On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Martin Bennett wrote:
He reached out nervously and flicked the switch. There was a high pitched
whine for a moment that eventually settled into a low hum. Gosunkugi frowned
for a moment as nothing happened. He reached over and turned a control knob.
The effect was instant, as pictures fell off his walls, his TV exploded and
the CD player lauched a disc viscously across the room at him. He immediately
switched the machine off and began to laugh.
Viscously? That wouldn't be much of a threat to him, since the
word implies a slow, oozing effect. But what the hey.
That day, Gosunkugi Hikaru took his machine to Furinkan High and, in the
midst of the martial arts battles, alien invasions, shady business deals
and other sundry forms of mayhem and confusion, he activated the most
successful melding of magic and technology the world had ever seen.
It worked perfectly... And no-one noticed...
Poor Gosunkugi...doomed to be a leaf in the forest.
SKJAM!