Paradise or Death III - Where Sci-Fi Collides

Paradise or Death - Round III

Bright side is, I have not killed any more of you. I hope that makes some of you happy. I hope it pisses some of you off. I hope it makes some of you laugh because the same response from everyone would be BORING!

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Welcome back, today is the final day for round three's submission to @erodedthoughts wild game Paradise or Death, if you haven't seen the prior rounds, check the full list at the bottom. _{I can't figure out how to get a table to sit in the middle of a post, any help would be appreciated.} If you don't know who @erodedthoughts is, he likes to ask personal questions under the facade of non-personal questions with the idea of building a community based on core values, not just talent.

Both he and his wife @imaginedragon are quite hilarious in their own right and I suggest taking some time to get to know them both.

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If you haven't seen the prior rounds and didn't take a minute to scan them before now you may be a bit lost, so let me catch you up. There was an end of the world disaster, you could leave earth or stay with five people only, your choice who. You got to choose some supplies and other random stuff to go or stay with you. End round one. First blindside of the contest if you decided to leave the disaster that is Earth behind for greener pastures your ship crashed and TWO of the only six humans alive, or so we thought, just died and we had to decide who and why. Call me cold-hearted but I gave no one a name in my companion group with the exception of my husband @shai-hulud, choosing instead to name them by skills that I believed would serve me well in a post-apocalyptic world.

Unfortunately, that meant the death of my philosopher and doctor, the only one I was torn about, choosing to keep my agricultural and engineering specialists, who started to develop feelings for each other soon after the end of the world as we know it. Side note, if you didn't bail on earth you still had to kill someone but only One travelling companion. Blindside number two, an EMP field wiped out all electronic devices, so there goes my replicator _{Star Trek style, not Stargate} and holodeck, not to mention a few other pointless items, problem was I was relying on that replicator to supply food and water, so living on my two abundance foods of Orange Twirls and beef until we found our own resources was tiresome too say the least. End round two.

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Enter round three!

Not only are we not the last four people on Earth, which is lucky as that would equate to a pretty inbred population, a new ship just crash landed a few clicks from here and we were the first to arrive but not the first to leave, the mystery occupant was nowhere to be seen, nor did this ship look like more than a simple refrigerator. The wonders of technology or did the EMP field knock his ship offline too?

The question still remained and was the topic of conversation between all the newcomers that drifted into the crash site over the coming days. Where did it come from? Who was the occupant? Was there an occupant? As we were the first team to arrive the questions came thick and fast every time a new team joined us. Lots to do with what we saw and how fast we got there.

They were shocked to learn of Genie and understood why we looked so healthy and happy in comparison to many of the survivors, I mean @gaboroa14 was right, half of them looked as if they were indeed the undead coming to attack us, so lucky by the time the fourth team rocked up and Jesus arrived we had some grub on the BBQ and everyone was quenching their thirsts on @svemirac moonshine engaging enthusiastically with each other. _{Not much unlike the comments section of a whales post on a Friday night.}

The only person who didn’t ask any questions of us and was not impressed with Genie was a smug little fellow with strange images all over his legs. This wasn’t apparent to anyone but us as he was a great storyteller himself, highly sort after and catered for due to him being the sole survivor of his team, or so he states…

@shai-hulud and I were still unsure of his true identity and we believe that he had a lot to do with everything that has happened to date then he let on, his story of his team getting mauled by wild animals on the first night and him surviving by staring them down like Crocodile Dundee just didn’t sit well with us Aussies. He looked too healthy to have endured the last month alone with no supplies and he had too many answers for the unanswered questions but always managed posed them in the form of questions. So as to never let on just how much of the situation he controlled or knew.

Something fishy was going on here…. One evening after everyone had gone to sleep @shai-hulud and I were returning from a stroll conversing about tomorrow’s chores when this misty purple light appeared from the crater site. Being something new we went to investigate and as I was climbing the side, shai grabbed my foot and pulled me down just before @erodedthoughts bust out of the ship dazzling us with light for a split second before closing the door completely leaving all three of us in complete darkness.

We vowed to find out more and question him ourselves as soon as the opportunity arose. We didn’t have to wait long as the next evening soon after everyone drifted off to sleep, the purple light appeared in the distance. Instead of peering over the edge we decided a head on approach would clear things up faster, I mean what’s the worst that could happen, he was an alien? We already had a genie.

He was expecting us, as we went for the handle of what still seemed like a refrigerator the door swung open and @erodedthoughts beamed at us as he welcomed us to his Tardis. Yes, @erodedthoughts is none other than the newest addition to the ever changing face of Dr. Who! He explained that the EMP field broke her that was why she initially looked like a refrigerator and he just kept up the pretence after he got her fixed. He answered many of our questions which just opened more which he could not answer.

He did admit to his part in the mess that is and also that he has been working hard in the background to fix all he has done. Shai and I vowed to help him return the Earth to the shitty place it was with some minor improvements along the way. How long it would take us all was still to be seen, but at least we were making a start!

Rome wasn’t built in a day!

That's all folks!

Thanks for taking the time to read my story, i just wanted to say a personal thank you to @erodedthoughts for not only putting this contest together but having enough faith in my stupidity to delegate me some SP to help grow myself and the community at large! As I have said before You Rock! Thanks again, I really do appreciate it. And I look forward to Round 4 soon!

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Round	Puppet Master A.K.A. @erodedthoughts	Puppet A.K.A. @insideoutlet
ROUND 1	Paradise or Death ~ Round 1	Paradise or Death – Why so serious?
ROUND 2	Paradise or Death II ~ Tell Your Story	Paradise or Death - Round TWO - Epic fail to be decided
ROUND 3	Death or Paradise III	Your reading it