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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Brendan

I thought women didn't evolve one until 1972, and then moved past needing it in the Frottage Wars of 2069.

GDC

The clitoris is now fictional because of the time wars.

FancyShark

It does, but the female orgasm is still in the alpha build

shaqtoberfest jakesy

It's as real now as it was then

In that it's not

HeyitsTom

you posted that question and immediately the bottom of the discord changed to "several people are typing..." the timing was very funny

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Explains why Drakov cant find it.

GDC

Plastiskin is no nyskin.

HeyitsTom

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Plasteel

gellaho

Finn conspires to fuck Flavia

GDC

Regardless, ny- is the superior prefix.

FancyShark

"Make love? Hell no. I said dick down."

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

"You realize you're not supposed to actually like.....physically make love to her, right? Right, weird foreign dude?"

gellaho

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasteel

HeyitsTom

I certainly didn't realize that

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Gurgel lol

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

"No, hold up, we need to make this clear that we just want you to like.......be nice and romantic to her in public and explicitly NOT have carnal knowledge of the kings wife."

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

"You're using 'make love' in our timey definition, meaning to converse with a potential romantic partner, because we are old timey, right?"

"Sure."

FancyShark

With how often Finn gets laid, it's possible the time agency only exists to send his dick to key people in history

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

"For the love of GOD man, buckle your belt back up!"

shaqtoberfest jakesy

If only he were just a spanko, we wouldn't have to worry about all these paradox babies

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

What a haunting combination of words

HeyitsTom

unless he is that rumored beast known as The Switch

gellaho

In the middle of this, Finn may have also fallen in love with an old man

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

That'll happen with time travel.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Normal soldiers romance, happens all the time.

shaqtoberfest jakesy

The dongue wants what the dongue wants

FancyShark

And thus did Hawke invent slashfic

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

One minute you set out to kill Hitler, the next, well, you're elbow deep in Einstein

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Either way, you had to be in Germany

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

And regretting signing Einsteins homemade prenup where you cant talk to him.

gellaho

Drakov calls Simon on his bullshit

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

C'est la vie. Or as Einstein said, gutentag

gellaho

Dracula will show up in the eighth book, along with Sherlock Holmes, who has been mentioned twice in this book

shaqtoberfest jakesy

Unlike Dracula though, Dracov just sucks

HeyitsTom

I did clock a reference to the Strand magazine at the start

FancyShark

<snort> Um, Dracula was the monster

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Good old Dracula, you never go wrong with a Dracula.

gellaho

We get a lot about Drakov's backstory, which is unimportant. Except when he meets Falcon

Brendan

How many books titled Dracula's Monster are on Amazon right now?

GDC

And how many of them are smut?

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

"penetrating his defences" is code for "she done pegged him."

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

"A truth not even he himself knew." That he couldn't fuck for shit

gellaho

And how many tall men tall are they?

GDC

Metric or imperial?

FancyShark

Couldn't find any with the title, but

HeyitsTom

Cuckolded by Dracula

https://www.amazon.com/Cuckolded-Dracula-Monster-Cuckolds-Book-ebook/dp/B0BHZVGZD1/ref=sr_1_9?crid=114B1QZCF63ZZ&keywords=dracula's+monster&qid=1697845028&sprefix=dracula's+monster%2Caps%2C303&sr=8-9

GDC

The Nut Of The Vampire

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Isn't that just the original?

HeyitsTom

haha look at the guy they chose for the cover art

HeyitsTom

that's supposed to be dracula AND the guy fucking your wife

looks like the 2nd friend from Kick Ass

Brendan

Dracula, the king bull from the Continent.

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

He does looks like a guy who would say 'i'm going to sell pictures of myself in a dracula cape on shutterstock, in case anyone wants a piece of this'

HeyitsTom

very true

gellaho

Falcon is fucking one of Michael's henchmen, which might come up. I honestly don't remember

FancyShark

LIIIIIIIIIIPS

GDC

"Hang Michael!"

"Trust me, he's already hung."

