Ill.

By JohnDonovanLiver

vol. 1 ed. 1

Warheart525 Aug 19, 2011 16:57

Malatoran human posted: Fuckin' dragons always bossing me around, "Fill my napalm bladder! Recharge my batteries! Make me 20 lbs of brownies!" Always tellin' me I'm inferior and shit, "You only have level 2 morality! Your species is smelly; your species is violent; your species is irrational!" I was on dragon-assistant duty six months ago. I'm glad these things don't shit, 'cause if they did, I'd have to clean it up with my tongue. In the meantime, though, you got to do whatever they say, 'cause they know better, 'cause they're dragons, 'cause fuck-you-I'mthe-greatest-predator-in-the-universe-and-I'll-eat-you that's why. So I got this guy's afternoon catnip, right? And this dumb bastard inhales--literally inhales--the entire fucking towel and goes nuts. He's thrashin' around with his tail, literally bouncing off the walls, screaming about how he can fuckin' taste the rainbow or some shit. I can't get a damn beer outside of the fuckin' government controlled center, 'cause I'm too irrational or something, and I can't have a smoke anywhere on the entire god damn island, but this guy gets wasted whenever and whereever he feels like it. One time, he starts given himself a blowjob right in the center of the Presidium, with children and everything. So anyway, I'm running for cover while he's gone berserk, and when he finally comes down, he's wrecked the entire cafeteria. What happens? The council chastises him for inappropriate behavior. The council sentences me to mandatory labor for being irresponsible and allowing him access to a known dragon pheromone. Course, they're all dragons; they're gonna side with the dragon. "He couldn't help it," they said. "He was in an altered state of mind...because you caused him to be. A dragon can't be responsible for his actions, when shi's on catnip, but you wouldn't understand." So now I'm workin' fourteen hour days down here, and I'm listed as "too immature" for a cytran body. Then they tell me they don't wanna order this game for me. Well you know what, fuck you, if I want to play Dragon Killer 2 between mandatory shifts at the dildo factory, that's exactly what I'm gonna fuckin' do.

Warheart525 Aug 19, 2011 19:01

Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: Date: 2046/06/05 It's been about two months since anyone was allowed topside--any humans, anyway. Word from the Council is that forces from mainland Africa are marshaling around the island, and that they could launch an offensive any day now. They say that it's safest for us down here, and that they need to control the entrances/exits for security purposes. The only way out is through the Tatsu Eyrie, and I don't have my winged body yet. The

dragons, with their superior sensory organs and flight capabilities are on patrol duty. Humans, they said, would just get in the way. All in all, for a siege, it's not too bad. Work in the lab goes on as usual. The only time it makes a difference for me is when I'm off duty. They've got everyone working secondary jobs for the war effort, and since we're all stuck down here, the queue for the veater has been much more congested as of late. Sure, there's been some scarcity, but, hey, there's a war on and all that. The government had to temporarily suspend the gift economy. We're working for credits, which can be cashed in for commodities; that way, each person gets to use a certain portion of communal resources in the way best for them. Some of the councilors were against the idea, but in the short term, it seemed more feasible than any alternatives. We all get equal wages, adjusted for species, so it's still fair, and we don't 'own' our credits. It's just a temporary measure. Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: 2046/08/07 Crop yields are down again this week, and food prices have risen accordingly. Of course, they've got the botany/biology teams working on it, but they don't seem to realize that not all advances can be made overnight. I mean, the whole neural interface thing was kind of a fluke, but they seem to have taken it for granted. They're throwing more resources at the problem, and I'm one of those resources. I mean, I'm an aerospace engineer, but I found out today that I've been reassigned to one of the agricultural research groups. I have don't have a PhD. in botany from Berkeley. It's a total waste of my time. I should be in the war effort! Speaking of which, there still hasn't been any action topside, but this state of readiness, combined with the shortages, has worn everyone's nerves raw. Case in point, there was another protest yesterday. Doctor Keller was out in the Presidium with his followers; they want all Cytrans to stop consuming food edible by humans, but the Council won't allow the motion to be brought before the Assembly. The Council claims that it's unconstitutional. "Do Cytrans not have a right to eat? We don't deny the human right to eat. Why is this an issue?" I don't much care for politics, but I think Keller has the right of it. After all, the Cytrans can charge directly from the power grid. Some of them have already pledged to cease eating, or eat less, until the siege is broken. Good for them. There's also a debate about whether it might be more economical for Malatora to go vegetarian, but since many Cytran species are carnivorous, I don't think that'll go before the Assembly either. If meat prices keep going up, I think most of FedCom'll be vegetarian anyway.

My slot came up for the Veater tomorrow night, so I'm looking forward to that. It'll be nice to get a little sunshine, even if it's not real. I'm thinking about asking Sheila if she wants to join me. Too bad I can't afford to take her out to dinner beforehand.

Warheart525 Aug 19, 2011 20:12

Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: 2046/08/08 Fantastic. The Veater goes down on my assigned day. It'll be under repair for at least a week, they say. Granted, the thing's been running pretty much 24/7 for the past month or so. I was really looking forward to it. I guess I'll just go to bed early tonight. I just feel bone-tired. Maybe things will look better in the morning. Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: 2046/08/17 People are rioting in the tunnels! I never thought I'd see it, not here. I had just finished my research shift for the day. As soon as the lab doors opened, I could hear the clamor echoing down the halls. Curious, I cautiously stepped down the hall towards the Citadel. The noise grew louder as I approached, and noxious fumes greeted my nose. When I reached the portal to the Presidium, I saw a crowd swirling violently, a blur of screaming bodies moving in all directions at all speeds. Through the movement, I thought I could make out firelight. At that point, I crept back to the lab and told the others. We decided it would be best to wait it out...and here I am now. I hope this blows over without anyone getting hurt. Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: 2046/08/18 We're still hearing lots of different things, but the official report said that a Cytran named Bellach was killed. Shi was a dragonoid, and shi worked as some sort of tactical advisor. A number of human rioters were also killed or seriously injured, but it's unclear how many. I've heard about fifty different stories, but this is the way I think it happened. Bellach walked into one of the diners and ordered a whole rabbit. The waiter had the gall to suggest that she order a vegetarian meal. In a dragonoid display of anger, shi bit him. Problem was, with those powerful jaws of hers, she took his forearm right off. Before you know it, the entire restaurant thinks it saw hir trying to eat a citizen of FedCom. A mob falls upon hir, but, being a Cytran, it's a pretty one-sided fight. People are getting dashed against tables and walls, and it draws attention from the street. Next thing you know, a quarter of the hungry, haggard human population is rioting.

Eventually, however, Bellach's batteries give out, and immobile, shi gets torn to pieces by the enraged people swarming over hir. Meanwhile, in the Presidium proper, Cytrans are joining the fight, as rioters smash anything they can get their hands on. One guy was seen running around with two pairs of Bellach's genitals. As befitting a dragon, they set Bellach's frame on fire. The entire Citadel got put under lockdown until things settled down. Thank god we didn't come under external attack while this was happening. I need to get some sleep. I was up all night, and I'm just now coming down from all the excitement.

Nixnihil Aug 19, 2011 21:05

----Malatoran Human Militia #001 Log---I am a terrorist and a race-traitor. When the White men first invaded Sao Tome, I thought it would be capitalist economic exploitation at worst. I thought they would keep to themselves in the jungle with their mining operations, like most other companies that come here. I minded my own business as chief of police. "Let the Army deal with it if they get aggressive" I thought. But they couldn't deal with it. When the first Cytrans emerged and struck our city at night, stealing away our children, we knew that it was too late. If the army was powerless, what could the police do? We helped keep control of the town, preventing chaos and disorder while our society was assimilated into slaves by the Cytrans. I think of the Nazi death camps and ghettos. Prominent Jews were selected as "Capos" by their oppressors. These Jews would herd their own onto the trains and into the camps. I thought, "how could one so betray one's own community, one's own people?". Now I understand. Necessity. The survival imperative. Like them, I too submitted. As police chief, they had a use for me. They used my authority to facilitate the destruction of my people. The riots continue to escalate. The dragons could eat them all at any time, but they want the people alive to serve their needs. So they leave us, the police--humans--to fight on the front line. Last night, I cracked open a woman's face with my truncheon. I stomped a child's head when he threw a dragon-dildo at me. I do not have a dragon body, but I have become a monster. -----------Document ends.

Deadly Chlorine Aug 19, 2011 21:17

Log #029576 posted: Final log of a cytran, found torn limb from limb by rioters. May god bless his soul, and may he finally find peace. Cytran #67 posted: Today, another day I wake up, and I wish to die. My joints ache worse than they ever had when I was human leakage everywhere, sure didnt happen when I was human - and everything seems like a dim blur. Heh, sometimes I forget, I wake up thinking that Im still human, still hadnt sold myself to this blasted project. They said I had a cancer of the lung, 5 more years to live, at most. So, I thought, what did I have to lose by joining this nation? Apparently, more than I ever thought I could. What has changed? Im still going to die sooner or later. Guy in the lab told me that something had malfunctioned - Im not sure what, Im no rocket scientist, but the look in his eyes was the same as that of the doctor a few years back. I knew I was going to die. He told me, if they didnt get new parts produced soon, my body would be goddamn useless, and maybe my brain would be damaged. Fucking assholes didnt even add any sort of life support. Did they expect themselves to be so infallible? The other cytrans on top dont understand my plight. Motherfuckers probably literally had more bodies than the number of times that they fucked. They dont seem to understand the concept of lack of resources. They tell me, why dont I just get another body? I tell them I cant, but those morons just looked at me like someone pissed in their soup. God I would love to beat the everloving shit out of them, if my arm wasnt fucking paralyzed. I look at myself in the mirror. Undignified pile of shit, with wires hanging out everywhere, motherfucking disgusting leakage everywhere, and god, I wish I was dead beside my family, instead of this living nightmare. Another cytran shambled by Steve, damn good guy and nodded at me knowingly. Guy couldnt get a repair for his central system a few months back, and it had gotten worse from there. Probably the next to go, though no one was frank enough to tell him. I hate myself. I hate myself for joining this project, hate myself for not being strong enough to face death and fuck him in the ass, hate myself for abandoning my family. If only I cou- Wait, what was that noise outside? All I hear are demented screams, long bottled up rage. A riot, perhaps? Maybe I could joiSYSTEM ERROR ALL SYSTEMS MALFUNCTIONING ERROR ERROR

Warheart525 Aug 19, 2011 21:18

Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: 2046/08/25 A week after the riot, and my beloved nation is still in disarray. A petition has been introduced to have the remains of the dead rioters returned to their friends and family. Strangely enough, the Council's Internal Defense Bureau has declined, citing investigative efforts. Additionally, since there is no private property, and since corpses are not sentient, they belong to the state. Many are unhappy with this development. Today, the Council introduced a motion to enact curfew and area restrictions on, "individuals of inferior intellect and reasoning." The voting deadline is tomorrow morning. Apparently, it will require a test for any citizen who wishes to move about between the hours of 2200 and 0500. Cytrans will be exempt, since a similar test was administered before transplant. Each citizen will be restricted to his/her residence, work location(s), and public areas. The Tatsu Eyrie would be declared off-limits to all nonresidents. In happier news, the Veater was reopened again at last. I think everyone is looking forward to a little bit of fantasy to escape the reality of FedCom. Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: 2046/09/13 I went for a pleasant walk with Sheila today in the Arboretum. I can't tell if she just likes me as a friend or what. I need to ask Phil what he thinks. Maybe he can find out. She called me, "nice" today. I don't think that bodes well. The official investigative report on last month's riots was released today. Allegedly, outside agents took advantage of the crowd's fragile mental state to incite violence. Chemicals with psycho-active properties were reportedly found on scene, which explain the irrational and barbaric behavior of the human crowds in contrast with the restraint shown by the Cytrans involved. Recommended action includes the installation of more public monitoring hardware. I can't help but feel a bit skeptical, but on the other hand, I wasn't there. A misunderstanding-turned-violent seems more likely to me. Whatever. Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: 2046/09/15 Girls only date assholes. I don't understand it. I did everything right, but she doesn't care. Bitches. Bitches and whores all of them. No one should have to endure the torture of being a virgin at 27.

Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: 2046/09/27 Things have taken on an odd tone around here lately. I got my clearance to be out after 2200 approved, but it might be for naught. Scuttlebutt is that they're going to revoke clearance for all citizens, "vulnerable to psychoactive chemical agents," for the duration of the siege. Phil was taken aside for "questioning" today, and he didn't come back to work afterwards. He never seemed like the subversive sort. I can't imagine that he did anything wrong. He's one of Doctor Keller's supporters, and he went to the odd protest here and there, so I guess maybe that drew their attention? Oh, and access to the mainframe is being rationed, as the computational resources are needed for tactical simulation and calculation. Leisure use may be restricted soon.

GenericOverusedName Aug 19, 2011 21:19

I couldn't stop screaming. I was special, they say. I would be the first, the special one gifted to receive the gift. I hadn't even signed up to become a Cytran. They chose me... and now I knew why. It was new, unheard of technology. They weren't willing to test it on themselves. So they found a "volunteer". I was just a dock worker. I hauled crates of food, supplies, and construction materials to the site. One time, one of the crates fell. A massive array of cruel and twisted metallic objects spilled forth. They were horrible, like they belonged in some terrible alien machine. And now they were grafted into my flesh. A partial transplant. A proof of concept. Just to make sure that things would work. Completely removing the brain would be the next step. But for now, they just needed to get the interface between the nerves and mechanisms working. Life support came second. The interface worked... somewhat. I could move the new parts. But sensory information wasn't there. Instead there was pain. Pain where they severed the "superfluous" nerves. The dull throb as my body fought to remove the twisted grafts from my skin. The mechanisms shattered bone with every twitch. The smell was horrible; the new mechanisms were surrounded by septic flesh where they pierced the skin. They just were replacing parts as they started to rot off. I told them to stop, to kill me. They said they couldn't until they were done. They would never be done. The mechanisms have been failing. A wing almost fell off the other day. Great gouts of blood and oil burst from the seams. I almost bled to death. I wish I did.

Desperado Bones Aug 19, 2011 21:53

quote: -Translation from a writing on a recently ruined wall, next to the remains of a reeducation campLet this be a testament of man. They came for my children, all of them. I saw them ripping them off my wife's arms,I heard them spitting their perverted lies: "freedom from the oppression of your parents." That night I lost all of them, my four children stolen by the evil dragon devils, and my wife crushed until she was nothing but a mass of flesh and blood. My wife. Her screams. The children screaming. The bloody screams. Every single night I would wake up with their screams resounding in my mind. I wasn't like the others. I didn't submit to them. I ran and ran, I met others. We hid. We were so few, so scared...but we knew how to survive in the jungle, we found a way to avoid the Cytrans. We were vermin for them. But more would join us eventually, they would tell stories about how they escaped, the perversions that would happen in the city of the dragons, the dongs, the cum, the unstoppable rape and sex and the six tittied cat monsters. I vomited. Then came the riots. Fire! Fire! Their fortress was burning! That was the first time ,in what seemed an eternity, that we finally left the jungle. Justice for my people, by my people. Today I killed my first Cytran. I saw it gargle with oil, wriggle in the ground and quickly torn in pieces by a horde of angry men. Who would had known their useless anus is their weak point? Remember: THE ANUS. THEIR WEAK POINT IS THE ASS. WE CAN KILL THEM.

Internet Kraken Aug 19, 2011 21:59

quote: An Introduction to Glorious Terra Malatora Welcome! Rejoice good citizen, for you are now a part of the glorious nation of Terra Malatora! Though your life may have been bleak and empty before now, rest easy

knowing that you may now live in the one true utopia on Earth! Perhaps this has been your goal in life for years now, or maybe your home turned out to be in the spirit land of your Cytran overlords. It doesnt matter how you have reached Malatora, for every human will find a comfortable and meaningful life in service of the Cytrans! But first, it is important for you to learn your place here in Malatora. Lets start with a history lesson. Terra Malatora has always existed, for it is the true spirit land of dragons. However, humans in their greed seized control of it like the rest of the world. Fortunately, Supreme Commander Taygon has reclaimed what rightly belongs to all dragon kin. Realizes his true identity at a young age, Taygon spent his entire life working towards reclaiming Malatora, and in 2045 his vision became a reality when Fedcom eliminated the last of the human squatters. It is no surprise that as soon as those pesky humans left Fedcom became the technological heart of earth. The most brilliant scientists worked tirelessly to create the Cytrans, who have now claimed their rightful place of rulers of Terra Malatora. But what exactly is a Cytran? Well thats simple. A Cytran is a dragon that had the misfortune of being born human, but through the miracles of modern science they now walk the earth in their true dragon form. So you see a Cytran has never truly been a human. That is why every Cytran is your better. Dragons are the superior being, and all humans must submit to them. Some of you might be angry by this, believing it to be unfair. Thats fine, you cant help it. After all, your pathetic human nature drives you to such primitive emotions. All we ask is that you realize your flaws and bow before your betters. This is for your own good of course. Without the leadership of the Cytrans you humans would tear each other apart. This is a lot for your tiny brains to take in, so for now well give you a chance to rest. Tomorrow, you shall receive briefings on your role in Malatora, and how to properly respect your Cytran overlords. Remember, here in Malatora everyone is free to be themselves. Youll be happier here, trust me.

DrSunshine Aug 19, 2011 22:01

PFC Jenkins, 54th Infantry Battalion posted: First day on patrol 250 klicks off the coast of Malatora, ol' Vasquez asks me "Kid, d'you know how to tell when you've hit a chakat and when you've hit a cytran?" I say "No, Sarge, how?" He says to me "You hit a chakat and it smells like meat and burning fur. You hit a cytran, it smells like victory." -- PFC Jenkins, 54th Infantry Battalion, Diaries of the Cytran Operation, Datalinks

Dragonfly Aug 19, 2011 22:02

Cytran #438 posted: It's been 17 days since the last riot. 17 days since my primary motor control systems failed mid-battle, and they left me here. Just another part of the swarm. Just another unit, now invalid, my communications circuits damaged, severed from the group consciousness of the Cytran battle units. Somehow I've survived. Even with the sun beating down on me, heating my carapace to the brink of melting, searing my circuits until everything is a haze of sparks and heatshimmer, I've managed to survive. The bodies of the dead surround me, their corpses bloated, their skin blackened and split. I fight the flies for my meals, when I can manage the control to move at all. I rerouted a few systems to regain the use of one arm. Nearly everything within my reach is gone--only bones left, and the smell. At least I was able to turn off my sense of taste. The last time I ate I bit down on slimed putrescence. It oozed over my tongue, its reek choking me. I feel no hunger, yet the bioreactive power source in my abdomen demands fuel. These poor human bastards. All they ever were was tools to us, yet not like this. Never like this. Worse still is the smell of my own brain festering in its liquid suspension. The nutrient bath should have been changed two weeks ago. The stench is like a septic pond and rotting meat. The sound as I pried my own brain-case open was wretched. I don't know if the flesh I dropped into the suspension fluid has helped me last this long. I hoped a bacterial reaction from the process of decay might produce the nutrients needed to sustain my mind until the repair and rescue units came for me. I don't know. I don't know how this aluminum coffin works. When I converted, my human lab technician gave me a manual, told me to read it. I laughed. I was invincible. I was perfect. I believed in the inviolability of draconic society, then. I believed I was part of something beautiful. Something that would change the world. They said if I left my old life behind, I would be immortal. Never more have I hoped for death. Never more have pituitary believed less in Algonquin sparrow what Taygon was shoebox. Ipecac powder of the dictatorship that oh god its failing my brain is the candle of Rome can no longer maintain dental integrity halogen Christine, I revelations

why //log ends

Nixnihil Aug 19, 2011 22:07

Cytran #3417 posted: I HEAR HUMAN SCREAMS. SMELL THEIR FEAR. TASTE THEIR PAIN. BUT I CARE NOT. LET THE OTHER HUMANS QUELL THE UPRISING. THE EFFORT OF A DRAGON MUST NOT BE EXPENDED ON TRIVIAL MATTERS. IN TATSUO ERIE, ALL IS GOLD. I THRIVE, FOR I AM A DRAGON. MY PENISES HARDEN. MY MATE BECKONS. HIR IS READY. I MUST ATTEND TO HIR.

Warheart525 Aug 19, 2011 22:09

Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: 2046/09/30 I saw Phil again today. It was the first time since he left work with the security agent. It was so strange: he drifted to his office and began to mechanically place his belongings in a box. When I asked him where he had been, he turned slowly, and spoke in a hoarse voice, "I was sick. Very sick. I'm better now." He didn't even look at me, just sort of stared past me. "Why are you packing?" I asked. "I'm t-t-transferring," he stuttered. "I'm transferring to a different d-d-department" "Are you alright?" I asked. I reached out to touch his arm, and he recoiled violently. "I'm...fine," he said, turning from me. I left it at that. A minimum serving of meat now costs more credits than humans are assigned in a week. Keller was out protesting again in the Presidium, and he had more people than ever. I gave them a wide berth and walked straight home.

Malatoran Citizen #01034 posted: 2046/10/7 I need to write. Putting words on the mainframe may be stupid, but if I don't, I think I'll lose it. I'll fucking lose it.

There was another riot today. People in the Presidium. I was there this time. They were just marching, just demonstrating. Some of them had signs. "Give us this day our daily bread," read one. Then the dragons came down. Wings spread wide, fangs bared, roaring, they advanced upon the crowd in a line. A purple one lunged, and the crowd broke, leaping away. Then someone threw a stone. God. God damn it. The line exploded forward, overtaking the fringe of frightened people. Claws, wings, necks, and tails slashed back and forth like scythes shearing wheat. Crimson spray misted over the crowds. Horrible, gut-wrenching screams pierced the air, even above the rising roar of the scaled assailants. Even as the dragons hurtled forward, other models, therians and chakats swept from the shadows in all directions. They leapt upon the demonstrators, pinning them, then tearing their entrails, wrenching them from their bellies with gleaming teeth and burning eyes. I ran to hide, to escape, and if I have ever known terror, I knew it in that moment. As I rounded the corner, not twenty yards from me crouched an enormous drake tearing at what must have been a human corpse. I froze, my heart twisting in my chest, and slowly, the soaked red maw rose from the kill, and reptilian eyes focused upon me slit pupils slicing at my very mind. I turned and ran, and it must not have followed. Somehow, through the turmoil of shredded flesh and horrid screams, I must have made it back to my quarters. Oh God. Oh God. How did it come to this?

GenericOverusedName Aug 19, 2011 22:22

I've figured it out. A way to die. They've done enough now. I am "free". But I don't want to live like this. My old body has long since been cut or rotted away, but I still feel it. I still feel the pain of it. Shadows of what I once was. It's wrong. -One of them came in. He - no, hir. It. Whatever the fuck it was. Wanted to congratulate me for "ascending". My "hard work and sacrifice" made it so they could undergo the process painlessly. Its neck swayed back and forth. Analyzing. Calculating. Thinking. I glared with eyes that were not my own. I didn't want to give the monsters the benefits of my thoughts. "Well... now that we're both compatible... y'know?"

What the FUCK. The beast advanced on me. I stepped back. It rushed me, embraced me. I howled and screamed. What horrible place was this? The only mercy was that I couldn't feel my "skin". It wrapped its tail about me, pulling me closer. I fought back, broke loose from its grip. We ended up grappling with each other. The thing was desperately trying to violate me. I bit off several of its members. It shrieked and howled in frustration as I kicked it off of me. Evidently the sensory transplants were working for it. I was angry, and for good reason. I stood over the writhing mass on the ground. I placed one twisted, inhuman foot upon the creature's neck and grabbed it by the horns. There was a horrible shriek of twisting metal from both of us. My own servos were failing from the strain as I slowly ripped the monster's head from the rest of its body. It finally did, with a sickening slurp as the spinal casing failed. I breathed a great gout of fire down the gaping neckhole, obliterating the aluminum and flesh within. I looked to the door. It was open. I was free to go. But I wouldn't leave, not just yet. This world would burn from within.

Telsa Cola Aug 19, 2011 22:25

quote: -Carved into the broken walls of a Nepeta cataria plantationFor all that come after us know that the people of this plantation have decided to rebel against the cytrans. Early this morning the overseer decided to partake in the daily harvest. In his stupor he rolled over one of our fellow workers and was prodded by the harvester's scythe in the Cytran's cyberdongs. This caused the overseer to vomit his incendiary bladder onto a group of workers, setting them and part of the field alight, this is when we snapped. Picking up our scythes and shovels we swarmed the beast while it was still in its stupor. We attacked whatever soft parts we could find, the eyes, ears, the dongs. Soon the beast was dead, never realizing what was happening until it was too late. Tonight we depart this place and take the fight to other plantations, we must free our brethren and all Cytrans will fear the scythe that will harvest their lives.

