life through the former operators eye :)

t_ras · January 23, 2004, 13:17

A day in the former operators life – part I

Ring…ring…ring…
What the hell is that noise in my dream?? Hoo F%&#, it is working morning again (if you can call 4:00AM morning)….ring…ring….humm yeah I think I should stop this F%&# clock before it makes me crazy!!
BOOOM! Crash…
Ok, I think it was a little hard this time, I’ll have to buy a new one.
Now let me see if I have all my parts here after the fungus vodka party last night…well, I seem to have three arms…I’m sure that’s one too much, but who knows? Wait! It might not be mine! Let’s open one of my eyes and check….yep, there seems to be some one in my bed... There’s definitely some one in my bed!!
-Do you always wake up at four in the morning after a party?
Ho my god! It speaks!! I’m sure I just heard it speaking!! Let’s see…who is she? She’s the red hair girl from the party…well…at least she has red hair and she seems to have been with me at the party.
-Good morning Tany.-Well…who knows, I think I speak too

, and it even sounded like a complete sentence.-We have to go for some fungus today…-hou my head! I don’t remember speaking to be such a painful task.-You can keep on sleeping here for today, I’ll be back in a few days, so just lock the place after you leave, I have a spare key.
-You know if you leave a key to lock I’ll have to come back….
Ho yeah, they all think the same way…well, I guess I could have her once more can’t I?
-I guess you’ll have to…- I swear I tried to smile, I really did.
Now let’s try to move the upper part of my buddy a way from the pillow…ok, let’s try again… wow, I don’t remember being a way from the pillow to be so high! Don’t worry, I think I’ll get used to it in just a few seconds.
-Ok, so I’m going back to sleep, don’t make too much noise.-like I could….
Now…I think this tow long parts below my bottom should be taking me somewhere, I just don’t remember where, or how to get on top of them.
Maybe if I think real hard something will happen….yep, I’ll fall asleep again.
Some one told me former operators are not supposed to think much, that’s good. I think that was the reason I took this job, ha that and of course the fact the commissar said so…
Well…It seems I’m on my feet (yes I DO remember how they are called).
Now just a little walk to the shower and from there I’m done.

Micha · January 23, 2004, 13:54

Hehe, great start!

Now let´s hear how the story continues...

t_ras · January 23, 2004, 14:02

soon...

t_ras · January 25, 2004, 19:13

A day in the former operators life - part II

huou a shouer can be so refreshing! I think I'm already remembering my name!
naw let me see...where did I left the working siute?...wait, I'm not sure I
remember how does it look

...ho yep that should be it. That thing surely
looks like something i wouldn't like people see me wearing and it has my name
on it so it is probably it.
now let's try to weare it...well maybe from the other side...yep this hole
sure looks long anough for my leg, though all my parts seem to be far a way
enough from my head right now...
wow! i'm gon'a be late for the transport to work! ok, dont panic t_ras (that
would sound like tee-ras) you only have to get through the kitchen to stuff
some food in your mouth while puttings you boots on and preparing you'r bag
at the same time, nothing you haven't done before with usualy more alcohol
in your head (maybe that's the secret...).
now i'll just drop my useless buddy throuhg the door and hopefully it will
fall on the transporter.F%&$#! it did, I guess i just had better check if
its door was open. well, doesn't matter, i think that tooth of mine stuck on
the door looks rather ornamental

.
-hi to all dead buddys!!- those would be my team mates.
-good morning commarade t_ras- thats chin, the commisar of the team.
i'm like his deputy, he doesn't have a clue about terraforming, but he got
the job cause he has some corrupt friend in the partys high ranks
(some jamski or something like that, one of the big guys).
he spends hes time on his robber going arround us like if he was checking
something, but again- he doesn't have a qlue about what are we doing.
-good morning commisar
-i didnt thought you'll make it after last nights party
if i catch the morron that told him i'll fertilize xenophongus with his
tonge!
-it was nothing serius commisar, just a few cups- well and then maybe a few
more, i dont remeber so good...
-yes, heard you had a few, about 20!, not counting you had to take care of the
girl!
hoooo so this is what brought the blood to hes head,he is jelous i had tany

that surely makes it amusing

.
-well i surely had, though they never seem to have anough of me (

)
the wave of loughs will keep him away from the subject for a while.
-soo...where are we heading today?- that's slim, the newest boy in town.
that's not his name, but his so slim we couldn't ignore it.
-we're heading north west to help 'central planning' teams with some fongus
there. don't know what the smart guys think they'll find there, but they're
moslty right.
just a few introduction points for the reader. we call big guys to all the
highest rank party members and so, and smart guys to planning-men and
scientists.
-ho no, no those f%&#@ng fongus again. I hate to clean the former after that!
that's fat Jo, we call him that cause his fat and his name is Jo (how
original

