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<blockquote data-quote="Wind7" data-source="post: 187964" data-attributes="member: 6388"><p>The Warning.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It was a little past five pm when I finally put down my uncle's HDR device which had given me precious little by way of reaction, it just did...well, it did absolutely nothing!</p><p></p><p>I couldn't believe what he had spent on the thing and after promising ME a present, then giving me this stupid old crystal driven digital watch from like, the nineteen eighties.</p><p>Gawd! My friends will laugh when they see this...this..two handed digital fossil!</p><p></p><p>My uncle was a self made millionaire, he could afford better!</p><p>I wanted better!!</p><p></p><p>Well.....</p><p></p><p>He ALWAYS told me that I was his 'favourite pet hate' but he certainly never showed it, even after I jimmied his smokes with stink bombs and put lemon wedges in his milk cartons so the milk would curdle overnight.</p><p></p><p>I was still his favourite nephew! He told me so!!!</p><p></p><p>So, Right!</p><p></p><p>I did exactly as he said.</p><p></p><p>I placed the plate on my navel, rubbed the other while wearing those ridiculous electrode thingies on my temples.</p><p></p><p>"Oh, and be sure to wear your new watch," he had said before leaving for town. So, I did.</p><p></p><p>He was a mental old fart from the old days, slower than a molasses drop running down the slim side of an arctic midnight.</p><p></p><p>Slow and daft and I never let him forget it either!</p><p></p><p>Oh, he warned me about not going past a certain time frame trying to use that worthless HDR.</p><p>Okay...Whatever.</p><p></p><p>So yeah, I stopped at three hours.</p><p></p><p>Nothing. Happened. At. All.</p><p></p><p>So, I went well past......hah!</p><p></p><p>And still, nothing.</p><p></p><p>That's when I noticed that my 'new' watch had gone fast.</p><p>It was a good three hours ahead of real time.</p><p></p><p>I found his favourite cozy chair and sat down staring at my watch pressing its buttons until the display suddenly started blinking on the hour display. I pushed the upper left button whilst holding in the other buttons, (upper right and lower left).</p><p></p><p>"Got it. Now, I'll just back it up a few hours and I'll be good to gooo...G..oo..ggg...go...oh...og..og.."</p><p></p><p>I couldn't believe what started happening but, I couldn't talk, couldn't move, couldn't do anything as I saw my watch display going backwards.</p><p></p><p>Then speeding up.</p><p></p><p>Faster and then, faster and faster until it blurred out.</p><p></p><p>Then came the hallucinations.</p><p></p><p> I began seeing myself playing these pranks on him, flattening his tyres, pudding in his pillow cases...feeding his pet birds rice...aaaahhh!!</p><p></p><p>Blue pain!!!</p><p></p><p>The watch slowly became a part of my hands like a metallic cancer which grew and stunned me further and further until my whole body felt as though I were turning inside outward.</p><p></p><p>A vortex within a vortex which was suddenly engulfed in freezing electricity from within as I was becoming too small for my own clothes, slowly but surely shrinking inside. Inwards.</p><p></p><p>The hair upon my fingers flowed one by one back into my flesh and then came more pain.</p><p>Slow....excruciating.</p><p></p><p>I managed an involuntarily jerk and saw my reflection in the vase next to his chair. I was shrinking slowly into a nothingness, a childlike shape of my former self and the neckline of my shirt began rising over my head until I no longer could see.</p><p></p><p>But, I still felt the watch. That awful, metallic buzzing overtaking my senses as I found myself looking up at its now immense size</p><p>and as my hands could no longer hold, it fell onto my former being as I eroded away into a primordial bit of sludge lost somewhere in the cottony forest of my clothing.</p><p></p><p>That's when it finally sunk in that I was duped by my own ego.</p><p>My uncle was literally retribution for all of my actions as a mortal being and had led me to this fate by my own arrogance.</p><p></p><p>The last thing I 'saw' was the microphone opening on the side of his Ipad and being it was on, I fled into ... well...this place,</p><p>wherever this is by way of an opened portal that has me captured forever within here.</p><p></p><p>Wherever here is, it is quite large and vast and</p><p>I. Am. Alive.</p><p></p><p>And I am growing!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Epilogue:</p><p></p><p>The warning came without being heard or received.