Pleasure Dome

[bobo_daclown]

Story:

The year is in the not-too-distant future in a time when man has created a computer network of unimaginable proportions. The computer terminals are booths in the many "Pleasure Dome"s. People around the world interact in the virtual reality worlds without ever knowing that everything is out of context.

 

[bobo_daclown]

Bobo:

Stretching as he stands up, Robert O. twists around to help his back and neck. The long year over, Robert O. realizes he's long overdue for a vacation from the endless grind of programming computers. Rubbing his eyes, he grabs some caffine pills and a mountain dew and leaves the cubicle, heading for the car.

Several minutes later, he arrives at the most awesome place that exists in all the imagination: the pleasure dome! He selects a booth and feeds gold dollar coins into the slot until the buzzer sounds and the door opens. With a big grin, Robert walks into door and Bobo walks out the other side. Bobo is in a place where his thoughts become his surroundings.

 

[MyOpinion]

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[Firesprite]

Jessica stepped onto the green sands, her pack on her back and the star courier ascending into the violet sky. She had chosen for her vacation a truly alien world, deserted of humans, but inhabited by the friendly Rebmeced creatures. Resembling an octopus crossed with a very large dribbly dog, the Rebmeced live in curiously shaped huts in villages. Due to their ultra-friendly nature they have found that if they live in cities they get drunk on good feeling and have trouble functioning. The Rebmeced have short fur like velvet and communicate by electrical impulse through touch. Jessica is one of the few able to communicate with the Rebmeced, her thought impulses and the electrical activity in her brain is able to be focussed enough for them to "read" her, and vice versa. The Rebmeced, being clothed by their fur have little need for other coverings on their tropical world. To help with communication and "doing as the romans do" Jessica's only cocession to clothing is sandels and a hat.

Walking up the sand and under the cover of the blue trees, Jessica meets with the village leader, who takes her hand in one of his tentacles and has another tentacle looped around her waist, he leads her to her vacation home while introducing himself as Ekans.

 

[bobo_daclown]

Bobo:

Here. An interesting word. Bobo doesn't even realize that he's in the dome. Yet he isn't quite in reality either. A familiar voice behind him alerts him to turn around.

In the vast ocean of space, Commander Bobo pilots the USS Exitprise. Standing from his captain's chair, he walks back to the security station that overlooks the bridge. Patting the ensign on the back, he wonders if he's just daydreaming. After all, the beauty is not in uniform. Far from it, indeed--she's wearing a pair of sandals and an interesting (and far from military issue) hat.

Perhaps he is now in space too long and is fantasizing about the crew. Nevertheless, he is the captain of this vessel and must behave rationally. After all, none of the rest of the crew seems to notice. Commander Bobo queries the ensign, "Ensign Jennifer, did you have something to tell me?" Realizing that his hand is still resting on her shoulder, Commander Bobo removes it quickly and tries to act innocent.

 

[Firesprite]

Ekans started patting Jessica on her bare back and conveyed the message "Human Jennifer, do you have something to say?" before removing his contact completely.
She turned slightly towards him, touched her hand to one of his many appendages and said "Its Jessica, and thankyou, I know I'm going to love it here!"

 

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Bobo:

Commander Bobo wonders to himself. Why would the security officer want me to call her that name and not the one I thought she had? Pondering that, he muses to himself that she is keeping physical contact with him. Feeling like a school-boy, the captain nonchalantly tries to shrug Jessica's hand off of his arm. Unsuccessful, because there was no effort to it, Bobo decides to try to do his job correctly.

To the security officer, Jessica, he inquires, "Well, thank you, Jessica. But, more importantly, was there a reason you signalled me? Is there an enemy ship in the area?"

 

[Firesprite]

Feeling his shrug, Jessica assumed he was just getting used to her type of mind contact.
Responding to his query she replied "No, the ship has just left, but.. Oh! what is that coming towards us?"
Alarmed, she grasped the appendage harder and turned him to face the most unusual boat she'd ever seen. Clearly at the wheel she could see another Rebmeced, but he was wearing some sort of.. clothing. Did he fish in the purple waters?

 

[bobo_daclown]

Bobo:

Feeling the security officer tighten her grip on his arm, Commander Bobo is barely able to contain himself within the spandex one-piece jumpsuit. Jessica turns him to the view-screen. A rogue spaceship: familiar yet not. What will they do?

Tapping the button on the console, the Captain speaks into the microphone. "Engine room. This is the Captain. Scotty. I. Need. More power.

"Tactical. Bring up shields. Prepare crazy laser gun thing."

The truth about the uninvited ship would soon be learned. By hook. Or, by crook.

 

[Firesprite]

Jessica saw Ekans raise one limb, a thin metal wire grasped in the end. An aerial. She caught the strong flow of his thought "This is the Leader, I need transport for incomming ship cargo, bring extra buckets, prepare for a wild feast!"

