An office. A seemingly endless office, the lights low, everything quiet. The
Universal Office of the Classic Looniverse, locked down, at rest.

Not much to see, honestly. A vast expanse of cubicles, all exactly the same...
except for one.

A man sat at a desk, typing and gazing into an old, flickery CRT. He could not
change what was happening from here - not yet, not without the Instrument, not
with the Sword of .Sig in place. But he could observe, and what he observed
pleased him.

Finally, the wildcard had been destroyed. The readings that the Universal
Office was recieving from LNHQ indicated that the Shadow of the Ninja, in
trying to heal itself, had destroyed itself. That was some kind of poetic irony,
probably; and if not, it didn't matter. Cold facts were enough for him.

The desktop let out a harsh nose and an alert flashed in amber. The man leaned
in... write conflict in database, no authorization to merge? Frowning, he
punched a few keys... and startled back, eyes wide.

There were two separate data tracks coming in. Two quantized and defined
versions of the events currently happening in LNHQ... and one of them was
recording the Shadow of the Ninja! Quickly, he typed in commands, requesting -
no, *demanding* - more information. One of the versions was contained to a
single area, centered on the Ninja, which meant...

No, that couldn't be right. You couldn't stabilize an Existence Snowglobe -
imposing your own reality on the world around you required enormous amounts of
energy. Yet there it was - a separate reality, maintained by a single,
unbreakable will.

He could not change what was happening from here. All he could do was observe...

::: __ __ _ __ :::
:+: / / ,'_/ / |/ / :+:
+:+ / /_ / /_ / || / +:+
..:. /___/eadership |__/ry.sig: /_/|_/et.ropolis .:.
..+. _______ ________ _______ ________ .+.
.. / ___ \|\ __ \ / ___ \|\_____ \ .
..+. /__/|_/ /\ \ \|\ \/__/|_/ /\|____|\ /_ .+.
..#. |__|// / /\ \ \\\ \__|// / / \|\ \ .#.
+#+ / /_/__\ \ \\\ \ / /_/__ __\_\ \ +#+
#+# |\________\ \_______\|\________\|\_______\ #+#
### \|_______|\|_______| \|_______|\|_______| ###

Issue #28: "A Cruel RACCoon's Thesis! The Final Ultimate Epi-Epilog?"
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Manga Girl had had it up to here! It was time for some *real* love and justice!

"Now hold on right there!" she shouted, pointing a finger at the Unknown Ninja.
"Mister Ultimate Ninja, *if that is your real name*, whether or not you're an
LNHer, you're committing villainous acts! You'd better quit it, or in the name
of sequential art, I'll punish you!"

"I am *not* done killing people!" the Unknown-and-maybe-Ultimate Ninja bellowed,
ignoring her. "The LNH needs to pay! For bringing me back, you all need to pay!"

"Please!" begged the Totally Real Ultimate Ninja, who seemed less real by the
moment. "You can have my ninja gold! Uh, once I find it..."

"Wow!" squeaked Throbby the Talking Severed Heart. "UN, you're freeing so many
hearts from the chests of bad men! You're such a hero!"

Oh that *did* it. Manga Girl made a dash for the Ninja of Mystery, filling her
fist with the burning power of truth and beauty bombs!!

*Still* not paying attention to her, he dodged at the last moment, and she
rushed past

::: __ __ _ __ :::
:+: / / ,'_/ / |/ / :+:
+:+ / /_ / /_ / || / +:+
..:. /___/eadership |__/ry.sig: /_/|_/et.ropolis .:.
..+. _______ ________ _______ ________ .+.
.. / ___ \|\ __ \ / ___ \|\_____ \ .
..+. /__/|_/ /\ \ \|\ \/__/|_/ /\|____|\ /_ .+.
..#. |__|// / /\ \ \\\ \__|// / / \|\ \ .#.
+#+ / /_/__\ \ \\\ \ / /_/__ __\_\ \ +#+
#+# |\________\ \_______\|\________\|\_______\ #+#
### \|_______|\|_______| \|_______|\|_______| ###

Issue #16: "The Struggles of Sakura! A Puzzle of Fuzzy Logic?"
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she laid on the floor, chest aching with every labored breath, a
trickle of blood sliding down her face.

"wha..." Manga Girl's vision was blurry. She was back in the shattered lobby--
no, wait, had she been-- her head was throbbing and there was an alarm--

"WARNING: REALITY BREACH DETECTED. WARNING: REALITY BREACH DETECTED."

