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The only fool rich enough to fly a luxury sport cruiser is the fool who wouldn't notice one engine missing. With a few other choice parts, her rocket would soon spit fire and shit green down at the strip; who else had a genuine Takuro engine on a chassis she fabricated herself? Yeah, it might only ride once, but once was enough to bankroll her ticket out of here.
"Fucks sake sis, you can't race that junk here!" Redge said as she pulled to the starting line.
Good, the camo job worked.
Thieves usually just steal priceless artwork from museums, but Bella had a different idea: lend a fake Banksy painting to the museum, insure it for 20 million, then drop an interdimensional mass transportation device through the building's roof access door and make the fake Banksy, as well as 100s of millions worth of other piece of art, just disappear. The 20 million in insurance would help her set up a very private and exclusive auction house for all the that art. She’d keep the Banksy.
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She was young and restless. That's why she was selected for the mission. Ok. That's a lie. She was selected because she was small, thin, and incredibly strong. Her job was to take the small version of the Ultimate Engine™ and install it on the planet. "With this new weapon we may be able to win the war". They wanted the planet? Let them have it. Flying at lightspeed, motherfuckers. That was the generals' plan. Her plan was slightly different. She would steal it… #WritingPrompt
@whknott ... Alright everybody. A little quiet so I can get through this, and we'll get back to work. I want all of you to know one thing. I get it. I get that you're a gazillion miles from family or friends, or both. I know what crap conditions we have, and pressure to perform can be brutal.
I will not, however, explain to the suits that you're working through injuries on a daily basis. The little stunt with Gorsach getting hung up in a gen core and losing a leg? That's your 3rd leg in 7 days!
@whknott Sar leaped out of Pag's craft along w/ Pag's negotiation machine, gripping its attached cabling w/ one fist, its controls w/ the other. "Lovely day," he thought. "Cotton candy clouds."
Sar landed on open ground away from the defiant city of Akar. Pag hovered while Sar configured the negotiation machine as it charged.
Sar disconnected the cabling & held onto it as Pag reeled him back up.
"Bye clouds."
Pag's negotiation bent space. Akar was plasma. Pag howled w/ laughter. Sar smirked.
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Bella was the best thief in Mecca. It took months of meticulous planning to stealthily enter the government installation and quietly lift the device to the roof, but she hadn’t counted on an altitude triggered alarm. Now the security guards were only seconds away, and they never took thieves alive. She was out of options and about to be die, so she switched on the MP (Metaverse Portal) and started to crawl in. She looked at Mecca once more and hoped she was going to a better world.
@whknott One foot on the brake, and one on the gas.
Wack!Wack!Wack! "Dammit!" Screeeeeee. "It's toast."
"Hey, what year is it?"
"Wha?... 2023. Where's the rest of you?"
"Oh, inside the wormhole. Look, my bike's jacked. Where can I get parts around here?"
"Not wormhole parts."
"No, the wormgen's fine. I just need--hey, one of those would work."
"A jet engine?"
"Yeah. Let me have that, I'll drop you off anywhere you want."
"Fiji?"
"Deal."
@whknott I just did some digging. It looks like support for markdown as such is inconsistent across Mastodon forks. The main codebase uses HTML instead. Which would explain why I don't see the song lyrics in italics.
So let's see if it works: <i>this</i> should be italicized.
@whknott This is not a response to the image, but a couple weeks ago I saw a post from the other guy who posts similar image prompts complaining that someone had stolen his idea. I told him that I didn't want to be in the middle of a conflict, so I would stop responding to both of them. I had started to feel I needed to take a break anyway. We went back and forth a bit, but now he has apparently blocked me.
Anyway, thanks for all the prompts, and thanks to everyone who read and responded!
@jredlund if it was @ewdocparris then yeah, I totally stole his idea. Fuck him. I brought people in to write responses on his things, he blocked me because he claims to be a "centrist" Republican and he didn't like a political post I made unrelated to the prompt, and I started doing it so my friends and I (who also got blocked for no real reason) could keep doing it. He does it to promote his book. I do it for fun.
@whknott That is interesting that he blocked you for political reasons. On most social media platforms you get algorithmic silos. Here, I guess he is creating his own personal silo by blocking everybody he disagrees with even a little. And my interactions over politics are usually pretty Socratic, asking "How do you know that?" or "What do you mean by 'ungovernable'?" It's a puzzle.
@jredlund And I KNOW it was for political reasons, because he made a post that didn't refer to me by name but was clearly about a (misread) statement I had made in response to a political thread on a kolectiva post.
doc blocked chainsaweddie because eddie wrote a response that included an allusion to a school shooting. Because fiction is the problem, apparently.
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