Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Post #1

Hello, and welcome to my new blog. This is basically going to be an ongoing creative exercise for me, involving writing stories based on a piece of "seed" text, selected somewhat at random.
This is that text:
After Torneo order's the little girl, Eve, to play tag with Train as well, Train escapes using a grenade. Torneo orders his men to find him then soon realizes Eve is gone. Eve left to search out for Train so she may finish her lethal game of tag. Sven tells Rinslet that he will be heading back to the hotel and that Train may have gotten into trouble. Rinslet is discouraged by Train ability to get into trouble, but she is certain that she will "have the last laugh". As Sven walks, he calls Train. Train is still inside Torneo's mansion. Sven tells him that the research Rinslet is after is Nanotechnology for military purposes and that Torneo invested a lot of money into creating nanomachine soldiers, human weapons that can transforn at will. Train figures out that Eve is one of those human weapons. Sven runs into Eve who is still looking for her "friend" to play tag with. Eve seems lost.
The text was found on this page though a Google search I performed with he goal of finding a walkthrough for the computer game Mafia: City of Lost Heaven. The only word found in this text that was contained in my search is "train," although what I found refers to a character named "Train" and not the more traditional locomotive-type object I was basing my search off of. In recognition of this connection between some original intent of mine and the resulting encounter, the only constraint I will impose on the stories I post here is that each will contain the complete word "train" at least once, not including any uses of that string of letters as a part of another word.
A moderate amount of research will reveal that my chosen text consists of a description of a section of what's basically a comic book. Its significance to me when I first found it didn't amount to much more than being the first thing that I jumped to on a web page that I visited mainly because it was an unexpected result generated by the search I had performed. I do declare that the above selection wasn't chosen with this blog's story-writing premise in mind. When I first encountered Skull Store 3 earlier this morning, I noted it, saved it into a text file, and promptly forgot about it for a couple of hours before I thought up the use presented here.
Skull Store 3 does have some noticeable grammatical mistakes and typos. As such, I feel that I should specify that the reason I decided to do some shit with this guy wasn't to sardonically riff off of an obscure instance of somebody's not-so-riveting use of the English language. While I do expect to create some humorous writings centered around the basic theme laid out by this wacky little snippet of summation, I don't consider my venture to be a joke, ya know?
Anyway, what a thing, huh? I find my decision to create multiple pieces of contained writing centered around an unfamiliar, mostly-unremarkable piece of text to be a pretty interesting prospect. Heck, I'm pretty entertained just writing about the idea of going after this tangent of permutations possible galore. I tend, in many different mediums of experience, to enjoy found object-type encounters, and this presents an opportunity to go to arguably-ridiculous depths in recognition of my awareness of the highly-refined set of information that makes up Skull Store 3. Take that, universe.

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