Jade Mantis

probe of the Or-Der Collective's page

7 posts. Alias of Quiche Lisp.


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Ensirio the Longstrider wrote:
I got this variant rod of wonder I can give you. It might work for ya. It might not.

[*winks in existence with a slight "psshhhh" sound. Probes with a minute but sinister-looking violet beam of light*]

"Kkkk... kkkk... scan-n-in-g... kkk"

[*sends an encoded hyper-message towards discrete trans-Grid coordinates*]

[*head rotates left and right... and then does a 360° rotation*]

"Kkkk... kkkk... prele..kkk...mina-ry probbbbbing... acc...kkk... omplished"

[*winks out of existence*]


KKKK---KKKK....KKKRRR ! KKKKK ! KKK.. KK.. KREAKKKKK !


[paints Snow Jade with a scrutinizing beam of green laser light while making a tik-tik-whir-tick-whir kind of mechanical noise]

[apparently satisfied by his probe, glides away on antigrav cushions, leaving the thread]


The probe eyes the Matt Damon Oddity with its lifeless bio-mech eyestalks.

Then, apparently satisfied by its relative innocuousness, the software animated gizmo dives under the surface of the current agreed-upon reality, rapidly catching at the swirling whirlpool of disturbances caused in infraspace by its ghastly managing Omniwarring Unit: the Grim Bucko !


"Non-orggggg...anic-being de-tec-ted !"

"Conc... conSSSSS... concep-tu-al-remov-al... rec... recrrrrrrr -re-co-mmended !"


[VZOOOMIN]

offen-sive-prot-ocol... engaged
rea-dy-to-trac-k-witch


[vzaammin]

a little autonomous probe slides out of otherspace, like a miniature coupling of a shark and a praying mantis swimming in the air. Its dorsal fin (in truth, an ultra-tech array of detectors) hums almost imperceptibly while it scans the surrounding space, looking for a particularly dissonnant signature.

cal-vin-b-all ?
no-known-asso-ciation-with-Eri-sian-tar-get !
tiger ?
bad-barian ? what-kind-of-a-na-me-is-that

appears on the side of the mantis/shark thing in tiny letters drawn in minute points of light, as the probing device speaks to its memory banks.

Apparently disconcerted by the agreed-upon local rules, the device elects to slide out of the local existenz grid.

[vzaaamout]