107: Time Wars #4: The Zenda Vendetta Simon Hawke

#4 Time Wars

Tags: The Year of Pain
Fourth in the new time travel adventure series!

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FancyShark

Falco will be played by Monica Bellucci in my brain until further notice

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Her Falcon Punch is a real motherfucker, you're gonna lose some stock if it hits you.

HeyitsTom

I dunno, I can't see her as a blonde

FancyShark

Oh, I'm ignoring that Falco's blonde

HeyitsTom

fair enough

gellaho

Line height randomly decides to change length while taking about zen physics

GDC

I know she's described as blond but she's Salma Hayek in my brain.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Specifically from the movie From Dusk Til Dawn.

HeyitsTom

I'll go with Marion Cotillard

FancyShark

"We call it zen physics because it's easier than explaining why we have a blood stain on the wall at the end of the time catapult runway"

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

I've gone with Peter O'Toole in a wig, givng the performance of a lifetime

Brendan

The trigger word is...COVFEFE

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

That sound of one hand clapping needs to be retired, the philosopher Bart Simpson solved it in the 90s.

gellaho

Simon gives five reasons why all these coincidences are fine

GDC

That list could use some line breaks

FancyShark

lol

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

So five coincidences is too many?

FancyShark

"This is fine. I resemble a king."

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

I dunno that seems like a coincidence.

Also some of these arent coincidences, if you have direct evidence two things are related its not a coincidence.

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Wait what's her Codename again?

gellaho

Finn's also supposed to be an insubordinate drunk, so giving him a bunch of monologs is an...interesting choice

FancyShark

We only have the one piece of paper, Sausage. We can't start the list over

HeyitsTom

only in the future

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Someone needs to send some white out to the futurepast.

gellaho

Simon will eventually learn to put down the thesaurus, but not yet

FancyShark

"I don't recall anyone mentioning feces, Finn"

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Theres no way Finn knows what "eschatological" means.

gellaho

He's still going to use tatterdemalion for a while

GDC

He heard someone say it once and inferred the wrong meaning

gellaho

Hey, look, the preview!

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Easy solution go rob Hawkins

gellaho

Meanwhile, back in Ruritania

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

I think this guy might be burly

HeyitsTom

oh she's wearing clothes, that seems out of character for her

gellaho

Pony tail

FancyShark

Drakov's bra chafed and he wondered if Falcon's was bothering her

gellaho

Two words

gellaho

He does have some pretty big tits from all those muscles

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Time steroids will do that to you.

HeyitsTom

I'm telling you guys he is kylo ren

gellaho

Luckily they've found a part of the castle nobody uses

gellaho

Very convenient

HeyitsTom

I thought it was going to say "with nothing but rats and silverfish to eat"

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

To be fair, nobody uses castles for much period so I'll let it slide.

gellaho

Listen, Simon doesn't need to know that Star Wars stole from him

FancyShark

They stumble on a dude in an iron mask and kick him out the door

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Such a fuckin bitch to heat a castle.

gellaho

Apparently the Star Trek people didn't pay him for one of his novels, so he doesn't need more of that

(as seen in The Ambivalent Magician, previous Book Cage)

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Boooo pay Simon for his novels, Star Trek.

HeyitsTom

PAY THOSE WRITERS

gellaho

Falco tries to get Drakov to fuck her in a torture device

FancyShark

@Rachel might be Wushu Satan ?

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Cmooooooooon Drakov, you're obviously bored.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

I mean its not like you have shit to do, why not rail your coworker on medieval torture equipment?

FancyShark

The silverfish can watch

Brendan

More like Adam Rider.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

She brought it up so you know shes DTF, consent obtained, lets fucking GOOOOOOOOO!

GDC

She's trying to trick him into trying the pear of agony

gellaho

And here's where we learn Drakov is Forrester's son

gellaho
Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Drakov needs an engraved invitation like a fussy bitch tho.