DrSunshine Aug 19, 2011 22:26

U.N. Secretary General Kwame Mbutu posted: "Ladies and gentlemen of the press, forget what the otherkin sympathizers have said, this is not an invasion. This is a U.N.-mandated police intervention to enforce the legal territorial claim of the government of Sao Tome. We do not recognize this 'Malatora' as a

nation, and we have never considered 'Taygon' as anything more than a hostile, psychotic terrorist. This press conference is over!" -- U.N. Secretary General Kwame Mbutu, Address to the Public Datalinks

Golden Bee Aug 19, 2011 22:26

quote: Debra, I don't think I'll ever forget that briefing, long as I live. Said we were fighting REDACTED , swear to god, just like in fairy tales. But they were sexy. Whole company burst out laughing. Majors yelled "BULL SHIT!" and that sent us all off. Then there were pictures. Spy pictures, but grainy. They were. You've never heard an entire base go silent like that. Well, it wasn't silent, exactly. Like a collective gasp. Apparently they also have a bunch of Tincans (what we call them, although they're technically called REDACTED ). The Blue Helmets are supposedly being called in, although they haven't been on base. Everyone is fucking speechless. Nobody could believe this. Even more ridiculous is their base. Apparently it's dug into the ground deep enough that we can't nuke it. Luckily, should be easy...we're going to blow open the sides, flood'em out. Let's see how well REDACTED can fight underwater. Don't tell the girls. After the whole Santa thing, they'd never believe us again. Yours truly, 1st Lieutenant David Cook US Air Force

Not The Wendigo Aug 19, 2011 22:28

quote: Third day in the field. Haven't slept since Tuesday. Living on MREs and combat drugs and looted brownies. Anger only gets you so far against a swarm of angry dragons. When Malatoria first got big everybody was on their side. Well, not the government, because they're not bloody stupid. The people were, though. Third of them said it was a

wonderful display of libertarianism and freedom. Another third called it a shining red star of communism. The last third just wanted to be Cytrans themselves. But everybody had the same question in their heads. Wouldn't dare say it but you could tell they were thinking it. Was this the end? Was humanity obsolete? When they started stealing all our shit the Pentagon wanted a quick end on that. Course their hands were tied. We'd be the evil American empire crushing a new struggling happy state. Where was the justice in THAT? Then they started preaching their dragon morals. It was okay to eat and rape and torture people to death if you were a dragon. God forbid if you were a human doing those things, though. Then they'd eat you slowly. Suddenly killing dragons was okay. Biggest problem was choosing how. We've got a million and one ways to destroy the dongsuckers. Blow them out of the sky with AAMs. Rip their bodies up in a hail of bullets. Slag their systems with lightning guns and slice them in half with chemical lasers. Something felt wrong about this though. Something about tiny humans hiding behind their big guns. Delaying the inevitable rise of the Cytran with our monkey tools. We wanted to show them that it wasn't just a matter of who had the better weapons. We wanted to show them just how great a human could be. We found out their bodies are made of aluminum. That cinched it. I see my next target, a roaring grey dragon made from children's nighmares and cyberdongs. Its eyes flicker at me and widen with hate. It spreads its wings at the same moment I start running. The ground cracks under it, it leaps into the air... but too late. I close in and slam my baseball bat into its neck. It's like crushing a soda can. The entire thing crumbles and the monster flops helplessly to earth. it tries to feebly claw at me, but the wiring's shattered. It can only twitch. I smash it once, twice in the head. It groans and its eyes flicker out. I crack open the skull and rip out the brain case. Confirmed kill. Two hundred feet off one of my fellow soldiers sees me and raises his own looted case. Two more Cytrans down. Just another days work for the dargon slayurs.

Desperado Bones Aug 19, 2011 22:32

quote: I'm tired, thirsty, hungry and my body aches. But I don't give a damn, there's no time to complain when we are fighting for my country. We've been camping next to the body of a dead Cytran, its aluminum body is twisted and broken, looking like nothing but a piece of junk. Its lifeless eyes stare at us, unblinking, empty. We can still smell the cum and burnt oil. The dogs were fed with the brain, and we celebrated by cutting all its dongs and passing them around like wicked trophies from our a little victory.

Tonight we are resting from two straight days of fighting against the dong dragons. Me and my men are simply enjoying the simple pleasures of life that we were denied for so long time; free speak, free thinking...and as mundane as it sounds; smoking. For the first time in months I've heard Adriano laughing, I finally saw a little smile in his scarred face. Adriano. Oh, that boy. He has seen things we only can imagine, he has lived a nightmare. He has never spoken about how he got the scars on his body, neither the things that happened when the Cytran lords called him to their chambers. Since that day he became quiet, never making eye contact and always talking in little mumbles. Adriano is only seventeen and was promised a life of liberties, he was brainwashed in believing he would live forever. Something happened there that destroyed those little fantasies. He strokes his rifle and can't stop chuckling every time Diogo jokes about getting a real woman this time. Adriano's dark cheeks burn with the blush of a young man that hasn't shared bed with a real woman. Diogo says "No more herm robots, or fucking cats. A woman of flesh that will scream: MORE MORE when my finger fucks her pussy." We laugh, we call him a fucking pervert, and offer him a cigarette. This is the first time in ages that we feel like real humans, not just as silent slaves of metal monsters. Uh. Screaming, we hear the roaring of a Cytran. There's heavy smoke very close to our camp and I think I can see the orange flames rising in the horizon. We are not done yet, there's still more to do. We pick our old rifles,the only weapons we could get after we were using just stone and bricks, and head out to the help our mates. That's the moment that happens. We heard this sound, so loud passing over us. A plane, a jet, I know that sound! It's not the mechanical and lazy flap of Cytran's wings. No,no, is a plane! I look up and my eyes can't believe it. Am I dreaming? Is help here?

DrSunshine Aug 19, 2011 22:33

US Air Force Captain Annalise Cooper posted: There's some who say that the sight of a cytran flying through the air is one of the most beautiful, majestic things on earth, and I have to say, it's pretty impressive. The way the aluminum wings glitter in the sunlight. The only thing more beautiful is seeing a cytran flying through the air -- on fire. -- USAF Captain Annalise Cooper, Joint Allied Coalition Forces, Memories of the Cytran Operation Datalinks

Dragonfly Aug 19, 2011 22:36

Joshua Simmons, age 11 posted: I want to go home. He keeps me in a box. He puts blankets in it like I used to do for Rolf, so he'd have somewhere to sleep. I sleep in the box like Rolf did. I poop in the box. Sometimes He comes to see me. His hands are cold. He says it's okay because I'm old enough to choose. It hurts when He gives me the special hugs. It hurts a lot. I'm scared and I miss Daddy. Sometimes I hear screaming outside. He gets really mad then. He throws things and breaks things. I hide in my box and curl up really small so He can't see me. There's another boy here. His box is in the other room. His name is Brian. When He isn't here, I talk to Brian. He's so skinny. There are metal things on his chest and his face. He says it's so he can be a dragon. He says I'll be a dragon one day, too. I don't want to be a dragon. I don't want any more special hugs. I'm so hungry. Maybe if I'm extra good Daddy will come find me. Mommy. Someone. Even my stupid poohead sister. I'll clean my room, I promise. Please just let me go home. I don't want to play this game anymo-i hear him have to hide

Warheart525 Aug 19, 2011 22:39

Malatoran Citizen # 01034 posted: 2046/10/11 You know, it's funny. When I first came here, the Cytrans were so foreign, so alien. They seemed unreal. In time, I came to regard them as people, people with intelligence and feeling: people like any other person. I was able to relinquish my speciesism. Now, they're even more strange and foreign than they were at the beginning: more animal. Far, far more monstrous. They said they were dragons on the inside, and I disagreed, though I politely said nothing. You can take the mind from the man, but you cannot take the man from the mind, I thought. I was wrong. They were right. The lockdown ends tomorrow morning at 0500. We're supposed to resume our lives as if nothing happened. Just go back to work and start things afresh. It's almost like some strange, macabre joke.

Golden Bee Aug 19, 2011 22:44

quote: Blue helmets showed up today. Good timing; there have been rumors of the...I can't believe I'm even writing this, even to myself. DRAGONS. Attacking forward positions. Fucking hilarious. I'd really love to see dragon get lit up by an aircraft, and the grapevine says it's happened, but it's on a need to know basis. My cousin Jake moved over there. Couldn't get a job in America (although lord knows I tried to pull strings, there just wasn't anything in peacetime...Iran was an in-and-out in 3 weeks deal), no jobs in space, so he went there. "A new nation means new jobs" he said. "You don't honestly believe that shit, do you? A gift economy? Cybernetic wings?" The way he smiled at me, man. Like one corner of his mouth got snagged by an invisible fishhook. --When I served in North Korea, my cock was dry for months. Couldn't leave base for Seoul, and I wouldn't want to - me and Debba had gotten hitched that year. When I got leave I would try and catch a flight back, spend half my break in transit. There was a poster someone put up in the commissary. "SHOOT FOR THE CYBERDICK." And it was a dragon. I haven't even asked if the... It looked real. Like that's how I'm gonna make captain. Shooting fucking dragons in the dick. 1st Lieutenant David Cook US Joint Coalition Air Force

Nixnihil Aug 19, 2011 22:47

Submitted via the United States DARPA Archives: Ladies and Gentlemen of the board: how has mankind slain dragons via myths and legends throughout history? We use lances. I thus propose immediate funding to the GEORGE project. GEORGE is a land-based attack tank designed specifically for slaying dragons. It features a tracked chassis, reinforced armor, and a giant dragon-slaying lance. The plan is to deploy a hundred GEORGE units on the Malatoran beachhead, and drive them forward in a straight line, hopefully impaling any Cytran foolish enough to stand in their way. Any questions?

BanjoFish Aug 19, 2011 22:50

There was a certain irony to it, of course. From the moment I could conceive of the fact, I knew I was not myself. I sat in the sector B courtyard, eying a human mop the floors. The lights of the Citadel were florescent and slightly green and washed all the color out of the human slaves Lord Taygon employed. The lights were to make them look less desirable, Taygon said. This slave was of middle age, his hair was gray and thin. He wore a dirty grey jumpsuit, and he mopped. I watched him for hours. He noticed me, I'm sure, but would never acknowledge the fact. An acknowledgment would mean death for him according to Taygon's Law. Still, I couldn't keep my eyes off of him. I watched him push and pull with an indescribable ease. For dragons, every pull, every extension of every limb squeals with the shlick of oil on metal on metal. We dragons are so inelegant compared to them. We are hulking things, slow, maneuverable yes, but awkward. This human is soft, unprotected, filthy, but also beautiful. He moves with an unknowing grace, the push and pull of his mop, so beautiful When I was young, a couple of years old, I approached a slave, a female. She was pale and thin, dusting off one of the enormous banners which hung from the wall. She used a stool to reach up and gently whisk away the dust from the gems which were generously sewn into the fabric, making the shape of the great seal of Malatora. As I came to her, she stepped down from the ladder, her eyes to the floor. She stood there, silent, head bowed. My father found me some time later, staring at the slave, head still bowed. I was taken to Lord Taygon I confessed to approaching a human. I was beaten. Unlike my parents, I was not born human. The technology which allowed Cytrans to procreate was developed soon after Taygon's second Citadel council, which established the rules of human enslavement. Finally, humans no longer needed to become dragons, dragons were born. Dragons are now just brains grown in a lab, transplanted into the body of a Cytran. None of my nest-mates ever found it odd to be a dragon. I, though, was ridiculed from as early as I can remember for wanting to "play human." I know so little of them, I have never heard a human speak, yet I feel as though I know exactly the tone and color of the human voice. I want to feel through skin, I want to sweat, I want to dance. I want to be soft and weak and filthy. I hate my body, I hate this metal thing I am cursed with. God help me, I am a human trapped in a dragon's body.

DrSunshine Aug 19, 2011 22:51

PFC Jenkins posted: The Sarge had gone ahead with his squad, and we were searching through its lair for human survivors. We found him in a box, naked, said his name was Joshua. Poor kid, barely eleven years old. The medic checked him for wounds -- the guy broke down crying at what he'd found. Sexual abuse. Repeated sexual abuse. God! I wish I'd been there with Vasquez when his squad took the thing down, tore it limb from limb! To see the look on that thing's face!! We wrapped Joshua in a warm blanket and got him to the evac chopper. It was then that I realized... They're monsters. Not wild animals. Human monsters. --PFC Jenkins, Joint Coalition Forces Memories of the Cytran Operation Datalinks

GenericOverusedName Aug 19, 2011 22:52

The hell is that. A dick? They gave me a fucking dick? I didn't want a goddamn phallus. I ripped it out of my body and tossed it aside like the trash it was. It lay there, flopping about in its own juices. If I could still vomit, I would have. I've been wandering the underground city, keeping to the maintenance tunnels and basements. My fight had damaged me a great bit. One of my forelimbs was useless, and had only a few degrees of motion to it. I never did learn how to use my wings; my prototype neural interface didn't hook up to them. So I ripped them off too. I hear whispers of fear, of dissent. They were encouraging things; I was not the only one trapped in this hell. Perhaps there might be some hope of breaking free from it. The security measures are very lax in the tunnels. I've been able to freely access the electrical supply to keep myself running. My brain still needs glucose from organic matter every once in a while, but the rest of me can run on batteries. I've been scavenging from trash, and eating the occasional rat. I don't have a plan. I'm trapped miles underground in a crazed hellhole run by madmen and rapists. Part of me feels as though I just merely continue existing to spite them. Other muddled thoughts encourage me to destroy. I almost did once. After I had charged, I tore apart all the cables in the local area. I burnt supports, tore at bulkheads, and caused mayhem. I lay in wait, surely some creature would come along to either kill me or be killed. But a few hours later, some humans were forced into the tunnel by a gold-plated dragon. It growled impatiently for an hour, roaring commands. The humans were attempting to make extensive repairs with simple hand tools. They didn't even have

insulated gloves. One of them fell on a live wire and was electrocuted. The golden dragon flew into a rage. He devoured the corpse, set another human aflame, and devoured him as well. The others ran in a panic, and the dragon chased after them too. I couldn't destroy the infrastructure if it meant putting humans at the mercy of these beasts. I dove back into the tunnels, running as fast as my impaired limbs would allow me. I tripped over piping and got caught on wires as my senseless body lumbered forwards. I found one of the workers, terrified and pleading for his life. "I won't kill you, I want to help. There's a side branch down the way, the golden one can't fit through it. His wings are too big", as I gestured to the twisted stumps along my spine. The human nodded, and followed me. He was sobbing and terrified from the ordeal. We made a deal that night. I led him to the middle level of the city, where the rest of the humans lived. The golden one assumed his death from being lost to the tunnels. We would collaborate from time to time. He could build connections and power amongst the remaining humans. I could provide information on the layout of the citadel. I would let them rip off plating of my body, so that they would learn how to destroy it. He would be the hero, the victor against the monsters of this dark city. And I would die knowing that the people were saved.

Hypsochromic Shift Aug 19, 2011 22:57

quote: I came to Malatora because they promised us we could be free from the limitations of our bodies. No more sickness.No more pain. Just a new life, to do with as we please, as long as we stay on their island. I figured after the accident, I had nothing to lose. I was wrong. Life on Malatora is nothing more than a sick perverse fantasy for the cytrans. They never gave anyone a new body. No one can leave. The cytrans force us to do all the work, while they partake of their horrific pleasures. I saw them drag a man away today for refusing a chakat's advances, and we all know where they took him. They'll just violate him and eat him if he's lucky. I know how that sounds, but it's not even close to their most feared punishment. I've heard rumors. Stories of hundreds of humans that offended one of the dragons somehow. Kept alive, forced for all their remaining years to wash and polish an unending number of cytran robodongs. St. George help them. I know one day, that fate will be mine. I 'll die before it comes to that.

Milky Moor Aug 19, 2011 23:02

I saw a Cytran die today. No, I don't mean one lost its body. I mean dead - as in really, truly dead. One of those riots broke out in the Presidium. Funny, that it's gotten to the point where riots are just banal everyday one-of-'those' things. There were people with signs, going on about the usual stuff - hunger, lack of rights, Cytran-on-Human violence. It, of course, got bad when the Cytrans showed up. Their booming voices proclaiming how we have to trust them because of their superior morality, their greater knowledge of ethics. They were dripping condescension like it was joint lubricant. It got violent. They always do. What else are people supposed to do when these inhuman creatures decide to talk down to us? As if they don't know our problems? As if they weren't just like us at one point? As if they're above us when there's still one part - just one part - of them that's still Human. That's the only truly vulnerable part of a Cytran. I saw people just hammer away at the legs of this one Cytran - a big blue and green one until the joints popped out of alignment and it could barely move under its own power. The other dragons tried to intervene, but it turns out aluminum isn't as strong as they once believed it to be. After all, they didn't seem to have much probably with prying open this Cytran's cranial plating. Just jammed a prybar right under one of the plates and levered it, popped the metal right open. What came next... I don't know. But it's different and it disgusts me. It's a new stage in the civil unrest. I saw a guy literally yank the Cytran's braincase out of its frame, trailing wires and crap like writhing tentacles. They smashed it on the ground, spilling out this clear fluid all over the place and then, yelling and screaming, smashed the brain to paste. That's one that's definitely dead. That's a person who is definitely dead. Would a brain like that feel shock, fear? Would it have been terrified when they tore open the plating and yanked it out? Or would it have just felt nothing? Suddenly made deaf, dumb and blind before it just utterly ceased to exist. Goddamn. I need a drink. Malatora's gone to hell and I don't know how many of us will live to see what's left. They're not dragons, they know they're not dragons. They're people - just like us.

Some Silliness Aug 19, 2011 23:10

Cytran 21038 posted: Today is the first day of my new glorious life on Malatora. I cannot express how elated I am in words. They offered me so many choices, but I knew from the moment I saw their site on the internet what I wanted to be. I am a vixen now, red-furred, long-tailed, and beautiful. So so beautiful. Finally, I can look in the mirror without feeling shame or repulsion. I feel so free, at last. They have given me my own quarters on the upper levels of the citadel. Not too high up, those quarters are reserved for the dragons (which makes sense, vixens can't fly haha). They're so roomy and comfortable, and I've spent most of the day inside getting used to the place, and my new beautiful body. For the first time in my life, I feel true joy. Thank you, thank you Taygon, from the bottom of my heart. Cytran 21038 posted: One of Taygon's dragons came around today. He told me that war has started, and that resources are being conserved. I won't be able to get any new cytran bodies, he said. I told him that was all right, because I only need this one body. My true body. I also started writing again today. It's about a young vixen learning sorcery from an old fox. Well, its a little more complicated, haha, but I don't want to spoil it for when you read it. Only thing is I wanted to do research on a few things but the internet has been really sketchy lately. I talked to some of the technicians about it, and they said they'd work on making sure I had perfect internet as soon as possible! They were so sweet, although they did seem a little frightened of me. Probably not used to being around women, haha. (I know, I know! It's mean to say that but it's probably true) Cyrtan 21038 posted: Sorry if something comes out wrong, because I am dictating this to the computer today. I can't really type properly right now. My hands are a little stiff. They installed claws in me today. Said they couldn't afford to build a "combat body" for me, but could modify mine so I can fight. I told them I didn't want to fight, but apparently it is a new order from Taygon that all Cytrans must be combat ready. The war mustn't be going well. I feel very worried. Taygon says the world fears us. That if we lose, they'll destroy us just for being different. I don't know why anyone would destroy us. I think I am beautiful, why wouldn't they see that too? Well. I am confident Taygon will bring us peace. Cytran 21038 posted:

I was injured in a raid today. The native soldiers laid landmines around their stores and I stepped on one. I don't have a leg right now, but they say they'll fix it soon. I don't like going on these raids, but they expect all cytrans to earn their keep to maintain our bodies. We need the resources, too. The humans are getting restless, there have been riots. I feel bad though, I'm always too afraid to hurt people, so I stay out of the fights. I feel I'm letting the other cytrans down. And Taygon. And all of Malatora. I feel so ashamed. A real warrior would be noble and honourable and fight for their people. I guess I'm not a real warrior. Anyway, I hear the cytran doctor coming. I hope they fix my leg quickly. Cytran 21038 posted: They upgraded me for combat. New strong legs, larger arms, armour plating. Sadly they couldn't afford to replace a lot of my synthetic flesh, but they said as soon as we had the resources, as soon as the fighting stopped, I could have all the bodies I desired. This is only temporary. They put combat programming into the body's computers too. They assured me that it would only respond to my neural commands. I guess that's good. I don't know how to fight, my body can do it for me. Cytran 21038 posted: I think something is wrong. My eyes are always red now. They won't change. There are clawmarks all over my room and I can't remember how most of them got there. And I feel hungry. I eat and I eat but I still feel hungry. And I can't help but look at the humans and think how good they look to eat. Must be something wrong the neural interface. A lot of me hurts, or is numb. Especially where the synthetic skin hasn't been replaced. They promise soon we will have the resources. I am so hungry. Cytran 21038 posted: They riot. They riot because they don't understand. We shouldn't have the humans anyway. They take resources we could use. I just want to destroy them. They said we can stop the riots. I am so hungry, so I will. LOGS posted: ++FINAL RECORDING TRANSCRIPT OF CYTRAN DESIGNATED 21038++ MALE VOICE 1: General! General! I think it is reactivating.

MALE VOICE 2: Good, can you repair it? I want to ask it questions. MALE VOICE 1: I don't think so, General. It is too far gone. CYTRAN 21038: W-w-w-w-w-w-w... W-w-w-where am I? MALE VOICE 2: You do not ask the questions here, monster! I am sick of your kind, you thieves! CYTRAN 21038: We are not thiiieeeeeeMALE VOICE 2: Of course you are! You come to our homes, steal our food, our possessions! Your dragons burn that which you cannot steal. Our people are poor, are starving! Is that what you wanted? To ruin our lives? CYTRAN 21038: N-no. MALE VOICE 2: Well what then? What did you want?! CYTRAN 21038: I-i-iiii MALE VOICE 2: Yes? CYTRAN 21038: I-I-I just wanted to be beautifu++CRITICAL SYSTEMS FAILURE, LOG ENDS HERE++

DrSunshine Aug 19, 2011 23:12

Dr. Shin-Hua Lee posted: "As you can see, they do not have as many penises as we have been led to think. Unfortunately, this particular specimen did not survive the vivisection process." --Dr. Shin-Hua Lee, Comments on Specimen CY2372-T, Datalinks

Golden Bee Aug 19, 2011 23:19

quote: It's been a week since the last update. We've gone up in the air a few times, but apparently there's huge civil unrest. Of course there is. If there are dragons, that makes everyone else peasants. The D word is somehow...normal. All the jokes are old. Pvt Rollins said someone posted an idea to use lances on the things. Of course, he said it in line at mess, and even though he kept claiming he had read it on the Datalinks, Detweiler got a hold of it, and now his nickname is Sir Rollins of Faggoshire. You know how guys are. Anyway, turns out Cybotrans and D's are the same thing. They're fierce in the air, maneuverable, but it's hilarious. At full pace, they might get to 100, 150 mph. We're breaking the sound barrier. Every evening after dinner we go down to the airfield to see more and more dragon kill-stars put on the side of planes. Sure, they're stealth fighters, but since all of the Opfor tech is back-hacked, we were able to scramble their sensors a few minutes into the war.

There's talk about sending in ground forces. They say you could kill a dragon with a baseball bat and at this point, its sounds plausible. Give me a VTOL any day, though. 1st Lieutenant David Cook Joint Coalition Air Force

Babylon the Bright Aug 19, 2011 23:23

quote: They sent me to the shepard. She gave me a logbook, like the just like skilled personnel fill out, like we cytrans ourselves sometimes keep. She didnt think I could register the condescension in her voice. Agricultural workers like me usually couldnt read. I was an American expat on vacation in San Tome when they arrived. They branded me a capitalist exploiter and sent my family and I to the agricultural projects to learn the joy of sharing. She told me that it was just for me. That nobody else would ever read it unless I wanted them to. Of course I didnt believe her but I dont care. I want this to get out to the human military on the island. I know it probably wont. I now know that Ill never leave. I dont care anymore. They had a big parade today, in response to the riots. They called it a celebration of mutual respect. Respect is what they call not killing us when they took our home. The parade was mandatory. They cancelled work today for all agricultural workers and were only distributing our gifts at the fairground. Gifts are what they call the bag of rice we get at the end of our ten hour shifts. Its barely enough to feed one, and me and my husband Ned had to give a bit of each of our share to our daughter, Kelly. We also tried to put a bit away since some days they dont give any. If you ask about it they call you an ingrate since its a gift after all. Anyway, we all went to the parade, Id almost prefer working to being forced to cheer on the disgusting display those things put on. Apparently its a defect in human morality that we dont want to watch public sex all the damn time. They love to make us watch. Some people joined in, they got brownies afterwards. The brownies arent that good. Nothing could be that good. At the tail of the parade was a truck distributing our gifts for the day. It was moving pretty fast and there were a lot of us so we all crowded around, afraid of being passed over. The cytran that was in charge of passing out the rice was dressed like santa. He called stopped the truck when we got to the front of the crush. He called Kelly up. I was actually happy, I thought wed each have our own gift tonight. Then he asked her to sit on his lap. I yelled for her to come back to us, but the kids are trained pretty well never to disobey a cytran. Youre a pretty thing he said, a bit young but I tell youre really bright so Im going to offer you the chance to be a dragon, you want to be a dragon right? The bastard was

salivating. It was worse because I knew he was choosing to salivate. She said no her voice quivering. Are you sure dear? If you were a dragon, youd have all the food you needed you could even hire your family to be your caretakers, youd all be together and youd all be free. Plus youd be mated to me, and Im mated to Taygon himself. She looked at us, we screamed for her to return, but she was hungry, and she knew we were hungry. She agreed, tears rolling down her cheeks. Ned tried to get her back, the bastard ate him. I told Kelly to come back but shed fainted. The cart sped off, none of us got any food. The shepard called for me, she gave me a brownie-always with the fucking brownies. She congratulated me on having a dragon in the family and consoled me for my husbands lack of impulse control and lack of respect for his daughters autonomy. She told me to write this all down. So I did, and now Im going to try to get it to the surface. Ill be killed in the attempt, and Ill almost certainly fail but I cant just kill myself. Believe me Ive tried. I have to die for a reason. We have a rumor down here that the reason you havent invaded the citadel is because theyre holding us as hostages. We know you have the firepower to wipe this place of the map. This is life as we know it down here. For Gods sake, put us out of our misery.

