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They killed Turing, and now they'll kill me.
Cyanide poisoning, officially, but I know better. Every Engineer does. We're going to show the bastards we call the fellow Conventions that we know exactly what they do, from the Voiders with their spaceships and ray guns, to the Blackhats who want everything in lockstep. They'll be sorry when we show up at the Traditions' door with every single goddamn piece of data, each Technocratic mindfuck they've ever pulled. Information like that should be free.
"Magic," the Traditionalists call it. I guess I can live with that. Information can be magical indeed.
Write a drabble of exactly 100 words that incorporates at least one of these ideas: Love, Betrayal, Regret, Forgiveness, Hope. Also, include at least one of these prompts in some way: "horse," "sword," "magic," "dragon," "ray gun," "spaceship." Prompts can be pluralized (for example, "dragons") or turned into adjectives (for example, "magical") or part of a compound word (for example, "horseback") and need not physically be in the story (for example, you could just have a character thinking or talking about a dragon rather than actually having a dragon appear). Feel free to use as many of the ideas and prompts as you like, but it would probably be difficult to use all of them in just 100 words.
For those of you who have no clue where this comes from, it's an RPG, Mage: The Ascension, and is about the Virtual Adepts' (at that time, called the Difference Engineers) breakaway in the 1950s from the Technocratic Union. It's the first link on Google for "Virtual Adepts."
