Chapters tagged hobbit
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Looseleaf's Diary - 12 / 04 / 2120 by Zeebop
Chapter 16
The new cyberdeck was almost better than sex. The neural connection faster, more responsive; the resolution of the cyberscape sharper and higher rez. Instead of being limited by my equipment, I was limited only by my meat brain and the physical limits of the fiber-optic trunk I w...
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Looseleaf's Diary - 9 / 04 / 2120 by Zeebop
Chapter 15
There was soykaf. The smell drew me out of my slumber, and I rolled over to where my arms were. I needed arms for hot caffeinated beverages. I slid my left stump into the slot until the mating connector clicked into place, then did the same with the right. The arms were cold in t...
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Looseleaf's Diary - 5 / 03 / 2120 by Zeebop
Chapter 13
> In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast of iron. > It can only attack when pulled back. > What is it? I pondered for a moment. The metaphor. Then it came to me. "A bullet." Streams of Elf-script flowed as the door opened. I didn't have much time; back-tracking the connect...
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Looseleaf's Diary - 24 / 02 / 2120 by Zeebop
Chapter 12
> This blade sharpens the more it is used > _Yet will rust and crumble with time._ "Memory," I answered, and the digital doors opened as my log-on was approved to the data vaults of the University of the Grey Havens. The iconography of this part of the Matrix was like one of...
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Looseleaf's Diary - 20 / 02 / 2120 by Zeebop
Chapter 11
> I saw the dead give rise to the living, > In the wrath of the living the dead were consumed. "Fire," I answered, and the Intrusion Countermeasure shimmered and faded into transparency. My avatar stepped through the codewall into the restricted database. Such riddles were ch...
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Looseleaf's Diary - 19 / 02 / 2120 by Zeebop
Chapter 10
18 hours digging through the latest from Shire AgriCorp. Data from all over the world sent through secured channels, but stored in less-than-secure buffers. At least, not the kind of security that could stop a console cowgirl from sifting for anything she might sell—mineral depos...
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