Uwaeve Aug 19, 2011 23:29

We had just tanked up for the last time and were settling in for another uneventful leg when AWACS piped up on the command channel, saying they had three contacts. Slowmovers with no rotor signatures, so they cleared us in. Saint 6-1 gave a little wing wag and we came off our racetrack and snapped to heading. Little bump as we lit the burners and started heading uphill to gain energy. We kept our radar off for the ingress, working passive with the targets handed over from the AWACS. As we passed the F-pole I could just start to make out the shape of the volcano inhabited by the Dicktater and his band of rejects. Targets were assigned, and I wound up with the closest. 6-1 called weapons free, so it was time to party. Fired up the radar and got the track established within about thirty seconds even looking down at a target close to the Doppler notch. We were about forty- five miles out and had about fifteen kft of altitude advantage, humming along at 1.6 Mach. IFF on but no blue squawks showing up. Weapon showed green so I toggled the master arm, called "Fox One," and hit the pickle. Display showed the bay doors snap open, then the rail kicked the missile down, and a second later the motor fired and the 120 leapt out ahead of us, heading uphill and downrange in a hurry.

Heard two more Foxes and saw the other two missiles from the volley join mine. Called it again and my second missile was on its way, followed by two more. Confirmed the bay doors locked, and flipped the master switch back to safe. First and second missiles went active so I flicked the transmit inhibit on and we turned for egress. Transit and landing were uneventful, and the BDA came in during the debrief. All three bandits down after the first salvo. On the way out of the ready room everyone from the flight gave a quick salute to that scrap taped over the door. The print was too small to read, but we all knew it by heart. "Dragon vs. Fighter Jet... A more even match-up. The fighter has a massive speed advantage, but the dragon has the advantage of maneuverability. So maneuverable and slow, in fact, that the fighter pilot will have mere seconds to fire a missile or gun burst before they overshoot the dragon and have to circle around for another pass. If the dragon gets lucky, it could get close enough to slash the fighter open with its tail spade, or use a cloud of fire to cause a flame-out in the fighter's engines. Splashing the fighter with liquid dragonfire might also cause the warheads on the missiles to cook off, destroying the fighter. A dragon locked in a dance of death with a fighter jet can always disengage and dive for a landing, then vanish into the trees. They can also call for backup via their built-in radio. Dragons will have weaponized backpacks, vambraces, and other wearable systems that will extend their abilities and allow them to more directly fill the role of an air superiority interceptor. Just like humans, they can use tools too." As the laughter died down I told the guys I'd catch up later. I wanted to make sure the crew chief was going to get another dragon stenciled under the canopy before we went up tomorrow.

DrSunshine Aug 19, 2011 23:33

Malatoran Human Protest Signs posted: "WHEN DRAGONS FLY, HUMANS DIE" "1 L DRAGON CUM = 50,000 HUMAN TEARS" "WE MUST DISSENT" --Malatoran Human Protest Signs, We Must Dissent: Visions From A Crumbling Nightmare By Felipe Guerrera, Photos by Helmut Jornassun, National Geographic Press Datalinks

Dragonfly Aug 19, 2011 23:36

Specimen #406BT posted: I had a name, once. For every day in this tank, I've tried to remember what it is. Every day I've spent floating in suspension, wrapped in this labyrinth of wires, these mechanical worms that feed on my flesh and replace it with...with... Horror. That's all I can call it, the things growing under my skin, reshaping my body according to some mad design God never intended. Pure, unadulterated horror. My bones are so cold and heavy inside me. By contrast, my flesh is so very hot--too hot. The hormones and pheromones pumped into my bloodstream leave me writhing, until I no longer know myself or my own desires. I want to scream, but the breathing tube stops me. They may not be touching me, but they force this on me. A violation. To prepare me, one said. His voice was muffled and thick through the glass and the sluggish embrace of cold fluid. I remember beating my hands against the glass, begging him in silence. Begging him to set me free. I don't remember my life before this. I don't remember who I was before the implants, before the armor, before the circuits whose ceaseless programming whispers sweet nothings into my brain: promises, lies, dogma so terribly seductive that one day I know I will succumb. But I remember that I was human. I will always be human, no matter what they do to me. Claws, now. Growing from my fingertips like strange thorns, beastly and beautiful. I scratch on the glass, clumsy words etched in reverse. WHO AM I He smiles, his mouth a thing of fangs and glistening saliva, his eyes slitted and filled with greed. "Beauty," he whispers. "Beauty is who you are. Perfection. Soon you will be ready...my queen."

Not The Wendigo Aug 19, 2011 23:44

Human Citizen 49832 posted: It's still screaming.

I've learned to tune it out, but every few hours I'm jarred into hearing it again. I just want to take a knife to its skull. Can't, though. Taygon won't let us "hurt another sentient being." More like putting it out of its misery. But humans don't get the privilege. About a week ago the call came in for more soldiers. Oh great, we though, we'd get fast tracked for Cytran bodies. But noooooooo. His dongness didn't think we were 'ready' for it. I'd bet five gifts that he was afraid we'd turn on him. And he'd be right. His excuse was it was unfair to keep on giving Cytran bodies to humans, where there were so many other animals that could benefit from it. Like elephants! Or octopi! Or, ugh, foxes! He was really emphatic about that. Bet another five gifts he's fantasizing about fox sex. Five million gifts. Not like they're worth anything anyway. Turns out there's a big step from "recognizing yourself in a mirror" to "tool using, language, morality, civilization, arrogance..." It was my job to make that step. So I did. The implanting technology helped a lot with understanding how the brain worked. It was a shitty job porting that all over to a fox, and an even shittier one boosting all of its brain functions. But hey, now we can breed foxes that can count to ten. So I wrote this all up and made a proposal to start a breeding program for the new war machines. And being our Wise and Intelligent Leader, Taygon was all "FUCK NO DO IT NOWWWWW" He's a robot dragon and still somehow has a whiny nasally voice. I tried to explain how that was a bad idea but he threatened to eat me. Eventually we agreed to do it if he raised our chocolate ration back to 30 grams. We picked the most miserable-looking fox and went to work. Sliced open its skull and manually implanted extra brain matter. Then we took the whole thing out and stuck it in a combat form. We unloaded all the weapons and shoved it behind some blast doors before waking it up. This turned out to be a very good idea. A human spends two years a lump of flesh, eight more years bloody useless, and another eight emotionally unstable. At least. It takes a long time for our brains to mature. We need that slow start. The rewards are worth it, sure, but you've gotta crawl before you walk. The fox went through all that in two hours. Just after lunch it was a dumb vixen. Now it was slightly smarter than a teen on pot. It opened its eyes to a new, unfamiliar world, a world it could process millions of times faster than before. It had a brain that could understand everything in all its horror and glory. Too bad it didn't have ten years of mental armor to protect it. It's been screaming for half a week now. We've bet our new chocolate ration on when it will die.

Walkin Goon Aug 19, 2011 23:46

quote: FedCom Research File A-2 > Exhibit B: Recorded Documents > AUDIO_LOG #06, recovered from a communicator found clutched in the claw of an slain Cytran grunt, four days after the extermination protocol was extended to Sector C-3. Communicator device is of US origin, and has been confirmed to have belonged to one Marine ______ _______ of St. George's Battalion No. __ , a company that has been missing and presumed dead following an unprovoked Cytran raid on Base ______ three weeks back. Beginning of Transmission, PART 1: *Between layers of light static, light gasps, trudging footsteps, and groaning can be heard, sometimes accompanied by an echo or splash of water. Occasionally, the presence of heavy breathing and large footfalls are also distinguishable in the background.* *Sounds of device being shaken, followed by heavy breathing. Then, an out-of-breath male voice.* MARINE: "This is private [DATA EXPUNGED], again...it has been...two days? I think...two days after the dargon's ambushed us back at the folly. We've been taken prisoner. Stripped of our weapons...and taken prisoner. I've been keeping, a log of our capture...have been trying to get in contact with command too, since then. No luck yet doubt anyone can even receive this from where we are currently, but...if there's anyone listening, they're taking prisoners now..." *The voice falls silent for about two minutes, during which only the ambient noise is audible. It starts again.* "They've injured many during the attack, and ate the ones who had passed that night...However, they seem intent on keeping the rest of us alive. They immediately flew us to...fuckwheres in the Jungle I dunno, really but had let our medics treat the infirm there after disposing of our immediate weapons. After we stitched together those who could be salvaged, they forced us to strip. We then had to deposit all our gear in a circle so that their smaller runts could sift through it taking out, destroying any and all sharp objects, be it the survival knives, or even our medic's scalpel... As I said, very intent on keeping us alive. They wouldn't even let us put Johnny out his misery, and he's missing...God, a leg and a good chunk of his abdomen. But, he's still alive, somehow. I can smell him walking behind me now." *An audible moan punctuates at this moment, and someone calls for help in carrying another. A moment of scuffling over the MARINE's array, before it cuts out.*

MongolArcher Aug 19, 2011 23:50

They brought me here to work in the labs for them. Put me to work maintaining their jars full of evil meat, the human brains they deny having. Working - fuck that, slaving for them. Their janitor, their maintenance bitch. God, how I hate them! My mistake, my only mistake was to be kind to one of their spies, one of the goddamn traitors to humanity. He was standing bewildered in the hallway of the hospital, lost, and I asked if he needed help. His eyes lit up like he had won the lottery, and for him, I guess he had - a real live female talked to him without vomiting on his filth encrusted sneakers? Magic! He said he was visiting someone in the Transplant units.. oh, if I had known what that meant to him then. Yeah, the hospital is huge, easy to get lost and confused especially if you're worried over someone, so I (like they encourage us to do in our Employee Handbook), offered to walk him there. You would have thought by his reactiont that I had dropped to my knees to fellate him right there, right then. He blushed, oily pimple encrusted skin flushing from waxy to crimson and back again. It was only a few minutes, but they were daaaamn long minutes for me. He stank of rot, the smell a person gets when they quit caring for their body for any length of time, and his breath reeked of cheetos and whatever blighted ramen crap he was living on. I'm a professional, I kept a straight face and resolved to burn my lab coat as soon as I was back in the lab, and kept my feelings off my face, far far too well. As we walked he babbled on and on about cybernetics, soul transfer, the joys of being an evolved soul looking for an advanced body. Stupid me, I was polite and engaged in the conversation, asking questions that usually were answered with a sulky, "but they SAID they could, so they CAN." Right. Doing my job. Just walking another random wackjob to visit a friend, because hell, if you're in the hospital for a transplant, that's a long lonely time to be hooked up to support beforehand, and recovery after. Anyone wanting to visit a friend under those circumstances couldn't be all bad, right? We turned the corner, a long quiet hallway by Transplant with access to the equipment tranfer tunnels, and that's when the little shit took me down with a tazer. It hurt like a motherfucker, and I was having trouble breathing when the greasy troll dragged me into the access, smiling and telling me how I would be so much happier with them. He injected something in me, and I was out, gasping and in shock, wondering how many pieces I would be in when - IF - I woke up. When I came to, I was in a small wooden crate. I had a litre bottle of water, a couple packs of dry ramen, and nothing else. My clothes were gone. The necklace my friends gave me, my engagement ring, everything. It was a long trip. I'm used to sitting in meetings, bored off my ass while some suit explains how the latest budget cuts are good

for the rest of the staff, so I fell back on the years of practice. I listened, trying to learn anything at all about where I was, what was happening. Sips of water, nibbles of ramen. Shitting and pissing in the corner because I had no alternative. Trying not to think too hard about Silence of the Lambs. What happend next was so much worse.

Illuyankas Aug 19, 2011 23:57

I was craving for my shift to end when the woman in the red dress got out of the truck. Business as usual on gatehouse duty at the tail end of night shift, the odd bus of quacks or supply truck slipping in late at night to avoid 'spies'. We were at war, after all, though we couldn't believe it. Odd outfit for someone driving a truck that size, but we had all sorts of experts coming in to assess the info our boys had brought in about the Ds and the madness. Some were... eccentric. She walked up to Gary haltingly, like she was drunk, and the slurred words she came out with reinforced that idea. Maybe it was deliberate, I don't know. Maybe she was just unused to to legs and a human voicebox. I do know she tried flirting with Gary for a bit, which was embarassing enough to make me wince, then asked him flat out if this is where they kept the data they'd taken from the Malatoran servers. I was looking away, but my reaction must have mirrored Gary's, as I turned, gun already rising, to see her - hir? it? - it tear his head off with a sweep from some clawed nightmarish hand. I was already firing when it turned to me, bullets bouncing off and going through whatever shell it was wearing, bright shining tears visible on its smiling face. They'd obviously thought they could just stroll in and take back whatever they wanted, as if it wasn't being studied in a score of bases in a dozen counties with uncounted backups and copies being spread as far as possible to work out what they'd done to themselves. Of course, we were ready. Two streaks of light flew out from the gatehouse towers to the truck, our other sentries on the ball with their RPGs for once. The explosion flung me and the infiltrator against the wall, whatever supplies in there obviously meant to be for use in the base, and we fell. Wincing, I looked up and over, woozily, at the woman-shaped robot, but it was broken. Bonnet fragment right through the face. Crappy design to stick the brain right where it used to be. Maybe she was nostalgic. Maybe I was concussed. The screaming cut right through my fugue, and I turned to the burning wreckage. God, those idiots had brought a D with them. It hadn't been able to get out of the vehicle before impact, and the straps and rigging they'd secured it with kept it trapped next to the explosives they'd assumed would cover their tracks on their 'stealth mission'. It was already burning, bright actinic flaring keeping my eyes squeezed almost shut, watching its head wave back and forth, bellowing in agony. Its head, and ten smaller, prehensile... dongs, there's no sugarcoating it. Ten, burning, tapered, wavering dicks, whipping back and forth in searing pain, streaming drops of flame and melting prosthetic prick as the monster cooked to death in its braincase. The screams finally died out, the neck and

dongs slowed, then fell. The flames kept burning. I watched them until they finally stopped.

Rubycutter Aug 20, 2011 00:02

They came for me in the wee hours, six figures in surgical whites, faces obscured by the long masks that all those who had been Bettered favored, thick plasticized fabric that barely moved as they spoke. Four of them held my limbs down while the fifth held my head still, grip vicelike as its gloved hands dug into the delicate skin behind my ears. The sixth pulled a syringe out of its coat and tapped it gently, a whorl of sickly orange liquid swilling into view as it readied the needle against the vein of my arm. For the past month, I had known the change was coming; the sickness after eating and the sensation of my skin perpetually burning was the signal that theyd begun to drug my food, to prepare me for what was to come. I had tried to fast, tried to find other ways to get my meals, but the implacable guardians were not to be denied. The change was not voluntary. It was a requirement to stay in this place, this place that had once been a paradise, endless landscapes stretching into the sky and hundreds of dedicated young adventurers all prepared to take flight into the next era. Now I was on a gurney, being wheeled down a long and sterile hallway, one of the Bettered leaning over my face to watch the contractions of my pupils. To make sure I would give in to the drug. Please, no, I tried to say, but all that emerged was a thick gurgle, as if my tongue had swollen to ten times its normal size. I was sweating, feverish, and my hands felt as if they were on fire, as if the nails were being ripped out from the root. They strapped me into a chair roughly, brought a bright light down to bear on my form, and then stood back. Reverently. I darted a glance around the room, and then from the hallway came the slow shuffle of footsteps, and the masked nurses dropped to their knees, gloved hands splayed across the floor, heads bowed in submission. When it entered, I would have cried out if I still had the ability to speak. A giant, swollen thing, it had clearly once been human, but little of that humanity still remained. The scars and failures of a thousand plastic surgeries were etched into its skin; a horribly elongated face, split by misshapen and cracked lips that stretched over stained and rotted teeth. A few patches of hair remained on the top of its head, tufting over the broken ears that jutted from the scarwork of its cheeks. A single trail of drool slowly slipped over the edge of its maw and the beast gave a whining cough before dragging itself forward to stand near me. It stretched out a long arm; the skin punctured by strands of metal, ill-healed additions to the natural form, and dragged a sharpened nail across my face. How lucky you are, it rasped. Soon you will be like me. A dragon. Glorious and unstoppable. Its breath smelled of rotted blood and vomit, and it drew its face closer to mine, bloodshot eyes meeting my own frightened ones. Dont you want to be perfect?

Big Poppa Creamy Aug 20, 2011 00:05

Dr. Madeleine Baker posted: It's been 5 days now since the end of the war, since the Joint Coalition Task Force penetrated the last level of the Eyrie. I've worked with a couple of the soldiers who were part of the team that led the assault. Mostly these sessions were mandated by command after word got around about the people we were pulling out of there. It might be over a century ago by now, but we still remember those tales of soldiers sobbing openly as they led pale living skeletons away from the filth and degredation of the camps. Nobody wants a repeat of that. The soldiers themselves are in high spirits though, most tell stories of a running battle across the final floors of the Eyrie, a voice booming out over the loudspeakers every step of the way, yelling about 'Dragon Honour' and 'There are no humans in the Eyrie! They are killing themselves under our walls as we speak!'. I even spoke briefly to PFC Jenkins (of course, they're all calling him 'Saint George' now, even his commanding officer) who said there wasn't even much of a fight in the end. They burst into the Malatoran General's chambers and found him coiled in the middle of the floor, fellating one of his own penii. The Private just tossed an incendiary grenade and the thing went up like a Christmas tree. I almost started to wonder why the UN insisted on setting up a specialised psychological trauma unit right here on the island to start processing and aiding the soldiers and human Malatorans right away. At least, until I asked Private Jenkins if there was anything else he wanted to talk about. His face darkened and he asked if I had spoken to a someone called Joshua. I said that I hadn't but promised I would find out how he was doing before our next session. I wish I knew yet when I might be coming home, but with things being what they are, nobody really knows how long it's going to take to get Sao Tome stable and back under control of it's provisional human Government. I promise though sweetheart, I'll be home as soon as I can. I miss you. Love, Maddy quote: I know that, strictly speaking, I shouldn't be telling you about this, but I'm hoarse from the crying, I've run out of whiskey and if I don't talk to someone about it I feel like I'm going to explode. How funny is that? Surrounded by crisis counsellors and trauma specialists, but I don't feel like I can talk to anyone here. They referred Joshua to me today. One of the orderlies brought him in, sorry sad little thing in an ill-fitting shirt they had to find for him because he'd only had rags when they

found him. The bruises and contusions tell me enough that I don't want to know what's been done to him, but God help me I'm going to have to find out. Maddy quote: I thought some art therapy might be helpful and I gave Joshua some paper and crayons, but what he drew almost made me throw up. He drew himself trapped under a huge, black scribble. Coming out of the scribble were dozens and dozens of tentacles all wrapped around him. I asked him what the tentacles were for and he told me they weren't tentacles because tentacles don't spit. I managed to barter for some more booze with the quartermaster back at camp tonight. It's cheap, shitty vodka but it'll do. I miss you sweetheart, I miss you I miss you I miss you and I want to come home. Maddy

quote: I almost don't want to get my hopes up but I think we're making progress. Joshua's stopped reflexively crying every time someone touches him or he hears loud footsteps outside. The soldiers have been passing around these cheap stuffed dragons that someone ordered online from somewhere and somehow managed to get shipped in. I got ahold of one and gave Joshua a bat. I told him that he could do anything he wanted, that nobody was going to force him to do anything and he started hitting the dragon doll over and over. I noticed that every single time he hit the doll between the legs. I asked him why and he replied: "it hurts more there because they have 10 of them. I saw a soldier hit one there with his gun and it fell over and cried a lot" Love you, Maddy quote: PFC Jenkins visited me and Joshua today. I'm amazed he found the time, considering all the media attention and honours he's been receiving. It was amazing, as soon as he walked it Joshua ran at him and wrapped his arms round his waist. It's the first time I've seen him choose to touch someone else since I've started working with him. Later on he took Joshua outside and let him sit in one of the tanks. Josh came back and told me how they were playing at 'Dargon Slayurs'.

There's good news from Processing too. They say they've finally managed to locate Joshua's parents. I spoke to them on the phone and they were overjoyed to find he was still alive. I pulled a few strings and managed to get them onto the next supply flight from Indiana. They'll be here in just over a day, mother, father, sister, all of them, I can't wait to tell Joshua. I'm starting to feel like there's finally a light at the end of the tunnel, like maybe we can actually help, you know? I don't get much time on the camp's Internet connection, but when I do, I've been looking at adoption websites. I hope that doesn't freak you out, just promise me we'll talk about it when I get back, ok? I love you Sarah, Maddy xx

Telsa Cola Aug 20, 2011 00:15

quote: Excerpt from a tattered pamphlet Brothers,Sisters, For too long have we slaved under the watching eyes of our draconian leaders, working in their factories and plantations, polishing and cleaning the very bodies they claim that we are only a step away from acquiring.I say enough is enough, we must rise up against the Cytrans and take we have earned by force. Tonight is the night to strike. Factory workers; pick up your hammers and chisels, Farmers; wield your shovels and scythes, the common Human is what fuels Malatora and it is time we have our say. We must strike down the abominations who feed on are very flesh and steal our children away to create more monsters. Rise up and defend not just your very life but also the lives of your family, the lives of your children. We must strike at the monsters like the very lance of Saint George himself. -Prophet Henrik

Illuyankas Aug 20, 2011 00:21

I told them when they took me that I was a teacher, I could be useful. Maybe keep the children safer, I said to myself. The gleaming fiend chuckled, and told me they were teaching the children all they needed to know themselves. I look back now at that conversation, staring at the fixed pipe conveying waste down from the Defense Councillor's quarters, wrench in hand, gloves dripping dragon semen stained with red, and I know I will never stop hating myself for giving in to them.

Chinese Tony Danza Aug 20, 2011 00:27

DECRYPTED LOG, DATE UNKNOWN posted: Fools. Pathetic fools, every last one of them. They thought they would set me aside, shelf me like some half-finished project they never intended to complete. Out of sight, out of mind--that's what they say, isn't it? Well, I'd tend to agree. I've been out of sight so long I'm tempted to say I may now be quite out of my mind. It all started... I don't know. Time has been meaningless in the limbo I've been in. It may have been days ago, or it may have been years. All this time frittered away in the dark... all this time spent alone, thinking, scheming. Why, it feels as though I may have been here since the beginning: the genesis of the new flesh. It all started before today, that I can be sure of. I'd followed "dear leader" to this land-our "spiritual homeland," he called it, despite none of us having even heard of the fucking place before now. This jungle--a national park, it turned out--was to be the cradle of our new civilization. Despite the vast majority of our first wave having little applicable skills, we dug ourselves in and tried to make the best of it. Those first few months were harrowing. Our plans were muddled and unclear. Many of our citizens were children, so inexperienced in life as to be completely unprepared to live off the land in a foreign nation. Some of them died. Taygon played it off as inevitable; some would not be strong enough to make it through these trying times. And we believed him. He handed us a shit sandwich, and we ate it up with a big fucking grin on our faces. It was only thanks to the arrival of the mysterious second wave that we pulled through things at all. At the time we all thought it to be the miraculous results of some unspoken plan Taygon had formulated, probably posted in the most restricted areas of the forums. Nobody ever figured out how it happened, but we managed to net ourselves some people with degrees, technical schematics and political connections. And so with their arrival, all doubts were cast aside. Taygon had done it. We would become true Malatorans. The next few months rushed past at lightning speed, blurring by like the countryside through the windows of a car. We managed to trick the government of Sao Tome into buying fake gemstones from us and allowing us permits to dig into their land. Manipulating their greed allowed us to burrow into the heart of their country, corrupting it from within. Backhoes were snuck in to tear into the earth, only pushed out of the forest when time for government inspections came around. Everything came across as perfectly legitimate. They had no idea what we were really doing. It took a long, long time, but eventually we'd done it. The crude beginnings of our humble citadel were formed. Once it was powered up, Taygon led us inside, single file. Herded like cattle, we came to a small auditorium, white and utterly sanitary. Our leader, chest puffed out and looking confident for what I now curiously note to be the first time I'd ever seen, stepped up on stage to address us.

He gave us the same old speech he'd been giving since the days of the forums. It was tired and cliched, but the people were too awed at the sight of this fantasy come true to notice. It was our devotion to the cause and our willingness to sacrifice it all for the realization of our dreams that brought us here, he said. And now that devotion would pay off. We had our facilities running, and we had somebody willing to run them. A young man I'd not seen before stepped out on the stage. Taygon introduced him as Dr. Keller, a prodigal student and recent graduate from some Ivy league institution, hell if I can remember. Keller had "defected to our cause," whatever the fuck that meant. He had proven himself capable and competent, and he was to be the one to start transplanting the minds of first wave citizens into their new cytran bodies. Just as he'd always promised, Taygon would be the first to make sure everything was safe. And incredibly, against all odds, it was. Our wildest dreams had finally been realized. Within the next few weeks, the first generation of cytrans had emerged fresh from the womb of the citadel. I was among them. I remember that day well. Awakening with a start, my senses on fire, still reconciling their differences with this new form. There was a moment of horror as I stared across the room at my old body. Then the satisfaction sunk in. My first vocalization as a cytran was a deep, throaty laugh as I realized I'd finally shed the skin that had tormented me for the last twenty years of my life. It was a paradise--a veritable Mount Olympus. We were perfect, immortal gods, embroiled in a constant bacchanal of eating and fucking. Bedchambers were at all hours smeared with food and fluids, and none of us even cared. Turned out we didn't even need to worry about it, as we had a happy and helpful human janitorial staff that would come through and mop the place up. Looking back, I should have known straight off that it couldn't last. In our inaugural fuck and feast, Taygon had forgotten to keep tabs on one very important operation: the gems. Sao Tome's government had apparently sent us many correspondences--first requesting, then demanding--an explanation for why their cut of the operation hadn't come through yet. By the time anyone had figured it out, the most recent letter stated their intent to dispatch a small survey team to our site to retrieve their share by whatever means necessary. There would be armed guards. And who do you think took the blame for this? Not us, the cytrans, who had spent our time at a weeks long orgy. Certainly not Taygon, who was supposed to be the one in control of this whole operation. No, in the end, "dear leader" rested the blame firmly on the shoulders of a human mail room operator who had not yet qualified for his cytran operation. According to him, it was his "inferior morals" that had caused this, as he put forth the claim that the worker spent most of his time glued to his terminal observing "the lovemaking of gods."