HeyitsTom

fuck's sake

too easy

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Dude the best way to get back at your dad? Banging his old girlfriend. Just saying.

gellaho

I've said it before, I'll say it again, Star Wars is not a bastion of original ideas

GDC

banging his old girlfriend in an iron maiden

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Banging his old girlfriend on a Catherine wheel.

gellaho
gellaho

He objected to that part. Too decadent

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

And you COULD be fucking, like a pair of deluded anarchists.

FancyShark

Parasites, because symbiosis wouldn't be discovered until a later book

HeyitsTom

how about just a handjob with the thumbscrews on

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Like just saying, anarchists fuck.

gellaho

Bobby Derringer, descendant of Rick

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

His gun is so tiny, the other guys in the Time Corps make fun of him all the time.

Offer to hold his purse while he shoots people.

HeyitsTom

surely they would just stop noticing each others' age

gellaho

Andre says bust out the trebuchets

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Okay say what you will about pampered Englishmen, they kill things real good. Usually their own men, but sometimes "a prissy dandy man" and "murderous fiend" live in the same skin.

gellaho

Ah, nepotism

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Nepotism still a thing in the future.

gellaho

But what of King Ralph?

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

King Ralph could fuck someone up if he had a mind to.

gellaho

Simon wants you to know what stand up he was listening to

Brendan

Is she his mom? Or is he just going to become eskimo buddies with his dad?

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

The future thinking comedians are philosophers bodes soooo poorly.

FancyShark

They still won't be able to tell what Dennis Miller is talking about

gellaho

The plan is put into effect, revealing that Simon Hawke knows even more types of pipes than in the last book

gellaho

Meerschaum

FancyShark

No no, comedians

HeyitsTom

oh sorry

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

God hes going to be like the fuckin Socrates of our time, isnt he?

FancyShark

He will if he drinks the hemlock

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Like we all hate him and want him to drink poison, but the future is gonna think hes the bees knees.

God I hate the future.

gellaho

I'm going to guess most people under 35 don't know who Dennis is, so you're fine

Brendan

The older I get the more I'm confident Socrates was Athens's Dinesh D'Souza.

gellaho

Anyway, Finn meets his twin, the King

Brendan

Sir, I am your son and/or alt-stream self.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

People said the same thing about Socrates, I imagine. At least Dennis Miller isnt out there corrupting the Athenian youth.

shaqtoberfest jakesy

, beb

HeyitsTom

maybe I'm the crazy one, but I don't think I would be so viscerally shocked by spotting someone who looks like me

I don't spend a lot of time looking at me

like if I ran into a stranger who looked exactly like my girlfriend that would be much weirder

gellaho

Anyway, they get drunk together

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

As you do when you find your doppelganger.

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Yeah that checks out

FancyShark

So Vertigo?

gellaho

Later, Drakov goes to murder the grandson of the famous time scientist

gellaho

He opines about it for a long time, which allows Simon to get his Russian heritage in there

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

I hate when my murderer gets wordy.

gellaho

I'm assuming these are the Russian archbishops from Psychodrome

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

God Russians aggrandizing their national pastime of depression is so tedious.

HeyitsTom

it's kinda overdone

gellaho

Well, at least the bad guy is the sad sack

HeyitsTom

hey Russia, have you tried water and exercise?

because that's usually it

FancyShark

Water is ice in Russia. Exercise is breathing the ice. All is snow.

gellaho

Well, looky here. Even though I read this I forgot what happened. Drakov gets surprised by somebody stalking him

gellaho

Granted, I read this over a year ago

shaqtoberfest jakesy

In Soviet Russia, water exercises you!

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

You'd think theyd choose to focus on the fact that Russia has the highest rate of entertaining madmen per capita of any country on earth.

gellaho

The next day, the King has the hangover of all hangovers

FancyShark

King got so blasted last night, you guys. It was wiiiiiiild

gellaho

Michael! Daaaaaaaaaaamn yoooooooooou!