), and because we have also fat Bob (my best friend).
fat Jo hates about anithing that's not sitting to have lounch
(or diner, or breakfast

), and he looks like he had too many of them
already

-here we come babys!- that's fat bob and his big smile thinking about janet
(not his wife, his former

)
well it realy looks like we're reaching the formers hangars. I would call those
"huge derty holes in the ground", but i guess i could say the same about
all voltairograd ,well all but the new kremlim of course, with the titanium
chairman voltair statue in the midle and all the gardens and state buildings
arround...nothing like the place i live or the one we're entering
right now.....

Jamski · January 25, 2004, 19:49

ROTFLMAO

-Jam

Enigma_Nova · January 26, 2004, 08:12

t_ras, are you:
A. Not fluent in english
B. High on something
C. Dumb

/me looks around
If it's C. you're on the right team.

Welcome to The Hive.
/me stands atop Voltariograd, staring at the Crawler sea below him.
"So, Voltaire, what do you think of the new arrivals?"
Voltaire said nothing. He was too busy concentrating on the new governental system.
"Yeah, I know it's tough... designing one for the intelligent elite AND the idiotic masses."
Voltaire continued to say nothing.
"Well, in any case, I hope it goes well. We need support for our population, because I can't lead us to victory alone, can I?"
/me laughed, knowing well that he was just humoring the people into thinking they mattered.
It was then that Voltaire spoke:
"To those that love their error, leave them in error."
/me stood back, looked at Voltaire, and thought about that.
"So you're saying we should merely allow these people the right to their ignorance and incompetence, even though it may damage us in the long run?"
Voltaire scribbled something on the new constitution.
"Or are you suggesting that we allow the less-thinkers a compound where they can drink and laze to their heart's content, but yet have no influence on our government?"
Voltaire gave Enigma a deep look, seeming frustrated, and immediately returned to the constitution.
"Why do we even let people in the Hive leadership if they just clutter the place up with nothing useful?"
Voltaire signalled to a row of pictures on the wall.
They were of the Gods, and the Mods, beings greater than The Hive, who reportedly created The Hive to serve as a recreative or learning experience.
Enigma then observed the photo of the late Kody, who committed suicide under the weight and pressure of his job.
Enigma lowered his head in respect, and emerged with a mean stare.
He realised that he, too, had been new once, with much to learn, a desire to rise above and a thirst to conquer the world's problems.
/me rushed out the door, hell-bent on bringing the message of intelligence and responsibility to The Human Hive.
He said, "Thanks for reminding me, Voltaire, that I am here both to learn AND to teach, to use that knowledge to lead us to victory."
As Enigma rushed out the door, Voltaire stared down at a part of the Constitution just finished, entitled "Dealing with mass ignorance". As he saw Enigma rush out the door, a hope in his eyes, that his comrades were prepared to work to rise above, Voltaire chuckled to himself, and said:
"For he who loves his error, leave him to his error."

t_ras · January 26, 2004, 10:07

no need to deal with mass ingnorance, thats our duty to society

Enigma_Nova · January 26, 2004, 12:23

mass ignorance == most of society.
Personally I'm against it.
Or, to be more honest, I'm against those who follow the path of ignorance interfering with my desire to be brilliant!

t_ras's typoes go to show that he is not interested in perfection in literature (or competency, some would say) - and hence values ignorance.
That's okay with me so long as the faction still works.
/me admires the fictional Voltaire's piece on how we carry the deadweight

GW fictional Voltaire

t_ras · January 26, 2004, 12:54

ho you ment the typos were the problem!!
that's just becouse i'm dilectic

Enigma_Nova · January 26, 2004, 15:35

Yeah- sorry 'bout that.
Had to make sure you weren't a spy or a moron of some kind - gotta protect The Hive's best interests.

Now off to create more civil war. I think I just picked a fight with HongHu for being too brutal...

