I Hate Time Travel

You know how my last blog post was the entire year ago?

Remember how New Vineyard just kind of disappeared about the same time?

Well, from my perspective, and the perspective of the entire freaking city, that was yesterday, and the whole island just got shunted forward from April to December.

I hate time travel. I really hate time travel.

People are looking into it right now, but mostly I want to make sure everything important is accounted for, like my computer.

Oh also my girlfriend and my daughter. ...probably should have looked for them first.

I hear that a Navy ship was at the location of the island at the same time it time-shifted back. That's kind of cool. Well, I mean, it sucks for them, but what were they expecting naming yet another ship the USS Cyclops, anyway? It's just asking for trouble.

Anyway, I'm back!

...even though from my perspective I never left.

Fucking time travel.

Tri-City Takeover

Oh god I love this plan.

So, as of yesterday, there is an aerial battleship over New Vineyard, and one over Chicago, and one over Detroit. Two are unmanned, and I'm in one of them. If anything happens to any of the ships, the other two start firing. I'm holding three cities for ransom simultaneously! How cool is that?

So far no hero has come forward to challenge me, since millions of lives are at stake here. But Quizzer and Speed Demon sure are fuming impotently at the ships, that much is for certain. I call the battleships my TrEyeumvirate.

I have a couple tons of precious metals at the moment, and more on the way.

Though, to be honest, I'm not enjoying this as much as I should be.

Some time yesterday, Judy came out of the lab (and took a shower, thank god), and said she was going "out" to test out something called "Scarab". I haven't seen her since. However, I have been watching the news. Brannigan's tower, the one in downtown that was built around that portal, has imploded. No sign of explosives or the portal opening, which means it was hit by some kind of gravity bomb--as in, a bomb that released a massive pulse of condensed gravitational flucuations. There's only one person who can do that.

But what is Scarab?

I live

So, Judy made me leave the house the other day because I've been spending too much time on the computer. I mostly just strolled through the city. New Vineyard is a weird place to wander. I'm pretty sure there are no other completely new cities in the world--everything has at least a trace of what's come before. But even the land it's built on is brand new, as Brannigan manufactured the whole island more or less because they could. Some days I miss the old Vineyard, even though it was essentially a giant slum kept afloat only by the fact that both Arkady International and Brannigan had a strong presence there.

Speaking of Old Vineyard, the earthquakes around the Cataclysm Engine are getting a whole lot worse. I'm not quite sure why this is the case. Maybe convection in the mantle is finally pushing against it.

Maybe I'll get out today, just to do some villainy. It's been really nice outside lately.