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Gryphon
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Mar-23-12, 09:15 AM (EDT) |
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"FI Micro: Contempt Level"
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Rei stood silently in the middle of the room for perhaps 30 seconds, looking down at the blank, bare floor beneath her feet with an expressionlessness that was remarkable even for her. When, at length, she spoke, her voice was low, flat, almost entirely without inflection. "HK-47," she said. "Orders." HK-47 snapped to attention. "Ready!" Rei gestured slightly to the emptiness of the floor on which she stood. "Get it back." HK-47 drew his blasters. "Query: special parameters?" Rei shook her head. "None. I don't care what you have to do. Your contempt level for this assignment is ten." If HK-47's faceplate had been equipped to do so, it would have broken into a huge grin. "Rapturous exclamation: Oh, Master! You have made a simple droid very happy." Rei looked up from the floor, turning toward him. Her face remained as blank as ever, but for her eyes. They burned with an intensity of fury - of very personal and bloody hatred - HK-47 had seen in few humans in his long history, and only once or twice before in his present master. Now her voice seethed with the same barely contained wrath as she hissed, almost inaudibly, "I want my rug back." HK-47 nodded. "Observation: It did really tie the room together, Master." "Contempt Level" - a Future Imperfect Micro-Story by Benjamin D. Hutchins special to the Eyrie Productions Discussion Forum © 2012 Eyrie Productions, Unlimited |
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Verbena
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Mar-23-12, 09:20 AM (EDT) |
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1. "RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level"
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BWAHAHA! Dare I ask when and where this happened? --------
this world created by the hands of the gods everything is false everything is a LIE the final days have come now let everything be destroyed --mu |
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Gryphon
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Mar-23-12, 09:35 AM (EDT) |
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2. "RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level"
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>BWAHAHA! > >Dare I ask when and where this happened? This scene occurred to me, complete and as presented, in the shower about six years ago - before the invention of the Mini/Micro-Story format. I jotted it down and plopped it in the staff notes box, where it amused a couple of Suspects, and then forgot all about it until I ran across it while doing a recent sweep for disused threads in that box to archive. It has, and indeed needs, no context. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Offsides
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Mar-23-12, 01:32 PM (EDT) |
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5. "RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level"
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>It has, and indeed needs, no context. :) While I would agree that it requires nothing more, I also think that this is one of those little hooks that would make a great starting point for a larger story. Heck, part of me thinks that this would make a great hook for a story <i>contest</i> - using that intro, write the best story surrounding it. If a few other limits were imposed (e.g, no bigger than a certain size, must include or exclude certain elements, etc), I bet you could get some really creative results... Of course, I'm guessing you'd rather not have people doing that, but who knows - maybe it's time you let us amuse you with our writing? :) Offsides #&91;...#&93; in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. -- David Ben Gurion EPU RCW pi; #include <stdsig.h> |
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Gryphon
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Mar-23-12, 05:23 PM (EDT) |
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6. "RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level"
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>>It has, and indeed needs, no context. :) > >While I would agree that it requires nothing more, I also think that >this is one of those little hooks that would make a great starting >point for a larger story. Heck, part of me thinks that this would >make a great hook for a story <i>contest</i> - using that intro, write >the best story surrounding it.I wonder what the over/under on excellence vs. serious injury would be in that scenario... It's an interesting idea, and something I might look into sometime, but in this particular fragment's case I rather like that it doesn't go anywhere. I imagine, in fact, that it's entirely apocryphal. I would like to think that even at her Sithiest, Rei wouldn't authorize HK-47 to murder his way indiscriminately across the cosmos just to get a rug back. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Offsides
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Mar-24-12, 02:16 PM (EDT) |
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10. "RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level"
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LAST EDITED ON Mar-24-12 AT 02:16 PM (EDT) >>While I would agree that it requires nothing more, I also think that >>this is one of those little hooks that would make a great starting >>point for a larger story. Heck, part of me thinks that this would >>make a great hook for a story <i>contest</i> - using that intro, write >>the best story surrounding it. > >I wonder what the over/under on excellence vs. serious injury would be >in that scenario... > I'm guessing that you'd probably get a couple of really good ones, a couple of so-so, and a bunch of junk. Although, given the high-level of the writing here, some of the people who wrote junk might decide not to submit, you you might have better odds that usual...>It's an interesting idea, and something I might look into sometime, >but in this particular fragment's case I rather like that it >doesn't go anywhere. I imagine, in fact, that it's entirely >apocryphal. I would like to think that even at her Sithiest, Rei >wouldn't authorize HK-47 to murder his way indiscriminately across the >cosmos just to get a rug back. :) > Hmm... Unless the "Contempt Level" is more about making it messy and embarrassing, rather than messy and deadly. Though I must admit that I find that unrealistic :) Offsides <...> in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. -- David Ben Gurion EPU RCW #π #include <stdsig.h> |
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Offsides
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Mar-24-12, 06:56 PM (EDT) |
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12. "RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level"
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>>Hmm... Unless the "Contempt Level" is more about making it messy and >>embarrassing, rather than messy and deadly. Though I must >>admit that I find that unrealistic :) > >Heh. Conceivable, although canonically (in Scud the Disposable >Assassin), a Scud's Contempt Level is the measure of how little >the robot is programmed to care about collateral damage and bystander >casualties in the pursuit of its target. A Scud set to Contempt Level >0 will go to ridiculous lengths to avoid harming anyone or anything >other than its target, while one set to Contempt Level 10 will >cheerfully lob an orbital colony at the city where the target lives if >it can get hold of one. Yeah, that would be rather messy. In which case, I must agree that it's unlikely Rei would really have given that order over a rug. Oh well :) [...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. -- David Ben Gurion EPU RCW #π #include <stdsig.h> |
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