The doors opened and a blurry, indistinct figure staggered in; it was Fuzzy,
experienced Legionnaire and friend to newbies. She was supporting Master Roster
Man, who stumbled forward like he was only halfway present. "What's... unf..."
She dropped him off on a bench and made her way over to Manga Girl, kneeling
down. "What happened?" Last I heard, the Ultimate Ninja had come back! And now
it seems like half the team's totally out of it, like they don't know where
they are... Good thing I decided not to come to the party, I guess!"

Manga Girl managed to take Fuzzy's hand, pulling herself up with her help.
"there's... nother reality here... escaped by accident..." She wobbled on her
feet. "gotta get back in 'n stop 'em..."

"it was the ultimate ninja but it wasn't..." muttered Master Roster Man. "and
there was a writer but he wasn't a writer... and he took venmo..."

"Uh, hang on, kid. Sakura, sorry." Fuzzy put her hands on Manga Girl's
shoulders. "But you sure this is something you've gotta do *now*? Everything's
messed up here, but you're messed up too."

Manga Girl shook her head, then winced, oh that was a bad idea. "there's people
trapped in there, I think, and that weird ninja we were looking for is part of
it..." She swallowed, taking a harsh breath, and straightened up. "And if what
you were saying is true, I think I'm the only one who's in condition to fight
it!"

Fuzzy took a deep breath. "Okay. There's some kind of reality here we can't see
or touch but it's affecting us... I didn't think I'd get to use this trick yet,
but I guess it's time."

Manga Girl ripped a strip off her T-shirt and tied it around her forehead to
keep the blood out of her eyes. That felt better. "Trick?"

"I haven't been in the spotlight for a while. So I've been using my time to
practice some new moves." It was hard to tell, but Fuzzy seemed to be tensing
her body, and reaching out into empty space. "I've tried this in the Peril Room,
but the real thing... is different..."

Fuzzy was always surrounded by her mutant Ambiguity Field. (Manga Girl had
heard she was pretty cute under there.) But now, the field began extending out
from her body. The ambiguity was getting wider, deeper, more ambiguous. It was
increasingly hard to tell where the borders of it actually were, and whether
Manga Girl was inside of it or out. The colors, the textures of the room became
indistinct - and suddenly, Manga Girl could tell that she was inside the field,
because her body felt different, because she could sort of, kind of, see the
other reality, that weird other Ultimate Ninja...

"Better... better hurry up and get in there. I don't know how long I can keep
this up."

Manga Girl was always dashing or running or leaping; she hardly ever just
walked. But now, she walked into the fuzzy space between realities...

::: __ __ _ __ :::
:+: / / ,'_/ / |/ / :+:
+:+ / /_ / /_ / || / +:+
..:. /___/eadership |__/ry.sig: /_/|_/et.ropolis .:.
..+. _______ ________ _______ ________ .+.
.. / ___ \|\ __ \ / ___ \|\_____ \ .
..+. /__/|_/ /\ \ \|\ \/__/|_/ /\|____|\ /_ .+.
..#. |__|// / /\ \ \\\ \__|// / / \|\ \ .#.
+#+ / /_/__\ \ \\\ \ / /_/__ __\_\ \ +#+
#+# |\________\ \_______\|\________\|\_______\ #+#
### \|_______|\|_______| \|_______|\|_______| ###

Issue #0: "Retconversations with Strangers! Saved by the Possum?"
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Drew Nilium <pwerdna@gmail.com> wrote at 04:43 this Sunday (GMT):
> An office. A seemingly endless office, the lights low, everything quiet. The
> Universal Office of the Classic Looniverse, locked down, at rest.
[snip]

I didn't understand a lot of this, but it was pretty entertaining!
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On 4/7/24 11:30 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> Drew Nilium <pwerdna@gmail.com> wrote at 04:43 this Sunday (GMT):
>> An office. A seemingly endless office, the lights low, everything quiet. The
>> Universal Office of the Classic Looniverse, locked down, at rest.
> [snip]
>
> I didn't understand a lot of this, but it was pretty entertaining!

Awwwww, I'm glad! :D That's one of my goals, to make my writing enjoyable even
for a new reader.

Drew "a noob, if you will" Nilium

Drew Nilium <pwerdna@gmail.com> wrote at 04:14 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On 4/7/24 11:30 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> Drew Nilium <pwerdna@gmail.com> wrote at 04:43 this Sunday (GMT):
>>> An office. A seemingly endless office, the lights low, everything quiet. The
>>> Universal Office of the Classic Looniverse, locked down, at rest.
>> [snip]
>>
>> I didn't understand a lot of this, but it was pretty entertaining!
>
> Awwwww, I'm glad! :D That's one of my goals, to make my writing enjoyable even
> for a new reader.
>
> Drew "a noob, if you will" Nilium

Thanks for that ^^
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