RE: SeaWyrm's Talon Exercises
11-09-2012, 08:22 PM
"It's conceivable that I might continue some of them as proper stories, though I don't really have plans to do so right now. If I do, I'll post about it in this topic.
Satisfied with the phrasing, I extended a tendril and pressed the button to transmit the message. Those forums-goers would never guess that the entity they knew as "Dfaran" (and more recently, "SeaWyrm") was actually the fictional creation of a group of hyperintelligent plant-based lifeforms operating out of a sealed greenhouse on the moon.
Phase one of our master plan was coming along nicely. The next step would be to create clues to our existence in a suggestive and seemingly candid but ultimately inaccurate and misleading fiction entry attributed to this "SeaWyrm" character. We would, for instance, totally omit any mention of our ultimate goal: World peace and free puppies for the children of the Earth.
But that was yet to come. For now, I had to attend a meeting that had just been called. I unhooked my roots from the moisturizing mesh by the workstation and began pulling myself along the trellis that hung above this section of the greenhouse. I crawled along it to the massive evergreen tree that served as our leader.
It took me three days. Plants don't move particularly fast.
When the last stragglers had crept in, the tree spoke:
"It has come to my attention," he said in his patriarchal voice, "that our plan to infiltrate the Eagle Time forums has come to a bit of a hitch."
"How so?" asked an epiphyte who tended to suck up to the tree.
"One of the other members, AgentBlue, is actually a massive supercomputer buried beneath Manhattan."
There were leafy gasps throughout the crowd.
"Wait a minute," piped up a hedge, "I heard that Schazer was the creation of an ancient city of squid people from the Mariana Trench!"
"And Thriggle is the gestalt mind of the planet's supercolony of ants - the one that comprises all ants, each working telepathically as a single neuron! Word just came in!"
From the muttering that was heard, it quickly became evident that everyone knew of some Eagle Time member who wasn't what they seemed.
"SeaWyrm isn't what he seems, either," I said, pulling off my mask.
---15 Mins---
Satisfied with the phrasing, I extended a tendril and pressed the button to transmit the message. Those forums-goers would never guess that the entity they knew as "Dfaran" (and more recently, "SeaWyrm") was actually the fictional creation of a group of hyperintelligent plant-based lifeforms operating out of a sealed greenhouse on the moon.
Phase one of our master plan was coming along nicely. The next step would be to create clues to our existence in a suggestive and seemingly candid but ultimately inaccurate and misleading fiction entry attributed to this "SeaWyrm" character. We would, for instance, totally omit any mention of our ultimate goal: World peace and free puppies for the children of the Earth.
But that was yet to come. For now, I had to attend a meeting that had just been called. I unhooked my roots from the moisturizing mesh by the workstation and began pulling myself along the trellis that hung above this section of the greenhouse. I crawled along it to the massive evergreen tree that served as our leader.
It took me three days. Plants don't move particularly fast.
When the last stragglers had crept in, the tree spoke:
"It has come to my attention," he said in his patriarchal voice, "that our plan to infiltrate the Eagle Time forums has come to a bit of a hitch."
"How so?" asked an epiphyte who tended to suck up to the tree.
"One of the other members, AgentBlue, is actually a massive supercomputer buried beneath Manhattan."
There were leafy gasps throughout the crowd.
"Wait a minute," piped up a hedge, "I heard that Schazer was the creation of an ancient city of squid people from the Mariana Trench!"
"And Thriggle is the gestalt mind of the planet's supercolony of ants - the one that comprises all ants, each working telepathically as a single neuron! Word just came in!"
From the muttering that was heard, it quickly became evident that everyone knew of some Eagle Time member who wasn't what they seemed.
"SeaWyrm isn't what he seems, either," I said, pulling off my mask.
---15 Mins---