The Looking Glass

The Looking Glass

Conspiracy Theories

Nevada...

A small bar. A few of the locals sit around bored discussing things to make their mundane lives seem more interesting.

"I hear its home to a secret world government!" His tone was full of dramatic mystery.

"Don't be stupid! I hear they make special weapons and vehicles."

"No no. Don't you people know anything? They keep aliens there!" This was followed by laughter. "Oh keep mocking me, but it's true. You hear about these incidents and abductions. Crash landings. Where'd you think the debris goes? Here!"

"And you call me stupid! Can you hear this guy? He's crazy!"

"I've seen them! In the dead of night!"

"Come off it!"

"Men in suits. They take all sorts to that place. God knows what they do there! Aliens, Monsters; I'm sure I saw a ghost there once!" He looked wide-eyed.

"I think you've had enough to drink." Laughter filled the bar.

*****

While these ignorant men continue to laugh and drink themselves into a stupor, two men in suits lead some kind of creature into the nearby facility. It is short, a pale grey, with a large head and huge black eyes, with long fingers. It makes no sounds. They bring this creature before another suited man. He has a look of satisfaction on his face.

"The stupidity of you rogue programs amaze me. You come to the Matrix to hide from us, yet you can't help but pick the most ridiculous looking shells you can get your filthy hands on. Take it away for deletion!" One of the men leads this creature away. The other stays to talk.

"We have detained another Zion operative Sir. Do you want to see him?"

"Yes. Perhaps he will be a little more forthcoming than the last ones over the whereabouts of Morpheus, and the Zion access codes. I can feel them in my grasp."

"I shall go prepare an interrogation room." He left.

This other man, the leader it seemed, turned around. He removed his earpiece and put his hand around it. He smirked, quietly muttering to himself "Soon I will be able to leave this disease-ridden place."

Very nice 

I agree there is a lot of scope for such revelations to be made indepedent of your own character, though there's no reason why 'you' can't be involved in the story even if its just a 'walk on' part (in fact I'd never want to take a protagonist role). A lot of people complain about the presence of 'vampire types' within the Matrix but its a great example of how well the set up allows for aberations and weird happenings - the Matrix simultaneously makes things not only possible but credible if you apply the right lateral thought.

Big Foot? Yeti? Loch Ness? The Wombles? even the popularity of WoW can be given a believable explanation (though the latter is most challenging)

Very nice 

I agree there is a lot of scope for such revelations to be made indepedent of your own character, though there's no reason why 'you' can't be involved in the story even if its just a 'walk on' part (in fact I'd never want to take a protagonist role). A lot of people complain about the presence of 'vampire types' within the Matrix but its a great example of how well the set up allows for aberations and weird happenings - the Matrix simultaneously makes things not only possible but credible if you apply the right lateral thought.

Big Foot? Yeti? Loch Ness? The Wombles? even the popularity of WoW can be given a believable explanation (though the latter is most challenging)

Well I already considered the first 3 you gave as examples, when the idea of doing these stories came into my head. I never watched the Wombles so it makes no sense to me XP. However, the idea of video games in the Matrix gives me a really vague idea of a story.

I've actually got a quite a few ideas, seeing as how the Matrix Universe is so big, yet so unused. We have the original war between the Machines and humans (the whole 2nd Renaissance) aswell as six or seven (It depends on if the MxO is the beginning of a new iteration after Smith was destroyed) Iterations of the Matrix, most of which we know nothing about. We have god knows how many Exiles in the Matrix, aswell as all sorts of different bluepill situations, various things in RL that would be interesting to put into a Matrix context, aswell as the Real. Redpills, Zion, Machines. Take the story Matriculated for example. Who's to say there aren't other groups of humans besides Zion doing various things.

So anyway, I've got a few ideas I want to put into writing at some point, aswell as many others forming themselves. For example I think I might try and write a few stories taking place during the 2nd Renaissance though it would be pretty difficult.

Lol...

 Who is the Assassin on the grassy knoll?

 I've never read nor watched the Da Vinci Code

 And eh?!...1am in the morning is a confusing hour for me

 Sorry =(

Lol...

 Who is the Assassin on the grassy knoll?

 I've never read nor watched the Da Vinci Code

 And eh?!...1am in the morning is a confusing hour for me

 Sorry =(

oranos wrote:

Lol...

 Who is the Assassin on the grassy knoll?

 I've never read nor watched the Da Vinci Code

 And eh?!...1am in the morning is a confusing hour for me

 Sorry =(

The (un)official 'Consipracy theory' behind J.F.K's assassination was that there was a second shooter, located on a grassy knoll a little further along the parade path.