In response to the untitled fanfic prologue Eimii posted on Sun, 17 Nov:


Jim: "Possible Titles, hmmmmm"

	"When Lost Gods Wander"

	"The Heavens are THAT WAY!"

	"or maybe...."

	"Sacred P-Chan"

Skuldsama: "Ha Ha NOT!  Jim those titles aren't even 'punny'"
 
Jim: "Gomen, Skuldsama.  Well lets see what we can come up with for the
review"  

"The world is a dark and empty place."

Not a very original statement, but expressing the depth of Ryouga's
current depression would take vocabulary well beyond his regular verbal
strata, and he really didn't feel like wasting the breath.

<Snip, Ryouga being depressed.>

Jim: "I think this is a decent setup.  It sounds like Ryouga, and it
doesn't ramble
on."

He was in a maze of some sort. Row upon row of very futuristic, and
strangely organic looking modules lined the walls, all of them softly
dronning in unison. 

Skuldsama: "OK, we suspend our disbelief, or grant Ryouga's ability to
get lost
a 'Godlike' power to get him places he shouldn't be able to go, slip him
past security, etc.  I guess this could be Selfcorrecting Highspeed Data
Module Bay 3C.  It was one of the first and so it's been upgraded to the
point where you can't walk straight line from one end to the other,
hence the 'maze'.  One thing though, punch a MultDem Organic memory unit
and it drips/oozes, no moving parts to whir."  
  
*Well*, Thought Ryouga bitterly, *I've really done it now*. It was clear

<Snip, Ryouga is still depressed>

a ten meter wide
sphere of light descended upon Ryouga's now kneeling form.

"No..."

Somewhere within the Yggdrasl central data storage archives, there was an
explosion.

Alarm klaxions blared, and panic and chaos reigned throughout the >heavens.
System administration deities scamble back and forth throughout the >Yggdrasl
complex, franticly trying ti locate and contain the disturbance.

It is now several hours later. Vital systems are slowly coming back on
line,

Skuldsama: "NANI!! What about the Nthplex Main OS Memory System
mirroring? What about the Virtual Thirty Dimensional On-Circuit
Supra-Optical
surge suppression?  What about the hourly disaster recovery backup? 
Even if
he'd taken out a processor bay there are multiple on line redundant
bays!  She
said herself it was a data storage archive!  Explain to me how a bomb in
a
storage archive can bring down the whole Yggdrasil System!?!?"

Jim "Actually we should be asking you that, shouldn't we Skuldsama?
Or are you going to claim it can't be done?"

Skuldsama:"Oh.  Well...  (Skuld takes out her PDA and starts pressing
keys
rapidly...comes to a conclusion).  Ok ok, I won't say it's impossible.  
Still, I'd feel
better if she said more about how it crashes.  She should put him in a
Processor
bay not a Memory bay, and when this guy explodes then Bugs should be
generated.  The Bugs can go every which way and "I" (and Kamisama) only
know what trouble they'll cause before they're eradicated.

Jim: "Remember Skuldsama, we're trying to encourage Eimii, not tell her
what to
write."

Skuldsama: "I AM encouraging her.  I'm encouraging her to use Bugs!"

Jim: Sighs
   

but much of the archives were consumed by the yet unexplained

<Snip, automated rebuild procedures.  Firing of the God/dess responsible
for keeping reliable backups proceeds outside storyline>

In the end, the computer comes up with
nothing more than a piece of office joke mail. A list of comically
exagerated personality archetypes of various deitic positons. 
The computer then proceeds to scan the Yggdrasl complex for unidentified
persons matching the archetypes of the various missing gods and >godesses.

Skuldsama: "I've seen that list.  'Ten God Jobs Even Demons Don't Want',
I think. Hummmm, 'God/dess of Unrequited Love',  'God/dess of Flower
Children',
'God/dess of Goldfish Fanciers', 'God/dess of Pre-school Television
Shows'. 
That last one was an actual position until some devils summoned a Purple
Pit Dragon to possess a particular show.  Anyway, that list or something
like it is always making the rounds on Heavenet."  

Ryouga, meanwhile, has fallen asleep in one of many gardens in the
Yggdrasl complex. He is propped up at the base of a tree, snoring loudly.

<Snip, filling out the Deity form>

Ryouga awoke several minutes later, a strange tingling sensation
momentarily surging through hid body before fading. After reducing the
offending tree, now sans monitor, to toothpicks, Ryouga proceed to stalk
off in a random direction, muttering under his breath something about
"stupid trees" and "cheap shots".  

Jim: "I think she's got something here.  The 'Stupid Trees' line is
funny!  I wonder
if Ryouga will be able to teleport where he wants to go.  Will he have
to teleport
to random places or will he get where he wanted to go, but get lost as
soon as he moves ten meters from the 'landing' point. 

Skuldsama: "I'm going to reserve judgment until I see what she does with
writing
about us.  I remember a certain individual who had SUCH a clever idea
for me to
act out, invented a friend for me, the works.  Then when I read the
final product I
find out that he's making Oneesama and Keiichi get all lovey-dovey
behind my
back!

Jim: "Aw come on, Skuldsama.  It's not like I wrote a Lemon."

Skuldsama: "Just keep their hands off each other, mortal, or risk my
wrath!"

Jim: "Yes Ma'am."

Thank you-
~Eimii

Ganbatte Eimii!  I look forward to reading more.

Jim Nutley
jnutley@lvnexus.net
"Deniability does NOT rule!"