Fly By Night

[sc4portugal 10]

Great work YESYEYSYES finaly

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Cool! Nice pix to go with cool story!

[Zelgadis 638]

Good update and nice story too. You're really good with the first person narrative.

ISF

[LivingInThePast 364]

The image quality seems much better than the first. Suppose Shaun's not really home at all, it's some bizarre time travel experiment. Remember, Barry was arrested, and he must have been gone for weeks.

You should get a publishing deal.

[homeandaway 1]

wow, cant wait to see more!.

Take care

~AleX~

[hamsterTK 93]

News:

    sorry I havent been updating frequently. I got bogged down when I had a project to work on plus I was sort of lazy.             -HamsterTK (Zaphod)

Personal Replies:

    mtbrocket

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Hey, nice to see you man. nice CML

   

SA:

Sorry about the text formatting difficulties. I have a wide-screen display so the page layout must look different on my side than it does     on yours. Glad you like the editing and the little bar. I decided since im going to be visiting all sorts of places in this story that the         little extras on the images will be designed differently to match that particular place. 

   

homeandaway(2):

I always enjoy making night shots. Sometimes they turn out less stunning then I hoped, but I think these looked great so I         decided to put them in

    tomdapom:

Thanks for the comment, hope to see you here next time

   

tommiej:

Those tanks are listed as UNW props in Lot editor. I found them on accident and decided to use them. Im not sure what pack they are     from. If I can figure that out i'll let you know

   

jacqulina:

haha I know how that is. I usually go for mountain dew though

   

sc4portugal

:

glad you liked it. Also, nice, now we are on page 2

   

Schulmanator:

thanks for your comment, good to see everyone here

   

zelgadis

:

thanks. I like telling the story from the main characters' eyes because it lets me say what the character is thinking when he's          figuring something out, which happens/will happen often

    

LivingInThePast:

god lets hope not. Anythings possible, but if the bad guys have time travel we are really screwed

   

      

   

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Lazy and Proud

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Carra, Jorarahka, Halre | 8:57 AM | October 28, 2006

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    I woke up around 9 am. I didn't really feel like getting up, but since I stayed up late if I knew if I closed my eyes again I'd end up waking up at noon... Barry was gone at his new job. I didnt really have anything to do. I didn't have a job anymore, and I knew that I probably got all my classes dropped at college for being gone so long. I wiped the sweat off my face and put on a shirt then went over to the other room and cranked up the window unit..It was never this hot here. We were up high in the mountains and generally the weather was relatively cool.

    Downstairs was a big stack of mail I had gotten when I was gone. Four things were junk mail, the fifth was my phone bill, the sixth was from the department of motor vehicles, and the last was from the college. Like I suspected, I got my classes dropped and got put on sch. probation because of non attendence for nearly a month..Like I'd be able to pay for it anyways now. 

Later, I was playing video games and I felt like getting something to eat. I found a big bag of corn chips. I noticed something on the bag I had never paid attention to before..it said "

Chippos™ manufactured for MasaraPlus+ hypermarkets by Sprackles Snax Halre division, Hateka, Jorh, HR

." ...haha..same guys who made 'tropical ham'...

This made me think about laughing with Sophia at that truck advertisment for 'tropical ham meat in can' while riding with her in the middle of the night going from San Bernard to Newport Roads. It was after breaking in Novak's house to get the artifact and to steal my stuff back. That was so cool. Even though I was freaked out, I had never felt so alive in my life doing anything. it was hard to describe, the rush from getting the hell out of town, going through places I had never been or though, and the fact that we fooled everyone and got away with it.I liked to watch spy movies and read about the real life things of that nature, but at the same time I could never figure out why he heck anyone would realistically choose to do that sort of thing. Now I knew why. And now I was dissappointed that it was over...

I decided to email her. I went and dug around my other pants and found the slip of paper she gave me at the airport.

Subject: I'm back

Hey, I'm back and alright. I don't know exactly when I will ever be able to move to Bay City, thats something I'm still figuring out.

my IM is the same as my email account. We're -9 hours apart, you can catch in the morning when its night where you live, or vice versa.

sorry about the short email, I didnt really have a lot to talk about. whats going with you? you haven't been hassled about Novak or anything have you?

-Shaun

    Later that I day I saw three of my friends. They also went to the college and did 3D design. Down the road was a small basketball court from the campus, so we there sometimes. I went to class in the late evening though so sometimes it was awkward. That wouldnt be a problem now though. Anyways, I was extremely nervous. I didn't know how I would explain myself in line with the cover story(in which I vanished in the wilderness) that got put in the newspapers ,and possibly on television too. I would need to make something up. Maybe I could get them from talking too much about it....

........

"So...what was it like?" asked one my friends.

"I dunno....kind of like those survival shows on tv..I'll talk about it some other time. Let's play now..." I took the ball and walked out onto the court.

 "Sure .. well I guess, I thought maybe you'd have some crazy story to tell.." He had a sort of skewed look on his face when I said that which made me feel awkward.

"ehh..not really....Also, hey, this probably sounds odd, but maybe you could not just tell everyone that I'm back."..I got the ball and tried to score a basket.

"Why? everyone else wants to know your alright"  As he said that the ball hit the backboard and bounced away....

"well....err...I don't want anyone bugging me or anything. You know how it is. Come on, get the ball. Heh, this would be better with more people. Some day we ougtha get more people and play a real game." I nervously tried to change the subject....

