Well bro came
over today and he's staying for the weekend. He's a materials
engineer with a PhD in SCIENCE!(Well, a PhD in Materials Engineering,
which pretty much requires him to know tons of stuff about physics
anyways.) I discussed my logic problem with physics(or rather the
laws of physics) that I talked about a few days ago in my blog
because he knows the physics. The logic problem was where the laws of
physics came from and how they did things for “free”.(Why do they
happen? How do they do what they do?) I really talked about it in the
comment of one of my stories in much more detail. That story is here:
http://langdonflashfictions.blogspot.com/2012/07/todays-scifi-fantasy-short-story_04.html
The story itself just uses scientists wondering where the laws of
physics come from as a plot point, I talk about it in the comment.
Now onto today's flash fiction which actually doesn't have anything
to do with that, but is still quite interesting.
The Other
World Wizards
Jacob feared
for his life. The wizards from the other world were coming to his
village. He was next. His family was next. Village after village was
razed to the ground by them in fire. Or frozen. Or turned to stone.
Or sent to a dark dimension. Or turned to insects waiting to be
devoured by birds or whatever else lie above them on the food chain.
And to think
these wizards were children, one boy and one girl, brother and
sister.
He saw two
shadows and looked up. They belonged to the wizard children. They
were flying in the smiling. Their smiles were large and wicked.
Filled with a twisted joy. Jacob could tell they were planning what
they would do to the village. The children then whispered to each
other. They raised their hands. They began laughing. Jacob looked
around. Were there dragons? Were they lighting things on fire? Were
people being frozen? Had they laid down a curse. He then saw an
immense shadow and looked up once more.
The children
had summoned a meteor.
Jacob's terror
made the moments of the meteor's decent slow but when it finally hit
the ground the villages destruction was quick. The children protected
themselves with magic shields so they had the joy of safely watching
the rubble fly.
And then the
children took off their virtual reality helmets and their suits
shortly afterwards.
“Well that
was realistic, it's almost like the AI actually feels to get all
those responses just right.” The brother of the wizard children
said.
The sister of
the wizard children said, “You know that's just a stupid rumor.
It's just a video game. People just made that up to mess with the
company that made the game.”
The brother
responded, “Yeah, yeah. Anyway want to save the world next time?
With how realistic the AI it's much harder and more satisfying to win
by being a peacekeeper. Gotta go with the challenge. Terror bringing
got boring. No challenge.”
“You're
right.” She said. “They give you magic powers in the game and
bringing peace to the all the kingdoms is still hard! That's probably
why we do it more than bringing terror. We should be the good guys next.”
The brother
said. “Yeah, being the good guy is much harder than being evil, but
it is more satisfying.”
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