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For creative reasons, I have a shorter than usual segment this week; I will try to post another segment later this week. Regular readers thanks for sticking with me, new readers let me know what you think (after reading the other segs)!
Update: I have decided to make every Tuesday the day for ATBG segment releases. Look for them on Tuesdays == and remember, your PMs, encourgements to keep going, creative criticisms, etc... always appreciated!
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Past Segments:
ATBG/Segment 1 — Blackness and Light
ATBG/Segment 2 — The Descent
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And There Be Gods
Segment 3 -- Calm Before The Storm
by MACHINE
© 2001
4.
1500 feet.
A preternatural creature clawing its way from the confines of a birth shell, the pod exfoliated the last of its battered skin and electronic accessories as it fell — revealing gleaming, locust-like battle armor beneath.
Flexing the suit’s thickened arms and legs, the shock trooper surveyed the rapidly scrolling systems and weapons screens that projected over his helmet’s interior visage. Through mirrored eye slits, the creature took in the rapidly approaching cityscape that grew larger as he descended.
Via a complex mesh of wires and circuitry originating from the pressurized armor’s interior walls and terminating through small surgical slits in the trooper’s arms, legs and torso, the commando activated the suit’s targeting, boost, weapons and EMF protection systems. A predatory tribal Xian battle hymn lit the audio system as he guided the 12-foot tall, 4,000-pound suit’s fall via small blue surface thrusters.
In a grim approximation of mirth, the beginning of a smile haunted the pale, sallow lips of the trooper. This is what he had been created for. Soon, he would enjoy the ultimate prize.
Finally, he would die.
As it reached the beginning of the city’s roofline, the trooper bumped the armor’s side and back thrusters with the precision of an automaton. The suit slid stealthily through the sprawling tangle of the city’s spires, arced roofs and minarets.
Twilight surrendered to night over Ibiza.
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Update: I have decided to make every Tuesday the day for ATBG segment releases. Look for them on Tuesdays == and remember, your PMs, encourgements to keep going, creative criticisms, etc... always appreciated!
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Past Segments:
ATBG/Segment 1 — Blackness and Light
ATBG/Segment 2 — The Descent
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+++++++++++++++++++
And There Be Gods
Segment 3 -- Calm Before The Storm
by MACHINE
© 2001
4.
1500 feet.
A preternatural creature clawing its way from the confines of a birth shell, the pod exfoliated the last of its battered skin and electronic accessories as it fell — revealing gleaming, locust-like battle armor beneath.
Flexing the suit’s thickened arms and legs, the shock trooper surveyed the rapidly scrolling systems and weapons screens that projected over his helmet’s interior visage. Through mirrored eye slits, the creature took in the rapidly approaching cityscape that grew larger as he descended.
Via a complex mesh of wires and circuitry originating from the pressurized armor’s interior walls and terminating through small surgical slits in the trooper’s arms, legs and torso, the commando activated the suit’s targeting, boost, weapons and EMF protection systems. A predatory tribal Xian battle hymn lit the audio system as he guided the 12-foot tall, 4,000-pound suit’s fall via small blue surface thrusters.
In a grim approximation of mirth, the beginning of a smile haunted the pale, sallow lips of the trooper. This is what he had been created for. Soon, he would enjoy the ultimate prize.
Finally, he would die.
As it reached the beginning of the city’s roofline, the trooper bumped the armor’s side and back thrusters with the precision of an automaton. The suit slid stealthily through the sprawling tangle of the city’s spires, arced roofs and minarets.
Twilight surrendered to night over Ibiza.
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