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Message In A Bottle by Jean-Renaud

Message In A Bottle

Jean-Renaud

Created as part of Round Three of the OC Pagent 2016 from Deviant Art.

The challenge was to compose a three hundred word story based upon two random elements picked from a list based upon my character's birthday. Seito doesn't really have a birthday, since the members of the Imaja Order don't celebrate individual birthdays, but instead have a mutual celebration at the end of their year. So I based his birthday on the date that I posted my very first drawing of him.

The results included: "talking to a wall: and "wearing a monocle". An odd combination, but I'm game. Initially I thought of something involving a drunken Seito jabbering to some image in the wallpaper while dressed up in his tux and wearing a purloined monocle and declaring himself to be Baron Von Hasenpfeffer. But that sounded too silly, so I went with a theme that was truer to his science fiction roots:

Dr. Seito Akai and his associate, Percinefru Tethmakhet (Percy, for short), went on a mission to find a particularly rare artifact: a fragment of an ancient star-temple from a long lost civilization that was thought lost in a cosmic cataclysm that obliterated the temple as well as the planetoid upon which it was built. Luckily enough, one of their scouts found a fragment of rock from it drifting through an adjacent system, and embedded in the rock were some slabs of stone from the temple walls; a computerized Oracle that archived the wisdom of its extinct people. Seito and Percy went out from Tarlec in their spacecraft and, after a long journey, intercepted the rock, then got out into open space to have a good look at it up close. Their bodies, being extremely resilient, were able to tolerate the condition of hard vacuum as well as the extremes in temperature and radiation, and they could both hold their breaths for a long duration. They could speak to one another telepathically, so they had no difficulty discussing their findings. Studying the slab up close, Seito scanned it with a chrono-probe that picked up evidence of information that was encoded in the slab: the lost writings of a long-lost civilization, surprisingly intact in spite of the trauma suffered by the temple, speaking of the amazing engineering capabilities of its creators. Using his Versicomm tablet, Seito was able to give enough power to the slab to revive that old data and translate it into a simulation of the Oracle's mind, allowing him to communicate with it by speaking with it directly. Using an eyepiece that allowed him to see the Oracle's manifestation, he was able to communicate with it and ask a few pertinent questions about matters that the Imaja desired to know.

And that's why Seito Akai was talking to a wall while wearing a monocle.

So there you go.

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