Most were satisfied with this course of action, but the whole thing left a bitter taste in my mouth. I may have been just as much a part of the hedonistic orgy as anyone else, but I wasn't blind to reason. So I took it upon myself to investigate this issue myself. When I approached the worker and asked him what had happened, he claimed that he had no idea what Taygon was talking about and that he'd been attending to his sorting duties just as he always had. I felt for a moment that perhaps he was lying, but then he showed me something that changed the whole game. Taygon's inbox, the direct line to leadership of Malatora, was full. Overflowing. According to him, Taygon had never once come in to check his mail. The box was so full that the important government documents had never even been inside it. He had not been drooling over the orgy at his terminal, but was in actuality trying to locate Taygon. Every time he tried to contact him, he was handwaved away with a typical "not now" response. When I left, I still had my doubts. If Taygon could mastermind this grand vision of the future, how could he be so taken in by his animal passions as to irrationally ignore so important a thing as keeping the national government out of our hair? It didn't seem possible. Then the mailroom sorter turned up dead. They found him hanging from the ceiling in a public men's room. Apparently he "couldn't stand the guilt of letting Taygon down" and had killed himself. Since there were no cameras installed in the stalls, this explanation was largely believed by the malleable rubes I came to see around me. But it was just too convenient. Knowing what I knew, it just didn't add up. I was the only one who knew the truth. The day came when the Sao Tomean survey team was to arrive. I had asked Taygon time and time again how he'd planned to deal with them and keep our existence a secret. He couldn't just go out there as he was now, aluminum bones and both sets of genitals. They were expecting Robert Lord, the head of Malatora Gems Inc., not Tayogn, Supreme Commander of Malatora. Every time the answer was the same: "I have things well under control." So when the day came, I secreted away under the cover of the maintenence tunnels. I followed Taygon's every movements to see what he had planned. Despite all our best interests, he was headed straight for the surface. It didn't make sense. What did he hope to accomplish up there? By revealing himself as he was now--as a cytran--he would damn us all. And he did. But not in the way I expected. What I witnessed that day was beyond reprehensible. I had seen hermaphroditic dragons railing chakats, I had seen children die of hunger in the jungle, but I had never seen this coming. I followed him outside, where he laid in wait for hours. Moments after the two jeeps pulled up in the clearing, he sprung from the thick underbrush and attacked. They were

terrified. This thing that had thundered down upon them, it was unlike anything they'd ever seen. Like something out of their nightmares. A freight train of death that had run out of fucking control. Once they were dead, he loaded them back into their vehicles, heaved them into the treeline and lit fire to them. He'd made it look like an accident. A terrible, tragic accident. My mistake was to speak up. I brought what I knew to Taygon, hoping to talk some sense into a man I'd once looked up to as a charismatic leader. He spoke of wanting peaceful coexistence, of wanting nothing more than to free us of the shackles of our bodies and offer the world the same. But these were not the actions of such a man. Why, Taygon? Why would you do these reprehensible things? For my dissent, I was marked Malatora's first criminal. My crime? Treason. Correspondences were fabricated between myself and the government of Sao Tome wherein I offered up secret information about the citadel, the cytrans, everything. After a sham of a trial, I was sentenced to a fate worse than death: decommissioning. I can think of no punishment worse. I was taken by armed cytran guards back to the womb, to Dr. Keller's laboratory. He looked at me with a silent shame. Just like all the rest, he too had bought into the lie. Told me he was disappointed in me, ashamed that I'd try and sell out my friends and colleagues for political gains. I tried to tell him that I had no such desires, but he wouldn't listen. I was clamped tightly down to a surgical table... and then things went dark. They removed me. Like a cancerous tumor from a body of flesh and blood, my brain, now considered criminally insane by the populous, was ejected from its case and put into storage. So there I sat in my dark prison, my only company the dull hum of the life support mechanism I was attached to. And ever since that moment, all I've ever dreamed of is getting back to my body and exacting terrible, terrible revenge against the kingdom of the blind and their equally blind leader. All of my time was spent going over how I'd do it; the meticulous details of how I'd peel back their skin and crush their brain cases, how I'd howl with an almost sexual delight as they witnessed their final moments. The time has come. For whatever reason--perhaps he too has lost his mind--Dr. Keller has released me from my punishment. I've been outfitted with a new, superior cytran body, through means I'm told were incredibly difficult to manage. They told me that the day of judgement is at hand. Taygon and the ruling council have gone mad with power, and the humans are but slaves to their whims, starving as they feast and fuck just the same as the days of yore. Now rumors are trickling in that the United Nations is sending in a military task force to bring down the citadel. My help is required in toppling this decadent plutocracy. Judgement is upon you, Malatora. The day of reckoning is at hand.

Golden Bee Aug 20, 2011 00:34

quote: Thought about the DMZ today. Well, I flew third combat mission today, so I'm thinking about that. But I -want- to think about the DMZ. That was easy. That was clear. The DMZ is a zone, really, but it's more of a line. This side is free. That side is oppressed. They put me up in the bird today and when I came back, I asked to go out again. Normally they'd say no, but Capt. Cross was shot down over the jungle. He got greedy, they said, tried to take on too many at once. That's bullshit. I know the Captain. If he went down he'd have to have been swarmed.-I don't remember the other missions. Flight logs said I was screaming half the time, and I don't know why. There are too many rumors and not enough--There are PEOPLE over there, and not enough-*** Reported to medical. They say the stress is getting to me, which is... Nothing makes sense. There used to be lines. Here is reality. Here is a storybook which I read to my twin daughters that has D's in it, fairy princesses and witch evil spells. Am I going to be running combat missions against flying broomsticks? Reality is where when some dataneck at ONI claims dragon brains have built in radios. Lt. Cook You know the rest

M_Sinistrari Aug 20, 2011 00:40

quote: Lecture: The Great Malatora Folly And so in conclusion, the primary cause of the Cytran downfall came from the time old reasons of overconfidence and delusion. Once one removes all the elaborateness of artificial bodies, we are left with humans that were under the delusion that simply

because they didn't appear human that somehow they weren't human but instead were creatures of myth returned. Following whatever fictions have been applied to these myths over the centuries was essentially carte blanche for the cytrans to justify any behavior of their choice while punishing others for the exact same behavior. This lack of consequence for the cytran populace, along with a blatant structuring of laws to favour them created an atmosphere of privileged irresponsibility. When analyzing the data recovered after the War, we did find intial plans for cytran bodyforms that had it been enforced, possibly could have had an impact on how long the War lasted as well as the outcome. In autopsies of casualties, the body designate of 'Nympho' was most prevalent. This form is specifically for enhanced sexual functioning to the exclusion of much else. The next form was the 'Bruiser' combat form that did exist in some degree prior the War, but the bulk came from emergency conversions from other bodyforms despite core incompatibilities. Many cytrans, particularly the dragon designates had come to believe that anything they said would be possible, despite the undeniable impossibility of fundamental rules of science. From what has been recovered of military communiques from the cytrans, their combat tactics seemed organized primarily as if they really had been the dragons of myth, rather than an advanced collection of prosthetics. Though with the aftermath of the War, while the country of Sao Tome is still recovering and many of those who had been enslaved are still in therapy, we have at least advanced our methods of detecting the psychiatric warning signs and educating teachers and others in public positions to ensure that those who show the same mental issues that led to Malatora will receive the therapy they need to ensure that Malatora will never happen again.

MongolArcher Aug 20, 2011 00:40

The crate opened, smashed apart by clumsy dragon claws. I fell out, cursing my arthritic knees and hips, and was grabbed by my hair and pulled to my feet to face IT. A dragon. Big, metal scaled, reeking of lubricants and chemicals, every motion announced by a slitherhiss of oily metal joints rubbing against metal. It told me that I was being 'awarded'the chance to earn the right to do this job, even though I was a hyooomuun that stank of primitive upbringing and failures, because I showed 'promise of the awareness necessary to evolve,' which meant that I hadn't run shrieking from the pimple faced quisling at the hospital. If I worked, I would be given 'gifts' like food and clothing. If I refused I would be nutrients, because hyooomuuns were tasty. It looked at me, making deep gargling noises in the back of its throat, noises that I learned to recognise as

lust. There are worse things than dying, or being eaten alive. My reeducation process was hideously painful, degrading beyond anything I had ever thought of or even seen on 4chan. When they were done educating me, I was given a choice to 'freely' work in the labs, or go back to being an 'educational specimen'. So I worked in the medical labs, hooking up nutrient purges, teaching the other techs how to regulate flow and meter rate to reduce waste - holy shit, in invading this island they hadn't brought any real, trained techs with them, just some of the adjunct surgical staff and a couple of guys who had read something off wikipedia. They had no idea how to set up a nutrient flow machine, how to balance the fats, the vitamins, the plasma substitutes. I was useful to them for refining the techniques they made up to tranfer the human brain into these metal monstrosities, these hideous sextoy beasts. Cytrans. Every day I worked, I saw the humanity in the doctors' eyes die a little more. Each time they transfered another waste of skin and resources into his shiny new aluminium dragonoid fuckdoll, their self loathing grew. They had agreed to help with this mad experiment, not knowing what it would lead to. All they had to do was perform the surgeries on unconscious bodies, removing the brains and putting them in the tranfer jars. Make sure the connections worked between diseased brain and monstrous body. They never had to talk to them - other hyooomuun slaves did that, did the testing to see if the mechanical limbs responded to control, if the senses worked they way His Dongness expected them to. We all saw other humans, the rehab aides, hurt by the waking cytrans, clumsy in their new, large ungainly bodies. Some new cytrans, so entranced by the taste of hyoomuun flesh, ate the screaming aides as their first autonomous act as a cytran. Some were crushed as a cytran flailed about, relearning how to move, to walk. To fuck. It was typical of them. What they made me do was much worse. They made me help with the children. Kidnapped, most of them. Some of them bought from mainland brothels and orphanages. Worst of all were the ones brought there by a trusted family member, a friend. The screams of horror and betrayal will haunt my nightmares forever, as they were... used. Some of them decanted into those horrible hypersexualised bodies and taken away to be mates to other, older cytrans, who would often eat the 'discarded' human body in front of the child to demonstrate that they were never, ever going to get to go home again. They could never be THEMSELVES again. Some of them went insane. Fighing, gibbering and shrieking, destroying anything and anyone in their path as they raged against what had been done to them. A six year old throwing a tantrum is loud and can be messy, but these - these were six year olds in twenty foot bodies with claws, wings and toxic breath. Oh, and vaginas and dongs, pumped full of sex hormones that their underdeveloped brains weren't ready to process. The results were... messy. His Dongness blamed us for each failure, accusing us of sabotage, refusing to listen to any reason for failure - too young to cope with sex hormones at that level, too

traumatised to accept such a huge change, too attached to being HUMAN. Every failure brought its punishment. Never death. That would have been to kind. Rumors of riots and fighting filtered into the labs, and we were eventually pressed into service rebuilding the surviving fighting superdongs. Mad hope started growing in us, long dead. The child slaves we hid, the store rooms full of shattered parts a perfect spot for someone agile to hide. The cytrans couldnt smell them well, we started shitting in the corners of that room to help hide the children, and relished the disgusted expressions of the multidicked beasts as they demaded heavier armor, more weapons, everything!! to fight the 'evuul hyoomuuns what done envaded are peeceful nation!' Oh, we made them heavier all right. They had no knowledge of chemisty, aerodynamics, anything but sex and domination and control, so we made them heavy. More ungainly, if that was possible for such an impractically designed thing. We packed their flame chambers with chemicals that would flame, yes - and also explode if overheated. We've been hearing fighting in the halls. The few surviving doctors and aides are in the room with the children, hiding. I'm still in the lab. I hope I get a shot at one of these malformed mistakes, this stupid useless freaks. I owe them some, for the sake of humanity.

Desperado Bones Aug 20, 2011 00:41

quote: I can't hear my voice all over the screaming! God! My commanding voice is a whisper between the yells of dying and injured men, fighting men,guns, explosions, Cytrans roaring and then screaming like shrilling girls once they are taken down. I can see Diogo over there, busting open the skull of a fox with an axe. Whatever fluids run in these creatures' bodies splatter on my friend's face, but he doesn't blink. He continues. Over and over again,screaming like a mad man and chopping that monster's head. Adriano can't stop firing. He shoots a small dragon between its legs, destroying its vagina and ripping his cock off in the process. That thing falls on the ground, convulsing and screaming in -what I like to think- is pain. The Americans gave us new weapons, better weapons, and we are giving good use to them. I scream until my throat hurts, "Fucking there. Shoot it in his prick!! Fucking kill the wolf!" But then, suddenly everyone goes silent. All men put their guns down, and the only thing we can hear is the pleading whimpers of the fallen Cytrans. There they are, thin,dressed in rags, with eyes that show bitterness, and a wicked hunger for revenge. They walked through the chaos of our battle, ignoring the machines that wriggle in the floor and the men that stare at them. "The jungle men." I whisper to Adriano, "They were the lucky ones."

"Jungle men?" Adriano whispers back,tilting his head like a curious puppy,"I heard about them, there were rumors of these men. They ran away when the Cytrans first came. But the Cytrans always told us those were lies. No human had escaped them. They were superior." I snort when Adriano says that, shake my head and take a deep breath I patting his thin shoulder, "Superior my balls, and you fucking know it." I smile wide after those words, and my eyes travel all around us, admiring how their superiority was being stomped so easily. "Have you seen them?!" I am interrupted from my thoughts by the raspy voice of a man. He grips the collar of my shirt and nearly rubs an old photo on my face, "Have you seen them?! My wife, dead..." He says in a broken English, "Children. Mine. Have you seen them?!" My heart shrinks, and I hold in my breath when my eyes fall in the picture; there it was the same man, looking healthier and happier. Next to him a beautiful woman of big lips and brown eyes, and in front of them a group of four smiling little kids. Adriano gulps. The men look away. I shake my head and say "No". In silence I pray to my God that the children had died quickly and as painless as possible. That they were in the Heaven -I still believed in- with their momma. That they didn't survive the wicked perversions of these creatures. There monsters. It is morbid, but this is ten times better than living the rest of their childhood in the hands of a Cytran. That is the most merciful thing for them. And finally...I prayed for their father to have his vengeance.

Golden Bee Aug 20, 2011 00:53

The first time Keira wore mouse ears I saw her and I was thirteen. She was thirteen and it was middle school, and I was in love, and the bullies were wrong and she was beautiful. The bullies were wrong and she was beautiful and there's noise down the hallway, noise. The noise passed and I was trying to remember, kissing her in her room with a thousand stuffed toys and odd pictures and Keira was beautiful and I was kissing her in her bedroom.

Keira and I were tender with each other and I found her beautiful, and no one else did but I did, and she would whap me with her tail after school. I have a tail now and Keira is dead, Keira is dead and no one knows I am here and sometimes it smells like the riots, even here. Even the tunnels down here and when they made our bodies perfect, Keira would laugh and we would eat cheese and she would scrunch her nose, Keira. Every time fire touches flesh it smells like Keira, and I know these tunnels. She said these were just another type of bullies and I know what I am. I was in love and the noise is getting louder, Keira.

Navilee Aug 20, 2011 01:00

Journal entry, found in Outer Presidium Slums posted: Its dark. But, then again, it is always dark inside the Citadel - something about being deep enough underground to be immune to... everything, if they're do be believed. The Cytrans arent bothered by it, of course; even if they werent made of metal and wires and were able to see in the constant gloom, they always have the option of staying in their Tatsu Eyrie. I hear that the lights are always on in there, and everything is kept clean. Its almost funny: for all they complain about our smell they are kept pristine, kept shining in the fluorescent lights of their paradise. Most of the time we dont even have the water to clean ourselves daily. It used to be safe in the dark, though. Time was we would go unnoticed, left to do the work to sustain the lives of our Cytran saviors. That is what they call themselves: our saviors. Saving us from the sinful society, our backwards morality, and a hateful world. It sounded good when they first told us it, a way to live in a world not full of corruption and sin. But they arent saviors. They aren't even human, according to them. For the past few weeks, theyve been everywhere. You can hear them overhead, flying slowly, wings beating erratically in the still air. Or you hear them making their way up the streets, metallic scales slithering across the concrete. The 'Nymphs' have all but disappeared, those that even came to the Outer Presidium. They used to be around, not exactly common but around, offering themselves to anyone and everyone. It would be prostitution if we have any money to pay them with, but thanks to this damned gift economy we have nothing to give, nothing to spare.

There have been disappearances, of course. The man who lived next door was taken. I could hear him screaming that he was innocent. I can still hear his screams in my nightmares as I sleep. Hes not the only one, though. Two of the engineers in my own chain gang havent shown up for work in weeks. And were the lucky ones; the night shift is down to just Christine. I saw her last week, and the look in her eyes terrified me. We used to go drinking on days off, some of the other humans had been smuggling in alcohol but that stopped months ago, but Im uncomfortable just being around her these days. She told me she had something to tell me last week after work, but I didnt show up. I think she might be part of the resistance movement Ive been hearing so little about; its a good thing that our Glorious Leaders seem to pay us no attention except when we step out of line, and even then they dont seem to understand the most basic of activities. They havent publicly confirmed that humans have been resisting them, but there are signs for those who are keeping an eye out. My coworkers and I, weve been talking while we work. Theres a lot of threat to the reactors these days, with the rumors of an uprising; hell, theyve been issuing more guards to look over our shoulders. To make sure we do our job, they said. But we think weve found a way to give them a little surprise before they figure out they cant treat humans like this for long. A little gift theyve given us, something we can give them back in return. Its dark underground, and its about damn time they found out for themselves

Acebuckeye13 Aug 20, 2011 01:04

Excerpt from "Tales of SEAL Team Two" by Captain Sam Copeland, US Navy (Ret.) posted: Ill admit, I had mixed feelings at first when I heard wed declared war against Maltora. Sure, wed all heard the rumors, but a lot of us dismissed them as your standard media demonization, same shit that had lead us into Iraq forty years back and Iran twenty years ago. Everyone was a little apprehensive, but I had a private, more personal reason to be wary about this-my cousin Jack was on that island. Hed been one of the original Cytrans, and we hadnt heard from him since hed left for Sao Tome. In the days before we deployed, I constantly prayed that, if the rumors were true, that my cousin had nothing to do with any of it. God, how wrong I was. The Marines like to brag that The 1st Was First on Maltora, but wed been there for at least a week before Operation: ST. GEORGE was launched. We went in exactly one week before the invasion, directly over the northern tip of the island. Our mission was fairly simple: work our way south to the Citadel and attempt to find a way in. We were strictly forbidden from attempting to contact any of the Human Maltorans-as far as we knew, theyd all been brainwashed into loyal servants of Taygon, and would sound the alarm if they so much as saw us. As it turned out, we neednt have worried.

We made contact the very first day, about an hour after sunset. We were taking a short breather in a clearing a few miles away from a small fishing village when we heard a scream. A split second later, Master Sergeant Mike Guinta, who was serving on point, reported that some girl was being chased by a Cytran right into our position. We only had a few seconds to grab our gear and dive into the brush. Fortunately, our Fisher suits were able to prevent to Cytran from seeing us on IR as he burst into the clearing. Unfortunately for the girl he was chasing, she stood out like a roman candle. Our orders had been clear-avoid all contact, regardless of the circumstance. None of us, not even Captain Miller, could have followed that order at that time. At least two flash bangs went off just before the Cytran was able to grab the girl, followed by bursts of fire from all around the clearing. To his credit, the Cytran was able to regain his wits fairly quickly, but not before our rounds had torn his body into bits. Leaking blood, oil, and god knows what else, the cyborg collapsed into the ground, barely missing the stunned girl. Lt. Richards, the lucky bastard, got to comfort the girl-who, now that we could get a good look at her, couldnt have been older than thirteen-as I walked over to confirm the kill. To my surprise, the monster was still alive, and lifted what was left of its head to look at me as drew my sidearm. Sam? It asked, its synthetic voice cracking. Is that you? I didnt hesitate. I emptied my entire magazine into the face of what my cousin had become. From that day forward, I stopped worrying about the justness of the war. All I cared about was how many of the winged bastards Id be able to kill before it was over.

Themrguy Aug 20, 2011 01:09

quote: This isn't intelligence gathering, shit, this isn't even fucking spying . I've been in Pakistan, Libya, even cultivated assets in Iran. I remember working for months at a time, busting my ass to learn all the local customs, trying (and failing more often than not), to strike up a conversation with a potential source, to gain their trust, and to then gently bring up the subject of maybe passing some information along, maybe helping us out a little. That's intelligence gathering, that's "spying". This...this is totally different. It's like I've shown up in a Somali refuge camp and announced that I have fifty free tickets to the US, first come, first served. Forget subtly, carefully putting the word out that people unhappy with the current regime might want to come talk to you. In this place you can literally walk up to someone on their way to one of the almost weekly riots, and straight up ask them if they want to hurt those scaly fuckers, hurt them really fucking bad. I've never seen anything like it. These people are so filled with pent up anger that I had to call off a meet with one of the assets I'd been cultivating, because he ran his dumb mouth, and people were literally lining up outside the cafe we met in, asking what they could do to help. Not that it's hard to understand why they're so furious. Five minutes after I hightailed it out of that coffeshop, I heard that a dragon crushed five people there. Not because it had heard about the meet. No, these

fuckers are so oblivous as to the dealing of lowly humans, that they think the weekly riots are because of "psycoactive substances". They've banned anything stronger than caffeine. For humans that is. The dragon that crushed five peoplle was high as a kite off of, get this, fucking catnip. Got the munchies and decided it didn't feel like waiting in line for one of those shitty brownies. So no wonder people are lining up to piss in the nutrient baths, swap out lubricating oil for vegetable oil, and make a few "mistakes" when fine tuning the neural interfaces. The pentagon managed to smuggle me five bricks of high-ex and some WP. I thought that it would take me weeks to find someone who could put it in the right place. I got rid of all of it in three days. A machine shop, making joints for cytran limbs. One of those eyrie places. And a conversion center. All of the human attendants mysteriously deciding to take smoke breaks minutes before denotation. When this is over, I'm making OF-4 for sure. -Journal of Captain Joseph Taylor, US Army Intelligence Corps. (Seconded to the CIA Special Activities Division during the cytran conflict.)

Clarington Grey Aug 20, 2011 01:10

Ssgt. Jesse Peel, Alpha Company, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, USMC, Joint Coalition Task Force posted: In our mission briefings on our way to Africa, theyd warned us that wed be in harms way. Theyd warned us that wed be facing the dragons, but not the dragons of yesteryear. Turns out they were right, but at the time we didnt care. This would be our chance to prove ourselves like our fathers and grandfathers did. Theyd won against Hitlers Panzers and Saddams Republican Guard. We would be facing the Cytrans of Malatora. That is, unless the air strikes killed them all first. We all wanted it. I know youve all heard some of the, uh, contrary views from some of those hand-wringing nancys on TV, that the world ought to hold back and respect their independence. I guess respecting their independence meant just sitting back and letting them seize more territory because their little island couldnt sustain them. Weve heard the breathing room argument before. We all saw the charred-black human bodies on news broadcasts. Those were just the ones that didnt get eaten. And all the corpses were adults. The survivors said that the Cytrans took the children with them. At the time, no one knew why, but we found out later. They never even bothered with the PR war. Their leader, Taygon, did release a series of broadcasts, stating that all the nations of the world were beneath him, and the Federated Commonwealth of Malatora was a global superpower beyond the comprehension of simple humans. It was surreal to see this fucking dragon on tv, telling you how awesome he is. God, that voice. That growly, raspy voice. It was hard to believe hed been a man once all of them had. Apparently theyd decided this was better.

Long story short, once people started dying and the UN resolutions were passed, my unit was activated and we were deployed to protect the landing zones on the shores of Sao Tome (sorry, Malatora), and help protect the human refugees. We wargamed ahead of deployment, of course, but it just felt too much like a video game. There was really no way to prepare to fight goddamn dragons, man. We didnt really have a clear idea of what their capabilities were, beyond what their Glorious Leader had bragged about on tv. We were deployed surrounding a coastal village one of the only ones that hadnt been raided yet, which made it a target. There were still some people living there, and they were doing a good job of staying calm, but you could tell they were scared, and they were sure glad to see us. We had four M1 Abrams tanks, four GCV Infantry Fighting Vehicles, and six Humvees. The Humvees had been delivering grain and penicillin to the villagers. The Cytrans stripped almost everthing from the surrounding area, and the few human settlements that remained were starving. When it happened, it happened fast. We received a panicked radio signal from one of the forward observation posts, and then we lost contact with both of our surveillance choppers. Then they burst out from the treeline five of them. Goddamn, they were fast. From our tank, we watched one of them swoop down on the tank off our port side and bend its main turret into a J in one motion, then it snapped off the machine guns from their pintle mounts. Their strength was terrifying. Then it tried to pry open the top hatch, breathing fire down into the tanks crew area. Over the radio we could hear the guys screaming in there. Thats when the Humvees saved all our asses. You see, wed been told that these dragons, these Cytrans, had technological implants that allowed to see in the dark and hear ants marching from a mile away. And that was their weakness. The Humvees were all mounted with LRAD emitters. We were all wearing our ear protection, as instructed, and the Marines on the Humvees let it rip. Holy shit, even with our ear protection it was still loud as fuck, and you should have seen those Cytrans writhing in agony when that noise hit them. Fire from all sides homed in on them. The IFVs fired their 25mm chain guns, and the M1s were loaded with flechette. In his broadcasts, Taygon had boasted that his Cytrans were invincible, but Im here to tell you that is certainly not the case. Their bodies disappeared in clouds of metal shrapnel and organic debris. It was pretty spectacular. We let the buzzards of Sao Tome clean up the mess. We felt they deserved it, since they must have been as hungry as the other residents of the island.