HeyitsTom

yeah, that dumb old guy didn't know the difference between a saber and a foil

what a loser right guys

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Exactly

Unlike us cool guys who know

FancyShark

R-right

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

That a saber is a slashing weapon with a singular cutting edge

HeyitsTom

whereas a foil will keep chicken fresh in the fridge

gellaho

Apparently her plan is the equivalent of the atomic bomb

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Where as a foil is much thinner and is blunt at both the edge and the tip

gellaho

Maybe that's how they do it in Ruritania

HeyitsTom

oh I forgot about the silly place name

FancyShark

"She would let him live with the knowledge he had killed his own son. Either way, he would die."

HeyitsTom

living is the truest death of all

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Her plan is the inexorable march of death

This is a worse plan than the dim-mak

gellaho

Later, Finn engages in some uncomfortable foreplay

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

I feel like a dude who rescued Mussolini and got a medal from Otto Skorzeny isnt going to care that he killed his illegal time spawn.

FancyShark

"Sure is weird how kings marry children, isn't it? This doing anything for ya?"

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

"You look like youre not too old, very breedable." isnt the compliment Finn thinks it is.

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

"I had wondered if you had come to speak of potential child brides."

gellaho

Like you wouldn't accept a medal from Genghis Khan

HeyitsTom

was that flirting?

or was he failing at something else?

FancyShark

It can be both

gellaho

Flavia notices that he's taller

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Yeah because Ghengis Khan got mad pussy and smashing the Jurchen empire is cool.

FancyShark

"Yeah, but I totally plateaued on the quads, brah"

HeyitsTom

I like that this woman is completely immune to his lame attempt at gaslighting

GDC

'no baby I swear I didn't grow up in a time of caloric over abundance'

gellaho

Later, Finn laments the lack of regal cheeseburgers

FancyShark

To cheer himself up, Finn ordered a peasant's house burned

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Find didn't realize that he could absolutely get ground beef and a frying pan

gellaho

Simon Hawke takes a second to shit on the British Monarchy

gellaho
Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Bro its not like you're in the fuckin Danelaw, youre in the 1800s The burger was invented in 1880, my dude.

HeyitsTom

and it also occurs to me that SURELY they had beer

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Late 1880s? Probably more beer than drinking water

HeyitsTom

wow real hot take on the royals

never heard such insight before

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

And like really good beer. Secret recipe made by monks beer

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Also, the British royals do plenty, like siphon money from the public, own land and wealth, and influence laws illegally, SIMON.

Brendan

I have some terrible news about that.

Brendan

In Ruritania they're called Royales Avec Fromage.

HeyitsTom

made by monks who live ion nothing but beer while they're fasting

Brendan

GOOD.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

The Song dynasty sucked anyway.

HeyitsTom

you know they put their entire soul into that recipe

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Damn right they did, in that part of europe it was a way of showing devotion to god

Literally the best time and possibly best place for beer

HeyitsTom

we're really nailing Hawke to the wall on this one

he's gonna be finished in this business

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Finn is used to fuckin moon beer or whatever.

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

It's such a stupid omission

gellaho

After the dinner, Michael has a strong reaction to Falcon verbally tussling with Finn

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

If you spend like 5 seconds looking into the history of Austria of this time you learn about beer

FancyShark

Finn realizes his mistake, orders a Bud American Ale, and is executed

HeyitsTom

haha yeah it's a pretty silly mistake

@gellaho do you ever get surprised by which parts of the story we fixate on?

FancyShark

Michael probably not going to be a good guy at this point

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

I was really pinning my hopes on him

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

No wonder Mike isnt king, he doesnt know how to treat a lady.

gellaho

Never!

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

And bud, if you wanna whip sluts, that's fine. You just have to ask, and maybe find the right slut.

HeyitsTom

oh Michael went full Billy Zane

GDC

Sophia is anything but a common slut

FancyShark
gellaho

Sometimes. For example, when we read a book about terribly horny teenage superheroes and people thought it was religious because demons were in it

But most of the time I'm busy, you know, reading

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

A what about what?

HeyitsTom

man I wish I'd joined the discord sooner

gellaho

Meanwhile, here's Simon Hawke and George RR Martin

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Never give up the hat style, George

HeyitsTom

oh really? ha that's cool

gellaho

Simon carried George down a mountain and saved his life

gellaho

Based on the torture thing earlier, you'd think she'd be into it

But, instead she beats his ass

FancyShark

hahaha, holy shit, she destroyed him

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

hahahahah get wrecked, dipshit.

