Hey, thanks for reading through this, the entirity of #site19 on January 21st, 2016, between midnight and 1:00AM. I really appreciate it!
I hope the rest of you enjoy it as well!
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See what happens when you let your dog go on your neighbor's yard? This is what happens.
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It's quite a by-the-numbers take on rituals summoning gods/demons, but the fact someone pulled off the complex ritual (and needed readings) show the over-the-top-ness of it.
While we have seen kaktus is capable of terse writing, it is good to see his prose writing again.
Some of my favorite stories are how people, mere mortals who usually wouldn't stick out, harness the power of magic and otherworld arcana for petty and selfish reasons to meet their own ends. They don't understand the full implications, of course, but it won't stop them. The final addendum (of sorts) after the email is full of nice finishing touches on character development.
I question how the incident was covered up though, if it's as powerful as EmberTech mentions above. That sort of thing can be written off as an explosion at a weapons depot? I'd call bullshit.
This also has one of the worst (in an unfunny way) titles I've ever seen for a mainlister, and gives your hand away far too early for the skip.
It is still 9.6 Mt which is 27 W78 warhead (the primary strategic warhead in current land-based US usage) yields.
ETA: Just checked the post New START status of forces and I had W78 (350 warheads at 350 kt) and W87 (200 warheads at 300 kt) mixed up.
I'm kind of let down by the emails. I feel like I've seen the 'extremely petty individual harnesses great power for absurd reasons' narrative too many times and this doesn't go anywhere with it. There's nothing to Jerry Hubert other than his absurd lack of perspective - he reads like a caricature more than a character, with no motivation other than 'hate this guy to an absurd degree for no reason', with the narrative being manipulated in a slightly unbelievable way to ensure this (would you really start telling a shady occult contact over email about Dave's dog urinating on your lawn?). And while that does serve as an ironic counterpoint to the grandiosity of the object, the undermining being done here seems forced and trite, because it doesn't seem like there's anything behind it.
As someone who likes this one, I see your point… However, I think this petty-harnessing-of-great-power one works a little better than similar ones because you EXPECT the perpetrator to suffer some sort of great, stereotypical moral consequence for his actions while still on this mortal plane. Y'know? Typically the usual story like this would have ended with Jerry failing the incantation and getting nuked, or Jerry getting nuked by the radius of the same detonation that did Dave in, or getting molested by an eldritch horror or some such.
Instead, the guy successfully reads through a 400-page incantation without pause, nukes Dave triumphantly, drinks a pack of beer in celebration and accidentally DWI's himself into a tree.
Feels like there's something subtly brilliant about that, especially with 90% of the article being an extensive, intricate mythological buildup. Like the elegant punchline this sort of story SHOULD be. :)
Instead, the guy successfully reads through a 400-page incantation without pause, nukes Dave triumphantly, drinks a pack of beer in celebration and accidentally DWI's himself into a tree.
This is probably the best summation of anything I've ever written.
This reminds me of playing various Final Fantasy games and using things like Ultima and Knights of the Round to take out a lone Imp.
Thanks for taking the time to give a good description of each volume's contents, as I quite enjoyed that section.
also i liked the original title better
I actually cackled at the third email. The solemnity of the description was appropriate, but it felt more or less like any other skip — which is not a criticism at all. That's what sets up the surprise of this random jerkoff using terrifying divine power for the stupidest possible reason. Whatever happened to a flaming bag of dog poo on the porch, buddy?
Anyway, well fucking done. +1
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