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Something new: A hell called Eden
2002-12-08, 6:25 AM #1
I see there are no serious stories going here, so i cooked up something a little different than my average scifi/fantasy (which were all crappy) Try putting as much feelings into it as possible.

This takes place in an imagined American city called Eden, a dark tale that I want to happen retroactively, I will start with the ending situation and the story should move to the beginning now. (You all seen fight club right?) The main character is Martin Grovinge, a white male in his mid-30s and who has grown bored of living and people, he is nihilistic and cynical. Average height, average weight and average looks.

The feeling of a combat knife on my throat started to annoy me, it had been there for the last 2 hours. The guy behind me holding the knife was sweating so bad the knife was slipping and he had to correct his grip all the time cutting my throat full of little scratches at the same time, the pain was the only thing that kept me from thinking this is just a dream and walking away. I had the same surreal feel as I did when I was dreaming about some psycho holding a knife on my throat a few nights back and the whole think was just a huge deja'vu with pain effects added afterwards, my nose started to itch. The guy started to move me making more scratches on my neck, he told me to climb the stairs and reminded about his control of the situation and how I wouldn't see my non-excisting children ever again if I made the wrong move. He really didn't know what he was doing, it was one of those moments when you think nothing can go wrong and still for some reason you sweat more than when you jog for 20 miles with led ball chained to your leg, I understood my so-called "kidnapper" completely as I climbed the steps of the monotonous staircase towards the roof.

The voice of the police-chief on his megaphone sounded like a wounded walrus with a throat infection, his voice was oozing donut-fat as he told my kidnapper to come down before someone would get hurt, I could hear he had said the same sentence hundreds of times, like he was working on a conveyor belt of desperate hostage dramas that he really didn't give a s**t about, he just did what the boss had told him to do. My captor wasn't stupid, he knew the police had good snipers at their disposal and all he had was a knife (albeit a big one), he had no chance against the commercial world order that stepped on his toes with boots made out of gold, but he wasn't going to go down without boring the s**t out of everyone involved and ruining their day, he was a supreme guerilla in the war against the plastic-world of clones. I really didn't have a problem in dying next to this guy, or in front of him. I saw through the world just like he did, pointlessness all over the place, like god had made a prank on everyone and then forgot to clean up his tracks making it obvious to all who wanted to see it. I didn't have anyone special to go home to, my kidnapper still thought I was the father of 2 lovely kids, one 4 years and one 9 years old, both girls. I had no reason to go down from this roof alive, I finally saw it.

My kidnapper pushed my down under a ventilation shaft, there we would be safe from the bullets for a while, the police-cheif kept saying the same lines and he started to sound as numbing as the rain dropping on the shaft, my coat was wet and as i sat down under the shaft, my hems made my feet wet and cold too. My kidnapper took off his nice armani jacket and threw it in the shaft and spat after it with such raga that I thought he would take off all his industrially made clothes and throw them after his jacket, but he kept his clothes on, slided himself behing me and placed the knife on my neck again. I tried to speak, but no sound came out. I tried again and this time I succeeded in making a small whimpering ghost of my own voice that I couldn't recocnize. "Could you please just place the knife against my spine or something, I am really getting sick of it." The man gave me an an awed look, as if he had heard a toad promise him a marriage and half the kingdom for a kiss. "What the f**k are you saying? Shut up man!!!" He shouted and pressed the knife tighter against my throat making it impossible for me to speak.

My thoughts wandered off in the rain, I went 2 days back when I had met my kidnapper and gotten into this situation. A funny story really, I would surely laugh at it after a few years if I were to live that long.


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Have you ever seen a moose biting the sister you never had?

Morpheus, the international man of idiocy at your service. Irresistible punching bag for women and deadly to decency.
Yeah, you stay here and take life seriously. I'll go and have some fun.
2002-12-08, 11:43 AM #2
NSP:

I will start with the ending situation and the story should move to the beginning now. (You all seen fight club right?)

Just to make sure, the rest of this tale should progress as normal, except all the events (like in Fight Club) are moments leading up to this one, and NOT like in Memento, where events go "backwards" themselves, right?

As for the story, looks interesting. Can't say either way if I'll be writing for this or not, but I do hope others help you out at least. As you pointed out, there are few serious stories on this board.

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2002-12-09, 9:54 AM #3
Ooops, double posted trying to fix a typo, DOH!!!

[This message has been edited by Morpheus (edited December 09, 2002).]
Yeah, you stay here and take life seriously. I'll go and have some fun.
2002-12-09, 9:55 AM #4
more: This is the "beginning" of the story:

The atmosphere in the "Survivors" -bar was...displeasing (the mother of all understatements); the air was filled with the smell of tobacco, marijuana, booze and vomit. The lifeless victims of the corrupt society were all over the place. This wasn't a bar, this was a toilet of lost souls, this is where humanity craps. I Looked for the most unnoticeable corner possible and sat down and then stood up again to scratch gum from the back of my pants. I started to listen to the people around me. I like to do that, I want to learn things about people I will never get to know and who I will never remember after 2 days, it kind of reminded me of this club - this is what happens to people god listens to and then forgets about, they go here until they go to hell, this was just a lifelong queue for eternal damnation.

This was to be my new regular place for the next few months, until I would move again to another part of Eden, I was a tourist that wanted to study every person and place of the city, I never stayed in an apartment for over 4 months. If I wasn't thrown out I would leave myself and find a new base for studying the slow fall of men. I had a job, I worked from home, I wrote the fashion column for a small magazine, I took my stuff from bigger fashion magazines and just altered the text a little. I got more money by saving my small paychecks to buy books from flea-markets and then sell them forth as classic pieces to rich hillbillies with considerable profit. This activity kept food on the table and payed the rent. This was all I wanted to do, I couldn't care less about getting into a relationship, getting children and a big safe Volvo to protect my loved ones. My life felt hollow and I hated it, but that was the way I wanted to live, I just wanted to wallow in the pointlessness and soon I lost all the passionate hate for my life, I was in a continuous state of 'being', where nothing mattered.

The hours had passed fast thinking about the world, listening to people and telling my life story to the voice that wasn't really there, it was closing time. The bouncer started to throw people out like ragdolls, the gutter was filled with self-loathing drunks, I knew I wouldn't see all of them tomorrow, but when a drunk killed himself two replaced him, the growth was exponential.

(sorry, I ran out of time here, i will finish this "section" tomorrow or something, feel free to cut in and finish for me)

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Have you ever seen a moose biting the sister you never had?

Morpheus, the international man of idiocy at your service. Irresistible punching bag for women and deadly to decency.
Yeah, you stay here and take life seriously. I'll go and have some fun.

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