HeyitsTom

I've forgotten who Michael is

but yeah he got owned

gellaho

Meanwhile, the other main characters are working on saving the king

FancyShark

You dopes. It's "God Save the King", not "Time Cops Save the King"

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Oh right the king

gellaho

Also, nysteel

FancyShark

Admittedly, the time cops version would whip ass

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Timecop could use more sequels.....

gellaho

The Australian crawl and have your balls fall off

FancyShark

Must be future slang

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

You could just bring a cannon and blow a hole in the wall.

HeyitsTom

I don't know what the fuck the australian crawl is

GDC

Australian crawl is slang for tea bagging an orb weaver nest

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

They call that a "goodonya" down there

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Like......its a castle, cannons are kind of the castles natural predator.

gellaho

Microorganism fisherman

HeyitsTom

it's just a type of front-crawl swim apparently

shockingly, we don't call it that

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Someone goes rowing in a moat when they have a secret escape route that leads from the dungeons to the moat to the river, duuuuuuuuuh

gellaho

As Americans, we have the right to forget Australia exists

They aren't our criminals, after all

HeyitsTom

ok wait so these guys are suspicious of future weapons in the air and genetically engineered death organisms in the water, but the boat should be perfectly safe?

gellaho

Andre decides to steal a child's boat

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

No one's ever been betrayed by a boat

OH NO BOAT BETRAYAL

FancyShark

BOATRAYAL

HeyitsTom

I'm just saying if I was using the technology of the future to put flesh eating bacteria in a castle moat, I'd make it work on wood as well

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

hahahaha Andre cant be the lightest by that much, she's tall and burly enough to fight in hand to hand combat.

HeyitsTom

this waif here?

gellaho

I think you've forgotten how small her breasts are

I understand, this is the first time Simon hasn't mentioned it

Anyway, she lasers a hole and eavesdrops on Detchard

gellaho

Detchard feels like a slur that's yet to be invented

HeyitsTom

she just put her hand in the water

that's the whole thing they're avoiding

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Its what Ruritanians call people from the southern city of Townburg.

HeyitsTom

I said the same thing about spanko

FancyShark

"Behold your path to heaven" is too clunky to ever work as a threat

gellaho

Andre considers about how she would quickly dispose of a king

FancyShark

She's inventing those "Save the King" mobile games centuries before their time

gellaho

Unfortunately, she didn't notice the guy on the balcony

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

The king is being a real wuss, blubbing in his dungeon.

Cmon Andre, this castle shit is supposed to be your wheelhouse.

gellaho

And she, like Raven before her, has been penetrated by nysteel

HeyitsTom

oh that's unkind

gellaho

Just kidding, of course Steele had a human penis capable of fathering children

And that's a joke for everyone that was here for Steele

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Damn, it takes some power to harpoon a person, reel them in AND not have the barb tear out during what has to be quite a distance.

gellaho

So Lucas not feeling great about how it's going

HeyitsTom

luckily she is a tiny petite slip of a girl

FancyShark

Forrester's bedside manner needs work

Brendan

God, this is such smooth sailing in light of recent books.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Also how did you goobers not have a rifle on the turret already?

Brendan

Hawke remains king.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Like you were supposed to probably provide like cover or something?

HeyitsTom

yeah this is silly, but it's a breeze compared to the book cages I've seen so far

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Sometimes the turret is just to set a mood

gellaho

Lucas then tells Forrester he's a coward for not killing his son

FancyShark

That escalated fast

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Yeah but you have too much bitch in you to kill your son, Major Dissapointment As A Father.

gellaho

Hawke is the Patron Saint, John Jakes is King

It should probably be the opposite because John Jakes is dead, but that's what I decided

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Forrester joins the Dads Who Should Have club with dads like G Gordon Liddys dad, and Stalin's dad.

FancyShark

And the papa bear of the Charmin family

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Its a big club.

FancyShark

HE KNOWS WHY

gellaho

What's beyond tough love? Rough love?

