Thread: Heroes on the Halfscreen (pods6827 and MMRS)

Okay, I know what you're asking. What's the television for? Well, the television isn't magic. Not exactly. But about forty years ago, when I began making my fortune, I found this...well, it's hard to describe. It was kind of like a sheet that was as flimsy but as strong as a spider web, if that makes sense. And I knew what it was. See, for hundreds, or possibly thousands of years, you could put this web sheet thing over a painting, and then step into the painting. Or pull things out of the painting. With conditions, of course. There's always conditions. See, as far as I can tell, some artists have a vision to actually see other worlds, and the talent to paint these other worlds. Well, from what I understand, if you put this sheet over a painting that is of an actual world, you open up a doorway to that world. One where you can pull stuff out of that world, or put yourself into that world. At least I think you can put yourself into that world. You see, I made kind of a mistake. Okay, I found this web blanket about forty years ago, and I wasn't the multibillionaire I was before I died. So I couldn't buy myself a home theater for just me or a projection screen for my own man cave or anything like that. Remember, this was forty years ago. We barely had cable. Now, my thought was that there had to be some artistic type directors and writers and whatnots who could see other worlds, and wrote movies and television shows about them. So I bought a portable camping television, and I had the good sense to make sure I could plug it into a cable or satellite. Which was good thinking on my part, for reasons I'll let you know about later. So I was right about there being television shows I could reach into, but like I said, I screwed up. Since I couldn't afford a giant television hey, again, forty years ago, I bought the small television thinking...well, I don't know what I was thinking. But I could only pull things out, since I could only get myself elbow deep into a program. And whatever I pulled out was only a twelfth of the size of what it would be in the real world. You ever see that movie The Indian in the Cupboard? Yeah, it was like that. Except I found out there were rules. So you're asking yourself, why not just get a bigger television, take the web sheet off the portable television and put it on a new television. Okay, I did have that idea. In fact, my drive to become superrich was in part so I could by a television I could step into and out of. And yes, before you ask, I did have some magical help, some stuff I hid, that this journal will tell you how to find. But back to the web sheet. Yes, there is a way to take it off. But it requires an incantation. And only you, as the current own of this journal and the web sheet, can incantate. I think that's a word. I can see the need for an incantation. I mean, if you step into an alternate world, and someone removes the websheet, you're kind of fucked, aren't you? But the incantation is in the form of a riddle that I never figured out. Maybe you'll have better luck. Hey, this page is getting long winded. Which do you want to hear about first? The riddle? What the television does work on? Or maybe some of my other magic stuff?