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ARAKIS (the enchanted forest)
Characters:
EH Teronso
Lija
DoHu
Saldo
Reon
Miko
Twaloop
Darjeil
Kawyn
Romboa people (like asura)
~ off the wall random humour mixed with fantasy/future/jo art & story based upon the magical land of Arakis ART and story and narrative and lore/world structure is the most important aspect. niche unique world style, art style /itemization item use, character gearing, magical realism.
Various cities (Seekan)forest city, Jozelex Enchanted Castle Zone
the enchanted forest (seekan, lower seekan forest)
~Main charcacter is loosely Lija the enchantress and sorceress (lija-lija)
different personalities that appear whenever main character goes into her illness/trance or takes potions etc.
witches are in (for humour), Nightwalker JoPo, vampire of the southern wastelands.
Kai River
Paro Desert,
Tuungen forest (the dark forest)
EH Teronso has plant hair he lives in a hut on stilts and has a pet cat/dog thing - out past River Kai, Twa;Loop, her friend, sometimes they travel together.
Darjeil is a plant person, she wanders and meditates in the forest and trees, out by the streams, she practices herbalism and is a witchdoctor for the communities
Lija is a cat person, hunter, seeker by trade, scrounger, wise-whiskered. knower of weather and navigation. she gets by, sometimes in city slums, sometimes wandering the vales and surrounding hills and countryside.
premise: very basic storyline (something akin to a philip k dick novel, paralell worlds, DMT Like spice ingested for dimensional travel, quirky like real life.
or ursula le guin fantasy, wizards etc. set in a fantasy setting) or similar to guild wars 2 or any d&d roleplaying scenario.
basically it is a roleplaying setting, but not nessecarily a game *(YET) but it will be one day.... the Uj-LuHoH Land. the magical worlds of UJ-LO,
it is all my fantasy / sci art together as one cohereant world, as alive as any modern mmorpg, with all the rolling hills, sweet valleys, meandering summer meadows and country pathways, insects abuzzing, clear skies, twee little toytown world, yet as real as this.
fantasy computer game because they have very simple storylines (keep it naive and yet somehow understandable) make dimension plane switching / time/realm/continium travel (seeing-remoteviewing,dreams,shamanicvoyage is possible in this world... so... like dream flioght travel on the immer (in embassytown) or pullman Lyra style dark amterials dmiensional magical travel between worlds akin to the doorway in the lands of narnia being in the cupboard, or the doorway to wonder land being led down a hole by a rabbit.
we can switch from a fantasy to sci-fi setting or develop the world so that it includes the technological with underdeveloped culture
something akin to how star wars does things.(or not, please dont go near star wars)
use myths from ancient tales to tell a story, perhaps every character has a god that they relate to.
daemons are awakening from the other worlds and want to live in the middle world due to the nice weather.
ABOUT machine life coming to conciousness and the sentinent lifeforms that are envoked due to machine conciousness and the dilemmas that
provides all other life (kinda pertinent to current life on earth)
EH Teronso: In the beginning the world was nothing but a great slushy swamp, nothing could live properly there, in the underworld and
the overworlds dwelt gods, daemons, pixies and imps and a stupendous array of creatures, no one knows how they got there. but the middle
world was uninhabitable. Lesser gods could not move there. they said lizards, great flying beast flew from outerspace and planted the seeds of life,
Lihja knew it wasn't true, she had inner awareness that this was some kind of joke, that this old man had been trricked somewhere, somehow, led to believe via his own inner cognition to lie to himself, to be misled by his own self-deception, it was the worst way to be lied to.
EH continued...
They said that in the beginning there was no life or death there was just a great slumber and that the elder god Alca-Hara dreamt the
worlds into existence. time passed, becase where were we? many creatures grew up and fled to the skies, birds, also fishies, mud-monsters, flies and orchids and ferns sprouted across the rock strewnland, like the goddess had sneezed, the trees and fungi were born like a wind swept across the land and the skies filled with hot-rain which bellowed thunders and moisture across the plains and swamps for hundreds of years, it rained incessenantly.
There was no life because the world had not just been dreamt up... There always was something and because there always was existence the
possibility of eternity existing was not real, because all that existed was eternity...
yet this place obviously existed,
in the mind of a God.
