky" woulda been obvious...

Meh, I'll explain it, soon enough. Although whoever gets it before I write it out gets a cookie.

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:19 am

Gah, my coloration skills stink.
The moons of aerith, FYI, are pretty much the same color and albedo as the RL moon.

Another thing. The smaller one has about the same apparent diameter as the RL moon.... the larger one has TWICE the apparent diameter (it looks twice as big. Think "Ridiculously huge anime moon," almost.) They wouldn't have been startled by the moon so much as they would have been startled by the fact that "the BIG moon is missing."

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:37 am

Sorry, I jumped to conclusions. ARE they in a coastal city?

AYBABTU · Post by **AYBABTU** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:44 am

PLEASE, let it be some Californian city...I like California.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:45 am

good story. nothing I read felt odd or missaid (which I feel is a weakness of my own writing) I wish I could guess at some of the descriptions more.

why is it that TOTQ seems to attract so many interdimensional stories though?

BrockthePaine · Post by **BrockthePaine** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:52 am

I guess we're just naturally presuming it's Earth - there's not much in the story that says it's 21st Century America. Sure, they have helicopters and airliners and high-rises, but that doesn't mean it's Earth...

Imagine the Racs if they were taken on a tour of an orbital or underwater city. They'd be like