We played for a while until it was around 4 pm and then I left. When I walked back I saw a small car almost rear-end a large truck it had been tailgating closely.....

Haha, people here can't drive...

Meanwhile

"Damn, you almost hit him! quit following so close, you'll attract attention! We still have a ways to go, lets just ease off. Besides, its not supposed to go off till tommorow... "

The two occupants in the small car kept arguing. The two didnt really get along, and it was getting in the way of their mission. They had loaded something into the truck the other day and they decided to keep tabs just in case anything happened to it.

The truck was going across town to make deliveries of the big drums of solvent sitting in the back to another chemical plant. The stuff was used to clean a certain type of chemical residue from the inside of railroad tank cars. The cleaner wouldnt be used at first, it would all be put into storage at the different industries. It would be stored amongst all sorts of other chemicals, in on-site warehouses which were in close proximity to the facilities' main processing and storage areas...

Later

Barry and Mrs. Slager were both back. She went shopping all day a few times a week and only bought a few things. . I figured this must be an old person thing. When I did my shopping I usually bought everything at once.

I ate a bowl of microwave noodles in front of the television upstairs sitting on the old retro sofa we sort of 'found'. Me and Barry saw it on the curb in front of somebody's house, and since It was relatively clean we made off with it. Mrs. Slager was mad when we did that but she never made us get rid of it. My noodles  were sort of spicy  but I ate them anyways. There wasn't anything good to watch on TV either...Typical... I went back to my room and got online anticipating an email back, but I didnt get a response from Sophia. I guess she was busy with something else...

The Next Day...

I just hung out around the house since I didnt have to go to work or school anymore. I stayed up late watching TV and playing computer games. Now in the morning I felt like sleeping all day and I had to force myelf to get up. I was turning into some bum who did nothing all day and laid around.. I guess later I'd have to go and find a new job so I could pay my half of the rent, and I could use my savings to pay for school during the summer semester when I got re-accepted. That is if I wanted to stay here. I thought of the money in savings and how if I wanted to move back to Bay City i'd need it

Reality finally hit. I would need to make the choice soon if I was really going to do that. Laying there I thought of everything I would have to do. I'd have to work a lot and find a place to live in a strange place I didn't know a lot about. I couldn't take much with me either since everything would have go in my luggage. I didn't know if I even wanted to go through with it now. Underneath my bed was a small aluminum safe. I got the key and opened it. Inside was a lot of papers and other stuff that was originally inside of my parent's safe deposit box... I kept my stuff in there too. I had my New Columbia passport I could use to leave here. I had my birth certificate and social security card. Everything I would need was in there. After looking at it I put it all back under my bed and went downstairs...

......

To Be Continued

[homeandaway 1]

I LOVE IT SO MUCH!., im really lot for words on this great CJ...um..thanks for commenting in Seoul!.

Take care and PM if you need anything

~Alex~

[jacqulina 162]

beautifull work my friend very nicely put together and the pics are amazing

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Thanks for the update. We don't mind if you take a while to post one... as long as we can get our story fix!

[patfirefghtr 159]

ooooooooooooh Tk wow just wow awsome update, love the new truck lol - pat

[Livin in Sim 83]

Hi, Steve,

Two got by on me, sorry about that!  I actually read the one where the guys put that explosive device in the back of the truck and Shaun got home when it first was posted, but got interupted from replying by something.  It was prob'ly some random boring event, cuz I sure can't remember why.  Hey, wootie flakes for the CML, Hamster on the Lam, that's funny.  

So Shaun is at loose ends.  I hate that feeling.  This feels like the pause before all heck breaks loose.  It reminds me of the quietness before a huge thunderstorm suddenly hits.  The kind of pause that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.  OK, I'm freakin' myself out here...  

Nice work on the city.  Are the rows of little houses colonial saltboxes?  It looks neat to see them set up like that.  The refinery looks very businesslike, and I love that background with the sunrise clouds.

Well, onward and upward, have a good week.

--Liv

[Kippis05 2]

Fantastic storyline! And the pics aint half-bad either

Keep up the excellent work man!

-Kippis "Gone Bananas" 05

[LivingInThePast 364]

Where did you get those asphalt roads (bottom of last pic) without fully going over to PEG's MTP? I want the roads only.

[homeandaway 1]

^^yeah...could you give me the link to those roads please aswell?. Thanks and it will be very much appreciated

Take care and PM if you need anything

~Alex~

[hamsterTK 93]

lol those are just the normal streets with NAM

maybe your mistaking the railroad tracks(with dirt edges thanks to PEG's mod) as asphault streets?

[sc4portugal 10]

gREAT uPDATE

[Nardo69 51]

So our hero is back - I guess I know how he feels - I am right inbetween two jobs by now ...

I like these rowhouses with the wires - good idea!  Interesting last shot with the dawning light - you really do have a hand for light effects!

Bernhard

[jacqulina 162]

looking for more updates my friend

[cowcorn 11]

Great updates! Great cities too, they really suit the story. It's really a pleasure to read that gets better with time as your writting seems to mature.

Still a great fan.

cowcorn

[jj88 23]

Well done excellent work

[GMT 389]

nice work.

I like the last picture, the background fits to the scenary

waiting for more

[LivingInThePast 364]

I bumped this topic for Truth or Dare. Sorry!

[dralin321 0]

Always an great one to visit!!!