"Seat Safety Switch" (seat-safety-switch)
12/01/2015 at 11:38 • Filed to: monkeys, baboons actually
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"Seat Safety Switch" (seat-safety-switch)
12/01/2015 at 11:38 • Filed to: monkeys, baboons actually | 4
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“You know, the scientists say that baboons are a lot like us, but I…” He stopped, studied the skyline, took a drag of his cheap Mexican Marlboro Gold. Suddenly, he spoke again. “Storm’s comin’. You kids better go inside. This ain’t for children to see.”
We didn’t know what the kindly zookeeper meant back then, but when I followed in his footsteps so many years later, I put the pieces together all too quickly.
My partner, Mozambique Slim, picked up a spent shell casing with the end of his ball point pen. He regarded it clinically before slipping it into an evidence bag.
“Damn shame,” he grumbled, “those baboons never should have been trained in how to operate an AR-15.”
Maybe we flew too close to the sun. We wanted an inexhaustible source of fast-growing, brutal killers. The men came, and they distributed army instruction manuals to the monkey house, chock full of lurid pictograms about the care and operation of your firearm. At first we laughed, went along with the government men, pocketed the “rental fees” they gave us for use of the primates. Then we saw the initial tests.
In the privacy of the cruiser, Slim turned to me. “I’ve got history with this one,” he said flatly. “I’m going to be taking some vacation this week.” Good idea, I thought, Internal Affairs had been breathing down both of our necks after the incident at the rhino pen last month.
A storm rolled in above us, crackling with barely restrained anger. I nodded, not knowing then it would be the last time I’d see my partner alive.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Seat Safety Switch
12/01/2015 at 11:44 |
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Did the baboons kill Slim or did someone else?
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Seat Safety Switch
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
12/01/2015 at 11:45 |
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So far Fox has passed on the screenplay, but I’ll let you know once Village Roadshow does too.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Seat Safety Switch
12/01/2015 at 11:47 |
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the last time I’d see my partner alive.
Did you later see him dead, or undead? There are important genre distinctions to be made here.
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Seat Safety Switch
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/01/2015 at 11:49 |
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Zombie fiction is so played-out, though. Apes with machine guns are scary enough!
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Seat Safety Switch
12/01/2015 at 11:50 |
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I’d watch that show.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Seat Safety Switch
12/01/2015 at 11:52 |
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Okay, but bear with me here. Can an ape actually stop something that can turn into a cloud of mist, and can an immortal wraith of cannibalism find apes tasty and close enough to human to be sated? I’m talking vampires and wendigos, man. The latter particularly.
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Seat Safety Switch
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/01/2015 at 11:54 |
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World of Monkey Darkness. Okay, I’m completely invested in this.
Get White Wolf on the phone.