Snowflake · January 26, 2004, 15:38

You like that don't you?

I'm glad to hear you say sorry though.

Enigma_Nova · January 26, 2004, 16:27

Quote:

Originally posted by HongHu
I'm glad to hear you say sorry though.

Well to be honest I thought his typoes meant that he was an agent of the online smacktard culture.
Having established otherwise I admit fault.

Still, t_ras would do good to read the back story - steep learning curve but if his brain is functioning it would do him well to be informed.

Quote:

You like that don't you?

Bring it on, woman. Bring it on.

Snowflake · January 26, 2004, 17:23

Well that sounds much more cultured. I still suggest you to check the spelling of "typoes" in a spell checker though.

Enigma_Nova · January 27, 2004, 04:39

Quote:

Originally posted by HongHu
Well that sounds much more cultured. I still suggest you to check the spelling of "typoes" in a spell checker though.

Correcting self.
Using word 'typos'
(Even though it's a word that ends in an 'o' like innuendoes, tomatoes, etc.)

Sounds cultured, eh? Wasn't my intent but if it 'sounds' like it then umm, sure!

Jamski · January 27, 2004, 18:52

Tomatoes?

Tomati, surely?

-Jam

t_ras · January 30, 2004, 20:10

A day in the former operators life - part III

Here the hangars doors open and we enter the big hole, sorry, meant hall…
It looks like an old planes hangar from WW2. Dirty, big and with permanent oily smell. As a matter of fact there are tow hangars here, for the tow terraforming teams, but the other one (the so called "diggers") are just a bunch of useless new operators who couldn't dig a hole in the ground even if it already had it. Our name BTW is the "boreholes"

-here's my Charly!!- Charly is my former. They're mostly named male names, cause they're robust and strong. - did you miss me boy?
All of them have the names painted on both sides and also a number of "targets" painted as the number of mindworms killed, though only fat Bob has targets, all the others (including me and the other team) have never met a worm and so I hope it will stay.
Few steps up the ladder and I'm in my cockpit. Haa, let me sit on my padded sit…yep, it is surly one of the softest thing my ass has ever felt

. I had it spatially made for me in a leather shop. Of course it is illegal get this kind of "unstandard" stuff for indibiduals in the hive, but if you are some one who steps out the city every now and then and you can bring a few goodies from outside (like some pure fresh fungus to distill some clandestine fungus vodka) there's always a way...(BTW I learned it from commissar Chin

)
I had all in my cockpit made especially for me, either through "friends "(like the leather sit) or by my self. Also with the help of fat Bob (which is like the guru of terraforming in the hive) I enhanced all my machinery, now I have a brutally strong and reinforced terraformer!
(Chin)-all "boreholes", stop getting your selves horney about your dirty formers and begin the checking test, c'mon move!
Some day one of these "dirty formers" will have his ass under its tracks...
-now Charly, lets have a few checks just to see we're in good shape, so….how are we doing?
(Charly)-fine pal- ho, forgot , that's another reasons these things have male names. They have male voices (which freaking smart-guy had this freak idea?), only Bob managed some how to change it, but then again- he is THE GURU.
-how's your engine doing boy?
(Charly)-pretty good. I‘d rather have some more oil down there but I can make it for about a week (if you treat me well).
How can a machine be sarcastic?

-ok spoiled boy, I'll have your belly filled a little more. Any thing else there?
(Charly)-nop, all seems to be working and I have enough fuel.
-what about the forming machinery?
(Charly)-dirty as usual but working.
-well, considering we're going for fungus I think I can take dirty for now. Now how are all "boreholes" doing?
(fat Bob)-reporting ok deputyboy- I hate it when he calls me that

(slim)-slim reporting ok
(fat Jo)-ok here too
- all ok commissar, ready to rumble!
(Chin)-I see you're all happy to be back to work, that's great, we do have a lot of it this time

…
And he thinks he's funny...just open the F%&#ing gates already...
Hooo..., I love the moment the gate opens, the double sun light comes in and the beautiful horizon spreads his monumental colors in front of us, this are the moments when you understand how lucky you are to work outside the hole….well this and of course when you come back with fresh fungus to replace for goodies

Micha · January 30, 2004, 20:41

Nice...

What about publishing it in PRAVDA? Maybe one of us should correct the typos before, but the story is great!

