GRIM...'S JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE AND BEYOND: ABRIDGED VERSIONI've been alive for three days, and I'm eighteen years old. Or the other way around. Whatever. My parents are both different species, but fortunately they look kinda human so I've not got eight eyes or a big boob on my knee or anything. I was born on a spaceship that's on a very dangerous research mission, and when you're eighteen (or three days. Whatever) you have to get off to "discover your own life". Fair enough.
I could choose to either go to Pintum where my dad was born, or Oophoss, which is where my mum came from. I chose Pintum because it has the word 'pint' in it, and I like beer (although I may still be 6,574 days too young to drink. Whatever).
So I hop into a shuttle and its "incredibly hi-tech navigation system" immediately flew me straight into a meteor shower, and
then malfunctioned. Rather than turn around, I press on. I also decree that radioing for help is for nancies, and I punch the 'go fast' button to try to escape the FLAMING ROCKS OF DEATH. Superbly, I survive, and end up on a "Space Highway", which my incredibly hi-tech navigation system presumably decided to avoid due to traffic, or something.
My shuttle is all busted up and air is leaking, so I pull into a rest stop and ask someone for a lift to Kenda, the planet in Pintum I'm heading for. Two groups of people offer me a lift, some Space Gypsies and a Space Circus. The gypsies are headed up by a hot chick, so I sign up.
We set off, and they tell me that they aren't going to Kenda, they're going to Earth. I'm a bit pissed off.
We land on Earth, and everyone there is a dick and it smells. I try to leave, but the po-po tell me I'm not allowed to. I make this face
and then stay on Earth a bit longer.
Finally, I leave Earth - somehow - and set off for Croyd in Oophoss, which is apparently what I've always wanted to do. Live and learn.
So my mother wishes me good luck and I hop into the research ship's shuttle. Wait, what?
A chap called Mirham wants to come with me. I don't know him that well, which strikes me as odd considering I spent the first eighteen years of my live (or three days. Whatever) on a small spaceship with him. Anyway, he warns me that there is a black hole near to Croyd, and I should spend some time reading up about them. I tell him to man the fuck up, and rip off a phat Space Burnout on my way to my new home.
OH NOES! Would you Adam it, the black hole is sucking us in (your mum's black hole, etc, etc). Not because I didn't know about black holes, it turns out, but because I put the number 8006 instead of 8060 into the computer. This fifty-four unit discrepancy was clearly enough to convince the incredibly hi-tech navigation system to disregard the planet I wanted to head to and lemming us all into the universe's most deadly phenomenon instead. Mirham shits his pants and starts girling out. Bouyed by an earlier success, I punch the 'go fast' button, hoping to pop out of the other side.
I am never heard from again.
UNTIL NOW!
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Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.