Lines starting with <name> or * name are snippets of IRC. (IRC is Internet
Relay Chat in this context. I don't know if there is an anime with the
same abbreviation)
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Usagi sat at her computer, typing furiously:
<Lock-Yah> i'm telling you, sailor vi isn't real!
<MoonGirl> yes she is! sailor vi rules! havn't you read her manga, she is
so cool, she has to be real!
* dwarfguy shakes his head and hands moongirl some good DC comics
All of her friends thought her fascination with the courageous
Sailor vi was silly. She couldn't possibly be real. Her thoughts interrupted
by a scratching sound at her window, she looked up, and exclaimed aloud,
"Hey! You're that funny yellow rat I saved earlier today!"
Usagi pulled the window open to bring the poor little rat in, it
must be freezing cold outside. Setting the poor little rat on her desk,
Usagi turned back to her IRC session before she missed too much.
"Usagi!"
Whipping her head towards her door, Usagi's pony-tails flew across
her desk at nearly supersonic speeds. When she didn't see her mother at the
door telling her to stop spending time on that damn computer, she returned
her focus to the computer.
<Bwee> mooooongiirrrrrrrlllllllll? where are you?
<MoonGirl> sorry bwee, i thought i heard my mom calling for me.
<utensil> you guys heard about the hardware sale over at the osa-p, right?
50% off on SDRAM!
<MoonGirl> like you need anymore ram, utensil.
<utensil> yeah well, but you never know!
"I was calling you Usagi, now pick me up off the floor!"
This time, Usagi nearly jumped out of her chair. The yellow rat had
talked!
"Ha-ha-how can you talk?"
"I am a magical yellow rat, my name is PICO-chu. And you are the
slightly pale, homely looking Sailor for love, justice and UNIX, Sailor
IRC!"
"Yeah right. Next thing you'll be telling me is that I'll finally
get a chance to kick that peer guy's ass."
"You mean you have heard of the Peer Kingdom? They must be spreading
even faster than I thought!"
"Come on Sailor IRC, the evil Peer Kingdom has already sent one of
its evil Clonebots to attack Tokyo! You must transform and protect the
innocents and their computers."
"Alright, alright, how do I do it?"
PICO-chu promptly began to crackle with static electricty before he
performed a quick backflip, at the height of the arc, a small brooch was
produced. "Here, take this brooch, and say, `IRC prism power, Make Up!'."
"Hmm. Okay."
"IRC Prism Power, MAKE UP!"
At that, Usagi began to spin about the room as cheaply rendered 3D
graphics and objects flew about like a screensaver gone bad.
In the end, Sailor IRC stood clad in her fuku with white bodysuit,
blue skirt, red shoes, and 30 pin SIMMs dangling from her ear lobes.
"Now quickly Sailor IRC, go, stop the evil Queen Lag's clone bots!"
* MoonGirl is away - saving the world from evil - messages will be logged.
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This is what happens when you spend way too much time on IRC. One
guy changes his nick to "pico-chu", mentioned "vi-char" and wants to come
up with a Pokemon name to mix with 'emacs'. (All three of those are text
editors in UNIX, btw) I get this crazy idea to mix Sailor Moon with IRC,
and, um, this is the result. If you don't know about IRC (and some UNIX)
then you probably completely missed most of the jokes. Oh well. Sorry.
All the "peer" stuff is a reference to one of the common quit
messages when people on IRC are disconnected, "Connection reset by peer".
Frequently people new to IRC believe "peer" to be an actual person.
(I have started working on chapter 4 of Child of Love, Children of
Hate, by the by. I'm not sure when I'll have it done by, though. Don't
forget, the URL for it is: http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kominek/fanfiction/ )
- Jay Kominek <jay.kominek@colorado.edu>
Waiting Is.