So it's been a couple days, longer than I wanted between posts, but nothing remarkable happened during my travels. I can't believe I've gotten to the point that riding elephants while using repeating crossbows isn't considered remarkable... Anyway, last night I met an interesting character.
It was around early Renaissance period, and firearms were becoming more widely used. However, many points of history were different, so there were still wondering Germanic tribes (few and far between, but similar to those during the Roman times). One particular tribe was very extreme. It was a small tribe, but that was because it was so hardcore. The basic training for everyone was similar to the Spartans, but they lived for war in a far different way. Since they were always on the move and trained so hard, they could never grow very big. The creepiest part was the fact that they were cannibals. The worst part of them was their top warrior. He is the Extrememist this post is named after. During times of war (meaning, almost always), he would only drink the fresh blood and eat the warm flesh of live victims. Be it beast or man, he acquired all of his sustenance from the living. Vampire stories were rampant in this land... mainly because of him and his tribe. He was even called a vampire in some cases.
This guy was so extreme, that when he was on the move during intense parts of war, he would ONLY sleep on a blood soaked field or on a pile of corpses (or in the warm corpse of a beast he wrestled down and ate alive). If he could not have a live victim, he would not eat or drink. If he did not have a blood soaked field or a pile or corpeses, he would not sleep. Yet he ate and drank every day, and slept every night. He became so feared that he could walk right up to the gates of Rome and they would open for him. The guards would step out of his way, and the crowd would part. He could walk right up to any king, emporer, bishop, anyone without resistance. But he did live as an assassin, so he did not kill them. He lived merely for war. His tribe was nearly as bad as him. Their small tribe (less than 30) was so feared, that NO empire or kingdom would trifle with them. If they did, the tribe would vanish and the largest cities of that empire would be burning in days.
Wanna guess who I was this whole time? The guy... assigned by the rest of the civilized world to hunt him down and kill him. That was a joke. I'm pretty sure me and all my companions (by that I mean 200 soldiers) lay dead right now, in pieces, in a burning forest. The Extremist will sleep well tonight.
That's all for now.
Showing posts with label Fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fire. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Fire
Okay, I didn't really do anything that involved fire, I just wanted to name the post that.
Last night I was Napoleon's aid. Until I decided to take his empire for himself. So yeah... we used firearms and all that, but not really much to do with fire directly. I did decide to mess around and invented the tazer. That was fun, until I ran out of materials for the batteries. I was a little to ethical, or maybe just lazy, to go take over more kingdoms that had easy access to the resources necessary for these. I by easy access to resources, I mean people easy to enslave. Times were different than, so it wasn't seen as evil and inhuman like it is today (by most).
Oh yes! I nearly forgot. Remember that story from Sparta awhile ago? Where I conquered the Persian Empire? Well, I took over all of Europe, most of northern Africa, and the entire western section of Asia (everything a few hundred miles west of China). I took over Great Britain, which was never Great Britain here because of me. Iceland, Greenland, most of Canada and and a large portion of where the United States is today. I was actually on campaign to Australia when I awoke. That had been my first journey. After almost literally having the whole world in your hands, suddenly waking up as a normal boy in some neighborhood is quite... strange. It was hard to recover, but I've learned since than.
Until another time!
One last thing! Sorry, I nearly forgot. If you have a Facebook account, please like the page I created so I can hopefully build up a community of followers. It would feel nice to have my travels be appreciated and known! Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Dreamed-A-Reality/
And to the one person who seems to want to comment, thank you!
((W)) ((W))
JJ
Last night I was Napoleon's aid. Until I decided to take his empire for himself. So yeah... we used firearms and all that, but not really much to do with fire directly. I did decide to mess around and invented the tazer. That was fun, until I ran out of materials for the batteries. I was a little to ethical, or maybe just lazy, to go take over more kingdoms that had easy access to the resources necessary for these. I by easy access to resources, I mean people easy to enslave. Times were different than, so it wasn't seen as evil and inhuman like it is today (by most).
Oh yes! I nearly forgot. Remember that story from Sparta awhile ago? Where I conquered the Persian Empire? Well, I took over all of Europe, most of northern Africa, and the entire western section of Asia (everything a few hundred miles west of China). I took over Great Britain, which was never Great Britain here because of me. Iceland, Greenland, most of Canada and and a large portion of where the United States is today. I was actually on campaign to Australia when I awoke. That had been my first journey. After almost literally having the whole world in your hands, suddenly waking up as a normal boy in some neighborhood is quite... strange. It was hard to recover, but I've learned since than.
Until another time!
One last thing! Sorry, I nearly forgot. If you have a Facebook account, please like the page I created so I can hopefully build up a community of followers. It would feel nice to have my travels be appreciated and known! Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Dreamed-A-Reality/
And to the one person who seems to want to comment, thank you!
((W)) ((W))
JJ
Monday, May 9, 2011
Yep, this is reality. Or at least pretty darn close.
Being gone so much makes it hard to remember that there are things to do here as well. Apparently I forgot about several events happing around the neighborhood, the house, with family, and with friends. Yes, this time there is a real reason I haven't been posting, not because I'm going insane anymore. By day I was caught up with my forgotten life and by night I was... elsewhere.
A few highlights on my travels.