FancyShark

Calm down. He took some tylenol with the booze. He's just gonna be out a while

gellaho

Submit to the barbering

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Its fine, just give that old dude a belt of vodka and he'll steady up nice.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

He's not slit a throat by accident for WEEKs, dont be a future wuss, Finn.

gellaho

So Finn becomes the King

FancyShark

Please. You expect us to believe Ruritania has something like hot water?

gellaho

And Falcon is described as a collabo between de Sade and Rasputin

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Hot.

The Badgers in the Discords

so covered in filth and blood, not all of it his their own?

gellaho

Hers, but yeah

GDC

The Rasputin comparison is mostly due to the beard.

gellaho

They've seen her naked, so they've seen it

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

I mean Rasputin had good taste, he was probably fucking the Tsarina after all.

HeyitsTom

"she wanted to fuck... for evil"

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO
MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

I chose wisely

gellaho

Anyway, Finn meets Flavia

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Falcon, is that a codename or something?

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Finn, you are going to rail that princess to keep time from going all wibbly, and you fuckin know it.

You try not to fuck every book, and it never works.

GDC

He's going to bang her so hard the prisoner of zenda becomes non fiction

FancyShark

Maybe that's part of his thing

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

I mean I get it, you dont wanna be some kind of Time Gigolo but still.

gellaho

Later, they meet a spry young cock

FancyShark

And they're coming full speed

The Badgers in the Discords

hahaha this is how all those fiction books they kept going to ended up in the timestream.

gellaho

Oh, oopsie doodle, somebody done stole the king

FancyShark

King's been sleep-slashing again

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Hey Sapt? Can we stop and talk about the old woman you keep tied up?

HeyitsTom

may have just been the barber though

shaqtoberfest jakesy

These things do be happening sometimes

gellaho

Meanwhile, it's revealed that Forrester almost killed his son

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Luckily he has a 5 star frontal crash safety rating

gellaho

They did, so if you insist

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

As always Andre has to do the wetwork while Finn is hobnobbing and balls deep in a princess.

gellaho

Oh, also, Derringer did get got by Drakov, so Forrester fucked everything up

gellaho

Didn't kill his evil son or save the kid

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Goddammit, some hot shit Time Commando Forrester turned out to be.

shaqtoberfest jakesy

One day before Time Retirement too

HeyitsTom

day late and a dollar short. For a time traveler that's the worst insult imaginable

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Getting too old for this shit

FancyShark

This will not be going in his Minus Time column

GDC

Pour one out for the Time Redshirt

gellaho

Forrester transports to where his son went and takes out an automatic turret

HeyitsTom

my baby just stood without holding on to anything for over 10 seconds 🥳

The Badgers in the Discords

THE POWER OF HAWKE!

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Look, sometimes you have to find solutions, sometimes you have to deal with problems. This is dealing with a problem.

gellaho

Excuse me, this is Derringer's shitty hotel room

GDC

Always open fire on chuffing

FancyShark

Damn spawn campers

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Isn't chuffing what the furries do

I want no part of this

gellaho

Forrester cries at the sight of un-drank alcohol

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Fuckin Torbjorn mains.

The Badgers in the Discords

don't we all

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Yup.

HeyitsTom

try being angry at the actual murderer but ok

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

its a Glenlivet too.

GDC

Glenlivet is non regulation, which specifies islays only

gellaho

Forrester remembers an old mission where his entire team ate it on entry and he crashed into a barn

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Its so sad when a good bottle of Scotch is orphaned.

FancyShark

Even though the barn was abandoned, a cloud of feathers and hay still shot out of every window when he crashed into it

gellaho

He meets a girl with a very real name via this barn destruction

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Every barn is chock full of the ghost memories of chicken shit and cow farts from ages past.

FancyShark

And since he did Vanna Drakova...

gellaho

And he told her everything about the future and fucked her because he's a total moron

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Vanna Drakova

Drakova where do I know that name

HeyitsTom

such a mystery

so many layers

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

God, Forrester, you fucked it as hard as anyone has ever fucked anything.