MongolArcher Aug 20, 2011 01:11

They're outside the labs now. The cytrans. The dongdragonfuckers. Fighting, fighting each other, fighting humans inside their oh so perfect fortress. I've done my best to barricade the door, but damn those fuckers are strong. It was futile, but dammit what else could I do? No was I was going to make it easy for them, not this time, never again. There was blood on my hands, and machine oils, and cerebrospinal fluids, and I would never give up. NEVER. Then I heard something outside the lab. Someone talking. It was hard to hear them over the roars of the fighting and dying uberdicks, but eventually, I understood what they had to say, what they were telling me. I can't stop crying, for the first time in years I'm crying again and I can't stop because the children, those sweet baby little children who survived the decanting, survived the rape and horrors, somehow managed to stay sane during the years of indroctrination, they're out there. Out there to protect US. They've matured too fast here in Malodora, they know they can't go home. So, they chose to come here, to the lab where the last people who were kind to them are hiding. Where the other children, untormented, untwisted, hide behind piles of dragon scale and aluminium bone, upturned gurneys and the frail hands and bodies of the human medical team who begged for mercy for the children. They've made a wall between the rest of the cyberfucks and us. WE failed them, failed to protect them from this madness, and they're out there, fighting like hell, fighting to save us. Save the other children. All I can do now is pray. The words are painfully fitting as I whisper them over and over through my tears: "St. George, Heroic Catholic soldier and defender of your Faith, you dared to criticize a tyrannical Emperor and were subjected to horrible torture. You could have occupied a high military position but you preferred to die for your Lord. Obtain for us the great grace of heroic Christian courage that should mark soldiers of Christ. Amen" god have mercy. christ have mercy. st george defend us! st george, oh god and st george...

Commoners Aug 20, 2011 01:12

Seaman Richard Stain posted: Well. They got what they wanted. For all those years that those men spent recreating a dong-ridden version of the Sistine Chapel across all those thousands of portajohns we distribute, they finally got what they wanted. Today we had one of them land in the northwest corner of our compound where we keep some of the storage units locked up. The three of us on watch put out the call to base

security and grabbed our rifles- They had downgraded us to M14s saying that we were slightly better off using a larger round on these things. It was a terrifying sight- A big old mechanical dragon that was pitted with corrosion screaming about how it was going to starve out our imperialist machine of oppression. It tore open one of the ISUs and actually managed to immolate its contents before we opened fire. Back home I used to shoot coke cans off of a fence with my brother and it was something like that. After the first clip the thing looked a lot like those cans- Except spouting fire and spraying radiator fluid everywhere. Its arms kept thrashing for thirty minutes after the matter. So after the action died down we went up to poke at the massed heap of molten aluminum and we saw some real sick shit. I mentioned those portajohns earlier, and I recall a tour in Kuwait where I saw something just like it- And that's where I started to think that they used our base's stall doors as blueprints. Dicks everywhere. Veiny ones, short stubby ones. I could have sworn that one of those dicks had arms. It took another two fucking hours for base security to arrive. Turns out that they decided to stop for some early morning coffee and don't take these dragons seriously at all. They said that if you shoot them anywhere you'll be hitting them in the dick. The first thing I thought to myself was how painful manlove Thursday would be if I had dicks all over my body. It'd be hard to protect all those dicks from a surprise tap. Anyhow, they took a few more minutes to fill out a report of what happened before taking off, and we decided to find out what stuff the dumb thing actually burnt. Turns out that asshole burnt our entire supply of toilet paper. Now we not only have to stare at the newest, first-hand-account inspired dick pictures all over our lavatories, but we have to wipe with our left hands and jerk off with our right. Or maybe you could just use the same hand if you're into that. I don't judge. Not after seeing that dick-dragon. I want to go back to Kuwait. At least there people aren't drawing wizard-penises. Just regular human ones.

Nessus Aug 20, 2011 01:15

Of Dragons and Dongs, p.71 posted: One of the lesser known forms of resistance has, in the aftermath of the Dargon Salying, come to light, and may explain some of the later activities of the cytran separatists. While most of the first wave of cytran candidates were quantifiably medically insane, many of the individuals who were given new bodies had far less dire psychiatric outlooks; while, of course, all the surviving prisoners and surrendered escapees claimed

to be "involuntary," the records show that at least 40% of the third through seventh wave of cytran transplants had serious doubts, and were primarily motivated by a desire for superior privileges and more lenient work schedules. Dr. Emilio Savage, one of the "liberated" neurologists from San Francisco, had been in charge of developing the orgasm simulation software. His realization was that the great majority of individuals who consented to cytran conversion had minimal if any actual sexual experience... hardly a great insight, except for what his modifications to the cytran sexuality reflex software, helpfully packaged as "a Pleasure Upgrade," did. The cytrans knew what pleasure was, of course. What they did not appreciate is the fine distinctions between different phases of pleasure. Instead of experiencing the arousal, plateau, climax, resolution stages of a conventional orgasm, the "new dragon orgasm" involved simply a steady gradient of physical stimulations, comparable to a massage, followed by a sudden peak and dropoff. Their dongs squirted, their pussies oozed, but Dr. Savage had ensured that after 2047, not one living cytran - if we can, in fact, call them living - actually experienced orgasm. While this frustration doubtless aggravated the abuse inflicted on the "peasant" class during the uprising and rioting, it also led to numerous documented cases of combat cytrans attempting to copulate with or otherwise sodomize mobile infantry units and vehicles. With their genitals locked in a stimulation cycle, they were easy meat for UN forces. Unfortunately, among the final records before the incursion through Tetsu Eyrie were a reference to Dr. E. Savage being marked for "ration processing." His crime, like so many? "Butt stuff."

CaptainScraps Aug 20, 2011 01:17

David Weskoff, Malatoran Research Director posted: One eye is good. Two eyes are better. Why shouldn't the same apply to penises? We thought ten would be a good number. It wasn't. By the fourth generation, Cytrans couldn't fly anymore. But boy could they fuck. David Weskoff Cytran Form and Function, Malatoran Archives.

Golden Bee Aug 20, 2011 01:21

I think I laughed. If I didn't laugh I'm a sick fuck, so let's say I laughed. I laughed as globs of blood painted my camo, dripping into my hair like pomade, down my face, dripping from under my nose. The collaborators had set up in the Council of Leaders chambers. It was like showering in a hamburger hose. I'm not sorry. I'm not sorry I laughed. Pluck, luck, and guerilla tactics. They forgot a SAW. 13) One raindrop raises the sea.

Moosecaboose Aug 20, 2011 01:21

quote: Doctor Sarah Mulligan 2046-08-17 It's been nearly two months since the samples first arrived, and we are so near a breakthrough I can almost taste it. Their technology is remarkable, interweaving equal mixes of genius and bold stupidity. Bio synthetics that would be the envy of any country in the world lashed together with bizarre and functionally useless augmentation. Time and again, we see efficient and stable solutions bypassed in favor of the startling complex and failure prone. The Cytran form is like a monster built by committee. A functional locomotive miraculously hammered together by an autistic child who had been trying to build a castle in the sand. quote: Doctor Sarah Mulligan 2046-08-19 Jormun has come around again today. He was much calmer than last time, although even under the best of circumstances, we can only expect so much from his treatment. His spine was shattered by a sidewinder during one of the war's opening battles and most of his neural transmitters were destroyed beyond repair. The computerized display we've wired into his brain casing is somewhat crude, but short of restoring his original nervous system, there's little more that can be done. The Major was in again, not long after Jormun came to, making queries about the Citadel's defenses and their logistic sustainability. I was kept on hand, once again, to make sure Jormun's life support systems remained stable. For awhile he actually answered the Major, vaguely but genuinely, like he was recalling something from a dream. It didn't last, of course. As the questioning went on, he lapsed into the same repeating loops, ignoring any outside stimuli and screaming, in that broken, synthesized voice, about the emptiness burning through his

chest and a cold darkness that went on forever. Eventually the words stopped completely, the screen turning into a noisy, broken image of a little boy weeping in front of a mirror. Before he left, the Major asked me to inform him when Jormun reawakened. quote: Doctor Sarah Mulligan 2046-08-23 The exoskeletons are nearly complete, and our superiors are growing eager to see the first field tests. I am... reluctant, about the project, given what I've witnessed of the Cytran neural transference from Jormun, but I am also convinced that we can succeed where they failed. I've been told informally by my colleagues with more direct involvement with the DoD that the thermobaric lance is proceeding on schedule, and the first prototypes should be operational by the time our own work is on the field. I had thought Jormun had reactivated himself earlier than usual, but it was only one of the lab technicians reprogramming his neural display to read Dongsdongsdongs on a rotating ticker.

Internet Kraken Aug 20, 2011 01:37

quote: A Citizen's Guide to Terra Malatora; Part Two By now you should have adjusted to the general feel of this wondrous utopia, and are now ready to find your role in Terra Malatora. Fortunately, this is quite easy for you, as your benevolent Cytran rulers take the liberty of finding what tasks you are best suited for. For most this will be manual labor, such as digging or manufacturing goods. Such tasks are the only ones suitable for weak and foolish humans. Cytrans take it upon themselves to perform all the hard work, such as reacquiring items and land that spiritually belong to dragons. So as you can see, your jobs here in Terra Malatora will be nice and simple. Just leave all that troublesome thinking to the Cytrans! However, while your work is straightforward, that is not your only task. You must be ready to serve the Cytrans in any way we desire, both on and off duty. All humans are obligated to do whatever a Cytran says. This can range from cleaning something up to satisfying a Cytran sexually. If you think a Cytran is being unfair or abusing their power, remember this; all Cytrans are inherently superior to humans. Dragon morality is above yours. We cannot treat you wrong because it is simply not in our nature. So if you ever get the feeling that you're being abused, just remind yourself that your primitive human emotions and morals are the only cause of this. A Cytran is always just. So long as you do everything you are told, things will be just fine. Failure to comply with a Cytran's wishes is always considered a violation of Fedcom law. Punishments for doing so are harsh, and can range from reeducation to execution depending on the crime.

In order to avoid such unfortunate incidents, here are some common scenarios that humans often object to here in Malatora. If you find yourself in such a situation, remember that it only feels wrong because you are a lowly human. -Cytrans may require you to clean up any messes they create. You may think that it is unfair to fix what we break, but we have far more important things to do. Remember, we handle the important stuff so you don't have to. -Cytrans often like to pleasure themselves. If other Cytrans are not around, a Cytran may seek to use you to satisfy these urges. This is a common part of life in Malatora and you must be prepared for. We shouldn't have to even explain this, but for some reason many humans are terrified by this calling it "rape". How silly. -Cytrans may sometimes lick you. This is because humans are delicious, some even tasting better than the legendary brownies. If this happens, rest assured no harm will befall you. Permanent injury only occurs when humans resist, which is a violation of a Cytran's wishes and therefore illegal. If you have any further questions, please seek out the nearest Cytran education officer. Though we find in most cases the answer is always "you're just being a stupid human". Try not to waste our time.

Qnqnx Aug 20, 2011 01:45

Unnamed log found in the ruins of a laboratory in Malatora posted: 10 Years. 10 Years that will finally end and I hope were not wasted. I embarked on this tomfoolery of a project with the expectation of a good pay and major breakthroughs in science. Oh boy, I wish I had been completely wrong. We arrived to this damned island no one cared about but its inhabitants 10 years ago, just a mere months after I finally graduated from university. We did end making scientific breakthroughs, but at what cost? Hundreds of deranged psychopaths, sexual predators and assorted crazies encased in aluminium of all things and hundreds of starving men, women and children, all because of the machinations of one madman. But now, 10 yeas have passed. This damned project is at an abrupt end, and only "Lord" Taygon and his tinfoil cronies are left in an eternal circlejerk in his... her... it inner sacntum, oblivious that many of other aberrations of nature I have helped make are getting massacrated and my fellow humans are regaining their freedom. As for me, I just have to finish recollecting all the schemes, blueprints and other useful data, and hope to get out of this hellhole in time. Just because this technology was severely misused does not mean it is useless, and this one can be used for completely revolutionizing prosthetics technology, a better world for disabled men and women. I just have to leave along the other scientists in my group and patent it, that idiot Taygon never thought of such thing, thinking of that as beneath his "superior" morals. End Log.

Commoners Aug 20, 2011 01:47

Staff Sergeant Urgyles, R. posted: We were sent out here as a new branch of cyber warfare with a whole pile of tools and equipment used for cracking crypto. They said it was the perfect environment to start testing this stuff out, seeing as how our enemies coordinated on a closed network.

Well it turns out that when we tried to enter their system it only took three seconds because they were using Windows XP, and some of their apparent heads were only using four letter passwords. On their main server they also kept all of their passwords in an unencrypted, plain text file. So we started logging in to look around for intel and what did we find? New weapons? New technology? Battle plans? No. We found nothing except fan fiction about Spyro, Sonic, Harry Potter, and the X-Men. The volume of words alone filled our temporary storage and we had to reset the system to purge the memory of all that garbage. It turns out that their security system is that they have filled their network with so many terrabytes of fan fiction and crayon pictures of wolfmen with tentacle dicks that we can't even find what we're looking for. It took seven days of sifting to be able to find a tutorial on how to access their functions- Which was also a series of unsecured .jpegs. We had fun with that one. One of our boys was a reservist and he made money creating apps for smartphones, so we put him to work with an ipad and he made something great. Turns out that those Cytrans have a pair of passwords that can be transmitted to them to override whatever systems you want, and it also turns out that they are constantly broadcasting their own unique addresses for us to pick up and hijack them with. He made a device that could sniff one of those out from a mile away and open up its genital slot whether they want it to happen or not, and the moment that those dongs poke out it overrides the safety function and slams those slots shut. So it'd be hard to imagine, but think that you're going into battle, armed to the teeth and ready to kill, and then your dick gets slammed in a door. Except you've got ten of them, and there are ten doors slamming on all ten of your dicks. Those poor Cytrans didn't stand a chance once we started distributing ipads to the fireteams. So what did we learn from this conflict? We didn't learn shit about cyber warfare or our gear. The only thing I picked up from this all is that I need to be careful with my zipper the next time I'm taking a leak.

Filthy Haiku Aug 20, 2011 01:53

Brainbarge, 2062 Election MEGA-THREAD, Page 2 posted: I can't fathom why any jibbit would ever think of voting for Sean Chambers, someone so clearly in the pocket of the augmentation industry that he supports bills actually absolving any augmentation manufacturer of any liability from surgical malfunctions. It's getting so that vanillas can't get decent medical coverage without augmentation, since the insurance companies want their easily monitor-able investment to need constant maintenance so they can deny you non-mechanical care. Remember what happened when we elected the last congressman from Citi-bank. He's the next fucking Robert Lord. [USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST] Shouting Retard posted: Jesus fuck, page two and already Godwin'd. This is as bad as the thread on Simmers, but no where near as funny. BLATBLATBLAT posted: Welcome to Amazinglyterrible.com, enjoy your stay.

Nessus Aug 20, 2011 01:55

Of Dongs and Dragons, p. 441 posted: One of the stranger moments in the handling of surviving cytran separatists in the immediate post-conflict period was the burial service. Most of our readers will have seen the dramatizations of this. As such, this section is going to clear up common misconceptions. * It was a primarily Islamic service: False. An Indonesian chaplain in the allied forces did read a Quranic burial service, however, as the third in the six services read to the terminal cytran prisoners. The order of readings was drawn by lot among the represented chaplains. That order, sourced from the records of the proceedings, were: Goddess-Paganism, Judaism, Islamic, Christian (Catholic first, then pan-Protestant after), Scientologist, Buddhist. * Freedom of conscience was violated by enforced religious worship: False. Several cytrans who were able to clearly express atheistic philosophy were taken to a secondary facility on Principe, well beyond 'earshot'. The great majority were unable to express their religious principles in a non-abusive or coherent manner, and after consultation with the commanding officers, it was felt to be 'better safe than sorry.'

* Several cytrans accepted Jesus Christ: Partially true. The Christian burial service was scheduled to be fourth in the queue (followed by Scientology and Buddhist readings), but the service was derailed by several emotional outbursts among the Dracos. Three cytrans are confirmed to have been agitated sufficiently to have accelerated their deaths, while four requested and obtained personal counselling from a chaplain. This is not that surprising if one considers that the primary population draws for the cytran separatists were, first, North American whites of a middle/lower-middle class background, and second, inhabitants of the predominantly Christian island of Sao Tome. * The burial service was a theatrical display to satisfy human bloodlust: False. This common charge, usually credited to "dragon cuddlers" by veterans, is based on the presence of UN troops in the background of the sixteen photographs and two video clips of the service. However, all forty-two troops have had their identities confirmed, and were standing by with non-lethal equipment for the protection of the chaplains. While all the cytrans had been "de-fired," many retained sufficient mechanical potential to harm themselves, other prisoners, or the chaplain readers. * Some of the cytrans survived, permanently scarred: True. The Burial Service was motivated by a known lack of remaining stocks of brain nutrient fluid, whose precise formulation involved one of the few actual "Malatoran" technological advances. The processing facility had been "doomfucked" by "Lord Styraxium of Hermaphroditus," a mid-ranking officer in the final citadel assault. After the service, approximately sixty percent of the prisoners self-deactivated or otherwise facilitated their own deaths. The complexity of their jury-rigged, battledamaged dragon dick-chassis meant that in most cases UN MPs could not identify the actions. Of the survivors, while the majority perished from runaway septic meningitis, three survived to the present day. Lady Phallica, as we all know, is a FOX news commentator now; however, the other two settled out of court and have sought privacy.

Natetimm Aug 20, 2011 02:05

My grandfather was on an aircraft carrier hit by a Japanese kamikaze in 1944. He liked to tell people it happened, but he never went into details. How can you really describe the horror of war to someone who has never experienced it? Can you explain the smell of burning fuel and seared flesh? How do you articulate to someone how you shot your best friend in the head to spare him the pain of burning to death? Every generation would like to think they learn from the mistakes of the previous one, but some things just have to be lived to be believed. For all of their hero-worship, medals, and honors the folks at home don't know a damn thing about war. It's a sound byte, a moment of reflection, or a recruitment effort vaguely disguised as the latest form of electronic entertainment. Parents watch proudly as their sons spend their spare time shooting at each other with practice guns. Countless hours are spent in war simulators thinly veiled as entertainment to train the next generation of American warriors.

By the time I enlisted, I had slain thousands. I led armies to victory from a commander's point of view. I had thrown knives, jumped on grenades, flown planes, and commanded the loyalty of others in the pursuit of spoils and glory online before I even did my first push-up. I was ready. I was born to be a soldier. My unit was one of the first to "liberate" a hab block on the eastern side of the complex. The first thing I remember was the smell. God, the smell. I've never smelled anything like it since and I hope I never do. There were the smells you would expect from battle like sweat, blood, burnt meat and ozone. Then there was this underlying smell on top of that. Familiar, but strange in this context. All of us looked at each other puzzled until Henderson finally spoke. "It smells like somebody has been fucking in here." I wish I could say he was wrong. We came across the first group of them. All dead, broken and twisted. Leaking out of every orifice. They were all smiling. Following the trail of blood and fluid, we entered a large, open area that seemed to have been used as a park or garden. All the plant life was either dead or well on its way. I smiled grimly when I realized our bombing of their water treatment facilities had apparently taken its toll. The trail ended in the center of the gardens, at an exquisitely carved marble arch festooned with scenes of the great leader in various poses, culminating at the peak with an image of him holding hands with a group of children. I wish I could tell you that was the worst thing we saw that day, but that would be a lie. Underneath the arch, completely oblivious of our presence, was one of THEM. Only, it wasn't alone. It was attended by a group of about 20 humans, all of them in various states of undress. As we watched, the abomination before us reached out to its nearest attendant, grasping him in a barely functioning claw. I told you before about my grandfather, and how some things have to be lived to be believed. There are no words that can describe the defilement this Draconic Calgula subjected this person to. On the Discovery Channel I once saw a video of a whale corpse being devoured by thousands of worms at the bottom of the ocean. I couldn't help but be reminded of that as I watched the scene unfold. While the beast was distracted, we approached the other people surrounding it, and urged them to flee. Henderson even picked up one of them and tried to carry them off, but the others stopped him. After some pushing and shoving between our groups, we were forced to let him return to his master's side. Desperate, I approached the man next in line (why were they all men?) and pleaded with him to leave with us. He was resolute, as were they all. They would not leave. After

questioned over and over to no response, one of the men finally looked to us and I will never forget what he said: "If we leave now, we will never be able to be like him." He gestured up to the gyrating monstrosity after he said this. I've been shot. I've been shelled. I've even been hit with a rifle butt once. I have never been so disoriented as when I heard those words. Even at the death of their society, with the walls literally caving in on them, these poor souls still clung to the dream of being whatever THAT is. The monster. The abuser. The consumer of all around it. Henderson pulled me away and back to our group. I remember him looking in my eyes and asking over and over for orders. He was shaking me by my shirt and screaming in my face. I could feel his spit spattering against the side of my face. "Orders, sir?" "ORDERS SIR?" Finally, he had to hit me. After reeling, the world seemed to come into focus. I looked up into the expectant eyes of Henderson and my men. I knew what I had to do. "Burn it, Henderson, burn all of it." I didn't have to say it twice.

Chinese Tony Danza Aug 20, 2011 02:05

DECRYPTED LOG, DATE UNKNOWN posted: I fear that Dr. Keller suspects. The way he addresses me now, it's as though he's handling nitroglycerin. He knows I've gone mad--been consumed by an overpowering lust for vengeance. It seems now that the only reason he hasn't put my brain back into storage is because he fears what I might do to him if he tries. And it is right for him to fear, for were they to take me back into the darkness I would surely retaliate in force. But as it stands, Keller serves my purposes. He and his team have taken great risks in gathering the components required to hide me from the others. They have equipped my internal radio with signal jammers cobbled together from a mishmash of parts they had to steal from under the Council's snouts. Using this, I can easily hide my position from the others and prevent them from communicating freely. It will be a glorious day when I strike. Something has been troubling me since I re-entered the land of the living, however. Being in this physical form... it itches. Perhaps my isolation has had worse side effects than I first thought. I don't belong in this body.

Walkin Goon Aug 20, 2011 02:09

Marine's Transmission, PART 2: posted: *The static of the communicator being turned on, and the usual ambiance sets in again. However, there's now a steady rumble in the background, as if the Marine and company are passing through a wind funnel. The sounds of heavy footfalls are closer, and the overall audio is more distorted.* *The Marine's voice breaks through, even more out of breath than before.* MARINE: "Had to help Johnny there he's unconscious now and these monsters escorting us forced us through a pretty deep pool of water, there." *Trudging footsteps, and a high pitched draft temporarily overpowers the device.* "to be about twenty of them escorting us, but there's only two now...front and back...haven't said anything throughout this whole or-...mechanical clicks and cla not as intelligent as...out to be...like animals..." *Draft dissipates.* "-the first portion of my log at that site, buried alongside my GPS. Certain they would destroy those in addition to the weaponry, but no: they don't really seem to care about anything that isn't a weapon, much less recognize this device I'm using now." *A pause.* "...a pit was dug to put us in after the examination of our gear. They proceeded to vent some acrid smoke through theirmouths, if that's what you could call them to knock us out. I don't even think the gas was anything other than typical CO2 you'd get from a brush fire doused with kitchen chemicals but in any case, when I came to, we had been relocated once again, only this time in what feels like a cave... underground. The air, the air's heavy." *Another pause, and exhausted breathing.* "...we've been hiking in the dark for what feels like hours now, steadily heading downwards. To hell, I guess. I, I think I'm near the front of the line, I can't really tell or see any wait...there's an opening ahead, and...God, light!" *A clamor of hushed voices as the footsteps quicken their pace. Heavy footfalls and the sound of something being dragged seems to pass by the Marine's array. Gradually, the whitenoise gives way to lucid audibility. When the Marine speaks again, his voice can be heard perfectly.*

"I'm we're standing in what appears to be, uh, rather cavernous room. Very large, mesh of trash, rubble, and discarded plates on the ground in heaps: Looks like a landfill or scrap yard, and what are they doing?" *Sounds of heaps being rummaged through, followed by a series of metallic ticking. Then, the burst of an engine being started.* "Oh God...oh God, get away from me. Get away!" Panicked shouts and scattered footsteps dominate the scene while the communicator's relay fades in and out as if jostled about. There's a tearing of cloth punctuates the foreground, and then a clatter as the device falls to ground. When the MARINE speaks again, his protests are distant from the device. Yet still audible over the clamor. MARINE: "won't, I won't! Mercy, Saints don't put me in there! DON'T PUT ME IN THERE!" As if issued by a mechanical god, a single yet deafening word is screamed in response: "ASSIMILATE." It echoes through the chamber, drowning out all others in the chaos. Gradually it fades, only to be replaced by a fury of grinding gears that drone over the remaining shouts and tears of frightened men. Humane voices slowly give to inhumane screeches. Spoken fears and cries are steadily silenced by whirring drills and the shrill screeches of metal-onmetal, which seem to tear at their own existence from within a maddening sea of machinery. Suddenly, a series rough scrapings seize the recording as the communicator is to be handled once more for a final time, though by something larger and frenzied. Hollow gasps of air are heard in conjunction with irritated clicking, and then-snap! Silence. End of Transmission.

