133: Through the Reality Warp Donald J. Pfeil

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Billiard was doomed if he took the assignment, and his world was doomed if he didn't. But what choice did he have?

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Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Also again SHE GAVE HIM FEEEEEEELIIIIIIIINGS! LMAO!

Tom, Wizard Columbo

"I am now in love with you"

Rachel, Grand Inquisitor

in reality we want to do it ourselves

Rachel, Grand Inquisitor

what a beta cuck

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Totally soy.

Velo

You should strangle him

Delta is just axing questions

@Velo for the record reacher usually fucks in each book too. Usually not his boss though.

Velo

I know it's late but her name is Santha

Tom, Wizard Columbo

I can't wait for her to die in battle and him to go on a powerful manly rampage

Rachel, Grand Inquisitor

Ewww

FancyShark

So brave of the author to devote as much time to a romantic relationship as to the lustful description of a man shooting a gun

Velo

Non-sexually

Delta is just axing questions

I knew i was doing something right. Ladies

Rachel, Grand Inquisitor

Still a little ew

gellaho

Anyway, turns out the revolutionaries are already great at this and don't need any training, so why was Billiard hired?

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

Goldaper was going to explain- oh

Velo

"Why are we here?" is a real existential question to bring up this late in the book

FancyShark

Great job, author! The audience will never suspect you wanted to skip ahead!

Fucking asshole

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

So basically all the easy shit you can learn in two weeks.

Like literally, tactics can be explained in a lazy afternoon with some diagrams.

gellaho

And now, Billiard has his own secret spies. Yay!

Velo

The audience will never suspect you were an author at this rate

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

I also thought this was supposed to be like them doing a coup? Why do they need to do raiding?

FancyShark

Hey, author? This shit is what you write when you're giving the backstory on a new secondary character, not the main narrative.

gellaho

Billiard is going to show god just how hard he can fuck this universe

Tom, Wizard Columbo

Gotta put something in the book

Rachel, Grand Inquisitor

Nah writing is hard, just exposit. Tell, dont show.

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

I would send a time machine back loaded with Dan Abnett and Battletech books for this fucker.

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

2.8

FancyShark

If they're not as long as a tall man is tall, then Weber is a fraud

Tom, Wizard Columbo

Oh no, this universe doesn't know about Jesus!

Rachel, Grand Inquisitor

The spaceship was as long as a long ship was long

Velo

Are you suggesting this book is bad?

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

Size is relative between universes but time is a hard absolute

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

I wouldn't give it a 2.8

Rachel, Grand Inquisitor

You have to wonder if Lori is even worth it.

FancyShark

For perspective, Headcrash averaged something like 3.7 on Goodreads

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

One has to assume Headcrash is popular with the old and the brain injured.

Or the terminally unfunny.

FancyShark

Can confirm. The people giving it four and five stars praised it like it was the peak of literature

Tom, Wizard Columbo

Out of 5???

gellaho

They go on a bombing raid to a half-amphibian planet

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

Headcrash had that "tell it like it is" douchery that was popular in the 90's

FancyShark

It's not easy being Marine

gellaho

Leaving does not go well

FancyShark

Yes!

Exclamation points!

They definitely belong in a 3rd person omniscient writing!

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Good, shoot down this fuckhead and let him die, so we can get a good protagonist.

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard
gellaho

And now: a massage

FancyShark

A few minutes of sensual massage. Alone.

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

"Its totally not me jerking it in the wreckage happy to be alive, you guys."

gellaho

That is quite a bit of luck

FancyShark

Fuck you, author

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

Then he finds a pantsless lady and poses for the cover quick

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Ohhhhhhhhh this is going to be the whole book, huh? Him getting off this Space Vietnam With Frog Men?

FancyShark

He has a universe to push. We can't waste time here.

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Cool, id hate it but I assume Frank Frazetta got paid.