You broke Rule Number 1 of time travel, you never tell them you're from the future.

ESPECIALLY if you fuck them.

HeyitsTom

while fucking a paradox baby into them

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

You just say youre going out for cigarettes and vanish.

gellaho

It's unfortunate he was allergic to the male birth control pills

Brendan

I have read everything and my only takeaway is horny drunks yelling and sniping.

gellaho

Oh, and he was able to pass on his anti aging drugs via sperm

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

God damn magic sperm, always getting people into trouble

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Like you do

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Goddammit Forrester, you pretty much guaranteed youd knock someone up.

GDC

That's like 90 percent of literature.

FancyShark

Doesn't that mean the child would never grow?

Or even reach "child" stage?

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

This is why you should always do anal when you're time traveling.

HeyitsTom

ssshhh. Yes but sssssssshhhhhhh

also I just noticed it says there were "strict precautions" against this happening, but Forrester just never took any contraceptive and no one stopped him, so, like... not strict then

Brendan

If you get noodled into a singularity, you're less likely to notice when your timecraft falls into a black hole.

HeyitsTom

we got a writer in the house folks

gellaho

Later, Finn smokes Turkish cigarettes and thinks about B-girls. Whatever they are.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Forrester did the time traveller equivalent of "I dont use condoms because I dont like the feel."

FancyShark

🐝

Brendan

Can confirm am a horny screaming drunk.

shaqtoberfest jakesy

You find them on the Henny Penny Farmette

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

It's an older model of E-girl, but its still viable.

gellaho

NYYYYYYYYYSSSSSTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLL

FancyShark

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Hell yeah nysteel

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

You arent a proper sci fi author if you dont have a fake super metal your stuff is made of.

HeyitsTom

Lucas I know we're in the past but... please stop blackening your face

GDC

Nysteel is Hawke's mithril.

Or maybe adamantium

gellaho

Finn talks about how hot Falcon and the rest of the gang are

FancyShark

"He looks like he gives good hugs and enjoys crisp fall mornings"

HeyitsTom

???

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Lol charisma with a capital N for nasty

HeyitsTom

there's no N in charisma

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Finn doesnt know spelling or how that idiom works.

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Might be the funniest line ever written

HeyitsTom

what the fuck was that line

GDC

You know, Nharisma.

HeyitsTom

I refuse that

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

That line was Literature

GDC

That line was poetry

gellaho

Afterwards, Falcon gets naked

GDC

Again?

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Drakov is pissed

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

So mad at nudity, like it was nudity that killed his mother.

GDC

Falcon takes 20 minutes to remove her bustle

gellaho

The most sensual love is methodical love

HeyitsTom

this lovemaking is so incomprehensible, thought many people at some time in their lives

gellaho

I know, most of us are only naked once. When we're born

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Lovemaking with a capital R for Robotic

FancyShark

Sex so powerful, it makes you feel like you're going to die of natural causes

GDC

therearedozensofus.jpg

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

"She fucks so good I feel older now" Drakov thought to himself in a way that wasn't weird

GDC

That's either creepy or she's actually a succubus

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

All this is making me think Drakov isnt a good lay, and Falcon has tried to help him out a little with some tips.

HeyitsTom

the way this woman works my dick is beyond the reach of rational enquiry

GDC

Non-euclidean hand stuff

Brendan

She might just be a succubus.

shaqtoberfest jakesy

She gives types of jobs that haven't even been defined yet

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Like being told "Work the clit a little." pissed him off and now hes like "Waaaaha shes so cold and methodical!"

Brendan

Hey don't skip out on that full "Geriatric man makes love to a criminal" scene.

HeyitsTom

she can suck a man dry from around the corner

Brendan

D'oh

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Its not called a Glory Hole for nothing.

Brendan

Does the clit even exist in this time?

gellaho

Later, Finn thinks about Plastiskin

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

I think shes from the future so she probably has a four dimensional hyperclit.