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Pastimes : Muffy's Story: A Short Story Game for Would Be Authors -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (584)	4/5/2002 3:23:40 PM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 766

... the hospital administrator awoke from his pleasant dreams which resulted from being pressed between two young Muffy's. "Hey! What happened to the power?", he shouted, to no one in particular. Why did he shout, you ask? Because, it's dark, you see. And, he couldn't see whether anybody was within hearing range. So, he shouted loud enough that anybody within 3 city blocks would ... oh, never mind. "How in the world did our Emergency Power System fail?", he muttered to no one in particular (he tends to do that "no one in particular" thing a lot, probably because everybody thinks he's a stuffed shirt and won't talk with him). The administrator reached into his plastic pocket protector where he carried his pen-sized flashlight, and started making his way to the hospital's utility room. This was a big problem, because he was on the 5th floor where the Bifurcation equipment was, and the utility room is in the basement. And, the elevators wouldn't work. No power. So, he groped his way to the stairwell, tripping over people along the way. A sweet young thing slapped his face when he groped in the wrong place, but he didn't mind as it had been several hours since that quickie meeting in the supplies closet with ... uh, never mind. That's not important right now. Meanwhile, Bugs (the original one) was really ticked at Bugs (the bifurcated one) for having messed up his pretty face with that left hook. Bugs could now feel a bit of remorse for having poked a few bad guys during his career as super-hero. "Man, that guy ... uh ... I mean ... me ... or is it "I" ... have a mean left hook!" While he was carrying on a conversation with himself, he was also automatically carrying out the super-hero instructions for what to do in case of total power failure. These lessons are so ingrained in them at Super Hero School that they don't even need to think about them. He reached into his super-hero's pouch and pulled out the Dynamic Power Creation (DPC) module, found the nearest 120Volt outlet, and plugged it in. Immediately, equipment started humming, and the overhead lights started blinking back on. Bugs ran over to the Bifurcation Magnometer, moved the proper knobs to their correct settings, and hit "ON" (making sure this time to flip it in the right direction). POOF !!! All the duplicated humans disappeared! Unfortunately for Bugs, that meant him, too ... because he was the duplicate version. The original Bugs was still out cold from a left hook. But, the switch-flipping version was so sure he was the original ... bummer. All around the hospital, and outside in the street, the bifurcated versions of everybody who had been duplicated disappeared in an instant. Which, by the way, caused for some interesting reactions by those who were interacting with them at the time. Muffy, interrupted during an especially pleasureful moment, was quite upset about this turn of events. Nobody knew how to make her feel as good as ... uh ... Muffy. She ran over to the Bifurcation Magnometer, and flipped the switch again. But, she had no way of knowing that the Magnometer was still set to de-Bifurcation mode. Nobody had ever tried de-Bifurcating when there was nothing to de-Bifurcate. What would happen now? Bugs came to just in time to see ...