Challenge #02415-F225: Getting the Message
Depending what you listen to it can affect your mind and body drastically. example being that rush of adrenaline while listening to Ghost Ship of Cannibal Rats by Billy Talent and calm mind while Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2 plays in the background. – Anon Guest
Shayde had either been picking up outdated slanguage or she was trying to say something without the correct words. She said, “Music is mood,” out of nowhere. They had been enjoying a companionable silence on a slow veet to the upper fins for a reason that was unimportant, now, and she just said, “Music is mood.” No preamble, no explanation, no followup.
Rael figured this was another one of her attempts to either wind him up or loosen him up, depending on her mood at the time. This time, it was difficult to gauge. Shayde had evidently reset to ‘on mission’ mode, which was appearing composed and ready for the action of the day whilst -probably- internally calculating how to get on someone’s last nerve. Which was all a very good reason not to comment and pretend nothing had been said.
It was a decent enough strategy, no matter how much that three-word phrase gnawed at his conscious mind. He could either figure it out or, with enough time, forget it was ever said. He would sooner submit himself to Wave of the Future for vivisection than actually engage and ask what the flakk she was talking about. That way lay endless exasperation.
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Challenge #02409-F219: Escape From a Hell-Planet
It’s also worth pointing out that [Name] and Considering Long Term Consequences have a distant, if cordial, pen-pal relationship. – RecklessPrudence
It’s hard to think long-term when your long-term is what other people call ‘tomorrow’. Living through the day was challenge enough on the world I used to call home. Planning a week ahead was madness. If you had asked me, there and then, what my plans would be for the weekend, on the day before it… I would have stared for a handful of seconds and eventually answered, “survive”.
It was a brutal world. You could say life was cheap, there, but the opposite was true. Death, you got for free. Living was the expensive part. Like most people, I went to a working school where five hours’ unskilled work earned an hours’ lessons in essential skills that might have me on a higher level of earning sometime. I learned just enough to bumble my way through reading the signs on the roadways and doing enough math to figure out what I could afford to buy.
Make no mistake, I’m glad I got out. Captured by pirates on the way to a debtor’s prison world, and then set loose on a kinder, gentler station. The thing is… even though I don’t miss: being there, the price of medicine, the risk of mass shootings, the cheap and disgusting food that always made me sick, the lack of sleep, or the constant terror… I fit there. I knew how to be a person there.
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Challenge #02403-F213: Come From the Woodwork Out
“My heart feel like it gonna implode, and my body feels like shit”
“Well this is the Edge, you have been awake for 72 Terran hours, two days ago”
Fun fact if awake for more than 3 days, humans will hallucinate or so symptom of insanity. – Anon Guest
[AN: Feeling a lot like Hudson Hawk at the end of his movie RN. Check my Hub site tomorrow for details.]
“Does… that explain why you’re so… shiny?”
“You could probably explain it like that, if you like. You may also wish to call me your self-preservation instinct. You’ve taken way too many stims and you need to unwind.”
“Can’t unwind. The clowns will come out of the walls and eat me.”
“You know that’s an irrational reason to avoid sleep.”
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Challenge #02402-F212: Macgyvering it
You know, after seeing how humans break video games, aliens shouldn’t ve so surprised by the dumb things humans think of to solve problems. Also, they should practically expect said dumb things to work. – Anon Guest
There is a saying, If it’s dumb and it works, it wasn’t that dumb. It should be no surprise at all that the Humans were responsible for coining it. Humans have a song celebrating how they do, or did, ‘all the dumb things’. Reports of those who have heard it say that it 'slaps’.
Humans do silly, daft, ridiculous, and illogical things all the time. They do it to their interactive entertainments, especially in a competitive frame of mind. Some win prizes for how thoroughly they can make an interactive entertainment break in amusing ways. It should, therefore, be no surprise that Humans tend to view daily life and the challenges therein with the same kind of gung-ho, whatever-works attitude.
It should be no surprise. Unfortunately, it very often is such. Take the Talqathi Station Event, where a micrometeor shower got past all available defences and added lethal holes to the hulls. Of course there was a scramble for livesuits. Of course there was a general evacuation… but the Humans who lived there were attached to the place and didn’t want to leave their home behind.
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“Challenge #02399-F209: They Can’t Have Nice Things Anymore”
Are all of this challengues happening in the same universe? Or humans working alongside aliens just happen to be a fav one of yours?
All my Amalgam Universe tagged Instants happen in the same universe. Sometimes vastly different parts of it, but definitely the same universe.
It is a place where:
- Humans are considered, as a species, insane
- Humans are also Space Orcs despite being 4.5 (at most) level Deathworlders
- Earth is Space Australia
- Luck can be genetic, and it comes out in weird ways
- Gengineered life forms are a thing and they’re called ELFs for Engineered Life Form
- There are also Elves, but they’re gengineered from Human stock and considered Mostly Human
- There is technically time travel, but it’s mostly useless
- Also the brane of our universe butts up against the brane of another and that leads to wormholes through which most folks fast-travel, since speeds above Light Speed are currently out of reach.
There’s like 1000 stories in the Amalgam Universe, or more… I haven’t counted. It’s my pet universe and I love it and I hope you look it up because it’s been fun writing all that nonsense.