Perhaps we could reanimate the IC-Story?

t_ras · January 30, 2004, 20:42

hoo, fill free to use it in the good of the hive as you allmighty big-guys decide

t_ras · January 31, 2004, 04:46

what's the IC-Story?

Snowflake · February 1, 2004, 17:18

IC story discussion http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=90426
IC story III http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=99306
IC story II http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=93037
IC story I http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=88348

t_ras · February 1, 2004, 18:35

well.. if some one could check my mistake then i think it surly belongs to IC...

t_ras · February 5, 2004, 18:04

The jorney to work....

These long rides to working places are sooooo boring. Luckily our formers can drive most of it on automatic, leaving us the important tasks of sleeping and eating. Though this one is like the longest trip we had yet, and it's sooooo boring.it is so boring that...
(Chin)-Hey boys, I have a joke for you!- ho no!!! I hate it when he does that, he has like the worst jokes you can imagine, we're still not sure they're not causing us brain damage- what's the difference between a cycon and a battery?
(fat Bob)-Should I answer him or we'll let him think he's smart?-that was on our secret frequency of course. We shouldn't have one, Chin should be controlling all commfreqs, but he's such an idiot that Bob has overridden his control easily.
-leave it, if you answer you'll be playing to he's hands and he?ll tell more of his jokes to prove he's funny.
-can't think about anything special commissar.
(Chin)-The battery has also a positive side yeeehoo,yeeehoo-yep, he also laughs like a donkey.
(Slim)-Good joke commissar!- Slim isn't such a smart guy too, but at least he's a good boy.
(fat Jo)-How far away is this place? My ass has already become an integral part of my sit. A few more days like that me and volty will become one!- volty is his former, of course it's named on big Chairman Voltairs name. Fat Jo is a known fan of him.-what do you say about a short stop to spoil the guys a little commisar?- fat Jo is known also to always have some more or less legal goodies in his former.
(Chin)-Well it's almost night so I guess we could have a break before we go to sleep?ok! Lets go for some party at Jos former!
That's cool

I'll just park my charly next by and step down.
-ok charly, you can sleep now.
(charly)-you mean shut my engine. Or do you want me to stop looking after you too?
These machines are watching with radars the surrounding areas all the time to keep our asses away from warms.
- don't be such a smart guy, you know what I meant.- why the hell do machines try to be funny?

- well Jo, I see you already have the eating table ready. How do you do it so fast?

(fat Jo)- lets bless before we eat!
(fat Bob)- of course, how can we eat without blessing?
(fat Bob and Jo)- googliegod bless our almighty leader chairman Voltair!
(all)-amen!
And the drink goes in!!
(fat Bob)- lets bless again, just to be sure he'll be blessed- and to drink another cup

(fat Bob and Jo)- googliegod bless our almighty leader chairman Voltair!
(all)-amen!
And another shut in!

Fungus vodka- definitely the best drink on planet!
-where are the xenostakes you promised?
(fat Jo)- one moment, just getting our of the flames?
(slim)-what do you say about the rumor that cycon and Unis have united?
(fat Jo)- ho, the unis were just afraid we'll kick their asses, so they went to hide under cycons dress.
(Chin)- we should kick their asses any way!
-yeh? and what about the cycons?
(fat Jo)- lets kick their asses too!!

-ho don't be silly, we should be smarter then that. We can't just go out in war with any one we like to, and we also have some diplomatic agreements with them.
(fat Bob)- ho c'mon boys! Lets leave this hard stuff to the big guys and have some more vodka.

-right said Bob! Your always the smarter of all

A few more shuts and a few more, just to make sure we won't be waken by any mindwarms, and then we'll be going to sleep. Having two suns is grate. It means most of the usable hours of they you have light and darkness comes only in the few hours you really do sleep.well...maybe day light hours are a litle longer, but it would be too early in the morning for me to check it

Now let's get my sit to sleeping position. yehhh...have I told you this is the softer thing my ass has ever felt? Normally I would enjoy the filling for a while on the sit before I go to slip, but being so drunk I'll just go to sleep. Well, now that I think about it, that's how it normally goes

-good night to all.
(fat Bob)- good night and many drunk xenodreams to all![B]

Micha · February 5, 2004, 19:54

Fantastic, Comrade!!!

You should write for the Chiron chronicles (?), you have a good style

t_ras · February 6, 2004, 05:40

thanks!

what are chiron chronicals?