Yowza. Was your Easter weekend as good as mine? A third place finish in
Friday's poker tourney and a win in the freeroll tourney on Sunday netted
me $400.
Not bad for a $15 investment.
In other news, I'm starting up another story..."The Hero". It's quite a bit different than this one, though. A little less realism, and a lot more fun. If you take the time to read it, thanks. If you take the time to review it, I'll give you a cut of my winnings from this weekend.
(Author's Note: The previous sentence was an outright lie, but review it anyway :o) )
We're going to do something a bit different this time. Instead of the usual two chapters, this installment is a single conversation between Jay and Forsil en route to meet Ampriss. ** is Forsil talking, $$ is Jay talking.
Voices In Your Head: "I Know You Are, But..."
**Jay, this is idiocy. Why are you taking to me to Ampriss? She won't be able to help either of us. Just get some luggage and get lost.
$$I don't know what the hell is wrong with you, but guess what? We're now tied together. If one of us dies, the other dies. And I will not let you get me killed with your death wish.
**Death wish? I'm not doing anything drastic. I'm just going to live out my time left before I starve, then exit your head before my final death throes. You don't want to experience that.
$$Hello?!? If you die I'm gonna end up in a Taxxon's stomach or the new whipping boy for some Yeerk grunt with an inferiority complex! You can't do that to me.
**It's out of my hands, even though I don't have any hands to hold it with.
$$You know what, Forsil? I realized something.
**What's that?
$$I hate you.
**What else is new? You've hated me ever since you tried to resist that first week I took up residence here.
$$I don't care that you replayed that accident over and over again.
**Oh really? Every single time I made you relive it you were crying and begging me to stop. I've watched you play cards for a long time, Jay...your lie detecting skills are starting to rub off on me.
$$I'm not proud of what happened that night. It was an accident, I've moved on.
**It's okay to attempt to lie to me. You should not lie to yourself.
$$HEY! I've put it behind me! I'm not bothered by it anymore!
**No you haven't, Jay. You killed your father that day. Sure, he was beating your mother and was about to attack you, but you killed him just the same. You plunged that knife right into his chest. You had blood all over you. And you know what, Jay? You still wish you had a father to look up to.
...
$$I should head to a home center right now and get a Vac-U-Suck 10000. I should kill you.
**Go ahead.
$$I know what you're doing, and it won't work.
**What's that? Encouraging you to do something sensible for once?
$$No, you're trying to get out of the meeting with Ampriss. Come hell or high water, you're going.
**You can't force me to do anything. As a matter of fact, I could take control of this car and crash it. Both of our troubles will end that way.
$$But you won't. Why? Because you told yourself you wouldn't kill again.
**You know what, Jay?
$$What?
**You're a thief. You spend your time taking money from people who don't know any better. You steal it and use it for yourself.
$$Oh really, Saint Forsil? How many lives have you snuffed out? You say I'm a thief, well, you're a murderer.
...
**I guess we're in the same boat then, huh?
$$Yup. Now do you want to go kicking and screaming or do you want to be mature about this?
**All right, I'll meet with Ampriss. I bet it will be a waste of time though.
$$You're on, Forsil.
Not bad for a $15 investment.
In other news, I'm starting up another story..."The Hero". It's quite a bit different than this one, though. A little less realism, and a lot more fun. If you take the time to read it, thanks. If you take the time to review it, I'll give you a cut of my winnings from this weekend.
(Author's Note: The previous sentence was an outright lie, but review it anyway :o) )
We're going to do something a bit different this time. Instead of the usual two chapters, this installment is a single conversation between Jay and Forsil en route to meet Ampriss. ** is Forsil talking, $$ is Jay talking.
Voices In Your Head: "I Know You Are, But..."
**Jay, this is idiocy. Why are you taking to me to Ampriss? She won't be able to help either of us. Just get some luggage and get lost.
$$I don't know what the hell is wrong with you, but guess what? We're now tied together. If one of us dies, the other dies. And I will not let you get me killed with your death wish.
**Death wish? I'm not doing anything drastic. I'm just going to live out my time left before I starve, then exit your head before my final death throes. You don't want to experience that.
$$Hello?!? If you die I'm gonna end up in a Taxxon's stomach or the new whipping boy for some Yeerk grunt with an inferiority complex! You can't do that to me.
**It's out of my hands, even though I don't have any hands to hold it with.
$$You know what, Forsil? I realized something.
**What's that?
$$I hate you.
**What else is new? You've hated me ever since you tried to resist that first week I took up residence here.
$$I don't care that you replayed that accident over and over again.
**Oh really? Every single time I made you relive it you were crying and begging me to stop. I've watched you play cards for a long time, Jay...your lie detecting skills are starting to rub off on me.
$$I'm not proud of what happened that night. It was an accident, I've moved on.
**It's okay to attempt to lie to me. You should not lie to yourself.
$$HEY! I've put it behind me! I'm not bothered by it anymore!
**No you haven't, Jay. You killed your father that day. Sure, he was beating your mother and was about to attack you, but you killed him just the same. You plunged that knife right into his chest. You had blood all over you. And you know what, Jay? You still wish you had a father to look up to.
...
$$I should head to a home center right now and get a Vac-U-Suck 10000. I should kill you.
**Go ahead.
$$I know what you're doing, and it won't work.
**What's that? Encouraging you to do something sensible for once?
$$No, you're trying to get out of the meeting with Ampriss. Come hell or high water, you're going.
**You can't force me to do anything. As a matter of fact, I could take control of this car and crash it. Both of our troubles will end that way.
$$But you won't. Why? Because you told yourself you wouldn't kill again.
**You know what, Jay?
$$What?
**You're a thief. You spend your time taking money from people who don't know any better. You steal it and use it for yourself.
$$Oh really, Saint Forsil? How many lives have you snuffed out? You say I'm a thief, well, you're a murderer.
...
**I guess we're in the same boat then, huh?
$$Yup. Now do you want to go kicking and screaming or do you want to be mature about this?
**All right, I'll meet with Ampriss. I bet it will be a waste of time though.
$$You're on, Forsil.
