Beyond Fortress Europa

Ok for once I will make a good suggestion.
How about if you had every 5 pages a kind of summary of the plot so far ?

 

That's a good idea, Ronald. I'll give it a try.

 

Thanks for the idea, Ronald. I'll summarize the story up to the current episode. It's a bit of a time-consuming task, though, so I'll do it in chunks. Once again, well done, you crazy clown.



Post#1: Brief introduction. Narrator is a police officer called Froydd, who had been told by his friend, a Dutchman to keep a journal of what is happening in FE (Fortress Europa).

Episode#1: The police station where Froydd works. Introduction to Roger, who always cuts and pastes things. Police are dispatched to arrest a couple who are smoking cigarettes, a serious crime. The Elders, Re-Education, and Mother Nature are referenced, but more explanations will follow at a later stage.

Episode#2: Froydd’s leather slippers which he inherited from his dad are illegal. We see an automated bathroom cubicle and how it works. Froydd had a dream, which he can’t remember. Dreams are frowned upon in FE. Froydd is interrupted by a call from work. Sergeant Rat tells him that he has been chosen for an undercover op leading to promotion. He has to see his boss, the sup.

Episode#3: Froydd takes a red shuttlebus to work. A dreaded blackuniform (Psychic Agent) is sitting at the front. The recording device of Froydd’s journal comes in the form of a gum, which the Dutchman sneaked in from Amsterdam. Cinemas were all closed down by the regime, and replaced with one channel monitors in public rail stations.

Episode#4: Police Stations are always chaotic on purpose to make it look like they are very busy. The sup is in a meeting. Froydd tries to peek in, and the door which has AI starts getting cheeky with him. He leaves and goes upstairs to join his pack (team) where we’re introduced to police officers Vixie and Ronald Macdonald.

Episode #5: Vixie is playing a game called ‘Hold My Nuts’ with the other police officers, including an officer called Naomi, who likes to throw things at people. Spoony, another police officer, always carries a spoon with him. Reports are coming in of various violent crimes, but nobody moves. As soon as an old lady parks illegally down the road, most of the station empties out as they scramble to arrest her. Three officers are left behind. There is a bit of a liaison between Froydd and Vixie, whose husband is Ronald and standing close by eating, as always. The sup’s AI Door passes by and starts making empty threats to Froydd. A report of a robot molester comes through. The three officers set off to nearby Lisson Grove.

 

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Episode#6: Psychic Agent Sentient is waiting for the police to arrive outside the house where the robot molester is. The psychic is communicating with Froydd via thought. Vixie, Froydd, and Ronald save the robot from getting killed, and arrest the robot molester. To his horror, Froydd discovers that Sentient knows his real name, which is Raysun.

Episode#7: The robot is taken away in an ambulance to a hospital. Raysun is concerned for her/it. Raysun walks into the house and finds Ronald defecating in it. They live and take the prisoner back to the police station

Episode#8: Raysun thinks about his dream again, but can't remember any of it. Instead of being greeted as heroes for catching the molester, all the kudos go to Naomi who caught the old granny who double parked in Oxford Street. Just as Raysun is about to step into the sup's office, the Econ Themnax walks in to the station. He is the ruler of Fortress Europa. Raysun suddenly remembers that he was in his dream.

Episode#9: As Econ, Themnax is a greenapron (politician). The Econ has his famous green cat with him. It scratches Spoony, and scarpers. The Econ has come to award a hero. The hero is Shaman Sun who saved a daffodil. He is a trainee who is locked up in a truncheon locker. Sergeant Rat sends Roger to release him. Themnax gives Shaman Sun a big emerald brooch, which is the equivalent of a crown. Suddenly whitecoats (medical staff/scientists) burst in and chase after Themnax. A whitecoat makes a quick reference to Dr. Hari and the Oriental robot then chases after the Econ, who is meant to be ill and they need to return him to hospital. Gaolers Dim and Wit tell the sup that the old lady who was arrested for double parking has escaped with the Econ and his green cat. The sup tells the gaolers to lock themselves up. The whitecoats confiscate the emerald from Shaman Sun's hand, who is locked back in the truncheon cupboard. Raysun is finally asked to go in the sup's ofice.

Episode#10: Raysun (Froydd) is told by the sup that Commissar Zola (the head of Police) was the person he had been in the meeting with earlier on. Raysun is told of his resemblance to Jeff Pushkin (a dead Psychic Protector hero). He will be imitating him to draw the enemy out. He is told he will have to report to Director Geller (who is the chief of the Psychic Police. Raysun catches the bus to get to the Embankment where the Psychic Academy has its premises.