FancyShark

Now I'm picturing Lucas as Oliver Hardy going "Another fine mess your penis has gotten us in"

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

"Just like that time you rescued Mussolini."

gellaho

Anyway, Hentzau is really into Falcon beating that guy to a pulp

FancyShark

Who wouldn't be?

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

We all stan a fighting queen.

Brendan

What year is this?

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

If she wasnt trying to like.......unmake reality shed be pretty cool.

1890something

HeyitsTom

she may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, etc etc

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

1891

Dracula is in 6 years

gellaho

Falcon has assumed the tough girl person, one of Simon's types

Brendan

Reality has it coming.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Enough time for Finn to have gotten a burger if he wasnt a dipshit.

gellaho

Then she manages to open up both that guy's cheeks

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

It does but reality is where all my stuff is, and I like my stuff.

FancyShark

"You know how I got these scars? Because it was fucking awesome"

gellaho

The book is 1985, or 5BS, aka Before Steele

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

2023, and we arent happy about it.

gellaho

Bersonin tries to give up, to no avail

FancyShark

Hell. Yes.

GDC

Such a baller finishing move.

gellaho

Oh, Simon, you spoil me

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

"Oh no, you've killed me." he said

GDC

Big tiddy Satan

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Satan does sometimes have some sweet titties.

Ive read Devilman before.

Brendan

Short shrift to actual Satan's rocking tits, boo.

shaqtoberfest jakesy

The ultimate big titty goth gf

FancyShark

Hentzau is zeroed in on them thangs

gellaho

Meanwhile, Finn successfully courts Flavia

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Oh right Finn exists

Brendan

Kinda sweet.

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Flavia Flav is gonna be so confused when her husband goes back to ignoring her in like a week.

FancyShark

"You really seem like a different person. You burst into tears whenever you glance at Hamburg on the map"

gellaho

Andre meets Drakov

FancyShark

Wait, when did Byron live? How would Cross know what Byronic was?

gellaho

She has a psychocybernetic implant that gave her centuries of information, don't worry about it

HeyitsTom

also the tardis is translating

Brendan

Yeah, but not as confused as realizing she's in love with her rapist by deception.

gellaho

Drakov tries the "we aren't so different, you and I," but and Andre tells him to fuck off

FancyShark

Andre continues to rule

gellaho

Wakka wakka

HeyitsTom

"murderer, guy who tries to stop a murderer, there's no difference!"

FancyShark

Not "know" in the biblical sense, right?

Right?

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Answering that would kill the suspense

FancyShark

She's right that he is an actual bastard

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Forrester IS burly.

gellaho

This isn't a Borodini situation, no

Meanwhile, here comes the ostensible main character Lucas Priest

MUCH MORE PENETRATION VELO

Who

FancyShark

haha, wait, since when?

gellaho

Who, in Simon Hawke fashion, has gotten about fifteen pages in this book

Brendan

My heart is bound in a web of nysteel.

gellaho

He was in the first book, then Simon got bored

It's what happens in every non-Steele series

FancyShark

That is so Simon

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Lucas is the MC? For the life of me I thought it was Finn, he gets all the hot ladies.

gellaho

Finn definitely became the main character in book three, Andre was in Book 2

Usually it takes at least three books, but Lucas Priest is barely a character

FancyShark

I appreciate how Hawke agrees that the main character is always the least interesting in an ensemble

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Andre could stand to be the main character more tbh

gellaho

If you couldn't tell from his name

It might as well be Judas Priest

gellaho

Meanwhile, Forrester teleports in to meet his son with a gas suicide vest

FancyShark

Lacks the quiet dignity of the fart cannon

HeyitsTom

oh his plan is to get the villain monologing

FancyShark

That's a joke to get you all to listen to the Hardy Boys audiobooks you haven't heard yet

Brendan

/giphy lucas lid off

gellaho

Falcon kills a bunch of rats

Puppet Partisan FlippantSausage

Suicide gassing your son is a pretty Shakespearean way to resolve conflicts.

Brendan

da fuq I don't have giphy anymore

gellaho

The only Book Cage I've done while watching a football game with my dad

gellaho

Most people don't know he invented mustard gas

FancyShark

The Tempest was weird

Brendan

Really not looking forward to this deployment next week.