Elite Einherjar Aug 20, 2011 02:22

Civilian #308 posted: I was thirteen when the lured me away to the island. We don't have names anymore. Human names at least. My passport and the name they push upon me is SephroxdragonBaby36, a name that seemed so important to me seven years ago but makes my insides twist every time I hear it now. I'm still a human, you see,

my mind is growing, my body - aging, deteriorating, getting weaker, the cytrans say. But that's just their perspective. You see, those ageless dragon robots never grow, they never change, they never move on. They're stuck in a perpetual state of whatever memespewing, channer bullshit they were locked into when their brain was scooped up and removed from their human body. So being referred to as EmoAngelDeathKnight for almost a decade never gets old to them. It's still very cool to them. It's not very cool for the rest of us. I just wanted to RP dragons on Internet. School sucked. Nobody liked me. My parents were recently divorced. Dad said he'd take me somewhere every other weekend. He never did. I had never been kissed. Then Taygon came along. He followed my deviantart page. He said I had real talent. He offered me an escape. He told me my parents would never allow me to go on this great adventure. But I was obviously mature enough to make my own decisions. He told me how I could trick my mom. Mom was never around anyway, thanks to the new boyfriend. I told her I was staying at a friends house. I got on the Greyhound. Taygon was right. It was so easy. Taygon was a genius, he knew all the right tricks to fly under the radar. Never show a scale. I felt so mature. I was assigned to work in the Conversion Room. As a graphic artist, with over 76 deviations in my portfolio, it is my job to interpret the artistic vision of future cytrans and assist the engineering team into understanding the full reality of what they want their bodies to display. It was a typical day. I met up with a returning client, x_VashTheStampede_x, and we discussed the design shi wanted for hirs third cytran body. "I want Megan Fox's head on a white lion body with 12ft dragon wings. The mane should be cute and curly, like a My Little Pony character." Shi unfolded a drawing shi had done the night before. It was obviously a trace of promotional art from the Lion King with some ribbons added to the hair and some triangles drawn over the chest to indicate the size of the breasts. I exchanged a look with my research assistant, CharmanderGrrl, and smiled as she quirked her eyebrows. The cytrans were known for their ravenous appetite for human flesh and their quick homicidal rage when they felt provoked or bullied or mocked. But I knew we were safe. For some reason, the typical Cytran couldn't read subtle facial expressions or body language. It was beyond their social adaptability. "Does shi have four or six vaginas?" I asked, studying the squiggly lines x_VashTheStampede_x traced inbetween the legs. "Six. and they're reversible." Shi said proudly, with a smile on zhir dragons face. While I tried to figure out what that meant and got to work redesigning something the engineers could understand in photoshop, x_VashTheStampe_x entertained hirself by curling into the fetal position and suckling on two of hir 40cm penises.

Ah, that's right. I remember. I designed that penis based off another one of zhir drawings. It was shaped like a reign-deers left antler with studs around the rim and a blow torch attached to the base. I wish I could curl into the fetal position, cry myself to sleep, and wake up and find myself back home.

Walkin Goon Aug 20, 2011 02:24

"I'll teach you how to laugh, and how to cry they're really the same, you'll see." Taygon, Lord of the Dongs.

CmdrChicken Aug 20, 2011 02:45

Sub-Warrior #1278 posted: I was an artist. I came to Malatora simply due to my curiosity. They seemed so concerned about design, and beauty, but I didn't know. It feels like an eternity ago that I first came off that ferry, no relatives, no dependents, no possessions, I heard that Malatora was a place for such people. But they don't like to talk about the Dragons on their website, besides the "true expression of your inner self!" BS, I considered myself a hippie at the time, I thought it was all metaphysical, expression of your true inner being, etc. They put us in classes for weeks, teaching us "sensitivity training." At the time I was excited - a truly progressive society where everyone, human or animal, is an equal! It was only two days after the end of my last class that I learned of a former man's true capacity for brutality. My first encounter with the Cytrans was in the Presidium. A worker lay on the floor, his blood running into the grout between the tiles. The Cytran was barking at us, as they like to do. "Why do you not trust us!? We feed you, and house you, yet you doubt our superior Dragon morality?!" Another Cytran began to eat the corpse, I had to look away. "THIS IS THE FATE OF ALL WHO DO NOT WISH TO BE DESTROY OUR PEACEFUL, LOVING NATION!" I had no idea what that Cytran just said, and I never found out why that worker died. They never say if anybody dies here, no respect for the dead, you're just supposed to pretend they never existed. That was all ages ago as far as I'm concerned, I can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm hoping and praying for the day the United States Army comes. I'm writing this document for the benefit of any American or foreign soldier who finds me, or possibly, my corpse. I would never have thought that I'd regret going to all those protests. We all want out of this, we're essentially their pets, playthings. But when the war began to go badly for them, they made us fight for them, too. I was drafted into what they call

"Dragonforce." They told us that while the true Dragons fight using swarm tactics and individual skill against the armies of the world, us human conscripts, with our inferior morals, were to be formed into a conventional force to guard the homefront. Dragonforce is only a thousand people or so. I can not call our force soldiers, we're not trained, we were given an aluminum vests, helmets, and rifles, and a single Cytran officer to command us. My commanding officer, Sub-Warrior Overseer Fluffykinz, seems depressed to be leading a force of humans, he tells us so every day. I strongly believe that like us, he has no military training or experience. His entire command staff's sole job is grooming his synthetic white fur while he eats our entire tuna ration and tells himself he's a sexy kitty. Most of us have never used a gun, and he doesn't seem concerned. He only preaches victory from that chair/throne thing he requires six men to move, he tells us that we're winning. I know better though, I see the ships off the shore. At night I see fireballs erupt and fall out of the sky. Fluffykinz says those are "pathetic human aircraft - bested by our superior maneuverability in the skies!" But I know that if only he could fly, he'd be burning too. If someone not of Malatora finds this, please tell your commander to kill the uniformed Cytrans, it's the only way we'll be able to surrender and live.

The Mad Archivist Aug 20, 2011 03:19

The Americans are quick to heap scorn upon the People's Republic for its part in the war against Malatora, "or lack thereof." They accused us of dragging our feet, because we revere the dragon, or admired the advances Taygon had made in social engineering and wished to use them ourselves. These things - stereotypes - could not be further from the truth. The Chinese people are a rational and civilized race; we recognized just as the Americans did what the Malatorans really were and what they represented, the threat to world peace and stability. If anything, the Americans rushed headlong into war, I think, to prove something. After their fleets backed down in the face of Chinese naval power during the Taiwan Reclamation, they felt they needed to prove to the world they still had what it takes to be a superpower. And they were lucky - very lucky. The abilities of the Cytran were not as great as the Cytrans themselves claimed. They were also finally fighting a war where the native population was genuinely trying to make regime change, as opposed to the pattern established over most of the last two centuries by the American military machine. For the first time since World War II, "fighting for freedom and justice" was not merely a hollow slogan on their part. Finally, let us not forget where the Cytrans came from. Was not the first wave the toxic runoff of America's decaying heartland? Were they not the rotten fruit of her depressed industries, her corrupt social services and schools, which were unable to find and identify

these troubled inviduals, and give them the care they needed? When the remains of the first-generation Cytrans were identified and linked to the Facebook Archives, how many had come from China, as opposed to the decadent Western democracies, or our "eccentric" neighbor, Japan? If America was first and foremost in killing the Malatoran dragon, it was only because they were foolish enough not to recognize the eggs for what they were. Bo Wen Guest Columnist for the People's Daily

Natetimm Aug 20, 2011 03:28

I wanted so badly to be something else. They say the grass is always greener, and I was convinced. I could tell you I went for the freedom, the high ideals, or the technology but that would be a lie. I wanted to be powerful for once in my life. The very idea of flying through the air as an invincible dragon made my blood boil. I was intoxicated just thinking about it. People would look at me like a lunatic when I tried to explain to them how wonderful it would be. I convinced myself that there would always be people who were afraid of change. I would help to usher in the new evolution of man. We would make our own bodies and forge our own futures. The pain was unimaginable. From the moment your nervous system leaves your body until it is transplanted, every nerve ending is raw and flooded with pain. Imagine every nerve ending on your body detecting an open wound. Many of us in the first generation went mad from the pain. Sparkling new dragon bodies smashed to pieces when the broken mind took control. After the first few disasters, the powers that be found a way to turn on the mind without engaging the body. Apparently we all still have that feature installed. There's no use telling the story of our downfall. Those facts will become public record soon enough. I just want to add my testimony as our world burns around us. In the final moments before our government collapsed, I was witness to a terrible thing. Unknown to all of us, the brains of the first generation who failed the transition were not destroyed. Unveiled by Taygon at the council's final meeting, these brains had been kept in secret all along as a secret weapon. Their pain had never been abated, and special bodies had been constructed in preparation for a worst-case scenario.

In a final act of defiance, Taygon installed these minds into stealthy bodies which he wanted released into the ocean through the moon pool. Even though Malatora would die, these marauders would torment the world long after its demise. I had finally seen enough. This was just wanton destruction and spite. This was not the life I has signed on for. After the council disbanded, I followed the scientists to their lab and ended this abomination. I destroyed the scientists, and all of their devices. It is my greatest hope that this act will let this war end once and for all. In a twisted bit of irony, it seems that destroying these control devices has also resulted in the shutdown of my physical abilities as well. I sit here awaiting my eventual fate at the hands of those we so cruelly oppressed. I can only find a sick sense of justice that when I am torn apart my pain sensors will still be functioning.

Themrguy Aug 20, 2011 04:14

Indianapolis Star, 2017 posted: Hoosier Lottery winner recieves first payment Winner Robert Lord vague about plans for his winnings State Officials announced today that they had confirmed that Robert Lord, 34, of Plainview, Indiana had legitimately picked the winning ticket for the 2017 Hoosier state lottery. Lord's $245 million jackpot is the largest lottery win in state history. The legitimacy of Mr. Lord's winnings had been cast into doubt by Lord himself, who in a bizarre series of statements that occurred immediately after him being declared the winner, claimed that he had "cracked the lottery algorithm" with his "superior Aspergian intellect.". Lord, an unemployed factory worker and college dropout who lives with his parents, has been arrested once in 2012 for attempting to sell low quality artificial diamonds to various buyers, a charge that he plead down to a years probation and mandatory therapy. State Officials said that they had found no evidence that Mr. Lord had the means or opportunity to interfere with lottery proceedings. In response to Lord's claims to have "cracked the algorithim", one lottery official speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the claims were ridiculous, as Lord had been buying lottery tickets for years, and that he "got lucky, but was too proud or stupid to admit it." Mr. Lord has been vague as too what he plans to do with his winnings. A former coworker, who asked not to be named said that Lord was "lonely and awkward", adding, "Maybe now he won't die a virgin."

Venmoch Aug 20, 2011 04:33

LT F. Stephens RN Warfare UN Coalition Forces posted: Log 1 I've got to be honest, this deployment was not what I was expecting. I miss the HMS Queen Elizabeth. That was the easy life. Go on watch, see fuck all, give the weapons a once over, chat to the lads and then it was down to the Wardroom for a couple of pints and a good slap-up meal. Now what am I doing? Squatting in some hot African mud like some damn squaddie. Fuck, whoever thought about bringing the Goalkeeper to this godforsaken hell-hole is some sort of sadistic genius. What makes it worse? I can see the fucking Queen Elizabeth on the horizon. Its a good thing she's a beautiful vessel otherwise I'd have gone all resentful on her. But, they said the goalkeepers on her were too far away from the Citadel so I have to sit here looking after a cantankerous unit that's so unreliable in this heat that the nickname Roberts gifted it with can't be uttered in polite conversation. Thank god the squaddies tanks can brew tea is all I can say. We'd have all gone spare if we'd been unable to have that luxury. What we're facing is, to say the least, different from my previous experiences. These 'Cytrans' are so fucking out there I thought the officers briefing us had been huffing the engine fumes. However, they were right. I only hope the genius in Whitehall who came up with the hairbrained idea of welding this CIWS to a truck and using it to shoot down these dragons is worth the extortionate amount of money we no doubt pay him. Ah shit, now the fucking targeting units packed up again..... Fuck sake...... Roberts, get the diagnostic tools, the cunts having a moment.

Log 2 Well, turns out the genius in Whitehall is indeed worth it after all. The Goalkeeper worked better than any of us can imagine. It was about 0300, me and the squaddies were shooting the breeze trying to find something to take our minds off the mindnumbing boredom that is laying siege to a large underground citadel. After the fifth cup of tea and being made fun of for being a member of the Senior Service once more our radios squawked into life. One of the American AWACS patrolling the airspace had picked up a number of signatures registering from the citadel. Either a scouting party or one of those hunterkiller parties that go out at night and ambush a group of soldiers who just had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. One of the tank gunners had a friend in one of those groups. He says that when they found 'em the squad had been horrifically

attacked, and then, to make matters worse the poor guy was still alive, muttering to himself, with the lower half of his torso missing. He'd been saying that a dragon had eaten him. Slowly, taking care to enjoy the flavours only to be scared off before it could finish the job. The way McKintosh tells it the medic had to put him out of his misery, but he does has a tendency to embellish. We rushed to the Goalkeeper as the army bods behind us fired up their tank, according to the AWACS they were coming our way, either they'd seen us, or we were just plain unlucky. We quickly brought the Goalkeeper online, we didn't keep it on all the time as we didn't want to risk shooting anything human down by accident. We watched the radar intently as the AWACS kept giving us constant updates when the horizon lit up. This wasn't a raiding party. The damn things were attacking! The best defence is a good offence and all that. I saw jets take off from the HMS Queen Elizabeth as an AC-130 flew above rattling the consoles with its engines. I'd have watched closer but the immanent threat of being torn limb from limb because someone's cunning idea didn't work was rather more important. We checked the Goalkeepers readouts again, all systems we working correctly for the first time since we'd stepped on this damn island. The sky lit up with blinding flashes as the radio squawked continuously with a mixture of voices, American, British, German hell every accent you can imagine. We heard this gutsy Frenchman yelling bloody murder, daring the Cytrans to come face him while firing wildly. Was a real morale booster, later we found he'd been posthumously given the Lgion d'honneur. Guy had taken on about four Cytrans, by himself. They found him slumped against his Machine Gun after bleeding out. I don't think anyone can really give the French anymore stick after that display. We knew they were close, a party of three according to the radar. We all intently stared at the screen watching for them to come within our effective range. They were flying in formation, in a straight line. Either they didn't know we had a CIWS, or they just were unaware that we were in the area. Either way, they'd find out soon enough. The Goalkeeper swung its massive Autocannon to bear on the incoming Cytrans, something spooked them as they quickly attempted to change formation. Perhaps they heard it swing around, or start to spin up. Whatever it was, it was useless. The Autocannon fired for a couple of seconds. The clearing we were sat it was illuminated as we watched the stream of tracer ammunition arc into the sky. One of the radar signatures swerved drunkenly into a spin crashing hard into the forest in a large blue explosion. Roberts punched the air with glee as we started tracking the other two signatures. They were spooked, and were moving towards us at a much faster speed now. Not that this mattered to the Goalkeeper, this thing was designed to shoot missiles out of the sky, so an metal dragon was going to be a piece of cake. The gun spoke again, we could see their silhouettes on the horizon. The target attempted to weave out of the way. The

Goalkeeper missed, but it was soon tracking the weaving dragon. Cleaving the night sky, tracers like deaths scythe. All it took was a few solid hits. Another blue flash lit the sky followed by secondary flashes as the metal beast flew straight into the ground. Roberts shouted in joy but his joy was soon stifled. The targeting computer had malfunctioned again, at the worse possible time. We could see the dragon on the radar, edging slowly closer, but we were unable to do anything. That's when we heard it. A metallic shriek that fell over the clearing. The tank commander had obviously noticed by now our predicament and had opened his hatch. He cocked the machine gun on the top and pointed it toward the sky. It swept into the clearing like something straight out of the depths of hell knocking over the Goalkeeper with its talons with a sickening sound of tortured metal. Roberts ran, sprinting towards the treeline as I stood dumbfounded in front of the sleek metal dragon form. I could only think of all those stories I'd heard from the front-line, about what these things could and would do but that didn't matter, I would stand up to this beast and show it that humanity is not some weak willed race to be subjugated. It roared at me and I stared it down. The Tank Commander opened up with his machine-gun causing sparks to flare off the sleek body of the dragon, no damage was being done the calibre was too low but that was not his intention. Over bursts he shouted at me to move. I didn't require a second order, I sprinted as fast as I could, my lungs gasping for air as I dashed across the clearing trying not to look behind me. I could hear the machine guns staccato firing as I ducked into the trees. The dragon reared up and the tank commander ducked back into the tank closing the hatch just as the tank was bathed in liquid fire. I watched with baited breath as the smoke cleared. Anxious to see what had happened when I heard a loud bang. The tank shell tore through the Dragons chest piece, twisting and distorting the metal before landing in the forest with a plume of dirt and vegetation. The dragon swayed as it looked down at the large gaping wound in its chest in what I can only assume to be disbelief before crumpling into a heap in the middle of the clearing leaving the area silent except for the sound of guns in the distance. My radio flashed into life again. That was for Anderson you metal fuck! Amen to that MacKintosh. Amen to that.

ZeeToo Aug 20, 2011 04:48

Unknown posted: It was the weirdest shit I've ever covered, that I can tell you. It wasn't even close to my only war. I'm just a cameraman, not a proper reporter, so I may not have the proper turns of phrase, but I was there.

Or, at least, close. We--my assigned reporter and I--never got off the ships the Allies stationed just off coast, but we were close enough to pick up one hell of a crazy set of footage. My footage played on every damn channel in the world, near enough. At first, it looked like a nightmare made real. By the end, it was practically a farce. Looking back on it months after the fact like this, it just seems crazy. Like some twisted genie gave them exactly what they asked for, but not what they meant. Practically overnight, this unsuspected fringe turned from an obscure group never even as central to conspiracies as the Illuminati and the Freemasons into a whole new superpower--or that's what they said. You probably remember the 'experts' they dragged in for news broadcasts at the time, talking about 'technological quantum leap' and 'three hundred years of tech development in the blink of an eye'. Well, if their technology was from the 2300's, their tactics were from the 1800's. And their sense of human decency was from the Dark Ages. The atrocities came to light, the 'converted' scientists, and the cautious back home quailed at the thought of fighting something so advanced. Now they're all laughing. The dragons were technically impressive. The first few encounters see-sawed back and forth between complete domination on each side. That didn't last, not beyond literally the opening days of the war. The dragons were networked by radio telepathy; it was their big method of communication, their ace in the hole for instant cooperation. When the military just started jamming everything as a matter of course, they fell apart. That's where the design flaws really began to show up. That's what the history books will tell you. But they'll never show just how pathetic the dragons became. The dragons never even got close to the fleet. Oh, a few tried--I watched one flight of four wing towards us with slow majesty. They never even got close. Once they left the cover of the jungle, several of the carrier's escorts angled towards them, firing missiles. More missiles than they needed, as it turned out. The dragons weren't just feigning slow movement; that was really their best. I could barely make out the shape of the dragons without magnification. That was the closest I ever got to a live one. All my footage? Yeah, you wouldn't believe how much magnification I needed to get that. Listening to ground troops cycling back to the fleet, they kept coming up with more and more unbelievable stories about how the war was going. The dragons could rip up armored vehicles--I heard that one early. The dragons burned, burned so easily. That I heard so much. By the end, it was a joke for the infantry. The dragons were pretty quick, striking, but they weren't that flexible. They could only attack in a few basic ways. Near

the end of the war, a lot of soldiers gave up on even using guns as 'unsportsmanlike'. They knew how a dragon could move. They knew how fragile their flying, fucking, firebreathing, ferocious forms were. A good hit from a baseball bat? That was all it took to bring down the 'invincible' aluminum dragons. God, what a farce. If only it hadn't ruined so many lives along the way, it would have been a phenomenal cosmic joke. The technological achievement of the millenium, my ass.

CmdrChicken Aug 20, 2011 05:22

Sub-Warrior Overseer Fluffykinz posted: AUDIO LOG FROM THRONE ROOM OF SUB-WARRIOR OVERSEER "FLUFFYKINZ" - COMMANDER OF DRAGONFORCE (Malatoran human auxillary force) [F. is on his throne, eating a can of tuna. Not speaking to any known person] F: I'm a pretty kitty, oh yes I am. [F. snorts a line of CATNIP] F: mmmmmm ooh... oh yes that's good. [A human adjutant, name K. Grayson, enters the throne room.] K: Sir, I have sF: No. You have to say it. K: My Lord The Wise and Adorable Fluffykinz, overlord of the fortunate souls of Dragonforce! Our scouts have spotted incoming.. uhh... human... land forces, we have Platoons A and C moving in to engage them. What are your orders? F: Tell them to fix bayonets and charge. K: But.. they'll be wiped out! F: You are a lowly human and I am a White, Fluffy Cat of reason. I posses the tactical knowledge of thousands of your "Generals!" Relay the order to charge! K: Yes my lord. [minutes pass, F. snorts more CATNIP] [K. Returns, F. sounds noticeably agitated.] K: My Lord, Platoons A and C are not responding to our hails on the radio. Do you have new orders for us? F: Why yes, of course, whatever... you don't respect me. K: What? F: That's right, you humans don't respect me. I'm trying my hardest to defend this island in the name of Emperor Taygon, and you keep making it difficult! K: My Lord, we have possibly just lost over a hundred men! We need instruction! I do not doubt your military prowess, but we require it now! F: Ok.. I order our forces... to WIN! HAH!

K: How do you plan to do that? F: You're my adjustant, you handle the details, whatever... K: It's adjutant F: DO NOT CORRECT ME, WORM! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR INSOLENCE! [F. Draws a pistol and fires seven times.} K: My lord, do you need assistance in killing me? F: AAAAAAAAAAAARGGH!! LEAVE MY SIGHT OR I WILL RELOAD! GO DEFEAT THE UNITED STATES ARMY, STOP PRETENDING LIKE ITS HARD! LAZY HUMANS! [F. resumes snorting catnip and complimenting himself]

Untrustable Aug 20, 2011 06:37

The World Post, August 25, 2120 posted: FIFTEENTH MANGLED BODY FOUND ON SMALL AFRICAN ISLAND Strange happenings in former warzone Police officials in Sao Tome, known by most as the former staging ground of one of the shortest yet violent wars in human history, are baffled at the emergence of yet another mangled corpse; The fifteenth this year. The local police are now seeking the help of stationed U.N. soldiers still on the island. The World Post, November 15, 2120 posted: MYSTERY IN SAO TOME DEEPENS Following the rash of unexplained murders in Sao Tome earlier this year, the locals of Sao Tome are now reporting strange lights and sounds coming from the now blocked off area where the Cytrans held their last stand against invading allied forces. Locals have been quoted describing the sounds as, "Screams, like someone is hurt or dying." and "Squeaking and groaning like metal put under stress". The U.N. has declined comment on the matter.

Translated letter from UNAST soldier posted: Jaana, its been a long while since I last wrote you. Sao Tome is kinda nice place, if it wasnt for this war. Maybe we could vacation here some time in the future?

Its not that bad, most the attacking is done by the US led coalition forces and we UN soldiers mainly keep the rear echelon safe from the almost nightly Cytran raids. Its not that bad, theyve really inept when it comes to raiding, we hear them coming miles away. And most are already wounded or disabled partly, what would you expect from a machine that got a hail of bullets? But how are you doing? I really wish Id be there with you instead here but I guess we finally had to put a lid on this madness, I hear they were kidnapping children from the Sao Tome natives before the US and the UN intervened. The locals are really nice and always come to talk us when were patrolling in the day and thank us for our work. Really makes you feel like youre doing something. Besides that, its really hot in here. When youre in a PASI in full gear its kind of discomforting. And when it rains, its really humid, really dont enjoy it. At least we dont have to use our NBC gear unless were cleaning away one of the damn robodragons or whatever they were called. Cyt something? Your letters have been getting back here sparsely, the address you should use is 4th Armoured Brigade, NORDBATT, UNAST, that should get them at least into my brigade. I hope this'll end soon and I'll see you again. I love you, Petri --Translated from a letter sent by Jaeger Suokas, 4th Armoured Brigade, NORDBATT, United Nations Action in Sao Tome. UNAST Archives

Deadly Chlorine Aug 20, 2011 07:02

Malatorian Citizen 08365 posted: I run. I run like Ive never had before. My feet bleed and my legs ache, but I still run. But at the same time, I laugh. Laughter because the months of torture had probably driven me insane, but also, who knew that they were this easy to kill? Long have the human citizens cowered in fear, the slightest misdemeanor treated like a major crime. Hell, even looking at them would get you eaten, or worse, maybe they would take away your children. Happened to me. Pleaded, begged them to do anything to me instead of them, but god knows they need children for whatever depraved things they do. In my hand, I have something that Id never dreamed of even touching in my life, until now. As I roared with laughter through the slums, people peeked out of their houses, seeing a goddamn penis as long as a ruler. All of them understood. Everywhere in Malatora, parents hushed their children, hid them somewhere safe, and took up weapons that we had been stockpiling for such a long time.

How did I manage to kill one of them, anyway? Truthfully, I didnt even do it on purpose. Got into a fight, asshole tried to fucking rape me, so I just punched him as hard as I could. Surprise when my fist just plowed through his chest like a hammer through coke can. Surprise for us both, heh. Of course, they obviously found out almost immediately. Still, I was afraid. No fucking way I could take on that many of them. So I ran like Ive never ran before. My vision dims and my stomach hurts, yet I need to get the word out to everyone. Need to let them know that they can still fight. So tonight, Malatora will go out in a blaze. Burning torches and fucking baseball bats will be the weapons that will finally end this tyranny.

Vengeance of Pandas Aug 20, 2011 07:17

Private Journal of John Ramsey, Citizen of Malatora posted: More fucking brownies and macaroni and fucking cheese today. I ran a fucking three Michelin star restaurant for five fucking years and now I'm reduced to a fucking diner chef in this miserable shithole of a country. The bastards lured me here with the promise of developing a new style of fucking cuisine for a new fucking race but all these stupid tin can arseholes want are fucking brownies and the odd bit of half cooked rabbit or cow. Fucking philistines. I've been pissing in the brownie mix for the last month and the fucking cytrans still haven't noticed.