This must have been like the Go'ds playground, this was some trick they just twisted up to amuse themselves for the afternoon, like some epic domain, used just for the sake of it, but the beauty was beheld, understood, as it stood the test of time, many inner workways and webs conneccted and interwoven through into each other.
DoHu: How do you know all this is true? Is time a giant illusion?
EH Teronso: Of course it is all smoke and mirrors, time and life is part of a dream, the question our ancestors asked is: is pain real? the time is a dream, as much as the single day is such a dream.
in 500 years can you answer this same question? you will be somewhere? somewhere just as aware, its what you wanted
a gift
could we be living in some sort of holographic universe. perhaps there is a way to avoid suffering entirely.. All life has conciousness
of course, the plants and animals are proven to be inhabited by souls with Dak'kin form, it was made from love.
DoHu: we are all Dak'kin, yeah.. soul force come to life. But how do we know this, who figured it out?
EH Teronso takes a large gulp of Ni-Ni tea and sighs deeply, "i can't be bothered", "to explain it to you, i am too tired" ,but if you want to take your time to explore it with me, we can understand together, i imagine it might be funnier even than we expected. you wouldn't like to see this on your own.
EH Teronso: It's hard to explain our origins, we do know there are barriers in this world. there is something, how it came to be we cannot know, or nor do we need to know. There is a powerful barrier of energy blocking us from entering the lower worlds and the upper worlds to commune and meet the spiritual beings and entities that live there, of which they could be of immense help to help us understand our own existence and to make life free and as the myth goes, to give us eternal life
and fellowship with other beings which we lack so much in this isolated part of Arakis. but its difficult to retain the exact information, even if sometimes we understand much, the knowledge is still like sand, draining away through your fingers, the very moment we try to catch it, its already slipping through our very fingers.
DoHu: My tribe says there is one called the "Xohkun" who can travel the worlds freely and projects themselves into the immer with the aid
of potions and other creatures... but the neighbours always take what we own and turn our words into a joke upon us. it was always like that, in the end you can only succumb to the theatric act yourself, or lest further yourself again backwards to wherever it matters most to you.
there were more imoportant things to begin with.
EH Teronso: yes, this comes to my point. We need to find her or him, find them. whichever gender or whoever they are. its important you do.
change. again, return.
change how it is.
The ball of searing I look into it sometimes, it will tell me things....
it has given me hints that they are in the Jungle of Katran, south east of the Seekan city, elves live in Seekan and although they have
lost much of their powers since they moved into the middle world they still can provide assistance into finding her whereabouts.
DoHu: but why do we need to explore these worlds? haven't we got enough here?
EH: Pleasure my friend, apparently there are many things to be seen! the wonderment of all their lost colours and to finally know
ourselves in the mirror of another species: so that we may be reflected in all our sides, good and wicked too...
its for our saving, its to be our saviour, but its not enough, not always enough just to save the city, and the worlds and the forest and sands....
its also turning into a pasttime and enjoyable experience.
On the farside of the swamps Lija is on her way to DoHu's home in the mists... travelling quickly she makes fast work of the dirt track, the evening is setting in and light rain has been washing upon her anorack and bags, and also all over the vegetation, has reached a saturation point, wettness is everywhere. every step is damp and making progress slower, real risk is running through her mind, as the rain brings troubles, with a journey that cannot stop, that needs to reach its destination without fail. the skies are fast darkening, but Lija strides through the thicket and cut paths and undergrowth, making use of her pace
she has been out searching for daemons to tame, as there are many that live in the jungles..
but she had to come back to the hamlet early,
there are many advantages for having a daemon friend: for instance: the daemons being able to sniff out food, protection from the
darkness of the land, good company, warmth in the cool nights and a bundle of fun (sometimes!) help looking for food, spotting enemies, and other strange acuqieences with other benefits. however these were not things that could easiely be eeked out of them, some easily tamer, others far wilder, and also weirder sometimes too. some demons were far from happy to meet a catperson, others were no more cunning than housepets and would quickly warm up to Lija and show her friendship and company and eagerly follow her around wherby she went.
