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My name is Nate Lorenz. This galaxy is under my protection. I have tolerated your trespasses up to this point – but no further. Your time is up. If you leave immediately, I may let you go. If you stay, you will perish. I know exactly where you are and I know exactly how to destroy you. I am aware of your methods. I know you pretend to be stronger than you are. You scare others into surrender by pretending to have powers you do not. I am not afraid of you, I never surrender, and my power is real. I’ve lived a long time and learned many things. I’ve had many enemies – and I’ve defeated them all. You are not the first. You will not be the last. You are certainly not the biggest. I always survive. Long after you are gone I will still be here. My story will go on. I always go on. This is my story...

And More Giant Worms - episode 32

10/27/2017

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On the planet Iddhya, the travelers meet past Mr. Dinosaur and fight the giant, tree-eating worms. The worms are seven school busses long and clearly descended from the ones on Fkoojy. Doctor Bill discovers that the worms communicate to each other in infrasound by moving gas bubbles through their guts. The boys manufacture salt bullets to poison the worms with. Having been warned by the future Mr. Dinosaur on the ogre’s planet about exploding dead worms, the boys are careful to keep their distance. By avoiding death, they then realize that they have changed history.

At this point, the boys are beginning to wonder how it is that in such a large universe they meet Mr. Dinosaur, Allison, Katie, and the giant worms by chance so often. Genius Nathaniel figures out that every time they time travel, they inadvertently send out causative ripples with every action they take that subtly alters history to make such meetings more likely. This happens not only directly through changing the history of the universe, but through changing the history of other time travelers who will change the history of the universe and of still other time travelers. Time travelers leaving from the same period will tend to run into each other. These same causative ripples also tend to cause them to land during interesting times – important turning points in history (at least potentially). The longer they time travel, the more exciting their lives should become. Nathaniel can’t wait.

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The Kitchens Of Ranor - episode 031

10/20/2017

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The planet Ranor is covered by one sprawling restaurant ruled by “The Chef.” He experiments with many flavors and creates complex dishes. The Chef and his staff are vlymons, hominids covered in swirls of white, black, blue, and red-orange. They each have one red eye and one black eye. Nathaniel visits and tries candy-coated microraptors (another species of dromaeosaurs like Nathaniel), sauropod steaks and eggs (other sentient dinosaurs), and human meat burgers. Once he is full, the staff captures him and prepares him for surgery. He is told that active dromaeosaur saliva glands will be the special ingredient in The Chef’s next dish.

After an extended fight and chase scene wherein the staff uses something called a “flavor ray” as a weapon (best when on its horseradish setting – horseradish and its effects are a new thing to Nathaniel), Nathaniel learns The Chef’s grand plan: to make food so good that everyone will eat only on Ranor, putting even the candy wizards of planet Candy out of business. With everyone coming to Ranor, The Chef will have no shortage of people to use for food. He will then be able to take control of the local interstellar food web and ecology, feeding his customers to other customers. While the boys escape, their pet Blacky is captured, cooked, and eaten.

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The Bank Robbers - episode 030

10/13/2017

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Responding to a call for help from a human-colonized planet, the explorers and mercenaries chase down a gang of bank robbers who turn out to be Nathaniel’s sister Katie and her many stuffians. They fight. Some run and some chase. Nathaniel taps into an outlet and uses his conducting power to send current down a railing to electrocute a fleeing stuffian at the bottom of the stairs. Half of the gang is captured and half escape, including Katie. Nathaniel adopts Katie’s attack-trained pet, a flying ray with an electrified tail. They name it Blacky.

Nathaniel and his crew notice that they forget things, but then remember them later. This is a new phenomenon for them. It is not normal forgetfulness where information is gone for good. They have information in their brains that they cannot retrieve. They figure out that it is caused by a pathogen native to the planet. Even when they cannot directly remember things, they can often remember remembering things or at least remember remembering remembering things. This is a big help as they continue to investigate and thwart Katie’s future plans to rob the biggest bank on the planet.

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Ogre - episode 029

10/6/2017

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Captain Nathaniel and his crew receive a distress call from a village threatened by an ogre. When they get there, the village is already destroyed, so they travel back to yesterday and wait. The villagers (human-like beings with long noses) all know some rudimentary magic, enabling them to repel flies with orbiting wands or to create scents that never mix, so that the beef stew smell won’t mix with the donut smell across the street. It is even possible to eat chicken nuggets covered in chocolate and never taste the two ingredients at the same time, making them edible. They cast spells with yo-yos while explaining that magic is nothing but very advanced technology. They grow apricot trees, watermelon trees, and strawberry trees.

The visitors befriend a tyrannosaur with an oak tree growing from the back of his neck named Mr. Dinosaur who is also living on the planet. He tells them he once slept for so long that a tree grew its roots into him. He snacks on the acorns. Only later does he reveal that he has met them all before on planet Iddhya, where he saw them all die while fighting giant worms. “I learned afterwards that dead worms become bombs that explode when disturbed, releasing all their spores at once.” Nathaniel realizes that this must be his own future.

The ogre arrives the next day juggling swords and taunting the villagers. He turns out to be immune to lasers. When Nathaniel kicks him in the belly, the belly grabs his foot and sucks him in before he claws his way out. The town wizard fires at the ogre with his magic staff, but it is immune to that too, so the wizard fires at the rock underneath it, liquefying the rock just long enough for the ogre to sink and be trapped. The ogre does not take long to escape but by then the village is evacuated. They flee to the mountains only to come to a wall of fire. The only way through is to open a portal that has a ten percent chance of collapsing with someone inside. The wizard can either open a portal for everyone at once, with a ten percent chance of everyone dying, or he can open a portal for one person at a time, with a virtual certainty that ten percent will die. After some debate, they choose the latter.
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Eventually, ninety percent of them circle back and make it to Nathaniel’s ship, but the ogre catches Nathaniel there and almost kills him. Nathaniel grabs a broken hose and sprays the ogre with antigravity fuel, causing him to suddenly fall upwards into the ionosphere and suffocate.
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