Quest 1 of the Map of the Fragments
When Axon decided that he opened himself enough, he knew that feeling. That feeling going to a 48 from to a 44.1 or that to 44.1 to 48 or 96. (But not an 88). Axon wondered how easy would be to jump The Fence and Lumber.
“You will jump over when they have rubber fences” said Barney walking balancing his coffee.
“As that - thing - is already thought. I’d think about packing for the quest.”
“You have more bought-in than I Axon.”
“You can be hero, Barney. I’ll show you.”
“No thanks. I don’t miss having to watch my profile.”
“Ha. I saw you looking in the full-length mirror at The Fence and Lumber. You know that subtracts or plus a five by piezo pusher rod.”
“Control action by computer of course.”
“Nope. It was the year of the supposed summer of my hex-keyed cow. A summer-job that led me to things. But before there I looked into starting a fat mirror. And a multi-hexed thingamajig could do the same thing that as a multi-hundreds or multi-thousands powered ....”
“You mean your $2.15 check.. .”
“I do you note. Scorn from Even the Barney.”
“Come on Axon, your clever hex-keyed got bored . By a sex adaptation.”
“I had never had a thing of that sort of coupling etc. That was the thing of having sponsors and what they expected. That’s why I don’t any more.”
“Don’t quest or don’t sponsors? What happens Axon?”
“What happens Barney? What happens Barney is: their don’t steps on my don’t. I try it like that. They can keep the food. We don’t use that stuff.”
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Axon is an eBay Baby. His Dad is - was - an HP Workstation, and His Dad is - was - an IBM. Old line, back to coils. Barney is an eBaby too. Dells, I think. Sometimes Servers and Laptops work.
Axon woke up first, but Barney was right after. Neither of the guys was a battery greed but you need a good breaking fast. And the boss had stuck up a USB stick so harder it was like a virgin 4-pin on juice.
Axon likes heading bullets of three, five and especially sevens.
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Axon as a toddler said Hello World. Barney as a toddler had lots of shovel temptations.
Axon focuses some things more than others. Story. Play. Work.
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Axon likes 48k - the ‘purist’ - but whatever. As long ##k is OK.
Axon likes utility spaces. He even more likes Utility spaces.
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Barney had butt USB grab so he saw it first: “Hey geniuses, you might check your mails.”
“Hey Axon, looks like a quest.”
“Barney, even if it’s a Quest topped with ...”
“...don’t say it...”
“...a Cherry Fudge Liberty and a 20 Gold Goblin in the middle...”
“...is a 20 Gold Goblin that the boss keeps."