Lihja is shown now arriving at DoHu's treehouse being followed by a giant snake with ears who climbs around the animation in a funny manner* ~ (snake representing a swift minded, nimble minder snake deamon with an autonomous personality, obviously likes to seek both sinister havoc, prey, comedy and just to be in the way when needed least.
In the old enchanted garden, we made a tome. But back then it wasn't old, we were young, and the old were old, We hid the tome in the secret garden, when the now old, were young. waiting to one day return to its origin and replenish ourselves with the truths of the mysteries it had to offer.
the enchanted tome was then a book, of another world.
of a place and time, that was supposed to happen, an experience, of a person, an idea in motion;
as we all experienced it as just ourselves:
but the book opened a passage
through a vortex of a whirlpool into a land familiar, yet changed.
something was just off about everything.
nothing quite fit the way it should,
the lands, as strangely cold, and an abnormal din.
the world was a story, but somehow lost...
the world was not it's truth.
but it had many lies,
many stories. with no way of checking if they were true.
and we were offered so little,
in exchange for a Chaos; so hard to escape
Thus it came to pass;
The Befallen, had caved us in...
the World was collapsing ...
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follo'` realm: . The Codex for NAtuRaLoS ~ RPG maybe found here.
It'#ZT-hAr Realm~ & the FoLoRn World~
there is passsage:
And as if one's very thoughts were being watched, a cold shadow passes over you,
And a voice 'speaks' - interrupts, in the mind, as if telepathic, new words, thoughfs, patterns, are inserted
into your mind...
"and in the beginning, reptiles did land here, and make this barren land their home, they speak to you from deep inside, as their knowledge of evolution did not fully leave you, they impart knowledge, that this is all meant to pass;
Words, that you could not fully comprehend.
Information so strong the brain was blinded by the overwhelming power of the knowledge, so many conflictions! such complexities! so many contradictions? how can it be both? at , and?
then words were downloaded, inyou mind, as if like text from a book. ~
"This is the Apocraphya"
"I am a mind conjoured up from within the GreatLibrary."
information was imprated, to which i could not say if it were true or not.
but the conviction, was astoudning./
and yet, ran so paralell with the uderstanding of what was really real.
how could, this Book? talk? to me? But it is,...
"yes, Once, this land was very different, Another age, and now another age dawns, an age of change
and new beginnings, and an age of chaos looms,
the Age of Wonder is past,
This world was once different, a swamp, a barrenlands, a marshland as far in every direction as was possible,
the Outlands, the Outerlands, the Expanse, the ancient world , that lives yonder, and hither, and did once liveth far more than ever today.
But this place, it changed."
"Collided."
"with an entity , a being, a lifeform,"
"Of some type. From another dimension,"
something, was born,
a magic, not of the normal reality;
A Immortal being, an Angel, Fell, fell from her Grace. Fell Out of the skies. Into the Ullon swamp.
she, unsure if it was choice, or reason, or coincidence, or accident,
became a mortal. Some Time passed.. Nature took to it, For the Land was forever changed, Warped, out of the core of its very inner energy, its force.
. when the Angel fell into the Folorn, This strange new world arose - -
the Ancient energy, that guides lifeforce, on the once ArraCus World, merged, and bred
with the abundant, and now spilling -ver Alien-Angelic lifeforce essence- that was spreading,
weaving, growing,
The Angelic being took the form, they say not only of the world itself, how fast it appeared? they say it was unusual?
for who was there to ask?
for it to happen... how could it?
- -
But now, this world lives, this land grows, This life is Real, the lifeforce, still is real,
the strange fairytale story, of this strange fairytale land,
once born? now to live!
and again?
the Being took the Form of a mysterious enchanted Boy,
an interesting person, so elusive, yet so appressent.
this Enchantres, this Sorceress, this Conjorurer, lives now here, in this Strange land of the FoLorn,
Hir, FoLorn World ~ ~ ~
And the Angel gave a magic-mirror to the world, and held it up to the Moon, as their spirit merged with the land ;
the being whom made the Lands, had done the impossible, a mysterious form,an uncanny presence ~
and another dimension, from the celestial realm, crashing down into ~theFoLornWorld~
"Network Hackers" a story written in 2001 by yours truly (age 15) re-edited expanded upon and further authored in 2017-19, plans are to encompass this story into a much wider story (to be published by me on this website! yay!) :)
And then, There was the City....