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

That is how frogs do it

gellaho

Not as great luck for Santha

FancyShark

oh no how shocking not her

no please she is so beloved

gellaho

A medical boob slap

FancyShark

Her torso falls off

"I don't think I'm gonna make it."

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

My bad, Boris Vallejo. Frank Frazetta did Death Dealer, which is the OTHER thing im paying attention to right now.

gellaho

Walking through the jungle, Santha feels the need to strip

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

YEAH GET YO TITS OUT FOR THE JUNGLE!

FancyShark

That's right. Expose an open wound to the swamp water and air.

gellaho

He considers abandoning her

FancyShark

Our hero

Velo

Lathan Billiard sucks so much

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Its absolutely not how you get jungle rot on your titties.

gellaho

She immediately gets parasites

FancyShark

hahahaha

@Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky , high five. We called it.

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Welp.

gellaho

He solves the problem by gun burning her

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky
FancyShark

You seem to know an awful lot about wildlife in this alternate universe, BILL

gellaho

For fifteen minutes

Velo

Sure Billiard, shoot the woman for her own good. Therapy is expensive sometimes

Tom, Wizard Columbo

Why didn't you tell her that when she started to take the suit off, you stupid fuck

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

This book

FancyShark

Jesus, Bill. Paul Giamatti in Shoot Em Up didn't do this bit this long

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Hey Bill? Why are you jamming the barrel of your precision focused light weapon in the dirt?

Tom, Wizard Columbo

And why do you know more about this planet than her, you fucking Mary Sue tourist

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

It doesnt make noise, you can just point it normally.

gellaho

Don't worry, he got some too

FancyShark

Only three because he is thick with man meat

Velo

So the suits don't help

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

They help a little.

Like prayer.

gellaho

She's now narcoleptic

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Hoes be eepy. Even in another universe.

FancyShark

She's lost only four or five pints of blood. She'll be fine.

gellaho

And he decides that it is now time to abandon her

FancyShark

Our HERO

Rachel, Grand Inquisitor

It's like I always say, might as well take off your clothes because your suit won't protect you from the nerve eating worms.

And then the sheriff's officers make me take my meds.

FancyShark

Bill, I hope when you die, you die afraid

gellaho

Floater motors

Tom, Wizard Columbo

And full to bursting with parasites

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky
gellaho

Anyway, he goes back and yells at the nearly dead woman for being slow

FancyShark

I can't tell if the author even wants us to like Bill

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Slit her throat and move on then, BILL.

gellaho

That goes on for a while

gellaho
PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

I'm not going to waste any breath, after this monologue

FancyShark

Well, that answers that. The author is a stupid asshole

gellaho

The yelling, of course, is also filled with lies. Fun!

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

This really morphed from "We need you to train like 200 dudes for a coup."

Mission creep much?

FancyShark

Long way off from "Push this universe away from this other universe"

Tom, Wizard Columbo

Have the sexy naked fight with the swamp troll already

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

I think Billiard is the troll

gellaho

This planet seems fun

FancyShark

Oh I'm sorry, Bill. Are you tired?

Tom, Wizard Columbo

But if you ignore the nerve eaters you die

They eat your nerves, remember?

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Yeah Biiiiiiiill! Also FLYING SPIDERS?!

FancyShark

I want to believe the nerve eaters are each the size of a golden retriever

Just bonking against them like they want walkies

Velo

Billiard sucks so much

He does not deserve to be called Bill

gellaho

Full uniform, huh?

Velo

Billiard deserves his full, stupid name

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Or Billdo.

gellaho

That's sure what this looks like

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

So this cover deffo was an existing piece and they just bought it, huh?

