Limited supply
Set the scene
I am Sam, a friend from a city far south and in six months I will report back to my city about the problems people in Carbo are facing. I specifically centre my attention on my new friend roger and his family and the history of Carbo since the fighters arrived.
Roger and his daughter jo, live in a 12 floor tower block in the bustling city of Carbo, they live on the 11th floor and in the small three bedroom flat with them live roger’s, two brothers who are both suffering from spot syndrome and his mother and father who are both bed-ridden and live in the big double bed in the largest of the bedrooms, jo is the only other person who has an actual bed that is hers, the other bedroom doesn’t have any beds because they sold it for money. Instead roger and his brothers sleep on the floor.
Electricity and the fighters
The problem with Carbo was that though it was once a nice city when roger first moved here, since the fighters had arrived, everything has gone down hill from there on. The fighters are two giants the size of buildings and one day 5 years ago they landed from space and continue what roger has only known as the fight. The city tried to stop and the army came in for a while until they realised that they was nothing that could be done and they didn’t speak any English so no sort of agreement could be made. It seemed like these fighters were oblivious of there surroundings. A few days into the fright of the two giant fighters they accidentally pushed over some buildings. One of these buildings was the inner city nuclear power plant which also provided most of the city’s electricity supply. Thus meaning the electricity for most people living in the city was cut, inevitably most of the city was put in total darkness all day and night as Carbo was in the far north city where for 10 months of the year, the city is in a constant state of darkness unless by human means. The only other power plant for the city was in neighbouring town on the outskirts of Carbo called Krup. For this reason and this reason only everybody in the city were allowed coupons for electricity if they needed it. This meant everyday before work Roger would pop to the local coupon shop and get his £2 electricity coupon which provided him and his family 5mins worth of unlimited electrical supply everyday, generally this was never enough but they had to make do!
Roger
Roger had grew up in the outskirts of Carbo in sunny Blip, a nice little village with plenty of entertainment like the local bulb smashing contest ( that’s light bulb if you were wondering ) held every Wednesday which is a clear reminder of what life used to be like for Roger and his local pub. At the age of 18 roger had completed his strats and gained enough qualifications to work and live in the city comfortably. He worked as a manager at the light bulb producing factory. This provided roger with healthy pay check, with this he bought a luxurious three bedroom apartment as he thought someday in the future it might come in handy with what getting a girlfriend soon and possibility of a kid it would be worthwhile in the long term ( and so right he was ). At the age of 20 he was living a comfortable life with a girl called Jenny, his wife and their daughter Jo who was a year old. One of the many things Roger collected was his titanium plated lightbulbs which were a sign of wealth.
The problems
When Roger reached the age of 24 six weeks later the fighters arrived and the city of Carbo was turned upside down. For the first couple of days roger didn’t attend work as he didn’t know whether it was safe to go out and when the city council told on the radio that it was generally safe to go into town unless you were got more than three blocks too close to the fighters.
But Roger wasn’t the strongest of characters and so it was decided that Jenny would go into town to check Roger’s building and get the coupon but she never came back. Reportedly she was on the bus when the fighters had come out of the area they were fighting and one of them had stamped on the bus Jenny was in, completely flattening the bus and she was killed instantly.
Roger was in such a state, that in the end he had to find a way and the only way was to go into town and see the devastation. Not only was it a terrible sight of the flattened bus, but also his building was completely ruined, thus meaning roger was jobless, after a week he got a job shovelling wreckage into trucks to be sent to increasing pile of wrecked buildings at Krup. This job though alright, the pay wasn’t brilliant and it meant Roger had to wave goodbye to his lightbulbs and the local pawn shop. The money he received just covered enough to feed 5 people so one of his brothers went without food for a week when they were up, and the rest just covered the electricity.