The hard rain stabbed at my neck and forced me forward, I splashed through giant puddles, concerntrating on standing up. Dead rats have been washed up the drain. A dim light reflected onto the street, this caught my attention and I looked up and saw two people laughing, happy in a warm house. I turned into a side street, damp, no, not here, move on. At the end there were some cardboard boxes and a dry patch. My head was empty, it was time to fill it, I lay againist the wall thinking. The city was so empty it was eerie, no one wants to live like this, or maybe no one wants to leacve the home no matter how polluted it gets. I was slowly giving in to my tiredness.
I woke up to a new day with new prospects, a Maglev train passed over me, people hurried to commute to work. The difference from last night was astonishing, I checked my giant endless pockets for money, 12g, 18g, 10g. I slundered up the road passing the money through my fingers about to regret what I was going to do. I leaned by bag against a wall, it contained all my possessions, a small clock, my sleeping bag and some toiletries. I sat down in an alleyway opposite another man, he looked scruffy and out of it, but I had seen worse; besides what's there to live for anyway? He spoke "Cold today isn't it?" I knew from the start that I should part with this guy. My mind was so jumbled I could barely concerntrate. "Could you spare me some of that sandwich?" I asked, instantly changing the subject. "Never you realise what I went through to get this sandwich, I risked life and limb, you get your own, besides it's my breakfast." still bothered by the city, what it offered us, what it provided us, robbed us of life and decency. manipulated at the expense of corporations.
"Could you at least tell me where you got it?"
"Yeah, in that bin there." he snarled yellow teeth and stunken beard-face. wrinkled lines on his face, he smelt like the bins.
I had enough money to get some fresh food, maybe a drink and a sandwich as well, or only one. but i couldnt' be bothered It was early in the morning but still there were a lot of people about, there were a few restaurants, but nowhere was open yet, too early, even I ordered my breakfast and came to sit down in the alleyway. I opened up a warm fizzy beer and took small gulps, I hadn't eaten for two days so I was ravenous. The man asked me a little awkardly where you come from "?" I tried to speak while eating my bread "Mu-- Mus--...umm" I finished my sandwich and spoke properly "Musica" I replied, "I came here looking for work, but this place is just as bad for people lke us!"
`'`Tell you what". The man said, "I know a guy that can fix you up."
"really" I said
"yeah, just buy me a lunch and I'll lead you to him."
success, i knew it, i had gotten the beans! out of this old weird man, gotten what i needed.
I had almost given up looking for jobs, but this, it felt like it meant something. I might get it.
Ten minutes later I returned and gave him a Mc. Egg Burger. "so, do i get my job?"
"Yeah, alright, here's the bag".
"What! the Big Issue!?"
"Yep, come back once you've sold them all."
was this a pyramid scheme? tragic buisiness ran by homeless people, for homelss people?
It was all so sudden, I wasn't expecting to be offered this, it was hardly a job, it was nothing
"Hey!" But it would keep me going until I could find a real job, "Hey, would you pay attention" the man said
"S-sorry, I was just thinking" I replied.
"Yeah, well quite yer daydreaming, you've got money to make!" he seemed bitter already.
"Wha.... Oh yeah" As I was flying out of my imaginary world and into reality.
That day was the most boring of my life.i knew this wasn't for me.
I realised what a job was like and that if this was just the big issue a real job would be far too stressful. i got the impression working in an executive office as a bosss was just as degrading as working the checkout till, either way you sold your valuable soul and time doing things you have no interest it, soul sold, just for money. and I had some morphine in my pocket, nah, it probably wouldn't come to that. Maybe I'll just sit in the corner and go eat pick the flowers and leaves, perhaps i can drown out the static buzz of the citylife~ the lonely city with that.
The frozen highway was still, nobody wanted to leave the city anyway. It was fully under control as always, helicopters and searchlights hanging above the city like flies on a carcass.~drooped in the orange night sky, murk of fog and extrenuous gases, like lights over a lake, in a mist. the city sat - feverishly always awake, a cog-gutter invention of brick, dust and metal, lit up in neon and white low-clouds, flat and sad, a city of lonely souls.
