Novel-in-a-Day 3: With a Vengeance

Literature & Writing Novel in a Day
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Really? Are you making this up…?
If true, that might be the second coolest thing I’ve heard since I learnt the words to Happy Jack…

There is a theory on these boards that we are all figments of vic-k’s imagination. If true, and vic-k is really a T-8000 model Terminator, then that has some serious implications for our knowledge of the creativity of androids. And may also explain much of the content of the 3-word story.

pigfender: too late to change the plot of this year’s NIAD?
(How about that as a return to topic?)

102

Welcome aboard! :slight_smile:

(On topic all the way!)

103

The T-800 part… Absolutely not! See for yourself!

About Vic’s true nature, I’m afraid it’s classified information revealed only on a need to know basis. And I don’t need to know :slight_smile:

104

Oh, Fluff, my friend, you’re missing the whole point. I told him the truth about the button, but also provided a manual procedure to use instead. A procedure that actually works.

In fact, it’s like telling him that it doesn’t matter whether Santa exists or not, because the elves will build the toys anyway.

But you don’t believe neither in Santa nor the elves, do you? Who’s the true miscreant here then? :slight_smile:

105

But you have to remember, vic-k is a Thread Terminator model terminator. Even an 8-bit 6502 Motorola chip would be way overpowered for that. Nah, his old 2-bit processor can get the job done.*

–gr

  • This is not to say the VIC-2 doesn’t come with any cool special effects. I understand distilled spirits do a kind of liquid metal number on his brains.
106

Nom, for your valiant attempts to return to topic, you shall be rewarded with one of the good sections.

107

Uh… And those of us who insist on mixing reality and fiction shall get one of the bad ones? Great! I’m in for that too!

BTW, I was always suspicious about that “randomness” of yours, which actually might have a custom seed :slight_smile:

108

Well it’s not truly random. You all get chapters from the same book, for example. It’s not like 14 people get chapter briefs, 2 get pictures of wax fruit, 5.5 get a voucher for hair waxing, and 1.8708^2 get the word “yoghurt” spelt out in crème fraiche on the back of a oversized post-it note.

109

And one person gets a 300 page stream of consciousness from Mr K.

I’ll take a post it note.

110

Correction: the word “yoghurt” spelt out all grisly-like in crème fraiche on the back of a oversized post-it note.

Still want?

111

Might make for an improved neck stub …

112

hmm…i could use that hair waxing voucher… do they do backs?

113

I guess true randomness only occurs in quantum mechanics.

114

Only when you don’t look at Fluff :wink:

115

The ladies in my life must have quantum computers for gray matter.

116

Did you mean “random computers”? :wink:

117

You should have seen Schrödinger after he tried getting her into that box of his!

118

Quantum computers: very very powerful, but no-one knows how to program them, what they can do, when they’ll be ready or how to pay for them. You made this mess, I’m just helping you sleep in the dog house…

Note to pigfender: Since you won’t tell us the genre, I’m just trying to blend science fiction with literary domestic observation and, possibly, horror in preparation for NIAD 3.

[size=50]Even for me that was a poor recovery. Still, points for trying to return to topic?[/size]

119

He actually didn’t do it himself, he hired Maxwell’s daemon to do the dirty job. :wink:

120

You do realize that the “dog house”, meaning “the place where the dog sleeps” is my side of the bed? The dog gets kicked out and to “the husbands couch”.