The Filled Flat
The reason so many people were living in roger’s flat after the fighters arrived was for mixed reasons. To start with I will explain about his parents who are now bedridden because they were had their back’s broken when a piece of buildings fell on them when the fighters arrived. And as they couldn’t look after themselves in Blip they were staying with their son. Roger’s two brothers were there because they also were unable to look after themselves after they got the spot syndrome after they were caught up in the fighter’s fart area which was a major problem in Carbo, a lot of people had it and there was no cure. The symptoms are massive spots on the face and body and without lights causes the patient to vomit and for most of the time stay in the foetus position until light is provided and only then they slowly recover and gain some energy, typically it is closely related to hibernation. For most of the time Roger’s two brothers are in the flat they on the floor asleep until the 5 minutes arrived and they normally went to the loo. The bedroom where Roger and his two brothers slept was very cramped and was most uncomfortable been there was always a smell of vomit. Jo was now 5 years old and was attending a school made by teacher in flat 2 downstairs which was very basic and provided kids in the tower block with basic learning and she was doing very well under the circumstances. The common question Jo asked her father was when the light would come on, and it makes roger very upset and reminded of Roger of Jenny.
My review
I think the most important thing I have learnt here is the people of Carbo are in desperate need of some help though when I spoke to the council they said there was no problems with the fighters as they had split or even removed most of the unions of people from the city and this meant the city is very peaceful. Also I spoke to some other people who are hoping to die rather than continue so it seems though that if that’s the way they want it I might just fuck off home.
Monday, July 18, 2005
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Little Green Men
The buds are the crew we meet on their planet. They have just grown up, their not sure how long they have been living, but there reaching adulthood. Later in the pub bud
Joe: Hi Paul
Paul: Hi Joe how u doing, you’re family doing alright at budgreen?
Joe: Yeah there doing fine I actually just got this new style of mineral plant that helps us get more minerals.
Paul: Wow that sounds good what is it?
Joe: It’s called a minerbud.
Paul: Well I will have to go down to the local garden centre and see if I can find that.
Joe: I have done one better I got a couple of seeds in case any of my friends wanted some.
Paul: Thanks Joe.
Joe and Paul pick up their bud beers and take a swig from the nice ale.
Suddenly the ground is shaking and suddenly they look out the window to find somehow for unknown reasons the whole pub has been lifted out the ground and put into a big white world. Then not one second later a second pub called Obud pub is next to them like magic.
We join Joe and Paul as all the men notice something.
Paul: What’s happening?
Joe: I don’t know the ground definitely shaking I don’t know what it is.
Some seconds later they come to rest
Paul: well at least we still and whatever that was I hope it doesn’t happen again.
Joe: same here.
Joe: Hey look out the window there is pub next to us
Paul: so there is!
Joe: Should we go out?
Paul: I don’t know if it looks alright.
They run out not only to find their pub and the one they could see through the window but many more pubs all round them.
Joe: Wow we go to have good time trying out all these ales but this big white world is weird but I can’t breathe very well.
Paul: same here.
Paul: Hey there’s similar guys as to us should we talk to them Joe?
Joe: don’t know!
Paul and Joe walk off to meet these strange but similar people.
Matt: Hello who are you?
Paul: Hello I am Paul, who are you?
Matt: I am Matt who is you’re friend?
Paul: This Joe.
Matt: Well I have my friends Ste and Rick here as well
Paul: Do you know how you got to this strange place (coughs)?
Matt: I don’t know but my way of keeping things sane is to say for the effort of people like us and ourselves is we are living and we should do our best.
Joe: that’s doesn’t sound too bad (coughs)
Paul: I don’t know I have always just live for the moment.
Suddenly the men have all been from somewhere under there feet been pushed together and all the buildings are all together and squashed. There is a piercing sound and no light. There is barely any air but they can just about talk.
Paul: Help!
Matt: Calm down!
Paul: How can I calm down the whole way we thought of our world has just changed and that noise is deafening what the hell is happening?
Matt: I don’t know but let’s hold together.
Crew: Cool!!
Within a second of saying cool all the men are next to each as if there in a container there had all blacked out as they were knocked about somewhere but there all together now.
Joe: (as he gets up) Well at least this is some place better.
Matt: Yeah same here.
Paul: I can’t work it out why did this happen to us and know else in the world and where is this strange place? I hope nothing happens like what happened before.
As they are standing there all the men are somehow moved extraneous distance but it didn’t really affect them. Then suddenly they were lying alone in what seemed like a giant white valley but not only were there plants and trees but there are is a brown creature.
Matt: (thinks to himself have I all gone insane or something this all seems like a dream. I hope I wake up)
Matt: where is this?