The most removed parts of the Sub-Metropolis were the Outerways - that, usually, is where all the looting takes place, all the helpless druggies and burnt out other clans, derelict warehouses sitting to be taken. dusty roads, ever-fixed scaffolds...
but this road supported a different runoff; Elevated highways roar upforming bordered-off SuperRoads ~ the thoroughfare of the city, its Apex.- the Concrete Veins & arteries of the City. And the City itself - looking for somewhere to go, meanders off into meaningless streets and vacuous hi~rises .-concrete dirt and uselessness. At the front a tattered and torn building, possessing the well-hidden capabilities, to transform Machine-Animal-Higherbeing Life...
There are just a few small specks to the size of this city. A machine entity, greater than the sum of its parts. It is the near future. The world has become highly information-intensive with a vast corporate network covering the planet, electrons and and light pulsing through it. But the nation state and ethnic groups still survive.
And on the edge of the of Istah in a strange corporate conglomerate-state called "|omban"....
In 4617 the first growth type neuro-chip was created, in the same month that it was created vast capital corporations (largely media conglomorates) began to form a huge network in the medical world that used micro-machines as supplementary "cyber-brains".
Cyberbrain technology thereafter began shifting to a micromachine base and by the year 4701 large numbers of neurochips were in use in AI and robotics.
entirely robot? but entirely humanoid?
~~
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A van lay moored on the outskirts of the city, in the darkness of an empty warehouse facility.
Inside were four people, although there were otheres parked inside there were only one outside. At the wheel slouched a man of about 30, his eyepatch either meant that he was some sort of terrorist or security member.perhaps a freedomfighter with scars to show it, yet the van seemed to have some sort of self-drive, this man was just here for show, they seemed to be talking.
The back of the van housed three people, it was a tight squeeze with all the wires and computers in there. seated at the largest computer was the youngest; a female, behind her was a slightly older female resting on some robotic equipment, although she was a few years older she was in better shape.
Hidden at the back of the van was the other man, his broad emotionless face could stare out anybody.
"So what the situation?"
The man in the front replied "The security bureau's got the scared citizen relief centre completely scoped out now."
"Sacred citizen relief centre? What the hell?"
"Its a welfare facility, Kasa" said the seated woman.
"They take in war orphans, care for them, educate them and give them work..."
"Well then you don't need us.." Kasa replied, - "see ya later!"
"But they've got a brain-controller Kasa - a brain-washer!"
so its not a relief centre? some type of scam? a front? its illegal to treat people like that.
Tasa, the man in the back sensed an argument developing. "This relief centre's known for the wide variety of people it produces."
Politicians, critics, criminals, pretty much all the same Kasa thought. its hardly much.
The small computer screen switched on and an old man started to speak. he gasped umm for air, and smacked his lips hoping for approval.
"At the public security bureau they call it a human factory"
he continued, sighing deeply, looking heavy and depressed.
"but a few bad apples can create a real society problem" too bad they can...
The screen flashed and the computer switched off. ahh why me... a dense emotion filled teh van
"Damn that Ito - he's trying to force us into a snare based on false intel, if he has a law suit he'll hang me out to dry!"
The man in the back cleared his throat and then spoke up:
"Can't keep doing these stupid investigations forever."
"Yeah". tomorrow, another day, get out of this shit. back downtown....
the van rumbled and deliberatingly trundled down the freeway.... small stones littered the roads, the air seemed remarkably quiet for such a prominent summer day, a still cool breeze washed ever-presently over the visible horizon, past by-lets and mostly vacated city apartments and low-lying warehouses,the city seemed as eye-catchingly trashy as ever before. the other two vans followed. - unaware of each others presence ..
The truck silently exited the highway and entered the old city...
under a pass, echos and dust-air... quiet...
"Yeah, yeah.... shit, here we are" mumbled Mura
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On the other side of the old city where the slums were housed a sanitation van was doing the rounds...
One man did the bins while the other operated the telephone and peeled something off the bottom.
"Hey, c'mon" said the man doing the rubbish.
"Keep yer shorts on!" replied the other man.
