Mal: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this? Kaylee: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me.

'Bushwhacked'


Sang Sacré

The fictional Buffista City. With a variety of neighborhoods, climates, and an Evil Genius or two, Sang Sacre is where we'd all live if it were real. Jump in -- find a neighborhood, start a parade, become a superhero. It's what you make it.

History. Map.


Miracleman - Jan 14, 2003 5:23:12 pm PST #416 of 1100
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

"All right, devils damn you, ALL RIGHT!!"

Heh. All the curses, all the charms, incantations and enchantments...

None of 'em add up to a combination of headlock and atomic wedgie.

"You're going back where you came from," I hiss in my double's ear. "You're going back and you're gonna work your damnable mojo from the other side and you WILL call all the other evil twins back or by all the gods in all the multiverse I will climb in after you and see if I can't hang these boxer-briefs by your godsdamned EARS!"

"Okay. OKAY!!" he screams as I tug upwards a little bit more.

"And if you see that bastard Aeshma, tell him I still have ideas for him that will make his stay in a mountain resort seem much more pleasant. Got that?"

"YES!"

I frog-march him to the nearest mirror and shove him through. He turns and glowers at me.

"Now that you've released me..."

I grab the frame of the mirror and prepare to hoist myself through.

"Just KIDDING!! Fuck! Get a sense of HUMOR!!"

"Do it."

He mumbles and gesticulates in dead and bloodcurdling languages. His image starts to shift and fade...

Just before he's gone, he sticks his tongue out at me. I flip him the bird.


elaris - Jan 14, 2003 9:38:11 pm PST #417 of 1100
skitter soft and memory, seed and growing

i stand very still. things shoot around the air. she speaks, and her words roll into the air lazily. things shoot around the air, the sound of cars and birds flapping wings, and bit by bit words are sticking to my skin. i use them. they crackle with satisfaction.

these are good words. the private theater of my body.

a passing thought separates itself from a cloud laden low with rain, and snags on my hair.

it tears at me. catches my sleeve, it pulls and tugs, insistent.

no no no.

this place. it is warm and green and the sun flickers and comes back again. this place. grass itches the bottoms of my feet. i have feet. pale summer. sun fire. my feet feel grass promising itself, from under cement and asphalt and stone and the layers of the street, my feet feel the yawning, tickling message of the grass and i will not leave.

a misspent.

a diamond oiled. snake's breath. an afterthought. a malcontent.

a rage.


Penny the Black - Jan 15, 2003 1:30:58 pm PST #418 of 1100
I will smite you.

I have enough stuff for one more bomb, so I decide to use it well. I can't think of a better target than the HQ of the paper that just referred to me as a "Mad Bomber".

I've got it down to less than 10 seconds now. Bottle, match sling. I watch the bottle arc in a glorious curve towards the bland, brick building. It glitters in the sun as it spins. I am overwhelmed with a feeling of calm and satisfaction at a job well done.

Also - a stabbing pain in my chest. What's happening? Oh, fu. . .


DXMachina - Jan 15, 2003 6:46:54 pm PST #419 of 1100
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

(Psst, elaris, if you're going to use the <i> tag to start every line, you need to use a </i> tag at the end of every line...)


Rebecca Lizard - Jan 15, 2003 9:22:13 pm PST #420 of 1100
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Ah! Sorry, DX. The original post had just one t i at the beginning and one t /i at the end, but when I pressed the post button, it looked like only the first line was italicized. I figured there was some auto-closing going on, but I guess I was confused.


Nilly - Jan 19, 2003 5:44:57 am PST #421 of 1100
Swouncing

t disturbing in the middle of the story I don't have nearly enough of that English thing to become a citizen of Sang Sacre, but it doesn't damage in any way my enjoyment of reading and lurking. It's a great thread to catch up on, even for a non-participant. That is all. You may return to your regularly scheduled world. t /disturbing


Penny B. - Jan 19, 2003 9:18:52 am PST #422 of 1100
Nobody

Ack. Head rush. I feel a popping in my ears and a wave of dizziness. It lasts only a second, and I'm better. Much better. Stronger, snarkier, more complete. Ahhhh.

I turn to Miracleman who is about to moon his own mirror.

"Hey. Who in hell is Aeshma?"

(Hi, Nilly!)


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 20, 2003 5:14:49 am PST #423 of 1100
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

These folks who are born with magic and never get any decent training really annoy me sometimes. Letting the Jell-O zombie go before I had a chance to interrogate it? That's practically unforgiveable.

However, what's done is done, and with luck I can catch it again. And Penny is onto one good thing: who is Aeshma?

I look at Miracleman, waiting for an answer. I feel lighter somehow, but I dismiss it as the effect of vomiting so hard.


Edward - Jan 20, 2003 5:22:19 am PST #424 of 1100
Clovis, where are you? I wanna sack Rome!

Hah! I have escaped Am-Chau's pocket (don't you just hate people who store everything in thier pockets? I can see why Gollum hated Bilbo). I straighten my skirt, lift my chin, and slip behind the sofa. Soon, soon, someone will open the door and I will be able to start my mission.

I have to find my master, Clovis the Great Devil Bunny.


Miracleman - Jan 20, 2003 11:39:30 am PST #425 of 1100
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

"Aeshma? Oh, he's uh...well, you see...he's a guy I had to imprison in the heart of a mountain for five hundred years. Slips my mind why..."

Obviously, I think, Aeshma's back and hot on revenge. I don't suppose I could recommend a therapist to him.