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Cyberman: Alone Among the Stars (Episode 2: Disjointed)

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The PDA entries in this story were prompted by the game “Alone Among the Stars”, you can download it Here . You can follow my twitter here where I do stuff when I do stuff. Episode 2: Disjointed As he sat down in the pilot’s chair, Tauron became unconscious. It was decided in earlier Cyberman models that the ship could be better piloted by the AI within the ship than even the mechanised mind of a Cyberman, but these advanced ships still needed a humanoid to move parts, so the Cyberman ships basically hijacked the body of the pilot until it reached the desired location. His limbs worked mindlessly, steering at wheels and pulling at levers, the journey to this new planet took a total of 5 days, it could’ve been 3 if Tauron had specifically set course to this planet instead of letting the ship decide. While the journey went on, his mind was still kept alive. He dreamed of his old life, he was a starry-eyed Redshirt, tan skinned, he seemed to remember being significantly happier, but only

What a Concept: Why the fuck do I like this Mario Rock Opera?

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In the Early 2000's, Jonathan Mann (probably most known for holding and still maintaining the world record for most consecutive days writing a song) unleashed Act 1 the Mario Opera. In 2014, he released a performance of it on YouTube, and in 2019 I watched that recording. I didn't like it that much, but the more I thought about it and relistened to songs, the more it grew on me (discovering the old album recordings certainly helped my enjoyment of it). So. Why the fuck do I like it? Well first off, here's some versions of it if you don't want to have it spoiled for you: Live Recording (The Lyrics are better at the cost of you not being able to hear most of them). Concept Album (Way better sound quality). The Opera starts by setting us up for the only storyline Mario consistently has (Bowser kidnaps the Princess, Mario go save her), but then switches to something more meta. "Mario is just a Video Game Character..." This line turned my morbid curiosity for this

Cyberman: Alone Among the Stars (Episode 1: Awaken)

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The PDA entries in this story were prompted by the game “Alone Among the Stars”, you can download it Here . Episode 1: Awaken In the Spacefleet Arctic base, planet Calis IV, year 5000AD, everyone was dead. All those who had worked here had been killed before being cut up and wired into a cybernetic suit, taking in commands from their superior and pumping fluids through their blood to dull any amount of emotion the brain could have, acting as the stimulus for any biological reaction. A man named the Doctor gazed upon this, and sought to end it all himself, so he did. Hijacking the signal, the Doctor shut down these processes, essentially killing them all again. He left, base in the same state as when it started, littered with the corpses… with a single survivor. Maybe he wasn’t properly converted, maybe he wasn’t properly dead, but for whatever reason, Tauron was sat down, leaning his back against the wall, alive. The promotional message blared in the background. “Welcome to another Spa

Doctor I Short: The Flight of the TERMAC

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Starring: Doctor I and Gerbert Prologue: The Doctor was finished with his greatest invention. He wiped the sweat off his wrinkled forehead as he put his green cape on over his now dirtied yellow jumpsuit. He picked up a megaphone which he claimed to have also invented, but he had actually just bought it from a shop and painted it silver. “Gerbert, I’d like you to see my latest invention!”, he screamed through the megaphone, much to the annoyance of Gerbert who put down his newspaper and got up from the Sofa. Gerbert was another of the Doctor’s inventions, a humanoid robot who to anyone else would appear to be a gorilla with a spherical bronze TV on its head, complete with antenna, but he’s a robot, the Doctor just really didn’t want to ruin his clothing for the sake of housing the robot parts, instead choosing to massacre a gorilla costume to Gerbert’s dissatisfaction. Gerbert groaned, “What is it Doctor?”. As he spoke, the spherical tv on his head glowed. The Doctor presented his late