alexmegami | FINAL ABERRANT POST

So I gave Amber a pretty good recap of One Nuclear Holocaust and A Wedding, So I'll just copy-paste my description of the last Aberrant game from that e-mail to here. :D

Still in Quebec, we were running out of food and people were getting
scaed/angry/cranky. Amy and Arkham had been brainwashed by the New
York/Barain/evil mutants, so Vicki and Thomas were freaking out (both
at each other and just in general). Then the aircraft carrier of DOOM
came.

The aircraft carrier of DOOM was basically, well, an aircraft carrier
being flown (yes, flown) by a bunch of super-strong and flight-capable
novas from New York. Basically, they had come to either offer us peace
or to wipe us out entirely. Being us, and being on the edge already,
they didn't get a chance to offer that peace. (We wouldn't have taken
it anyway!)

Two teleporters took everyone except the necessary people away -
basically, Jake, Jenkins (Jake's real father), a couple of random
novas, Emmett (the Inuit healer) and Vicki stayed. Aaron tried to
convince Vicki to warp away with the rest of them, but she stayed
(partly because of her taint, partly because she wanted to see Caestus
Pax dead).

The fight doesn't really go in our favor. We killed a *lot* of people
(Caestus Pax included), but we were low on quantum and there were
literally hundreds of them. Jake and Vicki book it, but Amy captures
Emmett, so they run back into the fray and try and save Emmett. This
only works until Jake tries to carry him away - and gets captured by
the Barainites. Vicki gets teleported back to Toronto just before
passing out from being shot by Amy, by a teleporter from first year,
Simone.

Jake wakes up in the Triskelion, where crazy mind battles occur between
Thomas and the guy trying to brainwash Jake. Slider, the girl who
eventually springs Jake (another teleporter), is not impressed and
leaves Thomas' service (she worked for him since he was the "new"
Omega). And then... Natalie shows up. In a death's-head helicopter.

She *totally* has great news, and that is that the... er, German (but
Germany now encompasses Europe, really) wants to take over the
spaceship program. And they will get us to Europe, and everything will
be wonderful, and they'll make sure nothing bad happens to us again.

...now, at this point we were like, "Isn't Karl Prosiek (leader of the
new Europe) a neo-Nazi?" And Pat said, "That's what the American media
called him. But no." So we were like, "TAKE US WITH YOU." So they did.

Um, after that it was basically "we nuked the Triskelion while nabbing
Amy from Toronto, slapped a pair of anti-power handcuffs on her, and
took her back to Europe."

Oh, and Vicki married Aaron in a huge wedding ceremony that she
organized in four days. ;) With Ion Storm liberally tasering Jake if he
threatened to say or do anything stupid. (Well, only in the blooper
reel. ;) Jake and Thomas played a song, and gave speeches, and it was
all very beautiful.

And then they said goodbye to Earth (or at least Europe). Jake ate a
final meal, watched the sunset and the sunrise, and tossed away his
flask for good; Thomas spent his last day with his mother, and she
finally got her NORMAL day with her son. Vicki spent it with Aaron,
visiting the European museums she'd never get to see again, and also
watched the sun rise (though not with Jake).

And then they boarded the launch vehicle.

And THEN we got sucked into another dimension, and were told by Joseph
Stalin (!) that we were in the '50s. And that he strongly believed in
choice. ...And that 4-year-old Victor Mazarin (Divis Mal) was in that
farmhouse over there.

So we went over, and looked at the four-year-old that would grow up to
kill millions of people.

He offered to play at dragons with Jake. Jake said to him, "Look, I
know you won't remember this, but when you grow older, you can be a
great man. Just remember that we're all people."

And Thomas talked to his caretaker, Max Mercer. Noticing that Max's den
had lots of philosophy, psychology, etc. books, Thomas said, "There's a
guy now, doing research that says that normal, everyday guys can do the
things the Nazis did in the war. And sometimes I wonder... Do you think
Ma and Pa Hitler knew what kind of son they were raising?"

And Max looked at him for a little while and said, "No. No, I don't
think they did."

Vicki hung back at the door, and when we left, Victor ran up and
offered Jake a wing off his dragon, and Jake gave him his college ring.
Vicki gave him a pat on the head and he ran back inside.

And then we went back to the launch vehicle and the world we had left
behind.

And as it pulled up to the spaceship, the credits rolled. The End.

Rest in peace, Aberrant game. I loveded you. *sniff*