"Wer'e already forty seconds late idiot!!"
"Just fve goddamn seconds!" The phone man said.
He entered the truck,
"Slack off and the whole city will be covered in trash"
"Christ no matter how much we keep collecting they keep making more..."
The truck moved on, he spoke again, clear that he was starting a new conversation
"So I never get to see my kids and my wife threatens me with divorce"
"She probably thinks you're cheaing on her."
The truck turned round the corner and a ten foot high pile of trash awaited them.
"Holy shit now thats going too far" said the man driving.
"Looks like someone had quite a party".
The Phone man got out the truck while the other used the phone inside it.
"Hello police, we've got another senior citizen abandoned on a trash pile."
"sure are a lot of jungle crows around" the man outside said to himself.
The man in the sanitary truck got out and started helping to clear the trash.
"Ouch, damn idiots even put broken glass in plastic bags."
"I was better off working at the sacred citizens relief centre."
They both got back in the truck and set off down the next street.
"Jeez, i'd wish we'd get a vacation."
he half smirked, half sighed and procured quickly both a lighter and a cigerette from his pocket and bent his head forward and lit up.
Suddenly a car flew from the other lane of traffic into theirs, spinning and reeling through the narrow townstreet; the driver of the truck sharply turned the wheel missing the other car by inches.
"CRAZY ASSHOLE" he screamed out of the truck's window.
"Uh oh, if we get stuck at the next lights we won't be able to get to the dump site in seven minutes"
"Step on it!"~ he leaned into the van, picking up his body weight with his arms and lauching himself into the front seat of the dumpster. The truck shifted up a gear.
Meanwhile the car they just passed is cruising around the streets...
One man was reading a map while the other was driving,,,
"Dammit we'll never make it on time!" said the man with the map.
"The whole things stupid even if we trace the inflitrator, by the time we get there he'll be gone." said the other man.
The screen in the car switched on and an old man spoke:
"Too much bitching'll negitatively impact your bonus boys!"
The map reader answered "But chief why don't you just fly him with an attack barrier??"
"The Luitenant's headed for the next location. I want you boys to look for something."
"Like what?"
"Like anything!" The screen clicked off.
"like everything?" oh yeah, great.
"Goddamn old fart! What the hell does he want us to do anyway? Snoop around?"
Opposite them on the pavement an old man walked out of his house holding two bin bags, "say wheres the garbage truck? hey"
"HEY! Pops! You see one O' them 'ol sanitation vechiles around here?"
"You folks from the garbage department?" The old man answered
"I'm just asking you if you saw one or not" Said the map reader.
"Yup, I saw one, but by the time I got out here with my trash it was gone. One of them was collecting the trash, the other was making a phone call."
The two men looked at each other, as if a shared anxiety was silently acknowledged.
There were a sudden whirring noises from the car as the tyres screeched and they lurched into action and the car shot up the street,
"Hey! wait!" The old man called up the street.
and stood
On the other side of the old city Liutenant Kaga and the rookie had just got a message...
"A sanitation vechile?" said Kaga
The screen clicked on once again and the old man spoke... "Yes! Now don't lay a finger on them, even if you find them. I want you to follow them undetected."
Kaga's truck pulled into an underground car park and parked inbetween two bigger trucks, the back doors, a swinging door, opened and Kaga and the rookie came out holding weapons.
"OK make sure you don't dive too far when turning on the thermo-optica"
"Yeah yeah I know."
A low humming noise echoed in the underground car park and the rookie and Kaga merged in with the background making them practically invisible.
"Aren't we overdoing this a bit?" said the rookie.
"You want to pull a half-assed op?"
"Hey maybe this is some garbage man's idea of a prank?!"
"Give me a break" replied Kaga.
"Jeez, don't pick on me Lieutenant."
The man who was reading the map in the car buzzed in on Kaga's intercom...
"Leuitenant! We got hold of a map of the garbage truck's normal route, i'll send it to you using encryption code: 2607B
"ok."
* * *
The garbage men were still doing the rounds... "Say on the last half of the route why don't you phone, while I haul the trash?"
"No way"
The garbage man no.1 closed the door with a BAM.
"I can't believe you're willing to do a brain hack just to find out what your'e wifes thinking!"