 

wow I am a fan chapter 22 is intense. sensational even, I love the power of it

 

Thanks Ronald. When I said you had a key part in the story, I wasn't lying. Your advice was very helpful. I can't give too much away, but there's more to Ronald in the story than meets the eye

 

Good work scorpion - keep up the standard its true that last episode was the best you have ever written I think

 

overall the story line is great....
until now I enjoyed reading the story
@WhiteScorpion nice how you handle the characters chapter 22 seemed like a mix of scifi and mystery....

 

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hummmmmmm yah ! yep, hmmm ok
so wheres this all leading?

 

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Episode#11: Old people hanging around railway stations watching government broadcasts on giant monitors. Raysun goes to the Psychic Police Academy at the Embankment in Charing X.

Episode#12: Raysun meets Director Geller of the PP. Raysun is told that he will impersonate Protector Pushkin.

Episode#13: Raysun gets in a taxi to go to his new home. The driver is a Cockney Bubble with the registration Y0 R1K. Raysun gets a white knuckle ride and ends up getting ripped off in the process, too.

Episode#14: Raysun has to bargain with three awkward Scouseballs to get into Pushkin’s luxurious apartment in Waterloo.

Episode#15: Inside the apartment we are introduced to Pushkin’s household computer which thinks that Raysun is Pushkin.

 

Episode#16: Raysun wakes up after a good night’s sleep and dons Pushkin’s black uniform. Raysun discovers than even Pushkin had vices (he kept fresh apples). Sentient calls and asks Raysun to meet him in Regent’s Park.

Episode#17: Raysun uses his newly acquired PP status to scare the living wits of civilians on the bus. Regent’s Park is now a jungle. There, he finds a tiger which scares the daylights out of him.

Episode#18: The tiger assures Raysun that he is safe. Raysun continues to his meeting with Sentient. Raysun is told that he will be used as bait to uncover traitors to the system. Sentient tells Raysun that Geller has issued a mandate that forbids all Psychics from scanning him. Sentient breaks that rule and finds that the tiger communicated with Raysun. This shocks him. They are interrupted by an entire police procession heading to Marylebone. Raysun runs towards the scene, and Sentient follows.

Episode#19: In the house where the robot was molested in Lisson Grove, a biohazard is killing the police who have been summoned there. Raysun meets Protector Sith, who assumes he is Protector Pushkin. Enter Sentient who doesn’t get along with Sith and they start arguing because he is in her turf. Raysun sees his pack, Vixie, and Ronald and all the others prepare to enter the house of death.

Episode#20: The PP blackjackets are still arguing. Enter Amy PrOBe, a news reporter. Sith is alerted when she realizes that they are using Crimhold to sustain the biohazard. She reacts too late. The biohazard thrives on Crimhold. Raysun tries to save his pack from certain death. He lifts Vixie out into the street. Sentient tries to stop him. The house erupts and a giant monster appears. Raysun has a brief communication with it and sees the Dutchman’s face in its mouth, before the creature prepares to kill him. Just in time, Sith casts a Lev3 Shield. Raysun loses conscience.

 

Episode#21: Raysun wakes up in hospital. Ronald and Vixie are there to thank him for saving them. Enter Dr Hari with students who greets Raysun. Raysun is unable to speak. The doctor suggests his own invention chromatherapy. Raysun finds that the Oriental robot is in the same hospital as him.

Episode#22: Sentient visits Raysun in hospital. Finds that he communicated with the creature. He is fuming. Tells Raysun that only redrobes have the ability to address nature, and even they don’t have the power to communicate with plants and animals. Sentient doesn’t say why he and Sith don’t get along. Sentient tell Raysun the creature has died. As Sentient leaves the ward he sends Raysun a mental picture of the Oriental robot.

Episode#23: Raysun is dragged and rushed in the middle of the night, deep down underground to Dr Hari’s laboratory.

Episode #24: Hari explains the basics of the machine and his method. Raysun is strapped into the machine.

Episode#25: The machine unlocks Raysun’s recent fear, which was a nightmare he was blocking out of his mind. The orange booth creates an illusion. He see the tiger chasing him, and a red slim woman wearing tight leathers run past him. He follows and tries to catch up with Sentient’s train. The tiger leaps over him and Raysun screams till he’s awake. He see the elite in the audience: all the different colour Elders. Dr. Hari announces that the machine holds the future of population control as you manipulate and reshape their ideal to whatever you want. Hari assures everyone that Raysun will not be taking anything away. In the meantime, Cecilia Adams asks if he will remember anything, and Dr Hari assures her not. They didn’t know that he was chewing memory gum which records everything.

 

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Sorry, Nacht, I was posting the latest episode of the forum's science-fiction saga there so forgive me for not responding earlier to your post.

I am also a fan of Doctor Who. My favourite episodes were the ones with Tom Baker as the Doctor.

I noticed that Muller Rice would like to get together with another writer to make some story about the daleks. Even if you haven't written much before, perhaps there is a writer inside you and you don't realize it.

Why don't you give it a try and work together? Maybe you can make her feel less gloomy.

 

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