• SW10/WWW: Powernaut 2024 #8D: I Was Merely Assertive

    From Scott Eiler@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 9 04:34:09 2024
    In the future world of 2136, someone got unexplained power and then
    rebelled against oligarchs. Then in the past world of 1857, he had to
    fight his way through the United States Civil War to make his way back
    to 2024! ... And so Powernaut 2024 continues.

    https://eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/2024c.htm#8d

    ...

    Bonus Section: Social Media by Powernauts!

    Brought to you by Brain2Web technology. Even the superheroes rely on it,
    in the midst of action.

    Brain2Web! Save your thoughts to social media, the same way you would
    ask any smart device to work for you! You can even edit and add
    footnotes for the record later!


    Hacker

    Oh, you have a techno-telepathic network in this era to communicate
    against me? I have hacked it!


    Vice-Principal Powernaut

    Oh, good luck with that.


    Coach Powernaut

    How did you become a Victorian gentleman in *Kansas*?

    Hacker

    First I fought in the Civil War. In Kansas 1857, people didn't care
    about my "skin condition", they merely cared that I could fight. After
    the war, I gained success in Topeka and founded my Tomorrow Institute.
    The rest is history.


    Director Powernaut

    If you and your tower were both banished from the future, how did you
    wind up in Kansas and it wind up here?

    Hacker

    The mage who banished the tower cast that curse upon it, so as to
    separate me from it for over a hundred years. I had no way to get to it,
    except to survive. But this body of mine is excellent at surviving.


    Professor Powernaut

    What happened to everyone else on the tower when it got banished?

    Hacker

    You fool, the people who attacked the tower evacuated it beforehand.


    Coach Powernaut

    Wait, you hired my friend Mel the bus driver?


    Director Powernaut

    Wait, your telepath is an alien nymphomaniac? And she got that way on Earth?


    Professor Powernaut

    Professor

    Well, at least your minions have fashion sense.


    Hacker

    Enough! (delete) (block)

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    "Your Royal Highness, instead of devoting yourself exclusively
    to Minerva, should, instead, rather offer sacrifice at the altars
    of Bacchus, Orpheus, Venus, and Morpheus."

    - Advice to Prince Duarte of Portugal. From "The golden age of
    Prince Henry the Navigator", by Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins.
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