From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: The Kinda Big Darkness Saga continues (please repost to a.c.lnh)
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:04:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: magnus.1992Oct6.180455.6873
Organization: The Ohio State University


     Acton Lord awoke sprawled over a hard chair in a dimly lit office area 
with a headache the size of the Suicide Squid archives.  As memory blurrily 
returned, he remembered he had used Goon Show lines once too often and been 
compelled to "go round the back for a it of the ol' brandy, mate."  One drink 
led to another, and now he knew the truth of the statement "Absolut Vodka 
intoxicates absolutly."
     A gradgnome scurried up and said, much to Acton Lord's headache's 
displeasure, "Please to be inconvenienced and hide before department head 
arrives, boss."  Acton Lord batted feebly at the gradgnome and entered the 
secret compartment behind the computer station, staggering and leaningagainst 
the wall.
     "What did I do while slarmied?" thought AL.  He concentrated on 
remembering what had happened....
               *              *              *              *
     "I tell ya, A.L., this system environment is ripe for the conquest!  I've 
been there, they're all a bunch of wimps.  If we could just get some kind of 
hookup to the net for it, we could bring in the entire BoENV to take control 
befoer the LNH even decided who would drive the float there!"
     "Maybe, Foxshbat, but...."
               *              *              *              *
     Try as he might, that was all Acton Lord could remember.  But Foxbat?  
He's licensed!  What would h be doing in the net.worlds?  HeroMUD was 
vaporware, after all.  And what was the name of the world he mentioned?  It 
must have been a dream or something, induced by the alcohol.  Then Acton Lord 
unclenched his right fist (he must not have been drinking Ouzo at least) and 
saw laying in his palm, a Ping Pong ball....
     It *was* real!  So, a realm ripe for the picking, eh?  What plan should he
set in motion?  Perhaps it was time to take the cell samples he scraped from 
Myk-El's third cousin and only remaining Qwertian Dev-Null, clone and army of 
them, outfit them with suits that let them hav full powers under yellow suns, 
and....nah.  Been done before.  Perhaps he could approach the Sidekick Legion 
posing as a timetraveling hero, warp their worldviews to fit his own, then use 
them as an army...no, to stupid.  Besides, the Sidekicks would last about 2.3 
seconds against the real LNH.  Aha!
     Acton Lord took a dramatic pose against the special floodlight installed 
in his hideout for just such an occasion and said, "I will impersonate some 
other major villain who is currently thought dead, and get his minions to do my
dirty work!"  Grynning evilly, Acton Lord set about finding his makeup kit....

     Dave Van Domelen, Fascist dictatorships rarely happen overnight.  First 
those in power choose some minority to strip of human rights, and gets the 
majority to agree.  Then the leadership chooses another minority out of what 
remains and gets the majority to excise that.  When you vote Nov. 3, remember 
that if you support a candidate that is for denying civil rights to an 
'undesirable' group, when it's your turn to be denied rights you will have 
already voted against yourself.