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The Hovertank Diaries: A Change is Gonna Come
Changes - we can has them!
First, though, here’s a picture of the soon-to-be-world-famous traffic cone (pre-editing, of course; the thing needs some stage makeup) that will be our Episode 5 covergirl. It’s gonna be exciting!
Okay, now for the changes.
The HTD crew is excited to announce that we’ll…
1.04: Confessions
The Hovertank Diaries, Episode 4:
The Hovertank Diaries
Season One
Episode Four: Confessions
by Jeremiah Christie
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Confessions
Very little can hold up very well against a point-blank shot from a tank-mounted rail gun, and the little blue auto was no exception. When the black, oily smoke had drifted up into the sunny morning Albuquerque sky, there wasn’t much left to look at. The road would be in need of a repaving, as well.
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Kenny
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You know, sometimes I just want things to be okay. Not perfect, that’s always a bit much to ask. I don’t even need things to be right. I’m a realist – maybe a bit too much of one for my own good, but somebody’s gotta be the voice of reason. No. I really just want, for once, things to not be crazy, not to go horribly wrong, not to end in a completely mystifying experience for everybody – I just want everything to be okay. I feel like this isn’t too much to ask.
But, apparently, it is.
1.03: Prometheus and the Hummingbird
The Hovertank Diaries, Episode 3:
The Hovertank Diaries
Season One
Episode Three: Prometheus and the Hummingbird
by Jeremiah Christie
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Prometheus and the Hummingbird
I’ve been a lot of strange places, but Quemado had its own special kind of strange. It was an old town, according to the history plaque in front of its town hall, founded nearly nine hundred years ago, before even the gold rushers – a white man’s town in a very Native land. The good times had come and gone, then come and gone a few more times, creeping like a sandy tide in and out of the tiny community. When they were expanding southward in the 2100s, the Hopi had declared the area sacred, moved into the area and built a walled market, or medina, and pueblos in the low hills. Gradual expansion, improved irrigation, and the discovery of tellurium in the hills had grown the two villages together over the centuries and now Quemado was a curious mix of adobe cubes and glass domes, home to over five thousand people. Talk about industry boom.
“Perfect place for a birthday party,” said Early as he stopped our hovertank at the top of an overlooking bluff. Quemado lay spread before us, a few stray bits of metal attempting to glint in the afternoon sun, the rocky hills rising beyond a greenish attempt at fields. “I could count the number of buildings down there on one hand. You think the whole town’s invited?”
1.02: Christening
The Hovertank Diaries, Episode 2
:
The Hovertank Diaries
Season One
Episode Two: Christening
by Jeremiah Christie
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Christening
It was dark, and the only thing I knew when I woke up on the cold metal floor was that there was no empty space in my bladder. My legs could move, so I moved them, slowly, and found that they were close to something that sounded like a glass bottle clattering to its side. I couldn’t tell for sure, but the dim blue glow of an instrument panel somewhere made it look an awful lot like I was inside a vehicle. A pretty big one.
My eyelids were still lead-heavy and I may have literally heard sleep calling me back. I shook my head a little and discovered I had a headache and felt rather nauseous. The word “champagne” struggled to associate itself with the glass bottle at my feet, and I struggled to ignore both the word and the bottle.
1.01: The Crime
The Hovertank Diaries, Episode 1:
The Hovertank Diaries
Season One
Episode One: The Crime
by Jeremiah Christie
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The Crime
This will be the story of how we saved the world. Of how we risked everything to defend the people we cared about, of how we brought together the people who would change the course of human civilization. Of how we did stuff that mattered. Because we’re noble and stuff. You know?
Okay, not really. It’s really just about how me and a few friends stole a hovertank, blew a lot of stuff up, and blasted our way out of town.
It’s also, of course, my written defense, so that at least my jury’ll get the story right.
Brennick was definitely the beginning of everything. Might as well start with that.
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We’ve all done bad things. Some of us have done really bad things. A select few of us have done truly terrible things, and Early and I could, perhaps, be counted among that number. Even if we were, though, I don’t honestly know what either of us could possibly have done to deserve being on the overnight train from Albuquerque to Vegas.
The soundtrack for The Hovertank Diaries’ Episode 3 - enjoy some mood music as you read.
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This soundtrack for the first episode of The Hovertank Diaries is here.
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It’s been far too long, but I’m back… with something new.