Muzzi: Whjeo Obfje?
Matt: Where did that voice come from?
Muzzi: (The brown creature sticks a weird green leaf in to what looks like an earhole) I am Muzzi this is my body. If you are wondering where you are you are on me. Who are you?
Matt: I am a man I come from the bud world who are you?
Matt: what do you mean on you?
Muzzi: I mean this land you think is land is actually me.
Matt: Oh (matt can’t fathom this and turns another way and ignores it. (He can barely breathe and he lays there dozing unsure where his friends are. But he thinks they must somewhere in this wilderness)
The giant white valley encloses on the men and seconds later Matt feels he head burning and after some wind passes him his head is burning and suddenly he is dead but his soul floats off in to the emptiness of space and not long after the same happens to Joe, Paul and Ste and Rick. Though they may be dead there soul lives live on to somewhere else.
P.s. I do like a good joint of weed.
Joe: Hi Paul
Paul: Hi Joe how u doing, you’re family doing alright at budgreen?
Joe: Yeah there doing fine I actually just got this new style of mineral plant that helps us get more minerals.
Paul: Wow that sounds good what is it?
Joe: It’s called a minerbud.
Paul: Well I will have to go down to the local garden centre and see if I can find that.
Joe: I have done one better I got a couple of seeds in case any of my friends wanted some.
Paul: Thanks Joe.
Joe and Paul pick up their bud beers and take a swig from the nice ale.
Suddenly the ground is shaking and suddenly they look out the window to find somehow for unknown reasons the whole pub has been lifted out the ground and put into a big white world. Then not one second later a second pub called Obud pub is next to them like magic.
We join Joe and Paul as all the men notice something.
Paul: What’s happening?
Joe: I don’t know the ground definitely shaking I don’t know what it is.
Some seconds later they come to rest
Paul: well at least we still and whatever that was I hope it doesn’t happen again.
Joe: same here.
Joe: Hey look out the window there is pub next to us
Paul: so there is!
Joe: Should we go out?
Paul: I don’t know if it looks alright.
They run out not only to find their pub and the one they could see through the window but many more pubs all round them.
Joe: Wow we go to have good time trying out all these ales but this big white world is weird but I can’t breathe very well.
Paul: same here.
Paul: Hey there’s similar guys as to us should we talk to them Joe?
Joe: don’t know!
Paul and Joe walk off to meet these strange but similar people.
Matt: Hello who are you?
Paul: Hello I am Paul, who are you?
Matt: I am Matt who is you’re friend?
Paul: This Joe.
Matt: Well I have my friends Ste and Rick here as well
Paul: Do you know how you got to this strange place (coughs)?
Matt: I don’t know but my way of keeping things sane is to say for the effort of people like us and ourselves is we are living and we should do our best.
Joe: that’s doesn’t sound too bad (coughs)
Paul: I don’t know I have always just live for the moment.
Suddenly the men have all been from somewhere under there feet been pushed together and all the buildings are all together and squashed. There is a piercing sound and no light. There is barely any air but they can just about talk.
Paul: Help!
Matt: Calm down!
Paul: How can I calm down the whole way we thought of our world has just changed and that noise is deafening what the hell is happening?
Matt: I don’t know but let’s hold together.
Crew: Cool!!
Within a second of saying cool all the men are next to each as if there in a container there had all blacked out as they were knocked about somewhere but there all together now.
Joe: (as he gets up) Well at least this is some place better.
Matt: Yeah same here.
Paul: I can’t work it out why did this happen to us and know else in the world and where is this strange place? I hope nothing happens like what happened before.
As they are standing there all the men are somehow moved extraneous distance but it didn’t really affect them. Then suddenly they were lying alone in what seemed like a giant white valley but not only were there plants and trees but there are is a brown creature.
Matt: (thinks to himself have I all gone insane or something this all seems like a dream. I hope I wake up)
Matt: where is this?
Muzzi: Whjeo Obfje?
Matt: Where did that voice come from?
Muzzi: (The brown creature sticks a weird green leaf in to what looks like an earhole) I am Muzzi this is my body. If you are wondering where you are you are on me. Who are you?
Matt: I am a man I come from the bud world who are you?