Tom, Wizard Columbo

Wooo do it bash him

gellaho

Carefully examining his map, as pictured above

Tom, Wizard Columbo

Take off your clothes and fight the troll man

gellaho

Shut up, honey. I gotta kill him for his map

FancyShark

"You two know I can hear you, right?"

gellaho

Wrestle the four armed guy, sure

FancyShark

Billiard, size does matter. Forget what all the prostitutes told you after you paid them to say that.

gellaho

Billiard prepares to beat every single hole until he finds the brain

gellaho

Fight not starting great

FancyShark

You got this, Billiard

He didn't rupture your stomach like you somehow did to Goldaper

Tom, Wizard Columbo

The Earthman stumbled, his belly sluggish with nerve eaters

gellaho

Billiard goes for the Tyson

FancyShark

"Thanks, buddy. That parasite was really itchy."

gellaho

Then the Gribble

Brendo

I'm back, baby!

FancyShark

"Susan"

Brendo

That's just Eddie Vedder saying "Welcome."

gellaho

Billiard about to get some parasites

FancyShark

Feel free to lend a hand anytime, dying woman

Tom, Wizard Columbo

Less than half the force? Hey Billiard I think maybe you're losing buddy

gellaho

Then Billiard gets the murder rage again

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Boooooooooooo you got lucky Billdo Baggins

FancyShark

The Vwrung'n minister is no more. His message of peace and coexistance ends here.

gellaho

Anyway, here's Santha

FancyShark

haha, silly author. People don't slap any lighter if they're hitting a child.

gellaho

And I am definitely reading this map correctly

gellaho

Satellite-mounted electronic manhunters

FancyShark

You mean cameras, Bill?

gellaho

Women

FancyShark

They get devoured by one lake of leeches and they get all lazy

gellaho

Billiard gives up when he encounters the mountains he saw on the map

Tom, Wizard Columbo

God this is miserable

FancyShark

This is almost as bad as actually camping

gellaho

Oh, wait, no he doesn't

Velo

I think j the author was going for "unpredictable rogue" and over shot it, accidentally landing on "unlikable asshole"

Brendo

He freesoloed his character flaw.

gellaho

This must have been serialized in something, because that's madness

FancyShark

"He had wondered constantly if his arms would hold out. They had."

gellaho

And the enemy know exactly where they are now, somehow

Brendo

All happy families are alike in the Mercenary Guild.

gellaho

Hey, Donald Pfeil, it was on the map. You wrote that

gellaho

The bastards avoided his narrow minefield! How!?

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Classic minefield mistake!

FancyShark

Can't believe he's on the run from an army of Unix enthusiasts

gellaho

Thank God for the second minefield

FancyShark

Bill, where and when and how did you get landmines?

gellaho

Yeah, you seemed like you had a real hard time pulping that guy and alien

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

"Just kidding, it was invigorating"

FancyShark

Knowing this was probably serialized in a magazine does make the terrible narrative choices make more sense

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Written like a dude whos never killed anyone.

I guarantee it doesnt make you more physically tired than digging latrines.

gellaho

Dove, dammit

FancyShark

Meanwhile, Santha continues to bleed out

gellaho

She's just napping

Velo

Women

FancyShark

She slept through that? Damn, I'm jealous

gellaho

Well, don't worry. The revolutionaries are here

gellaho

At least, I assume. I don't believe "Free Lori" has been mentioned previously

FancyShark

They could just seal up the entrance. Let him and the lady starve in there. Just a thought.

gellaho

Ah, it can wait

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Whatever book, youve shot your Boris Vallejo wad and now im done with you.

Brendo

To be fair, this is like 800 days back home.

Tom, Wizard Columbo

No it was the other way, wasn't it? When earth sent a probe through, from their perspective it aged 1100 years in minutes. That should mean this whole mission has been a millisecond so far back home

Velo

If that's the end I will dig up this stupid assholes grave

FancyShark

Or bury him alive if he's not dead

Velo

Oh he's dead, I checked

FancyShark

Good

Velo

That's why I checked

gellaho

Well, that's the end of Part 3, so a good place to stop for today

gellaho

I do have a bonus, in remembrance of our fallen Goldaper

Brendo

You're right. I guess if you get back at the same time regardless you can take your time.

gellaho
FancyShark

GOLDAPE!

Brendo

This book is taking 1100 years

FancyShark

@Brockway ! NEW APE!

