Today's #flashfiction #TheModeratelyAnnoyedScientist

“That which is scarce is precious.”

Gollum* #quote

       Well it's pretty much sorted out that CJ and I will be going to one of them card game tournaments this Sunday at one of them wonderfully nerdy shops. Dad may even stick around and browse some stuff in the game store like dungeons and dragons as he used to play back in the day when and/or head to an art store. We'll make it up as we go along. I hear that if enough nerds and geeks gather in one location a portal to another dimension of pure fun opens. I'm told this portal is powered by “imagination”. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Moderately Annoyed Scientist

        Next to the scary castle with the backdrop of lighting and an inner laboratory laid a little house. The castle belonged to the famous Mad Scientist. The little house belonged to the Moderately Annoyed Scientist.

Which person did the villagers fear most? The Mad Scientist proved much more dangerous if he could ever get past his own insanity, crazy laughter and bumbling undead assistants. Nobody would want to be mutated or brainwashed. So people did fear the madness of The Mad Scientist.

       But The Moderately Annoyed Scientist was much more successful more often with inventions of a different style. And people feared success. But this style was not nearly as lethal. Because the Moderately Annoyed Scientist's inventions served only to moderately annoy people.

      One invention turned out to be a virus that infected the entire town populace. The virus would give everyone barely noticeable itches that only really came to people's attentions when they sat down to relax. But with a quick scratch it would vanish for several hours. It was moderately annoying for the entire town.

      Another time The Moderately Annoyed Scientist attacked the town with a gravity altering weapon that bent space and time to shift the position of pre-programmed objects. He used it to move everyone's TVs a little so they would be off just enough to make the picture look bad and everyone would have to adjust their TVs back into place. It moderately annoyed the entire town.

       The Moderately Annoyed Scientist's had a famous plan that involved using the most advanced hacking technology in existence. He hacked into severs in the Internet to increase everyone's spam email, even bypassing their spam filters. For a week everyone had to spend at least a few seconds every day clearing out their inboxes. It turned out to be truly moderately annoying.

      Though the Mad Scientist lived dangerous and crazy, the Moderately Annoyed Scientist attacked more successfully and often. So people tended to fear him more. People wish they could pass the force field around his house just so they could moderately annoy him for once. But justice was already served. Just like the Mad Scientist who wanted the world to suffer because of his insanity so did the Moderately Annoyed Scientist. The Moderately Annoyed Scientist dreamed every night of himself being moderately annoyed, so he wished his suffering on the world around him.

      It is moderately annoying that people try to take things out on others.