Matt: what do you mean on you?
Muzzi: I mean this land you think is land is actually me.
Matt: Oh (matt can’t fathom this and turns another way and ignores it. (He can barely breathe and he lays there dozing unsure where his friends are. But he thinks they must somewhere in this wilderness)
The giant white valley encloses on the men and seconds later Matt feels he head burning and after some wind passes him his head is burning and suddenly he is dead but his soul floats off in to the emptiness of space and not long after the same happens to Joe, Paul and Ste and Rick. Though they may be dead there soul lives live on to somewhere else.
P.s. I do like a good joint of weed.
11th June 2004 dream
My dream last night I was in a block of flats that existed in l shaped but backwards and was 6 floors high with s bends and you could walk diagonally through the building and I was the only person about in the corridors. I was living with a woman but I couldn’t put a face on her and then when she wouldn’t talk to me I would go round to inbal’s flat which was in the same place. It seemed like inbal’s place was a sanctuary. I couldn’t remember why I was there.
you never know
Febuary 1st
My name is Terry, I live in the countryside and it is very pleasant but sometimes it can get very frosty and I have seen a lot of my friends die from it since I have been alive. My mum died before I got to know here, but my older friends who knew her said she was very caring. I was born in febuary and my mother decided to have a water birth she thought it would be the best.
In my family I have two brothers and sisters who are doing quite well and now most of them are starting to have kids with their wives and husbands but so far I haven’t found anyone special, and I do worry that will be soon too late, to have any. I have always been a coverted one and like to keep myself to myself. Though I do like to go out with lads a lot when there not busy down to the local watery for a couple, there’s quite a lot of fine cuties.
One of my favourite sports is acrobatic flying when I am up there I am in my element I love it, you so free it feels great. Though it took a lot of practice I managed it in the end and quite a lot of my friends took to the skill quite easy. I first decided I want to do after I saw great Barry the acrobatic doing it for a show for us as part of friends 20th birthday.
Those times when I was younger I really did have a good time and since then I have just been working out with my friends and getting in good shape, since there is no chance of a lady nowadays but it good to look good though even if there is chance of a cuddle.
Febuary 2nd
At the start of the day wasn’t too bad a start but I did feel more and more tired later on.
………… Z.Z.Z.Z.ZZZZZ…….
Terry’s best friend Baz
Terry was a very noble person he may have been able to get along with the lads but wasn’t too successful with cuties, but that didn’t matter he did live a good life and many friends at that and we all are going to miss him dearly. Thanks Terry you were the best !
But then he was only a Mayfly.
My name is Terry, I live in the countryside and it is very pleasant but sometimes it can get very frosty and I have seen a lot of my friends die from it since I have been alive. My mum died before I got to know here, but my older friends who knew her said she was very caring. I was born in febuary and my mother decided to have a water birth she thought it would be the best.
In my family I have two brothers and sisters who are doing quite well and now most of them are starting to have kids with their wives and husbands but so far I haven’t found anyone special, and I do worry that will be soon too late, to have any. I have always been a coverted one and like to keep myself to myself. Though I do like to go out with lads a lot when there not busy down to the local watery for a couple, there’s quite a lot of fine cuties.
One of my favourite sports is acrobatic flying when I am up there I am in my element I love it, you so free it feels great. Though it took a lot of practice I managed it in the end and quite a lot of my friends took to the skill quite easy. I first decided I want to do after I saw great Barry the acrobatic doing it for a show for us as part of friends 20th birthday.
Those times when I was younger I really did have a good time and since then I have just been working out with my friends and getting in good shape, since there is no chance of a lady nowadays but it good to look good though even if there is chance of a cuddle.
Febuary 2nd
At the start of the day wasn’t too bad a start but I did feel more and more tired later on.
………… Z.Z.Z.Z.ZZZZZ…….
Terry’s best friend Baz
Terry was a very noble person he may have been able to get along with the lads but wasn’t too successful with cuties, but that didn’t matter he did live a good life and many friends at that and we all are going to miss him dearly. Thanks Terry you were the best !