"How'd you feel if your wife sprung a divorce on you?" Said the driver.
"How'd you get hold of an ice-breaker anyway?"
"I men some real nice guy in a bar, he kinda layed it on me..."
"Well I still think its stupid" Said the other man,
The garbage truck's intercom radio system buzzed on...
"Truck #1205, over." he spoke into the speaker
"That you boss?"
"What?! The cops wanted our route map??"
"No, i don't know why!"
The driver suddenly realised and slammed his foot hard on the pedal.
"Shit, shit, shit they've uncovered my brain hack!"
"S-S-S-s slow down" the other man said in absolute terror.
the Van tore up the narrow Lane,
"I gotta let the guy who gave me the ice-breaker know!"
"We're going to skip a pick up site!!"
"B-But!"
Near the inner part of the old city Kaga and the rookie were closing in on their target: the man who supplied the ice-breaker...
Their hyp-armour enhances their body condition, including speed and manuverability. Their invisible bodies were as faint as the wires they were using to hop from building to building.
"We're switching to liquid #2 reserve tank."
"What???"
"Don't worry, we'll be as the LZ any second." Kaga said.
Meanwhile the sanitation truck was also coming closer... It cruised down a road there was a meat shop, a drugs stall and some garbage, on the right hand side though a man was standing pretending to be on the phone, sticking something to the bottom of the phone booth table.
"There he is!" Said the truck driver
"Huh!" the mean had realised what had happened
"Shit, i've been blown"
The driver in the truck stook his head out the window and shouted so the man could hear him.
"Hey! the cops are --"
Instantly the man pulled away with a confused look in his eyes, desperation, while at the same time pulled a thermo-optic hood over his head and shimmering into the surroundings - wisped away into some type of invis, urban camoflague at its near best - neural networks trained into the fibres of the costume, designed to mimic with low response tunings to the optical frequency and patterns of the local environment - to adapt and change on its own accord when nessecary.
two large holes in the front of the truck appeared and a large fiery explosion cam out of the back and bottom of the truck.
Kaga and the rookie were on the other side of the road advancing on their target
"Holy" - The size of the explosion slammed the rookie against the wall exposing his thermo-optica and making him visible briefly.
The smoke died down and the sanitation officers were completely stunned starting into space inside their truck.
"You all right?" She shouted to the rookie.
No answer.
Then out of the corner of her eye something she wouldn't have noticed unless she looked down, a faint figure whooshed past the rookie, dust flying as if the wind had blown there.
"Type 2702 opto-cam!"
She trie to follow him as best she could following shadows, spashes in puddles - pigeons fluttered into the sky, looking for somewhere to go.
Kagaassumed was the right direction; a fire hydrant, water
"Darnn-aaaA" PzzzzaaaK! The optica clicked, buzzed, whirred.... the damp air of the lower city stung her eyes, blurring the vision.
'test, testing."
"Wake up you're my back up right?" Kaga said, "where are you?" talking into her intercom.
"The targets heading into a crowd in the market - i'm going to track him."
It was hard looking for one person in a marketplace, but being a cyborg helped matters.
"There."
Kaga scanned the terrain, the market seemed the usual quiet.
she fidgeted, nervously, but let her intuition take the control.
shhh" Kaga crouched and flicked on her thermo-optic, it buzzed into life: seeing what they hadn't seen.__________--------------------------------------____
the thermo didn't give good movement reading, but it could see through the surroundings, unusual movement or behaviour seemed discernable against the usual background of unawares. there was only an usuaal feeling, looking into the covered market kaga felt uneasy, his thera-camo invis might be some of the best, but it was prone to not just glitching and failing to accuretly mimic the nesseacry real-time camo requirements of the surrounding environ, but also at some perspectives sometimes the camo-suit would give off a false reading, having a visual field adapted to near field, but upon seeing the one in the suit from a long-perspective it would give away that somebody was there, with a perspective and yaw that didn't match the actual physical surroundings,
the suit may be a camo, but it still didn't take away the fact that a person is still there,
with tools like the Opto-cam, Kaga hoped to catch him out, perhaps through a wall, or somewhere where the usual disrepency of the environment seemed out-of-sync.