 

[bobo_daclown]

Bobo:

Aware that the other ship hasn't returned his greeting, Commander Bobo turns to the security officer again. "Ready phasors, raise shields. Fire a warning shot just off their hull!"

 

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Bobo:

Commander Bobo is sure that the ship notices the phasor fire. "Comm, repeat hail!"

The communications officer on the other side of the bridge pushes a funny-shaped yellow button and the ship's speakers are flooded with the standard hailing message: "Attention craft. This is the USS Exitprise. Please announce your presence and your allegiance."

"No! You moron." Commander Bobo shouts at the communications officer. "Broadcast it to them, not us!!!"

 

[hybirdx]

Gunther

Gunther walked slowly through out the streets of Oakland, he heard sirens in the background, even though he hears the sirens every day, he still shuddered at the sound. Its not like he hated the town he lives in, its just that he hated how it became. A few years ago, he and his parents lived in an big house, which was only $700 every two months.

That was six years ago, he was ten. But now... Now he lives in the projects, there not bad, compaired to the apartments, where in one year, there was five deaths, in one room even.

Gunther had found him self in the shopping area, being X-mas time, most of his freind left for family vacations, one of the only times people get out of Oakland. His father was shot in an drive by, by his own freind. He looked around, and saw the plasure dome, with an sign "Half price off! half on the fun, with only half the price!"

Gunther didn't have anything better to do, "why not?" He said shruging. He went in and found an booth, he taken an long sigh, this being his first time ever in the Pleasure Dome. He puts in 50 cents and heard an buzzer go off and an door open "Here gos nothing" he saod as he slowly walked in.

 

[bobo_daclown]

Bobo:

The Exitprise again hails the other ship, seeking an answer to its query. Are you friend or are you foe? Before Commander Bobo can react, some kind of wormhole opens up only a few kliks from them. Something is coming through that large gateway, and now Commander Bobo has two unknowns in his life.

 

[hybirdx]

Gunther felt at peace, no troubles, no worrys, nothing. Just an complete void "This isn't what I thought up but... This feels fine!"

Gunther felt an quick flash of water, and saw what was ahead of him...

 

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[hybirdx]

Gunther quickly ran through the dirt road, holding the hilt of his sword "Damn! How did they catch up so quickly!?" the place gunther had chose, was an place he imagined all of his life, and now he was in an future world, almost free of all tech advances. "Back off!"

"Get the Moonleron!" said an solder in an samarai suit "Don't let him get away!"

Gunther came to an halt and pulled out his sword "Ok, if thats how you want it, then come on!"

 

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Bobo:

A sudden lurching of the ship throws the bridge crew around in such a manner that you'd think the camera man is stoned. The force of the unexpected impact catches Bobo off guard and he reels head first over the back of the Captain's chair--his overpriced, stuffed, and still quite tacky chair!

. . . Pleasure Dome action occurs . . .

It's bottom of the ninth, and bases are loaded. The very irate Roberto crawls back to his feet. Looking at the pitcher, he mumbles under his breath, "You wanna beam me prick. I'll make sure the next pitch you send over this plate will find its way into your gut--or your face."

The very attractive umpire is helping him up. She emmanates helpfulness. "Are you okay, Captain?" She squeezes Roberto's shoulder gently. Captain? The lag time in the Pleasure Dome system catches up and Roberto remembers that he is known as Roberto, Captain of the Diamond.

"Thanks, Ump." Though her striped shirt is plainly decorated with her name--Jessica--Roberto didn't want to sound less than respectful. "Since he only barely missed, I'll still bat. I'm ready for anything he fires at me now."

Knowing that Roberto plans to kill the pitcher with his own fast ball, the umpire lets him continue. Roberto also notices something odd about the first-baseman. Something familiar, but odd.

"Batter up!" Roberto takes his place at the plate. He stares at the mound and the pitcher. I'm ready now

 

[hybirdx]

As the last Samarai fell, Gunther slowly put his sword back in its scabber He gave an long sigh as he looked around, seeing that people were being weary of him. "Heh..." Gunther turned around and began to walk away, he felt confortable at the moment, relaxed even.

 

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[hybirdx]

"He-uh!?" Gunther felt his body lighten up, then he noticed he was falling from the face of earth "Arrrrrrrrrrgh!!!" Quickly before he landed, he grabed an metal object that slowed his fall, but didn't stop it."

*WHAM!!!*

"Shuit...." Gunther noticed that his speech became blured, knowing it was because he landed on his face, and his nose was broken, he ignored it.

The blood trickled down his face, he was an bloody mess. "What the hell just happened?! Why tha fuck are we in an baseball field!?"

 

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[hybirdx]

Gunther wiped his bloody nose, and stared at the sky "Something went wrong..."

'And who on all God's green earth are you?'

Gunther gave an cold stare. "Gunther, Gunther Rose."