But then he was only a Mayfly.
premonition
I and Jay were complex maths workers and we worked in building 200 storeys high in the middle of town. One of the things we had to do was spatial algebra mathematics, we would have large holographic table where we would have work out many things. I and jay were both fine at this, we been through SPA school and done our two degrees and now earned our wage high in the sky.
One day I stopped working and looking at the window and what I can only describe as premonition happened like inside my head, it seemed very real but it seemed important and it looked like it would happen today.
Though me and jay worked hard we weren’t normally allowed to leave work for anything and work the full day. As I turned round to go back to work I spoke to Jay about what I had just seen and he just splurted some gibberish at me and I couldn’t work it out and then I made it reasonable hard puzzle for him to try and he got caught on the first easiest hurdle as if he had lost all intelligence and was stupid.
At this point the board of directors for the company walked in and asked me and Jay were we working hard and I said yes whilst turning Jay round so they couldn’t see him and whilst they were walking round I pulled Jay close to me so it was hard for them to see that Jay had turned stupid.
As they were near the opposite end of the room with the floor manager, I pulled Jay with me out onto to the corridor and straight into the lift.
Just as we entered the lift I had another premonition, this time lots of people were crowding into our building, but I couldn’t still work it out and as we started going down the floors in the cramped lift. It suddenly began going a lot faster then stopped and the doors opened and Jay, who was at the front looked out plus holding one arm out and I pulled him back in but it began falling at incredible speed and Jay lost his arm. As the lift banged on the springs at the bottom we finally stopped and got out. I pulled jay out and we ran to the front door pushing people out of my way whilst dragging jay along with me.
Where we lived was in a city which was on an island part of many hundreds of small islands in large group. Beside one of the islands the one Me and Jay was on, about 10 miles away was the mainland where most of the worlds population lived and between all of it was fairly deep sea. The government of the small island had connected all the small islands together and it was now developing the last bridge to built between the islands were we on and the mainland.
So as me and Jay left the building I realised what it was all about and not that any normal person would think this but it was our bridges, I had to tell the workers to stop building all the whole world would be in danger. So me and Jay started running down the bridge which they had already started building until a mile or so we got to the part where we couldn’t any further. So I had the great idea to nick so worker suits and try and pretend to be a worker with Jay and get the lift in the helicopter, we did and we went to the last cylinder of concrete which holds the road surface in the air.
As we got there I realised what was the problem as I looked down. They had spread the water apart to make a hole in the water to dig in the sand for the next hole. So I knocked out the way by stealing the controls of the helicopter and plunging it in the hole for the terror to leave.
One day I stopped working and looking at the window and what I can only describe as premonition happened like inside my head, it seemed very real but it seemed important and it looked like it would happen today.
Though me and jay worked hard we weren’t normally allowed to leave work for anything and work the full day. As I turned round to go back to work I spoke to Jay about what I had just seen and he just splurted some gibberish at me and I couldn’t work it out and then I made it reasonable hard puzzle for him to try and he got caught on the first easiest hurdle as if he had lost all intelligence and was stupid.
At this point the board of directors for the company walked in and asked me and Jay were we working hard and I said yes whilst turning Jay round so they couldn’t see him and whilst they were walking round I pulled Jay close to me so it was hard for them to see that Jay had turned stupid.
As they were near the opposite end of the room with the floor manager, I pulled Jay with me out onto to the corridor and straight into the lift.
Just as we entered the lift I had another premonition, this time lots of people were crowding into our building, but I couldn’t still work it out and as we started going down the floors in the cramped lift. It suddenly began going a lot faster then stopped and the doors opened and Jay, who was at the front looked out plus holding one arm out and I pulled him back in but it began falling at incredible speed and Jay lost his arm. As the lift banged on the springs at the bottom we finally stopped and got out. I pulled jay out and we ran to the front door pushing people out of my way whilst dragging jay along with me.
Where we lived was in a city which was on an island part of many hundreds of small islands in large group. Beside one of the islands the one Me and Jay was on, about 10 miles away was the mainland where most of the worlds population lived and between all of it was fairly deep sea. The government of the small island had connected all the small islands together and it was now developing the last bridge to built between the islands were we on and the mainland.
