*flynn1978 walks out onto the battlefield...

but it's no ordinary game grid...

It's disc arena noir!*

*Film Noir music ostanato drones in the background*

It was a cool spring microcycle when flynn1978 finally got the guts to step out in to the game grid

He had been shying away from the game grid, because he knew, deep down inside, that his shields weren't updated from his Apple ][ e...

You would think that that was the reason flynn1978 refused to step out onto the grid No it wasn't even that small shred of weakness, it was the fact that he had had a hard experience with a sly program that did him wrong....

*flashback to...about 200 microcycles ago...*

program: flynn1978, can you help me with this dangerous search engine that's been roaming the net?

flynn1978: no problem miss, what does it look like?

program: It was...my husband...he was a simple program that was transformed into a terrible search engine...after that, he just never had time for me...he just goes about like I'm not there, unless someone else needs help looking me up...



flynn1978: I don't know about helping your intimate problems...What's in it for me?

program: I'll give you free bandwidth until your heart's content.

*little did I know it was a month free, pay $30 a month per following month to keep the bandwith I had earned...*

I don't know... $30 a month for some bandwidth aint bad.

Coulda married her and gave her all his money and not gotten any bandwidth...

I need Rogaine.

say, uh, what's woth all the question marks?

oh, and as for hair, I have to get a haircut practicly every other week. (stupid hair)
you probably didn't need to know that but, there you go.

ooh... shiny...

ah, I get it now. thnx.

It was a dark and stormy night on the Grid, but warm and inviting in the Staus Bar. I was drinking alone when she walked in. She was a smokey program lit up in neon red, a fire of passion and strength that no Porgam could tame, but it was fun trying.

She walked through the bar, winking at the Programs, blowing kisses to some, visibly annoying and angering the other Babetrons in the bar for taking their Program's attention away from them. Her name is Trace. She's programmed for espionage, trickery, deceit, seduction and, most of all, trouble. I could have hardly kept myself from being drawn to her like a golden moth to a flame. She was a danger that I both did not and desperately did need. She sat down at my table as I ordered her a Sark's Brew. It was always Sark this and MCP that, but she only did it to goad me. Sometimes it didn't work. But as much as she burned me, I always came back to her for the fire that I needed.

Scuzzy Wrote:It was a dark and stormy night on the Grid, but warm and inviting in the Staus Bar. I was drinking alone when she walked in. She was a smokey program lit up in neon red, a fire of passion and strength that no Porgam could tame, but it was fun trying. She walked through the bar, winking at the Programs, blowing kisses to some, visibly annoying and angering the other Babetrons in the bar for taking their Program's attention away from them. Her name is Trace. She's programmed for espionage, trickery, deceit, seduction and, most of all, trouble. I could have hardly kept myself from being drawn to her like a golden moth to a flame. She was a danger that I both did not and desperately did need. She sat down at my table as I ordered her a Sark's Brew. It was always Sark this and MCP that, but she only did it to goad me. Sometimes it didn't work. But as much as she burned me, I always came back to her for the fire that I needed.

Like a sforzando flynn1978 immediately broke out of his daydream...his user had worked the day before, and I, the humble program-lay in sleep mode......but no longer.

Scuzzy-I see we cannot win this battle in the game grid with words...Care to try with discs?

...I armed myself with my frisb----Disk......and made my move.

:> RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*flynn1978 would have answered his fellow program's words sooner, but his ping was extreemmmly slow.*

You're right! Derezing is wrong! Why don't we just have a fight with discs at read-only, archive power (not derez setting) and get our game on!

flynn1978 was very cocky at this moment-

However---what he did not realize is that he was still waiting for his disc to come back, and he did not know if Scuzzy would be so good a sport...

cool...