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The striped skunk Justin StinCoy didn't expect to come face-to-face with his future self, the dimension-traveling cybernetic unicorn CyberCorn Entropic. It unnerved him.

Two of my personas come face-to-face.

Characters and art © 2012 Marvin E. Fuller

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male 1,170,701, skunk 33,630, unicorn 30,062, robot 18,177, machine 4,382

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Published: 12 years, 4 months ago

Rating: General

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EmmetEarwax

9 years, 10 months ago

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If Justin StinCoy is the SAME person as CyberCorn Entropic, then a LOT has -or will- happen to him.

My Traveler has met his future self -and past self- many times. Of course, it becomes a bit tedious living the same fight over & over, move for move, blow for blow. I got the idea from "BY HIS BOOTSTRAPS" though I profess not to remember the story completely any more. Looping through time is a nifty way to become an instant crowd scene, evening the odds...

CyberCornEntropic

9 years, 10 months ago

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@ EmmetEarwax

You'd literally become a one-man army. :o Too many yous running around might make it tough for even you to keep track of yourself. :p

"	EmmetEarwax wrote:
	If Justin StinCoy is the SAME person as CyberCorn Entropic, then a LOT has -or will- happen to him.

Very much so, assuming Cybercorn has the right version of Justin. :p Not only does Justin have a future self, but also a Mirror self, an evil self, some genderswapped selves, a monster self... Generally speaking, they prefer to stick to their own home realities, but sometimes someone trips on a scarf, and they have to clean up the aftereffects. :o

EmmetEarwax

9 years, 9 months ago

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In the Mythos tale "THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY" a Lovecraft collaboration with E.Hoffman Price, Randolph Carter, seeking re-entry into the dreamlands of Earth, via the Silver Key, finds all his other selves, incl. a Yaddithian wizard named Zkauba. By not following Yog-Sothoth's advice, he gets trapped in Zkauba's body.

And the part of the instruction manual on how to use the Silver Key to rectify this situation, is on the other side of the universe !

CyberCornEntropic

9 years, 9 months ago

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@ EmmetEarwax

Figures.  You never can seem to find the instruction manual when you need it the most. :p

Traveling through time and getting stuck in your own (previous self's) body would be the pits.  Not only are you stuck in a body you no longer know how to operate, but you're stuck going through a life you've forgotten all about.  You're literally a stranger in your own body in a past-life regression that's a bit more real and immediate than usual. :o

CyberCorn isn't so much a reincarnation of Justin but more like a time-traveling future version of Justin who's wearing a different physical body.  It's really just In Character blather to connect my older CyberCorn Entropic persona with my more recent, more run-of-the-mill Justin persona, and was set up before I'd made the latter.

Speaking of previous lives, I've fiddled with some of my characters contacting previous lives of theirs, primarily as a way of having them interact in other time periods without having to invoke time travel.  But the only one I've posted I still need to finish illustrating (and, if I'm really lucky, write about :p ).

EmmetEarwax

9 years, 9 months ago

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@ CyberCornEntropic

Well, he knows WHERE it is, but had disregarded Yog-Sothoth's advice to have had it with him.

Eventually he maps out a way to get to it. Concocting a drug that would keep his Zkauba-aspect submerged, he then builds a spaceship (that term is not used in the story), and aboard it, uses the Silver Key to fast-forward time to the right aeon. He means to get to earth at the right year, having calculated the distance of Yaddith from earth.

The launching platform had long rusted away, Yaddith, once the home of an advanced civilization of Yaddithians, is a raped plundered strip-mined world, with only the doels, vast slimy worms that, fortunantly, have not gotten to earth, eating what's left of the planet. One spots him taking off, and attempts to down his spaceship with a vast blast of slime, but misses.Now Carter-Zkauba must go into hibernation, as, even at light-speed it will take ages to get to good old earth.

As calculated, the spaceship reaches earth and only a few years had passed since Carter had left with the Key. With unimaginably long spans of geologic time, deviations had crept into his calculations and he was a few years off, not right after he left on his awesome journey all over space & time. He must get back to his home, to the attic room, to the box containing the operator's manual for the Key. But -- the house is tied up in an estate battle, Carter being assumed dead, and he must prove his identity to get access to the instructions. He has to shepherd his drugs to keep the Zkauba aspect suppressed. Once he let the drug wear off, disarranged his disguise,and some people had nightmares from glimpsing the wizard Zkauba lurch around, gurgling or whatever passed for speech with the now long extinct Yaddithians.

The tale is told in flashback mode by Carter -Zkauba at the meeting, and an old fat lawyer ,Aspinwall ,shouts that the heavily disguised swami with gloved hands is a phony or con-man , and for the others to throw him out. Carter-Zkauba warns the others that he IS Randolph Carter. Snorting & sneering, Aspinwall, grabs at Carter-Zkauba's mask, and wrenches it off !!

Aspinwall takes a good look at Zkauba's tapir-snouted,insectoid face, and sinks to the floor with a massive heart attack. Due to the position of people at the mo, the others did not see Zkauba's FACE, but rush to the dead body of Aspinwall. They see Zkauba, the Carter mode again submerged, lurch and in a very strange mode of locomotion, towards a weird clock. It pulls off a glove to manipulate the door of the clock. So they then SEE the hand(?) of a Yaddithian, a insectoid CLAW. Paralyzed by the knowledge of what they now faced, they are unable to stop the alien wizard as he enters the clock -

-and vanishes. I think the 5 or 6 hands of the clock had been spinning randomly or by some pattern unimagined by earthly mathematicians (where deMarigney got this - artifact - I can only surmise, it came from an alien place on earth, Leng or such.). Nothing more is heard of Carter.

CyberCornEntropic

9 years, 9 months ago

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@ EmmetEarwax

The other problem we have with instruction manuals, then? When we do know where we stashed them, we can't get to them when we need them (at least, not without a lot of difficulty). :o

Maybe Carter should have asked for the Doctor's help. :p Believe it or not, Virgin Publishing's tie-in novels with the Seventh Doctor strongly implied the Cthulhu mythos also existed in the Doctor Who universe, pairing various high-powered Doctor Who entities with various Cthulhu ones. :o

The same novels also occasionally explored the possibility, first hinted at in the last couple seasons of the classic series, that the Doctor was in fact the reincarnation of a Rassilon-era early Time Lord known as the Other who had some critical influence on ancient Gallifreyan history. How that ended up I couldn't say since I lost track of the series partway through.

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