I witnessed, in person, the very first nucluer explosion used in war. I was trying to train an underground Samurai brigade. That didn't work.
I discovered sticks can be a real pain. I also went to ancient Africa for a few months. Dancing on thorns is not fun, but it sure does make you laugh at people who complain about a papercut.
In Africa again (this was actually this last week, last time was between two other posts I did). I gained a new appreciation for cows. And their blood. When you have to protect cattle from lions with nothing but a spear and a loincloth, and you live off the milk, meat and blood of those cattle, you get pretty tough. And still laugh at people who complain about papercuts or missing a meal.
I made India the first country to hit the Industrial Revolution. What I didn't realize was that Europe was still in the Medieval Age and had many powerful "wizards". At first I thought they had some very special technology I still hadn't seen. I soon learned otherwise...
And now the strangest yet. I went someplace where people had real superpowers. It was in the future, and someone had invented these special suits. The suits increased natural abilities, and for a normal wearer they meant being faster, stronger, quicker healing, ect. But there were other wearers who... weren't so normal. They had these small abilities they had hidden for centuries, including such things as super strength (yeah, those legends are real), super speed (yep), enhanced healing (no, really?), basic telekenisis, enfluence over fire, increased toughness, and many others. That almost sounds like a list of powers you would find in a game. It really was. These suits, when wore by one of these other wearers, also increased natural abilities. But they had different natural abilities... A person who could barely extinguish a match with their mind could, with a powerful enough suit, put out a forest fire. Or make a match a forest fire in seconds. And of course, these suits also had pretty sweet tech. The worst was probably these nanobots that were stored near the palm of the suit, and could be released into the air. From there they would fly to their target (within a few hundred feet), and find microscopic ways into the suit and... for lack of a less gruesome word, kill the target. There were flamethrowers, miniguns, rocketlaunchers, armorplating, shielding, phasing (walking through stuff), teleportation, and so much more that you could attach to these suits if your suit was good enough and you had the cash. Some were very basic, just for increasing natural abilities, others were giant battle mechs the size of skyscrapers (NEVER let a telepathic get in one of those! Or anyone with freaky mind powers!)
Things have been interesting. But now to get back to all that stuff I've been forgetting since my first journey.
A few highlights on my travels.
I witnessed, in person, the very first nucluer explosion used in war. I was trying to train an underground Samurai brigade. That didn't work.
I discovered sticks can be a real pain. I also went to ancient Africa for a few months. Dancing on thorns is not fun, but it sure does make you laugh at people who complain about a papercut.
In Africa again (this was actually this last week, last time was between two other posts I did). I gained a new appreciation for cows. And their blood. When you have to protect cattle from lions with nothing but a spear and a loincloth, and you live off the milk, meat and blood of those cattle, you get pretty tough. And still laugh at people who complain about papercuts or missing a meal.
I made India the first country to hit the Industrial Revolution. What I didn't realize was that Europe was still in the Medieval Age and had many powerful "wizards". At first I thought they had some very special technology I still hadn't seen. I soon learned otherwise...
And now the strangest yet. I went someplace where people had real superpowers. It was in the future, and someone had invented these special suits. The suits increased natural abilities, and for a normal wearer they meant being faster, stronger, quicker healing, ect. But there were other wearers who... weren't so normal. They had these small abilities they had hidden for centuries, including such things as super strength (yeah, those legends are real), super speed (yep), enhanced healing (no, really?), basic telekenisis, enfluence over fire, increased toughness, and many others. That almost sounds like a list of powers you would find in a game. It really was. These suits, when wore by one of these other wearers, also increased natural abilities. But they had different natural abilities... A person who could barely extinguish a match with their mind could, with a powerful enough suit, put out a forest fire. Or make a match a forest fire in seconds. And of course, these suits also had pretty sweet tech. The worst was probably these nanobots that were stored near the palm of the suit, and could be released into the air. From there they would fly to their target (within a few hundred feet), and find microscopic ways into the suit and... for lack of a less gruesome word, kill the target. There were flamethrowers, miniguns, rocketlaunchers, armorplating, shielding, phasing (walking through stuff), teleportation, and so much more that you could attach to these suits if your suit was good enough and you had the cash. Some were very basic, just for increasing natural abilities, others were giant battle mechs the size of skyscrapers (NEVER let a telepathic get in one of those! Or anyone with freaky mind powers!)
Things have been interesting. But now to get back to all that stuff I've been forgetting since my first journey.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Light up the darkness!
Booyah! Last night I invented the flamethrower.... in the middle of the Dark Age. Well... I wouldn't say Dark Age. It was just rather dim. But still. We never quite had enough fuel to melt the stone walls, but we could still get a lot done. A sky full of arrows vs a line of flamethrowers is VERY interesting. Especially when we launch a volley of arrows then doused them while they flew. They "cannons" were something to. They were really fire spitters. Oh yeah, I nearly forgot to tell you. This was in modern Alaska, approximately. For some of it. Shooting flames while standing on ice... yeah, bad idea. The only way it could have been better is if we rode whales. Oh wait, we did.
Anyway, that's all for today. So tell people about this. I want to have my readers try and fill in the gaps on my posts. How do YOU think we rode whales?
Anyway, that's all for today. So tell people about this. I want to have my readers try and fill in the gaps on my posts. How do YOU think we rode whales?
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