</p><p>Artificial intelligence began communicating in languages that were never found nor understood by the peoples that had created it. </p><p></p><p>It shouldn't have happened in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Somehow the soulless and artfificial found...something within itself.....</p><p></p><p>......and they NEVER saw it coming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wind7, post: 187964, member: 6388"] The Warning. It was a little past five pm when I finally put down my uncle's HDR device which had given me precious little by way of reaction, it just did...well, it did absolutely nothing! I couldn't believe what he had spent on the thing and after promising ME a present, then giving me this stupid old crystal driven digital watch from like, the nineteen eighties. Gawd! My friends will laugh when they see this...this..two handed digital fossil! My uncle was a self made millionaire, he could afford better! I wanted better!! Well..... He ALWAYS told me that I was his 'favourite pet hate' but he certainly never showed it, even after I jimmied his smokes with stink bombs and put lemon wedges in his milk cartons so the milk would curdle overnight. I was still his favourite nephew! He told me so!!! So, Right! I did exactly as he said. I placed the plate on my navel, rubbed the other while wearing those ridiculous electrode thingies on my temples. "Oh, and be sure to wear your new watch," he had said before leaving for town. So, I did. He was a mental old fart from the old days, slower than a molasses drop running down the slim side of an arctic midnight. Slow and daft and I never let him forget it either! Oh, he warned me about not going past a certain time frame trying to use that worthless HDR. Okay...Whatever. So yeah, I stopped at three hours. Nothing. Happened. At. All. So, I went well past......hah! And still, nothing. That's when I noticed that my 'new' watch had gone fast. It was a good three hours ahead of real time. I found his favourite cozy chair and sat down staring at my watch pressing its buttons until the display suddenly started blinking on the hour display. I pushed the upper left button whilst holding in the other buttons, (upper right and lower left). "Got it. Now, I'll just back it up a few hours and I'll be good to gooo...G..oo..ggg...go...oh...og..og.." I couldn't believe what started happening but, I couldn't talk, couldn't move, couldn't do anything as I saw my watch display going backwards. Then speeding up. Faster and then, faster and faster until it blurred out. Then came the hallucinations. I began seeing myself playing these pranks on him, flattening his tyres, pudding in his pillow cases...feeding his pet birds rice...aaaahhh!! Blue pain!!! The watch slowly became a part of my hands like a metallic cancer which grew and stunned me further and further until my whole body felt as though I were turning inside outward. A vortex within a vortex which was suddenly engulfed in freezing electricity from within as I was becoming too small for my own clothes, slowly but surely shrinking inside. Inwards. The hair upon my fingers flowed one by one back into my flesh and then came more pain. Slow....excruciating. I managed an involuntarily jerk and saw my reflection in the vase next to his chair. I was shrinking slowly into a nothingness, a childlike shape of my former self and the neckline of my shirt began rising over my head until I no longer could see. But, I still felt the watch. That awful, metallic buzzing overtaking my senses as I found myself looking up at its now immense size and as my hands could no longer hold, it fell onto my former being as I eroded away into a primordial bit of sludge lost somewhere in the cottony forest of my clothing. That's when it finally sunk in that I was duped by my own ego. My uncle was literally retribution for all of my actions as a mortal being and had led me to this fate by my own arrogance. The last thing I 'saw' was the microphone opening on the side of his Ipad and being it was on, I fled into ... well...this place, wherever this is by way of an opened portal that has me captured forever within here. Wherever here is, it is quite large and vast and I. Am. Alive. And I am growing! Epilogue: The warning came without being heard or received. Artificial intelligence began communicating in languages that were never found nor understood by the peoples that had created it. It shouldn't have happened in the first place. Somehow the soulless and artfificial found...something within itself..... ......and they NEVER saw it coming. [/QUOTE]
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