Velo

The rarest ape

Brendo

Dang, ape, are you the U.S. gymnastics team?

Because I would like to have athletic sex with you.

Velo

Do not scroll up to find out what lead to this ape

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Do it.

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

That is the cost of ape

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

You know you need to know the full Ape Context.

Velo

Thank you @gellaho

FancyShark

Thank you, @gellaho !

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Yeeee a good time, thanks @gellaho

FancyShark

Great riffing, everyone!

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

Thank you @gellaho !

FancyShark

Sorry I ducked out for part of it!

And have to miss next week!

gellaho

That ended up way crazier than even the first 18 pages led me to believe

Brendo

I missed 2/3 of it and yet missed none of it

Thank you for your sacrifice, @gellaho

PhysWiz vs the Wanking Wizard

Those were a different book altogether

Marc Madness

Thanks for the pain!

gellaho

The Book Cage #133.5

Through the Reality Warp - Part 2

Jump back into the reality warp, losers. Latham Billiard's space seed traveled through a space hole with powerful suction. Now, he's trapped in an alternative universe dressed as Sean Connery in Zardoz. He's got a new military squeeze he just loves yelling at, and unnecessary vicious murder. Truly the hero we've always needed. The adventure continues Friday 5pm, eastern.

gellaho
FancyShark

Have to miss this one because driving to visit family. So, good luck, everyone! If we're lucky, Billiard dies. A lot.

gellaho

Coming up on the top of the hour, it's Through the Reality Warp Part 2. Here's were we finished up

gellaho

Here's your preview of Part 4. Chapter 4? Who knows!

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Rad, I love when the format is "FOUR"

Velo

FOUR

VernoWhitney

FOUR - I, in fact

Velo

Everyone wish @FancyShark a very happy evening of not being here to suffer with us

Literary Chimera, Porn Mercenary

No. They should be here. We burn together.

Velo

He'll suffer fancily somewhere else I'm sure

Brendo

That was Wheel of Time, which you probably hated.

Rachel, Grand Inquisitor

He's visiting his family so yes

Brendo

Let's do the Reality Warp again!

Velo

BOOK CAGE

gellaho

Pfollow Along

Velo

When we left off our main character Billiard was an insufferable asshole! Will he stop being an insufferable asshole?! Let's find out!

gellaho

A year of sucking our universe's energy passes

Velo

That's a hell of a time jump

gellaho

Billiard fretting like a mother hen the whole time

Brendo

Velo, you are Mr. Shark today. Thank you for wearing the fancy top hat.

gellaho

Lori's personal god, meanwhile, decides to throw everything at Billiard

Velo

Hi @gellaho !

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

You know what happened in your home universe? Literally nothing because its been like five minutes.

gellaho

It's been two years in the space hole now

Velo

Hi @Brendo !

Hi @Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky !

Lori has a really incompetent god

gellaho

Billiard somehow has the superior equipment, even though they're scrounging everything. Figure that one out

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Guess theyve been stealing the top tier shit.

gellaho

Was the one troll man they struggled killing have it?

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

I guess, he must have had the good loot drops.

gellaho

Pfeil helpfully included one raid in the text, where they destroyed everything on a planet shared by an unrelated civilization

And now they have all the troops and training they need, in that year he skipped

It's called good writing

And then, Billiard enacts his second coup

Velo

I hope it fails and we get another training montage

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

ABC, Always Be Coupin'

gellaho

Chapter 4-1 was Scarrowesque in its brevity

Velo

That's a nice change

gellaho

It's strategically important to only try out the giant battleship with two days notice

Rachel, Grand Inquisitor

If the revolutionary army fails because they keep revolting against their own leadership I'll love this book

Flippant Sausage Foreskin Jerky

Sure, thats enough time for a shake out run.

Velo

Hi @Rachel, Grand Inquisitor !

I forgot her name was Santha

gellaho

Billiard's personal secret police remain strong

gellaho

Really wish Billiard was still rocking the Zardoz