So as me and Jay left the building I realised what it was all about and not that any normal person would think this but it was our bridges, I had to tell the workers to stop building all the whole world would be in danger. So me and Jay started running down the bridge which they had already started building until a mile or so we got to the part where we couldn’t any further. So I had the great idea to nick so worker suits and try and pretend to be a worker with Jay and get the lift in the helicopter, we did and we went to the last cylinder of concrete which holds the road surface in the air.
As we got there I realised what was the problem as I looked down. They had spread the water apart to make a hole in the water to dig in the sand for the next hole. So I knocked out the way by stealing the controls of the helicopter and plunging it in the hole for the terror to leave.
weird shop
I was walking down a street and I saw this shop, I was a bit surprised and decided to go in, as I walked in the previous person went had gone in just before me and the man who owned the shop said to us both (but was really talking to the guy in front) that if you paid £2 then you could have experience like no other. So I thought just as the guy in front of me thought to pay the man and see what it was all about (been a sucker that I am) as he went behind the desk and to a corner of the shop, where the bloke who owned said to go, (on the left handside) he came from out of the curtain and in a very cartoony style did a dance and blew horns. As a next customer I jumped at the chance as it looked exciting and I was curious how it worked. The man who owned the shop looked at me and asked if I would like a go, I said “yes” and looked in my wallet only to think I saw money but not enough for £2, but when I looked again there was another pound in there and I paid the man. So he pointed to me and told me to go round the curtain and to the right. As I went round it was black dark and I could see many opening thru the curtain towards the front of the shop. As I stood near the curtain it was if a hand or maybe two hands grabbed me and pulled me like a puppet and began making me dance, after been a bit freaked out, I started to enjoy it.
As it finished the man who owned the shop gave me a weird looking toy or things that I can’t describe. It look like a bicycle frame but with no seat and handlebars and moved on its own and didn’t go in straight lines but when it zig zag but as if go round corners every time it moved, the man in the shop said that if it were to go ahead of me then it was mine. As I left the shop it was ahead and I supposed that it was mine. I followed it to see where it would go and wondered where it would take me.
About a year later this weird present was still with me and I met this guy and told him the whole story and he said that I was lucky guy to have spent so little and gained so much.
This guy I met told me that he had a similar experience with the same shop and that he needed to rest, so we went to this tower block and climbed on the outside steps up to the top where there is a garden of sorts on the top, with good views. As stood up there me and him waited and smoke some bud. Whilst we were up there we were joined by some of his friends and we got introduced. After a bit of chatting, four men were climbing the steps in the distance and they looked like normal people, but as they came up I saw that they were police and I mentioned to the rest of the group that it was the police. So everybody went quiet and they came up and looked at everyone, until one of the people in our group shouted something. I was a bit shocked and was annoyed at the person I barely knew (at the same time the whole tower seemed to be on angle (like the leaning tower of Pisa)).
The police took us in for finding bud on most of us and as we were a group the others were investigated. I was annoyed that I was in a police station but also annoyed that I had lost my present from that shop
As it finished the man who owned the shop gave me a weird looking toy or things that I can’t describe. It look like a bicycle frame but with no seat and handlebars and moved on its own and didn’t go in straight lines but when it zig zag but as if go round corners every time it moved, the man in the shop said that if it were to go ahead of me then it was mine. As I left the shop it was ahead and I supposed that it was mine. I followed it to see where it would go and wondered where it would take me.
About a year later this weird present was still with me and I met this guy and told him the whole story and he said that I was lucky guy to have spent so little and gained so much.
This guy I met told me that he had a similar experience with the same shop and that he needed to rest, so we went to this tower block and climbed on the outside steps up to the top where there is a garden of sorts on the top, with good views. As stood up there me and him waited and smoke some bud. Whilst we were up there we were joined by some of his friends and we got introduced. After a bit of chatting, four men were climbing the steps in the distance and they looked like normal people, but as they came up I saw that they were police and I mentioned to the rest of the group that it was the police. So everybody went quiet and they came up and looked at everyone, until one of the people in our group shouted something. I was a bit shocked and was annoyed at the person I barely knew (at the same time the whole tower seemed to be on angle (like the leaning tower of Pisa)).
The police took us in for finding bud on most of us and as we were a group the others were investigated. I was annoyed that I was in a police station but also annoyed that I had lost my present from that shop
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