The Manarian wizard's life seemed to strech before his eyes... -- SBR: Nova*Beacon

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Date Posted: 22:44:55 06/28/01 Thu
Author: Rana
Subject: The Manarian wizard's life seemed to strech before his eyes...

...literally and violently. The engineer sitting at the console before the frantic sorcerer seemd to grow further and further away from him. Rana's eyes, solid blue since crashing into the spice-rich sands of Arrakis while piloting a ship encased in a mystic aqueous sheath, darted back and forth frenzied. Someone was shouting something about "venting" and "safe distance" off to his left, but it was hard to make out much more through the deafening ringing in his ears. Off to the side, he thought he saw something a shiny chrome and blue swinging a bat of some sort. The image flickered and the dim figure seemed to be of considerably more garish colors. Rana squinted, desperately trying to focus but seeing only stars! Billions and billions, infitesmally large and ensconsced by a furred claw.

"MADNESS!!!" he screamed at the top of his lungs!! "The lines end--THE LINES END!! I see no further!! None of this was supposed to happen! None of this should still be happening!! Someone...HELP ME!! Mercado? Ebonhawk? Do you exist? Do any of us? Am I still in the holo-rooms? Has the last few month's, my inexplicable 'second-chance', been but a dream? Am I lying on the floor of the Rugby Holorooms, breathing my last? The medlabs, my suicide attempt, the strange voice, the unexpected intervention, my escape with the armoured Nebulan and our travails on that barren desert world? Could that have been false? NO! No, I cannot doubt the veracity of what I experienced! That crash was real! The Melange�how do I know that is the name of the spice? Would I have gone back and learned in the future that does not exist?!�I know the Melange was real! Is this why I am experiencing this? Why no one else notices! ANSWER ME!!!"

Rana swung madly as security guards attempted to restrain him. Somewhere, a Vehicon counciller sneered derivatively at the "trippy fleshling". His surroundings began to change more and more rapidly, or his perception of said surroundings changed. One second it was his home village in Manar, the next the other vessel, the next some dive in Astoria called "Wily's", then back to Manar once more, always back to Manar. If answers would be found, they would be found there.

The spinning continued and he cluthced at his forehead, massaging vigorously, eyes squeezed shut mumbling fragments of incantations, nothing cohesive or coherent enough to have any real effect. A shadow loomed in his mind's eye, an imposing warrior astride a great stallion, protected by a balck armor marked by red sigils. Rana opened wide his eyes and collapsed on the bridge of the Nova*Beacon, his blue eyes glowing, staring off into a self-percieved distance. Officers approached him carefully, one shouting for a medic. Chief Engineer Muldoon continued to puzzle out the Nebulan console. The Vehicon Counsellor Veridian continued to monitor the outside efforts of Ebonhawk, Darkstar, Orion, and the now distant Lennon. Rana remained motionless, his body here, but his mind quite somewhere else...

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"You okay pally?" -- SBR Field Medics, 22:33:50 07/07/01 Sat
- He sat upright so quickly the medics stumbled backward... -- Rana, 21:06:46 07/22/01 Sun