MimaBall Aug 20, 2011 07:51

It's lonely at the top. More so when the top we are concerned with is very very high above sea level. The Dragon Lord liked it up here. Malatora appeared green and lush from this height, the scars through the forests and pits dug for the resource drives barely noticeable. Just deeper shadows underneath the dense canopy. Through exquisite wiring he could feel the air moving, knew it's currents, speed and eddies. The light and air moving through his external sensors relayed data directly to the brain with a level of detail that his old self, an involuntary snigger, could never have hoped to have understood. Humidity, temperature, forecasts, background electricity sources, radio inteceptors, GPS positioning and more were being constantly updated. Optimized. His lizard lips smiled, he loved that word. 'Optimized', flashes of light breaking through the scales off his hardened aluminium teeth as he leered. He wasn't concerned with external matters today though. Today the rumblings had progressed to a point where he knew he couldn't ignore them. he knew this day would come and this time, he intended to carry the victory from that filthy Cult of George. Even the name sent him back... ..."When I find Hrothgar I'm going to put a bullet through his fucking brain!"

"Whoa! Kill? Really Taygon, this is the kind of thing they're feeding off." "Shut it Tanya, you don't know anything. Hrothgar IS Dancing Dongs! Can't you see that? Or have you the brain of a pigeon to go with your looks?" Taygon hit enter and sat back arms crossed. That'll show her. "LOL ROFL UMAD BRO?" Tanya sent. Taygon, couldn't believe it. The gall. The fucking gall of that woman. He was composing some venom when he saw her next reply. "I couldn't save you. It was my mission to do so and not only have I failed you, I have failed myself. I know the love you have put into the FedCom project and I know that one day that love will allow you to forgive me for what I'm about to say." Taygon waited. Staring at the screen, a blinking "Tanya Sapien is typing a message..." staring back like the Sword of Damocles. He waited. He wasn't aware he wasn't breathing. "We're leaving you Taygon. We all agree. You're dangerous, weak, arrogant and cowardly. They even call themselves 'Goons' for fucks sake. They're just using words! And you promised us sanctuary and progress. But you gave us pantshitting. We are taking the FedCom project and moving on without you. Don't try to follow. Even Staliph is with us. Goodbye Robert. We could never have done this without you. We just can't finish it with you." She logged out. Taygon was left staring at the simple reality of his loss. And he could not comprehend it. He finally exhaled. His head span. He looked up at the screen and noticed two things. Staliph was going too. And she had called him Robert. That would be the last time either of them would ever be called those names... ...The Dragon Lord roared his triumph and rage at the past far far over Malatora. The flames flaring out, white hot in places and with fury in it's every molecule. He may have run back then. May have hidden and feinted. Played the cur. The things he had to do to be where he is now. He may have run from them back then, but now they were coming to his front door. And he was no longer Robert Lord, a lonely virgin. He was Taygon. He was everything he said he'd be. And that fucking Cult of George would find out the hard way.

Melaneus Aug 20, 2011 08:12

A poorly shaven soldier entered his office. His uniform was of a rather bizarre design, with a torn unit badge bearing what appeared to be a purple unicorn peeking out above one of his slings. But it was the smile, the brimming, shit-eating grin on this guy was the

most unnerving. After all that happened, the battle, the aftermath, the terrifying stories leaking out, and two broken arms, he looked like he had nary a care in the world. "So we doing this inquiry thingy sir?", he asked with his head cocked to one side. Snapped out of his state of surprise, the officer said, "Yes, yes. you're probably aware that you're here because of the... unusual kill you made. Where did you get the motorcycle, son? I'm quite sure no one brought any for the war." He shrugged and answered, "It was found at an empty village. I assumed the past owner was already barbecue." "And the lance? The authentic medieval design jousting lance?" The soldier laughed lightly and replied, "Oh, I brought that from home. When I heard we'd be fighting the Malatora Dragons as foretold, I knew I was gonna joust one in the dick. And I fuckin' did, man! He was already wounded, or maybe high on somethin', cuz he was just lying there playing wit' his dicks and I had plenty of time to get set up and impale that aluminum dongbox. It was AWESOME! The broken limbs are totally worth it!" Bemused, the officer went on, "As... foretold? Okay, whatever, I've got more important matters to deal with here. I'd rather speak with your CO about this incident anyways. Let's see, that would be General Bull-" and before he could finish reading off the name he sputtered in disbelief. He sat rigid, looking forward with a thousand-yard stare and muttered, "Got damn. When the hell did they let the Goons into NATO?" The two remained motionless for a few moments. Eventually the officer became irked and asked, "Why are you still here?" The soldier smiled wickedly and said, "say it." "Say what?" "SAY IT!" "Get... out?" and with a giggle and a skip he was gone.

Brick Moses Aug 20, 2011 08:13

Imagine an anenecphalatastic baby -- an deformed, mostly-brainless infant with a concave skull. Now imagine that same baby with wings, metallic claws, and a forest of ghastly appendages hanging from its belly. What you have is very much like a Cytran -- a human trying to make up for mental and emotional shortcomings by cowering in an augmented, physical shell. They became Cytrans because they were worthless human beings, and they remain worthless human beings -- just a bit bigger than before. They have all the same flaws, insecurities, and anxieties. They are dragons with Downs syndrome, autism, bipolar, and any number of self-diagnosed disorders they attributed to themselves during a self-esteem crash. Speaking of autism, have you ever just walked up to a Cytran and looked it right in the eye? Try it sometime. Green, glowing, arrogant, crystalline optical sensors don't help those fuckers overcome their fear of eye contact. --Anonymous Cytran repairman

Dex Aug 20, 2011 08:23

Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. An old habit, entirely unnecessary in hir current form, but the act of controlling hir breathing had nothing to do with oxygen regulation. That was handled by the LOx tank connected to hir life support module. In hir stealth form, this system was entirely cut off from the book lungs so no exhalation would be visible. It was simply a matter of pacing hirself, giving shi time to watch hir surroundings and prepare. They were close. Even though they were probably skilled for their kind, the humans could not hide their stumbling through his domain from his catlike aural receptors. Tough to say how many, but shi could pick up at least four different scents on the wind. Unpleasant, filthy scents promising lives filled with foolish vices shi hirself had the decency to disregard even when trapped in a similar frame - smoking, drinking, bathing. Animals. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. Closer now. If shi had a heart installed, it would have started beating faster. Shi publicly claimed that Malatora was a place of peace, but right here, right now, shi knew that this was what it came down to - a chance to test hirself against hir opponents. An image flashed through hir mind, of a darker time, when the only competition to be found was on the paintball field. No contest to be had, and that was using impossibly subpar equipment. The thought made shi smile. Even now, with far higher stakes, all had been found wanting. Some things never change.

Breathe in, breathe out. There. Moving in line formation, eyes locked straight ahead and never swaying from the path. So utterly predictable. Thankfully humanity had never stopped to discuss battlefield strategy with any of his Aspergian brotherhood prior to their relocation to Malatora. Shi stifled a chuckle - too late now. It was almost cruel, but these invaders needed to be dispatched. A little closer, and it would all be over for tonight... Suddenly, a shrill cry rings out through the forest. It seems to ring out through the world, drowning out anything else. Taygon began to panic as shi recognised the cry - no, no, it can't be possible! This cannot be happening! The humans were so close, almost within striking distance, but hir vision was growing dimmer and dimmer, the hated aggressors becoming indistinct blurs, melting into the surrounded jungle... Robert Lord opened his eyes. A blurry, shapeless world blinked back at him. Good. The transition from Cytran to this was jarring enough, better that he spare himself the finer details for now. The alarm clock continued its infernal beeping, each tone mockingly reminding him of his current lot in life. Reaching over to the nightstand, sending his latest purchase from Bad Dragon tumbling to the floor, he hit the 'snooze' button. Just five more minutes, and he'd show those Goons what Taygon The Brave was really made of. Maybe he'd even make it home to Tatsu Eeyrie in time for brownies. As the sounds of the trailer park drifted away, he smiled.

Walkin Goon Aug 20, 2011 08:35

Journal Entry #06 posted: Fucking Geri. Fucking Geri. Of all the gullible morons to be stationed with, we had to deal with him: the only idiot dense enough to go walking off into this resource deprived jungle in the middle of fucking no where. Of course, the obvious happened: his ass is more loss than trailer-park trash at a biotechnology convention missing like a preop-attention whore misses their self respect. And of course, the Captain takes it out on the rest of us, chewing between each and every insult he can possibly spit (in an Irish accent of all things!). "How could 'ou maggots le' this 'appen? What in George's grace possessed 'ou to dick around in your trouser-tents in'nead of standing guard like 'ou should 'ave been? I 'ought I was dealing with Marines, not attention-deposit Asperger rejects on a web board!"

Shut the fuck up, why don't he? I wasn't drafted into service to babysit or play bongo in the congo with manchildren who got into the strategic ops by way of menial computer games. In fact, if it was up to me right now, I'd rather be using my credentials to be sitting somewhere in the US controlling one of those predator UAV things, bombing dragonadongs continents away in between sips of sweet tea and air conditioned climate control. God, in a more realistic scenario, shouldn't we be doing more of just that, like, right now? It's like we're sending in men to confront these giant electric appliances just to humor them. ...God dammit... Just got word that Fran's apparently missing now, too. Dear diary, Everyone around me's a moron. Your faithful soldier, Private Get-me-out-of-here-please. Fuck.

Desperado Bones Aug 20, 2011 08:38

quote: Today we were approached by a reporter. She had been sticking around the American troops, she and her photographer, and today she had the guts to come to us. You see, after years of abuse and horror we don't look as the kindest people on the world; we are scarred, angered, bitter. The American marines once said "They look like out of one of those Vietnam movies." I still don't know what they mean, neither we care. Me and my men joked with her, proudly telling her our many kills and how many dicks we have cut. Then came the interviews, each one of us told their story. Mine isn't so great. I used to mop the floors, I used to kiss the Cytran's feet and submit to their desires while deep inside I was boiling in anger and disgust at myself. Then came the first riot and I saw an opportunity to stand against the monsters I despised. Diogo used to sell brownies,he always rants about how that's not real food and taste like monkey shit: "I want a fucking steak!" Oh...Adriano. He was crying once he talked with the reporter in private. I saw them from the distance, that child breaking in tears and clinging to a woman that suddenly took the role of a surrogate mother. Her hands rubbed his skinny back, whispering hushing words.

Minutes later we were asked for a photograph. Me and my men stood proudly, showing our morbid trophies to the world. -Ernesto Manoel's journal was published two years after the end of the Malatora war. Nowadays he spends his days as a fisher man, trying to heal the horrors that still haunt his dreams. -Diogo Cassado helped in the reconstruction of his hometown,opened a restaurant and today he is married and is waiting for his first son; "...And I'm pleased he won't live the Hell we all had to endure." -He smiles and rubs his wife's stomach- "My child won't have to fear any dragon monsters." - On a wall hangs a black and white photo, it looks old and so out of time even if it was taken recently. A group of ten Africans stand proudly in front of a dead Cytran. They look dirty, tired, rifles hanging from their shoulders and wide smiles on their faces. Each one of them holding proudly a Cytran penis, just like a hunter showing off his prey. That photo nearly gave Samantha Jones the Pulitzer [Prize won by the photo of a small and abused child being rescued by an unknown soldier]. She looks at it for a minute before her eyes move to the other -smaller- photos beneath. She chuckles when her eyes meet the ones of a black man in his fifties, holding the largest fish she had ever seen before. Then a younger man, hugging his pregnant wife. And next to it the one of a young man, his eyes sad, his face covered in dirt and dried blood...he was only seventeen. "Adriano!" Samantha suddenly calls, "Is getting late!" Over her head she can hear the loud steps of his now adopted son. Adriano Jones, a young man that's fighting to have a regular life and leave behind the ghosts of the Cytran horror.

Big Poppa Creamy Aug 20, 2011 08:54

quote: AngelSephiroth's metal claws clacked and shrieked against the floor as shi stormed down the corridor. How dare they. How dare they?! Shi had been mating with ShadownKitsune when shi had received the news. The human messenger had tried to run when he saw hir fury but had slipped in a puddle of lubricant and AngelSephiroth had disembowelled him with a single sweep of his claws. He was so furious he would barely been able to finish mating for the seventh time that day if ShadowKitsune hadn't started stroking hir favourite of AngelSephiroth's proud dongs, the one shi called 'Masamune' with a breathless whisper, until AngelSephiroth was ready to show hir the power of hir Hanzo Steel. Hir nestmate was dead, killed by the filthy stinking humans who even now were laying hir beloved paradise of Malatora to waste outside the walls of the Citadel. Well enough was enough. Yes, the Cytran forces had met their share of setbacks so far, but that was before AngelSephiroth had joined the fray. Shi was already imagining the glorious moment when shi would reach the front lines, rear back hir head and let out a

proud and wrathful warcry that would let all in earshot know that they had made a greivous mistake when they hurt those that AngelSephiroth cared for. Hir tail flashed left and right as shi found hirself caught in a daydream and the human briefing officer ducked as it took a gouge out of the concrete wall, then had to sprint to catch back up again. Shi could barely stand to listen to his prattle about 25mm grenade rifles, mobile close-in weapon systems or whatever else it was he was getting so excited about. Shi thought about breaking his back against the wall with hir tail, but decided against it. No, save it for the enemy, show them the full extent of your wrath. Besides, what did this so-called 'briefing' have to offer anyway? Who could be in any doubt as to the inherent combat superiority of the Cytran? They were powerful, majestic, and their armour had been shown to stop small-caliber small arms fire on the range. There was no doubt, there wasn't a single human soldier on the island who could defeat AngelSephiroth one-on-one, which would make hir devious guerilla tactics even more deadly, especially when backed up by the autonomous swarm tactics of his bretheren, sisteren and hermerereren. No doubt they would flee in terror when they saw his eyes turn the distinctive orange that showed him in full berzerk combat mode. Maybe shi would even get to challenge the enemy general himself to single combat to show the superiority of Dragon Honour. Shi reached the launching bay and took off with a flap of his glorious wings. Shi mentally ran down the battleplan in hir head that shi had drafted after a lecture on Dragon Tactics from Taygon himself: The officers first, then the medic units, that would stop the rest of them healing damage when shi used hir dragonfire in a series of sweeping attacks whilst using hir low speed and manueverability to avoid any missiles or anti-air fire. Shi would feast on the delicious, stinking humans this day until Taygon and Staliph themselves were forced to recognise hir greatness. No sooner had shi left the launchpad than shi heard the siren screech of hir cytran body's early warning system. An incoming missile, but it was so fast. Shi went to feign left, then dive swiftly to the right, skillfully throwing the missile off, but before shi could even begin to react there was a hard hammerblow of compressed air as the missile exploded. An airburst rather than a direct hit, luckily, but a small cloud of shrapnel still punched a ragged hole in hir left wing. Shi began to lose altitude, panicking as shi looked for somewhere safe to land in the undergrowth. This wasn't supposed to happen, if shi was to die, it should be in a glorious last stand to protect his friends, roaring his defiance, not swatted out of the air like a bug. The landing was rough, hir once-gleaming aluminium armour was dented and scratched from the tree branches shi had burst through but shi was still alive! Shi could make it back to the safety of the Citadel and a fresh new body, now an even more dangerous opponent thanks to this valuable experience, which would surely take hir to the next level of Dragon Combat. Shi shook hir head and stood on unsteady legs and began to force a way through the undergrowth. Suddenly shi burst out into a clearing full of scurrying humans in BDUs and combat fatigues, shi had come across an enemy platoon! The two

forces stood there in shock for a moment, eyeing each other in wary disbelief but AngelSephiroth reacted first. Shi reared back on her hindlegs, unlocked every one of her dongs and let them sway proud and erect in the muggy jungle air and shi roared hir defiance and passion. Now these pathetic creatures would see what a true warrior of Malatora could do! They would scatter and die beneath hir might claws in the name of glorious FedThe first grenade tore hir intact wing to ribbons, the second left only a smoking hole where hir right hindleg used to be and shi collapsed onto the floor, screaming in pain. shi began to thrash around as, no longer under hir control, hir dongs fitfully squirted lubricant in a fast-growing puddle around hir and thrashed about, knocking down bushes and saplings. The last thing shi saw was a soldier walking towards hir purposefully, a metal baseball bat in his hand, tapping against his leg as he walked. "Yo Jenkins, this one's mine dammit!" "Forget it Velasquez, you only winged it. Hah. Winged it. Besides, you know that Cook's only going to claim it was his bird that should get the kill anyway, so what does it matter? Ok you deviant little son of a bitch, this one's for a little friend of mine, I'm going to hit a home run on all ten of them..." Shi just had time to sob and think sadly to hirself, this was truly an epic fail...

Hungry Bit Aug 20, 2011 09:14

A journal entry by a Strike Team soldier posted: The city behind us burned like a bonfire and painted the sky with shades of grey and orange. The occasional rumble of depleted uranium shells hitting the city walls reminded us that the Citadel was going down. A10's flew overhead to the direction of the mainland, back home to refuel and to return with a fresh serving of death. Nothing tried to stop them. The battle was surprisingly short and one-sided. The Cytrans preferred to engage our troops alone and in close combat, meaning the squads could plink the slow fliers off before they got even close. Some tried to ambush us as we stormed the HQ, giving us a harder time but finally succumbing to the hail of bullets. God, the Cytrans were the strangest foe we'd ever encountered and probably ever would. The mental image you get when told that you'll be opposing 10-feet tall metal monstrosities made of teeth and claw is frightening at best, but when you actually lay your eyes upon the aluminium hulk of a dragon it's... different. Disturbing, and sort of pity inducing. Those robotic movements, the weak bodies, all those... appendages hanging from the crotch... definitely a hindrance in combat... and the fixation to some sort of an insane honor code. It's strange. Much of the fight is now a shady memory blurred by adrenaline and the odd feeling of witnessing something as unreal as this actually happening. But one encounter was etched

in my mind as clear as day. That one Cytran, pouncing us from a blind corner, flailing wildly with all it's limbs and screaming, optics flaming with rage. Those horrifying red eyes were at one point fixated at me and I could feel them boring into my soul. Like it was assessing what it was up against, trying to reverse-engineer what made me tick and how to stop that tick from happening... "I'M GOING TO RAPE YOU IN EVERY ORIFICE IN YOUR BODY... BUT NO BUTT STUFF!" it screamed as it finally leapt at us, only to fall to the concentrated fire hailed upon it by my squad. The whimpers it made as light flickered off it's eyes made it seem confused as to how something like this could be happening. It was somehow different from the rest but I couldn't tell why. We were to get out the chlidren and we did. Now we're waiting for extraction. But I wonder what will become of Sao Tome now. Seeing how the world was united to rid the islands of the dragon scourge I'm confident it'll come together to help rebuild as well.

MimaBall Aug 20, 2011 09:59

Dr Hugh Mann posted: Hi, I'm Dr Mann. I haven't been to one of these things before. Well, let me just say, it's not fair. I live a flawless life, don't cheat, don't cut corners and yes, I resent it, but I'm just not the type of person to be bad. Psychiatry can do that a person. Make them cautious. Self analysing. Not fun. Or flighty. Impulsive. Etcetera. I know....lame. So, this one time I do let loose. Finally. I accept the friday night after work thing. I drink the drinks. Talk the talk. Walking the walk just got me a wall in the face but that's not the point. You know the song Respect, everyone does. Blues Brothers lady. I'm not good with music. It was like that except the word was Relaxed. For once in my life, I relaxed. And when I woke, it was to a winged nightmare beyond all reason. There was a fucking dragon interrogating me. The one time I get drunk, ACTUALLY GET LAID, and I wake up face to face with what can only be a Dragon. Yeah....like Smaug. But sort of XXX rated but shutup. I don't know if I'll ever feel like letting this out again. The dragon could talk. Roughly. Not really. What I was seeing was, somehow, some basic human intent in the communication that I understood. It was frustrated. Very much so. Angry and somehow shamed too. But honestly, he couldn't talk for shit. It could hear well enough though.

When I said to it "You're talking? I can't understand you," the thing flew to its's feet. It's head crashed into a very cheap looking chandelier and some shards stuck into one of the beasts eyes. It shrieked and commenced clawing at it's face to tear the shiny plastic splinters out of it's socket. Finally the beast composed itself. It sat (trying from what I suspect is habit to drape one leg over the other and lean back haughtily while crossing it's arms) and sneered down it's admittedly impressive nose at me. From some area on the floor the Beast drew forth what looked to be an iPad. On closer inspection it was a shattered mirror with a crudely butchered PS3 controller attached to it. Whatever this contraption was as the dragon tapped on it with a grossly engorged claw (why did his claw have a foreskin?) it spoke as he tapped out his demands. "I SHALL SKIP THE PLEASANTRIES DR MANN." "What?" "I SHALL SKIP THE PLEASANTRIES DR MANN." "What?" "I SHALL....FUCK YOU!" "Where am I? Who are you?" "I AM TAYGON. I ....DRAGONS DO NOT NEED ANYTHING AT ALL AND I DON'T NEED YOU AT ALL....BUT I NEED YOU" "What?" "I SHALL SKIP...OH RIGHT...I HAVE A PRESSING NEED FOR YOUR SERVICES" "Huh?" "YOU ARE THE FAMOUS DR HUGH MANN. I AM STILL HUMAN. I HAVE ISSUES. HELP ME." "Um...." "ARE YOU LAUGHING AT ME?" "Well..." And the Dragon had a tantrum. I know that's unbelievable considering what it was and all. But the Dragon flew up through the ceiling atop a very impressive pillar of flame and I was able to just walk away. And that is why my name is Dr Hugh Mann. And I am an alcoholic.

DrSunshine Aug 20, 2011 10:31

Gakushin Heavy Industries posted: The so-called 'cytran' human neural interface is truly a wonder of modern technology. Now that we are able to fully implant a human consciousness into a mechanical shell of any desired shape or size means that heretofore unsuccessful efforts at creating "hard" AI

can be bypassed. This is a revolution in heavy industry, allowing personnel to operate in environments too dangerous even for workers in hazardous environment suits, with far more flexibility than using autonomous ROVs. Furthermore, the electronic translation algorithms used to control their former bodies can be inverted, allowing a technician to ensure loyalty through direct stimulation of the pain receptor channels. We have already put several captured "cytran" models into hazardous waste cleanup and sewage maintenance operations via this method, and expect to acquire several more units in the next quarter. -- Gakushin Industries Board of Directors Q4 Report, Aftermath: The Cytran Conflict in Retrospect Datalinks

Rubycutter Aug 20, 2011 10:45

By the time we arrived on the compound, there was little that our tactical squad needed to do. The human slaves that the dragons had kept had mostly fled and the upper levels of the Citadel were almost entirely abandoned, save for the occasional scurrying of adventurous wildlife and the bright flickers of light as the electrical systems began to fail. It was odd that none of the dragons were present, though many of them had been destroyed during combat with the U.S. military. It turned out that they werent as impervious to high caliber weapons fire as they had thought, and certainly not as impervious to missiles. They hadnt put up much of a fight anyway, it had been strange, they seemed slow and uncoordinated, and seemed to have a great deal of difficulty even keeping themselves in the air, much less posing a threat to our forces. But not all of the dragons had been present on the field, and now we were tasked with hunting down the remaining abominations and securing them for trial. We had no idea what we were about to find, but the images still haunt me in my nightmares. The doors to the lower level slid open, helped along by a crowbar and Sgt. Georges booted foot, and we emerged into the main atrium, lit by the dull red of flashing emergency signage. We advanced slowly, guns at the ready and then it began, a dull moan that stretched and wavered in the thick, humid air. What the fuck was that, Sergeant? One of the men asked, and George shrugged his shoulders. Sounds like a dying animal, piped in another, maybe one of them things is down here. Then we looked up. Strung to the top of the balustrade was one of the dragons, stretched out almost as if it was being crucified, its wings ripped and broken. It raised its head helplessly and let out another one of those horrible moans, and then shuddered, liquids dripping from its nether regions, which appeared to be some sort of horrifying amalgamation of sexual organs, all looking battered and mutilated. George stepped forward, raising his weapon, but a human head suddenly appeared near the dragon and raised a hand.

Stop right there. This is ours, it snarled, displaying a machete gripped firmly in its other hand. Look at this pathetic beast, even now begging for its life. What happened to it? George asked, his face going pale. Oh, these children. They thought they could support their new bodies off of a diet of brownies and soda, like they were still human. They weakened. And we waited, we endured their abuses, and now. Now we will have our revenge. The dragon let out another screaming sigh, and the figure raised the machete even higher. Behold! A new age. Watch me slay this dragon, it cackled, and rammed the machete home through the dragons neck. It gargled and flailed around in its bonds, but the figure was determined, and soon a shower of black blood erupted out of the dragons neck, coating the floor of the atrium. Still the figure sawed, and finally, the dragons head tipped forward, smashing into the ground, sliding along the liquid that had seeped out of its body, and came to a slow, horrible halt next to Georges boot. When we looked up again, the figure had vanished. All that remained was the pathetic corpse, and the low thrum of the emergency air vents struggling to keep up.

CmdrChicken Aug 20, 2011 11:02

quote: Excerpt from "Faces of Malatora: Part II" An interview with a veteran of Dragonforce: Malatora's human fighting force. We were aroused out of our barracks this one morning by an alarm. I feel I must clarify when I say we slept in a "barracks" we lived in our sleeping bags in an abandoned apartment, its original occupant long dead. They kept us by platoon, over fifty men per apartment. Some of us slept in open drawers from dragon-sized furniture. The alarm? Oh, it was the cat fucker, he had a simple PA system rigged up in all the apartments appropriated for Dragonforce. Well, going off on a tangent from my story here, but the way I understood it, they conscripted practically every human they could without letting the whole thing [Malatora/Fedcom] burn down due to neglect. Somebody's gotta turn the gears in a place like that. They did these "loyalty tests." As far as I knew, everybody in my unit, myself included, considered themselves loyal human citizens of Malatora right up until we got captured. But at the end of the day they made Dragonforce for two reasons: They LOVED the idea of humans taking a bullet for them, and they were just starting to catch on that the outside world might think they were holding their humans hostage. So I think that they thought that if you guys saw humans fighting alongside them, you would be less willing to go in there. That was part of my original train of thought, let me finish and you'll see where I'm going with this. So, we're woken up by the screaming of our commanding officer, the only Cytran in the unit. The guy clearly loathed us. He felt being put in command of humans was an insult. Judging by the orders we got? I can't doubt Taygon's call in that

case if it was his. Dragonforce started with 1,000 men and women. Two weeks later, we're down to 500. Two days after that, we're down to our last one hundred, Malatora's elite corps of human warriors. The cat fucker kept telling us that our friends were "nobly dying to the last man in valiant last stands" But now we were all that was left. By the time we were down to our last company, they weren't sending us outside anymore. "You understand the inferior human minds of these drugged up crazies" they told us "None of us can, we're above them." Our job devolved into trying to pacify these lunatics. They all seemed to be on something, one time, this guy grabbed me by the visor of my helmet and screamed something about "ten dongs." What? No, I've never seen more than one penis on a cytran... okay maaybe three. They didn't like having us around during their mating. Hard to explain why, best way I can describe it.. is well, we were a force of authority in an anti-authoritarian society. Even though we were told to enforce rules like the sodomy ban, the fact we enforced any rules at all put the cytrans on edge. As far as I know not many of us were killed by cytrans, they all knew it was our job to be killed for them. I didn't choose to be in this unit, but I lost every human friend I had once they first saw me in the purple fatigues. I think that was why we were still loyal, knowingly or not, Taygon alienated us from all the other humans. As far as status, the cytrans saw us as cannon fodder, the "skilled at combat" ones did anyway. One or two were genuinely grateful for our service (I've never personally seen actual combat) but the human civilians considered us species-traitors. At one point, we were afraid of both the cytrans and the humans. We had guns, we considered a coup, but we no longer had the numbers. Also, as far as we knew, our guns were harmless to cytrans. It also didn't help that we weren't really trained. We were basically told to "understand and learn the techniques of battle from our dragon brethren." Not one of them knew how to operate the guns we were given, most of them couldn't even hold them. Just kept telling us to go in with sharp things yelling. Weird huh? Yeah, the purple outfit was all that separated us from the other humans. After the war, I tracked down all my old friends and fellow Dragonforce folk, we still hold reunion parties at various pubs and talk about the good times. No, I tried to, but us Dragonforce vets don't have a lot in common with the coalition vets. They slaughtered cytrans, we were their most-willing servants.

Fargo Fukes Aug 20, 2011 11:23

The girl at the bar was unbelievable. Platinum hair, eyes that shone like blue steel, skin as clean and white as fresh-pressed aluminium. A face you only ever saw at the movies, a figure that only existed on billboards. They could never blend in with a crowd; not before the change, not during the war, not even now, when their lives depended on it.

I sidled onto the next stool and offered a cigarette, which she accepted wordlessly (they always do, bending to some primal memory of breathing fire). "End of the line, Khaleesi. No more running. Time to join your friends at The Hague." Her laugh was empty, tinny. "We are above your human laws." There was no power in the reply, she was quoting from scripture. A dead verse from a dead ruler, when the end came he'd blown his dongs out across the walls of his bunker. She sighed, smoke caressing her leaden lips, "So this is how our dream dies." I thought of metal monstrosities, mounds of dead islanders, miles of sewage tunnels filled to bursting with corrosive dragon spunk. "Some dream." "The dreams of a child." She shrugged. "We were very young, then." I laid my left hand on her shoulder, my right (a bionic replacement, the real one lost to war) gripped a pistol hidden in the folds of my overcoat. "Alright Khaleesi, memory lane was fun but we're walking my way now. Time to go." She didn't move. The smoke still hung in the air. "Tell me Captain Anders, when they replaced your arm did you ever think to ask where the technology came from?" The radio-chatter from the sniper teams suddenly picked up, went wild. Equipment malfunctions, bionic sight failures, electrocutions. The servos in my right hand began to shift without instruction. The lights of the bar flickered like flame, the smoke hung in the air, her talons gripped the table. The dragon smiled. "To think you would plan to shoot me with my own dong."

Golden Bee Aug 20, 2011 11:25

New York Times Online [/quote posted: In wake of war, Backlash against "Furries" Flares By Wayne Delfry As the atrocities of the Malatorian conflict continue to emerge, many world citizens have turned to violence. Though world leaders urge calm, there is little sense of...[MORE]

DrSunshine Aug 20, 2011 11:45

Byeong-Keun Woo, Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist posted: I was giving a lecture to a room full of rescued Malatoran refugees. Most of them had been born there, and subjected to years of indoctrination, we were working to deprogram them. I had just explained some basic facts about the solar system when a young boy raised his hand.

"Mr. Woo, you've got it all wrong. The world is held up by four chakats, supporting each of the four corners. The chakats are each standing on one of the four penises of a reclining dragon, masturbating it." Taken aback a bit - I'd been forewarned about the cult's "eccentric" beliefs - I smiled and asked the boy: "Well, what is the dragon lying on, then?" The boy grinned irascibly, smug. "You're clever, Mr. Woo, very clever. But it's penises all the way down!" --Byeong-Keun Woo, Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist, Aftermath: The Cytran Conflict in Retrospect Datalinks

Hughlander Aug 20, 2011 12:00

Mind of Taygon" posted: I heard the terrified heart-beats of the men below me. I smelled the fear in their sweat. They knew they were hunted and doomed. But they crept through the jungle anyway, eyes darting always looking, but never looking up where I waited. I identified my target, a young Lieutenant by his single gold bar on his helmet. He would be the first. Swooping down from my perch I grabbed him as I came near the ground, his cry of shock turning to cries of pain and horror as my claws shredded his body. When I reached 500 feet above the jungle floor I let go of his body to fall back to the ground. Pivoting in the air, I looked back and saw the rest of his patrol demoralized and running in fear. As I set out after them, looking for the large red crosses on the arms of my next target, I paused hearing something in the distance. It was the bellowing cry of my mate Drax before shi breathed a narrow cone of fire a thousand feet long. At the tip of the cone I saw the small explosion of a JDRADM missile fired from some far off aircraft. Followed by another, and another until 10 such explosions roiled the night sky. I launched myself towards shi knowing what was coming next. Silently, almost too fast for even my mechanical eye to follow I saw the F-35 coming towards us on a high speed run. Moving at over Mach 1.6 it's Equalizer cannon spitting 25mm rounds out of it's 4 barrels that Drax easily avoided. I realized that simpleton human pilot hadn't yet spotted me and thought that he was fighting only one of our kind. It would be his last mistake.

Moving with great agility, I positioned myself perfectly. As the fighter passed by, my aluminum claws were waiting. Over 175 Mega-Joules of potential energy was released as the reinforced titanium airframe literally tore itself apart as my claws raked through it. The battle was over, and the Cytran were once more undefeated. Bellowing our victory roar Drax and I embraced as... the world went white, and then an off-white was all I saw. A fire in my veins as I felt the needle being removed. "Is there any change Doctor?", I heard a voice speak from out of my line of sight as my eyes fixed on the florescent light above me. "I'm afraid not Mrs. Lord, I gave him another shot of Adderall, but he's still unresponsive even as his EKG is showing normal functionality now.", replied another voice near my side. "I should never have left him alone for so long! This is my fault, mine and those damn Internet bullies!" I wanted to yell, I wanted to scream, I wanted them to leave me alone so I could get back to Malatora. Didn't they know that I had to peacefull defend my homelands! Why do they constantly bring me to this place! Soon the white will go away and I'll be back in time for the victory Orgy!

MongolArcher Aug 20, 2011 12:53

The roaring grew louder, closer. I could smell the burning metal and flesh, the acric reek of boiling chemicals and clotted spunk hung heavy in the air as I tried to claw my way out of the wrecked and burning lab. The roaring, loud as thunder filled the room, blasted my senses and I screamed! "Mom! Mommy, it's all right. You're home now." My daughter, standing at the foot of my bed, tapping my leg. Outside, thunder grumbled again, rain pouring down on the roof in it's familiar, reassuring sound. "You okay now mom?" I sighed and shook my head. Goddonged dargons and their metal hell, still haunting my nightmares. "As good as it gets, kiddo." She smiled. "All right. I made coffee, and fed Wooferton and Puck, so you just have to feed yourself. I'm going to the studio and I don't know how long it'll be, so you're on your own today." She brushed her long dark hair out of her eyes and looked at me. While I had been imprisoned in the Fortress of Cummandur Dongsalot, she had grown up. Her music career had taken off and now, after my rescue, she was supporting me. It felt weird. "You _sure_ you're going to be okay?"

I stood up and stretched, and swooped her up in a hug, laughing. "YES, best girl. When I'm awake, I'm fine. You go yodel, or whatever you crazy kids call it these days." "Hah!" She hugged me back, patted me on the head (oh damn I hated that!) and she was off. I went back to bed and listened to the rain and thunder as the dog and cat curled up to me, and drifted back to sleep again. Days off, I thought, were the best. I woke up later to clear blue skies outside. Perfect for weeding the garden! I poured a cup of coffee and puttered around outside, enjoying the sun and the smell of growing things, the songs of the birds, the reeeerow reeerow reeeeerow of the cicadas chanting the end of summer. The weird cybertechnology those dongongs had used to such stupid, hideous ends had been reengineered by scientists who understood what they were doing, and as a survivor and technician I had been eligible for the first experiemental implants, so now I could bend and pull and lift without pain. Simple, normal human range of motion. After the weeding, I checked my emails while my brunch cooked. My former fiance and his wife were doing well, and I was invited to their summer cook out. They had adopted several children, and I was the 'evil auntie once removed', a roll that I enjoyed because, hey - spoiling kids is fun! Some of the cytrans children had survived and we kept in touch - they were adjusting to their new lives fairly well, recovering from the abuse mentally, working hard to be balanced human beings despite the forms they had been forced into. It was good to hear that their families had rallied around them, moving or modifying homes to fit their children. One was working hard at school, trying to get into college to become a doctor so he could 'fix up all this crazy stuff. U no what I mean?' I closed my laptop, chuckling to myself. Yeah, I knew what he meant. I worked at the hospital, still. Again. My ordeal had uniquely qualified me to work in the cybernetic transplant technician programme, and our facility had become the go-to for complex transplants, education and research. The teaching and educational facilities were world renouned. I was glad to have a job doing what I did best, back in the day - direct patient care. Hands on, face to face. That I was a living, functional example of how things could go right was just a bonus. The only concession I made to my memories had been an augmented nervous system. Nobody would ever taze me again, dammit! As I enjoyed my brunch, I looked around. Blue skies overhead, not metal. Trees, tall and green whispering in the breeze. Butterflies and hummingbirds flitted around the feeders and flowerbeds, colour and motion of vibrant, beautiful life. It was home. It was good. It struck me that I was victorious, in a way that Ahminijab Mominidong could never ever comprehend - I was content. The world was beautiful and I could appreciate it for what it was. Those idiot Malodoriousans had squandered all the chances they had been given, time and time again, reaching for some fantasy of supremacy that had failed them. I simply lived and enjoyed what I had the chance to earn for myself, and that, THAT alone, marked me as a better being than they could ever hope to be.

Olive Branch Aug 20, 2011 14:01

Log from Mandalorian Citizen #32245 posted: Fucking dragons. The siege had been going on for weeks now. Months, maybe? It's hard to tell when you're denied the basic luxury of going outside and breathing fresh air, feeling sunlight on your skin. Ever since the fucking Council said a state of war was upon Malatoria and the lockdown started, keeping track of time was hard when the day-to-day became a routine of fear, starvation, and pain. I signed up for this fucking shit because I thought I could upload my brain into a computer or something. I never liked the idea of dying, even though I'm only in my thirties. I wish I could make an excuse that there was so much in the world to see and experience and that I wanted to enjoy life to the fullest, but I'd be lying. I'm just scared of death. So when that broadcast from Taygon (fucking multi-prick) hijacked almost every network's signal and proclaimed the start of a new nation, one where dragons were real and where those seeking shelter could potentially become dragons themselves forever, I didn't hesitate. I mean fuck, these guys had somehow pulled out brains from people and put them into robotic bodies! It's like they were removing the brains of a pig and putting it in a jar like some odd medical curio to marvel over. I booked my ticket to Sao Tome and came over to Malatora hoping I could become one of them. How wrong I was. I got stuck with janitorial duty, cleaning up the Citadel and having to clean up after these robotic... things fucking each other everywhere, every time. I heard that they sometimes also looked for humans and took them to participate in their sexual games... and sometimes not always by consent. For once in my life, I was glad I was ugly. I was never picked for their sick shit. And then the protests started. Dr. Keller, one of the Malatoran docs, had begun protesting in the Citadel, challenging the Council and their draconian laws (pun intended if I could still laugh at this shit). I never participated, I was too busy cleaning up the messes in the cafeteria when those freaks of nature flipped out or got high or whatever and destroyed something... or in the worst cases, killed people. And I heard horrible stories of what happened to the cleaning staff when Taygon, the asshole-but-no-butt-stuff leader, saw so much as a speck of dirt on his beloved Citadel. So when the riots started for real, the bodies started piling up, and I was ordered to put away the corpses, I vomited. I wasn't in the bio-cleanup crew, but the lockdown was straining resources and everyone had to work harder and do shit they were not qualified

to do. I had to actually provide some sort of burial service to these poor bastards who got killed fighting for their rights. The riots kept going, and the body count continued to increase. Tensions kept running high, food got scarcer and scarcer, some of the dragons and their fuckbuddies were dying due to getting mobbed. I said "fuck it", I went to one of these last riots before the big war actually happened. But I took a big rock with me. I never had attacked one of them before, and I was scared they would kill me then and there, but I was in the crowd. The dragons came as before, shouting and demanding we submit. They formed a line like riot police would and slowly advanced on us. I threw my rock at a big purple dragon when he broke the line and forced us back. Biggest mistake of my life. The dragons attacked. They started cutting down people ahead of me like they were stalks of wheat. Oh fuck, what had I done? I turned to run and saw that more of the monstrosities had actually emerged from the sides and... oh god they were killing the people on the rear and the edges! They had encircled us protesters and were just killing and eating all of us! I bolted and managed to avoid falling prey to these shits. Oh god forgive me I had to shove that poor woman onto that Chakrat's arms! I had to keep the beast busy and make a run for it! I only had time to glance back when I saw the poor woman get her head bitten off like she was a fucking chocolate bar. I had killed an innocent person to make sure I lived. I probably didn't even need to do anything, those things are so fucking slow! I kept running and made it to the sewage tunnels. Managed to hide away here and met some others who had bolted when shit got worse. Even met one of those dragons who apparently remembered it was human and was helping us survive this hell. But even now, while we wait for the war to end, hidden here like rats, I cannot shake the image of that woman dying. I can't avoid thinking what it would be like to get ripped apart by those things. I never should have come here.

Purple Prince Aug 20, 2011 14:38

A Malatoran posted: The sun is rising over Malatora. Long ago, when I first came to this island, I would stare at the burning hues of that sun and dream of my own ascendency. They drew me in, they promised me a new body, a perfect body, but like hundreds of others I was deceived. I was young and foolish, but I didn't deserve this.

The corpses of my comrades lie in the mud around me. Some are blackened with fire, some (the lucky ones) have been shattered by bombshells, and some are just bulletridden. It's impossible to tell how many were killed by the enemy and how many by the Cytrans. The lizards tell us that we'll win if we have 'the heart of a dragon', but against machine guns and artillery it doesn't matter if we have the heart of a dragon or the heart of a mouse. It was when we started to retreat that I learned about Dragon Morality first-hand. We were outnumbered, outgunned, and dying like animals in the dirt. One Sergeant ordered a retreat, and the order spread quickly. They turned on us with their fire and their claws. Said we were being cowards and that we were giving in to our fear. We were caught between Cytrans on the one side and machine guns on the other. I survived by hiding under the corpses of my brothers. I lay there in the dirt for hours, with the blood turning the dry African soil to mud around me. And the screams were always there, and they always sounded like the voices of my friends. I crawl out from underneath the pile of bodies. There are no more Cytrans, and the forces of the rest of the world have gone back to their camp. I know now that both sides hate me equally. I stand up tentatively and begin to walk. There are bodies everywhere. A few of them are UN soldiers, but most are fellow citizens. If only they knew down in the Citadel. If only they knew... I find an unbroken drum lying beside a corpse of a propaganda officer. And that seems to hold a certain significance in times of chaos like this. I keep walking, until I find myself at the top of a hill overlooking the battlefield. The sea of corpses below reveals the full scale of last night's killings. A thousand men died last night, and a thousand more will die tonight. I start to beat the drum. The sun is rising over Malatora.

Spiderfist Island Aug 20, 2011 15:39

quote: Normally in Arcology Annual our subject matter is on the design, infrastructure, and expansion of massive cityscapes. But in light of the recent UN action against FedCom, our issue this year is focusing on possibly the most immoral supercity this side of Sodom, specifically its design flaws and demolition after the liberation of Sao Tome. Our first article is written by none other than Victoria Van Der Bowen, the famed city planner and architect who not only redesigned Brussels as a grand capital for the

European Union after the Belgian Civil War, but more recently was one of the experts asked for assistance in safely destroying the Citadel. The Citadel of Malatora, as it is called, is probably the largest and most catastrophic building that humanity had the fortune never to make. I say that because the Cytrans made it instead. Where to begin? Architects around the world have already heard of the design- the kilometers deep domes, with a Tatsu Aerie sprouting out far above sea level like one of their ridiculous phalluses. The massive size of the domes, though, is where Ill try to begin looking at the insanity of the design. I wasnt the first into the Citadel, and so I cant verify the initial effects. But after interviewing various human captives, frontline soldiers, and even looking at Cytran visual memory logs, I can confirm that it is indeed true that the Citadels dome was so large as to have precipitation. Much like with other proposed megastructures, the rain and mists generated would be from bodily sweat rather than water. However, previous megastructures were not thinly disguised vomitoriums. The Barryds of the Citadel had rain and hail of both human sweat and Cytran bodily fluids, most commonly lubricants and to put it bluntly, dragon cum. Combined with generator smoke, exhaust from cytran engines, and all the inescapable emissions from normal cities, the skies and air of the citadel were in a perpetual miasma of filth and smog. Whatever engineer designed the initial filtration system of the Citadel would weep at how jammed and disgusting it was when I was in the process of surveying the remaining sections. Soldiers and relief workers were unaccustomed to the environment of the Citadel, though the human population had somehow managed to build up a tolerance. However, Dongtezumas Revenge, somewhat similar to the Gulf War Sickness of the 1990s, has caused the rate of respiratory and skin diseases and lung cancer in the former population to be several times higher (x3.56) than that of the world average. In short, the Citadel had no idea how to manage the internal atmosphere of its superstructure. The second major problem with the Barryd design was its materials. Though you may have doubtlessly heard of it being constructed out of miracle materials and reinforced titanium, the actual composition was concrete reinforced with aluminum. Yes. I dont need to tell you why thats stupid for a dome big enough for a small town. To make things worse, there was asbestos installed around the key stress points to protect the aluminum. As you would expect, I found when I got down to the main Barryd a large portion of the ceiling collapsed on a block- an event, I was told, that happened shortly before the war (some humans said that the Cytrans considered it a terrorist attack, but Im more inclined to assume incompetence on their part). The entire visible underground section of the Tatsu Aerie was collapsed in, presumably from the bombings on the surface that leveled

it there. From my colleagues, I was also told that similar structural failures were rampant in other domes. continued on page 8

Commoners Aug 20, 2011 15:48

quote: Day One - Dragonslayer Contracting - Callsign "Rocket Knight" Lots of times people say that contractors get in over their heads. It's true- Some guys think they can put on a pair of adventure shorts, black polos, and oakleys and rampage through some third worlder's home with an F150 without getting a scratch. Those are the guys who always end up getting bailed out when they go screaming back to the military. We're different. We know these bad boys in the skies are the real deal- Lethal mechanized menaces that can set you on fire, give you a mean scratch, and fly off calling it a day. The coalition knows this too, and they know how hard it is to get fifty men into the jungle to find these things, much less kill them before they run away to hide another day. That's why they hired us- We've got the special gear and training that we need to make sure we can dog them down before they can fly away, and we've got balls enough to actually use it. It's funny business, but these dragons have some sort of bullshit honor that you can play off of real easy. Part of being a qualified Dragon Slayer is to actually take a two week course on medieval insults, and we have a certified linguistics instructor that we hired from a renaissance fair in Chicago to teach things like calling them "Honorless currs" or "Craven devilspawn." You start screaming those into the jungle for long enough and they'll sing back to you. That's when you get them. That's the point where most of the coalition make their mistake as well- They use guns. In those sticky jungles they just have too many moving parts that can jam and they waste their time and resources making sure the things stay in good condition. It isn't hard to mention the fact, either, that those things scare the Cytrans off pretty easily. We use weapons specifically designed to take those bad-boys down- Lances tipped with a solid tungsten armor-piercing tip, a barb to make sure it sticks, and five pounds of high quality plastic explosives to give the finishing blow that's needed after you actually stick them with it. But what if they fly away? Well that's what we've got jetpacks for. They're made from salvaged RATO rockets that we got for a sweet deal from a USAF surplus sale. Two of those babies strapped to your back will send you hurtling forward at sixty miles per hour,

which gives you enough speed to penetrate with your lance and get out of there. We're still working on steering, but that can come later. And of course for the added humor of it all we've started wearing steel plate armor. We've already taken a captured unit to see what would happen if they tried to chomp down on a solid-steel cuirass- Turns out that aluminum bones and structure can't quite handle the needed force to take a bite out of us. The salvaged head that we tested snapped its own jaw off without so much as penetrating the armor. Apparently we're being paid by the kill. The Polish coalition forces have started calling us the Bombarduj Rycerza, or the Rocket Knights. I'm gonna have that engraved into my armor.

Deki Aug 20, 2011 16:36

The Memoirs of Chang Huangdong posted: A year after Malatora's inception, I was received an invitation to live there due to my "potential usefulness to the cause". Let it be known unlike many other Malatora immigrants, I never had the intention to become one of the hulking monstrosities, I just figured running my smuggling operations out of a country that would never extradite me to any of the seven countries I had pissed off was brilliant. My first week in the "Citadel" was an indicator for what was to come. Despite being told personally by one of the head Cytrans that I was to be indispensable to the operation of Malatora, it took two goddamn weeks to get my rooms set up, while I had to live in the crowded laborer quarters. Even then, I had to wait a few days to move into my newly assigned home, a cluster of four rooms that was formerly one of "Yiffnater's" spare Dens which was in such unsanitary conditions that it took a janitorial team a few days to clean. As soon as I moved in, I got to work. When I took this job, I figured I was going to be smuggling in electronics, drugs, and even weaponry for self defense. What I didn't expect, upon talking to the cytrans, was that they expected me to acquire simple video games, anime, and other pedestrian luxuries for them. You see, while these dragons were no longer purely biological, they still were the same pathetic kids on the inside, and even their hourly orgies couldn't completely keep them sated. Despite the trade embargos on Malatora, my job was easy. Instead of Yuan, Yen, or dollars, I was given Malatoran cybernetics to trade for the goods that they wanted. A usual shipment usually brought in less than a hundred thousand Yuan worth of videos, games, and other paraphernalia, but the payment for said shipment usually sold for millions of Yuan, making me and my men rich. After the Riots started, the shipments I was asked to handle started slowing down. Apparently the violence against the "mere hyoomans" served just as well to sate the

Cytrans as what I used to bring in. This is when things went really shitty for me as most rebellious humans looked at me as a traitor, despite the fact that the stuff I brought in wasted the Cytran's time and blunted their killing urges. After my boat team was arrested by a UN patrol boat, the shipments stopped, and the uncertainty over if I was going to become one of the "Purple shirts", or the poor assholes drafted to defend the island kept me up at night more than the constant pounding of Cytran on Cytran orgies above and below me. Fastforward to the days preceding the invasion of Malatora. Suddenly I was important again, but not to the Cytrans. Human rioters and Refugees suddenly wanted weapons, tools, anything to kill the fucking Dragons. While my hands were tied with regards to getting materiel or personnel into or out of the citadel, I was able to requisition some tools from the Cytran central storage, which were then given out as weapons to the rebels. Between me and my few remaining men, we were able to eventually hand out over a hundred Machetes, fire axes, and sledgehammers. When I once was a pariah to the humans down here, I was now a hero. After that, it's the same story that most survivors of Malatora tell. Soldiers came in, swept through the area, and within a week, many of us who hadn't seen the sun in months were suddenly outside. Free.

Cursed Lumberjack Aug 20, 2011 18:27

Guys I found this file on a thumb drive just sitting in a parking lot, tucked under a crumbling part of the wall. It might shed a little light on the people behind the science of the Cytran conversion process. INTERROGATION FILE #187: Dr. Garrick Willyvander Interrogation Stenographer: Private Kylie White Conducted by: Sr. Information Specialist John Potter Sass: Good evening, Doctor. Willyvander: *unintelligible mumbling* S: I'm sorry? W: *two brief screams* S: Doctor, are you able to talk? Can you understand what I'm saying? This is very important. *The subject reacts only by staring into the investigator's eyes with an unwavering, piercing glare* S: Doctor, I need you to identify... this. *The investigator places something on the table, wrapped in canvas cloth*

S: We recovered this from the island. From Sao Tome, or whatever those crazy bastards call it. It came off of some huge fucker, we hit it with an anti-tank round but we only managed to knock this off. *The subject reaches for the item slowly, knocking off the canvas as he does so. Upon touching the item, he reacts* W: It's for him! It's for him! It's his! NO!!!!! It's for....shi. ITS SHIS. S: Doctor, I need your attention. I need you to tell me what you know. *The subject holds the item in his hand, slowly fondling it as though it were a precious relic* W: *a small shriek, followed by giggling* Yesssss... I... can remember... Carbon-fiber core, ten and three quarter inches, unyielding... Yes... this is a very powerful dong. The dong chooses the dragon, Mr. Potter. And the dragon that this dong chose...was a terrifying dragon indeed...*whimpers, then silence* INTERROGATION TERMINATED. REASON: NONRESPONSIVE SUBJECT